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March 4, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 4, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Yeah, we're back.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
It's Friday, ladies and gentlemen.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
One big exciting hour remaining.
Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Email address, lrushbaugh at eibnet.com.
We're on the verge of having today's program declared a bomb.
So I've got to move in fast here and try to save the day, ladies and gentlemen.
I yeah, got an email rush.
You can really tell you're looking irritated here.
You better cover it up fast.
I can tell.
At any rate, ladies and gentlemen, not a total bomb.
Don't take it personally in there, Snurdley.
Not a total bomb, but drastic action clearly called for.
Again, telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Before I get to this agent business and the guns in Mexico, let me expand on this NASA business.
A rocket carrying an Earth observation satellite is in the Pacific Ocean after a failed launch attempt.
Taurus XL carrying the Glory satellite lifted off early, about 5 o'clock in the morning Eastern Time and is now in the Pacific Ocean.
And during a news conference today, officials explained that a protective shell, or what's called a fairing, atop the rocket did not separate from the satellite as it should have about three minutes into the launch.
That left the Glory spacecraft without the velocity to reach orbit, and it just kerplunked in there.
NASA suffered a similar mishap two years ago, almost to the day, when a satellite that would have studied global warming crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after launching from the same kind of rocket that carried Glory.
Yeah, NASA launch director Omar Baez said we failed to make orbit.
Indications are the satellite and the rockets in the southern Pacific Ocean somewhere.
Now, had the satellite today reached orbit, it would have been on a three-year mission to analyze how airborne particles affect Earth's climate.
Besides monitoring particles in the atmosphere, it would also have tracked solar radiation to determine the sun's effect on climate change, which, of course, the global warming people have already said the sun is not a factor.
Glory was supposed to study tiny atmospheric particles known as aerosols, which reflect and trap sunlight.
The vast majority occurs naturally, spewed into the atmosphere by volcanoes, forest fires, desert storms, and your shaving cream.
Aerosols can also come from man-made sources, such as the burning of fossil fuel.
The $424 million mission managed by the NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
So, same rocket, same kind of satellite, same problem.
The fairing failed to open.
Now, I'm not a conspiracy buff here.
The satellite, the earlier one that ended up in the Pacific was called the Orbiting Carbon Observatory.
It crashed on takeoff almost exactly two years ago to the day.
Now, it's up there studying various aspects of global warming.
We know global warming is a hoax, and we know that elements of NASA have been part of it.
And we know that the regime runs NASA.
We know that the regime has shut down the shuttle.
No more manned spaceflights.
We know that the regime was going to turn NASA itself over to Muslim outreach.
We know that the regime is dead set on people believing that humanity is destroying the planet via climate change, global warming, or what have you.
And we know that the regime is hell-bent on getting rid of fossil fuels.
We know that the regime is hell-bent on creating this so-far non-existent green energy technology.
We know that the regime owns an automobile manufacturing plant manufacturing an electric car called a Volt, marketed by Chevrolet.
The regime owns all of this.
We also know, thanks to leaked emails from the Hadley Climate Center at the University of East Anglia, that all this is a hoax.
Or at best, a fraud, man-made global warming.
So, two satellites, two years apart, to the days, same kind of rocket, Kerplunk, Pacific Ocean.
Why waste this money that could have gone to the poor and to women and minorities?
$424 million.
Do you realize it's in the southern Pacific now?
Look at all the people it could have fed.
Look at all of the subprime mortgages it could have financed.
Look at all the affordable housing it could have bought.
Look at all the Chevy Vaults it could have purchased and given away to people under the guise of sales.
So at least at least there will not be officially collected data by these two satellites because they don't exist.
They're in the ocean.
At least there will not be any officially collected data which would contradict the facts.
That is that there's no man-made global warming going on.
In fact, there might not even be any warming period going on.
So that's my limited theory, and it's probably a stretch.
Probably just an accident.
These two things are going down two years apart, same rocket.
But let's face it, folks, global warming on the issue scale is way, way, way down there now.
I mean, they've lost that issue.
Not that they ever give any issues up, but they've lost it.
All right, now this from CBS News, this is Cheryl Atkisson reporting.
