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Hi Ete and Tofiga,
Going to your show tonight in Port Hedland. I went last year and it was awesome to see the 'brown brotherhood' all under one roof. Loved your show last year and know I'll love it again tonight. My kids 16,14 and 7 are looking forward to the show even more then me and their dad lol. They've been practicing their Tala and island time impersonations, too funny. See you tonight at the Matt Dann Cultural Centre.
add me on facebook Question When will you Retire coz i never wnat you to lol
Hi Heather. Hope you and the kids enjoyed last night's show. We had a great time under performing for another sell-out crowd. Look forward to returning with a new show.
Thanks Jerry. We will retire when the laughter stops. Doesn't look like it's going to stop any time soon so fingers crossed it never does. Thank you for your support and like us on FB.
Any plans to come to Oahu in the near future. Love to have an opportunity to see you live! Aloha.
No plans at this stage… but we'll see what the new year brings.
Thanks for another wonderful show, this time in Perth loved it! Xxx u fullas are funny!
What a way to spend a Saturday night here in Perth! You guys have raised the bar on this one and it is my favourite one by far! Well done on an awesome performance, very talented and to do it all without a break. Legends!!! P.S because I showed up island time 8:01pm I missed out on your promo DVDs and T-Shirt sales. Can you buy last nights show on line?
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Went to the perth show last night. What can I say? It was very very well polished (policed) and the reaction of the crowd would give u a 10/10 rating. U had us all in hysterics. Also big cudos for staying on after the show to take time to have photos taken and shake hands and chat with fans. I only seen u guys on u youtube prior to last night and I am sold on seeing u live!!! Please come back to Perth soon. My fav was the 3 little pigs. What a classic!!! Big big big thanks!!!
The Fresh Off Da Blane DVD will be out in time for Christmas this year.
Hi guys you two are the best. I go and see you wherever you are.. you both dnt even have to say anything and i crack up.. ur last show i tried to buy a shirt but they had sold out is there anywhr i can purchase a shirt.. thank
Hi Kristie. No unfortunately we only sell our t-shirts at our shows. Thank you for your support and sorry we ran out of t-shirts before you bought one.
Just wanted to know if you will be coming to melbourne australia to do a show? Love seeing your videos and would live to see you live. Keep up the good work guys. Alofas xo
We've already been to Melbourne. We were there on the 21st of June where we sold out at the Melbourne Town Hall. Sorry you missed it.
Thank you soooo much for the joy and laughter you have brought to our home. We hired your DVD's at the local store and have been watching Greatest Hits and Choka Block over and over all holidays. May the grace, mercy and strength of our Lord Jesus remain upon you and all your whanau throughout the year. Dean and Hineata Heyblom. Te Puke NZLD.
When are you back in Christchurch? We love your shows
My family and I enjoy watching your you tube videos…is there plans to come to Hawaii to do a show?
Not at this stage sorry.
Hi Etc and Tofiga
I see the tour dates, but no Auckland show. Would you please consider having Auckland as one of your concert dates in the future. You guys are brilliant and so funny.
Thanks for the laughter
Hi ete and tofiga
My name is paulina and im also from wellington but I was wandering wen u will be coming bk to melbourne I seriousli thought you would be performing at the drum thearte in dandenong this year but it didnt happen im a huge fan of u guys but was hoping if u guys would be planning to perform in dandenong for the locals who missed out this year?? Cnt wait to see u bk in aussie possibly melbourne
Thank you and god bless
I would love to see you guys. When are coming to San Francisco, San Jose… Bay Area?
When you mob coming up the Darwin? You are coming close enough but Mt Isa is just a little too far for my clan to travel. Please see if this can be done in the near future. Ka kite.
Hi boys,
I'm wondering how come you missed Melbourne this time?
My kids and I love your shows so much.
I wonder if not enough people or not good promotion in Melbourne?
Just wondering.
We were there in June and sold out the Melbourne Town Hall. We will be back in August next year with a new show. Cheers
Hey Ete & Tofiga guys coming to your 5pm show in sydney can't wait ,I can have a crap day & put your DVDs on my self and kids love you guys allways cheer us up
Cheers boys see you there have a great tour
Hi Ete & Tofiga,
Your show last night at UNSW was sensational! I come from a Muslim background and am married to a Samoan – so when you started on Islam I got a little bit nervous. But when you came to the Ramadan punch line – I was in absolute hysterics – I have never laughed so much. You both are not only laugh out loud funny, but brilliant & professional. Such a gift. Thank you.
Hi Yasmine. Thank you so much for your post. Pleased you weren't offended by the Muslim reference in the show and appreciated that the joke was on the Samoan appetite rather than Islam and Ramadan. We aim to laugh at ourselves before we laugh at anyone else. Take care and hope you'll return for more Laughing Samoans jokes in the future.
Hi lads
enjoyed you sydney show on the 25oct.. Its our 3time now.. think also we must be you only Asian fans lol.
c u guys again soon
Utah misses you guys!!!! Please come back, I remember the last time I had a real good laugh and wish that yall could come back….
You know you guys were a sold out stage the last time in SLC. I bet our Poly nation would double that next time….
Hi Tofiga & Ete!,
Hope alls well…just wanting to know when ur next show in Melbourne will be?…as the last time we saw u guys was when u when my staff boarded one of our flights to go home and I remember asking Tofiga about shows and said u just had one the night before out South
Please advise thnx
sorry that was when my staff boarded u on one of our flights bak to wellytown over a year ago
tke care and gb!
We'll be doing a new show on Friday 14th August at Hamer Hall, Melbourne Arts Centre. Hope to see you then!
Hi Ete and Tofiga
Greeting from Marshall Islands which is part of Pacific Islander. I just wondering if you two could come by Marshall Islands at Majuro which is the Capital City of the Marshall Islands and show your talent to each and everyone of us here in Marshall Islands. Please email me for more detail about Majuro, Marshall Islands. To be honestly you guys are most popular movies here at Marshall Islands. HIt me and email me.
