President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor...
and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP
Walid WallyJumblat
... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
did not focus on the issue of Leb's cabinet formation process, but rather at the possibility of tasking the Druze leader with "mediating between Syria and Turkey," whose once warm relations have grown colder over Damascus
...The
City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
' violent crackdown on protesters, MTV reported Friday.
Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him...
OTV reported that Assad told Jumblat that "Syria has overcome the dangerous phase and that it has started to contain the situation caused by the conspiracy plotted by some major world powers and Arab states."
He also told him that there is a "plot to separate him from Hizbullah," but stressed that "the relation with the Resistance
That'd be the Hezbullies, natch...
stems from a deeply-rooted conviction and that he will hold on to it until the end," according to OTV.
The TV network also reported that Jumblat has dispatched envoys to meet with President Michel Suleiman, Premier-designate
Najib Miqati and Speaker Nabih KnobbyBerri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
, with the aim of briefing them on his meeting with Assad.
On Thursday, Jumblat held talks with Assad in Damascus, in the presence of caretaker Public Works and Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi.
During the meeting, Jumblat "voiced his hope that Syria will be able to overcome this critical period in its history through endorsing the reforms launched by President Assad," according to a statement issued by the PSP following the Druze leader's return to Beirut.
For his part, Assad hoped during the talks that the Lebanese would succeed in overcoming their disputes and form a new government soon "for the country's greater good," Syria's state-run news agency
...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
SANA reported.