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Sept. 13, 2007 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 13, 2007, Thursday, Hour #3
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Well, looky here, ladies and gentlemen.
Hubahaba, Duba Duba.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
I am Rush Linboy, your guiding light and the epitome of morality and virtue, a man with whom you could and would totally trust your wife, your daughter, your son, your pets, overnight in a quality hotel while you're out on business.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address rush at EIB net.com.
Well, once again, my friend.
I am holding something here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers that is quite interesting.
Not only did Mrs. Clinton get the endorsement of the letter carriers union, she has also received me.
Uh the endorsement of the um uh let's see, the transportation and uh what is it?
It's uh Yeah, the transportation and communication workers of which covers the railroad business.
See, we had a call in the previous hour from some guy who said, Look, Rush, you can't get on to California Zephyr in a sleeper compartment.
Those things are sold out weeks, sometimes months in advance.
You can't get one as soon as Shu got one.
He said, How is this possible?
I said, Well, sir, it's entirely possible.
Who runs Amtrak's federal government?
Some congressmen, some senators, some whatever calls us I need a sleeper compartment, he's gonna get one.
But how rush, how can that be if we're sold out?
Uh see, ladies and gentlemen, what is printing back here?
Must be the 14th page of the union website.
Uh there is uh in in my world, I I said there's never such a thing as sold out.
There is, rarely, but I don't seek something like a hotel room during those periods.
For example, I stay at I have a favorite hotel of Los Angeles.
I get whatever I want whenever I need to go there, except when the Emmys, the Oscars, and uh the Grammys or whatever else, and I don't even try.
But hotels, trains, whatever they do.
I mean, they there's always a compartment for the last minute arrival VIP.
They're always there, that's how the business is run.
Uh and I'm a VIP.
It's kind of unfortunate unfortunate.
It's uh it's actually a little unfair.
You know, I do not accept freebies from anybody because I don't want to be, I don't want to be obligated.
It's a it's a policy of mine.
When I was starving, quote unquote, nobody would offer to give me anything.
Now, when I don't need anything, is when people start trying to throw things at me.
And of course, they know I don't need anything.
So what what would be the point?
Well, I just I don't want to run the risk of being obligated.
I don't want to have to pay back, I don't at least I just don't do it.
But a lot of people do.
A lot of people consider it status.
A lot of people go through life having things thrown out of them all their lives and expect that that's going to continue to happen throughout their lives.
Did not happen to me, and so I don't expect it.
Uh, but it's that it's entirely possible that Shu, uh maybe not calling himself, could get on this train, get in a sleeper compartment.
And it's it is interesting here that at a meeting of the transportation uh uh and communication union, uh, which covers railroad employees, they announced on August 30th their endorsement of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for President of the United States, ladies.
So the people that run an Amtrak endorsed her.
So, I mean, look it.
We're not saying anything.
We're presenting dots out there for you to connect in your own mind.
But remember, nothing that happens with the Clintons is coincidence.
Trumpet fanfare, it means that an update is coming.
We can go to the grooveyard for it.
From the uh from the grooveyard of forgotten favorites from the archives of the Rush Limbaugh program, Slim Whitman, Una Paloma Blanca, our peace update theme from many moons ago, was actually born on this program in Sacramento, California during the first global peace march for nuclear disarmament.
Uh and we tracked them all across the country as they watch.
And what they did when they when they finished their the Great Peace March, Great Global Walk Peace March, whatever for Whatever it was.
When they got, they went to the Energy Department building in Washington, and they staged a die-in on the front steps.
And by that I mean they simulated what would happen at the very moment of a nuclear blast being detonated.
They even had red paint to simulate blood and so it caused a whole big mess there.
This is a great example here of how the left just keeps repeating its playbook.
A week of events meant to crank up a national demonstration against the war in Iraq, is set to begin Saturday with a 1,000-person die-in at the U.S. Capitol, led by former American troops and accompanied by taps and a mock 21 gun salute.
And guess who is going to be there?
Cindy Sheehan will be appearing at the die-in along with the other 999 people, the supposed 999 people.
And this is No, whoa, no, she's running for Pelosi's seat in California.
