The average person lasts 14 seconds before caving in.
So, this scaring is not only simple, but effective.
As a Buddhist, I try to be as compassionate as possible. The mlecchas have caused more human harm over a millenium than even the Socialists of the 20th Century.
If one way to reduce human suffering is to scare the terrorists, then I am very, very much in favor of it.
You want to know what torture is? Check out what the Socialists did to Tibet!
No wonder the Leftards are whining about waterboarding: because it works, it must be torture.
BTW, if waterboarding is torture, and since waterboarding works, then the truism "torture produces bad intel" is proved false.
Here, we have a technique that seems every bit as effective as torture, if not moreso.
All it leaves is some bad memories and perhaps a phobia.
My exposure to country music has left me with an aversion to steel guitar. I am scarred and cannot enjoy the brilliance of Robert Randolph -- I hear him, recognize the amazing talent, and then the pounding headache sets in as I am re-traumatized, all that AM, all that country music, no escape, oh I hope I am not an antenna....
You should not assume hearing country music is the most life-threatening situation I have been in. The gangs were not as organized as they are now, but they were armed, and there was in fact a killing at one of the schools I attended. Oh, and school violence is not the only time people have tried to kill me. I think for myself, and people hate that.
Journalists are liars. From Dan Rather down to the local newsbitch, they're liars.
Don't believe me? Get interviewed.
Bloggers are much, much better at getting the facts right than are journalists. Journalists write the article before they research the facts, if they ever research the facts. It's a shame they're so stupid they can't spell "prejudice."
Bloggers have the facts first before they write (indeed it's often why they write) and feedback fact-checking after, and the corrections get put right next to the errors.
It's a damn good thing only 5% of bloggers are journalists. Journalists SUCK.
She was fired for criticizing what some people call "torture."
That scaring people with water should be considered torture is completely debateable. Personally, I'm curious -- could I keep my cool with people scaring me that way?
The entire debate has become pussified. Is scaring people torture? Breaking and rebreaking bones is torture. But giving people a violent bath? What, are the prisoners cats?
I'm going to see if the idiots at ACLU and/or EFF (the same kinds of scum in both orgs) will take my case that country music is torture, that living in Austin constitutes a prison because it's a thousand miles to any country-free zone, and the Evil McChimpyBurton Administration, by licensing country music radio stations, is violating my Geneva Convention rights.
I mean, the radio stations permeate my body with EM carrying country music. They put it in my bones and blood. It upsets me! Whaaaaaa!
You're living in the liberal capital of Texas, you're a musician (long-haired FM type), a game programmer, a fan of science fiction, a Buddhist, and a former BBS operator? And you support GW Bush?
It's called "thinking for myself."
I find nothing contradictory about any of this. Living in Austin, I get to examine liberals close up and personal. I know what is wrong with them, I blame it on Rousseau.
BTW, I've never had long hair because it requires maintenance and gets caught in machinery. Also, I describe myself as a fan of Tibetan Buddhism -- I am not a Buddhist because I have not taken refuge vows.
I think George W. Bush's actions in Central Asia are more likely to result in a free Tibet than whatever position Kerry is taking on Central Asia this afternoon. I am of course concerned by George W. Bush's uncle being heavily invested in China, but since Tibet will be free when Peking is free, it is much better to support an American capitalist than an anti-American communist mouthpeice like John Forbes Kerry.
There is no safer way to study the operational art than with hardcore simulation and discussion with military professionals. By learning the art as best I can, I can evaluate for myself the situations in Bactria and Babylonia, instead of relying on Duh Press. (A bug in my exostocin prevents enlisting, so I contracted to the U.S. Army radlab for four years.)
And why would anyone be surprised that a Science Fiction fan would be non-leftist? I mean, starting with (or even before) Orwell's critiques of socialism, SF has a long history of political criticism. But "Sci-Fi," that Hollywood garbage, is of course all bent over leftwards. I am not a fan of Sci-Fi movies.
Given what Ronald Reagan did for electronic communication with his bustup of AT&T and SDI programs, I'm amazed that any BBSers ended up leftist!
To say I am a supporter of George W. Bush is perhaps overstating it. I am not a fan of "faith-based" anything, I hate both country and western music, and I can say "nuclear" correctly. I am a supporter of George W. Bush in the War on Terror, because if we retreat it will invite more attacks.
