tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37420386242250351632024-02-19T03:08:19.428-08:00crApathy: Because Sometimes I Almost CareCalifohioanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11663315815873691593noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742038624225035163.post-4341345161081566802015-11-25T14:03:00.000-08:002015-11-25T14:03:07.829-08:00How to Ruin Thanksgiving<br />
*<strong>IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER</strong>: <em>The views expressed in this blog <strong>DO NOT</strong> reflect the views of my employer, nor do they reflect the views of any other employer anywhere in the world, or of any people who happen to be employed anywhere (additionally, to cover all of my bases, it's entirely likely that all self-employed, unemployed, retired, imprisoned, institutionalized and/or dead people also do not share my views, and this should take care of just about everyone). Whatever insanity may follow, it will be mine and mine alone and </em><strong><u>IN NO WAY</u></strong> <em>affiliated with my employer and/or how my employer feels about life in general. Furthermore, I would like to officially say that my employer is Totes The Bestest and I agree 100% with everything they do</em>. <em>If anyone from Corporate is reading--</em><br />
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Now that my official statement is out of the way, let's get on with it.<br />
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We're going to talk about Thanksgiving. Eventually. First, let's talk about some other stuff.<br />
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I work in retail management. More specifically, I am or have been one version or another of a "Visual-Merchandising-Operations-Logistics Manager/Supervisor" (<em>some</em> companies enjoy changing my title every few months because meh, why not) for nearly twenty years now and I am wearily familiar with the insanity that is The Holiday Season and yes, I mean the HOLIDAY season because (and I can't believe this explanation is still necessary) CHRISTMAS ISN'T THE ONLY HOLIDAY. No matter how hard the <a href="http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=bill_oreilly" target="_blank">big, blubbering vaginas</a> on Fox News try to convince you otherwise, there is no such thing as A WAR ON CHRISTMAS.<br />
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Oh, hey there, people living in a bubble-- there are some <em>other</em> holidays people actually celebrate this time of year. Some people celebrate Christmas, some celebrate Hanukkah, some celebrate Kwanzaa, some celebrate the Winter Solstice, and the best people celebrate Festivus. Any which way you look at it, THERE ARE SEVERAL HOLIDAYS TAKING PLACE THIS TIME OF YEAR, HENCE THE POPULAR EXPRESSION, "HAPPY HOLIDAYS." Did you think "Happy Holidays" was just recently invented by atheist-homo-commi-heathens who totes hate Jesus? <strong>Guess again.</strong> Here's an ad from the Philadelphia Enquirer from 1863:<br />
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Here's one from the Duluth News-Tribune from 1890:</div>
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And here's one from Georgia's own Macon Telegraph, also from 1890:</div>
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And this was before Festivus.</div>
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The only war taking place is the imaginary one between Closed-Minded-Assholes-Who-Think-Christmas-Is-The-Only-Holiday and this thing called The Rest Of The World.<br />
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So, yeah. That's a thing.<br />
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Now, let's talk about Black Friday for a minute. Black Friday used to be the least favorite day of the year for anyone in retail. Black Friday used to be the day all of you assholes turned into your own <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purge" target="_blank">real-life version of The Purge</a>. You would <em><strong>literally</strong></em> kill one another while stampeding into stores. <a href="http://blackfridaydeathcount.com/" target="_blank">There's an actual website dedicated to tracking Black Friday deaths and injuries.</a> In the minutes leading up to Black Friday openings, the cheery, motivational speech I would give to my employees would go something like--<br />
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--and when I finally opened the doors, all of you lunatics would just lose it and do this--<br />
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Fine. Whatever. Black Friday. It was a thing. I would go into work with the mindset of a soldier going into battle: I might die today. This, sadly, was an actual possibility, and something for which I realistically had to mentally prepare, because again, you people are out of your goddamned minds. I was okay with this. I had this.<br />
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Black Friday sucked hard. Still, I managed to salvage some humor out of the day. Sometimes I would interpret the dress code in my own way--<br />
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"Wear ALL BLACK, and also these fingerless gloves."</div>
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"Wear something festive!"</div>
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Loopholes, man. Loopholes. I took advantage.</div>
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Sometimes I would express my pre-work enthusiasm by posting my thoughts about the day on FB--</div>
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And I started my own holiday tradition of posting photos of the aftermath every year, captioned, "This is why I hate you."<br />
