Saturday, July 30, 2011

GOP Romper Room 2003 - GOP Romper Room 2011



This piece is 8 years old but still
RINGS TRUE TODAY. July 2011

HOW SAD IS THAT!



Republican Romper Room .......................July 17, 2003

By Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange.com





Remember, way back in December 2000, after the U.S. Supreme Court finally stole, er, ruled that George W. Bush would become
the next President of the United States?



One of the primary themes to emerge – from the ornate hotel lobbies of Washington, from the mouths of AM talk radio hosts, from the new regime's sneering acolytes in cowboy
hats and fur-trimmed coats – was that at last,
finally, grown-ups would be running Washington, D.C. No more semen-stained dresses. No more fags in uniform and half-assed missile attacks. No more her. No more children running the world.




Wrong!


At least with Clinton you knew that the most powerful man in the world had reached adolescence, if not much beyond it. But all current evidence suggests that the world is now being run by 7-year-olds.



Oh, to be sure, petulant little children are announcing themselves all around the world these days, from surly little bullies like Ahmad Chalabi (who, after spending years on various playgrounds stealing other kids' lunch money,have come home to be handed a shiny new bicycle called Iraq), to the angry little brat in North Korea trying to get his parent's attention ("I've got uranium now!" "Now I've got a missile!" "Now I'm arming it! Watch me! I really am!" "I said I really am! I mean it this time!!"). Kim Jong II needs time out and a nap; Chalabi needs reform school.



But the most alarming spectacle is in Washington itself, where Peter Pan went and recruited his whole grade school class.






The result is calamity almost beyond words to describe: an appetite for cool comic-book foreign policy, emphasis on blowing stuff up, combined with a Never-Never Land insistence on how the world works and economics learned from watching older siblings play Monopoly.








Little kids, you'll recall, can be incredibly cruel. And so it is in D.C. these days, a dramatic step down from the last depressing
administration, where the Clinton crew (including, no doubt, Janet Reno) had at least discovered girls. This collection hasn't even matured enough yet to learn right from wrong, or that actions have consequences, or even to experience the essential step in human development of understanding that the world doesn't start and stop with them, that other people think and act and feel just like they do. Empathy. Instead, this bunch stays at home, watches TV, and plays army all day. It's a nice day; they should at least go outside and play. Clinton needed to be grounded. Junior needs to havehis toys taken away.



You want proof? What was Junior's sole major "accomplishment" before daddy's friends got him elected governor of Texas? He used daddy's allowance money and bought a baseball team. These are rich children. Too much attention is being paid to "rich," and not enough to "children."




But more and more, the emperor's outgrown clothes are showing, especially in recent days as the little tyke has finally been confronted in public with truths that contradict his carefully constructed play world. First, he really did go outside and play, to Africa, just to get away from it. But reality dogged him there, too, so mostly he's been pouting and insisting that the tooth fairy really does exist, there is a Santa Claus, Saddam really did buy uranium from Niger. ("And all that other stuff I made up last week is true, too!")



Frankly, the pile of toys Junior's no longer interested in is starting to clutter the living room floor, and Junior also keeps tripping over his now-discarded Disney videos, too. (He's not much for reading.) It's not like he's ever learned, or been made, to clean up his own messes. And he still believes all the stories in those old videos, too – Iraq's mystery weapons in trailers, made out of propane tanks, and the cool spy-movie ties to Al-Qaeda and stuff. He still can't tell fact from fiction.


This page will be translated from French to English


But confronted with it, he's reacting the way many small, spoiled kids do – by blaming his friends, starting with the one he doesn't know very well, the guy who already lived in his new neighborhood when he got here,
little Georgie Tenet. ("Hey, I only made him fall on a play sword! It didn't really hurt.") Every time Junior does this, he squeezes his eyes real tight and hopes it'll all just go away so he can go play army s' more. (He's also supposed to be doing homework – he hates math! – but video games are more fun.)



