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  • Posted By: blewdix @ 10/29/2008 12:03:28 PM

    Basically what i am getting from this is she is being blessed to keep evil from her. "Witch" to me is better than a preacher preaching such hatred. At least she is not going to a church that preaches hatred toward any race. So if anyone is a "NUT CASE" That would be Pastor "Wrong" Wright. Really people keep digging to find something that is so wrong with Sarah. It still will never equal the lack of knowledge that Barry has and the fact that he spent 20 years in a church filled with racism beliefs. I am not going to lie but the Muslim Faith is something to be very careful and to keep your eye on. I am afraid of that religion it is like a cult. Instead of drinking kool-aide they kill their own if they want to become christian and they want to get rid of anyone who doesn't believe like they do. So if you know someone who is a "good" Muslim keep your guard up. But hey i am just throwing out a little bit of info for you to ponder you do not have to like what i say and i don't care if you do like what i say.

  • Posted By: WhoDatSay @ 10/29/2008 12:03:06 PM

    Freedom of Religion. This should not have any effect on the election or politics. Worship whatever you like. This is American. Freedom of Religion and Right to Bear Arms and the right to Vote should be reserved for law abiding citizens. Along with the right to own property and freedom of speech etc.(no illegal search and seizure) The most important American way is separation of powers. State and local powers have gone worthless with the federal government trying to run everything. The main problem is the states need to run our government not the feds. Change powers back to the locals. Local laws should have the ultimate authority. People living in a town should vote for their town's laws. We are heading toward dictatorship and communism. Wake up America.

  • Posted By: jeremyfive @ 10/29/2008 9:24:51 AM

    Halloween is here. Is this a sacred holiday to Sarah Palin?

    Hers is the only church I have heard about that believes in witches. Fascinating medieval ceremony! Perhaps I have been out of touch with the right wing whackadoodles lately.

    J

    • Posted By: KasiaAnna @ 10/29/2008 12:01:58 PM

      All Christian denominations believe in witches -- they are people/women who worship the devil. Ever heard of Wiccans?

    • Posted By: paproudmom @ 10/29/2008 9:29:35 AM

      What sad and pathetic commentary you provide. Unfortunately today in liberal circles these attitudes are what passes for intelligence.

  • Posted By: UtopianMarauder @ 10/29/2008 11:21:39 AM

    I am more worried that Obama may be a muslim. In America we are free to practice whatever religion we wish. It's called freedom of Religion. I would rather be conservative than a free radical.

    • Posted By: SweetT @ 10/29/2008 11:41:32 AM

      Why does everyone say that Obama -may be- a Muslim. He is. Muslim faith is similar to Jewish faith in that you are actually born into it - since Obama's father was a practicing Muslim, he is a Muslim by birth. The real question is whether he has defected completely from the Muslim faith, which is hard to determine based on his own words during an interview when Obama himself proclaimed "That I know of, I don't think that John (meaning John Mccain) has ever questioned my Muslim faith.

      He said it, so I take him at his own confessed word, and it is in line with his entire idealogy and the time he spent counselling his friend in Kenya, Odinga

      • Posted By: Nins @ 10/29/2008 12:01:52 PM

        Sweet T, you are wrong about this. Obama's father was NOT a Muslim. Obama's Grandfather converted to the Muslim religion, but nly stayed in it for a few years, and later converted to Christianity. Obama's father grew up in a Kenya where there were four main religions: Animism, Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. He saw his father (Obama's grandfather), who was born an animist, convert to Islam and then convert to Christianity. Watching his father go through this convinced him that all religion is just a cloak you wear, and therefore he decided to be an Atheist.

        Obama's father was an Atheist. You can freak out over that, if you want to. At least you would be getting upset about the truth. However, even though Obama's father was an Atheist, he did not raise Obama, so I don't know how important that is. Obama's grandfather was briefly a Muslim, but decided that this religion was not for him. Obama's father had already been born by the time Obama's grandfather converted, so there is no way you can make Obama's father a "natural-born" Muslim.

        You need to do a little more reading. Try some non-prejudiced sources.

    • Posted By: allysa @ 10/29/2008 11:50:27 AM

      What is wrong with being a Muslim or Arab, etc. Danny Thomas was an Arab. So what's your point? More race baiting? Do you have a backwards "B" on your cheek, too?

