QUOTE OF THE DAY: 
GLENN BECK AT CPAC 2010:
‘Hello, my name is the Republican Party, and I’ve got a problem. I’m addicted to spending and big government…I’m addicted to spending and I just don’t want to spend today.’
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"If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” ~ John F. Kennedy, 1960
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Dick Cheney when he was vice president of the United States had his own assassination squad. Apparently he never used it. Uh ha. And then there was the time when ole Dickey admitted he signed off on the torturing of people. Dickey kind of likes the idea of killing and torturing people. Hell, his best buddy in the whole entire world, Donald Rumsfeld, was torturing whistleblowers over in Iraq too and I don’t ever remember ole Dickey saying anything about this which tells me he was fine with what Rummy was doing.
Anyway…
Enter Liz Cheney (the devil spawn of ole Dickey) and Jihad Jane. Two peas in a pod these two are! I can’t tell them apart, can you?
 
Let’s see here….Liz Cheney is protecting her war criminal father and she thinks the Justice Department’s lawyers should DROP DEAD (code for, “My Daddy will kill you!”) and sees the U.S. Constitution like George Bush did as just a goddamn piece of paper. And then there’s Jihad Jane who also doesn’t care about what the U.S. Constitution says and wants to take up arms and kill those who don’t see it like al-Qaeda (Dick Cheney’s own death squad I believe!) does! See? I think they’re the same person or Liz Cheney has Jihad Jane on the payroll! What do you think?
What the hell! If you’ve been living under a rock for 9 years and believe that these audios are real and Osama bin Laden is still alive, then count yourself in as being the most stupidest person in the country! Seriously, these tapes are a Cheney/CIA fabrication and nothing else. Just like when George Bush was president and needed help in his ratings, “Osama bin Laden” would release a scary bin Laden tape to lay out what it is Americans should be scared about (which was what the republicans wanted you to be scared about!). Now? Cheney and the CIA continue to release these fake audios, but this time, they want you to believe “Osama” is NOT a climate change denier, because as we know al-Qaeda has always cared about the world environment, hugged trees, drank wine in their caves, you know, just like the oil company executives! Spit. Say wha?
Anyway…
How many Americans will believe this audio is real? Maybe Cheney and the CIA are just testing the waters to see if there’s a good portion of the United States dumb enough to be mentally manipulated again? Hey, could be!
Maybe this is Cheney’s way of scaring the people of New York City from having his buddies put on trial there? Could be. England has raised their terror alert to severe because they’re getting word that there could be an attack…..maybe Cheney and the CIA have decided to blow up a plane from England to NYC using one of their finest suicide bombers? Wouldn’t surprise me. Or……maybe they’re acting like Wall Street insiders by pushing a rumor behind the scenes to make people react negatively? Hey, could be! Anyone know?
Something is brewing behind the scenes for sure. Poor Dick Cheney….he has a bunch of briefcase nukes and wants to use them on Americans so badly! He’ll find a way. Trust me.
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But it weren’t the one bush or cheeneey (H/T Tweety) had in mind ………………..
About sums it all up doesn’t it?
Bin Laden had a plan and the dumb as dirt neo-cons, republiscum and now the bed wetting tea baggers are followin’ it too a Tee,
Too bad he seems much smarter then they are, but his CIA involvement during the Reagan debacle helped bin Laden immensely. (PS we weren’t the only ones)
Bin Laden wanted to draw the US into the same style of war he waged with the CIA help against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a long drawn out battle with mounting casulies till the super power copuldn’t take it any more. Buish did just that and more, the Idiot doubled down in Iraq!!!!!!!
Ole bin Laden couldn’t believe his incredible luck.
