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Feb. 18, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 18, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Welcome back, folks.
Rushland Boy and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Serving humanity simply by showing up, as usual.
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair.
It's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And the telephone number is 800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushball at eibnet.com.
There's other news happening out there, folks, and I want to get to some of it.
And then we will return.
We got more audio to share with you from Wisconsin and even more information.
And Democrat senators in Wisconsin are threatening to stay away for as long as it takes.
There are 14 Democrat senators, total of 33 senators in the Wisconsin Senate.
19 are Republican, 14 are Democrat.
As of November 1st of 2010, before the election, there were 18 Democrats and 15 Republicans plus.
That was 1815.
That's now 19 to 14 Republican majority.
And the Democrat senators are not even needed other than for a quorum.
But their votes are not needed in order to pass this.
Hang on just a second.
Cookie says she printed me something, but I didn't get it.
Justice Brothers on the scene in Wisconsin.
The Justice Brothers are there?
Okay.
Oh, it's not audio.
It's breaking news.
I still don't have it.
At some point, I want to get some of this other news here before we get back to Wisconsin.
Late word out of Egypt.
Egypt will allow two Iranian ships through the Suez Canal.
These are warships.
Now, remember, we had this news a couple days ago, and then it turned out Jay Carney said, well, I don't have anything for you on that.
We don't know anything about that.
And then it was denied that Iran was going to send any ships through the Suez Canal.
Now, Egypt is suggesting that they will indeed agree to allow these two Iranian warships to pass through the Suez Canal.
Just look at how quickly the new regime is paying dividends.
This new freedom agenda, this new Democrat regime over there, the Iranians granted permission.
Some of the headlines on the Drudge Report page.
Bahrain crushes protest camp, locks down capital.
Saudi Prince warns of uprising threat.
Battle for Libyan city erupts.
Egypt's top tycoon fears descent into anarchy.
Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader preaches in Tahrir Square, which is actually a circle.
Arab capitals braced for violence as unrest spreads.
Violence marks Friday of rage across Yemen.
Ahmedine Izad, Obama can't spell his own name.
State budgets on the brink.
California, Texas, Illinois, New York, New Jersey.
Activists swarm Boehner's Capitol Hill home.
House votes to overthrow czars.
Have you heard about that?
House of Representatives has voted to defund all of Obama's czars and get rid of them.
WikiLeaks, China flexes muscles with USA as biggest creditor.
Three arrested for burning cross near home of African-American family.
Alaska governor shuns the health care law.
Veterans Group demands apology from Secretary of State Clinton.
Claims a vet was manhandled for silent protest.
House passes amendment to block funds for net neutrality order.
Bernanke defends the Fed's policies.
Obama holds Silicon Valley Summit with tech tycoons, likes boy genius Zuckerberg.
I mean, these headlines, especially the Middle East, it's on fire.
You ought to see the pictures out of Cairo.
The numbers of protesters have grown, or the numbers grown.
I mean, huge number.
It's well, whatever's going on over there, it's not peace.
The Reverend Jackson has joined thousands of people protesting at the state capitol in Wisconsin.
The Reverend Jackson arrived about noon today, spoke to those gathered in the Capitol Rotunda.
The protesters upset with the governor, of course, blah, blah.
Well, that's going to really help everybody's perception of this.
The Justice Brothers on the scene.
Yeah, that's really, this is all about the little people.
And, ladies and gentlemen, this soundbite, this yesterday in Washington on Capitol Hill, it was a Senate budget committee hearing on Obama's 2012 budget.
The Treasury Secretary to Little Tim Geithner testified, and during the question and answer, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama said, let's talk about our interest situation under your budget.
The interest increases every year.
It was $187 billion in 2009.
Under your proposal, the interest increases to $844 billion.
And would you not agree that that's a stunning figure, perhaps the fastest growing item in the budget?
And all of that is a direct result of the debt we're running up, and only a modest expectation of interest rate increases.
Senator, absolutely.
It is an excessively high interest burden.
It's unsustainable.
Well, it's your plan for the 10 years.
I mean, that's the one the president has submitted.
