Remembering Memory Lane - Argentina, I can't cry for you, you did it to yourselves

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COMANDANTE PRESIDENTE FERNANDEZ de KIRCHNER

 

Believe it or not, this is a recent picture of Hillary-clone

Cristina Fernandez Vda de Kirchner.  She, like (Sir

Edmund)Hillary, rode to her position entirely on the

horse of her dead husband who had also been President

of Argentina at one time.  He also drove the Silver

Republic into bankruptcy.  Young Commies turn into

old, decrepit socialists who like to live in palaces, and

they like to try "just one more time" to make socialism

work.  Frumpy, like (Sir Edmund) Hillary, incoherent

and clueless, she throws her ashtrays and sheiks orders

but she is a sad thing full of sound and fury meaning

nothing.  There is not even enough money to float one

warship over to the Falklands to demand that the

Falklands surrender to Argentine rule.

     It grieves El Gringo Viejo that his ego forces him to

gloat.   He does not gloat because the Argentines are

suffering, as are the people of Cuba and Venezuela, where

there are many, many good people.  He is discomfited

because he cannot resist gloating about the accuracy of

his diagnosis of the inevitable result of taxing the rich to

death and giving away "free" things to the hoi polloi in

a desperate attempt to become the Nueva Evita.

     Eva Duarte de Peron, Juan Peron's second wife, ruled

as a queen briefly in Argentina before dying at the age of
33 from female cancer of some sort.  Cristina was a

member of a marxist militia during her collegiate

period and has/had something of a "Che" mystique

among the stupid and the permanent wave of puedo-

college students who find out that there is poverty

and want in the world, and that it is America's

fault (Barry Soetoro's First Law of Civilisation).

 

In a serious vein, Mrs. Fernandez de Kirchner is thought

to be seriously ill, debilitated from the frustrations of

what were probably sincere best wishes and efforts.

But Bolshies never learn that you can't thread a needle

with a meat-grinder.   What is also certain is, that even

as we write, the Argentine Peso has lost another 1/4 of

a per cent of its value, even against the weak dollar. 

 

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Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- First came the default, then a proposed debt swap aimed at circumventing a U.S. court ruling that could normalize Argentina’s relations with foreign investors. Now traders foresee a devaluation for the second time this year. Bloomberg's Katia Porzecanski has more on "In The Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)

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First came the default, then a proposed debt swap aimed at circumventing a U.S. court ruling that could normalize Argentina’s relations with foreign investors. Now traders foresee a devaluation for the second time this year.

Argentina’s peso sank 1.5 percent this week to 8.4025 per dollar, the biggest drop since the government devalued the currency 15 percent in the week ended Jan. 24. In the black market, where Argentines go to avoid government limits on purchases of U.S. currency, the peso weakened to a record 13.95 per dollar yesterday.

Argentines are demanding more hard currency after the government proposed exchanging overseas debt into notes governed by local law. The plan means it’s less likely President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will negotiate a deal with holdout creditors that would lift the court order that has prevented the country from servicing its obligations, according to Bank of America Corp. Prolonging the default would then restrict Argentine borrowers’ access to international markets, putting pressure on policy makers to allow the peso to weaken as dollars become scarce.

 

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More later on this and other topics.

El Gringo Viejo

 

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It becomes more and more critical

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    The morbid silliness of this poseur who resides, officially, in the White House has passed the redline on the tachometer for so many RPMs now that the engine will either burn up or throw a tie-rod at any time.

 

     Some months back, El Gringo Viejo advised that is was foolish to keep assailing against Bashir Assad, the dictator of Syria.  On top of that, he was a cad with whom we are familiar, while the fighters who assail against him are an unknown quantity.  While it seems improbable, we are dealing with the Middle East, and worse-than-Bashir was certainly not out of the question.

 

     To be sure, John McCain and Lindsey Graham who are both noble United States Senators, also wanted to overthrow poor Bashir because....you know, he's just a bad guy, like his daddy.   El Gringo Viejo, on the other hand, who is a nobody and a peripheral flea in the Universe of the Mighty came to the conclusion one day that Bashir might ought to be kept right where he is, as
"President" of Syria.  True he has sheltered Hezbollah thugs on his territory since the time of the Pharaohs and Alexander the Great.  And true, he probably received the bulk of the viable weaponry of mass destruction from Saddam Hussein before the Second Gulf War, and he has been a bit heavy-handed  in governing his people during his reign.

