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July 14, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 14, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Well, I guess we finally have learned here, or maybe Obama finally knows whose ass to kick, Al-Qaeda, because they're racists.
That's all it took.
Greetings, my friends.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882, the email address lrushmo at eibnet.com.
Supposedly, Nancy Pelosi is all ticked off at Robert Gibbs for saying the Republicans could win the House in November with this bunch.
I don't know whether that's real or not, or whether it's contrived.
It could well be, a very likely possibility, is that Obama and Gibbs want the Republicans to win, get Pelosi the hell out of the leadership position, because it's hard to blame her.
It's easier to blame Republicans when all the true disasters begin to take hold next year.
I still hold with that theory.
I still think Obama would throw everybody overboard to save himself, including members of his own party, including Pelosi.
He doesn't care.
Whatever he has to do to save himself.
For example, you know, the Democrat, I mean, they're really in a tizzy now.
You can see it through the news wherever you look.
They are in a tizzy about the options they have in November.
They're very unsettled.
And I don't understand why.
I don't understand why they're so upset about this.
Remember, we read the story from back during the healthcare debate.
Obama reassured Democrats it wouldn't be like 1994 because, quote, you got me.
Remember that?
Remember that story?
He told, he has a gift, Harry.
I just have a gift, Harry.
He told the Democrats, it won't be like 1994.
You've got me.
Here's a quote from a blue-yellow dog Democrat congressman.
They just kept telling us how good it was going to be.
The president himself, when that was brought up in one group, said, well, a big difference here and in 1994 was, you got me.
We're going to see how much difference that makes now, the Democrat congressman Blue Dog says.
And wouldn't you know it, Baghdad Bob Gibbs tells the truth.
The one time he tells the truth, he's catching holy hell for it.
Have you ever noticed how much Robert Gibbs looks like the PC guy in those Apple ads?
He looks just like that PC guy, the guy that plays the Windows PC versus, who is it, Justin Long who plays the Mac?
Or he looks like the kid on King of King, King, that cartoon show, King of the Hill.
Looks like the fat kid from the UK.
The UK tells.
And by the way, those of you on halt, stay there.
We're going to get to your phone calls here in about five or six minutes.
I promise.
Rob Rees, chairman of the School Food Trust in the UK, said parents are hampering efforts to cut obesity in children by sending them to school with crisps, fizzy drinks, and biscuits, which is Brit for cracker.
Crisps are potato chips and biscuits are crackers in Brit speak.
Mr. Rees, the chairman of the School Food Trust, said the best solution would be for parents to pay for their kids to eat healthy hot meals in canteens rather than giving them lunch boxes from home.
Can you not?
And it's coming here.
This is right up Michelle My Bell's Alley.
But Rob Reeves, the chairman of School Food Trust, also suggested that chocolates, potato chips, sugary drinks, and crackers be banned in packed lunches altogether by tightening the rules on what children can bring to school in the UK.
Parents groups, however, said the School Food Trust and the government should, quote, get off our backs and stop attempting to prescribe to parents what they can and cannot feed their kids.
According to government figures released last week, a number of pupils eating screw dinners, which must comply with certain health requirements, are rising fast.
School dinner.
School dinner in the UK.
After days of progress, this is from a marginally happy Associated Press.
After days of progress on the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, BP said today that delays have temporarily stopped work beneath the water on both a stopgap solution and a permanent fix.
BP was vague about the reasons for pushing back tests of a new cap that's supposed to trap oil in the well and why it stopped for up to 48 hours and they're drilling on a on a relief well.
That's also been stopped.
Kent Wells, the senior VP for BP, said at a morning news briefing, it was the government's call late Tuesday to re-evaluate plans for testing the new cap over the leak.
That plan was put on hold for 24 hours.
Now, what pray tell is going on here?
BP has something that looks like it's going to work.
And the government, led by Stephen Chu, the Nobel Prize winner in charge of something, said, we're going to delay this.
We've got to make sure that what we do here doesn't cause leaks elsewhere.
We're going to make sure this cap can handle a leak pressure.
We've got to make sure of this.
We've got to make sure of that.
