<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; ">Just delved into some diplomatic cables for a little light evening reading and to enjoy some "paroxysms of moral outrage, a Canadian specialty" as one U.S. diplomat put it. </span></font><div>
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<span class="UIStory_Message"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/161421" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; "><span>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embas</span><span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "></span>sy-cables-documents/161421</a></span></h3>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; ">Very true. We are as a nation </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">exceptionally</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; "> good at taking umbrage. Though to be fair, because of our geographical location and political alliances, we get lots of </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; ">practice</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px; ">. :)</span></font><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif"><meta charset="utf-8"><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">
<br></h3><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 14px; ">Darren</span></div></font><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; "><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; "><br></span></div><div>-- <br><font face="Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif"><span style="line-height:26px"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;line-height:normal;color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;font-style:italic"><span style="background-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">"In the end that's all we have: our memories - electrochemical impulses stored in eight pounds of tissue the consistency of cold porridge." </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">- Remembrance of the Daleks</span></span></span></font><br>
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