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Saturday, October 11, 2008
Remove the Palin for VP Sticker Before Entering Oregon? I understand that if you have a McCain sticker on your car in West Los Angeles these days, the odds of having your car keyed are pretty high. I know Oregon is a pretty far left state as well. Is Bend, Oregon in that same category? Should I remove the Palin sticker before I go into a state awash in people that believe that property is theft, meat is murder, dairy is rape, and all the rest of the liberal agenda? The Gun Show "Loophole" Most gun owners know that there is no loophole. Federal law does not currently prohibit two private parties transferring a firearm. Some states have laws about this, but the federal government does not. There is no more a gun show "loophole" than there is a newspaper advertisement "loophole" because newspapers accept ads for guns for sale. Nonetheless, I have long been concerned about gun shows. The vast majority of the people that I have met at gun shows seemed like perfectly decent people--but I've met a few attendees who I found myself wondering, "Would you pass a background check?" And a lot of people who really ought to know better don't seem to ask any questions. After California prohibited private party transfers in 1991, I was at a gun show in Marin County, and someone there tried to sell me a Remington Model 11 semiauto shotgun. I explained that this wasn't a legal transaction--and his response was basically, it didn't matter, he was a Marin County Deputy Sheriff. Anyway, is there a real problem with gun shows? There's a new study that you can read about here, that concludes: No. They examined homicide and suicide statistics for the years 1994-2004 for California and Texas--the two extremes on gun show regulation. They looked specifically at what happened to homicide and suicide rates in surrounding zipcodes in the week after gun shows. They found a statistically significant increase in gun suicides--but it was very small--perhaps four more gun suicides per year in the entire state of California. And they found that this was balanced out by an equivalent drop in non-gun suicides. Only the method seems to have been affected--not the result. They found no effect on homicide rates in California. I confess: even I was a bit surprised by that. In Texas, which has effectively no regulation of gun shows, the results were counterintuitive. Gun homicide rates actually fell in the surrounding zipcodes in the week after gun shows. Again, the difference was really, really tiny, but measureable. There was no effect on suicide rates. Surprised? I am. It would appear that gun shows, whatever objection gun control activists might have, are simply not a public safety issue--whether the state regulates them tightly or loosely. Most amazingly, one of the authors of the study, Mark Duggan, has a history of publishing work that is pretty clearly not pro-gun, such as his paper, "More Guns, More Crime." Labels: gun rights Let's Hope This Tendency Isn't Genetic Obama's cousin lost a Presidential election--and the results were ugly: Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, a Luo Marxist, and former Kenyan Barack Obama are cousins. Labels: 2008 presidential candidates Snowfall It is only October 11--and we already have snow on Bogus Basin. Of course, we had a second year of low sunspot activity, so I am not surprised. Labels: global warming Obamessiah Was Parody! But others are taking it more seriously. From the October 9, 2008 World Net Daily: The endorsements that Obama has received (the Communist Party USA, Castro, Khaddafi, and North Korea) ought to be enough. But Louis Farrakhan? This is such a stinging collection of anti-Americans that I am now sure Obama will be our next President. Labels: 2008 presidential candidates Friday, October 10, 2008
The Corruption of the Voting Process The October 10, 2008 New York Post:
And this October 8, 2008 Associated Press report: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Officials in Missouri, a hard-fought jewel in the presidential race, are sifting through possibly hundreds of questionable or duplicate voter-registration forms submitted by an advocacy group that has been accused of election fraud in other states.I keep hoping that one of these days, we can do something like requiring ID to vote. Labels: voter fraud I'm Glad That I Accepted A Disappointing Offer on the Boise House This valley is about to get a lot more unpleasant. From October 10, 2008 KTVB:
