This same bunch of Texas republican state congresscritters will force RS>>women to get a vaginal sonogram before they can get an abortion.
No exemptions for rape, incest or the health of the pregnant woman.
No word on how to *PAY* for it either.

Here's a good idea on "how to *PAY* for it":

You want an abortion? *YOU* pay for it! Not taxpayers, not welfare....*YOU*!

Since federal law bars the govt paying for abortions that's not
a change.

And put a federal, state, and local tax on abortion fees of
over $100 each, PLUS the doctor's fees, and all abortions
MUST be performed in an accredited hospital, with a minimum
three-day stay under a doctor's care!

IOW, dictate medicine for social engineering. Next you will call
for death panels.

There is about a $15,000 cost for an abortion right there,
coming out of the pocket of the person's (and the father's
if he can be identified) own pocket!

Or the insurance carrier. Or do you want to control that private
insurance companies also?

BTW, I am a pro-life Catholic, just annoyed at your attempts to
play god.

If the girl is under 18, her parents pay the bill.

Watch how fast girls suddenly discover all the methods of
birth control, and how effective a birth control abstinence
is!

Except that abstinance only seems to fail quite regularly.

Walker and his cronies are also saying they want to hire bounty hunters to RS>>go kidnap state senators that are still out of state, and legally can't be RS>>touched.

The only thing wrong with whats going on now is that Walker
hasn't gotten with the republican senators and told them to
pass legislation, and he, Walker, sign it into law by
Executive Order!

Which would violate the state constitution. But you have no more
respect for the state constitution than the federal
constitution, do you.

In Ohio, Kasich(sp?) is trying to destroy *ALL* public worker unions,

inclduing the unions of the police he called "idiots" when they *GASP* RS>>wanted him to follow the same laws of the road the rest of those in Ohio RS>>do.

Police have no business with any unions. Nor do any other
public employees

It's a constitutional right.

Abortion restrictions and gay-marriages?

See the above ideas for the abortions. As for *gay
marraige*? I said once a long time ago here in Fido, and
I'll say it again. It isn't about *equal rights*.....they
(the homosexuals) already have all the rights everyone else
have.

Well, at least we know you are *NOT* a libertarian. The right to
run their own lives applies here. IOW, MYOB.

Its about money....and always has been about money. All the
same `income' potential of a real marraige between a man
and a woman. Its about recieving survivors benefits, etc
etc of the same sort as a beneficiary or surviving spouse
gets from the government.

Now that is dumb. Homosexual couples already average higher
income than heterosexual couples.

And since they typically both work, and pay social security,
they will actually lose benefits if they are married, as married
couples, last I heard, had their social security cut if both
collected.

It isn't about equal rights and never has been. Its about
adding a whole new `group' of individuals to an already
over-strained public trough.

Since heterosexual couples are far more likely to get public
assistance, that's more nonsense.

And Mike Huckabee, 2012 presidential hopeful and holier-than-thou RS>>slimeball is the Charlie Sheen of republican politics.

Meanwhile Newt's scams continue.

Both of those guys just piss you right off, don't they?

Well, Newt is a criminal, and Huckabee is both stupid and venal.

Actually, neither one would make a good president.

True. You got one right.

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Why don't you email her and ask her? Your silly idea that
Republicans are all lock step is hilarious.

Just those in politics. As the voting records in the US congress
and some state governments well demonstrate.

...

You want an abortion? *YOU* pay for it! Not taxpayers, not
welfare....*YOU*!

So why add the sonogram?

Maybe so that the woman is fully informed about her
decision.

Maybe women who want to carry a baby to term should be required
to have tests for genetic defects etc.

...

Yeah, it's the teachers' fault, the banksters are all good, noble people
with the purest of intentions. (sarcasm off)

Uh... teachers are exempted from Walker's restrictions on
collective bargaining. You really should educate yourself
about your own state issues before you go off commenting on
other states that no one in these echoes live in.

And the Wisconsin public employee pensions are fully funded
within 4/10ths of one percent. IOW, they are not a burden to the
state during this recession.

...

