March 8, 2024 • 54 mins
Super Tuesday has passed, Nikki Haley is out, and the presidential race is on. Will Donald Trump be able to unify the Republican party, or will GOP divisions have impacts on downticket U.S. Senate races like Texas?
Looking at the upcoming Louisiana legislative session, Christopher and Hy discuss the idea of New Orleans area legislators leveraging their votes for a new Mississippi River Bridge in South Baton Rouge in order to extend the Westbank Expressway into LA 3127, and widen that road into a four-lane super highway that goes all the way to Donaldsonville and which also intersects into I-310 and an expanded Earhart expressway that goes all the way to Armstrong Airport.
The Founders Show broadcasts live this week from Colorado Springs and the US Air Force Academy. We share our incredible impression of the upcoming class of cadets, and reflect upom a military hero from the past.
We also talk about the legacy of Zebulon Pike, who played a plays a key role in the history of the Louisiana Purchase and of New Orleans. Inadvertently, Pike may be the reason that the White House is painted white!
Looking at the upcoming Louisiana legislative session, Christopher and Hy discuss the idea of New Orleans area legislators leveraging their votes for a new Mississippi River Bridge in South Baton Rouge in order to extend the Westbank Expressway into LA 3127, and widen that road into a four-lane super highway that goes all the way to Donaldsonville and which also intersects into I-310 and an expanded Earhart expressway that goes all the way to Armstrong Airport.
The Founders Show broadcasts live this week from Colorado Springs and the US Air Force Academy. We share our incredible impression of the upcoming class of cadets, and reflect upom a military hero from the past.
We also talk about the legacy of Zebulon Pike, who played a plays a key role in the history of the Louisiana Purchase and of New Orleans. Inadvertently, Pike may be the reason that the White House is painted white!
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you deep within the bowels of thosemystic and cryptic alligator swamps of the Big
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Easy, that old Crescent City,New Orleans, Louisiana, and high up
on top of that old Liberty Cypresstree way out on the Eagles Branch,
draped in Spanish monks. There's noneother then you're spend Gary Baybay of the
Republic, Chaplain Hi mgnry who withChristopher tidnery' roving a reporter, resident radical
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moderate and associate editor of the LouisianaWeekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot net.
And Hi, we got a lotof great things to talk about today.
We'll talk a little bit about theupcoming legislative session and a fight over at
South Baton Rouge Bridge that could bringsome infrastructure dollars to New Orleans and help
us actually finish some roads that havesat unfinished for decades and help our evacuation
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and economy at the same time.But we need to look a little bit
further aboard. Of course, SuperTuesday led to Nicki Halley getting out of
the race only winning one state,Vermont, and the question of what's going
to happen now that we're facing thegeneral election, and that comes down to
one Robert F. Kennedy Junior.We'll talk a little bit about that,
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the state of the race and whereit stands, and a great many other
issues. But I have to tellyou where I have been broadcasting from today,
and that is the United States AirForce Academy at Colorado Springs. I've
had today a privilege of getting atour of the campus, and unlike say
Annapolis or West Point, it isa vast area one hundred and eighty thousand
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acres goes over miles and miles cascadingwith the most beautiful mountains in the background.
For those that don't know, theUnited States Air Force Academy is the
youngest of the Service Academies. Itwas found in nineteen fifty nine as sixty
five years old, and it's stilleven though there are five. Service Academy
is considered third in seniority after WestPoint Annapolis. It is an incredible place
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today. It fills that I metsome of the cadets. I chatted with
them, and they undergo very rigoroustraining, not only school for the year,
but their summers are essentially in basictraining and combat training in flight.
And they provide our cadets, oursecond lieutenants for the Air Force and for
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the new Space Force. And Iwas amused by something high. As a
side note, there was a lotof controversy not so very long ago about
the uniform the Space Force adopted,and it basically had buttons along the side.
It's almost double breasted. It looksa bit like the uniform they used
and revives Battlestar Galactica, or ifyou squid a little bit, the uniform
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that Captain Kirk wore in Star Trek'stwo, three, four, and five
and six. But what's interesting aboutthat uniform is the modern Space Force uniform
is essentially and very close to theuniform worn by the cadets of the US
Air Force Academy, and it insome ways is the most impressive of all
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the cadet dress uniforms. Now dayto day they wear fatigues like anything else,
but their cadet dress uniform not theformal black tie, but their regular
uniforms are these double breasted, beautifuluniforms with a yellow sash. And what
I came to find out that Ifound fascinating is I went to the Barry
Goldwater Visitor Center, is that theseuniforms were actually designed by one Cecil B.
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De Mille. Yes, the famousHollywood director designed the uniforms for the
Air Force Academy. And it wasall because they basically needed to staff the
Air Force. There had been discussionsabout creating an air force going back to
nineteen eighteen nineteen twenty five, thefame pilot Billy Mitchell said the necessity of
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creating an air force, and finallyin nineteen forty seven, after the war,
after ninety thousand airmen died during theSecond World War, they said,
we will create an air force.They couldn't recruit enough actual officer candidates out
of West Point and Annapolis. Apparentlythey were supposed to trart twenty five percent
of each service academy was supposed tobuy. The Air Force. They couldn't
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get enough military personnel after the war, which led them to form an Air
Force Academy, and they looked atover five hundred and eighty locations, finally
settling on Colorado Springs. But theyhad to do the first group an Air
Force in an old Air Force basein Denver. But it's fascinating how this
feels different. There's a planetarament,there's a beautiful cathedral on campus, which
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is unfortunately under reconstruction right now,but it is a massive uplifting place.
And these young people, they aretruly the best and the brightest. They're
all geniuses, they're all in perfectcondition, and they're all the people who
are going to not only take tothe skies, but to the orbit to
defend America's skies. And I've gotto tell you, in the midst of
covering politics, one can get verycynical. But the young people that I
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met today, I mean, theyall line up in formation to go to
lunch, and it was the mostimpressive thing I've ever seen, just to
go to lunch and talking to them. There's such wonderful young people who are
gonna who deserve and serve our nationwell. And sometimes we don't really take
the time, even our show,which spends a lot of time with your
service and the military and honoring ourveterans, we don't take enough time looking
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at the next generation that's coming up. And today, being at the Air
Force Academy gave me a lot ofhope, but we have to talk a
little bit less hope and that allowsus to go into Super Tuesday. But
your thoughts, You've known a lotof Air Force Academy grads. I wanted
to see what you thought. Yes, Christopher so well said, And I've
been to the service academies myself,of course, being a military man.
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This bright, positive attitude that yousaw there, I've seen it throughout the
military. It's a universal thing,especially when the young people coming in.
They're all bright eyed and bushy tailedand positive, clean cut, wholesome,
great patriotic, moral values and whatnot. And they're not perfect, you know,
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come on, we're talking with thehuman race here, so we all
have our imperfections and mistakes that wedo no matter what you what group you're
with, but they are a siteto see for sure, and They are
a tremendous, uplifting experience. AndI'm glad you talked about the uniforms for
the space the Space Force. Andit's interesting you said he came from Hollywood.
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I think you said CES will bethe mill the U sounds like Trump
to me. He was certainly aHollywood man himself, and I had one
of the most successful TV shows inyou know, American history. Uh so,
yeah, thanks for sharing us.I've seen. I've been to the
campus, a beautiful campus, thechapel. Like I said, it's absolutely
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stunning. Everything about it is agreat experience. And I would encourage all
Americans if you ever get a chanceyou're traveling, stop and see the Service
academies. They're quite an experience.Just go there for a few hours if
you if that's all you have,it'll be worth every minute that you're there
for the whole experience. It's justa great experience and makes you proud.
It makes you encourage you to realizethat we had were developing that kind of
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leadership to defend our country. Unfortunately, that is an issue with the human
race. The human race has neverfigured out how to stop war ever,
not even come closer. You knowI love history, of course, of
course for your quite history and yourself. And I can guarantee you you want
to know what the history of theworld is. It's really simple. It's
a history of war because nations,tribes, whatever it is, they're always
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at war. And so if youdon't have a good defense, you will
be done in. You will betaken down as a nation, as a
tribe, or whatever it is.And they found a tribe somewhere in the
Amazon that was a little tiny tribe. They hardly anybody was I mean,
they was sickly, they were justbarely existing. And they found out the
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reason why. The anthropologist did alot of research and they found this tribe
would not fight, they would notgo to war. So what happened was
all the other tribes beat them upinto oblivion just about they lived in constant
hiding and fear. It's a verytragic situation, but that's the nature of
the human race. It's just absolutelytragic. And it's the reason, literally
the reason God flooded the world doingthe flood of Noah, where he had
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to kill everybody because and it makesit very clear violence every man's hand was
against every man's hand there was constantwar and fighting on planet Earth at that
time, and so God just hadto end it or the world would have
self destructed. He saved the worldby killing everybody and saving only the true
righteous people who would then come backand repopulate the world and give it a
second chance. Interesting thought, interestingstory, and we know that in the
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end, as we're heading into theend, y'all hear me talk about it,
the world's going to get just likein the days of Noah, where
war is going to increase all aroundthe world, and the bouss of Jesus
hesitated his coming back. There wouldbe no flesh left. He's got to
come back a little earlier than hehad planned, thanks to the human race.
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I hate to bring in the negative. It's just a fact and we
need to deal with the facts.And when you're in the military, know
how, no matter how bad somethingis, you face it. No matter
how negative it is, you faceit. I don't care how bright eyed
and bushytailed and positive and hopeful andeverything you are. You face the negatives
and you understand them. You haveto study them and know them to know
how to deal with them and knowhow to win. Well. Folks,
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I know you've got some more excitingstuff for us, Christopher. I'm really
excited. But you're next. We'regonna be talking about Super Tuesday and Nikki
Haley and where all that's going on. Christ Forah, you got some great
insights on that, so take itaway, brother. Well, having talked
about the Air Force Academy and theuniforms of the space for us being influenced
by those designed by Cecil beIN tomill High, we got to actually talk
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about what these young people are fightingto defend and sometimes looking at this election,
I shudder for the country anyway,let us for those that you have
been living under a rock. Ofcourse, Donald Trump prevailed overwhelmingly on Super
Tuesday, as did Joe Biden.Their opponents were not even the same universe,
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but there were a few differences.Nikki Helly won one primary, Vermont's,
barely but still forty nine to fortyseven. Promptly, though the next
day after Super Tuesday, barely twentyfour hours, she withdrew from the race
and very quickly thereafter removed any doubtthat she could be a candidate for no
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labels. Trump has a problem,High, and the problem is nearly a
third of the Republican electorate on almostevery one of these primaries. Nikki Helly
may have lost, but nearly athird of the GOP electorate into Super Tuesday
voted for Nikki Helly. A lotof these were closed primaries, so you
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can't just say, hey, itwas Democrats who ran and did it.
