DavidL on March 9th, 2010

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Tbe Obama administration to declare war on angless and state budgets.   While I am not a fisherman,  there a lot fisherman in New York.  It is big business and the state sells lots of fishing licenses, but no more, from ESPN:

The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

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Consequently, unless anglers speak up and convince their Congressional representatives to stop this bureaucratic freight train, it appears that the task force will issue a final report for “marine spatial planning” by late March, with President Barack Obama then issuing an Executive Order to implement its recommendations — whatever they may be.

I never thought the Obama administration could be this stupid.

Hat tip:   Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit.

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DavidL on March 9th, 2010

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Health care is Obama’s Stalingrad, William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Waterloo was a short but decisive battle. The health care fight has turned out to be more like the battle of Stalingrad.

The battle of Stalingrad was a bloody, grinding battle over several months during World War II in which superior forces were ground down by weaker, but more highly motivated forces

Stalingrad was a mistake.  Adolf Hitler did not seed a city with Joe Stalin’s name on it.  Hitler needed oil.   Hilter ground his army to piece for an objective with no oil    Like wise, the dim one, b/k/a Barack Obama, does not need control over one sixth of the nation’s economy   Rather he needs to create jobs.   Leave it to real college professor to take the phony college professor to wood shed.

Eve Ensler Loser I, 7 News, Denver:

BOULDER, Colo. — A preschooler is caught in the middle of a fight between religion and sexuality. Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School, in Boulder, has refused to readmit a preschooler because the child has two moms. Her parents are lesbians

Maybe the mile high air got to the news staff, but every child was conceived from one mother and one father.   It is one parent of each sex and not two from one.   The Catholic school has a grasp on biology.    The news staff appears to have been snorting politically correct fiction.

Eve Ensler Loser II, Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun-Times:

Today, Annette Nance-Holt once again channeled her anguish into an emotional plea for gun control.

“In a day when we’re more concerned with obesity and second-hand smoke and animal rights, why are we not concerned about our children being murdered by handguns and assault weapons. Why are we not outraged?” Nance-Holt said.

“This is not a black issue. It’s not a Hispanic issue. This is an American issue. These guns are out of control and our love [for] guns is out of control.  Are they insane, or are we insane?”

Chicago  Major Daley’s libturd paradise, already has draconian gun control.   Guns in Chicogo are restricted to Daley’s campaign contributors.   In a free country, free citizens are a free to carry weapons wherever they travel.   Serfs are not allowed weapons.  Are we to be citizens or serfs?

Human Rights Watch smack down by William Kristol, Weekly Standard: on :

Now Human Rights Watch has had a rough few months, as they have dealt with one scandal and embarassment after another—a strong public denunciation by their founder in the pages of the New York Times, revelations about fundraising in Saudi Arabia on the basis of their criticism of Israel, their senior Middle East analyst forced to resign when it was revealed he was an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia. They’re trying to rehabilitate themselves

What Chris Rather Dan not said, video:

Those are rather big boots Dan wears.  Just how does he fit them into hiis mouth.  Just imagine what Stink Progress would have said had been Rush who said this.

Much more, Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit and Left Coast Rebel.

… and the Horse your rode in on Sean, Fox News:

“Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it” said Penn, winner of two Best Actor Academy Awards. “And this is mainstream media, who should — truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies.”

Adolf Hitler and Joseph  Stalin were elected as well.  Go to Cuba and stay their Sean.

ACORN vote fraud, Fox News

Five Wisconsin residents, including two who worked for community organizing group ACORN, were charged Monday with election fraud relating to the 2008 presidential election.

Five Wisconsin residents, including two who worked for community organizing group ACORN, were charged Monday with election fraud relating to the 2008 presidential election.

Over.

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DavidL on March 8th, 2010

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It was just 16 months ago that weeping men and women celebrated his victory over John McCain in the American presidential election. If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons.

Jeffrey Sauger, Telegraph (UK)

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DavidL on March 8th, 2010

I can’t find it, but during the campaign Mrs. Clinton aaid that both she and John McCain had world of experience and Barack Obama had “nice speech” he gave in Two Thousand Two;.  Then there was Mrs. Ciinton’s Three AM spot, video:

Well over a year into the disaster known as the Obama presidency, Bruce McQuain, McQ, looks at a president who is  long on promises and short on decisions:

A variation of that theme is now playing out in Washington DC as Obama’s leadership, such that it is, is most definitely being questioned and challenged.  The growing perception is he’s weak and ineffective. That his only strength, as Hillary Clinton alluded too, is a good speech. That he’s all talk and no action.