Federal agent John Dodson says that what he was asked to do was beyond belief.
He was intentionally letting guns go into Mexico.
Yes, ma'am, Dodson told CBS News the agency was letting guns go to Mexico.
An ATF senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, John Dodson's job is to stop gun trafficking across the border.
Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch gun trafficking happen.
Investigators call the tactic letting guns walk.
In this case, walking into the hands of criminals who would use them in Mexico and in the United States.
Dodson's bosses say that never happened.
But now he's risking his job to go public.
I'm boots on the ground in Phoenix.
I'm telling you, we have been doing it every day since I've been here.
Here I am.
Tell me I didn't do the things I did.
Tell me you didn't order me to do the things I did.
Tell me it didn't happen.
And now you got a name on it, mine.
You have a face to put with it, mine.
So here I am.
Someone now tell me it didn't happen.
Agent Dodson and other sources say that the gun walking strategy was approved all the way up to the Justice Department, Eric Holder.
The idea was to see where the guns ended up.
We wanted guns.
These are AK-47s, by the way, that we're talking about and the like.
We wanted the guns to end up in Mexico so we could see exactly where they ended up and then build a big case and take down a cartel.
And we didn't even tell the government of Mexico this is what we were doing.
Project Gunrunner has been going on since 2005.
Now, this case was named Fast and Furious.
And it dates to 2010, maybe 2009.
Surveillance video obtained by CBS News shows suspected drug cartel suppliers carrying boxes of weapons to their cars at a Phoenix gun shop.
The long boxes shown in the video being loaded were AK-47 type assault rifles.
It turns out the ATF not only allowed it, they videotaped it.
Documents show the inevitable result.
The guns that ATF let go began showing up at crime scenes in Mexico.
And as the ATF stood by watching thousands of weapons hit the streets, the Fast and Furious group supervisor noted the escalating Mexican violence.
One email noted 958 killed in March 2010, most violent month since 2005.
The same email notes, our subject purchased 359 firearms during March alone, including numerous Barrett.50 caliber rifles.
The agent, Dodson, feels that ATF was partly to blame for the escalating violence in Mexico and on the border.
I even asked them if they could see the correlation between the two, he said.
And the more our guys buy, the more violence we're having down there.
Senior agents, including Dodson, told CBS News they confronted their supervisors over and over.
And their answer, according to Dodson, was, if you're going to make an omelet, you have to break some eggs.
So much opposition to the gun walking that an ATF supervisor issued an email noting a schism among the agents.
Whether you care or not, people of rank and authority at headquarters are paying close attention to this case.
We're doing what they envisioned.
If you don't think this is fun, you're in the wrong line of work.
Maybe the Maricopa County Jail is hiring detention officers.
You can get 30 grand to serve lunch to inmates if you don't like what you're doing here.
Dodson said, we just knew this wasn't going to end well.
There's no way it could.
On December 14, 2010, Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was gunned down.
Agent Dodson got the bad news from a colleague.
According to Dodson, they said, Did you hear about the Border Patrol agent?
I said, Yeah.
And they said, Well, it was one of the fast and furious guns.
There's not really much you can say after that.
Two assault rifles ATF had let go nearly a year before were found at Terry's murder.
Dodson said, I fell guilty.
I mean, it's crushing.
I don't know how to explain it.
Senator Grassley began investigating after his office spoke to Dodson and a dozen other ATF sources, all telling the same story.
For the life of me, I can't understand the purpose of this operation.
I do not.
I'm open to having it explained to me.
Obama, just yesterday, in the press conference with Felipe Coderon, assured the government of Mexico that U.S. agents working in Mexico would not be armed.
But we're letting guns walk from American, you know, Phoenix gun shows.
They're being bought by Mexican cartel members and walked back home.
And they end up being used for criminal purposes.
I guess the stated purpose here is to capture these guys in criminal act.
It's one thing to buy the gun because it's legal, a gun show, take it across the border and use it in a crime.
That's apparently what's going on.
That's what is meant by you got to break some eggs if you want to make an omelet.
Open line Friday, El Rushbo, a brief obscene profit timeout.
We'll be right back and resume after this.
One other thing.
I don't go to gun shows, but I don't, do they sell that kind of quantity?