She's not retiring from any of this.
She's getting all cranked up.
That's where the Democrats are letting her down.
The Democrats are letting people like her down.
She got to do something.
What does the left do?
They have a protest and they stage a die-in on the steps of the Capitol building.
And of course, it's going to be covered with zeal and interest by the drive-bys.
And they will tell us that this represents the thinking of millions of Americans.
And of course, ladies and gentlemen, will it accomplish anything?
It will not.
It won't accomplish one thing policy-wise.
These people are too blockheaded to understand it.
They're not even doing it for that reason.
Well, they are doing it for that reason, but there's another reason they want to matter.
They want to think they matter.
They want to think they are important.
They are wandering lost souls, and they are used by the Democrats, made to feel important when they're really not.
So this, in addition, by the way, to this uh 1,000 person die-in on Saturday, they are going to shut down as many military recruitment centers as possible.
Now, if I were the Democrat Party, I would do everything I could to stop this because they're already in enough hot water, appearing as though appearing, convincing as many Americans as they have that they are interested in losing.
They want defeat and so forth.
And to the extent this is not gonna the Democrats thought that the Wellstone Memorial was one of the highlights of their party's career.
They just, they're tone-diff, they have no idea how this is viewed by a majority of decent American citizens.
You know, I meant to mention this a mere moment ago, and I slipped my mind because there's so many other things here I wish to mention, but all of you letter carriers out there who have called here so wonderfully and so graciously today and in the recent past, and have mentioned that you listened to this program while on your mail routes.
I must confess I have grave concerns.
Uh now that your union leadership has learned, uh, and I don't know what your contract uh situation on this is, but now that your union leadership has learned that you are actually listening to this program while at work, while walking your roots, delivering the mail to the people of this country.
I certainly hope that it doesn't eventuate that your union leadership ship sends out a memo banning such activity.
I hope it does not happen after you have made these admissions on this uh program today.
Keep a sharp eye.
I wouldn't put just hope it doesn't happen.
And maybe it can't happen because of your union contract.
I don't know what it says, but just it's it's just my concern for you that I wanted to share publicly.
I have a piece here today from the American thinker, Michael O'Shea, who uh I think has done a brilliant job in putting into perspective just who Congressional Leaders today are.
The title of his piece, I just want to share some brief excerpts with you, the title of the piece, Child's Play in Iraq, and he starts out really interestingly with a quote I'm reminded of the time I saw my three-year-old daughter trying and failing to tie her shoes.
She got angry.
She still kept trying.
This is difficult, she concluded, but I like difficult.
That is a three-year-old child grittier than congressional leaders, spunkier than people twenty times her age.
She's Bill Gates' daughter.
But that's immaterial.
Her mother Melinda wrote those words, but that's immaterial too.
What matters is what Melinda Gates also said to other philanthropists about starting the Gates Foundation.
Quote, turns out that her parents like difficult too, and I suspect that you all like difficult, which is why you devoted your lives to solving some of the world's toughest problems.
Well, that's what Congressmen are elected to do.
Solve some of America's and therefore the world's toughest problems.
But Congressmen prefer childish ways instead, and so play.
They play statesman, they play leader.
Listening to leaders in Congress, one would imagine that like a child they still believe in the stork.
Iraq, which they voted to liberate from Saddam's rule would go from tyranny to ally against terrorism in four tenths of a decade.
Well, it might well have had Iran Syria Al Qaeda not intervened.
Iran's Syria Al Qaeda threats all, threats each to peace in the Middle East and the world long before Operation Iraqi freedom, rushing to Iraq to cripple Iraq, and congressional leaders now say have at it.
We attacked Iraq when it invaded Kuwait, and the world applauded.
We defend Iraq from foreigners invading it, and the world, the Senate, House leaders included, spits in our face.
But much of that world at least is not two-faced.
It didn't back regime change in Iraq as American policy under George W.'s predecessor, didn't authorize action under W himself, approve hundreds of billions of dollars to oust Saddam and start rebuilding his country, approve every general charged with directing the Iraqi campaign, hear testimony.
Under oath from those generals themselves on Iraq's problems in progress, and then bludgeoned with blogs, bail.
