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Oct. 28, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 28, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Hi, ladies and gentlemen, how are you?
We're just floating right along here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, Rush Limbaugh, distinct honor and privilege to be with you every day of the year, but especially as we get down to the, well, as they say, the nutcracking time here as we approach the election one week from today.
Of course, not counting the early votes.
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Email address, lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Michigan Democrats trying to arouse interest in absentee voting have accidentally directed people to a phone sex line.
State Party spokeswoman Liz Kerr in Detroit says that a flyer that included two absentee ballot applications had a misprint in the number for a campaign hotline.
A flyer came from the Michigan Democrat State Central Committee and featured photos of Obama and Senator Carl Levin.
The error first reported by WJBK-TV in Detroit.
Democrat Party apologizes for the misprint.
It says they have no plans to correct it.
Just kidding, they, of course, are going to correct it.
But it doesn't matter.
You call a phone sex hotline or you call a Democrat Party, you get screwed either way.
The latest Gallup tracking poll, 49 to 47.
And the headline, presidential race narrows slightly.
Yesterday, the Gallup tracking poll was five points at 50 to 45.
49.47 today.
That's narrowing slightly.
That's margin of error.
IBD TIP is what's changed?
What's changed is we're getting closer to the election.
That's what's changed.
And they've got to start getting close to what they think is actually going to happen here for their credibility.
Yet if you turn on PMS NBC, you'll find that Obama's already got 285 electoral votes before you've even voted.
They got their electoral map out there.
He's got 280 electoral votes.
It's over.
49 to 47.
Now, I'm going to tell you something, folks.
James Carville has warned of riots and trauma out there if Obama's up by a significant number going into the election and then loses.
And if indeed the pollsters get this wrong and if they got it wrong all along and McCain pulls out an electoral college victory, I hope somebody tells these rioters if they riot that the proper targets of their wrath are the media because that's who's misled them all along.
Folks, it strikes me, I want to try something here.
Often we criticize Senator McCain, for example, in the debate.
He brought up William Ayers.
And those of us who watched, they were good, good, good, good.
He didn't explain who Ayers is.
He assumed that most people know who Ayers is.
Now, for the bulk of this program and yesterday's, we have been focusing on Obama's 2001 video, just recently found, by the way, his interview with the public radio station in Chicago, where he makes it plain that he wants the Supreme Court or wants the government, somehow the legal system, to enact his notion of redistribution, socialism.
And of course, we've discussed today that some people may not know what socialism is, and some people might think it's a good thing.
What's wrong with it?
And to those of you who maybe now understand socialism, maybe you're not quite sure about it.
And to those of you, and I know you're out there, some of you college students, and I know liberals are listening.
We do not preach to the choir here, contrary to what somebody says or the critics say.
But I want to try to explain to you why this is bad as it relates to the United States of America by telling you what this country is and how it was founded in somewhat of a detailed fashion.
And the first thing I'd like to ask this question again, since I have your attention, there have been populations of people organized as countries since the founding of the planet, since it was created, and since humanity first appeared.
People have organized themselves in various ways, groups, families, nations.
Now, the Earth and humanity, depending on who you talk to, is millions of years old, billions of years old.
And throughout the history of human beings, no group of human beings has ever produced the wealth, the freedom, the opportunity, the prosperity, the security as Americans.
The United States of America, throughout human history, is the greatest nation, however you wish to define it in history.
Now, how did this happen?
We, the United States of America, are just human beings.
There are countries that exist at the same time we have.
There are countries that existed long before we came into being.
Of course, in Europe and in Asia, Africa, Australia, the subcontinents.
How is it that in less than 250 years, this group of human beings called Americans has revolutionized everything about life?
We've produced the greatest standard of living and shared how to do it with others.
We have produced a standard of living unheard of and undreamed of, even by people who were alive 100 years ago.
We have produced a country where the occupants, the residents, have the highest expectations of opportunity, security, wealth, all of these things, education, than any group of human beings has ever had.
And I really would like for you to take a moment and when you have the moment, ask yourselves how this can be and do it honestly.
How can it be?
And not to besmirch some of these other countries, but just to give you an example.