We've got to do further testing.
It's just like the government told Bobby Jindal, don't build your sand berms.
We're worried about where you're going to get the sand.
This is highly suspicious.
Why doesn't, and the media, they're perplexed too.
They don't really know who is responsible for the delay.
Why don't you just go straight to the horse's mouth and ask Obama?
Because it's his decision.
Obama says he's the man in charge here.
Go ask him.
And here's the, this is another version of the story.
Different.
Let's see.
This is AP.
This is two different AP writers on the same story.
The plan to start choking off oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico was suddenly halted as government officials and BP said further analysis must be done today before critical tests could proceed.
No explanation was given for the decision.
No date was set for when testing would begin on the new tighter-fitting cap that BP installed on Monday.
In the meantime, oil continued spewing into the Gulf.
Just what they want.
I guess the answer might have something to do with cap and trade.
How can Obama and Thad Allen allow BP to stop the leak before Harry Breed brings cap and trade to the floor of the Senate for debate and passage?
What would Rah Emanuel say?
You are wasting a good crisis here.
We're not going to fix this leak.
If we fix this leak, we don't have a chance of getting cap and trade passed.
Dingy Harry is supposed to introduce the cap and trade bill any day now.
Now, the reason I'm curious about this is I read nothing in the preliminaries of this test and this new cap.
I read nothing that it may take us a week, 48 hours to test this thing, to make sure it doesn't cause leaks and problems elsewhere down the pike.
And even the state-controlled media uses the word suddenly.
No explanation was given for the sudden halting of the test and the cap.
The Wall Street Journal, BP, delays test on new fix for well leak.
Tighter-fitting cap intended to stench the flow of crude either way.
U.S. says problem will be resolved this month.
BP postponed testing yesterday on a new tight-fitting containment cap that could stop the flow of oil from its blown-out well for the first time.
The test scheduled to start late Tuesday was delayed after the U.S. government and company officials said further analysis had to be done on Tuesday and Wednesday before determining the fitness of the cap.
Well, why the hell spend the money to send it down 5,000 feet if it's not fit?
If it won't work.
Early yesterday, the Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen had said in Houston that seismic testing, which was finished Tuesday afternoon, would give us a baseline from which we can detect any anomalies with the well.
An anomaly could be a leak or another change on the sea floor.
The decision to delay the well integrity testing came after a meeting with U.S. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu, several scientists and BP officials who decided the process may benefit from additional analysis.
Tell that to people in the goal, we're going to analyze some more.
We're going to have some breakout meetings.
We're going to have some bureaucrats get together and discuss this before we actually try to stop the flow of oil because Harry Reid has not introduced cap and trade.
BP insists they're ready to go now.
They insist they're ready to go.
Something's up here, folks.
There's something about this that does not jive.
It does not make sense.
Dingy Harry Reid, Monday in Las Vegas, KLAS TV, Eyeball 8 News, the correspondent Nathan Bucca talked to Dingy Harry.
He said, when you go to the unemployment office, there are many U.S. citizens who are unemployed construction workers, and they don't have jobs right now because some of those construction companies find it easier to hire undocumented workers.
I think that any information you have in that regard is absolutely without foundation.
That may be someplace, but it's not here in Nevada.
Yeah, and you know, there was never any mafia in the casinos there either.
That was all.
It was Disney that always ran the casinos.
That was just a big myth that organized crime was involved in the casinos.
There are no illegal aliens in the construction business in Nevada.
Zero.
Zilch.
Nada.
That is a story.
None.
How did this happen?
Arizona would love to know, Dingy Harry, how did you do this?
How is it?
Would you please call Governor Brewer?
She would love, or maybe you would take her call.
She would love to know how it is that there are Zilch Zero Nada illegal immigrants in the construction industry in all of Nevada.
How did you do this?
Other people are saying, what the hell is he talking about?
Why is he saying this?
I'm not going to repeat some of the answers I've heard.
I'll wait for the medical prognosis to be confirmed.
Back after this.
You know who I really feel sorry for?
It's Harry Reid's wife.
I feel sorry for Dingy Harry's wife.