Tofiga and Ete
I love your performances I found Fortune Tela watching fresh and the found the laughing Samoans while I was in Nz last June. Just got back from Rarotonga and wished I could have changed my schedule to see you in person there is not a day that I wake up and put on one of skits and laugh. Thanks guys come to the States again
I try to tell everyone I know about your show.
Just been to your show here in Mackay, Queensland. It was one of the best shows we have been to as a family. Very funny and the improv to suit the location and crowd was outstanding. Well done on putting on a great family show for young and old.
Look forward to seeing you back in Mackay again.
just watched the show at logan. such a crack up! My partner and have been trying to see you live for 3 years but have had best friends weddings on so had to give our tickets away. So glad that we finally saw you! Was well worth the wait! Definitely will be at future shows.
Kia ora,
Just wondering when the info will be released for your tour next year in Auckland (I'm assuming there will be one).
We'll be making an announcement in two weeks or so when tickets go on sale. Cheers

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"You had an accident?" The sonographer pauses in her tapping at the computer.
"I fell off this mountain when I was looking for my long-lost sister in a storm," I explain. "I didn't know I was pregnant at the time. And I think maybe I bashed the baby."
"I see." The sonographer looks at me kindly. She has graying brown hair tied back in a knot, with a pencil stuck into it. "Well, babies are resilient little things. Let's just have a look, shall we?"
Here it is. The moment I've been obsessing over for weeks. Gingerly I lift up my top and look down at my swelling stomach.
"If you could just push all your necklaces aside?" she adds. "That's quite a collection you have there!"
"They're special pendants." I loop them together with a jangle. "This one is an Aztec maternity symbol, and this is a gestation crystal . . . and this is a chiming ball to soothe the baby . . . and this is a birthing stone."
"A birthing stone?"
"You press it on a special spot on your palm, and it takes away the pain of labor," I explain. "It's been used since ancient Maori times."
"Mm-hmm." The sonographer raises an eyebrow and squeezes some transparent gloop on my stomach. Frowning slightly, she applies the ultrasound probe thing to my skin, and instantly a fuzzy black-and-white image appears on the screen.
I can't breathe.
That's our baby. Inside me. I dart a look at Luke, and he's gazing at the screen, transfixed.
"There are the four chambers of the heart. . . ." The sonographer is moving the probe around. "Now we're looking at the shoulders. . . ." She points to the screen and I squint obediently, even though, to be honest, I can't see any shoulders, only blurry curves.
"There's an arm . . . one hand . . ." Her voice trails off and she frowns.
There's silence in the little room. I feel a sudden grip of fear. That's why she's frowning. The baby's only got one hand. I knew it.
A wave of overpowering love and protectiveness rises up inside me. Tears are welling in my eyes. I don't care if our baby's only got one hand. I'll love it just as much. I'll love it more. Luke and I will take it anywhere in the world for the best treatment, and we'll fund research, and if anyone even dares give my baby a look—
"And the other hand . . ." The sonographer's voice interrupts my thoughts.
"Other hand?" I look up, choked. "It's got two hands?"
"Well . . . yes." The sonographer seems taken aback at my reaction. "Look, you can see them here." She points at the image, and to my amazement I can just about make out the little bony fingers. Ten of them.
"I'm sorry," I gulp, wiping my eyes with a tissue she hands me. "It's just such a relief."
"Everything seems absolutely fine as far as I can tell," she says reassuringly. "And don't worry, it's normal to be emotional in pregnancy. All those hormones swilling about."
Honestly. People keep talking about hormones. Like Luke last night, when I cried over that TV ad with the puppy. I'm not hormonal, I'm perfectly normal. It was just a very sad ad.
"Here you go." The sonographer taps at her keyboard again. A row of black-and-white scan pictures curls out of the printer, which she hands to me. I peer at the first one—and you can see the distinct outline of a head. It's got a little nose and a mouth and everything.
"So. I've done all the checks." She swivels round on her chair. "All I need to know now is whether you want to know the gender of the baby."
"No, thank you," Luke answers with a smile. "We've talked it through at great length, haven't we, Becky? And we both feel it would spoil the magic to find out."
"Very well." The sonographer smiles back. "If that's what you've decided, I won't say anything."
She "won't say anything"? That means she's already seen what the sex is. She could just tell us right now!
"We hadn't actually decided, had we?" I say. "Not for definite."
"Well . . . yes, we had, Becky." Luke seems taken aback. "Don't you remember, we talked about it for a whole evening and agreed we wanted it to be a surprise."
"Oh right, yes." I can't take my eyes off the blurry print of the baby. "But we could have our surprise now! It would be just as magical!"
OK, maybe that's not exactly true. But isn't he desperate to know?
"Is that really what you want?" As I look up I can see a streak of disappointment in Luke's face. "To find out now?"
"Well . . ." I hesitate. "Not if you don't want to."
The last thing I want is to upset Luke. He's been so sweet and loving to me since I've been pregnant. Recently I've had cravings for all sorts of odd combinations—like the other day I had this sudden weird desire for pineapple and a pink cardigan. And Luke drove me to the shops especially to get them.
He's about to say something, when his mobile phone starts ringing. He whips it out of his pocket and the sonographer puts up a hand.
"I'm sorry, but you can't use that in here."
"Right." Luke frowns as he sees the caller display. "It's Iain. I'd better call him back."
I don't need to ask which Iain. It'll be Iain Wheeler, the chief marketing honcho of the Arcodas Group. Luke has his own PR company, Brandon Communications, and Arcodas is Luke's big new client. It was a real coup when he won them and it's given a fantastic boost to the company—he's already hired more staff and is planning to open loads of new European offices on the back of it.
So it's all wonderful for Brandon Communications. But as usual, Luke's working himself into the ground. I've never seen him so at anyone's beck and call before. If Iain Wheeler calls, he always, always calls him back within five minutes, whether he's in another meeting, or he's having supper, or even if it's the middle of the night. He says it's the service industry and Arcodas is his mega-client, and that's what they're paying for.
All I can say is, if Iain Wheeler calls while I'm in labor, then that phone is going straight out the window.
