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Sept. 18, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 18, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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That's Vladimir Putin with the official reaction from Russia on Obama canceling the missile shield.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
Open Ride Friday.
Do we go to the forms?
The program's all yours.
You can talk about whatever you want.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, Elrushbo at EIBNet.com.
You know, you're talking about Obama's village, the Obama family village, which Obama is ignoring.
They're begging the guy for money.
And rather than help the family, Obama is trying to train them to get money from a government somehow.
He sends them to a State Department agency, U.S.AID Agency for International Development.
He's organizing, teaching them how to organize over there.
So I dug back.
There's a story in the U.K. Evening Standard, July of 2008, Barack Obama's broken promise to African Village.
I remember we had this story.
It is an extraordinary sight to walk into a basic two-room house under a mango tree in rural East Africa and discover what is essentially a shrine to Barack Obama.
The small brick house with no running water, a tin roof, and roving chickens, goats, and cows is owned by Sarah Obama, Barack's 86-year-old step-grandmother, inside the walls, decorated with a 2008 Obama election sticker, an old Obama for Senate poster on which he has written, Mama Sarah, Habai, how are you?
A 2005 calendar that says the Kenyan Wonder Boy in the U.S., and more than a dozen family Obama photos.
But this bucolic scene in his father's village of Cogelo, near the equator in western Kenya, conceals a troubling reality that until now has never been spoken about.
Barack Obama, the Evening Standard can reveal, after we went to the village early this month, has failed to honor the pledges of assistance he made to a school named in his honor when he visited here amid great fanfare two years ago.
He reneged on his promise to help them build a school in his honor.
Now, the great-grandmother here, the step-grandmother, Sarah, that's the one who just had the water line and the electricity line run to her house.
Compound, the Thatch Hut Compound.
Not making any of this up.
Now, I have, there are pictures.
We got three or four pictures.
I just sent them up to Coco.
He's going to put them on the website.
Photos of the Obama school.
Now, there aren't actually any photos of the school building itself.
It may not actually exist since he reneged on it.
What we have here are pictures of signs.
Senator Obama Cogello School with an arrow pointing in the direction you have to go to find it.
This is hilarious.
So we're going to put the pictures up there, and you will be able to see them at rushlinbaugh.com.
Here is our Blowchorch affiliate in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Yesterday, WPTF Radio, the Bill of May Show, he's talking to Tom Jensen, the director of public policy polling communications.
And he says, how important are your polls to a political party, whether Republican or Democrat?
They look at this and go, holy cow, they recognize the trouble they're in, don't they?
Absolutely.
We've had campaign managers for Democratic candidates in other states call us up and ask us not to poll their states because they don't want the public to know how bad their status is.
So we know we're in big trouble.
This is the Democrat Director of Public Policy Polling.
I had the story earlier.
We were working on the video.
This is the video.
Now, we all know that yesterday the House of Representatives in voting to eliminate all private sector student loans and turn that into a totally government-run program.
We were also told that they slipped, the Daryl Issa slipped in a bill there that would defund Acorn and that the House overwhelmingly voted for that.
Representative Virginia Fox, also on WPTF Radio, the Bill LeMay show, asked her a question.
Do we at some point defund them entirely where both the Senate and the House come together and say no more federal tax dollars?
They'll let something like this slide because they know this bill has passed the House.
It will go to the Senate.
The Senate will modify the bill and then it will have to go to conference.
And what they do is they just drop that out when they debate the compromise and they'll just drop it out at that point and you can't amend the conference report.
So the rules are that you have an up or down vote on the conference report and you can't amend anything.
So they play this trick all the time.
They'll vote on something controversial and say, that's no problem.
We vote on it.
And then when they get behind closed doors in conference, they just pull it out.
So that's the trick, which they knew they're going to pull it out in the Senate in the conference report.
I'll let it go in there and let the country think that they've defunded Acorn when they haven't.
And that's Virginia Fox, a congresswoman, explaining how it's done.
Headline, CBS News, Michelle Obama, health care is a women's issue.
First Lady Michelle Obama made a case this morning that health care reform is a women's issue.