Remember what Dingy Harry said about unemployed men.
They beat up their wives.
Remember that?
He made a very plaintive statement.
Come November, his wife is in danger because he claims that unemployed guys tend to beat their wives up more often than guys who are working.
And Dingy Harry is going to be unemployed in November.
Let's go to the phones.
Rich in Manchester, Michigan.
Your first.
I'm glad you waited and welcome to the program.
Rush, how are you today?
Fine, sir.
Thank you very much.
Good.
You've been talking to me for over 20 years now.
It's a thrill to be able to talk back at you.
Thank you, sir.
Even though it's to take issue, I got an issue with this cracker thing that's going on in the news and on talk radio.
You know, it's like, you know, kill the cracker women, kill the cracker babies, kill every iota of a cracker.
And it's a very offensive racial epithet.
I wholeheartedly agree.
I think what we need to do maybe is try something a little less offensive, like maybe C word.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a second.
Youth, you think I need to be less offensive?
Well, I think everybody does, including you.
I didn't really think that you would be getting in on this on this cracker thing that's all over the media.
Well, see, that's the point.
It's not all over the media.
That is precisely the point, Rich.
It is when you only listen to talk radio and watch Fox News.
I could listen to CNN or watch CNN.
It's not on CNN.
It's not on CBS, ABC, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, USA Today.
It's not there.
Nobody's talking about the offensive death threats that are being enunciated daily by the new Black Panther Party.
Nobody's talking about the voter fraud case the Department of Justice threw out because black defendants aren't going to be prosecuted, according to Obama and Eric Holder.
It's not all over the media.
And now I've put it there where it deserves to be.
And it deserves to be in there because the rest of the country needs to know who it is that's talking this way.
Well, I understand.
But don't you think it would be a little less offensive if you heard, like, I want to kill every iota of a C word instead of...
I don't know what you mean by C word.
Um...
Well, it's a raw.
If I start talking about killing every C-word, nobody's knowing what the hell I'm talking about.
There's a bunch of different possibilities for C-word.
I don't even want to get into them.
Oh, you're right.
Yeah, always I'm right.
And by the way, offensive?
When did that ever bother me?
The purpose here is not to be offensive or to not offend.
The way I look at it, you can't go through life without offending people these days.
There are people who live to be offended.
Speaking personally, I don't give people the power to offend me.
I don't give people that much power.
Make me upset by what they say.
But I mean, this is serious stuff.
We've got Barack Obama.
We've got a supposedly post-racial country now, post-racial president, post-partisan.
We're supposed to be in utopia now.
We've got the Tea Party is being called racist by the NAALCP.
Obama finally has a grievance with Al-Qaeda.
They're racist.
All of this is absurd.
And what I do is illustrate the absurd by being absurd.
So George Steinbrenner passes away.
And I say that cracker made a lot of millionaires out of African Americans.
It's undeniably true.
According to Khalik Sheid Muhammad Shabazz, King Samir Shabazz, people like Steinbrenner are crackers because he's white, but he made millionaires out of a lot of African Americans.
Well, I mean, if they can use the word with impunity, because it's not circulated widely that they're speaking this way, and these are people that the Department of Justice is protecting, rich.
Malik Shulu, Zulu Shabazz, King Samir Shabbat, who is a minister, by the way, the Department of Justice refers to him as a minister.
And he's out talking about killing cracker babies.
And this man's being shielded from prosecution by the Obama Justice Department.
And what about the original legitimate crackers?
Does anybody know who the original legitimate crackers were?
I will hold off in informing you about this, but there are original crackers, and they should be offended at all this.
And I'm not talking about Ritz or Saltine.
There are some original crackers.
Do you know?
Well, I'm not talking about graham crackers.
I especially don't want to upset him.
The original crackers are native Floridians.
Brian, a native Floridian is a cracker.
The term was originally applied to native Floridians, a cracker.
The term has now been co-opted by the new Black Panther Party and its affiliates and allies.
So I'm sorry if it offends you, but the fact is it's not being reported.