Bush the Idiot was too stupid to finish bin forgotten off before beginning a bigger fiasco in Iraq,
Now we have two un-winnable, unfinished wars, to help bin Laden and al qaeda recruit more terrorists while bush the Idiot blew over a trillion of borrowed Chinese dollars in his numb-skull idiotic adventures instead of doing the right thing, using the power and reach of the US to get bin Laden and the rest of the terrorist who actually were behind 9-11,
We all aren’t any safer as the Christmas bomber (re-run of Richard Reid) shows, but bush lost thousands of good troops, had tens of thousands more wounded, wasted over a trillion dollars … PS the grands kids will thanks us for that bill. Now the military is worn out, over extended, with little to show for it, but a grave near Tikrit Iraq, and a huge bill from the borrowed dollars and fresh graves of the fallen.
Heck of a job, you idiots.
Now the bed wetters and rest of the reich wing wants to pile on President Obama for Bush’s incompetency in doing his actual job,
You know, getting the real people behind the attacks, Yes, … actually getting them (dead or alive like Bush claimed he was gonna do) … remember?
He didn’t as soon as March 13, 2002 …
NOT wasting soldiers lives, bodies or the countries wealth on a pipe dream of the US controlled middle east,(the PNAC wet dream) settling personal scores or obtaining the Iraqi oil fields for US control.
Yep he accomplished his mission, … bin Laden that is, …. and bush/cheeneey couldn’t have been a better supporter for him to that mission if they had actually conspired with Bin laden. (which I don’t believe they did, just were too arrogant, stubborn, and foolish to listen to wiser council, and then have take a more prudent and productive course of action.)
8 1/2 years later and the 9-11 planners are still laughing at the incredible luck they had with the dumbest Supreme Court decision ever ….. who would have though 5 justices of the Supreme Court would have screwed us all over that way, … but they did, … and ole’ bin Laden thanks them for it.
He couldn’t have accomplished as much as he did with out their help either.
This stands on it’s own;
Dick Cheney’s lies about President Obama
by, Eugene Robinson
It’s pathetic to break a New Year’s resolution before we even get to New Year’s Day, but here I go. I had promised myself that I would do a better job of ignoring Dick Cheney’s corrosive and nonsensical outbursts — that I would treat them, more or less, like the pearls of wisdom one hears from homeless people sitting in bus shelters.
But he is a former vice president, which gives him a big stage for his histrionic Rottweiler-in-Winter act. It is never a good idea to let widely disseminated lies and distortions go unchallenged. And the shrill screed that Cheney unloosed Wednesday is so full of outright mendacity that, well, my resolution will have to wait.
In a statement to Politico, Cheney seemed to be trying to provide talking points for opponents of the Obama administration who — incredibly — would exploit the Christmas Day terrorist attack for political gain. Cheney’s broadside opens with a big lie, which he then repeats throughout. It is as if he believes that saying something over and over again, in a loud enough voice, magically makes it so.
“As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war,” Cheney begins.
Flat-out untrue.
The fact is that Obama has said many times that we are at war against terrorists. He said it as a candidate. He said it in his inaugural address: “Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.” He has said it since.
As Cheney well knows, unless he has lost even the most tenuous grip on reality, Obama’s commitment to warfare as an instrument in the fight against terrorism has won the president nothing but grief from the liberal wing of his party, with more certainly to come. Hasn’t anyone told Cheney that Obama is sharply boosting troop levels in Afghanistan in an attempt to avoid losing a war that the Bush administration started but then practically abandoned?
Cheney knows this. But he goes on to use the big lie — that Obama is “trying to pretend we are not at war” — to bludgeon the administration on a host of specific issues. Here is the one that jumps out at me: The president, Cheney claims, “seems to think that if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda-trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war.”
Interesting that Cheney should bring that up, because it now seems clear that the man accused of trying to blow up Northwest Flight 253, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, was given training — and probably the bomb itself, which involved plastic explosives sewn into his underwear — by al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen. It happens that at least two men who were released from Guantanamo appear to have gone on to play major roles as al-Qaeda lieutenants in Yemen. Who let these dangerous people out of our custody? They were set free by the administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
The former vice president expresses his anger that the Obama administration is bringing Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to trial in New York. Cheney is also angry that Obama does not use the phrase “war on terror” all the time, the way the Bush administration used to. But Obama just specifies that we’re at war against a network of terrorists, on the sensible theory that it’s impossible to wage war against a tactic.
