We are the drain the swamp people

. . .  AND FORGET WHY THEY WERE ONCE ADMIRED

POWELL: TRUMP IS DANGEROUS TO OUR COUNTRY 

“On Biden Powell added, “I’m very close to Joe Biden in a social manner and political manner. I’ve worked with him for 35, 40 years, and he is now the candidate and I will be voting for him.”

Says More About Colin Powell Than About Donald Trump

This is what happens when a once true hero starts missing the ‘limelight’, and grossly misjudges what Americans admired him for.

Colin Powell was never an erudite political observer. Outside of his military experience and expertise, there is rather strong evidence that Powell is neither all that bright and perceptive, nor a very admirable character when he is no longer a ‘center of attention’.

dlh

At some point, oh 12 years ago or longer,  Powell became a Democrat for all practical purposes (if he wasn’t always for all practical purposes) so who gives a nickel if he is endorsing Joe Biden against Trump other than in the particular case he unavoidably “shares” the corruption, buffoonery and incompetence of Biden.  The media pretends this guy is still a Republican. He preferred the globalist corruption of Hillary to Trump’s blue collar appeal.  He shared her indifference to national security regarding e-mails

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• Goodell spikes the fans

dlh — Capitulation that makes Neville Chamberlain look like a “Profile in Courage”

“We the National Football League condemn racism and the systematic oppression of black people,” Goodell continued. “We the National Football League admit we were wrong for not listening to NFL players earlier and encourage all to speak out and peacefully protest. We the National Football League believe Black Lives Matter.” Roger Goodell

So if all peaceful protests are acceptable, using NFL auspices, even if the display offends many, then what about joyful celebration, say for a play or touchdown???

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Poster originated as a parody of conservative views, but campuses today are a parody, and not unlike this.  Expand or zoom to make more readable

THE GOOD IDEAS JUST KEEP COMING!

BLACK “GRADUATES” FROM THIS ‘INSTITUTION’ WOULD BE GREAT “HIRES” IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR SOCIAL ACTIVISTS…PROBABLY NOT MUCH ELSE; U OF WASHINGTON ISN’T DOING ITS TRUE STUDENTS ANY FAVORS.
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Students call for laxed grading for black students. University goes along with it.

Students at the University of Washington are demanding that black students be given leniency on finals because they are too “busy fighting for [their] rights to sit down and study.” The university is advising professors to do just that.

An online petition calls for laxed grading and accommodations, specifically for Black students. So far, the petition has amassed more than 26,000 signatures.

“…be especially responsive to the needs that your students, especially those who are members of the Black community, may have for accommodations as we conclude the school year.” Tweet This

“…give Black students a break! We are already DISPROPORTIONATELY impacted by this pandemic in terms of health care access and financial hardship. Now add state-sanctioned violence, how do you expect us to enter finals in this headspace?!” reads the petition.

“You need to encourage and demand professors to accommodate their black students during this time. If UW truly understands our pain, UW will be a part of alleviating it,” the petition continues. “We can’t sit back and watch as injustices unfold before our eyes.

We don’t have the privilege that white and non-black students do to ignore what’s happening and stay at home to study for finals,” the petition added.

“We are busy fighting for our rights and for the rights of future black children and students to sit down and study. The least UW could do is demand professors to accommodate us during this time”

“I recognize that this institution and others across the country were not built to serve marginalized students, specifically Black students. Still to this day, institutions such as UW, do not serve Black students to the same capacity that white students benefit from,” student government president Kelty Pierce told The Daily.

A template to help professors announce these accommodations has been circulating on social media, reading “Dear Students, I am writing to you to offer accommodations for black students in this class during the end of this class and finals.”

“Many black students are not just using this time to cope emotionally, but to fight on the front lines of these protests and actively work and take action on what has been happening to the black community.” it continues.

Nicole McNichols, UW Psychology Professor provided Campus Reform with a copy of the email she sent to her own students.

“I sent this on Sunday before I knew about the petition,” McNichols said. “Obviously, I support the petition and absolutely believe the accommodations it requests should be honored by all faculty. Students need all of the support and compassion we can afford to give them right now.”

The email sent by McNichols to her students reads, “I wanted to reach out and acknowledge the incredible grief, fear, and loneliness that I know many of you are experiencing in light of recent (and not so recent) events. These are frightening times and I know that many of you are struggling emotionally as our country suffers not only from a pandemic but also from abhorrent racism, overwhelming violence, and palpable rage. These events are terrible and it is completely understandable to feel scared and alone right now.”

