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July 29, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 29, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Jam-packed again today, folks.
It's gonna be a challenge.
It's gonna be a struggle to get it all in there, including a lot of the stuff from yesterday that I committed to.
And then I promised you that I know you're sitting on the edge of your seats to hear.
You shall hear it all.
You may wonder when it's over why you wanted to, but you nevertheless will.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program today.
It's 800 282-2882, the email address, L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
The Feminazis, the Feminazis are fried.
They're really worked up over the Ray Rice suspension, the Baltimore Ravens.
And the commissioner of the NFL sent a guy out to try to explain what happened.
He ended up uh uh throwing gasoline on the fire made it worse.
I watched a couple of women on CNN this morning, just livid.
And these were elderly feminized.
By the way, that's another thing.
There's another story that I have in the stack here, and we've been talking about this.
Is this fascinating demographic stuff?
Young women, millennial women rejecting militant feminism, rejecting feminazism, and they've even got a hashtag.
We're not feminists or some such thing.
And the elderly feminizes are livid, they're ticked off.
They don't think the young babes get it.
The young babes think that the old feminazis are really not even about women.
They're just liberals, which is true.
They're just activists.
So that's coming up.
Um Jeff Sessions, we have audio sound bites of his floor speech at the Senate yesterday.
Uh and and the phones in Washington melted as a result of that.
That's great news.
Um John Kerry, who served in Vietnam, has just made a total, total mess of the negotiations between Hamas and the Israelis.
And of course, the drive-by's in everybody are circling the wagons to defend Kerry.
After all, he was their presidential nominee in 2004.
All those people, all these people voted for Kerry against the hated and the reviled George W. Bush.
They think he was unfairly swift voted out of the presidency.
They're invested in Kerry, and they've circled the wagons, but he's made a really I mean, even the Washington Post has made notes of the egregious, egregious errors committed by Kerry in this whole thing, is what he's done.
And it's typical.
He didn't the unintended consequences based on incompetence.
What he's done the way he's done it has empowered Hamas.
But the Washington Post is careful to say it's not because of bias.
It's because of his just so fervent desire to achieve these fire that he just moved too quickly and ended up making it look like our ally is actually Hamas and not Israel.
Oh, it's bad, folks.
It is, it's it's we've got incompetence running all over the place in this regime.
And and then Kerry, I think it's the poster boy.
It's a bit tough bet between him and Obama, which by the way, this is 10th anniversary of Obama.
How did you know that?
How did you know that?
Is that in the news today?
Well, how it was in the news yesterday.
You will s so I asked Snerdley, I said, but what's this the tenth anniversary?
He just tells me Obama's speech at Democratic Convention.
How do you know?
You telling me that that's just off the top of your head, that you have seen nothing about that.
Well, HR's calling you a liar.
HR says it was in the news yesterday, and it.
Well, we will figure this out.
No, it's not.
And even if it is, we're not going there.
Don't gee whiz.
I'm sorry, folks.
It's so unfair for me to know what's being said to me, and you don't know, and I'm reacting to it.
It's not a black thing.
All right.
The broadcast engineer said Snertley knows it's Obama's 10th anniversary speech because it's a black thing.
What would that have to do with it?
Oh uh Snerdley, of course, the official Obama criticizer, 100% pure.
Uh what is it?
Slave blood?
Right.
Certain certified.
That's absolutely right.
Well, the key is 10 years.
He's only been in office for like six, so what were you saying?
I I can see where you might.
I still think you're f I still think that you're trying to make me think that you're smarter than you are.
But that's okay.
You are a smart guy.
There's no question about that.
Here's the deal, folks.
Today is the 10th anniversary of Obama's speech at a Democrat convention.
That's what put him on the map.
And so the question is are you better off today than you were 10 years ago?
Are you?
Are you better off today than the age of Obama when we began the age of Obama?
Ten years ago, Obama was a nobody.
Ten years ago, he would have still been fetching Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy's coffee.
As Bill Clinton reminded Ted Kennedy of in the 2008 campaign.
Hey, you know, Ted.
This guy, if it were fetching our coffee.
And then they heard about that at the Obama campaign.
So then they threw the race card down on Clinton.