My daughter has been out trying to buy a house--and let me emphasize trying. A surprising number of people with houses for sale are unable to move even a little bit, not because the offers my daughter and son-in-law are making are insulting (they aren't--I taught my daughter not to take advantage of people in distress), and not because the sellers are unrealistic--but because many of them are underwater--they sometimes owe more on the house that the listing price. One poor guy, who doesn't even live in the Boise area anymore, tried (and failed) to get a bank loan to pay part of the closing costs. Wow. I see some pretty dark times ahead for the United States. If Obama were a genuine socialist, I could see the next Administration going for some sort of major redistribution of wealth. But Obama is a Chicago machine politician. What we'll get (if Congress goes along with him) is likely to be a very complex scheme that throws a few bones to poor blacks (under the guise of slavery reparations) while continuing the Democratic Party's agenda of redistributing wealth from middle class Americans to obscenely rich con men--like Franklin Raines. Why, it sounds much like the subprime mortgage madness that led to the current disaster! Labels: 2008 presidential candidates, economics It's Unfortunate That McCain Has Decided To Lose I had my misgivings about McCain during the primaries, which is one of many reasons that I wasn't behind him. One of my fears was that he was so close to the Democrats that we might not be able to tell the difference if he won or not. But it is increasingly clear that even the one aspect of McCain that might cause him to really fight--his personal ambition--isn't enough to overcome his general sympathy with the Democrats. At least, not enough to make a serious effort to win. If I hadn't lost my job, I would have kicked in some money after he picked Palin. Now, I'm glad that I didn't waste the money, since McCain clearly doesn't want to beat Obama. This October 10, 2008 column in The Politico really captures the frustration of Republicans who have suddenly figured out that our party doesn't have a serious candidate: The unmistakable momentum behind Barack Obama's campaign, combined with worry that John McCain is not doing enough to stop it, is ratcheting up fears and frustrations among conservatives.It is going to be a very, very ugly four years. It may be less, depending on how rapidly the Obamanistas consolidate power. Look at what happened in Chile, when Allende's bureaucrats started to shut down opposition newspapers and radio stations--and Pelosi and friends have already made it clear that they intend to bring back the "Equal Time" rule as a way to suppress conservative voices. Labels: 2008 presidential candidates Voting From The Grave Texas Watchdog has a truly terrifying story of the dead coming back to life--terrifying because of the sheer numbers of dead people who voted, or remain on the voter registration rolls: And yet Democrats are still vigorously resisting requiring voters to produce ID when voting. Gee, why do you think that is? Labels: voter fraud Imagine How Bad This Would Be If They Didn't Pass The Bailout! If there is anything that better demonstrates the ignorance of the professional politician class than the results of their efforts to "save" the system, it is the continuing collapse of the markets. This can't all be laid at Obama's feet, but most of it can be laid at the feet of the Democratic Party and its associated radicals--and yet, in spite of their clear responsibility for the originating crisis, I expect that Democrats are going to be the major beneficiaries next month. It would really help if the Republican Party stood for something other than, "Me, too." Labels: economics "Doctor, Why Does My Head Hurt?" "I keep banging my head against the wall to stop my headache. Should I keep doing this to cure my headache?" That's the only line that makes sense when I read an article like this from October 9, 2008 Inside Higher Education: The latest generation of adults in the United States may be the first since World War II, and possibly before that, not to attain higher levels of education than the previous generations. While white and Asian American young people are outpacing previous generations, the gaps for other minority groups are large enough that the current generation is, on average, heading toward being less educated than its predecessor.The article goes on to discuss how the current generation of blacks and Hispanics--who have been given enormous assistance through affirmative action admissions programs and scholarships--are actually less likely to complete college than the previous generation. Asians, of course, are now well ahead of whites, and women are ahead of men. But: For black and Latino women, for example, the most recent generation outperformed the prior ones, but the opposite is true for men. And across racial and ethnic groups, women are achieving a higher level of education than men.So this horribly racist system is discriminating against black and Hispanic men--but not against black and Hispanic women? Wouldn’t it be more useful to ask why black men are doing so much worse as the society has bent the 14th Amendment into a pretzel to justify racial discrimination in favor of blacks? If whites were at the top of stack on this, the “institutional racism” argument might be worthy of examination. But pretty clearly, the only way “institutional racism” is much of an argument is if these institutions dominated by liberals hate blacks (and only black men, at that), and love Asians more than whites. Maybe we should start looking at the cultural factors involved. Is there anything more obviously true than that cultural values about education influence how much education kids get? Five Million Illegal Aliens With Mortgages? Neal Boortz linked to Newsbusters, which linked to this KFYI news story: One illegal alien was arrested this year in Tucson after allegedly