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May 14, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 14, 2009, Thursday, Hour #2
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And now, ladies and gentlemen, for a different view.
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Great to have you with us.
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You'll never hear, for example, Chris Matthews turned to, what's he said, Chuck Todd said, now for a different view.
Here's Chuck Todd.
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McCain's mother.
McCain's mother is dumping on me.
On the Tonight Show last night, Leno said to Roberta McCain, how about Rush Limbaugh?
You're one of his fans.
What he thinks about our represents of the Republican Party has nothing to do with my side of it.
I don't know what the man means.
I don't know what he's talking about.
The chairman of the Republican Party, SEAL, was exactly right when he defined this man as an entertainer.
And to my horror, the Republican Party made him back up on it.
Limbaugh, you're a compliment when you say the man is an entertainer.
I don't know what he is, but he does not represent the Republican Party that I belong to.
She's right.
She's absolutely right.
The Republican Party she belongs to gets shellacked election after election after election.
Man, that's send McCain's mother out to dump on me.
No, I love it.
I love it.
I mean, this is, look at her, her son said the same thing.
McCain, he's this entertainer.
He's this entertainer.
Get it?
Get it?
He's this entertainer.
If you go to clown, good clowny circus.
That's it.
Got it?
I don't know what the man means.
I don't know what the man means.
By the way, one other thing, we're going to go back here to the archives of our audio soundbites.
And this is about the Gitmo detainees.
Do you remember two days after Obama was emaculated, he had all these executive order signings, and one of them was about an executive order calling for the closure of Club Gitmo within one year.
See if you remember this.
What we're doing here is to set up a special interagency task force on detainee disposition.
They are going to provide me with information in terms of how we are able to deal in the disposition of some of the detainees that may be currently in Guantanamo that we cannot transfer to other countries who could pose a serious danger to the United States, but we cannot try because of various problems related to evidence in an Article III court.
So this task force is going to provide us with a series of recommendations on that.
Is that correct, Greg?
That's right.
And detaining policy.
And detaining his policy going forward so that we don't find ourselves in these kinds of situations in the future.
And that we are providing clear guidance to our military in terms of how to deal with it.
No teleprompter that day.
So Greg Craig was the teleprompter telling Obama what to say.
So, okay, we're going to close Gitmo.
We're going to figure out how it never happens again, just like we're going to make sure there's never an economic boom again.
We're going to make sure these kind of detainees are never detained again.
We're going to have a policy going forward so we don't find ourselves these kinds of situations in the future.
And then Greg Craig says, and there is clear guidance for the military as well in this, and that we are providing clear guidance to our military.
What happened to that executive order?
What happened?
What happened?
Well, obviously, it's still in force.
Hey, how about that stimulus, folks?
You know, that stimulus is just not, it's just, you got to marvel at it.
New jobless claims rose more than expected last week due partly to an increase in layoffs by the government-run automobile industry, while the number of people continuing to receive unemployment benefits set a record for the 15th straight week.
Labor Department said the number of new claims, unemployment claims, rose to a seasonally adjusted 637,000 from a revised 605,000 the previous week.
The analyst expectations were 610,000.
In another sign of labor market weakness, the tally of people continuing to get benefits increased to 6.5 million, setting a record for the 15th straight week and worse than analysts expected.
Why are you laughing, right?
Well, I don't know.
I mean, sometimes you just have to.
I mean, it stimulus is working great, isn't it?
Unemployment keeps rising.
There's no end inside the folks.
I have to tell you, I'm going to reiterate something that I said yesterday from the bottom of my heart.
There are two groups of people in this country.
There's a group of people that have quote-unquote made it who are the targets of Obama.
But the people who haven't yet made it, who are striving to, they're also, you are also the targets.
It is going to, with all of this debt being piled up and this expansion of government, it is just the tax increases that are ahead for all of us is just going to make it impossible for people to, well, it's going to make it just so much more improbable and difficult for people to realize the American dream.
It's just, it's just a crying shame.
And the very people that voted for Obama on the basis that he was going to elevate them are the very people who are going to get screwed by all of this.
So here's unemployment sky high, unemployment benefits, sky high, a record.
Automobile, not trying.