That's what he's asked us to vote on.
It will result, and that's your numbers off your budget.
Senator, you're absolutely right that with the president's plan, even if Congress were to enact it, and even if Congress were to hold to it and reduce those deficits to 3% of GDP over the next five years, we would still be left with a very large interest burden and unsustainable obligations over time.
That's why we're having the debate.
I completely agree with you.
But the question, though, is, just to be direct about it, what's the alternative plan?
Well, what your plan is, is that plan is the one you're required by law to submit, and that's what you call for, and it's not acceptable.
I'm sorry.
It's a plan not for winning the future, but losing the future.
Jeff Sessions, Alabama.
But the interesting thing here, let's go back on Monday, or whenever it was, I think it was Monday, Obama said it's time to live within our means.
Okay, here's a budget.
This is responsible.
We're going to live with our memory.
We've got to get serious about cutting the deficit.
In fact, my budget's going to cut the deficit $1.1 trillion over 10 years, blah, blah, blah.
And here's the Treasury Secretary admitting that Obama's budget is unsustainable.
It's almost like a threat.
He agrees with Sessions.
Yeah, it's unsustainable.
What are you going to do about it?
You're absolutely right, Senator.
Even if Congress were to enact this, we'd still be left with a very large interest burden.
That's why we're having the debate.
I completely agree with you, but the question is, just to be direct about it, what's the alternative?
What are you guys going to do?
In other words, yeah, we got a budget here that's going to bust this government.
What's your plan?
So clearly, Geithner and Obama think the public is clearly on the side of spend, spend, spend, benefit, benefit, benefit.
You guys tell senior citizens they're not going to get what they expect.
You guys tell Medicare and Medicaid people not.
This is a threat.
They're throwing down the gauntlet.
You guys make the tough decisions.
And Sessions says, well, this is your plan.
Not acceptable.
Not a plan for winning the future.
Plan for losing the future.
So, I mean, if they're going to go up there and admit, you know, Geithner, they're submitting an unsustainable budget tantamount to dereliction duty.
I don't know how Jackson got there, snurdly.
I haven't seen how the Reverend Jackson.
He might have shown up in an SUV with Trump.
Who doesn't matter how he got there?
He parachuted in.
Why is it of interest how he got there?
I'm sure.
I mean, I'm not sure, but I would just assume that the Reverend Jackson arrived in the convoy with the Muslim Brotherhood.
I mean, Trump is showing up to speak here.
It's like the Muslim Brotherhood showing up at Trari Square.
From, let's see, this is knoxnews.com spreading to Tennessee.
Senate Education Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to abolish collective bargaining between teachers, unions, and the school boards across the state.
The vote six to three.
All Republicans on the panel voting for the bill.
All Democrats against.
So here you have a bill, okay, to end collective bargaining with the teachers.
Tennessee on the verge of following in the footsteps of Wisconsin.
Republican-controlled legislatures have the power to take schools back all across the country.
The right thing to do for each and every state if they care about the children.
Senate Education Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to abolish collective bargaining between teachers' unions and school boards across the state.
So, what next?
All these people in Wisconsin are going to be put on buses, loaded up, and sent to Tennessee tomorrow.
And then they got to go to Ohio.
You know, Kasich's next.
We're going to get these people.
They're going to have to just charter some buses.
It's going to be our convoys and be like Mrs. Clinton's Healthcare Express.
Same people on the buses just going to state after state after state, trying to make it look like these are homegrown protests.
Here's some audio back to what Wisconsin is actually in Rockford, Illinois.
We have a couple soundbites here from a Tea Party founder, David Hale, of Rockford, Illinois, and the Wisconsin Senator Jim Halperin about why he wasn't in Madison.
This is the Tea Party doing the job the state-controlled media used to do.
This is what ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, this is what they all ought to be doing, but they aren't doing it.
They're in solidarity with these runaway senators.
So it's left up to the Tea Party citizens on YouTube.
That's where you see this.
The Tea Party going and finding the senators and asking them questions and posting the video on YouTube.
Here's the first of two soundbites.
Excuse me, sir.
Why aren't you doing your job in Wisconsin today?