  • Posted By: 1easylay @ 10/29/2008 12:31:46 AM

    Just further proof she's a whacko and dangerous to the US and the world, as a whole.
    What's next, a full blown exorcism?

    Give me a break. Anyone who votes for this imbecile should be immediately sterilized. The mere fact that somebody, i.e. McSame , feels she's "the most qualified VP pick ever" shows that he truly is in the early stages of Alzheimers and is just too dammned old for the most demanding job in the world at a time when critical thinking is required and neither of the Republinist candidates has any to speak of.

    • Posted By: BunchofChemies @ 10/29/2008 1:52:48 AM

      I understand Bobby Jindal of LA, another Republican had some involvement in an exorcism. "President Palin", the two words that frighten any thinking person from voting for McCain.

      • Posted By: Louisianaconserv @ 10/29/2008 12:01:29 PM

        Who is qualified then? Obama who has less experience in government than anyone on the ticket?

  • Posted By: obamanation2 @ 10/29/2008 5:01:43 AM

    Let's take another look at Obama and the church he attended for 20 years (as an adult)! The pastor there spread anti-american view (G.D. America, etc.) and that never bother Obama. He claims he never hear anything like that in 20 years of attending and no member of the church ever express concern over those views. What was he, asleep???? It's no wonder he does not want to wear an America flag and his wife was not proud of her country. Let's start looking at the person they want running this great country instead of a #2 person. He is the one who will spread his anti-american background from the 1st day he is elected. Wake up America and look at the real Obama instead of the one everyone is blindly priasing and worshoping. In 4 years, there won't be an America to be proud of!

    • Posted By: ERIMER @ 10/29/2008 12:01:20 PM

      Like we're proud of the America we've got now?

  • Posted By: Rustycletis @ 10/29/2008 12:00:43 PM

    Finally I would like to say one thing. Please don't look to politicians for important religious direction. Like I said, just because someone says they are Christian and attends church, doesn't mean he or she really has a relationship with Christ. That is the key. I can't question Sarah Palins beliefs because I don't know her, and neither do most of you. Nobody is perfect. Christians mess up just as much as nonbelievers.
    As far as her believing in witchcraft and evil, I would definately have to agree. It may sound strange to skeptics, but the existence of evil is real. Satan is real. We are warned about this over and over in the Bible. Satan is NOT what most people think. He is not some red horned figure that is just bad. Satan was once an angel that freely chose to rebel against God and oppose everything good. We are told that he is extremely intelligent. In fact, short of God, He may be the most intelligent being ever created. Satans greatest victory has been making people believe that he doesn't really exist. But believers know he does because God says he does. More than that, Satan isn't stupid. Nonbelievers are not usually subject to Satan's evil and demons because it doesn't help him oppose God. As I said, not believing in evil makes it easier to not believe in God as well. True believers know where Satan attacks the most and that is the spiritual battle we face. True demonic encounters are real, although much care needs to be taken when deciding if someone's encounter was real. People do lie, but being someone who has experienced this evil, I know it is real. You have to remember that Satan is smart. It is not always about scaring people. Planting doubts in our minds is one of his biggest tactics. Look at Eve. That is what he did to her and she questioned God's instructions.
    I hope you all are aware of all the false information out there. Go to the source for answers, and that is the Bible. Don't simply believe things because others like your family, friends, coworkers, and the media say it is true. Everybody has an opinion, and sadly most of them have devoted less time to studying God's Word than the amount of time it takes to drive to their jobs. Please don't judge someone and something you just don't know about. Can you really say you have studied the Bible? There are a lot of places that can help. One such place I would recommend is www.xenos.org
    God Bless.

  • Posted By: grandma12happy @ 10/29/2008 12:00:09 PM

    Again an attack on Sarah Palin. It's a good thing she is who she is other wise she could be in need of a shrink because of the media. It is a sorry state of affairs that we Americans let the journalists make our decisions for us especially in such an important election as this years'. Because of the media we will ALL pay dearly. AMEN MR JONES 68. Our lives as we have known them for so long are in real jeopardy. MARK MY WORDS!