“Last, I think we all could use a break right now as these times certainly call for compassion. Given this, there will be a following change to the course policies. First, the remaining homework chapters are being put into review mode. Everyone will receive full points. Second, I have decided to drop everyone’s lowest exam score. This means that you may opt-out of taking Exam 3 if you just don’t feel up to it, (or if you [are] happy with your scores from exam 1 and 2), the email added.”

(read more at link)

One wonders, maybe if they made the course work more relevant to exigent needs . . . something like:

• Riot Logistics — Beginner Intermediate and Advanced
• Better Anarchy Through Chemistry — Design of Accelerants and Delivery Systems
• Sticks and Stones Will Break Bones But Marksmanship is Better
• Rule of Law is for Suckers
• Media 101 – Combining Thumb-sucking and Tantrums for Most Effect
• Reap What You Sow CANCELED

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Wow, helmets and rifles

Regarding General (retired)  “Mad Dog” Mattes comments criticizing President Trump for holding out the possibility of using troops if governors  and mayors won’t protect their citizens (see earlier post) and also regarding Trump’s own Defense Secretary Esper who seems to have sandbagged the president with insufficiently undeveloped comments about the same (see below).

Via WGN — Esper told reporters the Insurrection Act, which would allow Trump to use active-duty military for law enforcement in containing street protests, should be invoked in the United States “only in the most urgent and dire of situations.” He declared, “We are not in one of those situations now.”

For a week now leftists, looters, thugs and Black Lives Matter have destroyed and torched businesses and government buildings across the country.

Now this…

Secretary Esper ordered the National Guard troops sent to Washington DC to NOT carry any guns or ammunition.

Esper also ordered all active-duty troops out of Washington DC.

Esper reportedly made this order without consulting the White House.

Secretary Esper is now putting National Guardsmen in danger.

Related reading:
Esper now putting Guardsmen in dangerhttps://t.co/YsvX4HBEeO
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) June 6, 2020

thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/without-consulting-trump-white-house-defense-secretary-esper-orders-national-guard-not-carry-guns-ammunition-washington-dc/

It was a “racial time”

Esper is too young to remember Dwight Eisenhower federalizing  the Arkansas National Guard in order to take them out of the hands of the Arkansas governor in order to insure they were not used to thwart the rule of law in that state. He then sent in regular Army troops to protect the rule of law and citizens.

It was a transitional racial time in the fifties and the Democrat Arkansas governor was interested in protecting racist laws even with the military. He ran the state after all. Republican President Eisenhower would have none of the use of the color of law and order to deny civil rights to people of color. The violence and threat of violence against the exercise of civil rights of all citizens would be stopped if local leaders would not, or indeed were part of the problem.

Now we have ANTIFA militants and garden variety looters using charges of racism where color blind law is working* to deny the rule of law with their rioting, arson, murder and pillaging. Local Democrat leadership in the effected areas when not weak are complicit with the anarchists for their own political purposes, just as Arkansas Democrat Governor Orval Faubus was in protecting segregation for his own political purposes. If current political leadership won’t put a stop to the  anarchy President Trump will use his legitimate powers to do so.

Veterans what say you?

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• Once again, there’s that term, “dismantle white supremacy” !
• A “junta”?, or a new ice cream flavor?

SOME MIGHT INTERPRET “MAD DOG’S” OP-ED AS BEGINNING A CALL FOR A ‘MILITARY JUNTA’!

We wondered what the left meant by that term. What is it, specifically, “Charlamagne ‘Tha god'”, and those ice cream vendors, Ben and Jerry, want to “break up, destroy, demolish, undo, wreck, etc”!

Now we know.

Mad Dog’s besties instead of elections and constitutional checks and balances

We were already aware that, in large part, they meant…” tear down the American system of government, economy, and society in general.”

It has been obvious for a long time, that the left… the political left, the religious left, the ‘social’ left…wanted to literally, burn down our capitalist system. They’ve wanted to ‘demolish’ the Constitution…too restrictive, as Obama observed, as far as what government can do in ruling the lives of its citizens!

It is now apparent what some of the specifics of how the left intends to “permanently transform” the USA.

1) “Eliminate police departments! “Defund the police” cries are being heard around the nation, in cities dominated by the Democratic Party . Minneapolis, Los Angeles are among cities in which officials (Democrats) are going forward with legislation to drastically cut funds for or eliminate entirely their police departments.

