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Sept. 19, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 19, 2013, Thursday, Hour #2
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Yeah, I'm sitting here, I'm thinking about that song from Donna Summer way back in the center.
She works hard for the money.
Little did Donna Summer know how prescient she was.
This is from the disco days of 1970s.
Late 70s and the 80s, as she works hard for the money.
Hi, folks, how are you?
Great to have you here.
Ill Rushball, the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Let me give you a quote from this waitress story.
Women waiting tables provide most of female gains in U.S. It's a Bloomberg story, it's census data.
And here is a quote from the story.
Alexandra Almond, 22, said it might be difficult to find a job in human resources or recruiting when she graduates from George Washington University in December.
At the Hamilton, two blocks from the White House, Honard often waits on lawmakers and government officials, giving her a glimpse of people that she would like to work with someday.
This summer, she served a member of President Obama's cabinet to whom she recommended a glass of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc.
This is from the story.
A George Washington U grad.
Big deal to have waited on a member of Obama's cabinet.
But she's got every reproductive device and whatever she needs.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back.
Great to have you here on the EIB network.
Tom DeLay has just had every conviction thrown out.
Overturned.
Texas Court of Appeals in Austin has overturned the conviction of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
66 years old.
He was convicted in 2010 for his alleged role in a scheme to influence Texas elections.
He was found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering after he was accused of helping funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.
Like that never happens.
The documents released early today from an appeals court said the evidence in the case was legally insufficient to sustain Delay's convictions.
The court said all judgments against delay reversed.
The former congressman was formally acquitted.
For both Delay and his critics, the process was frustratingly slow, due in part to some of the appeals court justices in Austin recusing themselves, as well as Delay's successful effort to have a judge in the panel removed because of anti-republican comments that she made.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me some of you may not know who Tom DeLay is.
And for those of you who do, please indulge me.
It just like the other day when Putin writes his op-ed in the New York Times.
For those of you that were born in the last 30, 40 years, you don't know that something like that would have never happened in this country.
That from the 80s on back and had it.
Had it happened, the president at that time would have become a laughing stock and would have become embarrassed.
The idea that the leader of the Russian Federation today, the Soviet Union then, would laugh at and mock not only the country, but the president would have been unacceptable.
Today it doesn't even rate a ho-hum.
And if it rates anything, the media say, well, you know, it's a sign that Obama's respectively foreign leaders, it doesn't show any such thing.
It is a great illustration of the decline that's happened in American foreign policy, the Putin op-ed in the New York Times.
By the way, there's a Breitbart story today that Obama's Syria policy, the we were told that Obama was walking along with his chief of staff, the White House grounds 45-minute walk, and it was during that walk that Obama decided that he was going to pull out of this operation and uh and say that he needed congressional authority to use force.
Breitbart has a story.
Actually, Brightmore just reporting from a New York Times reporter that actually Obama had a meeting with New York Times columnist and editorial writers to discuss Syrian policy.
And the Breitbart story is pretty.
Well, it it it implies that the Obama decision to not launch the attack on Syria was the result of strategy sessions, sessions with reporters and op-ed opinion writers at the New York Times, not with John Kerry or Hillary Clinton or any of the others in his regime.
He had an off-the-record meeting, David Brooks, uh Gail Collins, the editorial writers, and it was they who advised Obama on his Syria policy.
This is laughing stock kind of this is it it's humiliating to me to hear about this.
And I'm sure to you too.
Now, Tom DeLay.
Tom Delay's nickname was the hammer.
And Democrats thought that was very bad.
He was nicknamed the hammer because Delay had magic when it came time to corral votes on the Republican side in the House of Representatives, starting back in 1995 when the Republican freshman class was sworn in and they assumed control of the House for the first time in 40 years.
Tom DeLay was the whip.
Tom DeLay got the votes, Tom Delay, and he was nicknamed the hammer.
And because he was so good, he was unapologetically good.
Tom DeLay did not worry about compromise or making the Democrats feel good or not hurting their feelings or working with them or any of that.
He was hated.
Tom DeLay was despised because he was good.
He had his enemies on the Republican side as well later on.
Tom DeLay came to Congress from a job as an exterminator.
