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When you can't get real support, re-use quotes!

Following a car bombing in Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military issued a statement with a quotation attributed to an unidentified Iraqi that was virtually identical to a quote reacting to an attack on July 13.

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Sunday's news release said: "'The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the ISF and all of Iraq. They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists,' said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified."

The July 13 news release said: "'The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the children and all of Iraq,' said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified. 'They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists.'"

If I wasn't laughing, I'd be wondering when this turned into Wag the Dog.

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I had bad dreams this weekend.

The first one (that I remember, anyway), was that I had invited a whole bunch of people over to my place for a party!! The only people I remember being there were Chantal, Celia Gibson, Patrick and Min, but I'm sure there were others. We were having a dance in my basement.

Anyway, so Celia brought a CD to dance to. I put it in, but I decided I wanted it on random. Unfortunately, all the other CDs in the player were oldies/kids CDs, so I spent like 20 minutes dicking around with the CD player. By the time I'd convinced it to do what I wanted, Patrick was being all annoyed with me ("come ON, Alex, I want to get back to Waterloo"), Min was watching Firefly in the basement living room, and everyone else had left without saying goodbye.

This prompted me to have a fight with Patrick in which he also left, except instead of sneaking away he stormed out.

Moral of the story: only Min loves me.

I almost cried when I woke up. And I was still angry at Pat.


The second one is not as complex, but it basically involved Mal (yes, Firefly Mal) becoming a total asshole. This culminated in him slapping Inara/me a few times.

Lemme tell you, that was almost as (if not MORE) traumatizing than the first one....