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I did my best to hold onto my sanity, man. I did my best.<br />
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And here's when I finally get to the point, because Black Friday is no longer a thing, and neither is Thanksgiving.<br />
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2014 was The Year Thanksgiving Died.<br />
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2014 was the year when CEOs decided, "You know what? Fuck everybody."<br />
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2014 is when Black Friday profits suddenly weren't good enough, and CEOs were all, WE NEED PEOPLE TO START SPENDING MONEY THE GODDAMNED DAY *BEFORE* BLACK FRIDAY BECAUSE <strong>FUCK THANKSGIVING AND FUCK ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO WORK SO HARD TO MAKE US STINKING RICH</strong>. <strong>ALL OF OUR UNDERPAID MINIONS SHOULD HAVE TO SURRENDER THEIR HOLIDAY BECAUSE WE ARE NOT RICH ENOUGH.</strong><br />
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Good job, everybody. Good job understanding Thanksgiving, except the opposite of that.<br />
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You're probably thinking that now is when I'm going to go Full Charlie Brown and emotionally explain the True Meaning of Thanksgiving, and that's where you'd be wrong. I don't give even half a fuck about the true meaning of Thanksgiving, mostly because the history of Thanksgiving is actually sort of awful and involves a lot of genocide, and also because the reason I love Thanksgiving has relatively nothing to do with Thanksgiving. <br />
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Just for giggles, though, let's briefly review the origin of Thanksgiving.<br />
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Back in old, old, old-timey-times, a bunch of white people came to America and they didn't know fuck-all about anything. Shortly after landing in America, they were pretty much starving to death because they were incapable of doing anything right, and some well-meaning Native Americans were all, "We should help these idiots. What could go wrong?"<br />
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The first Thanksgiving happened after the Native Americans taught the white idiots how to survive, and then the white people were all, "We're totes gonna make dinner for everybody; bring everyone." Then everyone showed up and the white people were suddenly, "Um, yeah, we don't have enough, maybe you should go," and that's when the Native Americans were all, "No, we got this," went back to their village and brought back a crap-ton of food and everybody had a great time. This is like if you invited a whole mess of people over for Thanksgiving dinner and then admitted, "Uh, I only have napkins."</div>
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Anyway. I won't get into the whole story; I'll skip right to the conclusion. Everybody had dinner and then white people pretty much annihilated an entire race of people. HAPPY FUCKING THANKSGIVING, EVERYBODY!</div>
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The reason I used to love Thanksgiving is because it was a guaranteed day off before the shit hit the retail fan. It was a day for retail employees to spend precious time with our family and friends one last time before we disappeared into retail hell for the following several weeks, reappearing in early January, haggard and with the thousand-yard-stare. Thanksgiving was OUR DAY.</div>
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I have to be at work at 1:30 in the afternoon on Thanksgiving and I won't get off until the middle of the night. THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS "THANKSGIVING BREAKFAST." My entire holiday is fucked. As an extra added bonus, my birthday happens to land on Thanksgiving this year, and I'm sure going to enjoy spending it at work watching all of you people act like wild animals and then having to listen to you complain about *having to wait in line* because you genuinely thought you'd be the only person shopping. IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME.</div>
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You know, maybe it's just a vicious rumor, but I swear I've heard that Thanksgiving is supposed to be a day for a celebration of gratitude. It's a day when you take inventory of all of the things and people you have in your life and feel grateful for everything and everyone you have, or at least that's how I would be spending my Thanksgiving if I got to have one. I'm pretty sure going shopping on this day is pretty much the opposite of what you're supposed to be doing, but what the hell do I know. But hey, do your thing, people. Thanks for not caring about any of us or our families. Mighty swell of you.</div>
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I know I'm late to the party, but I just finally watched the GOP <strike>Debate</strike> Giant Shitshow last night and OMFG. I moved recently, so I no longer own a television and I just got my internet set up; I have no idea how America has responded, but if America isn't shitting its pants right about now, we're in deeper trouble than I suspect.<br />
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For those of you who missed it, it's worth watching. Here are links to allow you to do so:<br />
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<a href="http://public.media.foxnews.com/2015/08/06/080615_debate_part1_W700.wmv">http://public.media.foxnews.com/2015/08/06/080615_debate_part1_W700.wmv</a><br />
