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First I must pimp a story that is so good others just have to read it. It's Snupin, so if slash ain't your thing, feel free to avoid it, otherwise get yourself over to "A Sound Like the Dashing of Hope" by snegurochka_lee, it does contain HBP spoilers so if you haven't read it yet...well for fuck's sake just read it already, you've had months, jeez! A final encounter between Snape and Lupin as witnessed by Peter, it offers some incredible insights into all of the characters and their possible motivations for the events that take place in HBP. It's also a damn good read and a story that you just shouldn't miss.

So I took cyranocyrano out for dinner last night at Fiesta del Mar in which I ate entirely too much and knew I'd regret it today. My scale actually seemed to be making this soft mocking chuckle as I stepped on it this morning. Right, my weight is now so out of control it's not even funny. Next week I'm going to get a physical and maybe see if I can get referred to a nutritionist or something. There's got to be a healthy, sensible way to get this to shift back down to the normal range again (for me at least 5-10 pounds less than I currently am). I'm exercising more than I ever have in my life, spent the past few weeks dancing my ass off (though not literally, sadly) and my weight's going up? WTF? One night of eating too much shouldn't undo an entire month and a half's exercising, at least not if it doesn't include a truly massive dessert (which it didn't).

*sigh* Ok, enough bitching, time to just figure out what's going on instead of sitting here whining about it.

For god's sake, clap harder!

*sigh*

via Rising Hegemon:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/26/eveningnews/main886305.shtml

Behind the blood and chaos of the insurgents' bombs, there is an undeclared civil war already underway in Iraq, between the Sunni minority who ruled this country under Saddam and the Shiite majority.

CBS News correspondent Lara Logan reports there is a secret, ruthless cleansing of the country's towns and cities. Bodies — blindfolded, bound and executed — just appear, like the rotting corpses of 36 Sunni men that turned up in a dry riverbed south of Baghdad.

CBS News traced 16 of those men to a single street in a Baghdad suburb, where family members showed CBS News how the killers forced their way into their homes in the middle of the night and dragged away their sons and fathers.

"My uncles were tortured, they even poured acid on them," a young boy told CBS News.

Clutching photographs of the murdered men, the women and children left behind came together to grieve.

One woman said as her husband was marched away she sent her son after him with his slippers, but his abductor sent the child back with a chilling message: No need for slippers — he will come back dead.

Mission Fucking Accomplished.