Interro-tunes
The inimitable Mark Steyn is making the left "Face the Music" when it comes to Guantanamo. Here's a sample:
It’s the first gulag in history where the torture victims put on weight. Each prisoner released from Guantanamo receives a new copy of the Koran plus a free pair of blue jeans in his new size: the average detainee puts on 13 pounds during his stay, thanks to the “mustard-baked dill fish”, “baked Tandoori chicken breast” and other delicacies. These and other recipes from the gulag’s kitchen have now been collected by some Internet wags and published as The Gitmo Cookbook.
But Steyn is playing right into Rumpus hands when he mentions that the left is aghast over our military's use of repetitive western culture pop-music to intimidate detainees, which Steyn terms "mood music for jolting your jihadi." (Can the man write or what?)
Steyn mentions that readers at the Chicago Tribune website have been posting their suggestions as to what the most effective "interro-tune" would be if subjected to it being played over and over until you simply can't take it anymore. Here are a few of my suggestions for starters:
1) "You Light Up My Life" -- Debbie Boone (once is bad enough)
2) How about the banjo riff from "Deliverance"? (Maybe I'm just projecting my own fears here)
3) Anything from this album
4) "We Are The World" -- Artists for something or other (Please stop! I beg of you, stop!)
5) And of course, (Jeff I'm gonna steal your thunder here), anything from this treble with a cause
Read all of Steyn's piece if you can.
It’s the first gulag in history where the torture victims put on weight. Each prisoner released from Guantanamo receives a new copy of the Koran plus a free pair of blue jeans in his new size: the average detainee puts on 13 pounds during his stay, thanks to the “mustard-baked dill fish”, “baked Tandoori chicken breast” and other delicacies. These and other recipes from the gulag’s kitchen have now been collected by some Internet wags and published as The Gitmo Cookbook.
But Steyn is playing right into Rumpus hands when he mentions that the left is aghast over our military's use of repetitive western culture pop-music to intimidate detainees, which Steyn terms "mood music for jolting your jihadi." (Can the man write or what?)
Steyn mentions that readers at the Chicago Tribune website have been posting their suggestions as to what the most effective "interro-tune" would be if subjected to it being played over and over until you simply can't take it anymore. Here are a few of my suggestions for starters:
1) "You Light Up My Life" -- Debbie Boone (once is bad enough)
2) How about the banjo riff from "Deliverance"? (Maybe I'm just projecting my own fears here)
3) Anything from this album
4) "We Are The World" -- Artists for something or other (Please stop! I beg of you, stop!)
5) And of course, (Jeff I'm gonna steal your thunder here), anything from this treble with a cause
Read all of Steyn's piece if you can.
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This might be a good occasion to look back on our not too recent history, when our government used tactics of bright lights and loud music to attempt to alter behavior of a captive audience.
Credit my 90 year old father for reminding me that it was done at the Branch Davidian seige at Waco. . by Bill Clinton and Janet Reno. Why no outcry?
Guess Durbin was in his Turbin.
Dang. Chance to crack a Stuart Anderson joke...denied!
There can be only one type of music to play (ok. . two if you count rap, but I don't).
The complete works of Yoko Ono.
While I felt relatively sure you'd take the bait, Jeff, I couldn't take any chances. I wanted the wee one to have mention here.
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