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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Bob Lonsbury and from the banks the Mighty Genesee
in Rochester, New York. This is Downtown Section, third Platoon.
Last night, Michigan looks like selected a gentleman by the
name of Abdul el Sayad to be the Democrat candidate
for the United States Senate. He was very angry today,
(00:32):
very angry at Republicans all this other stuff, shouting and
swearing at any rate, there is some data out from
I think Politico analyzing the vote breakdown among Democrats in.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Michigan last night.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
They didn't think to break it down on the basis
of religion, which might have been interesting, I'm saying. Rather,
they broke it down on the basis of a education,
and they found that people with more college education voted
for the socialist abdulh Al Sayad, and people with less
education voted for the other candidate. This Haley Stevens well,
(01:18):
and you see that a lot in the progressive movement.
The high up socialists all have a lot of education,
and people who vote for Democrats tend to have a
lot of education. People who vote for Republicans tend to
have less education on average. And that was the case
(01:41):
last night in Michigan. Now, the insinuation is that, well,
it's because democrats are smart and Republicans are stupid. In fact,
the insinuation is that that's how you come to be
a Democrat, and that's how you come to be a Republican.
You come to be a Democrat because you're really smart,
(02:01):
you understand the world. You're come to be a Republican
because you're a frigging mouth, brigging moron, probably some kind
of chro magnum idiot. You're stupid, and you see that
a lot in the basic assumptions of so many Democrats.
If you don't agree with them, it's because you are inferior.
(02:23):
You are either intellectually or morally inferior to them. If
you don't understand and agree with them, it's because one
you're not smart enough to understand their brilliance and what
they're telling you, or because you have a moral failing
like racism or Islamophobia, or sexism or bigotry or xenophobia.
(02:46):
There's some moral failing that causes you not to share
their enlightened view of the world. A disagreement from the
perspective of a democrat is sign of inferiority. If you
disagree with them, again your inferior to them. And this
little deal here with the education in their mind simply
(03:07):
bears that out. That those who you know got educated,
they understand, and then you friggin idiot Republicans, you didn't
get educated, and so you don't understand, well, you know,
as one of those uneducated Republicans. I like to offer
a possible alternative explanation for this data point. It's possible
(03:35):
that higher education in America really isn't anything more than indoctrination, brainwashing, propaganda. Right.
It's a training school for being good comrades. And so
the more exposure you have to higher education, the more
(03:59):
of this in doctrination you've gotten. And the less exposure
you have to higher education, the less of this indoctrination
you would have faced. Put another way, if you spend
a lot of time in college, you will have drunk
more of the kool aid, and you will think just
exactly the way they tell you to think, and the
(04:23):
indoctrination a focus of American higher education will have been
successful in you, my little comrade, And I would just
point that out. I'd also like to point out a
data point that our Democrat friends typically don't look at,
and that is that across our country, taxes disproportionately are
(04:46):
paid by Republicans.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
A Republican is more likely to be a payer of
a higher tax than is a Democrat. Right, maybe we
work harder. I don't know. It is interesting that so
many of the big government programs promoted and pushed by
Democrats are only possible thanks to the taxes that are
(05:12):
taken from Republicans. So we are inferior, clearly, But apparently
our money is not okay. And I think you know,
I this notion of oh this one's better educated, that
one's not. You can play that game. But I think
(05:32):
as opposed to a justification of democrats snobbery, I think
it is an illustration of higher education in effectiveness. Here's
another data point. Came out a couple of weeks ago.
Maybe you saw it someplace.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
But if you take that higher education.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
At correlation with progressivism, with being a Democrat, that and
if you look at not just education but income, you
find an even stronger correlation. Highly educated people who are
(06:13):
financially successful I don't mean rich, I just mean got
a house and kids, and you're paying your bills and
you're going forward. Higher educated people went to college whatever,
maybe masters, maybe professional like doctor, lawyer or something like that.
Those people who are successful, pay their bills, etc. They
(06:34):
have a lower likelihood of being progressives. But higher educated
people with low paying jobs, of which there unfortunately are
a lot of them, they are dramatically more likely to
be woke progressives. And again that's another unfortunate indicator of
what higher education is about. You have lots of education,
(06:54):
but you have no paycheck. Mean you didn't learn anything
useful to the society in which you live or beneficial
to you providing for yourself. So to all you smart
folks out there with your nose in the air, the
rest of us say, you know, if your toilet backs
up once you try fixing the damn thing yourself. Okay,
(07:14):
this is Downtown Section third Platoon on news radio WAM
eleven eighty the tune. All of us believe that veterans
with service related disabilities should receive compensation for those disabilities.