It wasn't. There is a constituencymore than a quarter, but roughly a
third of the GOP electorate who notonly didn't vote for Donald Trump, they
have serious concerns about voting for DonaldTrump in the fall. That doesn't mean
they necessarily vote for Joe Biden,some of them will, but it does
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mean very clearly that they could stayhome. Republicans have a much more cohesive,
but a much smaller coalition than Democrats. Usually, Republicans can win when
they have all of their coalition turningout, which happens more often than not,
and they win independence. What thiselection is said is independence. Overwhelmingly,
they don't like either candidate. Theyliked Nikki Halley and even a core
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of the Republican a minority didn't likeit. So what happens next, Well,
before people come in and say thegeneral election is locked, I want
to point out something. That somethingis Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Well,
all of the primaries were finishing themselves. RFK was getting on ballots.
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He just qualified for Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona. Now he's got enough
signatures it looks like to make theballot in Hawaii, New Hampshire. He's
going Michigan, Texas, and NewYork. The reason why I bring out
something about RFK Junior is when youhave a Republican electorate that is discontented and
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you have Democrats that are discontented,he is going to be on the ballot.
He will be a factor in majorstates. And he draws from both
candidates, from both Trump and Bidenpretty equally, which makes this race.
He's not going to be the nextpresident more likely than not, but it
makes this price very unsure. Andif I were Donald Trump, I'd be
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encouraging every possibility to unify the Republicanbase, and frankly, despite the fact
he's out ruled it out, beggingand bleeding for Nicki Halley to be my
vice president. She probably won't doit, but I'd least ask I reach
out. The fact is, theday after the primary, even that night,
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Trump says he was going to runthe Romneys out of the party.
He says he wants to run Heliterally said he wants to run Nicky Halley
out of the GOP, even asNiki Halley said, I'm a conservative Republican.
I've been a lifelong Republican, andI will not run as a third
party spoiler. This is insanity forDonald Trump. He thinks he can win
by substraction. It's his arrogance thatcould reelect Joe Biden, arguably one of
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the most unpopular presidents we have hadin living memory, if not in historical
memory. There's an opportunity here,but I don't think Trump will take it.
I will tell you what is goingon is No Labels is trying to
formulate a national strategy, and they'restarting to raise hard money contributions as well
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as the millions in soft money contributions, and they're getting on the ballots in
enough states to where they're looking fora Republican to run. If Hally's out,
who's it going to be? Andthere's gonna be somebody, somebody prominent,
could be a John Huntsman, couldbe somebody. I'm still holding out.
I'd love to see Romney run,but we are going to see a
presidential race where if the top twofinishers are so unpopular. And we've seen
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that, I mean we saw Biden. Biden was losing to No committed by
ten fifteen thousand votes. Biden isin a situation where he's frankly got a
constituency problem, just like Trump.I can tell you a scenario that if
something doesn't come out though, Bidencan get disaffected independence. He did it
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in twenty twenty and did in twentytwenty two, whether you believe you know,
whether you believe it or not.Donald Trump has to start acting like
a unifying leader. But the dayafter Super Tuesday he the opposite. We're
gonna run the rhinos out of theparty. And here's the problem with that
statement. I keep hearing rhinos,Republicans and name only, but there's no
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ideological reason. There's nothing that thesepeople are quote Republicans in name only.
Nikki Halley is as conservative a Republicanas you can get on the border,
on taxes and spending, on everypossible issue, and yet she's able to
rhino Why because she has not kissedthe ring of Donald Trump. Donald Trump
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does not define how you become aRepublican. In fact, many off it
stands on spending on elis or not. Even in the Republican lexicon, they
were considered democratic positions very shortly.So Donald Trump should have a little humility
if he wants to win this race, and I don't see it. If
Donald Trump doesn't reverse and try toreach out, he's gonna lose this race.
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And the fact of the matter isthe first way to do it would
be to publicly ask Nicki Hally tobe his VP. Even if she told
him no, at least he wouldhave tried. Your thoughts, Christopher,
it's really sad to hear you talkabout Trump because it's like you can't think
of anything good to say here.It was, this was his space force.
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You didn't make a big point ofthat, a signature event, if
you will, for a president.You made nothing out of that. Hardly
every good thing the man does,you pretty much just gloss over it and
ignore it, and you just keeptaking cheap shots on the guy and saying
he's arrogant, he's proud, he'sfool as he is, he's that blahlah
blah blah, blah blah blah,the man has so many sterling characteristics and
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successful accomplishments, and nothing ever getssaid by you about it. All you
can say is he's dividing everybody up. He doesn't know how to unify.
Really, He's got the largest followingof any candidate I think in the past
fifty one hundred years. I mean, it's astounding to see the numbers behind
Trump right now. And he's broughtin everybody he's brought He's the largest number
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of African Americans. You know,Uh, minority groups are now behind Trump.
That in the history of the RepublicanParty. That's thanks to Donald Trump.
You say, doesn't you unify people? And Biden is one of the
biggest losers. I mean, everythingthe man does, he destroys, He
ruins. All these great policies Trumphad said he came in, undermined him
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all and everything that goes to youknow what. Uh, And and people
see it, even even liberals andDemocrats are seeing that, and and and
and and upset about it, wonderingwhy why doesn't he do the right thing?
Why is he destroying our country?Why is he turning us over to
a bunch of hordes of violent,violent, illegal aliens? Doing nothing to
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stop it. I don't get yourother than the fact that I'm sorry,
Christopher, I think you have acharacter flaw here, and that is you've
been driven by this visceral hatred forDonald Trump. So all you can ever
do is say negatives about him.Nothing good. He's stupid, he's done,
he's turn anything apart, he's ruinedanything. Blah blah blah. He
has a rally, It sets records. What what name me a politician that
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has his kind of uncanny popularity.It's unbelievable. Uh. He doesn't trust
Nicki Haley of course, because sheshe she's on the take for big left
wing you know money groups that arefunding her heavily and doing everything can to
use her to destroy Trump. Soshe's been used as a tool. She
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knows it too. She's no dummy. As long as the money was flowing,
She's gonn to keep herning. Idon't care how badly she's doing.
As long as the money is going, she's going to keep running and keep
you know, following the game plan. Condemned Trump, alittle Trump little,
you know, trying to make everything, make him look as bad as I
can. So Christopher, Uh,this is just dirty pool, dirty politics.
And I think you're missing the pointhere, the real point that Trump
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is a remarkable unifier and then he'sbrought in all kinds of people that would
have never voted Republican and now they'revoting Republican. That's astounding. Uh So
you say he's this, are goingto miss that in this group and that
group. I think you're wrong aboutthat, Christopher. I think you're very
wrong about that. And I don'ttrust Nikki Haley. I wouldn't want her
in, you know, behind myback. I wouldn't want her uh covering
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my back so to speak at all. And so yeah, he's probably gonna
just avoid her anyway. He's aremarkable person. He's broken all the rules
and he said the most like he'svery unorthodox, which upsets your normal political
mind. Like you you're you've beenin politics all your life and you think
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according to the way the politics isplayed, he hasn't played the game the
right way, and yet he keepswinning. Uh. It shows that there
are maybe better ways to lead Americaand to play the political game. So,
folks, another interesting section here,Christopher. You bring out a lot
of good interesting points and thanks forus to think about. Absolutely, and
certainly to me, Romney is oneof the worst traders and political people in
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Washington. I wish I can't wait. I can't wait for the day he's
gone, because he is a fraudif there ever was one. There are
rhinos, Christopher, there really are, and they do token conservative things and
you lift that up, it's,oh, there's such great goodserve No,
they're not, Christopher. They dobetray us. And we've got one of
them here in Louisiana and that's Cassidy. So let's see. I know you
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got some more good stuff for us, Christopher. I can't wait to hear
you next thing, and that's we'regonna hear. Yeah, we need to
find about Ted Cruz, what he'sup to, and what's going on in
Texas right now. That's always avery interesting state. So Christopher, I
think you got some good stuff oncruise. Please engage us. Okay,
if you don't agree that Trump isgonna lose, let me give you a
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possibility on a scenario where this couldhappen high and that is Texas people forget
something. Trump won Texas with fiftytwo percent of the vote in the last
election, which is a solid win, but it's not the kind of wins
that you posted under George W.Bush or in the past. You know,
fifty eight sixty percent, fifty twopercent of the population in twenty twenty
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is now getting less as more andmore people move in. Texas is changing
and Ted Cruz is going to beon the ballot. Now. It may
surprise some people who know that TedCruz his people who really really hate him.
It's almost like Trump. He's avery different kind of person. I'm
not comparing Ted Cruse to Trump,but he's a weak candidate. Now,
Trump doesn't try to woo Republicans andindependents. Where do they go? Well,
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I'm going to point something out.The person who won Tuesday's primary for
the US Senate is a congressman bythe name of Colin Alfred. If you
haven't, he got the Democratic nominationagainst several progressive Democrats. Colin Alfred is
anything but he beat the senator StateSenator rolland Gutierrez, a progressive fifty nine
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to seventeen. What is Colin Alfred? He's a moderate. He is an
africa An American from Dallas. Heis someone who has he flipped a Republican
seat in Dallas when he first gotelected. He's incredibly impressive. In some
ways, he's a fiscal In manyways, he's a fiscal conservative, and
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he speaks Texan. He knows howto get it. I was born and
bred in Dallas, and he knowshow to connect. Now, what happens
if Trump comes in and he's weakwith those sacramones, He's weak with Republican
moderates, he's weak with independence,and you have a situation where Ted Cruz
is not being able to is limitedto the coalition that Trump is. There
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can be down ticket ramnifications. Notonly Texas could be even play. And
by the way, those people sayTexas will never be in play. You
said the same thing about Georgia inthe last election, even those people who
say Georgia was stolen, and Idon't believe it was. But let's for
a second concede the argument to you. They can only say it by a
lit Why was it so close?And that's because there was a certain of
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African American voters coming to the pollsin Georgia in the Senate race. What
happens if African American surge for amoderate African American in Texas who has strong
moderately conservative conservative credentials, especially fora Democrat, and he's taking on an
unpopular Republican senator, one that's barelypopular, who barely won last time six
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years ago. He barely barely won. Ted Cruz had a successful first race
and the second race was terrible.He barely won. What happens, it's
enough to drag out the Democratic coalitionand put Texas in play. That's why
it is imperative that Donald Trump seatsacting like an idiot, or that is
to say, Donald Trump and triesto woo back Republican moderates, the third
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of whom voted for Nicki Halley,because it will have implications that go beyond
the White House, but it goesto the down ticket. The problem is
Trump is so arrogant he thinks hecan win and he never can that he
was wrong. That I honestly seea situation where he's throwing the election to
Joe Biden, whether we admit itor not, because he just believes that
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he can win by the politics abstraction, and that never wins. Christopher,
you need to get control of yourself. Your hatred for Donald Trump is just
is eating you alive. It's destroyingyou. It's it's affecting your your cognizant
abilities. And that's what hate willdo. I'm warning you, Christopher,
You're on dangerous ground allowing this kindof emotion to rule you. You can't
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say anything good about Trump. CanIt's all negative, it's all hate,
it's all these stupid He's destroying it. You can't say why. No,
you don't say why. And bythe way, I'm totally convinced that George's
election was stolen. And I neversaid you said outside if you meant me.
