Posted on 04/19/2009 7:43:42 PM PDT by forkinsocket
Eric Carle! Aaaaagh! I’ll talk! Please take it away!
The gold is under my great grandfathers stone in the family plot!
That's not much of an argument when our enemy's main strategy is psychological torture, ie terrorism, as opposed to our use of various forms of discomfort, that cause no permanent injury or scarring, for the purpose of gaining life saving intelligence.
Personally I think we should use those South American bullet ants instead of caterpillars. Even those don't cause permanent injury.
Well,I have never been exposed to a BAD catepillar, just green wiggly ones that are harmless.
I did, however, have a scorpion crawl across my face one night when I was about 13 years old. My parents owned a bait shop/souvenier store outside a wildlife refuge with some great fishing opportunities.
It was a holiday weekend and parents kept the store open all night. We kids slept on cots in the back room (the cold beer storage was half underground, and we lived in SW Oklahoma, a place full of boulders, looked like a place in Idaho.
There was a light on, and I felt something crawling (tickling) my face in the middle of the night. I brushed it off my face, then sat up and saw a scorpion crawling on my bed, striking the bed with its hook. Had I smashed it with my hand, it would have hit me on the face.
These were big brown scorpions, and made one really sick when they hit you.
One of MANY bug stories. I had a brown recluse spider jump at me once when I pulled a dead plant from some mulch. It was a very aggressive spider, and I knew what it was.
A caterpillar is mild in my world. They make butterflies. I wouldn’t hurt one, but I think a frigging terrorist deserves some hurt.
We are thicker than fleas (spiders), so it would be hard to find us all.
“We are thicker than fleas (spiders), so it would be hard to find us all.”
I meant those identified by the new administration as such, the people who own guns, grow their own food, attend tea parties, are not happy with our change and hope (apologetic) new world leader, and think we need to stand up and defend our country.
Well, if we take that premise at face value and acknowledge the deterrence effect of worrying about what the other guy will do, THEY ARE ALREADY TORTURING US! BY THIS LOGIC, WE ARE DUTY BOUND TO TORTURE BACK lest they feel free to continue to torture with total impunity.
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Hmm, not a bad idea. Insect torture down through the ages... |
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I don’t know for how long one could scare a captive with a scary looking caterpillar until the ruse gets stale. Maybe for like a few days or a week. Most superstitious - North Africans, although they don’t so much burn witches as they are very preoccupied with evil eyes & magic spells. Least superstitious - Levant Arabs. Palis, Lebanese, Syrias. The average one doesn’t take it that much further than reading coffee grounds in the bottom of the cup.
Most of the gullibility revolves around conspiracy theories, worrying about freemasons & secret societies, obsessesion with gossip & rumor. I think that affects not only all Arabs, but all of the Middle East. Armenians have impressed me as some of the most fixated on conspiracy theories.
Thanks for the information......but reading coffee grounds in the bottom of the cup? They must have had some contact with the Rom in their travels.
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