By the way, how about this?
We're going to eliminate 3,000 dealers.
We're going to cut our advertising budget in half.
We're going to thus make our cars invisible.
And we're going to make our cars hard to find.
And in the process, we're going to revive these companies.
That's the new government plan for Chrysler, and it's probably going to be the same for General Motors.
Eliminate 3,000 dealers.
Do you know how the average number of employees in a dealer is 50?
So that's 150,000 or a million.
150,000.
Further jobs that are going to be lost.
Get rid of the advertising budget.
That's going to have a negative impact to the private sector.
So you eliminate 3,000 dealers, which means it'll be harder for people to find the car.
You cut the advertising budget in half, which means a lot less people are going to know what the car is.
So if you don't know what the car is, you don't know where to go get the car.
How are you going to buy one?
But this is what you get when you've got a bunch of bureaucrats trying to revive the automobile industry.
The news coming out of Washington is disgusting.
The news yesterday that we are going to control the salaries of banks, bank executives, CEOs, and employees who had no TARP money taken.
I just, you know, Hugo Chavez doesn't have the cojones to try what Obama is trying without legislation.
Every day, every day brings more and more creeping socialism.
And he's trying to ram it through as quickly as possible, succeeding too, before there's a serious revolution to it all.
Speeches promise the moon, and they're just an extension of the campaign.
He convenes roundtables on health care, solves the problem in two days, solves car company problems in two days, solves the banking problem in two days, solves a mortgage problem in two days.
Next, he's going to fix the environment in two days.
You know, you could have said, ladies and gentlemen, prior to the imaculation of Obama that we were drifting, that we were a country drifting to the left, but we're not.
The country is now a high-speed freight train.
The media is carrying the coal for the engine of the high-speed freight train.
You have God being denied.
Values are disappearing.
And none of this is going to change until the electorate says enough is enough.
But the media refuses to give the electorate the truth about what's happening.
Just a bunch of BS still blaming Bush for everything.
But we keep plugging away.
I just marvel at this way to fix cars.
Get rid of the dealers.
Stop advertising.
General Motors is going to close down for six or seven weeks.
That's going to add to some unemployment figures, by the way, but then they're going to hire them back after six or seven weeks.
And when that hire them back number gets in, we'll be able to tout new jobs.
Oh, look at Obama's creating jobs.
Will there just be temporary layoffs coming back?
General Motors, somebody there has had the audacity to say, you know what, we're going to import some cars that we make in China.
And the union is going baddie.
And of course, Washington's going baddie because this plan has not been approved by Steve Ratner and the car task force, the Auto Czar and his task force.
General Motors has long had a policy that you build and sell a car in the same company, our country.
But I think General Motors here is a little shot across the ball.
Look, we're going to start importing these cars from China.
I mean, the only way we can sell them at a competitive price because the labor there is cheaper than here.
And then the union's going to go baddie and go nuts.
You ever noticed everywhere you look everywhere you look in our society, in our country, where there is an industry in major trouble, you'll find a union.
In the public sector, whenever there's trouble, you will find a union.
The Heritage Foundation today, great piece.
Last week, the Department of Labor reported employers shed this now last week's numbers.
A net 593,000 jobs in the first three months of 2009, bringing the unemployment rate to 8.9%.
Manufacturing sector lost 149,000 jobs.
Business services lost 122,000 jobs.
Construction lost 110,000 jobs.
All told, the private sector lost 611,000 jobs.
So how was the total job loss only 539,000 if the private sector lost 611,000?
That's because one sector of the economy has proven impervious to economic realities, the public sector.
Government actually added 72,000 jobs so far this year at an average salary, annual salary of 75 grand a year.
The continued growth of the public sector while all other sectors of the economy contract is no accident.
Government employee unions are a driving force in making sure that large chunks of Obama's stimulus package went to states and cities to preserve jobs.
We talked about this in detail yesterday.
Most of the stimulus money is going to states to preserve and hire state workers.
When you talk about the entire labor movement today, you're really talking about government employees.
Less than 8% of the private sector workforce belongs to a union.
Contrast that with 37% of all government employees carrying union cards and 42% of all local government employees carrying union cards.