Yeah.
He ran a bug control device or bug control company in uh in Houston, a Sugarland section of Texas, of Houston.
So he knew well how to get rid of insects and varmin, vermin and the other things.
Perfect thing to do would be to go to Congress.
But he was good at it, and the Democrats hated him.
And so they attempted to criminalize the kinds of things that Delay did to help Republicans get elected, to help himself get elected.
And so they found a partisan prosecutor in Texas by the name of Ronnie Earle who kept shopping and shopping and shopping for a grand jury that would indict Delay.
He had trouble finding a grand jury from whom he could get a majority vote to indict.
Now, as you know, the old saying, the DA can get the grand jury to indict a ham sandwich is just a it's a formality.
In this case, the evidence that Ronnie Earl had was so insufficient that he had to try three or four different grand juries before he found one that would indict.
It was a purely political indictment and purely political trial.
But because Delay was not a particularly likely guy, A likable guy to a lot of people.
He didn't have a whole lot of defenders.
He did have some on the Republican side.
But he was the kind of guy that even Republicans, there were people that wanted his job.
There were people that wanted his perks.
There were people that wanted to be the whip.
People that wanted to be the guy that corraled the votes.
Very competitive business.
He didn't have all that many defenders.
There were eight grand juries.
It took Ronnie Earl, eight grand juries to find one that would return an indictment.
That was how weak and insufficient the evidence was.
And so the Democrats, they just they found a way to take him out politically because they couldn't beat him at the ballot box.
And they got their grand jury and they got their indictment, and then they got their trial, and they got another jury, and they got their convictions.
And the minute the convictions came in, Delay and his lawyers said we're going to get this reversed.
All of this is bogus.
The media threw parties of celebration, the Democrats were celebrated.
They hated Delay.
I can't tell you how much they hated Delay.
And Delay was like most Republicans, he had no response to it.
He'd have a PR firm.
He didn't have any pop culture media friends that portray him as a likable, fun, cool guy.
He was just a mean, image-wise, just a mean no nonsense, hated Democrats, kind of guy, and they and he was bad for America and all this sort of stuff.
So anyway, the upshot of it is that even without any evidence, they finally got a grand jury to indict, and without any evidence, they got convictions.
And the Republicans had a rule.
This is the key, and this is why the Democrats did it.
The Republicans attempting to curry favor with voters and with the media.
The Republicans wrote a rule of conduct for themselves that said anybody in their leadership ever accused or indicted would be forced to resign.
The Democrats have no such rule.
The Republicans used to not have a rule like that, but they put the rule in during the controversies of the Gingrich-led House, the budget fight of 1995.
If you weren't alive then or paying attention to it, it was vicious.
And just as now Republicans then were a hellbent on showing people that they were likable.
They were a hellbent on showing people that they weren't the kind of reprobates of Democrat in the media described him as being.
And they were always held to a different standard.
A Republican who fooled around had to go.
A Democrat who fools around Gold Star resume enhancement gets a promotion.
Cool cat.
But the Republicans, the family value Republicans, who believed that they had to have this superior morality to show the American people that they weren't what the Democrats accused.
It was totally defensive, this business.
So they write this rule.
Anybody in their leadership that's accused or under indictment must resign.
So the Democrats said, fine, if that's what we have to do to get rid of Delay, we'll do it.
Delay single-handedly defeated them in the House, bill after bill after bill, because he was the hammer.
He got the Republican votes to wipe out the Democrats in legislation, bill after bill.
The Democrats couldn't beat him.
So the Republicans wrote this rule to try to showbody how nice they are and how moral they are.
Anybody in our leadership that gets indicted, we'll have to resign.
The Democrats, we'll get an indictment on Delay.
And they did.
Delay had to resign.
Democrats don't resign.
Democrats don't resign for any reason other than death, illness, defeat, whatever.
They don't quit over things like this.
Because they don't care.
And they've never made the play that their family values party, so they're never held To such standards.
But the Republicans did portray themselves that way.
So Delay had to go.
And then when they got Delay out, it was time to hammer Delay and make him pay the price for beating them all those years.
And here came all these political attempts to indict him, and they finally got a grand jury to indict, and they finally got a conviction.
