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Former Navy airman describes ‘water torture.’»

Today in the Washington Post, Richard E. Mezo, who served in the Navy for six years, describes his experience being waterboarded:

Last week, much to my dismay, government officials testified before Congress that the United States has used the interrogation technique known as waterboarding and would like to hold out the option of using it in the future. As someone who has experienced waterboarding, albeit in a controlled setting, I know that the act is indeed torture. I was waterboarded during my training to become a Navy flight crew member. […]

Waterboarding has, unfortunately, become a household word. Back then, we didn’t call it waterboarding — we called it “water torture.” We recognized it as something the United States would never do, whatever the provocation. … Waterboarding is torture, and torture is clearly a crime against humanity.

Former Justice Department official Daniel Levin, who was voluntarily waterboarded in 2004, came to similar conclusions about the procedure.

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  1. Ms_Joanne Says:

    So proud to be an Amerikan these days.

    The GOP couldn’t have screwed up our country more. Wait, I take that back, we still have too many days for them to make that end game screw up.

    If only I could awaken to this having been a really bad dream.


  2. ArtZ Says:

    “Waterboarding” sounds like a good time on the waves at the beach.

    It used to be called “water torture”. Renaming it doesn’t make it different.

    George Bush used to be called “a drunk”.


  3. GSD Says:

    From now on we should call it what it is.

    Water torture…..

    Just like the Healthy Forest Initiative and the Death Tax, the GOP-ers took the framing of this issue.

    It is water torture.

    -GSD


  4. barfly Says:

    Mukasey will be cross-referenced in history books, under “torture:” and “illegal wiretapping: in defense of.” For decades hence, school children will name him in class as the second-most morally, intellectually and legally corrupt individual to ever stain the office of Attorney General.


  5. Kilo Says:

    Former Justice Department official Daniel Levin, who was voluntarily waterboarded in 2004, came to similar conclusions about the procedure.

    Well if you were going for best of 3, that settles it.
    Best of 5 ? The jury’s still not in.

    This is bad news for the 0% of readers here who are still sitting on the fence on the question of whether waterboarding constitutes torture.


  6. Evergreen2U Says:

    And torture is a tool of terrorists….ergo…..


  7. Badmoodman Says:

    “Waterboarding is torture, and torture is clearly a crime against humanity.”

    - - And the unhinged response from the Right would go, “And so is flying airplanes into buildings killing thousands of Americans.” We’re becoming who we’re fighting.


  8. VerbalKint Says:

    Waterboarding sounds A-OK if you are a bedwetting coward with no moral compass, and know it won’t happen to you because your authoritarian leaders would only ever do it to your “enemies”.


  9. RUCerious Says:

    Water based extremely enhanced interrogation method?

    If it sounds like torture, looks like torture, hurts like torturel, it doesn’t matter how you try to spin it.

    It’s torture…


  10. JMOHR Says:

    I am waiting to see the trolls show up and defend the practice. We will never really put an end to the Orwellian use of language until such time as the politicians (Democratic) and media refuse to follow the Ministry of Propaganda’s lead in calling these crimes what they are: TORTURE. We are reaping the rewards of having permitted the Raygun White House avoid responsibility for Iran Contra and other various scandals. The Democratic leadership believe they have acted in the best interest of the republic. They are wrong. The Republican elite will not learn the right lesson from their past scandals. Instead, they are always willing to place the republic in peril to gain their ends and to enhance their power. The Democrats enable this conduct. Indeed, it will make the ultimate price paid by our government and people much higher when the Republican fascists must be brought to heel.


  11. GL2814 Says:

    Yet another day where America’s reputation in the world sinks even lower….

    How many years is it going to take to unfu(k this country, once king george and the G.O.Pigs are done?


  12. Badmoodman Says:

    H20WWWWW!!!


  13. RUCerious Says:

    How many years is it going to take to unfu(k this country, once king george and the G.O.Pigs are done?
    Comment by GL2814 — February 10, 2008 @ 4:01 pm

    My best estimate is about two decades.


  14. S.D. Says:

    Back then, we didn’t call it waterboarding — we called it “water torture.”

    Again, This Administration is just playing with semantics. By pretending it’s NOT torture, they maintain that it;s legal…

    Could someone give GW a BJ so we can Impeach him?? Please???


  15. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    Well if you were going for best of 3, that settles it.
    Best of 5 ? The jury’s still not in.

    The jury (REAL Americans, not Nazi TRAITORS) is IN.

    The TREASONOUS Bush WAR CRIMINALS, in the name of the US, now TORTURES.

    Sincerely,

    NRA Gun Nut(e)s, U.S. PATRIOT


  16. FearandSmear Says:

    Part of the problem with all the back and forth about whether or not waterboarding is in fact torture is that the core discussion has itself become waterboarded - watered down, contextualized and nuanced to death.

    If you picture three or four guys in hoods are standing over a someone strapped on his back pouring water into his nose and mouth - it’s pretty clear that that what you’re seeing is torture whoever the guy may be that’s strapped to the board.

    Once we begin to contextualize it - “oh, but the guy is a terrorist…”, we completely depart from the essential fact that such conduct is, at its very core, completely UNAMERICAN.

    http://www.FEARandSMEAR.com


  17. Wayne Says:

    It is only not torture to the sick f-ks that want to use it.
    Unless you use it on them, that is.

    Since we have prosecuted people for waterboarding, from a legal standpoint it is torture, and a War Crime.


  18. Marie Says:

    Waterboarding by any other name would be so torture.
    How low we have sunk under Bush&co.
    Nomenclature for interrogation practices has to be parsed and then redefined and then denied, then equivocally admitted, in defiance with the Bush &Co. addition that “we’d do it again.”
    The procedure has been designated as torture for hundreds of years, globally condemned, yet Bush (the guy who took pleasure blowing up frogs as a kid) obviously gets his jollies from the thought of torture.


  19. GL2814 Says:

    Anyone who supports WATER TORTURE (or any torture for that matter) is a war criminal.

    A line from the movie JFK:

    Jim Garrison: “Treason doth never prosper,” wrote an English poet, “What’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”


  20. KYJurisDoctor Says:

    CLINTON”S campaign Mnanger is replaced.

