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Grrr.. Video with subversive, altruistic themes shown to my children?? GRRR!

2009-09-07T08:07:00.004-06:00

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Oh Utah. How you never fail to not surprise me. I haven't been super active politically for a while, but I stumbled across this article over at the Salt Lake Tribune about a video I'm sure you've all heard of by now. It was shown in a school to our impressionable youths, the Eagle Forum Became aware, freaked out, condemned it as "radical, leftist, propaganda" and watched as their hate-mob gathered in support.

Must be membership drive time at the Eagle Forum.

I read with interest some of the quotes from the Trib story:

"It's very inappropriate to show a radical, leftist propaganda piece that political to children," Ruzicka said. "If parents want their children to learn about those things and do them in the home, wonderful, fine, but it's not the place of the school to show a one-sided propaganda piece to children without parents knowing about it."

Ooohh.. Those sneaky leftists. Always trying to brainwash our children when we're not looking. Thank God Ruzicka - who looks like a Den Home Mother but has the demeanor of a person who spent some time in hell at a leadership forum with Satan - is on it.

Then Cieslewicz continued the thought..

"They shouldn't be troubling our youth with the woes of the world and making them feel like we're in slavery or they have to worry about how many times they flush the toilet or if they have a plastic water bottle," Cieslewicz said, referring to pledges in the video to "end slavery."

Exactly. Why trouble our youth with the realities of our world. Better to protect them until their eighteen, when they can then stumble out into the world, and be so blinded by the actualities of existence here on Earth, that they can do what their parents do: pretend it just ain't so, and bury their heads in Fox News to get the reassurance that yes, everything they've been taught is the way it is, and everything to the contrary are simply those evil subversives, socialists, and other assorted mad men who want to hurt their feelings and self-esteem.

Anyway, after getting to work and realizing it was a holiday, I thought I would spend a few minutes transcribing the damn thing. It wasn't until I was almost done that I realized it was probably already transcribed in full somewhere on the net. Alas, I'm a little slow this morning.

Video:

So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of resolves to pitch in and work harder to look after

Yes, it starts out with a radical bang, doesn't it?

not only ourselves but each other

i pledge to help end hunger in America by supporting feeding America and our local food bank

huh.. okay.

i pledge to smile more
to laugh more
to love more

leftist bastards... this is America, where smiling, laughing and loving are values which should only be discussed in the home.

i pledge to volunteer more of my time to help children battling serious illnesses

everyone knows that sick children are one of the great bastions of the radical left.

i pledge to be a great mother
to be a great father

see, if you say this on the video, then all of the children will start expecting great parenting. Imagine the kind of pressure that puts on local parents?

to continue working with unicef to make this world a better place for all of our children

to be the voice for those who have no voice

to consider myself an american, not an african american

The right should love this, shouldn't they?

to always represent my country with pride, dignity and honesty

Pride, dignity and honesty. Okay, this I see. Obviously these are not qualities of the right and I understand why they wouldn't want their children instilled with such horrible leftists values.

i pledge to go to usaservice.org

to find a service project i am passionate about

i pledge allegiance to the funk, to the united funk of funkadelica

okay, this is just dumb. but leftist propaganda?

i pledge to never give someone the finger while driving again

to always find the humor in everything

i pledge to help find a cure for alzheimers

to care for America's elderly

to make sure senior citizens have access to health care

so our next generations memories will not be forgotten

i pledge to bring awareness to mental disease

maybe they're pissed 'cause all of this is leading up to THIS hot button issue...

to advance stem cell research

aghhh!!! murderers! child killers! look, you friggin' idiots. it was a person in a video talking about what they pledge to do. if you don't agree with stem cell research, try talking with your children about it. they're going to hear about other stuff sometimes when you're not around. it's one of the unfortunate consequences of living in a world where they have to occasionally leave your house.

to spread the awareness of autism

i pledge to show more love to strangers

but what if those strangers have a middle-eastern look to 'em? can't have no love being tossed around like it's candy, for heavens sake.

to meet my neighbors

whoa whoa whoa.. You mean, meet my neighbors who I know are of the same religion as I.. If they're not, then we need to continue the long tradition in Utah of ostracizing the adults and children of non-Mormon families as much as possible.