And the upshot of it is today it was all thrown out.
It was never, the appeals court today said the evidence never ever amounted to anything near worthy a conviction.
American judicial system.
So the Democrat Party for the longest time has been at has been attempting to politicise, I'm sorry, criminalize policy differences.
Tom Delay ended up being a criminal because he was able to beat the Democrats in the House on vote after vote after vote.
And if you're saying, well, it doesn't sound like it's changed much.
Well, it hasn't really, in the sense that Republicans still feel the need to prove they're nice guys.
still need to prove that they are morally superior to the Democrats.
They're not what the media says about them, and they're not what the Democrats say about them.
But anyway, good for Delay.
They ended up destroying him.
They had him running around with uh Jack Abramoff and they the image wise, Delay is a thug.
Image wise, he is a criminal.
Image wise, uh he was off playing golf at the old course at St. Andrews with your money, all this kind of stuff.
It was never ending.
If you weren't around, it was never ending these allegations about delay.
And they worked in fabricating an image because Delay did not have a way to uh fight back or refute any of this stuff.
Quick timeout will continue.
Your phone calls are coming up after this.
Don't go.
Just a little bit more history on Tom Delay.
Tom Delay stepped down, resigned Congress in January 2006.
And that whole year the Democrat Party ran against the Republicans as the party of corruption.
I'm sure many of you remembered that.
And Democrats, Pelosi and all of them were calling the Republicans the most corrupt party in history.
Now the Republicans helped.
The Republicans wanted to give delay up.
You remember why?
It's not a specific reason.
It wasn't to do with delay.
They just didn't like all the talk about Republicans being corrupt.
They found it easier to throw Delay overboard than to defend him.
You look back at press accounts at the time delay stepped down.
A lot of Republicans are quoted as being glad because they said now they can put all of this behind them.
And that's still, you know, Republicans say, well, let's go ahead and let Obama have the debt limit, and we'll put that behind us.
And it will really tackle them on the debt ceiling.
And then when the debt ceiling goes, well, we'll let them have it on the debt ceiling.
They get that behind us.
We can't win this one.
And we'll really take it to them in a sequester.
Same old philosophy.
Well, we we need to put this behind us.
We need to put this tax business, we need to put delay business, we need to put that behind us.
They had a lot of Republicans being quoted as saying they were glad Delay was stepping down because now they could put it all behind them.
They wouldn't have to worry about being attacked as corrupt anymore.
And of course, once Delay stepped down, party became corrupt, as far as the Democrats were concerned.
And then at the end of that year, the mark foley controversy over emails to the pages fit right in with the party of corruption, and in 2007, the Democrats are running the House of Representatives.
And from that point on, the Iraq war was in peril.
The Bush administration effectively over.
The public was convinced we were in a recession, and hello Barack Obama.
Pretty much it, folks.
Let's go back to the phones.
We'll uh return here to Cincinnati.
Ron, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Gush, it's a pleasure and honor to speak with you.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Hey, uh, a couple of weeks ago when your book went into pre-sale and uh shot to the top at Amazon.
I was listening that day.
Congratulations, by the way.
But uh it was interesting the comment that you made you were seeing out of the left, uh pure vitriol with uh that you were going to be telling the truth and that they were then gonna have to redo all that they had done so far to um to rewrite history.
There were there were there were posts on Twitter and Facebook from angry Democrats that we spent effectively saying we spent fifty years getting this story turned upside down, and now this guy's come along and is gonna do what he's doing.
They they felt I was gonna come along corrupt their truth.
Well, the point I'd like to make, and thank you very much for making it, is uh, you know, we all in our own communities need to find ways to make sure that the truth is told.
You you're you know, uh you've got the bully pulpit, and we thank you for that, but everybody in every community needs to find ways to make sure that the truth is being told and that we celebrate our founding.
Uh celebrate the documents, the uh the principles upon which this nation was founded.
It is so important.
You know, you I can't tell you how right you are.
It is so important.
A lot of people think it's hokey now.
Well, Russia, it's two hundred and some odd years ago.
I mean, it's a this is the world today.
It's not hokey.
That the days of our founding are the library of our freedom.
