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July 22, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 22, 2005, Friday, Hour #3
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And welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Roger Hedgecock filling in for uh Rush Today and uh looking forward to talking with you.
This open line Friday, and we'll continue with that at 1800-282-2882.
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Look, I have to get this off my chest because this is uh the bothering me out here.
Again, I'm sorry I impose on you, I know for this California stuff, but it's got to be uh known nationally that our attorney general, Bill Lockyer, out here in the state of California, in his office has decided that it would spruce up things in his office if he had some artwork.
Artware around the office.
Now, being a liberal Democrat, the definition, of course, is as elastic as it can possibly be.
So what whoever curated was the curator of this artwork selected for uh Attorney General Lockier, a uh a number of oddball okay, my my judgment, uh art pieces.
Uh boots impaled on spear points and it's crazy stuff, okay?
Sculpture uh I I have no idea about, but I'm sure it's art.
I'm sure this is not art.
One of the large pieces in this display in the Attorney General's office in Sacramento is a painting entitled Tanks T-A-N-K-S Tanks to Mr. Bush.
And that's written on the painting.
The rest of the painting is a toilet, crudely drawn.
The geographic boundaries of the United States and the flag imposed, superimposed on the geographic boundaries of the United States stuck into the toilet.
Tanks to Mr. Bush with the United States in the toilet.
Um The painting was painted in 2003 by one Stephen Pearcy.
The same Stephen Pearcy for those of us with memories, who last February displayed a mannequin of a United States soldier hanging from a noose from his home in the San Francisco Bay Area with anti-war, anti-Bush type statements, a U.S. soldier hanging by the neck in a noose, his last art piece.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I know there is uh, of course, and should be in a free society, very many definitions, in fact, as many as there are people, of what is art.
To me, personally, this is propaganda.
It is not art.
It is the denunciation of your own country.
It is apparently a denunciation of your own country for defending the citizens of our own country from terrorist attack, and bringing those who would kill our American fellow American citizens to justice.
One way or t'other.
Apparently, Attorney General Lockyer doesn't feel the same way.
It isn't just an art choice.
In fact, a spokesperson, Nathan Baronkin for Attorney General Lockier, that's L O L O C K Y E R Lockier, said I love this.
This is the liberal response.
The Attorney General is not in the business of censorship.
Huh?
Didn't somebody who selected these art pieces censor all the others that were not hung?
Isn't it the case that you selected this painting to hang and would not have had you not approved it?
That you discriminated against artwork that might have been pro-America if you wanted to make a propaganda statement, or was simply a picture of some lilies in the field or something else?
I mean, obviously choices were made.
So if we left this painting out, it would be discrimination when you've already left out hundreds of others that were discriminated against and not shown.
What kind of ch what kind of gobbledygook?
What kind of liberal non-logic feel-good speech?
You know, if you throw in the word Discrimination, then you feel like the rest of it makes sense.
We can't discriminate.
So therefore, in other words, we've thrown up the ultimate heat shield against criticism.
We can't discriminate, therefore you can't criticize, you can't say anything, you can't uh the discussion is over.
Well, no, to a logical mind, it's only begun.
How dare you say you can't discriminate when you already have?
You've already discriminated in selecting this piece and not others.
Haven't you?
This issue came up for Governor Bill Owens in Colorado as well.
A an artist in that state was given a $5,000 state fellowship, a grant.
Mr. Owens is now weighing the wisdom of that grant since he uh attended an awards ceremony for the University of Northern Colorado Business School.
Uh let's see.
The artist, Sahi Johnson of Denver, got the fellowship from the Colorado Council of the Arts in 2003 for a work entitled 12.
Oh, gosh, here's a term I cannot say on radio.
Uh maybe I can see it if I call it art.
If I call it art, can I say this word?
It's art.
Why can't I just say this word?
Twelve No, I still I'm still not going to say it because you know what?
