So I don\u2019t even know why this is news.<\/a> The logical conclusion of the deeply Catholic arguments for the goodness and greatness of waterboarding has convinced me that, if anything, we should be using it more, not just on swarthy people with foreign-sounding names overseas, but on all the riff-raff out there, right here at home, who won\u2019t do as they are told or who *might* know something about something suspicious. If the People\u2019s Democratic National Security State of Heaven can pepper spray 84 year olds, tase bedridden 86 year olds, and assure us that pepper spray is harmless for 10 year olds, what\u2019s the big deal about harmlessly and safely waterboarding 89 year olds or anybody else we might feel could be up to something, or know somebody who is possibly up to something? After all, as one noble upholder of American virtue has said, \u201cI would waterboard a five year old girl if it could save American lives.\u201d<\/p>\nCatholic torture apologists: welcome to the new world your miserable cowardice and sophistry is helping to bring to birth.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortunately, as we know from hundreds of conversations with deeply Catholic moral thinkers right here in my comboxes over the years this completely harmless form of persuasion (dunking is what our draft-dodging former Veep called it) isn\u2019t even close to torture or anything. And the fact that it has to be used only shows that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
"Caregivers" waterboard 89 year old woman over ice cream<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fortunately, as we know from hundreds of conversations with deeply Catholic moral thinkers right here in my comboxes over the years this completely\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""Caregivers" waterboard 89 year old woman over ice cream\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fortunately, as we know from hundreds of conversations with deeply Catholic moral thinkers right here in my comboxes over the years this completely\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Catholic and Enjoying It!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-11-21T07:18:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-12-31T04:25:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Shea\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Shea\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html\",\"name\":\"\\\"Caregivers\\\" waterboard 89 year old woman over ice cream\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-11-21T07:18:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-12-31T04:25:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/c1a9ac1e557d3c626974fd6692818ad5\"},\"description\":\"Fortunately, as we know from hundreds of conversations with deeply Catholic moral thinkers right here in my comboxes over the years this completely\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"“Caregivers” waterboard 89 year old woman over ice cream\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/\",\"name\":\"Catholic and Enjoying It!\",\"description\":\"Mark Shea's Blog: So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/c1a9ac1e557d3c626974fd6692818ad5\",\"name\":\"Mark Shea\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f287911f45adc932ad24ddbae3597ed5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f287911f45adc932ad24ddbae3597ed5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Mark Shea\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/author\/markshea\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"Caregivers\" waterboard 89 year old woman over ice cream","description":"Fortunately, as we know from hundreds of conversations with deeply Catholic moral thinkers right here in my comboxes over the years this completely","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"Caregivers\" waterboard 89 year old woman over ice cream","og_description":"Fortunately, as we know from hundreds of conversations with deeply Catholic moral thinkers right here in my comboxes over the years this completely","og_url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html","og_site_name":"Catholic and Enjoying It!","article_published_time":"2011-11-21T07:18:31+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-12-31T04:25:30+00:00","author":"Mark Shea","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Shea","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html","name":"\"Caregivers\" waterboard 89 year old woman over ice cream","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-11-21T07:18:31+00:00","dateModified":"2014-12-31T04:25:30+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/c1a9ac1e557d3c626974fd6692818ad5"},"description":"Fortunately, as we know from hundreds of conversations with deeply Catholic moral thinkers right here in my comboxes over the years this completely","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/11\/caregivers-waterboard-89-year-old-woman-over-ice-cream.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"“Caregivers” waterboard 89 year old woman over ice cream"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/","name":"Catholic and Enjoying It!","description":"Mark Shea's Blog: So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/c1a9ac1e557d3c626974fd6692818ad5","name":"Mark Shea","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f287911f45adc932ad24ddbae3597ed5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f287911f45adc932ad24ddbae3597ed5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Mark Shea"},"url":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/author\/markshea"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}