Now with anal pears!

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OSHA for torturers, as provided by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel in a May 20, 2005, memo released to the ACLU on Thursday.

1. Dietary manipulation.

This technique involves the substitution of commercial liquid meal replacements for normal food, presenting detainees with a bland, unappetizing, but nutritionally complete diet. … In general, minimum daily fluid and nutritional requirements are estimated using the following formula:

• Fluid requirement: 35 ml/kg/day. This may be increased depending on ambient temperature, body temperature, and level of activity…
• Calorie requirement: The CIA generally follows as a guideline a calorie requirement of 900 kcal/day + 10 kcal/kg/day. This quantity is multiplied by 1.2 for a sedentary activity level or 1.4 for a moderate activity level. … Calories are provided using commercial liquid diets (such as Ensure Plus), which also supply other essential nutrients and make for nutritionally complete meals.

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“Her political ambition combined with her intelligence is much like putting a jet engine on a golf cart. You don’t know where it is gonna end up.  There’s a lot of horsepower but not a lot of steering capability.”

I think you know the one.  Just in case, there is a hint after the jump:

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Molly Ivins would be having a field day with Rick Perry and Tom Delay talking about secession.

“… I had to share this shot from a lonely liberal who showed up too early yesterday (like me) at Seattle’s Tea Bag party site …”

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Via SanFranLefty, a display of our Socialist Overlords at the entrance of an undisclosed federal building in the Bay Area.

Odds that, due to two PBS pledge-break specials and other promotional nonsense and diva-like behavior, Americans will be sick to death of Susan Boyle (of British reality teevee fame) within one year — 7:2 against.

Susan — KEEP IT REAL, GIRL.  PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU.