Survivor Ratings and CIA Torture

Well, just two shorts weeks after all the controversy surrounding the "segregated" Survivor season all the fun is over. They are now mixed tribes again. Which proves my point...Germans love David Hasselhoff! Wait , no ...I mean, TV is all about the $$$. CBS cashed in on all that publicity and still ended up not really doing anything that controversial. Give the producer a raise! "Survivor: Cook Islands," CBS, 17.43 million viewers."

On another Survivor related note, I was reading this article that sort of light heartedly describes one of the challenges as well "better designed to get prisoners of war to talk", and it made me think. We (well some of us anyway), are such ninnies. The challaenge was "Each person strapped on a 15 pound weight, and trudged through knee-deep water around a course, with one tribe trying to catch the other. For any person who dropped out, a teammate had to carry their weight." and it occured to me. That is worse than any torture we put terror detainies through and there are a lot of other things in life that are as well. I have compiled a short list for your entertainment pleasure:

1. Driving in L.A. Rush Hour Traffic
2. Waking up every 2 hours during the night for a month straight to a crying baby (then having to breast feed it)
3. An IRS Audit
4. Standing in line for anything at the DMV
5. Listening to a Ted Kennedy Speech on the Senate Floor (OK maybe if your a Republican)
6. Property Taxes

...and I am sure I could think or more if I had the time. But the point is we really need to wake up as a country if we are electing people to office that want to give Terrorists the sames rights that we have to fair treatment and a jury trial. The argument that our soldiers will be mistreated if we use harsh tecniques just does not fly when you consider that they are already being treated poorly right now, without any change or increase/decrease in the amount of prisoner coersion. I think the last soldier of ours that got caught was shot through the head, had his throat slashed and then had his genitals cut off. Water boarding doesn't sound like such a bad idea to me after hearing that...You??