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Dec. 6, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 6, 2013, Friday, Hour #2
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Robert Mugabe, you don't want to talk about, you don't want to talk about Robert Mugabe in the same sentence as Mandela.
You know, you want to, let me just tell you something about Robert Mugabe.
Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, Nelson Mandela would have been released from jail 10, 15 years earlier than he was if it hadn't been for Mugabe, Jimmy Carter.
The Carter regime put Mugabe in power, and the guy declared war on the whites in Rhodesia and destroyed the country.
And there was fear that that was what Mandela would do if they let him out of jail.
Mugabe is as much responsible for Mandela, and by the time Mandela got out of jail, he didn't have any use for Mugabe whatsoever.
It was a concern that they needn't have had, but there was a fear that there was some closeness.
Look, it's a bit more complicated than this.
No, somebody just said, how can you talk about Mandela without talking about Mugabe?
I wouldn't sully Mandela's memory by associating him with Robert Mugabe in any way shaking.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
But look, if you care, you Google it, you go look it up.
The Carter regime put Mugabe in there just like they got rid of the Shah.
I'll tell you, it was an utter disaster.
And Mugabe was an angry, bitter, even as recently as 10 years ago, he was still nationalizing farms owned by whites when the other farms came dormant.
He literally destroyed that country.
What are you frowning at?
What?
Angry, bitter, at war with...
It does sound like some people we know, I know.
But I'm telling you, if you find the right people to tell you the truth about it, the white government in South Africa was scared to death that that's what Mandela would do.
They saw what Mugabe was doing in Rhodes, Zimbabwe.
And when Mandela finally got out, they finally released him.
He had nothing to do with Mugabe.
Thankfully.
Anyway, great to have you here, folks.
How are you?
It's Open Line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
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The email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com.
Kimberly Strassel, I think it is.
It's either Kimberly Strassel or it's the other guy, Daniel Hennes.
Somebody at the Wall Street Journal has written a column saying that the only role Dingy Harry plays now is left tackle for Barack Obama.
That's all he's there for.
The left tackle, to handle Obama's blind side, to take care of the pass rush, protect Obama.
Dingy Harry was on KSNV-TV in Las Vegas Tuesday.
And, well, you have to hear it.
They were talking about Obama.
Just listen to this.
The guy doing the interview is Jeff Gillen, the info anchor guy at the Las Vegas TV station.
Remember what the president said?
If you like your insurance, you can keep it.
There is nobody in America who has the same insurance that they had when he said this.
We've had three different years.
Their policies were only for one year.
That was so damaging, a lot of people said, for the president to go out and say, you will be able to keep your coverage if you'd like it.
And there were thousands of people who found out that that was not actually possible.
I still go back and say what I said earlier.
What he said was true.
Okay.
If you want to keep the insurance you have, you can keep it.
The problem is, we did not put the bill into effect that way.
There's a lot of administrative things kicked in, and there have been three changes in anyone's policy since then.
It's not the same policy.
He's still out there saying, oh, Obama was telling the truth.
It was true for one year.
If you like your policy, you can keep it.
The problem was the bill didn't go into effect in that year.
So you got screwed because there were all kinds of kicked-in changes.
This guy is living in a, he is in utter reality denial.
He is only there.
Well, they say maybe Obama's left tackle, protect Obama, but I mean, this, it's more than that.
He's just there to continue to lie to spread the Democrat Party agenda.
This is incredible, telling people it's their fault.
You had a chance to keep your plan, but it was only for one year.
And everybody's insurance plan changes from year to year.
No, I don't, Dingy Harry.
That's the point.
People's plans don't change.
The only reason people's plans changed is because Obamacare came along and mandated that every policy has to cover certain things now, like birth control pills.
You know, Obama was running around saying, well, I never said that you get to keep your plan.
I always told you that if your plan changes it, that's it.
And I'm not in control of your plan changing.
I mean, you've got to take that up with the insurance company.
It's a BS.
The insurance companies were required to change everybody's plans to stay in compliance with Obamacare.
You go talk to anybody, folks, who's gotten their cancellation letter and has gone out and had to replace the insurance, and you'll find out that they're all being told they have to provide birth control coverage.
