I’ll TAke My Bat and Go Home

17 Feb

I am so tired of watching people run this country that are not at all interested in communicating or negotiating.  People make statements that should not be even though let alone made.  I am a President Obama supporter, but when he said we are not a Christian Nation.  My thought was how can you swear to support and defend the Constitution when you don’t even talk like you have read it?  We are a Christian Nation tolerating other methods of worshiping God.  Mr. President, if you don’t believe that then you should resign.

As I have said before I am an Independent.  It is not because I don’t believe in paying your way or supporting the poor.  It is because I have read the Democratic philosophy and the Republican philosophy and have noticed that either party follows their own philosophy.  The Constitution is trampled by both parties and their philosophies (not the Constitution) is upheld by the Supreme Court.

I dealt with people just like the Republican and the Democrats when I was a kid.  These are the kids when we play football or baseball would say, “If you’re not going to play the way I want to play, I’m going to take my ball or bat and go home.”  The other kids would usually win by simply saying to the troublemaker, “we all have to play by the same rules

Our rule is the Constitution.  Even if you disagree with the Constitution the government electorates and employees have agreed to support it under oath.  Therefore, you don’t have an option to rule only your way.  Our Constitution says that you have to govern together.  It also says majority rule unless you want to change the rules. Then and only then does it take more.  If you can’t govern that way, give up your position. If you can’t communication your position to the representatives that disagree with you and negotiate a compromise for the benefit of all, leave your post and let us elect someone that can. 

Some said when the United States was created and the US Constitution was approved, “Now here is your nation if your can hold it.”  The had studied history up to that time and knew that monarchy, tyranny or a pure democracy would not work.  They realized that they could not dictate religion.  They did the best they could under the tutelage of God by using prayer.

I would suggest that all the representatives read the prophets of the Old Testament and see how easily God took away everything from the unbelievers and gave it back just as easily.  Read why he did this.  Mostly it was because of corruption in the church and in the government, but you read it for yourselves.

What is too big to fail?

16 Feb

Elizabeth Warren asked Wall Street regulators today, “Can you identify the last time you took the Wall Street banks to trial?” A lame answer at one time was, “We do not have to bring people to trial.” These regulators think that there really are companies that are too big to be regulated which translates to too big to fail. They seem to believe that these businesses can do as they please no matter what it does to the people. These people are using other people’s money. They have to be regulated. However, let us look at these companies that seem to be too big to be regulated. Let us just look at the top fifty world banks in 2012; http://www.gfmag.com/tools/best-banks/11986-worlds-50-biggest-banks-2012.html#axzz2LB1rHLje

There are eight world banks larger than the largest bank in the United States and only a total of five United States banks that are in the top 50 world banks. Any of those banks in the top fifty can be sanctioned and controlled by world banking authorities. Our banks are nowhere near too big to fail. From the news reporting the media seemed to think that if these banks or members thereof were prosecuted that the bank would take revenge against the United States. That is not what they said, but it was clear from the reporting that they believed it. The media obviously believe in the power of the masses. The customers of these institutions and the voters of the United States [if they take responsibility by electing people to congress like Elizabeth Warren] have much more power than any institution.

OUR COUNTRY CAN NEVER BE SO BIG OR ALLOW ANY TYPE OF CORPORATION INCLUDING BANKS TO GET SO B IG THAT THEY CAN WORNGLY HURT ANY INDIVIDUAL WITH NO CONSEQUENCE.

Should we be remembering Jeramiah’s Prayer

12 Feb

In the 10th Chapter of Jeremiah, Jeremiah offers this prayer after God had told him that the people of Israel were not living their lives as he had instructed before they entered the promise land

Jeremiah’s Prayer

Lord, I know that people’s lives are not their own;
it is not for them to direct their steps Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing. 25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you on the peoples who do not call on your name For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him completely and destroyed his homeland.

At some point we must consider that we have been given a chance for a wholesome life with riches enough to have time to consider what God has given us to work with in order to bring the world to the Lord as he commanded.  We can start by considering what our God given talents are and how we might use for the good of mankind.  Then we could ask God how he wants us to use those talents for his glory.

In order to grow this country’s respect and influence throughout the world we should begin to first move our own lives closer to what God intended us to do.  A big step would be to go back to the six days of labor and one or rest.  Our government supported this even in the Constitution.  We had the “blue law”.  Government business and commercial business was shut down except of necessary things like hospitals, emergency service, police, and emergency repair entities.   I remember in my lifetime that we couldn’t sign a contract on Sunday.  It just would not hold up in a court of law.

