A loooooooooooooong time ago, I remember remarking that I had a sublime gift for replying without reading subject lines.
I'm going to eat a cookie now. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay. Just when I thought that nothing could throw me... How in the name of Heisenberg can these people stand up and declare themselves to be part of this segment of non-society? If I ever meet one of them, my first question will be, "Have you or anyone you love ever been waterboarded?" (And I'll have a camera on hand to capture the facial expression that results...) "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: November 7, 2007 Waterboarders Protest Negative Media Stereotypes Angry Torturers March on Washington Furious about what they see as negative media stereotypes about waterboarding, a group representing the nationâs waterboarders marched on Washington today. The group, which calls itself the National Association of Waterboarders and Controlled Drowners, is the largest organization of its kind, representing over 20,000 of the nationâs waterboarders. Waterboarders across the country have silently seethed for the past week as members of the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey about his views on the controversial interrogation technique. But after several days of hearing senators repeatedly denigrate the practice on national television, waterboarders âhave had enough,â said Carol Foyler, executive director of the waterboardersâ group. âWhen senators use the words âcontrolled drowning,â people ignore the âcontrolledâ part and focus on the âdrowningâ part,â Ms. Foyler said. âAs someone who spent years of training to become a licensed waterboarder, Iâm deeply offended by this.â Braving chilly November temperatures to make their point about the mediaâs negative stereotyping of them, the angry torturers got some moral support when one of their most prominent advocates, Vice President Dick Cheney, emerged from his secure undisclosed location to address them. The vice president received a thunderous ovation from the crowd when he proposed that the government earmark $1.6 billion to improve the media image of waterboarding and waterboarders. âThereâs nothing wrong with waterboarding that a little public relations makeover wouldnât fix,â the vice president told the crowd. âFor starters, why not call it dunking?â Elsewhere, faced with a Writers Guild strike, Paramount Pictures said it would produce the second âTransformersâ film without a script, âjust like the first one.â www.borowitzreport.com "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]