I'm leaving right now to do my job in Wisconsin.
Why didn't you do it earlier today, sir?
We believe we did do our job in Wisconsin.
But you didn't.
You were supposed to be on the House to at least be on the House floor to allow them to have a vote, and you didn't do it.
Why not?
I'm not so sure that's my job today.
My job today is to delay a vote on a piece of legislation.
People in the state have said we have not had time to consider the consequences.
Oh, so the Senate's now saying, no, no, no, no.
Our job is to run away from this vote because the people of the state of Wisconsin have said that they haven't had time to consider the consequences.
We are doing our job.
So here's a Democrat senator from Wisconsin, Jim Hoffer and Holperin.
I'm not sure how he pronounces it, admitting, yeah, I'm doing my job.
I ran away.
But David Hale, a Wisconsin Tea Party or Rockford Tea Party founder, continued.
This is my friend from the Tea Party.
What's your position in the Senate, sir?
Senator, why aren't you in Wisconsin doing your job?
I was.
I was doing three.
Why didn't you?
Is there a three-year-old?
Why didn't you?
Why did you flee the state, sir?
Why did you flee the state of Wisconsin so you wouldn't have to do your job, sir?
For our job right now.
Okay, what's your name, sir?
This is what the media would normally be doing.
What are you guys running away for?
What are you doing?
I am doing my job.
My job is to run away.
My job is to avoid the vote.
And we'll be back.
We will continue right after this.
Here's something for all of you people on the protest march, you unionistas.
I have no doubt this radio program is blaring in various parts of this protest in Wisconsin.
You unionistas and the rest of you Democrats, you better think long and hard about whether you want mob rule in this country or not.
Because remember, according to all the polls, last November bears me out on this.
We have by far the biggest mob.
It ain't even close.
We have the biggest mob.
You want mob rule?
How many people belong to unions these days?
12, 13%?
I don't recall the actual number.
Well, that's non-governmental.
I'm not talking about governmental.
Non-governmental is 8%.
The governmental is 12% or 13%.
The reason it's not more is that nobody else can afford them.
All right, who's next?
Where are we going?
Eric in Wilmington, Delaware.
Welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
All right.
Hey, I'm calling up.
I know this is off topic.
It's about the Community Reinvestment Act.
You said that was the cause of the meltdown in the 08 election.
It was actually, and you don't see many reports on this.
It was the run on the money market.
The Reserve Bank money market fund was they broke the buck.
And if you remember, there was a Congressman Janet Kowski that was on C-SPAN that said that there was a run on the money market account, and it was in a day the U.S. economy would be collapsed in the world economy in 24 hours.
And I haven't seen much many people looking at it, but I have like Chuck Schumer in July.
I'm saying this is all, this is my sum of small fears conspiracy theory here.
Chuck Schumer, he had a run on IndyMac to help tilt the election for Obama.
Then he had Reid calling for the insurance companies, an insurance company failing to help tilt the economy to go bad.
And I don't know if I can't prove it, but we played that soundbite from Congressman Paul Kanjorski.
He was from Pennsylvania.
We played the soundbite, then we started looking into it.
And he walked that back.
It was a bogus report.
We found that there was no way there could have been a meltdown like that, and nobody in the financial markets would have known about it.
Somebody got a hold of Kanjorski and you really, and this is not the first time for him.
I mean, you're really off the trail here.
You get the mule back on the road and take it and walk that back, which he did.
It sounded good.
I'll admit it to you out there, Eric, that sounded good.
And it was very confusing because you're right.
He said it was a run on money market funds.
And then it said not the kind of money markets you think of when you hear money market funds, like consumer private money markets, something entirely different.
So we looked into it and found out that it was that was not the case.
They were claiming $500 billion had disappeared overnight and nobody would notice it.
Now, this is not possible.
It didn't happen.
The Community Redevelopment Act, in and of itself, was not at fault.
It was years and years and years of implementation of that after it was well known that it was causing all kinds of problems.
The Community Redevelopment Act worked in direct contravention of common economic sense.
Loan money to people who can't pay it back knowingly.