  • Posted By: Without Representation @ 10/29/2008 11:58:43 AM

    There is no doubt about what this country is turning in the ability to think and practice in terms of being human. YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING ANYMORE, unless of course you want to turn the office into a drive-by F!@# and S!@#.

  • Posted By: LarsonDT97 @ 10/29/2008 11:44:57 AM

    Very interesting article. I'm still waiting for a similar probe into Obama's religious beliefs, most notably his 20-year association with Jeremiah Wright's church. No wait, any such examination would be considered racist, unfair and out of bounds, wouldn't it? It is absolutely beyond comprehension how committed the media is to elect Obama. They have discarded any pretense of objectivity. And they wonder why their ratings and readership is in the tank!

    • Posted By: elithian @ 10/29/2008 11:58:41 AM

      Obviously you are illiterate or you would have read one of the many hundreds and thousands of article written about Obama; both favorable and unfavorable.

  • Posted By: Lee Holmes @ 10/29/2008 11:58:38 AM

    Cut with your religious test crap Miller. It is unconstitutional. Your attempt to defray the Khalidi-Ayers[again]-Obama get together in Chicago less than five years ago by cranking out this garbage only displays your transparent bias embracing Obama [whose faith Miller described in glowing terms,neatly excising Wright and Pflager,and putting Obama in front of a large yellow-neon cross for effect in the NEWSWEAK lede photo back in July ]. Julys NEWSWEAK cover put a halo on the man. Heh. You hacks are so far in the tank for Obama that supplies would have to be airdropped to you from 50,000 feet.

  • Posted By: Alexfornews @ 10/29/2008 11:34:08 AM

    BILDNFLY: You *** idiot, what about defenseless beings like cows, chickens and pigs? Do they not suffer? Are you a vegetarian? Why not? A human embryo has NO feeling whatsoever. Why should they be favored?

    • Posted By: ivorykeyz @ 10/29/2008 11:57:34 AM

      Are you actually equating human life with that of a chicken? Also, you need to educate yourself. Have you ever watched an abortion or viewed a video of what happens during the procedure? I have and let me tell you...an unborn child that recoils with their little arms and legs to escape the brutal scapel that is scraping them from their mothers womb apparently feels something. This unborn American should have the same rights as any other American. It is just one more way to get away with doing the 'wrong' thing. Let's just kill it and make it go away so we don't have to deal with the consequences of our immature and selfish actions.

    • Posted By: bkpkr2@hotmail.com @ 10/29/2008 11:36:42 AM

      Are you serious? Talk to any neonatal specialist before you spout off with untrue, absolutely ridiculous comments. Human embryos have a developed nervous system... you know what that is, right? Wow.

  • Posted By: mrjones68 @ 10/29/2008 11:45:35 AM

    At least she believes in the almighty God Jehova and not Allah! ANd you'd better hope the next president suppoirts Israel because if America turns it's back on Israel then we are done for! Obama is a muslim, anti-American snake in the grass and America is the least of his worries. He just wants to power that's all. Christianity is what our country was founded on. If no one wants to go by what we stand for and they dont want to worship the real true God of Israel then let them go live somewhere else or keep thier mouth's shut!

    • Posted By: elithian @ 10/29/2008 11:57:14 AM

      Like there is a difference. Allah, God, Jehovah, they are all the God of Abraham and the God of Abraham said in the Bible, I don't see any others. Wake up and get a book and read it.

  • Posted By: beccaherrmann @ 10/29/2008 11:56:31 AM

    It's very obvious that the words actually being prayed and spoken by this Kenyan pastor over Palin do not match up with the audio that you hear accompanying the video. The Bible clearly states that we do not wrestle with flesh and blood but with powers and principalities of darkness, which would in fact include demonic influences which absolutely exist. The fact that these men are praying with an "intensity rarely seen in mainstream American churches" over Palin is a testimony to her faith and religious beliefs, and it's unfortunate that more "mainstream churches" do not see this happen in their places of worship. Wouldn't you like to have someone pray with such an intensity over you, believing and trusting in God to show Himself strong in your life and bless you immeasurably? If you've never experienced that for yourself, you have no room to judge. Also, there was no invoking of Jesus and witches in the same sentence; on the contrary, the name of Jesus has power to cause demons to flee, which is what rebuking witchcraft is all about. I would strongly encourage the writer(s) of this article to study the Bible and discover for themselves the truth of God's word and to understand the real battle that goes on all over this world every day in people's lives, even Palin, even McCain, even Obama.