China, Japan, Russia, the satellite countries, Rome, Italy, take your pick.
France, all these countries have been around much, much longer than we have.
And admittedly, people that founded this country came from Europe.
Why were they not able to do where they lived what they did here?
You realize our founding fathers are Brits.
Why were they not able to turn Great Britain or England into the United States when they lived there?
Why did they have to leave these places to come here, the new world, in order to create this?
Why couldn't they do it where they lived?
As human beings, we're no better than any other human beings on the face of the earth.
We're not any different whatsoever in terms of the way we're born, human beings and human beings.
How is it then that the United States has become the most powerful and for good, the richest, the most technologically advanced, the most industrious, the most productive country in history, in human history, a nation that has liberated hundreds of millions of people from oppression.
A nation that has, talk about sharing the wealth, a nation that has rebuilt Europe after World War II, a nation that turned Imperial Japan into a thriving, burgeoning economic power of a democracy.
We are a nation that rebuilt Germany after World War II, all the while continuing our own growth.
We are a nation that invented so many of the things that have improved the quality of life for human beings around the world.
We are the nation, the one nation that can and offer substantive relief efforts to other nations devastated by natural disasters.
How does this happen when we're no better than anybody else?
When we're no different than anybody else, how does this happen?
The answer is very simple.
Without being too esoteric about it, freedom is the answer.
Most of the people around the world have not lived with the great degree of freedom that our country was founded with.
And you can read it in the founding fathers' ruminations at the days of the founding, talking about the industriousness of individuals and how to promote it for the common good.
You can look at the original true story of Thanksgiving and find out how they tried socialism.
The whole community produced whatever it produced and everybody got to go take what they want from the production.
And some people figured out after a while they didn't have to produce anything in order to get something.
It didn't work.
They changed it.
Everybody was assigned a plot of land, grow what you want, grow as much as you want, and you keep it.
Sell your excess.
Plymouth Colony expanded like crazy.
The answer is freedom.
The answer is also that our founding fathers recognize that freedom is part of our creation.
And so our founding documents recognize that we are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights.
And these are human rights, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness.
We all have these.
Every human being is born this way with that yearning spirit.
However, depending on where the human being is born, they never get to exercise it.
We and our ancestors had the chance to exercise it, and they did.
And they built.
And they created.
And they invented.
And as a result, the greatest country in the history of humanity became the United States of America.
And it is that freedom allowing each of us to use our own ambitions, our own desires, our own ingenuity, our own creativity unshackled to pursue our passions, to do what we love with as few obstacles in our way as possible.
Certainly fewer obstacles than any other nations people have faced in their lives.
And we see the result.
We see the greatest country in the history of civilization.
Now we have, why is this matter?
Now we have in this presidential campaign, not just Mr. Obama, but an entire political party which resents deeply all that I just described to you.
They resent The way this country was founded and built, because the way they view things, is they see that those who worked hard and invented and were industrious and indulged their ambitions did whatever it was necessary to do.
They worked hard.
They got up before sunup.
They went to bed at sundown.
They went to school.
Whatever it was they had to do to become what they wanted to do, they did it.
And of course, some didn't.
Some didn't have as many ambitions as others.
Some didn't have that drive.
So we're all different.
And so the resulting capitalism here that I've just described produced some people.
And in this country, almost everybody does better than anywhere else around the world.
However, when just this country is taken as a subset of humanity, yeah, we have some people who don't do well.
And we also have some people who in our past were discriminated against for one reason or another.
And they were denied at first the same opportunities that other citizens had.
But this country's dealt with that.
And those opportunities, however you want to argue, whether they've been good or bad, the way we've gone about it, those opportunities are now far more available to far more people than even at the founding, even 60 years ago.
Great, great progress has been made.
However, Barack Obama, the Democrat Party, still see this nation, not as I've just described it to you.
They see it as the greatest failure in the experiment of social justice and economic justice and equality that the human race has ever produced.
It's got to change.
We have got to stop this.
We've got to fix it so that everybody ends up the same.
We can't have people doing all that well while some people don't.