She called on female activists to support Obama's reform plan.
You mean they're not already on board?
What does she have to call on female activists to get involved?
We have audio soundbites.
This is at the White House, Michelle Obama speaking to a group of women.
Here's the first soundbite.
These are the stories that remind us about what's at stake in this debate.
This is really all that matters.
This is why we are fighting so hard for health insurance form.
This is it.
This is the face of the fight.
And that's why I'd like to talk to you today.
That's why I'm here.
That's why reform is so critical in this country.
Not tomorrow, not in a few years, but right now.
People are hurting in this country right now.
Yeah, because of your husband.
People are hurting jobs.
42 states lost jobs last month, up from 29 states the month before.
We're approaching 10% unemployment.
The cash for clunkers program fizzled out.
People have quit looking for work.
People are really hurting out there while she takes a limousine one block to buy Tuscan kale at a Whole Foods Farmer type organic market yesterday.
Here is an emotional pitch using her own child.
I will never forget the time eight years ago when Sasha was four months that she would not stop crying.
And she was not a crier.
So we knew something was wrong.
So we fortunately were able to take her to our pediatrician that next morning.
He examined her and said something's wrong.
We didn't know what, but he told us that she could have meningitis.
So we were terrified.
He said, get to the emergency room right away.
I think about what on earth would we have done if we had not had insurance?
You didn't think.
What would have happened to that beautiful little girl if we hadn't been able to get to a pediatrician who was able to get us to an emergency room?
The consequences, I can't even imagine.
Well, you don't have to because they would have treated your daughter at the emergency room.
It's required by law.
I will guarantee you that's not the first thought she had.
She's been told that her daughter might have meningitis in her first.
Oh, thank God.
Thank God we have endured.
No.
Meningitis.
Oh, my God.
Get to the hospital.
That's all you think about.
Thank God we have insurance so the pediatrician can get us into the emergency room ain't gonna fly, Michelle.
It ain't gonna fly.
We're not Tom Brokaw or Dan Rather or Peter Jennings propping you up here.
We're not Brian Williams.
We're not Charlie Gibson.
We're not Katie Couric propping you up here.
You're not got away with this kind of stuff.
Here's the next sound.
This is where it's a woman's issue.
This is under her husband's plan, which there is no husband plan.
His husband, her husband did not have a plan.
Under her husband's plan, women will be blessed.
We all know that women earn 78 cents on the dollar to a man.
So it's not exactly surprising when we hear statistics that more than half of women report putting off needed medical care simply because they can't afford it.
It is very much a women's issue.
The status quo is unacceptable.
It is holding women and families back.
And we know it.
Fortunately, that is exactly what my husband's plan proposes to do.
If you already have insurance, and it seems that there are a lot of people who are worried that they'll lose what they have under this plan, but under this plan, if you already have insurance, you're set.
Nothing changes.
You keep your insurance, you keep your doctors, and you're blessed.
God, you're blessed.
In the first place, her husband doesn't have a plan.
In the second place, of the two plans which are out there, you will lose your private insurance.
That is their objective.
Is she on the verge of tears here or just acting like it?
Sterling, what you see this headline, there's an editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today.
Rush Limboy and his ilk should stay away from our children.
It's about the school bustle.
It's hilarious.
It is absolutely hilarious.
I'm surprised Cam Ox didn't call me today and asked me to comment on it.
Anyway, you got one more Michelle bite.
Health care reform is the next step in the movement that elected her husband.
Change is hard.
Sometimes the status quo, even if it isn't right, feels comfortable because it's what we know.
So it is understandable that people are cautious about moving into a new place in this society.
Look, I am here today standing before you as the first lady of the United States of America because you all didn't settle for the world as it is.
Health care reform is part of that movement.
Health insurance reform is the next step.
She's getting dangerously close to blowing their cover on this.
Health reform is the next step in the movement that elected her husband.
By the way, Michelle Obama made much more than 78 cents to a man's dollar at that cushy no-show job she had at the horse pistol, the hospital.
It was a patronage job.
Now, here's this.
This is hilarious.
This is absolutely Rush Limbaugh and his ilk should stay away from our children.