Today in the United States we have companies working that never shut down.  We do have the hospitals and other institutions that have to work for the safety of others.  We have our military, police and fire fighters, and many other situations where we would at least have to be virulent.  We have some that worship on Sunday and some that worship on Saturday and some that worship on Friday. Can we pick a day of rest and get back to our original beliefs

The Lord God said to the prophets that we do not consider the poor or anyone that assistance from the wealthy.  In those times the religious community which would have been the Israelites or Jewish church that took that responsibility.  In the beginning they did that service for the Lord, but had let that responsibility fall away from their practices.  In the United States it was the Christian Church’s responsibility or the community that should be doing this, but the communities gave that responsibility to the State and Federal Government.  Now the State and Federal Government doesn’t want it any more.

Can the tithes and offerings be better distributed from the State and Local Government and should it be.  Holding a coin in his hand, Jesus said give unto Cesar what belongs to Cesar and give to God what is God’s.  I don’t believe he was talking only about Money, but I could be wrong.

 

Is there a way to fix this?

Do our laws go against the Bill of Rights?

3 Feb

The first ten amendments of the Constitution of the United States are known as the Bill of Rights.  My reason for bringing this subject to light is that I wonder just how many laws and court decisions contradict these Amendments. 

The first one many have heard of because it is referred to in the press quite often.  However, mostly the press doesn’t really state the Amendments in its entirety.  Let’s just look at these for a few minutes.

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The first section concerns the establishment of religion.  This means that Congress can’t even address religion in any way.  If Congress can’t address religion in any way then the Supreme Court cannot rule on any religious matter.  That is simple and straight forward.

The second section concerns freedom of speech. 

I think we have done pretty well on that one and the other item concerning assembly has been fairly well adhered to, although there are some problems there in the government’s reluctance to protect those active in such assemblies

Amendment II

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

If you read this completely you will discover that the first of the amendment states that a well regulated militia is mentioned.  As regular citizens living in this county we should have the right to bare arms for recreation, hunting and even protection, but it is not part of the Constitution.  The National Guard is the only state sponsored well regulated militia that would qualify as identified in the Constitution.  However, they are not allowed to take their weapons home outside the bases.

The states fund the national government, the national government pays for the Nation Guard and the governors control the National Guard unless they are needed for National defense.  At that point they come under the direction of a four start general.

This way it is hard to determine if the Guard would be state controlled if the state had a disagreement with the national government.  If the national government has first control then a separate militia should need to be formed and regulated solely by the states.

Confusing isn’t it; was it planned that way or did that just happen.  If that is the case then our Second Amendment rights have to be interpreted that we need guns.  Now what size and shape is a different matter.

Amendment III

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

This one so far has been fairly well kept except during the Civil War.  At that time the army did just as it wanted to.  They used southern property as they deemed fit.  As a result of the Civil War the Southern States were determined not to have been separated from the Union.  This shows that the national government will do as it wishes and decide whether or not it was right or wrong later.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The only thing I can say there is that this would be kept if the accused has enough money.  Otherwise the government especially the justice system does as it wishes both locally and nationally.

Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

I have, in my lifetime seen this amendment trampled by both state and federal government.  Again money plays a big hand it this.  This goes for people not getting JUSTLY compensated to people being defrauded by the government so other not connected with the property can prosper.  Again the justice you receive is directly related to how much money you have to buy your justice.

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

On the fringe of this amendment it seems we are doing well, but in practice the rights of each accused is to prove themselves innocent when accused.  The innocent until proven guilty is a myth.  Access to lawyers for jailed individuals is impaired almost completely in some counties to fairly reasonable in other.

Once the individual is tagged guilty the populous treats him guilty even after restitution has been made.  Needs work; criminals should be brought to justice, but within the realm of the Constitution.

Amendment VII

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

 

Here one thing that probably should be done is to amend the $20 to a value based idea.  The other thing that should be done is to force the trial to be settled at a faster pace once the damage has been assessed.  In common law practice the attorneys drag out the trails to benefit themselves and shield the damaging party from paying.  This is a constant in our society.  People that have a grievance usually cannot hold out because they do not have enough money.  Always it takes money in this country to buy justice.