I mean, can somebody walk in and buy that kind of quantity of AK-47s?
Can you go to a gun show by 200 AK-47s and walk them across the border?
Does it sound right?
I don't know.
But there's an ATF operation and they are letting this happen.
Now, you know, don't forget now, Obama wanted evidence.
The left has an accusation out there that crime and drugs, you think they're coming from Mexico?
Remember this?
Crime and it's all part of the immigration business here.
The pro-immigration, the amnesty crowd, is questioning this notion that crime and drugs come from Mexico.
So what better way to counter that than to have the guns come from America?
To take Mexico out of the equation.
So it's not, the guns coming in are not a problem as far as immigration.
Those guns are Americans.
It's a whole different thing.
What better way to stop one of the arguments that would say tighten the borders?
All the crime, all the drugs, all the guns coming from Mexico.
That's one argument.
How best to nullify that than to end up arranging for the guns to be American guns?
I wouldn't put it past this bunch.
You know damn well they want amnesty.
They're losing independent voters so fast.
We know what this is all about.
We know what the immigration push is all about.
Getting new voters for the Democrat Party, expanding the welfare state.
Pure and simple, that's what it's about.
And yet all this crime coming into the country from Mexico, the drug cartels, the guns, well, what better way to refute the argument that it's coming from Mexico than for the guns to end up being American?
So you run the regime.
You are the regime.
You come up with a program designed to, as far as public is concerned, be able to track the drug cartels.
And so you let American guns walk into Mexico.
Those guns end up being used in crimes in the United States.
Those are not Mexican guns, the regime can say.
Those are American guns.
We don't have a problem here.
Do we have to apologize to Mexico for sending the guns to them?
Well, no, remember now, they're not officially admitting that's what's going on.
We've had a whistleblower, Agent Dodson, saying this is what's going on.
But we're not admitting it.
But the story is now out.
The whistleblower has done his job.
CBS, source of the story, the guns or the gun that killed the border agent is an American AK-47.
It wasn't a Mexican gun.
This has been a huge argument, folks.
It's been a huge argument.
You know, with the ranchers being shot, all this Arizona trying to stench, staunch the flow of illegals.
One of the big arguments has been the crime element, the criminal element of all this.
Mexican guns and so forth.
So now you have, well, looky, we're here, look at here, American guns, not Mexican guns.
That's just a thought.
Speaking of all of this, now we had, I had this story yesterday, and I purposely waited all day today to add to it.
And I have to tell you, I haven't seen it anywhere.
Well, it may have been reported, but I'm telling you, a big deal is not being made of this.
Police made a disturbing discovery yesterday outside the Wisconsin State Capitol building, dozens of rounds of live ammunition.
The building has been the scene of angry protests by thousands of people over Governor Scott Walker's proposal to curb collective bargaining rights.
The state workers' deputies found 11 rounds at one entrance of the building, 29 rounds at another, and a single bullet was discovered at a third entrance.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Chief Susan Reisling says all the bullets were hollow points, one of the most deadly kinds of ammo.
It's not known who left them behind.
Now, imagine if this story were the same with one difference.
The ammo was found on the site of a Tea Party rally.
Now, let me speculate.
Let's imagine that this cache of ammo found at a Tea Party rally.
Obama would immediately give a speech.
The speech would make Clinton's Oklahoma City smears look like high praise.
Talk radio would be condemned.
The unfairness doctrine would be imposed.
There'd be so much pressure.
A majority of Republicans would favor the move.
Tea Party rallies would be identified as clear and present dangers.
Be an ammunition tax passed.
Can you imagine the havoc if ammo like this was found at the site of a Tea Party rally?
And yet, where the media?
The media hates guns.
Media hates ammunition.
Where are they?
Where is this story?
Who the hell has been occupying the building?
Who's been raising hell at the building?
Who's been trying to foment violence and who knows?
Who's been doing all the bathing?
Who's wearing the provocative signs?
Who's shouting the provocative words?
The union types.
The Democrats, their allies.
And all of a sudden, a disturbing discovery.
Dozens of rounds of live ammo.
Reaction?
Ho-ho.
I'm nothing here.
Nothing to see here.
