Ron Paul: Dept. of Transportation only needs ‘one guy and a computer’
source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/17/ron-paul-dept-of-transportation-only-needs-one-guy-and...
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul doesn’t want to abolish the Department of Transportation, but he said on Tuesday that the agency really only needed “one guy and a computer.”
During a town hall event in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the Texas congressman made the case for “user fees” for national parks and the federal highway system.
“Ideally, you can come up with all sorts of schemes about private highways and all, but that’s not going to happen,” Paul explained. “But we do have a user fee with our gasoline tax. Trouble is, they take that money then they spend it on something else.”
“If you had a user fee for our highway, what you could do is have one person in the office. Oh, we got umpteen billions of dollars in gasoline tax and all they have to do is divide up the people in each state or, you know, the size of the state and send the money back.”
He added: “And you could do that with one guy and a computer. But instead, we have a Department of Transportation, probably has tens of thousands of people, you know, playing politics with it all.”
Paul has said that he wants to abolish at least five federal agencies, a list that does not include the Department of Transportation.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/17/ron-paul-dept-of-transportation-only-needs...
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Jan. 17, 2012.
"Eeeesh!!! At his Age I am thinking Retirement???"
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mikeadempsey96
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I just LOVE this crazy old dude! He's practically an anarchist.
Roads??? Bah! Nobody needs those! We'll just walk everywhere! We'll be FINE. - 4 months ago
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For all the "RP is an idiot" people: The vast, vast majority of the roads you drive on every day and rely on are funded by the state, county, and city you live and drive in. The Federal Gov takes alot of credit but the funds, muscle, and brains are mostly non-Federal. Even when the funding is called "Federal" the original source is not frequently your Fed income taxes.
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JustZ
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Wow. Who gave this idiot his PHD in medicine? That university should have it's accreditation revoked.
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JustZ
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The gas tax SHOULD all go to roads - I am with him on that.
nah.
It has to be used for emission controls and other related stuff as well. Never-mind
It WOULD be fun to have him in office raising hell, just to see if ANYTHING could actually really be done about ANYTHING . I personally have my doubts - I think we are hapless and hopeless victims of remorseless global population expansion and economic inertia.
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remanns:
Presidents don't have near the powers they are purported to have. I recall reading years ago that a president, Clinton I believe, wanted to have the White House sprayed for pests but was unable to do so. It seems that some bureaucratic agency had to give the okay first.
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charliesommers
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charliesommers:
Probably the EPA!
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While he is right on a few issues, like the drug war and too much throwing of US Military weight abroad, Ron Paul is a basic idiot who just doesn't like reality.
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nardo1224
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TEXAS is the only state that needs one person and a computer in order to organize transportation because everybody in Texas rides horses. What IS desperately needed are people to follow behind the horses and scoop up all the shit that is dropped!
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nardo1224:
Under Gingrich that would be the Department of Education.
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nardo1224:
Uhm,.......you must not have tried to get from one side of Dallas to another lately,...........................GOD but I would prefer horses,........and I don't get along with horses unless they are fenced and I am armed with apples !
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nardo1224:
MTV fan, right?
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rerushg:
Lol, I can imagine that happening...And now class, we'll watch a short video about mopping, so that all you bright youngsters can one day earn the prestigious tile of "Janitor"!
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mikeadempsey96
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PetEr_Alan_ColE
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He was just saying the Dept. of Transportation waste money and could be run more efficiently by changing the way it is run. Of course Rawstory is going to run with this headline. They are following in the footsteps of Breitbart
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StuffedDerma:
They waste money much in the same way many of the Federal Departments waste money. They are bigger than they need to be. Just look at the Dept of Education. All the money we spend on it and it doesn't seem to be improving education in America.
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StuffedDerma:
Do you know where I can find one?
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PetEr_Alan_ColE:
No, Ron Paul has a whole lot of insane ideas. He'd privatize EVERYTHING
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StuffedDerma:
Air Traffic Controllers getting paid to take naps on the job?
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BusterPoindextor:
Although your lack of civility is appalling, I thought I would supply the following link for you regarding the FAA working with NATCA to control sleeping on the job out of deference to the great New York Dolls.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/14/faa-air-traffic-controller_n_898830.htm...
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One guy and a computer to run transportation and you want to be president. Retire Ron. Stay home and take care of Rand.
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SFirman:
LMAO!!! Great Toon SFirman.... =)
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KB723
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KB723:
Thank you KB.
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KB723
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SFirman:
Thanks for posting, Too Fitting and Funny ... =)
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KB723
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KB723:
Your welcome KB. I like toons.
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thedirtman
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Rick Santorum has just announced that he plans to run the Dept. of Health and Human Services with only a half dozen chickens and a toy piano.
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thedirtman:
LMFAO!!!!!!! =)
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" Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for Martin Luther King. I voted against this time and time again as a Congressman. What an infamy that Ronald Reagan approved it. We can thank him for the Hate Whitey Day." --Ron Paul
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joeredford:
Ha!!! Nice Cones!!! =)
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GENERALNATTY:
LOL back.