I never said George is not ina place. I never said that.
Uh. But anyway, the TedCruz is gonna have a tough time
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because he's just like Trump. He'shated by every liberal every uh uh you
know, all the all the moneypeople, uh and and the and the
Democrats have huge, huge financial backing, especially out of Hollywood. The reason
I had such a hard time lasttime. I think his candidate outspent him
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ten to one or something like thatfrom all the Hollywood money that came in
backing Auroric, the the funny guy, the playboy, uh, the the
you know, the hippie They wantto be hippie. I guess, uh
rich boy, uh spoiler rotten richyou know, spoon in the mouth,
silver spoon in the mouth. Uhrich boy, who was a goofis really
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and and and but he had alot of backing behind him. He had.
He had so much money. Youhave enough money, you can win
elections. It doesn't matter what aloser you are. You all you need
is the money. And he hadmuch more than you. Ted Cruz mainly
makes it on small donations. Hehas a large, large following. I
tell you one of the biggest thingsand you didn't mention. I can't believe
you missed this one one of thebiggest election things. That's going to be
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the border, especially in Texas.So where is your candidate concerning Texas?
Huh? I mean concerning the border? Where is he? Is he going
to support closing the border and reallymean it, really do it? Like
Cruise is, Where is he goingto be on that? And everybody knows
if you want to close the border? Put Trump back in charge. He
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did the best job that's ever beendone in decades for sealing our borders and
protecting us from all these illegals.Are you aware of how many people are
being murdered by illegals right now inChristopher, do you realize that Biden just
shipped in the White House, justshipped in over three hundred and twenty thousand
illegals by plane. What's going on? What's the desperate situation where they have
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to jam pack us with more butmore than we already have too many and
they are already too many coming overthe Southern boarder walking across, but now
they're shipping them in in planes,flying them in. That's very alarming,
Christopher. You know, if webreak out with riots like twenty twenty,
which was the course to help inthe Trump presidency, the greatest insurrection America's
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ever had, over five hundred andseventy places destroyed, billions of dollars of
property damage, fifty cops killed,two thousand put in the hospital. I
don't know how many others murdered andkilled during that time and raped. That
was the Democrat mobs shaking America hopingmaybe it would bring in martial law.
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Whatever are they planning that this time? Because if it gets bad, and
if they can create enough riots thissummer, they may not be able to
have the election. Wouldn't the WhiteHouse love that, and then Biden wouldn't
have to face a sure defeat froma far superior candidate, and that's Donald
Trump. Folks, Christopher, areyou really thinking all of this through?
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Clearly, I think you're being blindedby your hate. I'm so sorry to
see you do that. You're asmart guy. You shouldn't let that happen
to you. You need wisdom.It's not just about intellect, Christopher.
It's about wisdom. And I'm trustingthat you are going to get better.
I'm trusting you're going to do thatbecause you're missing you're really missing it.
Right now, anyway, we areabout ready to I think get into another
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topic. Let me think. Ithink one more thing I want to say
here, folks, If you loveAmerica, Texas is critical because if they
can finagele this in some kind ofways, steal, you know, or
win the election by hook or bycrook, especially about out spending crews like
they did last time ten to one. They may pull it off this time.
They did the last time, theymay this time. If Texas goes
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that's I don't know how we canhandle it. After that, they're going
to have they will take over Congressand it's going to be just. It
doesn't matter who the president is,it's going to be over. We're going
to be in such trouble, folks, such trouble. We're already been pushed
to the limit right now. Howmuch more can we take? How much
more inflation? Biden inflation? Youknow, Biden inflation? How much more
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can we take? I don't know, I really don't know. Many of
us are so concerned about the destinyof this country now we are very close
to a serious, serious danger zone. Well, folks, it's time for
us to go into a brief break. We will be right back. Rescuing,
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next topic. And I know,Christopher, you got some more great information
for us. So I'm really lookingforward to hearing about we transportation. It's
always an issue, isn't it,Christopher, And I know you've got some
good information on this, So takeit away, Christopher. And this is
Christopher Timore, my partner. Thankyou, Christopher. Well, Hi,
we have to turn actually into somethingthat's in the upcoming legislative session, and
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one of the things that's been prefiled are a series of bills to try
to fund a new bridge in southBaton Rouge, basically crossing the river somewhere
around Seagan Lane or Highland and goingover to Plaqueaman. It's something desperately needed
for the Baton Rouge area, andwe can defend it on those basis,
but the fact is, if you'rea New Orleans area legislator, why would
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you support something like this. Well, it's all wrapped up in the debate
of renewing the temporary point four tofive percent sales tax that delivers about six
hundred and forty nine dollars a year, which is which is a series of
potential road constructions. Well, thattax may expire next year and one of
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the things that's going on is thefinal decision of where the new Baton Rouge
Bridge should be placed will come fromthe Department of Transportation and the New Landry
administration in the next sixty days.Promises to trigger a legislative battle because it
will be wrapped up and renewing thepoint four to five percent sales tax that
will help fund this. Currently threehundred million dollars has been allocated to a
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new bridge and Baton Rouge towards theone point three billion dollar project. That's
one point five billion for access routesto the new bridge and one point five
billion for the bridge itself. There'san existing fiscal commitment of forty million per
year and ongoing sales tax revenue ifthat revenue comes to pass. All this
is wrapped up into the area theBaton Rouge area bridge to try to figure
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out where it is. But oneof the things that if you're a New
Orleans area legislator, even though thiscould help our area from evacuation avoiding Baton
Rouge. You don't have a realreason to vote for this. So the
way that we could do it ispotentially to leverage our votes to do something
that could actually help connect to thisbridge. So it's relevant. It's just
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not port battle projects, but atthe same time, vastly improve our own
infrastructure here in New Orleans. Ldiesand gentlemen follow me. Let's go big.
Let's go into an idea that couldattach New Orleans and Baton Rouge into
kind of a basic metroplex. Thebasic plan that I'm proposing has been talked
about by a lot of people,but it would be extending the Earhart Expressway
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to I three ten on the eastbank, then connecting it into an expanded
LA thirty one to twenty seven,which intersects into the widen LA one,
which is what they're going to dowith this new bridge project already. That's
part of that one point five billion. If the Baton Rouge will do for
that for us, we can votefor their bridge. You see right now,
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besides going over the batone, thebridge downtown, the up Long Bridge
in downtown Baton Rouge, there's anotherway to cross the river outside of New
Orleans at the Sunshine Bridge. Butif you've ever tried to go from I
ten to the Sunshine Bridge around Prairieville, it's a thing called Highway seventy three.
It's horrible. It's basically nobody wantsto take that because it takes so
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long to go to Highway seventy threeto get it. There's been another suggestion.
It's come from former Donaldsonville Mayorhier Coppello, and it's in the interest of
New Orleans as an evacuation route.It's upgrading Highway thirty one twenty seven into
a four lane, limited access interstatelevel road running from I three ten.
This is on the west bank whenit crosses the river just prior to the
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roads and then goes along it goright now. Thirty one twenty seven is
a two lane road that goes alongthe west bank of the Mississippi River,
intersecting Highway one just south of WestBaton Rouge and linking into the IT system.
But this is the ironic thing thewords of HWERW. Cappello. He
told us in the show, ifyou just pave the road, people could
drive on it tomorrow. His plan, which has been argued before Congress and
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the legislations for the past two dayswould widen thirty one to twenty seven build
bypasses and the open land around theriverside communities of Donaldsonville, White Castle,
and Blackamen. It would physically structureexactly where they want to build a new
bridge. Imagine being able to crossthe Mississippi River at South Baton Rouge and
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then take a four lane road thatgoes from there all the way to the
West Bank express A four lanes todowntown New Orleans. It would take the
pressure off E ten cut evacuation routesside of the city, and more important,
it would open up these West Bankcommunities to greater settlement. Now,
if you did that and you alsotook the Earhart Expressway, you know that
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expressway that starts nowhere somewhere around CarrolltonAvenue and then ends nowhere around David Drive.
We actually own the land to connectit all the way to Airline,
which could be a limited access roadto I three ten. It could be
Earhart could be part of three ten, which means somewhere around in New Orleans.
Basically it goes somewhere around Carrollton.You get an interstate level road that
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you could easily connect to E tenand it would go all the way across
the river because three ten right nowcrosses the river on the bridge connects into
the Bank Expressway in thirty one twentyseven where they bridge, and you'd have
four lanes in both directions. Itwould take so much pressure off the city
and link into that bridge. Andhere's the best part we could It would
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take literally to bridge these gaps acomparative little amount of money. Thirty one
twenty seven is already graded to buildthe connections on everything. It's all about
two hundred and thirty million dollars.If you want to read about what it's
structured, go to my column inthe Louisiana Weekly at my personal side of
louis Louisiana Weekly dot net, andit goes into a great deal more.
