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Nov. 23, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 23, 2009, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
That may be, folks, that may be the most expensive prostitute in the history of prostitution.
And she bragging about it.
Mary Landrew, bragging about $300 million payoff from Dingy Harry to get her vote on this healthcare scam on Saturday night greetings.
Great to have you with us.
It's Thanksgiving week.
And the first wave of the Limbaugh clan begin arriving this afternoon.
Always look forward to this week.
I look forward to this time of year, every year at uh one of my favorite times of the year.
Hello, folks, 800-282-2882.
If uh you want to be on the program, the email address, L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Let me ask you a uh a question.
How many how many votes did Roland Burris get for his Senate seat?
Uh how many how many votes did the uh Senator from Colorado, Democrat Senator from Colorado get uh for his seat?
Zero.
They were both appointed.
The Senator from Colorado, I don't even remember his name right now, said over the weekend, he would gladly lose his seat to pass health care.
I told you people this.
I told you that Democrats are gonna thin the herd.
They are gladly willing to lose members.
We've got a bunch of people.
No, Ben Nelson's from Nebraska.
Everybody's stepping on.
I've said Colorado.
Um everybody's uh uh you know talking about this, oh no, it's a horrible thing that happened on Senator.
Folks, it was a fate accomplished.
Nobody was gonna vote to not do debate.
I mean, even Lieberman voted for this, and he's not gonna vote for the final bill.
Now, when you hear a Democrat go on television and solemnly pronounce, as Senator Ben Nelson did, no health care if no change in public option and abortion funding, or Mary Landrew.
Uh I will not vote for this as it is written.
They are not espousing core beliefs.
They are simply opening bids.
They are simply making opening bids to Harry Reed.
Okay, that because Mary Lander has now shown that she can get paid off.
Other people are going to have their price.
So when they come along and say, I'm not gonna sign this thing as it's written, why I'm not gonna put their uh my signature on this and vote for it if there's a public option in there.
I'm not gonna vote for this if there's abortion funding.
That's just B.S. That's a signal to Harry Reed.
That's just their opening bid.
What will you give me to vote for this thing?
How much will you give me to change my mind?
Who will write the escape statement?
I voted against it before I voted for it.
Uh this is classic what's going on here.
Uh and it's it's right out in the open for everybody to see.
Let's let's see who who who uh who voted for this?
Robert Byrd from a stretcher, practically.
Tim Johnson, who were never even allowed to hear talk because he hasn't recovered from his stroke.
That Stooge senator who replaced Ted Kennedy.
How many votes did he get?
Zero.
The senator who replaced Ted Stevens.
Al Franken.
And that moral paragon, of course, uh Roland W. Burris, and the guy from Colorado.
Look at these.
Who?
Michael Bennett, that's right.
Michael Bennett of Colorado.
That's the Democrat who was appointed to replace Ken Salazar.
A lot of no votes.
A lot of no votes, guys, and here they are voting on something like this, and they're going to be voting on it again when and if that vote ever takes place.
Uh support for health care has now fallen to a new low in the Rasmussen report survey.
38% of voters now favor the uh health care plan proposed by Obama and Congressional Democrats.
That's the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.
It doesn't matter because the people in Washington are oblivious.
The Democrats could not care less what you or anybody else thinks about any agenda item they have.
They have been dreaming of this their whole lives.
They are on the verge in their minds of their own personal utopia, and that is the destruction of capitalism and the United States as we have known it.
Now we the uh cap and trade bill is just another Example of that, as is as are all the agenda items.
But I'll tell you this, these emails that we told you about last week from that group in r in in in Great Britain that formed the basis for the uh UN's climate change uh panel and their recommendations, those emails apparently now are the real deal, and they may not have been leaked, well, leaked, they may be from an a whistleblower inside the organization who um is is is just unhappy about what's going on.
Now, the the bottom line is the whole global warm man-made global warming movement is a fraud.
It is a hoax, it's made up lies.
I have known this since the beginning of the movement.
I'm the one who said militant environmentalism is the home of displaced communists after the after the Berlin Wall came down.
Now scientists can't rely on common sense.
So the uh the anti-global warmers have to go out there and get their own science to counter counter the science that the uh the pro-global warming crowd is using, and they're making it up.