In this I break with dogmatic Libertarians who are unwilling to grasp the fact that this is a new kind of war, a war without declared combatants, a war that does not fit the nation-vs-nation pattern of civilized warfare. The Libertarian Party's nonviolence doctrine, that it is immoral to initiate the use of physical force, cannot and should not be extended to nations which harbor terrorists.
Harboring terrorists IS violence. Therefore, I support George W. Bush against Michael Badnarik.
You are an example of the amazing gullibility of the left, blithely accepting whatever garbage the Democrat bullshit factory a.k.a. "the Press" hands you without a second, or even first, thought.
To quote Paul Tsongas, "do your goddamn homework!" Google all sides of the stories, read things you disagree with, challenge your assumptions.
For instance, I assumed "if Kerry's war record is good enough for the U.S. Navy, it's good enough for me." Then I started doing my goddamn homework....
you couldn't believe this slander if you'd bothered to research any of the evidence
The more research I do, the more I'm convinced Kerry is a liar. His own stories do not match each other.
How did memories of Cambodia get seared in Kerry's memory? Probably from watching "Apocalypse Now." Anyway, here he's been caught telling a whopping hell of a lie.
Then there is his infamous testimony before Congress, much of which was taken from Jane Fonda's "Winter Soldier" propaganda festival. Real men took torture to avoid signing false confessions. John Kerry proffered
false confessions to Congress, just to enhance his standing with political leftists.
Increasingly, John Kerry has only his little band of brothers corroborating his stories. Scores of veterans have gone on the record to correct Kerry's lies. Sample chapters are
widely available.
Kerry has his eight veteran supporters. Hundreds of veterans who served with him remember him as a pathetic coward who inflated his war record so he could hurry home and spread shit about them.
It is very easy for a rich man like J. Forbes Kerry to buy off his small crew. A million bucks each and they'll be his whores forever!
[liberal] used to be a compliment but somehow the reality distortion field that covers the US nowadays has turned this into something evil.
The problem is that the people who call themselves "liberal" are really just libertines, and those who call themselves "conservative" are the real liberals.
You will sometimes hear "conservatives" call themselves "classical liberals."
New Guinnea highlanders don't build radio-telescopes, but that doesn't mean that evolution in other parts of the universe hasn't managed to come up with intelligent beings that emit EM radiation for communication but cannot count!
You should immediately send your idea to Paramount Studios, C/O R. Berman and B. Braga. They will give it the appropriate treatment.
No disconnect at all. It's all about price, energy density, and safety. When hydrogen is comparable in price and capability as a simple tank of gasoline, it might gain acceptance.
Hazmat teams have been sent out to clean up spilled sand and rust. Call something by its chemical name and people panic.
BTW, Saturn V used kerosene in its first stage. Lots of kerosene!
Historians, economists, and political science experts (among others) are the ones who can judge.
Thank you for listing some of the whiny asshats.
"Fighter pilots make headlines. Bomber pilots make history."
Like it or not, the history of the human race is overwhelmingly its military history. Art, science, culture, and so on can only exist and flourish in peace secured by military.
(N.B. I don't necessarily like it this way, and have a silent hope the Love Aliens will save us from ourselves....)
I would say that military professionals and military historians are very good judges of foreign policy. Better even than diplomats, who all too often value diplomacy itself as a goal.
Ironically, many
grognards (Frog for "grumbler") are in better position to judge foreign policy than whiny asshat historians, economists, and (Patton help us!) political science (cough snort cough) experts (bustin' out laughin').
I mean, ivory towers are monuments to the stupidity of mankind.
Oh, yeah, I kinda agree that Specialists Third Degree (I don't know the new enlisted ranks and rates! So confused!) may not know big picture stuff, that's why I'm specifying "military professionals" to mean those who are in long enough to grok.
Dozens of Americans were killed in Bosnia, and what do we have to show for it? The Europeon countries for whom we took this action -- shed this blood, sacrificed a Cabinet Secretary -- have proven they will not reciprocate. We cannot build or use military facilities in Bosnia.