I need to stay away from kids.
Rush Limbaugh, the trash talker from Cape Girardo.
That's how they refer to me at this piece.
I got to take a break.
We'll come back.
Olympia Snow on CNBC says that she hasn't changed.
Her party has.
We've got lots still ahead plus your phone calls after this.
Paul McCartney coming up.
Wait till the St. Louis Post dispatch wait till they wait till I hear that I suggested Mike Knife on the new attorney general.
I'm not going to read the St. Louis Post Dispatch editorial to you because it's just a rehash of what Mark Potok said and everybody taking this whole thing out of context.
They even publish it in context and get it wrong.
They even publish it in context and didn't understand.
I don't think they heard it.
I think they read it.
This is outrageous.
Keep the trash talker from Cape Girardo away from our kids and his ilk.
What a day.
What a day.
Do you notice that Michelle Mybel was almost in tears in that speech in the White House?
Is that how you appeal to feminists?
Is you cry?
You know, Michelle, you did think that the first thought you had when you're told your daughter might have meningitis, oh, thank God we've got insurance.
Not thank God you've got insurance, Michelle.
Thank God you have doctors and nurses and technologies, medicines developed by our capitalist system to help your daughter.
That's what you need to be thankful of.
Instead, you and your husband running around trashing the very health care system that saved your daughter.
And it would help now and then, just once, maybe just once, if you and your husband could acknowledge that no one dies in the gutter in this nation, unlike other countries, if you could just acknowledge the decency of our healthcare system, you or your husband, just one of you, one time.
Michelle Obama and her husband want to take the very system that helped their daughter eight years ago and they want to trash it.
They want to destroy it.
And for what?
How long did it take you to get to the doctor, Michelle?
No time at all.
How long did it take you to get emergency care?
No time at all.
You're surrounded by the magnificence of our health care system.
You benefit from it and you don't even realize it.
And you and your husband are out there trashing it and saying that women will be blessed when Barack's plan, which he doesn't have, passes.
If our system is so awful, 80% of the people, 80% of the customers and patients wouldn't resist your husband now, would they?
If 80% of the American people were for your stupid plan, you wouldn't be having the problems you're having.
The American people don't want what your husband wants to bless us with, Michelle.
We don't want to be blessed because your definition of blessed actually means screwed.
And we don't want to be screwed.
And we don't want you and your husband screwing with a perfectly fine health care system.
And by the way, if healthcare, she said it, she said healthcare is a women's issue, then we ought to tax tampons.
I mean, that's how you say that.
I mean, if we're going to, if it's a women's issue, fine and dandy, okay?
Tax tampons.
Now, I have an update.
I kid you not, from the same UK Evening Standard story about the school that Obama reniggon promised to build a Renignon on the school.
Here is a passage from the Evening Standard story.
This is last year's 2008.
On those two voyages of personal discovery to Cogello, Obama learned that his grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, who lived 105 according to his gravestone, had been a respected elder and witch doctor.
Hang on a minute, folks.
I blow my nose here.
I know it's rude, but there's no way to do this without doing it.
Again, I read to you, on those two voyages, no, I used a Kleenex.
I did not blow my nose on my sleeve.
Well, no, I'm not following the stupid nanny state rules set forth by Kappaline Sebelius.
Yeah, that's only if you sneeze anyway.
Of course, what's the difference?
Yeah, blow your nose on your sleeve.
What's the sleeve for, dude?
New phrase from the Obama administration.
What's the sleeve for, dude?
Use it.
On those two voyages of personal discovery to Cogello, Obama learned that his grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, who lived to 105, had been a respected elder and witch doctor.
That's the UK Evening Standard.
So now we go to page 214 of Obama's book, Dreams from My Father, and he says here that his grandfather was not a witch doctor.
He was an herbalist.
He was always curious about other people's business, which is how he learned to be an herbalist.
You should know that an herbalist is different from a shaman, what the white man calls a witch doctor.
A shaman casts spells and speaks to the spirit world.
The herbalist knows various plants that will cure certain illnesses or wounds and how to pack a special mud so that a cut will heal.