The only republican with any real chance against Obama in 2012 is Mitt
Romney.

You don't get to say who would do best against The One.

Yes, he does. It's his constitutional right. Or would you repeal
that also?

And the "Christian" right and Tea Party hate him.

You don't know what you are talking about.

Yeah, he does. Romney is the originator of Romneycare which is
close enough to be the template for Obamacare. Including the
mandate.

"It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with
so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to
distinguish between political and social opposition; who
transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to
his political opinions." --Thomas Jefferson

As you do so often.



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Here's a few things to add.....Klahn ought to turn
red-face3d over this:

...

Commander in chief?Consistent with his socialist,
we-are-all-one agenda, Barack Obama used a non-unanimous
10-vote nod from the United Nations Security Council to
justify commencing hostilities against Libya, bypassing

If unanimous was your requirement we would not be in Iraq now.
Which would be a good thing, come to think of it.

Oh, and the UN vote was not the justification, but a procedural
point.

Congress, the Constitution, the will of the American public
and a couple hundred years' worth of precedents. Since none

Bush sent them down the garbage chute in 2003. OTOH, Reagan's
invasion of Grenada also qualifies.

of these have mattered in the past, why should they now?

They stopped mattering when Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq.

...

recently -- UN authority supersedes U.S. constitutional
authority and sovereignty.

Ah, you made that one up out of the whole cloth. Bush, OTOH, did
claim his authority of commander in chief superceded the
constitution. By which standard Obama could claim the same
thing.

...

state-sponsored terrorism. It was Gadhafi that ordered the
1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland,
which killed 270, most of whom were Americans. That said, a

That alone justifies action against Gadhafi.

number of countervailing arguments counsel against
intervening in Libya's civil war with this, as Deputy

Much more conseled against invading Iraq, but that didn't stop
Bush from doing it, or you supporting it.

For one, it is a civil war. U.S. policy -- at least
ostensibly -- has been to refrain from engaging in
conflicts where U.S. vital national interests are not at
stake.

Those two points are not connected in any realistic way.

And there is and was no such policy in any real world.

Whatever interests the U.S. has in Libya, the term
"vital" certainly does not apply.

Lockerbie says it does.

Second, as a sovereign nation, the U.S. neither seeks nor
is granted authority from a supra-national organization
such as the UN to use American instruments of national
power, including military force.

Doesn't change the desirability of getting international
support.

Such authority must vest
from within, and in the U.S. that mechanism is the
Constitution. While the president has both the authority
and duty to use force in protection of the United States
from an actual or imminent attack, that is the extent of
his unilateral authority.

Didn't make any difference to you when Bush invaded Iraq. Why is
it different now?

Congress alone has the authority to approve the use of
military force in all other circumstances as it did in the
wake of 9/11. In the case of both Afghanistan and Iraq,
President George W. Bush specifically approached Congress,
asked for and was granted a resolution authorizing the use
of military force.

Not for the invasion of Iraq. Bush was granted a conditional
resolution authorizing action. Since the conditions were not
there the invasion was not legal. Yet you didn't complain about
that.

His successor -- not so much.

Just as much so. Lockerbie alone is reason enough.

Next, we have no idea whether the regime that replaces
Gadhafi (if that happens) will actually be a change for the
better.

That is true in every place in the world every single day. It
seems the government in power in Iraq is *WORSE* for US
interests than Saddam was.

While the words "democracy" and "freedom" are
bandied about indiscriminately, no one knows what Libya
will look like post-Gadhafi.

No one knows what America will look like post 2012.

In fact, the rebels are
self-described Islamic "holy warriors" who have at least
the verbal backing of al-Qa'ida. This fact alone should
advocate for restraint.

Do they?

Moreover, as America nears the tenth anniversary of 9/11,
we should pause to reflect upon the fact that our nation
has been at war continuously for almost a decade. Should we

Yes, it has. And that is because the Bush Administration took us
into war in Iraq for oil. Gen Jay Garner, the first
administrator the administration sent to Iraq wanted to have
elections immediately, so the administration fired him.

As a result, the US has been in Iraq for nearly 8 years, and in
Afghanistan for almost 10 years.