That is what they did.
In starting philanthropy, Melinda Gates wrote, We knew what we stood for.
Other than reelection, what do congressional leaders stand for?
As important, what can they withstand?
Mr and Mrs. Gates believe, quote, ultimately all people, no matter where they live, deserve a chance to live a healthy, productive life.
Congressional leaders would amend that to exclude Iraqis, to whom we've given our word.
Leaders frequently tout their business backgrounds as signs that they're savvy, then they display astounding ignorance of the struggles all business, including Microsoft, meet, just to keep getting ahead.
As if iPods wondrously appeared with Nari and Newton among its ancestors.
IBM never stumbled.
Mercedes never goofed, Kodak never almost croaked.
Xerox has the entire globe copying only it, the big three are still big and still three.
ATT didn't have to be disemboweled to be reborn.
Sports isn't without scars either, becoming a champ's nowhere near as hard as staying a champ, as the Packers, the Forderners, the Jets, and the Cowboys painfully know.
Unlike Iraq, they have game films and scouting reports and player profiles and rules, and everybody obeys, or they're out.
Terrorists don't play fair, neither do congressional leaders who, when it comes to Iraq, could teach jihadists tricks on sighing to the heavens while slitting throats.
Male leaders must have missed labor room or passed out.
Female leaders must have hired surrogate moms, none seems to recall that birth is painful, and child raising's not a one-stop glee.
Despite billions in the bank and fame, Congressional leaders can only envy and do.
Bill and Melinda Gates met hard knocks.
Our foundation works hard to think through problems carefully, but it's simply impossible to get our strategies exactly right in the beginning, They say.
Robert Gates would say the same.
He's not even related.
Donald Rumsfeld would too.
Did withdrawing American troops when he thought Iraqis are ready to handle more on their own and finding they were not yet.
Any leader who's actually led and not just sweet talked knows what sweat equity really means.
Life is tough, business is tough, football's tough, they all have regulations, terrorists have none.
The military is adamant on lessons learned, and it learns.
Name one congressional leader.
One lesson congressional leaders have learned other than to a moat before C-SPAN cameras.
Which congressional leader could be this blunt?
The lessons, a list of lessons Bill and I have learned since we started is just about as long as the list of mistakes that we've made.
And we're still making mistakes and learning lessons every day.
Who in Congress would dare be this frank?
Seeing where we missed something can be humbling, but it helps us understand how we can be more innovative the next time.
We try to bring that spirit of learning and changing to all of our work.
Look at congressional leaders one by one.
Who among them has convictions as deep as bin Laden's?
Who among them, like bin Laden, is unwavering no matter what?
Jihadists and U.S. troops have one thing in common and one thing alone.
They are willing to sacrifice themselves for something greater than themselves.
Can congressional leaders come close to that?
Bin Laden sacrifices everything he has, wealth, health for his beliefs.
Belief.
That's bin Laden's power.
You can see it in his eyes.
And congressional leaders?
Beliefs that deep?
Eyes that steady?
Firm.
How many thousand Iraqis will join Al Qaeda when Al Qaeda in Iraq rules over Iraq?
Any congressional leader who cannot see that Iraqis are dying to live free, that Iraqi security forces are killed serving their country.
That Iraq's politicians need help, and American politicians could give it, that the world is looked to America because America has honored its word and stood by its allies no matter what.
Any Congressman who can't see all of those things has a jihad of his own.
And there'll be no virgins stroking when all is said and done for congressional leaders.
This is one of the best pieces I have read to put into proper perspective.
The absolute cowardice, the arrogance.
I mean, they are always demanding Bush admit mistakes, they never admit making mistakes at all.
They have all the answers.
They have no belief.
They have no staying power, they have no sense of commitment, no sense of honor.
They cannot be trusted, even after they vote for all the things that we make promises to to our allies and the people of Iraq.
They are the first to cut and run, and they claim they are what's best for the country.
And they couldn't be more wrong.
We have a breaking AP news alert here, ladies and gentlemen.
The Treasury Department says that the federal deficit running 9.8% lower than in the last budget year.