The other little kids in Junior's clubhouse are acting about the same way – except for little Rummy, who likes to torture the neighbor's cats when nobody's looking. Rummy's gonna be trouble when he gets older.



For years, the adults around Junior and his little pals have been making excuses for their behavior. All kids are above average. It was a misunderstanding. He didn't mean to break it. He's really not that dumb. He just learns differently. Isn't he cute? The parents are rich, so teachers are circumspect, even when the extra lessons they give don't stick or he makes Family Circus-style mispronouncements.



But the behavior coming out of Washington these days has become too destructive, too aberrant to ignore, as it sometimes does when spoiled kids are never reigned in from their excesses. These kids are very spoiled, and their excesses are scaring all the adults in the neighborhood, if not the world. Frankly, it would be a huge improvement if this batch got old enough to discover girls.



But that's a long way away, and meantime they're really, really wed to their fantasies and their cruelty and their denials. And their moms and dads don't seem to care. Many, many people could die before Junior and his friends get old enough that they start to learn right from wrong.



At this point, the best hope is that they move to another neighborhood.






Biography:
Geov Parrish is a long-time peace and social justice activist and punk/folk musician living for the last decade in Seattle, having previously alarmed local authorities in Washington D.C., Houston, Japan, and while gaining a masters degree in Political Science and East Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He first became politically active through domestic violence work and as a public Selective Service non-registrant when that system was reintroduced in 1980. While convalescing in the mid-90`s from a series of health problems, including two organ transplants and a stroke, he founded the local nonprofit community newspaper Eat the State!. Geov continues to help edit ETS!, and has also gone on to become a weekly political columnist and journalist at Seattle Weekly, and a regular contributor to In These Times, Workingforchange.com, AlterNet, ZNet, assorted other web sites, and, though syndication, at weekly and daily newspapers around the country. He also appears each Saturday morning on the Mind Over Matters program on KEXP Seattle, and is a frequent public and classroom speaker and co-facilitator for direct action nonviolence, war tax resistance, and other activism trainings. He lives in central Seattle with his three kidneys, two pancreases, and an attitude.


If you kill one person, you get death.


If you kill a group of people,

due to a white collar crime,

you get a pathetic little fine!

If you kill millions,

you get a national holiday!"

---ALINA MORELLI



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you

and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you

will not know them and what you do not know,

you will fear. What one fears, one destroys."

---Chief Dan George

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Joe Walsh HYPOCRITE UPDATE!!!

When I saw this pathetic little man rant on TV... I wonder what skeletons are hiding in his closet. With such arrogance and a BIG BIG mouth... surely he had a few. Today's headline proved me right. He's a big man when he spouts that the President is a liar but he has no character when it comes to supporting his own children... LOOK WHO'S LYING NOW! Typical Tea Party PHONY!

Amplify’d from www.thethinkingblue.com

HYPOCRITE
UPDATE

Rep. Joe Walsh, the tea party-backed Republican who
squeaked into office last year by vowing to bring fiscal
responsibility to Washington and who has been one of President
Barack Obama's most outspoken critics during the standoff over
the debt ceiling, is being sued for more than $100,000 in unpaid
child support, a newspaper reported.
Laura Walsh
contends
that Walsh loaned his own campaign $35,000 and took international
vacations but said he couldn't afford child support payments
because he was between jobs or out of work.
Walsh
failed to make any child support payments to Laura
because he 'had no money' is surprising,
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Is President Obama Genuflecting To The GOPTP

IT'S A GAME OF CHICKEN WHERE THE GOPTP HAS NO INTENTION OF TURNING THE WHEEL!



A HEAD-ON COLLISION AND WE-THE-PEOPLE GET TO WATCH THE ONSLAUGHT RIGHT THERE FROM THE MIDDLE WAITING AND WONDERING WHICH JALOPY WILL HIT US FIRST.