It's also not polite to say this word.
It's also uh something I don't want to do.
Okay, so I'm not going to say the word.
Just fill in the blank.
Twelve blank on hooks.
Uh how can I just uh I guess all I can say about this is that, because there's a little picture of it here, is that this work of art by this artist depicted I'm even reluctant to say this.
Okay.
Depicted sex toys on hooks.
She got five thousand dollars of the taxpayers' money in Colorado.
Governor Owens is now having second thoughts.
I wouldn't have to have second thoughts, Governor.
It isn't art, and it's a waste of public money.
If someone in the private sector wants to pay for this as art and hang it in their house, more power to them.
That's what freedom's about.
But don't take my money as a Colorado taxpayer, and pay for this particular uh piece of art, which is a piece of trash.
Good grief.
To Jerry on a cell phone in Portland, Oregon.
Jerry, welcome to the Russian Limbaugh program.
Hey, Roger.
Yeah you were talking about China and uh the threat of China, and I'm wondering why every talk show in America is afraid to bring up this subject, but who is it and why is it that they have the technology to make their missiles a threat to our country?
It was all because of the 1996 uh election year.
We had a president who decided he needed campaign cash that sold the technology to that country so he could beat the evil Republican hordes.
And I I left the Democrat Party because of it.
I mean, this is a bunch of bombs.
As well you as well you should have, Jerry.
As well you should have, because you're 100% right.
Well, it's it's like this like you were talking about tribalism.
You know, it's it's not a football game out here in America, you know, where you got, you know, the blue team and the red team, you know, and and one is, you know, like some kind of a threat to each other.
The communists are a bigger threat than the Republicans.
Those are other Americans.
Uh, I don't know if the Democrats really realize that or not, but I'm I'm just a I can't believe how how nasty it's gotten that their their thrill for power has gotten so bad that they've compromised our national security, and I think world security at that.
Yep, I agree with you, Jerry.
Thanks for the call.
It is true, and let's let's say this specifically, it is true that the Chinese communists have at the tip of their missiles, intercontinental ballistic missiles, the capability of a multiple uh independent uh reentry vehicles, MERV, uh, to uh shower the United States with multiple warheads independently targeted so that one missile could hit uh I forget the numb number,
but it's something like six or seven uh separate targets, because the final stage of the rocket, the cone opens up and these other little rockets inside independently target uh a wide range of cities.
So you don't need one missile to hit one city.
You can have one missile hit six or seven cities.
That particular technology Was specifically licensed to the Chinese by the Clinton administration, and it is an awful thing for them to have learned how to do.
It is doubtful that they would have learned how to do it themselves because they didn't have that capability.
It is probable that they would have bought it from the Russians who did master that if they had not been able to get it from us.
They have gotten many other technologies from the Russians in ships and missiles, including those ships.
They have two of those Russian destroyers that at least two that I know about that have been printed that are specifically designed by the Russians with specific missiles to take out aircraft carriers.
This buildup by the Chinese has had many sources and has had uh many uh sources of support, and their new strategy is pretty well known, but there isn't any question that specifically with regard to this uh to the MERV uh uh uh warheads and specifically with regard to technology, missile technology that can hit other nations satellites.
The Clinton administration sold that to the um the Chinese Communist government in close proximity in time to the time when they received campaign contributions laundered through that same Chinese Communist government.
It is a fact that should not be forgotten.
I'm Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush Limbaugh, and uh let's see, open line Friday.
I haven't been getting enough calls.
What are you thinking out there?
I want to hear from you.
1-800-282-2882 after this.
This just in.
The time capsule reveals that modern journalists have now been back to June 6, 1944 and have filed their report.
The modern journalism account of the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
Dateline Normandy, France.
Three hundred French civilians were killed and thousands more wounded today in the first hours of America's invasion of continental Europe.
Casualties were heaviest among women and children.