And that's never an insignificant thing, freedom.
And there's no harm that can come to anybody knowing the truth of this country.
Sticking with the phones.
Oh, yes.
I'm gonna get there.
People want to know my interpretation of the the spat now between the House and the Senate.
House Republicans and Ted Cruz on the defund Obama thing.
It's it's imp it's there's an important point to make here.
But uh Elias in Cleveland, let me get to you first.
How are you, sir?
How are you doing?
Honor to speak with you there.
Um local channels over here in Cleveland talking about the Cleveland Clinic, which is one of the best hospitals in the world.
They're cutting back three hundred and thirty million dollars in their budget because of Obamacare.
That's what they were saying over here on the local news.
Yes, that is very true.
I uh I have that same story here in my stack of stuff.
Three hundred and thirty people laid off at the Cleveland Clinic.
Chalked up to Obamacare.
Well, not wait a minute.
No, it is a the the uh Cleveland Clinic is told workers gonna be laying off an unspecified number.
Could be as many as 3,000 jobs.
The layoffs are part of a multi-year plan to cut 330 million dollars in the clinic's budget.
In answer to the question why a spokesman attributed most of the budget reductions to looming changes accompanying the start of Obamacare.
Said the clinic had not made overall layoffs in the past eleven years.
The Cleveland Clinic has 42,000 employees.
That's huge.
And they're they may have to lay off 3,000 people.
The Cleveland Clinic.
Obamacare is a job killer.
Obamacare is a is a budget buster.
Obamacare is gonna drive doctors into early retirement.
The unions don't like it.
It's gonna lead to socialized medicine.
It needs to be repealed.
Let's let's get started on this.
Grab but grab audio soundbite number one.
We'll just go on order here and explain what is what is happening.
Up first is a bunch of Democrats say, well, well, what did the Republicans wanted to fund this?
Well, it's the law of the land.
You can't change that.
Why it is the law of the land.
Listen the bill that passed over three years ago, and is the law of the land found constitutional by the Supreme Court.
Obamacare is the law of the land.
The law of the land and upheld by the Supreme Court.
Obamacare is the law of the land.
The law of the land.
The health care law continues to be the law of land.
This is the law of the land.
The law of the land, Obamacare.
Now, this is the party that all they seem to talk about when the Supreme Court gets in the gear is precedent.
So it's a law of the land, right?
Well, let's see.
What else at one time was the law of the land?
Slavery.
And there was an even one time the Supreme Court upheld it.
You ever heard of the Dred Scott decision in the justice Roger Tanny?
Yeah, slavery used to be the law of the land.
Let's see.
Well, let's see the law of land.
Marriage between a man and a woman.
It used to be the law of the land.
And then the Democrats came along.
That's discriminatory.
It's not fair.
It's not right.
It doesn't matter.
It's a bad law.
And they said, we've got to change it.
It's a law of the land.
You can't.
Is that the only way they can defend this?
Is that the best I've got?
Is the law of the land?
Speed limit used to be 55.
It was the law of the land.
Now it's 70.
And before that it was 70.
Then they made it 55.
That was the law of the land.
Defense of Marriage Act was the law of the land.
Immigration law, those law of the land.
Guns.
Second amendment, law of the land.
Why didn't why don't any of these laws count?
Democrats are trying to attack everything they don't like.
That's the law of the land.
Laws against marijuana.
It's an endless list here.
Defense of Marriage Act, Law of the Land.
Obama said, you know what?
We don't even like it.
We're not even going to defend it anymore.
Screw it.
Immigration, law of the land.
State of Arizona tried to maintain and defend the law of the land, and the regime sued the state of Arizona.
So this apparently is the best the Democrats have got up next.
Chuck Yu Schumer, this is yesterday in Washington on Capitol Hill.
This small group of people who even Republicans know are off the deep end on this issue.
Have the Republican leadership in the House so shaken and scared that that leadership's going along with this insane plan.
All right, what is he talking about?
The Republican leadership is so shaken and scared.
They're going along with this insane plan.
The insane plan is Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and the defund Obamacare.
Movement.
And the House is hearing the voices of the American people on this.