  • Posted By: akcath @ 10/29/2008 11:56:29 AM

    I find it interesting that McCain and his supporters keep bringing up Obama and his "relationship" to Bill Ayers. They want to know the "truth" behind it. Sen. Obama has explained the "relationship" and if the McCain people know something that the rest of us don't, then they are honor-bound to either put up or shut up. As far as the comments by hccmac . . . what planet have you been on lately. His birth certificate is a matter of public record -- check it out. His college records?? are you kidding??? Are you looking for his grades or the fact that he managed to PUT HIMSELF through some of the most prestigious schools in the country by working hard and achieving academic success. And why on earth would he swear his allegiance on a Koran when he's a Christian??? Go educate yourself, you're a danger to yourself and others.

  • Posted By: eweb @ 10/29/2008 11:34:37 AM

    What an interesting choice of headline for your article...I did not see the significance of it. I attend an Assembly of God church, but first and foremost I proclaim that I have a personal relationship with God and Jesus Christ is Lord. (If you have not tried it, don't knock it!) This does not make me a weirdo or mean that I do not function successfully in this world. I have a very successful career in business, and I have served in the political arena. Because the press did not make an issue of my religious beliefs in the campaign, nobody realized that I did not function as any other God fearing human being. Is something wrong with our Country when we do not want people, with strong moral values to serve in positions of authority? Our Founding Fathers established America on these principals. Did I hear that Barrack Obama thinks our Constitution is out dated and should be changed? Is this a part of the changes he intends to bring to America? I personally think it is time we stop thinking about "me" and start thinking about "America". What happened to the words of John F Kennedy, "Ask not what your Country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your Country"?

    • Posted By: ltodd1970 @ 10/29/2008 11:55:10 AM

      This should be on the Front Page!!! AMEN to what you have said!

    • Posted By: stephy0926 @ 10/29/2008 11:54:03 AM

      AMEN!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Pia1981 @ 10/28/2008 9:25:46 PM

    So Sarah Palin believes in witches. Many people do.

    • Posted By: justanotheropinion @ 10/29/2008 11:54:34 AM

      The prayer from her Pastor was against "witchcraft" or the act of cursing and casting spells and the like. It wasn't against witches. Hate the sin...not the sinner. Another note: the word witchcraft in the bible also means "rebellion" in the original Hebrew, Greek, or Aramaic - the languages the bible was written in. Witches, sinners, whatever...aren't to be hated or scorned. They are to be loved. And taking a few words out of what was probably a lengthy prayer and using them out of context could be very misleading. And to all those who keep stating that Obama is a Christian...the biblical way to know whether someone is a Christian is by that person's love for others. I'm sorry...but Obama did sit under very hatefilled preaching for 20 years. This is a well documented non-partisan fact. So just because he's disassociated with this Pastor doesn't mean Obama no longer ascribes to the views of that Pastor. And the comments that he has made and his wife have made in public make me think they still agree with much of what their former Pastor says. So...I don't see Christianity in action when one person (black or white) is hating another.

    • Posted By: bdbaggr @ 10/29/2008 8:08:29 AM

      wow ! laying hands and praying for her? amazing, thats unamerican! invoking jesus? unsecular! the real difference between the two is a woman of faith that gains strength from her church through jesus christ and a man that once found out and publisized disavows himself from his pastor and self proclaimed spiritual advisor for the last twenty years after his anti white anti american racial hatred was exposed to the public. its hard to say if iwould respect obama more for standing up to what he has worshipped at the alter of for the last twenty years or by once it becomes public knowledge denying him. rev write babtized his children, do you think that was a blessing? scary stuff america. this is a great oppertunity to really see the contrast between the two people and their convictions.

    • Posted By: Old Fashioned @ 10/29/2008 7:54:47 AM

      And many educated unbelieving Americans believe in UFOs!

  • Posted By: grandma12happy @ 10/29/2008 11:46:05 AM

    So, this is tit for tat I guess. The media cant wait to cut down Sarah Palin. It's a wonder they haven't brought out the fact that she wet and dirtied her pants. (When she was 2 yrs old). What a pity that jounalist's are able to control we Americans so easily. We will pay dearly for not thinking for ourselves and electing this Democratic candidate. MARK MY WORDS!

