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( Ok must babble about the new Dr. Who a bit... )

BTW, this site created for the Cybermen episode rocks. The password to get to the juicy files is "nemesis", could definitely be considered spoilery. They look quite cool, but are still the fuckers who killed Adric, so we hates them, yes we does.

Everything's going swimmingly!

Jesus, somebody find a story about some newly painted school houses, quick!

KIRKUK, Iraq - Kurdish leaders have inserted more than 10,000 of their militia members into Iraqi army divisions in northern Iraq to lay the groundwork to swarm south, seize the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and possibly half of Mosul, Iraq's third-largest city, and secure the borders of an independent Kurdistan.

Five days of interviews with Kurdish leaders and troops in the region suggest that U.S. plans to bring unity to Iraq before withdrawing American troops by training and equipping a national army aren't gaining traction. Instead, some troops that are formally under U.S. and Iraqi national command are preparing to protect territory and ethnic and religious interests in the event of Iraq's fragmentation, which many of them think is inevitable.

The soldiers said that while they wore Iraqi army uniforms they still considered themselves members of the Peshmerga - the Kurdish militia - and were awaiting orders from Kurdish leaders to break ranks. Many said they wouldn't hesitate to kill their Iraqi army comrades, especially Arabs, if a fight for an independent Kurdistan erupted.

"It doesn't matter if we have to fight the Arabs in our own battalion," said Gabriel Mohammed, a Kurdish soldier in the Iraqi army who was escorting a Knight Ridder reporter through Kirkuk. "Kirkuk will be ours."
via Rising Hegemon

Yeah, looks like those recent elections have settled things rather nicely in the region. I'm sure those showers of candy and flowers will start falling on our troops' heads any day now. Yep, any day now.

Which reminds me, go check out Roger Ailes' Year in Review Quiz, I think you'll be startled by how many of the questions you can get right without even trying. I find this one particularly interesting for today's post:

10. "I think they're in the ______________ ______________, if you will, of the insurgency."

Two points to the first one who can fill in those blanks.

Alicublog sums it up

Roy nails it:

SHORTER CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT 1994:

"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you."

HAW HAW HAW! AW HAW HAW HAW HAW! Thassa good one! Yee-haaa!

SHORTER CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT 2005:

"I'm from the government, and I'm here to spy on you and perhaps indefinitely detain you without charges."

That sounds reasonable.