We found it.
Everything's cool.
Everything's safe.
But if this were a Tea Party rally, federal judge.
Is it a federal judge?
A final group of 50 protesters sang solidarity forever as they left the state capitol under a judge's order last night.
Five stragglers were the last to leave around 10 o'clock in a two-week occupation of the statehouse by opponents of the governor's ended governor proposal ended peaceably.
Dane County Circuit Judge John Albert ordered that by Monday the Capitol return to its previous policy of free and open access whenever state business is being conducted.
Now, I don't know if you've seen it.
The Capitol building in Wisconsin and Madison, one of the most beautiful in the nation.
And there's now $7.5 million in damage and 41 rounds of ammunition found in this new era of civility, ushered in by our dear president, Barack Obama.
After all, these people are just our neighbors.
They're our friends.
We really shouldn't vilify them.
They might get mad and shoot.
Well, it's official.
The Obama regime celebrating the latest jobs report, 8.9% unemployment in February, which is down a full tenth of one point from the previous month.
That's a full half percentage point in the last 20 months, they will say.
But 9 to 8.9 looks big.
Looks, you know, 8.9 looks much, much better than 9.0 does, even though it's just a one-tenth of 1% drop.
But just for fun, let's assume it's true on its face.
No in-depth analysis on things like private sector job loss, people dropping out of the workforce, things like that.
The Heritage Foundation would compare this to Ronald Reagan's first two years on the job when unemployment in the country went down three percentage points because jobs in the private sector were actually created by reduced government and reduced burdens on employers.
I mean, you can get an accurate picture on all of this in a report the Heritage has posted for all to read at askheritage.org.
So the unemployment went down three points because jobs were actually created.
The question, are jobs actually being created?
That's the real question here.
With this 9.0 to 8.9, are jobs being created?
No.
We're simply recalculating how many jobs there are to be had.
What we know is that job openings are down 30%.
Number of jobs available down 30%.
The real question is job creation.
Is there any?
Well, go to askheritage.org.
You'll be able to answer the question.
If that's a site you visit regularly, you're going to find a new set of questions posed by heritage researchers with their conservative quiz.
I'm going to be honest, they tell me that nearly all of you aced the first quiz they posted earlier this week.
So there's a new true-false quiz.
It's six questions for you to test your knowledge on.
Again, the web address, askheritage.org.
It's also where you become a member.
Well worth your time.
We're worth the, I mean, minuscule $25 it requires.
Tim in Salem, Oregon.
Back to you.
Open Line Friday and the phones.
Hello, sir.
Ditto's Rush.
Thank you very much.
When the changes are made in Social Security, what's going to be the reaction?
Well, what specific changes do you think are inevitable?
Well, I think there's so many that I don't know.
Okay, well, what leads you to believe there are going to be changes in Social Security?
Because they keep talking about it all the time.
They're going to reduce the benefits.
Well, when was the last time this was tried?
I don't know that I know, Rush.
George Bush tried this.
It was one of the first things he did in the second term after 2008.
And the reason I ask is because it died in about nine months because the left just destroyed him.
Bush gave up.
His whole effort on Social Security was privatization.
I'm going to privatize a little of it.
And that was a, according to people looking at it from the back end of it after it failed, that was the wrong way to go about this.
Because of that word security in there, social security, that means to people it's always going to be there.
And if you're going to privatize it, that opened up quite a door for the critics to just run right through and say the security part here is for the first time since the program was created being tampered with.
Because the money is going to go to the stock market.
And we all know what happens in the stock market.
It goes up and down, and sometimes people lose their shirts.
And are we going to have people lose their shirts?
And so it was a great idea.
It had to be done.
And privatizing a certain percentage of everybody's retirement is a great idea.
The sales effort was insufficient for this.
Now, you're referring here to the fact that Social Security is an entitlement and people are dancing around having to deal with these entitlements at some point, but nobody's really had the guts to do so.
One of the things that they're talking about is raising the retirement age.
Another thing is privatizing a certain percentage of the contributions that people make to it every year or what have you.
Reducing the benefits for current contributors, not current beneficiaries.
The fastest way to kill any social security reform is to tell current recipients, hey, guess what?