Many Republicans in the House have heard the voices of the American people, which have been loud and constant.
And have put pressure on the leadership to join this effort.
Then something interesting happened.
Senator Cruz this week announced that they don't have enough votes in the Senate to do this.
And that caused the Republicans in the House to feel betrayed.
The Republicans in the House said, well, wait a second.
You're out there raising hell, beating the drums.
You're all over the media, defund Obamacare, call Washington, do this, do that.
You're sick in everybody in the country on us.
You got this petition website, you're having everybody sign it, and you don't have the votes in the Senate.
And the House Republicans are acting outraged.
Now if you go back, Ted Cruz has never misspoken on this.
From the outset of this, on this program he said it.
He has said it everywhere else.
His objective has been to rally the American people.
Ted Cruz didn't think he was going to get anywhere with Senate leadership in the uh Republican leadership in the Senate.
He didn't really have anything to say about leadership in the House.
He's not a member.
So he and others in his movement, Mike Lee, Ramana name, their effort has always been to create an uprising by the American people, which would then influence positions taken by Republican senators.
He's never said the Senate had the votes.
And he's never implied that the Senate would have the votes.
All Cruz has ever said, and if you've paid attention, you know this.
You don't even need me to remind you.
Ted Cruz has been on a mission, as in Mike Lee, too.
I mean, that whole group, they've been on a mission to get as many of you calling and emailing and faxing Washington as you can, as they can get, hoping that that would pressure Republican senators on this.
Because it has worked in the past.
You, the American people stopped amnesty in 2007.
You, the American people have stopped a lot of things with your activism, your phone calls to Washington, the founding of the Tea Party.
So Ted Cruz didn't misrepresent anything here.
And so now what Chuck Hugh Schumer talking about, these poor Republicans in the House, my God.
Uh they're about to go off the deep end on this shoe because this poor guy Cruz is nutcases.
He's got these people doing things, and he doesn't even need to be back up in the Senate.
Now we go to a montage CBS panel.
Senate Republicans think that what the House has done is crazy and dumb.
Number three, we're staying in order here.
It feels like there's something new about this fight this time.
The Senate Republicans are saying to their colleagues in the House, you've gone crazy on this, right?
That's what you're hearing.
Describing it as a dumb idea.
Yeah.
Well, that's right.
I've been in conversations with a lot of Republican senators.
Ron Johnson is one I talked to.
He doesn't like this.
He said this is tactically a bad idea because this is going to die in the Senate, and what will happen is Republicans will be blamed for a government shutdown.
I I can just all I can do is sigh.
It's just history repeating itself.
Government shutdown.
Can't have that.
We'll get blamed.
Here are Mike Lee and Ted Cruz.
This is last night on Hannity.
They are praising the House for their decision to defund, and they are vowing to fight on.
It is unsustainable.
It's going to kill jobs.
It's going to result in a lot of people either losing their jobs, not being able to get jobs, or having their hours reduced.
Doctors hate it because it'll interfere with their ability to practice medicine.
Families hate it because most families recognize that this will make their families' health care situation worse, not better.
The American people are coming together and they're standing together and they're saying, please defund this law.
I want to applaud House Speaker John Boehner, who did the courageous thing today and stood with the American people.
We now need to stand with him and with the people and defund this law.
Oh my God, Boehner's being driven over to cliff by these insaniacs.
Oh my God, he didn't have any support in the Senate for this.
Oh my God, they're leading Boehner right down the path to shut down the government again.
Oh my God, poor Baylor.
He had no idea what's happening to him.
Oh no!
What's happening to the Republicans?
Oh, gee, we're so worried.
These lunatics, Cruz and Lee, they're forcing these Republicans into killing themselves over something that's never going to happen.
Oh my God, oh my God.
They're really worried about it.
Here's Ted Cruz claiming that what's happening in the House is a victory and needs to continue so that it does happen in the Senate.
Today's announcement is a big, big deal.
You know, a few weeks ago, early in the Obamacare defund fight, every gray beard in Washington said there's no chance of this going forward.
And today is a victory for House Conservatives that stuck their neck out that endured a lot of criticism, and today is a victory for Speaker Boehner.
Now the ball's in Harry Reid's hands.