"Is there a land line I can use nearby?" Luke is asking the sonographer. "Becky, you don't mind . . ."
"It's fine." I wave a hand.
"I'll show you," the sonographer says, getting up. "I'll be back in a moment, Mrs. Brandon."
The two of them disappear out the door, which closes with a heavy clunk.
I'm alone. The computer is still on. The ultrasound probe thing is resting next to the monitor.
I could just reach over and—
No. Don't be silly. I don't even know how to use an ultrasound. And besides, it would spoil the magical surprise. If Luke wants us to wait, then we'll wait.
I shift on the couch and examine my nails. I can wait for things. Of course I can. I can easily—
Oh God. No I can't. Not till December. And it's all right there in front of me . . . and nobody's about. . . .
I'll just have a teeny peek. Just really quickly. And I won't tell Luke. We'll still have the magical surprise at the birth—except it won't be quite so much of a surprise for me. Exactly.
Leaning right over, I manage to grab the ultrasound stick. I apply it to the gel on my stomach—and at once the blurry image reappears on the screen.
I did it! Now I just have to shift it slightly to get the crucial bit. . . . Frowning with concentration, I move the probe around on my abdomen, tilting it this way and that, craning my neck to see the screen. This is a lot easier than I thought! Maybe I should become a sonographer. I'm obviously a bit of a natural—
There's the head. Wow, it's huge! And that bit must be—
My hand freezes and I catch my breath. I've just spotted it. I've seen the sex of our baby!
It's a boy!
The image isn't quite as good as the sonographer's—but even so, it's unmistakable. Luke and I are going to have a son!
"Hello," I say aloud to the screen, my voice cracking slightly. "Hello, little boy!"
And now I can't stop the tears rolling down my cheeks. We're having a gorgeous baby boy! I can dress him up in cute overalls, and buy him a pedal car, and Luke can play cricket with him, and we can call him—
Oh my God. What are we going to call him?
I wonder if Luke would go for Birkin. Then I could get a Birkin to be his nappy bag.
Birkin Brandon. That's quite cool.
"Hi, little baby," I croon gently to the big round head on the screen. "Do you want to be called Birkin?"
"What are you doing?" The sonographer's voice makes me jump. She's standing at the door with Luke, looking appalled. "That's hospital equipment! You shouldn't be touching it!"
"I'm sorry," I say, wiping my eyes. "But I just had to have another quick look. Luke, I'm talking to our baby. It's just . . . amazing."
"Let me see!" Luke's eyes light up, and he hurries across the room, followed by the sonographer. "Where?"
I don't care if Luke sees it's a boy and the surprise is ruined. I have to share this precious moment with him.
"Look, there's the head!" I point. "Hello, darling!"
"Where's its face?" Luke sounds a bit perturbed.
"Dunno. Round the other side." I give a little wave. "It's Mummy and Daddy here! And we love you very—"
"Mrs. Brandon." The sonographer cuts me off. "You're talking to your bladder."
Well, how was I supposed to know it was my bladder? It looked just like a baby.
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I really liked this book and all the Shopaholic books. About a month ago dh surprised me with a trip to Vegas and I found this book while browsing in the hotel bookstore. I spent the next two days by the pool reading it. I let dh gamble away all our money and spent mine on the important things in life...books!


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Or rather I would, if it were available anywhere in Texas, and it wasn't made in a country currently occupying parts of Ukraine:
Yes, Red Army Vodka in a bottle shaped like an AK-47. It's much classier than their previous bottle:
Or rather I would, if it were available anywhere in Texas, and it wasn't made in a country currently occupying parts of Ukraine:
Yes, Red Army Vodka in a bottle shaped like an AK-47. It's much classier than their previous bottle:
A Friday LinkSwarm after a very eventful week…
Can You Hear Us Now? pic.twitter.com/nvaSsMe78n
— Bryan R.. (@youthpastorbry) November 6, 2014
Happy Halloween!
Illinois: only state in Midwest in which food-stamp enrollment outpaces job creation since recession ended pic.twitter.com/yKyIdoOHMv
— Corey Brooks (@CoreyBBrooks) October 24, 2014
This piece in Foreign Policy has been making the rounds. It talks at length, in an inside-baseball manner, of how the Obama Administration's feckless and incompetent behavior has damaged America's interests around the world.
A taste:
The problem is that in seeking to sidestep the pitfalls that plagued Bush, Obama has inadvertently created his own. Yet unlike Bush, whose flaw-riddled first-term foreign policy was followed by important and not fully appreciated second-term course corrections, Obama seems steadfast in his resistance both to learning from his past errors and to managing his team so that future errors are prevented. It is hard to think of a recent president who has grown so little in office.
That's why many in the right wing of the blogsphere have been singing its praises. And indeed, many of the criticisms leveled are devastatingly on-target. However, I have a somewhat orthogonal take on the piece, and what it's actually trying to do.
Consider all of the foreign policy debacles either not covered by the piece at all, or else only mentioned in passing:
Broadly speaking, two viewpoints run through the piece, each of which acts, in their own way, as exercises in blame-shifting:
As an example of the latter, take this sentence:
"Concentrating power in the White House increases the likelihood of groupthink, especially in second terms like this one, when many of the stronger and diverse voices in the administration have left and have not been replaced by equally strong and diverse successors."
Hear that, John Kerry? That's the sound of Hillary shoving a shiv right between your ribs.
The groundwork for most (if not all) of the foreign policy failures of the Obama Administration's second term were laid in its first. Clinton's emphasis on "soft power" over the military, the premature withdrawal from Iraq, the failure to obtain a status-of-forces agreement there, the counterproductive-to-disastrous regime change in Libya, the lack of any strategy for the "Arab Spring" (and subsequent failure to stem the entirely predictable turn toward radical Islamization several Arab Spring countries took), the failure to foresee a post-Mubarak Egypt, the asinine embrace of Morsi's obviously despotic Muslim Brotherhood government, the obvious failure of the "reset" with Russia; all occurred or had their seeds planted when Hillary was Secretary of State, and all have contributed mightily to America's global loss of prestige and respect.