So, well, anybody can get the black vote in South Carolina, and they something like that.
And they threw the race card down on Clinton.
He's never forgotten it.
He is the first black uh president.
So 10 years ago, Obama, a nobody.
And now look where we are.
Um let's start with um John Kerry.
Although one I'm so tempted to do the Ray Rice thing.
But it's not the well the the the Feminazis are just livid that he only got two games.
For punching his one, apparently this the story is that she spit on him and then he uppercut her.
That that's that's the latest.
She spit on him, and that's I learned that from the two aging dinosaur Jurassic Park Feminazis on CNN today.
And well, yeah, Stephen A. Smith, the day they were ragging on him today, these two feminazis were, so they want him fired.
You know, he they claim his apology was on a teleprompter, which means somebody wrote it and he didn't really mean it, so they're after Stephen A. Smith at uh at ESPN.
He did do his apology on the prompter just to make sure he started ad-libbing and going off.
Anyway, these these Jurassic Park feminine, I mean, livid.
They started citing lyrics that were in uh uh a Rihanna song or something about Rihanna getting beat up in a song.
They were just they were just on a roll today.
And they're they're really upset is that even if Ray Rice's wife spit on him, it's still it doesn't is no justification for Ray Rice uppercutting her in the jaw, knocking her out and dragging her around the elevator.
Anyway, that did happen.
He got a two-game suspension, and they want much more because they're like everybody else.
So wait a minute, you can you can use marijuana and get thrown out of the game for a year.
You can uh DUI kill somebody.
You mean what what are we talking about?
I think it's grossly unfair.
So the commission went out and tried to explain it.
But what really has feminizes ragged off, and this was fun.
Baltimore Ravens fans are purchasing Ray Rice jerseys in record numbers.
Baltimore Ravens fans are purchasing pink Ray Rice jerseys in record numbers.
They're offering pink jerseys because of the NFL's uh uh.
Yeah, breast cancer awareness campaign they do every October, where the players all wear pink something or other on the field, and it's for the whole month.
And here's the here's the story from uh NBC's Pro Football Talk.
Ravens running back Ray Rice may be loathed in most of America after an offseason and saw him face an assault charge for hitting his wife, but Rice is still beloved in Baltimore.
Ravens had an open practice at their home stadium Monday night, and Ray Rice heard loud cheers from the fans in attendance.
Ray Rice was twice shown on the big screen.
Both times he got enthusiastic ovations.
Rice tapped his chest to show his appreciation as he soaked in the applause.
Many fans wore Ray Rice jerseys.
Several rice jerseys were spotted on women and children.
Rice's actions this offseason.
I'm still reading from the blog post here.
Rice's actions this offseason have not been worthy of people killing him.
And when the NFL let Rice off with only a two-game suspension, it provoked nationwide outrage.
That doesn't seem to matter to the adoring public in Baltimore, however.
What matters there is that Rice remains an important part of the Ravens' office.
What are they missing here?
That's not what's driving this.
People are fed up with the media, is what's driving.
You can't turn on the media without looking at them dumping all over Ray Rice.
Okay, report the story.
Spend a day or two on it if you want.
It's been a week.
They won't let it go.
And the Baltimore fans are, okay, right?
You want us, you want us to come down on Ray Rice?
Watch this.
And they're going out and they're buying Ray Rice jerseys and record numbers and they're buying them in pink, and they're showing up and cheering him at practice, and that's all.
I I guarantee you.
This is Baltimore Ravens fans flipping off the national sports media is what it's doing, and flipping off the feminazis.
And there may be an element of, well, yeah, we need Rice on our team as a great player, blah, blah.
But this is this is open and shut.
This is slam dunk.
This is Yeah, he apologized.
But he didn't apologize enough.
And his uh his wife uh well, but no, he hasn't he's not apologized publicly.
He apologized uh to the commissioner, and he apologized to his teammates, he apologized to her, but he didn't apologize to her in public, I think.
That hasn't.
But she is apparently the reason the suspension is only two games, because apparently she told a commission so out of character, it'll never happen again, guarantee you, and if it does, I guarantee you he's the one gonna be dragged out of the elevator, not me.
So after that, the commission apparently said, okay, cool.
Two games, see you later.
