Good morning!

I know…some of you have probably already seen this. Hey, it’s a month old but it didn’t come across my screen until now. It’s Friday, the beginning of the weekend. I wanted to go into the weekend with a laugh. Maybe you do too. If so…watch and enjoy.

Jon Stewart Rips Into Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital, Tax Return Defense (VIDEO)

The Daily Show” returned from a two week hiatus Monday night, and could not have come back at a time more ripe for comedy. Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is currently under scrutiny for both hisundisclosed tax returns and for his involvement with Bain Capital, the financial services company where he was CEO.

While the allegations — namely, that Romney has been less-than honest about his finances and how long he was actually with Bain — are heating up campaign tensions, Jon Stewart couldn’t help but notice that the company’s name bears a striking sonic resemblance to the name of a Batman villain.

“Bain. Not since Ayds diet candy suffered through their somewhat ill-timed 1980s ‘Lose weight with Ayds!’ sales campaign has a brand faced this type of challenge,” he joked.

But in more serious analysis, Stewart took issue with Romney’s evasive defense strategies. In reply to the Obama campaign’s attack ad on Bain outsourcing, Romney claimed to be on a leave of absence during the time in question. The problem? He was still on the payroll for at least $100,000 a year.

Stewart quipped:

I was just the guy with the the smoke screenish, yet still legal title of CEO and Managing Director who was paid at least $100,000 a year to do what, according to me, Mitt Romney, was nothing. That’s the kind of common sense business experience I hope to bring to the White House.

Later in the episode, Stewart took Romney’s reluctance to share his tax returns to task, stating:

Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It’s Romney’s inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the government’s tax code largesse that’s a little offensive to people. Especially considering Romney’s view on anyone else who looks to the government for things like, I don’t know, food and medicine.

 

Check out part one above and part two below.

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Happy Friday everyone! Blog me.

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Good morning!

If you’ve been watching the news like I have, Akin seems to be getting his 15 minutes…and really more, whether he wants it or not. I found this article that tells the disgusting thoughts that go through the minds of some men.

Akin’s Spiritual Mentor: Women Occasionally Invite Rape, Victims Are ‘Hysterical’

By Zack Beauchamp on Aug 20, 2012 at 11:37 am

Reverend D. James Kennedy (Left) and Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO).

Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) spiritual mentor Reverend D. James Kennedy harbored extreme and sometimes flatly misogynistic views about rape and abortion, according to a ThinkProgress review of Kennedy’s sermons on the topic. The Senate candidate, who set off a massive controversy by claimingthis weekend that victims of “legitimate rape” don’t get pregnant, has deep ties to Reverend Kennedy, having cited some of his sermons as key intellectual influences and having been namedin Kennedy’s book How Would Jesus Vote? as one of the Reverend’s “favorite statesman.”

Kennedy, who the Anti-Defamation League has termed a “Christian supremacist,” repeatedly railed against legalized abortion, calling it the “American Holocaust” and suggesting that it would lead inevitably to genocide in the United States. But Kennedy’s discussions of rape and abortion in particular betray extraordinarily disturbing views about rape victims:

1. Kennedy believed that rape victims who chose abortion are “hysterical.” In “Abortion: Myths and Realities,” Kennedy labels victims of rape who chose unsafe abortions when safer procedures are illegal “hysterical,” saying “We are told by some of the radical feminists that the women will become hysterical, that they will abort themselves with coat hanger.” Abortion rates are, in fact, higher in nations where the procedure is criminalized, and men describing women whose choices they disapprove of as “hysterical” has a storied sexist history.

2. Kennedy suggests rape victims can be responsible for being raped. In “Life: An Inalienable Right,” Kennedy expresses concern that rape victims who chose to get an abortion are occasionally responsible for their own rape, saying that “Even if they want to say the woman had some part in it—which in most cases they probably don’t—surely the baby did nothing wrong, so the only innocent party is killed and the rapist often goes free.” He doesn’t elaborate on how this might be true, but another Kennedy sermon says “the immodest woman is contributing to the lust of other people” by wearing revealing clothing.

3. Kennedy held that the Bible should set our laws about rape and abortion. Kennedy is very explicit on this point, saying “In the Bible, the child of rape was allowed to live and the rapist was put to death. Today, we find that the penalties against rape have become more and more lenient, whereas the child is now the subject of capital punishment. Justice has been totally destroyed and perverted in that the guilty are practically allowed to go free and the innocent are killed.” This fits with Kennedy’s general view that we should “rebuild America based on the Bible.”