Toward the end of his two-paragraph statement, Cheney goes completely off the rails and starts fulminating about how Obama is seeking “social transformation — the restructuring of American society.” Somehow, this is supposed to be related to the president’s alleged disavowal of war — which, of course, isn’t real anyway. It makes you wonder whether Cheney is just feeding the fantasies of the paranoid right or has actually joined the tea-party fringe.
I can find reasons to criticize the administration’s response to the Christmas Day attack. Obama and his team were slow off the mark. Their initial statements were weak. Obama shouldn’t have waited three days to speak publicly, and when he did he should have shown some emotion.
But using a terrorist attack to seek political gain? I have a New Year’s resolution to suggest for Cheney: Ahead of your quest for personal vindication, put country first.
Now when the wingnuts and conservo-tards get their bedwetting panties in a twist, and screech their talking points they have this post to rebut or fail in the talking point idiocy they play with.
But that won’t stop them any more the the facts ever have.
What a bunch of bullshit. We’re to believe still that al-Qaida or anyone who wants to set themselves on fire on an airplane or who wants to blow up their shoe over the Atlantic Ocean that America is NOT powerful enough to protect itself? Are the Talking Heads frigging serious? Yes they are! They believe George Bush when George implied that America is too weak against these people and that we must give up on everything our nation stands for all because of them! Even Ed Morrissey thinks 90 Yemenis returned to Yemen is going to be the end of the earth as we know it!
Idiots.
America has the most powerful military on the planet, we have enough nukes to blow up our planet 10 times over, and we have the most potent chemical and biological weapons known to man, but yet, we’re weak against what…a 1,000 people (at best….after 8 years of George Bush we still to this day don’t know how large or small this republican death squad actually is!)?
Oh please. I’m not afraid. Are you?
We also have a nation full of Americans who are sick of the terrorists and are taking action against them as they did on the Northwest flight on Christmas Day!
Closing GITMO and putting these Bush prisoners in a high security max prison in Illinois or any place else inside our country will make no difference on the strength of our country. If a guy wants to TRY to blow up a plane, he’s still going to whether or not the GITMO prisoners are in America or in Cuba. We are still the same powerful country we’ve always been (even though George Bush weakened it to the point it almost DID drown in a bathtub!), so please stop listening to George Bush’s rhetoric! Okay Talking Heads? You’re acting like a bunch of phucking idiots this morning (on MSNBC no less!).
Matthew P. Hoh’s letter in full;
Dear Ambassador Powell,
It is with great regret and disappointment I submit my resignation from my appointment as a Political Officer in the Foreign Service and my post as the Senior Civilian Representative for the U.S. Government in Zabul Province. I have served six of the previous ten years in service to our country overseas, to include deployment as a U.S. Marine officer and Department of Defense civilian in the Euphrates and Tigris River Valleys of Iraq in 2004-2005 and 2006-2007. I did not enter into this position lightly or with any undue expectations nor did I believe my assignment would be without sacrifice hardship or difficulty. However, in the course of my five months of service in Afghanistan, in both Regional Commands East and South, I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States’ presence in Afghanistan. I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end. To put simply: I fail to see the value or the worth in continued U.S. casualties or expenditures or resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year old civil war.
This fall will mark the eighth year of U.S. combat, governance and development operations within Afghanistan. Next fall, the United States’ occupation will equal in length the Soviet Union’s own physical involvement in Afghanistan. Like the Soviets, we continue to secure and bolster a failing state, while encouraging an ideology and system of government unknown and unwanted by its people.
