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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (65732)	11/27/2009 4:40:16 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I think it's possible a Rat is just very curious and has a reason to understand a cat brain? IED induced brain damage that is actually quite good. some things done through the Pentagon have of course had incredible good in other areas. course a lot of it we could fund in another way, but we won't, but we will give the Pentagon money to do any ol lil thing. so, yes, though... would have to look through each program.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (65732)	11/27/2009 4:50:15 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 149317

This is cool. Stumbled on it looking for Da Mouse. The CIA’s 5 Most Mind Blowing Experiments With LSD By: Robert Brockway May 30th, 2009 LSD has long been a staple of overweight, furry men with ponytails who list their occupation as ‘Earth Shaman’ on tax forms. The CIA is more typically known for their starched suits than their mind exploring orgies. So if we told you that the CIA was trippin’ balls before Hunter S. Thompson even knew that balls existed, you’d probably call us liars. Well, prepare to have your mind, like, blown man. Here are the five strangest things you didn’t know about the CIA, and how LSD really came to be. #5The CIA Discovers Acid, Experiments Like A (Evil) Teenager #4CIA Field Agents Drug Each Other for Fun #3CIA-Run Brothels and Drughouses #2.The Nazi Involvement and the top most mindblowing thing? The reason why everything else they have done is forgivable? (Well, prolly not; they dun sum bad things) The CIA: Mother of Hippy Culture? Listen, we’re pretty forgiving people here at Cracked. We don’t like to hold grudges. We like to give the benefit of the doubt to anybody–even those sexy ladies on the corner of 24th and Lexington that all our friends swear are actually dudes–we still give them rides in exchange for favors. We like to believe in people; that’s all. So the U.S. Government hired Nazi war criminals to spearhead a worldwide campaign of uninformed, non-consensual drugging using their elite army of magicians and whores… so what? Forgiveness is a virtue given unto man by God himself. But some things cannot be forgiven. Some things are so dark, so brutal and so irredeemable that even the kindliest priest would roundhouse kick you right of the confessional if he heard you admit to them. And there’s one thing that the CIA did with Project MK-ULTRA that cannot ever be forgiven. They invented hippies. Your tax dollars hard at work. Author Ken Kesey, widely credited with kickstarting the entire hippy movement in the early 60s, was himself a subject of MK-ULTRA’s experiments. It was unknown to Kesey at the time exactly what the experiments were for, or by whom–as it’s doubtful he would’ve been quite as stoked to join up if he’d known the government was attempting to erase his personality using Nazi science–but his participation in the MK-ULTRA drug studies was what eventually led him to start the Merry Pranksters, who first widely advocated the “mind-expanding” properties of LSD and eventually gave rise to the modern hippy. Kesey himself, of course, was a genius and a visionary, but regardless of his intentions, his actions are directly responsible for that patchouli-soaked, white-guy-bedreadlocked Birkenstock monster you can find strumming its guitar outside the public libraries of every major city on earth. Kesey began this, and the CIA began him. So, in summation: The CIA, with a little help from the Nazis, accidentally helped invent hippies while they were trying to figure out how to brainwash communists. Pour that on your granola and eat it, you zombie pinko bastards! cracked.com