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In The Mailbox: 03.08.17

Posted on | March 8, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.08.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
First Street Journal: Former Aide At Conestoga HS Gets Jail Time For Sex With Student
EBL: Reese Witherspoon – Big Little Lies
Michelle Malkin: A Day Without American Tech Workers
Twitchy: Chelsea Clinton’s Pancake Recipe Is Grossing People Out, also, You REALLY Don’t Want To Know Where Cate Blanchett Keeps Her Moral Compass
Louder With Crowder: Pro-Trump Vigilante “Based Stickman” Throws Down On Berkeley Rioters


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Stop Blaming The Boomers
American Power: Tough Resistance To GOP’s #Obamacare Overhaul
American Thinker: Wikileaks CIA Dump Has Some Peculiar Timing
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BLACKFIVE: Sarah Sundin – When Tides Turn
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – Soldiering On
Don Surber: Sales Zoom 557% After American Liberals Boycott Ivanka, also, Trump Just Drove Tom Friedman Off The Cliff
Dustbury: Your Superb Owl Ticket
The Geller Report: #Obamagate – A Criminal Conspiracy Of Unprecedented Scope, also, Nike Normalizes Oppression With The “Pro Hijab”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Senator Kaine’s Dirtbag Son Arrested On Riot Charges After Anti-Trump Tantrum
Joe For America: Former Intel Officer Says Obama Could Be First President With A Felony Indictment
JustOneMinute: Don’t Know Much About History, Snopes Edition
Power Line: Is ESPN Unraveling?, also, Did The Attorney General Commit Perjury?
Shark Tank: Carrying Concealed At A Courthouse Could Become A Reality
Shot In The Dark: Collateral Moral Damage
STUMP: To Build A Castle – Still Relevant Story Of A Fighter For Freedom
The Jawa Report: Where’s Dr. Rusty? Manila Vacation Edition The Political Hat: California Poised To Fully Socialize Medicine
This Ain’t Hell: Broadwell & Thomas – Marines’ Naked Photo Scandal Shows Military Culture Still Sexist
War Is Boring: It’s Back! Iran’s Fake Stealth Fighter Reportedly In Production
Weasel Zippers: New Yorkers Tell Hillary No Thanks, also, Conservatives To Reveal Own Health Plan To Oppose GOP #ObamacareOverhaul
Megan McArdle: The Republican Plan – Even Worse Than Obamacare
Mark Steyn: Of Donald And Winston, also, Silent Cal And Tweeting Don


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#IWD2017 Illegal Immigrant Teenager Charged With Beheading His Mother

Posted on | March 8, 2017 | 3 Comments

Police say Oliver Funes-Machado cut off his mother’s head Monday.

Today is International Women’s Day (#IWD2017) and we want feminists to pay attention to this case of violence against women:

A North Carolina teen was charged with first-degree murder after police say he decapitated his mother inside the family’s home.
Suspect Oliver Funez, 18, reportedly called 911 sometime Monday afternoon after the beheading and stayed on the line with the dispatcher until EMS arrived, according to WBRC.
When the responders entered the home it looked like something out of a horror film.
“He was with the decapitation in his hand, and it was a gruesome scene. The oldest son killed his mother. It looked to be a large butcher knife, the weapon that was used. I can’t tell you how many wounds,” Sheriff Kent Winstead said in a statement.
Investigators say the teen was immediately taken into custody after he placed the head on the ground in the crime scene.