Make no mistake, collecting union dues from public sector employees, salaries paid by us, taxpayers, that's big business.
The Service Employees International Union, SEIU, collects nearly $5 million a month from just 223,000 health care workers.
And when the SEIU is not blatantly stealing this money, they're turning it into efforts to elect politicians who promise to endlessly grow the public sector.
Andy Stern, the president of the SEIU, recently told the Las Vegas Sun, we spent a fortune to elect Obama.
$60.7 million, to be exact, and we are proud of it.
And they are being paid back.
So wherever you look, wherever you look where there are problems, public or private sector, you're going to find a union or a series of unions being involved somewhere.
Reading, Ohio, a sexy mannequin, will be allowed to keep her spot outside a Cincinnati area barbecue joint.
Local officials want her to cover up a bit more, though.
Life-sized figure stands as a busty beacon outside a restaurant in Redding owned by Kenny Tessel.
Kenny Tessel told zoning officials at a hearing that the advertising gimmick has boosted business 40%.
He's wearing clothes.
He's wearing a Daisy May kind of bikini.
But his business is up 40% outside his barbecue restaurant just because of the mannequin.
Maybe they ought to try this at Chrysler dealerships rather than closing the dealerships.
Just put a bunch of mannequins out there or go ahead and get some Hooters girls and do it for real.
How about that stimulus, folks?
$11 trillion is the grand total.
Try this paragraph from AP.
The federal government's committed trillions of dollars to domestic bailouts and propping up the recessionary economy, much of it borrowed, much created out of thin air printed by the Federal Reserve.
How much longer can this go on?
That's the pressing question facing policymakers and one without a question.
Now you ask?
The time to ask this is before we do it.
How long can it go?
It can go on as long as Obama wants it to go on, AP.
Nobody to stop him.
Dave in Oklahoma is a trucker out there.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
We lost him.
Jeff in Minneapolis, you're next in the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thank you.
You know, I'm just a truck driver, too, and I've got an observation.
This photo deal was done by a three-debt judge panel or three-debt panel on the circuit court.
Isn't there nine on there?
And if Obama was really serious about this, he could appeal to the whole panel.
Yeah, you could ask for an in, you could ask for an it was called in bunk, and you could ask for the entire panel to review it.
And they may, but they're going to file an appeal.
Well, maybe they're not going to ask.
I don't know.
I'm going to have to check with my legal buddies to find out exactly what legal procedure they're going to do.
All I know is the Justice Department is going to appeal it.
But the point is not which court hears it next.
The point is, no court needs to hear it next.
Obama could prevent the release of these photos with an executive order.
And in fact, somewhere up on Capitol Hill today, I just, I got a brief glance of this earlier in the program, and they were interviewing Lieberman.
So, and the crawl at the bottom of the screen, the Chiron graphic said that an amendment has been proposed to keep these photos from ever being released.
So, somebody somewhere in Congress, in the House of the Senate, is very much up to speed on the possibility that these things could eventually come out.
And they propose an amendment to keep it.
None of this is necessary.
Obama could keep those photos under lock and key with an executive order.
And he didn't do that.
So, you know, you get to ask for the whole nine or 12 judge panel in the Second Circuit to hear it, but no court needs to hear it.
I got the trucker back from Oklahoma.
Dave, thanks for calling and thanks for waving.
Welcome to the program.
A pleasure to talk to you.
With Nancy Pelosi in her little speech this morning, she said that she wants the records release.
Well, I think she's banking on that she doesn't want those records released because of national security.
And if President Obama does release those records, I think he's going to have a tough time passing any of his agendas for the rest of this year.
Your opinion.
Well, the records will get released.
CIA will take care of that.
Okay.
But I just.
You'll read about it in the newspaper.
You'll see about it on Chris Matthews at night.
You'll see it on MSNBC or the New York Times, Washington Post.
The records will get released one way or the other.
Maybe not officially.
Okay.
Okay.
Then she shouldn't have nothing to worry about then, shouldn't she?
She has everything in the world to worry about.
That's why the records are going to get released.
If she's telling the truth, the records would.
Look at, again, she's fighting for her career.
That's what this is about.
She knows full well that she's fighting for her career.