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But imagine Lafayette being an hour's drivefrom downtown New Orleans. Imagine for it,
because that's what we're talking about.The potentialities. Imagine being able to
go all the way to to WestBaton Rouge and never having to fight Baton
Rouge traffic, never having to goaround the Metroplex. Imagine the West Bank
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communities stretching from essentially Algiers all theway through you know, Gretna and Norcoe
up to Whitecastle, Donaldsonville and Plaquhaman, and these become some of the new
bedroom communities. It's the sure wayfor West Bank, Jefferson, for the
Churchill Track, the area around Avondalethat's undeveloped to suddenly be able to be
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developed because you're linking that connection rightalong the huep. Long Bridge. So
you're going from downtown New Orleans froma bridge to a four lane interstate to
around Hereey Long to a four laneinterstate at three ten, to a four
lane Interstate at the Sunshine Bridge,to a four lane interstate level road going
all the way to Plaquhamen, andthen the plan to widen LA one that's
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already part of the proposal, allthe way to West Baton Rouge. It
would be a game changer for theeconomy of the West Bank from New Orleans
all the way to Baton Rouge,and for two hundred and thirty million dollars
in this three billion dollar proposal,we could make that happen. So if
you're a New Orleans area legislator,there's could be a lot of pressure Jefferson
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in Orleans to vote against the SouthBaton Rouge Bridge. Don't vote against it.
Get something that could change the economyand benefit that bridge and it's utility
in the first place, and allthe other bridges along the way. Your
thoughts, I yes, chrispher inproprior conversations, you know that we have
the same sentiments here and I've beenI've been clamoring for this and speaking out
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for this for a long time now, a very long time. I've spent
years using the Airhart Corridor. It'sfantastic and it's like an unknown opportunity and
for transportation in New Orleans, thisthing really needs to be developed Andy to
take us right out to the airport. You could be one of the best
ways to get to the airport.With all our truck traffic going to the
airport, this would be one ofthe very best ways. So, yes,
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great idea. I hope people wakeup and our legislators or whatever come
to their senses and do something reallygood and really right here, because it's
gonna bless everybody. Like you said, the entire New Orleans Baton Rouge in
Lafayete area are gonna be greatly broughttogether and blessed and built by this.
So I hope they'll do it.Great thoughts, Christopher, So I know,
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I mean, I want to youknow something. Zebulin Pike was quite
a guy, and I think you'reout his way, so you got any
stories on him? For ust,Christopher, I wanted to point out the
real reason I am here in ColoradoSprings, Colorado, and it actually wasn't
to go to the Air Force Academy. That ended up being a serendipity,
a little bit of extra a littlebit of land yap, if you would.
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It's that I'm leading a tour ofthe route of Zebulon Pike. Some
people, most of us in NewOrleans know the story, at least tertiarily
of the Louisiana purchase that the UnitedStates bought Louisiana from Napoleon Bonaparte for fifteen
million dollars three cents an acre.But as we've often pointed out in relation
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to the Battle of New Orleans onthis show, Jefferson realized this and he
sent two expeditions to explore Louisiana andmake allies with what he called the Great
Indian Nations of the West. Theywere explorers, but they were also not
just map makers, but people whoare trying a diplomatic mission. We all
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know about Lewis and Clark in thecore of discovery. What we would fewer
of us know is the man whocoined for whom Pike's Peak, where I
actually went up the other day onthe elevated railway. It's an experience going
up fourteen thousand feet on a railwayand being at the highest point practically other
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than Denali in all of North America. It's an extraordinary view. You can
see hundreds of miles. But theman we're talking about is Zebulon Pike.
Now, ironically, Zebulon Pike nevergot to the top of Pike's Peak.
He also did name it Pike's Peak. That was done decades later. He
called it what the Indians called it, Tobela, which means high mountain.
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But Zebulin Pike is a person ofextraordinary worth, and he's probably the main
reason that the White House is white, at least involuntarily. Sebulun Pike was
brilliant. He was a polymath.He was just like Meriwether Lewis, who
was giving extensive journals of his travels. Who's developing fauna. He was going
the southern part of the Louisiana Purchase. Modern day Colorado was part of the
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Kansas Territory, and it actually theLouisiana Purchase was everything drained by the Mississippi
River and its tributaries. Well,today I drove up to the town of
Canyon, Canyon City, and Igot on the Royal Gorge train and went
along the Little Arkansas River, whichis literally the fall the edge of the
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Louisiana Purchase. It's the last riverthat goes through this area, goes all
the way up to Lead Bill andthe Little It's the Little Arkansas River,
and it drains in the Big Arkansas, which drains into the Mississippi. And
he was following it trying to findout what the limits of the Louisiana Purchase
were because nobody knew. And hegoes to where I'm going tomorrow, the
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city of Durango, and builds afort because he keeps thinking that this is
an extension of the Red River.It turns out it's an extension of the
Rio Grande. And he's crossed inthe Spanish territory and he and his men
are going to be gun and capturedby the Spanish and brought to Santa Fe,
which was then the Spanish northern capital, and they were going to be
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actually imprisoned for two years by theSpanish. Finally, his commanding officer,
James Wilkinson in New Orleans, isgoing to range for a transfer. But
what it allows us to do isrealize how few men the Spanish have controlling
what is northern Texas and New Mexicotoday, and it's going to set the
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stage for the American expansion into thesouthwest. Zebulin Pike becomes a national hero.
He's overshadowed by Lewis and Clark,but his expedition, which went from
Missouri through the modern day Colorado downinto Texas and New Mexico, remains as
important as the Corps of Discovery,and arguably in some ways more important,
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because it's going to expand the nationsouthwards to New Mexico, Arizona, and
ultimately California. Zebuln Pike also isa hero, and he's advanced to the
ranks, and he's going to findhimself at the age of thirty four fighting
in the War of eighteen twelve inthe Battle of York, Canada and a
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stray bullet. He's going to benext to a powder magazine. It's going
to blow up and take his life. His men were so loyal to him,
he was such an inspirational leader anda great Christian that they rose up
and they went crazy. This isnot exactly a very Christian thing to do.
But they burned York to the groundin vengeance for the loss of Zebulon
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Pike and the battle and the Britishholding out. It's the burning of York
that is going to lead the Britishexpeditionary force to Washington, d C.
Where they're gonna come in and revengeburn down the White House. After the
war. Of course, there's notenough money to start anew so James Madison
is going to say it's all coveredin scorch marks, just painted white.
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Whitewash. It where we get theterm from in some ways, and that
is how Zebulon Pike made the WhiteHouse white. I'm taking this groups tomorrow
to Durrango to the Great Place andthe arrest. We're gonna go on in
the Durrango railway to the point wherehe's arrested, and then go to Santa
Fe and see where he's held.It's gonna be extraordinary and folks, I
wish you could join us, butI'm gonna do it again next year,
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so to stay tuned and we'll giveyou information on that. Folks. We'll
be back after these important messages.Well, howiday, folks, this is
Chaplin hih McHenry and I'm here totell you about our ministry, LAMB Ministries.
We are an inner city ministry withinner city formula and focus for inner
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A m B n O l adot com. And thank you so very
very much. Ohs well, folks, were back in this chapel, Hi
mckenry, and it is now timefor us to go into our chaplain by
by patriotic moment. We just takea brief moment to remind you of the
biblical foundations of our country, ourJudeo Christian jurisprudence. And today we're going
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to talk about none other than thefellow. We're just talking about General Zebulun
Montgomery Pike, who was a brilliantman. It's Christopher mentioned, but self
educated. He was an autodidac,and he must much of his studies and
research and actdemic pursuits were literally donein the saddle, done in the camp,
as he traveled in the wilderness forhalf of his life, probably with
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his military expeditions and his and ofcourse certainly his trip out west. He
was a man who found God innature, which is very biblical. Incidentally,
the Bible says that because God isin nature, Nature declares the glory
of God, says we're without excuseit, and says that you can know
the invisible meaning the spirit world bythe visible meaning good old Mother Nature.
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That was his basically his church andhis aside from studying the Bible, his
knowledge of God, much like DanielBoone. Incidentally, and as you can
see, he was so beloved byhis men they burned down the town because
he had been killed during the battle. Quite a story Christopher had there for
us, so you can see thisman was another great example of the biblical
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foundations of our country. Zebulin MontgomeryPike. Folks, he found God in
nature. But what about you?Have you found God anywhere? You can
find him in church, you canfind him in friends, maybe a strong
Christian friend. You can find himin nature. Have you found the Lord?
Well you need to do that becausethe day of God's judgment is on
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the way and we're all going tobe there. We're all going to face
it. Nobody escapes, and Godwants you to be on the good side.
He wants you to be, ifyou will, on the light side
of the forest, not the darkside. Although that is not a good
theological description of God. I justuse that as an example because we all
know it from Star Wars. People. God loves you with an everlasting love,
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and he wants you to going toheaven, and he came up with
a plan because he knew you wouldnever be able to do it. We
are now in our chaplain by byand gospel moment. The Bible says that
all of our righteousnes are is asfilthy rags. We're never going to be
good enough for God, so quittrying. You don't have to, because
God became good enough for you.That happened when God the Sun died for
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all of your sins on the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ was buried and
rose from the dead, according tothe scripture, to win for you salvation
from hell and guaranteed everlasting resurrection lifeso you'd be with him in heaven forever.
And all it takes is a faithfullittle child to believe you're not good
enough for God. You can't saveyourself. That's called repentance, and then
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believe positively that only God can,that he did, and then He will
save you from a burning hell andguarantee you heaven because Jesus died for all
your sins, was buried and rosefrom the dead. If you've never done
this before, please folks, doit now. Don't wait till it's too
late. Well now, folks,it's time for us to go into our
chaplain. Bye bab watchmen on thewall, and today we're gonna talk about
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Noah. The days of knowing.That's one of the signs we are the
days of knowing. Great violence allaround the world. Look at all,
the violence, wars and violence allover and it's happening right now, folks.
More maybe in history, although there'sbeen a lot of that in the
past, but it talks about duringthe days of Noah, there was great
divorce going on, massive divorce,the breakdown of the family unit. And
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that's actually happening all around the world, even in traditional places where that never
happened, like Indy. It's happeningall over now. A lot of it
has to do with American movies.By the way, I learned that on
the mission field. So divorce hasbecome a very dominant factor. Have you
noticed that, folks. Another signthat Jesus is coming back very soon,
and he says that there'll be peopleworking during the daytime, there'll be people
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sleeping at night. But at thatexact time when Jesus comes back, some
will remain in the bed sleeping.Others will be taken out of the bed
and go to heaven. Call thisthat's called the rapture. Some will be
working and some will be left whilethey're working while the others are taking up
to heaven. Folks, that dayis coming and it's coming soon, and
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God wants you to be in thatgroup that will be going to heaven when
you die. And Matthew twenty fourof the Scripture goes on to say that
no man knows the day or thehour, and that Jesus is coming back.