<a href="http://public.media.foxnews.com/2015/08/06/080615_debate_part2_W700.wmv">http://public.media.foxnews.com/2015/08/06/080615_debate_part2_W700.wmv</a><br />
<a href="http://public.media.foxnews.com/2015/08/06/080615_debate_part3_W700.wmv">http://public.media.foxnews.com/2015/08/06/080615_debate_part3_W700.wmv</a><br />
<a href="http://public.media.foxnews.com/2015/08/06/080615_debate_part4_W700.wmv">http://public.media.foxnews.com/2015/08/06/080615_debate_part4_W700.wmv</a><br />
<a href="http://public.media.foxnews.com/2015/08/06/080615_debate_part5_W700.wmv">http://public.media.foxnews.com/2015/08/06/080615_debate_part5_W700.wmv</a><br />
<a href="http://public.media.foxnews.com/2015/08/06/080615_debate_part6_W700.wmv">http://public.media.foxnews.com/2015/08/06/080615_debate_part6_W700.wmv</a><br />
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Don't be afraid of clicking on a link that has "foxnews" in it. It's cool. Your computer won't explode. I won't make the same promise for your head.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">*If you have not seen the movie "Idiocracy," go watch it now. It'll be like having watched the debate, only smarter.</span></div>
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-- but this was the least of my worries. What I found even more disconcerting was that the debate was moderated by Shari Lewis' own Lambchop--</div>
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Anyway, this is our country I'm talking about, so I settled in and braced myself.</div>
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Then, Dr. Ben Carson was asked a question, and it was something like, "Dr. Carson. You're essentially the Sarah Palin of all the candidates, insomuch as you don't know shit about anything. Basically, you're an idiot. Should this worry us?" Dr. Carson's response (THIS MAN IS A NEUROSURGEON) was pretty much, </div>
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Jeb Bush decided to join the ranks of Cher, Madonna and Ke$ha by essentially proclaiming that he just goes by JEB(!) now-- "In Florida, they call me Jeb. Because I've earned it." He said this directly after saying how proud he was of his brother, but I interpret this as, "PLEASE DO NOT LINK ME TO HIM IN ANY WAY BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THAT HE'S A GIANT IDIOT AND I DON'T WANT YOU THINKING ABOUT OUR SHARED GENES." Well done, Jeb(!). We totally don't remember your brother. You're like a whole new person. Totally unrelated.</div>
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Homicidal Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, took the time to explain how he pretty much hates women but he's still a totes awesome guy in God's eyes, because when it comes to an emergency abortion in order to save a woman's life--</div>
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--and now I'll never be visiting Wisconsin.</div>
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Huckabee chimed in to proclaim that fetuses have constitutional rights and I was pretty much all, "I HOPE I GET A LOT OF FETUSES SELECTED FOR JURY DUTY IF I'M EVER ON TRIAL," and then I slammed my head into a wall.</div>
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There's talk of "murdering babies" and Planned Parenthood is brought up and how is this an actual topic.</div>
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To conclude the "debate," everyone tried to one-up the others with claims of their poor upbringings, as if this somehow makes any fucking difference. By the end, you'd think that everyone on the stage had grown up in goddamned cardboard boxes in the gutter and their previous extreme poverty somehow qualified them to lead our country. I don't understand.<br />
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America, people. Love it? This is what we're dealing with. Kiss it goodbye.Califohioanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11663315815873691593noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742038624225035163.post-61368719674361015882015-06-07T15:09:00.001-07:002015-06-09T13:54:47.400-07:00I Guess Some Stuff Happened Last Week<br />
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Pfffffffffffft, go fuck yourselves, hate-mail assholes; you don't know me. This perception could not be further from the truth. I'm super laid back and it's incredibly difficult to get me worked up about anything. If I had a life motto, it would be something like, "Meh," assuming I could even be bothered to come up with a motto, which is unlikely. I rarely care about anything long enough to form a solid opinion. This would explain why I post so rarely on this new blog. I just don't care. <br />
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Why do I seem so angry? First of all, it's because angry people are funny, so I'm doing it on purpose. Secondly, it's because my job forces me to interact with the public and I have to be nice and polite all day long even when people are treating me like garbage, so I use my online persona to release some steam. Writing is my therapy. Fuck off. (See? I feel better already.)<br />
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If I'm to base the state of the world on what my friends have been posting on Facebook, TWO WHOLE FUCKING THINGS happened this past week.<br />
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<strong>Thing Number One</strong>: Bruce Jenner became a lady named Caitlyn.<br />
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Okay, so, something gay happened; I think I'm supposed to care. I kinda don't. I mean, good for Caitlyn. I'm glad she's finally at peace with everything, but I still wouldn't be surprised if this all turned out to be a publicity stunt borne in the stinking garbage heap of used condoms and empty Cristal bottles Kris Jenner calls a brain. Let's assume, however, that Caitlyn is a real thing. I'm glad for her.</div>
