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iQ
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posted January 11, 2014 07:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for iQ     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
http://kokesh.blogspot.in/2007/10/45-republican-pedophiles.html

I found this information during research and was shocked to see dozens of Republicans convicted for child abuse. Now these are people who were caught and sentenced. How many hundreds or thousands exist who have not been caught? Could this be the Hidden Karma that afflicts the Republican Party in the elections to come? Could this Karmic Debt have played a part in their defeat to an inexperienced Obama two times in a row?
For this is the Party that is supposed to be true to the Bible and the best example for Christianity/Christian Conservative Values.

In certain Vedic Texts, it is mentioned that the karma of rape is worse than murder.
Imagine the karma of child abuse, and imagine the karma of shielding such demons or actually allowing such demons to make the Laws for a Nation. Money could have been contributed to these people and hundreds like them. Laws could be bent for them via blackmail. This is a Spiderweb of Negative Karma. I am not saying the Democrats are clean saints, far from it. But I just did not expect this particular kind of criminal record from the Republican Party. I thought their crimes were just about guns and wars.

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posted January 11, 2014 08:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Their Karma is that they are wushies and won't stand up for anything, imo

If there was any leader who had principles and wound stand for them, they would win in a landslide if there are photo IDS i.e still free elections

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Yeah, it must be republican karma. Couldn't be demoscat karma...now could it!

And...while the republican list contains many so called republican "activists", campaign workers and staff members, this demoscat list is a list of congressional members.

Yeah, it must be republican karma at work here!

Democrat Pedophiles and Sex Offenders Outnumber Repubs, many Dems re-elected.

The only difference between democrats and republicans when it comes to sex offenders is: Democrats have more, and re-elect them.

Just for starters:


REP. JOHN YOUNG (D-Tex.):
Colleen Gardner, a former staff secretary to Young, told the New York Times that Young increased her salary after she gave in to his sexual advances. In November, Young, who had run unopposed in the safe Democratic district five consecutive times, w More..as reelected with just 61 percent of the vote. The scandal wouldn't go away, and in 1978 Young was defeated in a Democratic primary runoff.

REP. ALLAN HOWE (D-Utah):
Howe was arrested in Salt Lake City on charges of soliciting two policewomen posing as prostitutes. Howe insisted he was set up and refused to resign. But the Democratic Party distanced itself from his candidacy and he was trounced by his Republican opponent in the November election.

REP. FRED RICHMOND (D-N.Y.):
Richmond was arrested in Washington for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old boy. Richmond apologized for his actions, conceding he "made bad judgments involving my private life." In spite of a Democratic primary opponent's attempts to cash in on the headlines, Richmond easily won renomination and reelection. But his career came to an end four years later when, after pleading guilty to possession of marijuana and tax evasion - and amid allegations that he had his staff procure cocaine for him -- he resigned his seat.

REP. JOHN HINSON (D-Miss.):
During his first reelection bid, Hinson stunned everyone by announcing that in 1976 he had been accused of committing an obscene act at a gay haunt in Virginia. Hinson, married and a strong conservative, added that in 1977 he had survived a fire in a gay D.C. movie theater. He was making the disclosure, he said, because he needed to clear his conscience. But he denied he was a homosexual and refused GOP demands that he resign. Hinson won reelection in a three-way race, with 39 percent of the vote. But three months later, he was arrested on charges of attempted oral sodomy in the restroom of a House office building. He resigned his seat on April 13, 1981.

REP. ROBERT BAUMAN (D-Md.):
Bauman, a leading "pro-family" conservative, pleaded innocent to a charge that he committed oral sodomy on a teenage boy in Washington. Married and the father of four, Bauman conceded that he had been an alcoholic but had been seeking treatment. The news came as a shock to voters of the rural, conservative district, and he lost to a Democrat in November.