And Harry Reid needs to listen to the American people just like John Boehner did.
Now I can guarantee you one thing.
As Churchill said, we will fight on the beaches, we will fight on the streets, we will fight at every step.
So Cruz says, what's happening here in the House of Victory?
The American people's voices are being heard.
We need to keep on.
This needs to happen in the Senate.
Hannity then said, okay, you guys have even had a deal with Senator McCain calling you wacko birds.
You've uh you you've talked about a surrender caucus.
Uh there seems to be you two, Rand Paul, maybe Marco Rubio seemed to be the new energized conservative base in the party in the Senate.
Is that a fair characterization, Senator Cruz?
Today is a remarkable day of unity.
Today I think is a victory for the speaker.
And indeed, I would make a plea today to the 46 Senate Republicans that today is a day for party unity, that every Senate Republican should stand with Republicans in the House, should stand with conservatives, and should stand with the American people.
I believe every Senate Republican should stand with the House, and I believe ultimately even the Senate Democrats, if their constituents speak out in sufficient numbers, will have no choice but help the American people avert this train run.
And a train wreck it is.
We're talking about Obamacare, and all that's happening here is what Cruz has always said.
He never misled anybody in the House.
Now you're gonna see stories of House Republicans are all feeling betrayed by Cruz because he made them go take this vote and make this statement on Obamacare with no backup in the Senate.
All Cruz ever said was that he was trying to create a massive groundswell of action on behalf of the American people that would then influence elected officials.
I gotta take a break, folks.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, Marcia in Plymouth, Minnesota.
As we head back to the phones, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Ross.
It's so wonderful to speak to you.
Thank you.
Very much.
I'm sorry if I sound a little bit nervous or if I might cry a little bit.
Well, hope you're not are you sad?
Oh no, I I'm good.
I'm good.
I just wanted uh I've been trying for so long to um give you a call and let you know how much I appreciate you and how long I've been listening.
And um my my dad started listening to you.
He was a he was a small business owner, he was a musician, and we had a musical instrument repair shop in our basement for as long as I can remember.
Wow.
In 1987, he finally opened his own store with a storefront, and I used to work with him on the weekends, fixing instruments, and in I think it was 87 or 88, but I remember when he started listening to you.
And we're this in Minnesota where you live now.
Yeah.
So that would have been 1988 then.
88, yeah.
I remember I grew up in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, and He would listen, and I would, and and on the weekends, or if I worked after school during the week, um, he would play tapes because he recorded you every day.
And so we listened all of the time.
And we listened to the station, you know, you were on, but it was just you, and then he would play you back later, and I learned a lot um from him and from you, and you know, he worked on saxophones and I worked on clarinets, and we would listen, and and he owned his own store and we did really well.
And he um unfortunately passed away in 1997.
But I've been listening to you.
And I still listen, and it's just it's almost like I'm listening to I'm listening with him.
I'm listening to the that is that that's so great.
I I'm I'm s I'm almost speechless here.
I'm I really um because I know what you mean.
I I've I've I've had the same um type of experiences with with other people in my life.
And I can't tell you how much this means to me.
You that this you'll never know.
But for here you are twenty-five years later, still listening into heaven.
Have this program remind you of those great days with your dad when he's just starting out with his store.
And you because you'll never forget that you're going to always cherish those days.
Nothing will ever replace those days when something's brand new and you're excited and you're just starting out and you don't know whether it's going to happen or not.
And those are always going to be cherished memories.
I I I've I'm I'm blown away to even be part of them.
I'm can't thank you.
I'm honored that you're part of them.
And I can I found some tapes a few weeks ago and I of the old the old days and it was nice.
It felt like I was back at home.
Well, that's great.
That's uh She's listening to old tapes and still listens.
Yes, uh huh.
Yeah, I could I found a cassette player.
Well, Marcia, that's great.
I I um I really appreciate them.
More than you'll know.
Thanks very much for sharing that with me.
I'm glad you got through.
We have to unfortunately take a break because of the programming clock.
Go away, folks.
Okay, folks, just one hour to go here, open line Friday on Thursday today.
Whatever you want to talk about, fine and dandy.
We'll be back.
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