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Brian Wilson and I<\/strong> <\/a>had fun hammering Congress for their shiftless sellout on the federal debt ceiling negotiations.\u00a0 Also paid homage to the FBI and its 278,000 warrantless wiretap victims (you know who you are even if the feds won’t disclose).<\/p>\n

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