The people who are using the term in a derogatory fashion, who are threatening violence and death, white people and white babies, are being protected and shielded by the Obama-Eric Holder Justice Department.
So that's why we make a big deal.
By the way, here's a Daily Caller website headline.
Obama looks to Bill Clinton for help on jobs as stimulus arguments fall flat.
Now, you know, you know they are getting desperate.
When Carvo goes out and says, Holy Ghost, and they end up talking to Clinton.
Clinton is their God.
They in trouble.
All right, from the urban dictionary, the definition of cracker from the urban dictionary, white slave driver, because he would crack the whip.
So that's the definition of a cracker in the urban dictionary.
In Florida, the cowboys of Florida were called cracker cowboys in modern times, which is now for those of you in Riolinda.
Florida cracker is used informally by some Floridians to indicate that their family has lived here for many generations.
It's considered a source of pride to be descended from frontier people who did not just live, but flourished in Florida during a time before air conditioning, mosquito repellent, and screen.
So Senator Bill Nelson is an esteemed and proud cracker.
You might say.
To the phones we go, Tina, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Congratulations from oiled-silked Louisiana.
Thank you very much.
Okay, Monday night, I went to my fourth tea party, and you want to talk about diversity.
I mean, age, ethnicity, status, you know, upper, middle, lower class, you name it, it's there.
And it just irks me to know it.
In fact, one of my good friends who's a host.
Let me ask you a question, Tina.
This is your fourth Tea Party meeting.
Yeah.
In the modern vernacular, how would you define the Tea Party?
What is it?
A bunch of people who are really upset with the way our country is going, the way government is not listening to them.
Right.
Now, that's very good.
You didn't say Republican, Democrat, conservative, or liberal.
You said these are people upset at the way the country is going, the government not listening to them.
I assume the Tea Party is very much concerned about the government's rate of growth.
Right.
Absolutely.
The policies that are going on, the health care, every bit of everything you talk about, we talk about.
And it's just, you know, it's gone to a boiling point, and people are just frustrated.
So the Tea Party does not exist to specifically defeat Democrats or African Americans or Republicans or liberals.
The Tea Party exists for the express purpose of revitalizing America as founded.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly.
And I have to tell you, Rush, I know your time's short, but I mean, my dad, departed dad, he's deceased, but there are plenty of days, and I know you'll tell us when to panic, but he had this saying, I don't even want to go buy green bananas.
And granted, that was when he was dying.
Wait a second.
What you have to explain now that people in Rio Linda might not understand what you mean.
Well, green bananas aren't ripe yet, and you have to wait a day or two for them to turn completely yellow.
And you're not convinced that tomorrow's going to come, that they're ever going to ripe.
That's how pessimistic you get sometimes.
Yes, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Well, we haven't reached that point yet.
As you duly noted, I'll tell you when it's time to panic and pack up.
I know you will.
Yeah, and you can count on that.
Thanks.
All right.
Appreciate it.
Tina, here's John in Crofton, Maryland.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
How are you doing, Rush?
Very well, thanks.
For people in Rio Linda, Crofton, Maryland is in Anarundo County, where Annapolis, the capital, is, and I'm about 20 minutes from downtown Washington, except on the night that you're appearing there.
And I almost missed the start of your show in 2006.
But the reason I called is because I guess it's about the, what, the centennial, the 100th anniversary of the NAACP that was started by three white people around 1909.
Yeah, 1909, 1912, yeah, February 12th, 1909 is what it was, yeah.
And Michelle Obama, I guess, was taken off the bench by our Messiah and sent in the game to do his dirty work.
And I'm surprised she didn't show up at the All-Star game last night and throw out the first pitch because I think she can't do any worse than he does.
But the thing I called about was I heard her comparing the success in public education.
I guess she didn't use that word, but we all knew she was talking about public schools of white kids having a higher achievement rate over black kids, and that this has to be changed around.
And I'm thinking, why didn't she send her kids to the D.C. public schools?
And they said, well, because of security.
Now they're up at Sidwell Friends, one of the most exclusive schools in the country.
Her husband has that kind of experience.
He went to Punahu High School in Honolulu, which is an exclusive school paid for by his white grandmother.
