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Nov. 2, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 2, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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CBS News, New York, CBS News, New York, drivers waiting six hours at Midtown gas station.
Six hours at a Midtown gas station.
People are urinating in the halls of their apartment buildings in certain parts of the city because there's no plumbing rather than in their apartments.
Folks, this is not going to be pretty.
This coming weekend in the Northeast, this is...
Greetings and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, open line Friday, 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, the email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
This New York marathon.
I've got more people.
Check the email.
Rush, why are they doing this?
Look, there's a simple answer, folks.
I'm almost afraid to tell you because you're going to say, no, it's what you always say.
But it happens to be true.
They have two giant generators running to Central Park to take care of whatever's needed for the marathon.
They're kicking residents who have checked into hotels because their houses are gone.
Kicking them out of hotels to put the marathoners, the people associated with the marathon in the hotels.
Why?
It doesn't compute on a common sense scale.
This doesn't make any sense at all.
You've got people that can't find gasoline.
People's homes are gone.
The beach is gone.
The devastation is in Staten Island.
Now people are beginning to see how truly bad it is.
The suffering six-hour lines for gasoline in Midtown Manhattan.
Stupid rule, you can't get into the city unless you got three people in your car.
Who wants to come in the city?
And yet they're doing the marathon.
And they say, well, it's for the money.
That's not what.
Yes, it's for the money.
But who?
Who's in charge here?
Who, let me ask you a question.
Who in New York is a big proponent of global warming?
In fact, who just endorsed Obama because he's right on global warming?
It'd be Mayor Bloomberg, correct?
Now, what do global warmers believe?
Well, they believe a lot of cockamimi BS, but they also believe that sea levels are rising.
Yes.
You see, it's getting warmer, and the polar bears are vanishing, and the ice flows are melting, and the glaciers are melting, and the sea levels are rising because it's so sweltering hot out there.
Doomberg has been mayor for how long?
11 years?
Doomberg's had 11 years to get ready for the rising sea levels that he believes in because he believes in global warming.
What did he do to prepare lower Manhattan for rising sea levels?
What did any of the liberals who run the show out on Long Island?
Any of the liberals who run the show in New Jersey, what they all believe global warming.
One of the tenets of global warming is rising sea levels.
What did they do?
You could see the same question about New Orleans.
Okay, you know you got a problem with the levees.
Here's federal money.
Build the levees.
Make sure we have a flood.
The levees hold.
The money went to the back pocket of the regulators.
It was graft and the levies didn't hold.
And you're blaming George W. Bush for it.
The people in charge are all what?
They're all liberals.
They believe things.
They tell us they believe in global warming, but Bloomberg didn't prepare lower Manhattan for rising sea levels.
He didn't prepare.
He believes this stuff.
This stuff matters.
He believes sea levels are rising without storms.
A storm comes along.
Sea levels are already rising.
Well, 2 plus 2 equals 4 and equals floods.
Did he do anything to prepare for it?
No.
Now he okays the marathon.
This is the liberal value system.
To him, there's value in all this.
In the midst of this crisis and aftermath, there's some sort of value to having the marathon there.
Now, we know he's also a health nut.
He can't drink a soda over 16 ounces.
He can't eat with trans fat in it.
He can't smoke no matter what.
Well, who are marathons?
Well, they're the essence of health freaks.
Exactly the kind of people we want in New York.
These are ideal people.
You can't run a marathon unless you're in shape.
You can't run a marathon unless you don't drink 16-ounce larger sodas.
You can't run a marathon if you eat trans fats.
You can't run a marathon if you smoke.
So the marathon people are the ideal citizens, the ideal people.
They do everything Bloomberg doesn't want people to do or wants people to do.
They're welcome.
Now, wherever you go, folks, you're going to.
This hurricane in New York and New Jersey, we talked yesterday, is a case study on the perils of liberalism and socialism.
What were we told yesterday by Governor Christie?
Well, two days ago, Governor Christie and Obama, they both said they're going to get government out of the way in order to speed the recovery.
We're going to get rid of the gasoline regulations so that any gas is accepted.
We're going to get rid of the red tape.
When you call a bureaucracy, they're going to answer the phone in 15 minutes.