2) Military generals, active and retired as well as at least one Cabinet official are publicly criticizing President Trump’s possible use of active military in the event that the civil unrest worsens and certain city governments are unable or unwilling to assure their citizens’ safety.

More importantly, former Secretary of Defense and retired Marine general, James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis and current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army General Mark Milley seem to be urging active military personnel to potentially defy orders from the their Commander-in-Chief, the President of the United states, citing, of course, their own ‘respect’ for the Constitution.

Both men are highly decorated combat veterans, universally recognized and acclaimed for heroic military service.

But, in our opinion, that doesn’t make them immune from leftist media flattery nor does it make them political geniuses or Constitutional experts. Whether attempting to urge creation of a “military Junta” or not, the op-ed by Mattis and the letter to military leaders by Milley suggests a very dangerous path they seem moved to embark upon.

At any rate, regardless of the intent of these gentlemen, a military overthrow of the US government would not be met with disappointment by many on the left.

Instead, we suggest, that it would be one manifestation of their desire to “dismantle” the “white privilege structure” they now cite as the root of all problems in America..

And their support of “defunding” or eliminating police departments is only a page out of the radical communist revolutionary’s playbook.

And, don’t think the left doesn’t have their own ideas of “police reform” and on what would replace “police departments”. Every authoritarian regime has had its version of “police reform” and they have not necessarily called their oppressive, repressive arms of government “police” but their function was to go way beyond the police authority of a free society such as America has been since its founding.

To those mis-informed, ill-educated young people …be very careful what you wish for; there are some very evil people very willing to give it to you.        dlh

break up
demolish
destroy
disassemble
raze
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Take thirty minutes and view this collection of compelling video witness from Black Americans responding to the “Floyd” rioting and pillaging.  A few poster memes are set forth as well.  Language alert two of the videos.

This collection is from the FaceBook presence of KK and HP.  Note we have copied some of them in order to preserve them from FaceBook’s propensity to censor. Websites can offer protection from such censorship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=PFzI2sf_hoo&feature=emb_logo

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THERE’S THAT TERM AGAIN, “DISMANTLE WHITE SUPREMACY” !

Just what does that mean?

“Dismantle”! Here is what “Thesaurus. com” says are the MOST RELEVANT synonyms:

Ben & Jerry’s calls on Americans to ‘dismantle white supremacy’ in forceful statement

(CNN) — Let there be no doubt where Ben & Jerry’s stands.

The ice cream maker has called on Americans to “dismantle white supremacy” and “grapple with the sins of our past” as nationwide protests against racial injustice stretch into their eighth day.

In a forceful statement posted to the company’s website late on Tuesday, Ben & Jerry’s describes the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of a white police officer as the result of “inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy.”

“What happened to George Floyd was not the result of a bad apple; it was the predictable consequence of a racist and prejudiced system and culture that has treated Black bodies as the enemy from the beginning,” said the brand, which is owned by Unilever.

Companies including Nike, Netflix, Twitter, Disney, Facebook and Intel have condemned racism and injustice in recent days. But the statement from Ben & Jerry’s is unusually comprehensive and direct, addressing the historical roots of discrimination in the United States and calling out systemic racism, while advocating specific policies to prevent further police abuses and redress racial inequality.

“Slavery, Jim Crow and segregation were systems of legalized and monetized white supremacy for which generations of Black and Brown people paid an immeasurable price. That cost must be acknowledged and the privilege that accrued to some at the expense of others must be reckoned with and redressed,” the company said in its statement.

Ben & Jerry’s, which also publicly supported the Black Lives Matter movement, called on President Donald Trump to disavow white supremacists and nationalist groups that “overtly support him.”

The ice cream maker also called for the US Department of Justice to reinvigorate its Civil Rights Division, and for Congress to pass H.R. 40, a bill that would create a commission to study the effects of discrimination since African slaves first arrived in North America in 1619 and recommend remedies.

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Apparently Appointed to both posts by Pope Francis

In the aftermath of Archbishop Wilton Gregory’s tirade aimed at President Trump, American Catholics should be asking exactly where their weekly donations of “Devil’s Dung” go(Pope Francis’ characterization of the money hardworking Catholics earn and a part of which they give to the Church) goes and for what “causes”?

How much of it, they should ask, goes to advance the “progressive” causes promoted by His Holiness and the clergy like “His Grace”, Archbishop Gregory*, and to the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed.