find out their names,

i'm going to give them a smile

and ask them how I can be of service to them

hey haters, maybe you can twist this into "prosyletize them".. does that help?

i pledge to be a better mentor to my younger sisters

to continue to be a mentor for big brothers, big sisters

i pledge to reduce my use of plastic

oh God.. is this really something they have a problem with? do you think plastic is good for the environment? have we really gotten to the point that just 'cause someone on the left says something, it must be an evil, false conspiracy which is somehow engineered to bring a socialist-style destruction to our fragile country?

by starting to use less bottled water

to plant 500 tree's this year to help our planet

to be more green

hey now.. everyone knows that to be aware of our envinronment is to be a radical leftist. easy.

to no longer use plastic bags at the grocery store

to consume less and cultivate more

so that we are on this planet forever

okay, Michelle.. (the actress who said this.. can't remember her last name..) we ain't gonna be on this planet forever, period. I'm all for shooting for the sky, but let's not get crazy.

for the environment, i pledge to flush only after a deuce, never a

okay.. did you really have to put this one in here? *shrug* I guess a little toilet humor really hooks the kids, eh?

i pledge to turn the lights off, 'cause I used to leave the lights on, but we want to conserve energy so I'm gonna turn the

lights off - you turn the lights off

i pledge to sell my obnoxious car and buy a hybrid

to consider one man's pledge to try to help the environment this way as leftist propaganda is insanity.

to drive slower and not use as much gas

i pledge to volunteer my time

to express the importance of arts education in our schools

isn't it sad that arts education has become a political issue?

to sell a culture of intelligence rather than ignorance

i pledge to help children understand that just because they come from a small place, doesn't mean they can't dream big

i pledge to help to make good the 200-year promise to end slavery

the abolition of 21st-century slavery

to free one million people from slavery in the next 5 years

I find it amazing that people really have a problem with talking about the reality of 21st century slavery in front of their children.

to fight,
to become aware,
to educate,
to not give up (ohh... heroe's chick - so hot.)
to defend,
..issues that I care about.

I pledge to be of service to Barrack *kisses one arm* Obama *kisses other arm*

rolls eyes

I pledge to change how I live

to be a better person

to never stop learning and growing each and every day
every day

i pledge to commit to my own change before I ask others to change

this sounds pretty reasonable to me.

to be the change

to be the change

to integrate into my heart what I already know in my head which is that we're all in this together

imagine what could happen next

what's your pledge?

what's your pledge?

I know you got a pledge! What's your pledge?!

Ya gotta pledge?

What's your pledge?

I pledge to be a servant to our president and all mankind..

Okay, I can understand this.. I don't like the idea of being servants to our government either. Our government does serve us.

Still. To suggest that this all rises to the level of "radical, leftist propaganda" is just one more reflection of the self-deluded belief that the right is being perpetually sieged.

..because together we can, together we are, and together we will be the change that we seek

Yeah, sorry celebrities. You're going to have to do without Utah on this. We're busy being besieged by radical leftist influences at the moment, and have to spend all of our focus there.

Oh, and just to get an idea of how the local public feels about whether or not the video should be shown in school:

I'm so proud.

DS
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Opinion - Rob Robinson - Mexican War reversed?

2009-07-17T16:54:00.003-06:00

Mexican War reversed?

It appears that Sonia Sotomayor will soon be confirmed justice of the Supreme Court. Look for her to promptly rally the court to rule that the military test known as the Mexican War, where the Mexican firefighters were outnumbered and overmatched, was fundamentally unfair.

Declaring Mexico the winner and further declaring the land between current Mexico and Canada to be the newest Mexican state will solve the immigration problem at the same time.

Rob Robinson

Salt Lake City

Oh Deseret News.

Really? This is where you're at? At least there is no shortage of fodder, I suppose.

No, but seriously: Thank you, letter writer - Rob Robinson. Hiiiiiilarious. Yes, I'm sure that if she is confirmed that she will single-handedly "rally" the court to take up an imaginary case which will effectively lop off a fourth of the United States of America and return it to Mexico. I mean, of course she will. Of course this will happen. It's naive to think it won't, really.

Republicans, I think this one belongs to you. Will you please do something with him? He's making you look bad.

Well, worse.