They're going to get back to you in 15 minutes.
In the process, they were admitting that the biggest roadblock to efficiency is government, their precious government that they believe in and run.
And they are saying, in this time of crisis, we're going to get rid of it.
But don't worry.
I mean, we'll build it back when the crisis is over, and we'll put the roadblocks back up, and we'll put the regulations back in, and we'll reinstitute the gasoline regulation, and we'll make it just as hard to get gasoline as it was, and we'll make it just as tough to produce it.
And we're going to make it so that you have to wait two days to get the call from the bureaucrats in a 50-minute meeting.
We'll go back to that, don't worry.
But in the middle of the crisis where people really need government, we're going to get government out of their way.
Every picture I see out of New York, I don't see progress.
I don't see anything happening here.
It's a case study.
After these big announcements, getting government out of the way, big announcements, no more red tape, no more gasoline regulations could speed everything up.
They admit that government slows everything down.
Didn't intend to, but they did.
They admit that government bottlenecks everything.
They admit that the enemy of efficiency is a bureaucracy or a series of bureaucracies run by bureaucrats and government people.
And in this crisis, they both, Christine Obama, said, we're going to get rid of it.
Well, why don't we stay rid of it once we get rid of it?
If it's the solution, if smaller government's the answer, it's the answer.
And who's running for president on smaller government?
Mitt Romney.
And when Mitt Romney says that he's going to do exactly what Christie and Obama promised they're going to do in this crisis, what does Obama say about Romney?
Well, you can't elect him.
He's just going to take us back to the policies that got us in this mess.
Really?
It just sounds to me like Romney wants to make permanent what you're doing temporarily to speed up the recovery in the aftermath of the hurricane.
If you're going to get rid of government, going to get rid of the bottlenecks, going to get rid of the gasoline regulations and others, if you're going to make sure bureaucrats respond to phone calls on time, but only in a time of crisis.
And Romney says, you know what?
I want to do that every day.
I want everything running efficiently every day.
I want to have more things taking place in the private sector with a profit motive where people get things done because there's a reason for it.
I want it running smoothly.
I want government to do what it can do and do it well.
And I want it smaller.
And they say, well, you can't do that.
That's got us into this mess.
Really?
So, President Obama, we can then say that the temporary measures that you are taking are the same thing that got us into the mess that we're in.
Because that's what you say Romney's going to do.
Romney is going to take us back to the same policies that got us in this mess.
All he's talking about is smaller government.
You are talking about smaller government.
You and Governor Christie, yep, we're going to streamline it all.
So, President Obama, you are admitting to people who will listen and put two and two together that the solution to the crisis in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy is the policies of the past that equal smaller government and more money in individuals' back pockets and more power in the private sector to get things done.
And then, by the way, did you guys forget to tell the unions what?
Because a bunch of crews from Alabama have been turned away.
Did you hear about this?
Non-union repair crews from Alabama who drove to New York to help were turned away by New York unionized crews.
So you can't, oh no, I'm not kidding you.
I wouldn't make this up.
So you people on Staten Island and elsewhere in that area, there are people from all over the country that want to drive in and help.
And if they're not union, they're being turned away.
Remember the Jones Act from the BP spill?
The Jones Act allows foreign workers to come in and help in a crisis.
But the Jones Act, I think, requires that the foreign workers be union.
It's a way to protect the unions.
Or you're going to pay union wages to people that come in or whatever.
And so the work didn't get done.
They actually are turning away non-union utility repairmen, construction workers, other kinds of engineers who want to help out.
So what we're going to learn here is the next three days you watch.
People are going to, I mean, Bloomberg says he's going to take care of it.
He's got press conferences.
Christy Obama, they're going to take care of it.
They're there.
Take care.
They're hugging people.
Well, let's see.
The next three days are going to highlight that for people in that region who want improvement in their lives, they're going to have to do it.
Nanny Bloomberg is going to be at the marathon.
Euphemistically speaking, these next three days are going to illustrate the priorities of liberals and the dependence on the collective.
It will showcase the overall damage done by unions.
It's a shame, folks, that it is happening.
All right.
Now, see, I intended to have played three Romney soundbites by now, but I liked what I was saying so much that I just kept wanting to hear me.
