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(The New York Times News Service) -- Walking up a flight of stairs left Amanda Rodriguez gasping for breath, her ankles and knees throbbing with pain. She was prediabetic and hypertensive. She couldn't sleep. She was being treated for depression.
At age 15, Amanda weighed nearly 300 pounds.
For two years she tried various diets and exercise regimens. She saw doctors and a nutritionist.
Her weight kept climbing.
"I knew I was really unhealthy. I was in pain all the time, physically and emotionally," said the Hialeah teen.
At her peak weight, she had to be given a key to use her high school's staff elevator so she could get to class.
"It was so embarrassing," she said.
That's when Amanda and her parents decided it was time to try something radical: surgery to permanently shrink her stomach, help her lose weight -- and even save her life.
Bariatric, or weight loss, surgery has become almost routine among morbidly obese adults. Even smaller adults are getting the procedure for its power to reverse Type 2 diabetes.
But doctors long were reluctant to try it on adolescents, because changing the way food is digested and metabolized is thought to be far riskier while the body is still developing.
A decade after it became more available in some parts of the country, the procedure is not yet offered to adolescents in the Tampa Bay area. But that's about to change.
"The pediatricians and pediatric endocrinologists are at their wits' end with trying to help their young patients lose weight," said Dr. Michel Murr, director of metabolic and bariatric surgery at USF Health and Tampa General Hospital.
"These are kids in high school weighing 350 pounds who have high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnea and other adult diseases," said Murr. He has been hiring surgeons and other medical staff to expand USF's bariatric surgery program to include children in the second quarter of 2013.
"These kids are a ticking time bomb and their doctors are asking for a local program."
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As the obesity epidemic gathered steam, just a handful of children received bariatric surgery in the 1970s and 1980s.
Today, more than 360 institutions across the United States -- including the University of Florida and the University of Miami -- offer special programs for patients younger than 18.
"In the last 10 years we began to see that these kids are not just obese, they are really sick and many have conditions that could shorten their lives," said Dr. Marc Michalsky, director of bariatric surgery at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He also is chairman of the pediatric committee for the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery.
Candidates for bariatric surgery are 100 or more pounds over their ideal weight, with obesity-related problems such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, angina, Type 2 diabetes, liver and gallbladder disease, sleep apnea, joint and back pain, and difficulty breathing.
They have trouble buying clothes -- and making friends. Depression is common.
So is hearing, over and over again, that they ought to be able to lose weight on their own.
USF's Murr long opposed bariatric surgery for kids. Now he has seen more long-term data on the surgery -- and the dismal success rates of traditional weight loss methods.
"I think it's a reasonable and effective approach for adolescents who have not been able to lose weight with other means, if they have obesity-related health problems and as long as their families, pediatricians and primary care doctors are involved," said Murr.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital has been a pioneer in pediatric bariatric surgeries, performing nearly 200 since 2001.
"Obesity in kids has tripled in the past 30 years. Eighteen percent of adolescents are obese," said Dr. Sean Barnett, an assistant professor of surgery and pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and a specialist in adolescent bariatric surgery.
He bats aside suggestions that these kids ought to just go on a diet.
"Studies show that morbidly obese adolescents treated non-surgically lose on average five pounds. And a third to a half can't even complete the program," said Barnett. "They just aren't successful."
At 262 pounds, 16-year-old Natassia Elias couldn't hide her size. But she tried to conceal the misery it caused her every time the bell rang and she had to climb the stairs at her South Florida high school.
"It would have been too embarrassing to stop and catch my breath, so I would just go straight up, breathing heavy," she said.
After gastric sleeve surgery in August, she is 50 pounds lighter.
"I suggested it because our whole family is obese," said her mother, Natasa Elias, 42. "It was the obvious thing for my daughter. I didn't want her to keep getting bigger and bigger."
Now she is navigating those stairs with ease. But don't suggest she took the easy way out.
Post-surgical pain was so bad, Natassia says the first week "was hell." She wished she'd never done it.