Most of the French casualties were the result of artillery fire from American ships attempting to knock out German fortifications prior to the landing of hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops.
Reports from a makeshift hospital in a nearby French town said the carnage was far worse than the French had anticipated, and that reaction against the American invasion was running high.
Americans can't even shoot straight.
I never thought I'd say this, but life was better under Adolf Hitler.
The invasion also caused severe environmental damage.
American troops, tanks, trucks, and machinery destroyed miles of pristine shoreline and thousands of acres of ecologically sensitive wetlands.
It was believed that the habitat of the spineless French crab was completely wiped out, threatening the species with extinction.
A representative of Greenpeace said his organization, which has tried to stall the invasion for over a year, was appalled at the destruction, but not surprised.
This is just another example of how the military destroys the environment without a second thought, said Christine Monmoor.
And it's all about corporate greed, too.
Contacted at his Manhattan condo, a member of the French government in exile who abandoned Paris when Hitler invaded, said the invasion was based solely on American financial interests.
Everyone knows President Roosevelt has ties to big beer, said Pierre LeWimp.
Once the German beer industry is conquered, Roosevelt's beer cronies will control the world market and make a fortune.
A little bit of the report from June 6, 1944 from current journalists.
Jason, in San Diego, California, you made it through.
I love this.
Jason, go ahead.
Okay, I want to talk about the evidence that points to or shows that the United States government has covertly supported Islamic terror since it leaves the late 1970s.
Oh, yeah, we created evidence would be the Shah of Iran's own book an answer to history.
In that book, he actually says that when uh the Carter administration appointed George Ball uh to handle uh Iranian affairs, that he knew that uh that he was on the way out, and it he makes it pretty clear that it was the U.S. government that put the Mulas, you know, in power in uh in the late 1970s, kicking him out.
So I mean, that's the Shah's own words.
Secondly, the United States still works with members of Al-Qaeda in Kosovo.
The KLA, the Kosovo Liberation Army, has uh a lot of its members received training in Afghanistan, and that that came out uh in Milosevic's trial during in The Hague.
He put a uh FBI memo into evidence, and that was uh reported pretty widely in Europe.
What is your conclusion, Jason, of all of this?
Well, um, I also I want to make one more point.
Osama bin Laden.
I know you have talking points.
Can you just uh I just want to get to what does it mean to you that you've strung all these points together?
Well, what it means to me is that the American establishment covertly uses Islamic terror in order to uh give more power to themselves.
I mean, we're signing over our rights with the uh so-called Patriot Act.
I mean, it's basically an act that's re-legalizing COINtelPro, which was a program that uh basically assassinated uh Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader in the 60s.
Uh you know, the government assassin assassinated.
Man, you believe every one of these, don't you?
I love this.
Who killed Kennedy?
Well, uh, what about the fact that there was a Jowers trial?
There was a trial against a man named Boy Jowers, a civil suit that Corettiff got King brought uh in I think 1999, the December of 1999.
And uh in this trial it actually came out that um you know many shocking things came out, but it did come out that the U.S. government played a role in assassinating uh Martin Luther King.
And then this is you can go to the King Center.org and and take a look at the trial transcript.
It's right there.
You know, and I mean I mean, how can you say that you're an American, but yet you want to give up our constitutional rights?
Jason, who killed Kennedy?
Hello in in Nazi.
Do you have ears?
Are you listening or are you just talking about paranoia?
You don't even want to answer, do you?
You're not gonna have ears?
The question Wow, you responded.
Good.
All right.
Jason, we're having a conversation.
That means we talk and we listen and we talk and we live.
Okay, you ready?
I'm ready.
Uh who killed Kennedy?
Who killed Kennedy?
I believe that LBJ and members in in Texas killed Kennedy.
In fact, uh George Bush's father, uh George H. W. Bush, also played a role in murdering Kennedy.
He was one of the one of the Republicans in Texas that was pretty close to LBJ.