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Apparently, there's a whole mess of people who are all bent about this story, and from what I've gathered, it's because everyone is saying how <em>brave</em> Caitlyn is to have made this decision and The Mess have decided to take offense at the use of the word "brave." Their main argument looks like this:</div>
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Bravery, heroism and courage are not exclusive to combat situations, assholes. People can be brave and exhibit courage in other ways, and Merriam Webster defines 'hero' as "a person who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities." Does *everyone* have to admire this person? Nope, but some people do, so just STFU already. There are undoubtedly countless people who very badly wish to change genders-- and <a href="http://www.npr.org/2015/06/06/412248657/trans-in-transition-finding-friends-and-community-in-d-c" target="_blank">many who have done so</a> (note in the comments section of that article the shitheap who says that being transgendered is a mental illness and equates sexual reassignment surgery to self-mutilation)-- and I can only imagine how difficult this must be for them. For those people, Caitlyn is a brave and courageous and a hero because switching genders is no easy thing. You don't share the same opinion? Congratulations on being born in a body that suits you. Now shut your mouths and go about your business. Nobody asked you.</div>
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For the readers in other countries-- and, more importantly, for readers in America who have no clue what Memorial Day is actually about-- there's this thing in America called Memorial Day. It's <em>supposed</em> to be a federal holiday dedicated to <u>remembering and honoring the men and women who have died while serving in the Armed Forces</u>, but most Americans know it as "HOLY-SHIT-I CAN-GET-A-MATTRESS-FOR-NEXT-TO-NOTHING-Day" and/or, "Day-Drinking-Fuck-Yeah-Party-Time-Day" because 'MERICA! FUCK YEAH, let's all go shopping and then get wasted!</div>
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HOLY SHIT, YOU GUYS, <u><strong>SALES!!!</strong></u> I'm sure <em>that's</em> what people who died in the line of duty were thinking of as they took their last breaths: </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">"I hope...that one day...people will-- *cough, gasp*-- get to-- *chokes on blood*-- get a really good deal on... something-- *final exhale*."</span></div>
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What the fuck is wrong with everybody.</div>
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Americans are the worst kind of "patriotic" people. We all stride around the world as if we own the place and we beat our 'Merica drum anytime another country's people have the gall to disagree with us about something--</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">We were wrong about the WMD and you were right. Our bad, France. </span></div>
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--but when it comes to actually having to take a day to be grateful for the ultimate sacrifices that countless men and women have made to protect and provide the freedom we all take for granted, we can't be bothered. Everybody has a picnic or goes shopping, or both, because that's the best way to pay homage to the men and women who have died to secure our way of life.</div>
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What the fuck is wrong with everybody? You can't take ONE GODDAMNED DAY to honor the people who have PAID WITH THEIR LIVES to provide you with the freedoms you enjoy?</div>
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This day is a NATIONAL HOLIDAY. It was created so we would HONOR THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE DIED WHILE SERVING THIS COUNTRY. Is it too much to ask to have everything shut down? Is it too much to ask to have all Americans observe it in a way as to honor Our Fallen? Is it too much to ask to take ONE FUCKING DAY to acknowledge the fact that millions of our own people have sacrificed EVERYTHING to preserve the rights we take for granted?</div>
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No one cares. No one pays attention.</div>
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Every single Memorial Day, well-meaning people thank me for my service because they don't understand what Memorial Day is about. While that's nice and all, let's circle around and review: Memorial Day is for honoring the men and women who have DIED while serving our country. Don't thank me for my service on Memorial Day. I didn't die while serving. That's not what Memorial Day is about. I applaud you on your attempt to be decent. I give you an 'A' for effort, but an 'F' on understanding the assignment. Thank you for kinda paying attention, but I don't actually appreciate the effort.</div>
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For all the assholes who don't know shit about anything and only know Memorial Day as some mysterious thing that gives you a three-day weekend,</div>
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I get it, America-- you get to have Monday off. Here's the thing. While you're enjoying your day off, I want these images burned into your head:</div>
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* Visit cemeteries and place flowers and flags on the graves of fallen heroes.</div>