You didn't complain when Bush kept us there.

-- or can we even afford to -- embark on a third commitment
of manpower and resources, much less one that is undefined
and open-ended?

Funny, you didn't ask if we could afford Iraq. Get our troops
ouot of Iraq and we have the means to deal with Libya.

Supposedly, no "boots on the ground" were to be committed,
but as we go to press 2,200 Marines from the 26th Marine
Expeditionary Unit are stationed just off the Libyan coast.

There is a fleet there, isn't there? And Marines on the fleet.

In the first few days of this conflict alone, we have
already lost a plane and spent hundreds of Tomahawk
missiles -- are we prepared to commit to this effort to the
point that we're willing to sacrifice American lives as
well?

We lost American lives at Lockerbie.

We lost over 4500 American lives in Iraq, with far less
justification, and on the basis of lies from the administration.

In 2007, both Barack Obama and his levelheaded sidekick Joe
Biden believed that the president's authority to use
military force is limited to repelling an imminent or
ongoing attack on the U.S., and that Congress alone has the
authority to authorize the use of military force in all
other circumstances.

He has learned, hasn't he.

"The president does not have power under the Constitution
to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation
that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat
to the nation," said Barack Obama then. Likewise, Joe Biden
chimed in, "I made it clear to the president that if he
takes this nation to war without congressional approval, I
will make it my business to impeach him. That is a fact."

For some reason you did not object when he invaded Iraq.

These claims were made when they were "Candidate Obama" and
"Senator Biden," respectively -- that is, before either
decided that their heartfelt words on the campaign trail or
a TV talk show were never meant to be applied to themselves
at some future point.

Didn't bother you in Iraq.

Finally, it's worth highlighting how utterly disagreeable
is the military operation label "Odyssey Dawn." An odyssey
is a very long, convoluted saga -- not an event wrapped up
in a few days, as this effort has been promoted, thus far.
We're hoping that the Pentagon has a good sense of humor
and irony.

Or just bad literary judgement.

Otherwise and unwittingly, it may have aptly coined the
beginning of yet another endless military journey. It might
be nice to rid the world of Moammar Gadhafi.

Another? You admit Bush was guilty of reckless military
judgement? Amen amen amen!

But before we commit American lives and resources toward
doing so, shouldn't we first pause to ask the question: At
what cost?

You didn't do that for Iraq.

Quote of the Week
"We don't know whether the current U.S. president is
mindful of what he is uttering, or if he is unconscious and
confused." --Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei

He said a lot worse about Bush, but you feel that was worth
quoting.

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2. The AP is punked by a group of hoaksters whose blog
reported that GE would repay more than $3 billion in tax
credits (corporate welfare) they got from the Obama
administration. Not only did GE get tax credits for moving
jobs offshore, CEO Jeff Immelt got a seat on Obama's jobs
advisory panel.

Lie number 1. In the late '90s the republican congress passed a
bill allowing corporations, including GE, to avoid taxes by
shifting profits overseas. In 2004 the republican congress
passed another such tax dodge.

Obama didn't give GE those tax dodges, they were beyond his
control.

3. In a surprise move - out of left field, really - a
democrat president proposes that the government raise taxes
on the rich - rich to be defined by said governemt. Like
the classless Clinton before him, Obama reminds us that he
is rich.

And Obama's plan would increase taxes on Obama. Remember, 100%
of the post WWII increase in the debt burden, the debt as
percent of GDP, accumulated under 3 anti-tax republican
presidents.

4. Seems that the most transparent presidency in history
(that was his promise, right?) is concealing visits with
lobbyists by meeting with them at a coffee shop across the
street from the White House. White House visitors' logs

Obama is going to a coffee shop across the street from the
Whitehouse?

...

5. American fighter jets are again dropping bombs on Libya
- this after Obama told Americans that other countries
would take over the Libya operation.

Nato did take over. And the US is a member of NATO. The US has
solid justification and a very good moral cause for taking down
Kadaffi.

