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Why do Feinstein and Wyden sound much different on the torture issue now?

The two Senators spent the year emphatically insisting that the CIA's interrogators comply with the Army Field Manual. With Democrats in control, they're not so emphatic any longer

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  • Friday, December 5, 2008 12:25 AM

    Jack Black and a quarter pound of weed.

    Sorry about your dealer. If you could still have arguments like that, and remember them now, after that kind of consumption then you should have asked for your money back. ;-} -- Pedinska

    I think you mis-read that to mean that I alone would smoke all that weed.

    I recall a washtub full of fresh oysters, beer, brother Jack Daniels, weed, harder stuff and lots of boys and girls looking to let off a little steam.

    Remember the motto back then:

    make awkward sexual advances; not war

    after all, there was a war on.

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