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Sandbox – 30may18

30 May 2018

[Today our merrily marching Marxists, comprised of our dimly lit and under educated leftwingers, have no idea that their new ideological epiphanies are nothing but the retrieved (from the dustbin of history) and reheated tenets of 20th century communists who killed untold millions as they ruined the lives and hopes of billions – "you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet". gjr]

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258 responses to “Sandbox – 30may18”

scenes

30 May 2018

jonsmith, while clutching at his stars and stripes: “Todd-Your gal friend Roseanne refuses to stand and has even been filmed spitting sunflower seeds during the national anthem. ”
You either have a poor memory or are under 30.
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-27/news/mn-583_1_national-anthem
“The chorus of stadium boos that greeted Barr’s screechy, off-key, seemingly flippant rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner,” followed by what some perceived as an obscene gesture, at Wednesday night’s game drew a louder accompaniment Thursday. Veterans groups, radio talk-show hosts and others condemned Barr for what they regarded as her denigration of the anthem.”
“Padres officials, seeing a promotion they had hoped would be a big hit strike out badly, apologized Thursday, and then did what any red-blooded baseball team in serious trouble would do: They called in the Marines, who provided a tape recording of a U.S. Marines Corps Band rendition of the national anthem for Thursday night’s game.”

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Paul Emery

30 May 2018

Gregory
Here is your exact quote from last nights 7:13. this was not an hallucination, as you claim it was your words.
“Or the reserves, with six months to start (including basic) and then part time, a weekend a month and a 2week vacation every year, courtesy of Uncle Sam.”
I responded by saying:
“Being sent to Travis AFB for two weeks in the summer to unload caskets of
American soldiers is not exactly a 2 week vacation. You are an idiot if you believe it was.”
Sorry you’re having memory issues Gregory.

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Gregory

30 May 2018

Punchy 930am
The irony, it burns!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
You might talk it over with an English teacher, Punch.

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jon smith

30 May 2018

Thanks scenes 9:30.
You are a mean man. I was trying to break it to him gently. Why is Rosanne such a hit with the “ilk” of Trump, Bessee, and Juvinall when she is so flagrantly anti America?

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Todd Juvinall

30 May 2018

jon smith | 30 May 2018 at 08:59 AM from another thread. I am not a fan of Rosanne’s bub. You libs are vile and nasty and disrespectful and get a pass from the lousy media and your fellow commies. What she said was trash and cannot be supported. You personally have said worse and are a liar to boot.

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jon smith

30 May 2018

Todd-
Where on the body is Rosanne’s bub? Is it near her angus? I bet you are a closet fan of her bub.

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George Boardman

30 May 2018

So Bessee, when are you going to spell out the details of your military service? Were you discharged early? What does somebody else’s divorce have to do with any of this?
Your time in the military appears to be a subject you’d rather not discuss.

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Todd Juvinall

30 May 2018

jon smith | 30 May 2018 at 09:50 AM
And your support of Kim Jong Un is telling. Why are you so in love with that murdering swine?

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Paul Emery

30 May 2018

Yeah George B. He disappears when the subject is brought up.

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George Rebane

30 May 2018

Regarding actors as people and acting as their work product. Is it not possible to disagree or even hold reprehensible an actor’s ideology and (off screen/stage) behavior while still enjoying their work product? Today we seem not to be able to differentiate these any more. In my case, I appreciate and enjoy very much the polished professional performances of rabidly leftwing actors whose publicly expressed ideologies I find to be the sum and substance of what is contributing to the destruction of America. Unfortunately, there is a difference there, and one’s reaction to both facets can and should be expressed in separate arenas without the taint of hypocrisy.

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Todd Juvinall

30 May 2018

We on the right are the ones that are able to parse an actor from his politics and personal insults. Just watch any late night program or that Journalists dinner and see how these lovelies talk about us. Yet I am unaware anyone from our side that idiot broad “comefian” should be fired or muzzled. The left would just as oon stand an apostate up against the wall and snuff them for saying something trashy.