6. Nancy Pelosi says, in effect, that it's too bad that we
have elections, echoing Obama's sentiments that he wishes
he had the powers of China's dictator. Didn't one of the
moonbats here lose what passes for his mind when G.W. Bush
expressed similar ideas?

And when did she ever say that? I sure hope he has a link to it.

Hope Hope Hope Hope Hope Hope Hope Hope Hope Hope Hope Hope

OTOH, when did Obama say that?

7. Indicating that he has heard the clarion call of the
New Politics of Civility (Cigar Willy, co chair), Rep. Ed
Markey says that Republicans want to destroy "the whole
wide world," and, worse yet, that they want to destroy the
internet.

Speaking the truth might well be uncivil.

8. People who attended the High Level Budget Summit at the
Oval Office say that the one area where Obama would not
compromise is federal funding for abortion.

People who attended the high level budget summit and lied about
it.

Federal funding for elective abortion is forbidden under
current law, and that law was not changed under Obama. Even
National Health Care is covered by that law.

SH> Like Cigar

Willy before him, Obama will keep one promise - that is, he
will continue to fund the killing of unborn babies under
the guise of women's health - or is it women's reproductive
freedom these days?

Lie number 2. Or is it lie number 3?

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BOB KLAHN wrote to ALL <=-

...

2. The AP is punked by a group of hoaksters whose blog
reported that GE would repay more than $3 billion in tax
credits (corporate welfare) they got from the Obama
administration. Not only did GE get tax credits for moving
jobs offshore, CEO Jeff Immelt got a seat on Obama's jobs
advisory panel.

Lie number 1. In the late '90s the republican congress passed a
bill allowing corporations, including GE, to avoid taxes by
shifting profits overseas. In 2004 the republican congress
passed another such tax dodge.

Obama didn't give GE those tax dodges, they were beyond his
control.

3. In a surprise move - out of left field, really - a
democrat president proposes that the government raise taxes
on the rich - rich to be defined by said governemt. Like
the classless Clinton before him, Obama reminds us that he
is rich.

And Obama's plan would increase taxes on Obama. Remember, 100%
of the post WWII increase in the debt burden, the debt as
percent of GDP, accumulated under 3 anti-tax republican
presidents.

4. Seems that the most transparent presidency in history
(that was his promise, right?) is concealing visits with
lobbyists by meeting with them at a coffee shop across the
street from the White House. White House visitors' logs

Obama is going to a coffee shop across the street from the
Whitehouse?

...

5. American fighter jets are again dropping bombs on Libya
- this after Obama told Americans that other countries
would take over the Libya operation.

Nato did take over. And the US is a member of NATO. The US has
solid justification and a very good moral cause for taking down
Kadaffi.

That's good to hear.

I've not looked into this latest.

Still too much sickness of the soul from the last adventure.

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It's been a good week in politics:

But not for republicans. They are turning on each other. And
Breitbart, far right wing icon, has turned on them in spades.

1. Two in one, as we celebrate the mainstream press losing
what passes for its mind. Howard Fineman tells MSNBC's
Lawrence O'Donnell that Obama's low approval ratings are
the fault of the GOP congress.

Since the GOP congress has even lower approval ratings...

ABC's Cokie Roberts, a
woman for whom I used to have great respect, says that
conservatives want Obama to be a Muslim so they don't have
to admit their dislike of a black man.

It is either that or admit the republicans are so enamored of
pure power they are willing to sink this country in their
attempt to gain it. The right, note the differentiation between
conservatives and right wingers, either are prejudiced against
Muslims, against Blacks, or are just willing to exploit bigotry
to gain power. Not a whole lot of difference there in any case.

It takes a special
breed of rationalization to be a liberal these days.
Seriously, you can't make this stuff up.

Yes, liberals play too nice.

2. Obama says that there is no silver bullet to bring the
price of gas down and then attacks oil companies for making
a profit. Obama must've lost the silver bullet that
existed during GW's eight years.

You mean the years when gas first broke $4/gal back in 2008? I
just paid $3.99/Gal, with some stations selling for $4.09/gal,
still less than the 2008 peak. Which, BTW, is not inflation
adjusted.