But the whitewashing of Hillary Clinton's record is no surprise, given that the author, David Rothkopf, "joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 as Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Policy and Development."
I'm also guessing that Susan Rice was among the sources for the piece, given that he follows criticism of her for calling the German Foreign Minister a "M@therf@cker" with the softball "It is a particularly frustrating Achilles' heel for someone who is well known among her friends as having the capacity to be very warm, humorous, and engaging," which just reeks of assuaging a source. (Really, has any serious policy profile of any high Republican administration official every used the phrase "very warm, humorous, and engaging"?)
I also get the impression from this and other bits of Hillary apologia that she really, really has it in for former Deputy National Security Adviser and current White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough (he's the guy that looks like Lurch in that "watch us kill Bin Laden" photo). Note that I'm not taking sides in this dispute; it's entirely possible that both of them suck…
The piece is worth reading for showing that even the long-time deep state apparatchiks at Foggy Bottom feel embarrassed at the Obama Administration's gross foreign policy incompetence. But it also needs to be taken with several grains of salt as yet-another piece of battlespace preparation for Hillary 2016…
A Monday LinKSwarm to kick off your week with:
"Obama says what he has to say to make reporters stop asking about it."
#ExplainAFilmPlotBadly Respected archaeology professor has secret life where he indulges his taste for wearing leather and using whips.
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) September 6, 2014
Russian forces in two armored columns captured a key southeastern coastal town near the Russian border Thursday after Ukrainian forces retreated in the face of superior firepower, a Ukrainian military spokesman said.
The two Russian columns, including tanks and armored fighting vehicles, entered the town of Novoazovsk on the Sea of Azov after a battle in which Ukrainian army positions came under fire from Grad rockets launched from Russian territory, according to the spokesman, Col. Andriy Lysenko.
Well, thank God for Hillary Clinton's reset button, and Obama's "flexibility" and smart diplomacy. Who knows what sort of mess that bungler Bush would have made of the situation.
And the UN Security Council is meeting. Since Russia still has a Security Council veto, don't expect even the usual strongly worded letter.
Just making it to Friday coming back from vacation to Texas in the middle of August seems like it's own victory condition…
His bored-bird-in-a-gilded-cage attitude, the article said, "has left him with few loyalists to effectively manage the issues erupting abroad and at home and could imperil his efforts to leave a legacy in his final stretch in office."
The extraordinary candidate turns out to be the most ordinary of men, frittering away precious time on the links. Unlike L.B.J., who devoured problems as though he were being chased by demons, Obama's main galvanizing impulse was to get himself elected.
The sad part is that this is an ugly, confusing and frightening time at home and abroad, and the country needs its president to illuminate and lead, not sink into some petulant expression of his aloofness, where he regards himself as a party of his own and a victim of petty, needy, bickering egomaniacs.
There's so much news going on in the world that it's hard to sit down and focus on one story to get a single blog post out of it when there's another huge story coming down the pike. Iraq, Ukraine, the VA Scandal, the dog eating Lois Lerner's emails ("Barack Obama has brought us Jimmy Carter's economy and Richard Nixon's excuses"); too damn much going on to focus on one thing. So here's a LinkSwarm instead:
Texans: Don't forget to vote in the runoff today!
Now a LinkSwarm to follow the Memorial Day weekend.
"We are going to have to hire additional staff just to manage the insurance verification process."
"Identification of ACA plans has been an administrative nightmare."
"Patients have been very confused about benefits and their portion of the cost. Once the patients find out their deductible, they've cancelled appointments and procedures."
Republicans don't like to be reminded that the VA hospital system is an excellent example of single-payer health care. http://t.co/LkcCFYZr
— cecil bothwell (@cecilbothwell) April 16, 2012
The president will not tolerate the VA's neglect of veterans one more day beyond the 1,825 days he's already tolerated it.
— Jay Carnie (@weknowwhatsbest) May 22, 2014
Today was a day spent doing a lot of piddling stuff I let slide while I was doing my taxes. And the sad news of Russia's slow-motion invasion of Ukraine hasn't left me a lot to say that others haven't already said in greater depth, and at greater length.
But I can hardly let news that Russian thugs in eastern Ukraine (the part that Russia wants to slowly annex) have asked Jews to start "registering" pass in silence.
Eh. A little registration. What's the worst that could happen?
Oh yeah. That.
Of course, Ukraine under communism had a lot of experience with such things.
Marillion's "White Russian" seems particularly apropos today:


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Drinking on Purim
A lighthearted look at the source of the obligation to get drunk on the holiday.
Traditional Commentaries on the Shema
Commentaries on the three paragraphs of the Shema read Jewish concepts both out of and into the text.
The Innovative Spirit and Jewish Tradition
Although the rabbis propagated the belief that rabbinic teaching went back to Moses on Mt. Sinai, many classical texts clearly demonstrate that the rabbis understood the innovative nature of their work.
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GM crops key to future food security: experts
HCM CITY (VNS)— Genetically modified (GM) crops will help Viet Nam achieve food security in the years to come when the demand for food rises further, experts said at a seminar held in HCM City yesterday.
Organised by University of Agriculture and Forestry and Monsanto, a leading global provider of technology-based solutions and agricultural products, the seminar discussed the pros and cons of growing GM crops.
Rashmi Nair, director of Regulatory Policy&Scientific Affairs in Emerging Markets of the Monsanto Company, said that bio-technology had given the world a new tool to improve food security.
However, the development of agricultural biotechnology is perceived by some as posing risks to human health and the environment, with most of the debate focused on genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Nair cited the statement of the European Commission's Chief Scientific Advisor Anne Glover that GMOs were no riskier than their conventionally farmed equivalents.
"There is no substantiated case of any adverse impact on human health, animal health or environmental health," she said, adding that she was confident that there was no more risk in eating GMO food than eating conventionally-farmed food.
Ton Bao Linh, lecturer at the agriculture university, noted that Viet Nam has had to deal with the effects of "rapid population growth, decreasing agricultural farm areas, more frequent natural disasters, floods, droughts, and diseases."
