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March 2, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 2, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What was that?
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
Just another quiet evening at home, front of the TV, like every other day.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Oh, yeah, folks, open live Friday.
I know you can't wait.
Telephone number is 800-282-288-2.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, L Rushball at EIB net.com.
If you are new to the program today, and you might be, you might be interested in my first news story of the day.
It is a story from the UK Daily Mail.
And there's a news survey they have done of women in Great Britain.
And one third of the young women in Great Britain say that they would swap their IQ for larger breasts.
Did you hear that?
One third of women in the UK would swap their IQ for larger breasts.
Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Let me, if you're new to the program, explain to you what open line Friday is.
Monday through Thursday, when you call to get through and talk to me, you've got to talk about something I care about.
That's just the rule.
I don't want to sit here and be bored.
Nobody wants to listen to the hosts be bored.
But on Friday, we throw that out, and whatever you want to talk about is pretty much fair game.
If you have a question or comment or something that you think needs to be discussed that hasn't been, Friday is the day for it.
Now, I want to...
I want to lead off by uh explaining informing you what happened at our home last night.
It's actually uh late yesterday afternoon.
I was uh as usual, minding my own, actually working on on today's program, and I I got a flash from the uh chief of the security team.
We x-ray every bit of mail, every UPS, every FedEx gets X-rayed uh in a in its own separate building away from the uh from the house when it when it comes in.
Before it's open before anybody sees it, it gets X-rayed.
It is a giant X-ray machine, much like you would see at an airport.
It's huge.
It's professional thing, and the security team is diligent on this.
And the email I got contained a picture of the scan of this device, and I looked at it.
Uh they wanted to call the cops and have them come out and take it.
I said, by all means, call the police.
Uh this if you you would have done the same thing if you would have seen the X-ray scan of this of this package, and if you would have seen the outside uh and how it was dressed, you would have done the same thing.
And I really want to thank the uh Palm Beach Police Department and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, because they were they were right there.
Uh bomb squad came out and they took their time with it.
They did their own X-ray.
Uh, and they were working diligently with uh with our security team.
They looked at footage from the video cameras or just they did a complete thorough sweep of uh of everything, including the uh package, and finally determined that it was safe.
I mean, they even donned their bomb uniforms, the bomb suits, and they took it uh to a uh an off well they're still on the property, but they they took it uh uh to a location safe if it had been an explosive.
It turned out it wasn't.
But it was it on the X-ray, it was this really crude-looking electronic device.
Not to what I originally thought it was, I thought it was from a fan, because I've been talking about my hearing loss a lot.
I thought some fan had put together some crude attempt to help my hearing.
Because I know how much the audience loves me.
And uh turns out that's not what it was.
Uh what it was in itself is a little disturbing, but I'll not share all that with you.
But this is why uh we take the steps we do and and and go to the uh links we do for security and safety around the property.
The dogs uh are ready to.
In fact, we had a little fun or tried to last night during the 11 o'clock.
I mean, local news was there with their giant cranes with cameras looking into the property all night.
So about 10 to 11, about 10 to 11 last night, getting ready for the live shots, we said, let's let the dogs out.
Right as these guys are doing their live shots, that dogs will run to where these lights and cameras are and start barking left and right.
So we the first time we did it, Abby, the lead guard dog, uh thought she was being let out to go tinkle and did that and wanted to come back in.
So send her back out the second time she started barking up a storm, but I don't think she got close enough to be heard.
Uh we thought about taking in some tea.
The uh the news crews thanked them for their hard work hanging out from 4.30 in the afternoon until 11.30 with uh cameras probing into the property.
But we decided not to do that.
But it really the the the uh the police and the sheriff's department were were fantastic.
They did a uh a magnificent job.
And it's uh security team too.
Uh the the mail, the amount of stuff that comes to the property is voluminous.
And it takes quite a while each day to examine it all, which is why I uh I first heard about this at fourth.
I think the mail was uh came in around three o'clock, it was four when I when I got through at 4:30 something when I saw the note.
Uh and the picture of the X-ray and the outside of the uh outside of the box.
And I want to thank all of you.
Oh, we're inundated with emails from people all over.