On Hardball July 25th 2011 I heard one of the closest conversations to the truth to date. As I watched Chris Matthews, David Corn and Howard Fineman discuss the Debt Debacle, I thought THIS IS SO GOOD I HAVE TO TRY AND SPREAD IT AROUND.



Get ready for some honest to goodness debating on the USA’s Debt Crisis and the truth about what the GOPTP is really up to in the video coming up NEXT.



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Is President Obama
Genuflecting To The GOPTP

QUOTE
By David Corn : "He drew a line in the sand but it was
inside the Republican tent."

Oh
the games the GOPTP play, even when these games will hurt our
entire country.

What
the heck is going on? It’s getting so you don’t know
who is winning/losing; wait a minute, that’s not correct I
do know Who’s losing… IT’S US FOLKS! WE-THE-PEOPLE
ARE LOSING AND LOSING BIG!

 I
get so dizzy on this up and down ride President Obama is taking
us on. One day I think… “YES, HE’S PLAYING THE
GOPTP FOR FOOLS… HE KNOWS WHAT HE’S DOING.”

 Then
maybe only a few days pass and I find myself thinking “THE
REPUBLICANS ARE PLAYING OBAMA FOR A FOOL. WHY DOESN’T HE
REALIZE THAT? WHY IS HE GIVING THEM EVERYTHING THEY ARE ASKING
FOR EVEN THOUGH IT IS HURTING AMERICA AND ITS PEOPLE?”

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Monday, July 25, 2011

The Norway Massacre - A Search For Logic Within An Illogical Event

This good vs. evil response never sat right with me. It simply is too easy. These sad events perpetrated by human minds are very complex because 'THE WHY' may exist within the cells of the brain. Human brains are so complicated I am not sure if we will ever fully understand the complete workings of it.



I'm glad David Eagleman doesn't feel that way, he just had his book published called: 'Incognito' (click to listen to interview on NPR): What's Hiding In The Unconscious Mind. He tries to explain (objectively) how the brain operates. It’s an interesting read that perhaps will help shed some light on 'THE WHY' of the Norway massacre.



The brain of a psychopath is without a doubt, damaged; it may be because of an injury or it may be caused by heredity. If it’s caused by heredity we need to take a whole different look at the physiological mechanisms of the conscience.



To think of the conscience as physical could be quite frightening because it could tell us that people like a 'HITLER' are born with psychopathic tendencies innate within their brain and it will be just a matter of time and circumstance when these hereditary impairments will one day play out in a negative manner. But like religious explanation that try to explain such horrific tragedies, the physical conscience malfunction reasoning is also inadequate, to date. Thus, reading such sadness caused by one of our own species, gives you an overwhelming feeling of helplessness knowing that we mortal human beings will not be able to prevent an occurrence like this from happening again. Not at least, until we can learn how to identify brain malfunctions that hide within perfectly normal looking brain cells.



Such a sad but also detestable human condition we will have to live with for the time being. thinkingblue



PS: Trying to make sense out of an extremely senseless act is impossible but it does help a little to try and analyze it. Now, if we could only stop the tears. Please read the articles below for some insite:



THE PSYCHOPATH - The Mask of Sanity http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath.htm

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The Norway Massacre - A Search
For Logic Within An Illogical Event
The Face Of A Psychopath

The
face of a psychopath looks benign but beyond the forehead lurks a
predatory fiend that may attack, causing unthinkable sadness and
mayhem.

Many
times we are confronted with the fact that there are people who
live amongst us who are wired differently than ourselves. This
realization happens whenever we hear news of a catastrophic
occurrence in which many people (who were at the right place at
the wrong time) lose their lives, causing our seemingly sane
minds to go haywire. HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN? WHAT POSSESSED THAT
PERSON TO DO SUCH A HORRIBLE THING?

There
are those who will look to their religion for answers... It was
the Devil who did it. Lucifer road roughshod over victims on that
day.

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Why I ♥ Rachel Maddow & why the GOP/TP hate her so.