The whatever it is, 700 bucks a month you get just to pick a figure.
Next year, it's going to be 600.
Finished.
You're dead.
It ain't going to happen.
Effort brought to a screeching halt.
When any entitlement, look at what's happening in Wisconsin.
And the short answer to your question is, what's the reaction going to be?
Pure 100% childish panic and violence brought to you by the usual suspects on the left to try to stop it.
The left does not want any reform that will reduce the size of government, that will reduce the agent of government's involvement in your life.
I mean, it's going to be huge.
Doing it is going to require sufficient Republican majorities and a Republican in the White House to do so.
Matthew, in Waco, Texas, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Mr. Limbaugh, a huge honor, sir.
I discovered you when I was 12.
Thank you so much for all the things you've taught me about life and excellence.
I really appreciate you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Man, yesterday, I'm working diligently to better myself, sitting at my computer, making video games for the iPhone, your favorite product, and I suddenly find myself yelling at my radio.
Some jerk is calling you a racist.
Completely unfounded accusations flying at you live on the air for like five minutes, and you won't hang up on him.
I lose 15 minutes of precious productivity wondering why you're entertaining him so long.
That's it?
You didn't feel vindicated or validated when it was over with?
Man, I don't know.
I mean...
Look, I know where you're coming from.
You're looking out there.
You're saying, look, you're a Rushlin boy.
You don't have to defend yourself to these schlubs.
Don't waste our time defending yourself.
But here's why I took the time.
A, we had somebody that was not going to resort to name-calling in 30 seconds.
It wasn't a typical he did resort to name-calling snurdy.
Is that what you're saying?
We had a very rarity here.
This guy was not resorting to name-calling.
He was willing to talk about it.
But there's another factor, Matthew.
It's not just me that they're calling a racist.
you and everybody in this audience.
And I have to tell you, it infuriates me, this racist business, and I see so many people on our side of the aisle run from the charge, cower in fear of the charge.
So many people on our side have willingly silenced themselves, have willingly shut themselves up.
And in doing so, they have decided they're not going to be critical of a huge portion of liberalism.
Well, I'm not going to be silenced on it.
The charge is baseless.
It is, of course, untrue.
And so I took the time to not just defend myself, but everybody in this audience and every other conservative, Tea Party or whatever, the Tea Party is routinely laid.
The president just yesterday, it was revealed in a book, says that the Tea Party is dominated by racist elements, which is gutless.
The Attorney General has said we're cowards because we will not discuss race in this country.
Well, the president leads the coward parade.
He won't discuss it publicly.
He's president of everybody, but he reserves his comments for a book.
It's not even published yet or soon to be published, the contents of which have been leaked.
I was illustrating absurdity by allowing that guy to illustrate his.
So that was a decision made on the fly.
I don't look at that as any waste of time at all.
And I don't look at it as though I have to defend myself.
Well, I looked at that as an opportunity to refute some of the worst, most ridiculous, baseless allegations and charges that there are.
Because liberals listen to this show, as was evidenced by that call.
And there are many purposes for this program.
I have a whole lot of accomplishments here that I have as objectives.
A number of things I'm trying to get done on this program.
There are a whole lot of elements combined in this presentation.
That's what makes this program unique.
It's not just one thing.
That guy and his call afforded an excellent opportunity to knock something out of the park that needs to be knocked out of the park by every conservative and every Republican, most of whom have been coward into silence in even dealing with this.
So part of it was providing a little leadership.
Part of it was dealing with the substance of it.
Part of it was whacking it out of the park.
Part of it was answering it for all the other liberals and sending a message.
Don't waste your time calling here with the same attempt.
It isn't going to work.
You cannot cow me.
You cannot intimidate me.
And another part of it out there, Matthew, was having fun.
You know, you have fun building your video game apps for the iPhone.
I have fun dealing with liberals like that.
I have fun playing Barack the Magic Negro.
I have fun explaining how Barack the Magic Negro came about when a guy is telling me I invented the phrase, I invented the, I did no such thing.
They did.
It was an opportunity to ram every allegation he was making right back in the face of every liberal listening to this program.
It was an opportunity I was not going to pass up.