As a boy, your grandfather sat in the hut of the herbalist in his village, watching and listening carefully while other boys played, and in this way he gained knowledge.
This is page 214, Dreams from My Father.
He wasn't a witch doctor.
I wanted to make sure we got that out there.
His grand was an herbalist.
A huge difference, folks.
Major, major distinction.
Well, the kinds of herbs here are not explained in the brief excerpt I have from Obama's book, Dreams from My Father, page 214.
It's just that he was always curious about other people's business.
He was nosy, which is how he learned to be an herbalist.
In fact, Obama writes of his grandfather, even from the time he was a boy, my grandfather Onyango was strange.
It is said of him that he had ants up his anus because he could not sit still.
Page 214.
Dreams from a...
It was an herbalist with ants up his anus.
Seems to me the answer to the answer to our healthcare problems is right there in Obama's book on page 214.
Just import herbalists and witch doctors and herbs.
Is marijuana an herb?
Or is it a marijuana?
It's a street name for it.
It's a street name for it.
It's an herb.
It's not really an herb, but they call it an herb.
Well, interesting.
Yeah, the herb, they call it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, cool.
Well, ants up his anus, I guess.
Got to be somewhere.
Everybody has to be somewhere, even ants.
I'm just sitting here thinking today, folks, of the gold mine that we have given to the left today, to the media matter sites, to all these stupid, tight-wide little tight-butt editorial boards at newspapers all over the country, these cable networks.
This show today has been a gold mine.
They are soaking.
They don't know what to use today.
They don't know what to take out of context today.
They probably have a week's worth of stuff.
At any rate, here's Olympia Snow.
She was on CNBC yesterday afternoon, closing Bell the name of the show.
She was on with John Harwood, who said to her, how important is your Republican identity to you as a legislator?
I've always been a Republican for the traditional principles that have been associated with the Republican Party since I became a Republican when I registered to vote.
And that is limited government, individual opportunities, fiscal responsibility, and a strong national defense.
So I think that those principles have always been a part of the Republican Party heritage.
And I believe that I reflect those views.
And I haven't changed as a Republican.
I think more that my party has changed.
This is just a giant disconnect here.
Did you hear how she defined the Republican Party?
She gave it a conservative definition, and she's not one.
Limited government, individual opportunities, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense.
Yes, give us.
That's Reaganism.
That's Reaganism.
And Olympia Snow no more believes in that stuff.
She is a liberal blue-blood country club Rockefeller Republican.
I'm believing in this stuff.
The party left her?
Be still my beating heart.
She has expanded beyond the scope of the party.
All right, people have been waiting.
Neil in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Great to have you, sir, the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, thanks for having me on, Rush.
Yes, sir.
Hey, listen, the White House is in a serious crisis.
And the problem is Ram Emmanuel can't figure out how to take advantage of this one.
Explain yourself, sir.
Which crisis are you referring to here?
Well, look at all the crises.
I think their main crisis is the Tea Party movement, and they're in a health care crisis.
He's got a bill, but he doesn't have a bill.
You know, they're running around like chickens with their heads cut off up there.
And I think what's happening, now they're pulling the race card.
I think Ron Emanuel is just having a hard time getting a handle on this crisis that the White House is in.
Well, I'm tempted to agree with you, but remember, they love the chaos.
Now, I'm sure they're not happy that they've got all these roadblocks on health care.
But look at, don't forget, while all that's going on, they just nationalized the mortgage industry.
90% of all mortgages in the country are now either paid for or approved by federal government.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mack.
In fact, I'm going to tell you a little story.
I met with an upcoming advertiser yesterday afternoon after the program, Larry Arne, Dr. Larry Arne from Hillsdale College.
I can't wait, by the way, to describe Hillsdale College for you and some of the conversation that we had yesterday.
I was mesmerized for an hour by Dr. Arne.
But he had some people with him.
And one of the women was from the Heritage Foundation.
And she said that she's buying a house somewhere here in Florida.
And it's a foreclosure house.
So she's getting the property for 30% of its value.
She still needs a mortgage.
And she was supposed to close yesterday, but now the close has been put off indefinitely because Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the government's involved in it.