I I instinctively know this for two reasons.
And one I I've explained in great detail, I'm not gonna do it again because of time constraints.
I believe in God.
As such, I don't believe that progress in human beings God created destroys the planet.
And that's what they are asking us to believe and have been asking us to believe for, well, I first heard about this movement in 1979.
Then it was global cooling that was going to kill us.
By 1984, it had become global warming.
And basically what they're saying is advanced lifestyles, increased standards of living, progress is killing the planet.
No.
That premise is something I have rejected from the get-go.
I don't think we have the ability to.
But this is not science.
I'm not a scientist.
I'm just a guy imbued with an above average abundance of common sense.
I I've never been able to be convinced that driving automobiles will destroy our planet or our climate.
When there are volcanoes that are far more pollutant-oriented than our automobiles are, and they've been going off since the beginning of time, and we're still here.
But I don't want to go through this whole lecture that I've done many times before.
I want to focus on the fraud and the hoax that has been perpetrated, led by Al Gore, everything that they have they have been making up data, they have been jiggling the numbers when conflicting data was uh discovered that didn't fit what their agenda item was, they ignored it.
They hate these emails indicate that they despise and are obsessed with the their critics, and they set out to have to destroy them.
It's just liberalism.
You know, liberals are liberals wherever you find them in the global warming movement, in the health care movement, in the U.S. Congress, in the White House, wherever they are.
Liberalism is a lie from top to bottom.
Well, liberalism must lie, because if it if it were honest, if if liberals were honest about what they were going to do, for example, if Barack Obama said during the presidential campaign, my plan is to fundamentally change the way this nation works.
The capitalist system has been unfair, it's left too many people disadvantaged, too many people poor, and too many people rich.
What I am going to do is destroy it.
And I'm going to make sure that there aren't any more really rich people.
We're going to take everything that they've got and distribute it to other people, and we're going to make the government larger and larger and larger in order to do this to ensure the new fairness that I'm going to bring to everybody.
And one of the first ways we're going to do it is run up a debt of 12 trillion dollars that's going to require massive tax increases from now to the end of time that will prevent the uh uh uh accumulation of wealth.
You think he would have won.
No.
What did he campaign on?
A bunch of nothing.
Hope, change, marvelous speeches, platitudes, words.
If Barack Obama were honest about what he's doing and what he intended to do, he wouldn't have gotten 10% of the vote.
Maybe 20.
There are enough wackos in this country, maybe to get him 20% of the vote by the same token.
If the Democrats on Capitol Hill and Obama were honest about what the real purpose of their health care bill is to raise taxes to totally control every aspect of human life in this country.
They would never ever even got this far with it.
If the global warming people had said, we are aligned with our liberal socialist brothers all over the world.
We believe in a one world government.
And we believe that the United States has too much of the world's wealth.
So we are going to create a crisis that is designed to make Americans think that they are destroying the planet so that they will then feel guilty and that they will feel guilty over polar bears being killed and so forth, will get their kids all in line, and then we're going to go for world government and world tax increases to fleece the United States so that we can join our leftist brothers in the United States to control that population and as much of the world as we can.
If they had said that, they would have never convinced one person to sell an SUV.
If they had said that, they had never have convinced one person to buy a Prius.
My point is they cannot be honest about their intentions, they cannot be honest about their agenda, they cannot be honest about who they are, and some, but some of them are.
Some of them let it slip.
Barney Frank, for example, has said that in the midst of all this change, the middle class is going to be so distracted, they won't have the guts or the energy to fight it, to fight us.
The middle class is the enemy.
The liberals make the middle class think that they are the chosen ones, that the left cares about the little guy, the average guy, and is going to soak the rich.
The left goes after everybody.
They hold everyone in equal contempt.
They must.
Their whole reason for living is the desire to amass power to control everybody's lives.
In doing so, they have to assume and tell themselves that you aren't capable of living life on your own without them.
And I'm talking primarily about liberal leaders.
The sad thing is that they have convinced so many Americans via academia and pop culture.
They have convinced so many average Americans that we now have an actual looney-tune bin of 20 to 30% of our population that also believes this stuff, is willing to destroy its own their own lives.
