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Well it looks like the Democrats are going to take the House this Election and the Senate is going to be close regardless of who wins. I think this is a GREAT development for one reason… our government works better when both parties have control of at least one of the 3 (President, House, Senate). It promotes compromise by the party in power which tends to benefit the American people.

The Democrats really didn’t do anything to win the election this year, it’s more just a large backlash against the Republicans… they’ve really managed to anger the voters. They’ve become exactly what they campaigned against when the Democrats had power… not that the Democrats have done any better really.

Hopefully this election will knock some sense into BOTH parties and result in the clean up of some of the corruption in Washington. The American people are speaking and they’re not happy one bit… with either party really.

As of right now CNN is reporting 46 Republican, 48 Democrat for Senate (+3D), 142 Republican, 178 Democrat for the House (+19D), and 16 Republican, 27 Democrat for Governor (+6D).

Incumbents getting the boot on both sides. Fresh blood should do Washington some good.

Edit: Democrats took both House and Senate. Be interesting to see how the President and Congress manage to get along, when Clinton was in office it seemed to do our Government good when the Republicans took both, be interesting to see how willing to cooperate Bush is and how this drives the direction of our country.

This has to be the coolest condom I’ve ever seen. The page has a link to a demo of the condom being put on, slick stuff. NSFW most likely.

Saw a post how a fox news reporter (Steve Harrigan) submitted to a very controlled version of waterboarding… and how he thinks its not to bad really.

Sickening.

I don’t know if you have the experience of feeling like you’re drowning… but it’s hideously psychologically traumatic… the real deal would be especially different from this “experiment” just because you know your captors dislike you, want to see you hurt. It isn’t primarily a physical type of torture, which is what makes it so effective, they can sit and do this to you ALL DAY. There is a finite amount of blood you can lose, there is a finite amount of pain before you pass out, however, with someone who is an expert at techniques like this… you can suffer this for hour after hour, day after day, week after week if they care to do that. After three attempts he was ready to spill his guts and he felt fine a short time later… I’m sure he did, he knew it was an experiment and that he wasn’t going to be rushed by a group of masked men dragged off to a room and suffocated repeatedly anytime they felt like it or thought you might have information they wanted.

I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. This reporter is sick in the head and a lot of the people making comments really don’t understand the ramifications of how mental torture can be more dehabilitating than physical torture.

Some of the comments on the Digg article have some interesting insights.