4. Kennedy thought husbands should determine if their wives can have abortions. Though not specifically addressing rape, Kennedy approvingly cited a Roman prohibition on abortion motivated by the husbands should have control over women’s reproductive choice, saying “That newly created life is as much the husband’s as it is the wife’s. Historically, it is interesting to note that when the Roman Empire did away with laws that allowed abortion, it was done not because of the woman or the harm that abortions were doing to women (and indeed they do vastly more harm than most people are aware of), but because the husband was being defrauded of his progeny.” Interestingly, Akinhas worried that criminalizing marital rape provides women “a legal weapon to beat up on the husband.”

Given that Akin’s rhetoric and policy views bear clear marks of Kennedy’s influence, it’s perhaps no surprise that Akin co-sponsored (with Paul Ryan) a bill that could, by limiting federal funding of abortion to cases of “forcible rape,” make rape survivors give birth to their rapist’s child.

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Readers: What do you have to say about this? Blog me.

So many compelling comments from yesterday and the day before. I just perused them but I need to catch up and comment because there are some that I really want to address. Let’s see how much time I’ve got.

Holly: I love a girl who sees the glass half full. I HOPE the skies are shining blue on you today in Missouri.

KS: Bravo to your comment. Sounds perfectly logical to me.

XXX: Why should one only be blessed once? If you want a second shot at ecstasy, give me a call. I am tempted to say I will pencil you in but we both know that you are way bigger than a pencil. I would say more, but at the risk of losing my ladylike modesty, I will simply say, you give as good as you get.

Brittany: That is a good question. At this point I don’t even think it is common sense but just stupidity. I am assuming that you read Talibah’s comment from yesterday’s write.

I rarely skip around when commenting to readers that I want to address, but since you broached the subject I have to first say to Talibah: You are so right on. We do suffer much in the same way, and that is frightening to me. Especially because with everything that is happening in the republican party…with men (not all) that just can’t seem to leave our vagina’s alone and out of the political environment, our rights are in danger. We are not far from losing all that way have unless we act fervently.

This is not the time to sit back and be dispassionate.  Any woman not voting, and I know 1 or 2 women that don’t, (stupid) is a vote for the other side. It is frustrating, infuriating and stupid when women have a voice, a voting right, and don’t exercise their rights and use it for their own health, life, and betterment of all concerned.

As you stated, “American women GIVE their men over and over again the right to control their bodies and lives.”

We women have the power at the polls. If we don’t we will lose them, plain and simple because although there are men who support us, there are not enough. Hell, there aren’t enough women who support women.

With this kind of radical, no longer fringe, thinking,  republican women just have to come to their senses. But when I read comments from Charlotte and Frances, my conclusion is yes, white women (not all) are that stupid. But I still HOPE and continue to talk about it. One just can’t give up when it comes to these kinds of issues.

Mary, and all of the other women who are anti abortion: Think about it this way – what if the shoe was reversed? Say our planet was over populated and we were running out of resources. Or maybe men just decided that they wanted to control women in a very extreme way (sounds familiar huh?)

What if the law were that all women had to abort babies? No more babies allowed. And lots of women who were on board with this idea to “save the planet” or they were just following their men lock step.

How would you feel then? Forget getting all the mens’ support. And there would be no way to get all women to vote their needs over saving the planet, or sadly, to speak their own minds. So would you be fighting for pro-choice? Would you be telling everyone to just stay out of your vagina –  that you should be able to have a baby if you wanted one? No doubt you would.

Does the scenario sound pretty extreme? Well it is and that is how we pro-choice women feel the way it is today.

If you want to have a baby then you have that choice, but then allow me as well the choice to make the hard decision to have an abortion if that is what is best or needed in my life. That sounds fair and logical to me. But for some reason I know the extremists won’t want to give in to this logic.

The freedom to choose: We all deserve it. This is an area where women can support women, and sadly, the support is not strongly there.

I am done for the day. Your turn. Blog me.

Peace & Love and ladies…don’t be apathetic when it comes to your rights of your body, your health.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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Good Monday morning!

Sometime last week I think I said that I would have more to post about Paul Ryan. This write was pointed out to me. I found the info to be of value, so I decided to post it.

Paul Ryan represents political dark age

Robert B. Reich

Published 1:05 p.m., Saturday, August 18, 2012

Paul Ryan espouses 19th century social Darwinism - reward the rich, penalize the poor, and the rest are on their own. Photo: Jeff Swensen, Getty Images / SF

Mitt Romney‘s chosen running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, is the reverse of Sarah Palin. She was all right-wing flash without much substance. He’s all right-wing substance without much flash.