But in D.C., the public schools cost about $17,000 a year per pupil.
I doubt if it's much more expensive to go to Sidwell Friends.
And she and her husband are doing nothing to give choice to the kids in D.C. They're doing the exact opposite.
They are denying choice.
She and her husband canceled the voucher program that would allow public school students to actually attend places like Sidwell Friends.
Ms. Obama also talked about crumbling school buildings in her speech to the NAA LCP.
And that particularly offended me.
We've spent, I don't know how many millions, billions of dollars every year on education, on buildings, infrastructure, and so forth.
Whose fault is it that there are crumbling buildings?
Who runs these places?
Go to any city that is crumbling and check out who runs them.
And then remember, I mentioned this yesterday.
My grandfather attended a one-room school.
It didn't have air conditioning or running water or any of that, and he got a fine education.
Now, that speech by Michelle Obama yesterday is in the same vein as their resolution condemning the Tea Party for racism.
They know damn well that the Democrat base is dejected and demoralized, not inspired and not motivated to vote.
They are distressed and depressed because they thought they'd be loved.
They thought that everybody would love them.
They thought, you know, just like the Republicans made the mistake of assuming in 1994 when they won the House that the country had gone conservative, the Democrats, the left, assumed that when they won the House in 2006, that the country wanted more FDR, more New Deal, more full-fledged liberalism.
And so they've passed all this stuff, and they've got health care, and they've got all this grandiose plans, stimulus, wonderful stuff, and the public is rejecting them.
It's all over the news.
The CBS New York Times poll, the Pew Center poll, the Hotline poll, the National Journal poll, the ABC Washington Post poll, the NBC Wall Street Journal poll.
It's everywhere.
None of this.
74% of the people think we're heading in the wrong direction.
Stimulus is not working.
In fact, it's been a drag.
It's been a hindrance.
And all these liberals thought they were going to be in the big click.
They were going to be loved.
They were going to be popular.
And their issues were going to lead to a utopia and a panacea.
None of it has happened.
What they're witnessing is the absolute crumbling and failure of their own ideas implemented by them.
They're the people we were waiting for, they said.
We're the ones we've been waiting for.
Well, finally, after generations, the right people to implement socialism and fairness and equality and social justice had arrived on the scene.
And they began to implement it.
And the country doesn't like it.
The country doesn't like them.
The country is agitated, irritated, angry, and upset and wants to throw them out.
They are depressed, angry, livid, and outraged above and beyond what they are normally every day.
Outraged and angry.
When you set out to be loved, universally loved, adored, respected, idolized, and it doesn't happen, it's a hard crash to reality.
And then your precious beloved ideas of fairness and justice and equality, and everybody having the same of everything, everybody having a free Toyota, everybody having a free house, everybody having health care with no insurance premium, everybody having whatever they want.
It hasn't happened.
In fact, fewer people and fewer people are even able to get what they need.
More and more people aren't even concerned with what they want.
More and more Americans are focused on what they need because the policies of the left have destroyed the mechanism whereby wants and needs are created and provided.
So all around them, the crumbling edifice that represents their glorious ideas smacks them upside the head.
And then they see that their beloved anointed one is sinking in popularity, is no longer loved and considered messianic.
It's a deep psychological pool in which these people are sinking.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Here we go to Mike in the Washington, D.C. area.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Mike.
Are you there?
Rush, nice to speak with you again.
Thank you, sir.
This is Mike, right?
Yes.
Okay, good.
Hey, nice to speak with you.
Your first caller kind of typified how this administration also controls the press.
I mean, it's almost like a provda of the old Soviet Union.
I mean, you know, let's hide the black-on-white violence, and you're doing a great job.
You've got to keep this front and center.
But, you know, the press wants to hear all the violence about Mel Gibson against, you know, white man on his wife violence, you know, so it's just driving me nuts.
I mean, I wonder, like yesterday when you mentioned Wolf Blitzer having the orgasms out talking to Castro, you know, if we catch Bin Laden, he's going to be puddling all over the place, you know?
Unbelievable.
Yeah, absolutely.