In fact, I believe that he actually greeted LBJ uh, you know, at the airport when he came back to Texas after uh you know in 1968 when LBJ uh decided not to run for president again.
Jason.
Um seek medical help.
So that's what's really sick about.
Seek medical help immediately.
I just go directly to a clinic and check yourself in.
Goodbye.
Bye-bye now.
1800, 282-2882.
We're open line Friday, but I don't know whether that opened line.
Good grief.
There's Karen in Canada.
Karen in Canada.
Hi there.
Welcome.
Welcome.
Hi.
Oh, it's a great show today, but that last caller, where did that mo Molarkey come from?
That was unbelievable.
Every once in a while you've got to hear those people just to know that they're out there.
Okay, well, the Bushes go down as uh the most noblest family that uh the world has ever seen.
They should be happy.
What they've been, you know.
What did you call about?
I called about Sandy Day O'Connor.
Okay.
That's somebody else that isn't getting enough respect.
And can I say one more thing about it?
She's getting a lot of respect.
In fact, the Democrats even wanted to talk her out, and so did Arlen Spector.
Talk her out of her retirement.
They had so much respect for her.
Well, look at no, but you you guys, you you men sometimes you don't get the body language and you don't understand what women do behind the scenes.
And you know, I don't know really a lot.
I'm really nervous, Roger.
Bear with me.
Well, you know what?
I want to go back to this point, Karen.
Tell me about the body language.
What body language are you talking about?
When she was fishing or what?
I'm talking about that she was fabulous.
She, I know, you know, the the court was split, and she did a lot of negotiating behind the scenes.
It's obvious that anybody can see any woman can see it because we we can you know have great intuition.
You can see that.
I mean, she was just a fabulous judge.
Well, I think she was a fabulous judge too, but but give me give me give me some specifics.
You actually saw her body language as part of your pre- uh women can see women.
Okay.
And you can tell that she did an enormous amount amount of work there that was.
Oh, I agree with that.
Huh?
I agree with that.
Oh, good.
Okay.
And then can I say something about China?
Yeah, 30 seconds.
Okay.
I just want to say that uh, yes, we're in a terrible mess in China, and the Clintons got us into it.
But who's gonna get us out of it?
Well, it isn't gonna be Hillary Clinton, if that's where you're leading.
Karen, thanks for the call.
Roger Hedgecock here in the United States and worldwide on the Rush Limbaugh program.
By the way, the the Git Mog Club Club Gitmo stuff is hilarious.
Rush Limbaugh.com for the latest on the uh pictures on that.
The latest from what's happening at the United Nations and in Chicago too when we come back.
Roger Hedgecock In for Rush Limbaugh, back on Open Line Friday after this.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Thank you for listening.
I'm Roger Hitchcock, filling In for Rush today on an open line Friday.
This got to me, this really got to me.
I have um been on the Internet and I know, you know, what what is the Internet become for America?
It's our shopping place, it's uh our information source, it's a whole bunch of things.
Uh personal pictures uh gallery and all that other stuff that uh you do with uh your computer, an infinite number of things you can do now.
And as far as I'm concerned, it's all great.
And and although it was invented by Al Gore, uh actually it was funded by, and the research came into being with the starting with the scientists who were working for the uh government, and they used those grants and monies to put together the communication between computers that uh formed the basis of the Internet many years many years ago and is now flowered into probably the most important uh communication uh since the invention of the telephone itself.
Communication invention, and it is done, you know, made in America, invented in America.
The United Nations thinks this is unfair.
The United Nations working group on Internet Governance, the W Gig, released a report last week saying that U.S. control of the Internet's technical underpinnings should end, should end.
They met in Geneva, Switzerland.
Notice how they don't meet in Bangladesh or Harare, or uh they don't meet in in they don't meet in Mongolia.
No, they meet in Geneva.
And the core functions of the Internet should be given up to international control because it's just not fair that the United States has control of the Internet.