Of course, feminists will wonder how to stop this violence, and therefore we should enforce our nation’s immigration laws:

A North Carolina teen who made international headlines Monday for allegedly beheading his mother with a knife is in the country illegally and is now wanted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.
Bryan Cox, a spokesman for ICE in the southern region, said the agency has filed a detainer for 18-year-old Oliver Funes-Machado, who is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly cutting off the head of his mother, Yesenia Funes Beatriz Machado. The suspect was originally identified by local authorities with the last name spelled Funez. . . .
Funes-Machado is originally from Honduras, ICE officials said.
The killing of Yesenia Funes Beatriz Machado happened about noon Monday, 190 miles east of Charlotte in the small Pilot community of Franklin County. The closest town is Zebulon, an eastern Wake County town of 4,400 people.
Coverage of the shocking murder in a rural community has gone international, with such headlines as “Teen arrested after greeting police with butcher’s knife and mother’s severed head.” The Sun in the United Kingdom referred to the event as a “Beheading Horror” and claimed Funes-Machado “decapitated his own mum in front of her kids then confronted cops carrying her head.” . . .
The Associated Press reported that an attorney for Funes-Machado said his client has “some substantial mental health issues” and was “a pretty profoundly disturbed young man.”
It’s unclear if the rest of the Funes-Machado family is undocumented. Children of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. typically qualify for DACA status, which means they are low priority for deportation. It’s believed Funes-Machado was among the youths who qualify for DACA status.

Oh, what is DACA?

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is an American immigration policy started by the Obama administration in June 2012 that allows certain undocumented immigrants to the United States who entered the country as minors to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation . . .

DACA is an Obama policy that feminists enthusiastically supported. Feminists are pro-illegal immigration, and therefore, pro-decapitation.

If you’re on Twitter, you should call this story to the attention of Amanda Marcotte, Jessica Valenti, and other leading feminists — remember to use the hashtag #IWD2017 — because I guarantee you that otherwise none of them will mention this violence by Oliver Funes-Machado.

Today  on #IWD2017, we can quote Bell Hooks:

http://moon-country.tumblr.com/post/155887558879

Did you witness your “mother’s suffering at the hands of male tyrants”? Were your male relatives all “tyrants”? Were your female relatives victimized by their “fathers, brothers, and/or husbands”? If this wasn’t true in your own family, whose families are feminists condemning? Perhaps they mean the Funes-Machado family? And if it is violence against women they wish to prevent, why do feminists habitually defame all men as though we are complicit in the violence committed by criminals? Why don’t feminists support measures targeted at the most frequent perpetrators of such violence? Maybe start with Chicago:

Wilteeah Jones, her unborn baby and her boyfriend were killed on the South Side, police said. Jones’ 20-year-old boyfriend was fatally shot in the neck while sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle, police said. Jones’ body was found with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and side on a sidewalk, police said.

Who is responsible for the murder of Wilteeah Jones? Do feminists want to blame this violence against women on Republicans? Do feminists think Trump voters are committing atrocious crimes in Chicago? Please, go ask Amanda Marcotte and Jessica Valenti on Twitter about this.



 

 

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Category: Crime, Sex Trouble, Violence Against Women

This Should Scare You to Death

Posted on | March 7, 2017 | 1 Comment

From a left-wing “antifa” Tumblr blog:

Hi, I have been systematically barred from going to university because I had to withdraw from classes when I was mentally ill and untreated. I was schizophrenic and have borderline personality disorder, I didn’t know either of these things while I was at school, on top of that I was suffering from a kidney stone that was quite large, that also wasn’t diagnosed at the time so I didn’t know what the pain was from, and then my grandparents who uplifted me and helped raise me died within a month of each other:
so i was grieving, very mentally ill, and in a lot of pain. I could not finish the term of university, and by withdrawing they told me I owed them 12,590 dollars, I desperately want to go back to university, because I want to help contribute to society, currently I’m on SSI [disability money in the united states] and am not qualified to work any job without an education, its too physically and mentally demanding on me.
I am trying to raise $1000 dollars a month every month until I pay this off, so I can fulfill my dream of going back to school and contributing to my community in ways that I physically and mentally can. My dream is to become a professor, as well as learn how to make a charity for people of the internet in need, but cannot access funds because they can’t get enough support due to their lack of visibility.

Wonderful. You’re a schizophrenic with borderline personality disorder who is on federal disability for your mental illness and — this is scary — your “dream is to become a professor,” because obviously we don’t have enough lunatics teaching young people at our nation’s universities.