    This is a sure sign she is SCARED and her coronation is NOT going as well as the plan she laid out!

    http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://OsiSpeaks.org



  21. Marie Says:

    Clinton’s campaign manager , Pattt Solis-Doyle, is demoted, but will remain with the team.
    How will this sit with the Latino vote?


  22. dogjudge Says:

    My favorite one, which I found recently.

    in 1983, the Federal Government tried and convicted a sheriff and his deputies for waterboarding a prisoner. The sheriff served 10 years for doing this.

    Beyond that, this government has succeeded in changing the argument from the acceptability of torture to the acceptability of one type. Who knows how many other techniques they’ve used?

    Plus, as is typical with this administration, you have to watch how the parse their words. They are now admitting to waterboarding three people. At NO point do they talk about the people that they’ve turned over to other countries to have that country do the torture.

    UN Human Rights Commissioner came out on Friday. Said it is torture AND it would be acceptable if some country arrested and tried anyone thought to be involved in authorizing the practice. Anyone want to send Georgie off to Venezuela?


  23. whatevah Says:

    Time to bring charges against Bush & Cheney for crimes against humanity. This needs to happen now before any further discussion of whether waterboarding is torture or not occurs. Waterboarding is torture and against the law in this country. There’s nothing to discuss further except for charges against these war criminals in the white house.


  24. LibertyLover Says:

    *shakes head*

    and wonders where the America that I grew up in went.


  25. whatevah Says:

    The Bush Cabal “game” is to try to finagle language and if one doesn’t ask a very specific question, they get lies. These con men are pros in the art of double speak. This is what’s happening in discussing torture. They want to now begin to define different types of waterboarding when ANY waterboarding is torture. We cannot permit them to do this or we will lose any shred of credibility this country has left internationally.

    Every type of water torture IS torture. Discussing it any further than necessary to bring criminal charges against those upon desk this buck stops (Bush & Cheney) is simply playing their game of “evil semantics”.


  26. whatevah Says:

    LibertyLover - This country already is unrecognizeable to us following the Bush Crime Spree against our Constitution. If he is given another year, there will be no recognizing it any longer AND the prospect of reversing the destruction and damage will be extremely difficult. We can see how much more damage he does with his SOTU speech lies and reverals within 7 days of making the promises to the american people. We see how he bastardizes the laws passed by Congress by his infamous (and probably illegal) signing statements. We see how his stooge, Murky Mukasey is only there to protect and cover Chimpy’s sorry ass. He certainly doesn’t work for the people and basically admitted it in the hearings. Down with Mukasey - he’s no better than Gonzo. We have no DOJ under Mukasey since he’s made the contempt charges against Miers and Bolton null and void. The people need to call for his resignation immediately. He’s nothing but a Bush pimp.


  27. whatevah Says:

    golly_golly: Good advice - now take it yourself.


  28. whatevah Says:

    Golly: And don’t bother posting links because no one gives a flying horses pitutie about your allusions and illusions.


  29. VerbalKint Says:

    So a crime committed five years ago is not a crime according to certain morally deficient people who don’t believe in the rule of law (but who do believe the lies their leaders tell them). Funny, I haven’t heard about a statute of limitations for torture. Is there one? I don’t think so. But I guess the “principle” being suggested here is that if you are able to abuse the power of your office to cover up your crimes for a certain amount of time, you get to go scot free. But just so long as they don’t find out about the more recent crimes that you have not yet admitted.

    Time to move on.


  30. VerbalKint Says:

    Oh, and I also get a distinct whiff of the stench of extreme moral relativism in the room.


  31. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    Move on.

    Comment by good_TORTURE — February 10, 2008 @ 5:13 pm

    Nope.

    STAY HERE. See JUSTICE properly DONE.

    We prefer American LAW be followed, and that TRAITORS Bush and Cheney be brought ON CHARGES before a jury of their peers

    concerning GENOCIDE and TREASON against the USA.

    After CONVICTION,

    PRISON for the REST OF THEIR LIVES till they DROP DEAD.

    And their STINKING, TRAITOROUS carcasses are buried.

    And their SOULS in hell with TRAITOR Ronnie Reagan and their MASTER Satan.

    NO “move on”.

    American JUSTICE.

    More than those that were TORTURED got, THAT’S for SURE.


  32. VerbalKint Says:

    Let us also remember the many suspects rendered to other countries for torture after being stripped of habeas corpus. And remember too the 80+ suspicious deaths, many classified as homicides, of people being held in custody without habeas corpus, and without charges ever being made known to them.


  33. VerbalKint Says:

    Let us ask, what is the morality of “moving on” when a “rare” but heinous crime has been committed and the perpetrators identified? Are we not a society of laws? Do we not prosecute and punish known lawbreakers? Or are certain people treated to a different standard, exempt from following our laws, despite the equal protection clause of our Constitution? Do we call it a “dead issue” when a woman or child has been raped, and say “let’s move on”? I think not. At least not according to my values and ethics, and those of the majority of Americans. It is any less bad to torture human beings than it is to rape them? Where does the backsliding to barbarism stop?


  34. Marie Says:

    We have become the KGB.


  35. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    American JUSTICE.

    Bush and Cheney and the PNAC for WAR CRIMES 2009.

    And OPEN TRAITORS Reagan and Bush Sr.’s RECORDS, so we can see their Iran/Contra TREASON against the USA.

    Junior used Executive Order 13233 to block their release, specified by the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

    OPEN the records, President Hillary or Obama.

    Show the TREASON that is the Bush Crime Family.

    Committing TREASON against the USA for 70 Years (TM)


  36. VerbalKint Says:

    After all, serial killing is “extremely rare”. Is that a basis for ignoring the crime?

    Want to commit a heinous crime and get away with it? Just choose something extremely rare, that is expressly banned by the CIA. That appears to be the recipe here for getting away with a crime.


  37. Merlin Says:

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 5:29 pm

    It’s too bad that you don’t want to be informed, whatevah. If you were informed, you may be able to learn to move on and progress from a dead issue about an extremely rarely used interrogation method that hasn’t been used in 5 years and is expressly banned by the CIA.