Covertly, he says, like athief in the night, meaning you
won't know when he gets here.It's gonna be a big surprise. You'll
see all the signs around you,but you won't be paying attention, the
Bible says, and the Antichrist,the deception of Antichrist will be so powerful
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people won't be listening. Folks,that day is coming, and it's coming
soon. If you have not gottenready, gotten ready for this, please
do it now. Don't let itcatch you unawares. The scripture says,
now today is the day of salvation. Well, folks, it's not time
for us to close. As weclose it mon Saint Martin singing a creole
goodbye, and God bless all outthere they call you cel goodbye. Please
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think we're just wasting time. Itall three sable. There's time for a
creo good bye.
Bie holes, diliticians, the dressed, the digitators and magicians are trust to
see the money. They just don't. There's nothing to fill the holes while
then are filling their pockets tied holes, the politicians bouncing down the road.
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Every fder's with for no more corruptionand dysfunction. It's gonna take you.
Divide it ofvention and God bless outthere. You are now listening to the
founders. So the voice of thefounding fathers, You're Founding fathers coming to
you deep within the bowels of thosemystic and cryptic alligator swamps of the Big
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Easy, that old Crescent City,New Orleans, Louisiana, and high up
on top of that old Liberty Cypresstree way out on the Eagles Branch,
draped in Spanish monks. There's noneother then you're spend Gary Baybay of the
Republic, Chaplain Hi mgnry who withChristopher tidnery' roving a reporter, resident radical
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moderate and associate editor of the LouisianaWeekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot net.
And Hi, we got a lotof great things to talk about today.
We'll talk a little bit about theupcoming legislative session and a fight over at
South Baton Rouge Bridge that could bringsome infrastructure dollars to New Orleans and help
us actually finish some roads that havesat unfinished for decades and help our evacuation
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and economy at the same time.But we need to look a little bit
further aboard. Of course, SuperTuesday led to Nicki Halley getting out of
the race only winning one state,Vermont, and the question of what's going
to happen now that we're facing thegeneral election, and that comes down to
one Robert F. Kennedy Junior.We'll talk a little bit about that,
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the state of the race and whereit stands, and a great many other
issues. But I have to tellyou where I have been broadcasting from today,
and that is the United States AirForce Academy at Colorado Springs. I've
had today a privilege of getting atour of the campus, and unlike say
Annapolis or West Point, it isa vast area one hundred and eighty thousand
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acres goes over miles and miles cascadingwith the most beautiful mountains in the background.
For those that don't know, theUnited States Air Force Academy is the
youngest of the Service Academies. Itwas found in nineteen fifty nine as sixty
five years old, and it's stilleven though there are five. Service Academy
is considered third in seniority after WestPoint Annapolis. It is an incredible place
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today. It fills that I metsome of the cadets. I chatted with
them, and they undergo very rigoroustraining, not only school for the year,
but their summers are essentially in basictraining and combat training in flight.
And they provide our cadets, oursecond lieutenants for the Air Force and for
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the new Space Force. And Iwas amused by something high. As a
side note, there was a lotof controversy not so very long ago about
the uniform the Space Force adopted,and it basically had buttons along the side.
It's almost double breasted. It looksa bit like the uniform they used
and revives Battlestar Galactica, or ifyou squid a little bit, the uniform
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that Captain Kirk wore in Star Trek'stwo, three, four, and five
and six. But what's interesting aboutthat uniform is the modern Space Force uniform
is essentially and very close to theuniform worn by the cadets of the US
Air Force Academy, and it insome ways is the most impressive of all
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the cadet dress uniforms. Now dayto day they wear fatigues like anything else,
but their cadet dress uniform not theformal black tie, but their regular
uniforms are these double breasted, beautifuluniforms with a yellow sash. And what
I came to find out that Ifound fascinating is I went to the Barry
Goldwater Visitor Center, is that theseuniforms were actually designed by one Cecil B.
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De Mille. Yes, the famousHollywood director designed the uniforms for the
Air Force Academy. And it wasall because they basically needed to staff the
Air Force. There had been discussionsabout creating an air force going back to
nineteen eighteen nineteen twenty five, thefame pilot Billy Mitchell said the necessity of
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creating an air force, and finallyin nineteen forty seven, after the war,
after ninety thousand airmen died during theSecond World War, they said,
we will create an air force.They couldn't recruit enough actual officer candidates out
of West Point and Annapolis. Apparentlythey were supposed to trart twenty five percent
of each service academy was supposed tobuy. The Air Force. They couldn't
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get enough military personnel after the war, which led them to form an Air
Force Academy, and they looked atover five hundred and eighty locations, finally
settling on Colorado Springs. But theyhad to do the first group an Air
Force in an old Air Force basein Denver. But it's fascinating how this
feels different. There's a planetarament,there's a beautiful cathedral on campus, which
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is unfortunately under reconstruction right now,but it is a massive uplifting place.
And these young people, they aretruly the best and the brightest. They're
all geniuses, they're all in perfectcondition, and they're all the people who
are going to not only take tothe skies, but to the orbit to
defend America's skies. And I've gotto tell you, in the midst of
covering politics, one can get verycynical. But the young people that I
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met today, I mean, theyall line up in formation to go to
lunch, and it was the mostimpressive thing I've ever seen, just to
go to lunch and talking to them. There's such wonderful young people who are
gonna who deserve and serve our nationwell. And sometimes we don't really take
the time, even our show,which spends a lot of time with your
service and the military and honoring ourveterans, we don't take enough time looking
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at the next generation that's coming up. And today, being at the Air
Force Academy gave me a lot ofhope, but we have to talk a
little bit less hope and that allowsus to go into Super Tuesday. But
your thoughts, You've known a lotof Air Force Academy grads. I wanted
to see what you thought. Yes, Christopher so well said, And I've
been to the service academies myself,of course, being a military man.
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This bright, positive attitude that yousaw there, I've seen it throughout the
military. It's a universal thing,especially when the young people coming in.
They're all bright eyed and bushy tailedand positive, clean cut, wholesome,
great patriotic, moral values and whatnot. And they're not perfect, you know,
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come on, we're talking with thehuman race here, so we all
have our imperfections and mistakes that wedo no matter what you what group you're
with, but they are a siteto see for sure, and They are
a tremendous, uplifting experience. AndI'm glad you talked about the uniforms for
the space the Space Force. Andit's interesting you said he came from Hollywood.
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I think you said CES will bethe mill the U sounds like Trump
to me. He was certainly aHollywood man himself, and I had one
of the most successful TV shows inyou know, American history. Uh so,
yeah, thanks for sharing us.I've seen. I've been to the
campus, a beautiful campus, thechapel. Like I said, it's absolutely
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stunning. Everything about it is agreat experience. And I would encourage all
Americans if you ever get a chanceyou're traveling, stop and see the Service
academies. They're quite an experience.Just go there for a few hours if
you if that's all you have,it'll be worth every minute that you're there
for the whole experience. It's justa great experience and makes you proud.
It makes you encourage you to realizethat we had were developing that kind of
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leadership to defend our country. Unfortunately, that is an issue with the human
race. The human race has neverfigured out how to stop war ever,
not even come closer. You knowI love history, of course, of
course for your quite history and yourself. And I can guarantee you you want
to know what the history of theworld is. It's really simple. It's
a history of war because nations,tribes, whatever it is, they're always
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at war. And so if youdon't have a good defense, you will
be done in. You will betaken down as a nation, as a
tribe, or whatever it is.And they found a tribe somewhere in the
Amazon that was a little tiny tribe. They hardly anybody was I mean,
they was sickly, they were justbarely existing. And they found out the
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reason why. The anthropologist did alot of research and they found this tribe
would not fight, they would notgo to war. So what happened was
all the other tribes beat them upinto oblivion just about they lived in constant
hiding and fear. It's a verytragic situation, but that's the nature of
the human race. It's just absolutelytragic. And it's the reason, literally
the reason God flooded the world doingthe flood of Noah, where he had
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to kill everybody because and it makesit very clear violence every man's hand was
against every man's hand there was constantwar and fighting on planet Earth at that
time, and so God just hadto end it or the world would have
self destructed. He saved the worldby killing everybody and saving only the true
righteous people who would then come backand repopulate the world and give it a
second chance. Interesting thought, interestingstory, and we know that in the
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end, as we're heading into theend, y'all hear me talk about it,
the world's going to get just likein the days of Noah, where
war is going to increase all aroundthe world, and the bouss of Jesus
hesitated his coming back. There wouldbe no flesh left. He's got to
come back a little earlier than hehad planned, thanks to the human race.
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I hate to bring in the negative. It's just a fact and we
need to deal with the facts.And when you're in the military, know
how, no matter how bad somethingis, you face it. No matter
how negative it is, you faceit. I don't care how bright eyed
and bushytailed and positive and hopeful andeverything you are. You face the negatives
and you understand them. You haveto study them and know them to know
how to deal with them and knowhow to win. Well. Folks,
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I know you've got some more excitingstuff for us, Christopher. I'm really
excited. But you're next. We'regonna be talking about Super Tuesday and Nikki
Haley and where all that's going on. Christ Forah, you got some great
insights on that, so take itaway, brother. Well, having talked
about the Air Force Academy and theuniforms of the space for us being influenced
by those designed by Cecil beIN tomill High, we got to actually talk
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about what these young people are fightingto defend and sometimes looking at this election,
I shudder for the country anyway,let us for those that you have
been living under a rock. Ofcourse, Donald Trump prevailed overwhelmingly on Super
Tuesday, as did Joe Biden.Their opponents were not even the same universe,
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but there were a few differences.Nikki Helly won one primary, Vermont's,
barely but still forty nine to fortyseven. Promptly, though the next
day after Super Tuesday, barely twentyfour hours, she withdrew from the race
and very quickly thereafter removed any doubtthat she could be a candidate for no
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labels. Trump has a problem,High, and the problem is nearly a
third of the Republican electorate on almostevery one of these primaries. Nikki Helly
may have lost, but nearly athird of the GOP electorate into Super Tuesday
voted for Nikki Helly. A lotof these were closed primaries, so you
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can't just say, hey, itwas Democrats who ran and did it.
It wasn't. There is a constituencymore than a quarter, but roughly a
third of the GOP electorate who notonly didn't vote for Donald Trump, they
have serious concerns about voting for DonaldTrump in the fall. That doesn't mean
they necessarily vote for Joe Biden,some of them will, but it does
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mean very clearly that they could stayhome. Republicans have a much more cohesive,
but a much smaller coalition than Democrats. Usually, Republicans can win when
they have all of their coalition turningout, which happens more often than not,
and they win independence. What thiselection is said is independence. Overwhelmingly,
they don't like either candidate. Theyliked Nikki Halley and even a core
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of the Republican a minority didn't likeit. So what happens next, Well,
before people come in and say thegeneral election is locked, I want
to point out something. That somethingis Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Well,
all of the primaries were finishing themselves. RFK was getting on ballots.
