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Trying to prove it isn’t torture, Mancow gets waterboarded and says it’s ‘absolutely torture.’
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On his radio show this morning, “conservative libertarian” talker Eric “Mancow” Muller set out to prove that waterboarding isn’t torture by having himself waterboarded. But instead, after enduring “6 or 7 seconds” of the interrogation technique, Mancow admitted that it was “absolutely torture”:
Turns out the stunt wasn’t so funny. Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool to signify when he wanted the experiment to stop. He only lasted 6 or 7 seconds.
“It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that’s no joke,”Mancow said, likening it to a time when he nearly drowned as a child. “It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose with your head back…It was instantaneous…and I don’t want to say this: absolutely torture.”
“I wanted to prove it wasn’t torture,” Mancow said. “They cut off our heads, we put water on their face…I got voted to do this but I really thought ‘I’m going to laugh this off.’”
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Tesla now worth half GM’s value
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From the what-a-world department: Daimler AG’s $50 million investment in Tesla Motors this week means the San Carlos electric car maker is worth roughly half the value of the world’s largest auto manufacturer, General Motors Corp. With one roadster on the market and one sedan in prototype, Tesla, thanks to Daimler’s 9 percent stake, is valued at $550 million. GM sold 8.35 million vehicles worldwide in 2008; its market value as of Thursday was $1.17 billion, based on the closing stock price of $1.92.
“It’s sort of amusing,” remarked Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard.
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Swine Flu
If you receive an email from the Department of Health telling you not to eat tinned pork because of swine flu – ignore it. It’s just spam.
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Cartoons
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‘We did not know that child abuse was a crime,’ says retired Catholic archbishop
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Said Rembert G Weakland:
We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature.
Weakland, who retired in 2002 after it became known that he paid $450,000 in 1998 to a man who had accused him of date rape years earlier, said he initially:
Accepted naively the common view that it was not necessary to worry about the effects on the youngsters: either they would not remember or they would ‘grow out of it’.
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New maps approved
Just approved by Apple, another batch of my street level city maps for the iPhone (the previous sentence is for the google indexer, the rest of you already know what this is about…)
Belfast
Brussel
Barcelona
Athens
Utrecht
Berlin
But take a look at the site I’ve built for this – and smile at how many more I’ve got queued up for Apple. I’ll soon be the most prolific app developer in the entire store…
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…well I do lol
This is a very important video. Please post it. The YouTube hyperlink is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUkj9pjx3H0
Please post it.
You just did.
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I tried to contact you personally but couldn’t figure out how
You just did.
A dutch DJ did it a while ago, a bit more realistic…in dutch bit still uncomforting to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGJSIcY3LX4