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joeredford:
My gawd joe! What were you thinking?
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jimstoner:
I thought he needed to be as ugly on the outside as he is on the inside, intead of having everyone think he's just your kindly, crazy uncle.
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joeredford:
Oops. I just got a " WILL YOU TURN THAT DAMN THING OFF"! I better call it a night.
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GENERALNATTY:
PepperCorn???
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jimstoner:
Sounds like my house.
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Is that Ann Coulter? LOL!
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Crazy much?
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Swisher:
Perhaps Thirsty???
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Eeeesh you know at this point I'm thinking wholesale murder and hypocrisy, yeah that should rule the nation..../s
We can wage "humanitarian" efforts in Libya, sorry seems we no longer have the clout to save Syria, a country that seems to actually be facing a humanitarian crisis....... But that Libya really made us feel "good" about ourselves... (or those not wanting the price of gas in Europe to rise to fast.)
We can allow our corporations to continue to profit off the worlds LARGEST to date, slave trade.... Almost all the out-sourced shit we buy comes off the backs of slaves, we can pretend it's not systemic racism, and our hands are clean, why... Why Microsoft doesn't "make" the components, no they subcontract the actual slave driving to private foreign firms...
.............(if this wasn't the "terrorism" that's always being referred to we should be warring against Idk what is.).......We can continue down the road of systemic racism as encouraged by the "left" by continuing to allow the death penalty through whichever local govern-mentally funded mob rule....
Oh-Yeah.... More racism from the "left" the "soft" race-war known as prohibition..... (But I'm just wanting to get "high".... Or so you tell yourselves to try to drag me into that same dark alley where you abide, the moral "gray" area where my opinion doesn't count.)
Hell we can even continue prohibition of the oldest most fast producing, most environmentally friendly fiber the world has ever know.... The very same fiber that made up our first flags, the very same fiber the Bill of Rights was written on (that one is confirmed and known by myself, most the other national treasures/historical documents most likely were written on hemp too.), the fiber had it not been for CANVAS would not exist, the Mayflower may not have sailed without, and countless people throughout history may have starved or went malnourished without it's seed....
(I wonder about the effect of such a perfect balance of of Omega fatty acids, in hemp seed, and it's correspondence to our evolution?)I hate to tell you, the technology we use is 15-20 years behind what is out there... 10 solid years behind the technology on the market in Japan right now, and at least 15 solid years behind what the top echelon of the U.S. intelligence agencies have at their disposal...
What you really believe is science fiction, at this point is science fact, and it's not for sale or display... Maybe the old fart also knows this, and sees the wasted potential... Maybe he sees a more beneficial use of the technology.....
One guy and a computer, IN CONTEXT, like say per-state, or per county....... Is not that far fetched for monitoring some toll roads.... Or 1 person on a computer doing the math to put the taxes ALREADY WITHDRAWN FOR SAID PURPOSE in charge of making sure the money gets sent where it's supposed to, back to the states the tax came from for the highway infrastructure....
But sure use his lack of clarification to try to paint him into a box..... He's not you or me, he has allot he's trying to get done on a much larger scale with spreading his message, and silly him ASSUMES people have the cognitive abilities to connect the dots.....
And his complaint with those federal agencies he's against; They Are Corrupt
Needs an example right?
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/09/10071389-epa-reach-too-far-justices...
There...... Now I'm going back to bed, someone please anyone, offer me a challenge, hell feed my ego, pump me for unimportant information, or snare me in some bullshit....
Now I'll leave you racists to debate who is more racist.... Enjoy that slave labor technology.....
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Anonmaly:
You do know how rants like this make you look don't you?
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Anonmaly:
How did racism come into the conversation. And those lefty Texans and their damn death penalty. And that damn lefty Nixon and his war on drugs. And those damn lefty corporations and their out-sourcing. Funny, how everything the right has been all for in the last 30 years is now the fault of those damn lefties. Now, back to the regularly scheduled programing. Who's going to cut the grass along the side of the highway? Or plow the snow. R2D2? I notice you don't mind corporate logos for your call sign.
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Anonmaly:
In your wisdom or lack thereof: "...and silly him ASSUMES people have the cognitive abilities to connect the dots..." when you connect his dots you start out well, but end up out in the fucking weeds somewhere not even close to anywhere real...
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Ambill94:
Yep. Out in the fucking.
How much is that doggy in the window. - 4 months ago
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joeredford:
I just got asked. What the hell are you laughing at now?
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I hope you showed them so they don't think you're touched.
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joeredford:
They think I'm touched anyway.
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jimstoner
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I hear Obama is going to do him one better and run the military with two midwives and an abacus.
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jimstoner:
Iss That Rightt???
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KB723:
I just got asked what I was laughing at ten minutes ago? I'm not laughing alone anymore!