Even though that has resulted not because people have been oppressed, not because they've been stunted, not because they've been squashed, because they didn't seem to have the ambition.
They didn't have the desire.
But they're living their lives and they're happy for the most part.
So we have the Democrat Party and Barack Obama who want to take every ingredient that made this the greatest country in the world.
And even you who are going to vote for Obama and even you who are buying into this notion that some people have too much and that we need to take from them and give to you, you still expect what?
You still expect a grand life.
You expect a life of prosperity.
You expect greater income.
You expect a bigger house.
You expect a car.
It's just that you think it's going to come from some politician taking it away from somebody else.
If Obama wins and if the Democrats implement this redistribution, what they are going to do is destroy the engine that creates all of this opportunity.
And that engine of opportunity will be replaced by a massive federal government to whom more and more citizens will become dependent on their wants and their needs.
And when the idea that you achieve gets punished, that when you earn too much, and it could be $100,000, $150,000 whatever it is, whatever Obama decides, when you earn more than that, then your American dream is over.
The American dream will stop for you at whatever Obama's magic tax increase number is.
And when the American dream ends at $150,000, the American dream is over.
Obama wants this.
Obama wants a large government passing things out according to what he thinks is fair.
And the end result of this is creating as many people dependent on a state government, federal government as possible.
So you'll continue to have to vote for these people.
And what it was that created the greatest collection of human beings in the history of humanity will be altered for who knows how long it'll take to reorganize this and roll it back because it'll fail.
And Americans who demand and have all these high expectations will keep demanding them and having them.
And when they find out that the Obama game and the Democrat plan doesn't produce it, there'll be hell to pay down the road.
But the damage done in the meantime will be severe.
That's why all this matters.
You are still the best resource you have to acquiring what you want in life.
Obama is not your best resource.
The government's not your best resource.
Joe Biden is not your best resource.
Oprah is not your best resource.
You and your family, you are the best resource that you have.
Don't give up the free use of yourself to be the best you can be just for the sake of some change that is actually going to be far worse than you can imagine.
From the Toledo Blade, they keep confirming everything we say about them.
Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama called for a business tax credit to create new jobs, 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures, blah, Stand by audio, somebody 36.
Here's the last paragraph of this story, though.
Listen to this.
U.S. Representative Marcy Capture, a Democrat from Toledo, whipped the crowd up before Obama took the stage yesterday, telling them that America needs a second Bill of Rights, guaranteeing all Americans a job, guaranteeing all Americans health care, guaranteeing all Americans homes, guaranteeing all Americans an education, guaranteeing a fair playing field for business and farmers.
America needs a second Bill of Rights.
This traces right back to the 2001 audio we've been playing all week from Obama from the Chicago public radio station, in which he talks about negative rights, positive rights.
The Constitution is a charter of negative rights, meaning the Constitution doesn't say enough about what the state can do for you.
Second Bill of Rights guaranteeing all Americans a job, all Americans health care.
The government can't do that the moment it tries.
This country is over.
It cannot provide what you expect for yourself once those guarantees are made to every citizen.
Cannot happen.
Has been tried around the world.
Plymouth, Massachusetts.
David, you're next in the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
Unfortunately, what really frightens me is that, in my opinion, we're already seeing the seeds of socialism flourishing in this country in a lot of ways.
The government owning the banks, a completely bloated welfare system where so many people rely completely on the government, an overwhelmed prison system where so many people rely completely on the government, the encouragement of illegals to displace American workers and no distinction between citizens and residents anymore.
High schools that churn out more consumers than hardworking people.
Colleges where degrees are worth less and less and less.
And worst of all, a media that would just hatch at me in front of the whole country if I said this on a television show.
Exactly.
No, you're right.
The seeds are planted and especially this bailout.
By the way, do you know how much money's been lost in the stock market since the bailout?
Even some people who are for the bailout are now starting to question themselves.
$2.8 trillion has been lost since the bailout in asset value on the stock market.
The value of homes is down 17%, not since the bailout.
Some bailout.
We were told we didn't have time.
We couldn't wait.
We could not wait.
It was a dire emergency.
This was not supposed to happen.