From 1990 to 2010, the country's population increased from 66 million to 89 million. It is expected to rise to 90 million by 2015 and 100 million by 2020.
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We Agree - Paul, Baldwin, McKinney, Nader StatementSubmitted by Michael Nystrom on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 05:48
The Republican/Democrat duopoly has, for far too long, ignored the most important issues facing our nation. However, alternate candidates Chuck Baldwin, Cynthia McKinney, and Ralph Nader agree with Ron Paul on four key principles central to the health of our nation. These principles should be key in the considerations of every voter this November and in every election.
We Agree
Foreign Policy: The Iraq War must end as quickly as possible with removal of all our soldiers from the region. We must initiate the return of our soldiers from around the world, including Korea, Japan, Europe and the entire Middle East. We must cease the war propaganda, threats of a blockade and plans for attacks on Iran, nor should we re-ignite the cold war with Russia over Georgia. We must be willing to talk to all countries and offer friendship and trade and travel to all who are willing. We must take off the table the threat of a nuclear first strike against all nations.
Privacy: We must protect the privacy and civil liberties of all persons under US jurisdiction. We must repeal or radically change the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the FISA legislation. We must reject the notion and practice of torture, eliminations of habeas corpus, secret tribunals, and secret prisons. We must deny immunity for corporations that spy willingly on the people for the benefit of the government. We must reject the unitary presidency, the illegal use of signing statements and excessive use of executive orders.
The National Debt: We believe that there should be no increase in the national debt. The burden of debt placed on the next generation is unjust and already threatening our economy and the value of our dollar. We must pay our bills as we go along and not unfairly place this burden on a future generation.
The Federal Reserve: We seek a thorough investigation, evaluation and audit of the Federal Reserve System and its cozy relationships with the banking, corporate, and other financial institutions. The arbitrary power to create money and credit out of thin air behind closed doors for the benefit of commercial interests must be ended. There should be no taxpayer bailouts of corporations and no corporate subsidies. Corporations should be aggressively prosecuted for their crimes and frauds.
Um, give a little get a little?
Can't some of them just step down so all of us from all third parties and independents can throw support toward one candidate? This is our only chance...and by being so fractured we will lose it. I would be willing to vote green, or any of these 3 if the other 2 stepped down. We need to make a big push, and not be relegated to the trash bin of history.
Support CM
My support for CM (now) is just cynical...plus I have some respect for her courage and the green ideals.
Cynicism: she has everything that matters most this election. She's black like Obama, and she's female like McCain.
What could be better than a black female with independent courage?
Is that it??
Where are the words that are so simple to put into place. Re-instate the Constitutional Republic, abolish the FED ( they already know what it is about, why inspect it) , abolish the IRS ( same scenerio), stop NAFTA, repeal Patriot Act ( not alter, since it is unconstitutional, period), US Treasury to create metal based currency. There is a whole lot missing in this agreement to get any support from me. Ron Pauls platform is sorely missing in this if this is all there is. If the fundamentas listed here are not part of it we will be right back to square one. Do they need us to take 10 minutes and write it up?
Take 10 minutes and write it up, please !
Deerefly sez, Victory has a good idea here!
And his " wish list" looks great to me ! Basics !
He, and anyone else who agrees, could goto ( www dot fusionassembly dot org ) and post your "wish list" there after looking around some.
or just email it to ( info at fusionassembly dot org ) . Also, copy in DailyPaul, Campaign For Liberty, CP, GP, IP, and LP.
Remember, we are not all likely to agree on everything on every one else's wish list, but we are already agreed that Obamination and McSame are NOT getting our votes. So, let's work up from there.
Also, expect the trolls to attempt to infiltrate and dismember us.
Michael could moderate them off, but this way we leave them free to be the a--holes they are and identify themselves too - maybe for later actions. Isn' t that what their handlers plan for some of us? So, what's good for the goose will also fit around the neck of the gander ( Read about Queen Esther and how Mordecai escaped the gallows and Haman got his neck stretched instead. What goes around, comes around ! )
Not a wish list
A demand list
A Grassroots Revolution Manifesto to be agreeded to by written signature to any candidate that wants our support. Asking too much? Not at all because this is what was the foundation that our country had originally and was subverted, the platform that Ron Paul ran on, and the principals that the grassroot movements fire spread from. Anything less at this point would not make the necessary changes in time.
1. A full return to the Constitutional Republic and all that implies ( maybe
a disolvement of all parties and a simple voting system of a person, not
a party).
2. A complete dismantlement of the present electronic voting system to
be replaced by a secure paper ballot system).
3. Bring all of our troops home immediately
4. No further foreign intervention
5. War by declaration and voted by Congress only
6. Abolish the FED
7. Abolish the IRS
8. Treasury of the US to print currency backed by precious metals
9. Repeal the Patriot Act, FISA, Homeland Security, FEMA, NAFTA and
any act, legistlature, group that is unconstitutional.
10. Secure our borders
11. Hold investigations of any suspected criminal activity that has taken
place within our governement at any level and hold those people
completely accountable within our existing law.
12.Dismantle the existing CORPORATE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
and all departments and offices under it.
This didn't even take 10 minutes to write actually.
I think I understand the Independent party candidates agreed upon points
was intended for the sleeping masses who thought they only had the 2 parties, but for us that know the whole picture we must know that those
agreed upon points are far from what our Revolution wants changed.
Let anyone and everyone, all parties, all candidates drop all of the labels and ego posturing and pull together and merge if they are sincere about really turning our country around in time.
To those that think this won't, can't , no way, no how happen and it is totally fantasy to even ask for. Maybe it is but how do we know unless we go for it. I was under the impression that all of the above was what the Ron Paul Revolution was about not settling for a vote that will never get counted. Any candidate that wants support from a Ron Paul supporter should have no trouble agreeing on the platform that he ran on, right?
Note about McKinney and Federal Reserve
She does want to abolish it. Rather, she wants to fully "nationalize" it.
The complete wrong way to go about it...
At least now it is partly private...
We do want to "nationalize"
We do want to "nationalize" it. That what is says in the Constitution. The Congress will have the power to coin money.
