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Comment on Jailbait - Because if you don't hit it, some "prophet" will (2008-06-09 08:32:32)
*crickets*
Comment on Iranian Smiling (2008-06-09 08:29:03)
Women in Iran mostly wear the hejab, but the kind of face-covering depicted here is not that common (called the chador). Iran is actually one of the more liberal Muslim countries when it comes to what women wear in public. They mostly just wear a head covering and long, loose clothing. Examples: (some in chador and some just in hejab) http://www.pbs.org/adventuredivas/iran/dispatches/fashion_show.html Saudi Arabia (one of Bush's close pals) is MUCH more strict about what women can wear, and their rule is enforced by militant religious police.
Comment on Suicide is Painless (2008-06-07 10:48:31)
well at least I recognized it! Thanks for informing me. I haven't read Clay's strip in ages. Never fails to be both hilarious and disturbing.
Comment on Suicide is Painless (2008-06-05 20:00:10)
I am about 80% sure this is "borrowed" from a sexy losers comic from a few years back. Either way it's still pretty funny.
Comment on Julianne Moore - Black Busty Top (2008-06-05 10:01:06)
@jayarmstrong: Thank you sir, for informing me that there is another word for it, I was unaware that there are other terms I could use. It's a quote. Hence the QUOTATION MARKS, you mongoloid retard.
Comment on Abortion Is Never Too Late (2008-06-04 05:51:57)
Fuckin' A. Extend legal abortions to 18 years old. Until they're out of the house, they're fair game.
Comment on Zooey and her red bike (2008-06-04 05:50:23)
It looks like she weighs about 95 lbs soaking wet, FFS, it's not a muffin-top. She's just leaning to one side.
Comment on Wordy Car (2008-06-04 05:48:34)
Someone needs to pick a cause and stick with it. I think they should go with a pet's rights-to-smoke theme.
Comment on Julianne Moore - Black Busty Top (2008-06-03 18:39:58)
@FMS: Comedy. Gold. " The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina." Julianne Moore at her finest. Damn that lady is fine.
Comment on Torture FOIA Request (2008-05-31 17:31:59)
BTW, Tony and FMS, I appreciate your taking the time to actually respond instead of just hurling insults, invective, and hypotheticals at me. I'd love to hoist a beer with either of you. In the meantime, Tony, I'll have one or three for you. =)
Comment on Torture FOIA Request (2008-05-31 16:21:06)
You guys are making me thirsty. Mmmm beer.
Comment on Torture FOIA Request (2008-05-31 13:39:48)
@FMS: I actually took the time to read your entire post, as I care about this issue and I believe the other respondents do as well; yourself included. I don't have any love for those who would use "terror" to obtain their political objectives. Quite the reverse. I love my country, and for that reason I deeply distrust those in power. I believe it is the duty of a patriot to always question, to hold our government and ourselves to the highest standards possible, and if necessary to use force in defending against our enemies. So it sounds like what you're saying is that because others have done worse (and I have no doubt that "they" do), it makes sense for us to go slightly less far? Either way, I am not among those trying to make a moral argument here, but instead I am questioning the efficacy of violent interrogation. I would like to note that my position on this issue has done a 180 since a year ago, when I used to argue with my wife and others about this. Around that time I heard an interview with a general who teaches interrogation techniques at West Point. He has conducted over twelve thousand interrogations of detainees in military custody. His argument was the one I keep repeating. The "ticking bomb" scenario does not occur with any regularity. It is a contrivance. However, even in that situation, he emphasized that very little reliable information could ever come from a detainee under duress. His statement was that the best way to get information was by building a relationship and gaining trust. The interview convinced me that I had been wrong to believe that torture would lead to useful information. Your anecdotal example, in this case related second or third-hand, does little to convince me that torture is effective. I will grant that it happened the way you relate it. But for every anecdotal example you can cite, there will be other cases of detainees lying and/or providing false-evidence.
Comment on Torture FOIA Request (2008-05-31 12:50:11)
Way to resort to ad hominem attacks, Exacerbate. If you'd bothered to actually READ the constitution, you'd know that it doesn't limit freedom to only 'mercans like yourself, but rather extends the inherent rights to every human being. If reading the constitution makes me a "liberal hippie", then I suppose you have me there. If that makes you sick, perhaps you should go have a visit to an authoritarian country where they don't have such values. I hear Myanmar is lovely this time of year. @SuperJay: The professional interrogators keep repeating this, but armchair generals refuse to listen. Men who have conducted thousands of interrogations don't condone the use of torture. Not only because we don't want our guys tortured, but because it is ineffective. Your false construct straight out of "24" has been disproven time and time again. There is no validity to such a hypothetical set up except in concocted dream-worlds starring Jack Bauer. Situations like that don't actually exist.
Comment on Torture FOIA Request (2008-05-31 08:57:21)
I have to admit that my last point (the constitution's applicability to non-citizens) is the frequent subject of debate. The 14th Amendment is interpreted by some to limit the scope of the intended protections, though it seems to me that it only limits jurisdiction of the federal government, not other freedoms guaranteed therein. "Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Comment on Torture FOIA Request (2008-05-31 08:45:55)
Waterboarding, according to Wikipedia: "consists of immobilizing a person on their back with the head inclined downward—known as the Trendelenburg position—and pouring water over the face and into the breathing passages. Through forced suffocation and inhalation of water, the subject experiences the process of drowning and is made to believe that death is imminent." According to Wiktionary, torture's definition is: "To intentionally force someone to experience agony." Agony, to further clarify, denotes: "- Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body" or "- The last struggle of life; death struggle." The stated point of water-boarding is to cause exactly this kind of "death struggle", also called agony. It is to simulate drowning in order to convince the victim that they are dying. Also, it is a fallacy to believe that torture is an effective means of interrogation. The real professionals (the men and women who TEACH interrogation at westpoint, et al) tried to get the makers of "24" to stop depicting Jack Bauer's torture scenes as effective, because it can cause misconceptions in our soldiers as well as in the American psyche. Again, according to the people who do this for a living, torture is simply not a good way to obtain information that is reliable. Or are you just wanting to torture people for fun and/or punishment? That is sadism. Last time I read the constitution, that was not an ideal upon which our country was founded. In fact, the constitution states that we have freedom from "cruel and unusual punishment", not only for citizens but all persons. If you are unclear on this point, I suggest you go have a look at the document itself. You may find it does not say what you think it says.