Certainly the Archbishop’s outburst was pleasing to those on the Catholic left and to those who share Pope Francis’s visions of his own “green New deal” and his aversion to capitalism and the “materialistic” middle class life style of the American people.

To openly and strongly criticize our president’s efforts to calm a very volatile situation, soothe the emotional suffering of his nation and bring a sense of unity through spiritual rediscovery is an unique kind of “spiritual hypocrisy”.

There is an irony to the archbishop’s rejection of the president’s appearance at the St. John Paul II National Shrine as a “photo op”.

Certainly Archbishop Gregory’s public statements to a liberal press, using his ‘prominence’ as “the first African American archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington” were little more than a “photo Op’ itself !

So, again, it is appropriate for the faithful to ask if their donations are going to advance a partisan political narrative, a progressive ‘climate change’ agenda, an anti-capitalism movement or, instead of providing succor to people in lands of religious and civil oppression, to promote a vision of a world without borders or national cultures and aspirations (all as publicly professed by the Pontiff himself and likely shared by many in the Church’s hierarchy, appointed by Pope Francis.).

Where is Reverend Gregory’s outrage against rioters who destroy the livelihoods of innocent people. His Grace seemed not even critical of those who set fire to the church he was accusing President Trump of “defiling”.

And…where is the Catholic Church hierarchy? Does Archbishop Gregory speak for his church, and ours, with his political rhetoric?

Maybe Bishop Gregory is in the wrong line of work. Maybe his real occupational aspirations are to be the political activist, or as a party “ward healer” he acts as.

I would suggest, however, he do it with political contributions and not Church donations!

dlh

Related reading:

DC archbishop criticizes long-planned Trump visit to Catholic shrine as ‘reprehensible’

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• Three very conservative also-rans might have been the deciding factor, splitting the most conservative vote.
• Note Miller-Meeks focus now as nominee
• Schilling sends unifying concession message

In the Iowa Press Citizen:

State Sen. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Ottumwa won the Republican nomination for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday night. In November, she will face Democrat Rita Hart in the general election.

Miller Meeks received 22,682 votes or 48% of the vote. In the primary, she faced Bobby Schilling of Le Claire who received 17,356 votes (36% of the vote), Steven Everly of Knoxville who received 2,769 votes (6%), Rick Phillips of Pella who received 2,413 votes (5%) and Tim Borchardt of Iowa City who received 2,337 votes (5%).

“Voters want to know someone is going to fight for them, never quit on them and be their voice in D.C.,” Miller-Meeks told the Press-Citizen.

Miller-Meeks is an ophthalmologist who once directed the Iowa Department of Public Health. She served for 24 years in the U.S. Army, retiring as a colonel. In 2018, she won the Iowa Senate District 41 seat, which includes Ottumwa, Fairfield, Bloomfield and Keosauqua.

The U.S. House seat is currently held by Democrat Rep. Dave Loebsack of Iowa City, who was first elected in 2006. He announced in April 2019 he would not run again.

The Republican primary was marked by a back-and-forth volley as Miller-Meeks and Bobby Schilling of Le Claire fought it out for who was the most anti-abortion candidate and who was the biggest supporter of President Donald Trump. In a press conference before the results were counted, Miller-Meeks said that while it was a tough primary, it makes her a better candidate, “battle-tested.”

Pushing past the primary, she said she is focused on a slate of issues: healthcare affordability, employability skills, infrastructure funding and policies that she said would “bring our country together, particularly given recent events.”

Miller-Meeks won the Republican nomination for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District three times before. She ran unsuccessfully to unseat Loebsack in 2008, 2010 and 2014.

“I just called Mariannette Miller-Meeks to congratulate her on her victory. I am proud of the campaign we ran. Tonight we came up short. That’s okay. I look forward to supporting both Donald Trump and Miller-Meeks in the fall,” Schilling said in a statement.

Schilling opened Saint Giuseppe’s Heavenly Pizza in Moline, Illinois in 1996. In 2010, he was elected to Illinois 17th Congressional District. In 2012, Democrat Cheri Bustos unseated Schilling and won a rematch with him in 2014. Schilling has lived in Le Claire since 2016.

He said that the campaign got Miller-Meeks to “embrace a more pro-life position,” endorsing among other things a fetal heartbeat bill.

“That’s a win,” he said.

