Archive for September, 2006

Timmay on torture

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

My last post on a “Christian” blogger named Tim High generated some heat. He put up this post in a feeble attempt to rebut it. The sad thing was, I never said what he claims I said.
If anyone wants to know the definition of a Strawman argument is, Timmy just provided a working example. [...]

More on Torture

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

I read the comments on Amy’s post that I referenced below, and Tim (Highboy on Radar’s blog) said this:

Torture for information is never wrong, especially when that information saves life.

So, aside from torturing people for the sheer sadistic elation you feel as you strap electrodes to their testicles, it’s perfectly fine for the US [...]

It’s not torture…

Monday, September 18th, 2006

I was reading one of my favorite right-wing blogs, and the latest post had this:

How to treat terrorist detainees in light of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions is being debated in the Senate. Democrats and 3 Republicans (John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham) oppose the President’s plan to provide protection to [...]

Rules for successful snarkiness

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

Sometimes when I’m bored, I do vanity searches for jUploadr. Usually, I find people saying the same thing: “It’s great”, “It’s easy to use”, “It’s better than the actual Flickr uploadr”, etc. However the last time I searched, I found this, which is a huge pan.
Funny thing is, the guy harps on it being [...]