And so she's going up.
She's okay, boys, big time here.
You want to come after me if you find?
Go ahead.
And she's out there saying they lied.
CIA misled Congress, misled me, just like Bush misled me.
Bush misled me on weapons of mass destruction.
Bush misled all of us.
Remember that line?
Well, they got all the congressional briefings on weapons of mass destruction, too.
Bush didn't get anything more than they got, especially the select committees on intelligence in the House and the Senate.
Anyway, thanks for the concall.
Phone call, Barack Obama, Arizona State University, slammed the individual in his commencement remarks.
You'll hear the audio sound bites coming up.
You ask, and I get the answer.
We had a caller who wanted to know, couldn't Obama, the DOJ, ask for the Second Circuit to have the whole panel hear the appeal.
That would be in bunk.
The ruling of the three-judge panel was on September 22nd, last year.
The Bush Department of Justice did seek an in-bunk review of the Second Circuit.
That was denied.
They denied that application March 12th of this year.
So the Bush administration did appeal.
That was when on March 12th, shortly after that, that's when the Obama holder Department of Justice decided not to appeal after the in bunk hearing.
So now the DOJ, they're probably out of time to ask the Second Circuit to reconsider since it's already been two months since the Second Circuit denied reconsideration.
And, you know, Gibbs said yesterday the new argument Obama supposedly thought up was actually already presented to the Second Circuit and rejected.
Gibbs said that yesterday in his press briefing.
So now they have to go to the Supreme Court and they have to do that within 90 days of March 12th, which means they have to do that by early June.
President Obama was at Arizona State University, Tempe, and delivered the commencement address.
We have four sound bites here, and here is number one.
It may be tempting to fall back on the formulas for success that have been peddled so frequently in recent years.
You're taught to chase after all the usual brass rings.
You chase after the big money and you figure out how big your corner office is.
You worry about whether you have a fancy enough title or a fancy enough car.
That's the message that's sent each and every day, or has been in our culture for far too long.
That through material possessions, through a ruthless competition pursued only on your own behalf, that's how you will measure success.
Here he is taking dead aim at the concept of self-interest and rugged individualism because that's selfish.
And his wife, his wife, I saw her, Michelle, was she making her tours of this tour of the government agencies.
And she said, it was yesterday or the day before, essentially the same thing.
Well, you know, I had this great job, the corner office, and they gave me more money than I ever thought I would make.
I was a corporate lawyer.
And one day I said, why am I working for this big corporation?
Where is the meaning in my life?
There wasn't any meaning.
It just wasn't me.
Then she ended up getting $300,000 and a no-show job at a hospital when her husband got elected to the Illinois Senate.
So here's Obama out there, I mean, a dead tear, telling graduates that pursuing wealth and pursuing success is the old formula and it isn't going to be tolerated.
Don't do that anymore.
Meanwhile, one of his lead supporters, the Oprah, was at Duke University over the weekend bragging about all the houses that she owns, bragging about her private jet, talking about how important it was to her to have a private jet and how cool it was to have a jet and how cool it was to have all these houses.
The Oprah sending the exact opposite message of the Messiah.
Here's the second sound bite from Obama.
I want to highlight two main problems with that old, tired, me-first approach to life.
First of all, it distracts you from what's truly important.
And it may lead you to compromise your values and your principles and your commitments.
It was in pursuit of gaudy short-term profits and the bonuses that came with them that so many folks lost their way on Wall Street.
The trappings of success may be a byproduct of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.
Just ask Bernie Madoff.
Now, that infuriates me because here's Bernie Madoff being compared with people who are legitimate successes, and he's challenging their motivations.
Obama is impugning the motivations of people who have become wealthy or who have enjoyed success.
They have followed their dreams too.
They're doing what they want to do.
They're following what their passions, where their passions take them.
So, if any, we got the question earlier today.
Do you think Obama's changing?
Is he really dropping some of his liberal?
No way.
Here he is.
This is what I spoke about at CPAC.
He's got an opportunity to really inspire a lot of people.
As a president of the United States, he can really inspire a lot of people and, in the process, really propel this nation forward.
And he's throwing cold water on this nation and on these graduates.