    Then, from what you say, if a person murdered someone 5 years ago, but not after, then we should simply move on and pay no heed to the crime. After all, the murder was a rarely used technique and is expressly banned by law.

    Explain to me the difference between these two scenarios.


  38. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Good golly, Li’l good_golly is one obstinate, repulsive, PAID troll.


  39. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    g-g can’t, Merlin. The explanation didn’t come w/ his latest “talking points” memo from the RNC.

    g_g’s an f-in’ parrot. If it ain’t on the page, it’s not in it’s head.


  40. VerbalKint Says:

    I believe in the rule of law, because without it we are lost. We are no better than barbarians. I believe in upholding the Constitution, because it has been the bedrock of success of our way of government for over 200 years. It is precisely what has made us better than other governments. To abandon constitutional principles puts our country at grave risk, and those who do so stand the risk of becoming traitors to the principles upon which this country was founded. It is grave and perilous path indeed.

    And yet there are those who would. These are the people who believe that two wrongs make a right. These are the people who believe that the ends always justify the means. These are the people who degrade the status of other humans to something less than human beings. These are the people who abandon any pretense of following religious principles.


  41. VerbalKint Says:

    The easy thing about not having principles is that you never have to work to follow them. That is the easy path, the morally and intellectually lazy path, the path taken by the weak of spirit.


  42. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    OPEN TRAITORS Reagan and Bush Sr.’s RECORDS, blocked by TRAITOR Jr.!!

    Show the WORLD and the American people the TREASON which is the Bush WAR CRIMINAL family and their PNAC MASTERS!!

    American JUSTICE for the GENOCIDE caused by Bush and Cheney!!

    Jail till they DROP DEAD.

    And go to hell with their MASTER Satan.


  43. VerbalKint Says:

    Torture has never been legal in the history of our country. Torture cannot be wished away by redefining the language. Despite all their attempts to pervert the language, Nazi leaders learned that the hard way at Nuremberg.


  44. Merlin Says:

    Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — February 10, 2008 @ 5:41 pm

    Good golly, Li’l good_golly is one obstinate, repulsive, PAID troll.

    It would have to be PAID to argue like this! No one with free will and even a drop of compassion could justify this tortuous behavior. This is called “black capitalism” in my book. Taking money from the most evil of people to whom you have just sold your soul.


  45. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    And yet there are those who would. These are the people who believe that two wrongs make a right. These are the people who believe that the ends always justify the means. These are the people who degrade the status of other humans to something less than human beings. These are the people who abandon any pretense of following religious principles.

    Comment by VerbalKint — February 10, 2008 @ 5:44 pm

    And then say they’re doing it in the name of God, Country and JESUS.

    BLASPHEMPY, GENOCIDE, LIES…

    THREE Commandments broken by the Bush WAR CRIMINALS and the PNAC.

    Demand American JUSTICE for these WAR CRIMINALS!

    Then JAIL till they DROP DEAD.

    And go to hell with their MASTER Satan.


  46. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    Taking money from the most evil of people to whom you have just sold your soul.

    Comment by Merlin — February 10, 2008 @ 5:49 pm

    SECOND “most evil”.

    good_TORTURE hasn’t met its MASTER Satan.

    Yet….

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!


  47. VerbalKint Says:

    Those who sanction torture always start with high-minded but specious arguments in its favor. When confronted with the falsity of their logic, their faux-legal arguments are always stripped down to two very simple and morally repulsive rationales:

    Two wrongs make a right. The ends justify the means.

    But even these rationales fall by the wayside. Then they must degenerate into mendacious liars, saying that torture isn’t really torture at all.


  48. Bobwurst Says:

    good golly never ceases to amaze there is nothing bush can do that gg won’t make excuses for.


  49. Max-1 Says:

    .

    A rose by any other name(enhanced interrogation),
    Is a rose(TORTURE) just the same.

    “We have meet the enemy, and it is us.”

    .


  50. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    This little b*st*rd is lying thru his teeth.

    The Democratic party controlled Congress passed military commissions legislation in September which provided retroactive legal protection to those who carried out waterboarding and other coercive interrogation techniques.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2006/ 10/ 04/ AR2006100402005.html

    It was passed in 2006 by the GOOPer controlled Congress, you lyin’ POS. Hell the date in the article you “quoted is 2006.

    WhattanF-in’fraud!

    http://www.cvt.org/ main.php/ Advocacy/ TortureisUn-American/ FAQs:MilitaryCommissionsAct

    After several weeks of wrangling between the Administration and Congress, on Friday September 29th, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006.


  51. VerbalKint Says:

    Ordinary people tell little lies all the time, so if you tell a little lie, they will know it. Therefore tell big lies instead. Then ordinary people will believe it, because they, being decent people, would be far too ashamed to tell such a lie, and will assume the same of you.


  52. Merlin Says:

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 5:46 pm

    There is no difference between them. Your trying to skirt the issue by verbal dancing (certain variations!) does not change anything. Your reasoning would say lynching is not illegal if they used nylon rope instead of hemp! Controlled torture is torture no matter what variation you use. And water torture has been, and is, illegal.

    For how many pieces of silver did you sell your soul.


  53. VerbalKint Says:

    God condemns torture. Jesus condemns torture. Yahweh condemns torture. Allah condemns torture. Waterboarding is torture, then, now, and forever.


  54. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    God condemns torture. Jesus condemns torture. Yahweh condemns torture. Allah condemns torture. Waterboarding is torture, then, now, and forever.

    Comment by VerbalKint — February 10, 2008 @ 5:59 pm

    Amen, brother/sister!

    And THAT means that those who DO and CONDONE torture are SINNING before God, and in danger of their SOUL being LOST…

    But they already KNOW that, too…

    Sigh, go be with TRAITOR Ronnie Reagan, torturers.

    Your MASTER Satan awaits you…


  55. VerbalKint Says:

    Your MASTER Satan awaits you…

    Good one, Arn. I don’t believe in Satan, but if I did, he would certainly be a player in this wicked saga. Let’s just say I believe in a metaphorical Satan.


  56. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    Your MASTER Satan awaits you…

    Good one, Arn. I don’t believe in Satan, but if I did, he would certainly be a player in this wicked saga. Let’s just say I believe in a metaphorical Satan.