Forced to do this by do-gooder Democrats under the guise of fairness and the concept of affordable housing.
So these lending institutions, who all had stockholders, had to come up with creative ways to make all that worthless paper worth something.
And they did it by creating all kinds of strange, weird financial products that amounted to insurance policies for the eventual default.
And they were bought and then kicked down the can and repackaged and repackaged until finally they couldn't kick the can down the road anymore.
And then we were told we needed TARP and we needed $2 trillion lent from the Fed that nobody knew at the time where that money went.
And it was all because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are involved in this.
It's not the sole reason, but there's the foundation.
There's the reason for the, we're still in that economic mess today because of that.
Democrat policy.
Liberalism gave us the current climate.
It's really no more complicated than that.
You know, the derivatives is what they're called, how they protected themselves from these bad loans.
Derivatives were just spreading the risk around.
The Community Redevelopment Act put the rot in the market.
Think of a staircase, wooden staircase.
You inject it with rot, the Community Redevelopment Act.
Finally, people couldn't walk up the staircase anymore.
They had to get to the top somehow.
So they started building alternative routes, all of those equally worthless with no value because the thing at the beginning of it had no value.
How in the world can a loan that will never be paid back have any value at all, no matter what you do?
The Bush administration tried 17 times to stop this and to reform it.
And each time, the regulators, when brought before committees chaired by or membershipped by people like Barney Frank, were just raked over the coals for being cold-hearted, mean-spirited, cruel, much like what we're seeing now about the governor of Wisconsin.
Cold-hearted, mean-spirited, and cruel.
This guy's got a similar problem.
He can't pay what people are demanding.
It's liberalism.
Well, look at, I guarantee, here's this.
Anytime there's a problem in this country, two things.
Look for them, you'll find them.
Liberalism and unions.
That'll explain 90% of what's wrong.
Who's next?
Elbert, Colorado.
Richard.
Hello, sir.
I really appreciate your patience.
You've been holding on since before the program started.
Thanks for taking my call, Roger.
You bet, Richard.
Hey, on a lighter note, I just, do you remember back in 1989 when we had Manuel Noriega holed up in the Vatican Embassy in Panama?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Pineapple face, grapefruit face.
Emmanuel Noriege was holed up in the Papal Nuncio down there.
Yes, sir.
And the Army set up these large speakers and used loud rock and roll to drive them out.
It drove them nuts.
Well, I've got an idea for Wisconsin right now.
Someone should set up speakers at the Wisconsin State House, but not blast rock and roll.
Oh, no.
They need to blast this show, the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I like it.
I like.
That would be, that would be just so cool.
People driving through there with their car windows down and this show blaring to these protesters to hear it.
Oh, that would tick them off.
That would send them over the edge.
That would drive the union thugs out.
That would be great.
Richard, thanks very much.
I appreciate that reminder.
That was, in fact, it was that incident, ladies and gentlemen, that actually gave birth for the first use of something, an idea for which came on this program, the All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion.
You remember that, Snerdley?
This is back in the early days of the Women in Combat argument.
And we here at the EIB Network, always wanting to find compromise, came up with a way to affect this.
The All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion.
Let's see if I can remember how it worked.
We all know that women, when housed or grouped together over a period of time, end up having their menstrual cycles synchronized.
We don't know why, but we just know it happens.
Then we decided let certain women into the military and have these certain kinds of women be housed at the same place the same time over a period of time, and therefore we would have a combat-ready group of women on PMS whenever we needed them because of the miracles of the synchronized menstrual cycle.
Now, the All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion consisted of feminazis, banshees, Amazons who wanted to go into war and so forth.
And we theorized if you want to get Noriega out of there, because I'm not, did the rock music work or was it just an irritant?
I forget which.
It might have worked.
But we speculated here.
We theorized that Noriega sitting inside the Papal Nuncio and hearing Molly Yard shout, this is an outrage.
And looking out the window and seeing the All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion headed your way, you might give up immediately surrender.
That's how this program affects compromise.
We've been working at this since this program started, finding mutual ways to achieve similar goals.