    • Posted By: elithian @ 10/29/2008 11:54:31 AM

      Yea, that is what they told us in 2000 and 2004. Dubya was good for us and the others were bad. Well, Dubya cut taxes and increased the national debt more than all the other presidents put together. Dubya opened the free markets and destroyed wall street. Dubya went to war for a fifty billion dollar victory and five years later we have spent almost a trillion dollars, lost our blood and treasure for an illegal war that could have been prevented.
      Our economy is in shambles. Any tax savings has been lost serveral times over, there is corruption in the White House, and the Republicans still hope to gain control through the politics of deceit, fear, and division. Wake up people, it is time for a real change and that is "not" McCain/Palin. It is Obama Biden

  • Posted By: jlittleton @ 10/29/2008 3:43:03 AM

    2000 years ago there was another person who was "somewhat outside the American Christian mainstream". His name is Jesus Christ. Thank God for leaders like Sarah Palin who stand unashamed to profess her faith. Maybe if we had more leaders like this America would not find herself in the mess she is in today. Read your bible people - it's all there.

    • Posted By: aliveandwellintherealworld @ 10/29/2008 4:23:54 AM

      2000 years ago there was no America! Jesus was and always will be nothing more than a Jewish carpenter who was homeless an destitude but found that storytelling and mind control was a way for him to get money and a livelyhood just like all religions. That also depends on wheather he really existed or was another fable like the others in the bible. People who profess to believe in this nonsense are sheep and have no mind of their own to guide them through life. The major cause of the wars and the economic problems we have today are brought on because of a total failure, look up failed in school and dad bailed him out, went AWOL in the National Guard and got bailed out when others would have done Brig time, Look up Oil company owner who failed and had to get his dad to get the Saudi Bin Ladens to bail him out, look up the Texas governor who did the worst job in the history of that state and was bailed out by his dad by getting him on track to run for president by cleaning up his drunkeness, and look up the worst presidential failure in history who also comitted crimes against the constitution... Can you say treason who was bailed out by a corrupt congress that was too chicken to impeach him and send him to prision or death as treason calls fo. This is the fool who beat his religous drumb to the public while knowing that his religion was a total sham and he just used it to justify all the things he was doing for his own personal gain, like ALL religous people. You must admit that ALL religous people are only out for themselves, as proven over and over again. The worst thing in Government IS religion. The founding fathers knew it and that is why they seperated church and state in the Constitution. When the world wakes up and realizes that ALL religion is a crock and that no ones god is better, tougher, more right or anything else, 90% of all wars and killing will end. If you think there is some kind of god and he sits around all day and waits to help and watch over you or America or a boxer or football player or anything else then you are delusional. Religion is and was invented for one thing to control the people and scare them into doing what a particular group of people want and to fleece them of their money so they can have a living off them, Nothing more. Politicians who invoke religion in any way are just doing it to pander to one more brain dead groups of people wanting their support by professing to be a brain dead person just like them because they want something from them..Money and support! The sooner this hocus-pocus mystical bull disapears the better off the world will be. Nothing in any religion is backed by solid proof of anything that is why the idiotic religous people say you have to have faith..because it is all crap and that is the only way they can justify it's or their existance. Get a life!!!

      • Posted By: astrofan @ 10/29/2008 11:54:28 AM

        I am saddened by your defensiveness. The Bible has yet to be disproved. I serve an AWESOME GOD. He created and loves you even though you despise HIM.