    Comment by VerbalKint — February 10, 2008 @ 6:06 pm

    No problem, VK.

    I believe in a LOVING, MERCIFUL God.

    Who will FORGIVE YOU if YOU forgive OTHERS..

    The problem is that these scumbags, especially the evangelicals who have the chutzpah to CALL FOR WAR,

    DON’T want to FORGIVE OTHERS.

    But they understand “hell” and “Satan”, even as they point the finger at OTHERS.

    While overlooking TORTURE and GENOCIDE, and the MURDER of God’s Iraqi CHILDREN.

    AND they are ALL God’s children, Iraqi OR American OR…

    Those who expect Mike Mukasey to sheild them from the WRATH of a JUSTIFIABLY ANGRY God are gonna be S.O.R.R.Y.

    In the meantime, as Sharon (witch1) says:

    BLESSINGS!


  57. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    How interesting… g_g gets caught in a blatant lie and takes off running.


  58. WaltTheMan Says:

    VK, you really need to try to keep up here. The Democratic party controlled Congress passed military commissions legislation in September which provided retroactive legal protection to those who carried out waterboarding and other coercive interrogation techniques. There will be no prosecution here thanks to your Democratic party controlled Congress. If you don’t like it, vote those Democratic bastard out. Otherwise, it is time to move on.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/ content/ article/ 2006/ 10/ 04/ AR2006100402005.html

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 5:43 pm

    On October 4, 2006 the Republicans held a majority in Congress. Good try asswipe!


  59. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    I already nailed his smarmy *ss on that one, Walt!


  60. WaltTheMan Says:

    RoS,
    So you did, sorry, I missed it.


  61. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    That’s all right, Walt. There’s nothing quite like a second solid boot to the groin to really express mail that point home… :-D!


  62. Dr. Matt Says:

    The reason why airmen and SF are exposed to waterboarding/torture is because they have to experience torture in their training so they know how to react to being torture in case they are ever captured. Reich-wingers are too stupid to see the obvious.


  63. John Kerry Says:

    WHy don’t you libs give this crap up about torture!! What kind of pussies are you? Your nice little terrorist friends are laughing at you cut and run cowards. Fight fire with fire! Who the hell cares if we torture these barbarians??? They deserve this and MORE!!!


  64. Arn Gunnutes Says:

    MURDERER Bush the COXUCKEr punk TRAITOR to the USA sukx OILY Bin Laden cox, as well as licking aszholes of

    Al Queda TERRORIST financiers.

    A truly TREASONOUS little piece of SCUM.

    Who will BURN FOR ETERNITY. Along with TRAITOR Ronnie Reagan.


  65. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    They deserve this and MORE!!!

    Comment by John Kerry — February 10, 2008 @ 6:49 pm

    So after the 1st string (g_g) humiliates itself by getting caught in a blatant lie, the RNC tries to play catch-up by putting the bench warmers in the game…

    Sorry, JK, but yer comment is just a load of irrational, empty hyperbole.


  66. John Kerry Says:

    “Sorry, JK, but yer comment is just a load of irrational, empty hyperbole.”

    Oh, ok. SO we’re all to accept anything RATIONAL coming from “The Republic of Stupidity “!!

    Sure!!!!!!!


  67. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Johnnie, when ya donna make any sense, laddie, ya best shut yer trap…


  68. Zooey Says:

    Nice work, polar bear. :)


  69. republicans hate facts Says:

    WHy don’t you libs give this crap up about torture!! What kind of pussies are you? Your nice little terrorist friends are laughing at you cut and run cowards. Fight fire with fire! Who the hell cares if we torture these barbarians??? They deserve this and MORE!!!
    Comment by John Kerry — February 10, 2008 @ 6:49 pm

    Barbarians by nature are pussies, and pussies torture, stop projecting your pussiness on others you little frightened pussy!


  70. Lefty Patriot Says:

    It will be time to move on as soon as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and the rest of the barbarians start the life prison terms for crimes against humanity. Then we can all move on. Until the evildoers are prosecuted and punished, we must keep this issue in front of the public, especially since it gives such palpitations to the rightarded trolls who come here to spew their ignorance and treason.


  71. Lefty Patriot Says:

    They deserve this and MORE!!!

    Comment by John Kerry — February 10, 2008 @ 6:49 pm

    they’re going to Disneyland!


  72. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Thank youuu… thank youuu verrry much…

    I saved that one off, and everytime g_g shows up, I’m a-gonna cut ‘n paste that li’l beauty, over ‘n over again!

    It’s like you said last night, Z… when you catch a troll telling a whopper, it’s yer civic duty to nail ‘em good. :-D!!


  73. Zooey Says:

    It’s like you said last night, Z… when you catch a troll telling a whopper, it’s yer civic duty to nail ‘em good. :-D!!
    Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — February 10, 2008 @ 7:11 pm

    Yep!! The harder, the better. :-)

    Pissing contests are useless, and much less satisfying.


  74. Lefty Patriot Says:

    catching good golly in a lie is easier than catching a cold in February.


  75. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    May be true, Lefty, but it was still a satisfying “kill”.

    I got him dead to rights. He actually shut up and took off running!

    Right, Z… that endless “I said-you said-you said-I said” drives me crazy after a while. There’s just something so… **satisfying** about nailing a troll like g_g w/ his own words.


  76. theswan Says:

    Waterboarding, beheading are the same. You get nothing from it.


  77. dbadass Says:

    WHy don’t you libs give this crap up about torture!! What kind of pussies are you? Your nice little terrorist friends are laughing at you cut and run cowards. Fight fire with fire! Who the hell cares if we torture these barbarians??? They deserve this and MORE!!!

    Comment by John Kerry — February 10, 2008 @ 6:49 pm

    Now this is some quality shit! Thanks John Kerry


  78. Buckie Boy Says:

    At the Caucus yesterday in Washington, I did a speach for Obama for our district, I told them about how Hillary would not commit to not using torture, and how Obama said he absolutely would not use it…it turned the four undecided to Obama. Our district 5 Obama, 3 Clinton.

    It is torture and the unamerican scum sucking Nazicons who think it is ok, need to be removed from society.