We have nothing to show for our work in Bosnia. We are left with the conclusion that President Clinton's actions were simply to distract from his dishonorable domestic conduct. Readers are encouraged to rent and view this documentary.
On the other hand, for the cost of a thousand American soldiers (and a hundred billion Iraqi babies!!!), have created an ally in the middle of the Middle East. We have a great big unsinkable aircraft carrier. We have a California-size staging area for further pacifications.
In other words, we have a whole new country to show for our work. Pretty damn impressive!
And the only pinheads who think it was a "distraction" from the War on Terror have not heard of the
Abu Nidal Organization or the
Salman Pak training camp.
Of the socialist ANO, the Federation of American Scientists says, "Has received considerable support, including safehaven, training, logistic assistance, and financial aid from Iraq, Libya, and Syria (until 1987), in addition to close support for selected operations." (emphasis added to make it perfectly clear that Iraq supported terrorists) Of special relevance is Libya -- whose capitulation in the War on Terror was a direct result of the action in Iraq.
Like the song says,
If you want a President who kicks ass, vote Republican.
If you want a President who kisses ass, vote Democrat.
If you want a President who is an ass, vote Green.
If you want a President who will let you buy ass, vote Libertarian.
Shhhh, you're destroying idiot fantasies by pointing out that the Left hates free speech. You are working against decades of brainwashing. You are exposing stereotypes as false.
Remember, a Leftist can simply parrot his instructors and be assured of high grades and graduation. They have never been placed in a situation where they must defend or even examine their beliefs. They just nod along to get along, and are rewarded.
Someone who thinks for himself, however, will be forced to do four times the work for half the grade. Every statement he makes will be challenged, and even if his logic is perfect and his writing is sublime, his chances of flunking increase exponentially with his deviation from the party line.
And since even an unadorned link to this book, the most important
book
published this year, must be suppressed, you are modded down by the open-minded Left.
It's sad, really, that these imbeciles were never taught to think.
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Dummycrats are just too damn stupid to vote.
President Kennedy's UN Ambassador Adlai Stevenson leaked secret information to the UN Security Council.
President Kennedy leaked secret information to the whole world on television.
You see, the Executive can declassify secret information, then publicize it.
So there was no leak, there was no need for a special prosecutor, and the whole scandal is in the imaginations of idiots, fuelled by traitors.
The average person lasts 14 seconds before caving in.
So, this scaring is not only simple, but effective.
As a Buddhist, I try to be as compassionate as possible. The mlecchas have caused more human harm over a millenium than even the Socialists of the 20th Century.
If one way to reduce human suffering is to scare the terrorists, then I am very, very much in favor of it.
You want to know what torture is? Check out what the Socialists did to Tibet!
No wonder the Leftards are whining about waterboarding: because it works, it must be torture.
BTW, if waterboarding is torture, and since waterboarding works, then the truism "torture produces bad intel" is proved false.
Here, we have a technique that seems every bit as effective as torture, if not moreso.
All it leaves is some bad memories and perhaps a phobia.
My exposure to country music has left me with an aversion to steel guitar. I am scarred and cannot enjoy the brilliance of Robert Randolph -- I hear him, recognize the amazing talent, and then the pounding headache sets in as I am re-traumatized, all that AM, all that country music, no escape, oh I hope I am not an antenna....
You should not assume hearing country music is the most life-threatening situation I have been in. The gangs were not as organized as they are now, but they were armed, and there was in fact a killing at one of the schools I attended. Oh, and school violence is not the only time people have tried to kill me. I think for myself, and people hate that.
Don't believe me? Get interviewed.
Bloggers are much, much better at getting the facts right than are journalists. Journalists write the article before they research the facts, if they ever research the facts. It's a shame they're so stupid they can't spell "prejudice."
Bloggers have the facts first before they write (indeed it's often why they write) and feedback fact-checking after, and the corrections get put right next to the errors.
It's a damn good thing only 5% of bloggers are journalists. Journalists SUCK.
That scaring people with water should be considered torture is completely debateable. Personally, I'm curious -- could I keep my cool with people scaring me that way?
The entire debate has become pussified. Is scaring people torture? Breaking and rebreaking bones is torture. But giving people a violent bath? What, are the prisoners cats?