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jon smith

30 May 2018

Todd 10 :51
“Yet I am unaware anyone from our side that idiot broad “comefian” should be fired or muzzled.”
Eloquent.

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Paul Emery

30 May 2018

Oh I get it Gregory, you were trying to be funny. All of us my AF Reserves unit that did this duty say to you ha ha ha.

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M

30 May 2018

,,,Roseanne booed after butchering Star Spangled Banner at baseball game,,,
,,,Po ol Rudy Giuliani booed on his birthday at Yankees game.
,,,what happened Rudy??? you went from America’s Mayor to wacky trumpski apologist.
,,,go ahead make my day,,,try to tell me the Yankee stadium was full of libs.
,,,you know it’s bad when Fox Shep Smith is done with trumpski’s bullshit!!!

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fish

30 May 2018

Posted by: M | 30 May 2018 at 11:01 AM
Enjoy him until 2024! (Better lay in a huge stock of…. well you know 😀)!

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fish

30 May 2018

…..and close html tags

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Don Bessee

30 May 2018

It looks like fake news does not sell like it used to –
In ratings data released Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research, FNC extended its run of consecutive months at number one to a staggering 197, while building hitting another impressive milestone: Fox News Channel has now beaten every other network in basic cable for 23 months straight, based on total day ratings, with an average total day audience in May of 1.4 million viewers.
In prime time, Fox News destroyed its competition, with an average total audience of 2.381 million viewers, compared to MSNBC’s 1.384 million and CNN’s 835,000.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2018/05/30/fox-news-steamrolls-cable-news-competition-with-big-win-in-may-ratings/#2a928e533c74
😉

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fish

30 May 2018

…..or else!

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Don Bessee

30 May 2018

GB- I was pointing to the original source of the po’ ol’ faknewsmans story about me being a marine with a loony toon discharge, we have circled that barn every election cycle. Narrative fail, I served more than my 4 year enlistment because of a base of preference. As you can see the po’ ol’ fakenews man was left sputtering when he was preemptively hit with the marines not being my service arm, confirming he is just parroting what he is told.
Dow bouncing back nicely. 😉

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Gregory

30 May 2018

I wasn’t talking about your duty, Punchy, I was discussing my options at age 18.
Just an IQ survey of RR readers… did anyone besides Punchy take my mention of a 2 week vacation on Uncle Sam every year as anything besides irony?

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Todd Juvinall

30 May 2018

JonnieSmith the spell checker. Always done to dodge the questions. What a pussy.

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fish

30 May 2018

Posted by: Gregory | 30 May 2018 at 11:42 AM
……. anyone besides Punchy take my mention of a 2 week vacation on Uncle Sam every year as anything besides irony?
When I valiantly served in the Chair Force we cycled reservists through on a regular basis….”2 week vacation” was frequently used to describe their annual stint.
More Punch-E brand righteous indignation!

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scenes

30 May 2018

jonsmith: “Thanks scenes 9:30.
You are a mean man. I was trying to break it to him gently.”
The main point, of course, was that Roseanne’s foray into singing was not well received by the more patriotic Americans.
I doubt that hippies or illegal aliens much cared.
georger: “In my case, I appreciate and enjoy very much the polished professional performances of rabidly leftwing actors whose publicly expressed ideologies I find to be the sum and substance of what is contributing to the destruction of America.”
Of course. I can’t say that I much care what a musician or actor has to say outside of their craft. It seems to me that the fine line is whether their activities I find insulting are actually done as part of the performance. It’s probably a subtle distinction to draw, but I think it’s reasonable.
It’s early days yet. It seems to me that public figures still haven’t figured out that releasing their id to their keyboard can result in odd things. Trump road it to the White House, while others wish his impeachment or death. I expect that we’ll simply get inured to it over time.

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Don Bessee

30 May 2018

Getting real –
Beyond the student limits, U.S. consulates and embassies reportedly received instructions that any Chinese citizen applying for a visa will need to secure additional special permission form the U.S. if they work in research or management for any company the U.S. Commerce Department lists as an entity “requiring higher scrutiny.”
https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/30/chinese-visas-state-department-trump-june-11/
😉

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Paul Emery

30 May 2018

Any of you like to take a vacation for two weeks at Travis AFB pushing caskets of soldiers off the airplane into cold storage. By the way, there was no ceremony greeting them on their return. Just us Reservists on a two week vacation.