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*Visit disabled or wounded veterans, thank them for their service and listen to their stories (THIS is when it's acceptable to thank someone for their service-- because they more than likely served with close friends who died next to them in combat). Don't do it out of obligation and go off to happy-time-daydream-land when they tell you their stories. LISTEN to them. See their pain. Give them all the attention you have to give, as little as you may think it means. Stop for a minute. Imagine that you were put in a position-- a position YOU VOLUNTEERED TO BE IN-- where you and your closest friends were put in grave danger. Imagine that a good number of your closest friends were killed in that situation, but you survived. Imagine that the citizens of your country didn't really give a shit. Then, imagine that only a few people will come to visit you to ask you how you are and to inquire about what happened that horrible day or days. You would want to tell them that story and to honor your friends who didn't make it out alive. You would want to tell their stories to honor them, and you would be so grateful for the fact that someone bothered to ask. I have sad, angry tears in my eyes as I type this. How many of you will spend Memorial Day honoring the men and women who have died in service to our country? How many of you will visit the survivors and listen to their stories? And how many of you will do no such thing and enjoy your picnics?</div>
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If you're totally fine with being an asshole, go shopping and get day-wasted because that's totally your right. Just remember that millions of people died in order to protect your right to be an uncaring, self-absorbed asshole who doesn't feel in any way obligated to feel even one iota of gratitude for the people who have fought and died for your "right' to be an asshole.</div>
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Califohioanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11663315815873691593noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3742038624225035163.post-22786488222247845652015-05-17T16:14:00.002-07:002015-05-17T19:25:41.196-07:00I'm Being Sued!<br />
No, it's not what you think. Cheryl Strayed isn't suing me (though that would be endlessly entertaining). It's something even dumber:<br />
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According to <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/05/05/nebraska-woman-sues-all-homosexuals/" target="_blank">this article</a> and <a href="http://time.com/3848666/nebraska-woman-sues-gays/" target="_blank">this article</a> and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/05/nebraska-woman-sues-all-h_n_7217614.html" target="_blank">this article</a> and a whole mess of other articles (just Google it; I don't have all day to keep giving you links), there's some jackass woman in Nebraska who is suing "all homosexuals." Well, fuck me sideways. I didn't even know that was a thing. Can you do that? Can I file a lawsuit against *all* idiots?</div>
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Look. I'm totally gonna talk about other stuff in future posts. I have no intention of turning this blog into some big, rainbow-farting gay fest, but c'mon. What's with people and the obsession with gays? Just this past week, some conservative fucktard named Sandy Rios blamed the Amtrak tragedy in Philadelphia on the conductor's sexual orientation because <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/sandy-rios-anti-gay-amtrak_n_7286360.html?utm_hp_ref=media&ir=Media" target="_blank">that makes total sense.</a></div>
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You know what we gay folks all think when we hear you ranting about us? "FAG." That's what we think. <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/top-10-anti-gay-activists-caught-being-gay/joanne?page=3" target="_blank">Gosh, I wonder why.</a> Seems like all the loudest hatemongers end up getting caught doing some supremely gay shit.</div>
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Then there's <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/assault/roots/freud.html" target="_blank">this study</a> and <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8772014" target="_blank">this study</a> and all the other studies (there are too many links and I may have just linked you to the same study twice because I wasn't paying attention; again, Google it yourselves) that kinda prove how homophobic "heterosexual" men get giant boners when they watch totally hot man-on-man gay porn, while heterosexual men who are all, "Meh, who cares about gay people?" do *not* get giant boners when they watch totally hot man-on-man gay porn (note: <em>everybody</em> gets a boner when they watch lesbian porn because of course they do). Anyway, that's s<em>o weird</em> how all the anti-gay men get aroused when they watch man-on-man action, except-- oh, wait, no, it's not weird. We tend to hate in others the things we don't like about ourselves, so... tell me more about how gay people are just the worst and how what we do is disgusting! Just remember: the bigger the stink you make about gay people, the gayer you sound. Can't wait to hear from you in the comments section-- especially you men-- so I can introduce you to this thing called <a href="http://grindr.com/" target="_blank">Grindr</a>. Oh, wait. I probably won't hear from you because you're going to click on that link and then you'll be too busy meeting other men in your area for anonymous gay sex and you suddenly won't have any time to leave comments. God, I wish there were a way to track this.</div>
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Here's the whole shebang in all its unedited glory (in respect for our dear Sylvia Ann Driskell, no grammatical corrections have been made):</div>