Mohamed Morsi 

    But there are a couple of other points.   During his reign it is true that he has paid the necessary lip service to the anti-Israeli positions required of anyone leading a principally Muslim country.  But he has also, like various of the Arab leaders, been rather perfunctory about his anti-Israelism.  He is not quite as Israel-friendly as Mubarek and/or the Egyptian Military, but his record is closer to them than it is to Morsi the Maniac.  Actually, the Hebrews kept an eye on Bashir and his Hezbollah thugs en residence but, in typical Arab fashion, it seems the thugs remain more of a menace to Lebanon than Israel.
    The next thing was that the "Resistance" to Bashir Assad never could quite seem to coalesce into a monolithic movement.   It always seemed to disintegrate, and during the arguments one group kept holding sway, and it was the group that was based upon the remnants of the old Al Qaeda in Iraq, to-day known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.   The "moderate" elements of the resistance to Assad always seemed to fall to the wayside or be found on the road to Turkey or Kurdistan seeking refuge.   Only the old Al Qaeda in Iraq fighters seemed to stay the course.  Now noting the bloodthirsty and maniacal nature of the fervour of the ISIL group, it is probably true that they were the ones gassing their own people with captured stores of poisoned gas.  It is certain that they abused their fellow "freedom fighters" mercilessly.  The international press would easily lay the blame on poor Bashir. 
    Sadly for ISIL, the Syrian fighters were tougher than had been anticipated. The Jews took note that during their recent unpleasantness with the "Palestinians" no Syrian jets or tanks or even infantry units even looked in the direction of Israel.  ISIL has gone back into the "black hole" of Iraq (the blank northern areas), committed terrorism of inconceivable depravity against Iraqis of various types and stripes, thereby carving out an area of the Levant that ISIL can call its own.   Refugees have poured out.  Thousands have been buried alive, beheaded, raped, shot-up by spraying thousands of automatic weapons rounds onto groups of hundreds of men who are left in stinking heaps of rotting mounds of corpses in order to terrorise those remaining alive.  Nice folks.  And they say they are coming to America.

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Peter O'toole saves Arabia
from the Germans, Turks, and
themselves, all at once.

     So the esteemed Solons McCain and Graham...who truly are good and accomplished men....were wrong.  The replacement for Assad was worse than Assad.  And it has become necessary now to join with Assad the Despicable, oddly enough, in order to protect Syrians and Israelis and Egyptians.  The odd man out is Hezbollah.  The Lebanese and Jordanians, and probably even the Saudis would  come on board to eliminate ISIL down to the last man.  It is in the interest of all the afore-named (minus Hezbollah) because of the oil issue.

Maj. T.E. Lawrence
C. - 1918
The man who played Peter
O'Toole in real life.

      America's new-found hydrocarbiferous potency is going to rearrange the petro-geopolitical map substantially.  On a parallel, the Benghazi affair seems now to have been Obama and Hillary officially "looking the other way" while ISIL agents and affiliates sacked massive amounts of arms and ammunition under the control of the CIA to be transported to ports in southeastern Turkey.  There it was off-loaded to ISIL transport agents and deployed among those forces and only those forces.

Gamel Abdul Nasser

    ISIL thinkers are already aware of this improbable set of alliances.  They have heard of Peter O'toole and how he saved the Arabs from themselves and drew a line on a map to create British inspired Syria and Iraq as places with straight-line boundaries within the Levant.  Like magic lines in the sand...even Barry couldn't do that!

     All of this is possible because Major Lawrence and 5,000 years of intrigues among the people of the Levant prove that it is not only possible, but probable.  It was in the 1950s when President Eisenhower defied Prime Minister MacMillan and HRH Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom and sided with Gamel Abdul Nasser of Egypt and actually engaged in hostilities with the French and the Brits.  It was about the right of Nasser to essentially nationalise the Suez Canal.   We wound up on Nasser's side to try to keep the Ruskies from getting their camel's nose under the tent.  Finally the Russians wound up winning, but only briefly.  Egyptians actually really do like Brits and Americans a lot better.
    The miracle of Lawrence of Arabia....and few are going to like what is stated herein...was in many ways duplicated by a guy named George W. Bush and his entire posse of Vice-President, Secretary of Defence, down to the last private no-time-in-grade arriving in Baghdad during the Second Gulf War.  It was a glorious victory for American and allied arms as well as for the Iraqi people.  Would that it had been nurtured by a better custodian.