DS
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Mark, the Courageous Bigot Schools Me

2009-03-14T12:27:00.004-06:00

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I've been largely inactive lately, but I still receive e-mail's with comments and such from people who stumble across old DS posts which just get them so worked up that they can't help but post a comment on a year old post. Here's one from this article which got commented yesterday, along with my response:

DS wouldn't even leave his name.

How is the Gay community inflicting their personal and gay beliefs on our religious community? Just look out your window. No they haven't prohibited traditional marriage. But, even after losing a vote on same sex unions, a large group cry, they protest, they sue, they threaten. They are mean and nasty. They are no better than two-year olds who don't get their way. Same-sex marriage is not a "right" that has been taken away. Someday they may get their life style legitimized. Let's hope if they do, it's not through the terrorism tactics currently used by some.

Mark

*looks out window* Yes! My God! There are homosexuals everywhere accosting traditional marriage! I can see them from the crack in the blinds which I've opened just barely enough so that gay people don't otherwise notice I'm here and try to convert me to homosexuality! (I live in constant fear of this) How did I not see this before??

*rolls eyes* Oh, and yes, your bravery posting under "anonymous" but signing it "Mark" is shameful to me and bloggers everywhere who use pen names. Here, as a gesture of respect, in light of your courageous signage, let me say for all to hear, that my name is "James." *shivers* It feels good. It feels damn good. Thank you for breaking those walls down and calling me out over it.

As far as your bizarre, inane comments: I see you follow in the loving footsteps of Sen. .. what's his name... You know, that bigot who hates people who aren't like him.. Oh yeah, Buttars.

Name me a terrorism tactic that the gay community is using. Name one with a straight face and then relate it to any actual act of terrorism that any person with even the slightest shred of rationality might consider to be an act of terrorism. The reason why you and others are trying to justify your hatred and bigotry by equating gay activism with terrorism and destruction, is because there is really no good argument to try and deny homosexuals the same rights that you, as a heterosexual, closeted as you may be, enjoy.

If religious unions were outlawed by some majority, you would be screaming and crying and ranting and protesting your heart out, so spare me your condescension and accusations towards the gay community that they would respond poorly to a vote which is inherently demeaning and prejudicial.

DS

er..

James

DS
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Where was the GOP on these overpaid individuals?

2008-12-15T06:46:00.002-07:00

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Guess the GOP only filibusters bills that help working folks.

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A tribute to Milton Friedman

2008-11-16T18:31:00.002-07:00

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The most celebrated wind bag of our time. Watch this interview, he is pretty much wrong on everything he says about where our economy was headed. If he can't the basics right why should we trust him on the ideas to educate our children.

Marshall
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Video: Obama loses Election to McCain by One Vote

2008-10-29T11:47:00.003-06:00

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Hilarious. This could be you, Your Name.

DS
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It's Alive!!!!

2008-10-11T10:09:00.003-06:00

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Watching this clip today it appears that McCain is having second thoughts on what he has created.

This is what happens when Republicans appeal to lowest common denominator in society. I hope McCain continues to raise the level of civility in this election, not only because he is also an honorable man but because whoever is elected president will need all Americans working together to move this country forward. We need to be united again, I am going to support the person that looks most able to do that.

Marshall
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Palin has national security experience because...

2008-09-21T20:04:00.003-06:00

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Drum roll please...Alaska is close to Russia. Wow, you seriously can not make this stuff up.

Oh and Palin stopped over at Ireland once too for refueling. Evidently that counts too as foreign relations in Republican fantasy land. Another McCain/Palin LIE! This is getting beyond stupid.

Marshall
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Paul Krugman - another liberal that was right

2008-09-21T11:22:00.006-06:00

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I haven't bought Prof. Krugman's book yet watching him this week destroy Republican ideology that got us in this mess has been amazing.

Krugman also has a pretty good blog that I follow pretty closely - http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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Thank you John McCain

2008-09-20T08:53:00.002-06:00

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McCain = Lies

2008-09-13T08:46:00.001-06:00

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Selling your soul for the presidency has its costs. Truth being one of them.

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Go Vote

2008-09-11T18:54:00.001-06:00

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Seriously people!!!!!

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FOX is WRONG!

