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AP: Former Syria VP Says Assad Should Go.

By ZEINA KARAM, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 31 minutes ago

BEIRUT, Lebanon – A former Syrian vice president who has openly broken with President Bashar Assad intensified his criticism Thursday, saying the Damascus regime had outlived its time and was unlikely to survive much longer.
Abdul-Halim Khaddam, who left his post in the Syrian government in June, was asked in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press interview from Paris whether he supported regime change.
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Khaddam said such mistakes, in addition to the Syrian regime’s failure to effect political and economic reforms, caused him to give up on the regime and decide to speak out.
He denied that he … Continue reading →

And that is where the Tea Party comes into this.  I find it instructive to remember that the formation of the Tea Party did not add another human being to the population of the US.  Every Tea Party member is a Republican or independent (rarely even Democrats) who got fed up with GOP business-as-usual.  So I may be stretching the definition of Tea PArty here depending on whose definition you like, but for me the point is this; as a Republican who is just hopping mad at Hal rogers, John Boehner et al, I figure that makes me Tea PartyNow the Tea Party has not taken Newt out–Newt took himself out.  But the

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Obama Sued Citibank Under CRA to Force it to Make Bad Loans – UPDATED « The IUSB Vision Weblog.

Become a TuneCore Artist.

Chomsky spoke to a packed audience of over 80 people in an empty room above Café Bol via skype from his academic offices at MIT in the US. He spoke on several subjects during the one-and-a-half hour lecture. These included a brief history of the World War II, US imperialism and involvement in Latin America over the past three decades and the consequences as well as a more recent take on Pakistan.

via In US-Pakistan relations stability means obedience: Chomsky – The Express Tribune.

Good heavens. I have discovered that the social sciences are not the only jargon-bound fools. Data Warehousing has its own lexical morass of conflicting and unnecessary terminology. This is a symptom of intelligent people attacking problems which have already been solved, failing to do the research, and inventing new terms for what they think are new concepts. The worst effect of this i that they get the borders of the concepts wrong, and can never be sure exactly what they are talking about. See also LEAN, Six Sigma, Sociology, any field described as ________ Studies at a University, and so forth.

Here’s a big block of nonsense from the Wikipedia entry on Degenerate Dimensions in the context of Data Warehousing. Note that it is immediately followed up by … Continue reading →

Steven Tyler’s baby aborted alive – Jill Stanek.

Stop shouting!: TEN RULES FOR LIBERTY GUERRILLAS.