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Comment on Trucks (2008-06-13 16:21:29)
I think the A) 2) D) thing is form the movie Home Alone. Kevin's brother... Bud, maybe... is listing things in the beginning of the movie and he used that sequence because he is dumb. And I am a loser for knowing that.
Comment on World History with the Pope (2008-03-13 10:33:50)
I have never really understood the concept of grouping completely separate acts of violence involving religion together to use as an example that religion is bad. If I were to list a bunch of times where white people killed committed violence would I have a coherent case to have white people abolished? My personal Christian beliefs have as much to do with the Spanish inquisition as Bono has to do with KKK lynchings in the 1950s.
Comment on Super Condom (2008-03-12 18:33:35)
Is it not a lot more likely that this is just a little person holding a regular condom?
Comment on Waterboarding (2008-02-26 10:33:15)
Watched the video. If the U.S.'s position is that we have only water-boarded three detainees ever, then one of three things is going on. 1. It doesn't work, so we stopped. 2. It does work so we keep doing it but do not tell everyone because it makes fine upstanding citizens like yourself upset. 3. It does not work but we keep doing it for sport. http://thehill.com/byron-york/when-waterboarding-works-2007-12-13.html
Comment on Waterboarding (2008-02-25 21:55:13)
@ Howie Feltersnatch It was "the shield", but early in the first season, I guess they had not established how crazy the character was going to be on a regular basis. OK, so the consensuses can safely be said to be that torture as a matter of policy is a bad idea but torture may be an option in an extreme situation with a ticking time bomb and an orphanage and the water supply and a impending assassination with a imminent chemical attack.
Comment on Waterboarding (2008-02-24 16:27:10)
@ caio and snow Good points. @ Goldfinger I am a bit confused. The kidnapped kid with time running out scenario is the ultimate example used by those who support certain uses for torture. Yet, here you are using it in the opposite context. I remember one of the first episodes of "The Shield" there was situation where a child molester had kidnapped a little girl and put her in a place where she was running out of air/food/something. In the interrogation room the man would not cooperate. So against his better judgment the Captain allowed Vinnie Mac to go to town on the guy with a phone book (as in hitting him with not reading from). The man divulged the location and the little girl was saved. As I watched it I thought surely even the most passive aggressive, peace loving person in the world would agree that the necessary thing had been done. Well, apparently not everyone. At this point I am not sure where to go. Are you, Goldfinger, and I even the same species? I don't mean that as an insult, and maybe you don't have kids, but in a similar situation where my child was in jeopardy and the the person who could stop it was uncooperative, I shudder to think the extent of evil I would perpetrate against that person to right that wrong. I say evil because I understand that I may never be the same after that. I might never overcome the horrible things I had done and live in the darkness of my deeds. But my child would live on. Don't I owe my son or daughter that? Maybe on a national scale a policy of any form of torture may be wrong. I'll concede that. Perhaps local law enforcement is also the wrong place for it. However, I cannot believe that you could not search your imagination and come up with a scenario where you might abandon your righteous beliefs and do what it takes to survive. Can you be that globally minded? Oh and while I am here: PCs are better than Macs Christianity is not a bad thing Natalie Portman is Hot So is the cheerleader from Heroes But maybe a little young.
Comment on Waterboarding (2008-02-24 03:31:41)
Holy crap, this is what I get for playing WOW all night, it seems I missed the party. Regarding the Geneva Convention, I believe that the no torture rules apply to conventional soldiers with uniforms and such. Someone with more go-get'em-ness than I may want to verify that. @ Snow: "waterboarding is fucked. i cant think of any worse way to absoluty fuck your mind over. drowning is one of the most horrible horrible ways to die and for someone to simulate that takes something pretty fucked up." I know what you mean, I almost drowned in a pool once when I was a kid, the lifeguard had to save me and clear the water from my lungs. I mean it was the worst thing ever. I still wake up nightly with nightmares about it. Wait a minute no I don't, because that would be fucking stupid. You can't think of ANY worse way to ABSOLUTELY fuck your mind over? Really? I would venture a guess that the sight of my wife getting brutally raped while my nine month old daughters was being beheaded may have a little bit more of an effect on me than THINKING I was drowning. Once again I would like to point out that many military personal undergo water-boarding as a matter of training. Yes, I know that they know before hand that it is only simulated so maybe the mind-fuck is lessened. Here is an idea, we could pass out fliers over the middle east that explain water-boarding so that when innocent people are subjected to it, they can have the same upper-hand. Thinking that the water-boarding of terrorists who may have useful information will one day lead to the use of water-boarding to solve home break-ins is the same kind of slippery-slope logic that makes people think that gay marriage will lead to a man fucking his goat wife in a parade at your child's elementary school.
Comment on Waterboarding (2008-02-23 17:27:11)
So then we are all agreed that water-boarding is torture. But so what? Am I really to believe that some of you think the best solution when trying to get life-saving information from a suspected terrorist is to just keep asking and asking and re-asking him until we trick him into answering? Maybe we can trick him Bugs Bunny to Elmer Fudd style by dressing up a soldier like a lady and luring him into giving up the location of the bomb/hostages/terrorist cell/whatever. Besides down in San Diego members of the military have to endure water-boarding as a part of their training, so it can't be that damaging to the psyche. No, I have never been water-boarded and no, I don't want to be. It would be a pretty shitty interrogation method if people were lining up to try it.
Comment on Depression (2008-01-18 21:55:00)
Boo fucking Hoo Actually, it is a pretty cool drawing.
Comment on Abstinence (2007-11-16 22:21:51)
6 kinds of awesome, CaptainBobo
Comment on Behold the power of the dark side! (2007-11-04 18:49:00)
After this they get to go down the dark slide??? Sorry
Comment on Beetles (2007-10-29 06:07:39)
yes
Comment on Bible Man (2007-10-27 11:24:27)
One time I was about to masturbate when Bible Man flew through my window and explained to me why what I was doing was wrong. Ever since then I have lived a pure life knowing that God loves every part of me except my weenie.
Comment on Soul Brother Handshake (2007-10-27 11:15:41)
G I JOE!!!!
Comment on Celebrate Diversity (2007-10-27 11:10:40)
I bought this shirt for my brother-in-law for last Christmas.