So I'm going to take a break.
We'll come back.
We'll play the three Romney bites, and then we'll get to your phone calls because it is Open Line Friday.
Okay, here's the latest big cis.
Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, has waived the Jones Act.
She has waived it, which means that non-union oil tankers from the Gulf will be allowed to deliver oil to the East Coast.
That's normally not allowed.
Normally, non-union tankers cannot deliver oil to the East Coast.
But big cis, see, here's getting more government out of the way.
They have to get rid of government regulations to make progress happen.
This is such a teachable moment.
I didn't even know there was a Jones Act, but there is.
And it's to protect unions.
And it says that non-union tankers, it's far more wide-reaching than this, by the way, but in this case, the application of it is that non-union tankers cannot deliver oil to the Northeast.
But she's waiving that.
So once again, a government bureaucrat is eliminating government regulation in order for something to happen.
With the government regulation in place, there would be no oil.
Government's not the solution.
Government is having to cancel itself.
Government is having to eliminate itself in order for things to happen and get done there.
And it's what Romney wants to do day in and day out, which is said to be taking us back to the policies that got us in this mess.
That's always been a crock.
It is a crock now.
The Jones Act prevented more help going into New Orleans during the BP spill, and Obama fought waiving it.
There were people who wanted to waive the Jones Act after the BP spill so that non-union helpers could get down their work, and Obama fought it to protect the unions.
So Obama stood up for big government, stood up for government roadblocks after the BP oil spill.
Right now, Obama is getting rid of government roadblocks.
I mean, the liberals are indicting themselves.
Liberals and Democrats are being forced to admit that their day-to-day function and way of doing government is anti-progress.
No other way to say it.
They retard progress.
They slow it down.
And for there to be progress now, fast movement, help on the way, they've got to get rid of some government.
I love it.
I think it's.
Here's Romney's.
Wearing a suit and tie.
He looked presidential.
For those of you interested in style over substance, he looked at Obama's wearing a bomber jacket.
He had to ask me, what's a bomber jacket?
No, I didn't.
It's Air Force One jacket.
It's President Obama right here on the Air Force One jacket, open collar.
Here's Romney in West Allis, Wisconsin.
He said he was going to lower the unemployment rate down to 5.2% right now.
Today we learned that it's actually 7.9%.
And that's 9 million jobs short of what he promised.
Unemployment is higher today than when Barack Obama took office.
Think of that.
Unemployment today is higher than on the day Barack Obama took office.
He promised that he would propose a plan to save Social Security and Medicare from insolvency.
He didn't.
Rather, he raided $716 billion from Medicare to pay for his von at Obamacare.
And gasoline.
The American family now pays $2,000 a year more for gasoline than when he was elected.
You want to hear some other numbers?
You heard the unemployment numbers.
Gasoline at price, $1.84 when Obama took office, $350,000 national average today.
On his first day in office, there were 32 million Americans in food stamps.
Today, 47 million.
On his first day in office, the deficit was $10.6 trillion today.
The national debt, today it's $16.3 trillion.
He's added $6 trillion to the national debt, four years.
When Obama was sworn in, the median family income, about $55,000.
Today, $50.
So nearly $4,500 $5,000 has been lopped off of median family income.
One in six Americans are in poverty.
No matter how you look at it, no matter how you spin it, no matter how you slice and dice it, Obama has made things worse.
His policies have caused great damage to this country, and they will continue to if he's re-elected, and he wants them to.
And again, I just tell you, Barack Obama has to get his policies out of the way temporarily for there to be progress and help on the way to the Northeast.
The government's bigger.
Americans are poorer.
And this is because Obamacare is on its way to being implemented.
And we don't even have Taximagedon implemented yet.
George Lucas sold Lucasfilms to Disney for $4 billion.
He sold it this year to escape Obama's new taxes next year.
That's why he did it.
By the way, speaking of bipartisanship, here's Mitt Romney again in West Allis, Wisconsin this morning at a campaign event.
Of course, he also said he was going to work across the aisle on the most important issues.
Listen to this.
He has not met on the economy or on the budget or on jobs with either of the Republican leader of the House or the Senate since July.
Instead of bridging the divide, he's made it wider.