    Buck Fush


  79. joe cantwell Says:

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 5:13 pm

    so you get paid for this, huh?

    thought so.

    (weekend cut short or did you forget your parking pass again?)


  80. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    I think JK went to attend a troll pep rally, along w/ g_g ‘n the rest of the gang, dbadass. Check the last stall on the left, the Men’s Room, down at the airport.


  81. Buckie Boy Says:

    They deserve this and MORE!!!

    Comment by John Kerry

    You just can’t get anymore immoral, and subhuman scum than this, nice job there JK, I will keep that quote to show friends and family just how vile your types are.

    Eat sh!t and die, JK


  82. bernard quatermass Says:

    C’mon, folks, quit feeding the trolls exactly what they want: attention.


  83. Bobwurst Says:

    ignore kerry, it brings nothing to the table. gg at least attempts sophistry, so if you want to play wack a troll pound on gg.


  84. Saint Augustine Says:

    I wonder how our trolls will feel with a democrat in the Whitehouse and 75-80% majorities in the House and Senate? Do you suppose their heads will explode if we pass laws with retroactive provisions for the Bush administration illegal actions?


  85. John Kerry Says:

    “Eat sh!t and die, JK”

    This is an incredibly intelligent comment, BUCKLE BOY (WOW! What does that imply libbies!!). I think you’ve shown your class.

    No go hide under your covers and hope and pray those nice terrorist friends of yours don’t cut you in pieces!! Hey, would that be considered torture Buckle Boy??????


  86. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Hey look… JK is back from the pep rally!


  87. republicans hate facts Says:

    “Eat sh!t and die, JK”
    This is an incredibly intelligent comment, BUCKLE BOY (WOW! What does that imply libbies!!). I think you’ve shown your class. Comment by John Kerry — February 10, 2008 @ 7:43 pm

    Well considering what an ignorant f**ked up RUBE PUSSY you are, that believes in TORTURE, that WOULD PASS AS INTELLECT and CLASS to YOU!! TARD!

    No go hide under your covers and hope and pray those nice terrorist friends of yours don’t cut you in pieces!! Hey, would that be considered torture Buckle Boy??????
    Comment by John Kerry — February 10, 2008 @ 7:43 pm

    ROTFL!!! HYSTERICAL COMMENT coming from the LITTLE PUSSY that’s SUCH A COWARD he hast to TORTURE to make HIMSELF FEEL SAFE!!! Stop projecting, you COWARDLY LITTLE PUSSY, and crawl back UNDER YOUR BED and wait for your DADDY to come SEX YOU UP like a GOOD REPUBLICAN! ;)


  88. Zooey Says:

    Nothing worse than a whiny troll.


  89. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    It must be harder ‘n Hell bein’ a troll these days, Z…

    How would you like to have to get every day and defend the latest load of insane horse crap from the mouf of Herr Brusch, over ‘n over ‘n over again ‘n put up w/ all those “libruls’ laughin’ at ya, ‘n all fer minimum wage ‘n no benes?

    Permanent GOOPer majority? HAH!


  90. bilbobaggins Says:

    Personally I think that before any official can deny it is torture or refuse to call it torture, they should have to go through it.


  91. Zooey Says:

    Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — February 10, 2008 @ 7:54 pm

    **tiny violin playing for trolls**


  92. Wayne Says:

    LOL, good catch RoS. Need to pound golly_goofy with that lie every time it pokes its head out of its hole.

    Kinda weird goofy dropped off and JK popped in on queue. Troll shift change or sockpuppet change?


  93. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Agreed, bilbo.

    Perhaps some of our resident trolls, like g_g, or JK, would bravely volunteer?

    Sonata for Tiny Violin and 2 Whiny Trolls, Z?


  94. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    I’m personally guessing the Coach benched g_g fer blowing the play so badly, ‘n JK is the 2nd stringer…


  95. Xisithrus Says:

    Gee, maybe JK should first convince Bush to care where Osama was…seems to me he doesnt want to waterboard that barbarian Osama.


  96. bilbobaggins Says:

    Your beating a dead horse here. Although the U.S. performed a moderated form of “waterboarding” on three high level Al Qaeda suspects over 5 years ago, it hasn’t done so since 2003 and it is now against CIA policy. Move on.
    http://blogs.abcnews.com/ theblotter/ 2007/ 11/ exclusive-only-.html
    Comment by good_golly

    Our resident troll GiGi has now defined waterboarding as “a moderate form of waterboarding”. So what, exactly, is a moderate form of waterboarding? It (GiGi) is also unclear on the concept that it was illegal when they did it and it is still illegal. Since he thinks we have stopped waterboarding prisoners (something that is doubtful), he thinks we should just forget about it and move on. I guess that it will have no problems if a Democratic president flagrantly breaks the law.


  97. republicans hate facts Says:

    Our resident troll GiGi has now defined waterboarding as “a moderate form of waterboarding”. So what, exactly, is a moderate form of waterboarding? It (GiGi) is also unclear on the concept that it was illegal when they did it and it is still illegal. Since he thinks we have stopped waterboarding prisoners (something that is doubtful), he thinks we should just forget about it and move on. I guess that it will have no problems if a Democratic president flagrantly breaks the law.
    Comment by bilbobaggins — February 10, 2008 @ 8:06 pm

    They mean ‘moderate’ in the sense that they didn’t let the prisoners ACTUALLY DROWN, and be resuscitated, they just let them think they’re going to die! These assclowns are a disgrace to everything that is America - bunch of nazi freaks!


  98. Wayne Says:

    During occupation of the Philippines in 1889, US soldiers were court-martialed for water torturing prisoners. This has been illegal for a long time and many examples of people prosecuted, including a Texas sheriff sentenced to 10 years in 1983.

    We should not even have to have this discussion and the Bush Administration should be in jail
    It is ludicrous that there is any “debate” at all.
    It is f-king illegal, period.


