Mark Rampton // I consistently ride bikes.
This sums up pretty much everything else I've heard on the matter -- waterboarding is, in fact, torture.
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Diego sent this my way. Pretty interesting read -- and I'd like to see the day when taking public transit is commonplace even outside of NYC. But we've got a long way to go towards making that a reality -- namely building the PT infrastructure that would make this possible.
A new poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life reveals that the more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of prisoners.
What in the world is going on?
According to the survey, 54 percent of Americans who attend church at least once per week said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is “often” or “sometimes” justified, while only 42 percent of Americans who “seldom or never” attend church services agreed with that viewpoint.
Wow.
So is that would Jesus do?
Torture helpless prisoners?
WTF, Jesus?!
Anyone who runs needs to step back and ask themselves why they're buying shoes that force them to strike on their heels. The idea of landing on your forefoot is foreign to most only because shoe companies are invested in your believing you run as the result of their technology and products; the longer you believe this the longer you'll buy their shoes...
Are american's too attached to their cars to give high speed rail a fighting chance in the States?
According to this article, before the AVE was built in Spain, it was thought Spaniards were too disinterested in travel for HSR network to ever amount to anything more than a waste of money...