Ryan is not a firebrand. He’s not smarmy. He doesn’t ooze contempt for opponents or ridicule those who disagree with him. In style and tone, he doesn’t even sound like an ideologue – until you listen to what he has to say.

It’s here, in Ryan’s views and policy judgments, that we find the true ideologue. More than any other politician today, Ryan exemplifies the social Darwinism at the core of today’s Republican Party: Reward the rich, penalize the poor, let everyone else fend for themselves.

Dog eat dog.

Ryan’s views are crystallized in the budget he produced for House Republicans in March as chairman of the Budget Committee. That budget would cut $3.3 trillion from low-income programs over the next decade. The biggest cuts would be in Medicaid, which provides health care for the nation’s poor – they would force states to drop coverage for an estimated 14 million to 27 million low-income people, according to an Urban Institute estimate.

Ryan’s budget also would reduce food stamps for poor families by 17 percent ($135 billion) over the decade, leading to a significant increase in hunger – particularly among children. It also would reduce housing assistance, job training and Pell Grants for college tuition.

In all, 62 percent of the budget cuts proposed by Ryan would come from low-income programs.

The Ryan plan also would turn Medicare into vouchers whose value could not possibly keep up with rising health care costs – thereby shifting those costs to seniors.

At the same time, Ryan would provide a substantial tax cut to the very rich, who already take home an almost unprecedented share of the nation’s total income. Today’s 400 richest Americans have more wealth than the bottom 150 million of us put together.

Ryan’s views are pure social Darwinism. As William Graham Sumner, the progenitor of social Darwinism in America, put it in the 1880s: “Civilization has a simple choice.” It’s either “liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest” or “non-liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest. The former carries society forward and favors all its best members; the latter carries society downwards and favors all its worst members.”

Is this Romney’s view as well?

Some believe Romney chose Ryan solely to drum up enthusiasm on the right. Since most Americans have already made up their minds about whom they’ll vote for, and the polls show Americans highly polarized – an almost equal number support Romney as President Obama – the winner will be determined by how many on either side take the trouble to vote. So in picking Ryan, Romney is motivating his right-wing base to get to the polls and pull everyone else they can along with them.

But there’s reason to believe Romney also agrees with Ryan’s social Darwinism. Although Romney has carefully avoided specifics in his own economic plan, he has said he’s “very supportive” of Ryan’s budget plan: “It’s a bold and exciting effort … an excellent piece of work and very much needed … very consistent with what I put out earlier.”

At the same time, Romney wants to permanently extend the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy, reduce corporate income taxes and eliminate the estate tax. These tax reductions would increase the incomes of people earning more than $1 million a year by an average of $295,874 annually, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

Oh, did I mention that Romney and Ryan also want to repeal Obama’s health care law, leaving 50 million Americans without health insurance?

Social Darwinism offered a moral justification for the wild inequities and social cruelties of the late 19th century. It also undermined all efforts to build a more broadly based prosperity and rescue our democracy from the tight grip of a very few at the top. It was used by the privileged and powerful to convince everyone else that government shouldn’t do much of anything.

Not until the 20th century did America reject social Darwinism.

We created a large middle class that became the engine of our economy and our democracy. We built safety nets to catch Americans who fell downward, often through no fault of their own.

We taxed the rich and invested in public goods – public schools, public universities, public transportation, public parks, public health – that made us all better off.

In short, we rejected the notion that each of us is on our own in a competitive contest for survival.

By choosing Ryan, Romney has raised for the nation the starkest of choices: Do we want to return to that earlier time, or are we willing and able to move forward – toward a democracy and an economy that works for us all?

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And if that’s not enough proof, here’s more from Think Progress:

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Readers: We keep talking about Ryan…and we’re going to keep talking about him because there is just so much to say….so much that needs to be revealed and illuminated. I’m HOPEing he’ll keep opening his mouth, along with Romney, the media will continue to disclose these LSOS’s, and people will realize that the Romney-Ryan ticket is not the ticket you want to mark come November.

Claire: ZL was correct – you needed attention and you got it. Now here’s more. I don’t consider my comment an “assault” on you. I was just responding to you. You are the one that said my blog sucks. I just suggested that you give it a try or go elsewhere. I now recommend the latter strongly since you repeated that my blog sucks and now you think I suck too. Well…let me tell you…I do suck and I’m damn good at it. How is that for a little “cohesiveness”?

Sabrina: All I want to say is that I got a kick out of your statement: “I am white but I don’t do lock step.”

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Good morning!

Since I don’t have a designated LSOS day…and considering that the LSOS’s don’t ever have a day off from lying…evidently everyday is a LSOS’s day for lying, I thought this was a perfect post for any day and today is the day.