Mr. President, the voters elected you to lead, and not just to continue your campaign.  Put down the grecian column, turn down your thermostat and get to doing the work you were elected to do.

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DavidL on March 8th, 2010

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Asymmetrical Warfare, Donald Borsch Jr., Right Pundits:

Adam Gadahn, the American Muslim who is the official voice for Al-Qaida here in the States, is exhorting all American Muslims to rise-up and duplicate the cowardly actions of US Army Major Nidal Hasan, and get about Al-Qaida’s purposed and stated business of killing infidel Americans.

While we continue to reach out to teh Muslim world as if it were a religion, they continue to treat us as an enemy.

Big O not the Change the ACLU expected, Gabriel Malor, AoS:

ACLU Ad Compares Obama to Bush 43

In today’s NYTimes, the aging civil rights organization complains that Obama is just Bush all over again.

Let me see, the libtards, Bush(43)  compared to a chimpanzee and to Adolf Hitler.   Then if Barack Obama is the same as Bush, then Obama is like a chimp or Hitler.  Then it isn’t it racist to compare a liberal to a chimp?  Oh my god, the ACLU is racist.  Who’d have thought!

Would you by a used car from his man?

WASHINGTON (AP) — In private pitches to Democrats, President Barack Obama says he will persuade Congress to pass his health care overhaul even if it kills him and even if he has to ask deeply distrustful lawmakers to trust him on a promise the White House doesn’t have the power to keep.

Obama doesn’t keep the promises he has the power to keep.

Or this one?   Don”t believe your lying eyes:

(CNN) — Two days before his official trip to Afghanistan, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, a “big lie” intended to pave the way for the invasion of a war-torn nation, according to Iranian state media.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a pig, but I would like to see the President’s State Department refute Ahmadinejad’s slander.  One can always hope.

MO is PO’ed, Fausta.

Father like Son, USA Today:

Democrat Rory Reid, son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has fallen further behind Republican Brian Sandoval in Nevada’s gubernatorial race, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey released today.

Tennessee Fish Story, Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.  I’d take a picture of a small New York State muskie, but heck I don’t have a fifty one inch lens.

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Eric Florack on March 7th, 2010

Hello from Colton, California.

I know I’ve not written much lately It’s been a challange keeping my batteries charged and writing on this thing takes lots of juice.

As of today I am perhaps 8 to 10 days from becoming a full-fledged truck driver for the company. I am told my training is going well. So, I’m very pleased.

I drove here from Sky City NM, where we visited again last night.  In case you don’t have your map handy, that’s q straight shot down I-40, of about 600 miles.

Entering California from Arizona is rather like entering a third world country… Arizona and New Mexiso highways are well kept an a pleasure to drive. On hitting the California line on I-40, your first impression of the roads is that they’d be better if they were not paved. Then there’s the guard shack at the border.  Then therels the 55 llimit for trucks. Yes, I understand that they have financial problems, But…sheesh.

The truck itself is a 2007 Volvo, with about a half million miles on it. It does show signs of wear, but is a very comfortable rig to drive and live in. In many ways it handles like a big RV. Yes there is the matter of that 53 foot long 13.6ft high, 45000 lb monster behind you but I’ve gotten used to it.

I’m grabbing pics and I promise they’ll be posted at Bitsblog when I get home. You can always check my Facebook profile where I’ll be posting a few of them as I have time.

This trip has made me appriciate more than ever my wife and my two boys.  This seperation from them has made me attend how very much they mean to me.  Oddly enough, the last time I was seperated from Donna for an extended period was the last time I visited the LA basin.  The internet age with it’s smart phones and such have made such travels.. such seperations… easier to bear certainly… and this cell phone I’m writing this post on has in it’s way become a lifeline for all that. But there are some things that electronic communication cannot accomplish and this seperation is causing me to re-examine it’s limits.

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DavidL on March 7th, 2010

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What ever happened to Separation of Church and State?

The White House on Friday announced a “summit on entrepreneurship” to build economic ties with the Islamic world, part of President Barack Obama’s outreach to Muslims.