Even if there are 60-year-old women who don't obviously want it or need it, they still have to buy it so that Georgetown co-eds can go to bed every night.
They have to buy it.
Everybody has to buy it.
Free contraception, free birth control, free, all kinds of reproductive stuff in there so that Obama could get the female vote.
There was no way, there was simply no way with the implementation of Obamacare that people's plans were not going to change.
And here's Harry Reid.
Well, he didn't tell falsehood.
I mean, what he said was true.
Your plan changed, but everybody's plans changed after a year.
The problem was we didn't write the bill away.
He's just muttering, he's mouthing syllables.
He doesn't even know what they mean.
That's just incredible.
41% of new jobs in November were in the government.
Federal, state, and local governments hired a net additional 338,000 workers in November.
That's 41% of the total of 818,000 net additional jobs created in the United States during the month.
At the same time, the unemployment rate for government workers went down from 4.4% to 3.2% in November.
Unemployment for government workers was 4.4 in October.
In November, it's 3.2%.
The overall national unemployment rate fell from 7.3% to 7.0%.
So the agency, the census, which faked the 2012 election jobs report in October, November of last year, is now telling us that 818,000 new jobs are created, and there's a whole bunch of new people in the labor force.
And man, it's really, really good, except that it isn't.
41% of the new jobs are in government.
However, there is a bit of a dilemma for Obama.
And right here it is in Reuters.
U.S. unemployment rate hits five-year low.
Eyes on the Fed.
Why would that be?
Well, let me tell you.
U.S. employers hired more workers than expected in November, and the jobless rate fell to a five-year low of 7.0%, which could fan speculation that the Federal Reserve could start reducing its bond purchases, i.e., cut back on quantitative easing.
Reuters wants to be really happy at this news, but they're guarded because they are worried out there.
First place, unexpected is now back in all the unemployment news.
The experts are shocked.
Unexpectedly good news here.
But as this article points out, the president could be in a bind.
Because if he jiggers the unemployment rate for the midterms, and remember now, John Crudell, New York Post, documentation, they faked the jobs news prior to the 2012 election.
And as far as I'm concerned, anything that comes after that is, I'm dubious about it.
I don't see a rapidly growing or expanding economy, and I don't think a lot of other people do.
I don't see how it's possible.
What with everything else that's happening in the economy?
But here's the thing.
Let me stay focused.
The Federal Reserve has been pumping $85 billion a month into the stock market via bond purchases, quantitative easing.
This has created the impression that the stock market is going gangbusters, which has created the impression the economy is going gangbusters.
Now, it's interesting to note, when there's a Republican in the White House and the stock market does well, that's bad.
That just means the rich are getting richer and the president's rich Wall Street buddies and the president are in cahoots to protect themselves while Main Street and average American dies.
When a Democrat is in the White House and Wall Street's doing well, it means the country is just going great.
It's gangbusters.
And what the hell is happening in middle class doesn't matter.
Because all that matters is any news anywhere to be able to report that the Democrat destroying the economy is actually in charge of a great one.
But here's the problem.
As they jigger these numbers and as they report a growing economy, which is what you have to have here if you're creating this many jobs, 818,000 jobs, never mind that 41% are government jobs.
That's the kind of growth that the Fed might say, you know what, we don't need to pump any money in the stock market anymore.
And if that happens, if that happens, that could cause the bubble on Wall Street to collapse.
And that could take whatever this recovery is with it, because the Wall Street bubble is exactly a bubble.
The $85 billion a month going into the bond market that's then being converted to buy stocks and securities, that's not coming from mom and Joe Sixpack and people out in the country.
That's not you and me and everybody buying stock.
That's the Fed printing money and buying stock.
And that is artificial.
That is not real economic activity.
Well, you might get some argument on that because money is money.
But the fact is, it's artificial in the sense that Fed is printing money to put into the stock market.
It's creating a burgeoning, growing stock market, which is a bubble because it isn't real.
You stop pumping that $85 billion in the stock market.
What do you think is going to happen?
This is the risk.
that the regime faces now as they jigger these numbers and report all these new jobs.