Are you safe?
Are you okay?
And we were we were safe.
We were protected had it been some sort of an explosive device.
I mean, I uh don't think we were in any danger in that regard had it uh uh actually been an explosive device because of the great work of the uh sheriff's office and the uh the security team working together that we have there that uh goes into action when this kind of thing happens.
So that's what happened.
That's what it was.
No, I'm not I'm I'm not gonna describe the thing, folks.
It just would send chills up your spine if I were to tell you what the package actually contained.
So no point in uh in doing that.
Thing is, all of the systems in place worked flawlessly.
And again, thanks to the Palm Beach Police Department and the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
And I'm not making this up.
Shocking new research shows almost half of young women between 18 and 25 would prefer to have large breasts than a high IQ.
In the UK, a third even saying they would gladly swap.
So it's half that would prefer big boobs to an IQ.
A third of them say if they could they would swap their IQ for larger breasts.
Experts have blamed the growing obsession with celebrity culture among youngsters, together with the burgeoning market for plastic surgery.
Shocking new research.
Says that almost 60% of the respondents believe that men would be more interested in them romantically if they had bigger breasts and were a little dumber.
Sixty percent of the respondents believe that men would be more interested in them romantically if they had bigger breasts.
What do I think about that?
Well, I I can all I can tell you is that that would not be the case for me.
That might be for you, sturdily, but that that that would that would that would not be the case for me uh by any stretch.
And it comes amid widespread concern about the pressures put on modern-day women through advertising magazines and congressional hearings.
Kate uh Cat Banyard from the women's group UK Feminazis.
Sorry, no, no, UK Feminista said women face now unprecedented pressures to focus on their body.
Industries that focus on the way women look are flourishing, and that means that from a very early age, women are taught that the way they look matters more than what they do.
Now, this this is reminiscent.
This is a news story, right?
Somebody just decided that that fact is news.
From an early age, women are taught that the way they look matters more than what they do.
It reminds me of the Time magazine cover, I think back in 1998, 97, I always forget the exact year.
But there was a cover, story Time Magazine.
The editors at Time Magazine, a stop and think of this, they were stunned and shocked when they were told of research that proved men and women were actually born different.
The editors at Time magazine were so stunned at that, were so shocked, that they made a cover story out of it.
Now, if that's news to you that men and women are born different, what must you believe?
That men and women are the same.
And if you believe that, who taught you that?
That's obviously descending from the feminist movement, which taught among other things that if you raise a little girl with G.I. Joe in a dark blue painted bedroom that you're going to get a very masculine little girl.
And of course, pink in the little boy's bedroom will have and it didn't work out that way.
There was a couple actually gave their little boy Barbie dolls.
And the little boy turned them into soldiers.
So that was big news, and now this, from a very early age, women are taught that the way they look matters more than what they do.
Somebody in the UK at the UK Daily Mail just now figured that out.
So that's that.
We have competing stories in the Washington, actually, columns today from the uh Washington Post.
George Will with a column that suggests the Republicans need to face reality.
The reality is the likelihood that either Romney or Santorum could beat Obama is unlikely.
And instead, the Republican effort needs to focus on the House.
Maintaining control of the House and winning the Senate.
Mike, grab audio soundbite number one if you would.
Want to take you back November 10th, last year on this program, where I was explaining to the audience what the real desires of the Republican establishment back then, back in November, before a single primary vote had taken place.
I think they are more concerned, our consultants, with holding the House and winning the Senate.
I think they believe deep down in the depths of their soul that Obama can't be beat.
I think that they look at Mitt Romney as the single only hope we have of taking the Senate, even if he loses the presidential race.
O'Donnell Angle were opposed because they wanted to win the Senate.
They didn't care about any.
Remember, it was the midterms, and they wanted to win the Senate.
They wanted their committee chairmanships.
They wanted to be in charge of the money.
When you're a senator, it can be said that you're in charge of one one hundredth of three, four trillion dollars, whatever amount we're going to spend that year.
It's a lot of power.
And you run the committees, that's even more power.
And they were ticked off because they didn't think that the Senate was going to go our way with those two candidates.
