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The terrorist war is as much about connecting the Gap to the Core as it is
about fighting terrorism.

Terrorism flourishes in the Gap.

There is a natural draw to the Core,
it means income, jobs, infrastructure,
Government, taxes, manufacture,
are a few of the benefits.

The Militarys new SysAdmin paradigm
is all about how to speed up this connection
from the Gap to the [...]

Two posts from Thomas P.M. Barnettand a sentence from Gerald.

Life under Kim Jong Il

WORLD NEWS: “Pyongyang Reports an Aging, Less Healthy Population,” by Evan Ramstad, Wall Street Journal, 22 February 2010.
Kim’s legacy, as measured from the country’s two most recent censuses:
1) population up from 21.2m to 24.0m
2) infant mortality up from 14.1/1,000 births to 19.3 (not bad [...]

RIAA abusing 14 yr old cheerleaders for not being Internet literate.

A federal appeals court is ordering a university student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $27,750 — $750 a track — for file sharing 37 songs when she was a high school cheerleader. The lower court had granted her an [...]

Iran working on nuke, 02.27.10
Iran moved nearly its entire stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel to an above-ground plant. That mystery is the subject of fervent debate among many who are trying to decode Iran’s intentions. The theories run from the bizarre to the mundane: Under one, Iran is actually taunting the Israelis to strike first. Under [...]

NY Times:
Keli Carender has a pierced nose, performs improv on weekends and lives here in a neighborhood with more Mexican grocers than coffeehouses. You might mistake her for the kind of young person whose vote powered President Obama to the White House. You probably would not think of her as a Tea Party type.
But [...]

Lindsay Wise, Houston Chronicle:
…
Everybody seems to love this movie. Except for Iraq war veterans. A lot of them hate it.
This week, Newsweek.com published a critical essay about The Hurt Locker by Iraq war veteran Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of the non-profit group, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America:
… those of us who have served in [...]

Christopher Booker:
…
The chief defence offered by the warmists to all those revelations centred on the IPCC’s last 2007 report is that they were only a few marginal mistakes scattered through a vast, 3,000-page document. OK, they say, it might have been wrong to predict that the [...]

From the Daily Mail on Sunday:
Father stopped from taking this picture of his son, 4, on children’s train ride ‘in case he was a paedophile’
It is hard to imagine a more innocent picture of a boy on a train ride, unless you think a pedophile father would take his boy to a public place to [...]

Politico:
Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian-oriented Republican whose 2008 presidential run provided kindling for the Tea Party movement, suddenly finds himself dealing with the blowback: a handful of Tea Party-inspired candidates are seeking to dislodge him in Tuesday’s Texas Republican primary.

It’s an unusual turn of events for a veteran congressman who has reached stardom [...]

David Paul Kuhn:
Draining swamps is not so popular today. It’s bad ecology.
We could understand Nancy Pelosi’s defense of Charlie Rangel this way. It’s an issue of conservation. I’ve heard those San Francisco liberals love the environment. Forget promises to “drain the swamp” during the 2006 campaign. She wants to conserve her ally’s job.
Don’t get Pelosi [...]