How is it that he's fallen so short of what he promised?
In part, it's because he'd never led before.
He'd never worked across the aisle before.
He never truly understood how jobs are created in the economy.
That's all true.
He still doesn't understand it.
He thinks you sign a stimulus bill and jobs happen.
He thinks you convene a two-hour workshop on jobs.
Thomas Lupe Friedman of the New York Times and jobs happen.
Bipartisanship.
See, if bipartisan, when bipartisanship is only when Republicans cave.
Do we have time?
We do.
One more from Oromney.
Accomplishing real change is something I don't just talk about.
It's something I've done.
And it's what I'm going to do when I'm president of the United States with your help.
And so do people across America.
If you believe we can do better, if you believe America should be on a better course, if you're tired of being tired, then I ask you to vote for real change.
Paul Ryan and I will bring real change to America from day one.
Now I know, I know that when I'm elected, the economy and the American job market will still be stagnant.
But I won't waste any time complaining about my predecessor.
By the way, Obama is speaking now somewhere about free enterprise and risk-taking and dreamers.
In other words, things he doesn't believe, which is what all liberals do when it's election time.
Oh, wow, folks, it's not as bad as I thought.
Not as bad as this marathon business.
It's not as bad as I.
This afternoon in New York City, Mayor Bloomberg held a press conference, update people about the recovery efforts from Hurricane Sandy.
And he said this about the running of the New York Marathon on Sunday.
The Roadrunners Club has asked each runner in this weekend's marathon to also contribute $26.20, which is a dollar for each mile of the race, and hopefully some will do a lot more than that.
They're running this race to help New York City, and the donations from all of the runners and the clubs are going to be a big relief to our relief efforts.
You've got to be kidding me.
And if you remember, you go back to 9-11.
You're kidding me.
It pulled people together.
And we have to find some ways to express ourselves and show our solidarity with each other.
There you got it, folks.
There you have it.
Solidarity with each other.
Holding hands, working hard with each other.
By the way, this race is for you.
You're in Staten Island.
This race is for you.
This race is to rebuild New York.
A New York marathon to rebuild New York.
And how is that going to happen?
Well, every competitor is going to donate $26.20.
You know how they got to that number?
That's $1 a mile.
Because the original idiot back in Greece who ran that distance to inform somebody that the bad guys are coming is the only reason we have marathons.
A ribbon?
Oh, I'll have the runners wear a ribbon.
You mean like the what would you call this ribbon?
Hurricane awareness ribbon?
Everybody's already aware.
There you have it, folks.
$26.20 from every marathon.
I'm New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and this race is for you.
Okay, Steve in Virginia Beach, you're first on the phones.
It's great to have you here.
I'm glad you waited.
Hi.
Thanks, Mayor Rush, 20-year resident of Realville Dittos, to you.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, my wife and I went to the Mitt Romney rally here in Virginia Beach last night.
It was originally scheduled for Sunday, but because the storm messed it up, they got it turned around.
We scheduled it in 48 hours.
And for that sort of notice, the turnout was unbelievable.
I would estimate at least 10,000, although I really couldn't tell for sure, just gut feeling of how many were there.
But the energy was just out of sight.
The first thing I noticed when I walked in, there was no teleprompter.
So it was obvious there wasn't an Obama rally right there, besides the fact they had a big crowd.
But he had one line that we had not heard before.
He was talking about Obama claiming how much energy he wants to use and on and on and on and talking about using oil and gas and so forth.
And Nitt says, he keeps talking about all the above, all the above.
And Nitt says, I couldn't figure out what he's talking about.
Then it hit me when he's talking about all the above.
It's all the energy above the ground, like wind and solar and all that kind of stuff.
And he got a pretty good laugh out of that line.
Well, it's good that people are laughing out there.
We need to be laughing.
And Obama makes you cry.
And Obama can make you cry.
Obama can make you outraged and so forth.
But Everybody that I hear from who attends a Romney rally remarks on the size and the enthusiasm of the crowd.
But look, I'm not cold water on it, but we can take calls all day.
People say that, and it still adds up to anecdotal.
I'm not trying to throw cold water on it.
Don't misunderstand.