using a stolen social security number to buy two homes and rack up over $780,000 in bad debt.Even if you are one of those who think that our government is "unfair" in discriminating against illegal aliens, think about this: why would it make sense to make a house loan to someone who stands a chance of being arrested and deported? How likely is it that someone who has been deported is going to be able and willing to continue making payments? Neal Boortz links to this Fresno TV station story about the role that ACORN (the group that Obama helped to get funding in the 1990s) played in this: Now, I am not going to say that the banks who made such loans are completely free and clear of responsibility--but they were under enormous pressure to make loans like this from the federal government and activist groups such as ACORN. And because neither Democrats nor many left-leaning Republicans (like McCain and Bush) were willing to do much about illegal immigration, this was inevitable. I'm sure that illegal aliens were only a part of this crisis--but every little bit hurts! Thursday, October 09, 2008
Another Corrupt Corporate Fat Cat That The Democrats Won't Be Questioning Thanks to Michelle Malkin for pointing to the details. October 9, 2008 USA Today reports on Franklin Raines swingin' new bachelor pad: And of course, Raines has been Obama's adviser on housing matters. I can see why! Labels: 2008 presidential candidates Why Voter Fraud Really Has To Be Fixed Ogden on Politics points out that comparing population estimates for Marion County, Indiana with voter registration suggests that at least 105% of those eligible to vote are registered: I knew that the numbers would start exceeding 100% at some point and the election officials couldn't keep ignoring the elephant in the room - how do you have more registered voters than people eligible to vote? Well Indianapolis has now reached that point. Let's do the math.A number of commenters have pointed out that using estimates of population is a tricky business, and perhaps this really isn't proof of voter registration fraud. And they are correct. But it sure smells really bad--especially when you factor in that at least some of the adult population of Marion County is clearly not eligible to vote: those who are not U.S. citizens. And you know what, I am going to guess that there are some people who are eligible to vote who do not register to vote, because of boredom, religious objections (yes, I'm thinking of Jehovah's Witnesses), or laziness. This 105% registration rate therefore looks even more suspicious. The Democrats keep making excuses why you shouldn't have to show ID to vote. You have to show ID to do all sorts of things: buy guns; buy alcohol; buy cigarettes; cash checks. But something fundamental to honest elections, and the Democrats object? There's a reason that people joke that the Democratic Party's motto is, "Vote early, vote often." Because it is widespread. Many years ago, when I ran for city council in Santa Monica, I was astonished at how many people were on the voter registration rolls years after they had died--and after they should have been purged from the rolls, for having not voted. The dead don't just vote in Chicago, I'm afraid. Now, some commenters over at Ogden on Politics say that Republicans do dirty tricks at election time, too. Probably true. But that's an argument for cleaning up the system, not gaming it. Require some sort of state issued ID card to vote. Make them free, so that no one has an excuse. But even that isn't enough to make the ACLU happy, because the ACLU isn't interested in honest elections, but Democratic Party control. Imagine If Republicans Were Leading Black Men Around in Chains In San Francisco. In the middle of public streets. The "slave" is completely and utterly naked. From a purely aesthetic standpoint, there's something even uglier. An old fat man wearing nothing but a cowboy hat and a kerchief. While the picture has been edited, the location of his hand leaves no question what's going on. And the police? There were many youth at the fair, but also men and women ‘who were old enough to know better.’ We saw some children and a lot of people with their dogs, even though there was a warning against bringing children or pets because of the adult-oriented themes. I wondered why the organizers equated children and pets. There was also a sign at the main entrances which said “Nudity is Illegal.” Naked individuals walked right by, apparently without noticing the signs. The San Francisco police stood by and did nothing. One 29-year-veteran of the force said during an interview that they were told to ignore what was going on. “You don’t know the political climate,” he told us.I see homosexuals complain that social conservatives overemphasize these problems: I've long been quite critical of heterosexual immorality as well, and there's more of it. (Since straights are 95-98% of the population, you would expect there to be more heterosexual immorality.) But there is one fundamental difference: Positive Liberty's admission that there are "problems" in gay culture is the first such admission that I've ever seen from a homosexual. Social conservatives are quite prepared to admit that "straight culture" (for