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<strong>Plaintiffs:<br /> I Sylvia Ann Driskell<br /> Ambassador for Plaintiffs<br /> God, and His, Son, Jesus Christ</strong><br />
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<strong>Defendants:<br /> Homosexuals<br /> Their Given Name Homosexuals<br /> Their, Alis Gay</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell ambassador for Plaintiffs do set forth on this 30 day of 2015 in writing this Petition to the United State District Court of Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska </strong><br />
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<strong>On behalf of the Plintiffs: God, and His, Son, Jesus Christ.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell ambassador for the Plaintiffs: God, and His, Son, Jesus Christ: Petition Your Honor, and Court of the United State District Court of Omaha, Omaha, Nebraka, To be heard in the matter of homosexuality. Is Homosexuality a sin, or not a sin,</strong><br />
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<strong>Defendant’s Homosexuals: The Homosexuals say that its not a sin to be a homosexual, An they have the right to marry, to be parents, And God doesn’t care that their homosexuals, because He loves them.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell, refer Your Honor to paragraph 3, line 2 of Defendant’s, Homosexuals say that its not a sin, to be a homosexual.</strong><br />
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<strong>Plaintiff’s: God tells his children in Leviticus Chapter 18 verse 22. Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is ambomination.</strong><br />
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<strong>Plaintiff’s: God also tells his Children in Romans Chapter 1 verse 26, 27. Romans 1:26. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affection: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: Romans Chapter 1, verse 27. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; Men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell: Your Honor, I’ve heard the boasting of the Defendant: the Homosexuals on the world news; from the young, to the old; to the rich an famous, and to the not so rich an famous; How they were tired of hiding in the closet, and how glad they are to be coming out of the closet.</strong><br />
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<strong>Plaintiff’s: God, tells his Children in Romans Chapter 1, vere 28, And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell, Contend that homosexuality is a sin, and that they the homosexuals know it is a sin to live a life of homosexuality. Why else would they have been hiding in a closet.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell, refer to Webster Dictionary for the definition of sin: sin the willful breaking of religious or moral law.</strong><br />
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<strong>Defendant’s Homosexuals: In regards to paragraph 3 line 2 They the homosexuals, say they have the right to marry.</strong><br />
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<strong>Plaintiff’s God: God’s word tells his children in Jenesis chapter 2 verse 24. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleanse unto his wife and they shall be one flesh.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell refer to the Webster Dictionary for the definitions of the word marry. 1 to join as husband and wife 2 to talk as husband or wife.</strong><br />
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<strong>Defendant’s Homosexuals: In regards to paragraph 3 line 3 They the homosexuals, say they have the right to be parents.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell refer to Webster Dictionary for the definition for parent. 1. A father or mother. 2. Any organism in relation to its offspring.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell write these words to You, Your Honor: every good Father and Mother knows that its not just being able to give life to a child that makes a parent.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I, Sylvia Ann Driskell contend a good parent is not just a father or a mother that tells their children whats right; it’s the parent that walks the walk, and that talks, the talk, who are the example of what they teach, that’s why their children know right from wrong.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell, write, As well, we also know that if a child is raised in a home of liers, an deceivers, and thieves that it is reasonable to believe that child will grow up to be one of the three, are all three.</strong><br />
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<strong>Plaintiff’s: God tells the parents in Proverbs chapter 22 verse 6. Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.</strong><br />
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<strong>Defendant’s Homosexuals: I regards to paragraph 3, line 3. They the homosexuals, say that God doesn’t care, that their homosexuals, because he loves them.</strong><br />
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<strong>Plaintiff’s God: God tells his children in Romans chapter 1, verse 18. For the wrath of God is reveald from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness</strong><br />
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<strong>Plaintiff’s God: God also tells his children in Romans 1, verse 24. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves.</strong><br />
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<strong>Plaintiff’s God: God tells his children in Romans chapter 1, verse 25. Who change the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed, for ever. Amen.</strong><br />