I'm going to see if the idiots at ACLU and/or EFF (the same kinds of scum in both orgs) will take my case that country music is torture, that living in Austin constitutes a prison because it's a thousand miles to any country-free zone, and the Evil McChimpyBurton Administration, by licensing country music radio stations, is violating my Geneva Convention rights.
I mean, the radio stations permeate my body with EM carrying country music. They put it in my bones and blood. It upsets me! Whaaaaaa!
Insightful?
Slashdot is full of idiots.
Katrina was the fault of Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Lyndon Johnson.
Let's see if this gets "Insightful."
Especially since it is more fact-filled than the parent post.
Bullshit.
Duh Press is too busy forging Texas ANG documents to bother with the misdeeds of a lovely young leftist.
They are waiting for the cameras and projectors that can handle the fourth primary color.
It's called "thinking for myself."
I find nothing contradictory about any of this. Living in Austin, I get to examine liberals close up and personal. I know what is wrong with them, I blame it on Rousseau.
BTW, I've never had long hair because it requires maintenance and gets caught in machinery. Also, I describe myself as a fan of Tibetan Buddhism -- I am not a Buddhist because I have not taken refuge vows.
I think George W. Bush's actions in Central Asia are more likely to result in a free Tibet than whatever position Kerry is taking on Central Asia this afternoon. I am of course concerned by George W. Bush's uncle being heavily invested in China, but since Tibet will be free when Peking is free, it is much better to support an American capitalist than an anti-American communist mouthpeice like John Forbes Kerry.
There is no safer way to study the operational art than with hardcore simulation and discussion with military professionals. By learning the art as best I can, I can evaluate for myself the situations in Bactria and Babylonia, instead of relying on Duh Press. (A bug in my exostocin prevents enlisting, so I contracted to the U.S. Army radlab for four years.)
And why would anyone be surprised that a Science Fiction fan would be non-leftist? I mean, starting with (or even before) Orwell's critiques of socialism, SF has a long history of political criticism. But "Sci-Fi," that Hollywood garbage, is of course all bent over leftwards. I am not a fan of Sci-Fi movies.
Given what Ronald Reagan did for electronic communication with his bustup of AT&T and SDI programs, I'm amazed that any BBSers ended up leftist!
To say I am a supporter of George W. Bush is perhaps overstating it. I am not a fan of "faith-based" anything, I hate both country and western music, and I can say "nuclear" correctly. I am a supporter of George W. Bush in the War on Terror, because if we retreat it will invite more attacks.
In this I break with dogmatic Libertarians who are unwilling to grasp the fact that this is a new kind of war, a war without declared combatants, a war that does not fit the nation-vs-nation pattern of civilized warfare. The Libertarian Party's nonviolence doctrine, that it is immoral to initiate the use of physical force, cannot and should not be extended to nations which harbor terrorists.
Harboring terrorists IS violence. Therefore, I support George W. Bush against Michael Badnarik.
To quote Paul Tsongas, "do your goddamn homework!" Google all sides of the stories, read things you disagree with, challenge your assumptions.
For instance, I assumed "if Kerry's war record is good enough for the U.S. Navy, it's good enough for me." Then I started doing my goddamn homework....
you couldn't believe this slander if you'd bothered to research any of the evidence
The more research I do, the more I'm convinced Kerry is a liar. His own stories do not match each other.
How did memories of Cambodia get seared in Kerry's memory? Probably from watching "Apocalypse Now." Anyway, here he's been caught telling a whopping hell of a lie.
Then there is his infamous testimony before Congress, much of which was taken from Jane Fonda's "Winter Soldier" propaganda festival. Real men took torture to avoid signing false confessions. John Kerry proffered false confessions to Congress, just to enhance his standing with political leftists.
Increasingly, John Kerry has only his little band of brothers corroborating his stories. Scores of veterans have gone on the record to correct Kerry's lies. Sample chapters are widely available.
Kerry has his eight veteran supporters. Hundreds of veterans who served with him remember him as a pathetic coward who inflated his war record so he could hurry home and spread shit about them.
It is very easy for a rich man like J. Forbes Kerry to buy off his small crew. A million bucks each and they'll be his whores forever!
John F. Kerry is lying about his "service."
Vote for the American.