The White House said it has invited participants from more than 40 countries over five continents for the April 26-27 conference in Washington.

Source:  Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit

I imagine the outcry if the Obama administration attempted to hold a conference between say the White House and the Mormon world.   I guess that high wall of separation thing only applies to republican administrations.

How that swamp draining going Mrs. Pelosi? From Laurie Kellman And Larry Margasak, RCP:

Democrats mired in swamp they vowed to drain

A rash of ethics lapses has given Democrats an election-year headache: how to convince skeptical voters that they’re any cleaner than Republicans they accused of fostering a “culture of corruption” in 2006.

More Swamp, Perry Bacon Jr.,Washington Post:

Congressional Democrats reclaimed control of Congress in 2006 by pledging to “drain the swamp” after Republican ethics scandals rocked Capitol Hill. Now, a series of controversies involving Democratic members has robbed the party of its claim to hold the higher moral ground — and could threaten its hold on power in this fall’s elections.

More Debt, By Lori Montgomery, Washington Post

:P resident Obama’s proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday. Proposed tax cuts for the middle class account for nearly a third of that shortfall.

The 10-year outlook released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is somewhat gloomier than White House projections, which found that Obama’s budget request would produce deficits that would add about $8.5 trillion to the national debt by 2020.

A fool and her fingers are soon parted,Rachel Monahan, NY Daily News:

Wisconsin woman feeds bear at zoo, gets fingers bitten off

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Wisconsin woman feeds bear at zoo, gets fingers bitten At a Wisconsin zoo Friday, a 47-year-old grandmother ignored warning signs, putting her hand through fencing to feed an Asiatic black bear, police said.

Points:

  • The cages are meant to protect the patrons, not the exhibits.
  • They are called wild animals.
  • Walt Disney movies are fiction.
  • Animals shouild not be thought of as fur covered humans, but rather as potential tasty meals.
  • That said, I’ll pass on bear.

Is this racist?

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo mocked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday as a “blond” version of her predecessor, and said a row with Spain over alleged links with rebel groups was over.

Without regard to my question, Chavez is wrong.  Condoleezza is smart.

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DavidL on March 6th, 2010

What is the value of a diploma?   It is not what the issuing institution, nor the recipient feel it is worth.  Rather a diploma is worth as much as a prospective employer perceives it to be worth.   So how much is any diploma from the Detroit Public Schools worth?   From the Hinterland Gazette:

Otis Mathis, president of Detroit’s school board, who oversees the academic lives of 90,000 public school students, has made a shocking admission — he can’t write a coherent sentence

Otis Mathis is both a product of, and head of, the Detroit Public School system.   Yet by Mathis’ own admission, and by documented example,  he can not write a coherent sentence.   So what is a diploma issued by Mathis’ school system worth?   Nothing.   Mathis was issued a diploma by the Detroit Public School system despite the fact that Mathis can not write coherently.  Mathis is not literate.

In other words, Mathis’ diploma is not a credible document reflecting education achievement.   As the DPS credentialed Mathis to get him out the door, does any employer have any reason to believe any diploma issued by the Detroit public schools reflects any educational achievement.   It is little wonder Detroit is an economic wasteland.

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DavidL on March 6th, 2010

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Stop playing games, MSM. John Patrick Bedell was a registered Democrat, Michelle


More Massa, When Eric Massa (NY-29) announced he would not seek re-election on Wednesday, cited health problems.  There were also reports of ethics investigation.  Yesterday, I asked a friend of mine, if she believe in the door number one explanation, health, or door number two, ethics.  She cited door number one.

Well it appears to be door number two Today, Massa announced that he as resigning from Congress, effective Monday, and thus make the ethics investigation pointless, WXXI:

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WXXI) – Congressman Eric Massa announced his resignation late Friday afternoon. It will be effective Monday at 5:00pm.

Massa shocked the political establishment Wednesday by announcing he would retire and not seek re-election in the fall. The announcement came amid an investigation of harrassment allegations by the House Ethics Committee.

It will be up to Governor David Paterson to declare the seat in New York’s 29th Congressional District vacant and then set a special election for no later than 40 days after doing so. No word on whether Paterson plans to do so.

At least Massa is consistent, in entered and is leaving Congress in the same manner, as a bad joke.    I hereby revise my previous position and suggest that former Congressman Randy Kuhl run to finish out the term.