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     In this matter, Hezbollah, strangely enough, is the odd-man-out.  Hezbollah could never withstand a three way shredding by a Lebanese, Syrian, and Israeli "box-in".   They were almost annihilated in the 1980s by such a situation, until the Gringos lifted their foot off the accelerator and put in on the brake.   United Nations recommended, don't you know.

 

     So, combined with the Kurds and even to some small extent the Turks, the ISIL can be dealt with.  Their main enemy is they themselves.  They continue to express useless hubris which exposes them to sudden and severe and devastating reprisal and vengeance.   Our only shortcoming in the mix is the commander-in-chief who really is too busy to dirty his hands with reality.....with the correcting of a very bad reality of his own creation, almost as if by intention.   Or should we remind ourselves that Barry is actually a sock-puppet of Valerie Jarrett who is the quarterback and fullback and field coach for Team Soros-World National Socialist Union of Jew-haters?

 

     So, combined with the Kurds, and even to some small extent the Turks, and some pretty darned effective fighters among the Iraqi Army that finally showed up, and the French who really can fight when they put their minds to it, and the Brits who have little or no apology to make to anyone....this chicken can be boiled.

 

     If the Turks and the Damascans would simply solidly seal their borders, one French, one British, and two American flattops could lay down enough air power for two weeks to establish an annihilation force of 60,000 battle hardened fighters the likes of which ISIL could never imagine.  It's one thing to murder people who are un-armed and defenceless.....rape women....steal, and loot and be depraved.  But armoured cavalry, helicopter cavalry, heavy infantry, and especially the  artillery could degrade the ISIL into an unrecognisable mite in relatively short order.

 

    So we shall see.  The need is to essentially remove this president from the helm, as was the physically wasted Woodrow Wilson, and put in a shadow group to serve as president until the term is over.  If not...the song "Coming to America" will no longer be a pleasant song.  We must close the borders tightly, and oddly enough...due to passports abounding with the image of HRH Queen Elizabeth on them...the Canadian border as well.

The following instrumental is dedicated to Barry Soetoro, as an anthem to what he seems to have been doing since the last election, when he fooled them all one more time.   Here's to Ole Barry

 

 

More Later,

El Gringo Viejo

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A special note to newcomers: first of all, welcome!

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     We forget, at times, to do a bit of self-promotion, especially if it benefits our clients and readership, loosely known as the OROG community.   The Order of the Readers of the Old Gringo is a growing group of grumpily pleasant people.  There are even a few who think they are liberals of some sort or another.

     We have had the comment from one lady who indicated that she happened upon our blog and it made her so furious that she wanted to call her congressgirlyman.   But, she did not, and was strangely drawn back to the long, winding sentences with two dependent clauses and perhaps three independent clauses, silly pictures, and silly music....anger, humour, British spelling, Mexican-inflected commentary....historical orientations...and social analysis....and she decided that it was one of her favourite stops on the cyber-highway into the cloud after all.

 

Have Gun - Will Travel

     We appreciate the open mind.  We also urge that the reader landing here for the first or early times to-day check back for a couple of weeks or maybe twenty or thirty entries as time permits to understand this blog.   It is both constant....riding along the right rail of the track, relying upon traditionalist guideposts for life....and somewhat eclectic, such as when we analyse by 360 degrees the issues surrounding Battle of the Alamo, or the Cinco de Mayo.   We also jump on the bones of Mexico and the Mexicans and can be one of  Mexico's and the Mexicans' best defenders, depending of course upon whether El Gringo Viejo believes them to be in error or correct.   El Gringo Viejo is the quintessential Texian.

 

     We have a posse, each a Paladin with his own path, and all of whom have similar although not identical viewpoints who intermittently contribute writing that, alas, is as good to much better than my own.   While they might not be either gunfighters or one of the Twelve Knights of the Court of Charlemagne, of them all they all be qualified for either title.   So the reader is not doomed to the same source forever.
     We even take our own to task, at times.  And, finally we draw liberally from source material that is used, with due credits, to augment understanding.   Once again....meander through our recent and ancient writings on the blog....communicate, preferably by e-mail, and feel at home here.

El Gringo Viejo

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THIS MIGHT BE THE BIG ONE, ELIZABETH!!! The "Constitutional Law Professor" is the "Nutty Professor"?