But as the pain faded, so did the second thoughts. "It's awesome," said the now-17-year-old high school senior. "I'm getting compliments on a daily basis. People tell me I look good."
The pre-surgery nutrition and exercise program required of all patients in the University of Miami program got her accustomed to her new lifestyle. But the post-surgery portion sizes are even smaller: four ounces of food, every three hours with strict limits on sugars and fats. Natassia also takes five vitamin pills a day to ensure she's getting adequate nutrition.
The consequences of not following the regimen can be dire.
One of the more unpleasant side effects of surgery is dumping syndrome, when undigested food moves too quickly into the small bowel. It happens after bariatric surgery if patients eat too much or foods high in fat and sugar. Result: Fever, diarrhea and vomiting that can last for days.
Natassia reports she has had more trouble remembering to eat, since she doesn't feel so hungry. She is elated at her weight loss.
"Moving around is easier. I'm not as tired as before. And, now, I look forward to going clothes shopping," she said.
The long-term health effects of weight loss surgery in children are not yet fully understood. The National Institutes of Health is following a group of 250 adolescent patients for 10 years to find out whether severely restricting nutrition has long term effects on development. Results are expected in 2016.
What doctors do know is that even bariatric surgery is not a guaranteed route to lasting weight loss.
Natassia's surgeon is Nestor de la Cruz-Munoz, chief of laparoendoscopic and bariatric surgery at the Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami. He added teens to his bariatric practice in 2009 after a woman came to him in tears.
She told him her 16-year-old son was morbidly obese, and so desperate he wanted to kill himself. She begged for help.
After surgery, "he lost 75 to 80 pounds and was a changed kid. He lost all his excess weight and had a great result."
But, the surgeon said, not all his patients -- teens or adults -- have such an outcome.
"Even with the procedure many are still overweight or obese," said de la Cruz-Munoz "We aim for 5 to 10 percent weight loss to achieve medical benefits, meaning high blood pressure, diabetes and apnea resolve."
Most of his patients lose about 30 percent of their excess weight, he said. That's a major health improvement, but perhaps not the transformation most teens have in mind.
Surgery makes it tougher to overeat, but not impossible. Over time, the smaller stomach that pouch surgery creates can be stretched so that patients regain weight.
Amanda Rodriguez, the Hialeah teen who had so many health problems due to obesity, is another patient of de la Cruz-Munoz,
Now a 19-year-old college sophomore, Rodriguez lost 122 pounds after her 2009 surgery, putting her at about 180 pounds.
As careful as she tries to be, it doesn't take much to upset her system. She still can't eat and drink at the same meal without becoming ill, and has suffered a number of "dumping" episodes. She must wait a full hour after eating before taking a few sips of water, or she becomes ill.
Even though she wishes she could lose more, she says the sacrifices have been well worth it.
Her health problems have all been resolved, and the girl who needed an elevator pass today performs in the marching band and goes to Zumba class.
But weight will always be a struggle.
"I'm a little frustrated with myself because I didn't stay on task," said Rodriguez, explaining that she added about 10 pounds over the summer.
"Still, I'm a lot happier than I was when I was in high school."
Both Amanda and Natassia went through extensive screening and preparation at the University of Miami to determine if they could stick to the program for life. Experts say that's typical.
"It's very important to be very selective about who is offered surgery," said Dr. Jeffrey Zitsman, director of the Center for Adolescent Bariatric Surgery at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. That program started in 2006 and has treated 150 patients.
"If they aren't going to change from the outset, there's no point in having them undergo an operation."
The changes go well beyond the menu.
"Something happened to get them to that weight," said Dr. Denise Edwards, medical director of USF Health's Healthy Weight Clinic based at Tampa General Hospital.
"Poor nutrition, poor coping skills -- something was going on and until that is addressed, they won't be able to keep the weight off."
Norma Vargas-Suarez, a registered dietitian with Why Weight at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital in Tampa, has similar concerns, especially when it comes to young adolescents.
