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Obama’s New York “date” may have cost $400,000. Hope he got laid.

"Oh, Barack, is that the Washington Monument in your pocket or are you just happy to see me."
"Oh, Barack, is that the Washington Monument in your pocket or are you just happy to see me."

The self-proclaimed “most transparent administration in history” announced on Monday that it would release no information regarding the cost of President Obama’s “date” in New York. Just won’t do it.

The administration’s policy seems to be summed up in these nine words: “Love to talk more. Just no time. Gotta go.”

The New York Post guestimated that the trip cost $24,000. The London Daily Mail put the figure at $75,000. But the Washington Times did additional research and came up with a far higher number: $400,000.

Their figure includes three helicopters that shuttled the First Couple to and from Andrews Air Force Base and all the air and ground personnel associated with that move. It includes the corporate jets that flew the Obamas and the ones that flew decoy duty. It includes a previously unmentioned C-17 cargo jet that flew all the cars for the President’s motorcade to New York and back. It included hundreds of additional Washington, DC and NYC policemen. It included the vast crew of Secret Service people who had to check the New York locations out in advance and also be there during the date.

We’re not sure what happened to the Obamas at the end of the date, but we’re pretty sure the taxpayers got screwed.

Source: Washington Times

Geithner says China’s American investments are safe, students burst out laughing

Audience member reacts as Tim Geithner quips, "I just flew in from Washington, DC. And boy, are my arms tired."
Audience member reacts as Tim Geithner quips, "I just flew in from Washington, DC. And boy, are my arms tired."

Poor Tim Geithner. He gave a speech at a Chinese university and attempted to reassure the students that their government’s immense dollar-denominated assets are safe.

“We believe in a strong dollar,” Geithner told the students at Peking University. “Chinese financial assets are very safe.”

The students laughed. Out loud.

Can’t blame them. You have to admit that it’s one of the funniest things you’ve ever heard.

Source: Reuters.com

Michael Moore proves that Moore is less. Less for you, that is.

Alternate energy: Power the homes of several average American families for a year with the fat sucked out of Michael Moore's wattle.
Alternate energy: Power the homes of several average American families for a year with the fat sucked out of Michael Moore's wattle.

For some reason, we’re on corpulent corporate bashing Michael Moore’s email list. 

Yesterday we got an email from our pal Mike that proved he’s as good an economist as he is a film maker.

He presents a 9-point plan to revitalize America. It involves mass construction projects including bullet trains, light rail systems, fleets of electric cars, windmills and solar panels, and hybrid cars and busses.

But how, you may ask, can we possibly afford all this? Well, Michael has the answer to that, too.

“To help pay for this, impose a two-dollar tax on every gallon of gasoline. This will get people to switch to more energy saving cars or to use the new rail lines and rail cars the former autoworkers have built for them.”

Yes, $2 per gallon. Overnight. Bang. The price goes up more than 50% overnight.

We have a better idea. Enforced liposuction on all obese film makers. Burn it like they used to burn whale oil back in the 1800s. We’d cut our foreign energy dependence overnight.

The email letter on his website.

Ralph Nader accuses former DNC head Terry McAuliffe of bribery

Ralph Nader called Terry McAuliffe slipperier than an eel in olive oil. Eels across America protested the slanderous comparison.
Ralph Nader called Terry McAuliffe slipperier than an eel in olive oil. Eels across America protested the slanderous comparison.

“Terry McAuliffe,” Ralph Nader told the Washington Post, “is slipperier than an eel in olive oil.”

What brought about this uncharacteristically countrified attack?

Nader claims that McAuliffe offered his presidential campaign money to stay out of 19 battleground states John Kerry needed to defeat George W. Bush in 2004.

According to Nader, McAuliffe “basically said that if I stay out of 19 states which are close between Kerry and Bush, he would provide resources to me in the remaining 31 states.”

“He threatens, he promises, he cajoles, he jokes, he charms, he intimidates,” Nader said. “He really is not someone who should be governor and in possession of the public’s trust.”

A spokesman said that in his role as chairman of the DNC in 2004, McAuliffe “engaged in a conversation with Nader to try to convince him not to run, or at the very least to not compete in the targeted battleground states.” But no-no-no-no, he “never offered (Nader) any money” to get out of the campaign. Heaven forbid.