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 This is about as close to an up and down, just-the-facts-ma'am case as can be devised.  And it is constructed by a bunch of bureaucrats.  To wit:

 

President Obama violated a “clear and unambiguous” law when he released five Guantanamo Bay detainees in exchange for Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the Government Accountability Office reported Thursday.

 

“[The Department of Defense] violated section 8111 because it did not notify the relevant congressional committees at least 30 days in advance of the transfer,” the GAO report said. “In addition, because DOD used appropriated funds to carry out the transfer when no money was available for that purpose, DOD violated the Antideficiency Act. The Antideficiency Act prohibits federal agencies from incurring obligations exceeding an amount available in an appropriation.”

 

The GAO rejected the idea that the action was legal and sidestepped the Obama team’s suggestion that the law is unconstitutional.

 

“It is not our role or our practice to determine the constitutionality of duly enacted statutes,” the report says. “In our view, where legislation has been passed by Congress and signed by the President, thereby satisfying the bicameralism and presentment requirements in the Constitution, that legislation is entitled to a heavy presumption in favor of constitutionality.”

 

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     The action by the hand of the White House in the trading of five high value vermin for one deserter is simply another demonstration of the willingness of Barrack Obama to denigrate the United States of America.  This action would be similar to a man walking into a grocery store to buy a can of soup with a price tag of $1.50.   As the buyer walks out, he takes 12 one-hundred dollar bills and throws them at the cashier and continues on, walking out, going to his auto, and driving away.

     Obama's statement was that it was more important to defer to the terrorist - murderers and their feelings than to the entire United States Army and its feelings about a person who would desert his brothers in the face of the enemy, and further, join that enemy in the enemy's efforts.

      This swirl of incompetence that even has a dolt like Chuck Hegel concerned about Obama's lack of strategic understanding points ever more solidly to the fact that Obama is really bored with hanging around in the White House.  If he cannot be out demagoguing the Hell out of white people and black and Latin conservatives, and braying-forth with marxist platitudes, then he is just not interested in "plugging in".   

 

Good Grief, Carlos Moreno!

El Gringo Viejo

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Predictable - But maddening in any regard

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     We are being deluged, almost, from all sides about how Obama did "pretty good" in walking the middle line between lynching the Ferguson policeman, and worshipfully venerating the unfortunate dead boy.   He was applauded for sending in a worthy intermediary between the competing interests in the case.   Those interests are, of course, the oppressed masses and the enforcers for the slave-masters.

 

     The worthy intermediary is the radical and corrupt Eric Holder.  He is famous for having lied his way through several "phony scandals" to the point that he has been held in contempt of Congress once already, and will likely be cited again in the case of the Internal Revenue Service corruption and cover-up.  His performance as the bag-man in the Mark Rich pardon during the last hours will be high among his accomplishments to chisel upon his tombstone.  "Here lies the most corrupt individual to have ever served as Attorney General of the United States.  Few people could lie under oath so blatantly are remain free of imprisonment."

 

     Holder enters onto the scene of a small city, a suburb of Saint Louis, accompanied by up to a score of attorney - investigators who are famously corrupt, leftists to the extreme, and roundly condemned by many, including a federal judge in New Orleans who wrote a 120 page condemnation of that body's performance during a police investigation in that city.  The judge in his decision summary referred to Holder's gang as "grotesque".   He described their performance as worthy of disbarment.

    Of course, among the Democrats and the Progressive movement these are accolades.   It is the same rating (Sir Edmund) Hillary gained from her boss who was chief counsel for the Watergate Committee for the Democrats of a slightly different day.  Hillary, like Holder, like Obama are Democrats of this day, as in Peoples' Democratic Republic of Wackopelosia" or German National Socialist Democratic Workers' Party.   Hillary, of course, was discontinued in her service on the Watergate Investigation group for lying and insubordination.  She was admonished somewhat publicly by the head of the investigative group, a Democrat, and advised that she would be given a most unsatisfactory recommendation for being totally unprofessional.    Holder and his posse come from this same ethic.

 

     The "Ferguson Investigation" is bound by the chains of bigotry and Leftism, and little or no good can come from their efforts.

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     The further deterioration of an administration that started off low and has gone ever lower, is the idea that suddenly, after Barry Soetoro gives what appears to be a grudging recognition of another dead person's blood on this hands, the "the White House" and the "Defence Department" declare that an attempt to recover various prisoner/hostages in Syria, but....the effort failed.  The number of troops committed and the various platforms and armaments were even cited and specified.   I sat with my jaw on the ground.  This was such an obvious Valerie Jarrett iron-fisted demand to sway public opinion back in favour of the Man Who Shot Liberty bin Laden (also laden with security leaks and classified information dispersal, leaving one Pakistani doctor still in prison for "treason) that it 110% flabbergasted your humble servant.