Well, we knew this was going to happen.
I mean, it just makes it official, but all that money can pouring in here because of the tax cuts and the uh the more than full employment that we have.
But will anybody care, ladies and gentlemen?
AP makes it a news alert, but will anybody pick it up?
Democrats don't.
They they they want to massively increase spending and deficits and so forth.
They don't want good economic news out there, especially now.
But there it is.
By the way, uh I've I hope uh Mr. Snerdley is alone in his confusion.
The piece I read to you mere moments ago before the break was by Michael O'Shea at the American thinker.com in which he quotes at various intervals in the piece, Melinda Gates, uh, talking about how hard it is to run their their philanthropy and how many mistakes they make, and how it's an ongoing process, but how they believe in what they're doing, and so they try to learn from the mistakes.
And they don't they don't break promises that they make to people that they're gonna make pledges to, that they're gonna help.
And he was contrasting the gates and the way they live and the way they run their lives with uh with the U.S. Congressman.
So Mr. Snerdley thought that Melinda Gates wrote the whole thing, and I hope I did not leave that impression.
This is from the American Thinker dot com.
And we will uh uh we'll link to this at rushlimbaugh.com later on uh today when we update the contents of the website today to reflect our content today.
Uh Grovestown, Georgia, is that right?
This is Bob.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hey.
How's it going?
Hey uh I swear calls that for a truth member.
I'm uh still myself.
Uh I'm having a real tough time understanding you.
Uh could you could you uh hold the phone a little further away from your mouth?
Okay.
Now try it again.
Here we go.
Tell you what, just hang on.
We're gonna put John Holberg in a phone number or call you back.
We got a bad phone line with you because it sounds like you're in the in a barrel and you're uh that you're gagged.
I did hear him say that he is a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, so he might be gagged.
Uh but we'll try to get a better better phone line for him.
Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.
We we uncover more unknown towns on this program every day than any other show.
Mary in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Yeah.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
You're brilliant, and you're my hero.
Well, thank you so much.
My comment is on the uh report by General Petraeus to the Senate, which I watched on CNN.
After it was over, I was switching channels to get some feedback, and I happened to catch Anderson Cooper on CNN.
Yeah.
Taking General Petraeus' report point by point and uh challenging each one with a video clip and report from a reporter in that area.
I was curious.
First of all, for them to challenge a four-star general is appalling to me.
And for what reason, if not for political.
Yeah, I I didn't see this.
Uh but I know it's infuriating.
This is this is what they do.
Everybody in a Republican administration is a liar.
You have to understand that was the narrative this week.
As far as the Democrats and a drive-by media concerned, Mary, Petraeus was a liar.
And he and Bush made him lie.
Bush was making him a puppet.
And so uh their whole modus operandi was not to listen to what he had to say for any reason other than try to find some video in some of their correspondence uh to provide out of context reports to indicate that the Democrats and the committees who are saying that Petraeus was lying are right.
But it didn't work.
The uh polling numbers in the Wall Street Journal, NBC poll of the people supporting the uh the surge now continue to climb, the numbers do.
Uh the president's approval numbers flat at 30 percent in this poll, but uh that didn't work.
Look at there's a reason why CNN is sitting there sucking air uh at the bottom of the list of cable news channels.
Uh it it's well, they go back and forth with PMS NBC.
I understand your frustration.
It wasn't just at CNN.
We have a montage here of Chris Matthews on Hardball last night, his assessment of the Petraeus hearings.
Petraeus and Crocker, this whole dog and pony show.
I'm watching this dog and pony show.
What do you make of a pony?
You're speaking while the dog.
What about the pony?
It really is a dog and pony show.
And the hypocrisy and the dog and pony show, the Patrace dog and pony show.
Not one of those repeated.
That's Chris Matthews on Hardball last night, referring to a decorated uh four-star general in full dress as a dog and pony show.
Look at folks, there's an alliance.
You know it, I know it, Democrats and the media, and it is to fulfill and project and advance a specific agenda.
I want to uh oh, we got Bob back from Grovetown, Georgia.
He's a uh Swift boat member.
Okay, Bob, let's try again with a different phone line here.
