posted on July 26, 2006 06:16:43 AM new
I've really been trying to stay out of the political talk on boards. I'm working on three campaigns right now (Strickland for Governor, Miller for Senate and Kucinich for Congress) so I'm kind of overwhelmed with it all. But, there are just some things too good not to share.
Most of you might remember Ken Blackwell. He's Ohio's Secretary of State. He's also the one who tried hard to suppress votes of minorities in the last presidential race. Nickname? Uncle Tom. He's running for governor of Ohio against Ted Strickland. Ted Strickland is a Democrat, but very middle of the road. He's a former Methodist minister and a congressman in the Appalachia's (a mostly Republican area). Blackwell, in his bid to try to get the African American vote (which belongs to Ted right now), distributed the following in an inner city African American neighborhood. I say that we just sit back and watch as he digs his own grave.
Blackwell Campaign Distributes Ad Using Man With Oversized Head
The race for Ohio governor is taking a controversial turn because of a political ad, NewsChannel5 reported.
Some people believe an ad distributed by the Blackwell campaign is humorous, while others think it is offensive.
The campaign literature turned up on car windshield in Cleveland's eastern suburbs over the weekend, WEWS reported.
The ad shows a black man with an oversized head appearing to be in shock.
His hands are raised and the message reads, "Strickland for governor no way."
Blackwell's press secretary told NewsChannel5 that the ad was meant to be humorous to inform voters that Strickland's views are wrong for Ohio.
On blogs, some are comparing the ads to black minstrel performers. They also think it is insensitive, offensive and insulting.
There was similar reaction on the streets of Cleveland. Some said it was "childish" and "pretty degrading."
Voters say Blackwell is trying to hard to connect with black voters, and he missed the mark by trying to scare people away from Strickland using the caricature.
?Clearly, he could have made his point without that demeaning picture of a caricature of African American males,? said Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones.
Jones, a democrat, was disturbed by the Republican candidates choice of ads. He added that the "Amos and Andy" type of ad is consistent with the Blackwell campaign.
Carlo Loparo, Blackwell's press secretary, said, "Our goal is to get voter's attention and we have their attention and now we're gonna educate them about who Ted Strickland really is."
U.S. State Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (news, bio, voting record) issued a statement about the ad saying: "By using a distorted caricature that is stereotypical and offensive it trivializes the importance of the African-American agenda."
Over the weekend, Tubbs-Jones, Jones and other elected democrats from northeast Ohio met to talk about how to throw their support behind Strickland.
posted on July 26, 2006 10:55:42 AM new
No way in he11 I would ever vote for a Strickland. Period. In fact, I would make sure to vote for the cannibal running against 'em.
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posted on July 26, 2006 12:15:06 PM new
And your reason, parklane? You prefer cut throat Uncle Toms who lie, cheat and steal their way through life and then proclaim their Godliness to all?
posted on July 26, 2006 12:48:21 PM new
You guys really are a bunch of azzholes. Precisely why I stopped posting to this board. I thought we could have an intelligent and respectful conversation regarding the article I posted. Apparently not. I see, Ron, that you have become the board. Knew it would happen. . .just was a matter of when.
posted on July 26, 2006 01:20:10 PM new
well typical liberal-you disagree on what they say and they get all pissed off and go running to OWTA where they can kiss each others ass......
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posted on July 26, 2006 02:57:28 PM new
Cheryl you can go away and go away mad if you want, still doesn't change the fact the kucinich is the worst type of socialist and it is wonder how the people of N. Ohio keep voting for him. You know very well he would never be Senator as the people of Ohio would not vote for him.