The Biggest Mitt Romney Lie (So Far)

As you’ve probably observed already, Mitt Romney is a lie machine. Steve Benen at Maddow Blog has been tracking Romney’s mendacity and the tally is usually 20-30 items per week. That’s a lot, and Benen probably doesn’t catch all of them.

Any normal human being has to work hard to lie that much. But Mitt Romney is doing it as a matter of campaign strategy, specifically as a way to fire up the gullible and desperate tea party base. By the time a Romney lie is fact-checked, it’s already too late, and, besides, Romney supporters won’t actually read/believe the fact-checkers who are obviously part of the liberal conspiracy to re-elect a communist Muslim. It’s a strategy based on the maxim: “A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.”

Meanwhile, as I’ve documented here, Republican legislatures have passed laws in 11 states requiring photo IDs in order to cast a ballot. These laws will make it more difficult for lower income registered voters to participate on Election Day even though numerous studies, including a five year investigation by the George W. Bush Justice Department, have proved that voter fraud is practically nonexistent.

Recently in Ohio, Republicans tried to significantly cut back the window for early voting from five weeks to three weeks. They failed to keep the law on the books, but the Republicans managed to ban early voting on the weekends, except for military veterans who can continue to vote on Saturdays and Sundays.

However, the Obama administration filed a lawsuit against Ohio to restore weekend voting for all registered voters. Soldiers would retain weekend voting privileges, and voters would once again be allowed to vote on those days. Once again, the Democrats are trying to make voting easier and the Republicans are trying to strip people of that fundamental right.

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney, while clearly benefiting from Republican voter purges and Voter ID laws meant to discourage minority and working class voters, accused the Obama Justice Department of somehow trying to disenfranchise military voters. In other words, the Democrats are the ones who are trying to disenfranchise people — and they hate the troops, too! The troops!

The Romney Unit on The Facebook:

President Obama’s lawsuit claiming it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period is an outrage. The brave men and women of our military make tremendous sacrifices to protect and defend our freedoms, and we should do everything we can to protect their fundamental right to vote. I stand with the fifteen military groups that are defending the rights of military voters, and if I’m entrusted to be the commander-in-chief, I’ll work to protect the voting rights of our military, not undermine them.

In addition to sounding like a Patrick Bateman speech, that’s arguably the biggest Romney lie so far (although his new welfare reform attack might have topped it). There’s nothing here that’s even remotely close to the truth. The Obama administration has absolutely not done what Romney says it’s doing — in any way. The president is actually trying to extend weekend voting to everyone, while preserving it for the troops. Romney has used this twisted Orwellian Karl Rove style backwards logic to trick his supporters into buying this bag of hooey while reinforcing the myth that the president — the commander in chief of the armed forces — hates the military. At the same time, he’s reversed the Voter ID debate by making it seem as if the Democrats are trying to disenfranchise voters.

And it’s in print. It’s not a jittery, Uncanny Valley Romney gaffe or something he blurted out on a cable news show. He (his advisers) carefully crafted this one, and it’s entirely untrue. And, for what it’s worth,Politifact declared it to be “False” while entirely debunking the Facebook post.

It is simply dishonest for Romney and his backers to claim that Obama’s effort to extend early voting privileges to everyone in Ohio constitutes an attack on military voters’ ability to cast ballots on the weekend before elections.

But none of that matters because it’s out there now. The Facebook post has been “Liked” more than 152,000 times and shared by more than 19,000 Romney Facebook friends. And it’s a lie by every measure. To wit, here are some choice comments from Romney’s Facebook:

“Obama is trying to make it more inconvenient for the military to vote. Obama is a db.”"suing Ohio for equal voting days between military and civilian voters , is an attack on military voters .common sense something dipshit liberals dnt have …”

“What a hypocrite! He sues to overturn voter ID laws so that no vote is turned away and then sues to prevent servicemen and women from disgusting! He is a disgusting President!

Everything is taken at face value because Romney’s lies are crafted to be exactly what the base wants to hear. They want to hear that the president is a hypocrite who hates the troops. They want to hear that it’s the president who doesn’t want people to vote — not the GOP state legislatures and governors. So Romney gives them what they want: red meat, irrespective of its veracity.

*R*O*M*N*E*Y*L*S*O*S*

Readers: My internet was down this morning. I will reserve my responses till later.

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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Good morning!

I’m interested.