Nader is nuts. McAuliffe’s a liar. We don’t know who to believe. But if we had to put money on it, we’d go with Nader.

How about you?

Source: Politico.com

Robert Gibbs sets world record for saying, “Uh.”

A reporter asks this simple question: “Can you tell us how much the President and First Lady’s ‘date night’ cost on Saturday night? And if not, why not?”

What follows is more than a minute of Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stuttering, stammering, and changing the subject.

Sotomayor quoted America’s most famous socialist in her Princeton yearbook



sotomayor_yearbook Wikipedia.com says, “Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884—1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.”

Looks like they’ve given up even pretending they’re not socialists. It’s about time.

Source: FoundingBloggers.com

Top 10 Obama administration limericks

Thumbs up for the winners of IHateTheMedia.com's "Limericks for the Next 1,361 Days" contest! Great work.
Thumbs up for the winners of IHateTheMedia.com's "Limericks for the Next 1,361 Days" contest! Great work.

Congratulations to the winners of our “Limericks for the Next 1,361 Days” contest. And thanks to everyone who submitted limericks, but didn’t win.

If was a very tough decision, because there were so many really great entries. We finally narrowed it down to 17 finalists and argued back-and-forth for hours before coming up with the final Top 10.

Here, without further delay and in no particular order, are the “Top 10 Limericks for the Next 1,361 Days.”

Submitted by Miss TC Shore
A mandate the Dems thought he’d get

More liberal than center, you bet

But we never knew

How badly He’d do

While piling up trillions in debt

Submitted by Media hater
Our president knows how to parse

Golden words into nebulous farce

But he makes the crowds swoon

And sing along with his tune

‘Cuz the media kisses his arse.

Submitted by JohnGalt4Prez
If there’s one thing Obama knows

It’s that Gitmo prison must close.

But the only hitch

In making this pitch

Is where do we lock up our foes?

Submitted by ocmadam
The Dems have made it their mission

To stamp out all opposition

They loudly proclaim

It’s Bush you should blame!
Let’s have us a full inquisition.

Submitted by Al
We all know that he was the One

The man with the post partisan pun

But congressional leaders

Turned true disbelievers

When he told them: It’s my way. “I won.”

Submitted by Eddie Po’
If Biden was from Nantucket

He’d carry his hair in a bucket

He’d trap in his pail

Each strand that did fail

Instead he got plugs and said ‘what the hay!’

Submitted by surfdt
He promised us change and we got it

Though not quite the way that we thought it

To his left he owes debt

To his right, deep regret

And our kids will be broke cause we bought it.

Submitted by Doug from Upland
Around the TV we all gather

We’re watching nonsensical blather

They’re in bed with Barack

It is all such a crock

I think I am missing Dan Rather

Submitted by HenriettaHughes
There once was a man named Obama

Who climbed out the vagine of his Mama

Hawaii or Kenya?

We’ll n’er know cuz Whenya

Ask all about it, there’s drama!

Submitted by rddionne
I’d like to hear from Barack

What he’d do in case of attack

No pandering words

For placating herds

I just want to know he’d fight back

And finally, here’s one honorable mention. It doesn’t get a prize, but it got a big laugh from all of us here at IHateTheMedia.com:

Submitted by Ed Coyne
There once was a man from Nantucket

OBAMA SUCKS!
(Sorry, I’ve just never been good at rhyming)

Homeowners association declares war on ex-Marine over military decals on car

A Dallas HOA has ordered a disabled Vietnam vet to remove seven Marine Corps decals from his car, including the Marine emblem and Semper Fi slogans.

“To me, it’s being patriotic, and it shows that I served,” Frank Larison said.

The board says the decals are ads and violate HOA rules and must be covered or removed. If he doesn’t comply, the HOA says it will tow the car at Larimore’s expense and fine him $50 for any future incident.

Larison seems to have a lot of allies in the neighborhood.

“That is his identity,” Mary Castagna piped in. “He goes to a lot of the veteran meetings, and it means a lot to him. Everyone else agrees with it; it doesn’t bother anybody.”

“He’s in the Marines, and he’s proud of it, and I don’t blame him,” neighbor Paul Hardy commented. “If I’d gone through what he’s gone through, I’d be kind of proud of it myself.”

