The Domestic Violence Starts Early

before i forget

to post about it at all (1 point of this blog it to remember shit that happens when i'm drunk), this a a reminder to myself to write about the guy who tried to get me, my buddy and my buddy's gf to fuck his wife. Also, someone insisted they don't care about killing babies. A tough stance to defend, but it its not hard why do it.

More to come.

oh, and how is it they can coat childrens toys that cost a few bucks in ruphies, but i have to pay 10 bucks for 1 pill? where's the invisible hand of the market now?

my favorite sites you've never heard of

here's a list of lesser known websites i love. everyone knows about wikipedia and dailykos (at least everyone who would ever be interested in those sites), so here's a quick runbdown of sites i visit and think people might not know about.

washingtonmonthly.com - politicical blog

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/ - paul krugman's blog, politics/economics

http://slashdot.org/ - news for nerds/stuff that matters

http://www.tuckermax.com/ the horribly offensive and amsing stories of a drunk asshole. read the sushi pants story at the very least

http://maddox.xmission.com/ another asshole who happens to have the best page in the universe

http://www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm a classic

http://scienceblogs.com/ another one full of nerdiness

thats it for now

poker+free whiskey+me = losing money

Went to AC last weekend. Was up at 1-2 NL poker table then started drinking. don't remember what happened but i eneded up with no money friday night. next morning the dealer at borgata was like "oh, i played with you last night. you were DRUNK. " i'm an idiot. anothre time i was up 1500 bucks on a 1-2, played till i fell out of my seat, had a guy at the able threaten to kill me, asked anohter player to count my chips (cause i could not) and lost it all. I had thought i could control it and drink a little, but stay semi-sober. that was stupid. from now on its water, coffee and maybe a beer. but even beer will just lead to whiskey, i'm sure. ugh.

I'm old, and halloween has proved it

I wouldn't go into manhattan for the halloween parade (i live in jersey city (i'm embarassed to say)) cause i was too tired and it was a wednesday. I didn't even go to a party or do anything really. I made tacos for dinner, spent 30 minutes at a bar a block away and went to bed. Sad. And this from a guy who got so drunk that he went to the Church of Scientology in Time Square demanding to see Tom Cruise and/or L. Ron Hubbard. Sure he was dead, but they gotta have his alien spirit filled corpse around somewhere. Following getting kicked out, I blacked out on the subway, was detained by the cops, got robbed and in a fight with the group of guys who were robbing me. And by fight i mean they beat the crap out of me. I drove them off with the blood I was covered in. That was a memorable night.

And nowadays I'm too tired to go out on a wednesday.

It is torture and its not simulated

I've been wondering since the debate started what is waterboarding. Every talks about it generally and calls it "simulated drowing". Which made me think, hey, if its just simulated drowning and as kinda innocuous (relative to other forms of torture) as everyone describes is then why would htye even use it. It would be pretty pointless. So I tried to do some research and came up with very little real, detailed description. Just alot of "they put a towel on your face and pour water over it. this simulates the feeling of drowning". Now, finally someone who seems to know all there is to know about waterboarding has written about it here http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2007/10/waterboarding-is-torture-perio/#c000838 .

Colonel Malcolm Nance, former Master Instructor and Chief of Training at the US Navy Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape School (SERE) covers alot of ground and I highly recommend everyone read the whole post. But the most interesting thing to me was how different his description of waterboarding is. Its not "simulated" drowning. Its drowning someone slowly, filling their lungs with water till you decide to stop or they die.

2. Waterboarding is not a simulation. Unless
you have been strapped down to the
board, have endured the agonizing feeling
of the water overpowering your gag
reflex, and then feel your throat open
and allow pint after pint of water to
involuntarily fill your lungs, you
will not know the meaning of the
word.
Waterboarding is a controlled
drowning that, in the American model,
occurs under the watch of a doctor, a
psychologist, an interrogator and a
trained strap-in/strap-out team. It does
not simulate drowning, as the lungs are
actually filling with water. There
is no way to simulate that. The victim is
drowning. How much the victim is
to drown depends on the desired result (in the
form of answers to questions
shouted into the victim’s face) and the obstinacy
of the subject. A team
doctor watches the quantity of water that is ingested and
for the
physiological signs which show when the drowning effect goes from
painful
psychological experience, to horrific suffocating punishment to the
final
death spiral.2. Waterboarding is not a simulation. Unless you have been
strapped down to the board, have endured the agonizing feeling of the water
overpowering your gag reflex, and then feel your throat open and allow pint
after pint of water to involuntarily fill your lungs, you will not know the
meaning of the word.
Waterboarding is a controlled drowning that, in the
American model, occurs under the watch of a doctor, a psychologist, an
interrogator and a trained strap-in/strap-out team. It does not simulate
drowning, as the lungs are actually filling with water. There is no way to
simulate that. The victim is drowning. How much the victim is to drown
depends
on the desired result (in the form of answers to questions shouted
into the
victim’s face) and the obstinacy of the subject. A team doctor
watches the
quantity of water that is ingested and for the physiological
signs which show
when the drowning effect goes from painful psychological
experience, to horrific
suffocating punishment to the final death
spiral

Thats torture. Now can someone, like say congress or a network newscaster explain this to the rest of america instead pretending waterboarding it the equivalent of a warm towel you use to wipe your face when you wake up in the morning?