I have been recommending a lot of books lately.
Vince Flynn's newest is out.
A good friend of mine here down in Palm Beach, Ted Bell and Czar.
And Jim Patterson, also a friend here in Palm Beach, against medical advice.
This was not a mystery.
writes thrillers and mysteries, but this one is not against medical advice.
And they're all out.
Now it's really, all three of these are just fabulous.
And I know all three of these authors.
They are just great people and they're not for socialism.
Here is Rob of Saginaw, Michigan.
Rob, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Rush, baby.
Ditto's from Michigan.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, this is how I explain socialism to my daughter.
She's five and a half.
She's in kindergarten class.
She came home yesterday and said they're going to vote for the president.
And I asked, well, who are you voting for?
And she said, oh, she's thinking about Obama.
Now, I listen to you, and she's grown accustomed to your voice.
And I said, well, okay, well, let's sit down and explain the difference between the two candidates.
And I go, okay, this is Obama, what he wants to do.
We're going trick-or-treating Friday for Halloween, right?
And you're going to go out.
We're going to go hit as many houses as we can so you can get candy.
Now, when you come home, Obama's going to take half of your candy and give it to the girl next door.
And she's looking at me like, you can't be serious.
And she's like, are you that right?
And I said, that's exactly what's going to happen.
And she's looking at me and she goes, that's not right.
And I said, exactly.
And that's what's going to happen when Obama becomes president, if he becomes president.
Well, I appreciate that story.
Now, you mind if I'll offer just a little criticism without you taking it personally?
No, go away.
Maha Rushie.
No, no, because we want to persuade people this.
Now, I know your daughter's five and a half, but she's not going to believe only right now because you say it.
She's not going to believe that Barack Obama personally is going to come to your house and take half her candy.
So she's going to people, well, that would never happen.
Obama's not coming here and so forth.
What you need to tell her, if this comes up again, is to say that you, her father, will be forced to take half of her candy and distribute it to the kids who did not go trick-or-treating.
Oh, okay.
That you, her father, will be forced to go into her bag of candy.
And then you will have to make sure that kids who did not go trick-or-treating for whatever reason or all get some of what she collected.
And you tell her that that's the only fair way for her to live.
And then she'll say, but dad, they didn't go out and do anything.
That's exactly right.
And it's not fair that they didn't and you did.
You may have had the ability and they didn't.
Or you may have had the ambition and they didn't.
But you have to give away at least half of what you produced.
I have to take it from you and give it to the other kids in the neighborhood.
And by the way, I'm not going to tell them it came from you.
They'll never know it came from you.
I'm going to tell them it's from Obama.
Well, this is all.
If you really want to illustrate it, there's another way that you can do this to adults.
Because I really, I think a whole lot of people don't even know what this is.
And versions of this going around in email spam.
And it's funny.
I get so much of this stuff.
I've got the guest.
I got the greatest spam filter in the world.
But some of it still leaks through some of the stuff that I get.
And a lot of it's sent from friends.
Rush, Rush, you've got to talk about this.
It's not true.
It isn't true.
But some of it is.
I've gotten one piece of email that has been sent to me by at least a thousand people who claim that they are the ones that this happened to.
Basically, here's the story.
You go into a diner, a fast food restaurant or something, a diner, and you're sitting at the counter and you order whatever you order, and the waiter or waitress brings you the bill.
But you noticed when you were walking in the diner, a couple homeless people outside carrying signs saying, you know, please need food, please help, or what have you.
So the waiter presents you the bill and you leave no tip.
And you tell the waiter, I'm not leaving you a tip.
I saw somebody outside who's homeless who needs this money far more than you do.
You have a job.
What do you mean?
Well, I'm voting for Obama, and I believe what he says, that we need to spread the wealth around.
And unfortunately, you have enough compared to the guy out there not working.
So I'm going to give your tip to him.
Well, you can't do that.
Oh, you watch me.
I'm going to walk out there and I'm going to do it.
You don't need it.
Vote Obama.
I mean, there are any number of ways to illustrate this to people, because the bottom line is that most of the people voting Obama don't think they're going to have anything taken from them.