I think that's been, to be honest with you, a
(07:35):
bench bar mark of the American government and the American
people since the Civil War. We live in an era
where a very high percentage of military veterans have some
degree of lifelong disability and receive financial compensation from the
(07:59):
government or that lifelong disability. The rate of disability among veterans,
for example, of the Global War on Terror is dramatically
higher than the rate of disability among veterans of both
World War Two and the Vietnam War. Through much of
(08:22):
the Global War on Terror, people being discharged from military
were put through a processing which seemed to be honest
with you, purposefully to have been targeted towards promoting a
declaration of disability that you know, a lot of people
left getting a monthly check, and in instances where you
(08:46):
know that was justified, it's absolutely the right thing to do.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But there has, you know, developed a.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Sense among some in the veterans community that a fair
amount of the disability claims that are being paid by
the government to veterans of our armed forces are illegitimate.
And you know, it's hard to know. And I'm not
(09:15):
pointing fingers at anybody. I know plenty of people who
are in the service who do receive disability. And when
I say disability, there of course those who are combat
wounded or received a traumatic brain injury. Some have emotional
issues that linger I recognize obviously as anyone would the
(09:38):
disabilities that those people have, and obviously compensating them and
providing for them over the course of their life is
the appropriate, honorable thing to do. But I think that
we have kind of diffused our commitment to wounded veterans
(10:01):
by overclassifying disabilities and passing out money that goes to
people who, if I can be honest, probably don't deserve it,
instead of to people who undeniably do. And the situation
is that so large has the pool of questionable recipients
(10:22):
grown that the folks who undeniably deserve disability are from
a budgetary standpoint, it's hard to provide for their needs.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Some examples.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Sleep apnea, for example, is one of the most common
reasons for a lifetime military disability pension. And you know,
not sleep apnea that had one that one had coming
out of the service, but sleep apnea that a veteran
may have developed years after.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Well, you know, I don't know particularly that there's anything
in military service that is going to cause sleep apnea,
but I do know that being overweight, as many Americans are,
certainly can be causative for sleep apnea. So if you
are a veteran and you're overweight and you as sleep apnea,
(11:26):
is that a military disability? Well, for a staggeringly large
number of people, the answer is yes, and a check
comes for a certain percentage of disability. Another one that
you wonder about is a rectile dysfunction or a Pyrone's disease,
(11:50):
that thing Bill Clinton had where your business takes a
left turn, or something.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I certainly there are things associated with military service and
injury that could lead to a problem of this sort.
But you know, you've been out of the service for
twenty years and all of a sudden, you know something
doesn't work. Getting a check from Uncle Sam for that
blaming on your military service. I don't know if I'm
(12:18):
convinced that that's always the case, particularly when, for example,
rates of sleep apnea, rectile dysfunction, and that ringing in
the ears that older people get, when the rates of
those are similar in the veterans population to what they
are in the larger population, and yet we use those
(12:40):
things as justification for a veterans disability pension for the veterans.
I'm left scratching my head it's a maybe. But I wonder,
and I wonder if there may not be among some people,
among some services that help you get your military pension.
(13:01):
I wonder if there might not be a profit motive
there that's unseemly. And I bring it up because we
spend vast amounts of money and that money ends up
not being focused on people who truly were wounded or
injured as a result of their military service. And it's
(13:23):
a hard thing to say, because we value everyone's service
and you know, all that stuff, and you know, we
revere veterans, but we do have to use common sense also,
And the unfortunate reality is, and you know, there are
some veterans proponents who share this, this this view that
(13:43):
right now, we give a lot of money to a
lot of people who, truth be told, don't deserve it,
and the people who absolutely do deserve it, we don't
give them enough. Right, And so you want to say,
let's get rid of you.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Know, let's look at this closely.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Okay, did you know being a supply clerk in Missouri
really give you sleep apnea twenty years later?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And if the answer is no, maybe we could give
that money to someone who is say combat wounded, or
has a psychological challenge they still face or got a
TBI to me that will or some cancer from exposure
to some chemicals somewhere to me that would make sense.
This is downtown section third Betoon on news radio WHAM
eleven eighty this morning, about eight thirty or so, at
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the offices some of the offices of Iberia American Action
League up on Clifford Avenue in the city of Rochester.
As people started, you know, showing up for work, they
saw in the parking lot different vehicles which they did
not recognize, and those vehicles seen to be occupied by
(15:01):
individuals wearing tactical vests. And of course, as we learned
in a Facebook post by the BIRO president this afternoon,
they have a protocol there for how to respond in
case federal immigration officers come to the premise. So the
(15:22):
president of IBERIRO was called in. She showed up, She
taps on the window, asked these people if they're there
for services. They say no, and she says, well, it's
private property. If you're not here for services, you have
to leave, okay, And so they leave, except one of
the vehicles comes around then and parks on the street
(15:46):
in front of Ibiro, anybody can park on the street. Right,
at which point, the Iberro president said in a Facebook post,
like I said she put up this afternoon that so
she shut down the whole operation for the day, told
staff to stay home, go away, told whatever you call
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the people will go there for services, the customers whatever,
don't come in, go away, And so they just kept
vigil She watching the parking lots through the day to
make sure that ice didn't get up in there. And
she notes that periodically there would be vehicles drive by
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or through the neighborhood, which she deduced were federal immigration vehicles.