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He just qualified for Georgia, Nevada, and Arizona. Now he's got enough
signatures it looks like to make theballot in Hawaii, New Hampshire. He's
going Michigan, Texas, and NewYork. The reason why I bring out
something about RFK Junior is when youhave a Republican electorate that is discontented and
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you have Democrats that are discontented,he is going to be on the ballot.
He will be a factor in majorstates. And he draws from both
candidates, from both Trump and Bidenpretty equally, which makes this race.
He's not going to be the nextpresident more likely than not, but it
makes this price very unsure. Andif I were Donald Trump, I'd be
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encouraging every possibility to unify the Republicanbase, and frankly, despite the fact
he's out ruled it out, beggingand bleeding for Nicki Halley to be my
vice president. She probably won't doit, but I'd least ask I reach
out. The fact is, theday after the primary, even that night,
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Trump says he was going to runthe Romneys out of the party.
He says he wants to run Heliterally said he wants to run Nicky Halley
out of the GOP, even asNiki Halley said, I'm a conservative Republican.
I've been a lifelong Republican, andI will not run as a third
party spoiler. This is insanity forDonald Trump. He thinks he can win
by substraction. It's his arrogance thatcould reelect Joe Biden, arguably one of
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the most unpopular presidents we have hadin living memory, if not in historical
memory. There's an opportunity here,but I don't think Trump will take it.
I will tell you what is goingon is No Labels is trying to
formulate a national strategy, and they'restarting to raise hard money contributions as well
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as the millions in soft money contributions, and they're getting on the ballots in
enough states to where they're looking fora Republican to run. If Hally's out,
who's it going to be? Andthere's gonna be somebody, somebody prominent,
could be a John Huntsman, couldbe somebody. I'm still holding out.
I'd love to see Romney run,but we are going to see a
presidential race where if the top twofinishers are so unpopular. And we've seen
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that, I mean we saw Biden. Biden was losing to No committed by
ten fifteen thousand votes. Biden isin a situation where he's frankly got a
constituency problem, just like Trump.I can tell you a scenario that if
something doesn't come out though, Bidencan get disaffected independence. He did it
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in twenty twenty and did in twentytwenty two, whether you believe you know,
whether you believe it or not.Donald Trump has to start acting like
a unifying leader. But the dayafter Super Tuesday he the opposite. We're
gonna run the rhinos out of theparty. And here's the problem with that
statement. I keep hearing rhinos,Republicans and name only, but there's no
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ideological reason. There's nothing that thesepeople are quote Republicans in name only.
Nikki Halley is as conservative a Republicanas you can get on the border,
on taxes and spending, on everypossible issue, and yet she's able to
rhino Why because she has not kissedthe ring of Donald Trump. Donald Trump
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does not define how you become aRepublican. In fact, many off it
stands on spending on elis or not. Even in the Republican lexicon, they
were considered democratic positions very shortly.So Donald Trump should have a little humility
if he wants to win this race, and I don't see it. If
Donald Trump doesn't reverse and try toreach out, he's gonna lose this race.
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And the fact of the matter isthe first way to do it would
be to publicly ask Nicki Hally tobe his VP. Even if she told
him no, at least he wouldhave tried. Your thoughts, Christopher,
it's really sad to hear you talkabout Trump because it's like you can't think
of anything good to say here.It was, this was his space force.
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You didn't make a big point ofthat, a signature event, if
you will, for a president.You made nothing out of that. Hardly
every good thing the man does,you pretty much just gloss over it and
ignore it, and you just keeptaking cheap shots on the guy and saying
he's arrogant, he's proud, he'sfool as he is, he's that blahlah
blah blah, blah blah blah,the man has so many sterling characteristics and
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successful accomplishments, and nothing ever getssaid by you about it. All you
can say is he's dividing everybody up. He doesn't know how to unify.
Really, He's got the largest followingof any candidate I think in the past
fifty one hundred years. I mean, it's astounding to see the numbers behind
Trump right now. And he's broughtin everybody he's brought He's the largest number
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of African Americans. You know,Uh, minority groups are now behind Trump.
That in the history of the RepublicanParty. That's thanks to Donald Trump.
You say, doesn't you unify people? And Biden is one of the
biggest losers. I mean, everythingthe man does, he destroys, He
ruins. All these great policies Trumphad said he came in, undermined him
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all and everything that goes to youknow what. Uh, And and people
see it, even even liberals andDemocrats are seeing that, and and and
and and upset about it, wonderingwhy why doesn't he do the right thing?
Why is he destroying our country?Why is he turning us over to
a bunch of hordes of violent,violent, illegal aliens? Doing nothing to
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stop it. I don't get yourother than the fact that I'm sorry,
Christopher, I think you have acharacter flaw here, and that is you've
been driven by this visceral hatred forDonald Trump. So all you can ever
do is say negatives about him.Nothing good. He's stupid, he's done,
he's turn anything apart, he's ruinedanything. Blah blah blah. He
has a rally, It sets records. What what name me a politician that
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has his kind of uncanny popularity.It's unbelievable. Uh. He doesn't trust
Nicki Haley of course, because sheshe she's on the take for big left
wing you know money groups that arefunding her heavily and doing everything can to
use her to destroy Trump. Soshe's been used as a tool. She
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knows it too. She's no dummy. As long as the money was flowing,
She's gonn to keep herning. Idon't care how badly she's doing.
As long as the money is going, she's going to keep running and keep
you know, following the game plan. Condemned Trump, alittle Trump little,
you know, trying to make everything, make him look as bad as I
can. So Christopher, Uh,this is just dirty pool, dirty politics.
And I think you're missing the pointhere, the real point that Trump
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is a remarkable unifier and then he'sbrought in all kinds of people that would
have never voted Republican and now they'revoting Republican. That's astounding. Uh So
you say he's this, are goingto miss that in this group and that
group. I think you're wrong aboutthat, Christopher. I think you're very
wrong about that. And I don'ttrust Nikki Haley. I wouldn't want her
in, you know, behind myback. I wouldn't want her uh covering
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my back so to speak at all. And so yeah, he's probably gonna
just avoid her anyway. He's aremarkable person. He's broken all the rules
and he said the most like he'svery unorthodox, which upsets your normal political
mind. Like you you're you've beenin politics all your life and you think
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according to the way the politics isplayed, he hasn't played the game the
right way, and yet he keepswinning. Uh. It shows that there
are maybe better ways to lead Americaand to play the political game. So,
folks, another interesting section here,Christopher. You bring out a lot
of good interesting points and thanks forus to think about. Absolutely, and
certainly to me, Romney is oneof the worst traders and political people in
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Washington. I wish I can't wait. I can't wait for the day he's
gone, because he is a fraudif there ever was one. There are
rhinos, Christopher, there really are, and they do token conservative things and
you lift that up, it's,oh, there's such great goodserve No,
they're not, Christopher. They dobetray us. And we've got one of
them here in Louisiana and that's Cassidy. So let's see. I know you
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got some more good stuff for us, Christopher. I can't wait to hear
you next thing, and that's we'regonna hear. Yeah, we need to
find about Ted Cruz, what he'sup to, and what's going on in
Texas right now. That's always avery interesting state. So Christopher, I
think you got some good stuff oncruise. Please engage us. Okay,
if you don't agree that Trump isgonna lose, let me give you a
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possibility on a scenario where this couldhappen high and that is Texas people forget
something. Trump won Texas with fiftytwo percent of the vote in the last
election, which is a solid win, but it's not the kind of wins
that you posted under George W.Bush or in the past. You know,
fifty eight sixty percent, fifty twopercent of the population in twenty twenty
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is now getting less as more andmore people move in. Texas is changing
and Ted Cruz is going to beon the ballot. Now. It may
surprise some people who know that TedCruz his people who really really hate him.
It's almost like Trump. He's avery different kind of person. I'm
not comparing Ted Cruse to Trump,but he's a weak candidate. Now,
Trump doesn't try to woo Republicans andindependents. Where do they go? Well,
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I'm going to point something out.The person who won Tuesday's primary for
the US Senate is a congressman bythe name of Colin Alfred. If you
haven't, he got the Democratic nominationagainst several progressive Democrats. Colin Alfred is
anything but he beat the senator StateSenator rolland Gutierrez, a progressive fifty nine
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to seventeen. What is Colin Alfred? He's a moderate. He is an
africa An American from Dallas. Heis someone who has he flipped a Republican
seat in Dallas when he first gotelected. He's incredibly impressive. In some
ways, he's a fiscal In manyways, he's a fiscal conservative, and
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he speaks Texan. He knows howto get it. I was born and
bred in Dallas, and he knowshow to connect. Now, what happens
if Trump comes in and he's weakwith those sacramones, He's weak with Republican
moderates, he's weak with independence,and you have a situation where Ted Cruz
is not being able to is limitedto the coalition that Trump is. There
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can be down ticket ramnifications. Notonly Texas could be even play. And
by the way, those people sayTexas will never be in play. You
said the same thing about Georgia inthe last election, even those people who
say Georgia was stolen, and Idon't believe it was. But let's for
a second concede the argument to you. They can only say it by a
lit Why was it so close?And that's because there was a certain of
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African American voters coming to the pollsin Georgia in the Senate race. What
happens if African American surge for amoderate African American in Texas who has strong
moderately conservative conservative credentials, especially fora Democrat, and he's taking on an
unpopular Republican senator, one that's barelypopular, who barely won last time six
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years ago. He barely barely won. Ted Cruz had a successful first race
and the second race was terrible.He barely won. What happens, it's
enough to drag out the Democratic coalitionand put Texas in play. That's why
it is imperative that Donald Trump seatsacting like an idiot, or that is
to say, Donald Trump and triesto woo back Republican moderates, the third
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of whom voted for Nicki Halley,because it will have implications that go beyond
the White House, but it goesto the down ticket. The problem is
Trump is so arrogant he thinks hecan win and he never can that he
was wrong. That I honestly seea situation where he's throwing the election to
Joe Biden, whether we admit itor not, because he just believes that
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he can win by the politics abstraction, and that never wins. Christopher,
you need to get control of yourself. Your hatred for Donald Trump is just
is eating you alive. It's destroyingyou. It's it's affecting your your cognizant
abilities. And that's what hate willdo. I'm warning you, Christopher,
You're on dangerous ground allowing this kindof emotion to rule you. You can't
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say anything good about Trump. CanIt's all negative, it's all hate,
it's all these stupid He's destroying it. You can't say why. No,
you don't say why. And bythe way, I'm totally convinced that George's
election was stolen. And I neversaid you said outside if you meant me.