"Uncle Tom" amazing at what liberals will call a black man because he doesn't toe the liberal line.
posted on July 26, 2006 03:53:20 PM new
FYI, Ron, he is called Uncle Tom because he has a habit of stabbing African Americans in the back in order to do what his extreme right winged contingency wants. He suppressed the black vote during the last presidential election. Hell, he even stopped an African American war veteran from voting because the man was too crippled to get to the right voting place. He was turned away at the place he was able to get to. He demanded that voter registration be done on 8lb paper only causing a lot of people to not be registered at places that didn't have 8lb paper. He's running for governor, but will not excuse himself from heading up the election. Conflict of interest? You bet. Big time. He bought stock in Diebold and then made demands to use their machines for voting in Ohio.
Why did J. Kenneth Blackwell seek, then hide, his association with super-rich extremists and e-voting magnates?
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
March 10, 2006
The man who stole the 2004 election for George W. Bush -- Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell -- has posted a picture of himself addressing the white supremacist ultra-right Council for National Policy (CNP). He then pulled the picture and tried to hide his participation in the meeting by removing mention of it from his website, kenblackwell.com.
First discovered by a netroots investigator (uaprogressiveaction.com), Blackwell's photo at the CNP meeting was found on Blackwell's website on Monday, March 6. Then it mysteriously disappeared.
Blackwell has ample reason to hide his ties to the CNP. When the Free Press investigated the CNP and its ties to the Republican Party, Chip Berlet of Political Research Associates told the paper that the CNP included "a former Ku Klux Klan leader and other segregationist policies." Berlet emphasizes that these "shocking" charges are easy to verify.
Berlet describes CNP members as not only traditional conservatives, but also nativists, xenophobes, white racial supremacists, homophobes, sexists, militarists, authoritarians, reactionaries and "in some cases outright neo-fascists."
Some well-known figures affiliated with the CNP include Rev. Jerry Falwell, anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly and the Rev. Pat Robertson. But its the lesser-known CNP mainstays that are more indicative of the organization's politics. They include:
* Richard Shoff, a former Ku Klux Klan leader in Indiana.
* John McGoff, an ardent supporter of the former apartheid South African regime.
* R.J. Rushdoony, the theological leader of America's "Christian Reconstruction" movement, which advocates that Christian fundamentalists take "dominion" over America by abolishing democracy and instituting Old Testament Law. Rushdoony's Reconstructionalists believe that "homosexuals . . . adulterers , blasphemers, astrologers and others will be executed," along with disobedient children.
* Reed Larson, head of anti-union National Right to Work Committee.
* Don Wildmon, TV censorship activist and accused anti-Semite.
* Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North, Major General John K. Singlaub and other principals from the Iran-Contra Scandal.
Investigative reporter Russ Bellant, author of OLD NAZIS, THE NEW RIGHT AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY;THE RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT IN MICHIGAN POLITICS; and THE COORS CONNECTION, told the Free Press that the "membership of the Council comprises the elite of the radical right in America."
Blackwell is not the only Ohio Republican with ties to white supremacists, according to Bellant. He found ties between Senator George Voinovich and members of fascist groups formerly from Eastern and Southern Europe living in the Cleveland area.
In 1997, the Free Press disclosed that then-Republican Speaker Pro Tempore of the Ohio House, William G. Batchelder, was listed as a member of the little-known and highly secretive cabal, the CNP. Bellant told the Free Press in 1997, "the CNP is attempting to create a concentration of power to rival and eventually eclipse traditional centers of power in the U.S." Batchelder's wife Alice sits on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and was recently considered for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The CNP was founded in 1981. Moral Majority Leader Tim LaHaye assumed the presidency with the backing of Texas billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt. In 1982, Tom Ellis succeeded LaHaye as CNP president. Ellis was a director of the Pioneer Fund, a foundation that finances efforts to prove that African-Americans are genetically inferior to whites. Recipients of past Pioneer Fund grants include eugenicist William Shockley, Arthur Jensen and Roger Pearson. Pearson is on record advocating that "inferior races" should be "exterminated."
Newsweek reported that the CNP's first executive director, Louisiana State Representative Woody Jenkins, told CNP members, "I believe that one day before the end of this century, the Council will be so influential that no president, regardless of party, or philosophy, will be able to ignore us or our concerns or shut us out of the highest levels of government."