And now the media, it's the media that's up in arms about this.
It's the sports media, and I tell you, they're they're dumber and they're more liberal than the regular media.
She still loves her husband.
Jen Janae is her first name.
And and then, of course, these aging feminazis were.
I guarantee it's just media backlash.
A large percentage of it, percentage of it is.
Yesterday on uh ESPN two, he had the senior uh NFL senior vice president of labor policy, Adolfo Birch, show up to discuss this.
And he was asked, how did you and the others involved in the decision-making process arrive at the two-game suspension for Ray Rice?
The commissioner uh elicits a number of perspectives.
Uh, he doesn't sit in a vacuum uh when he's making these types of decisions.
We believe that the the discipline that we issued is appropriate.
I mean, it is multiple games and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
I think uh it's fair to say that that doesn't reflect that you condone the behavior.
These types of cases are not really subject to that uh form of set penalty, so there is more uh thought and judgment that has to be employed.
And in this case, this is what the commissioner felt was appropriate.
Now, see, the key here is these types of cases are not really subject to that form of set penalty, meaning there is no policy here.
They're flying blind.
There is a policy for DUI.
There's a policy of repeated uh substance abuse or performance enhancing drugs, but they haven't established a policy for wife beating.
Now they're gonna have to.
Well, fiance beating.
Uh, and that's why there's there's nothing in the in the in the how-to manual.
There's no guidance, so they had to make it up as they go.
And that's what he's saying.
We had no guidelines here.
We had nothing to do.
I mean, these types of cases, wife beating, whatever, not really subject to that form of set penalty.
So there wouldn't be thought and judgment that we had to use here rather than relying on our blueprints in the manual.
Well, this did not sit well, needless to say, with the with the anchors at ESPN too.
This is Adolfo Birch, by the way, who is the senior vice president of labor policy of the NFL.
So the next question was, I'm gonna be honest with you.
We're hearing from thousands of people this morning who are saying the NFL had an opportunity to send a message that domestic violence will not be tolerated in our league, and they failed to do so in the Ray Rice case.
So what is the league's reaction?
Well, listen, I think if if you're any player and you believe that based on this decision that it's okay to go out and commit that type of conduct, I think that's that's something that I would I would I would suggest to you uh that no player is going to go out and do that.
Did you hear the guy laugh?
Well, I'm telling you, for the rest, that doesn't matter what he said.
He laughed in that answer, and so now the sports drive bys are in such a wad.
It's gonna be Friday before they untangle themselves and straighten themselves out.
They can't really believe that that happens.
So Adolfo Burst, so, hey, listen, I think if you're any player and you believe that based on this decision it's okay to go out and commit that type of conduct, I think that's something that I would ha ha ha ha.
I would suggest to you no player's gonna go out and do that.
He laughed about it.
Laughed about it.
Sports drive by is outrage.
John Kerry next when we get back.
Don't go.
You know what I just saw in Fox?
Little crawl on the screen.
Less than 30% of teenagers know how to read a paycheck stub.
Why would they?
They don't get any.
You've seen teenage unemployment.
Teenage paycheck stubs.
I know well, I don't think there are paycheck stubs anymore.
There's direct deposit.
But I get there, but they probably couldn't read it anyway.
What's FICA?
I have no idea.
I'm I bet they don't know.
I bet thir I bet 30% of the entire population wouldn't know how to read the paycheck stub.
Wouldn't know what all the deductions are.
They see what the amount of the check is.
Maybe they look at the gross.
Maybe they get an idea of what their tax burden is.
But I'm I don't know.
It's not a surprising statistic.
Now look, folks, this Ray Rice thing, don't misunderstand here.
I have, you know, the NFL can do what they want.
I've I'm I'm you know, the the media and this constant effort to socially engineer the NFL is really wearing thin on me.
As a fan, the NFL sports are an escape.
They succeed as an escape.
And as the media attempts to corrupt all of these sports by demanding that every social engineering demand or requirement or advanced, they believe must be adopted is just you know, and they get left-wing social commentary during games now.
Sorry, I uh it it it used to be football.
Now half the news in I look at sports blogs, football, but half of the news in these sports blogs is is outraged bloggers over somebody not being suspended for long enough, or something to do with player misbehavior, and uh maybe a request for the government to get involved.