So I wanted to get your opinion on a little news bit I heard yesterday, kind of under the radar, and I want to see if your crack staff is on this and what you think about it.
The IRS has just been tasked with tracking insurance.
So on our IRS forms, and I believe this starts next year.
I thought you wanted to talk about Obama and racism and terrorism.
I did, but I mean, I get sidetracked.
Ah, you forgot.
You got so nervous.
Yes, yes, yes.
You know it.
You know it.
And there's so many things to talk about.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I do it every day.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And, you know, to follow your last dissertation, that's heady stuff to follow out.
Yeah, I know.
It's tough being a caller on the show.
You're absolutely right.
But anyway, yeah, I mean, the racism thing is just incredible.
I mean, how How can you put it into words?
I mean, how can the Democrats get?
See, that's what I'm for.
That's why I'm the host.
A lot of people think that they can do this.
I've warned people for 20 years, don't try this at home.
It looks easy.
It sounds easy, but when you try it, you admit what is there to say.
That's what I'm for.
I'm here to say it.
And on Obama, Al-Qaeda, and racism, I said it.
When I say something, there really is nothing else left to say about it, which is one of the reasons I hold back now and then so that callers will have at least something to talk about when they call the program.
Because when I discuss it, that's pretty much it.
Randy in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Rush, this is a big-time honor.
Mega Dittos, and God bless you.
I've listened to you all the way since you came to Winston-Salem on your Rush to Excellence tour, and I remember you on Donahue.
But I'll get right to my point.
First, real quick, I'll say I pray that you and your wife have as many good years as my wife and I have, and all the love and blessings.
Thank you very, very much.
I appreciate that.
Yes, sir.
Rush, I've been a basket case for the past year.
You just described me to a team.
That has nothing to do with being married, does it?
No, no, no.
My wife is my rock.
My wife and my God are my rock.
And I have two questions for you.
All right.
You've put my heart at ease by being in you are.
And I want to know what should we do between now and November to prepare to take back the House and Senate.
And the other question, real quick, was, how long do you think it will take the president to take credit for the cap if it works?
Well, the second question first, I'm not sure he wants the cap to work.
If we stop the flow of oil, they're already losing the leak as an issue.
The news yesterday, we had a couple of stories on it.
The state-controlled media, very, very, very upset.
Environmentalists are very much alarmed that the oil spill has not translated into anger that can be used to inspire people to support an environmental wacko agenda.
The economy is still number one on people's minds.
The oil leak is not, the dead pelicans and the oil-laden animals is not convincing people to stop using oil.
They're driving around more than this.
It's not working.
I don't think they want the leak stopped right now.
As to what you can do for November, become the party of no, as well as the party of no.
Become the party of KNOW and the party of no, NO.
Tell everybody you know what Obama has done to the country.
Tell everybody you know what the Democrats have done to the country since June or January of 2007.
You tell everybody you know that the last budget deficit submitted by George W. Bush was $161 billion.
You tell everybody you know that Obama's first budget deficit was $1.4 trillion.
You tell everybody you know, and Joe Axelrod or David Axelrod says, the other party is going to take us backwards.
You tell everybody that's exactly right.
We want to go back.
We want to go back to when we had a president who loved and respected the country.
We want to go back to a period of time when our homes were worth something and their value increased.
We want to go back where a college education meant a decent job.
We want to go back to where there was only 4.7% unemployment.
We want to go back to where there was the best healthcare system in the world accessible to one and all.
We do want to go back to the days of American exceptionalism.
We want to turn back the clock.
A year and a half is all it'll take.
We do want to go back.
So your job, become a person of no and a person of no, a person of KNOW and a person of NO.
Back after this.
You know what the Democrats are finding here, folks?
That it's a lot easier to destroy than it is to build.
They wanted this recession.
The Democrat Party made this recession.
And now they're finding out they can't manage it.
It's a lot easier to start a recession than it is to end one and get out of one.
And now they're starting to get nervous.
They might even be wanting Daddy, the GOP, to fix it for them.
Because they haven't the slightest idea.
They know how to destroy, but they can't fix.
They're lost.
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