You could, if maybe driving through Madison blaring this program is a bit much, how about blaring prayers?
Sort of like Friday prayers in Cairo.
Just to have a bunch of people and loudspeakers praying.
Well, I know these are liberals.
It could be considered assault.
By the way, Obama, during all of this, what's Obama doing?
Our organizer-in-chief met in the Bay Area last night, San Francisco, with a bunch of computer and software gurus.
Apple, Steve Jobs was there, Mark Zuckerberg, Google.
I wonder how many of them were union.
In fact, I'll bet you that none of the companies represented at the Obama dinner last night were unionized.
We know Apple isn't.
Microsoft was not there.
Steve Baldur, Microsoft Printer, wondering what happened to me.
How come I wasn't invited?
But you had a big hedge funder there.
Not a hedge funder, a venture capitalist guy there.
You had Eric Schmidt of Google, Steve Jobs of Apple, Zuckerberg.
Is it Zuckerberg or Zuckerberg?
Zuckerberg, I've not heard it pronounced.
I thought I heard it pronounced Zuckerberg once, and it looks like Zuckerberg from the Facebook guy.
And there were some other people.
I'll bet you no union people there.
But they were laying out 2012 strategies.
2012 tech strategies.
Like, how's Google's search engine going to help us?
Anyway, that's what was going on while Obama's minions are raising hell in Madison, Wisconsin.
James and Yonkers, hello, sir.
Glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
Yes, sir.
I just wanted to hit a couple of points, especially with these teachers and unions.
My mother used to be a high school teacher.
She raised four kids, and while doing that, gained her PhD in biology, and now she's a professor at a college and head of director of the biology program.
But in the last couple of years, I've deed a couple of teachers, probably about four of them.
And there's one thing in common now.
The new generation of teachers is attracting different people.
They have three months off in prime weather of the best time of the year, and that's attracting a bunch of party animals.
They get the Jersey shore houses or the houses in the Hamptons, at least the ones that I've dated.
They party like rock stars.
They go into it for the extra 30 days off a year that they have during the school year.
And it's just attracting a lot of people.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold it.
Hang on here, James.
You need to slow down to accommodate accommodating my hearing.
Sure.
These new teachers, inuberry, have three months off.
They're party animals.
They get Jersey shore houses, houses in the Hamptons.
They party like rock stars.
They go into it for the extra 30 days a year that they have during the school year.
And it's attracting a different kind of person to be a teacher.
Is that what you're saying?
That's absolutely right.
And they get the tenure after three years.
You know, the last one I dated, 2006, okay, Al-Qaeda came up in a conversation.
She thought it was a region in the Middle East, and she was teaching fifth graders, okay?
I mean, and she was tenured at that point.
I mean, it's ridiculous the kind of people going into this field.
It's not like my mother who worked hard, gets the PhD, works hard.
I mean, just for one example, if you give me a little more time, they would give you raises for these postgraduate credits.
So she had a master's in education, and then every 15 credits after the master's, they would get another raise of like $78,000.
So I was curious.
I was going for my master's engineering at the time, and I asked her, I said, well, what do you have to do for these three credits or whatever?
She would take a weekend course.
You would have a weekend seminar, not even consecutive.
You'd have one weekend, one weekend off, then the next weekend.
And they would let them out early, and that would be three credits.
Where do they get the physics, this, that?
James, where'd he get the money for all this partying?
They're making great salaries.
I just looked up one of my networks.
They may be making great salaries, but Jersey shore houses in Hampton's cottages are not that affordable.
No, they go in with all their friends.
There's about 12 friends at the old ship bench.
It only costs them maybe $2,000 each for the whole summer.
So they go in with 12 people.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, I mean, so you got 12 teachers at a little cottage, two grand a month, throwing orgies, essentially.
Pretty much.
Pretty much.
Because all their buddies, the firefighters get them too, and the cops, and they all party pretty hard down there.
Yeah.
It's unbelievable.
And your mother would never go in for that kind of thing.
No, absolutely not.
Now she's actually turning 60 this St. Patty's Day.
And she sees it too in a college of kids nowadays.
It's unbelievable.