Rachel Maddow Critical Thinker

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Why I
Rachel Maddow

and why the GOP/TP hate her so.

When I watch The Rachel Maddow Show, I cannot believe how much (methodical and accurate) information I receive in just one short hour. Her news team must work diligently day and night to come up (in depth) with so many informative news items.

Today's technology gives us instant access to what is happening around the globe but unfortunately not all take part in absorbing all the rigorous and ultraprecise world accounts floating about, they would rather watch cartoon shows like Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. This is quite depressing because knowledge is what makes for a better world and life, why anyone would turn their back on it,
BTHOM.

Please watch an example of a
CRITICAL THINKER extraordinaire. (below)








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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Tea Party Darling Joe Walsh's 'YOUR MAMA WEARS COMBAT BOOTS!' moment

Yup, we saw it in action on the Chris Matthews Hardball show.

Tea Party Darling Rep. Joe Walsh's 'YOUR MAMA WEARS COMBAT BOOTS!' moment... WARNING: This idiot may be dangerous to your sanity! Watch this at your own discretion.

Amplify’d from www.thethinkingblue.com

Just in case you missed it
yesterday, there was a ridiculous appearance by a Tea Party newly
elected moron on Chris Matthews Show... doing what Tea Party
members do best ACTING LIKE A FOOL!

Watch one of the ridiculous GOPTP's in action (IF
YOU CAN STOMACH THIS MORON)...



Joe Walsh Tea Party Darling and Grover Norquist sycophant acts
like the immature nincompoop that he is! thinkingblue

Watch this pathetic little
man disrespect President Obama...

This jerk claims he doesn't have the BULLY PULPIT... HUH?

That's because he is THE BULLY! (in a very cowardice aspect)
"President Obama,
quit lying.
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Sunday, July 17, 2011

How Fox News Is HACKING The Rupert Murdoch Scandal

How Fox News Is HACKING The Rupert Murdoch Scandal



Again, Rachel Maddow gives an ubiquitous reaction to how Fox News is handling the Rupert Murdoch 'skeleton in the cupboard' scandal. Yes, you guessed it, by first hiding from it and then calling it something other than what it is, (their misleading and deceiving ‘business as usual’) by a misnomer ‘A CASE OF HACKING’...


All That Is Good Give me strength...


A big thanks to Rachel for reacting in front of an audience of millions the same way anyone of us (WHO THINK) would react when viewing this joke of journalism on FOX (you call that) NEWS? TV... Please watch the video below, guaranteed to CRACK YOU UP.

thethinkingblue



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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

NOW THAT'S SOME SMELLY SHAMELESS SH*T!

GOP Claims They've Sacrificed Enough On Debt
Talks! NOW THAT'S SOME SMELLY SHAMELESS SHIT!



I just woke up... didn't have my first cup of coffee. Sat down at my computer to kill time waiting for the last drip. Then through blurred morning vision I spotted this headline ... "GOP leaders say they’ve sacrificed enough already on debt negotiations"
(Almost screaming out loud) WHAT KIND OF SHAMELESS SHIT IS THIS? IS THERE NO END TO THE CRAP THAT THE GOP SPEWS? AND WITHOUT EMBARRASSMENT! WHERE'S MY COFFEE!!! thinkingblue :(


GOP leaders say they’ve sacrificed enough already on debt negotiations

CLICK FOR ARTICLEAmid ongoing negotiations with President Obama over raising the debt ceiling,

House Republican leaders responded to Obama's call Monday for compromise by saying that their openness to raising the debt ceiling at all is sacrifice enough.

"A vote to increase the debt limit in this country is an existential question for a fiscal conservative," House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday. "These votes aren't easy. ...What I don't think that the White House understands is how difficult it is for fiscal conservatives to say they're going to vote for a debt ceiling increase."

Congressional leaders are heading into a second straight day of negotiations with the president today over raising the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, which Republicans have refused to support without "major" cuts to federal spending. The White House has suggested a compromise that includes restructuring the nation's entitlement programs--currently the main drivers of debt--in exchange for tax increases, but Republicans continue to refuse any deal that raises rates.