For an ideology that they may not even really understand.
So all of liberalism is a lie.
if it is to stand a chance.
And the lie has been good because the lie of liberalism has been rooted in compassion and caring and fairness and non-discrimination, equality, all of these, saving the planet.
Cleaner air, clean water, as no people are opposed to that.
Behind the lie lurks disaster.
Insidious, hideous, near criminal disaster.
I got an email over the weekend in my subscriber email account.
And I have it printed out.
It printed out my response, too.
A woman was having dinner.
She's middle-aged, and her husband are having dinner with a 24-year-old soldier.
too.
And a 24-year-old soldier, we talked about health care.
The 24-year-old soldier said, look, if we uh gonna require everybody to have auto insurance, what's so bad about requiring people to have, if the government's gonna require auto insurance, why can't the government require everybody to have health insurance?
She wanted to know what I would say.
During the course of the program, I'll share with you what I said to this woman.
And she's going, she wrote me back.
She's gonna go out and buy Mark Levin's liberty and tyranny and give it to the soldier along with my reply, and hopefully save one American from the abyss of big government liberalism, a soldier.
Years ago, folks, years ago on this program, I explained that communists, leftist ideologues flocked to the environmental movement after the end of the Cold War.
Collectivists found cover for their new agenda, and the collectivists Attracted leftist pseudoscientists who were milking the scam for grants from corporations, universities, and government entities.
There are so many whores in our midst from members of Congress, members of the U.S. Senate, and members of the scientific community who are whoring themselves out for money, abandoning science, the pursuit of truth, in exchange for advancing a leftist political agenda.
And I have known this, and I have warned of this.
I've not been able to prove it, however.
I've simply had to rely on my powers of persuasion, my common sense, and my belief in God to convince people I'm right.
Now we have these emails.
It was a lie from the beginning.
I laid out the reasons why it should be scrutinized.
And nobody listened because the issue was so important, saving the climate, saving the air, saving the water, saving the polar bear.
Little kids were getting scared to death and being forced to watch Al Gore's stupid lying movie.
Parents were required to come in and watch it with their kids in school under the threat that the kids would get docked grade points if the parents didn't show up to watch it.
Serious thinkers, scientists began to dig into the science of this new theory warning of man-made global warming.
People like Dr. Roy Spencer, much was written that did not comport with global warming theories, but the state controlled media ignored their work and went to work on their reputations.
The media preferred the opinions and declarations of politicians like Al Gore.
You ought to see the New York Times story on this.
The New York Times story on this is uh is fascinating.
New York Times, we won't publish statements that were never intended for the public eye.
Ever heard of the Pentagon Papers?
New York Times published those.
Don't think they were intended for the public eye.
We'll be back after that.
And we're back.
El Rushbow here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Serious thinkers and scientists began to dig into the theory of man-made global warming, and they found things to be suspicious of, and they found things unaccounted for.
They found things ignored.
But they did not assume they were being lied to.
They always gave the pro-global warming people the benefit of the doubt.
What was that?
Gave them the benefit of the doubt, assuming that they were scientists.
And so they examined with great care all of the items produced by the pro-global warming crowd.
The mistake was not understanding that they are liberals.
The mistake was not understanding who and what liberals are.
The mistake was accepting the premise as genuine.
But they're scientists.
I just explained how come all this time I've not because I believe in God and I have common sense, and I understand the role of man in the universe is not all that big.
We simply aren't that important.
The Earth is older than any of us will ever be.
Inhabitably so.
There have been nuclear bombs dropped on this planet.
We've done everything in the world that they say will destroy it, and it just keeps going.
It's what's been so frustrating about it.
I'm not a scientist, and so what I say would not have scientific credibility.
But common sense is common sense.
Then we had Michael Crichton.
Michael Crichton wrote the book, State of Fear.
Began to publicly challenge global warming alarmists.
He said global warming was being treated more like a religion than science.
A religion for secular humanists.
Another one of my original theories was confirmed as the haze of global warming was just beginning to clear.
Then Al Gore wins his Nobel Peace Prize for being the Bernie Madoff figurehead of this scam.
It's just, it goes on.
His Al Gore's movie and slideshow began to receive the attention it deserved.