What happens, and Reuters even alludes to it here, what happens if the Fed says, well, we can cut back now on a quantitative easing.
We don't need to prime the pump as much now because the economy is growing on its own.
Now, we here at the EIB Institute, the Limbaugh Institute, we are currently conducting a research project.
We are trying to find out what the unemployment rate has to be next November for the Democrats to hold the Senate and maybe win the House.
Because whatever that number is, is what it will be by November of next year before the midterms.
You can count on it.
So we're going to try to get a head start on what we think that number would be.
We know how they had to jigger the numbers a year ago before the presidential election.
They had to bring that unemployment number down below 8%, remember.
And they did that by getting a lot of people out of the labor force.
It's going to be fascinating.
So we have our algorithms going.
We have all the analytics at our disposal going.
And we are trying to come up with that number, ladies and gentlemen, that the Democrats need to hold the Senate and win the House, because that's what the number is going to be next November.
Mark my words, that's what it's going to be.
They're doing the same research, too.
And they are trying to come up with that number.
But as they do this, over there's the Fed.
I know what you cynics are saying, but Rush Obama controls the Fed.
All he's got to do is call Janet Yellen or whatever and tell her how much money to keep putting in there.
We'll see.
But he is in a mind because if he jiggers these numbers too much for the midterms, he does risk having the Fed cut back or stop entirely pumping $85 billion a month into the stock market.
And that would cause this bubble to collapse.
And that would not be pretty.
I have another question.
Another question, ladies and gentlemen.
If the jobless rate, the unemployment rate is at a five-year low, and if the economy is booming, then why are the Democrats demanding that the emergency, temporary, one-time only federal unemployment benefits get extended for the fifth year in a row?
If unemployment's plummeting, if employment is skyrocketing, new jobs are being created to left and right, the economy is growing by leaps and bounds.
Why are the Democrats demanding that we extend again the emergency, temporary, one-time only unemployment benefit for the fifth year in a row?
That's some emergency.
That's some temporary emergency.
They're demanding this.
And by the way, I hate to tell you this, they're hell-bent to get this extension.
They are willing to shut down the government to get it.
And why is John Boehner talking like he might cave and give it to them?
No, no, no, no.
I am serious.
There it is on Fox Air Radio.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill race to seal a budget deal, and the Democrats are adamant that we extend unemployment benefits, temporary emergency for the fifth year in a row to coincide with almost the whole Obama regime.
You realize for this entire presidency, we have needed emergency unemployment extension every year, and they're damned well committed to getting another year.
Why?
If we are having all this great job news, by the way, Obama's not the only one getting all the he-knew Mandela treatment.
CNN's now moved on to Hillary and her closeness to Mandela and how she wouldn't have been what she is without Mandela, and Mandela wouldn't have been what he is without Hillary.
And then next, they'll throw Bill in there.
Here's Jim in Jacksonville, Florida, as we head back to the phones.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Greetings, Rush.
My concern is about unintended social consequences of the Obama-No Care Act.
Think about it.
There's supplements for having a lower income.
Will people prevent from getting married just like they do with divorce?
Well, I mean, just like they do with welfare, will there be an incentive not to be married or to get divorced?
You'll get incentives on the Obamacare.
You know, you are very shrewd, Jim, because there is a story.
I think we had it might have been later last week, that people are divorcing in order to afford Obamacare.
It is busting up families.
Obamacare is going to increase the divorce rate.
I think it will.
Consider quit your job and get welfare, tax incentives, and Obamacare incentives, along with tax incentives.
Jim, I just have to ask you a question, though.
What do you have against divorce?
What business you realize who says marriage is all that great anyway?
And who says it marries all that much?
What's the big deal about people getting divorced?
What is your animus against marriage and divorce?
What the hell do you care?
Well, I think it's a very important issue when it comes to children involved.
Children brought up in a marriage between a husband and wife are definitely statistically everything are shown to be more stable and brought up properly.
And just divorce in itself is a deterioration of American societies and morals.
Now, Jim, that's okay in Jacksonville, but you go to Washington or New York and you just became a bigot.
That's true.
They don't have 84-degree temperatures like we do right now either.
Is it that warm where you are, too?
