He's a goddamn commie!

I'll let you figure out which one I'm talking about.

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Subject: Please quit referring to them as "torture" memos.
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If slapping someone or putting them in a box of caterpillars is torture, then every big brother ever is guilty. You do a disservice to victims of actual, real torture by equating harsh and distasteful acts with vivisection, dismemberment, electrocution and other truly heinous acts.

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Geebus.

Now let me just preface this by saying that I'm a convincable believer in deficit spending IF interest rates are less than GDP -- its basically free money. Running a 2-3% deficit when GDP was 4-6% never really bugged me. Granted, thats really all I've known in my life BUT... this is shocking.




A trillion here, a trillion there and soon we're talking about some real money.