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Worse Torture: Christina Aguilera or Dick Durbin?
Red State.org ^ | 6/15/05 | Leon H.

Posted on 06/17/2005 1:44:46 PM PDT by gopwinsin04

Let me get this straight.

Dick Durbin digs up two instances of enemy combatants being subjected to uncomfortable temperature extremes, rap music, and suddenly we are the Khmer Rouge?

Allow me to inform Senator Durbin that there a quite a few people in this country who regularly endure spells of cold that no air conditioner could hope to re-create.

These folks are called 'Alaskans,' or sometimes just 'Northerners.'

There are also quite a few of us who regularly have to endure long periods of 100 degree plus temperatures. They are called 'Texans.'

As someone who has lived considerable amounts of time in both Alaska and Texas, I can tell you that I never seriously wondered whether I had it worse than the Jews in the Holocaust.

Perhaps I lack the sensitivity of Senator Durbin. That rap music thing, though, is way uncalled for.

One thing I don't lack is the skills necessary to read a book every now and then, and most of the books I've read indicate that during the holocaust people were starved/gassed/burned to death, those interned in the Soviet gulags were sent to Siberia where air conditioning would have been a blast of hot air, and Pol Pot murdered 2 million of his own civillians.

So in Dick Durbin's mind, listening for rap music for 18 hours is roughly equivalent to all that. Who says that the Democratic Party is losing touch with the African Americans?

What I would like to know is, at what point can we claim torture for being forced to listen to Dick Durbin?

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aguilera; durbin; gitmo
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1 posted on 06/17/2005 1:44:46 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

As I've said earlier...what male in their right mind would have a problem being kept awake by Christina? ;o)


2 posted on 06/17/2005 1:45:44 PM PDT by TheBigB (Why yes, I -do- rock! Thanks for noticing!)
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To: gopwinsin04
Dick Durbin, far worse. But I'd rather have Christina invade my personal space.
3 posted on 06/17/2005 1:46:24 PM PDT by zencat (The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
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To: TheBigB
Christina can invade my space anytime! :)

Durbin should go shoot himself and spare us valuble oxygen.

4 posted on 06/17/2005 1:48:54 PM PDT by Paul_Denton (Get the U.N. out of the U.S. and U.S. out of the U.N.!)
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To: gopwinsin04
Your call: Which one is true torture?

1) Listening to:

Or 2) Listening to:


5 posted on 06/17/2005 1:50:21 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Honoring Saint Jude's assistance every day.)
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To: gopwinsin04
I need to see Dick Durbin in a pair of white chaps before I answer that question.


6 posted on 06/17/2005 1:51:06 PM PDT by linkinpunk
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To: TheBigB

At least I can turn the sound down and still enjoy Christina's videos.


7 posted on 06/17/2005 1:51:39 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

I've been in the army. I've learned that I can wake and sleep through a 72 hour stretch of Beasty Boys and unrecognizable purported music styles played at levels which cause furniture to vibrate and slide across the floor like those old tabletop football games. We didn't have airconditioning though.


8 posted on 06/17/2005 1:51:44 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Paul_Denton; zencat; TheBigB
For our viewing pleasure...


9 posted on 06/17/2005 1:53:28 PM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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To: gopwinsin04

I say we loose the dogs of war and play Yoko Ono for these creeps.


10 posted on 06/17/2005 1:53:54 PM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: gopwinsin04
These folks are called 'Alaskans,' or sometimes just 'Northerners.'

There are also quite a few of us who regularly have to endure long periods of 100 degree plus temperatures. They are called 'Texans.'


LMAO
11 posted on 06/17/2005 1:54:33 PM PDT by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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To: gopwinsin04

She's too skanky for moi, but she's better than the fig-pucker.


12 posted on 06/17/2005 1:56:17 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (*Gregoire is French for Stealing an Election*)
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To: gopwinsin04
Can't we sic Bimbo Brittney on them? I am sure watching her new show is torture.

Glamour UK reports "Britney Spears says her new single is all about having a child, but Britney says she wrote it two weeks before she discovered she was pregnant. "I wrote this song at my piano, at my house. I wrote it two weeks before I found out that I was pregnant, so it was really kind of weird, because the song's about having a baby … It's kind of like a prophecy … Everyone in general should voice their wishes more, because I think the more you throw it out to the universe, if you're in the right space and place in your life, it's weird how the universe gives it back to you.”

Someone should probably sit Britney down and explain where babies come from, cause, correct me if I’m wrong, its not from the Universe after it heard your crappy song and decided you were ready. "Prophecy" might not be the only way to predict that unprotected sex with an idiot hillbilly who is too drunk/stupid to pull out might lead to pregnancy. It's also charming that someone who has been handed millions like Britney thinks the reason the rest of us aren’t rich is because we don’t “voice our wishes more.” Jesus Christ I hate these two. I gotta get me a bear. And teach it to maul anything in sky blue Fubu and backwards Yankees hats. And then release it in Malibu. Once chunks of Kevin showed up in the bears stool, animal control might be pretty upset, but then I’d explain it was Kevin Federline and we’d all have a pretty good laugh. (thesuperficial.com)

13 posted on 06/17/2005 1:58:22 PM PDT by TheOtherOne (I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed.)
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To: LS
"I say we loose the dogs of war and play Yoko Ono for these creeps"

You mean something like "Don't worry, Kyoko (Mummy's only looking for her hand in the snow)"?

Now that WOULD be torture!
14 posted on 06/17/2005 1:59:48 PM PDT by IAMNO1
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To: linkinpunk
Not a difficult decision.

and


15 posted on 06/17/2005 2:00:06 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: windcliff

We should make them watch all 3 seasons American Idol!


16 posted on 06/17/2005 2:02:38 PM PDT by stylecouncilor
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To: gopwinsin04

Should play Bruce Greenwood's famous patriot song that was played the night Ronald Reagan won the Republican presidential nomination. Now that would be real torture for these islamic murdering terrorists.


17 posted on 06/17/2005 2:03:43 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: stylecouncilor

We should make them watch all 3 seasons of American Idol!

If we did maybe Dick Durban's comments JUST MIGHT be accurate. Sarcasm


18 posted on 06/17/2005 2:10:21 PM PDT by Cat loving Texan
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To: gopwinsin04
Worse Torture: Christina Aguilera or Dick Durbin?

Vocal gymnastics vs. verbal bombastics. Tough one!

19 posted on 06/17/2005 2:12:30 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: gopwinsin04

Every Democrat in Congress has been assigned a 'whine of the week' or 'drubbing for the day'.

Procedure: Take a headline from MSM. Read it in the Senate. Ask for an explanation from the Military. Ask for an explanation from the White House. Call them both liars. Say 'I support the troops'. Slander the troops. Ask for more explanations from the military and more from the White House. Call them liars.

Repeat 24/7
Run for re-election on the basis that you will continue to 'fight for the troops' and the families of 'the troops'.

Smile and call the President of the USA a 'liar' a 'loser' and ask for "your support".


20 posted on 06/17/2005 2:12:38 PM PDT by sodpoodle (The Ivory Billed Woodpecker discovered Arkansas - when HRC moved to NY)
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