Unless, she has some other plan rather than reverting to the Constitution.
Umm, that is not Ron Paul's position
he is for free-market money and free-banking.
Re: "the power to coin money", I'm sure Ron favors a constitutional amendment on that.
atrickpay, you're fulla crap
There's nothing wrong with Congress COINing money.
Did you misread the word COIN? We've been hypnotized for decades into seeing something other than COIN in that section of the Constitution, but COIN is what is actually written there.
(BTW, I'm capitalizing it purely to draw the eye to it. I'm not an agent of the Queen of England or the Rothschilds, nor am I trying to sucker anyone into an invisible adhesion contract or a non-allodial title of nobility.)
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Haha, let me guess...
you don't have a problem with the government delivering the mail either?
ps. where are the bureaucrats going to get the funds to coin money? Don' tell me stealing (ie. taxation)...
exactly why should the control of the nations money supply
be private, or in the hands of essentially one unelected, but appointed by another single man (the president), person? Lets take it out of the political process and give it to one man? A thoroughly undemocratic, unconstitutional idea for such an important role.
I think we need to remember that being "private" does not necessarily mean subject to the free market...in this case, its incredible power in fewer unaccountable hands. The current financial disaster is a direct result of noone sensibly regulating the financial markets and giving Wall Street a blank check...on your account.
The Fed is unaccountable as currently setup, but abolishing it simply isnt gonna happen in one fell swoop. So, an ally is an ally. Perhaps its now the Evolution!
Yes, "private" does not necessarily mean
subject to the free-market. That's why I said "partly private."
But is it?
the ownership of the fed is a mystery, but we know that the US govt does not have an interest. It is private and secret...and operated for the benefit of the major financial institutions which may very well own it, for all we know.
The problem is that that Cynthia McKinney is for socialized money and banking.
so youd rather have the economy regulated by and for
a small group of secret actors (in the name of public welfare without any "market" accountability for their actions), as it is today. Its a defendable (though hardly impervious) position, without just calling a name and sayin' whatever.
She's for far more than that -- I read her platform and vomited.
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if "socialized" finance can be thought of
as "regulated" finance, I think we come closer to more effective thinking, less dogmatic thinking. Unregulated finance that is too big to fail has been a disaster.
What are you talking about?
When have we ever had "unregulated finance"? So, if it hasn't existed, how can it justly be called a "failure"?
ps. I agree that "regulated" is probably the better adjective for banking (I don't think she supports socialized banks). However afaik, Cynthia is a supporter of socialized money.
the investment banks
were purposefully put outside the Fed ring and their activities and those of other large financial entities have been afforded much less oversight than banks.
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In my assessment electronic voting machines are already programmed to elect McCain/Palin in November. Can't you see through the sherade yet?
This presential "election" is a show, an entertainment mechanism, pre-ordained, orchestrated. Not saying its hopeless or anything of that nature to support this but I'm afraid that this is just another case of all sound and fury signifying nothing.
Just watch the MSM news, its mindless dribble, there is absolutely nothing intellectually stimulating about it whatsoever. Its all just knee jerk banter and brainwashing miring the citizenry into dualistic thinking. There doesn't need to be a third party, there needs to be no parties at all.
"Sending messages"
I think this was a bold move (although few will likely hear about it thanks to the MSM) and definitely inspiring, but to be honest I'm sick of the whole "let's do this to send a message" thing. I agree wholeheartedly with some of the other posters, that if these people really wanted change and to beat the system they would unite under one banner rather than 4.
It's sad that these 4 key issues are so crucial to the country but not the voters. Everyone wants to bicker about social issues while the foundation of the US erodes away.
This time it's not to the politicians.
This time the votes are not a message to the politicians. They're a message to the people: Third party votes are not wasted.
Get enough of them and you have a Schelling Point at the next presidential election: The "wasted vote" meme is broken in the people's minds. A thrid party candidate can get enough votes to win and they know it - so they might just do it.
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"Obama's Economists: 'Stimulus' Has Cost $278,000 per Job."
That means: For each job "created or saved" about five were destroyed.
No major media outlet is reporting the events...
Should we really have expected anything different considering all of the media outlets only want a two horse race?
It's about time!
Unification is the key.
The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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What Does This Mean?
This is great that the third party candidates can agree on 4 core issues, but unless this is plastered all over the MSM, I don't see it convincing many more people to vote 3P than there already is. Two things need to happen in order for this to make a great impact. One, if these parties believe truly in these core issues and that the time is NOW to bring them forefront to the American people, then a unified party needs to be created, if it is indeed possible this late in the game. This also includes the largest third party, the Libertarian Party. Only that kind of action would wake up the networks. Second, a person who has proven to unite people from all of these parties needs to run on that ticket. That is Ron Paul. Only then do we have a shot at the 15% needed in order to qualify for the debates. Otherwise, we undermine our efforts by being divided. If the third parties get 1%, 3% or even 5% alone, that can easily be swept under the rug by the MSM and ignored.
This is great news, don't get me wrong, but it's just a foundation to build on for the future. This election cycle is done. We should take this as a testament that we share more important core issues with other third party supporters and gather strength from each other and move on. We have a long four years ahead of us to focus on.
That's how I see it, anyway. What are your thoughts?
I agree, unless we all unite under one candidate
there will be little impact and we will go to helena Handbasket quite quickly.
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I'm a little underwhelmed
I don't know that this is unprecedented as they called it. I was hoping they'd sponsor a debate with all the candidates, find a x`way to get Obama and McCain at the table, and ask real questions.
If I remember right...
they were invited and turned it down, which doesn't supprise me at all.
"There are only two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by sword, the other is by debt." - John Adams
Of course neocon Barr is missing!!
The Libertarian party has been for some years now slyly connected to the neocon machine, simply as a distraction! Their people are in the magazine, and wielded influence not only there but in the RP Campaign. Who knows, maybe Paul called his bluff and as such outed his insincerity... but...