I'm looking at my thermometer.
84 degrees.
It's amazing.
This is one of those days where when you're in South Florida, you get really smug.
Because we're the only part of the country where it's livable.
Jim's got it.
I was being facetious with Jim on the marriage and divorce business.
Do you know, by the way, folks, 17% of all, I think it's the past year.
I'll have to look it up.
17% of all marriages in the last year or so in D.C., Washington are gay marriages.
17%?
Pent-up demand, I'll say.
Another little thing about Nelson Mandela: Do you realize in a couple of ways, maybe even more than a couple, Nelson Mandela has more in common or had more in common with Clarence Thomas than he does with Barack Obama.
For example, Nelson Mandela, even prior to becoming president, but certainly after he became president of the South Africa, insisted he insisted on compliance with his country's constitution.
Insisted on it, Obama looks at the U.S. Constitution as an obstacle and makes end runs around it every day, practically.
In that sense, these are the kind of things, by the way, I love saying, because this just ticks because they hate Clarence Thomas.
And Mandela had much more in common with Clarence Thomas and a lot of conservatives than he has Mandela.
But the left doesn't care.
The only thing I say here is skin color and oppression.
And somehow they've got themselves convinced that Obama has undergone all this oppression.
That Obama has faced overwhelming discrimination.
Why, if I didn't know better, I'd be waiting today for the news story of the 27 years Obama spent in prison.
And if that story is not reported, you might end up thinking he did anyway by the time they get through with this linkage.
Because that's what they want the linkage to be: oppression, discrimination, racism, bigotry.
That's the commonality and skin color.
And that's what makes Obama and Mandela brothers.
Oh, and that Obama had his picture taken in Mandela's jail cell.
And the White House tweeted that out.
Do you believe that?
On the death, when the death of Mandela was announced, the White House tweeted a picture of Obama in Mandela's jail cell.
Except it was a museum when Obama went there.
And he only spent a couple minutes.
Mandela spent 27 years.
Here's Siggy Siggy, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Hey, Siggy, great to have you on the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I'm so honored to speak to you.
Thank you for taking my call.
Pleasure to have you here.
I wanted to let you know that I bought Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims for my kids right before Thanksgiving because we homeschool.
And I thought it would be a great history lesson for them.
Anyway, so I bought it before Thanksgiving and I was rushing to get it done because I heard you say on the show that you had the history of the first Thanksgiving in there.
And I always have my kids listen to your story of the first Thanksgiving on YouTube because somebody has it there and we can play it.
Anyway, so I couldn't get to the story of the first Thanksgiving before Thanksgiving.
My voice would give out after reading two chapters.
So we've been doing one chapter a day.
And finally, today we just finished the book.
And then right when we finished, my kids said, well, where's the next book?
They did?
They did.
Your kids want the next book?
They want the next book.
Hmm.
Hmm.
And I don't want to give away the end of the book, but there is a little picture of you, and there is a blurb saying, where do we go next?
Yeah.
But yeah, they want the next book.
But the blurb doesn't say where we're going next.
No, it doesn't.
But the last page of your book kind of gives an idea, but I'm not going to say what that is.
Because I'm sure there are some people who haven't read it.
Well, that's a precious few who haven't read it, but it's supposed to be an intriguing, open-ended proposition.
And it looks like it's worked with you and your kids.
That's cool.
You know what?
I need to send you the audio version of the book.
If you'd let me, if you'll hang on and give Mr. Snirdley your address, we'll FedEx you the audio version of the book so that you have to worry about your voice going out.
That would be so awesome.
Yeah, I must tell you, you've made my day here.
I have gotten so much satisfaction.
I've been so thrilled when I have got feedback from people like you, mothers, even some of the kids who call here to talk about it.
If you would have told me 25 years ago that I would be taking phone calls from kids praising a book that I'd written, I wouldn't have believed you.
Well, you got my kids when you spoke about the Mayflower and the parts of the boat, you got them at the poop deck, and that was it.
Well, they didn't know what a poop deck was?
Well, or they thought they knew what it was.
Well, they love that you mentioned things that kids love to talk about because they think it's funny.
Yep.