Damn good thing Northface University is offering a college education without all the liberal bullshit!
The problem is that the people who call themselves "liberal" are really just libertines, and those who call themselves "conservative" are the real liberals.
You will sometimes hear "conservatives" call themselves "classical liberals."
http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/abu.htm
Same info, different site:
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ano.htm
Here's another Saddam-supported group of Marxist terrorists:
http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/tgp/mek.htm
Any thorough War on Terror needed to address Iraq sooner or later.
Please, don't confuse the great story "Fahrenheit 451" with the recent white trash fantasy flick.
You should immediately send your idea to Paramount Studios, C/O R. Berman and B. Braga. They will give it the appropriate treatment.
Hazmat teams have been sent out to clean up spilled sand and rust. Call something by its chemical name and people panic.
BTW, Saturn V used kerosene in its first stage. Lots of kerosene!
So when my guitar is sharper than the other guy's, he should tune down so as to cancel out my sharpness. Brilliant!
I will call it, "jazz."
Well, if he had stopped Osama -- but hindsight is about 20/40, and you did put a smiley on your joke.
Thank you for listing some of the whiny asshats.
"Fighter pilots make headlines. Bomber pilots make history."
Like it or not, the history of the human race is overwhelmingly its military history. Art, science, culture, and so on can only exist and flourish in peace secured by military.
(N.B. I don't necessarily like it this way, and have a silent hope the Love Aliens will save us from ourselves....)
I would say that military professionals and military historians are very good judges of foreign policy. Better even than diplomats, who all too often value diplomacy itself as a goal.
Ironically, many grognards (Frog for "grumbler") are in better position to judge foreign policy than whiny asshat historians, economists, and (Patton help us!) political science (cough snort cough) experts (bustin' out laughin').
I mean, ivory towers are monuments to the stupidity of mankind.
Oh, yeah, I kinda agree that Specialists Third Degree (I don't know the new enlisted ranks and rates! So confused!) may not know big picture stuff, that's why I'm specifying "military professionals" to mean those who are in long enough to grok.
All reporters should have a 3-day fact-checking period before they can print a story.
Doesn't compare to Iraq.
Dozens of Americans were killed in Bosnia, and what do we have to show for it? The Europeon countries for whom we took this action -- shed this blood, sacrificed a Cabinet Secretary -- have proven they will not reciprocate. We cannot build or use military facilities in Bosnia.
We have nothing to show for our work in Bosnia. We are left with the conclusion that President Clinton's actions were simply to distract from his dishonorable domestic conduct. Readers are encouraged to rent and view this documentary.
On the other hand, for the cost of a thousand American soldiers (and a hundred billion Iraqi babies!!!), have created an ally in the middle of the Middle East. We have a great big unsinkable aircraft carrier. We have a California-size staging area for further pacifications.
In other words, we have a whole new country to show for our work. Pretty damn impressive!
And the only pinheads who think it was a "distraction" from the War on Terror have not heard of the Abu Nidal Organization or the Salman Pak training camp.
Of the socialist ANO, the Federation of American Scientists says, "Has received considerable support, including safehaven, training, logistic assistance, and financial aid from Iraq, Libya, and Syria (until 1987), in addition to close support for selected operations." (emphasis added to make it perfectly clear that Iraq supported terrorists) Of special relevance is Libya -- whose capitulation in the War on Terror was a direct result of the action in Iraq.
Like the song says,
If you want a President who kicks ass, vote Republican.
If you want a President who kisses ass, vote Democrat.
If you want a President who is an ass, vote Green.
If you want a President who will let you buy ass, vote Libertarian.
So Bush probably won Florida by an even larger margin.
What, exactly, do Democrats have against democracy?
Remember, a Leftist can simply parrot his instructors and be assured of high grades and graduation. They have never been placed in a situation where they must defend or even examine their beliefs. They just nod along to get along, and are rewarded.
Someone who thinks for himself, however, will be forced to do four times the work for half the grade. Every statement he makes will be challenged, and even if his logic is perfect and his writing is sublime, his chances of flunking increase exponentially with his deviation from the party line.
And since even an unadorned link to this book, the most important book published this year, must be suppressed, you are modded down by the open-minded Left.
It's sad, really, that these imbeciles were never taught to think.