They think they're all going to get it.
And folks, we are all going to have things taken from us.
If you think you are exempt from an Obama tax increase, I dare you to think again.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, here's McCain.
Let's go to McCain.
We haven't had him on the show yet today.
This morning in Hershey, Pennsylvania, going after Obama, the redistributor.
We finally learned what Senator Obama's economic goal is, to spread the wealth.
In a radio interview, he revealed this week, he said the same thing, that one of the, quote, tragedies of the civil rights movement is that it didn't bring about redistributive change.
You see, Senator Obama believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs.
He said that even though lower taxes on investment help our economy, he favors higher taxes on investment for, quote, fairness.
There's nothing fair about driving our economy into the ground.
Okay, and here is the key line here.
I'm glad he said this.
He's more interested in controlling wealth than creating it.
In redistributing money instead of spreading opportunity.
I'm going to create wealth for all Americans by creating opportunity for all Americans.
Senator Obama is running to be redistributionist in chief.
I'm running to be commander-in-chief.
Senator Obama is running to spread the wealth.
I'm running to create wealth.
Senator Obama is running to punish the successful.
I'm running to make everyone successful.
Not bad, not bad.
Better late than never.
Pretty good.
And finally, this.
There's one week to go.
We're a few points down.
The pundits wrote us off, as they have several times before.
My opponent is out working out the details with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reed on their plans.
Raise your taxes, increase spending, and concede defeat in Iraq.
He's measuring the drapes, and he's planned his first address to the nation before the election.
By the way, no one will delay the World Series game with an infomercial when I'm president.
And if it doesn't stop raining, there's going to be a World Series game for a while.
But nevertheless, McCain, again, getting on the page here regarding what Obama's plans are and explaining what Obama's going to do in a fairly understandable way, which is cool.
Here's Mike in Los Angeles.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Yeah.
How are you?
Listen, I think the very fact that we're talking this way about the possibility that Obama could do these things means that we're already in a constitutional crisis that has been slowly building, and we might as well recognize it.
By acting unconstitutionally over all these years in little increments, the federal government has gotten us to this point where we're only talking about how much wealth is going to be redistributed when in fact there shouldn't be any.
It's already been done.
It's just a question of how much now.
And we really need to get a grip on this somehow.
We have to get it into the courts or we have to have Congress address.
I mean, really, we're in a serious constitutional crisis because nobody's obeying the document any longer.
And that's become kind of normal.
Yeah, we are at a constitutional crisis.
For example, the Second Bill of Rights, you know, to just illustrate his point here, Second Bill of Rights is an idea that originated back with FDR, back in the FDR days.
It is that old.
To give you an idea of how long the American left has been pushing and working to get us to this point where we are, this is why Obama's associations are important.
Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright.
And by the way, there is a group now that has come up with a big television buy in Battleground States with the Jeremiah Wright video.
This could have an impact.
It hurt Obama during the primaries.
Don't think it didn't.
It hurt Obama tremendously.
He had to go out and make a speech and throw Wright under the bus and then let him back on the back door after he threw him under the bus.
But the bottom line is the constitutional crisis has now reached a tipping point.
We have been fending these people off and trying to for 50 years.
It's an onslaught and they never stop.
And we're this close to having the Democrat Party, which has been pushing all this, to have a supermajority in the House and Senate, particularly the Senate, that would render them unstoppable.
Now, this is another thing that makes it so disconcerting that so many conservatives have fled the scene here and have somehow not realized the seriousness of what we face.
But we never stop fighting this sort of thing because we want to preserve the nation as it was founded, and people will continue to fight this.
And one thing, the constitutional crisis is real, but I don't think it's worth giving up and say, okay, throwing our hands up, it's over with.
Sure, we need to get the right people in the courts, but we have to can only do that by winning elections.
And there's one coming Tuesday.
We'll be back.
Here's another little example to explain socialism to kids or to anybody else.
It's I, even though this would never happen, I am handing out candy on Halloween.
No, this would never happen.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
You are handing out candy on Halloween.
Obama rings the bell on your door.
He says, since you have enough money to be handing out candy, I'm here to take your 401k.