You know, something adults wouldn't necessarily, you know, grab hold of because you grab hold of the characters.
That is the key.
It was a challenge.
And I had a lot of help here in including things that kids think are funny that maybe adults wouldn't look at be entertained by it, but wouldn't necessarily be entertained by the kids laughing at it.
But no, that's, well, you are making my day here.
I'm so glad.
Your kids wanting to know if there's going to be another book.
See, I know the answer to that.
Are you going to share it?
No, I think I kind of am here, but I can't specifically, not prepared, not yet ready to, but the fact that you're asking is an indication.
Well, I'll let you know that I'm sure it's not just my kids, but I'm sure you have a lot of little fans out there that are probably asking the same question.
Because my kids, you know, they're great kids, and we homeschool, and my kids now love history.
Well, there are a lot of, I've got a collection of some letters, emails that the children who've read the book have written, and a lot of them are asking liberty.
So where are you guys going next?
I mean, there is this ingrained hope that there is another adventure.
And so your kids are right in line with that.
And I don't think they're going to be disappointed.
Let me just put it that way.
Okay, that sounds good.
They also asked if you can make a movie on it.
A movie?
Yeah.
You know, you're really making this hard on me.
You're really, you're really.
You know, Mike Huckabee has these videos out on the history of, you know, this country.
And who?
Mike Huckabee.
He has a set of videos out for kids about events that happened in history.
So if he can do it, I think you could do it.
Huckabee, Huckabee, Huckabee.
Oh, well, I'll tell you what you do.
You tell your kids that we are going to be giving life to the poop deck.
That sounds great.
You've had two requests today, one a suggestion, one a request, and you've basically had both of them answered if you're listening carefully.
I did.
All right.
Now, hang on because Mr. Snerdley will get your address and we'll FedEx you or somehow we'll get it out.
It'll probably happen next week.
We'll get you the audio version.
It's about four and a half hours, and my voice does not give out.
So you have to worry about that, as yours did.
Why do you think your voice gave out right before the Thanksgiving story?
Well, what happens is we start school at 8 in the morning, and so I'm constantly talking, and by the time we get to history, it's about 12 o'clock.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, so.
How long is your homeschool class day?
It depends on, I mean, we do about 8, 9 subjects a day, so it depends how fast the kids are with their studies.
Right now we have it set up where I've changed things up a bit, and we're getting done at least by 12.30.
For the day?
Yeah.
And what age group are your kids now?
And then do you just your two, did you say, or you have others?
No, I've got four kids, but, well, my youngest is three.
But I'm homeschooling my six, ten, and twelve-year-old.
Six, ten.
And for how long will you homeschool them before you send them somewhere else?
Well, the plan is until they're graduated from high school.
Wow.
And actually, I've been getting a lot of feedback from my I have a lot of friends that are teachers, and they're teachers in New York, and they think what I'm doing is great, and they see what's happening.
Yeah, no arguments.
I'm not running the schools, and my friends are liberal, you know, very liberal.
And my girlfriend said, you're so lucky that you can homeschool your kids.
Now, let me ask you a question about this.
Are you worried?
Because I have read some of the critics of homeschooling have said that if you don't send the kids outside the house for some of their schooling, they're not going to learn certain socialization skills.
I don't buy that.
I think the best socialization they can get is seeing two parents who get along really well.
And my husband and I get along famously.
And they see the relationship that we have.
And we have relatives who the parents do not get along well.
And you can see it with the kids, that the kids misbehave.
They don't act well.
We were actually in Disney World earlier this year, and we were at the World of Disney store, and we were buying a whole bunch of stuff for the kids.
You know, the first day there, you get all excited.
You see all Mickey Mouse everywhere, and you just want to buy stuff.
Anyway, we're at the cashier's desk, and the lady goes to me, and she says, do you homeschool your kids?
And I said, yeah.
How did you guess?
Because, of course, we don't know this woman.
Let me guess, let me guess, because they're well-behaved.
Because they were well-behaved.
And to me and my husband, we're thinking, really?
They're well-behaved?
But apparently they are.
Is your husband involved in the homeschooling?
No, he's working so I can homeschool.
But as you were saying.
So your husband's doing the man thing during the day.