REP. DAN CRANE (R-Ill.) and REP. GERRY STUDDS (D-Mass.):
The House ethics committee on July 14, 1983, announced that Crane and Studds had sexual relationships with teenage congressional pages -- Crane with a 17-year-old female in 1980, Studds with a 17-year-old male in 1973. Both admitted the charges that same day, and Studds acknowledged he was gay. The committee voted to reprimand the two, but a back-bench Georgia Republican named Newt Gingrich argued that they should be expelled. The full House voted on July 20 instead to censure the two, the first time that ever happened for sexual misconduct. Crane, married and the father of six, was tearful in his apology to the House, while Studds refused to apologize. Crane's conservative district voted him out in 1984, while the voters in Studds's more liberal district were more forgiving. Studds won reelection in 1984 with 56 percent of the vote, and continued to win until he retired in 1996.


SEN. BROCK ADAMS (D-Wash.):
Seattle newspapers reported that Kari Tupper, the daughter of Adams's longtime friends, filed a complaint against the Washington Democrat in July of 1987, charging sexual assault. She claimed she went to Adams's house in March 1987 to get him to end a pattern of harassment, but that he drugged her and assaulted her. Adams denied any sexual assault, saying they only talked about her employment opportunities. Adams continued raising campaign funds and declared for a second term in February of 1992. But two weeks later the Seattle Times reported that eight other women were accusing Adams of sexual molestation over the past 20 years, describing a history of drugging and subsequent rape. Later that day, while still proclaiming his innocence, Adams ended his campaign.

REP. JIM BATES (D-Calif.):
Roll Call quoted former Bates aides in October 1988 saying that the San Diego Democrat made sexual advances toward female staffers. Bates called it a GOP-inspired smear campaign, but also apologized for anything he did that might have seemed inappropriate. The story came too close to Election Day to damage Bates, who won easily. However, the following October the ethics committee sent Bates a "letter of reproval" directing him to make a formal apology to the women who filed the complaint. Although the district was not thought to be hospitable to the GOP, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a former Navy pilot who was once shot down over North Vietnam, ousted Bates in 1990 by fewer than 2,000 votes.

REP. GUS SAVAGE (D-Ill.):
Savage had fondled a Peace Corps volunteer while on an official visit to Zaire. Savage called the story a lie and blamed it on his political enemies and a racist media. (Savage is black.) In January 1990, the House ethics committee decided that the events did occur, but decided against any disciplinary action because Savage wrote a letter to the woman saying he "never intended to offend" her. Savage was reelected in 1990, but finally ousted in the 1992 primary by Mel Reynolds.

REP. BARNEY FRANK (D-Mass.):
In response to a story in the Washington Times, Frank confirmed that he hired Steve Gobie, a male prostitute, in 1985 to live with and work for him in his D.C. apartment. But Frank, who is gay, said he fired Gobie in 1987 when he learned he was using the apartment to run a prostitution service. The Boston Globe, among others, called on Frank to resign, but he refused. On July 19, 1990, the ethics committee recommended Frank be reprimanded because he "reflected discredit upon the House" by using his congressional office to fix 33 of Gobie's parking tickets. Attempts to expel or censure Frank failed; instead the House voted 408-18 to reprimand him. The fury in Washington was not shared in Frank's district, where he won reelection in 1990 with 66 percent of the vote, and has won by larger margins ever since.

SEN. DANIEL INOUYE (D-Hawaii):
In October 1992, Republican Senate nominee Rick Reed began running a campaign commercial that included a surreptitiously taped interview with Lenore Kwock, Inouye's hairdresser. Kwock said Inouye had sexually forced himself on her in 1975 and continued a pattern of sexual harassment, even as Kwock continued to cut his hair over the years. Inouye, seeking a sixth term, denied the charges. And Kwock said that by running the commercial, Reed had caused her more pain than Inouye had. Reed was forced to pull the ad, and while many voters took out their anger on the Republican, Inouye was held to 57 percent of the vote - the lowest total of his career. A week later, a female Democratic state legislator announced that she had heard from nine other women who claimed Inouye had sexually harassed them over the past decade. But the women didn't go public with their claims, the local press didn't pursue the story, and the Senate Ethics Committee decided to drop the investigation because the accusers wouldn't participate in an inquiry.