I mean, it's obscene what's happening here.
This it just it is but it's driving me away.
It hasn't done so yet, but my enthusiasm Is waning, I can tell you.
I also think this Redskins business is the same thing.
You know, the media has is just trying to force what they want out of thin blue air, out of nothing.
There was nothing driving this other than liberalism.
Nothing driving this.
There wasn't any real world attitude of protest or anger out there that built and built and built.
This just showed up one day because the left decided that it was a target.
They gotta have a target every day.
The Redskins became a target, and I think Redskins fans and others are not standing up so much in support of the name as they are saying stop to the media.
Leave us alone.
It's our team.
It doesn't mean anything.
Nobody's trying to insult anybody here.
We're trying to win football games for Carl.
We'd like the team to go to the Super Bowl.
Will you take your social engineering little concerns and take them somewhere else?
Maybe this will even wake more people up about what liberalism is.
That's one thing I didn't.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
It's Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
I've got one more soundbite on a Ray Rice thing.
I want to get a couple of phone calls in, and then we'll get on to the John Kerry and Israeli Hamas situation rather than go straight to the Carrie Hama situation and in two hours from now take a couple calls on Ray Rice.
What we finished in two hours.
And then move on to John Kerry in the Service of Vietnam.
Here's uh Jan Crawford just on CBS this morning.
Got a little tense there.
A little tense, because they're not happy about the appearance of Adolfo Birch earlier that morning on ESPN, who ended up laughing in an answer to a question about the message on domestic violence in the NFL, the suspension of Ray Rice sends.
So what we have here with Jan Crawford, Gail King, and Nora O'Donnell discussing this.
This comms, uh, just as the NFL is getting ready to kick off his preseason, and as the league is making a push to get more women viewers.
We asked the uh NFL for response this morning, though, Nora, and they're refusing to comment.
Listen, I don't think anybody should hit anybody.
I don't think a woman should hit a man, but I think if it happens, I don't believe a man should hit a woman under any circumstances.
Is there any evidence?
You're much stronger.
Is there any evidence that Ray Rice's fiancee hit him?
I don't know what happened in that elevator, Nora.
I don't know, but it's it's certainly sparking a huge conversation from all quarters about what's the right thing to do.
Nobody should hit anybody.
That's the bottom line.
That's the bottom line in zero tolerance.
That's the bottom.
Nobody should hit anybody.
You know what?
Hey, make a hashtag on that and post it where the Israelis and Hamas can see it.
Words to live by.
How about a hashtag?
Nobody should hit anybody.
Make sure the Israelis and the Palestinians see it.
What could go wrong?
What an amazing life philosophy.
Here's Harvey, Baltimore, as we go into the phones.
Harvey, thank you for calling.
Welcome to the program, sir.
Thank you, oh great wine.
I would just like to add a little bit more information.
When Rice did hit that lady, it was his fiance, not his wife.
He got lawyered up and he married her.
Then they came with a four-game suspension.
He appealed.
It came back to a two-game suspension with a third game without pay.
So that's the I'd like this to add a little bit more to your scenario, sir.
All right.
Okay, so it's a two-game suspension, and he plays the third game without pay.
Sir.
Yes, sir.
When he hit the woman, she was his fiancee.
Yes.
Right.
Not that that makes a great deal different, but it does.
Well, no, wait.
No, no, no.
That's not my question.
He hits the woman when she's his fiancee.
So he gets a lawyer.
And the advice was marry her.
Well, I'm not sure.
Well, now, you know, she's part of this equation.
She just said yes.
Well, I would assume if I'm his lawyer, I'm going to tell him to marry her because it takes a lot of the political and legal aspects out of the way.
Well, you know, sadly, I I see the guy's point.
Here's why.
Okay, she's fiance.
He decks her.
Then they get married.
Well, how bad could it have been if she said yes to the proposal?
Well, she can't testify against her husband, true, but but in in a i she could bring charges if she wanted to in a case like this.
But just stop and think of this now.
He engages in the domestic abuse when they're engaged.
Presumably she has already said yes.
And then the event happens in the elevator.
And it's known.