If the history or Afghanistan is one great stage play, the United States is no more than a supporting actor, among several previously, in a tragedy that not only pits tribes, valleys, clans, villages and families against one another, but, from at least the end of King Zahir Shah’s reign, has violently and savagely pitted the urban, secular, educated and modem of Afghanistan against the rural, religious, illiterate and traditional. It is this latter group that composes and supports the Pashtun insurgency. The Pashtun insurgency, which is composed of multiple, seemingly infinite, local groups, is fed by what is perceived by the Pashtun people as a continued and sustained assault, going back centuries, on Pashtun land, culture, traditions and religion by internal and external enemies. The U.S. and NATO presence and operations in Pashtun valleys and villages, as well as Afghan army and police units that are led and composed of non-Pashtun soldiers and police, provide an occupation force against which the insurgency is justified. In both RC East and South, I have observed that the bulk of the insurgency fights not for the white banner of the Taliban, but rather against the presence of foreign soldiers and taxes imposed by an unrepresentative government in Kabul.
The United States military presence in Afghanistan greatly contributes to the legitimacy and strategic message of the Pashtun insurgency. In a like manner our backing of the Afghan government in its current form continues to distance the government from the people. The Afghan government’s failings, particularly when weighed against the sacrifice of American lives and dollars, appear legion and metastatic:
• Glaring corruption and unabashed graft;
• A President whose confidants and chief advisers comprise drug lords and war crimes villains, who mock our own rule of law and counternarcotics efforts;
• A system of provincial and district leaders constituted of local power brokers, opportunists and strongmen allied to the United States solely for, and limited by, the value of our USAID and CERP contracts and whose own political and economic interests stand nothing to gain from any positive or genuine attempts at reconciliation; and
• The recent election process dominated by fraud and discredited by low voter turnout, which has created an enormous victory for our enemy who now claims a popular boycott and will call into question worldwide our government’s military, economic and diplomatic support for an invalid and illegitimate Afghan government.
Our support for this kind of government, coupled with a misunderstanding of the insurgency’s true nature, reminds me horribly of our involvement with South Vietnam; an unpopular and corrupt government we backed at the expense of our Nation’s own internal peace, against an insurgency whose nationalism we arrogantly and ignorantly mistook as a rival to our own Cold War ideology.
I find specious the reasons we ask for bloodshed and sacrifice from our young men and women in Afghanistan. If honest, our stated strategy of securing Afghanistan to prevent al-Qaeda resurgence or regrouping would require us to additionally invade and occupy western Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, etc. Our presence in Afghanistan has only increased destabilization and insurgency in Pakistan where we rightly fear a toppled or weakened Pakistani government may lose control of nuclear weapons. However, again, to follow the logic of our stated goals we should garrison Pakistan, not Afghanistan. More so, the September 11th attacks, as well as the Madrid and London bombings, were primarily planned and organized in Western Europe; a point that highlights the threat is not one tied to traditional geographic or political boundaries. Finally, if our concern is for a failed state crippled by corruption and poverty and under assault from criminal and drug lords, then if we bear our military and financial contributions to Afghanistan, we must reevaluate our commitment to and involvement in Mexico.
Eight years into war, no nation has ever known a more dedicated, well trained, experienced and disciplined military as the U.S. Armed Forces. I do not believe any military force has ever been tasked with such a complex, opaque and Sisyphean mission as the U.S. military has received in Afghanistan. The tactical proficiency and performance of our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines is unmatched and unquestioned. However, this is not the European or Pacific theaters of World War II, but rather is a war for which our leaders, uniformed, civilian and elected, have inadequately prepared and resourced our men and women. Our forces, devoted and faithful, have committed to conflict in an indefinite and unplanned manner that has become a cavalier, politically expedient and Pollyannaish misadventure. Similarly, the United States has a dedicated and talented cadre of civilians, both U.S. government employees and contractors, who believe in and sacrifice for their mission, but have been ineffectually trained and led with guidance and intent shaped more by the political climate in Washington, D.C. than in Afghan cities, villages, mountains and valleys.
“We are spending ourselves into oblivion” a very talented and intelligent commander, one of America’s best, briefs every visitor, staff delegation and senior officer. We are mortgaging our Nation’s economy on a war, which, even with increased commitment, will remain a draw for years to come. Success and victory, whatever they may be, will be realized not in years, after billions more spent, but in decades and generations. The United States does not enjoy a national treasury for such success and victory.
