I know everybody is discussing last night’s State of the Circle Jerk, but I’m hungover from playing this drinking game. And I’m really upset that Howard Zinn died. So enjoy this clip. Or don’t. I don’t care.

I’ll talk about Obama’s congressional campaign speech tomorrow.

Jesus Christ, I haven’t felt this bad since the time I walked in on my parents fucking on the dinner table. Oh god, now I have that image in my head...sprints to the bathroom.

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I’m shocked:

Well, it’s official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn’t know what he was talking about.

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Now comes John Kiriakou, again, with a wholly different story. On the next-to-last page of a new memoir, The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror (written with Michael Ruby), Kiriakou now rather off handedly admits that he basically made it all up.

“What I told Brian Ross in late 2007 was wrong on a couple counts,” he writes. “I suggested that Abu Zubaydah had lasted only thirty or thirty-five seconds during his waterboarding before he begged his interrogators to stop; after that, I said he opened up and gave the agency actionable intelligence.”

But never mind, he says now.

“I wasn’t there when the interrogation took place; instead, I relied on what I’d heard and read inside the agency at the time.”

So what, now you’re going to tell me the CIA lied about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and that Nancy Pelosi was right when she said the CIA lied to her?

Oh goddamn it..

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This should make Conservatives’ dicks hard.

President Obama plans to announce a three-year freeze on discretionary, “non-security” spending in the lead-up to Wednesday’s State of the Union address, Hill Democratic sources familiar with the plan tell POLITICO.

The move, intended to blunt the populist backlash against Obama’s $787 billion stimulus and an era of trillion-dollar deficits — and to quell Democratic anxiety over last Tuesday’s Massachusetts Senate election — is projected to save $250 billion, the Democrats said.

The freeze would not apply to defense or foreign aid or spending on intelligence, homeland security or veterans.

I know how we can save $370 billion dollars without cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, housing assistance programs, education, and other important social programs. Cut the $741 billion dollar defense bill in half.

Of course Obama won’t do that because it’s political suicide to cut military spending. And he wants to get elected for a second term. So he’ll do what every other president since Ronald Reagan has done; fuck the poor while jerking-off the rich.

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Well then I have some great news for you! You will be denied medical coverage when the government passes the new health care bill:

Even as Speaker Nancy Pelosi affirmed her commitment to pass far-reaching health care legislation this year, members of Congress and health policy experts began Thursday to deal with the reality that a smaller bill would have a better chance.

Passage of a comprehensive bill looked impossible after the Democrats’ loss of a Senate seat in Massachusetts. As an alternative, lawmakers in both parties said, some pieces of the bills already passed by the House and the Senate could be pulled out and packaged together in a measure that would command broad support.

The consensus measure would be less ambitious than the bills approved last year. It would extend insurance coverage to perhaps 12 million to 15 million people — and provide political cover to Democrats, who said they could not simply drop the issue after spending so much time and effort on it.

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Lawmakers, Congressional aides and health policy experts said the package might plausibly include these elements:

¶Insurers could not deny coverage to children under the age of 19 on account of pre-existing medical conditions.

This bill is the health insurance companies’ wet dream. It will force us to buy health insurance from them, use our tax dollars to pay for the coverage, and allow them to deny people 20-years-old and older with pre-existing conditions while not allowing the government to buy cheaper drugs from Canada.

I wish I had some extra money so I could invest it in Aetna and become Warren Buffett rich.

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Looks like Haiti’s finally on top. [In Case You Missed It]

A message from God. [The Middle of Nowhere]

So which side has the activist judges? [The Political Carnival]

Corporations have more rights than Gitmo detainees. [Glenn Greenwald]

I’ll have whatever she’s smoking. [Crooks and Liars]

Could we please get rid of Geithner? [Firedog Lake]

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Corporate rape is legal.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on business efforts to influence federal campaigns.

By a 5-4 vote, the court overturned a 20-year-old ruling that said companies can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to produce and run their own campaign ads.

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“The censorship we now confront is vast in its reach,” Justice Anthony Kennedy said in his majority opinion, joined by his four more conservative colleagues.

Strongly disagreeing, Justice John Paul Stevens said in his dissent, “The court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation.”

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor joined Stevens’ dissent, parts of which he read aloud in the courtroom.

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The case began when a conservative group, Citizens United, made a 90-minute movie that was very critical of Hillary Rodham Clinton as she sought the Democratic presidential nomination. Citizens United wanted to air ads for the anti-Clinton movie and distribute it through video-on-demand services on local cable systems during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign.

So a conservative court ruled in favor of a conservative group that wanted to use corporate money to make a movie about a person conservatives hate more than gay Muslim terrorists, and in doing so have granted corporations the ability to use their deep pockets to help elect/reelect candidates who will use his/her power(s) to pass laws that benefit the corporations that helped him/her get into office?

George Orwell couldn’t have made this shit up while eating a marijuana and acid sour cream pound cake.

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Because they need to start doing their fucking job.

The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported Monday.

Citing internal memos and interviews, the Post said the FBI invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies or persuaded phone companies to provide information as it illegally gathered more than 2,000 records between 2002 and 2006.

The bureau said in 2007 that it had improperly obtained some phone records, and the Justice Department inspector general is expected to release a report this month detailing the extent of the problem.

Since we can’t sue the FBI for illegally collecting thousands of phone records then we need to sue the telecommunication companies for giving them the records. Oh that’s right, our government gave telecommunication companies immunity.

Well, let’s stage a protest in several major cities to show how disgusted we are with the FBI for breaking the law. Fuck, people are too busy protesting NBC’s firing of Conan O’Brien. You know America is fucked up when Americans would rather protest the firing of a middle-age millionaire than protest the FBI illegally collecting thousands of phone records by faking terrorist emergencies.

And people wonder why I drink so much…

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