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  • PARANOID SELF-LOATHING GOP LOBBYIST THINKS CHRIS MATTHEWS IS LISTENING TO HIM - Our favorite Paranoid Self-Loathing GOP Lobbyist, still awake after a 48 hour toenail-picking binge, said he was "flattered" that Chris Matthews mentioned a little sodium pentathol would get a more truthful speech out of Rand Paul.

    HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 3RD, 2010 Eliot Nelson 2010

  • Dr Emil Schuffhauser of Vienna has just given injections of pentathol for a profitable outbreak of contagious multiple personality disfunction.

    Citizen Focus – meet the “customer”. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • PARANOID SELF-LOATHING GOP LOBBYIST THINKS CHRIS MATTHEWS IS LISTENING TO HIM - Our favorite Paranoid Self-Loathing GOP Lobbyist, still awake after a 48 hour toenail-picking binge, said he was "flattered" that Chris Matthews mentioned a little sodium pentathol would get a more truthful speech out of Rand Paul.

    HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 3RD, 2010 Eliot Nelson 2010

  • PARANOID SELF-LOATHING GOP LOBBYIST THINKS CHRIS MATTHEWS IS LISTENING TO HIM - Our favorite Paranoid Self-Loathing GOP Lobbyist, still awake after a 48 hour toenail-picking binge, said he was "flattered" that Chris Matthews mentioned a little sodium pentathol would get a more truthful speech out of Rand Paul.

    HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 3RD, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Or did Rolling Stone end up slipping him and/or his aides a dram of sodium pentathol to make them talk?

    Loose lips: the McChrystal article 2010

  • PARANOID SELF-LOATHING GOP LOBBYIST THINKS CHRIS MATTHEWS IS LISTENING TO HIM - Our favorite Paranoid Self-Loathing GOP Lobbyist, still awake after a 48 hour toenail-picking binge, said he was "flattered" that Chris Matthews mentioned a little sodium pentathol would get a more truthful speech out of Rand Paul.

    HUFFPOST HILL - NOVEMBER 3RD, 2010 The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Out with the hand-cranked generator and the sodium pentathol?

    Archive 2007-07-15 2007

  • The first ingredient is sodium pentathol, this is a short-acting barbiturate which basically puts the person to sleep and then there is pancuronium, a product which basically paralyzes the body so there are no involuntary movements or spasm and after that, the individual is injected with potassium chloride, that ` s a chemical which is also present in the blood normally, but in large amounts basically shuts off the heart and the heart stops.

    CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2009 2009

  • I got down to about 4 when the "truth serum" (sodium amytal, not pentathol, was used.)

    Paulette Cooper: I Took a Truth Serum Test 2009

  • And the mechanical injection machine, calibrated to deliver a deadly cocktail of sodium pentathol and potassium chloride.

    Race, Death And The Feds 2008

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