Guess that's when the silver bullet got melted down to make
coins to pay for the gas?

3. Notwhithstanding the fact that no Wisconsin recount has
reversed an eletion in 30 years, JoAnne Kloppeburg is
insiting on one. Wonder what this meaningless stunt will
cost the taxpayers of Wisconsin?

Since 10,800 republican votes were *DISCOVERED* on the computer
of one republican stalwart, and have not been found anywhere
else, and since those votes were just enough to kill a free
recount, and since the democratic portion of that vote turned
out to be exactly 3456, funny sequence there, that recount is
hardly meaningless.

It also turns out the same county clerk had a very similar error
in an election in 2006.

OTOH, since the republicans clearly stole Florida for Bush in
2000, which was the second time they took the presidency that
way, suspicion is clearly justified in any case.

4. In repsonse to Obama's drone attacks in their country,
Pakistan's political leaders will not allow NATO resupply
convoys to cross their border. Remember when Obama was
going to bring peace, love and brotherhood to the middle
east?

Since when is Pakistan in the Middle East? Iraq was Bush's mass
murder war for oil. Afghanistan was the war that was justified.
Pakistan was an unindicted co-conspirator with the Taliban.

5. Google skips Easter.

Did they?

6. Some leftie moonbat woman paid $7,6000 to heckle Obama
in San Francisco.

How much is 7,6000?

So, you are saying Obama is too much to the middle? Nice of you
to admit it.

7. Scripps Howard and the University of Ohio conduct a
poll finding that more than 50 percent of registered
democrats believe President Bush knew the 911 attacks were
coming (this number includes Otto, by the way). Any takers
on how many of these deluded morons scoff at the birthers?

They only believe that because they make the mistake of
believing GW Bush actually knew anything about what was
happening in his administration then.

It is established fact that the hijacking of airliners was
warned about early on in his administration. Using airliners as
weapons was predicted before that. Richard Clarke said they had
warnings of an imminent attack, but he was not allowed to talk
to Bush, or even the cabinet level officials, until just shortly
before the attack.

IOW, Bush didn't know, but he should have.

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5. American fighter jets are again dropping bombs on Libya
- this after Obama told Americans that other countries
would take over the Libya operation.

Nato did take over. And the US is a member of NATO. The US has
solid justification and a very good moral cause for taking down
Kadaffi.

That's good to hear.

I've not looked into this latest.

Still too much sickness of the soul from the last adventure.

Problem with giving in to sickness of the soul, you wind up
standing by while innocents die.


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It's been a good week in politics:

1. The Agence Presse France is reporting that this week's
tornados in the South were caused not by global warming but
by wind. Who knew??

A tornado is wind spinning very fast. So, wind is cause by wind?
Bit circular isn't it? (double meaning intended.)

If he had bothered to actually read the report he would have
learned it's a bit more complicated than that, and the experts
are just saying they aren't certain.

2. Donald Trump owns the President of the United States
then takes full credit for the owning.

Trump gets trumped, veers off onto suggesting a Magna Cum Laude
grad of Harvard Law, wasn't good enough to get into the colleges
he graduated from.

OTOH, maybe that's just a reflection of SH's hidden preference
for slavery.

3. A North Carolina judge has ordered the release of

...

that lawyers for Rielle Hunter asked the coiffed sissy boy

Notice the inordinate fixation on his sexuality?

some questions that were embarrassing to him and sissy
boy's lawyers ...

Yep, he does seem to display a fixation on male sexuality.

4. So Robert Dinero dares to take on Donald Trump over the
birther issue. Now, a man who wears his hair like Trump
does probably doesn't give a tinker's damn what some actor
- or anybody else - thinks about him. Trump responds that

Trump certainly does care. Any publicity is good in his mind.

when you are dealing with Dinero, thoughts of Albert
Einstein don't come readily to mind. How'd THAT work out
for you, Robert?

For Donald Trump to say that about anyone just puts them on
Trumps level.

5. Moral pipsqeak Jimmy Carter accuses the United States
of crimes against humanity because Obama is not sending
food to Kim Jong Il.

Bet you dollars to doughnuts Kim Jong II is not going hungry.

