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Monday, November 26th, 2007 09:24 am

Tasers are torture, says the UN.  But waterboarding?  What's that?  "We 'ave not 'eard of zees waterboarding.  Should we be concerned?"  (You may know it by its older name, "Chinese water torture".)

When people elect a bunch of mendacious fools to lead them, you get governments.  When governments elect a bunch of mendacious fools to lead them, you get the UN.

Monday, November 26th, 2007 03:34 pm (UTC)
It's not torture, it's a public service. See, they're from a desert, so they don't know how to swim. All our government is doing is teaching them a valuable life skill!

Actually, I'm surprised that our government hasn't tried that excuse yet.