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George Rebane

30 May 2018

scenes 1234pm – agreed.

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Bill Tozer

30 May 2018

Look, cut the shit on who did what and who has the longest swinging dick. Punchy had a fucked job. It was a fucked job being where soldiers fell. We all left pieces of ourselves in the damn war, even the anti-war hippy freaks.
I am beginning to have 10x more respect for a guy I meet living in the Great Woods of Canada who was a draft dodger than some of you. I was hitchhiking once upon a time and he saw me standing there on his way to work and sawme standing there on his way home from work. Picked me up. Took me home to his cabin he built, meet the wife and kids, he had a good job and new life. But, that night when the lights went low, he had to ask. He missed that one part of home that he could never shake. “Tell me, how are the Giants doing? How have they been doing for the last 10 years? I miss hearing the games on the radio. I miss going to the ballpark as a kid with my dad. I miss reading about them in the paper. How are the Giants doing?” He had a big hole in his soul that only baseball could fill.
Oh, I lied my ass off and made up stories and even fake names of ball players and this great catch or play so and so did, and made up stories and we talked for hours. He could not get enough of the SF Giants. I did not give a hoot about baseball then and did not even had a clue nor could name one player on the Giants if I was asked, I think the only reason he picked me up on the road was because I carried my issued dufflebag around with me for years and he saw a fellow countryman.
That draft dodger hippy Bay Area kid got called and he fled north. We all lost a piece of ourselves in that damn war, every war. Including my host for the evening. And Jesse Winchester wrote songs about closing his eyes and thinking of the days atGrandma’s cabin in Dixie…… from Canada.

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George Boardman

30 May 2018

Bessee, you still haven’t told me what service you were in. Were you also in the Chair Force, the preferred landing spot for the war hawks on this blog who are itching to go to war with Iran or North Korea–maybe both at the same time.

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Gregory

30 May 2018

Not much opportunity for learning or advancement in that job, eh, Punchy?
At the time I was waiting for my draft lottery number, I had decided that if it came up low I’d try to enlist in the Air Farce to work air traffic control… four years but some control over assignments. Maybe parlay my two years of high school German into a european destination. Getting a safe number was better. One friend of mine, a year ahead of me at Mudd, watched as his birthday came up first out of the hopper. He drank a sixpack of beer, stumbled in the Army ROTC orifice and enlisted;.
A Mudd engineering graduate with decent grades, he asked for R&D and was assigned to Infantry. Ft. Benning, GA.
An engineer I knew at Hughes Aircraft Company was drafted in good academic standing out of a PhD physics program. He cashed out with a master’s and was sent to his Army training… demolitions. He was scary focused with something of a twisted smile when describing the final exam, placing three charges to completely obliterate a 10’x 10′ by 10′ concrete cube. Never went back to finish up the Physics PhD.
Another guy I knew working at a computer company in Santa Barbara told me of his enlistment and getting into an electronic tech slot. Folks in his class were acting up and were told the next guy to act up would be reassigned to be a door gunner in a Huey, apparently one of the least survivable jobs in the DoD. Sure enough, someone acted up and in a few days was in Viet Nam working as a door gunner.
All in all, Punch, compared to the duty pulled by the soldiers whose caskets you moved, two weeks every year at Travis AFB probably was a vacation.

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Bill Tozer

30 May 2018

Well, the silver lining on Punchy’s job was on the hot summer days he could step right into the cooler. If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
And now, using my best Forrest Gump impersonation, “Then one day, for no particular reason, I took that dufflebag, emptied it out, and threw it away.” You could still see the USMC on it, faded, small rips, but still there.
In and around a summer of Love, , the Corp sunk so low it initiated for the first time in its history the draft. I have been told that you did not want to be drafted into Gunny’s beloved Corp. The first thing he did was walk the line of maggots and wanted to know who among the recruits was a puke bucket scrots was a draftee. They got singled out and were shown a special kind of welcome. Enlisting was proven to be a better idea. Or college. Or surviving son clause. Or weekend warriors. Or working on F-1s, the Phanton. Or, get drunk and screw.