lack of a better term) has substantial problems in it. And you won't find too many straights (except those who are trying to make excuses for homosexuality) who would find the heterosexual equivalent of these weird behaviors in San Francisco to be acceptable. Labels: homosexuality Fuel Filter I had the fuel filter on the Corvette replaced this morning. It's a bit more expensive than I would have expected (and more than the service writer expected) because from 1999 onward, the fuel filter has a regulator in it as well. Total damage for this was about $140. Ouch! But the last time I replaced a fuel filter myself, it caused me to swear off doing auto maintenance. By the time I was done "replacing" the fuel filter on my 1979 Pontiac Grand Am, I had a nasty blister on my thumb, I had bought another wrench--and there was still gasoline dripping out of the carburetor where the fuel line went into it--so I had to take it to the shop anyway. I was a little suspicious that "it's time to replace the fuel filter" might be a scam that repair shops use to sell a marginally useful service, but to my surprise, it feels like it has noticeably more guts than it had before (and the Corvette isn't exactly in the slowpoke category). I don't know how much crud may have accumulated in the fuel filter over 64,000 miles, but I am wondering if it was enough to slow delivery of gasoline. Labels: cars Wednesday, October 08, 2008
The Obama/Ayers Connection A great quote from an October 3, 2008 New York Times article about the Obama/Ayers connection: Steve Chapman, a columnist for The Chicago Tribune, defended Mr. Obama’s relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., his longtime pastor, whose black liberation theology and “God damn America” sermon became notorious last spring. But he denounced Mr. Obama for associating with Mr. Ayers, whom he said the University of Illinois should never have hired.And the proof of that is that Obama is making a big deal about McCain's somewhat peripheral involvement with the Keating 6. Keating was a bad guy; he corrupted members of Congress, and McCain was involved in this, although not as deeply as the five Democrats who made up the rest of the Keating 6. But Keating, as bad as he was, wasn't setting off bombs. This statement from one of the intended victims is worth reading: Ask yourself: if someone seeking the Republican Party nomination for President had been talking to and going to the house of a Klansman who had firebombed black churches during the civil rights struggle, would the media be making excuses for it? If that Klansman, as late as 2001, was unrepentant, saying that he wished that he burned more black churches, would even a fleeting relationship with the Republican nominee be okay? I fear for what this country is going to be like a few months into President Obama's Administration. Taxes will be higher? Sure. But that's just money. I shudder to think of the sort of 1960s radicals who are going to be appointed to the federal bench, and staffing sub-Cabinet posts all across the bureaucracy. The only real hope is that Obama will instead fill those posts with corrupt Chicago sorts, like Rezko. They, at least, will settle for robbing us blind. Are Liberal Journalists Trying To Look Stupid? I can never tell how much of what passes for journalism these days is actually intentional self-parody. For example, a Los Angeles Times reporter points to a Newsweek cover photo of Sarah Palin with a gun, and asks: What follows is an especially entertaining collection of comments, many of which make the same point (along with the fact that the reporter clearly lacks enough knowledge to be asking a question like that): For those of you are part of the liberal intelligentsia, worshiping at your Obamessiah altars daily, and don't understand why the rest of us find this astonishing ignorance so funny, let me put it in terms that you might understand. Someone finds a photograph of McCain, taken a long, long time ago, using an IBM Selectric typewriter, and fails to notice that McCain is much younger in the picture. A journalist looks at it, and asks, "Boy, what a weird laptop he's using." Wal-Mart or Home Depot As Employers Anyone want to share their experience with either of them? I'll keep it confidential if you prefer. I'm looking at the prospect of hitting them up for full-time work shortly. The pay's lousy (not much better than unemployment), but at least as a full-time employee, I would get health insurance. UPDATE: It appears that I will be contracting in Bend for the forseeable future, four days a week. The rate's not spectacular, but even after paying for lodging, travel, and meals, it's a giant step up from Home Depot or Wal-Mart. I'm glad that gas is dropping in price. And I'll have paid experience in C#/.NET as a result--so that my 30 years of software engineering experience will again be worth more than a cup of coffee. UPDATE 2: Motel 6 looks to be the cheapest place to stay in town. Once I've been there a week or two, and I'm sure that this isn't just a flash in the pan, I'll probably look for a room to rent--it is considerably cheaper than staying in a motel all the time. Beyond Deranged Michelle Malkin linked to this discussion going on over at Democratic