I realize the emotion and tone of my letter and ask you excuse any ill temper. I trust you understand the nature of this war and the sacrifices made by so many thousands of families who have been separated from loved ones deployed in defense of our Nation and whose homes bear the fractures, upheavals and scars of multiple and compounded deployments. Thousands of our men and women have returned home with physical and mental wounds, some that will never heal or will only worsen with time. The dead return only in bodily form to be received by families who must be reassured their dead have sacrificed for a purpose worthy of futures lost, love vanished, and promised dreams unkept. I have lost confidence such assurances can anymore be made. As such, l submit my resignation.
Sincerely,
Matthew P. Hoh
Senior Civilian Representative
Zabul Province, Afghanistan
cc:
Mr. Frank Ruggiero
Ms. Dawn Liberi
Ambassador Anthony Wayne
Ambassador Karl Eikenberry
This letter was addressed to:
Ambassador Nancy J. Powell
Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources
U.S. Department of State
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About sums up the failures of Bush and Cheney for the last eight years, and why Obama shouldn’t send in new cannon fodder to the failed war Bush already lost.
Americans are not stupid. We know a cover-up when we see it. Since the Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11/01, there have been many unanswered questions about these two atrocities and it appears the only answer the FBI and our government will give us is a couple of crumbs and call it good. Well, it’s not good enough. After 9/11/01, the American people demanded to know what actually hit the Pentagon on that fateful morning, because not only was the damage to the building suspect on what created it, but many people said they saw an all white government plane flying around before the Pentagon was hit. To quell the questions Americans were having, Donald Rumsfeld decided to release the “one and only tape” from the grounds of the Pentagon to show Americans that a commercial airliner did indeed hit the building that morning. Here’s the crumb he gave us to watch:
Eight seconds of video was released and all we see is something white hitting the building perfectly level feet off the ground. How the hell could non-experienced pilots bring a commercial airliner in like that? Was I the only one who thought the plane would be coming in at a 45 degree angle to hit the building? I mean, really, how would an inexperienced pilot be able to clear the trees and the cars in the parking lot and bring that plane in level a few feet off the ground? And why is the tape the Pentagon released edited? They say it’s because the camera took a picture seconds apart. Bullshit! Why the hell would the Pentagon (the most secure building in our nation for crying out loud!) have old security cameras on it’s property? Doesn’t make sense. The releasing of this video only added more questions to what actually happened that day.
Fast forward to today and we’re now able to view the videotapes that were in and around the Oklahoma Federal building the day the bombing in 1995 happened. As usual, the FBI gave us crumbs. These videotapes are highly edited and as mentioned in this article over at Huffington Post, it’s what is not on these tapes that is causing Americans to have more questions about what really went on and who was behind the attack! Here’s some of the crumbs the FBI gave us recently….
The problem is….our government was involved in both of these attacks in one way or another. Dick Cheney on the morning of 9/11/01 created a Shadow Government and said that they (the Bush Regime) had to go to the ‘dark side’. Well, I believe this very violent Shadow Government has been in force for years behind the scenes. In fact, I believe that al-Qaida is the base (al-Qaida means “The Base”) of the Bush Family & Friends, Inc. and is their personal death squad to use to get whatever they want. It’s very interesting that the Bush Regime did away with the Able Danger investigation/program. Why? To this day, we don’t know a damn new thing about al-Qaida either. Again, why? Is it because the players of both are on the payrolls of very important known individuals? Hey, could be. Until proven otherwise, I will continue to believe we’ve been duped for years now.
(hat tip to Grant in Houston for providing the Huffington Post link with the Oklahoma City bombing videotape in it)
Nice try Condi Rice in putting out that fake strawman scenario on behalf of the Military Industrial Complex and Your Base. Leaving Afghanistan or being in Afghanistan has nothing to do with our country’s safety, because if it truly did, George Bush would have originally sent in a gazillion US troops to Afghanistan back in 2001 after the 9/11/01 attack (you know, the biggest attack on our nation that you and Georgie joked about coming a month before it happened). But he didn’t. He didn’t care about Osama bin Laden either, though, he did use ‘al-Qaida’ (The Base) in every sentence to keep the fear going that The Base lived in our basements and would attack us at a moment’s notice if we weren’t careful.