"We're talking about sixth- and seventh-graders making a lifelong change that can come with complications, like losing their hair from vitamin deficiency and uncontrolled vomiting when they go off the diet."
But Edwards says she can see cases where surgery is appropriate -- after underlying issues are resolved.
"Sometimes the solution is to work on those contributing issues first, see how growth balances out their weight and then we can talk about surgery," she said.
100 pounds lost, all done on his own
TAMPA -- At just 19 years, Austin Rose had to be hospitalized with congestive heart failure.
He weighed 448 pounds. His heart was functioning at just 7 percent of capacity.
Doctors said if he wanted to live, he would need a heart transplant and gastric bypass surgery to lose weight.
Terrified of surgery, Rose refused both.
But he listened to the medical wake-up call.
He cut back on his food and lost more than 40 pounds. His heart function jumped to 35 percent -- enough to get him off the transplant list.
Still, he was at such high risk for a life-threatening abnormal heart beat, the doctor recommended an implanted defibrillator. Instead, Rose agreed to wear an external device that could monitor his heart for an abnormal rhythm and deliver a shock to correct it. He kept that device for more than a year.
Rose doesn't like to talk about how he got so big, saying only that obesity runs in his family, and that he gained weight during a stressful time in his life.
But encouraged by the progress he had made, he joined Weight Watchers and lost almost 100 pounds in a year. His mother joined him, losing considerable weight herself.
In September, Rose found out that his heart function was better than 60 percent, technically within normal range.
"That blew my mind," said Rose, who works in a movie theater box office.
"What I've accomplished in two years is something special that I'll always remember and really cherish."
Now at around 350 pounds he's able to add sports and exercise to his regimen. He working on losing the next 100 pounds.
He could have lost weight far more quickly if he had had the surgery, and given his health conditions, many physicians would have advised that route.
Not Rose.
"If you have that surgery, you can never cheat or over-eat. Maybe I want a hot dog and a piece of cake one day. With surgery you can't have that, you get real sick," he said, referring to how bypass patients can become extremely ill if they eat sugary, fatty foods.
Rose has set no deadline to reach his goal of 230 pounds. His doctor says 250 would be fine.
"I'm going to stick with Weight Watchers. I can eat anything I want and I can splurge once in a while," said Rose, "I'm winning my life back."
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Tyler was unemployed on December 3, making the family outing all the more special at a time when the family was watching its finances. Still, happiness over a season of new beginnings imbued their home. This December would bring the boys' first birthdays in their own home, the couple's first wedding anniversary there, the family's first Christmas there.
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1--2 divided by 3 is .666 take the devils numbers(6 6 6) and add 2 and 3 6+6+6+2+3= 23 2--September 11, 2001...add it up... 09-11-2001 9+11= 20+2= 22+1= 23 World Trade Center WTC for short. W is the 23rd letter T is the 20th letter C is the 3rd 20+3= 23 3--Michael Jordans number. Michael's father was murdered july 23 4--David Beckhams number is 23 5--my names tc T is the 20th number in the alphabet and C is the 3rd. 20+3=23 I was number 23 on my soccer team 6--my favorite soda is dr. pepper...23 flavors 7--i graduated from my high school with the class rank of 23 8--my mother was 23 when i escaped that prison called the womb 9--the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912 0+4+1+5+1+9+1+2= 23 10--William Shakespeare(greatest poet to ever live) born-April 23 1564 died-April 23 1616 11--the Hiroshima bomb was dropped at 8:15a.m. 8+15= 23 on Aug. 6, 45 8+6+4+5= 23 12--W is the 23 letter of our alphabet. it has 2 points down and three points up. if you look at your keyboard you will see that w is right below and between the numbers 2 and 3. 13--it takes 23 seconds for your blood to circulate throughout your body 14--there are 23 characters on the face of all the original U.S. coins... check for yourself 15--January 23- Hitler formed the NSC November 23-he tried to seize power 16--The... |
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The number 23 is my favorite number.
