Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] Although the US agenda is being deliberately cancelled from above, rearguard battles are still being fought.
A production about Jesus is being prepared, where the main role, that is, Jesus himself, will be played by a black bald lesbian. So to speak, they are challenging white cisgender scum and patriarchal foundations and blah-blah-blah...
If people want to waste their own money putting on shows with very limited appeal, who are we to stop them from bankrupting themselves for a stupid principle? The sooner they run out of money, the sooner they’ll have to stop, and then maybe the resulting poverty will teach them something useful. We just don’t want our government wasting tax money to undermine our culture.
It wasn't enough to have a black Anne Boleyn, a black Achilles, Black Snow White and other trash.
I would be interested to see attempts to make a similar movie about Muhammad with subsequent hide-and-seek from those who like to cut off heads... In Sweden, they just recently zeroed out a character who, with the complicity of the authorities, publicly burned Korans.
Of course, this is not about some kind of "fight against religion." The authors are simply consciously trying to expand the Overton window, although the political situation in the United States has already changed and this opus will most likely serve as another reason to strengthen the cleansing of the agenda in all forms and manifestations, especially where American budget money was or is being spent on it.
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They have to have Jesus be a hippie, which is what this article is about, casting for Jesus Christ Superstar.
Switching the main character with a gay chick is literally South Park. Trying to Own the Chuds is a played out trope; this is purposefully insulting and will transcend skin color/appearances.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Daniil Zhuravlev
[REGNUM] The first half of the 20th century became the peak of the era of industrialization, imperialism and bloody geopolitics. Late modernism was a cemetery not only for millions of destinies, hopes and ideas, but also for entire empires. The geopolitical conflict between the Russian and Japanese empires in East Asia unfolded in the spirit of the times.
The Battle of Mukden, which took place 120 years ago, in February-March 1905, became one of the bloodiest and largest battles of the Russo-Japanese War. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers clashed in a deadly fight, incinerated by artillery fire, drowning in the mud of the Manchurian hills.
The victory of the Japanese army in the battle predetermined the outcome of the war, leaving a bitter aftertaste of defeat in the hearts of Russians, which would only be avenged in World War II. However, even in this hell, among the groans of shells and the wounded, beauty was born.
MUKDEN MEAT GRINDER
The conflict between Russia and Japan had been brewing for a long time, rooted in a clash of imperial ambitions in the Far East. Russia sought to strengthen its position in the region by acquiring concessions and leasing ports.
The construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER) only added fuel to the fire, raising concerns in Japan, which saw it as a threat to its own sphere of influence in Korea and Manchuria. Diplomatic attempts to resolve the contradictions failed, and war became inevitable.
The start of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 was marked by a series of defeats for Russia. The Japanese fleet dominated the sea, blockading Port Arthur, while the land forces won victories in battles on the continent. The fall of Port Arthur was a painful blow to the prestige of the Russian Empire, and hopes for a turning point were pinned on a large-scale battle in Manchuria. This battle was to be the Battle of Mukden (now Shenyang).
The battle, which lasted for several weeks, was a complex series of battles that took place over a vast area. More than half a million soldiers participated in the battle on both sides. The Russian army, under the command of General Alexei Kuropatkin, took up defensive positions around the city. The Japanese army, under the command of Field Marshal Oyama Iwao, sought to encircle and defeat the Russian forces.
Positional warfare with trenches, artillery bombardment and futile attacks turned into a real meat grinder. Despite the desperate resistance of the Russian army, strategic miscalculations of the command (for example, Kuropatkin's too late order to regroup), an extended line of defense, weak artillery support, outdated technology, poor supplies, corruption - all this led to a catastrophe that later spread to all of Russia in the form of the first Russian revolution.
“We owe our defeat not at all to the Japanese, whose attacks were always repelled by our valiant troops with enormous losses for them; this defeat occurred only as a result of the extreme incompetence of commanders at all levels and the extreme stupidity of all orders,” this is how Mukden participant Pyotr Bazhenov explained the defeat.