Amendment VIII

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

This is being used in some cases to extreme allowing criminal types to circumvent the law, again, if they have money.

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

This was supposed to cover rights not mentioned in the above texts.  The problem here is it sometimes used to adjust the tone of the first eight amendments.  This was never the purpose.

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

This one has gone one way and then the other.  Before the Civil War the states gave the government certain powers and during the Civil War and shortly after the federal government took powers it never had before and kept them.  Again the federal and state and local governments will take power then explain why they took it.  This is why the constant redistricting of the voting public should be done independently.  Otherwise one vote will never mean anything.

Clarification Concerning My Blogging about Religion and Politics

1 Feb

That does not mean I don’t believe non-Christian don’t believe in God.  I do believe that non-Christians that Muslims and Jews believe in the same God that I believe created the heavens and the earth.  We Christian simply believe that Jesus was God in human form paving a way to heaven for those that believe can enter Heaven with all sins forgiven.  I love all Jews and Muslims that try to do well.  I should love all no matter what they have done, but I am human with human feelings just like Muslims and Jews.

I am afraid that too many of my fellow Christians, Muslims, and Jews have become more political than religious.  The reason God refers to us as His children is, because we act like children.  We all say one thing then another to suit our short term beliefs.  We either believe what we believe or not.  For instance I have no idea what a Judeo-Christian is.  We all have beliefs based on the teachings up to Abraham.  It is the same God.

Therefore when I speak about Christians believing in the Ten Commandments that statement is applicable to all of us.  We all justify murder, lie to each other, and make statements that God would never say to us or anyone else.  His path is simple.

 

I believe the reason there is a United States of America is because God has always given us a choice of whether to follow Him or not.  However, I believe that the Catholic Church was formed wrong by placing itself between the Christian and God.  I believe that the Jewish religion declined to accept that fact of Jesus as the son of God and rejected him.  I believe that the Arabic community was so much in disarray when Mohammed saw his vision that God wanted Mohammed to unify his people into a common order of faith.  I don’t believe He told Mohammed to start another religion but to recognize one God because at that time there were many worshiped by the people of the region.

When a talk about the Christian religion in the United States, I believe that God ordained the United States to become a nation under God.  However, in the United States we follow the same idea that God puts forth through the bible.  We must have the choice option to worship Him or our worship means nothing to Him.  We must choose to worship Him.  This is the reason our founders did not mandate only one way to worship whatever god someone my conger up. 

The founders, however, did not intend to let the religions of the non-Christian to influence the way we run our country.  Our Constitution, Amendments, and laws were intended to guide the way we lived.  I will be the first to say this has not been working quite as well as they had hoped.  Only God knew what we would have to face.  They did not have a clue.  He just gave us a basis to deal with whatever came.

God said I knew you before you were born.  I think our lives are simply to vet us to believe in God and Heaven, so our souls can get to heaven.  I don’t know where our souls were before they entered our bodies, but God put them there.  He didn’t put them there so we can hate each other.

I will talk about politics and religion because I can’t separate the two.  The government has to protect religious activity because that is clearly stated in the Constitution.  That isn’t just Christians.  It is also Jews, Muslims, Hindu, and other religions that are not trying to destroy the worship of God.  If there is a Satin worshiper, I believe he has not rights at all, not because they worship the devil.  It is because it is trying to destroy our Constitution.  That is the reason I said the Supreme Court, by taking prayer out of school and all public places, have interpreted the Constitution with a decision to destroy the Constitution.  Just doesn’t make common sense.

Are we a God fearing nation?

31 Jan

I don’t think we are.  We give a lot of lip service that we are, but it really doesn’t matter what we say we believe if we don’t pass laws that support what we say.

Our forefathers placed the Constitution on the wall and wrote the Ten Commandments on the walls of the Supreme Court of the land.  Let’s just see what we believe.   

You shall have no other gods before me.

Well what is a god?  Maybe a god is something that you believe in enough to worship it above most or all things. 

Christians believe in God the omnipotent. 

We believe that he created the universe.  God can do anything with a thought.

The question is; do we put God before money, the devil, possessions, status, or many other things that seem to be important.

You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.

Carved images are everywhere symbolizing what is as important or more important that the God we profess to believe in.

Do we keep these commandments?