  99. bilbobaggins Says:

    VK, you really need to try to keep up here. The Democratic party controlled Congress passed military commissions legislation in September which provided retroactive legal protection to those who carried out waterboarding and other coercive interrogation techniques.
    Comment by good_golly

    Goon Golly sure is missing the point tonight, isn’t it. I have no problem with giving the people who carried out the waterboarding retroactive legal protection. What I want is the person who authorized the heinous crime prosecuted and that would be George W. Bush. I would have a hard time prosecuting someone who was operating under a direct order by the President of the United States. I do not hold the person doing the crime responsible if he was ordered to do so by a higher authority. That’s why I was furious when none of the people who ordered the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Garib were prosecuted, only the grunts who were following orders (some a little too gleefully, though).


  100. LiberalVoter Says:

    So by G-G’s twisted logic, 9-11 happened over 5 years ago so it is time to forgive bin Laden and give him back his membership to the republican golf club. Also, since 9-11 was among one of the false reasons used to invade Iraq we can now bring the troops home.

    Where does the rnc get these people?


  101. bilbobaggins Says:

    42. Merlin: Murder is and always has been illegal. Certain variations of controlled waterboarding, on the other hand, has not always been illegal. Moreover, the Democratic controlled congress has provided retroactive legal protection to those who carried out waterboarding. See the difference?
    Comment by good_golly

    Does anyone besides me see a trend here? The RNC knows that they have no basis on which to defend waterboarding so they are telling their minions to go out there and say that it was “controlled waterboarding” or a “moderated form” or waterboarding. That way they can say that it wasn’t illegal because it wasn’t a “full on waterboarding”. What a bunch of lying sacks of shit.

    Perhaps trolls like GiGi can tell us why it was illegal when a US sheriffs performed waterboarding and was put in jail for it, but then magically it somehow became legal when GWB took office.


  102. bernard quatermass Says:

    Trolling reported since that is (in my own opinion) a more constructive response than trying to engage them …


  103. LoraS Says:

    Well if you were going for best of 3, that settles it.
    Best of 5 ? The jury’s still not in.
    This is bad news for the 0% of readers here who are still sitting on the fence on the question of whether waterboarding constitutes torture.
    Comment by Kilo — February 10, 2008 @ 3:39 pm

    Please go ahead and get waterboarded, kilo, and then give us your “expert” opinion on whether it constitutes torture.


  104. Zooey Says:

    Sonata for Tiny Violin and 2 Whiny Trolls, Z?
    Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — February 10, 2008 @ 8:00 pm

    Heh. It’s a classic. :-)


  105. jb Says:

    Why do these trolls hate Navy Airmen telling the truth? Why would anyone be willing to compromise the integrity of the USA to use a torture technique which does not provide reliable information? Use of torture also compromises any future prosecutions in a court of law as any info obtained by torture is not admissible. Supporting torture is very Un-American.


  106. Alejandro Says:

    Yeah, but we got new laws and stuff that say it’s ok. So that makes it ok, right?


  107. LiberalVoter Says:

    OT. Sorry, new to this board. RE 107: Just wanted to state our troops must be brought home and receive the proper care that has been denied to them by the republicans.

    Water boarding, water torture that is, is a practice carried out by depraved individuals. As stated above, little to no real information of consequence is ever obtained. Those in charge must be held accountable.

    Pax


  108. Bad Eye Says:

    You are beating a dead horse here. Although the U.S. performed a moderated form of “waterboarding” on three high level Al Qaeda suspects over 5 years ago, it hasn’t done so since 2003 and it is now against CIA policy. Move on.

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 5:13 pm

    Is it OK to waterboard a U.S. troop, even with a “moderated” form?


  109. Wayne Says:

    new to this board.
    Comment by LiberalVoter — February 10, 2008 @ 8:51 pm

    Welcome aboard.


  110. Bad Eye Says:

    new to this board.
    Comment by LiberalVoter — February 10, 2008 @ 8:51 pm

    Welcome aboard.

    Comment by Wayne — February 10, 2008 @ 8:54 pm

    Ditto!


  111. Wayne Says:

    ‘There will be no prosecution here thanks to your Democratic party controlled Congress.”

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 8:55 pm

    …. At the dire risk of the future of their party, there will be no prosecutions, you mean.

    I don’t think people that remember Watergate and Iran/Contra will sit quietly by if they let them go this time.
    I sure won’t. I will be helping the new 3rd party, the Democrats will lose my vote forever. Neither party should survive if that is the case.

    War Crimes are War Crimes, Period.


  112. Zooey Says:

    It is not o.k. for either side (”US or the terrorists”) to waterboard.

    But but but but but but……
    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 9:00 pm

    The troll mantra…..but


  113. Wayne Says:

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 9:00 pm

    War Crimes are War Crimes, Period.


  114. Wayne Says:

    I strongly encourage you to help that new 3rd party Wayne. Go for it. With a lot of hard work, you might manage to pull in 2% of the popular vote.
    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 9:05 pm

    In the words of the greatman, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - “We Shall Overcome”.

    Evil must always be fought against.


  115. ralph the wonder llama Says:

    I see the new troll talking pooint re: waterboarding is “the CIA only did it three times and hasn’t done it in five years”.

    Point number one: IF you believe them.

    Point number two: if GiGi had sex only three times five years ago, that don’t make her a virgin today.

    Point number three: let’s assume point one. That’s the CIA accounted for. Great. How about military intelligence? How about private contractors who operate in our name?

    (NOTE: please excuse the wildly outlandish postulate that our troll GiGi has ever had sex. With another person. It was just for the sake of argument.)


  116. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    So, Military commissions act is a law, repeal the law when we get the FULL COngress in Nov.
    Then we can prosecute anyone back from the point of passage backwards again. No prob. See the law cuts both ways G-G.

    As with JK, the only terrorists ARE the Neocon, so I say just use water torture on them until they crack. I would pay to turn the bucket.
    Arrest, try and HANG Bush and Cheney.



  117. Bad Eye Says:

    The troll mantra…..but

    Comment by Zooey — February 10, 2008 @ 9:04 pm

    Or…butt, a kind word for ass.


  118. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    Goon golly sputters:
    “CIA only did it under controlled conditions on 3 high level Al Qaeda terrorists”

    So, it was on “3 high level terrorists?”
    ANd we know they are “3 high level terrorists” BECAUSE….?
    They admitted so under torture.

    AHHH I see you have sprung a leak.


  119. Wayne Says:

    I am going to give Obama my vote, in the hope he will not let war crimes slide. If he goes along, he will be the last Democrat I will vote for. I already won’t vote Republi-Crime Inc.

