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Gold/Mining/Energy : Nuvo Research Inc

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To: russet who wrote (8586)2/2/2002 10:45:55 PM
From: Cal Gary  Read Replies (1) of 14101
 
Russet

You're trying hard to gross us out.

I'll need to check out the label and instructions on my contact lens solution. I wonder if it has provisions to protect people from themselves, especially if they do not practice healthy hygiene. Perhaps I'll check out a bottle of tylenol, people normally use their hands to handle pills, too.


"(can't tell you how many people I see leave public washrooms in food courts without washing their hands only to sit down and eat)"


Two quotes from:

weeklystandard.com


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"Their restroom arrangements are pretty spartan. They get a white bucket for emergency squirts, while they are instructed to hold two fingers up for the alternative. At that time, a guard shackles them and takes them to the port-o-loo. While the military has spared no expense in construction costs (in three weeks, they built a completely operational field hospital staffed by 160 medical personnel--two more than there are prisoners), they've saved a fortune in toilet paper. It's the detainees' cultural preference not to use any. "We don't shake their hands," says one camp guard."

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After leaving the snipers, I collar other grunts who say they believe the prisoners are more apt to act out whenever they see one of the regular visitors from the International Committee of the Red Cross enter the camp. "They're looking to be disciplined," says one, so that any aggressive guard behavior will make it look as if they're being brutalized by the American military in front of international witnesses. ICRC visits, says another soldier, are the highlight of a prisoner's day, since they've been spotted "giving the unshackled prisoners cookies and milk, cigarettes, shaking their hands." Many organizations who haven't been to Gitmo, like Human Rights Watch, have been extremely critical of the prisoners' treatment, while the ICRC has aired no complaints. Still, says another soldier, "They're a pain in the ass. We see them offering them cookies, hugging them like they're best buddies. They're undermining everything we're trying to do."
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