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the number of the illuminatae. also associated with chaos magick. many examples can be found in the 'book of lies'. ie; 23 ski-doo!
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the age where life officially sucks you are not 21 anymore nor 22 so drinking has began to loose its luster yet you are not 25 yet so insurance is still hellishly expensive fuck i'm 23 today... fucking birthday
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"We can't go on forever with 11 million people living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who has been working on the immigration proposal. "We cannot forever have children who were born here, who were brought here by their parents when they were small children, to live in the shadows as well."
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More than one observer accused the party of sexism, but one watchdog group in the Capitol suggested Wednesday that another primal political force, money, may explain the GOP's retrograde management habits.
The Sunlight Foundation found that the chairs chosen by the Republican caucus (which, as majority party, gets to name committee leaders) closely correlated with those House members who raised the most money for their leadership political action committees.
Sunlight's Lee Drutman said the GOP's selections revealed two truths: "One is that almost all of the caucus leaders and committee chairs have large leadership PACs. Two is that almost all of the large leadership PACs are associated with male candidates."
Money raised by the PACs is one marker of a lawmaker's clout. The money can be used to help fellow party members win elections.
Those with top leadership positions in the House tend to have the largest political bankrolls. Majority Leader Eric Cantor's Every Republican Is Crucial PAC ($2.1 million), Speaker John A. Boehner's Freedom Project ($1.7 million) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy's Majority Committee PAC ($1.2 million) were among leaders who led the way in fundraising.
There's a bit of chicken-and-egg quality, to be sure, when it comes to the funding-leadership nexus. Those who raise lots of money win a chance at the top House jobs. But those already in the power positions have the most leverage to bring in the big checks. The reason is simple: Lobbyists and other interest groups prefer to give to those who already have clout.
It's hard to imagine why House Republicans didn't put aside the old money-for-power dynamic, though, at least this one political season. The party just took a beating in the presidential election, in large part because it could not appeal to enough women and minority voters. Less than a month later does not seem like the time to offer women and minorities mostly peripheral roles.
After the initial furor last week, the GOP caucus made one adjustment — naming Rep. Candice S. Miller (R-Mich.) chair of the Administration Committee. That at least shifted the white men-to-others balance on committees to 18 to 1.
Republican officials also wanted it noted that they had named Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) as the party's conference chairwoman. The party tabbed Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) as secretary of the GOP conference. Asked about the Sunlight Foundation critique, Cantor press representative Rory Cooper said, "It looks like they are trying hard to find a problem."
Democrats, surprise, didn't see it that way. After their House caucus Wednesday morning, a press aide circulated a photo of the party's committee leaders — including women, Latinos and African Americans.
Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco heralded "the beautiful diversity of our caucus" at a news conference that none-too-subtly drew a distinction with the GOP leadership. "Our caucus looks like America," Pelosi said, "so do our ranking members."
Michael A. Memoli in the Washington bureau contributed to this report.
[For the Record, 10:38 a.m. PST Dec. 6: This post has been corrected to state that Rep. Candice Miller represents Michigan, not Minnesota.]
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Wars and Rumors of Wars, let's Get out of the UN. Viewed 72,759 times
By: Bill TewPublished for Orem, Utah (Area-Info.net Jun. 16, 2012)
The blinding, shocking flash of nuclear weapons shook the earth and stunned the entire nation as nuclear weapons were detonated over targeted cities. The atomic-blasts incinerated entire city structures and turned to sand and glass-crystals the concrete buildings which only moments earlier had proudly proclaimed the existence of long established cities and human habitations.
Entire schools, hospitals, military bases, libraries and other government buildings, stores, warehouses, parks, homes, zoos, churches, shrines, streets, cars, trucks, trains, airplanes, and orchards all were obliterated in the instant of hell's atomic-furnace being unleashed upon the targeted cities. The waters of ponds and a river were vaporized instantly or boiled by one blast. Boats upon the waters burst into flames.