REP MEL REYNOLDS (D-Ill.):
Freshman Reynolds was indicted on Aug. 19, 1994, on charges of having sex with a 16-year-old campaign worker and then pressuring her to lie about it. Reynolds, who is black, denied the charges and said the investigation was racially motivated. The GOP belatedly put up a write-in candidate for November, but Reynolds dispatched him in the overwhelmingly Democratic district with little effort. Reynolds was convicted on Aug. 22, 1995 of 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography, was sentenced to five years in prison, and resigned his seat on October 1.


Let's not forget:
John Wayne Gacy, rapist, murderer, democrat fund raiser
Michael Skakel, Kennedy, murderer
William Kennedy Smith, Kennedy, rapist
Brian Doyle, dem activist child molester
Neil Goldschmidt, Oregon governor, confessed child molester
Rep. Mel Reynolds, D-IL child rapist pardoned by clinton
The Kennedy Family Murder, Rapes
The Clinton Rapes
David Lettermans pedophile remarks about a 13 year old girl


...and many more.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f4c_1254342072

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posted January 11, 2014 09:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Couldn't be demoscat karma...now could it!

Jwhop, please live forever

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posted January 11, 2014 09:17 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yeah, republican karma...for sure!

A partial list of democratic pedophiles

Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 5:42:24 PM by altsehastiin

Democratic State Senator Dan Sutton of Flandreau, South Dakota accused of fondling a male page. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/24/AR2007012401966.html

Carl Stanley McGee, 38, prominent gay activist, assistant secretary for policy and planning and top aid to democrat governor Deval Patrick of Massachuttsettes, accused of sexually assaulting a 15 year old boy in a steam room at a Florida resort. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1072114

Bernard Vincent Ward, former chief legislative aide to Senator Barbara Boxer, self proclaimed "Lion of the Left" on bay area radio, admitted transgressions too numerous to mention. http://prosites-prs.homestead.com/ward_new.pdf

Davidson County Democratic Party Chairman Rodney Mullins resigned Thursday morning amid child pornography allegations, according to press secretary Jean Carter Wilson of the Davidson County Democratic Party. http://nashvillefiles.com/blog/archives/000808.html

Former Democrat Boston city councilor David Scondras is facing charges for attempting to lure a teenage boy over the Internet. Investigators said Scondras had several sexually explicit email exchanges with someone he thought was a 15-year-old boy. http://wbztv.com/topstories/Former.Boston.City.2.582093.html

Charles Rust-Tierney, 51, is a former president of the Virginia chapter of the ACLU from 2002 to 2005. On February 23, 2007, Rust-Tierney was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. He pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography on June 1, 2007.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rust-Tierney

Andrew Douglas Reed, 53, a North Carolina Democrat activist plead guilty to a page-long list of counts of 2nd-degree sexual exploitation of a minor. Court records in the Asheville, N.C., case said he admitted that he would "record, develop and duplicate material containing a visual representation of a minor engaging in sexual activity." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53070

Scott W. Ballo, a long-time spokesman for various Democratic political campaigns and a former communications director for the Oregon Economic and Community Development Department, was arraigned today in Marion County Circuit Court on two charges of encouraging child sex abuse (both misdemeanors) and one charge of official misconduct (also a misdemeanor), according to the court clerk's office. The charges relate to pornography allegedly found on Ballo's work computer when he was employed by the economic and community development department, according to a person familiar with the case. http://www.wweek.com/wwire/?p=9905

Mel Reynolds, House of Representatives (D-Il) convicted on 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography resulting from a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Reynolds

Gary Studds Studds was a central figure in the 1983 Congressional page sex scandal, when he and Representative Dan Crane were censured by the House of Representatives for separate sexual relationships with minors — in Studds' case, a 1973 sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male congressional page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Studds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980959/posts

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posted January 11, 2014 09:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You know your stuff, Jwhop. That is why so and so person( who will remain unnamed) had to run away from you

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posted January 11, 2014 09:57 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I do not mind if this topic is shifted to Universal Codes. ]

The Moderator only transfers the threads of the people she does not like. Look at all the recent transfers.

