Once more behind the Times...

[trinityvixen]

Oh, The New York Times, when you can't keep pace with the blogosphere (ugh, hate that word), you're pretty pathetic.

I think I've read this "Hey, torture doesn't work so well after all!" article about a thousand times in the last month on various blogs. Then again, maybe they're just constrained by government time (it's like Hawai'ian time only lamer and without the promise of mai-tais). How many hearings have they had about torture being ineffective and damaging to the American interest abroad and they are still insisting it works?

How elementary is it that if you hurt someone they'll tell you what you want to hear to get you to stop? Bullies teach you this (and what does that say about the US?). Why must it be carrot or stick without the option of ever having carrot? Not that I think psychological mindfucks are necessarily healthier for a body, but if you can outsmart the terrorist, by all means: rape his little brain.

News like this is why I stop reading the news. It's not a perfect solution, but it's definitely better than being depressed all the goddamned time about what the 1% who had the majority over my vote in the last billion elections are doing in my name. Fuck you pricks. When can we secede and join Canada? We'll take our Wall Street monies and dairy farms and join the great white north. Ooh, and we get California, too, which means wine! I could use some wine right now. Wine shall flow until I cannot feel the ache of having to be associated with nationalistic, racist, abusive rednecks whose collective IQs don't outnumber the stars on their beloved Confederate Flag.

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[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

Wine shall flow until I cannot feel the ache of having to be associated with nationalistic, racist, abusive rednecks whose collective IQs don't outnumber the stars on their beloved Confederate Flag.

I love it when you wax eloquent with such bitter vitriol. XD


Bullies teach you this

As did the witch hunts in Europe. Will humanity never learn?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I love it when you wax eloquent with such bitter vitriol. XD

It happens so rarely, but that one, I flatter myself (I'm Mr Collins?), was pretty genius.

Will humanity never learn?

Duh, of course they won't. We'd have to learn to do something new. There's a learning curve involved and, honestly, I just don't think the older folk would ever be able to manage it. Like the internet.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

As much as I like the idea of splitting the country into The United States of Canada and Jesusland, you know full well that Jesusland would then immediately declare a neverending war against us. And they don't know the meaning of the phrase "hopeless cause".

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

But we've always been at war with Eurasia, right? I mean, at least it will be declared, is all I'm saying.

And there's always the chance they'd go isolationist and leave us the hell alone.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

Don't stop reading the news! Read Al Gore's brain sex book instead!

[wellgull.livejournal.com]

Ahh, you're assuming anyone in control of the government (or in the voting bloc that put them in power) actually cares whether torture works or not...

mostly they're probably just happy to go along with the line that they're using torture only because it's one of the direst of emergencies, and no no no not because they want to make suffering happen for people who don't look like them, regardless of whether they were detained for "proximity".