And he's telling them the old formulas of the past, which made this the greatest nation in the history of humanity.
Are tired and worn out.
He shows up and literally depresses these students.
Now, listen to this next one: a relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency.
In recent years, in many ways, we've become enamored with our own past success, lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements.
We become accustomed to the title of military superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there.
Not just the power of our weapons, but the discipline and valor and the code of conduct of our men and women in uniform.
Good lord.
We become accustomed to our economic dominance in the world, forgetting that it wasn't reckless deals and get-rich quick schemes that got us where we are, but hard work and smart ideas, quality products, and wise investments.
This is just infuriating.
This man, he is no longer going overseas to apologize.
He is ripping and criticizing his own country.
I don't believe him when he says he didn't hear what Reverend Wright said in the church.
He says he never heard that stuff from River.
He has to have heard it because this is right out of Reverend Wright's beliefs.
This is outrageous to have this kind of commencement speech from the president of the United States, lulled into complacency by the glitter.
Meanwhile, here's a guy that's written two books, tries to get as rich as he can.
His wife wants to get as much money as they can get.
They have a house that was purchased via a shady deal with a conniving real estate guy named Tony Resco.
I don't see them denying them.
They're eating $100 Kobe beef in the White House, throwing parties for people.
They spent $2,000 on a dog.
The dog named Bo, they tell what the dog cost them.
Now, I don't begrudge them any of this, but when he's going to start saying it's okay for me to do this, but it's not for you or any of the rest of us, then that's going to get my dander up.
And this little stuff in here about the military, we became accustomed to the title of military superpower, forgetting the qualities that got us there, not just the power of our weapons, but the discipline and valor and code of conduct of our men and women.
What the hell does that mean?
I'll tell you what it means.
It means he believes that we torture.
He believes that we rape and murder.
He believes all that stuff that was said about the Marines at Haditha in Iraq.
That's his view of the United States military.
That it is the most powerful, but it's filled with reprobates.
Somehow, in some distant past, America was great.
Everybody in business was honest.
Everybody that was successful and wealthy was honest.
But at some point, all that changed.
The military became corrupted.
Everybody who's wealthy in every corporation, every individual that achieved and had success somehow is corrupted.
Is that what the graduates at Arizona State University wanted to hear?
That America sucks.
You've just spent four or five years, whatever number of years they've spent there.
They sure as hell did not go to college to join a homeless shelter.
They did not go to college to flip hamburgers.
They didn't go to college to sit around and not use their educations.
Is that what they want to hear that America sucks from the President of the United States?
They want to hear that they will not graduate and join a world of American exceptionalism.
That America isn't exceptional anymore and they shouldn't try to make it that way.
Is that what the parents who came up with the money somehow, some way to get their kids into Arizona State?
Is that what the parents wanted to hear?
To do what Barack Obama wants you to do, you don't need to waste a year in college.
You don't need to waste a day or a dime.
Here's the last bite.
Did you study business?
Why not help a struggling non-for-profit find better, more effective ways to serve folks in need?
You study nursing?
Understaffed clinics and hospitals across this country are desperate for your help.
You study education.
Teach in a high-need school.
Give a chance to kids who can't get everything they need, maybe, in their neighborhood, maybe not even in their home, but we can't afford to give up on them.
Prepare them to compete for any job anywhere in the world.
You study engineering?
Help us lead a green revolution, developing new sources of clean energy that will power our economy and preserve our planet.
Find somebody to be successful for.
Raise their hopes.
Rise to their needs.
And let me sum this sound right up.
Obama's final message to him, the big finale, anti-individual.
Don't live for yourself.
Don't pursue your own self-interest.
Live for others.
Work for the needs of others.
What Obama doesn't understand is that individuals working in their own self-interest exactly are doing what he prescribes.
Working in your own self-interest is working for others.
It is trying to improve others.
The public schools are a mess.
We have enough teachers.
It's not that people don't care.
It's the curriculum.
It's the fact that kids are being indoctrinated and brainwashed.
This is a great lesson here, folks, in who Barack Obama really is and what his vision of this country really is.
Did you study business?
Why not help a struggling not-for-profit find better, more effective ways to help people?
Not-for-profit.