Massa in his own words, Chris Cillizza, Washington Post:

“A member of my staff believed I had made statements that made him feel ‘uncomfortable,’ ” Massa said in the statement, posted on his House web site. He added, “There is no doubt in my mind I did use language … that … might make a Chief Petty Officer feel uncomfortable.”

“It’s not that I can fight or beat these allegations, I’m guilty.”

It’s time to cut federal funding for the arts, Shikha Dalmia, Reason.   Time to end Artfare as we know it.   Artfare is welfare payments to artists disguised as patronage for the arts.   Any artist who is not talented enough to find voluntary patrons to purchase his art, needs to get off the public dole and get a job.|

Hoplophia by the Bay:  Michael B. Farrell, Christian Science Monitor

San Francisco

Starbucks has become something of an unwilling pawn in a growing dispute over gun rights.

Advocates of so-called “open carry” laws, which give citizens the right to wear unconcealed weapons without a permit, are hailing it for not kicking gun-toting customers out of their stores. Gun foes, meanwhile, say the coffee chain should keep its stores firearm-free (while not refusing any espresso-sipping police officers, of course

Free citizens are free to carry openly carry arms where ever they travel.   Serf are not.  Are we to be a nation of citizens or serfs?   What say you”

How’s that energy policy working for ya? Rebecca Smith and Stephen Power,  Wall Street Journal:

President Barack Obama’s energy strategy came under attack on at least three fronts Thursday, highlighting the conflict that has hobbled one of the administration’s top domestic priorities.

On Thursday, big utility operators and some state officials blasted the administration’s formal announcement that it would drop plans for a federal nuclear-waste vault beneath Yucca Mountain, Nev., and instead consider what it believes are better options. On Capitol Hill, a group of Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation to block the administration from using the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions. Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers urged the administration not to use federal stimulus dollars to help finance a wind-energy project that involves a Chinese maker of wind turbines.

All culture are equal, Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times:

It’s hard to imagine that there have been many younger divorcées — or braver ones — than a pint-size third grader named Nujood Ali.

Nujood is a Yemeni girl, and it’s no coincidence that Yemen abounds both in child brides and in terrorists (and now, thanks to Nujood, children who have been divorced). Societies that repress women tend to be prone to violence.

Not hard to imagine at all.  Chil marriage has been a common enough cultural practice.  Welcome to the real world Nick.

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DavidL on March 5th, 2010

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With the lies and the unarguable hypocrisy, I truly must ask whether Obama is stupid. What person with a shred of common sense or decency would do these things? Or is he just playing politics (poorly)?

Michael Avitablile, Wizbang

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Karen Jones on March 5th, 2010

Trait: The competency to raise your family alone, without extended family nearby.

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JonesToTheGrindstone.com

I have a running list of “how to tell you’ve met a military mom.” At the top, is the tell-tale sign of finding out that every one her children was born in different states or countries. For example, my daughter was born in Texas and my son was born in Massachusetts. It is not atypical to find a military family’s birthplaces spanning the world—like the first child born in Alaska, the middle one in Italy, and the youngest in Georgia. With globetrotting like that, chances are the extended family of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents are not local. It can happen on occasion, but then the next move fixes that.

A funny joke is told amongst the military men, “You’re either there for the conception or the birth. You decide.” This is meant to soften the blow when the new father cannot be at the birth because of duty. This may not resonate much with women older than my generation since it was once standard that the expectant father stayed in the waiting room during labor and delivery. But to women in my bracket and younger, having the husband completely absent from this momentous occasion can be heartbreaking and difficult.

Another plot-twister is when the couple already has a young child and a helper needs to be sought out to watch the existing child(ren) when the mom goes into labor. When my second was born, my mother flew in from out-of-state to be the “sitter-on-call.” Well, sometimes the baby doesn’t show up when it is expected! My mother needed to get back to her home. I had neighbors who offered to watch my toddler if my mom left before the big event. But, they all had little babies of their own and I feared one of those 2:00 a.m. scenes of rushing to the hospital. I also knew I would be in the hospital for up to two days. To make sure I had a sitter for those two days, I ended up asking to be induced—screw the original birth plan of being “natural.”

