Comments on: send in the bugs http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/wtf/send-in-the-bugs/ She drinks, you know. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:06:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Whitney Seltzen http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/wtf/send-in-the-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-17501 Whitney Seltzen Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:36:28 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=583#comment-17501 Thank you for the information! Thank you for the information!

]]> By: geneva http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/wtf/send-in-the-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-17442 geneva Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:19:59 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=583#comment-17442 <a href="http://www.bestkitchenfaucetsstore.com" rel="nofollow">Best Kitchen Faucets </a>Hello ! Love your blog thanks for sharing Best Kitchen Faucets Hello ! Love your blog thanks for sharing

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/wtf/send-in-the-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-1900 cocktailhag Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:56:49 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=583#comment-1900 It's really sad. I remember talking to my mother about it after Abu Ghraib. "I always thought that's what the other guys did," she said disgustedly. It’s really sad. I remember talking to my mother about it after Abu Ghraib. “I always thought that’s what the other guys did,” she said disgustedly.

]]> By: William TImberman http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/wtf/send-in-the-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-1899 William TImberman Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:48:35 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=583#comment-1899 Yes, Dr. Mengele springs to mind, or those assholes at the CIA who spent the late fifties dropping acid in their subjects' drinks and taking notes as the unsuspecting buggers jumped out of 25th floor windows. Yes, Dr. Mengele springs to mind, or those assholes at the CIA who spent the late fifties dropping acid in their subjects’ drinks and taking notes as the unsuspecting buggers jumped out of 25th floor windows.

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/wtf/send-in-the-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-1897 cocktailhag Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:40:38 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=583#comment-1897 Ah. yes, and what about the "medical professionals" lending a helping hand as well? The whole story is just so jaw-dropping. Ah. yes, and what about the “medical professionals” lending a helping hand as well? The whole story is just so jaw-dropping.

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/wtf/send-in-the-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-1895 cocktailhag Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:36:40 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=583#comment-1895 That was one particular horror of it for me; the rather vivid imagination that came up with the idea. Too dumb to think of Winston in "1984" with the rat, or the bedbug torture in "The Gulag Archipelago," they treated their depraved idea as something novel. I keep thinking of Mel Brook's' musical number, "The Inquisition." Look out, sin! That was one particular horror of it for me; the rather vivid imagination that came up with the idea. Too dumb to think of Winston in “1984″ with the rat, or the bedbug torture in “The Gulag Archipelago,” they treated their depraved idea as something novel. I keep thinking of Mel Brook’s’ musical number, “The Inquisition.”
Look out, sin!

]]> By: cocktailhag http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/wtf/send-in-the-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-1894 cocktailhag Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:28:50 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=583#comment-1894 I heard about that today on Thom Hartmann; a nice twist that surprised me not was that they used ants. Swarms of bugs have their own special qualities, I've found, compared to just one (caterpillar, indeed). GMTA. I heard about that today on Thom Hartmann; a nice twist that surprised me not was that they used ants. Swarms of bugs have their own special qualities, I’ve found, compared to just one (caterpillar, indeed). GMTA.

]]> By: William Timberman http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/wtf/send-in-the-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-1893 William Timberman Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:21:30 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=583#comment-1893 If Dick Cheney's name had been Tojo, or von Ribbentrop, we'd already have a YouTube video of him with a bag over his head and a rope around his neck. The legal profession has it niceties to consider, and rightly so, but I find a literally unbearable irony in the fact that the same legal scholasticism which once strove so mightily to convince us that Nürnberg had nothing whatever to do victor's justice is now busily polishing the good-faith theory of exculpation for American functionaries who performed, or ordered, <i>exactly</i> the same atrocities as those we once hanged. Laughing is good for us, and God knows I could use a laugh, and God bless the Hag's bold attempt to restore a little sanity to our meditations on this subject, but somehow I just can't find anything in my heart but a desire to drive these people out of the human community forever. If Dick Cheney’s name had been Tojo, or von Ribbentrop, we’d already have a YouTube video of him with a bag over his head and a rope around his neck. The legal profession has it niceties to consider, and rightly so, but I find a literally unbearable irony in the fact that the same legal scholasticism which once strove so mightily to convince us that Nürnberg had nothing whatever to do victor’s justice is now busily polishing the good-faith theory of exculpation for American functionaries who performed, or ordered, exactly the same atrocities as those we once hanged.

Laughing is good for us, and God knows I could use a laugh, and God bless the Hag’s bold attempt to restore a little sanity to our meditations on this subject, but somehow I just can’t find anything in my heart but a desire to drive these people out of the human community forever.

]]> By: NW Woods http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/wtf/send-in-the-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-1892 NW Woods Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:59:46 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=583#comment-1892 *Oh, and I can already tell you what the response will be to your “we used BUGS to torture people” line - that tactic was never actually used. (at least if you believe the torturers) It was only APPROVED for use.* The evidence might suggest otherwise. "Bush memos parallel claim 9/11 mastermind’s children were tortured with insects" http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/17/bush-torture-memos-align-with-account-that-911-suspects-children-were-tortured/ *Oh, and I can already tell you what the response will be to your “we used BUGS to torture people” line – that tactic was never actually used. (at least if you believe the torturers) It was only APPROVED for use.*

The evidence might suggest otherwise.

“Bush memos parallel claim 9/11 mastermind’s children were tortured with insects”

http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/17/bush-torture-memos-align-with-account-that-911-suspects-children-were-tortured/

]]> By: Jim White http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/wtf/send-in-the-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-1891 Jim White Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:28:22 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=583#comment-1891 Bugs were fun for me in the old days. I used to grow ladybugs and these little guys called big-eyed bugs: http://www.insectimages.org/images/768x512/5367926.jpg They were vicious predators, but really cute to grow and handle. Putting bugs into a box with someone is just sick. There was an old really bad TV reality show that did crap like that, but at least on the show the people knew they could end it at any time and that they weren't in any real danger. Bugs were fun for me in the old days. I used to grow ladybugs and these little guys called big-eyed bugs:
http://www.insectimages.org/images/768×512/5367926.jpg
They were vicious predators, but really cute to grow and handle.

Putting bugs into a box with someone is just sick. There was an old really bad TV reality show that did crap like that, but at least on the show the people knew they could end it at any time and that they weren’t in any real danger.

]]>