     Is nothing sacrosanct?  Is there nothing that is immune from sacrifice that will those deranged people in the White House will not do in order to explain, justify, and/or further "perfect" their god-king?  Our secret ops successes should not be revealed or discussed when they are successful.  Less when they fail.  Mon Dieu!!!

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     In the matter of Obama's performance, all involving  ''shuttle theatrics" with the flying of Air Force One back and forth, back and forth from Martha's place to Michelle's place at $500,000/one way per whack (actually more), the issue is sickening.

     He flies back to the White House to figure a strategy on how to take best advantage of the matter in Ferguson, Missouri.  He injects central government authority in to the matter while at the same time declaring that he can't do much because local authorities have greater prerogative.  

     As the governor of Missouri, a fool by the name of Jay Nixon, calls for the "rapid prosecution" of this case....later declaring that he had been misunderstood....Eric Holder comes in to talk to the "victims''.  The prejudicial attitudes are overwhelming among the Democrat - Progressive race baiters and vote-turnout enhancement operatives for said political group.   They are going to milk this Ferguson Issue into all the way to the ice-cream factory.

 

     Holder is going to have a hard time trying to explain away the aggravated robbery of the store, 12 - 15 minutes before the shooting of  Michael Brown.  He will figure some lie to explain away the somewhat severe assembly of fractures around the front of the policeman's face and eye.  Holder is very capable of  bringing a witness forward to testify that the copper fell down when he left his patrol unit to chase down Michael Brown and shoot him in the back.  "And you see, there is no proof that Michael Brown struck the policeman.  It is clear that the policeman injured himself."

 

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     Finally, this whole matter of shuttle-vacationing is maddening enough, without having to include the idea of Obama holding a press conference yesterday to lament the gruesome passing of the photo-journalist.  Obama, as usual, arrived late to the event, made a few perfunctory, hollow remarks about something "unrelenting", left and went back to Martha's house in Massachusetts.  In minutes he was yucking it up with his buds, driver in hand and as far removed from the shambles he has made of America and its foreign policy as possible.    The junior varsity has defeated the Obama Administration with its own version of "Arab Spring" and "Lines in the Sand".

   Those "red lines in the sand" you drew, Barry, turned out to be Foley's blood.

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By Justin Sink - 08/20/14 01:51 PM EDT

George Bush:   "I just don't feel right playin' golf, when I have troops catchin' bullets and gettin' chewed up by IEDs."
26 rounds in eight years.  None after mid-2003.

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Barry Soetoro:   "Stupid teleprompter didn't work.  Flew all the way over there and all the way back, and had to read some stupid statement off of note cards."
186 rounds in fewer than six years....more casualties in six years than Bush had in eight....and losing victories, cancelling the successes and sacrifices of the dead, wounded, and life-interrupted reservists and guardsmen and Regular Army, Marines, Airmen, Coast Guards, and Navy.

 May the Great Yahweh bless them and may the Saints preserve us.

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Too angry to sign off politely.  Thanks for your time and patience.  Shades of Benghazi being caused by an offensive video on YouTube.

El Gringo Viejo

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High School Student Arrested for Writing about Hunting Dinosaur with Gun

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We have to wonder where critical thinking has gone.  Let us overload the boys with dilantin and other dulling drugs and wait until they are fifteen or so and shoot up the school.  Then we can blame the guns.

David Christian Newton · Top Commenter · Works at Self Employed
Look folks, the authorities had their hands tied. He did not have a dinosaur hunting license. He had not been to the sensitivity training about how to deal with illegal alien, lesbian dinosaurs and he had not done the required 300 hours of community service after pleading guilty to the charge of being a male. Only XXX knows what will happen when they find out that he is white.

 

David Burgess · Top Commenter

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as: - Knowing when to come in out of the rain; - Why the early bird gets the worm; ... - Life isn't always fair; - And maybe it was my fault. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies, don't spend more than you can earn and adults, not children, are in charge. His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding ...an unruly student, only worsened his condition. Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion. Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife Discretion, his daughter Responsibility, and his son, Reason. He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers - I Know My Rights, I Want It Now, Someone Else Is To Blame and I'm A Victim. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on.

 

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