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When Society Thinks Torture is Funny – Have We Crossed the Line?
The PPJ Gazette ^
| September 13, 2010
| Lynn Swearingen
Posted on 09/13/2010 10:55:45 AM PDT by NoNAIS
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I don't agree with everything he says - but Mr. Swearingen seems to have a way with words.
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posted on
09/13/2010 10:55:49 AM PDT
by
NoNAIS
To: NoNAIS
The only ad I have ever truly become ANGRY at was a series of V8 Juice wherein a women with a condescending and derisive look on her face repeatedly slaps her worthless man on the head because he ‘coulda had a V8’.
NO WAY this was worthwhile or acceptable in context.
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posted on
09/13/2010 10:59:01 AM PDT
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitur)
To: NoNAIS
“Mr. Swearingen seems to have a way with words.”
any relation to a Mr. Al Swearingen of Deadwood?
He REALLY had a way with words.
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posted on
09/13/2010 10:59:14 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
(The Victory Mosque will be built over our dead bodies over our dead bodies ...)
To: NoNAIS
Without having watched said offensive material, I’ll still bet money that the victims are white males.
And so there’s nothing to see here folks. Move along.
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posted on
09/13/2010 10:59:17 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
To: NoNAIS
Remember, Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
To: NoNAIS
90% of TV is inapprpriate
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:00:40 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: NoNAIS
Also, I don’t think the idea that criminals are systematically raped in prison is funny or in any way justice. It is a stain on our country that it goes on.
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:00:53 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: NoNAIS
I hate the commercials more becasue they normalize the police state.
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:01:07 AM PDT
by
GraceG
To: NoNAIS
We’ve crossed a line when busybodies are busy trying to tell us what we should be offended about.
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:01:10 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: DManA
Agree.
All convicts should be in “solitary confinement” 23 hours a day... And for that last hour, they shouldn’t be allowed to speak, except to a guard or staffer...
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:03:41 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!)
To: NoNAIS
So whose rules of etiquette are we supposed to use? How will be make the Muslims politically correct?
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:07:11 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(concerned conservative.)
To: PetroniusMaximus
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:07:12 AM PDT
by
cld51860
To: NoNAIS
How about the commercial from Nissan where a polar bear hugs a hybrid Nissan owner while crying! They’re not only offensive politically but are brainwashing too!
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:08:58 AM PDT
by
albie
To: NoNAIS
They let Obama give speeches, don’t they? Now that is torture. Fortunately I have a device that thwarts them. My remote.
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:11:42 AM PDT
by
ReneeLynn
(Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
To: mountainlion
Specifically in this case the writer refers to a commercial where 2 cops go over, ring this guys door bell, looks around, then tases him - over a fantasy football issue. Not so funny.
As for the Muslim “PC” part - I must have missed it in the article.
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:13:22 AM PDT
by
NoNAIS
(Yet another Government program not needed.)
To: PetroniusMaximus
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:14:18 AM PDT
by
NoNAIS
(Yet another Government program not needed.)
To: jessduntno
any relation to a Mr. Al Swearingen of Deadwood? He REALLY had a way with words."C***s***ing Hooplehead"
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:16:21 AM PDT
by
Bubba Ho-Tep
("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
To: NoNAIS
I think a good indicator at the level of anger and willingness-to-provocation-or-torture is simply the dialog (or accusation and hate) on Youtube. I cannot believe that people are so hateful simply in disagreement—especially about music, but also about other simple things. Especially among the teenagers and young people.
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:16:30 AM PDT
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
To: NoNAIS
How about an alternative possibility? Maybe this is just reflecting the fact that far more people are seeing cops as a threat to their freedom and lives rather than being their friends in maintaining and orderly society? The "stop snitchin'" attitude might be expanding to the middle class too.
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:18:44 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
To: NoNAIS
I think we need a Commercial Humor Acceptability Standards, Tastes, and Ethics Czar. Or better yet, we could have congress create a commission to develop the standards and impose fines on any advertisers that cross the lines of good taste.
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posted on
09/13/2010 11:19:19 AM PDT
by
VRWCmember
(Jesus called us to be Salt and Light, not Vinegar and Water.)
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