Tens of thousands of the citizens of each city, men, women, and children were vaporized in a furious instant, some casting permanent shadows upon cement walls that remained. The vapors of their mortal life merged with the roiling, superheated, enormous, mushroom clouds over the spot where their cities had long been. Thousands of inhabitants further out from the cities thus destroyed were blinded or sickened from the nuclear blast and fallout to await a longer death or agonized life as a result of the blasts.
News of the detonation of the nuclear devices and the destruction of cities spread quickly around the globe gripping the world's populations in fear and awe of the vast destruction that had resulted in the loss of so many lives so quickly. The names of the cities thus destroyed were blazoned on the headlines of newspapers and across the airwaves.
In the targeted nation's cities left unharmed a stunned populace realized their national defeat had suddenly been accomplished and their lives would never be the same. The war had suddenly and terribly come to an end and they could be certain that an occupying military force would soon land upon their shores. Sadness, fear, even depression gripped millions of them. They mourned for their losses.
Immediate negotiations for peace were appealed for by the defeated nation's leaders. Surrender without terms was quickly offered as the dust from the mushroom clouds settled over the countryside and the first photographic glimpses of utter destruction were obtained and distributed.
The world over caring individuals wept and prayed for those who had lost their lives and for the future of mankind that the awful events seemed to portend.
Through the use of nuclear explosions, the long war had been brought to a sudden explosive ending and a new fear had descended upon mankind. It was the first week of August in 1945 when the first nuclear attacks were ordered to be conducted against the two cities in Japan that had been targeted for complete and instant destruction by the president of the United States, Harry S. Truman and his top military leaders.
In October that year the horrible fear of "nuclear war" was held up as one justification for the establishment of the United Nations as a new supranational governmental architecture to be empowered to save mankind from war, yet the UN Charter was seen by an astute few as a war document, not a peace document.
We have been warned of the signs of the end times. Jesus told his disciples that war would fill the earth; "Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars….For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom."
America's military forces have been engaged in combat, in invasions, in military occupations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
For almost seven decades, 67-years in fact, the United States government has kept our government affiliated as a member with the United Nations and what have we benefited for that association? It may be easier to answer what the association with the UN has cost us in blood and treasure.
In June 1945, the UN's Founding Conference was held in San Francisco, California. The Secretary General of that founding meeting was Alger Hiss, a communist and a subversive agent of Joseph Stalin. Alger Hiss was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) at the time, a globalist think tank headquartered in New York City since 1921. President Harry S. Truman was on stage in San Francisco to shake hands with Alger Hiss at the UN Founding Conference. That same year, the Congress passed the United Nations Participation Act that made the U.S. Government a participant in the UN's actions, including military actions.
For almost seven decades our country has entangled itself with the UN octopus of organized globalism, its military adventurism and oppression, its financial machinations through the IMF and the World Bank, and off and on we've been entangled with the UN's social machinations through UNICEF and UNESCO.
What has come out of the long entanglement? We have had to finance the UN through payment of UN dues, haven't we? And even though there are 190 members nations within the UN's membership, for a long time the U.S. has footed 22% of the financing for the UN even though America constitutes only 1 of the 190 member nations, with one vote at the UN General Assembly out of 190 votes. Yes, we are on the UN Security Council, but that doesn't mean we block every nefarious move of the UN through vetoes does it?
Why should the USA shoulder the unfair burden of paying 22% of the UN's cost? Why does the United States end up shouldering the huge military burdens we shoulder for the United Nations and for its "Regional Arrangement," NATO, by way of acting as the police force for the world? How are we compensated for the danger we are put in as we acquire new enemies through our global cop efforts? What has America obtained in return for the wars we have fought and still fight to enforce UN edicts or UN Security Council Resolutions? Let's answer that question honestly. We've obtained coffins filled with American corpses haven't we? We've obtained an increasingly higher and higher national debt haven't we? We've obtained an increase of enemies across the globe, haven't we?