The complaint was delivered in a letter. Probably because the HOA board was afraid to say something this stupid to a former Marine in person.

Source: Fox TV Houston

Sneak preview of the first car developed by Obama Motors (formerly General Motors)

(Originally published three weeks ago, we felt today would be an appropriate day to rerun it)

It’s sleek. Powerful. And comes with a remarkably fuel efficient ethanol engine. It’s the 2010 Czar Car from Obama Motors.

obama_motorsDesigned by well-known automotive designer Barack Obama, the Czar Car simultaneously protects the environment and the President’s union constituents.

The Czar Car runs on ethanol and gets a million miles per gallon. Once a decade when your gas tank gets low, just pull into the cornfield in your neighborhood and say, “Fill ‘er up.”

The 2010 Czar Car is currently just a prototype, but you’ll soon see if being driven by members of ACORN as they travel around the country performing census duties and counting people who don’t exist in Democratic districts.

Best of all, the Czar Car comes with a lifetime guarantee supplied by the government of the United States of America.

And since it comes from the same people who brought you the Post Office and the Department of Motor Vehicles, we suggest you keep that warranty handy at all times.

Napolitano says problems with Canada would go away if newspapers would just stop reporting what she said

Dudley Dooright and his horse Horse. Janet Napolitano is merely part of a horse.
Dudley Dooright and his horse Horse. Janet Napolitano is merely part of a horse.

Janet Napolitano wants to kiss and make up with Canada.

The Secretary of Homeland Security caused quite a dust-up north of the border last month when she said the 9-11 terrorists entered the United States from Canada.

Unfortunately, that statement is at odds with the facts. The 9-11 commission concluded that none of the terrorists came through Canada.

Napolitano wants to forgive and forget. Or more appropriately, to have Canadians forget what she said and forgive her. But instead of saying she’s sorry and accepting the blame for her comment, the diplomatic neophyte blamed the Canadian media and said she’s sorry they continue to dwell on her misstatement.

“Jeez, these Canucks are testy,” Napolitano reportedly thought. “Now when do I get to meet Dudley Dooright?”

Source: FoxNews.com

She’s ecological, she’s hypocritical: Laurie David builds tennis court on sensitive wetlands

Walking, talking one-woman ecological disaster Laurie David.
Walking, talking one-woman ecological disaster Laurie David.

When Laurie David’s on the west coast, she lives in huge energy-sucking home high in the hills above Santa Monica. When she’s on the east coast, she lives in Martha’s Vineyard.

Martha’s Vineyard is also where her hypocrisy is current residing.

According to the New York Post, David, the executive producer of Al Gore’s global-warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” was busted and fined $900 by the Chilmark Conservation Commission.

David was cited for violating the Wetlands Protection Act during the construction of a tennis court on her sprawling Chilmark property, when workers installed boards and stones to construct a path to the court.

But David — who spent weeks on the road with Sheryl Crow in 2007 during their Stop Global Warming College Tour — let her contractor, Bart Thorpe, take the fall for the violations. “She’s obviously a very busy person, and she trusted the contractor,” Thorpe told the Gazette. “I inadvertently made a mistake. It’s something she had no knowledge of . . . It’s a minor thing.”

Maybe it wouldn’t be such a major deal on the Vineyard if the supposed eco-obsessed celebrity hadn’t been cited for the exact same violation four years ago. In 2005, David constructed a stone fire pit, a barbecue area and a children’s theater stage in a wetlands area without a permit.

You can’t make this stuff up. If her ex-husband wrote it into a sitcom, you wouldn’t believe it.

Source: NY Post via JammieWearingFool

Book ‘em, Danno: Seattle cracks down on library violence

"I'm looking for Dewey Decimal. I'm gonna kick his butt."
"I'm looking for Dewey Decimal. I'm gonna kick his butt."

What’s going on in Seattle? Bad behavior is running rampant in the Northwest People’s Republic libraries.

In just the first four months of 2009, security personnel have already tossed out 432 library patrons for offenses like assault, drug dealing, intoxication and lewd conduct.