You need you pull that phone really far away from you.
Uh it because it's it's it's distorting the way you sound.
Okay.
What Bob, what kind of phone are you don't got not a brand name, but are you using a cell phone or a landline?
No, these are these are landline portable phones.
A landline portable phone.
Oh, landline portable phone.
Yeah.
All right.
Uh Do you have any other phones in the house, Bob?
Uh cell phone.
What could would could you would you mind if if uh if we called you on that?
Yeah, I'm gonna have to get my.
I just got this, so I'm not used to this.
I gotta get a cell phone number who I don't know what it was.
Oh, wait a minute.
Well, basically you oh you don't have a you don't have a cell phone number?
Uh yeah, my wife has to get it everywhere.
Okay, all right, good.
Uh well basically the way you use the cell phone, it'll ring and then you hit you hit the talk button, it's a green button.
Just hit the hit the the talk button and it'll that that that uh that answers it.
You look at Mr. Sturgeon come back and give you instructions here.
We'll try again on the cell phone.
Okay, so I give it to the other guy or uh to give it to uh yeah, not yeah, not me.
Don't don't give your don't don't give your cell phone number.
No, especially since you're a swift boat veteran from truth.
No, no, no, no, no.
Tell them call me back.
No, hang on.
Okay.
You hang on, Mr. Snerdley's gonna get your number, he will call you back on your cell phone.
He's on hold now.
All right, good.
You know what that the guy's phone reminds me, you know.
We used to play a parody of uh of this guy driving into a fast food restaurant, and he would order what he wanted, and the speaker, you know, those drive-ins, those drive-throughs.
The guy eventually goes nuts because he can't understand what they're saying inside, talking back to him, repeating his order.
Uh it was it was hilarious.
I'm sure we still have it.
Here it is.
We have it here.
This this is this is this is exactly what it reminded me of.
All right, I think we got it here.
Third times at charm with Bob in Grovetown, Georgia, who is now on his cell phone.
Bob, welcome back to the EIB network.
You guys, you can hear me out.
Yeah, I hear you much better now.
You are uh you're a Swift boat uh veteran for truth.
Uh yeah.
I'll tell you how it happened.
I joined later.
I didn't join I didn't wasn't a member, a regular member when he wrote the book when uh John O'Neill wrote the book.
I only got involved when my when my kids told me I should get involved.
After all these Democrats were saying about how about the the guys lying and all.
It didn't happen.
They weren't lying.
Right.
And that's what that's what got me out of the Democratic Party.
I was I was a Democrat.
And then that's what also got me uh to join them Swiftbow guys.
They all know me.
Wait, when you you you you left the Democrat Party when they started attacking John O'Neill about his book?
Yeah.
Because they lied about it.
See, I was on the 43 boat.
When Gary uh on Carrie's operation, most of his operations.
I was with Don Drose.
What boat was he on?
Uh 94 boat.
How far away from him would that have put you in the formation?
Uh when one of his medals when he got the guy on the water, he was uh he was right in front of me.
So you s you saw it.
So you you uh what did you did you meet Kerry?
I I knew the guy, I didn't know his name, but I knew the boat and all.
All right, so he did a lot of stupid things, I know that.
Well, apparent apparently so.
Uh he's never refuted anything, and they keep complaining about all the complaints or all the charges, but they never refuted any of them.
Anyway, I don't want to relive that.
You're calling for some other reason about that.
I know you just identified yourself as a Swift boat veteran, but what was the reason you called?
About Portrayus about uh the general.
I didn't like the idea of what they were doing to the guy.
I mean they pull this stuff all the time.
You know, I got a little tired of it.
Uh I'll bet especially when you heard Kerry commenting on him.
Yeah, that even made it worse.
He's no one that commented on that comment on anything.
Well, um, you know, I'm glad we stuck with you.
You know, most most uh most shows, bad phone line would have said, hey, it's a it's it's uh not your fault, even though it was.
Uh and uh uh we just did the phone line's not working, but we endeavored to get back in touch with you, Bob, and congratulations on using the cell phone.
They're really amazing.
Uh and it's it it sounds much you might Bob before you what what what if you don't mind my ask I shouldn't do this.