And I dare say, Matthew, not to me critical here, but the vast majority of listeners were standing up, giving me a standing O and a bunch of high fives.
Where were you?
Just as we predicted yesterday, just as we predicted, the National Football League and the Players Union have agreed to a seven-day extension of talks toward a new deal.
Now, this extension, here's the conventional wisdom on the extension.
The extension would not have happened if they weren't close to a deal.
The fact that they agreed to extend the time beyond the drop-dead date of midnight tonight means that they have made ground, serious ground, on substantive issues that could lead to a settlement.
So that's what they're now up against.
And so the wizards of smart and the sports media trying to figure out, okay, what is it that's happened here?
What's changed things?
I mean, their conventional wisdom was lockout.
Guaranteed, no way we can avoid it.
Going to happen.
And all of a sudden, people involved in the meeting started leaking against the rules, but nevertheless, they leaked.
Imagine that.
And conflicting reports came out that substantive ground was being made.
And then Judge Doty ruled that the owners cannot use the $4 billion advance payment from the TV networks to tide them over during a lockout without sharing some of it with the players.
So that is said to be one of the primary occurrences here that has caused the owners to back off.
I happen to believe something entirely different.
I think there's been bluster on the part of both sides leading up to this.
Like I said yesterday, in this economy, with the popularity of this game is its peak, like it is, these people at the end of the day are not going to rip it apart and destroy it.
And they'll get something done here.
And there will be an 18-game season.
There will be.
And players will let the owners take more than a billion off the top, probably a billion three to a billion five.
Rosters will be expanded.
Maybe an additional bye week during the season.
Players will be paid a little bit more.
It's all going to work out.
Get this from Fox News.
Connecticut town ordered to pay for union workers coffee.
A Connecticut town must provide their union workers free coffee and milk according to a ruling from the State Board of Labor Relations.
The board also ordered town leaders to reinstate dressed down Fridays for the union clerical and custodial workers.
The dispute involved the town of Orange, Connecticut, and a local chapter of the United Public Service Employees Union.
The Connecticut Republican Party chairman Chris Healy told Fox News Radio, shows you how crazy state government has become.
Healy said he was especially troubled that not only will taxpayers be forced to buy coffee and milk for the union workers, they'll also be required to pay $10,000 in legal bills.
No, no, no, no.
Just happened.
It just happened.
Orange, Connecticut.
Have you ever heard of Orange, Connecticut?
Where is it?
Okay, is it New York suburbia?
Okay, it's part of the tri-state area.
So it's not up near Bristol.
It's not up in Hartford.
It's all right.
Okay, Snerdley is in New York.
The whole state, Connecticut's so small, the whole thing's a silver.
All right.
Never mind where it is.
The Connecticut town of Orange just lost, and they must buy union workers free coffee and milk.
And this is a ruling from the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations.
Now, you want to talk about a that's not impossible.
It happened here.
It just happened.
The state board of labor relations.
A state, a who runs the state?
What party?
May I ask you?
You think this is unbelievable?
A Democrat state, a union which is a money laundering operation for Democrats, would require a town to buy its clerical and custodial workers their coffee?
How much money are we talking?
When you get to the point that an employee can't even pay for his own coffee, I know some companies offer coffee, others don't.
It's an option.
This town has no option.
Plus, I don't understand required to pay $10,000 in legal bills.
What?
If they don't like the coffee, they get to sue?
I don't know what that is, but Orange is on the coast, just past Bridgeport.
So it's on the coast of Long Island Sound.
I've probably flown over it going in there.
I fly into Bridgeport for the annual Fairfield Country Club member guest tournament.
At any rate, we got to take a brief time out here, folks, back to wrap up after this.
Okay, here you go.
The union had sued Orange, Connecticut, for the right to free coffee and milk.
The union had sued.
That's why the legal bills, the town had to pay $10,000 toward legal bills, even though it was the union that had sued.
So the town lost.
They got to buy the coffee and the milk, and they had to pay the legal bills of the union, which initiated a suit.
Which is, there's more, but I have a problem.
We've only got four seconds here to say goodbye.
Wish you a fine weekend.
We'll have more details on this or whatever else happens over the weekend on Monday.
So be here.
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