Yeah, he's doing the man thing.
I'm okay with that.
I used to work, but when baby number three came along, we thought it was best that I stay home with the kids.
And the kids were still in public school.
Well, let's get on.
Let me just tell you something here, Ziggy.
Ziggy, the fervent hope is that one day you can take your kids to Rush Revere World.
Rush Revere World.
Yeah.
Instead of Disney World.
Instead of Disney World.
Well, we're kind of stuck on Disney World, but we would definitely give you a school.
Well, there's nothing wrong with it.
I'm just giving you another hint here.
Oh, oh, my gosh.
Well, you're a very big.
Now, right.
And now, I finally figured out Huckleby, he was in a Mark Twain book.
I didn't know who you were talking about.
Huckleby was in it with a Mark Twain book.
Tom Sawyer.
No, you're thinking about Huckleberry Finn.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking about.
Okay, now, also, in addition to the audio version, I'm going to send you and your kids.
We've got this new little thing that we put in the Two If by T store, Ted T. Bear.
It's a little white bear, and we put it in there as a gift item for people.
And it's just a cute little patriot hat on this.
You ought to go to the website, take a look at it, because I'm going to send you one of those too.
Oh, thank you so much.
You're the best.
Thank you so much, Siggy.
It's great.
Well, but let me just real quick.
In regards to the socialization, I have my kids involved in dance and gymnastics and anything else that they can meet other kids with.
So they're socialized plenty.
At least they're socialized with kids who have the same interests.
And values.
That's excellent.
That's great.
Well, you're doing great.
Great, great job.
And let me tell you something.
I am really, in all seriousness now, I'm honored that people like you are in this audience and that you have found value in my little book.
I really appreciate that.
Well, thank you so much.
You bet.
And hang on so we can get your address.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Welcome back, folks.
It's Open Line Friday.
Rushland Boy in the EIB network.
Here it is.
Gay weddings made up.
You know what?
I got it wrong.
I said Washington, D.C., and I read the headline.
It's Washington state.
Gay weddings made up 17% of marriages in Washington state this past year, the first year that gay marriages were legal.
It's an AP story out of Seattle.
Let me quickly delve into some of the polling data here.
First up from Gallup, Obama approval down most among Hispanics in the past year.
President Obama's job approval rating averaged 41% in November, down 12 points from last December, high watermark.
Hispanics approval has dropped 23 points over the past 12 months.
That's the most among any of the subgroups.
Nearly twice the national average.
How is this possible?
I mean, it's almost as if Hispanics live in the same country as the rest of us.
Where are the party strategists and the media pundits demanding that Obama reach out to Hispanics now?
Where are the calls for Obama to rebrand himself?
And what are the Republicans going to do now?
Because the Republicans were prepared to emulate the Democrats.
And if they did that, they would lose support of Hispanics too.
That's the thing that worries me.
If Obama's lost 23 points in Hispanics, and the Republicans are going to, too, because they're going to do what the Democrats are doing, whatever it is.
That's stunning.
But that's not all.
Obama down 23 points among Latinos.
More cracks in the Obama base.
Ohio independents are abandoning Obama in droves.
Now, this kind of ticks me off, though.
Let me give you a poll quote.
This is a story of WSJ Cincinnati.
Voters in Swing State, Ohio expressed disappointment with Obama.
Pessimism is partly a result of Obama's government of October's government shutdown, which still engenders steep anger here and Obama's flawed rollout of health care.
The shutdown showed a lack of concern by our leaders for the people they're supposed to represent, said Terry Hartley, 63-year-old retired math teacher, voted for Romney.
America's fading because we're devoting too much time to bickering, said Bridget Brennan.
These did these people not get it?
These people voted for Obama, except this one guy who voted for Romney.
Swing state Ohio voters.
Now all upset.
Disappointment with Obama.
Six in ten independents have abandoned Obama.
This is from an economist you gov poll for the first time.
More Americans than not don't like Obama.
And independents.
I got to take a break.
I just said, but it's their bottom's falling out everywhere here, folks.
Obama's approval rating is even declining among the poor to whom he has given everything.
Ah, just a bottom falling out.
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