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 Mancow’s Six Second ‘Water Cure’

By Wise 1 - 5/29/2009 ()

Mancow got waterboarded, waterboard, waterboarding

In only took six seconds to prove to pro-waterboarding talk show host Mancow that waterboarding is torture and to prove that Sean Hannity is not just stupid, he’s a coward as well.

Erich “Mancow” Muller used to be among the ranks of Conservative and phony Libertarian talk show personalities that considered waterboarding, often called the “water cure", torture. He once so arrogantly proclaimed that having a little water poured on your head was not really that big of a deal. So when he volunteered to experience a very softened version of the integration technique as part of his radio show, he never thought that 6 seconds of the experience would convert his view on the subject 180 degrees, but it did!

After only 6 seconds of the exercise, his hands unbound, surrounded by friends and not subjected against his will, Mancow gave up. His initial response proclaimed that while he was not happy to say it, waterboarding is “absolutely torture.”

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 How Lower Taxes Destroyed California

By Wise 1 - 5/26/2009 ()

Prop 13 tax revolt a disaster for california

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman recently wrote an article attacking California’s so-called Tax Revolt of 1978, California’s Proposition 13. He claims that if California is the trend setter, than the U.S. is in deep trouble. I agree, and have agreed for most of my politically aware life, especially since I am a product of California’s senseless butchering of the education system.

Nobody likes paying taxes. It’s about as fun as paying rent (or mortgage), bills and getting a colonoscopy. That being said, these are all the painful things we need to do to stay a float in life and there is little any of us can do about them.

California Republicans thought otherwise. They used an issue that was sure to win: telling California they could have lower taxes and everything would be all right. That’s like promising people they can lose weight and eat all that they want. Sadly people fall for that one too!

Ignoring reality, listening to the advice of hucksters like Ronald Reagan, Howard Jarvis and Paul Gann, California passed Proposition 13 in 1978. It cut taxes primarily for apartment building owners among other large …

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