If Afghanistan was truly the one thing keeping our country safe, then why did George Bush stop the FBI/CIA from further looking for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan years ago? I thought you ninnies said we were attacked on 9/11/01 because Clinton didn’t get Osama so it was Clinton’s fault our nation was attacked! Well, by your own rhetoric, George Bush and The Base will be blamed for the next one!
I still to this day believe that The Base (al-Qaida) is a death squad created in the 1980’s by American Republicans, because after 8 years of the ‘waronterra’ you’d think we know more about The Base. Nope! We don’t know nothing about them, because to delve too deeply would bring us right back to Condi Rice, George Bush, Dick Cheney, our government, and the rest of the warmongering thieves over the last 3 decades!
Here’s Ronald Reagan having a brunch at the White House with Afghan Taliban leaders back in the 1980’s….
If we are attacked again on American soil, it will be the fault of our government again and not one person is going to say, “This is the war in Afghanistan’s fault!”. Just because President Obama is in the White House does not mean Dick Cheney and The Base are not conspiring another false flag attack on our soil via Cheney’s Shadow Government to go to war with Iran to feed the Military Industrial Complex! No way will I blame our current President for the next attack. What better way for Israel to attack Iran than if The Base in America gives them the fuel they need to have a reason to launch missiles into Iran at the end of this year! Seriously, The Base and Israel….united in infamy! Big huge false attacks are all they have at this point to keep their New World Order going!
The nineteen 9/11 hijackers lived in America. They were allowed to attack our nation on the morning of 9/11/01 without interruption. The End.
Dick Cheney told us recently that the next attack will be a nuclear attack. He’s sure of it. Nice to know he’s giving us a forewarning this time around! The Base is busy right now. Luckily for them, they have Glenn Beck to shake up the dialogue to keep everyone looking in the other direction. See? The Base needs cover and they will speak to us soon! You can be sure. Who the hell is going to blame the war in Afghanistan when it happens? I won’t be!!!!
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Dick Cheney keeps telling us that torture has resulted in lots of good information. Uh ha. Do we know anything new about al-Qaida? Do we know how many people are part of this death squad? Do we know if Osama bin Laden is alive or not? Do we know where their money and support is coming from? How many Number Twos are there in this group? And do we know if our CIA is still backing al-Qaida and has connections? Seriously, do we know anything new about this death squad?
Anyone know? Dick? Liz? Lynn?
Well, we do know Dick Cheney and the CIA needed al-Qaida in their lives. We also know Dicky had his own personal assassination squad at his disposal. We know Osama bin Laden was trained by the CIA and that the Bush Family & Friends, Inc. have done business with the bin Ladens for years. We also know Blackwater and the CIA have a lovely friendship. But! What has torture done to educate the public on al-Qaida, huh? Not much! But then again, Dicky wants it that way. Why the hell would he want anyone to know about his Shadow Government with the Shadow Economy he created back in 2001, huh? Enough said.
You can read about it HERE AT THINK PROGRESS. What I find so hysterical is the wingers still call this a ‘grassroots campaign’ when it’s not. These people are being brainwashed to say, “We hate free food! We hate free health care! We hate free anything! We deserve no help! Charge us! Hell, charge us for our mail delivery! Charge us up the ying yang, but don’t allow the uber wealthy to be taxed!!!!! And before we forget, President Obama is a Kenyan with an accent we can’t understand!!!”. I mean, really, what the fuck is wrong with these assholes that they can’t see how they’re being used by the very people who don’t give a flying rats ass about them, huh? Funny, Glenn Beck completely supports the right of CEO’s to receive millions a year in bonuses. But does Beck want health care for all Americans? Nope! That’s where the fucker draws the line and his supporters still can’t see the forest through the trees with this right wing wacko!
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Spits of rage…