In life, there are some things that you cannot bring your children to—you have to get a sitter. I get jealous when I am around locals who say that their mom or sibling is going to watch the kids for them. Being new in town complicates the sitter-search. I get desperate at times. Like in 2005 when I first arrived in a new state, I needed a babysitter quick. I found myself eavesdropping in the grocery store line. The cashier was telling a bagger that she loved kids. I thought, “Bingo!” She was allowed to handle money for the store; so I knew she had a background check completed on her. I introduced myself and we exchanged numbers. Necessity creates innovation.

More importantly, my jealousy deepens when I hear of invaluable relationships being formed and commonly reinforced between their (the locals) children and the rest of their family. It is hard to accept that my children do not have that life-enriching benefit. The military mission must come first.

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DavidL on March 5th, 2010

The deranged gunman in Thursday’s Pentagon shooting was a Truther, from NBC News:

The shooter, identified as John Patrick Bedell, 36, of Hollister, Calif., died hours after being admitted to a hospital in critical condition.

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In an Internet posting, a user by the name JPatrickBedell wrote that he was “determined to see that justice is served” in the death of Marine Col. James Sabow, who was found dead in the back yard of his California home in 1991. The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a coverup.

The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was “a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions.”

I’ll await Morris Dees’ explanation and for Keith Olbermann  to go ballistic.

Question, did Bedell attack constitute left wing terrorism?   I think not.   But I do say that Bedell does not fit Janet Napolitano’s profile.    That ought to scare you.

Seriously, if there was any evidence of conspiracy behind Nine Eleven, the Obama Administration would have released, or leaked, it as part of their blame Bush mentality.

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DavidL on March 5th, 2010

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Eric Massa (NY-29) Will not seek re-election, Bob Recotta, Corning Leader:

First-term Democratic Congressman Eric Massa announced Wednesday he will not seek re-election.

Massa, a Corning resident who unseated John R. “Randy” Kuhl Jr. in the 29th Congressional District in 2008, said in a brief statement his cancer, which had been in remission, had returned

I did not vote for him.  If Massa truly has cancer, I wish him well, and the take the first bus out of town.  Massa has been a bad joke.  As for the guy Mass beat, Randy stay in Penn Yan.

One horrid Massa campaign spot, video:

Hat tip: Jim Geraghty, National Review.

“Sully” packs it in:

NEW YORK, March 3 (Reuters) – The pilot who spectacularly landed a crippled U.S. Airways (LCC.N) passenger jet in New York’s Hudson River last year is retiring, the airline said on Wednesday.

All 155 passengers and crew aboard Flight 1549 bound for Charlotte, North Carolina, escaped after pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger glided the plane to an emergency landing in the icy river within view of Manhattan skyscrapers

WT Over! NY Daily News:

LOS ANGELES – Three Los Angeles elementary school teachers accused of giving children portraits of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul to carry in a Black History Month parade have been removed from their classrooms, a school district spokeswoman said Wednesday

Well Eric, we could sell Arty Shawcross coffee mugs?

ISYN, Hurricane Katrina Victims to Sue Oil Companies, Jim Hoft, Gateay Pundit.  Good luck with that cause and effect thing.  Gee, I had chili last night for supper.   Should I be worried about being added as a defendant?

The Big “O’, Obama’s high speed train to nowhere, video:

Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit.

If it will take California one hundred billion for a high speed rail link between Los Angelos and San Francisco,  how far will the Obama’s administration eight billion get you?   To Chicago to Gary?

If the O trains reach their promised top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hours, isn’t flying still faster?

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DavidL on March 4th, 2010

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The House progressives fell for Pelosi’s Stupak deal, which he’s still pushing in the face of taking health care down, because Mr. Stupak cares for cultural issues first, the sign of a true right-winger. If the House falls for the Senate’s trust me political purr on reconciliation it’s not like they weren’t warned

Taylor Marsh.

Should Mrs. Pelosi democrat caucus pass Dirty Harry Reid’s Senate version of Obama Care and trust Dirty Harry and Barack Obama to make the changes the House wants?    Senator Judd Gregg says no.  Ms Marsh seems to agree.   I mean has Obama ever broken a promise?

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Here’s a link to my March 4, 2010 interview with Mike McConnell on 700 WLW on how web sites can track users activities and purchases.  

The interview starts at 19:40 and runs about 8 minutes. You can listen here.

Love to hear your feedback.


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