    Nixon got off, the Democrats caved, Ford pardoned. Guilty Nixon officials filled the Raygun Administration. Raygun got off, the Democrats caved. And then Raygun’s corrupt officials filled the Shrub’s Administration.

    Anyone stupid enough to not see a pattern here?


  120. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    ONce again the g-g states the inappropriate.
    “99Luf. Thank you for demonstrating the hypocricy [sic] of the Left.”

    The “hypocrisy” spoken of must have been g-g’s desire to throw out the assumption that we can just vote out the law of the Military Commisions act. Of course we can. YES WE CAN! And since as it was NOT the Dems who voted it in. Ergo, no hypocrisy.


  121. Bad Eye Says:

    Hey, Golly. Had those 3 high level terrorists been convicted in a court of law? Or were they “suspected” terrorists who hadn’t seen the inside of a court room? Just wondering…


  122. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    I apologize for my obvious error in this post. The Republicans did hold a slim majority of Congress in 2006 when this legislation passed, but 34 Democrats approved the measure in the House as well.

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 8:55 pm

    I knew it! I just knew this smarmy, prevaricating little POS was off counting votes, trying to cover it’s greasy tracks.

    No, your premise wasn’t correct. Yer just a lying POS, and that’s all you are.

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAAHA…

    You… got… BUSTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-D!!!


  123. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    So, supposedly since 34 Dems voted for the unconstitutional Military Commisions act, we have to stand by for the remainder of eternity.
    I think not.
    We can enact NEW legislation REPEALING it.
    YES WE CAN!!!!

    Say is with me Goonie Golly
    YES WE CAN!
    YES WE CAN!
    YES WE CAN!
    YES WE CAN!


  124. Wayne Says:

    The Supreme Court has already ruled once that retroactive imunity is unconstitutional.

    I posted that when I was the first to bring the Military Commissions Act and it’s secret private signing to the attention of this blog.

    An honest judge would through it out.


  125. Bad Eye Says:

    Comment by Wayne — February 10, 2008 @ 9:28 pm

    Ahhhh…the good ol’ MCA. The one that Bush thinks would be fine if other countries adopt, and hold our troops indefinitely and put them on trial while withholding evidence from their defense.


  126. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    Oh no, no, no, I have no problem with doing to those who claim that it is NOT torture.


  127. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    I have always said, I would rather just have it to be OK to kill all Republicans in the street.


  128. marlow Says:

    Thus, it is a dead issue and time to move on.

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
    Not even close. Despite any legislation which purported to provide immunity, consideration should be given to revoking that immunity. Those who participated need to be brought out of the shadows they inhabit and should be compelled at the very least to describe the exact actions they took and exactly who ordered them, and who at the top may still be liable for imprisonment. This will be a very large part of the investigation into just how badly this farce of a president has damaged the nation he was selected to run.


  129. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    I could give shit about you. You ahve shown your contempt of our way of life. You are worse than Freddo. You are now rotting flech suckling off the teat of Lady Liberty. I no sooner excise that which is rotten, than let it fester to become something MUCH worse.


  130. Lefty Patriot Says:

    Thus, it is a dead issue and time to move on.

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 9:00 pm

    No, it’s time to get a real liberal congress and overturn that stupid, anti-American ruling, and bring Bush and Cheney and crew to justice for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Sweeping these crimes under the rug weakens America, which is why rightwingnut traitors like good goober are all for it. it’s time for America to stop playing mini-3rd-reich.


  131. Wayne Says:

    The hypocrisy is your desire to waterboard your political opponents.

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 9:29 pm

    No, I want criminals on trial for crimes commited. It is possible some Democrats or recent Independents need to be put on trial too.


  132. marlow Says:

    By the way, where’s hillbilly? I guess he’s WAY tougher than the wussies covered in this article. Isn’t a good waterboarding part of his daily constitutional?


  133. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    The person coccupying the Whitehouse needs to be brought out into the open, and judged for the crimes he has committed, or allowed to be committed in his name. Or stood by and gave cover to be committed by others, namely Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice, Negroponte, et al. There is nothing redeemable about any of them. Their organs are not even worthy of continued living.
    They are dirt to me.
    And you too for supporting the, obvious to a schoolgirl, traitors.


  134. Lefty Patriot Says:

    NOTHING. Hence, the issue is dead.

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 9:34 pm

    And as everyone has seen, tne repuiblican treeason rank and file will allow nothing to be passed that doesn’t enrich their pigs at the trough, so the dems are not to blame for the immoral stance of the US government at this time. once we decimate republican ranks, the rule of law will be returned, and we will prosecute war criminals to the fullest extent of the law. That is real “moving on”.


  135. marlow Says:

    141. That’s fine marlow, but what has your Democratic controlled congress done in this regard? NOTHING. Hence, the issue is dead.

    Comment by good_golly — February 10, 2008 @ 9:34 pm
    It ain’t dead by a longshot, pal. If a role was played by craven democrats, that will be exposed too. The world will know of the scumbaggery of this administration, democrats notwithstanding.


  136. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    “once we decimate republican ranks, the rule of law will be returned, and we will prosecute war criminals to the fullest extent of the law. That is real “moving on”.”

    YES WE CAN!!!!


  137. Lefty Patriot Says:

    there is no Democratic-controlled Congress, becasue there is no democracy in the US any more. that is the first thing that will change in January ‘09. Democracy and freedom will be returned to the USA.


  138. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    I love this totally irrational throught process of Goonie:

    “That’s fine marlow, but what has your Democratic controlled congress done in this regard? NOTHING. Hence, the issue is dead.”

    What does one have to do with the other? Acts were committed, a secret law, and an unconsitutional one was passed supposedly giving the purpetrators of said actions “retroactive immunity” (unconsitutional) and since no one in Congress has moved on this point, Goonie says that the point is lost, move on.
    Move on, Moveon? Are you really with Moveon.org?


  139. Wayne Says:

    Isn’t a good waterboarding part of his daily constitutional?
    Comment by marlow — February 10, 2008 @ 9:36 pm

    I think that technique is called beer bonging, not waterboarding.


