Preserving American Liberty

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Constitution Class

Preserving American Liberty is happy to announce that our much anticipated Constitution Class has been rescheduled for Saturday, March 13 at the Hyatt Crown Center! Class beings at 10:00AM sharp and will conclude at approximately 1:00PM. Professor Kris Kobach, who currently teaches Constitutional law at UMKC and is a popular radio host, will be conducting our class. You can catch Kris’s show Sunday evenings from 6:00-8:00PM on KCMO 710 Radio.

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Dear GOP,

Now that we are in the year 2010, those of us that are unhappy with the direction Congress is moving our Country are looking for change. Not the stupid, Socialist “Change That We Can Believe In” crap that President Obama is trying to ram down our throats. We are looking more for the kind of change that will make America great, once again. Over the past few weeks I have discussed with many of my friends Common Sense ideas and suggestions that we believe will help the GOP get back on track as the party of choice for Conservatives. I have been a voter that has voted Republican over 90% of the time. The other 10% of the time I voted for CONSERVATIVE Democrats. I voted for Bob Barr in the last election because John McCain is, in my opinion, a RINO. If the GOP keeps supporting less than CONSERVATIVE candidates then you will continue to be in the minority in Congress. This is a mainly CONSERVATIVE country that is tired of this over-bloated, over-taxing, over-spending and unaccountable Federal Government. Did you not see the close to 1 million pissed off Americans in DC on Sept 12th that want their country to go back to it’s conservative roots? Why are we even discussing the further expansion of the Federal Government (Obama Health care) when our Federal budget is so out of balance? What has happened to common sense? Please make the GOP more CONSERVATIVE!!!!

I am hoping in the 2010 election that the GOP gets together and has a strategy similar to the 1994 election with the Contract with America. There are some Common Sense issues that I believe will resonate with the majority of Americans. First let me say that right now, in my opinion, Congress is thought of as a bunch of self-serving, self-aggrandizing, contemptible, loathsome bunch of dolts. I could open the phone book and randomly select 535 persons that would do a better job. Why do I think this? If I have to explain myself then that makes my statement true. Just a few points illustrate my argument. Un-balanced budgets, Social Security, the Congressional Retirement program, you don’t read bills you vote for, and bills that are not enumerated in the Constitution just to name a few points.

With the previous statement being posted how about you run on several issues:

1.) Balance the Federal Budget

2.) Cut Taxes by passing the FairTax

3.) Get Congress off their current retirement Program

4.) Only Pass Bills that are Enumerated by the Constitution

5.) Vote on only One Bill at a Time and Read the Bills You Vote On!

6.) Term Limits

7.) No Amnesty for ILLEGAL Immigrants!

8.) Eliminate Earmarks/Pork/Special Spending/Whatever you call it

I could name a few more because there are so many things Congress does that it should NOT be doing. So, please try and use some of these suggestions because they really resonate with many people that I know that want our Country to be strong and not a fiscal liability upon our children and grand children.

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PSALM 2009
Obama is the shepherd I did not want.
He leadeth me beside the still factories.
He restoreth my faith in the Republican party.
He guideth me in the path of unemployment for his party’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the bread line,
I shall fear no hunger, for his bailouts are with me.
He has anointed my income with taxes,
My expenses runneth over.
Surely, poverty and hard living will follow me all the days of my life,
And I will live in a mortgaged home forever.
I am glad I am American,
I am glad that I am free.
But I wish I was a dog …..
And Obama was a tree.

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From: “Lt. Governor Peter Kinder” <peter@teamkinder.com>

Date: January 9, 2010 8:17:08 AM CST

Subject: Open Letter to Nixon on Healthcare

Dear Governor Nixon:

A federal healthcare takeover and mandate thrust upon us by President Obama, Senator Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on the brink of being passed into law despite the overwhelming public outcry opposing their efforts.  The legislation is convoluted and full of provisions that will raise the cost of living for most everyone in our state.  Up to this point you have chosen to remain silent on whether you support the efforts of your fellow Democrats in Congress.

Despite your silence Governors in other states sounded the alarm that this legislation will bankrupt their states.  Even fellow Democrat Governor Bredesen of our neighbor state Tennessee called this legislation the “mother of all unfunded mandates” and opposed the legislation.  Missouri’s share of the cost of an expanded Medicaid program would be as high as $450 million per year.  The Medicaid program already requires more than $100 million per year in new funding for natural caseload growth.

Some argue this federal takeover is an infringement on state rights and unconstitutional.  Regardless of this issue, unless you cut funding to education, Missouri simply does not have the money to afford President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi’s social experiment.  Governor, you know the legislation being forced through by your Democrat Party will bankrupt the state of Missouri and yet you say nothing.  The time has come for you to take a side on this issue.