Does that mean that every for-profit business screws somebody?
Every for-profit business does not help somebody?
Only non-profits are helping people.
By definition, how does a non-profit operate?
A non-profit begs for money from other people.
A non-profit lives on donations.
And the people that run nonprofits have to siphon some of the donations that they collect as their salaries.
That somehow is preferable to going out and producing something and expanding the economic pie.
Yeah, go to a non-profit.
Ask somebody else for money.
Get credit for caring.
Get credit for not being concerned with profit.
I never met anybody that a nonprofit didn't care about money.
People at nonprofits care as much about money as anybody else does, except they don't work for it.
They beg for it.
They feed off of others.
They're like the U.S. government, except they can't print their money.
They're bloodsuckers.
Some of them do good work, but if it weren't for the prosperity of others, there wouldn't be any money to give to them.
And that's my point.
Some of them are bloodsuckers.
Some of these nonprofits are phony, baloney, plastic.
We had a good time rock and roller organizations fueled exist to advance liberalism, and that's why he cares about them.
Charitable nonprofits, fine and dandy, wonderful.
But I'm going to tell you, you cannot have a nonprofit without having a whole bunch of people making profit so that they have some money to give to the nonprofit.
The nonprofits cannot exist without a growing, burgeoning.
In fact, if you want to know the truth, ask all the people, all the nonprofits that depended on Bernie Madoff.
Ask them how many of them have gone dark.
And it's way too many of them.
Way too many charities have been wiped out because they lost their funding.
If I had a kid, and if he does this at Notre Dame, if I had a kid that went to Arizona State University and I'd paid whatever it cost to get that kid to, and I had the President of the United States come in and tell my kid the country sucks, American exceptionalism is over, and don't strive for success, I would want my money back.
Stop and think of it this way: you just heard four sound bites from Obama commencement speech at Arizona State.
America sucks.
American exceptionalism is over.
The American military is immoral.
And you shouldn't strive anything toward anything that involves improving yourself.
You should work for the success of others.
And this is the guy that we think is going to revive the U.S. automobile industry.
I mean, if we're going to put people like this in charge of the U.S. automobile industry and the banking business and the housing business, we may as well go get the Grand Kliegel of the Ku Klux Klan and make him in charge of the United Negro College Fund.
I mean, this is just not going to work.
And this bite where he sits here and says the trappings of success may be a byproduct of this larger mission, but they can't be the central thing.
Just ask Bernie Madoff.
How about asking your buddy Warren Buffett?
How about asking your buddy George Soros?
I don't see them running nonprofits.
How about Bill Gates?
How about Tim Geithner?
How about Oprah Winfrey?
Oh, yeah, they may give a lot to charity, but their line of work is not running nonprofits.
They support nonprofits.
Nonprofits can't exist without people like this.
And I was in a relatively good mood till I heard those sound bites.
Curtis in Springdale, Arkansas.
Hi.
Hello, Rush.
It's an honor.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I'd like to lead up to my question, if that's okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
You would agree that the reason the Republicans lost the presidential and congressional elections were the economy in Iraq, right?
For the most part?
Not entirely.
Okay.
Now, with all one party in both sides, both the presidential and congressional sides, you only have only one place to go is down.
You're at the top of the totem pole, right?
And I was going to ask that, you know, But this only being four months of all of one side right now.
You've got Pelosi lying, the releasing of the get-mode detainees without having a clue where you're going to be able to get it.
I know where you're headed with this, and we've got a little time constraint.
Critical mass, when is all this just going to implode on them and cause people to see the light?
How long do you think it'll take only after this four months?
I don't know.
I'll tell you something.
We never got to critical mass with FDR.
I know a lot of people think we're going to get to critical mass.
A lot of people think at some point unemployment stays high and so forth and so on, that some point people are going to wake up.
I hope that's true.
I have no idea when it's going to happen.
I'm not even sure if.
We never got to critical mass with FDR throughout the Great Depression.
And we got FDR2 here, gang.
And he's even more popular and beloved than FDR was.
Fast is three hours in media.
And we've only got one more to go.
A brief time out here at the top will come back and keep rolling.
What is wrong with you, Dawn?
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