It was picked apart, dissected, and exposed.
It was no more credible than your average Michael Moore movie.
And then the weather changed.
It became impossible to ignore science when summers weren't so hot, when winters were way too cold, and all the scaremongering about hurricanes just didn't transpire.
And the darn sun, like a leopard, changed its spots.
They went away.
Sunspots went away.
And the global warming, well, that's not a factor.
The sun was not a factory in global warming, and they people ask me, why don't you believe it?
The pro-global warming scientists say the sun is not a factor.
Sorry.
So these emails have been published.
The lie is now there for all to see.
The Bernie Madoffs of global warming were caught.
And hopefully, this is the final nail in the coffin for cap and trade.
Coming up later on in the program, Saturday Night Live is making fun of President Obama in a very meaningful way.
They're not making fun of his mannerisms.
They're not making fun of his personality.
They are making fun of his policies.
We have the audio coming up.
Now, my friends.
healthcare, the entire Obama agenda, stimulus, porculus, whatever.
The entire Obama agenda, the auto bailout, the cash for clunkers, the home tax credit thing.
Every one of those items is the same kind of fraud as is the man-made global warming hoax.
It is being advanced by the same kind of people for the same kind of reasons, because they are all liberals slash socialists, slash communists, slash fascists.
If anyone, here's the media tweak of the day, if anyone ever hacked into Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi's computer, we would find the same kind of fraud and deceit that we have in the global warming scam.
*clap*
Now, media coverage of this is fascinating.
New York Times, we're not going to publish things never intended for the human eye.
Andrew Revkin, a thick pile of private emails and unpublished documents generated by an array of climate scientists over 13 years was attained by a hacker from a British University Climate Research Center and is since spread widely across the internet starting Thursday afternoon before they propagated the purloin documents, nearly 200 megabytes in all, were uploaded surreptitiously on Tuesday to a server supporting the global warming website, RealClimate.org.
Now, this is from the dot Earth blog at the New York Times, and uh they are it was from Friday.
I almost passed on it.
Uh what would you expect from uh uh uh a journalist and from a newspaper whose job depends on promulgating a lie?
Which, by the way, is a situation so many journalists at the Times and elsewhere find themselves in day after day, promulgating a lie.
Journalists themselves promulgate lies, global warming lies, health care lies, you name it if they're promulgating the liberal agenda, they are promulgating lies.
So what would you expect when confronted with one of their lies has been exposed?
Well, what do you do?
You run a story or two.
Greenhouse gases at highest level ever.
That's the Associated Press.
Sea level rise could cost port cities 28 million dollars in fifty years.
Or 40 by 2050, that's from CNN.
A possible, possible rise in sea levels by 0.5 meters by 2050 could put at risk more than 28 trillion dollars worth of assets in the world's largest coastal cities, according to a report compiled for the insurance industry.
It's a hoax.
And so when the hoax is exposed last week, here come the promulgators of lies, the state-controlled media to double down on these stories that all feature panic.
By the way, it's another thing to learn.
Every liberal agenda item is first preceded by a panic that could kill you, or is killing you.
Be it the climate change, be it health care, you're gonna die, your kids are gonna die.
Liberalism is a rotting piece of scum.
And everything it touches gets destroyed.
One of the things that the uh the climate research unit emails show is that the global warming skeptics are not such a small, unimportant fringe as Al Gore and the rest have tried to say.
The pro global warming scientists, obviously, are completely obsessed with their critics.
And it's clear from the emails that the pro-global warming scientists were and are doing everything they can to prevent the other side of the argument from being heard.
Uh this is what our media calls consensus.
Now, Mr. Snerdley asked me a moment ago, if these guys didn't figure it out, how come you did?
Well, because I guess I am imbued again with a decent education and common sense.
I know that science has nothing to do with consensus.
And so the primary selling point of the global warming crowd has been a consensus of scientists.
Consensus, meaning a majority.
But there are some scientists that don't believe it.
Well, wait a minute.
That's not science we're talking, then.
We're talking politics.
If you're going to put a word like consensus and join it with scientific activity, then it's no longer scientific activity.
It is impossible if words mean anything anymore.
For science to be science, if all there is to prove a theory is consensus.