It's hard to attach a scientific meaning to it.
It is real.
There's no question about it.
And here, grab Sunbite, whatever it is.
Bill Clinton, is that number 20?
I've already put it 28.
I knew that's what it was.
You got to hear this again.
This is Clinton this morning in Fort or Lake Worth, Florida, which is 10 minutes, 15 at the most, south of the EIB, Southern Command.
I hear all these people say, oh, I was so enthusiastic four years ago.
I had so much hope for change.
And I'm disappointed in this, that, and the other thing.
Let me tell you something.
I may be the only person in America, but I am far more enthusiastic about President Obama this time.
It may just be me, but I don't associate that with winning.
I don't associate any of that with a winning feeling or a winning aura.
He really said this.
He's getting hoarse out there, by the way.
I hear all these people say, I was so enthusiastic four years ago.
I have so much hope for change.
I'm disappointed in this and that.
Is this an Obama rallies?
He's admitting that Obama's voters are complaining to him.
He's not hearing this in the media.
He's not hearing that on television.
Where is he hearing this?
He's hearing it when he's talking to these people.
And then the cherry on top, the icing on the cake.
I may be the only guy in America, but I'm far more enthusiastic.
Oh, I love it.
Here is Sandra at Long Island.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Mega Dittos from Deep in Enemy Territory.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for getting us through some dark times, although I do believe soon things will be brighter.
Hey, I was thinking here in Long Island, we're out of power.
Probably won't be on Tuesday for voting, but wouldn't it be funny if it stays off, it could keep the liberals away.
They won't be able to vote.
Well, the people have run some calculations on this.
As you know, they're going to be using, was it military trucks as mobile polling places in some parts of the region?
But I saw the story this morning that is that going to affect the Electoral College, but it's something like Obama could lose 300 or 400,000 votes from the total, from the national total because of people who won't be able to vote on Tuesday because of this mess.
I was hoping my namesake hurricane would keep, would turn this state red, but you never know.
Well, are you actually hoping for that?
Hey, why not?
I would.
I'll take it.
Don't misunderstand.
But I wish I could remember where I had the, I saw the estimate, but 300 to 400,000 votes that Obama won't get, which is not going to affect the electoral votes out of New York at all, but it will affect the national total and the percentage to a certain extent, depending on what the overall popular vote is.
Mike, Fairfield, Connecticut, you're next.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Rush, good morning and greetings from 58-year-old recently unemployed conservative in California.
Oh, you're in Fairfield, California.
I'm sorry.
I misread that.
No problem.
This business about Benghazi has really, really got me set back here.
And it's not necessarily a lot of it.
It's just the ineptitude and untruth coming out of the administration.
Look, there's more than it.
Now, Mike, what we're learning here is that there's more than ineptitude.
There's a cover-up now.
There may have been ineptitude at the beginning.
I don't think it was ineptitude.
I think it was somebody that didn't actively want any American show of force in that region for whatever reason and didn't believe what he was being told about the mounting threat.
I agree.
And that leads to my main point of those four Americans being hung out to dry.
I stop and I think about all the white crosses on the cliffs over Normandy and the unmarked graves and the stenching islands in the middle of the Pacific and on and on and how those people defended us and fought for us knowing that the guy next to them had their back.
And I'm afraid that the morale of our folks in the military, our heroes, is going to be hurt.
And I don't know if the change of administration is going to actually be able to help that if this continues.
Well, a change in administration would because it would result in different orders, beliefs, behavior.
I don't have any doubt about that.
But this Benghazi story now, I mean, the Las Vegas Review Journal, the lead newspaper, has just excoriated Obama, unqualified, incompetent to be commander-in-chief and president.
What we know today is that we have been lied to and were lied to on purpose.
Nobody was mistaken.
They strategically, tactically lied.
Susan Rice, if somebody could get to her today and have her be honest, I guarantee you she is livid because she's going to be one of the people whose heads roll.
She's going to be a sacrificial lamb when this is all over, when it starts being investigated.
But they lied to us from the get-go and they planned the lie.
They knew the moment this attack was taking place.
They knew before the attack that it was going to happen.
They were warned multiple times and cables were sent from the consulate that day.