BUT, having said that, remember that though this is real life of the nation, freedom and liberty at stake, it can still be likened to a giant CHESS game! This is only the middle game, where the players are out of their book openings, and into that misty area of visualizing many plys deep, prior to the end-game! As such you will see yet, more brilliant moves, to include the Barr party, which can have the power to coalesce, to crush, and to check-mate any neocon opposition. Be ready for the endgame!
To accomplish the following, one must prepare the moves well ahead of time! So, be prepared for the BIG substitution of Ron Paul into each of these parties on the ballot!!
Who knows... it just might happen, and the 60% majority will have a real strong ticket, with only one name to check on the ballot! :)
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Colts owner Jim Irsay said Wednesday that he expected to release the former Pro Bowl tackle within the next few days, ending months of speculation concerning Simon's future with the Super Bowl champions.
Simon did not pass his physical last weekend. He was expected to report to camp on time July 29 but was never seen at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology.
Simon did not play last season and was eventually placed on the non-football illness/injury list with an undisclosed ailment.
The Colts also waived rookie wide receiver Michael DePriest and placed tight end Mike Seidman on injured reserve with a knee injury. Seidman was signed this past spring after five seasons with Carolina.
Indianapolis also signed a pair of free agents, defensive end Noland Burchette and wide receiver Aaron Brown. Burchette is a 6-foot-2, 259-pound rookie defensive lineman who played at Virginia Tech. He was originally signed as an undrafted free agent by Atlanta.
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Tosca, Metropolitan Opera
They have been fiddling with Luc Bondy's staging of Tosca. Scarpia doesn't masturbate on the Madonna; he just sort of pinches her erotically.
After the horrors of Jagoš Marković's production of Le Nozze di Figaro in Belgrade, I was apprehensive lest Nabucco in Serbia's second city of Novi Sad on 27th October would be transplanted from 6th century BC Babylon to post-Saddam Hussein Tikrit or some bombed-out kibbutz in Beersheba.
First Toronto, then Houston and now San Francisco, the third stop of a new production of Puccini's La bohème by Canadian born, British nurtured theater director John Caird.
Every once in a while Los Angeles Opera presents an important recital in the three thousand seat Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
This third revival of Laurent Pelly's production of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore needed a bit of a pep up to get moving but once it had been given a shot of 'medicinal' tincture things spiced up nicely.
Founded in 1996, Samling describes itself as a charity which 'inspires musical excellence in young people'.
The good news is that you don't have to go all the way to Pesaro for great Rossini.
Maître à danser: William Christie and Les Arts Florissants at the Barbican, London, presented a defining moment in Rameau performance practice, choreographed with a team of dancers.
The most memorable thing (and definitely not in a good way) about this performance of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Serbian National Theatre in Belgrade was the self-serving, infantile, offensive and just plain wrong production by celebrated Serbian theatre director Jagoš Marković.
Should looks matter when casting the role of the iconic temptress for HD simulcast?
Maurice Greene (1696-1755) had a highly successful musical career. Organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, a position to which he was elected when he was just 22 years-old, he later became organist of the Chapel Royal, Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge and, from 1735, Master of the King's Music.
Yet another Tosca is hardly exciting news, if news at all. The current five performances have come just two years after SFO alternated divas Angela Gheorghiu and Patricia Racette in the title role.
What an enjoyable opportunity to encounter Dvořák's sixth opera, Šelma Sedlák¸or The Cunning Peasant!
Whether biblical parable or mythological moralising, it's all the same really: human hubris, humility, sacrifice and redemption.
Opera Rara brought a rare performance of Donizetti's first opera for the Paris Opera to the Royal Festival Hall on 4 November 2014, following recording sessions for the opera.
Bass baritone, Luca Pisaroni, known to opera lovers throughout the world for his excellence in Mozart roles, offered San Diego vocal aficionados a double treat on October 28th: his mellifluous voice, and a recital of German songs.
Jonathan Miller's production of La bohème for ENO, shared with Cincinnati Opera, sits uneasily, at least as revived by Natascha Metherell, between comedy and tragedy.
Any Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau performance is superb, but this Wigmore Hall recital surprised, too. Boesch's Schubert is wonderful, but this time, it was his Liszt and Strauss songs which stood out. This year at the Wigmore Hall, we've heard a lot of Liszt and a lot of Richard Strauss everywhere, establishing high standards, but this was special.
The weather was auspicious for Wexford Festival Opera's first-night firework display — mild, clear and calm. But, as the rainbow rockets exploded over the River Slaney, even bigger bangs were being made down at the quayside.
The cast of supporting roles was especially strong in the company's new production of Mozart's matchless masterpiece
The company uncorks its 40th Anniversary season with a visually and musically satisfying production of Johann Strauss Jr.'s farcical operetta
They have been fiddling with Luc Bondy's staging of Tosca. Scarpia doesn't masturbate on the Madonna; he just sort of pinches her erotically.
The firing squad doesn't rehearse during the exquisite music Puccini wrote to illustrate a perfectly silent, motionless dawn in Rome; instead, the Jailer plays chess with Cavaradossi. The show is still hideously ugly, no incitement to any opera-lovers ever to return to this opera, but casting three terrific singing actors in the leads—one of them a role debut, another a surprise, last-minute house debut, no less—makes a world of difference to the Tosca experience (as perhaps the presentation should be entitled). Seeing any director monkey with a theatrical machine as carefully made as Tosca, with its precise alignments of movement to music (the window that must be shut just as the cantata cuts off, the candles placed beside the corpse, the sunrise with churchbells, and dozens more), you'd think, would give opera directors pause about attempting to "improve" on a classic. But it doesn't. They just think how much of a reputation they can make by breaking the smoothly running parts. Why don't they just piss on it out of our sight? That would contribute as much.
Roberto Alagna as Cavaradossi
However: Considering the train wreck of a year ago—was it only?—my return to Tosca proved surprisingly satisfying.
Sondra Radvanovsky was singing her first Tosca at the Met—was it her first anywhere? She has a big voice—Met-sized, I'd call it. Too, she is a handsome woman and a passionate actress, with excellent stage instincts. She has been known to go overboard at times, and she did so here, in the outsize boohoos that ornamented her response to her lover's apparent treachery in Act I, and in the "roll in the hay" under Cavaradossi on the church floor, but opera, especially Verismo opera, is an art with room for going overboard that is not often utilized these days, or not by singers, or not by singers with any gift for high style. I found her thrilling in the part.