By the way, this kook who owes more than $12,000 was evidently enrolled at Oregon State University. While the mentally ill blogger doesn’t mention a major, Oregon State does have a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, and insanity is more or less a prerequisite.

 

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Oregon Investigates Claim of $22,000 Missing from Portland Women’s March

Posted on | March 7, 2017 | 3 Comments

Margaret Jacobsen (left), Rebekah Brewis (right).

Officials in Oregon are reportedly investigating claims by a feminist organizer of the Jan. 21 Portland’s Women’s March that a transgender activist absconded with more than $20,000 raised for the event.

The accusations involve Rebekah Brewis, who was a male in 2000 when he was sentenced to more than five years in prison on robbery charges. In a Facebook post last month, Women’s March organizer Margaret Jacobsen said Brewis, executive director of PDX Trans Pride (PTP), had agreed to be a “fiscal sponsor” of the march.

“We raised approximately $22,000 from t-shirt sales,” Jacobsen wrote. “We do not know how much was raised from direct donations because we do not have access to those records. After the event was over we contacted Ms. Brewis to discuss the need for additional reimbursements and how to handle the remaining funds. At that time Ms. Brewis said it was her intention to keep all of the funds for PTP, which was never agreed to. She then stopped communicating with us about this issue.”

Jacobsen also raised questions about the legitimacy of PTP, saying that she learned that two of the group’s board member had resigned, so that it appears Brewis is running a one-person non-profit organization. The dispute casts doubt on whether contributions to the Women’s March were tax-deductible, as donors had been told.

“The Oregon Department of Justice confirmed this week that it is looking into a complaint but stopped short of saying it has launched an investigation,” Lizzy Acker of the Oregonian reported March 3. “And, due to complicated tax designations for nonprofits, it appears many of the Women’s March donations may not have been tax-deductible after all. . . . PDX Trans Pride is not itself a 501c3 and is fiscally sponsored by [California-based] Media Alliance, according to that group’s executive director Tracy Rosenberg.” Acker further reported:

The link for Women’s March donations went to a PDX Trans Pride PayPal account that was not associated with Media Alliance. The donation link had been shared on Facebook by both the Women’s March and PDX Trans Pride. It was also included in a Women’s March FAQ. . . .
In a phone message . . . Brewis said that other Portland leaders are “jealous of the success of the event,” adding that the march “was controlled and led by our organization.”
“We have an active legal investigation into certain matters” around the Women’s March, she added, referencing “transphobic events” and “interpersonal violence.”
Portland police say they are not involved. The state Justice Department said it is looking into one complaint related to funding the march.
Another Portland trans organization, Greater Portland Trans Unity, meanwhile, distanced itself from Brewis.
“Ms. Brewis has a long history of contentious and harmful interactions with individuals and organizations in our communities,” wrote Greater Portland Trans Unity on Facebook. “As connected individuals and organizational leaders, we have for several years held a quiet consensus that PDX Trans Pride, represented by Ms. Brewis, is not a safe advocate or representative of our communities.”
In 2000, Brewis, then known as Jorey Brewis, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for robbery in Ashland.

Brewis was 19 when police say he and two accomplices burglarized a woman’s home in 1999. When the woman unexpectedly returned during the burglary, Brewis threatened her with a knife.

In 2007, Brewis castrated himself while in prison and was then confined in the psychiatric ward at Oregon State Hospital. According to documents published by Gender Identity Watch, Brewis sued Oregon officials claiming they had failed to provide gender transition treatment. Brewis, who was released in 2011, also claimed to have been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder and borderline personality disorder.

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Category: Crime, Oregon, Sex Trouble

‘Fake News’ Network CNN in Third Place? Did Russia Hack the TV Ratings?

Posted on | March 7, 2017 | Comments Off on ‘Fake News’ Network CNN in Third Place? Did Russia Hack the TV Ratings?