PS I don't get hurt that easily

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posted January 11, 2014 12:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Catalina     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You have over 30 threads out of 50 on this page, mostly unanswered except for your bumps.

Juni did you the favor of moving two to forums where they might get some interest. You should thank her and leave your petty vengeance in the dustbin where it belongs.

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posted January 11, 2014 12:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
IQ, I don`t know if it is karma but they are getting hit hard lately.
Both parties are dirty but the Republican laundry is sure being aired most .
I`d say politics, in general, is being exposed as the dirty business we know it to be.

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posted January 11, 2014 12:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Catalina:
You have over 30 threads out of 50 on this page, mostly unanswered except for your bumps.

Juni did you the favor of moving two to forums where they might get some interest. You should thank her and leave your petty vengeance in the dustbin where it belongs.


Thank you, Juni

PS Got to go do some bumping. Thanks for reminding me, Cata!

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posted January 11, 2014 12:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by juniperb:
IQ, I don`t know if it is karma but they are getting hit hard lately.
Both parties are dirty but the Republican laundry is sure being aired most .
I`d say politics, in general, is being exposed as the dirty business we know it to be.


Good point, Juni!

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posted January 11, 2014 01:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Cata
I will link the thread for you.

I was trying to bring some happiness to a Forum that gets bery contentious

Anyway, a woman got a fender bender and she looked up and a dog was behind the wheel!

Take a look
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum20/HTML/001634.html

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posted January 11, 2014 02:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Catalina     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The thread hasn't disappeared. Nor the link

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posted January 11, 2014 02:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Those two threads were appropriately moved by Juni.

The Republican choices the last two elections were dismal at best. The next election will have a great selection. Plus, it's time for the pendulum to swing back to the right. The majority of the citizenry of the US are tired of the failed Liberal agenda.

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posted January 11, 2014 03:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Catalina:
The thread hasn't disappeared. Nor the link

Can you imagine getting in a fender bender and looking behind you and seeing a dog driving

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posted January 11, 2014 03:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Anyway, Ladies. It has been great talking to you but back to IQ's topic

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I think, Randall, the general public is fed up with all agendae. They just want some balance and a modicum of honesty, the battle for total control by either "side" is beyond tiresome. I don't see any interesting competent candidates in either party or much trust in either, either!

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quote:
Originally posted by Catalina:
I think, Randall, the general public is fed up with all agendae. They just want some balance and a modicum of honesty, the battle for total control by either "side" is beyond tiresome. I don't see any interesting competent candidates in either party or much trust in either, either!

I agree, both parties have failed the American public and it`s all being hung on the line to see.

It appears the worm has turned and eyes opened to a bigger agenda.

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posted January 11, 2014 04:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ami Anne     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Catalina:
I think, Randall, the general public is fed up with all agendae. They just want some balance and a modicum of honesty, the battle for total control by either "side" is beyond tiresome. I don't see any interesting competent candidates in either party or much trust in either, either!


We agree, Cata!

Just an interesting aside. Did you like Ross Perot? I adored him.

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quote:
Originally posted by juniperb:
I agree, both parties have failed the American public and it`s all being hung on the line to see.

It appears the worm has turned and eyes opened to a bigger agenda.


Great point, Juni!

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posted January 11, 2014 10:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Not at all. Scandals like that don't usually bite them in the butt, it sure hasn't hurt Ted Kennedy much (other than possibly getting him to rule out running for POTUS in the 70s), I think the worst that happened to him was a bumper sticker (which I actually like despite how much I hate how politics are mostly determined by visceral bumper sticker slogans than actual thought) that says, "Ted Kennedy's car killed more people than my gun." 'Course had most people done the same then their life probably would've been ruined (or certainly hit a speed bump), but Ted just kept on cruising, screw karma.

I believe the reason Obama won was due to the failing economy and a lot of anger toward bailouts (McCain wasn't someone people could get excited over, either, but had the economy not been imploding then I doubt Obama would've won).