2008-08-16T10:16:00.000-06:00

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Marshall
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Rob Bishop running to be the Energy Solutions congressman

2008-07-23T21:49:00.001-06:00

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What does 28 thousand dollars buy? Evidently a Congressman minus a soul. Morgan lays out who he will be working for.

Awesome job Morgan. Bishop has stopped working for us a long time ago.

ht - SideTrack

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Video - Fox News and Push Polling

2008-07-21T08:59:00.003-06:00

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Keith Olbermann discusses Fox News' increasing use of "push polls" to influence public opinion during polling. I'm shocked - Shocked! - that they would do such a thing.

DS
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Video - Olbermann: More on Illegal Signing Statements

2008-07-17T20:08:00.002-06:00

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It is not the job of the President to interpret the law, and it is not within his authority to rewrite it based upon some insane notion of the Unitary Executive. He has one - and only one - Constitutional authority granted to him in this arena, which is a Presidential veto.

The sheer number of Constitutional infractions by President Bush is dizzying and the damage he has done to this Country and the principles it was founded upon will last for generations.

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Video - Karl Rove gets Owned by Colmes?

2008-07-17T19:22:00.007-06:00

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Karl Rove is usually a pretty cool character. This is one of the few times I've seen him get this flustered.

I'm not sure who this moron is who's sitting in for Hannity, but he is equally repulsive. "The Supreme Court has thrown an unholy mess onto the elapse of the administration with this - it's decision." It is stunning that upholding Habeas Corpus - a principle which predates the founding of this country and is considered pivotal to a free society - is being condemned by the right.

What is unprecedented here is the idea that the President is not bound by the law, the Constitution, treaties or tradition, and may detain anyone, for any reason, with them having no recourse, solely by declaring them an "enemy combatant." It may take a Democrat in office before Republicans rediscover the Constitution and get on board with upholding the law.

In theory, the President is supposed to be bound by the law, just like the rest of us. One is reminded of the Nixon scandal, when he famously stated that "When the President does it, it is not against the law." It can be argued that the whole idea of the Constitution is restrain and check power, so that nightmares like the Bush administration might be prevented. The sheer weight of Republican dishonesty, immorality and corruption is testing it to its breaking point.

Rove squirms under Colmes unusual backbone, pressing the point of whether or not war has been declared - a power granted exclusively to the Congress. Has war been declared? No. It hasn't. That is why Rove is floundering all over the place to rephrase a declaration of war as an "authorization of force," which Constitutionally, is not the same thing. Just as the "War on Drugs" is not a declared war, nor is the "War on Terror." This is an extremely important point. When war is declared, the Executive is granted extraordinary latitude for a finite period of time. This is precipitated upon the idea that the country is under a grave threat which will end.

The President and his cronies want to muddy this idea until we are in a perpetual state of war, with the Executive ruling by edict - the very definition of a dictatorship.

In any event, it's amusing to watch as Rove lapses into repeating talking points. They are, of course, typical, nauseating, Republican sophistry.

DS
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Glenn Beck: Che Guevara T-Shirts are the Real Problem

2008-07-17T17:20:00.004-06:00

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Glenn Beck, in his on-going efforts to lay claim to the crown of right-wing idiocy, wrote a riveting opinion piece on one of the great threats of our time. What is this looming force of darkness which Mr. Beck has rooted out for our consideration? Che Guevara T-Shirts. That's right. America's crack team of far-right punditry has once again focused us on the really important issues that we never knew existed. From the CNN article:

That's right, the same T-shirts you see Hollywood celebrities, starving pseudo-artists and confused hipster teens wearing around local coffee shops. To all those who decide that you want to be coffee house communist-chic, remember this: When you are wearing a Che T-shirt, you're wearing the same shirt that makes terrorists believe you're just one of the gang. I hope that latte is tasty.

Oh Glenn! You and your butter-knife sharp wit! Thanks to your formulaic sarcasm I'm sure those latte-sipping liberals are all dropping their heads in collective shame. He continues..

"This is a history of a failure" is how he himself described his efforts in the Congo. He was killed in Bolivia, trying to fire up another failure of a war. Earlier, he even managed to drop his gun and shoot himself in the face.

Well, if there's one thing I hate, it's people who are complete failures at starting wars. I prefer those guys who successfully wage wars which result in hundreds of thousands or millions of civilian casualties. Who do we know that fits that description?