Trick-or-treat.
Any number of ways to explain this, ladies and gentlemen, this is Careful Texas Belinda.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi.
Well, that doesn't sound very enthusiastic.
Well, I'm not a morning person usually, so just I know.
It's going towards where I'm waning.
But anyways, my point is on the fact that there's so many ads about movie stars, I mean great, they're great people, they make great movies, rock people, whatever.
But there's so much attention on them and not Joe the Plumber, Sarah the Waitress, you know, so-and-so out there that is actually working day to day, whether they're self-employed in a business.
It gets to me where there's so much focus and money on them people than the people that matter that are working hard.
Like you mentioned about our forefathers that would work so hard.
My husband is such a hard worker.
We're now self-employed in the jewelry business.
Not a very important thing right now with the economy, but it's what we do.
Wait a second.
Wait just a second.
Don't have that attitude.
No, Diamonds and baubles never go out of style.
They either are purchased or they are a dream waiting to be realized.
Well, let me tell you that.
You hang in there.
Yes, sir.
The people that have supported us are those, a lot of Republicans, a lot of people that have worked so hard.
What happened is just we fell into bad investments and such.
But we're still working hard.
We're still out there.
We're not like sitting there with a handout like hello.
Right.
And so you're fed up when you see these brain-dead celebrities talking about what a great guy Obama is.
Yeah.
And you get mad that the media focus so much attention on him.
Yeah.
Well, they've explained this over the years.
The media is just a bunch of groupies like everybody else is around celebrities, particularly if they're Hollywood celebrities or big-time TV celebrities.
They're groupies.
Remember, politics and media is showbiz for the ugly.
And Hollywood and television is showbiz for the beautiful people.
And the ugly always want to pall around with the beautiful people.
In this case, plus they think it's going to help Obama.
They're doing everything they can to push Obama over the top.
Yeah.
There's a big influence, though, where people are just so drawn, those people that think that that type of status is so important.
It's so glamorous, yes.
But, you know, you can make your own glamour by working hard, by making a point in your community.
You actually going out and doing it yourself, not depending on anything else or anyone else.
You know, we just take such pride in what we do.
And every time we're always commented on that we have original stuff.
And that's what has kept us going.
We have lived through month to month, you know, fairly decently.
But, you know, it's, again, that we work hard.
I don't want somebody coming in and saying, you work so hard, but it doesn't matter.
We're going to distribute, redistribute.
No, that's not working.
They're not going to reward you for your work.
They're not going to come in and say, you're working so hard.
They're going to say, you've got too much.
They're going to say you can do with a little less.
They'll do something.
Look, the way you answer the phone here, and you think that it's morning when it's coming up on two in the afternoon in Texas.
Are you coming out with a cold or anything?
No, like I said, my energy is just low.
When I have to get up during the day for whatever reason, I wouldn't risk it.
Have you heard a Zycam?
Yes.
You need to go out and get some to swab your nose.
You can't take a chance.
Sound run down out there?
We just had a heavy weekend, so we just had our market that we have in the middle.
Okay, well, don't take any chance.
Go out and get some Zycam.
If you're coming down with something, it'll stop it right away.
Your voice sounds your voice sounds, don't argue.
Believe me, I'm a natural person.
I have to get a cold air, that's all I get.
Well, okay, fine.
I'm just telling you, if you think you're coming down with one, I think you are.
But of course, what do I know?
I would go get some and swab your.
I tell you what else I'm going to do.
I am going to send you a copy of Vince Flynn's latest novel.
Okay.
Okay.
In addition to Vince Flynn's latest novel, I'm going to buy you a car.
We need one.
I appreciate it, though, Rush.
I really do.
I know what you're doing.
Since everything's going to be taken away from you, I'm going to get you a car that they can take away.
I'm going to get you a General Motors car.
I'm not sure what kind yet.
Don't go away, but I'll get you as long as you try the Zycam.
We'll be back right after this.
Don't go away.
Fastest week in media.
We're already through it.
Tuesday.
Tomorrow's Wednesday.
And we will be back.
And we will keep hammering.
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