Will you stand with me and speak out against the tax increases, healthcare takeover and mandates being proposed by the federal government?  Or will you abdicate your position to the powers of your fellow Democrats President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.  Missouri deserves an answer.

Sincerely,

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Hi Friends,

How about a little fun in the new year?  This is a letter I wrote in response to a letter Sen. Claire McCaskill wrote January 12 to  “..clear up some widespread misinformation” on the so called health care bill.

January 14, 2010

Dear Senator Claire CONNER McCaskill,

At first, I thought I would respond point by point to the half hearted letter I received from you to “clear up some wide spread misinformation” in regards to H.R. 3590 (Senate Bill) and your support of said bill.

But then I thought, why bother?  You didn’t write this letter; you didn’t care about the phone calls and the previous correspondence; you didn’t care about the private meeting you “granted” to nineteen of us concerned citizens of Missouri late last summer. I have to tell you, I was getting kind of down.  But, as I continued reading I came to the sentence that read…”there has been an unprecedented amount of transparency during the debate…..”

Wee doggies! That there is just durn funny!  I guess I’s jest a dum gal frum Mizzurah.  I don’t know nothing ‘bout no health care debate, Miz Claire!          HA!

And with that, I knew I had to write something, if just for the fun of it—you know—- kind of like the letter you “wrote” to me!  Frankly, Miss Claire, I don’t give a damn if you read my letter or not.  Someone will and I will feel better tomorrow.  So, with apologies to Margaret Mitchell, here goes.

First of all, I am not proud to share the name Conner with someone so unscrupulous, so ambitious, so manipulative and so unacquainted with the truth.  It seems you are also unacquainted with the citizens of Missouri.  It turns out Missourians are not as naïve and uninformed as you had hoped.  You are supporting this Health Care bill for one reason only.  Your party and your President are hell bent to pass SOMETHING and you, Claire McCaskill, are determined to be counted as a loyal soldier to the “cause”.    Your ambitions are such that you are willing to prostitute yourself to whatever degree it takes.  You know this health care bill is a worthless piece of legislation without merit or constitutional authority.   But, if Barry wants it, by golly, you are going to support it!  (After all, tomorrow IS another day and they DID consider me once for VP and really, Barry isn’t that happy with Biden—it could be ME, it could be ME in 2012!)

You have acknowledged the incredible number of phone calls and letters you have received elsewhere.  What was the gist of those calls and letters, Sen. McCaskill?   What WERE those pesky calls about?  Perhaps we should have saved our stamps and phone time because you were NOT listening to your constituents.   What you ARE doing is exhibiting a smooth political disconnect between what your constituents are telling you and how you are spinning that message to suit your ends.  You know we do NOT want this health care bill.   Furthermore, you take us for STUPID by telling us it will reduce the deficit!  Lord have MERCY!   Cook the books and pass the potatoes!

Missourians are stubbornly independent.  Didn’t you already know that?  We want to be LEFT ALONE.  Big government is NOT welcome, because every FREE thing the government offers comes with a big fat price tag.   In this bill, we lose our freedoms and our money—just like every government intrusion throughout our history, including, but not limited to (do you like the legal speak?):  Medicare and Social Security.

I have heard you sneeringly and repeatedly say, that Medicare and Social Security were called socialism when they were signed into law.   They were then, they are now.  As soon as these programs were put into effect, the monies collected from the citizens IMMEDIATELY went somewhere else and now after all these years of paying into those bankrupt programs, you disdainfully ask people to give them up?!  Hello, pay me back every cent with interest and penalties and I WILL.  The government is not a good steward of our money.  Never has been and never will be.  We do not want to send our hard earned money to Washington, so you inbred, irresponsible, insulated outlaws in D.C. can use it as bribery, move it around to your own ends and then tell us you are “taking care” of Missouri’s interests.

Hey, and how about that abortion funding tucked into this bill?  “Disease prevention, reproductive rights, medical procedures”; all those cute little euphemisms you people like to use to “fool” dummies like your rube constituents in Missouri. You are a nervy gal.  I will give you that; to actually refer the Catholic Bishops to the Gospels and fill THEM in on what Jesus taught and urging them to give up on this abortion thing is pretty darn cheeky!   Really Claire, I don’t think the Catholic Church is the right place for you.  You seem better suited to the Episcopalian’s who are fond of bending the “rules of faith” to suit themselves.   Give it up, Claire.  The true reason you cannot support the wording of the Stupak Amendment for the Health Care debacle, is that your Emily’s List funding will then become a thing of the past!  Gee, haven’t you already logged in $500,000 plus from that bunch towards your next run at……whatever?