Underground (where real Democrats go to vent)--and because Governor Palin is wearing white... Well, you will just have to see it yourself: Palin is wearing white again, inciting the racist crowdsI thought that just meant that she was in good enough shape that she didn't need to wear a "slimming" color, like black! But seriously: the vast swarm of comments responding to this are overwhelmingly on this same strange frequency: that wearing white is a racist message. One lone troublemaker actually suggested that sometimes, white is just a color: 8. Come on. I have tons of issues with Palin, but I could care less whatAnd the response was? 15. you know that everything the repukes do is about code, including this.And I thought the crowd convinced that everything was a vast conspiracy involving the Trilateral Commission/Council on Foreign Relations/Illuminati/Bilderbergers/International Jewish Bankers were a bit unhinged! But the Democrats are taking the cake for insanity these days! What if Governor Palin had worn red? What would that be "code" for? Time to slaughter your non-white neighbors? What if she wore brown? Time to bury them? Labels: 2008 presidential candidates Credit Shortage? It's only one data point, but my daughter and son-in-law went out to find a mortgage a couple of days ago (since they have been living in our old house--which is supposed to be out of our hair by the end of the month). No problem at all. Labels: economics The Guy Charged With Hacking Gov. Palin's Email I remember when this happened, there were a lot of people arguing that it wasn't politically motivated. And now we see who has been indicted: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The son of a Democratic Tennessee state lawmaker pleaded not guilty Wednesday to hacking the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.Maybe not. But there's a reason that my friend Stacy McCain (no, not a relative of that other McCain) wrote a book called Donkey Cons a few years ago. There are lots of crooked and morally depraved politicians, and no party has a monopoly on this--but it is astonishing how much more often they turn out to be Democrats than Republicans. Labels: 2008 presidential candidates If Anything Should Discredit Obama... It would be his association with the crowd that brought us the housing disaster. Stanley Kurtz at National Review Online has a detailed article tracing the chronology of this--worth reading in full, especially because ACORN, the group that did much of the early pushing, has a long history of dishonesty in voter registration drives: ‘You’ve got only a couple thousand bucks in the bank. Your job pays you dog-food wages. Your credit history has been bent, stapled, and mutilated. You declared bankruptcy in 1989. Don’t despair: You can still buy a house.” So began an April 1995 article in the Chicago Sun-Times that went on to direct prospective home-buyers fitting this profile to a group of far-left “community organizers” called ACORN, for assistance. In retrospect, of course, encouraging customers like this to buy homes seems little short of madness.Let me encourage you to read in full. And hand it around to your buddies who were planning to vote for Obama because he supports "change." UPDATE: And unfortunately, this set of searches in Las Vegas doesn't even qualify as news anymore, because it involves voter registration fraud by an organization, ACORN, with lots of experience doing this:
Labels: 2008 presidential candidates Tuesday, October 07, 2008
The Fat Cats Are Trying To Buy The Election! Using vast quantities of money, some of it clearly obtained illegally, to gobble up all the television advertising time! But because it is a Democrat doing it, Democrats won't get all huffy about the evils of the fat cats this time around. From the Washington Post: It does look like Obama's going to win this--and this country is going to be in for a world of hurt. If we're lucky, it will just be a matter of impoverishing us. If his delusions about foreign policy get implemented, we might not be so lucky as to only be impoverished. Labels: 2008 presidential candidates Gay Cannibalism Again From the October 7, 2008 Daily Mail: I know that there are straight cannibals out there. Why aren't they getting more press? I mean compared to gays like this? Or Jeffrey Dahmer? Is it just the homophobia of the news media? Labels: homosexuality Things That Irritate Me I keep getting these automated calls that tell me that my LAST CHANCE to refinance my credit card debt at a lower rate is about to pass, and I should stay on the line! Today, having received about ten of these calls in the last few weeks, I pressed 1, and when the human being came on the line, I was politely explained, "Could you please put me on your don't call list? I have absolutely no need to refinance credit card debt. You are wasting your time, and my time as well." And the telemarketer at the other end hung up on me. I am wondering if the "don't call list" might have expired..... Barney Frank Finally Has To Defend His Actions And what a clueless twit he is: BOSTON (AP) - Rep. Barney Frank said Monday that Republican criticism of Democrats over the nation's housing crisis is a veiled attack on the poor that's racially motivated.Nope. It's