  140. Zooey Says:

    I think that technique is called beer bonging, not waterboarding.
    Comment by Wayne — February 10, 2008 @ 9:44 pm

    Wouldn’t that imply that the troll has friends?


  141. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    IMAGINARY friends, Z, imaginary friends…


  142. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Jes’ like his **cough** “girlfriend”… Ms Rosie Palm…


  143. Wayne Says:

    Wouldn’t that imply that the troll has friends?

    Comment by Zooey — February 10, 2008 @ 9:48 pm

    Not when you just tap a keg =)


  144. marlow Says:

    I’m sure the Nazis passed more than a few laws retroactively immunizing their conduct. I’m sure that meant a hell of a lot at Nuremberg (not).


  145. Wayne Says:

    I’m sure the Nazis passed more than a few laws retroactively immunizing their conduct. I’m sure that meant a hell of a lot at Nuremberg (not).

    Comment by marlow — February 10, 2008 @ 9:51 pm

    They did and it didn’t.

    Didn’t mean a lot in the war criminal trials of the Yugoslavians either.


  146. marlow Says:

    They did and it didn’t.

    Didn’t mean a lot in the war criminal trials of the Yugoslavians either.

    Comment by Wayne — February 10, 2008 @ 9:54 pm
    Quite right, and I’ll appreciate it if you’ll all leave my mistress Rosie Palm out of it, thank you very much.


  147. Zooey Says:

    Jes’ like his **cough** “girlfriend”… Ms Rosie Palm…
    Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — February 10, 2008 @ 9:50 pm

    Oh, I know her — haggard old crank….


  148. Wayne Says:

    Quite right, and I’ll appreciate it if you’ll all leave my mistress Rosie Palm out of it, thank you very much.

    Comment by marlow — February 10, 2008 @ 9:58 pm

    Hey, that wasn’t me that mentioned Rosie, it was that polar bear over there.


  149. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Right, Z… ‘n talk about calloused…


  150. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Polar bear???? Where??? Where??? Where???


  151. 99Luf Balloons Says:

    What, the one on the ice flow, all by hisself, because Global warming has melted the ice cap?



  152. Zooey Says:

    What, the one on the ice flow, all by hisself, because Global warming has melted the ice cap?
    Comment by 99Luf Balloons — February 10, 2008 @ 10:03 pm

    The polar bear escaped from the Zoo. ;)


  153. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Gee, Z… are they makin’ fun o’ my plight?

    ***sniff… sniff***


  154. Zooey Says:

    Gee, Z… are they makin’ fun o’ my plight?
    ***sniff… sniff***
    Comment by The Republic of Stupidity — February 10, 2008 @ 10:10 pm

    It’s cruel….are you feeling up to a snack? :D


  155. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Well… I am gittin’ mad enough ta… ta… ta… eat somebody…


  156. Zooey Says:

    Make sure you brush after!


  157. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    N’ floss… don’t fergit tha flossing… ;-D!!


  158. Zooey Says:

    You have opposable thumbs? You’re a new generation of polar bear!


  159. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    ***pssst… Z… it’s called “evolution”, but don’t tell the fundies… they won’t believe ya!***

    Actually, that’s partly what caused my, ahem, “weight problem” (the one Shayne is allus pointin’ out… snotty wolf… I figgered out how ta use this thingy called a “can opener”…

    faaaabulous invention…


  160. Zooey Says:

    You crack me up, polar bear. :-)


  161. Wayne Says:

    thread needs coffee drinker warnings now

    LMAO


  162. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Well, seein’ how humans have had both “opposing thumbs” ‘n “can openers” all along… ya think they’d all have weight problems…

    Ooops… my bad… a lot o’ ‘em do, don’t they?

    Bad fer my cholestrol levels… Doc keeps tellin’ me I gots ta be more careful… ‘n I jes’ say, “Geez, Doc, you ever EAT a vegetarian?”

    ‘Course, on the other hand, it’s kindalike a balanced diet… ya get yer greens and yer meat all in one…


  163. Zooey Says:

    Vegetarians are stringy and mean. Make sure you eat ‘em two at a time.


  164. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    stringy and mean…

    Comment by Zooey — February 10, 2008 @ 11:23 pm

    String beings??? Can I have ‘em French cut?


  165. Zooey Says:

    Ah, a polar bear with a discriminating palate.

    Would you like bacon bits ™ with those string beings? ;)


  166. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Are they real Bacon bitsâ„¢, or those freakin’ soy Bacon bitsâ„¢???

    I mean… let’s face it… I’m a polar bear… I jes’ LUVs seal blubber… jes’ how discriminatin’ can I be?

    BUT… I… will… not… eat a GOOPer…

    (a friend o’ mine did, once, ‘n he was sick fer weeks… all his fur fell out… man, did we tease him… said he looked like a Mexican hairless w/ a gland problem…)


  167. Zooey Says:

    How about some seal blubber bits(tm)? A truly special feast.

    Oh please, DO NOT eat a GOOPer. Eat Spaghettios, they’re healthier.

    …and I wouldn’t be able to keep from snickering if all your hair fell out… :D


  168. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    Oooooh… Seal Blubber Bitsâ„¢… now, THAT’s a sure-fire winner…

    And if all my hair fell out, I’d prolly get such a nasty sun burn…

    But fortunately, I’d die from tha shame ‘n embarrassment first…


  169. Zooey Says:

    The trick is keeping the blubber bits crunchy — it’s a secret recipe, you know.

    Don’t ask about the truckloads of cat litter, you don’t want to know.

    Hey, a great marketing idea for y’all polar bears — water wings and sun screen!


  170. The Republic of Stupidity Says:

    “… water wings and sun screen!”

    Comment by Zooey — February 10, 2008 @ 11:52 pm

    ***sniff… sniff***… now yer makin’ fun o’ my plight again…

    Ya know, I did go ta Hollywood once ‘n tried ta git an agent… she didn’t realize that I’m indeed a polar bear… all she kept sayin’ was nasty things about “that excess body hair” and suggesting I git sumpin called a “wax job” if I expected anyone ta take me seriously…

    I finally got so mad I ate her…


  171. Zooey Says:

    Sorry, just being practical. Heh.

    There ain’t enough