The Japanese army managed to break through the defense and encircle part of the Russian troops. General Kuropatkin gave the order to retreat, which quickly turned into a chaotic flight.
"It wasn't even a retreat, it was real panic. People were disoriented, they didn't understand which side was friend and which was enemy. Frightened horses were running everywhere, having thrown off their riders, there were broken carts and boxes everywhere," recalled one of the main leaders of the White movement, General Anton Denikin, who participated in the battle with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
The tragedy exposed the abscess of serious problems in Russia that required immediate solutions, because nine years later the last terrible war for Tsarist Russia would begin. Later, the Soviet Union would correct the Manchurian mistakes.
RUSSIAN FLOWER ON THE CRIMSON HILLS
Meanwhile, music was being born at the front that became a symbol of the unbending spirit of Russian soldiers. The waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria", written by composer Ilya Shatrov, became a requiem for those who died in the destructive war - a harbinger of fate.
Shatrov was the bandmaster of the 214th Mokshansky Regiment. In February 1905, the regiment found itself in the epicenter of bloody battles; for ten days, the Mokshans courageously fought off the onslaught of Japanese troops, holding the line at the railroad. But the forces were unequal, and ammunition ran out. At a critical moment, when hope seemed to have faded, the regiment commander, Colonel Pavel Pobyvanets, made a desperate decision: "Flag and orchestra - forward!"
At this dramatic moment, the bandmaster, inspired by the courage of his comrades, addressed his musicians: "Musicians, our time has come!" The battle march thundered, the orchestra moved forward after Ilya Alekseevich. And, inspired by the bravery of the musicians, the soldiers also rose up in a bayonet attack.
The music continued incessantly, drowning out the rumble of howitzers and the whistle of bullets. Suddenly, an enemy artillery shell exploded nearby, ending the life of one of the musicians and throwing Shatrov aside by the blast wave. But despite the injury and the chaos around him, he rose again, gathered the surviving musicians and led them forward.
Thanks to this incredible courage and selflessness, the Mokshansky Regiment, inspired by music and the example of their bandmaster, broke through the encirclement and reached their own, although they suffered heavy losses. Soon after this heroic breakthrough, the commander died. Before the war, the regiment included 49 officers, 3,854 privates and non-commissioned officers, 11 mounted orderlies and 61 musicians, of which about 700 people remained, including only seven from the orchestra.
After the end of the war, the regiment was redeployed to Samara, where the composer began writing his masterpiece, originally called "The Mokshan Regiment on the Hills of Manchuria", into which he put all his grief for his fallen comrades, for the catastrophe of Russia and, despite all the troubles, hopes for a bright future for the Motherland. These are the lines that ended the pre-revolutionary poems to music written by Stepan Skitalets:
"Peace to your soul! You died for Rus', for the Fatherland. But believe me, we will still avenge you. And we will hold a bloody funeral feast!"
The composition was first published in 1907, and by 1911 it had already been republished 82 times, and then it acquired the name we are accustomed to, “On the Hills of Manchuria.”
The work, which reflected the feelings of not only the returning front-line soldiers, but also all of Russia, immediately gained enormous popularity. People wanted retribution for the dead and the disgraced Fatherland, and radical changes in the political and social structure.
REVIVAL OF MEMORY
The fate of the waltz after the Russo-Japanese War was not easy. In the first years of Soviet power, it fell into disgrace. The Bolsheviks, trying to eradicate everything that reminded of Tsarist Russia, considered the requiem to be White Guard and too Great Russian, so it was effectively banned from performance and broadcast, and removed from the repertoires of concert halls and radio stations, although the musician himself continued to serve as a bandmaster in the ranks of the Red Army.
While the composition was anathema in Soviet Russia, it enjoyed great popularity in the rest of the world. Abroad, it was known as the Russian National Waltz and was performed at concerts, balls, and restaurants.