Yeah.
I need a what what did do you where where did you get your your portable wireless phone there?
Not the cell phone.
Verizon.
No, no, no, not the cell phone, the one that we uh couldn't at uh Walmart, I think.
Walmart.
Yeah.
Uh Yeah.
Either Walmart's or uh Sam's Club, same thing.
Walmart or Sam's Club.
Yeah, it's one of six of one half dozen of the other.
Um, that's not the best phone for you.
Uh if you're gonna call uh uh back uh uh call us back here on the EIB network.
So if you do if you call back, use your cell phone.
I think that's a good idea.
Okay, all right.
Bob, thanks so much.
I appreciate your call.
I really do, and and uh uh your uh service.
Everything we hear from somebody who uh who served in the military here, we get I do.
We get lumps in our throats here, especially with the the way you all have been maligned and mistreated in the general this week and so forth.
Um we all we all share your your anger.
I'm glad you called.
Um I gotta do some audio sound bites here, folks.
I've been promising this and it it fits the theme, and I don't want to wait and put these off until tomorrow.
We've talked about the congressman, shared the piece with you from uh uh Michael O'Shea and the American Thinker.com that are the gutless, they don't have beliefs, they don't keep promises, they don't stick to things and so forth.
Uh we've we've discussed the uh all all aspects of their arrogance today, their conceit, uh their elitism.
There was a Democrat and then they're nuts.
There was an online forum with the Democrat presidential candidates moderated by Bill Maher.
And uh Senator Biden got this question from Bill Maher.
Senator Biden, forgetting about the upcoming Iowa caucus for just a moment, which would you honestly say is more likely to contribute to the death of your average American, a terrorist strike or high fructose corn syrup and air that has too much coal in it?
Air that has too much coal in it.
Corn syrup next, then a terrorist attack, but that is not in any way to diminish the fact that a terrorist attack is real, but hundreds of thousands of people die and their lives are shortened because of coal plants, coal-fired plants, and because of corn syrup.
Do you believe this?
This this hundreds of thousands of people die and their lives are shortened because of coal plants.
I told you all about seeing this giant, giant cargo ship of coal on Long Island Sound heading in to give uh uh coal, it gets so big it can't get it ashore after tenders come out and take the coal in.
Coal was, by the way, not from America.
Uh you s Senator, you you want to try firing these power plants with something else?
You tell us what it is.
This is just pandering of the first order.
Mrs. Clinton got the next question from Bill Marr.
Senator Clinton, all the senators here except Senator Obama voted for the Iraq War resolution in 2002, saying their decision was based on intelligence they believed to be accurate at the time.
In other words, George Bush fooled you.
Why should Americans vote for somebody who can be fooled by George Bush?
Well, Bill, it was a little more complicated than that.
Um I sought out expert uh opinions from a wide variety of sources.
People inside and outside the government, uh, people in my husband's administration.
And I think it is fair to say that uh at the time I made it very clear I was against a preemptive war.
And I believed that uh giving the president authority uh to go back to the United Nations and put in inspectors uh was uh an appropriate uh designation of authority.
That's just at variance with the truth, folks.
That's not what the resolution, the use of force resolution did not say anything about bombing the United Nations.
That is just disingenuous.
And how about that cackle?
You know that if I were Bill Mar, I that that cackle, she did not want that question.
That question, how can you be she's the smartest woman in the world.
Now we've got all these soundbikes.
Here's here's Hillary, September 15th, 2002 on Meet the Press.
Listen.
I doubt it.
I can support the President.
I can support an action against Saddam Hussein because I think it's in the long-term interest of our uh national security.
Her Senate floor speech, October 10th, 2002.
In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program.
It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.
Hillary Clinton, October in 2002, back after this.
Rudy Giuliani wants to run a full-page ad Friday in the New York Times.
He has asked for the same rate they gave Moveon.org.
The rate card, 167,000.
MoveOn.org was charged $65,000.
Rudy Giuliani wants the same ad rate for a full-page ad in Friday's New York Times.
I knew this was going to happen.
We will see if he gets it.
And we will see you tomorrow.
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