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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:45 PM
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Senator Faxsender - Just click a button and you've faxed your Senator!
Not sure if this is a dupe...

http://www.lightwingarts.com/faxsenator.asp
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elepet Donating Member (316 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:49 PM
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1. not on the list
Feinstein of CA is not on the list.
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:50 PM
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3. Most likely to object
"The senators listed below have been selected as most likely to voice an objection to the 2004 presidential election. "

For some reason no Feinstein?
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:57 PM
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9. Yeah, she's not on the list because she is a wuss....
Feinstein is a DINO. She will never get my vote again.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:19 PM
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24. Feinstein doesn't have the cojones to object. n/t
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Amy6627 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:35 PM
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32. I hope you are wrong! I sent her a telegram through
congress.org, it only cost $4.95. They hand deliver them. I sent them to both of my senators, Boxer & Feinstein.
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redacted Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:49 PM
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2. Never saw this before. Thank you sabra
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cags Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:51 PM
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4. Done
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Hieronymus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:54 PM
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5. I wish there was one for e-mail............
most in congress have made it a pain in the ass to e-mail them.:eyes:
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:55 PM
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7. Your wish
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:55 PM
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6. Thanks for the link
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 04:55 PM by Walt Starr
Excellent that I could alter the text!
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:56 PM
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8. Hey it's you again :-)
May I ask what you said?
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:57 PM
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10. I faxed every Senator on the list
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 05:19 PM by Walt Starr
and requested they DO NOT object to the electors and explained why I felt it was a poor precedent to set.
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AmerDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:09 PM
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19. pppt
:freak:
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confuddled Donating Member (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:42 PM
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35. And why is that? n/t
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:48 PM
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38. Because I am firmly convinced that challenging electors at this point
is a huge long term strategic loss for the Democrats and election reform, especially since nothing will change in the outcome and the electors will still be certified.
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AtLiberty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:57 PM
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11. Is there a fee for this service?
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:00 PM
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13. It's free
Seems like the site has software to send fax from their server (which costs money), but is allowing us to do it for free... Looks legit to me!
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keepthemhonest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 04:57 PM
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12. Sabra
Holy hell I justtried that and it was so damn easy I am just wishing i had seen it before now. I know what I am doing all night.

Thanks.

Do you know if there is a limit?
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:00 PM
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14. Seems like you can do it as many times as you choose :-)
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keepthemhonest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:04 PM
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15. I just did the whole list for me
and I have other family memebers that want me to do things like this for them to.

godd opportunity to blast them!

thanks so much:headbang:
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bearfan454 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:06 PM
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16. I faxed all of them.
Someone has got to stand up tomorrow.
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greenmutha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:08 PM
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17. Thanks sabra! Faxed 'em all!
w00t!
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sickinohio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:09 PM
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18. done
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Democrat 4 Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:25 PM
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26. I hit the entire list - here is what I wrote
Dear Senator,

I am asking that all Democratic Senators to stand together as a unit to protest the certification of the 2004 election. The proof that Rep. Conyers has amassed is very compelling and if you do not take a stand on January 6th democracy in this country will be finished.

No one should have their vote discounted, have to live with fraud and disenfranchised. I respectfully request you stop worrying about re-election and take a moral and ethical stand for America.

Sincerely,

name
city and state
email address
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Democrat 4 Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:32 PM
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30. Brief update - emails to the following senators bounced back
as undeliverable -

Levin
Wyden
Bingaman
Kennedy
Lieberman

What's up with that? Any use of re-sending my message to them?

Are the repug Senators on a list somewhere. Would love to give them the message to stand for democracy and not petty partisanship. Think they should know there are 50,000,000 people out here in the tall grass that will do everything possible to ensue they do not get re-elected. I pledge to not only pledge to work for each and every Senator who has the cojones to stand up and protest, I will actively work against each and every single one who doesn't.
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sepia_steel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:13 PM
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20. Wow, that's great!
I sent one to all of them.
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greenmutha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:15 PM
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21. Hey sabra, where did you get this from?
I'm just wondering, because there are some misspelled words in the body of the text that pops up first.

I didn't use it. I used this borrowed letter (below) from quite awhile ago that I saved, (with permission from the author), but danged if I can remember who wrote it now!

Here's the letter:

Dear Senator,

Even though I reside outside your jurisdiction and as such may not be considered your constituent, I write you today regarding a matter that is of great concern to all Americans; indeed, to the very notion of democracy and the democratic process.

As you may or may not be aware, substantial controversy has arisen in the wake of our most recent presidential election. Charges of voting fraud, voter suppression and the disenfranchisement of minority voters have circulated not only on the internet and in the international press, but also within the ranks of the government and the citizenry. At present, there is enough evidence of irregularities, anamolies and incidents to strongly suggest that the results of the election currently scheduled for certification do not accurately reflect the will of the people because tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of voters were either prevented from casting ballots or their votes remain uncounted.

On Dec. 6, the House Judiciary Committee held a forum in Washington, DC, in which many people spoke passionately about the issues at hand and the implications involved in certifying the dubitable results of the November 2 election. In his opening statement, Congressman John Conyers stated: "This is not about John Kerry, this is about the voters. There were voters who stood in ten-hour lines to exercise their most basic and fundamental civic right. There were voters who worked for days to the polls for the elderly and the poor and to provide assistance to language minorities. As hard as voters worked for the vote, we need to work just as hard to make every single vote count."

As Mr. Jesse Jackson, Sr. reminds us in his puissant commentary on the state of affairs, especially as the issues at hand pertain to traditionally "underrepresented" groups, "the race is not over until it is certified that every vote is counted and until a full investigation shows that every vote was honored. And for the future credibility of the process, we must end the practice and precedent of voter suppression and disenfranchisement schemes."

