Mr. Ed
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4/24/2009 5:59:49 AM
---- Updated 4/24/2009 6:23:50 AM
Waterboarding is not torture. Try having to be in makeup by 4:00 A.M. for a 7:00 A.M. shoot, with a massive hangover, no coffee or bagels, a coked up co-star, and an incompetent director, ...all after having had to sleep standing up!
Try having nails driven into all four of your feet on a regular basis, being forced to wear a saddle while your captorse rode you around, or being confined to a little wooden cell with no toilet, containing only hay, ...for days at a time. Being fed nothing but raw uncooked oats day after day; which are served to you without utensils of any sort, in a moldy old leather bag that is then strapped to your head.
during the Eugene McCarthy "Red Herring" era nobody was waterboarded, nobody was placed in a box with a caterpillar, ...we were just threatened with ruination, deportation, or humiliation if we didn't provide a list of names.
We were all American citizens, on American soil, living American lives at the time.
Some of the most talented horses in Hollywood were blacklisted, others investigated, and while found to be free of foreign influence or communist sympathies, ...other equally damaging information about their personal lives was gathered, shared, and leaked. Sometimes for political reasons, sometimes for personal, sometimes for no reason at all. It was current, it was relevant, it was based on the rule of law, in the name of finding the "Red Herrings", ...but in the end, it was more about Partisanship, than Citizenship or Communism, and for the cause of Partisanship many were sacrificed. Many were ruined..
People seem to do such things to each other.
You won't see a horse doing that.
Nations have always tended to over react during times of trouble imo. The George Bush Administration certainly didn't invent this, any more than that Gore fellow's administration invented the Internet.
And from the looks of things, this O'Bama fellow hasn't invented an administration that's above the same old tiresome partisan backstabbing games either.
Pity.
People always seem to be trying to take credit for inventing things they didn't invent.
You won't see a horse doing that.
We're just a different breed I guess.
Anyhow, with regards to waterboarding; In my younger days, I used to go snowboarding in Aspen all the time.
Of course I always made sure to blend with the other skiers so as not to attract any undue attention to myself. Wore sunglasses and a baseball cap, had the posse seated at another table, ...that sort of thing.
I found it to be good exercise, and a great way meet chicks too.
I can understand if this President O'Bama is not a fan though, as it's certainly not for everybody, but there are plenty of other just as entertaining options out there to choose from.
So I say, if he doesn't want to go waterboarding we shouldn't make him, in fact I think it would be a good idea if he didn't go; then maybe he could use that time working to solve the much more serious problems like the continued systematic oppression of horses, or or the war or economy things.
I know he has a lot on his plate, maybe he should put on a pair of blinders so he can keep his, and the American people's efforts, and attention focused on the issues of the present and the future that are already affecting them, instead of searching for red herrings in the past.
It's funny how easily people can get distracted from what's really important, and keep repeating the same mistakes over and over, and all the while, saying they're inventing something new..
You won't see a horse doing that.
Mr. Ed,
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Mr. Ed
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4/24/2009 10:49:11 PM
---- Updated 4/24/2009 11:16:06 PM
Sammy Davis once told me to "get the hell out" of his pool.
We were neighbors at the time, and unfortunately it wasn't heated.
I only mention that, because I've always felt that had it been heated, ...he probably wouldn't have noticed the water immediately around us quickly getting substantially warmer, despite my awkward attempts at distracting conversion,
...the whole unpleasant episode could have therefore probably been avoided.
I've learned from that experience though, and nowadays I'm sure to hold my bladder whenever standing anywhere near my host;
...unless I'm absolutely certain that the pool is well heated, or that he or she is far too drunk to notice.
I of course, repeatedly attempted to apologize to Sammy many times over the ensuing years, and even offered to pay to have both the pool, and his wife's regrettably discoloured swimsuit thoroughly cleaned,
...all to no avail.
Sammy, despite my overtures, and repeated assurances that I really was interested in his wife's landscaping plans for the shrubbery, would never accept my calls after that, refused to make appearances on my show, ...and even went so far as to have my part completely edited out of "Ocean's Eleven".(In truth, I've always felt that this had more to do with my dating of his Wife, while they were separated shortly thereafter, than with my peeing in Sammy's pool.)
If only there were a way to go back in time, and remove the pee from Sammy's pool, ...I would surely do it.
But since I can't, I can only move forward with the knowledge I've gained from that experience. To wit: I will immediately switch from beer to scotch(single malt of course) if there's even a hint of a possibility of pool, or hot tub activity.
There's no way to clean a pool's past water, trying to make some sort of ineffectual or symbolic show of doing so will only serve to undermine the pool's current and future occupant's confidence in the sanitary hygiene of the hot water they've placed themselves in.
ITHO (In This Horse's Opinion) the effort would be much better spent in keeping today's water reasonably urine free.
Mr. Ed
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