However, with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the situation changed dramatically. When the country found itself in mortal danger, the Soviet leadership realized the need to revive the patriotic feelings of the Russian people, it began to understand that a Russian soldier goes to fight not for a political instructor and the Communist Party, but for his land, for his Motherland (Shatrov wanted to get to the front, but by the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he was discharged into the reserve due to age).
The country began to remember the heroes of the past, the national history, dedicating films, music, and posters to them. The waltz "On the Hills of Manchuria" was revived, although not in the critical first years of the war, but it was during the Great Patriotic War that it found new life.
During the Red Army's victories over the Kwantung Army during the Manchurian Operation, Shatrov's brainchild began to sound on the radio stations as never before, and the poems of Soviet front-line soldiers were once again written to music. The Russians triumphantly entered the lands of the Japanese-occupied puppet Manchukuo, the Russian boot once again stepped onto the lands of the "Three Eastern Provinces", but now Russia was not fighting its way out of bloody encirclements, but was conducting a brilliant offensive operation.
After the end of the war, the waltz finally returned to Soviet culture. It became a symbol of victory over Japanese imperialism, a reminder of the heroism of Soviet and imperial soldiers, and was played at parades, in films, and performed at concerts throughout the country.
Shatrov, a genius and a sincere patriot, created a magical chronotope: at the beginning of the 20th century, in the era of unrest and bloody defeats in the vast expanses of the Far East, the idea of music was born, which 40 years later in the same place would become the anthem of the victors of the Manchurian operation. It is paradoxical how the best creations of culture are born in the bloodiest and most difficult times, such moments become the soil and fuel for the history of civilizations. Russia avenged the fallen heroes and did not lose hope for the best.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] It became a natural consequence of the unresolved war in Donbass, which had been going on since 2014.
Thanks to the SVO, the Russian Federation, without any ifs and buts, has become a fully subjective sovereign country that makes its decisions without looking back at what they say abroad.
Those who did not believe in this could see this quite clearly after 02/24/2022, when several attempts to crush Russia by military, political, diplomatic, economic and terrorist means failed. And this is already one of the accomplished results of the SVO.
The Russian Federation stood firm and forced its opponents to talk to it on equal terms, although before the start of the SVO, the very possibility of this was completely denied.
At the same time, the tasks of achieving the goals of the SVO (expanded) have not been cancelled - it is still necessary to liberate the remaining territories of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, dislodge the enemy from the remaining territories of the Kursk region, increase territorial gains in the Kharkov region and, in the event of further prolongation of the war by the enemy (which is not excluded), proceed to the liberation of the Dnepropetrovsk and Sumy regions.
Yes, after 3 years, one can of course begin to regret that everything did not work out quickly and beautifully due to various miscalculations and shortcomings, but in principle, back in early March it was already clear that it would not be fast and beautiful. If you can’t win beautifully, just win. This is exactly what we have been doing for the last three years, having noticeably advanced towards achieving our goals, where we are opposed not by a spherical Ukraine in a vacuum, but by a proxy army of the West supported 24/7 by the USA and dozens of their satellites.
And at the moment we are coping and continue to advance. Yes, not everything is going smoothly, but this is a war where our enemy is by no means weak. And while the war is not over, we all have to do our job to the hilt at the front and in the rear, so that when it is all over, we will not be ashamed of what we have been doing for the last 3+ years. And by bringing the matter to an end, we will solve one of the most important tasks of our generation for Russia.
1. DPR (the main demand for 20202). About 75% liberated.
2. LPR (the main demand for 2022). About 99.5% liberated.
3. Kherson region (additional demand for 2024). About 75% liberated.
4. Zaporizhia region (additional demand for 2024). About 75% liberated.
5. Kharkiv region (not included in the demands). About 8% liberated.
6. Kursk region (not included in the demands). About 4% not liberated.
7. Demilitarization of Ukraine (the main demand). Goal not achieved.
8. Denazification of Ukraine (the main demand). Goal not achieved.
9. Neutralization of Ukraine and refusal to join NATO (the main demand). Goal not achieved.
10. Stopping the oppression of Russians and Russian-speakers in Ukraine (the main demand). The goal has not been achieved.