And Jimmy Carter is much more respected than SH ever thought of
being.

6. After being punked by Donald Trump, our bright and

SH has this fixation on male sexuality, doesn't he.

Trump got trumped.

articulate president tells reporters that there is too much
important stuff going to to worry about "sideshows and
carnival barkers" like Trump. On Friday, Obama dedicated
himself to the important matter of watching an inbred royal
get married over in England.

Yeah, would have been so much better to watch his brother, the
combat vet, rather than the rescue helicopter pilot.

7. Democrats predictably call birthers racist. "No person
except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United
States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution,
shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall
any person be eligible to that office who shall not have
attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen
Years a resident within the United States." Man, that
James Madison sure hated black people, huh?

He sure owned enough of them. That plus advocating that, if
emancipation did happen, those blacks he so loved should not be
allowed to live around white people.

OTOH, what does James Madison have to do with the fact that
Birthers demand proof from one president they never demanded
from any other? Where was George Romney born? Was he really a
natural born citizen? Very few even questioned that, now did they.

Yet when Obama released a legal Hawaiian birth certificate the
birthers demanded more.

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It's been a good week in politics:

1. The Agence Presse France is reporting that this week's
tornados in the South were caused not by global warming but
by wind. Who knew??

A tornado is wind spinning very fast. So, wind is cause by wind?
Bit circular isn't it? (double meaning intended.)

If he had bothered to actually read the report he would have
learned it's a bit more complicated than that, and the experts
are just saying they aren't certain.

There is more and more evidence that global climate change is giving
storms more energy, in the form of warmer air.

There have been record-breaking temperatures in several states, and in
one of them, Texas, this has led to wildfires.

2. Donald Trump owns the President of the United States
then takes full credit for the owning.

Trump gets trumped, veers off onto suggesting a Magna Cum Laude
grad of Harvard Law, wasn't good enough to get into the colleges
he graduated from.

Eugene Robinson, the Pulitzer-prize winning columnist has nailed it,
Trump is pandering to racism.

OTOH, what does James Madison have to do with the fact that
Birthers demand proof from one president they never demanded
from any other? Where was George Romney born? Was he really a
natural born citizen? Very few even questioned that, now did they.

Yet when Obama released a legal Hawaiian birth certificate the
birthers demanded more.

Now they are demanding his school records, even a DNA test.

Pam Geller still thinks Malcolm X is Obama's real father.

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It's been a good week in politics.

1. So uber weirdo Olbermann can call President Bush a
terrorist and a war criminal without penalty, but Mark
Halperin has to go because he said Obama acted like a dick
during a press conference? Is it any wonder that Faux
"news" beats the hell out of MSNBC?

And this is what SH considers significant? He doesn't mention
why it was said, what should have happened, or anything to give
anyone an idea what's going on.

2. Speaking of that, CNN airs a 40-year-old statement from
Roger Ailes that talked about the possibility of a 24-hour

And nothing to give anyone an idea what it's all about.

...

3. Cigar Willy says that he would like to have
grandchildren but that the matter is out of his control.
Really?

And he considers this significant?

4. On a more serious note, June was the deadliest month in
a year for our men at arms. Of course, with the departure
of President Bush, the MSM have lost interest in the body

The MSM seems to be going to the right in trying to keep the
troops in combat.

...

5. One in four Americans don't know who we declared
independence from in 1776. I wonder if these people also
think that U.S. senators represent districts within states?

After a generation of the right hacking away at American schools
it's no wonder.

Anyone notice, the repubican solution to the debt in Minnesota
is to take $700 million from the schools, but not one bit of a
tax increase on the uber-rich? Minnesota is already $1Billion
down on school funding. Now $700M more? The republicans don't
even blink at that.

6. After refusing to meet with congresspeople over the
debt, Obama calls for bipartisan action on the debt. He is
not a serious man.

It was the repubicans who walked out on the talks, when the
democrats wanted to discuss the tax breaks on corporate jets.
That is not serious. Why would Obama meet with anyone who sets
preconditions that he gives all, and they give nothing?


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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