MOrt, and DN: Whether you’re interested or not, this one is for you:

Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me That Mitt Romney ‘Didn’t Pay Any Taxes For 10 Years’

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has what he says is an informed explanation for why Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns. According a Bain investor, Reid charged, Romney didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Huffington Post from his office on Capitol Hill, Reid saved some of his toughest words for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Romney couldn’t make it through a Senate confirmation process as a mere Cabinet nominee, the majority leader insisted, owing to the opaqueness of his personal finances.

“His poor father must be so embarrassed about his son,” Reid said, in reference to George Romney’s standard-setting decision to turn over 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president in the late 1960s.

Saying he had “no problem with somebody being really, really wealthy,” Reid sat up in his chair a bit before stirring the pot further. A month or so ago, he said, a person who had invested with Bain Capital called his office.

“Harry, he didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years,” Reid recounted the person as saying.

“He didn’t pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that’s true? Well, I’m not certain,” said Reid. “But obviously he can’t release those tax returns. How would it look?

“You guys have said his wealth is $250 million,” Reid went on. “Not a chance in the world. It’s a lot more than that. I mean, you do pretty well if you don’t pay taxes for 10 years when you’re making millions and millions of dollars.”

The highest ranked Democrat in Congress, Reid is known more as a back room brawler than a public flamethrower. So his willingness to throw this private conversation into the media frenzy over Romney’s taxes underscores the low opinion he has of the Republican candidate.

Tellingly, neither Reid nor his office would reveal who the investor was, making it impossible to verify if the accusation is true. And as his quote makes clear, he’s uncertain if the information is accurate. The Romney campaign’s press secretary, Andrea Saul, has previously denied rumors that Romney didn’t pay “any taxes at all.”

But there is limited political downside to the type of open speculation that Reid is making, so long as Romney refuses to budge on the issue of his tax returns. Increasingly, other Democrats are growing more assertive in their goading. In an appearance at the Center for American Progress on Tuesday, former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland argued that he could openly speculate as to whether Romney “is a tax avoider” or “cheat” because “his behavior invites such speculation.”

Romney recently told ABC News that he couldn’t recall if there were years when he paid below the 13.9 percent tax rate that he paid in 2010. Although he said he was “happy to go back and look,” his campaign declined to do just that.

Asked for a response to Reid’s latest comments, Romney campaign adviser Kevin Madden said his candidate had “gone above and beyond the disclosure requirements by releasing two years of personal tax returns in addition to the hundreds of pages of personal financial disclosure documents he has provided to the FEC and made public.”

Madden added that it was “troubling and disappointing that Senator Reid would cite Governor Romney’s father, George, as part of a personal attack against the governor. We have many substantive disagreements with the senator and his policies, but using insults about a father-son relationship is a step too far.”

Reid has jabbed at Romney before. Indeed, during the HuffPost interview, he seemed to revel in the headlines and fallout his attacks have caused.

“It’s interesting, my guy from Vegas wrote this. He’s a snarky guy, [Las Vegas Sun political reporter] Jon Ralston. He’s a center guy. I like Jon just fine, but he’s cynical, and I guess that’s what serves him well. So he criticizes me for saying that Romney couldn’t be elected dogcatcher,” Reid recalled.

“My wife said to me — we don’t talk politics very often — she said, like, ‘You shouldn’t have said that.’ So Stephanie Cutter [President Barack Obama's deputy campaign manager] comes down to talk about politics and outsourcing at my caucus. She said, ‘I’m so grateful for Senator Reid, the best remark during the last week, was saying that he couldn’t qualify to be dogcatcher.’ I could hardly wait to get home to tell my wife.”

Reid’s assessment about the state of the political landscape didn’t end at the borders of the presidential campaign. He spoke optimistically about the prospects of maintaining his role as Senate majority leader, offering up private polling data that he said showed four Democratic senatorial candidates ahead — Rep. Mazie Hirono up 19 points in Hawaii, Sen. Jon Tester ahead by 5 points in Montana, Rep. Tammy Baldwin up 3 points in Wisconsin, and Elizabeth Warren leading by 4 points in Massachusetts.

“We feel comfortable in the Senate,” he said. “Where the problem is, is this: Because of the Citizens United decision, Karl Rove and the Republicans are looking forward to a breakfast the day after the election. They are going to assemble 17 angry old white men for breakfast, some of them will slobber in their food, some will have scrambled eggs, some will have oatmeal, their teeth are gone. But these 17 angry old white men will say, ‘Hey, we just bought America. Wasn’t so bad. We still have a whole lot of money left.’”

“So that’s the only problem we have with our candidates,” Reid concluded, suggesting that virtually everything, his leadership position included, could be swept away by outside cash.

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