In 1999, GOP presidential candidate George W. Bush appeared before the secretive white supremacists at a gathering in San Antonio. Bush refused to make public his comments before the group. The CNP may have reached its intended goal of eclipsing all other power groups in U.S. politics when Bush took the presidency in 2000.
Jeremy Leaming and Rob Boston, writing for the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, detail the sordid history of the CNP in their article "Who Is The Council For National Policy And What Are They Up To? And Why Don't They Want You To Know?"
Blackwell is Ohio's Secretary of State, and a Republican candidate for governor. He was a highly visible "on the ground" player in the Bush election theft in Florida 2000. On Election Day 2004, he met in Columbus with Bush and Karl Rove to solidify plans for winning the Buckeye State's 20 electoral votes, which turned the election to Bush. Blackwell's extremely controversial handling of the election and the vote count have the prompted widespread belief that it, too, was stolen. The results ran counter to the historically accurate exit polls, and Blackwell has stonewalled three successive court battles against public scrutiny of the results and has resisted a verified, accurate recount.
The idea of an African-American like Blackwell speaking to a racist cabal like the CNP may seem incongruous. But Blackwell has been courting extremist right wing support for a long time. Most importantly he has been embraced and supported by Rev. Rob Parsley of the powerful World Harvest Church. Parsley is a wealthy right-wing extremist with a powerful grassroots network throughout the state, and a major stake in Blackwell's taking to the governorship. No Republican has ever won the White House without carrying Ohio. With Blackwell's continued control of the voting apparatus, the CNP and Republican Party could well step into an era of unchallenged national domination.
Not surprisingly, Blackwell and a few CNP members share crucial ties to the election/vote counting industry.
The electronic voting machine industry is dominated by only a few corporations - Diebold, Election Systems & Software (ES&S) and Sequoia. Together, Diebold and ES&S count an estimated 80% of U.S. black box electronic votes.
In the early 1980s, brothers Bob and Todd Urosevich founded ES&S's seminal corporation, Data Mark. The brothers Urosevich obtained financing from relatives of the far-Right-wing CNP-linked Howard Ahmanson in 1984, who purchased a 68% ownership stake, according to the Omaha World Herald. Ahmanson has also been a chief financier of Rushdoony's Christian Reconstruction movement.
Brothers William and Robert Ahmanson, cousins of Howard, infused Data Mark with new capital. The name was changed to American Information Systems (AIS). The Ahmanson brothers have claimed that they have no ties to their more well-known right-wing cousin.
But in 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported that Howard and Roberta Ahmanson were important funders of the Discovery Institute, a fount of extremist right-wing publications, including much that pushes creationism in California schools. The Times said the Institute's " $1-million annual program has produced 25 books, a stream of conferences and more than 100 fellowships for doctoral and postdoctoral research."
According to Group Watch, in the 1980s Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. was a member of the CNP. Heir to a savings and loan fortune, Ahmanson is little reported on in the mainstream U.S. press. But, English papers like The Independent are more informative. They list Ahmanson alongside Richard Mellon Scaife, one of the most important of all right-wing money men. "Such figures as Richard Mellon Scaife and Howard Ahmanson have given hundreds of millions of dollars over several decades to political projects both high (setting up the Heritage Foundation think-tank, the driving engine of the Reagan presidency) and low (bankrolling investigations into President Clinton's sexual indiscretions and the suicide of the White House insider Vincent Foster)," wrote The Independent last November.
The Sunday Mail described an individual as, ". . . a fundamentalist Christian more in the mould of U.S. multi-millionaire Howard Ahmanson, Jr., who uses his fortune to promote so-called traditional family values.. . . By waving fortunes under their noses, Ahmanson has the ability to cajole candidates into backing his right-wing Christian agenda."