My doubts about Radvanovsky have to do with a basic harshness of her instrument. The color does not always give pleasure in sensuous roles with a touch of bel canto to them, such as Leonora (her signature part) or Elena. But Tosca does not fall into that category: Even at her most sensuous, this woman is brittle, excited, suspicious, a little frantic. Radvanovsky inhabited Tosca as Tosca has not been inhabited in the Met for some time. Just don't expect any Tebaldi or Caballé legatos.
Falk Struckmann as Scarpia and Sondra Radvanovsky as Tosca
Marcelo Álvarez was to have sung Cavaradossi. He withdrew mere hours before the performance, and Roberto Alagna, who was in town to sing Don José and has never sung Cavaradossi here, stepped in for him. What a treat! It says a great deal for Mr. Alagna's stage sense, which has never been in doubt, that he rarely seemed confused by this unpredictable and complicated staging. His singing, a bit tentative and low-powered at first, built in the course of the evening to the appropriate fire and polish for "Vittoria, vittoria!" His "E lucevan le stelle" was not the most sensuous or dreamy account one has heard of it, but it was gritty and real, poignant and despairing. There was genuine chemistry between him and his Floria, and genuine shock on her part when she found he was dead.
Falk Struckmann is more actor than voice, and Scarpia rewards such talent. He did not overdo the gross touches director Luc Bondy inserted into this staging, and his authority and brutality were in no doubt, but he used them suavely, not overbearingly: a commanding figure, not a gross one. This led to one moment of great humor: When Tosca informed him she intended to leave Rome (after yielding to his lust), Struckmann's Scarpia parodied a tearful admirer, sentimentally brokenhearted by the news—sarcastically amused by her melodramatic reaction. Too, he was laughing when he assaulted her at last, so that we could enjoy his furious discomfiture the more.
Two further things added to my enjoyment: On this the first night in the production (and with no rehearsal for one of the leading singers), no one seemed to be staring at the conductor, Marco Armiliato, who pieced the well-molded parts of the Tosca jigsaw puzzle together with admirable skill and precision, drowning no one out, foreshadowing and echoing with precision. Second, they have figured out how to mime Tosca's leap into space without forfeiting either probability or the desired shock.
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Colombo, Sri Lanka – Shahid Afridi bowled Pakistan to yet another impressive 46-run win in ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 with a spell of 5-23 against Canada on Thursday.
Pakistan, batting first, were bowled out for 184 in 43.4 overs and in reply Canada were shot out for 138 in 42.5 overs at the R Premadasa Stadium. It was Pakistan's third consecutive win and they now top Group A with a maxiumum six points.
Dhaka, Bangladesh – West Indies will be focussed and determined when they face Bangladesh in their ICC Cricket World Cup Group B match at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium on Friday.
First ball is 2.30 pm (4.30 am Eastern Caribbean Time/3.30 am Jamaica Time).
Many observers believe the match will be a close contest and the Windies players know they will come up against a capable home side backed by a vocal crowd of over 25,000.
St John's, Antigua– Trinidad & Tobago batsman Runako Morton has been fined 35% of his match fee following the Trinidad & Tobago v Windward Islands WICB Regional 4 Day match at the Arnos Vale Playing Field.
Morton was charged with a Level 1 (Rule 1.1) breach relating to abuse of cricket equipment or clothing, ground, equipment or fixtures and fittings.
Morton pleaded guilty to the charge and accepted the proposed sanction of 35% of his match fee and a hearing was avoided.
Dhaka, Bangladesh – Bangladesh won the toss and decided to bat first against West Indies in their ICC Cricket World Cup Group B match at Sher-e-Bangla Stadium on Friday.
Both teams were unchanged from the sides which played in the last round. Both teams enter the match in two points from two matches and are seeking their second wins in the tournament. The West Indies lost to South Africa and beat the Netherlands while Bangladesh lost to India and beat Ireland.
Ahmedabad, India – New Zealand crushed Zimbabwe by 10 wickets on Friday to take a step closer to the quarter-finals of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.
Zimbabwe was dismissed for just 162 all out in a disappointing batting display, with just Brendan Taylor (44) and Prosper Utseya (36) showing any application at the Sardar Patel Stadium.
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Sheriff Brian Bellendir announced Wednesday that several thousand dollars worth of property that was allegedly stolen by burglars has been recovered over the course of the last several days.
A vehicle ran a stop sign at 10th and Patton in Great Bend and hit a USD 428 school bus taking a group of preschoolers to school at around 11:45 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to Assistant Superintendent Khris Thexton. The bus received minor damages, and there were no injuries to the passengers. The bus was able to complete the trip to the Washington school.
"I will definitely not forget this day," said Braydan Peak. He and mom Sheryl watched from an office window at First United Methodist Church as workers from Stone Sand Co. gingerly demolished Great Bend's old opera house at the intersection of Williams and Forest streets. As they watched, the history of the day was not lost on either of them.
The Great Bend Convention and Visitors Bureau announced the winners of the second quarter entries for the Focus on the Byway photo contest. Entries for the third quarter are being accepted now, said Cris Collier, president of the visitors bureau.
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Sanding after texturing?
We just finished texturing our new basement drywall. We used thinned joint compound and blew it on with a rented compressor/hopper thing for an orange peel effect. I have a few questions before we proceed. Do we need to sand again, or can we just go ahead with priming the walls and ceiling? For the drywall dust that might still be on some sections of wall, what is the best way to remove this prior to priming? A damp sponge, perhaps? If so, how long should we wait after sponging to start priming? Thanks in advance.
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No you don't need to sand the texture before you paint and to remove dust use a soft bristled broom. If you use water on the joint compound you will rewet it and smear it.
damaged floor after sanding
Securing salvaged hardwood flooring
Prime before and after texture??
Polyurethane as sanding sealer and finish coat
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