So it's not been hard for me to understand who these people are.
Well, I don't snurdly is yelling at me again.
You also don't fall prey to this touchy feely feel good stuff.
Um yes, that is true, because I realize it's phony, but I'm also an individualist.
Uh and a self-reliant person, and I I realize that feeling good is up to me.
Uh, and I can I can want everybody else in the world to feel good all I want.
It's up to them to feel good.
Just because I want them to feel good doesn't mean they're gonna feel good, or we're gonna do things to make ourselves feel better as a people.
We're going to have health insurance for 20% of the uninsured, and we're going to spend two trillion dollars to do it and over 2,000 pages.
Do you ever ask yourself, why does it take 2,000 pages to come up with a plan to insure 30 million people with health insurance?
What the hell do you need 2,000 pages to do that for?
Is there an insurance policy that is 2,000 pages?
Give a lawyer a month, I'm sure he could write one.
2,000 pages to insure people?
That's what people Oh, yes, we're good people.
We're insuring the uninsured Mether Lembois, and we're going to lower costs.
Yep, 2,000 pages to do this.
Actually, 4,000, because there's a 2,000-page piece of crap over in the house, too.
So 4,000 pages.
Senators whoring themselves out for millions, hundreds of millions to vote for it.
And it's the same wherever you find liberalism.
It's looking more and more like these uh climate research unit emails.
And by the way, I got a graph here from their website and the climate research unit at the University of East Anglo.
This is where all these emails came from.
Even their own chart here shows that there has been no warming for the last 10 years.
Even they weren't able to lie about that.
There has been no warming the last 10 years, and their chart even shows.
I have it here.
Formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It looks like, by the way, more and more that these Uh, climate research unit emails were released by an insider, a whistleblower.
The file was called FOI 2009 for a reason.
This information had been sought for years through UK freedom of information requests.
And information was destroyed, and the emails show that that uh information, scientific data that would disprove the man-made global warming theory was tossed out.
But the CRU, the climate research unit at East Anglia, and other universities and organizations simply refused to comply with the freedom of information requests, even ultimately claiming that all the data had been lost.
Now we know why they're why they fought releasing the information to the public for so long, is because it was made up.
So you might say or ask, how were they allowed to get away with it?
Good intentions, clean water, clean air.
No polar bears dying.
Flippers swimming free in the oceans.
No pollution, no smokestacks, no filth.
Who's opposed to any of that?
Plus, we save the planet.
Why we will not flood our coastal areas if we do this.
The problem is they weren't all on the same page, all a bunch of of fruit loop nutcakes combined with seriously sick liberal agenda people, and the fruit cakes will go out and say some of the most ridiculous claims in the midst of the purported science.
That's another thing, snurtly.
He'd come out and say, it's already past the point of no return.
I mean, if we if we do everything, we can't fix it.
Wait a minute.
Then my common sense said, wait a minute, we can't fix it, how the hell did we cause it?
I think that may be my problem with liberals.
I've just got too much common sense, common sense, belief in God, belief in right and wrong, I'm a threat.
Ditto, Sarah Palin.
Who's no help?
Oh no, logic is not much help.
Especially if logic threatens the safety of the false, phony lying sick cocoon liberals live in.
Got to take a brief time out here, folks.
We'll be back.
Your phone calls are coming up.
Uh oh, oh, there is forgot to mention one thing.
Do you remember there was an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati, the old TV show, where they dropped live turkeys from a helicopter as a publicity stunt.
There is I need to get this website.
Uh it's a YouTube site.
I'm going to link to it at Rushlimbaugh.com.
Dean, go ahead and put it up there.
Coco Jr., because Coco's out on vacation.
It is a video.
You don't even need to hear it.
It is a video of polar bears falling out of the sky, dying, crashing on top of cars in deserted cities, crashing into the side of buildings.
And it's all to illustrate that it's a UK spot.
It's all to illustrate that every person who flies on a commercial jet is responsible for the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as the weight of one polar bear.
So to illustrate that, they got polar bears dying, falling out of that.
I'm sorry, folks, but that kind of stuff does not persuade me.
That kind of stuff tells me these people are nuts.
Plus, I had a very fortunate thing happen to me.
I was born a limball.