Ahmanson is also a chief contributor to the Chalcedon Institute that supports the Christian reconstruction movement. The movement's philosophy advocates, among other things, "mandating the death penalty for homosexuals and drunkards."
The Ahmanson brothers sold their shares in American Information Systems to the McCarthy Group and the World Herald Company, Inc. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel disclosed in public documents that he was the Chairman of American Information Systems and claimed between a $1 to 5 million investment in the McCarthy Group. In 1997, American Information Systems purchased Business Records Corp. (BRC), formerly Texas-based election company Cronus Industries, to become ES&S. One of the BRC owners was Carolyn Hunt of the right-wing Hunt oil family, which supplied much of the original money for the Council on National Policy.
The presence of Ahmanson relatives and Hunt's sister in e-voting software may be a coincidence. But it certainly raises questions as to why family members of anti-democratic forces are getting heavily involved in non-transparent election software. And why they are forging ties to the man in charge of counting votes in Ohio elections.
In 1996, Hagel became the first elected Republican Nebraska senator in 24 years when he did surprisingly well in an election where the votes were verified by the company he served as chairman, and in which he maintained a financial investment. In both his successful 1996 and 2002 campaigns, Hagel's ES&S counted an estimated 80% of his winning votes. Due to the contracting out of services, confidentiality agreements between the State of Nebraska and the company kept this matter out of the public eye. Hagel's first election victory was described as a "stunning upset" by one Nebraska newspaper.
Hagel's official biography states, "Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, Hagel worked in the private sector as the President of McCarthy and Company, an investment banking firm based in Omaha, Nebraska and served as Chairman of the Board of American Information Systems." During the first Bush presidency, Hagel served as Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations (G-7 Summit).
Bob Urosevich was the Programmer and CEO at AIS, before being replaced by Hagel. Bob later headed Diebold Election Systems, but resigned prior to the 2004 election. His brother Todd is a top executive at ES&S. Bob created Diebold's original electronic voting machine software.
Thus, the brothers Urosevich, originally funded by the far Right, figure in the counting of approximately 80% of electronic votes cast in the United States.
That J. Kenneth Blackwell would now address an organization so thoroughly entwined with the extreme right wing and the electronic voting machine industry can hardly be seen as an accident. Blackwell's active presence in both Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004 make him a critical player in the rise of the Bush regime. As governor of Ohio, he could solidify Republican control of presidential elections for decades to come.
Toward that end, the GOP-controlled Ohio legislature has passed a series of laws making it virtually impossible to monitor electronic voting in the state, or to challenge the outcome of a federal election here. The Free Press has also learned that county election board officials, in Blackwell's employ, have stripped nearly a half-million voters from the registration rolls in the key Democratic urban areas of Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus and Cincinnati.
None of this has been seriously challenged by Ohio or national Democrats. And with Blackwell in the governor's mansion, in control of the state's vote counting apparatus, the Democrats will have virtually no chance of ever retaking control of the Ohio legislature, Congressional delegation or, for that matter, the White House.
Small wonder the powerful right wing extremist Council on National Policy would overlook its racist history to embrace an African-American like J. Kenneth Blackwell. Small wonder, also, Blackwell might want to hide what will certainly be a powerful and profitable association for him in his rise to the Ohio governor's mansion … and beyond.
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Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman are co-authors of HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICA'S 2004 ELECTION & IS RIGGING 2008, available at www.freepress.org.
posted on July 26, 2006 05:39:29 PM new
Strickland>>>>the branch of the family we don't talk about, which I'm glad is only related by marriage. Not mine.
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The raghead fig-puckers are fighting to spread their culture and religion, and to destroy ours
posted on July 26, 2006 06:51:52 PM new
I cannot believe the crap cheryl is spewing. The election was 2 years ago. Get over it. Just because some lazy azzed blacks complained that there guy didn't get in is crap. "They wouldn't let me vote." Bullcrap. Get off of your lazy azz and go vote. Or quit commiting felonies so you lose your privelage to vote then complain that you can't.