So I really believe that they're looking at Romney, not because he can beat Obama, but because he can limit the damage in the Senate House races, which is what they really want.
Now, George Will's out with a piece today saying that this is exactly what ought to happen now.
I warned you of this back last November.
Will's piece, by the way, George Will also has written and said, I think on the Sunday ABC show this week, with whoever hosts it that week, that there is no Republican establishment.
There isn't one.
The members of the establishment routinely deny that there is a Republican establishment.
But George Will's piece today says, uh, really, and he quotes Bill Buckley.
Before the Goldwater election in 1964, Buckley was speaking to Young Americans Foundation.
And said, you have to accept reality.
You have to be prepared for reality and learn that we're planting a seed here that, if nurtured properly, will grow, paraphrasing what Buckley said to the youngsters back in 1964 since September before the landslide defeat of Goldwater.
So citing Buckley, George Will's point is, we'll beat reality here.
Be realistic.
We have to know our limitations.
And neither Romney nor Santorum can likely beat Obama.
But we can focus on holding onto the House and winning the Senate, and we know we're not going to get 60 votes in the Senate.
But we can get enough votes in the Senate to stop Obama and put the brakes on.
Throw sand in the gears of his machines.
And that that's probably the best thing we can do while we then look forward to 2016, where the Paul Ryan's and the Marco Rubios will by then be seasoned, nurtured, experienced, and ready to go.
On the same pages in the Washington Post, Robert Samuelson, one of uh one of my favorite columnists as well as George Will, has a piece called Is the Election Over.
Starts it this way.
If you believe the conventional wisdom, the presidential election's virtually finished.
Obama will win, perhaps in a walk.
Game over.
Samuelson continues, I don't say this is a preference one way or the other.
I've reached the stage in my journalistic career when I disapprove of most politicians.
I simply say this is a matter of fact and logic.
The conventional wisdom, as I read it, rests heavily on the following propositions.
The economy's improving and will continue to improve, depriving Republicans and Romney of their most powerful issue.
Romney and Santorum, each in his own way, are alienating crucial independent voters.
I read that.
That's part of conventional wisdom.
The leading Republican candidates can be counted on to commit regular gaffes.
I keep reading.
This is Samuelson saying all these things in his piece.
This is what he's reading.
The Republican House will serve as a priceless foil for Obama.
The conventional wisdom seems compelling.
And yet there's something that troubles him about all of this.
And I'll tell you what that is when we come back.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh.
And 800-282-288-2.
So Samuelson goes through all of the conventional wisdom, the things that he's seeing, the things that he's hearing, things that he's reading.
All the reasons the election's over.
All the reasons that are part of the media conventional wisdom.
The economy is improving and will continue to improve.
Romney and Santorum are alienating crucial independent voters.
Romney is a wealthy businessman out of touch with most Americans.
Both of these guys, according to media conventional wisdom, can be counted on to commit regular gaffes, say stupid stuff.
And the Republican House of Representatives will serve as a priceless foil for Obama, because everybody hates Congress, and that means everybody hates the Republicans who run the House.
That's the conventional wisdom.
And it all seems very compelling.
And Samuelson writes, as a card-carrying member of the mainstream media, I'm inclined to accept it.
And yet there's one conspicuous gap in the election that's already over, story, and And that's the polls.
While the Republicans have been destroying each other and embarrassing themselves, the polls for a general election should have shown a collapse in Republican support.
They haven't.
In fact, if anybody's collapsing, it's Obama.
Go to the real clear politics for the latest figures.
The average of the polls that it follows shows that for the period from February 10th to 29th, shows Obama beating Romney by 4.6 points.
Obama's margin of victory over Sandorm slightly larger, 49 to 44.
Now, if these were the final outcomes, they would be near lands lines, but at this point in the race, when the Republicans are attacking each other, and Obama's also attacking him.
The differences are fairly modest and not unusual.
And then there's the battleground poll, which shows Romney, this is just out yesterday, Solinda Lake.
Shows Romney beating Obama straight up.
Real clear politics gives Obama 227 electoral votes right now against 181 for the Republican nominee.
130 are in doubt.
You need 270 to win.
So it's a puzzle.