That's what we learned this morning from Jennifer Griffin at Fox.
A cable was sent that day saying that an attack was being planned, assembled, and put together.
Requests for help were made.
The ambassador himself sent a cable in August telling everybody in the White House, top level, that this was happening.
Al-Qaeda was amassing.
And Obama still to this day is on the campaign trail using the phrase, Al-Qaeda's on the run.
Osama bin Laden is dead.
Four Americans are dead.
In instances, some instances, violated, they were told to stand down.
And by the way, when you hear that they were told to stand down, that's not the right terminology.
They were told not to help.
They were told to stay put.
They were told not to offer any defense of the consulate or the ambassador or any of the people there.
To say that they were told to stand down doesn't cut it.
They were ordered to do nothing.
They were ordered not to help.
They were ordered not to offer defense.
And as we know now, Tyrone metal blockers.
He violated orders.
Tyrone Woods violated orders and went anyway because that's the nature of these people.
We know that he identified where the mortar fire was coming from.
We know that he identified it with a laser.
Well, you know, the only reason you do that is because he's expecting somebody to bomb that target once he points it out to them.
That means he's assuming that he's got air support.
He's assuming somebody's up there that's going to take out that mortar.
But all that happened was the terrorists were able to identify where he was.
He had, by the very act of identifying where it was and lasering it, given up his own location.
He was killed with mortar fire from the very installation he thought he was helping to take out.
This is it to me.
It's unacceptable.
And I can only imagine what these family members feel like as they've learned this, along with the rest of us.
And I can only imagine what military people in general feel about this.
And to have our intelligence insulted with the fact that it was a video, that was spontaneous protest.
None of that was true.
We were strategically, purposefully lied to from the highest levels of the regime.
A brief profit timeout, and we will be back after this.
Okay, I got to get the audio for this.
We got to get the audio.
I just saw this.
The Weekly Standard is quoting Vice President Bite Me as saying, there has never been a day in the last four years I've been proud to be his vice president.
Now, obviously, slip of the tongue, but he still slipped the tongue.
That's what the Weekly Standard is quoting.
Joe Biden at a campaign event today, campaign event, there's never been a day in the last four years I've been proud to be his vice president.
Bill Clinton, I may be the only guy in America, but I'm more excited than ever before about Barack Obama.
Ed Henry, Fox News, has tweeted a photograph of some signs along the route in Ohio Obama took to get to a campaign appearance.
The signs say, tell the truth about Benghazi, worse than Watergate, you let them die.
Those signs have been, this, I'm sorry, does this stuff happen with winning campaigns?
I guess it does.
I guess they had some Bush stuff in 2004.
Yeah, I don't want to make too much of it, but, man, it's out there.
The point is it is out there.
This Benghazi stuff is trickling out to the drudge headlines.
Drivers waiting six hours for gas in New York City.
Tempers rise in wake of storm.
They forgot about us.
Misery.
Mile long lines.
Price hits six bucks, gasoline.
Residents furious with the Red Cross for offering cookies and hot chocolate, not blankets or clothes.
By the way, Trump is sending in a bunch of bottled water.
Trump equals private sector.
The Red Cross, hot chocolate and cookies.
Two massive generators power the New York media, not the masses.
That's for the marathon.
These are generators that I'm talking power 40 houses or some such thing.
Staten Islanders plead for help.
We need food.
Please don't leave us.
WNBC, a woman interviewed in high-rise city projects, says deteriorating conditions, people defecating in hallways.
It's happening.
This is happening in a media capital of this country.
It is happening in an area totally dominated and run by big government types.
I mean, this, remember how they got all over George W. Bush phones?
This is supposed to be big government's proving ground.
This is supposed to be when big government shines.
This is supposed to be when we are all supposed to see the wonderfulness, the joy, the greatness, the necessity of big government.
And what do the leaders actually do?
They say they're going to suspend government and regulations in order to speed up the recovery and the help.
Except.
Never mind.
I'm running the marathon.
I'm still amazed.
Okay, folks, the fastest three hours in media continues.
We've got one more big, exciting broadcast hour to go before our big final weekend before the upcoming election next Tuesday.
And we'll try to get to as many of your phone calls as we can since it is Open Line Friday.
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