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Scott Obermuller

30 May 2018

Boardman – 1:03 “…who are itching to go to war with Iran or North Korea…”
No one is itching to go to war.
The best way to avoid that is to let the enemy think we are itching for a war.
If Truman had told Russia and China we would make parking lots out of their countries if they sent one soldier into Korea, we could have saved thousands of lives and probably avoided a lot of bloodshed later in Vietnam.
Instead, he fretted what his ‘image’ would be if he did that and doomed so many American soldiers to death and torture at the hands of the commies.
If Russia and China thought that Truman was ‘itching’ for all out war, they would have never continued their involvement in Korea. Threatening war and wanting war are two different things.
Didn’t you ever threaten to discipline your kids with corporal punishment? Did that mean you wanted to hurt them?

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Bill Tozer

30 May 2018

..
https://www.facebook.com/bill.tozer.9

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jon smith

30 May 2018

Scott 1:55-
“No one is itching to go to war. ”
Bullshit. Many thousands of people have devoted their lives to war profiteering. It is assinine to pretend that isn’t true.

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M

30 May 2018

,,,not itching to go to war,,,just creating fear and paranoia of evil doers to keep the money flowing to the defense industry and Fed fat cats.

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scenes

30 May 2018

Oddly enough, I got to listen to the KVMR sheriff candidate interview with PaulE. Radio is something of a wasteland anymore, so you get what you can.
It was well done, Paul used his good radio voice with nary a ‘umm’, no dead air. Probably too many softball questions (just what do you bring to the department?)
The candidates are hilarious to listen to. It’s probably just the times, but they are scared to say anything wrong. Lotsa talk about stakeholders and The Community and change and whatnot. Marijuana? Well, yes we should follow the law. Homeless people? Well, yes there are a lot of them and it’s a real problem.
Hey, it’s a cool gig to get so I can’t blame them. It would be fun to have someone with an opinion run for office, but Arpaios are thin on the ground.

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Gregory

30 May 2018

“jon” 249pm
I believe the smear by Bored Georgeman that was being countered were that there were a bunch of folks here, of the Chair Force variety, itching to go to war.
I don’t know of any that fit that designation, and neither do you.

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scenes

30 May 2018

“Bored Georgeman”
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2871208219/75bba22ecdb796c32763c21dc790530c_400x400.jpeg

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Bill Tozer

30 May 2018

The last person itching to go to war was Hillary with Libya. Trump don’t want war, he would rather do business with folks. And how well has never ending normal diplomacy tactics worked with North Korea, if ever? Try something different. Say it differently. Can’t hurt.
The war mongering Neocons (there are some in both major parties) are the likes of John McCain, Lyndsey Graham, probably Chuckle the Clown, Flake, and they are itching to go to war. Itching so bad they can taste it now, just like My Gal and her machine bigger than the likes we have never seen….including the Deep State entrenched bureaucracy. and faceless puppeteers in The Hague

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George Rebane

30 May 2018

Those who oppose federal spending for national defense (their only unquestioned constitutional responsibility) as wasting money on the military and defense industry “fat cats” apparently do not believe the basic data that compares who has what numbers and capabilities on the world stage. However, blowing five times as much on entitlements and special interest subsidies is just hunky-dory and probably needs to be increased.

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Bill Tozer

30 May 2018

The world is a very dangerous place with some unsavory characters running countries. If not the man in front of the cameras, it’s those guys behind him.
On national defense, it is much better to error on the side of caution with too much Defensive Spnding than come out on the short end of the stick. Greeting from America.
See, jon got his defense department R&D money, so he is happy, happy, happy now. And to think they scoffed at Ronald “Ray-Guns” for his pie in the sky Star Wars. A regular Seward’s Folly at the time.
Wish iStar Wars was bigger and better and completely tested and developed and operational in our brave new world of the here and now…just in case the UFK or some Mullah gets some crazy ideas and starts pushing some launch buttons.
Did you know…..
While at school in Switzerland, he (fat ugly kid, or FUK or FUE) ) received failing grades in natural sciences and received good grades in music and technical studies.
He reportedly has a love for cheese and heavy smoking, which have likely led to his health and weight problems.