Primetime cable news ratings for Thursday, March 2:

8 p.m.
FOX The O’Reilly Factor …………………………….. 4,114,000
MSNBC All in With Chris Hayes ………………….. 1,744,000
CNN Anderson Cooper 360 …………………………. 1,381,000

9 p.m.
FOX Tucker Carlson Tonight ……………………….. 3,489,000
MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show ………………. 2,532,000
CNN Anderson Cooper 360 ………………………….. 1,327,000

10 p.m.
FOX Hannity ………………………………………………. 2,824,000
MSNBC Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell … 2,160,000
CNN Tonight With Don Lemon ……………………… 1,055,000

You that CNN, dubbed the “Clinton News Network” for its one-sided bias during the 2016 campaign, has slumped down to third place, with MSNBC pushing into second place. Liberal viewers trust MSNBC’s lineup of avowed leftist hosts more than they trust the phony “objective” personalities at CNN. The network that was in the tank for Hillary Clinton last year, and which has been excoriated by President Trump as a purveyor of “fake news,” has a credibility problem even with liberals.

What happened? Well, you might say, the Russians hacked the ratings.

Nothing has captured CNN’s attention more in recent months than the idea that the claim that the presidential election was somehow stolen as a result of computer hacking and other sinister activities by Russian agents in collusion with the Trump campaign. Over the weekend, however, this conspiracy theory was exploded to smithereens after Trump took to Twitter to suggest that the alleged “investigation” of this Russian scheme was, in fact, an illegal effort by the Obama administration to help Clinton win by spying on the Trump campaign.

This was Trump calling the media’s bluff. The media kept claiming anonymous “intelligence officials” and “law enforcement sources” were telling them about the supposed investigation of the Trump-Russia “scandal.” If it was true, as the media reported, that Obama administration officials had sought warrants to conduct surveillance about the suspected illegal contact between Russians and the Trump campaign, couldn’t this be construed as a Watergate-type abuse of power? Certainly it could, if the media’s reporting was accurate.

Andrew McCarthy at National Review:

Now that they’ve been called on it, the media and Democrats are gradually retreating from the investigation they’ve been touting for months as the glue for their conspiracy theory. It’s actually quite amusing to watch: How dare you suggest President Obama would ever order surveillance! Who said anything about FISA orders? What evidence do you lunatic conservatives have — uh, other than what we media professionals been reporting — that there was any investigation of the Trump campaign? . . .

Read the whole thing. It’s amusing to see the media walk into a trap like that. The “Russians hacked the election” story always looked suspiciously like the 2016 version of the 2000 Florida recount, i.e., whenever Democrats lose an election, they claim Republicans cheated.

 

Category: CNN, Media Bias

In The Mailbox: 03.07.17

Posted on | March 7, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 03.07.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
Rick Bulow: WWE FastLane Live Blog
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Debbie Downer Tries To Blame Trump For JCC Threats – Turns Out She’s To Blame
EBL: Ace Gives Some Really Good Advice
Twitchy: Reporter Fooled By Sean Spicer Parody Account, Trashes Trump, THEN Deletes Her Account
Louder With Crowder: Latest Poll Shows Even Democrats Are Tired Of Media’s Anti-Trump Bias
Danger & Play: Over $35,000 Raised For Legal Defense Of Based Stick Man