Logic and most evidence suggest the election's over.
But the polls seem to dissent.
Could it be that the real story is that Obama is not a shoe-in, even when he should be?
That's how Samuelson's piece ends.
That piece could be written by a member of the Republican establishment.
That piece could be written by any defeatist on the Republican side.
Not saying George Will's a defeatist.
He's bouncing off a uh a William Buckley.
See, the Goldwater election for the Republican establishment is that's that's the lesson for them.
That's that's the animating factor for them, not 1980 and Reagan's two landslides, 80 and 84, but Goldwater's landslide defeat.
So that's where we are.
And that's why some of you, you sense it, and you're down in the doldrums.
What's so funny in there?
What are you laughing at in there?
Well, because I know that I'm gonna get phone calls about it.
I'm not looking at these people, not gonna take me off message.
Greetings and welcome back, uh El Rushbo, serving humanity, talent on loan from God.
And you must say God.
Can't say God, this doesn't carry the impact.
And as usual, half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Now, one thing about this notion that it's over.
George Will, we gotta be honest with ourselves.
These two guys aren't gonna beat Obama.
Let's face it.
Santorum, Romney, eh?
That's gonna happen.
But we can stop Obama.
We win the Senate.
We hold the House.
Just last, no, just this week, Obama met with Democrat governors to discuss ways of getting things done over the heads of Congress without using Congress by dictate by executive order by fiat.
Here is a man who's already violated the Constitution with this contraception business.
And by the way, I just can tell you again, all of you scratching your heads over why is this even in the news.
You must understand that your president put this in the news.
Your president started all of this along with his Democrat hack over to ABC George Stephanopoulos.
Nobody was talking about contraception anywhere, anytime, particularly stopping it, banning it.
Obama polling poorly with women, so they go to page one B of the Democrat Party playbook, which is devoted to how to turn the argument against Republicans by making them out to be the enemies of women.
And you throw in this unconstitutional mandate that Catholic churches and schools provide contraception and abortive fashions against their teachings, their morality, and their desires.
He doesn't have the right.
The First Amendment prevents Obama from mandating any such thing.
He can't mandate that the insurance companies provide it.
He can't do any of this.
But nobody's stopping him, so he's doing it.
And that's my point.
If nobody's going to stop him with this, and if people are going to sit around and willingly let him define the terms, set the premise.
It's not the Republicans trying to deny anybody their contraception.
It's not the Republicans are even thinking about it.
But somehow that premise had to be established because Obama's faring poorly in the polls with women.
So let's go to page one Band and bring out the Republicans hate women lesson.
Start teaching that all over again.
So while we think using Civics 101 that Republican majorities in the House and Senate could stop Obama, he doesn't care what the Constitution tells him he can and can't do.
And he's going to care even less in a second term.
When there'll be no accountability, no election to win, no base to hold, no independence to worry about.
He's not going to worry, he's not going to have one care in the world in a conventional political sense that would put limits on his desires and behavior.
The only thing would be Michelle.
Did you see what he said?
Obama, the one thing Michelle allows me to do is watch ESPN.
In an interview with ESPN's Bill Simmons, President Obama talks about how he's able to sneak in watching sports during the day.
Yeah, first of all, I don't watch network news or cable news.
So in the morning when I'm working out with Michelle, it's on Sports Center.
That's the one thing she allows me.
Now we know why he has to sneak out to burger joints when the Russians come to town, if she's in town.
But the point is, with no guardrail and with no concern for the Constitution, Republican majorities in the House and Senate are no guarantee to stop Obama.
I mean, Obama's making recess appointments when there are no recesses.
Nobody in the Senate is taking steps to stop him.
We have laws against murder, but if we stop pursuing people who kill people, guess what's going to happen?
The law ain't gonna mean anything.
And the murder rate's gonna skyrocket.
Same thing with any crime.
If we have a president who willingly ignores the Constitution and behaves extra-constitutionally and nobody calls him on it, and the victims of his maneuvers don't stop it, then he's going to keep doing it.
And as long as the Republicans remain afraid of criticism from the media.
See, they don't want to be on the receiving end of what I am on the receiving end this week.