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jon smith

30 May 2018

3 words: Military. Industrial. Complex.
Yes, we can never be too afraid. Lobbyists demand that we MUST throw more money into the 800 billion dollar “defense” pot even when the military itself say’s they don’t need it. The war profiteers always drown them out. Those who question “defense” spending are quickly put down as traitors, fools, commies, libs, anti-American . . .

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M

30 May 2018

,,,did trumpski lie again???
https://www.yahoo.com/news/study-hurricane-casualties-fuels-talk-statehood-puerto-rico-211055727.html

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scenes

30 May 2018

GeorgeR@3:34
It seems to me that they (DOD) do a pretty decent job with the money. The missions change a little too often (with the inertia from the prior one causing problems), each generation of system will cost more than the last (a kind of Moore’s Law), people have become more risk averse, etc.
Plus, large organizations waste large amounts, but probably aren’t that bad from a percentage standpoint.
Defense as a proportion of GDP has dropped quite a lot over the last 70 years, the real growth is in other, and obvious, areas.
One potentially obvious problem I always think about is the ‘one system too many’ problem for a given clade of gadgetry. There’s bound to be a set of aircraft carriers built after the whole idea becomes unsurvivable, one last family too many of manned fighter aircraft, a wasted generation of armored vehicles. Time machines being in short supply, it’s hard to tell where the waste will occur.

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M

30 May 2018

,,,is trumpski still playing to the meatheads???
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mexican-president-sends-trump-blunt-082855321.html

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M

30 May 2018

,,,it must be hard to be a trumpskiite,,,
https://twitter.com/JimCarrey/status/1001478237128507392/photo/1

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fish

30 May 2018

Posted by: M | 30 May 2018 at 04:40 PM
6 1/2 more years dugski! Enjoy!

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Bill Tozer

30 May 2018

The industrial war complex and lobbyists in general have been applying the pressure since the first day George Washington took office.
Screw algae. And I am glad they nixed the funding for that all green all the time slow as hell “can’t plug your cell phone in or all the breakers will blow” craphead idea for our naval fleet. Sorry Captain, got to slow it down cause the turbines are sucking up all the juice and can’t get us where we need to be at that speed.
Screw that noise. Congress constantly proposes ships the military does not want and planes that the military does not want or need. But, our berets are made in China to save a buck. And even Baba Boxer went nuts when they tried to close a CA base or two. No way, Jose. Opps, forgot to call her Senator. Yes ma’am, no closures or else the chopping block.
https://www.facebook.com/HappinessHeroes/videos/2001283380089188/UzpfSTEwMDAwMDk1NTgwMjk3NjoyMDc4MjIzNzM4ODg2MTMz/?notif_id=1527723365412532&notif_t=story_reshare

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Bill Tozer

30 May 2018

Back to more important stuff.
My, my. If you gotta, flaunt it. Show us girl what you have under your coat. Oh, you are a naughty girl for sure.
https://www.facebook.com/lastamericapatriots/photos/a.235087906641439.1073741826.235086849974878/1058798077603747/?type=3&theater

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Bill Tozer

30 May 2018

It’s not nice to tell a lie.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/29/grassley-fusion-gps-founder-gave-extremely-misleading-testimony-about-trump-work/

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George Rebane

30 May 2018

Have no idea where people get the idea that the Pentagon is saying they are getting too much money for defense when our Navy is at its lowest ship count level in decades and the Air Force is having to cannibalize airplanes for spare parts to keep the other squadrons flying at reduced strength. The liberals, however, do mistake the debate between Congress and the Pentagon for acquiring specific combat systems that are manufactured in certain congressional districts. But the lamestream’s story to the country is exactly what we witness echoed here in jon smith’s 433pm. Now let’s talk about the horribly misnamed ‘farm bill’.

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