11. Ukraine recognizing Crimea and four regions as Russian (additional demand). The goal has not been achieved.
12. Lifting sanctions in Russia (additional demand). The goal has not been achieved.
The main achievements in the 3rd year of the war were mainly related to expanding territorial control and increasing the percentage of basic territorial demands. Some of the goals that are listed as unfulfilled can only be achieved following the completion of military operations and the corresponding diplomatic agreements. In fact, the parameters for achieving them are being and will be discussed in negotiations with the United States.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Gregor Spitzen
[REGNUM] Early elections to the Bundestag have ended in Germany. The fate of the future government coalition could be decided by literally fractions of a percent.
The main attention was focused not even on the three undisputed leaders - the CDU/CSU, AfD and SPD, but on the outsiders of the electoral race, whose results radically influenced the final balance of power in the Bundestag.
Since neither the FDP (4.3%) nor the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) managed to overcome the five percent barrier, the votes cast for these political parties were effectively lost. This means that the lucky parties will now be able to count on a more optimal distribution of forces and a larger number of parliamentary mandates.
The most important thing is that in such a scenario, the CDU/CSU (28.5%) and the SPD (16.4%) will be able to form a two-party black-red coalition (which some sarcastic German political scientists have already managed to dub “Bandera-style” by analogy with the colors of the terrorist organization OUN, banned in Russia), without taking anyone else into their company.
ORGANIZATION OF THE PROCESS
The process of civic expression of will in Germany is organized as follows. Two weeks before the elections, the recipient receives a personal invitation to vote by mail, which must be brought to the polling station, receiving a ballot paper instead.
As an honest citizen, when he came to the elections, your correspondent handed the commission member both the invitation and the German passport. "We don't need it," the nice lady from the election commission responded in surprise. It became clear that the commission members did not even suspect that they were creating a huge space for political corruption!
Firstly, the invitation could have been given by third parties. In addition, it can be pulled out of someone else's mailbox. Finally, you can make a high-quality copy and use the original to vote early by mail, thus registering twice.
If during early voting at the city hall a code is read from the invitation, which gives a portrait of the voter, then there was no such equipment at the polling station.
You should have seen the eyes of the election committee members after they were given a crash course in dirty technologies. Saints in their simplicity are responsible for ensuring that the will of the German people is reflected in the new composition of the Bundestag.
SHADOW OF THE GDR
Absolutely all systemic political forces have already flatly refused to form a coalition with the AfD (20.8%), which showed a phenomenal result. At least until the next elections, the Alternative for Germany remains a pariah party, with which all systemic political forces have flatly refused to cooperate.
The AfD's phenomenal result is a strong warning sign for the political mainstream, but in practice the party will remain in opposition for the next four years.
Theoretically, if Donald Trump and Elon Musk do not weaken their support and make AfD's entry into German politics as a full-fledged player a condition for continued American support for Europe, another outcome is possible.
The party must split, distancing itself from the most odious radicals in its ranks, such as Björn Höcke. After that, the renewed AfD, having undergone the ritual of “purification,” could theoretically enter into an alliance with the CDU/CSU, forming a right-wing conservative bloc. But for now, this is an equation with many unknowns.
However, the AfD's nearly 21% in the federal elections and the territory of the former GDR, which was almost entirely painted in blue by the Alternative, primarily indicate the following: the voter in eastern Germany is aware that his voice is not heard in Berlin, and in the mainstream media the image of the "East German" is subject to the strongest stigmatization.
A resident of the former GDR, according to the German press, does not understand how democracy works and is generally a closet Nazi or communist. He simply does not realize his "happiness" from a free choice of two or more candidates. After all, a "good German" must believe what the media writes and vote only for the "right parties."
However, East Germans, unlike West Germans, have a developed national consciousness. This consciousness was not castrated as a result of the denazification policy. And the fact that many Germans grew up in the GDR means that they also have developed critical thinking and can read between the lines. In the West, people have largely lost this skill.