That was a private sector loan, a private sector mortgage, but now Fannie Mae Freddie Mac are involved and is gumming up the works.
So they've nationalized two car companies.
They have nationalized a lot of the banking and Wall Street business.
They have nationalized the student loan industry.
That's all going to be to the point now where almost if they're not stopped, anytime you want money, loan, or whatever, you're going to have to go to some government agency or through one to get it.
So they're having trouble on healthcare, but they're going to get something.
They can't afford not to produce something that says health care on it, whatever it contains.
But whatever they get this year, it's not everything.
They're going to keep coming back and keep coming back and keep coming back.
That's why the 2010 elections are crucial.
Because right now they can't be stopped.
And it's yeah, I'm sure this is not what they planned on.
I'm sure they thought it would be smooth sailing.
I'm sure they thought they'd be able to create the cult-like following that propelled Obama during the campaign.
But look at when you have as your mission, and I'm dead serious about this, when you have as your mission to totally destroy the private sector and remake it and rebuild it and make the private sector dependent on government, you have to know you're going to create chaos.
You have to know you're going to create angst.
You have to know it and you have to want it because the chaos and the angst is part of the entire objective of taking the private sector, getting as much of it under the control of the federal government and Obama as possible.
So while they got chaos, don't think that they didn't expect it and don't think they don't know how to manage it.
It's part and parcel of what they're doing.
They're angling to get as much chaos and angst as they can.
They want as many people on some form of government dependence as they can get.
And to get the degree of that they desire, you've got to do a lot of damage to the private sector where people normally get their jobs.
That's why I think it's going to be a long time before there's a real uptick here.
That's just the way it is.
Joanna in Las Vegas, do you have a job?
Are you still working?
And the unemployment rate out there is very high.
No, actually, I've been, I was in a budget cut last Thanksgiving and haven't found anything since, and we're about approaching 14%.
Yeah.
But I wanted to let you know that my children have been raised on you.
My youngest is in college right now in sociology and political science, and she has to have a healthy dose of you to keep sane.
So, but my main reason for my call is Michelle Yorbel may not be able to go to her organic market sometime soon to get her goodies because the EPA is beginning a systematic review of anybody who has organic or natural products.
And regardless of your stand on how you feel about that kind of thing, that's going to put tens of thousands of people out of business because they're not going to be able to defend their labels.
What's going to be is they're going to review them and they've basically been given the option of surrender your certificate or be prepared to defend your claims on your labels and it's going to cost you anywhere between $300 to half a million dollars per label to do it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
This has escaped me.
That'll be Xcaped me for those of you in Riolinda.
The EPA, or the FDA, which did you say?
The EPA is, I have a friend in Florida who has a product, and he was notified yesterday by the EPA that he has until the first of the year to produce all of his documentation.
To prove that his stuff really is organic and that it's not poisonous and all sorts of things.
Now, he has painstakingly done this over the last six years, spent tens of thousands of dollars doing it with blind and double-blinded studies through universities all over the United States.
He's had to be certified in all the states.
He's exporting to 11 countries.
He on literally a shoestring, and he's a gentleman rancher up in the panhandle.
He does everything very low-tech.
And last year at this time, he had made a million dollars with 92% profit for literally doing everything almost by hand.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
And the profit is bad.
He made a 92% prosperity.
Okay.
Well, this year, after a heart attack last October and almost three months in the hospital, this year with the recession, it's 800 right now.
But the point being is that he's being told that he's going to have to come up with anywhere from $300 to $1.5 million per every one of his six or seven labels by the first of the year to begin to defend what has already been approved by the FDA and the EPA.
He has material dating safety sheets that say no known hazard on all of his product lines, and the purity standard that he was given was 88%, and his has always been above 92%.
Well, doesn't this all come down to the seminal question: is manure a poison or not?
Well, the thing is, is it.
Because that's what organic means.
If you go get an organic egg, that just means it's been in the barnyard.
No pesticides, manure, the fertilizer.
They don't use, this is like carbon offsets.
This whole thing, people, I wouldn't say it's a scam, but it's, I'm not trying to insult your friend, but here are these people who think they're doing something really good and really healthy.