Well, I must admit, I had not factored this into the equation.
I had not yet made the jump here from teacher equaling party animal.
But interesting.
It's very interesting.
James, I appreciate the call.
What might else it explain?
Oh, why some of the young teacher babes are engaging in sexual activity with the boy toy students?
Yeah, that is happening with greater frequency, we have to admit.
It is.
You know what's big news out there today?
Honestly, this is big news.
And this is not, this is by no means unprecedented.
But some, this is about high school wrestling.
Some male student refused to wrestle a girl because that's not how women are treated.
It's not how they're supposed to be treated.
And so she wins by forfeit.
There was another high school female wrestler who did wrestle with a guy.
She got creamed.
And now there are all kinds of chat groups on television over there describing whether or not this is okay and does this fit with Title IX?
Should this happen?
Should this be something that girls should be involved with?
This is not new.
This is huge news out there today.
But it's not the first time the story's come up.
This story, we've seen a variation of the story recently years.
Now, the girl wrestler and her family approve of the boy's statement.
This is not how girls and women are to be treated.
They say they respect him for it, yet they still send her out there to the mat.
He is an in the male student, is an evangelical Christian.
He didn't want to be part of this.
But I mean, all watching cable TV here, like Megan Kelly, she's got a roundtable of women talking about this.
I haven't been able to hear what they're saying, obviously, because I am hosting the program.
But this is huge news.
I'm just wondering where this is headed.
You know, once this gets started, this stuff does not go away.
Well, it's just that, you know, Snerdley, it's just that you just reminded me this, you know, with the female students hitting on male students.
That never happened.
When we were in school, that never happened.
A chance to wrestle with girls, and that never happened.
I tell you, it's just it's amazing how quickly cultural things change.
Yeah, I had to do ballroom dancing in college.
That was a required PE course.
And here I am having it out there to do ballroom dancing taught by a drill sergeant from the wax.
And here these guys get to roll around with women on the mat sanctioned.
Oh, well.
Oh, well.
Okay, here's more on Obamacare.
The regime is asking Judge Vinson to clarify his ruling.
The regime's Justice Department asked the federal judge in Florida yesterday to tell states that they have to continue to enact Obamacare despite his ruling the law is unconstitutional.
In a motion to clarify, regime lawyers asked Judge Vinson to make clear that states can't ignore the new health care laws while his ruling is being appealed.
At stake, according to the regime's motion, are provisions of the new law that would create chaos if ignored by the states.
These provisions include 2011 changes in Medicare payment rates.
Delaying those changes could cause major delays and errors in the payment of the roughly 100 million Medicare claims processed every month.
Holy smokely, 100 million Medicare claims processed every month.
Now, what's really going on here, the regime wants the states to have to pay these new higher mandates for Medicare and Medicaid, which could very well bankrupt the states.
That's why the states don't want any part of this.
They're going to go bankrupt with the transfer of all these federal responsibilities to them.
You'll note here in this filing by the regime, we're not hearing any real argument from the Department of Justice.
The regime's lawyers are simply asking or making a bald assertion that even though the judges ruled it unconstitutional, the states ought to continue to implement it.
But don't worry.
If the judge says no, the states can't proceed to enact an unconstitutional law.
The regime will simply appeal his response to a friendly Democrat-appointed judge.
So that's the latest on this.
The regime has gone to the judge.
You tell a states they can't avoid it.
You tell a state that they have to continue to implement what you said is unconstitutional because it's still under appeal.
You tell them, judge, you tell them.
The regime says this will not create any chaos.
Whatsoever.
Time will tell.
Well, this is something we're watching like a hawk here at the EIB network.
The House GOP is on a tear.
Just voted 240 to 185 to defund Planned Parenthood, folks.
And this, folks, the House has also voted 246 to 182 to bar federal money from being used to enforce the individual mandate provision of Obamacare.
They did it.
The House Republicans are on a tear.
Defund Planned Parenthood and bar federal funds from being used to implement the individual mandate.
And on that, we wrap up a sterling week of broadcast excellence.
Have a great weekend, folks, and we will be back on Monday.
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