And then the lawyers, okay, Ray, you've got to get married.
Limit the damage.
You gotta get married now.
Because the act of her going through with the marriage after you deck her will limit the impact of this.
Well, that has to be the thinking, right?
Sterle, they're uncontrollably laughing.
What is so funny?
Other than me being a naturally funny person.
Well, he did he decked her.
I'm just speaking in language that everybody from here to Nigeria can understand.
He decked her.
He hit her.
Uppercut to the jaw.
I mean, that's what we're told has happened in there.
And at after she reportedly spit on it.
But anyway, after that, after all, she went ahead and married the guy.
So this the the it's somewhat of a mitigating fact.
How bad could the guy be if she went ahead and married him?
And most women would run for the hills after that, would certainly break the engagement and not go through with it.
She did.
That's what the lawyer's advice was, right.
Then well, I don't I don't know for most women run for the.
I don't know.
I I don't I can't relate to any of this anyway.
But NFL player, I know NFL player big bucks fame, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, worth a hit to the job.
I don't know.
I just I see where you're going with that.
But I know what the lawyer was thinking if the caller's right.
If sh if they know TV shows uh of a wife of an athlete, uh girlfriends of an athlete.
There are photo spreads on sports pages of girlfriends of athletes.
So it's a it's it's its own gig.
It's it's a mark in uh in Redlands, California.
Hi, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I'm tired of the uh liberal sports media too, uh, from Bob Costus uh serumender in the Super Bowl, uh, and even my sports illustrated uh subscription over the years.
And probably after 35 years of Sports Illustrated, I finally quit my subscription because of the liberal articles about uh everything from Title IX to gay athletes, etc.
etc.
Right.
So you cut the cord.
I know.
I know, and I think I think that's in large part what's driving this outpouring of so-called support for Ray Rice.
It's just it's a media backlash.
You know, fans of Baltimore say, look, you know what?
We will react on our own.
We don't need to be told how outraged to be by you all.
We don't need to be told what we should think.
We don't need to be told how we should react.
We don't need to be told that we should forgive or forget or whatever Ray Rice.
I'm telling you, this this ongoing effort to convert sports into a into a liberal social uh experiment is is gonna run a lot of people away because that's why they go to it in the first place, is to get away from the daily humdrum of uh of all of that.
And you can't escape it now.
And there's so much I'll tell you there's another thing, too.
It's not just the media reporting this stuff.
That's one thing.
There's a preaching attitude about it, as though none in the media have ever, ever made any kind of an error or mistake.
I mean, they they position themselves, this is true of all media, not just the sports drive-by's, as some kind of moral superior or or moral authority on everything, and they're just people too.
But it does, I think it shapes people.
And And it's uh it causes a backlash or blowback kind of reaction.
All right, as promised, a brief obscene profit break here, and we'll come back and tell you how John Kerry has totally screwed up the diplomatic efforts between Israel and Israel and Hamas.
So don't go away.
John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam as the American Secretary of State.
He's been shuttling back and forth between the United States and Tel Aviv.
And uh I don't know if he's ventured into Gaza Palestinian territory or not, but he's been desperate to get a ceasefire.
He has been desperate to get a ceasefire, and the reason he wants a ceasefire, well, I the ceasefires are pointless and meaningless.
Look, I'm I'm gonna say some things that I think are slam dunk, slam dunk true and accurate and no brainers.
It's just that you will not hear things like this in the drive-by media.
But I gotta tell you, folks, I'm 63.
I have been paying attention to this issue since I was a teenager.
It doesn't matter who is the president, it doesn't matter who's running the Palestinians, doesn't matter who the Prime Minister of Israel is, really.
This dispute has never changed in terms of the way it is presented in the media.
And it's always presented in the media as though there is a diplomatic solution that can be had that that is there for the taking.
And there isn't.
There never will be a diplomatic solution.
There will be diplomatic moments.
But diplomacy is not going to solve this.
The only way, it's not just this, it's any conflict like this that involves military.
One of these two sides is going to have to win and the other is going to have to lose.
And until that happens, there will not be a solution.
And yet, every day of my life, I have been force-fed the idea, conventional wisdom doesn't matter.