an unveiled attack on the Democrats, who put subprime mortgages at higher priority than financial security--as this November 11, 2003 Wall Street Journal article reminds us: But especially notable is the support for Fannie and Freddie from liberals who normally detest corporate welfare. In this case, Congressman Barney Frank criticized Mr. Mankiw because he is worried about the tiny little matter of safety and soundness rather than "concern about housing." But as Mr. Mankiw pointed out, most of the federal subsidy for the companies goes to enrich private investors and executives, not poor home-owners.Democrats used "helping the poor" as an excuse to enrich a bunch of sleazy financial schemers who are, after all, one of the core factions of the Democratic Party: George Soros; the Sandlers; Franklin Raines. And what happened to a lot of poor people without financial sophistication who bought houses on loans that they couldn't support? They're losing their houses, and will end up with black marks on their credit histories that will follow them around for many years. If they had no credit history before, thanks to Barney Frank and friends, they now have a bad credit history. By the way, that 2003 article from the Wall Street Journal had a very prescient warning: One weakness of democracy is that it tends to ignore problems before they erupt into crises. The risk portfolios of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are a classic example. We'd prefer to see both privatized. But short of that, the least U.S. taxpayers deserve is the assurance that companies that profit from their subsidy are subject to a complete financial entrail reading by the U.S. Treasury.You can see why Democrats hate the WSJ so much. Labels: economics The Line Noise Contributors Yesterday I mentioned the apparently illegal contributions to the Obama campaign. One reader asked why some of these illegal contributors aren't being prosecuted. 1. With respect to foreign contributions, I am quite sure that the U.S. government lacks the authority to prosecute people outside the U.S. for something like improper campaign contributions--and something tells me that Iran isn't going to be assisting us with that effort. 2. Foreign contributions made by persons in the U.S. would seem to be prosecutable--but I suspect that the defendants would plead ignorance, and because the contributions were to Obamessiah, I am skeptical that any prosecutions would be successful. 3. I'm not sure of the exact wording of the statute, but even if U.S. campaign contributions prohibit you from giving above a certain level (as opposed to the campaign accepting above a certain level), it might be difficult to prove that a person who made lots of small contributions knowingly exceeded the campaign limits. Someone who wrote a single check for $10,000 might be another matter. 4. However, as a reader pointed out, when someone gives contributions with an obviously false name, address, and employer--that certainly seems to establish that the contributor was knowingly breaking the law. It isn't like these contributors neglected to fill in the forms--they put in false information. Since these contributions were apparently made by credit card, it is possible to track them down and prosecute. But that would require Bush's Justice Department to actually care about prosecuting such cases. Labels: 2008 presidential candidates Paul Craig Roberts Praising Ahmadinejad I used to admire Paul Craig Roberts quite a bit--a long time ago. But over the last few years, he seems to have gone off the deep end. A couple of years back, Roberts was comparing current tax policy to slavery, and I pointed out how tremendously ignorant that was. And here. Now I see that he is praising President Ahmadinejad of Iran: Does anyone know what happened? I can understand libertarians who become enamored of non-interventionism as a foreign policy--but this is hardly sufficient reason to be saying nice things about Ahmadinejad, who is about as fiercely antilibertarian as I can imagine. I can understand libertarians who think that we are too easy on Israel. We have historically given them the benefit of the doubt, and this has certainly contributed to Arab hostility towards the United States. But anyone who talks about holding "Israel accountable before the UN General Assembly" and doesn't seem to be concerned about holding countries that are far worse than Israel on human rights and aggression responsible for their actions isn't a libertarian at all. I can understand Christians who are concerned about the materialist focus that the left has taken in this country--that only wealth matters, and everything is irrelevant. But Roberts' hostility to the Bush Administration makes very little sense in that regard. If wealth was all that mattered, we would have bought off Iraq in 2002, not invaded them. Wars are always more expensive than paying the Danegeld. So, what happened to Roberts? The Weirdness Gets Worse I always take WorldNetDaily with a grain of salt, but when a reporter looking into Obama's connections to the Kenyan government gets arrested just before a press conference? It makes you wonder if he has found something important:
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