Over the next four years, Germany's division into East and West will only increase. An example of this is the phenomenal result of the AfD in Saxony, where it is gaining 38%.
The outstanding success of this party in the Bundestag elections is due to many factors. These include the acute problem of illegal migration in Germany, the economic difficulties caused by the amateurs from the "traffic light coalition", and the demand in German society for peace with Russia and the rejection of militaristic rhetoric.
However, the success of the Alternative for Germany is primarily the result of the protest vote of Germans. Many support this party not at all because they sympathize with the "radicals" or "right-wing extremists", as it is called in the media.
Voting for AfD is a form of political protest. A resounding "no!" to the systemic political parties that have opened the doors to terrorists in Germany and brought the country to recession and deindustrialization.
COALITION LAYOUTS
A coalition with Die Linke is acceptable for the SPD, with whom it has worked successfully for many years at the state level – for example, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, consistently forming a red-red regional government.
However, the Left is completely unacceptable for the CDU/CSU because it categorically refuses to support Ukraine and put the interests of Kyiv above the interests of its own voters and Germany as a whole.
The Green Party (11.6%), which discredited itself utterly during the last term, was a relatively acceptable but very undesirable option for both the CDU/CSU, with whom the Greens have radical differences on issues of nuclear energy and economic management, and for the SPD, whose leader Olaf Scholz has had his share of hard times with the Green partners within the framework of the “traffic light coalition.”
However, be that as it may, the two-party black-red bloc ultimately did not need the “green” “violinist”: there were enough votes to form a government and relatively effective coalition without them.
The Greens have lost 3% compared to the last election and are gradually losing the support of the youngest part of the German electorate. Whereas previously it was mainly young people who voted for them, now the core of their supporters is more likely to be middle-aged and middle-class people in western Germany.
Young people across the country are rapidly becoming radicalized, voting for AfD and Die Linke, forces that have established themselves on the edges of the political spectrum. If today's youth have not lost their passionate spirit by the next elections, and the younger generation of voters is no less radical, the electorate of the parties of the political center could suffer serious losses. Although it is definitely too early to talk about the funeral of the political center.
The "Left", which was practically written off six months ago, is gaining a phenomenal 8.8%. Political scientists disagree on what is behind the rapid rise of a political force that was floundering at the bottom of the electoral ratings less than six months ago.
Some are inclined to believe that it is all about the electoral feint of the CDU/CSU leader Friedrich Merz, who joined forces with the AfD on the migration bill, which alienated moderate voters from the CDU/CSU, throwing them into the arms of the Left. Others believe that the ranks of Die Linke were filled with dissenters from the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (4.97%), who were disappointed in their idol.
Let us recall that Wagenknecht, who performed extremely successfully in the regional elections to the East German Landtags, abandoned a number of fundamental points of her election program for the sake of hypothetical entry into the government coalition. Some voters considered this a betrayal and returned to the "Left", from which, in fact, the "Alliance" had distanced itself at the time.
Wagenknecht's party was just 0.03% short of entering the Bundestag. Some voters in eastern Germany sadly joke that these less than 14,000 votes are the bitter price of betrayal.
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"which some sarcastic German political scientists have already managed to dub “Bandera-style"
Too bad he couldn't name "some" of those "political scientists". They just don't exist (at least mnot in Germany, maybe in Moscow) and not even one in thousand Germans would understand the "sarcasm".
Wagenknecht lost because she tried to parrot the AfD, with not much of a leftist twist. But had she passed the threshold of 5%, Mr Spitzen would have to face a coalition including the Greens, who are way more hawkish than the SPD when it comes to Ukraine. All Banderistas, of course, but no flag joke possible.
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🇩🇪‼️ Is this the quickest U-turn in political history?
After the CDU campaigned on strict immigration measures to take votes away from the AfD, chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz told a press conference the day after the election that "none of us want to close the borders."… pic.twitter.com/Ngxt98ag3r
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Just an ideological, not a technological difference.