Thank you, George Bush, for a communication to the W Gig.
Um in late June, a letter went out saying that the United States intends to, quote, maintain its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications, unquote, to the master file of domain names controlled by the Internet Corporation for assigned names and numbers.
U.S. Commerce Department has veto power over more than 250 top-level domains such as.com and.net.
And while much of the Internet is private, there is a government role here, and it is all coming from the U.S. The need to have this is important because...
Well, uh do I have to explain this to this audience?
I don't think so.
Will the United Nations be an improvement over the Department of Commerce?
I don't think so.
And given what tyrannical nations have done when confronted with the virtues of the Internet, the productivity increases, the incredible uh uh exponential explosion of information.
This, of course, is a threat to tyrannies, and the Chinese communists, for example, have a complete control.
They know exactly every time you go into your computer, there's a government monitor on everything you look at on the internet, and many of the sites are barred.
If you're in China, you cannot access them.
Uh and that is true of a number of nations uh around the world.
So it is a threat.
The United Nations, which is run more or less by these thuggeries, these various uh dictatorships, uh, in aggregate, of course, want to get a control over anything so subversive as the idea that ordinary citizens could access real information about what they're actually doing.
Huh.
Can't have that.
Here's Lee in Yuma, Arizona.
Hello, Lee.
Oh, Roger, it's my honor to talk to you.
I really appreciate when you sit in for Rush.
Thank you.
I'm I'm I'm a surgeon, and I'm calling because one of the areas I I really appreciate you guys stand up for the individual rights that are slowly being usurped.
But the one area I don't think you guys spend enough time is on medical care, because socialized medicine is what's gonna drag the whole country into a socialized state.
And Vladimir Lenin understood that when he said that so that medical care is the keystone in the arch of socialism.
And in fact, uh the Imperial Germany gave medical care to their population because they understood that if you if you're dependent on the government for your medical care, well, you know, you they've got you by the throat.
And social security as well.
And yes, and so well, that's part of it.
And it and um they're c they're so intertwined that but the argument is made that well medical medical care is so expensive that the individual can't do it.
You know, one third of all births and two thirds of all nursing home patients are paid for by the government, and that we just we we need the government to get further involved because we can't afford it.
But it's just the other way around.
It's government involvement which has caused medical care to become so expensive.
Give me an example.
Give me an example of that, Lee.
Okay, well, that's what I'm gonna say.
If you don't believe it, all you have to look at those areas of uh medical care that are not paid for by insurance or medical care, actually the prices have come down.
For example, uh uh LASIK, you know, when MASIC first came out, LASIK was five thousand dollars to get your eyes so that you could see at a distance without glasses.
Right.
Now you see ads for it for two hundred and fifty dollars.
The arg and the point is that medical care is a commodity like others, and it follows the economic principles.
Uh, you know, F. A. Hayek was right, and if and if you apply the principles of free market competition to medical care, it will respond like every other commodity.
Now let me ask you, Lee, because I 100% agree I 100% agree with you, and we're not, but let me let me ask you a question.
You're a surgeon.
Yes.
Uh you're a doctor.
Yes.
How do you run your own practice then?
Have you practiced what you preach?
In other words, do you take uh only cash uh payments from you know from from uh patients?
Do you do you engage in Medicare, Medicaid patients?
Uh what do you do in your personal life?
Well, that's a very good question.
And in point of fact, I I live in Yuma, Arizona, which is not very far from you, and unfortunately, 70% of my population is medical is Medicare.
I'm a spine surgeon, so I do fairly big ticket items.
Now you know, I am a member of the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, and they have a program to exactly do what you're saying, to wean people off the the uh get people off the plantation, as one of their members said.
Um my goal is to do exactly that.
I haven't done it yet, but I am planning on trying to lead the way so that younger people coming up can do it and see that it does work.