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: The Fine Art Of Climate Trash Talking
American Power: Christina Hoff Summers – What Gender Wage Gap?
American Thinker: Obama’s Rasputin Moves Into The Bunker
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Crazy Norks News
BLACKFIVE: Susan Meissner, A Bridge Across The Ocean
Da Tech Guy: The #Unexpectedly Chronicles – Rest In Peace Bob Who?
Don Surber: How Trump Got The Media To Kill The Russian Meme
Dustbury: A TV Smarter Than Its Distributor
The Geller Report: Sweden – Muslims Gang-Rape Teenage Classmate, Remain Enrolled Because Principal Says “Rapists Are Victims Too”
Hogewash: Yours Truly, Johnny Atsign, also, A Great Disturbance In The Farce…
Jammie Wearing Fools: Why Democrats Will Regret A Probe Into Russian Election Hacking
Joe For America: Blackmail? Is This Why FBI Director Comey Let Hillary Off?
JustOneMinute: Increasing My Paranoia
Power Line: Are Republicans Blowing It On Health Care?
Shark Tank: Rubio Kicked Out Of Jacksonville Office
Shot In The Dark: Leftist Justice, Saint Paul Style
STUMP: When Multiemployer Pensions Fail – Teamsters Local 707
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Chivalry Is Dead, also, Things That Are Haram – Trnasgender
The Political Hat: What Do Tweens, Drugs, Rape, And Incoherent Tweets Have To Do With Each Other? A Middle School Teacher
This Ain’t Hell: California State Senator Janet Nguyen Demands Apology
War Is Boring: It’s Time To Stop This Dead-End, $17 Billion Nuke Project
Weasel Zippers: Secret Service Agent Says Obamagate Will Blow Open This Week, also, Trump Busts Planned Parenthood Narrative With Funding Offer
Megan McArdle: Attention, Student Protesters – Use Your Words
Mark Steyn: The Lameness of Labels, also, Something Is Rotten In The State Of Sweden


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U.S. and Allies Scramble to Confront North Korea Missile Threat

Posted on | March 7, 2017 | Comments Off on U.S. and Allies Scramble to Confront North Korea Missile Threat

 

Agence France-Press reports:

Nuclear-armed North Korea said Tuesday its missile launches were training for a strike on US bases in Japan, as global condemnation of the regime swelled.
Three of the four missiles fired Monday came down provocatively close to US ally Japan, in waters that are part of its exclusive economic zone, representing a challenge to US President Donald Trump.
In separate phone calls, Trump — whose rhetoric on the campaign trail had raised doubts about the issue — reaffirmed Washington’s “ironclad commitment” to Japan and South Korea.
The US will demonstrate to Pyongyang that there were “very dire consequences” for its actions, the White House said in a statement.
The UN Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting for Wednesday after a request by Washington and Tokyo to discuss additional measures following the launch.

Bloomberg News reports:

Japan moved to the highest possible alert level after North Korea fired four ballistic missiles simultaneously into nearby waters, the latest provocation from Kim Jong Un’s regime.
Three of the missiles fell into Japan’s exclusive economic zone, with one dropping about 350 kilometers west of the nation’s northern Akita prefecture, government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters after a meeting of Japan’s National Security Council. Authorities were still analyzing the type of missile launched, he said.
The launches “clearly show that this is a new level of threat” from North Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told lawmakers in Tokyo. American officials held phone calls afterward with counterparts in Japan and South Korea, which rely on the U.S. for security.

CNN reports:

The first pieces of a US-built missile defense system designed to mitigate the threat of North Korean missiles arrived at the Osan Air Base in South Korea Monday night, according to the US military.
The announcement comes just a day after North Korea test-fired four ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea.
China has voiced opposition to the proposed placement of the military hardware known as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, which it sees as a threat to its own security.
“We will firmly take necessary measures to preserve our own security interest, and the US and South Korea must bear the potential consequences,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Geng Shuang said Tuesday.

Associated Press reports:

North Korea’s latest volley of missile tests put new pressure on a preoccupied Trump administration Monday to identify how it will counter leader Kim Jong Un’s weapons development.
North Korea’s march toward having a nuclear-tipped missile that could reach the U.S. mainland is among the pressing national security priorities President Donald Trump faces. He has vowed it “won’t happen” but has yet to articulate a strategy to stop it. . . .
An administration official told The Associated Press Monday that tougher sanctions, military action and resumption of long-stalled negotiations with North Korea are all under consideration as part of a policy review to provide options for the president within weeks.