I never said George is not ina place. I never said that.
Uh. But anyway, the TedCruz is gonna have a tough time
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because he's just like Trump. He'shated by every liberal every uh uh you
know, all the all the moneypeople, uh and and the and the
Democrats have huge, huge financial backing, especially out of Hollywood. The reason
I had such a hard time lasttime. I think his candidate outspent him
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ten to one or something like thatfrom all the Hollywood money that came in
backing Auroric, the the funny guy, the playboy, uh, the the
you know, the hippie They wantto be hippie. I guess, uh
rich boy, uh spoiler rotten richyou know, spoon in the mouth,
silver spoon in the mouth. Uhrich boy, who was a goofis really
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and and and but he had alot of backing behind him. He had.
He had so much money. Youhave enough money, you can win
elections. It doesn't matter what aloser you are. You all you need
is the money. And he hadmuch more than you. Ted Cruz mainly
makes it on small donations. Hehas a large, large following. I
tell you one of the biggest thingsand you didn't mention. I can't believe
you missed this one one of thebiggest election things. That's going to be
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the border, especially in Texas.So where is your candidate concerning Texas?
Huh? I mean concerning the border? Where is he? Is he going
to support closing the border and reallymean it, really do it? Like
Cruise is, Where is he goingto be on that? And everybody knows
if you want to close the border? Put Trump back in charge. He
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did the best job that's ever beendone in decades for sealing our borders and
protecting us from all these illegals.Are you aware of how many people are
being murdered by illegals right now inChristopher, do you realize that Biden just
shipped in the White House, justshipped in over three hundred and twenty thousand
illegals by plane. What's going on? What's the desperate situation where they have
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to jam pack us with more butmore than we already have too many and
they are already too many coming overthe Southern boarder walking across, but now
they're shipping them in in planes,flying them in. That's very alarming,
Christopher. You know, if webreak out with riots like twenty twenty,
which was the course to help inthe Trump presidency, the greatest insurrection America's
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ever had, over five hundred andseventy places destroyed, billions of dollars of
property damage, fifty cops killed,two thousand put in the hospital. I
don't know how many others murdered andkilled during that time and raped. That
was the Democrat mobs shaking America hopingmaybe it would bring in martial law.
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Whatever are they planning that this time? Because if it gets bad, and
if they can create enough riots thissummer, they may not be able to
have the election. Wouldn't the WhiteHouse love that, and then Biden wouldn't
have to face a sure defeat froma far superior candidate, and that's Donald
Trump. Folks, Christopher, areyou really thinking all of this through?
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Clearly, I think you're being blindedby your hate. I'm so sorry to
see you do that. You're asmart guy. You shouldn't let that happen
to you. You need wisdom.It's not just about intellect, Christopher.
It's about wisdom. And I'm trustingthat you are going to get better.
I'm trusting you're going to do thatbecause you're missing you're really missing it.
Right now, anyway, we areabout ready to I think get into another
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topic. Let me think. Ithink one more thing I want to say
here, folks, If you loveAmerica, Texas is critical because if they
can finagele this in some kind ofways, steal, you know, or
win the election by hook or bycrook, especially about out spending crews like
they did last time ten to one. They may pull it off this time.
They did the last time, theymay this time. If Texas goes
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that's I don't know how we canhandle it. After that, they're going
to have they will take over Congressand it's going to be just. It
doesn't matter who the president is,it's going to be over. We're going
to be in such trouble, folks, such trouble. We're already been pushed
to the limit right now. Howmuch more can we take? How much
more inflation? Biden inflation? Youknow, Biden inflation? How much more
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can we take? I don't know, I really don't know. Many of
us are so concerned about the destinyof this country now we are very close
to a serious, serious danger zone. Well, folks, it's time for
us to go into a brief break. We will be right back. Rescuing,
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next topic. And I know,Christopher, you got some more great information
for us. So I'm really lookingforward to hearing about we transportation. It's
always an issue, isn't it,Christopher, And I know you've got some
good information on this, So takeit away, Christopher. And this is
Christopher Timore, my partner. Thankyou, Christopher. Well, Hi,
we have to turn actually into somethingthat's in the upcoming legislative session, and
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one of the things that's been prefiled are a series of bills to try
to fund a new bridge in southBaton Rouge, basically crossing the river somewhere
around Seagan Lane or Highland and goingover to Plaqueaman. It's something desperately needed
for the Baton Rouge area, andwe can defend it on those basis,
but the fact is, if you'rea New Orleans area legislator, why would
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you support something like this. Well, it's all wrapped up in the debate
of renewing the temporary point four tofive percent sales tax that delivers about six
hundred and forty nine dollars a year, which is which is a series of
potential road constructions. Well, thattax may expire next year and one of
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the things that's going on is thefinal decision of where the new Baton Rouge
Bridge should be placed will come fromthe Department of Transportation and the New Landry
administration in the next sixty days.Promises to trigger a legislative battle because it
will be wrapped up and renewing thepoint four to five percent sales tax that
will help fund this. Currently threehundred million dollars has been allocated to a
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new bridge and Baton Rouge towards theone point three billion dollar project. That's
one point five billion for access routesto the new bridge and one point five
billion for the bridge itself. There'san existing fiscal commitment of forty million per
year and ongoing sales tax revenue ifthat revenue comes to pass. All this
is wrapped up into the area theBaton Rouge area bridge to try to figure
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out where it is. But oneof the things that if you're a New
Orleans area legislator, even though thiscould help our area from evacuation avoiding Baton
Rouge. You don't have a realreason to vote for this. So the
way that we could do it ispotentially to leverage our votes to do something
that could actually help connect to thisbridge. So it's relevant. It's just
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not port battle projects, but atthe same time, vastly improve our own
infrastructure here in New Orleans. Ldiesand gentlemen follow me. Let's go big.
Let's go into an idea that couldattach New Orleans and Baton Rouge into
kind of a basic metroplex. Thebasic plan that I'm proposing has been talked
about by a lot of people,but it would be extending the Earhart Expressway
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to I three ten on the eastbank, then connecting it into an expanded
LA thirty one to twenty seven,which intersects into the widen LA one,
which is what they're going to dowith this new bridge project already. That's
part of that one point five billion. If the Baton Rouge will do for
that for us, we can votefor their bridge. You see right now,
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besides going over the batone, thebridge downtown, the up Long Bridge
in downtown Baton Rouge, there's anotherway to cross the river outside of New
Orleans at the Sunshine Bridge. Butif you've ever tried to go from I
ten to the Sunshine Bridge around Prairieville, it's a thing called Highway seventy three.
It's horrible. It's basically nobody wantsto take that because it takes so
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long to go to Highway seventy threeto get it. There's been another suggestion.
It's come from former Donaldsonville Mayorhier Coppello, and it's in the interest of
New Orleans as an evacuation route.It's upgrading Highway thirty one twenty seven into
a four lane, limited access interstatelevel road running from I three ten.
This is on the west bank whenit crosses the river just prior to the
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roads and then goes along it goright now. Thirty one twenty seven is
a two lane road that goes alongthe west bank of the Mississippi River,
intersecting Highway one just south of WestBaton Rouge and linking into the IT system.
But this is the ironic thing thewords of HWERW. Cappello. He
told us in the show, ifyou just pave the road, people could
drive on it tomorrow. His plan, which has been argued before Congress and
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the legislations for the past two dayswould widen thirty one to twenty seven build
bypasses and the open land around theriverside communities of Donaldsonville, White Castle,
and Blackamen. It would physically structureexactly where they want to build a new
bridge. Imagine being able to crossthe Mississippi River at South Baton Rouge and
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then take a four lane road thatgoes from there all the way to the
West Bank express A four lanes todowntown New Orleans. It would take the
pressure off E ten cut evacuation routesside of the city, and more important,
it would open up these West Bankcommunities to greater settlement. Now,
if you did that and you alsotook the Earhart Expressway, you know that
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expressway that starts nowhere somewhere around CarrolltonAvenue and then ends nowhere around David Drive.
We actually own the land to connectit all the way to Airline,
which could be a limited access roadto I three ten. It could be
Earhart could be part of three ten, which means somewhere around in New Orleans.
Basically it goes somewhere around Carrollton.You get an interstate level road that
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you could easily connect to E tenand it would go all the way across
the river because three ten right nowcrosses the river on the bridge connects into
the Bank Expressway in thirty one twentyseven where they bridge, and you'd have
four lanes in both directions. Itwould take so much pressure off the city
and link into that bridge. Andhere's the best part we could It would
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take literally to bridge these gaps acomparative little amount of money. Thirty one
twenty seven is already graded to buildthe connections on everything. It's all about
two hundred and thirty million dollars.If you want to read about what it's
structured, go to my column inthe Louisiana Weekly at my personal side of
louis Louisiana Weekly dot net, andit goes into a great deal more.
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But imagine Lafayette being an hour's drivefrom downtown New Orleans. Imagine for it,
because that's what we're talking about.The potentialities. Imagine being able to
go all the way to to WestBaton Rouge and never having to fight Baton
Rouge traffic, never having to goaround the Metroplex. Imagine the West Bank
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communities stretching from essentially Algiers all theway through you know, Gretna and Norcoe
up to Whitecastle, Donaldsonville and Plaquhaman, and these become some of the new
bedroom communities. It's the sure wayfor West Bank, Jefferson, for the
Churchill Track, the area around Avondalethat's undeveloped to suddenly be able to be
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developed because you're linking that connection rightalong the huep. Long Bridge. So
you're going from downtown New Orleans froma bridge to a four lane interstate to
around Hereey Long to a four laneinterstate at three ten, to a four
lane Interstate at the Sunshine Bridge,to a four lane interstate level road going
all the way to Plaquhamen, andthen the plan to widen LA one that's
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already part of the proposal, allthe way to West Baton Rouge. It
would be a game changer for theeconomy of the West Bank from New Orleans
all the way to Baton Rouge,and for two hundred and thirty million dollars
in this three billion dollar proposal,we could make that happen. So if
you're a New Orleans area legislator,there's could be a lot of pressure Jefferson
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in Orleans to vote against the SouthBaton Rouge Bridge. Don't vote against it.