And I learned starting at nine what liberals are, who Democrats are.
I had a continuing education in it, and it never stops to this day.
So it's Thanksgiving week.
One of the greatest things I'm thankful for was being born a Limbaugh.
We'll be back after this.
Ten days ago on a spectacular version edition of Open Lion Friday.
I said to each of you in response to a question I got and continue to get from many people, what can we do, Rush, what can we do?
What I said was be the one in your family.
Who's the go-to person when somebody needs a political answer?
Somebody needs a political answer, you be the go-to guy, and let me tell you how you become the go-to guy.
Heritage Foundation, me, Mark Levin's books.
Don't television is not going to help you become a go-to guy.
It's too soundbite-oriented, it's too brief, it's not nuanced and detailed enough.
I got an email as I as I mentioned to you over the weekend.
Good morning, sir.
We were having a discussion last night about Obamacare with a few dinner guests.
We are your age.
One of our guests, who is 24, insisted that since the government requires citizens to have car insurance before allowing them to register a car, then we should have no problem with the government requiring citizens to have health insurance.
What would be your reply?
I wrote her back.
It is state governments, which require everyone with a driver's license to have auto insurance.
If you own a car but do not drive, in other words, you have a driver, you must be insured.
If you don't own a car and you don't have a driver's license, you do not have to have auto insurance.
And even if you break auto insurance laws, you do not go to jail for it.
But in both the House and Senate bills, if you do not buy health insurance, you can be imprisoned for five years.
Automobile insurance is purchased not to protect you, the buyer.
Auto insurance is to provide for your victim should you ever cause an accident.
Health insurance is the opposite.
It is to protect the buyer from catastrophic loss brought on by illness or accident.
Health insurance is thus in no way analogous to auto insurance because health insurance is purchased to insure the buyer against his own catastrophic loss brought on by major illness or accident.
You do not buy health insurance to provide for others.
You buy it for yourself.
Can you actually insure your health?
Does health insurance ensure your health?
It cannot possibly do so.
Health insurance cannot possibly ensure your health.
In fact, health care insurance, formerly called medical insurance, is merely an instrument of neutralizing risk, financial risk.
That is, not health risks.
You cannot ensure your health.
It was brought about by a need to insure a family's assets against a dread disease requiring care so expensive it could wipe that family out financially.
As a strictly financial planning endeavor, the issue never seemed to be discussed in terms of being a right or in terms of compassion, but medical insurance as a component of financial planning has morphed into health care as a right for everyone in the new political parlance.
When it's not about health.
Health insurance is not about health.
You can't insure your health.
Most important of all, I wrote back.
It's unconstitutional for the federal government to mandate that a citizen buy anything, much less put them in jail for failing to do so.
What the hell is your 24-year-old guest thinking?
Nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government permitted to mandate that citizens buy X. The Constitution limits government.
Its whole purpose is to define what government cannot do to citizens.
Read the Bill of Rights, the first Ten Amendments.
Constitution specifically limits government power, always sides with the freedom and liberty of the people.
Your 24-year-old guest has been ill-educated, defrauded by his schools, otherwise he wouldn't hold the view that government has the power to require all of this.
Had he been properly educated, he would understand the concepts of federalism and states'rights and thus would never take the position he took at your dinner party.
He would be robustly and adamantly opposed to all of this.
The founders feared just this type of power being amassed in Washington and wrote the Constitution to prevent it and to perfect us from fellow idiot citizens electing morons like Barack Obama.
When the Constitution is violated, as it is with federal mandates on health care, someone must challenge it in court, eventually getting the case to the Supreme Court if this does not happen, or if the people do not openly revolt over this, then the Constitution is weakened, its original purpose diluted and destroyed, individual freedom and liberty is lost.
Other than that, everything's hooky-dory.
Let me ask you a question.
Why don't we have the government make everybody buy life insurance, folks?
That way nobody would die.
At least by the other side's reasoning.
And isn't life more important than health?
You can't have life.
I mean, health without life, right?
So why don't they require everybody to buy life insurance?
Doesn't dying without life insurance cause more hardship than getting sick and running up a large bill?
And why would it take 2,000 pages to make us buy life insurance?
I'm giving them any ideas, snurdily.
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