Here comes the EPA, and it sounds like from your story, they're going to veritably shut down over half the people who operate in the business.
Right.
Well, actually, there's actually a larger situation.
It's called the Codex Elementarius.
It was organized through the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1963.
And it has pursued itself over time to include 163 countries, including the United States.
And what they're doing, what it's talking about, the controversy about the Codex, is basically on the surface, the Codex Elementarius sounds like a measure to protect the public to ensure food and safety around the globe.
However, a growing number of health advocacy groups are claiming that the Codex is not about safety or protection, but rather about eliminating competition of the pharmaceutical and chemical companies.
Exactly.
And depleting wealthy countries of their money.
It's a tax grab.
Anytime the UN's involved in anything, this is what this is.
I'm just surprised they're going after one of the favorite industries of the radical left.
Organic stuff.
I know there's money there, but I guess the radical left ought to be targets.
Okay.
Everybody else is being gunned for.
You guys, too.
Peter, give over half of what you earned to these groups of people.
Look, I got to run.
Joanna, thanks to the call.
We'll be back, and we will continue right on after this.
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Obamacare death panel.
A broadcast engineer, Mr. Mamon, has, during the break, accused President Obama of plagiarism.
That would be of the godfather of Seoul, James Brown, writing in page 214 of his book, Dreams of My Father, writing of his herbalist grandfather.
He said he had ants in his anus.
It was said he had ants in his zenith because so jittery all the time.
And the broadcast engineer thinks the plagiarism comes from.
I think that's enough for us to enough evidence here.
We will see, ladies and gentlemen, there'll be further developments on this.
I have to look at one of the people I met with yesterday talks about the Heritage Foundation.
Obama announced yesterday that we were abandoning a promise to allies in the Czech Republic and Poland to provide a missile defense.
And it made me think of the Heritage Foundation because they've been so far out in front of this.
Earlier this year, they produced a movie called 33 Minutes.
That's the amount of time it would take for a ballistic missile to reach America from Iran.
And they made it available to all of their members at askheritage.org.
Now, the researchers paid attention to what Obama said during his campaign, that he'd likely discontinue our nation's previous commitments to protect ourselves and our allies from the very aggressive missile program growth in Iran.
And this is not the first time that Obama has denigrated our nation's missile defense.
In July, he cut back the number of planned deployment of missile interceptors from 44 to 30.
And now he announces this reversal despite what our own intelligence has to say, along with the allies in Germany, England, and France.
Now, when you are a member of the Heritage Foundation, you know about these things because their researchers are so far ahead of everybody in this.
If you haven't seen 33 Minutes yet, I mean, it's chilling.
Go online to askheritage.org and see the trailer for yourself.
You're a member and you can see the whole thing.
www.askheritage.org.
Karen in Wakanda, Illinois.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi.
It's so great to talk to you.
You look smoking hot.
Congratulations on the weight loss.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
You're very welcome.
One of the things I'd like to hear would be more of Mr. Snerdley's commentary from the hood.
Oh, the official Obama criticizer.
Yes.
Well, you know what?
I'm glad you reminded me that I'll get Mr. Snerdley on that.
We'll do an official Obama criticizer segment on Monday because there's going to be a lot to criticize.
He's on all five Sunday shows.
That's fantastic.
Well, he's a very talented man, and I'd really even like to hear it be a regular segment.
Do you know, Snerdley?
No, I don't.
I promise.
I just think it's fantastic.
I love hearing it.
I think he's very talented.
Yeah.
All right, I do too.
There's no question about it.
Thanks, Karen.
You're welcome.
Folks, how many talk shows do you listen to?
If you do listen to any others, where you have callers praising the talent of the screener?
Ladies and gentlemen, the Time magazine editor who asked on the cover of Time magazine, is God dead?
is dead.
John T. Elson, the editor who asked, Is God dead at Time magazine, has assumed room temperature himself at age 78.
He was the religion editor at Time Magazine, and he did make a big splash asking if God was dead.
John T. Ellison, R.I.P., himself, kicked the bucket.
You have a wonderful weekend here, folks.
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