Membership in the United Nations has involved America in war after war beginning with the Korean "UN Police Action" in the 1950s where our troops remain engaged today after six decades. Because SEATO, the South East Asia Treaty Organization, was formed under Chapter VIII of the UN Charter, Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon involved our military in a war in Southeast Asia, especially in Vietnam, didn't they?
Let us be honest, haven't we Americans seen America's military involved in Katanga in the Congo in the 1960s by President Kennedy to transport UN troops to fight Katanga's soldiers despite the fact that Katanga was fighting for its independence and had done nothing to threaten the USA? Didn't our troops under President Bill Clinton invade Haiti as UN Peacekeepers and then invade Somalia as UN peacekeepers? Didn't President George Herbert Walker Bush send hundreds of thousands of America's finest into combat in Kuwait against Iraq in Operation Desert Storm? Our soldiers were sent into Bosnia under NATO and they are still there decades later. Our navy sent war planes that bombed Kosovo without a declaration of war by our Congress, but under orders from NATO as Bill Clinton allowed their use, do you remember?
Our American military, in the last half of the 20th Century and in the beginning of the 21st century has been acting a part as "peacekeepers" for the United Nations or its subsidiary "regional arrangements," SEATO and NATO, hasn't it? Yes, for decades now our military has fought for global stability or for "nation building," under UN sanctions without the UN paying the U.S.A. a dime to finance all of the military combats, invasions, military occupations of nations, right? Have you ever heard of the United Nations paying the US Government a dime for all of these constant wars we fight for them? Does the UN pay for the upkeep of our soldiers who are injured and sent home blind or without limbs? No, not a dime; instead we taxpayers foot the ongoing bills from these wars and our soldiers and their family suffer the consequences of these many wars.
Isn't it true that instead of the peace the UN's founders promised we've been involved in almost constant war for the UN and its subunits? How many tens of thousands of American soldiers have lost their lives in combat or otherwise on these foreign assignments on behalf of the United Nations, or enforcing UN Security Council Resolutions, or on behalf of NATO or SEATO? We know over 50,000 of our soldiers died in the Korean conflict and at least 58,000 dead Americans are commemorated on the Vietnam Memorial wall, right? So just those two conflicts alone show 108,000 Americans were killed as global policemen for the UN or its Regional Arrangements, right? Was it worth it? How did this better America, or increase American freedom, or make friends for us around the world? How did this help America's government reduce its debt? It didn't, it helped some corporations make a lot of money creating tanks, helicopters, and other war materials, but the involvement of our military in these foreign adventures increased our government's debt, didn't it?
In 1992, America sent government representatives to the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), the so-called "UN Earth Summit," from which came the UN's "AGENDA 21," their agenda for earth in the 21st century. This month, the U.S. will further entangle itself in the United Nations global green plans for what it calls "sustainable development" as our government sends representatives next week to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the UN's Rio + 20 confab. One entanglement after another that intrudes the UN into our governments and into our lives.
Isn't it time to withdraw the USA from membership in the United Nations? Isn't it time to return to being an INDEPENDENT country of 50 states instead of a UN minion doing the UN's bidding as part of the "INTERDEPENDENT" nations of the United Nations? Isn't it time to repeal the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 and to pass the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2012, H.R. 1146 that would remove the USA from membership in the United Nations?
Wouldn't we Americans be better off if we minded our own business as a nation and got out of the entangling alliance with the UN's new world order crowd that seeks to build an oppressive world government? That would be a foreign policy of neutrality something like Switzerland has engaged in, right? Switzerland has remained at peace for eight-hundred-years.So a policy of neutality can be done. Comparing Switzerland's history to ours haven't we seen enough history with the UN to know that it has not benefited America by bringing us peace, but rather that membership in that global government has brought us war, war, and more war?
Wasn't our Constitution designed to limit the size and scope of government to a few assigned roles, roles determined to be proper for the federal government? But hasn't the UN taken our federal government into roles and tasks never assigned to our government by our Constitution?
Like tens-of-thousands of other members of The John Birch Society have said for the past fifty years, I say: "Get US out of the UN, and Get the UN out of America!"
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