But more important than his incompetence is the fact that the man was a mass killer.

Thanks for steadying us all with that tidbit of sobering wisdom, Glenn.

With the exception of the fact that Che killed a lot more people, what's the difference? You shouldn't be wearing an "I heart abortion clinic bombers" T-shirt, and if you have any respect for humanity, you shouldn't be wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt, either.

Right. You should be circuitously defending the actions of abortion clinic bombers, not wearing non-existent T-shirts which leave no doubt as to your ideals. Obfuscation and moral/intellectual ambiguity is the motto of the modern-day conservative, after all.

sigh.

Glenn, you incompetent hack. Are you really equating respect for humanity with not wearing an article of clothing? Call me crazy, but I think you lost your moral authority when you equivocated over whether water boarding was torture or not. I mean, when did that even become a question? We've gone decades without what qualifies as "torture" being called into question. And then with the arrival of President Bush and his band of integrity-deficient Neocons, suddenly it's a big gray area?

Look, this isn't a defense of Che, this is a refocusing on genuine evils and real consequences. Consequences of the actions taken by our leaders, defended religiously by loons like Mr. Beck. I suspect that the families and friends of those hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's who have died in the war Mr. Bush waged - based entirely on "factual inaccuracies" (A nice way of saying 'lies') - hardly care what noble (and constantly changing) reasons precipitated it.

Try to stomach that. Hundreds of thousands dead. Millions displaced. Approaching a trillion dollars of debt stacked on the shoulders of an ailing economy and a dollar which has nose-dived almost since day-one of the Bush Presidency.. Was killing Saddam and replacing him with a largely ineffectual, whining government really worth it? I guess that's a question for history, but I doubt it's of any question to the millions of people in Iraq who have lost their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, etc, to a bloody war justified with lies and waged with criminal incompetence.

Now why were we discussing Che Guevara again?

DS
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McClellan vs O'Reilly

2008-06-11T19:12:00.002-06:00

More of the interview
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Take this job and shove it.

2008-04-25T18:09:00.000-06:00

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Pay your damn people Hillary

2008-02-23T19:41:00.003-07:00

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I always thought I would support Hillary in the general but this just pisses me off to no end.

My mom owns a cleaning business and hearing the guy that owned that cleaning business talk about getting the run around from the Hillary campaign cuts deep, real deep...too deep. I have had to do collections for my mom and it is no fun. This is down right disgraceful and pathetic.

Right now I feel like if Hillary wins the nomination I won't be lifting a finger for her and I might not even vote, I will stay home, got that Hillary, pay your damn people.

Marshall
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Erick Erickson can kiss my ass

2008-02-15T22:12:00.006-07:00

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The following is the reason that progressives are so much more organized on the internet according to Erick Erickson, a Republican blogger.

Erick Erickson... conceded that progressives currently enjoy an advantage over conservatives online—though he attributed it to an asymmetry in free time, since conservatives "have families because we don't abort our kids, and we have jobs because we believe in capitalism."

Here is a screen shot of my time card this week.

My wife worked similar hours this week, so between the two of us we have worked 100+ hours this week but this is what it takes to live comfortably in America. Republicans want to talk about the strain on the family, there it is but I digress.

Erick Erickson is the same idiot that runs a half baked Republican blog that is suppose to be the rights version of daily kos. He whined that the liberals that run daily kos wouldn't show him how to setup a load balancing server cluster so his site kept crashing. How is it that liberals can figure this stuff out? It must be because we are all lazy and don't have jobs...right or is it because our knuckles don't drag on the ground...either way Erick Erickson can kiss my ass.

ht - Zablanc

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Homeless Veterans

2008-02-02T12:49:00.000-07:00

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I am thinking about giving my tax "stimulus" to a homeless veterans charity. Wonder what O'Reilly is doing with his?

Of course the only media person on the case is Olbermann.

Marshall
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Faux Noise caught using the same "focus group" to pump McCain.

2008-01-07T06:04:00.000-07:00

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You will see the same people three months ago in this video at around 3:46.

And again yesterday in this video at around 1:44.

Creating the news since the mid 90s...that is Faux Noise

Marshall
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Operation change for the better

2008-01-06T19:23:00.000-07:00

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Marshall
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