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2016-01-11 Arabia

Yemeni political powers plead to UN to save Taiz

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Posted by badanov 2016-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 It's funny but when I read these articles about Yemen I'm never quite sure who is who. Rather than calling them rebel and gov't forces I'd like them to get called, oh, Iranian backed vs. Saudi backed.

Can't tell a player without a program.

Posted by AlanC 2016-01-11 07:58|| 2016-01-11 07:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Indeed Alan, 'who is who.'

Reminds me of the old story about two Auzzie sailors exiting a pub. Stumbling out the door in the late hours into a heavy London fog, they spot a fellow serviceman entering. Oblivious to his rank and heavily bemedaled uniform, they inquire, "Say there bloke, can you tell us where we are?" The serviceman replies... "Do you know who I am?"

One sailor turns to the other "we don't know where we are, and he doesn't know who he is."

Posted by Besoeker 2016-01-11 08:11|| 2016-01-11 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 How about: the Jukes and the Kallikaks; AC?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-01-11 11:14|| 2016-01-11 11:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Nah, g(r)om,

IBoth “Jukes” and “Kallikaks” are pseudonyms for families whose genetics were studied at the end of the 19th century. The Jukes illustrated the inheritance of criminality and the Kallikaks of feeble-mindedness (“feeble-minded” was the catch-all phrase used in those days for various forms of mental retardation and learning disabilities).l

while appropriate I doubt you could tell them apart. Just one more distinction without a difference.

Posted by AlanC 2016-01-11 12:46|| 2016-01-11 12:46|| Front Page Top

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