This is important, Lee, because I've had this conversation with a lot of lawyer a lot of doctors, and I've said, Look, uh you guys you guys have got to get off of this, or you're going to simply be employees of the of the nanny states.
And it's just starting to be done.
And I know uh an ophthalmologist and a neurosurgeon and a urologist that have done it.
Um there are people that speak all over the country now on how to do it.
It it it should be said that you can go to jail if you don't do it right.
So it's not so easy to just suddenly get off and do it.
Um no, and and if we let go, it'll be it'll be illegal to practice private medicine uh except through the government if we keep going in the rate in the direction we're going.
Yes, and in fact, there are three there are only three countries in the world where it's illegal to practice private practice medicine.
I'd be curious if you know where they are.
Well, probably Cuba.
North Korea.
Yep.
And China.
Canada.
Canada.
Oh my goodness, Canada.
Yeah.
Good grief.
So Hey, Lee, I appreciate the call, and you're absolutely right.
Someday we we should get more into uh Medicare and what it's doing to ruin uh in the name of giving you affordable health care, what it's doing to ruin the practice of medicine, the edge uh competitive edge this country has always had with regard to uh medical advances and certainly our individual liberty.
Here's Joseph in Albuquerque.
Joe, how are you doing?
Well, hi there, Roger, how are you doing?
Good.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Go ahead.
Well, hi, the question of art, uh, which ties into everything else, by the way.
Um there is such a thing as good and bad art, and all these things can be defined.
Um, but a lot of people don't know it.
So wait a minute, what is good art?
Well, good art um is something which tends always toward the good.
Here's the definition for you.
Art tends always toward the good.
Wherefore that which is ordered to evil does not pertain to art.
And guess who the philosopher is there?
Uh who?
St. Thomas Aquinas.
Well, I like that a lot.
Good use of art requires moral virtue.
That's a scholastic axiom.
Uh the scholastics just said it so often that it became an axiom.
Now here's my problem, Joseph.
Uh I don't want the government to apply that definition.
I want each individual to apply it.
In other words, people can choose bad art just like they can choose bad hair and bad clothes and bad cars and whatever else, because it's a free country.
But I I d I just don't want to subsidize bad art.
And we're doing it all the time, not just the examples you've given, but every time we support a university art program or whatever.
But but the other point is that people choose according to ignorance.
they choose without definitions and without principles uh...
but the principles and definitions are out there one of the problems is that modernism tried to erase those definitions in the human mind Where they exist.
We know we know what the beautiful in art is.
We know that there has to be unity, there has to be integrity, there has to be proportion, there has to be balance.
That's all very clear, and the church to her scholastic philosophers, metaphysicians has been a very good thing.
What kind of art is hanging in your house?
Well, I have mostly, you know, very, very fine art, um, very, very moral art.
Give me an example.
I'd say Gilam Dios, um, a Madonna by Gilam Dayo, um, is a Renaissance painter.
Yes.
Um, a few drawings, a few architectural drawings, etc.
Um.
But but art has to uplift the human soul and point the soul to the moral principle.
Well, the best art does.
Joseph, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
Thomas Aquinas.
Okay.
Let's go to Craig in Idaho.
Uh, we got just a minute.
Well, let's take Craig in Idaho.
Craig, go ahead.
Roger, how are you doing?
Hi, good.
Hey, I tell you, when we tune in to Rush, if he's not there, it's always a pleasure to hear your voice.
Thank you very much.
You bet.
Hey, I was just calling, I kind of caught the tail end of the conversation, but the uh uh about the Clinton administration in China.
I just uh as a Republican and conservative, I don't want us to sound like uh a double standard where uh we start blaming their administration pointing fingers at them.
We've got to remember that they're they're America.
That was America too.
Under, you know, well, I made a very specific Craig.