 

  You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

This is common amount people who profess to be Christian.  If you say God’s name without a purpose, that is saying God’s name in vain.  Jesus said say simple yes or no.

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Our Constitution refers to this commandment.  It is not counted as a work day.

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

Dishonoring parents is evident to many.  We have laws that say we must spare the rod.  Children to not have to be beaten, but it is our responsibility as Christian Parents that we must discipline our Children.

You shall not murder.

This one is talked about a lot, but not taken seriously.  Our Supreme Court says a baby is not a human being until they are in the second trimester.  I think it is about four days after the fertilization when the organizer shows up.

You shall not commit adultery.

Many of us are guilty of that.  Marriage is not important enough to us to respect the holy union.  This again is a parental management problem that should be solved.  Children are shown every day in life and in the media that marriage is just not important enough to take seriously.  In addition many states are passing laws that allow homosexuals to unit in marriage which cheapens the holy union on marriage even more.  I don’t have a problem with homosexuals uniting in some sort of legal contract to make themselves a legal union in the site of the law, but to call it marriage is blasphemy and unconstitutional.

You shall not steal.

This is simple, but in this country we seem to put degrees of stealing.  Cheating on your taxes, not taking overpayment back to the clerk if you receive too much change back, or anytime you cause a lose to someone that causes them financial difficulty to benefit you, you have just stolen something.  In turn we are teaching our children that it is okay to steal if you can get away with it.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Have we ever heard someone lie?  Of course we have.  The politicians do it all the time.  They even get caught and still insist they didn’t lie.  By example that lead the way for others to lie.

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

We have all be envious of someone.  Everyone is guilty of this, but the Christian should clear his mind and be content with what God gives him.

Since we have all broken one or all of these commandments from time to time, it seems that we should be reminded of them often.  That was the idea behind displaying them in the first place, or holding church in the Capital Building which was done for many years. 

In order to be good citizens of the United States we must become good Christians or abide by the spirit of these Ten Commandments.  Again I say we have to revisit this idea of impeding worship as stated in the Constitution.

Nine men and women cannot decide when a fetus becomes a child.  If it must be decided let the Congress pass a law that states clearly when that happens based on House and Senate hears from experts in that field.  Supreme Court Justices cannot do that because they go with the best argument and not the facts.

If we want to keep this nation we have to begin acting like we believe we have been put here for a reason, or God will simply take it away from us.

A challenge for Congress to Show Respect to the Nation

30 Jan

Many of the challenges the citizens of the United States go through are due to an inability to communicate in a meaningful way with those people who should be the closest to them.  We hear many ministers speak about the natural tendencies of babies to be bad when they come into this world, but I believe instead they natural tendencies of babies is to form methods that will get them the most attention to their survival needs.  If they feel the survival needs are met without the need for excessive actions on their part they become more mellow and passive.  If they feel they have to fight for the attention, food and comfort they tend to be more aggressive in their actions. 

If you do not believe what I am writing is true just look at most any baby and begin talking to them or just look at them in a kind way and they will most of the time begin making cooing sounds or smiling and laughing.  The difference is the environment of the baby.  Normally a good environment produces a pleasant child and a harsh environment produces something in between good and evil.  However the families of those children would say not good or evil development, but easy and hard development.

If a child is raised in a loving environment the respect for the parents is strengthen and their instincts of survival are not needed as much because the parent are showing love and respect for the child.  If the love and respect is taken away their survival instincts become the main teaching source for their education. 

The wealthy and the great middle class of the 40s and 50s had more of a ‘hands on’ role in the raising of the children.  Later on the less fortunate families had to have two incomes to survive.  Many times money was such an issue simple hired adult guidance was not affordable.  This is when the latchkey child was born. 

The latchkey child was then raised then by the influences they encountered.  Either the grownup friend they will develop, the older child they will look to for guidance, or the influences around them become the teacher.  Since there is no prayer in school, the respect of a value based teacher is also not present.  The child does understand the parent should work to survive, but they miss the parental discipline, guidance, love and respect they need to grow their experience without making all the mistakes their parents made.  This absence of respect can very well lead a child to the hard survival instincts which in turn teach the child that they do not need to show others such as God, family, country, or friends respect.

We hear talk all day long every day from the radio, TV, friends, family and people just passing through our lives.  This is the normal, but how many people that are doing the talking know that half of a conversation is listening?  The child hears everything they see and read as fact.  It is easier for anyone to take the word of someone as fact than to research the subject for itself.  If the hearing is the only direct contact the child has to a subject, the tendency of the child is to accept the conclusions of others and let the information stop there.