Though the mainstream media has suppressed the controversy as effectively as partisan-efforts suppressed major constituencies' votes in this election, there are many thousands, perhaps millions, of concerned American citizens currently actively involved in the campaign to withhold certification of the election results until all the ongoing recounts and investigations have been completed.

This is not a partisan issue: it relates to the integrity of our democratic process. Whatever your partisan loyalties, whatever your political ambitions, I urge you to take a stand NOW in the name of democracy--a principle we currently seek to bring to the Middle East in a multi-billion-dollar campaign that has already cost us well over a thousand American lives and over 100,000 Iraqi civilian casualties. It is time for all Americans, our Senators and Representatives included, to demonstrate to ourselves and to the rest of the world that we do indeed represent the ideals of democracy: if we cannot conduct fair elections in our own country, we certainly cannot be taken seriously as representatives of democracy in the rest of the world.

Regardless of whether a proverbial "smoking gun" will ever be found to prove beyond a shadow of doubt that fraudulent tampering with machines led to the incumbent party's putative victory, there is every reason to believe that this election was "rigged" by suppressing the voices and votes of substantial portions of the population.

I urge you to review documentation of the Dec. 6 forums now available at the House Judiciary Committee website:

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/voteforum.html

I furthermore encourage you to review additional evidence and documentation that has been compiled and collected by concerned citizens in their concerted, collaborative efforts to determine what, exactly, did happen in our most recent presidential election. The following website provides a comprehensive overview of documentation:

http://shadowbox.i8.com /

I urge you to vote your conscience and protest the certification of the final vote tally in congress. Anything else represents an unconscionable act of negligence on your part. The citizens have collected and presented enough evidence to merit and indeed to mandate that you do everything in your power to prevent the certification of these results.

I remain respectfully yours,
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pbartch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:16 PM
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22. I am doing this now. I'm doing for ME, HUBBY & mom in law
I sent this information to 25 people and I'm posting the website on message boards!
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:18 PM
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23. Where's Bill Nelson's Name? n/t
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BringEmOn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:21 PM
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25. Senators Murray and Cantwell not listed
:wtf:
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LosinIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:25 PM
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27. my note to Senator Jeffords
Dear Senator,

I am a relative of former Senator George Aiken. Do you think that he would have stood by and allowed these questionable results to have been certified? Please think of how history will view your actions tomorrow. This is too important to let career concerns stand in your way.

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I hope he can look at this from the historical perspective.
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Lil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:25 PM
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28. Done. Thanks very much! I changed my message a bit.
Dear Senator . . .,

Please throw the election to the House of Representatives.

Bush does NOT have a mandate of THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Let the GOP House of Representatives choose Bush.

Please do not add to the illusion that THE AMERICAN PEOPLE elected Bush.

The GOP HR should be the ones to allow Bush to serve as President. Let them be responsible for the horrible mess this country is in.

Sincerely,
Lil Marlau - a Democrat abroad in Australia where paper ballots and non partisan election officials allow all votes to be counted.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:27 PM
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29. There are two chances that the House will determine the outcome
slim and none.

If challenged, the challenge will not stand. Sorry, but that's the political reality.

The electors appointed will choose the president.
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Lil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:47 PM
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37. Is that really true? Randi talked with Conyers about the idea a few min. .
. . . ago??
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greenmutha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:44 PM
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36. Great letter, Lil!
And HI! :hi:
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Lil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:58 PM
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39. Hope the info. is accurate. Randi says it is - reading the process. . .
. . . from the constitution about going to the HR.

Happy New Year!
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Lil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 01:37 AM
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43. For those who want to send faxes, check out this link. VERY fast & easy.
I think it took me less than 5 min. to send to all on the list.
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Hun Joro Donating Member (511 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:33 PM
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31. Thanks! I faxed them all. n/t
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Bouvet_Island Donating Member (227 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:36 PM
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33. Great thing!
I would suggest as many as possible also send faxes with regular fax machines, I am not sure we can depend on this service exclusively as it is possible to block numbers on modern fax machines. If they get 1000 faxes from this one, they might.

It is also more of a statement to get more individual pieces.

It also could break or be broken, be underbudgeted, or fake. I sent to all the senators in it, and then another letter to the ten most likely from my home number.

Windows XP actually have a good fax program, if you type in the senators in the contact list you can send them all at once with lots of retries.

I haven´t been able to get my contacts out of it yet, if anyone do please post as many of them as possible as a .zip.
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 05:40 PM
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34. Thanks, and kick.
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Blissfulbride Donating Member (40 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 06:12 PM
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40. Great little device -- this fax thing
Just sent a bunch. Hope they all have a lot of fax paper supplies.
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evolvenow Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 06:36 PM
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41. Fantastic! Faxed all the Senators and kicking!! kick!!
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 06:36 PM by evolvenow
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MelissaB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 06:44 PM
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42. Done and
I love the fact this was sooo easy!

Thanks!
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 03:32 AM
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44. Kick it. n/t
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Angie_White Donating Member (20 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 05:07 AM
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45. Uhhh...link is not working anymore.
Maybe we crashed it?
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mia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 05:46 AM
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46. Thank you message on Lightwing Arts - 13,000 faxes were sent...
http://www.lightwingarts.com/speakout.htm

We want to thank all of you who participated in this effort to reach senators with our concern about the presidential election and the votes of the Ohio electors. During a 24 hour period, more than 13,000 faxes were sent to the senators on our list. Let’s hope that it made a difference.
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sickinohio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 10:22 AM
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47. I just sent to all again - this was easy.
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AnarchoFreeThinker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-06-05 10:24 AM
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48. link is out. TRY THIS ONE INSTEAD:
Edited on Thu Jan-06-05 10:27 AM by dmsRoar
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