"Adding tax increases to the equation doesn't balance
anything," House Speaker John Boehner said before today's
meeting with Obama, arguing that as a lead Republican negotiator
on the issue, he's already "going to take my fair
share" of hurt by merely talking to the president about
raising the debt limit.

Cantor went so far as to say that the issue of taxes was an
"irreconcilable difference" between his caucus and the
White House, and also rejected Obama's offer to hold off on
raising taxes for two years.

"We're not going to burden small business people or those
looking to invest, saying 'hey, not this year, but maybe next
year your tax rates are going to go up,' " Cantor said.
"That doesn't make sense."

Boehner announced Saturday that he would reject a wide-ranging
deal offered by the White House, settling instead for a smaller
settlement to get Congress to increase the debt ceiling, which
the Treasury Department says must be done by August 2 or the
federal government could risk default.

The president says he hopes to have a deal completed by July 22.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/gop-leaders-ve-sacrifice-enough-already-debt-negotiations-190415729.html

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Monday, July 11, 2011

Why Do Logically Challenged People Always Vote Republican?

Why Do Logically Challenged
People Always Vote Republican?

I just Googled this question and it seems
many people out there in the land of the Internet have also
pondered this phenomenon. We, who have lived as middle class
citizens all our lives (you know we, the lucky ones, who have
managed, by the skin of our teeth, to hold on to the status the
mega-rich often refer to as, The Bourgeois.) want to know why
people in the same situation as us, turn their backs on logic and
vote for the rich people's party. Why don't these poor chumps
possess the ability TO THINK?

One answer may be as simple as
‘indoctrination’. They were raised in a bedrock of
brainwashing; by familes who cannot think outside the confines of
a narrow cardboard box, to the establishments they attend like
church, church schools and, oh maybe, their local KKK.org. These
people are told (by folks they consider the AUTHORITY) you must
obey our rules if you wish to be included as one of us; And being
submissive is (what they’ve been taught) the best way to
make it through a life of destitution.

If you've seen my last post Thom Hartmann's Tea
Party's Guerrilla Warfare Tactics Video, Deleted From Youtube
there's a video I put up on youtube describing how the republican rich are throwing money at The Tea Party so that its peonage can go around, using
seminars, to teach dirty tricks that will keep the GOP in power.
In essence, it's the
Horatio Alger's Story that there's dignity in being poor: “BE PROUD WHILE YOU SUFFER” and make sure that the rich keep on
getting richer because someday you might be rich too. Don't
worry, in the meantime, we will reward you with a low paying
subservient job that is guaranteed to keep you slipping downward
into the Billionaire’s Utopian Dream of HOMELESSNESS for all.

It is a truly frustrating state of
affairs because there is no way to gain access to these closed
minds. When confronted with words from those who can critically
THINK, they run away to their habitats of safety and turn on Rush
Limbaugh or Fox News to drown out what they believe to be
insanity and listen to the soothing words of intolerance, hatred
and convoluted logic.

Below Bill Maher on his July 8th 2011
show ‘Real Time’ reflects on this same perplexing
question… Very funny but with sad overtones.

thinkingblue

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is
true that most stupid people are conservative."
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John Stuart Mill

Maher: Republican Base No Different Than Casey Anthony Jury?

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Friday, July 08, 2011

Thom Hartmann's Tea Party's Guerrilla Warfare Tactics Video, Deleted From Youtube

Thom Hartmann's Tea Party's Guerrilla Warfare Tactics Video, Deleted From Youtube


On June 22, 2011


A video featuring Thom Hartmann telling about the Tea Party's Guerrilla Warfare Tactics via youtube came my way. It was so alarming that I tried to put it out there for all to see.


Today July 7th, I went back to my blogs to find the video so that I could send it to a friend and this (next picture) is what came up upon the screen when I clicked to view the video...