The North Korean people are starving, but the communist dictatorship under Kim Jong Un has got money for a ballistic missile program.

 

Category: Japan, Military, North Korea

In The Mailbox: 03.06.17

Posted on | March 6, 2017 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


A double scoop from the bloglist this morning. Thanks to everyone for their kind words and prayers this past week.


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: Logan – A Movie Review (Of Sorts)
EBL: Mark Steyn Needs Our Help
Michelle Malkin: A Lesson For Planned Parenthood’s Pinup Girls
Twitchy: Flawless Victory! Katie Pavlich Nukes Hillary Fanboy Peter Daou In Gun Conversation
Louder With Crowder: Back To Berkeley – “Antifascists” Brutally Attack Trump Supporters
Blazing Cat Fur: Food Racism Is The Latest Front For High-Pitched Whining


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: 457 Visas – The Trump Effect, also, Two Podcast Episodes For You To Disagree With
American Power: President Trump To Unveil New Travel Ban Today, also, Bernard DeVoto’s Across The Wide Missouri
American Thinker: A Master Tactician Serves Filet After The Russian Souffle Collapses, also, Ask James Rosen And Angela Merkel About Obama Spying
Animal Magnetism: I’m A Lumberjack, also, Goodbye Blue Monday
Bring The HEAT: Sweden Brings Back Conscription, also, Five Years On – RIP Neptunus Lex
Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – The Useless Idiots Of Mainstream Media And Why They’ll Lose To Trump, also, 10 Thoughts Under My Fedora
Don Surber: Over 36,000 Dead Lose Their Voting Rights In WV, also, Washington Post Accidentally Tells The Truth
Dustbury: Strange Search-Engine Queries, also, It Puts The Grunt In Disgruntled
Fred On Everything: What To Do With Latinos? Get Used To Them
The Geller Report: Obama AG Loretta Lynch Says We Need More “March, Blood, Death On Streets”, also, Robert Spencer – It’s Been A Big Week For Fake Hate
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
Jammie Wearing Fools: Suspect In JCC Bomb Threats Arrested – He’s A Left-Wing Fake News Reporter, also, Russian Hackers Allegedly In Possession of Damaging Info Seeking Hush Money From Liberal Groups
Joe For America: Obama DOJ Funneled Billions To Communist Front Groups, also, Obama Abandoned CIA Officer For Seven Years; Trump Freed Her In Six Weeks
JustOneMinute: Sessions Recuses
Power Line: The AP Springs To Obama’s Defense, also, What We Know And What We Don’t
Shark Tank: Nelson Leads Scott In New Senate Poll, also, Corcoran Says He’s Ready To Gut EFI, Visit Florida
Shot In The Dark: Why I Ignore The Journalistic “Fact Check” Racket, also, The Delicious Dish
STUMP: Mortality Monday – How Young Is “Too Young To Die”?, also, Friday Trumpery – DOL Pick Take Two
The Jawa Report: The Lurid Tabloids On Biden’s Hookers And Blow, also, Star Wars Stormtroopers Are Nazis (Or Something)
The Political Hat: #BlackLivesMatter vs. Yakub’s Soulless Albino Mutants, also, The English Language Is Liberating; The Left Wants To Corrupt And Silence It
This Ain’t Hell: Washington Post Tries To Smear McMasters, Fails Miserably, also, Marines United – A Photo Scandal
War Is Boring: Wojtek The War Bear Was Fond Of Hauling Artillery, also, American Troops In Armored Vehicles Roll Into Syrian Flashpoint
Weasel Zippers: Illegal Alien Escapes After Attacking Border Agent, Tucson Police Refuse To Help, NYT Columnist Solicits Felony, Asks IRS Employees To Leak Trump’s Tax Returns
Megan McArdle: Lenten-Fast Recipes That Don’t Sacrifice Taste
Mark Steyn: Doing Things By Half, also, Announcing The Mark Steyn Show Bag!


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