While the Republican race for IA-02 was hotly contested, Democrats quickly consolidated around Rita Hart of Wheatland. Hart was an English teacher for twenty years. In 2012, she was elected to Iowa Senate District 49 which includes Clinton, Dewitt and Le Claire. In 2018, Hart ran on Fred Hubble’s unsuccessful ticket as lieutenant governor.

“We’re facing some of the most challenging times our country has ever experienced. I am heartbroken by the way hatred, racism, and violence are tearing our country apart. As a lifelong Iowan, farmer and teacher, I have seen the challenges that our communities are facing. Now more than ever, we need leadership that brings people together,” Hart said in a statement. “Whether it is health care, economic development, justice, public safety, or education, I will always work to put Iowans ahead of politics and provide real solutions to our toughest problems.”

In addition to a long list of endorsements, Hart has raised the most of any candidate in the race, Democrat or Republican. She ended primary election night with $1 million on hand.

IA-02’s major cities include Davenport, Iowa City, Muscatine, Clinton, Burlington, Ottumwa, Fort Madison, Oskaloosa, Bettendorf, Newton, and Pella.

Scott County results Republican primary:

SUMMARY REPORT          UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
Run Date:06/02/20       All Precincts Reporting
RUN TIME:10:15 PM            STATISTICS

                                                       VOTES PERCENT

           PRECINCTS COUNTED (OF 63) .  .  .  .  .        63  100.00
           REGISTERED VOTERS - TOTAL .  .  .  .  .   127,763
           BALLOTS CAST - TOTAL.  .  .  .  .  .  .    24,259
           BALLOTS CAST - Democratic Party .  .  .    14,703   60.61
           BALLOTS CAST - Republican Party .  .  .     9,556   39.39
           BALLOTS CAST - NONPARTISAN.  .  .  .  .         0
           BALLOTS CAST - BLANK.  .  .  .  .  .  .        29     .12
           VOTER TURNOUT - TOTAL  .  .  .  .  .  .             18.99
           VOTER TURNOUT - BLANK  .  .  .  .  .  .               .02

  United States Senator   REPUBLICAN PRIMARY
          (VOTE FOR)  1
              (WITH 63 OF 63 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           Joni Ernst .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     9,082   98.87
           WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       104    1.13
                   Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     9,186

          United States Rep District 2
          (VOTE FOR)  1
              (WITH 63 OF 63 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           Bobby Schilling  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     4,743   53.08
           Mariannette Miller-Meeks  .  .  .  .  .     3,321   37.16
           Tim Borchardt .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       318    3.56
           Steven Everly .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       300    3.36
           Rick Phillips .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       231    2.59
           WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        23     .26
                   Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     8,936

          State Senator District 46
          (VOTE FOR)  1
              (WITH 13 OF 13 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           Mark S. Lofgren  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     1,780   99.39
           WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        11     .61
                   Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     1,791

          State Representative District 89
          (VOTE FOR)  1
              (WITH 10 OF 10 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           Sean Hanley.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     1,206   99.18
           WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        10     .82
                   Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     1,216

          State Representative District 90
          (VOTE FOR)  1
              (WITH 10 OF 10 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        52  100.00
                   Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        52

          State Representative District 92
          (VOTE FOR)  1
              (WITH 13 OF 13 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           Ross C. Paustian .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     1,777   99.27
           WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        13     .73
                   Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     1,790

          State Representative District 93
          (VOTE FOR)  1
              (WITH 10 OF 10 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           Mike Vondran  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     1,632   99.03
           WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        16     .97
                   Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     1,648

          State Representative District 94
          (VOTE FOR)  1
              (WITH 12 OF 12 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           Gary M. Mohr  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     2,499   99.56
           WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        11     .44
                   Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     2,510

          State Representative District 97
          (VOTE FOR)  1
              (WITH 8 OF 8 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           Norlin Mommsen.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       960   99.69
           WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .         3     .31
                   Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       963

          County Board of Supervisors
          (VOTE FOR)  2
              (WITH 63 OF 63 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           Ken Beck.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     7,715   50.23
           Tony G. Knobbe.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     7,524   48.98
           WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       121     .79
                   Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .    15,360

          County Auditor
          (VOTE FOR)  1
              (WITH 63 OF 63 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       590  100.00
                   Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .       590

          County Sheriff
          (VOTE FOR)  1
              (WITH 63 OF 63 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
           Tim Lane.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     8,769   99.44
           WRITE-IN.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .        49     .56
                   Total .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .     8,818

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