Just wondering. Is cheryl really the bigdopa?
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
[ edited by stonecold613 on Jul 26, 2006 06:54 PM ]
posted on July 26, 2006 09:11:37 PM new
so stonecold, do you believe that all blacks are lazy and commit felonies? Just curious....
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Now We Know... Uninformed People Elect Uninformed Presidents
posted on July 26, 2006 09:32:58 PM new
Cheryl, I give you tons of credit for actively working on campaigns! Most folks, including many here, will shoot off at the mouth but won't put their time and money into support for what they consider a worthy candidate.
As for that big-headed black person ad--there's no limit to the stupidity of some people in politics. This guy either meant to send a message or was too dumb to realize his ad *would* send a message--but the wrong kind.
We watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert every night; in the past week some politicians have been on those shows saying some things that could very well get them defeated. It's hard to believe--that nice fellow from ?New York? ?New Jersey? who was talked into saying he likes cocaine? It was on the morning news shows. He's lucky he's unopposed. And the fellow who wants the 10 commandments in every public place but when asked couldn't cite even ONE of them! Unbelievable.
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posted on July 27, 2006 04:46:13 AM newso stonecold, do you believe that all blacks are lazy and commit felonies? Just curious
Now that is just a dumbazzed statement. But then again, it is typical of demomorons to change the subject when they are losing the argument.
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posted on July 27, 2006 05:07:20 AM new
stonecold said "Just because some lazy azzed blacks complained that there guy didn't get in is crap. "They wouldn't let me vote." Bullcrap. Get off of your lazy azz and go vote. Or quit commiting felonies so you lose your privelage to vote then complain that you can't."
AGAIN AND AGAIN STONECOLD PROVES THERE IS NO FIX FOR STUPID.
THE GOOD NEWS IS I WILL COPY STONES WORDS TO SHOW LOTS AND LOTS OF PEOPLE HOW SOME NEOCON REPUBLICANS REALLY THINK.
I AM SURE STONE JUST GOT SOME DEMOCRAT VOTES AROUND HERE. AFTER ALL SWANS COULD SPREAD BIRD FLU IN PENNSYLVANIA
THE ONLY WAR BUSH IS WINNING IS HIS WAR AGAINST THE MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASS.
posted on July 27, 2006 05:26:20 AM newNow that is just a dumbazzed statement. But then again, it is typical of demomorons to change the subject when they are losing the argument.
You might notice that that was my first post in this thread, I'm not in an argument here. I asked you a simple question based on your own post wherein you called black people lazy and felonious.
So, again, do you think all black people are lazy? Do you think they all commit felonies?
Answer the question.
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Now We Know... Uninformed People Elect Uninformed Presidents
posted on July 27, 2006 08:02:22 AM new
I already did answer the question. But you demomorons can't figure out common sense either.
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So what you are saying is, all blacks in Ohio were not allowed to vote? That is what you are stating with the dumbazzed question you are asking.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on July 27, 2006 09:56:14 AM newI already did answer the question. But you demomorons can't figure out common sense either.
No, you didn't answer my question.
So what you are saying is, all blacks in Ohio were not allowed to vote? That is what you are stating with the dumbazzed question you are asking.
I have no idea how many blacks in Ohio or any other state voted. I have no opinion on the matter one way or the other. If you'll read thru this thread you'll see that I haven't taken a position on it at all. All I want to know is, based on your words:
Just because some lazy azzed blacks complained that there guy didn't get in is crap. "They wouldn't let me vote." Bullcrap. Get off of your lazy azz and go vote. Or quit commiting felonies so you lose your privelage to vote then complain that you can't.
DO YOU BELIEVE ALL BLACKS ARE LAZY AND COMMIT FELONIES?
A yes or a no would do nicely. Quit dodging.