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jimstoner:
Ahhh, Freds!!! =) I know, somewhat confusing... =)
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jimstoner:
LMAOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
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Every Asian country will soon have bullet trains that run precisely on time. With one guy and a computer America could not have two trains on one track without running into one another. Which country do you think a corporation will choose to locate their business? I think you see what I mean.
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thedirtman:
So much for American Ingenuity.... =(
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KB723:
Now, but a dream...
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thedirtman:
Very well put...and a very sad reality for us.
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thedirtman:
Mine are somewhere else... I just Hope this is still a Country after this Year...
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thedirtman:
We have no one to blame but ourselves and "Our" government. It all starts with schooling and our decrepit educational system.
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thedirtman:
Lol, better start learning chinese, everybody!
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mikeadempsey96:
Okay.
这里讲中国。
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Zomg an exaggeration for effect to make the point that the Dept of Transportation is another bloated federal branch.... Proceed to misunderstand...
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Buddha2112:
What do you think 1 guy and a computer means? If he thinks it can be streamlined then why not say so. If he's going to make ridiculous statements, what kind of reaction do you think he's going to get? It is stupid to make a point by saying something stupid. And look what he's got his supporters doing. If you are one. Your trying to explain away what you yourself has to admit is an incredibly dumb thing to say. One guy and a computer.
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jimstoner:
It's extreme, but so aren't most of what his says, but in practice it's hardly the case. This is why his following has grown. People get it.
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Buddha2112:
People get it? Okay then.
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What a simpleton!
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kennymotown:
Just wonder how We will be at 74 years Old...???!!! =)
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KB723:
I don't think he would survive his first couple years in the oval office!
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kennymotown:
Neither did this Fella... =)
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KB723:
Good one KB.
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SFirman:
Thanks SFirman... =)
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And we now have further confirmation - Ron Paul is an idiot.
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unimatrix0:
LMFAO!!!! =) +) =) +)
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I swear to gawd, I'm sitting here alone, laughing out loud at this. No shit.
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jimstoner:
Me Too... =)
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How many millions of jobs would be lost with this crazy old man as President? All we can manage to do is add 200,000 a month now. Scary!
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joeredford:
We need a Law that states... 65 is the retirement age, it is also the oldest one can be to become POTUS... =)
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KB723:
I'll vote for that law. but I guess I can't because it would have to be in a constitutional amendment. Shoot.
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"Ron Paul: Dept. of Transportation only needs ‘one guy and a computer" How could that possibly be done? Only in the mind of Ron Paul.
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Leen61:
Poor Guy... I sure as Hell am Happy his Happy Ass will Not be answering the Red Phone at three in the Morning.... =)
I do wonder Why, this has never been mentioned this election season... Who is Screaming out about Birth Certificates, Flag Lapel Pins, Christianity as a must to be POTUS??? Maybe just ME, cos Fox hasn't the Balls to make mention, even though they Did for the first year of BO's administration...
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KB723:
Yes, that is stangely missing, KB.
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Leen61:
SN!!! Bastards could Not shut their Damned Mouths and now they back a Mormon??? Holy Sh*t!!!!!
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KB723:
That says it all, KB.
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Leen61:
Eeesh... What have We Become???
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Leen61:
with a very expensive computer from Microsoft
may be a military pre World war one canon computer - 4 months ago
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cmc101:
Could be. He certainly wants to turn the clock back.
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He really does
very close to what prophet Reagan tried with trickle down - 4 months ago
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cmc101:
That's for sure, cmc101.
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Yet another oversimplification from a Libertarian.
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Heck... I think he just needs a cat nap, gotta be Hard doing the same thing everyday... =)
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Ya see when he says shit like that An I what to just pull my freaking hair out and scream at him that he is Brain Damaged.
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bailey78:
Ahem... I feel the same as folks that back this Guy!!! =)
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I wonder how he would keep track of all the 18 wheelers? How would he make sure they are running safely and not carrying overweight loads? What would he replace the inspection stations with? That falls under the direction of The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Not to mention the F.A.A., The Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration, The Federal Transit Administration, The Maritime Administration. They , and many other departments are the responsibility of the D.O.T. One guy and a computer?
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jimstoner:
He musta been thinking of that DieBold guy!!! =)
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KB723:
This guy can't possibly believe the yarn he's spinning. And if he does, it may be the most frightening thing I've ever seen or heard of.
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jimstoner:
. Each truck would be wired with a GPS system that would not only track its speed but also its weight and route. Who is driving and how long they have been at the wheel. Those that break the Law will be shut down remotely and a Police Officer would show up to write a ticket an see that the era was corrected. On-Star already does some of that. Oh yeah a computer would be doing all the real work
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jimstoner:
Be Happy you don't Live Here... ;)
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jimstoner:
and excuse my language...but what the fuck do we do during a snowstorm?
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jeffissleeping:
I guess you call the guy. Or, I don't know, his computer maybe.
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One hell of a computer.
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