We also know you will never support free market reforms that really work or tort reform because that would put off your biggest supporters, i.e. your fellow attorney’s to the tune of $1 million plus.  It’s about the power AND the money.  Please, please, PLEASE don’t insult us again by calling us “your bosses”.  We know who your real bosses are and it is not us Missourians.

Ahh, Claire, I could go on and on, but I have been really sick.  I wasn’t able to get a flu shot for H1N1, because, uh, the government sort of mismanaged THAT whole affair.  But you know that vaccine manufacturing process was so complicated with the eggs and stuff……..    Although I went to a tonsil taking, foot amputating health care provider the other day, I’m still a bit run down.   Therefore, I must close for now.    Just remember Miz Claire: you fooled us once by pretending to be a moderate and any number of things you are not.    Then this past summer, you said you didn’t care if you got re- elected.     That’s good, because Missourians have long memories……….…….no matter where your name turns up on a ballot.

Signed and Feeling Better Already,

Original Letter Sent by Senator Claire McCaskill

January 12, 2010

Dear,

Thank you for contacting me regarding health care reform.  I welcome the opportunity to update you about what is contained in the Senate health care bill and clear up some wide-spread misinformation.

According to independent analyses of the bill, including the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the recently-passed Senate health care reform legislation will reduce the deficit, protect Medicare, and stabilize healthcare costs for over 90% of Americans.  This reform is necessary because the soaring cost of medical care is crippling our economy, bankrupting our nation’s families, and becoming an unsustainable financial burden for American employers.  In the last eight years, health care premiums have grown four times faster than wages, and insurance companies have made millions of dollars in profits while routinely denying coverage.

On November 18^th, 2009, Senate Majority Leader Reid introduced The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  On December 24^th, after five weeks of debate, I voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, embodied in H.R. 3590, which passed by a vote of 60 to 39.  The Senate bill (H.R. 3590) and the previously passed House bill (H.R. 3962) must now go through a reconciliation process.

I want you to know that I have read The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act thoroughly and plan to read all of the provisions in a final, reconciled health reform bill before casting my vote on final passage.  If you would also like to read the full text of the legislation, you can find the complete text of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at http://democrats.senate.gov/.  While there has been an unprecedented amount of transparency during this debate, including hundreds of televised hours of committee work and debate, I disagree with the decision not to have a conference committee to resolve the differences between the House and Senate legislation. I believe that those negotiations should be open to the public.

I supported the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act because it would expand health care coverage to more than 94 percent of Americans, curb skyrocketing healthcare costs, and ensure patient choice of care, all while significantly reducing the government deficit.  The bill would also stop insurance company abuses that prevent people from getting the health care they need, such as denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions.  In addition to consumer protections, the bill establishes state-based health insurance exchanges where individuals and small businesses can compare and purchase insurance plans online at more competitive prices.

I have heard from some Missourians who have concerns regarding certain provisions in the Senate bill.  The Senate bill upholds current federal law which requires that no federal funds can be used to pay for an abortion except in the case of rape, incest, or danger to the life of the mother.  To ensure this, the measure requires insurance plans to keep federal funds completely separate from private premium dollars, and further requires that anyone purchasing abortion coverage do so with a separate private payment.

The bill also expressly exempts illegal immigrants from any of the health care programs and the ability to participate in the health insurance exchange.  Some non-citizens who lawfully reside in the United States and pay taxes on their earnings may be eligible to purchase health insurance in the exchange, provided they meet prescribed eligibility requirements.

In addition, there are provisions that will strengthen seniors’ Medicare benefits and significantly reduce fraud, abuse, and inefficiencies in the program, which could extend the life of the Medicare Trust Fund beyond 2022.  Let me emphasize that none of these changes would reduce the guaranteed benefits that seniors are entitled to under the Medicare program.

Finally, the bill requires that Members of Congress and their staffs buy their insurance on the same exchange that will be available to those who don’t get insurance from their employer.  In other words, Members of Congress will be required to be part of the new insurance exchange that we are creating.

I am opposed to any special deals in this bill for particular states.  This earmarking process is an ingrained culture in Washington, where every year members go into back rooms and negotiate special deals for their states.  This is a problem on both sides of the aisle and I find it hypocritical that some of the same Senators who are criticizing the earmarks in the health care bill were in line for special deals for their states in the annual spending bills passed just a few weeks ago.  I’m proud that I am one of the few Senators of either party that refuses to participate in this flawed earmarking process.  I’m hopeful that some of these special earmarks will be removed from the bill before our final vote.