They don't want that.
They don't want any, they have no desire, they have no stomach for it.
No matter what.
No matter what.
So while it sounds great in a civics 101 context, yeah, we'll have the House and we'll win the Senate and well, those majorities will stop Obama.
He's meeting with Democrat governors as we speak to plot ways to advance his agenda, even this year, over the heads of Congress, not involving them.
Because he knows that they're not going to stop him.
In fact, he knows that in many cases they might actually acquiesce and go along.
If we win the House and hold the House, how do we stop Obama from loading the courts?
Specifically the Supreme Court with wacko radical leftists.
And how do we stop Obama from ruling by fiat, issuing more and more killing regulations?
Impeachment.
That's one of the recipes.
Anybody think that's gonna happen?
I don't think so.
I also think as a practical matter, it helps to have a fight over the presidency to ensure victories in the House and say how these House and Senate victories gonna happen if attitudinally you think you've lost the presidential race.
What is the campaign?
What would the consultant say?
The way to win the Senate is to go out and say to the American, well, we know that we're not going to beat Obama.
And therefore, we still have to find a way to stop him.
And that's what we need you for.
We need you and your money and your votes to vote for your Republican Senate candidate and your House candidate.
Is that the campaign?
Well, obviously not.
I mean, even if somewhere in the bowels of the RNC, they just they they actually decide to proceed on the assumption Obama can't be beat.
They obviously will not say so publicly, but the fact that they believe it will have to have some impact attitudinally on the campaign.
Do they have a meeting with Romney or Santorum, whoever gets nominated?
By the way, we really know you can't win this.
And we're gonna be behind you.
And we're gonna we're gonna fight for you, but we really need your help here in shoring up the House and maybe winning the Senate.
Now, how does that happen?
How do you run a presidential campaign when your head you have conceded while at the same time campaigning to win the Senate and hold the House?
Now, I'm maybe there are expert consultants who can tell me this.
But I at the top of my brilliant mind here, I don't see it.
And then you know me, folks, the conventional wisdom I get as far away from that as possible.
Conventional wisdom is groupthink.
It's what everybody else thinks.
It's safe territory.
You articulate the conventional wisdom, and you're considered wise, reasoned, restrained, refined, intelligent.
Outside the conventional wisdom, you are pick your favorite insult.
And that, of course, is where I happen to reside within the realm of politics.
Let's take a brief break.
We'll come back, we'll start on the phones, because it's open line Friday.
Always try to get phone calls started in the first hour, sit tight, be right back.
And we're back, open line Friday, Rush Limboy having more fun than a human being, should be allowed to have.
Starting in South Jersey, Mike, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello.
Hey, yesterday I was channel surfing and I caught Chris Matthews' show, and he had on Christian Childebrandt.
And I cannot believe with all the problems we got going on in this in this country that they're worried about what you happen to say about that girl they brought up before Congress.
Now, Kristen Gillibrant claiming that they sent a letter to Boehner warning the Republicans to repudiate you as a person.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, in fact, Boehner, I think I heard this on TV today.
I've not seen it.
I think Boehner did respond.
He um said something like the words I used were uh inappropriate, as is the whole discussion about the government paying for people's contraceptives.
Yeah, but Boehner responded to that?
Yeah, he did.
Oh, I didn't catch that.
I mean, how all right, let's turn this around.
How come the Republicans never asked the Democrats to respond and repudiate what the left said?
Because the media will not join them in the demand, and it just will not have any weight.
Yeah, because I mean I w like I just happened to catch Chris Matthews.
Personally, I think he's a buffoon because the guy he he r he rambles.
He almost looks like he's the last call at a bar all the time.
Well, this guy wait for the last call.
You look like he's in there all the time.
Let me explain what's going on here.
You you um you you caught this midstream.
And you said, what the heck is this?
And I I don't want to go through the the entire chronology because that would take too much time.
I actually did some of that uh in the in the first half hour of the program.
I think one of the best ways to illustrate what's happening here is we've got a news story.
A woman, a law school student at Georgetown, has it reported about her that she's having so much sex she can't afford her birth control pills anymore.
Out of nowhere, this woman surfaces.
