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Tuesday, July 29, 2003 |
'Saddam' Praises Sons' Deaths
(actual CBS News headline, half-quotes intact)
<nudge-nudge> Well, no one in Iraq would believe Americans telling them those Hussein boys are dead. But maybe if another Saddam basement tape shows up inconspicuously on Al-Jazeera <wink-wink> lamenting their passing but praising them as martyrs </wink-wink> well maybe then the truth left to the imagination in the tastefully rendered dismembered body death photos will be inarguably driven home like a carpet tack battered with a 20-pound sledgehammer. Of course there’s absolutely no chance any of those 200+ Saddam impersonators might have been captured, because anyone who even remotely resembles him is evil, sly, wily and nearly impossible to catch and we would never, ever, ever, lie to you </nudge-nudge>
7:35:40 PM 
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US Marines Nab Saddam’s Prize Poodle
MARINE CAMP CHESTY, IRAQ (AP) – Bravo Company staged a surprise raid on Kazim Abu Ali Poodle Parlor just outside Fallujah early this morning and captured Saddam Hussein’s prize poodle Bosca.
Bosca was being groomed for entry into the 2004 Westminster Kennel Club’s 128th Annual Dog Show as a Baathist Extreme Poodle. By capturing Bosca, Bravo Company has eliminated yet another lingering Iraqi threat and proved they are hot on the scent of capturing the evil dictator himself – who has been compared unfavorably to both Adolph Hitler and Cecilia Ruggles, 2001 Best of Show winner with her notorious Bichons Frise.
“He can’t hold out long,” Lance Corporal John Smothers explained, “We got his truck and we got his dog. He has no reason to go on.”
Some Fallujah residents were less enthusiastic about the raid which claimed the lives of 13 passersby, a Scottish terrier, an English spaniel, three Pekingese, and a Pomeranian. Kazim Abu Ali surveyed the rubble that only hours before was Fallujah’s premier grooming and training studio for show dogs and shook his head with noticeable dismay. “Bosca is a gentle dog, “ he explained. “She loves the poetry of al-shu'ara'a al-ruwwad and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab. She will sit and listen to the o’ud mastery of Salem Abdul karem for hours and those deep dark eyes will shift expressively and occasionally, yes, even shed a tear.”
Staff Sergeant Larry Rivers, who personally apprehended Bosca, was less impressed. “The poodle bites,” he said bluntly.
5:49:43 PM
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Just as I become curious about late-career Beethoven, along come this book.
6:11:08 AM
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The New Otani hotel in Tokyo has these Pentagon-priced toilets. As the BBC article mentions, these $4000 wonders have a control panel as complicated as a jet console.
A trip to Tokyo from here means 15 hours on planes and another 3 on a bus to get from Narita to "downtown." A warmed toilet seat after such a travel endurance test is welcome, especially in the winter. However, the luxury is tainted by the realization that none of the controls is in English and one of them is for a bidet. The little cartoon characters they use to communicate the purpose of each control all seem to be laughing at you then.
3:08:24 AM
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