Looking back at conduct violations reports from last year, security booted 113 patrons for being disruptive, 42 more for fighting or assault, another 75 for “making threats,” and an additional 34 for lewd conduct.

Crime in Seattle? Too much coffee. Next time, order your double tall breve sugar-free vanilla latte decaf.

Source: KIRO-TV

Shocker: Successful California school rejects multi-cultural specialists, ultra liberal zealots, college-tainted oppression liberators

American Indian Public Charter School has a better idea: make student achievement a priority now.
American Indian Public Charter School has a better idea: make student achievement a priority now.

Shocker number two: This report on Oakland’s incredibly successful American Indian Public Charter School comes from the ultra liberal Los Angeles Times:

Not many schools in California recruit teachers with language like this: “We are looking for hard working people who believe in free market capitalism…Multi-cultural specialists, ultra liberal zealots, and college-tainted oppression liberators need not apply.”

That, it turns out, is just the beginning of the ways in which American Indian Public Charter and its two sibling schools spit in the eye of mainstream education. These small, no-frills, independent public schools in the hardscrabble flats of Oakland sometimes seem like creations of television’s “Colbert Report.” They mock liberal orthodoxy with such zeal that it can seem like a parody.

School administrators take pride in their record of frequently firing teachers they consider to be underperforming. Unions are embraced with the same warmth accorded “self-esteem experts, panhandlers, drug dealers and those snapping turtles who refuse to put forth their best effort,” to quote the school’s website…

Among the thousands of public schools in California, only four middle schools and three high schools score higher. None of them serve mostly underprivileged children.

At American Indian, the largest ethnic group is Asian, followed by Latinos and African Americans. Some of the schools’ critics contend that high-scoring Asian Americans are driving the high test scores, but blacks and Latinos do roughly as well — in fact, better on some tests…

The short answer is that American Indian attracts academically motivated students, relentlessly (and unapologetically) teaches to the test, wrings more seat time out of every school day, hires smart young teachers, demands near-perfect attendance, piles on the homework, refuses to promote struggling students to the next grade, and keeps discipline so tight that there are no distractions or disruptions. Summer school is required.

Back to basics, squared

We’re not sure what gives us more pleasure: the success of the school or the turmoil it must cause over at the California teachers union headquarters.

Source: LA Times via Ace of Spades

Harry Reid craps out in Vegas

Harry "Mr. Excitement" Reid couldn't contain his glee at Wednesday night's fundraiser.
Harry "Mr. Excitement" Reid couldn't contain his glee at Wednesday night's fundraiser.

Harry Reid called in reinforcements at his fundraiser Wednesday night in Las Vegas.

Here’s how the Huffington Post described the event:

“So, yesterday, the first big political fundraiser of the year was held here at Caesars Palace to kick off Reid’s reelection campaign. Bette Midler, Sheryl Crow, Rita Rudner and Clint Holmes entertained. But the big draw was President Obama.”

Sounds fabulous. Nevadans must have turned out in droves to see President Obama and all those world class entertainers. Tickets must have been hard to come by.

Or maybe not. Here’s the next paragraph from HuffPo:

“At any rate, the fundraiser was a great success. (Even though a limited number of tickets were given away by a business called House Seats that is utilized by local venues to ensure a full house.)”

To repeat, they had to give tickets away because they couldn’t sell ’em. An empty room would given visual evidence of Reid’s shaky grasp on power.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal quotes a Republican on Reid:

“‘Frankly, it speaks to the Democrat Leader’s deep unpopularity at home that he is already calling in reinforcements from Washington to help boost his sagging approval numbers in Nevada,’ Brian Walsh, a spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in an e-mailed statement Tuesday. ‘Once again tonight, Harry Reid is simply reminding Nevadans that he’s more in touch with the Democrats in Washington than with the voters in his state.'”

It may be true that Harry Reid is completely devoid of personality and popularity. But in his defense, we don’t think Jesus Christ could draw a full house in Vegas if Midler and Crowe were his opening acts.

Source: Huffington Post, Las Vegas Review-Journal

Weiner pulls out prematurely, says size does matter

Weiner comes up short. In fundraising, that is.
Weiner comes up short. In fundraising, that is.

After a pregnant pause, Representative Anthony Weiner has officially pulled out of the New York City mayoralty race.