Obama disillusioned many independent voters pretty fast (plus the youth vote that turned out in record numbers in 2008 before deciding Obama was just as bad as the rest) and giving him the peace prize backfired (assuming it was truly meant to honor him) drawing attention to policies and broken promises of his that cost him a lot of support and Republicans made a come back as a result of the disillusioned dropping out and the independents less than pleased in 2010. The memory hole doesn't always wipe the slate clean come next election no matter how much liberals wish it did.

But then the Republicans who won promising jobs instead took to blaming Democrats for the loss of jobs (not to mention destroying the jobs of so many teachers and then trying to blame Obama for cutting women out of the government which only brainwashed conservatives believed, the Independents were smarter than that, and of course the brainwashed liberals just stood behind Obama "right or wrong") while getting absurd in going after gays and abortion rights (and saying the most outrageous things about rape which even shocked people in South Africa) and also cutting budgets which destroyed jobs. And can't forget "affirming God" and something commemorating baseball, that had Independents majorly ticked off for wasting time posturing when they were supposed to be creating jobs as they promised. The Independents remembered that (the memory hole doesn't always save Republicans either, no matter how often conservatives wish it did) and sent a strong message to the Republican Party in 2012, some Republicans have even said as much though most are fighting hard to not learn the lesson.

The things you've brought up, IQ, are irrelevant to the process.

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But not irrelevant to the energetic component. I agree it isn't peculiar too Republicans, in fact lately it seems everyone and their Boy Scout leader is a ad sleazebag and/or pedophile...but somehow people find it nastier (maybe because it is) when people who preach godliness and the sanctity of life are caught being pervs.

The lip service to the holier than thou Christian ctusaders makes the Republicans seem sleazier than those who don't bring Jesus into every topic . Ted Kennedy was ruined, as a Presidential possibility, and short of death I reckon that was satisfying enough for the Kennedy enemies. And many thought his car was tampered with, like Johnjohn's plane, and that driving a woman home whether drunk or not showed no "salacious" intent. Don't forget lots of people drove drink in those days...

But on top of the Pope scolding the supply siders , and Boehner's admission that a significant portion of Congress are in the pockets of "certain groups", the Republicans are looking more corrupt than the Dems to your average Joe, who really doesn't delve very deep our seeing very far to either side of center.

So I think it's a reasonable hypothesis...but maybe incomplete. Karma doesn't hit everyone@ the same time even if they are caught in the same brothel/pedo ring.

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posted January 12, 2014 08:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I forgot to mention, the extremism of 2010 and what followed also alienated many moderate Republicans, some who refused to vote or voted third party, and I've even heard of a few who voted for Obama as a lesser evil as well as to send a message to the Republican Party right along with the Independents. Generally speaking they want their party to drop the radical Christian Right influence and get back to practical matters that have nothing to do with theology, like fiscal conservationism, and also saw why many of the things the party liked to focus on (especially after 2010) really weren't the business of the government in the first place no matter what people might think privately of them. Unfortunately an article about the Christian Right (NOT to be confused with Christianity as a whole) threatening to leave the GOP after the 2012 election isn't up anymore, I'd love to show it because of all the bitter Republicans in the comments saying they hoped the Party could get back on track then as well as sentiments like, "Good riddance to bad rubbish, maybe we can start winning again." I knew some real life Republicans with the same sentiments who despaired of what their party turned into in 2010.

But here's a scathing quote from the conservative Cato Institute:

"Conservatism today has degenerated into a species of especially unattractive populism, pandering to the pro-torture-and-wiretapping, anti-gay-and-Mexican prejudices of a dwindling, increasingly sectarian, increasingly regional 'base.' Some who sympathize with libertarian and free-market causes are cheered by the anti-government rhetoric and Tea Party theatrics now increasingly in evidence on the right. Perhaps, they think, the old Goldwater-Reagan conservatism is making a comeback. Sorry, but I seriously doubt it. On the contrary, I worry that good free-market ideas are going to get tainted by association with an increasingly brutish identity politics for angry white guys and the women who love them."

-- Brink Lindsey, "The Closing of the Conservative Mind" (Cato@Liberty blog post, May 19, 2009)

So combine that with the disillusioned Independents and you can see why they haven't done anywhere as well as they otherwise would've.

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