Every year of my life, every day, every month, I've been force-fed news stories where in the narrative or the template is that a diplomatic solution is at hand.
Or a diplomatic solution looks grim, or a diplomatic solution is slipping away, or we're on the verge of gaining a diplomatic.
And it's none of it true.
There is no diplomatic solution.
We've had some of the best diplomats the world's produced.
Try to solve this and they have failed.
We've had some of the worst diplomats the world has produced, one of them serving right now, and they have failed.
Because there isn't a diplomatic solution.
All you have to do is read the Hamas Charter.
The Hamas charter explicitly calls for the elimination of Israel.
There is no way to negotiate that.
There is no middle ground.
It's like Kerry can say, okay, I read your chart, and you want to destroy Israel.
How about if you wait 10 years to do it?
And then only destroy half of it.
I'll take that, the Netanyahu, and see what he says.
And Arafat says, okay, go ahead, take it, or whoever.
Yeah, take it.
So Kerry goes over, okay.
Look, they're willing to modify their charter and say they won't destroy you for 10 years, and even then they'll only destroy half of you.
Can you agree to that?
And the Israelis sit there.
If you think this is ridiculous, it is.
This is my point.
All of this is ridiculous.
It's It's stories like this that feed into the idea that there is some giant force or power conspiring to bend and shape events for the benefit of people that are not even involved in the story.
Because this is this is just silly the way this episode is continually dealt with.
We've been dealing with this episode this way.
Let me just pick a year since 1950, all right?
Sixty four years of trying the identical thing.
Does it matter the president?
Does it matter the Israeli prime minister?
Why, after 10 years does somebody not get it?
Now I understand that there's a lot of political power to be gained by talking about how much you hate war, and you do anything to stop war, and you'll do anything you can to stop civilian casualties.
There's great political gain there if you can if you can convince people that's what you're after, either as a Democrat president or a Secretary of State or what have you.
But it's still all fluff.
When one of the combatants has in their essentially their constitution, you call it charter, their constitution, the elimination, eradication, the demolishing, the abolishment of the Jewish state.
Well, I what there is no diplomatic solution to that.
And yet, every day we get breathless reporters working and reporting on the next proposal as though this might be the magic moment, and there isn't a magic moment.
Because there is not a diplomatic solution.
It's not possible.
And especially if you send somebody over there like Kerry, who's got his own agenda for his own legacy and his own bio and what have you, and did Obama.
So Kerry wants ceasefire.
What happens in ceasefires is that the bad guys take advantage of the timeout to retool to regroup and rearm.
It is a fact that the two countries involved here have a different definition of peace to Hamas and the Palestinians.
Peace is a momentary lull in the normal state of affairs, which is war.
That is normalcy for them.
They raise their children on it.
They strap bombs to their children to go blow themselves up in Israel in bus depots and on buses and in schools.
You may not like hearing it, you may find it difficult or impossible to believe, but don't doubt me.
So any time the United States pushes for a ceasefire, whether they know it or not, they're ailing Hamas.
But I don't think that's why they do it.
Don't misunderstand.
I think they push for a ceasefire because they all want to be seen as brokers of peace.
And they all, somebody, they've all got this dream of being the guy who finally brought peace to the Middle East.
They all have that much hubris.
They all have that kind of ego to think they with the power of their personality, their ideas, and the fact that they served in Vietnam can bring to these negotiations elements that others have never had.
Every one of these guys thinks they have the magic bullet.
And there isn't one if it is involved in diplomacy.
So the latest ceasefire has been achieved by virtue of John Kerry bumbling and stumbling so badly that the drive-by media is today and last night circling the wagons in panic to defend him.
And even David Ignatius at the Washington Post has a story on Kerry's big blunder in seeking an Israel Gaza ceasefire.
But you see, the blunder's okay because he had such such a lofty goal.
It's it's it's everybody wants peace, and that's all Kerry wants, and it's okay.
He made some mistakes, but he can recover, he can recover from them.
So that sets the table.
Up next will be the shocking details of all of this.
I'll tell you there's something else happening out there that that I don't want to be an alarmist, but the Ebola outbreak is now potentially worldwide, and it's disastrous if that has happened.
Have details on that.
Lots of other stuff, too, folks.
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