“He is out for sure,” an elected official confirmed.

And size does matter, at least when it comes to a candidate’s campaign funds. Weiner said the primary reason for getting out of the race is the size of Mayor Bloomberg’s war chest.

“In this case, a sports analogy is apt: If one football team has 110 players on the field, the team with 11 has a hard time getting through the blocking and tackling on the crowded turf,” Weiner lamented.

We hope someone puts together one of those celebrity insult dinners for this guy, just so we can run a headline that says, “Weiner roast big success.”

Source: New York Post

Democrat Detroit city council member pays $68 in property taxes, neighbors pay $6000

You'd be smiling, too, if your property taxes were only $68 per year.
You'd be smiling, too, if your property taxes were only $68 per year.

The Detroit Free Press reports that a member of the city council pays just $68 in annual property taxes on her Tudor style home, although neighbors in comparable homes pay $2000-6000.

As you might expect, JoAnn Watson’s a Democrat, but that fact is conveniently omitted from the Detroit Free Press article.

The story gets even more laughable when JoAnn Watson attempts to explain why her taxes are so low.

“I’ve been a target of a smear campaign,” Watson insisted. “… I pay my bills and whatever I was billed, I paid.”

“I pay the taxes. All I know is I had a big drop when my house got hit hard by a tornado,” Watson said. “We had great damage.”

Watson claims her home suffered roof and foundation damage, but the Free Press notes that she never filed an insurance claim.

When did the tornado hit? Well, that’s where Watson’s story gets a tad hazy. She said it might have been 1993. Or it might have been 2002. Who knows?

Watson is a past winner of Detroit’s “Women’s Equality Day Lifetime Achievement Award.” But property taxes were obviously not included in that equality thing.

Source: Detroit Free Press via AP

What happens when you attempt to tell the president that you’re against gay marriage?

screaming_reporter

There was quite a scene at LAX yesterday. Brenda Lee, a reporter for the Macon, Georgia Informer wanted to give the President a letter urging him “to take a stand for traditional marriage.”

Two officers picked her up and carried her away – kicking and screaming — because they were afraid she’d attempt to give the letter to the president.

The One is not one to be trifled with.

Source: NBC Los Angeles

Idiot jihadists get confused, issue fatwa on wrong guy

Attention, jihadists: This is the wrong Rusty.
Attention, jihadists: This is the wrong Rusty.

Don’t you hate it when Islamist extremists threaten your life? Especially when they do it by mistake? 

That’s what happened to radio talk show host Rusty Humphries. He was the target of a fatwah issued on a vile blog called “The Jew Report.” Unfortunately, the genius jihadists confused Rusty Humphries with Rusty Shackleford, a pseudonym used by the author of My Pet JAWA Report, a website that exposes online support of Islamic terrorists.

The threat, which included a photo of Humphries, said: “Yes this Fat descusting (sic) pig you are looking at is the boss of the website Jawareport.com but their are many fat kafirs like him you might ask why are we talking about him here’s why.”

“The Shaabab and muslim Leaders have said enough is enough he has to go and they dont mean move….Inshallah we will see his Fat rottan (sic) torso dumped in the side of the road or in some Florida swamp.”

In other news, the same Muslim extremists hage declared a fatwah on spelling and grammar.

Source: WorldNetDaily.com

President flies to Nevada to tout “100 Days, 100 Projects.” Uhhh…nevermind.

The President flew to Nevada on Wednesday. While he was there, he gave a rousing speech highlighting a new report on his “stimulus” bill entitled “100 Days, 100 Projects.”

It was a fine speech. Some called it poetic. Others called it an empty promise.

Because, unfortunately, not one of those 100 projects happens to be in Nevada.

Oopsie.

Source: Politico.com

Will Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi live to eat his own words?

Berlusconi underage sexItalian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi beginning a press conference in which he promised to resign if caught lying about allegations of an improper relationship with a teenager. They say Italians talk with their hands, but this is a bit too illustrative.

Source: Time

Crazy, unsustainable salaries doom San Francisco and other California cities

Consider the city of San Francisco a microcosm of what’s happening in the rest of California. A bankrupt microcosm.

As you’d expect, it’s doomed by its own socialist spending spree, the cost of providing education, medical and jail facilities to illegal aliens, and a bloated bureaucracy.