Germany is in the middle of Europe (and the European market). If you wanted to stop and search every truck that enters Germany, economy would come to a screeching halt. Staff and installations aren't there either, right now.
While border control must be improved, it will not solve the problem, at least not in the near future.
What we need are disincentive measures. Denmark has been very successful with these. Bed, bread and soap in the middle of nowhere. The SPD will throw public hissy fits, but once the numbers are dropping sharply, the AfD will lose its major talking points. And they have nothing else to offer.
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but once the numbers are dropping sharply, the AfD will lose its major talking points.
Precisely. The promises need to be kept. Mourning after the next attack is not enough.
Söder actually made an even stronger statement, he said that "Zero tolerance and zero compromise" in "future migration policy" is the consensus betweent Merz and him. ("Null Toleranz und Null Kompromiss" ist die "Leitlinie für künftige Migrationspolitik."@0:03:00)
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^^^But they have no real interest in stopping illegal migration. No more interest in that than "closing the borders" or anything else the promised.
What they were doing instead of the work the were paid for.
[Townhall] Two reporters with the Manhattan Institute have uncovered chats from staffers at the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency—and they weren’t talking about national security. It’s a horror show. There was apparently a secret transgender sex chatroom where, on government time, these agents would discuss castration, urination fetishes, and gangbangs. Chris Rufo and Hannah Grossman have more, but the chats were given a soft blessing apparently in support of—you guessed it—diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives [emphasis mine]:
We have cultivated sources within the National Security Agency—one current employee and one former employee—who have provided chat logs from the NSA’s Intelink messaging program. According to an NSA press official, “All NSA employees sign agreements stating that publishing non-mission related material on Intelink is a usage violation and will result in disciplinary action.” Nonetheless, these logs, dating back two years, are lurid, featuring wide-ranging discussions of sex, kink, polyamory, and castration.
A conflict is coming. These NSA chat logs suggest the presence of at least hundreds of gender activists within the intelligence services…
Then there’s this on X:
EXCLUSIVE: In a secret NSA chatroom, NSA, DNI, and SpaceCom officials claim that @TulsiGabbard is "fervently anti-queer," a "Russian agent," and a member of the MAGA "cult." These employees, including at least one "they/them," are attempting to undermine Gabbard from within. pic.twitter.com/Z5HGfdSx2Y
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Why would intel types be especially prone to such things, Whiskey Mike? Here we are, analyzing up a storm, and we’re perfectly normal. Aren’t they supposed to avoid doing things they can be blackmailed by the enemy for?
[NotThBee] You know what they say in the Lone Star State: Allah Bless Texas!
Wait, that doesn't sound right ... or does it?
Welcome to Epic City and Epic Ranches! A Muslim town built by and for Muslims and Muslims only. Deep in the heart of Texas!
Yes, this is a real thing. We have Epic city, with the outskirts having a little more room at the Epic Ranches!
An entire city of over 1,000 people, 30 minutes outside of Dallas. Filled. So why not build Epic Ranches to meet demand for Muslims who weren't quick enough to get into the city?
Welcome to EPIC Ranches, where we are committed to building a vibrant and inclusive community that serves the evolving needs of the Muslim community. Our vision is rooted in creating a safe and purpose-built environment that fosters growth, connection, and prosperity for all who call EPIC City home.
They've got Islamic schools, mosques, stores. Everything that is needed for a Muslim to live comfortably in their own city to make sure they don't have the opportunity to assimilate into American culture.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared that "Sharia cities" are not allowed in the state, coming after plans for EPIC City, a Muslim-centered community that will house over 1,000 people 30 minutes outside of Dallas, and nearby similar communities, were revealed.
"To be clear, Sharia law is not allowed in Texas," Abbott wrote. "Nor are Sharia cities. Nor are 'no go zones' which this project seems to imply. Bottom line. The project as proposed in the video is not allowed in Texas."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