Get something that could change the economyand benefit that bridge and it's utility
in the first place, and allthe other bridges along the way. Your
thoughts, I yes, chrispher inproprior conversations, you know that we have
the same sentiments here and I've beenI've been clamoring for this and speaking out
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for this for a long time now, a very long time. I've spent
years using the Airhart Corridor. It'sfantastic and it's like an unknown opportunity and
for transportation in New Orleans, thisthing really needs to be developed Andy to
take us right out to the airport. You could be one of the best
ways to get to the airport.With all our truck traffic going to the
airport, this would be one ofthe very best ways. So, yes,
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great idea. I hope people wakeup and our legislators or whatever come
to their senses and do something reallygood and really right here, because it's
gonna bless everybody. Like you said, the entire New Orleans Baton Rouge in
Lafayete area are gonna be greatly broughttogether and blessed and built by this.
So I hope they'll do it.Great thoughts, Christopher, So I know,
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I mean, I want to youknow something. Zebulin Pike was quite
a guy, and I think you'reout his way, so you got any
stories on him? For ust,Christopher, I wanted to point out the
real reason I am here in ColoradoSprings, Colorado, and it actually wasn't
to go to the Air Force Academy. That ended up being a serendipity,
a little bit of extra a littlebit of land yap, if you would.
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It's that I'm leading a tour ofthe route of Zebulon Pike. Some
people, most of us in NewOrleans know the story, at least tertiarily
of the Louisiana purchase that the UnitedStates bought Louisiana from Napoleon Bonaparte for fifteen
million dollars three cents an acre.But as we've often pointed out in relation
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to the Battle of New Orleans onthis show, Jefferson realized this and he
sent two expeditions to explore Louisiana andmake allies with what he called the Great
Indian Nations of the West. Theywere explorers, but they were also not
just map makers, but people whoare trying a diplomatic mission. We all
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know about Lewis and Clark in thecore of discovery. What we would fewer
of us know is the man whocoined for whom Pike's Peak, where I
actually went up the other day onthe elevated railway. It's an experience going
up fourteen thousand feet on a railwayand being at the highest point practically other
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than Denali in all of North America. It's an extraordinary view. You can
see hundreds of miles. But theman we're talking about is Zebulon Pike.
Now, ironically, Zebulon Pike nevergot to the top of Pike's Peak.
He also did name it Pike's Peak. That was done decades later. He
called it what the Indians called it, Tobela, which means high mountain.
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But Zebulin Pike is a person ofextraordinary worth, and he's probably the main
reason that the White House is white, at least involuntarily. Sebulun Pike was
brilliant. He was a polymath.He was just like Meriwether Lewis, who
was giving extensive journals of his travels. Who's developing fauna. He was going
the southern part of the Louisiana Purchase. Modern day Colorado was part of the
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Kansas Territory, and it actually theLouisiana Purchase was everything drained by the Mississippi
River and its tributaries. Well,today I drove up to the town of
Canyon, Canyon City, and Igot on the Royal Gorge train and went
along the Little Arkansas River, whichis literally the fall the edge of the
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Louisiana Purchase. It's the last riverthat goes through this area, goes all
the way up to Lead Bill andthe Little It's the Little Arkansas River,
and it drains in the Big Arkansas, which drains into the Mississippi. And
he was following it trying to findout what the limits of the Louisiana Purchase
were because nobody knew. And hegoes to where I'm going tomorrow, the
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city of Durango, and builds afort because he keeps thinking that this is
an extension of the Red River.It turns out it's an extension of the
Rio Grande. And he's crossed inthe Spanish territory and he and his men
are going to be gun and capturedby the Spanish and brought to Santa Fe,
which was then the Spanish northern capital, and they were going to be
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actually imprisoned for two years by theSpanish. Finally, his commanding officer,
James Wilkinson in New Orleans, isgoing to range for a transfer. But
what it allows us to do isrealize how few men the Spanish have controlling
what is northern Texas and New Mexicotoday, and it's going to set the
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stage for the American expansion into thesouthwest. Zebulin Pike becomes a national hero.
He's overshadowed by Lewis and Clark,but his expedition, which went from
Missouri through the modern day Colorado downinto Texas and New Mexico, remains as
important as the Corps of Discovery,and arguably in some ways more important,
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because it's going to expand the nationsouthwards to New Mexico, Arizona, and
ultimately California. Zebuln Pike also isa hero, and he's advanced to the
ranks, and he's going to findhimself at the age of thirty four fighting
in the War of eighteen twelve inthe Battle of York, Canada and a
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stray bullet. He's going to benext to a powder magazine. It's going
to blow up and take his life. His men were so loyal to him,
he was such an inspirational leader anda great Christian that they rose up
and they went crazy. This isnot exactly a very Christian thing to do.
But they burned York to the groundin vengeance for the loss of Zebulon
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Pike and the battle and the Britishholding out. It's the burning of York
that is going to lead the Britishexpeditionary force to Washington, d C.
Where they're gonna come in and revengeburn down the White House. After the
war. Of course, there's notenough money to start anew so James Madison
is going to say it's all coveredin scorch marks, just painted white.
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Whitewash. It where we get theterm from in some ways, and that
is how Zebulon Pike made the WhiteHouse white. I'm taking this groups tomorrow
to Durrango to the Great Place andthe arrest. We're gonna go on in
the Durrango railway to the point wherehe's arrested, and then go to Santa
Fe and see where he's held.It's gonna be extraordinary and folks, I
wish you could join us, butI'm gonna do it again next year,
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so to stay tuned and we'll giveyou information on that. Folks. We'll
be back after these important messages.Well, howiday, folks, this is
Chaplin hih McHenry and I'm here totell you about our ministry, LAMB Ministries.
We are an inner city ministry withinner city formula and focus for inner
city folks. Please check us out. Go to our website lamb NOLA dot
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com. That's LAMB n o LAdot com, or just call me Chaplin
hih McHenry at area code five zerofour seven two three nine three six nine.
Folks, we need all the helpwe can get. It's very challenging
and very rewarding. So we needvolunteers, we need finance support, and
we need prayer warriors. So pleasecontact us again. Our website is l
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A m B n O l adot com. And thank you so very
very much. Ohs well, folks, were back in this chapel, Hi
mckenry, and it is now timefor us to go into our chaplain by
by patriotic moment. We just takea brief moment to remind you of the
biblical foundations of our country, ourJudeo Christian jurisprudence. And today we're going
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to talk about none other than thefellow. We're just talking about General Zebulun
Montgomery Pike, who was a brilliantman. It's Christopher mentioned, but self
educated. He was an autodidac,and he must much of his studies and
research and actdemic pursuits were literally donein the saddle, done in the camp,
as he traveled in the wilderness forhalf of his life, probably with
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his military expeditions and his and ofcourse certainly his trip out west. He
was a man who found God innature, which is very biblical. Incidentally,
the Bible says that because God isin nature, Nature declares the glory
of God, says we're without excuseit, and says that you can know
the invisible meaning the spirit world bythe visible meaning good old Mother Nature.
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That was his basically his church andhis aside from studying the Bible, his
knowledge of God, much like DanielBoone. Incidentally, and as you can
see, he was so beloved byhis men they burned down the town because
he had been killed during the battle. Quite a story Christopher had there for
us, so you can see thisman was another great example of the biblical
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foundations of our country. Zebulin MontgomeryPike. Folks, he found God in
nature. But what about you?Have you found God anywhere? You can
find him in church, you canfind him in friends, maybe a strong
Christian friend. You can find himin nature. Have you found the Lord?
Well you need to do that becausethe day of God's judgment is on
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the way and we're all going tobe there. We're all going to face
it. Nobody escapes, and Godwants you to be on the good side.
He wants you to be, ifyou will, on the light side
of the forest, not the darkside. Although that is not a good
theological description of God. I justuse that as an example because we all
know it from Star Wars. People. God loves you with an everlasting love,
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and he wants you to going toheaven, and he came up with
a plan because he knew you wouldnever be able to do it. We
are now in our chaplain by byand gospel moment. The Bible says that
all of our righteousnes are is asfilthy rags. We're never going to be
good enough for God, so quittrying. You don't have to, because
God became good enough for you.That happened when God the Sun died for
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all of your sins on the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ was buried and
rose from the dead, according tothe scripture, to win for you salvation
from hell and guaranteed everlasting resurrection lifeso you'd be with him in heaven forever.
And all it takes is a faithfullittle child to believe you're not good
enough for God. You can't saveyourself. That's called repentance, and then
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believe positively that only God can,that he did, and then He will
save you from a burning hell andguarantee you heaven because Jesus died for all
your sins, was buried and rosefrom the dead. If you've never done
this before, please folks, doit now. Don't wait till it's too
late. Well now, folks,it's time for us to go into our
chaplain. Bye bab watchmen on thewall, and today we're gonna talk about
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Noah. The days of knowing.That's one of the signs we are the
days of knowing. Great violence allaround the world. Look at all,
the violence, wars and violence allover and it's happening right now, folks.
More maybe in history, although there'sbeen a lot of that in the
past, but it talks about duringthe days of Noah, there was great
divorce going on, massive divorce,the breakdown of the family unit. And
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that's actually happening all around the world, even in traditional places where that never
happened, like Indy. It's happeningall over now. A lot of it
has to do with American movies.By the way, I learned that on
the mission field. So divorce hasbecome a very dominant factor. Have you
noticed that, folks. Another signthat Jesus is coming back very soon,
and he says that there'll be peopleworking during the daytime, there'll be people
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sleeping at night. But at thatexact time when Jesus comes back, some
will remain in the bed sleeping.Others will be taken out of the bed
and go to heaven. Call thisthat's called the rapture. Some will be
working and some will be left whilethey're working while the others are taking up
to heaven. Folks, that dayis coming and it's coming soon, and
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God wants you to be in thatgroup that will be going to heaven when
you die. And Matthew twenty fourof the Scripture goes on to say that
no man knows the day or thehour, and that Jesus is coming back.
Covertly, he says, like athief in the night, meaning you
won't know when he gets here.It's gonna be a big surprise. You'll
see all the signs around you,but you won't be paying attention, the
Bible says, and the Antichrist,the deception of Antichrist will be so powerful
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people won't be listening. Folks,that day is coming, and it's coming
soon. If you have not gottenready, gotten ready for this, please
do it now. Don't let itcatch you unawares. The scripture says,
now today is the day of salvation. Well, folks, it's not time
for us to close. As weclose it mon Saint Martin singing a creole
goodbye, and God bless all outthere they call you cel goodbye. Please
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think we're just wasting time. Itall three sable. There's time for a
creo good bye.
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