Apparently, someone or something had ordered this video deleted and youtube like the good little sheepal that they've become obeyed this order.


I have spent hours trying to find another source that may have also uploaded this video but did not take it down,


TO NO AVAIL.


So I did the next best thing and found the original video (the one Hartmann's taped show had referred to) and uploaded it to youtube. I hope this one will not be ordered by the Koch Brother's Tea Party activists, to also be taken down and my account deleted... Keeping my fingers crossed just in case.


Our country has been hijacked by the Corporate Propaganda machine.


We must all attain an awareness of this and do whatever we can, using non-violence to inform others that they are drinking Corporate KOOL-AID.


Help keep America's Democracy alive by telling The Corporatehood...


NO MORE LIES! thinkingblue


Click to see youtube deleted video




SEE 'ASTRO TURF WARS' ENTIRE VIDEO HERE


Tea Party HEARTS Breitbart's Lies

'The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth' ~ H.L. Mencken (9/12/1880 to 1/29/1956) an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. (From w-dervish.blogspot.com)

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Tuesday, July 05, 2011

PLEASE BEWARE OF THIS EMAIL. IT IS NOT FROM THE IRS!


PLEASE BEWARE OF THIS EMAIL. IT IS NOT FROM THE IRS!

I know this is a bit dated but I have never seen this phishing email before and perhaps there are one or two of you that have not been confronted with this either.

I received this email on July 4th from a bogus source (SUPPOSEDLY THE IRS). I have included an attached print-key/picture which I took of the IRS NOTIFICATION email screen… Of course I knew it was phony right away. Notice the misspelled words and the obvious mistakes in grammar… The internet thieves and identification pirates are having a ball with the American low information people. I looked it up on snopes and you can read all about it at this link: http://www.snopes.com/…

The IRS (as scary as they are in real life) does not send people ANYTHING via email… If it is something really important, they will usually use Certified Mail to contact a tax payer. Under no circumstance should you open the attached IRS document that comes with the email. thinkingblue


Friday, July 01, 2011

AN UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTION

I had originally blogged this on July 1, 2011; at that time I felt confident that Chuck Schumer had given Keith Olbermann an accurate fact when he said "I don't believe they are... the cuts to Medicare benefits are not on the table...". This morning I ran across this article: .....'Obama puts Medicare, Social Security cuts on the table' Sorry Mr. Schumer it looks like President Olbama is still trying to cut a deal with the Republicans. WHEN WILL HE LEARN THAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL NOT AGREE TO ANY BIPARTISANSHIP DEAL??? We who THINK, know what the R's are up to... Medicare is collateral damage to these madmen/women as long as their asses are protected... It's TO HELL with the rest of us. thinkingblue

---

It has been an ongoing amazement to me that no one speaks the obvious about this selfish {GOP} political party’s devious plans of ME-FIRST/YOU-NEVER.

THANK YOU dear Chuck Schumer for being one of the bravest and honest persons of power to at long last, let the LION out of the nickel candy bag so that all may finally realize what it is we, WHO THINK are up against. thinkingblue

Also click this link http://www.thethinkingblue.com/uncomfortablequestion.html

To view the Thom Hartman steaming video that was unclippable here.

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AN UNCOMFORTABLE
QUESTION
At
last someone has spoken out against the obvious Republican plan to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to defeat President Obama in 2012 whether it take down our country or not. They like to play the 50’s game of chicken to see which jalopy will turn away from the pending ‘head-on’ first. They know that reasonable people will probably always turn away from a collision that can be averted. Thus they repeat this game over and over again because they know reasonable people would predictably claim IT’S JUST NOT WORTH THE HORRENDOUS CONSEQUENCE so let them have their own way!
Please watch the video below at time marker 2:44 to hear Thom Hartmann's explanation of THE RON PAUL LIBERTARIAN BELIEF SYSTEM. An idea
that has never ever worked ANYWHERE!
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