Actually, not out of nowhere.
She surfaced after Obama mandated that the Catholic Church and its schools give away contraception free of charge.
The church objected, Obama supposedly relented and said, okay, okay, you don't want to, I'll make the insurance companies do it.
He can't make anybody do it.
It's a violation of the First Amendment.
The Democrats, desperate in search of an issue to tar and feather and impugn the character of Republicans with because Obama's trailing in the polls badly with women, decide to dig up from their groove yard the meme that Republicans hate women.
They've actually got a chapter in their playbook, The War on Women and How to Blame the Republicans for it and how to manufacture it, a war that doesn't exist.
Republicans don't hate women, are not at war with women and never have been.
It's absolutely absurd.
So the Congressman Issa wants to have hearings over the unconstitutionality of Obama's mandate that churches and schools, religious schools pass out abortion pills, contraception pills, and so forth.
The Democrats turn this into a hearing about Obamacare and health care and an attempt to create a new welfare program, and that is birth control pills for women.
And they do it on the basis that the Republicans want to deny contraception to women, which isn't true, and that's never been stated.
There isn't one Republican who's interested in this.
It's all manufactured.
They tried to get Fluke to testify.
She was not allowed to testify because it was not about women at Georgetown who have so much sex they can't afford birth control.
It was about Obama.
The Democrats, women on the committee, well, this is outrageous.
This is misogynistic and this is this is this is discriminatory right here.
They won't let a woman witness, come testify.
And it was never about that.
So Pelosi arranges her own press conference for the woman.
And the woman makes it clear name of Sandra Fluke.
She's having so much sex she can't pay for it.
And we should.
She's having so much, she gives the numbers.
$3,000 worth of birth control pills worth of sex.
She's paying anywhere from $35,000 to $50,000 a year to go to Georgetown, $20,000 room and board, can't afford the $1,800 to $3,000 a year for birth control pills and wants us to pay for it.
I simply say, well, what does that make her?
She wants taxpayers, the Democrats want that want to create a welfare entitlement program where we provide birth control pills because pregnancy is an illness.
Pregnancy is a women's health issue.
So the woman comes forth with this, frankly, hilarious claim that she's having so much sex and her buddies with her, that she can't afford it.
And not one person says, what would you ever think about maybe backing off the amount of sex that you have?
You ever think maybe it's your responsibility for your own birth control, not everybody else's?
Nobody raises those questions.
Amazingly, when there is the slightest bit of opposition to this new welfare entitlement being created, then all of a sudden we hate women.
We want them barefoot impregnant in the kitchen, all of these other things.
And so that's where we are.
And now, at the end of this week, I am the person that the women of America are to fear the most.
What can I do to the women of America?
Do I have the power to raise their taxes?
I do not.
Do I have the power to regulate Their behavior?
I do not.
Do I have the power to make health care decisions for them?
I do not.
Do I have the power to withhold birth control pills from them?
I do not.
Do I have the power to audit their tax returns?
I do not.
Do I have the power to take their little four-year-old kindergarten students' lunch and throw it away and make them eat something else?
I do not.
Do I have the power to look into their personal life and leak the information to the media?
I do not.
Is there one bit of freedom that I can deny them?
Can I raise their taxes?
They want to blame me as being the person they should fear.
When in fact, the people doing all these things I just said, I have no power to do the Democrat Party.
That's who everybody's afraid of in this country.
More and more people.
You know that story?
The uh the the girl, the four-year-old girl who had her lunch taken by the federal agent?
Those stories happen.
Have you noticed the people involved?
Don't want their names known.
Who are they afraid of?
They're afraid of the Democrat Party.
They're afraid of the Obama administration.
The Obama administration will take away your birth control.
And if you let them do that, they'll tell you when you can and can't take it, and then they'll tell you when you can and have sex, and then they will tell you when you can or cannot have an abortion.
You give them this power, that's what they want.
I can't do any of this.
From the state of Missouri, I kid you the headline.
Missouri legislation would restrict vasectomies.
Legislation proposed by a woman, Stacey Newman, upset with all the talk about contraception and uh everything else going on.
I'll have the details.
We come in.
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