    • Posted By: aliveandwellintherealworld @ 10/29/2008 4:26:04 AM

      2000 years ago there was no America! Jesus was and always will be nothing more than a Jewish carpenter who was homeless an destitude but found that storytelling and mind control was a way for him to get money and a livelyhood just like all religions. That also depends on wheather he really existed or was another fable like the others in the bible. People who profess to believe in this nonsense are sheep and have no mind of their own to guide them through life. The major cause of the wars and the economic problems we have today are brought on because of a total failure, look up failed in school and dad bailed him out, went AWOL in the National Guard and got bailed out when others would have done Brig time, Look up Oil company owner who failed and had to get his dad to get the Saudi Bin Ladens to bail him out, look up the Texas governor who did the worst job in the history of that state and was bailed out by his dad by getting him on track to run for president by cleaning up his drunkeness, and look up the worst presidential failure in history who also comitted crimes against the constitution... Can you say treason who was bailed out by a corrupt congress that was too chicken to impeach him and send him to prision or death as treason calls fo. This is the fool who beat his religous drumb to the public while knowing that his religion was a total sham and he just used it to justify all the things he was doing for his own personal gain, like ALL religous people. You must admit that ALL religous people are only out for themselves, as proven over and over again. The worst thing in Government IS religion. The founding fathers knew it and that is why they seperated church and state in the Constitution. When the world wakes up and realizes that ALL religion is a crock and that no ones god is better, tougher, more right or anything else, 90% of all wars and killing will end. If you think there is some kind of god and he sits around all day and waits to help and watch over you or America or a boxer or football player or anything else then you are delusional. Religion is and was invented for one thing to control the people and scare them into doing what a particular group of people want and to fleece them of their money so they can have a living off them, Nothing more. Politicians who invoke religion in any way are just doing it to pander to one more brain dead groups of people wanting their support by professing to be a brain dead person just like them because they want something from them..Money and support! The sooner this hocus-pocus mystical bull disapears the better off the world will be. Nothing in any religion is backed by solid proof of anything that is why the idiotic religous people say you have to have faith..because it is all crap and that is the only way they can justify it's or their existance. Get a life!!!

      • Posted By: wardaddy @ 10/29/2008 11:04:26 AM

        You're right that all killing is selfish. Over 1 million abortions each year so that each girl can have that certain lifestyle instead of sacrificing a little of herself for another (where's the love?). Thousands die each year so that they can get a drug, money, sex, or control others. Those people do those things because they only have belief in themselves, not God.

    • Posted By: jazyd @ 10/29/2008 10:18:45 AM

      Enter Your Comment
      You are right. We should not be afraid to profess our Love and need for God. However, Palin and McCain are not doing that. My Bible, my God and my faith teaches Love, to care for the needy, to unite. They simply are not doing that. They are spreading hatred or at the very least allowing it to be out their on their behalf so that they may win the election. We should care for the poor and needy, we should unite, we should not divide which is what Obama is promoting. He is not promoting spread the wealth. He is advocating helping people, caring for people, uniting people, us all being a part of Great nation, not just the Republicans or Christians, but ALL of us. Palin's campaigning and previous lifestyle is very far from this way of thinking. So, read your Bible, pray, seek God, look within yourself and ask God for wisdom, then look at what the 2 sides are saying. Obama/Biden - Love, unity, helping. McCain/Palin - hatred, division, scar tactics, give more to the rich and big businesses, etc. Wow, and you think Palin is godly. This is why our children are suffering and rebellious, our country suffers financially every 5 to 12 years, our morals are shattered to pieces and our marriages are suffering, etc., because people like you, just do not know who God is. He is Love. Love does not divide, love brings together. Look at which campaign is fighting, dividing, preaching self-righteousness and hatred, look at your self!

  • Posted By: cannonbll @ 10/29/2008 11:48:34 AM

    So lets look at the seeding of what it means to be christian. Jesus died on the cross rather than be the leader of a Jewish army and rebellion. In short Jesus was a pacifist. He did not believe in war. Sarah Palin believes that the war in Iraq is god's will. She has stated this, in the same church where she was "protected" from the demons. Ironic isn't it. Christians have got to come to the realization that the glaring dichotomy between what they say they believe in and what they actually preach is light years apart. Diametrically opposed actually.

    Sarah Palin also has said that it's god's "will" to put a natural gas pipeline across Alaska. Seriously .... do we want someone in office who thinks god has an interest in Alaska's natural gas. Transparancy in bainwashing doesn't make it any less offensive. God's will to have a gas pipeline across Alaska? Pull your heads out of the sand people.

    • Posted By: Sepulchre @ 10/29/2008 11:54:26 AM

      Isn't it odd how many people profess to being Chiristian seem to have not read the New Testament or if they did they just thumbed threw it because it is painfully obvious they didn't absorb any of the Jesus' teachings. They need to ask themselves if Jesus were here now would he be proud of them for hating all the right people, or would he just be ashamed?

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