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Now We Know... Uninformed People Elect Uninformed Presidents
posted on July 27, 2006 11:55:34 AM new
Now THAT gave me a good LAUGH...
cheryl said:
"You guys really are a bunch of azzholes. Precisely why I stopped posting to this board. I thought we could have an intelligent and respectful conversation regarding the article I posted. Apparently not.
That's AFTER she shows us how good SHE is at using RACIAL SLURS....and being tolerant of the opinions of others - that differ from hers.
ROFLOL.....yep....she SURE sounded 'intelligent and respectful' to me. NOT!!!!
....but that's cheryl. Just CAN'T handle opposing opinions. It's either you AGREE with HER or you're an azzhole. LOL
posted on July 27, 2006 12:26:53 PM new
What racial slur did Cheryl say? Calling someone an azzhole is a racial slur now? I thought azzholes came in every color.
At least Cheryl has something intelligent to contribute when she does post. Not like you who ran from the board when you couldn't provide links for some of the claims you made up about others as you did after that Iraqi thread a couple of months ago, lindak.
Plus Fenix was too intelligent for you and used so much logic when she asked you questions and you could no longer answer with a C & P from your talking heads so you turned tail and took off.
posted on July 27, 2006 12:38:52 PM new
It's lunch time for me on the west coast and I decided to check in again as I was away for a few days. My, my.... you still can't handle it when I post here, can you?
posted on July 27, 2006 12:40:41 PM new
Hi Classic.....she used to post here as something close to 'junquemama'. Was really into astrology.
She PLOINKED me here before they started requesting CC I believe. She does that everytime someone says something SHE doesn't like...agree with. ROFLOL....and she just forgot that she'd ALREADY done it to me here. lol lol Like she was on topic anyway. Another one who can't handle disagreement with their positions.
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And packrat is the one that almost ALWAYS goes nuts when anything is mentioned about states passing laws AGAINST gay marriage. Why do you think I post them?
posted on July 27, 2006 05:48:30 PM new
CLASSIC SAID, "who is junque23 in OWTA? Says he was over here.I dont see the thread where the board homo went apesh*t" and "The way she posted,I thought she was a man."
HEY CLASSIC LIKE IT REALLY MATTERS WHAT GENDER A POSTER IS.
NEOCONS LIKE CLASSIC JUST KEEP PROVING THERE IS NO FIX FOR STUPID.
posted on July 28, 2006 06:43:44 AM new
"HEY CLASSIC LIKE IT REALLY MATTERS WHAT GENDER A POSTER IS.
NEOCONS LIKE CLASSIC JUST KEEP PROVING THERE IS NO FIX FOR STUPID."
WELL AHH GOLLY GEE BIG-YA CALLED ME TWO NAMES
WHICH HURT MY FEELINGS-I DONT THINK THAT WAS CALLED FOR.CAN YA ADDRESS ANYBODY WITHOUT CALLING THEM NAMES?? GUESS IT MAKES YA FEEL BIG HEH?-HENCE YOUR NAME.I DONT THINK MISTAKEN SOMEONES GENDER,WHEN YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THEM IS ALL THAT STUPID.THE WAY THIS PERSON WAS POSTING,I ASSUME SHE WAS A MAN-JUST LIKE YOU, I THOUGHT YOU WERE A MAN.
BTW-CAN YOU TELL US ALL HOW YOU AVOIDED THE SERVICE??? DID YA TELL THEM YOU WERE GAY,OR DOING FUNNY THINGS TO FARM ANIMALS?....NOW GO BACK TO WHAT YOUR GOOD AT-GETTING YOUR MORNING BONER BY POSTING THE DEATHS OF AMERICAN TROOPS-YOU SEEM TO GET OFF ON THAT.
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posted on July 28, 2006 08:10:41 AM new
Ronnie, every time anyone makes a comment about your momma that hits a nerve within her she claims they must be waiting for her or stalking her and she has a long list now on the other board.
But keep trying to strut your stuff for her like the good son you've always been so you make her proud, okay?