But the salaries it’s paying city employees are absolutely insane. In 2007, the city had more than 8000 employees who “earned” more than $100,000 per year. Here’s a list of the city’s twenty highest-paid public employees:

Top 20 San Francisco government salaries

$350,324 for a Special Nurse. $325,452 for the General Manager of the Municipal Railway. $270,171 for a Captain in the Fire Department. It’s insane.

How can a nurse make $350,324? In a word, overtime. Here’s how Special Nurse Christian Kitchin’s income broke down:

Regular pay $117,262
Overtime pay $216,277
Other pay $16,785
Total pay $350,324

And don’t forget that this is on top of generous government retirement and health care schemes that aren’t available to the rest of us.

You can see the details of all 8,000 of these government employees’ salaries with the handy list generator at SFGate.com.

Mayor Gavin Newsom, the whiz kid whose managerial genius has bankrupted San Francisco, is now running for Governor of California.

We know how we’ll vote.

Denmark proves wind power just a bunch of hot air

How to generate wind power when the wind doesn't blow.
How to generate wind power when the wind doesn't blow.

The global warming crowd constantly bleats that wind power is our salvation and to complete the analogy, that we should follow Denmark’s example like a bunch of sheep.

“Denmark’s wind generation industry already employs 9000 people,” said Australian Green leader Bob Brown, “will nicet (sic) 10% of electricity demand by 2000, and is growing at 20% per annum. It’s a major export earner.”

Not so fast. Turns out Denmark’s windmill miracle is more hot air than hot news. When the recalcitrant winds refuse to blow, the country draws its power from Sweden, Germany and Norway.

Uh-oh. Sweden and Germany generate their power with coal and nuclear.

Another uh-oh. Under the Kyoto Protocol, Denmark committed itself to a 29% reduction in green house gasses in the 2008-2012 period. Even with outsourcing their power production to other countries, the country’s 2006 emissions rose 1.7% above its base year emissions.

Of course, as you might expect, Danes pay the highest prices in all of Europe for their power.

This may not be scientific, but it looks like the only way this wind power thing is going to work is if Al Gore puckers up and blows.

Source: Andrew Bolt/NewsCorp

Liberal prayer breakfast beseeches the Lord to end secret ballots

Over the lips, through over the gums, watch out hypocrisy, here it comes. Amen.
Over the lips, through the gums, watch out hypocrisy, here it comes. Amen.

This is one of the most worst stories we’ve ever read. Really. One of the worst.

“Union leaders, clergy and liberal members of Congress gathered in the mostly empty U.S. Capitol Visitors Center early Tuesday morning,” according to CNSnews.com, “to hear multicultural choir music, speeches from religious leaders–and to pray for the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act. The prayer breakfast was sponsored by Faith Leaders for Workplace Fairness–a coalition of liberal religious groups that was formed for the sole purpose of promoting the ‘card-check’ bill.”

Yes. You read that right. These people prayed for the end of the secret ballot in union elections.

Why stop there, you slackers? Why not pray for the end of democracy? Pray that Jimmy Carter will fly in to monitor all future American elections. Pray that Obama takes over every industry he hasn’t yet taken over. Pray that Joe Biden becomes intelligent.

Nah, even God couldn’t pull that one off.

Source: CNSnews.com

How do you say, “What the hell is she talking about?” in Chinese?

"And one order of mu-shu pork," Queen Nancy demanded. "To go."
"And one order of mu-shu pork," Queen Nancy demanded. "To go."

U.S. House Speaker and dim bulb Nancy Pelosi is visiting China. Rumor has it that she made the sudden trip only after getting a fortune cookie that said, “Chinese reporters don’t ask you about waterboarding.”

While speaking at Tsinghua University, Pelosi tried to link human rights and environmental justice and confused those who speak English just as badly as she confused those who speak Chinese.

“I do see this opportunity for climate change to be … a game-changer,” she declared. “It’s a place where human rights — looking out for the needs of the poor in terms of climate change and healthy environment — are a human right.”

She then turned to the president of the university and asked for an order of fried rice, orange peel chicken and pot stickers.

Wouldn’t surprise you, would it?

Source: AP via Google

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