This bill is not perfect, but in the end, I supported this legislation because it will reduce the federal deficit and contain health care costs.  With one out of every six dollars in our economy going toward health care in the United States, it is imperative that our government work to rein in the soaring cost of health care.  The bill will not only reduce the cost of insurance for families but also decrease the national deficit in the long term.  In fact, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the bill would reduce the federal deficit by $130 billion over the next decade, followed by another $650 billion cut in the deficit in its second decade.

Health care reform holds the promise of lowering government budget deficits, curbing unsustainable health care costs, and expanding access to health coverage.  As the health care debate continues, I will continue to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to find meaningful solutions to these difficult and complex problems.

Again, thank you for contacting me. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future if I can be of further assistance to you on this or any other issue.

Sincerely,

Claire McCaskill
United States Senator

P.S. If you would like more information about resources that can help Missourians, or what I am doing in the Senate on your behalf, please sign up for my email newsletter at www.mccaskill.senate.gov.

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SUCH GREAT WORDS OF WISDOM &PRAYER He has certainly hit the “world” on the head! Billy Graham ‘ s Prayer For Our Nation THIS MAN SURE HAS A GOOD VIEW OF WHAT ‘ S HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY! ‘Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘ Woe to those who call evil good, ‘ but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen! ‘Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, ‘ The Rest of the Story, ‘ and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord ‘ s help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called ‘ One nation under God.. ‘ Think about this: If you forward this prayer to everyone on your e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the world. (It ‘ s worth a try!) One Nation Under God. CORRECTION:  Author is Pastor Joe Wright. (Truth or Fiction)

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George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all die and go to hell.
While there, they spy a red phone and ask what the phone is for.
The devil tells them it is for calling back to Earth.

Putin asks to call Russia and talks for 5 minutes. When he was finished the devil informs him that the cost is a million dollars, so Putin writes him a check.

Next Queen Elizabeth calls England and talks for 30 minutes.
When she was finished the devil informs her that cost is 6 million dollars, so Queen Elizabeth writes him a check.

Finally George Bush gets his turn and talks for 4 hours.
When he was finished the devil informed him that there would be no charge for the call and to feel free to call the USA anytime.

When Putin hears this he goes ballistic and asks the devil why Bush got to call the USA free.

The devil replied, ¨Since Obama became president of the USA, the country has gone to hell, so naturally it’s a local call.

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The poem is not new, but we must never forget those men and women standing watch for us.

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn’t loud, and it wasn’t too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear..
Perhaps just a cough, I didn’t quite know, Then the
sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.

Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

“What are you doing?” I asked without fear,
“Come in this moment, it’s freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!”
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..

To the window that danced with a warm fire’s light
Then he sighed and he said “Its really all right,
I’m out here by choice. I’m here every night.”
“It’s my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.

No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I’m proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at ‘Pearl on a day in December,”
Then he sighed, “That’s a Christmas ‘Gram always remembers.”
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ‘Nam’,
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.

I’ve not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he’s sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue… an American flag.
I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.

I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall..”

“  So go back inside,” he said, “harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I’ll be all right.”
“But isn’t there something I can do, at the least,
“Give you money,” I asked, “or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you’ve done,
For being away from your wife and your son.”

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
“Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we’re gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.”

PLEASE, would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many
people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our
U.S service men and women for our being able to celebrate these
festivities. Let’s try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people
stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us.

LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN
30th Naval Construction Regiment
OIC, Logistics Cell One
Al Taqqadum, Iraq

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WW II Battleship sailor tells Obama to shape up or ship out

This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii

for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes

all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body,

he has never spoken out before about a government official, until now.

He dictated this letter  to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the president.

Dear President Obama,

My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year.  People meeting me for the first time don’t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.

I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos’n Mate.  Now I live in a “rest home” located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.

One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.

So here goes.

I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish

I can’t figure out what country you are the president of.

You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:

” We’re no longer a Christian nation” ” America is arrogant” – (Your wife even announced to the world,”America is mean- spirited. ” Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our

war dead buried all over the globe who  died for no other reason than to free a  whole lot of strangers from tyranny and  hopelessness.)

I’d say shame on the both of you, but I don’t think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you.  To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.

After 9/11 you said,” America hasn’t lived up to her ideals.”

Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British?  Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War?  I hope you didn’t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.

I don’t think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination.  You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.

Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.

Shape up and start acting like an American.  If you don’t, I’ll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue.  You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.

And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don’t want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts, who was putting up a fight?  You don’t mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don’t want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.

One more thing.  I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you’re the Commander-in-Chief now, son.  Do your job.  When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him.  But if you’re not in this fight to win, then get out.  The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you’re thinking of.

You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.

You’re not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy.  That’s not our greatest threat.  Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.

And I sure as hell don’t want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.

Sincerely,

Harold B. Estes

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