The child at this point in its live has a relatively blank mind, few experiences, and little researched knowledge to draw from when making life decisions.  In the fifties and before, most schools began the day with a bible reading and prayer.  We children of the time didn’t understand the significance of this action and I am not sure that the teachers in general understood the significance until it was lost.

Children that entered school after that then faced a condition of working parent, a school without prayer, and basically turned to the only authority they thought they could trust.  That would be the government from local to national or drug dealers who help them get what they want.  The government demonstrates that it has no respect for its members, constituents, classes of people or people that didn’t vote or participate in any way.  The corporate body in the USA followed the governments lead and showed no respect for the government that licensed them to operate under the protection of the USA.  The drug community doesn’t have any respect for its customers other than the money the customers have to purchase their poison.

Now the children look to their parents who have been raised in this disrespectful society, the government that supports a disrespectful society, and the companies that employ their parents to get a sense of values that should be followed.

We are taught everyday by the politicians that are supposed to be leading this country out of financial chaos that if we stick to our core beliefs that eventually we will win.  This could be true if we had core beliefs that we demonstrated every day by doing good and proper things.  However this is not what happens.  The politicians do say that the citizens are important, but by their actions they clearly teach us that the average citizen of the United States has no value to them unless that citizen is producing money for the corporations that sponsored the politician.  This clearly sends the signal that money is more important than the “Ten Commandments”.  If we want to change the core belief of others we have to work on that from the bottom up.  From the top legislative positions in our country we can only create the conditions to bring about change.

The change we need is to recognize that the Supreme Court screwed up again and declared that it infringed on Christian’s rights to have prayers and Christian values taught in public schools.  It is like they never read the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.  It states the following,
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Remember this: “http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/BenjaminFranklin” href=”http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/BenjaminFranklin”>Benjamin Franklin‘s

“Poor Richard’s Almanac”

For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost;
For want of a horse, the rider was lost;
For want of a rider, the message was lost;
For want of the message, the battle was lost;
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail

In this case the nail is our founder’s faith in God.  They didn’t want to establish that our people must worship God.  They wanted us to have a choice just as God gives us a choice of whether to worship God or not.

In the decision of the Supreme Court, the court exactly ruled against the constitution and prohibited the free exercise of worship. This is not just any worship, but the worship referred to in the Declaration of Independence which states “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator”.  It didn’t say some men.  It said all men’s Creator.  A very large and important war was fought over that principle.  The Declaration of Independence is and always will be part of the Constitution of the United States sealed by the blood of the men and women who died giving the Congress of the United States the privilege of writing such a document.

Much has been said about whether or not the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were or were not Christians.  That was settled when they all signed the documents.  Whether or not the States wanted to follow the Christian values was settled when they ratified the Constitution of the United States.  All those men were not Christian, I am sure, but they did recognize that this set of values and support from a high power was necessary to grow the nation.

The Nine Justices CAN be over turned by the people.  The congress represents the people.

NOW IT IS YOUR TURN CONGRESS.  DO YOUR BEST WORK AND WE MIGHT JUST SAVE THE NATION FOR OUR GRANDCHILDREN.
IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS, NOTHING ELSE YOU WILL EVER DO MATTERS.

The stuggle to become important

4 Jan

Congress has been hijacked.  The way the system of power in Congress works is that a group of people have an idea of how to govern the form a party to support that idea then have people that want to serve run as Representatives or Senators try to bring their ideas to the floor of the House or Senate. 

If a party has becomes separated by two or more views which keep one part of the party from supporting the planks of the main party, the party splits and becomes another party.  All this activity gives the new party the growing pains it needs to become a strong political party.

The tea party (notice not capitalized) suffered not pain of growth.  It came into power without a support of the vote of people in a third party.  By simply attaching a point of view to the Republican Party it gained power without either the support of a separate party vote.  It didn’t enter the political seen on its own.  The Republican Party simply said this was a good idea, and so let us support them or we will lose our political advantage in Congress.

What has been lacking is the character which is fed by the struggle to get an idea across.  Our system of governing makes it hard to get a new idea embedded in our system of government.  There is a reason for that.  It is to keep us from changing course impulsively. 

Think about it.

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