If you didn't hear it, I made a very specific uh statement that I think is backed up a hundred percent by fact, and that is there was a close proximity between the infusion of uh the Chinese money into the Clinton Gore re-election campaign and the transmission of uh of specific technology that allowed multiple uh re-entry warheads uh to be possible where it was not previously possible on the Chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles,
and as a result, the uh threat of the Chinese, this uh general last week who said we would he would uh China would nuke hundreds of American cities if we tried to defend Taiwan is a credible threat only because a specific technology was transferred that the Reagan and Bush administrations had not allowed to be transferred uh from an American corporation to the Chinese communist government.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, because I just don't want us to start sounding like uh uh you know uh pointing fingers at each other, or America start pointing the finger back at ourselves.
So uh Well, no, I think we've got to be specific.
Yeah.
You gotta be specific.
And and the specific uh the specific issue is that the Clinton administration, and they don't deny it, uh allowed licenses for technology to China that has since become obvious was applied not just for peaceful uh navigation satellites, but for which is what they were saying at the time, but for uh military warheads.
Uh oh, yeah, okay, okay, I hear you.
Yeah.
Okay.
Craig, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
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Uh, this out of Chicago.
We're gonna take a break.
I'll tell you, Angela's uh you're nervous today.
Don't be nervous.
We'll take the break.
Honest.
Okay, I'm Roger Hedcock, and we'll be back with more after this.
It's open line Friday.
I'm Roger Hedgecock, filling in for Rush Limbaugh here at the EIB Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Mayor Richard Daly of Chicago Thursday proposed to turn over municipal hiring to an independent commission After federal investigators charged that two city of Chicago officials illegally lined up jobs for people with political connections.
Federal prosecutors this week allege two delay administrators administration officials illegally doled out patronage jobs, giving people jobs for political reasons.
Say it ain't so.
In Chicago, what is this world coming to?
Yikes.
Um there was a letter to the editor in the Arizona Republic in Arizona.
And this letter, kind of sarcastic letter to the editor, uh, went something like this.
It's a complaint.
A wake-up call from Luke's Jets, June 23rd, 12 AM.
Question of the day for Luke Air Force Base.
Whom do we thank for the morning air show?
Last Wednesday at precisely 9 11 a.m.
A tight formation of four F 16 jets made a low pass over Arrowhead Mall, continuing west over Bell Road at approximately 500 feet.
Imagine our good fortune.
Do these Tom Cruise wannabes feel we need this wake-up call, or were they trying to impress the cashiers at Mervyn's during the early bird special?
Any response would be appreciated.
Ah, here's the response.
Regarding a wake-up call from Luke's Jets.
On June 15th at precisely 9 12 a.m., a perfectly timed force ship of F 16s from the 63rd Fighter Squadron at Luke Air Force Base flew over the grave of Captain Jeremy Fresques.
Captain Fresques was an Air Force officer previously stationed at Luke Air Force Base, killed in Iraq May 30, Memorial Day.
At 9 a.m. on June 15th, his family and friends gathered at Sutlin Memorial Park in Sun City to mourn the loss of a husband's son and friend.
Based on the letter writer's recount of the flyby, and because of the jet noise, I'm sure you didn't hear the 21 gun salute, the playing of taps, or my words to the widow and the parents of Captain Freskus, as I gave them their son's flag on behalf of the President of the United States and all those veterans and servicemen and women who understand the sacrifices they have endured.
A four-ship flyby is a display of respect the Air Force pays to those who give their lives in defense of freedom.
We are professional aviators and take our jobs seriously.
And on June 15th, what the letter writer witnessed was four officers lining up to pay their ultimate respects.
The letter writer asks, whom do we thank for the morning air show?
The 56th Fighter Wing will call for you and forward your thanks to the widow and parents of Captain Fresquez and thank them for you.
For it was in their honor that my pilots flew the most honorable formation of their lives.
Letter signed by Lieutenant Colonel Scott Pless, CO of 63rd Fighter Squadron Luke Air Force Base, and under that it says classification unclassified.
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