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<strong>Defendant’s Homosexuals: In regards to paragraph 3, line 4. Because God loves them.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell, contend thats the only statement the defendants have rights God loves them so much that He gave his Son, and Jesus gave his life for them.</strong><br />
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<strong>Plaintiff’s God: God prophecies of His, Son, Jesus Christ, in Isaiah chapter 53, verse 5. But he was wounded for Our transgression, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are heald.</strong><br />
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<strong>Isaiah chapter 53, verse 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah chapter 55 verse 7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; And to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.</strong><br />
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<strong>Plaintiff’s Jesus Christ: In Luke chapter 23, verse 34. Then said Jesus, Father forgive them; for they know not what they do.</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell, wish to address You, Your Honor, and the United State District Court of Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska.</strong><br />
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<strong>I write not in few words, So I hope you, Your Honor, and The United State District Court of Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska; will indulge me, in my writing.</strong><br />
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<strong>Never before has Our great Nation the United State of America and Our great state of Nebraska; been besiege by sin:</strong><br />
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<strong>The way to destroy any nation, or state is to destroy its morals; look what happen to Sodom and Gomorrah two city because of the same immoral behavior that represent in our nation, in our states, and our cities; God destroy them.</strong><br />
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<strong>If God could have found ten righteous people among them he would’ve spared them.</strong><br />
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<strong>I’m sixty six years old, an I never thought that I would see the day in which our Great Nation or Our Great State of Nebraska would become so compliant to the complicity of some peoples lewd behavior.</strong><br />
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<strong>Why are judges passing laws, so sinners can break religious and moral laws?</strong><br />
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<strong>Will all the judges of this Nation, judge God to be a lier?</strong><br />
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<strong>For God has said; that all unrighteousness is sin, and that homosexuality is abomination</strong><br />
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<strong>Ambassador: I Sylvia Ann Driskell: I have written this Petition to the United State District Court of Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, and to you, Your Honor.</strong><br />
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<strong>Because I feel its is imperative to do so. Life as a nation, as States, and as Cities need to start standing up for the moral principles on which our, Great Nation, Our, Great States, and Our, Great Cities were founded on.</strong><br />
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<strong>Lamentations 3:22<br /> It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not.</strong><br />
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I'm confused. I thought she was suing all homosexuals, but then I read everything over and concluded that she is only suing one person-- the Defendant-- and that this person owns all of the homosexuals. "<strong>Defendant’s Homosexuals.</strong>" She refers to the "Defendant's Homosexuals" multiple times. Does someone own me? Goddamnit. Have I been filing my taxes wrong all these years?</div>
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Okay. While it would be good, hilarious fun to rip apart this idiot's lawsuit based on grammar alone-- and you KNOW I'm having a fucking stroke over here-- let's overlook that aspect and what the fuck did I just write. Still. Seeing as these two people were my parents--</div>
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-- I'm <em>maybe just a little familiar</em> with the Bible, so I'm gonna take this on from a religious approach because 37 years of living on this planet have provided me with the knowledge that the vast majority of people who enjoy spitting out Bible passages aren't really all that familiar with the Bible, kind of like Sylvia here, who quoted "The Book of Jenesis."</div>
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1. Burning any yeast or honey in offerings to God (2:11)<br />
2. Failing to include salt in offerings to God (2:13)<br />
3. Eating fat (3:17)<br />
4. Eating blood (3:17)<br />
5. Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve witnessed (5:1)<br />
6. Failing to testify against any wrongdoing you’ve been told about (5:1)<br />
7. Touching an unclean animal (5:2)<br />
8. Carelessly making an oath (5:4)<br />
9. Deceiving a neighbor about something trusted to them (6:2)<br />
10. Finding lost property and lying about it (6:3)<br />
11. Bringing unauthorized fire before God (10:1)<br />
12. Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6)<br />
13. Tearing your clothes (10:6)<br />
14. Drinking alcohol in holy places (10:9)<br />
15. Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof (cf: camel, rabbit, pig) (11:4-7)<br />
16. Touching the carcass of any of the above (problems here for rugby) (11:8)<br />
17. Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12)<br />
18. Eating – or touching the carcass of - eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, the red kite, any kind of black kite, any kind of raven, the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat. (11:13-19)<br />
19. Eating – or touching the carcass of – flying insects with four legs, unless those legs are jointed (11:20-22)<br />
20. Eating any animal which walks on all four and has paws (11:27)<br />
21. Eating – or touching the carcass of – the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard, the gecko, the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink and the chameleon (11:29)<br />
22. Eating – or touching the carcass of – any creature which crawls on many legs, or its belly (11:41-42)<br />
23. Going to church within 33 days after giving birth to a boy (12:4)<br />
24. Going to church within 66 days after giving birth to a girl (12:5)<br />
25. Having sex with your mother (18:7)<br />
26. Having sex with your father’s wife (18:8)<br />
27. Having sex with your sister (18:9)<br />
28. Having sex with your granddaughter (18:10)<br />
29. Having sex with your half-sister (18:11)<br />
30. Having sex with your biological aunt (18:12-13)<br />
31. Having sex with your uncle’s wife (18:14)<br />
32. Having sex with your daughter-in-law (18:15)<br />
33. Having sex with your sister-in-law (18:16)<br />
34. Having sex with a woman and also having sex with her daughter or granddaughter (bad news for Alan Clark) (18:17)<br />
35. Marrying your wife’s sister while your wife still lives (18:18)<br />
36. Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19)<br />
37. Having sex with your neighbour’s wife (18:20)<br />
38. Giving your children to be sacrificed to Molek (18:21)<br />
39. Having sex with a man “as one does with a woman” (18:22)<br />
40. Having sex with an animal (18:23)<br />
41. Making idols or “metal gods” (19:4)<br />
42. Reaping to the very edges of a field (19:9)<br />
43. Picking up grapes that have fallen in your vineyard (19:10)<br />
44. Stealing (19:11)<br />
45. Lying (19:11)<br />
46. Swearing falsely on God’s name (19:12)<br />
47. Defrauding your neighbour (19:13)<br />
48. Holding back the wages of an employee overnight (19:13)<br />
49. Cursing the deaf or abusing the blind (19:14)<br />
50. Perverting justice, showing partiality to either the poor or the rich (19:15)<br />
51. Spreading slander (19:16)<br />
52. Doing anything to endanger a neighbour’s life (19:16)<br />
53. Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge (19:18)<br />
54. Mixing fabrics in clothing (19:19)<br />
55. Cross-breeding animals (19:19)<br />
56. Planting different seeds in the same field (19:19)<br />
57. Sleeping with another man’s slave (19:20)<br />
58. Eating fruit from a tree within four years of planting it (19:23)<br />
59. Practising divination or seeking omens (tut, tut astrology) (19:26)<br />
60. Trimming your beard (19:27)<br />
61. Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27)<br />
62. Getting tattoos (19:28)<br />
63. Making your daughter prostitute herself (19:29)<br />
64. Turning to mediums or spiritualists (19:31)<br />
65. Not standing in the presence of the elderly (19:32)<br />
66. Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born” (19:33-34)<br />
67. Using dishonest weights and scales (19:35-36)<br />
68. Cursing your father or mother (punishable by death) (20:9)<br />
69. Marrying a prostitute, divorcee or widow if you are a priest (21:7,13)<br />
70. Entering a place where there’s a dead body as a priest (21:11)<br />
71. Slaughtering a cow/sheep and its young on the same day (22:28)<br />
72. Working on the Sabbath (23:3)<br />
73. Blasphemy (punishable by stoning to death) (24:14)<br />
74. Inflicting an injury; killing someone else’s animal; killing a person must be punished in kind (24:17-22)<br />
75. Selling land permanently (25:23)<br />
76. Selling an Israelite as a slave (foreigners are fine) (25:42)<br />
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Well, look at that. Please, are there any people reading this who haven't committed at least one of these terrible, terrible abominations? Yeah, that's what I thought. This all comes straight out of the Christian Bible. If Christianity (in any of its forms) is your religion, guess what: you don't get to pick and choose which rules you feel like following. I'm familiar with your God, and he sounds like a giant, insecure asshole. You'd better do what he says or you'll go to hell (don't worry, he totally still loves you; that's why he created Hell-- so you can suffer forever for committing petty crimes).<br />
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What's with the obsessive fascination about the gay stuff? All the shit listed above is in the bible, too. Why aren't people going apeshit about the other stuff?<br />
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Is this seriously the sort of shit people believe? Of course not, because believing all of this nonsense would be totes inconvenient. Let's just focus on the gay stuff.</div>
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Here's a helpful chart to help you figure out where you should stand on gay rights:</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You're welcome.</span></div>
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Okay, I'm gonna go find a good lawyer because this lawsuit is just terrifying.</div>
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