And she described this as if it was a trauma,
as if it was some act of harassment, as if
you know, this was a stand against evil. And you know,
we all have our perspective, we all have our thoughts,
(16:52):
we all have our political leanings. But it's hard for
me to wrap my head around this hysteria which the
Democrats have whipped up over the enforcement of law, right,
because that's all it is. It's the enforcement of law.
(17:15):
And in twenty twenty, the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Told us to hate local cops.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
In twenty twenty six, the Democrats tell us to.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Hate federal cops.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And I don't think that they were right in twenty twenty,
and I don't think that they're right now. And you know,
the fact that you're a very rich and a very
politically powerful nonprofit doesn't mean that, you know, the law
doesn't apply to your employees or to.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
The people to whom you provide services.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Back in the day, a long time ago, I Bureau
American Action League was founded primarily to look after the
interests of Puerto Ricans in Rochester. You know, no doubt,
many years have passed, and you know there's been mission
shift and such like that. But you know, obviously Puerto
Ricans are Americans, right. Puerto Ricans are born American citizens
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and have been for more than one hundred years. If
you're a Puerto Rican, you you immigration is not anything
you need to worry about. I don't know if they,
you know, provide services, you know, funnel benefits to illegal
aliens or not.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
It's a very very large nonprofit. It makes a lot
of money off the government. It has many property holdings
across that portion of the city of Rochester, and you know.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I recognize it's not one world.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I also recognize that even by talking about this, folks
in the Latino community are going to be more pissed
off at me. After last weekend and issues that arose
in the wake of the Porto Reconfestival and my comments
upon them, I'm pretty much hated up that way.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
That's too bad.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But at the end of the day, you know, life
is what it is, and I'll be honest with you.
I'm not going to criticize the enforcement of law. If
you don't like the law, and certainly we can dislike law.
Of course, their laws. I don't like their laws. You
don't like and their laws that this lady and Democrats
(19:29):
don't like. Okay, then go to freakin Joe Morelli and say,
Joe Morelli, Congressman, we don't like the enforcement of this
immigration law. Get the law changed, right, at least introduce
a bill. Where is that Democrat bill that would legalize
these people, that would take away the criminality of their conduct.
(19:50):
Where is that right? If you don't like the law,
change the law. But vilifying law enforcers who don't make
the rules, right, the Joe Morellis of the world made
the rules. They're the Congress. This is a federal law.
You are not a victim of a law which was
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passed by the elected representatives of the people. Right, that's
the function of a republic. That's how we rule.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And God bless the.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
People and I Bureau. I'm sure that they're wonderful folks
doing wonderful things every day. But if the presence of
law enforcement officers freak you out, maybe the problem is
with you and not with them. And maybe obedience to
law is the obligation of every citizen, of every citizen,
(20:46):
Madam President, And maybe an organization which is so dependent
on tax dollars from the government, ought to be more
supportive of the laws likewise coming from the government. And
you know, if you're going to shut down your whole
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operation because there's a car parked out front, man, you've
let these people move into your brain and take over
your life. And maybe you should just go about your
business and do what you do up there, and maybe
you should let them do what they do. And if
there are people who come to your property who need
to be arrested, then you know, maybe you should let
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them be arrested. That's just my thinking. This is downtown
Section third buttoon on news radio Wham eleven eighty tune.
My young son, Jackie's twenty one years of age. Forgive me,
I know we talked about this yesterday, maybe the day before.
He's the one living out in Idaho in the Sawtooth Mountains.
(21:52):
He and a lot of the other folks who work
at the resort where he works and the river guides
down on the river, they take those summer jobs so
that they can get room and board a little bit
of a paycheck while living the summer.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Up in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And some of them they love the out of doors.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
They love the.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Mountains, and jack has turned out to be one of those.
Loves to hike, fish, climb, enjoy the out of doors.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
And at any rate, today was the day that he and.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
A group of his friends and fellow workers out there
had decided they were going to climb the Grand Teton,
a mountain in Wyoming in the Grand Tetons with an
altitude or whatever you call it, a thirteen seven and
seventy five feet. And at any rate, the night before
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last they drove through the night so they could be
there at the ranger station first thing yesterday morning to
get a camping pass so that they could hike into
the base of the mountain and set up a base
camp there so that they might this morning, with the dawn,
(23:08):
begin their ascent of the Grand Teton. And at any rate,
he sent me a photograph of the rising sun, and
he sent me a couple pictures and videos from their ascent,
and finally early afternoon there was a video. It came
(23:31):
on the text and it showed there. I think they're
called a benchmark. Yeah, I think so. It's like a
round disc, metal disc, and the United States Geologic Survey
will put those in certain places and they'll have the
(23:52):
exact latitude and longitude on there, and they'll have typically
the exact altitude on there or elevation, that's the word
I'm looking for. And you know, if you look at
a map, a topographical map, it'll show you where these
benchmarks are, and you know, you can try to find them,
and they're useful to surveyors, and you know, sucks like that,
but it's a benchmark and it is for this Grand Teton.
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And then he picks the video up and he aims
it out over the side of the mountain and he
does a three sixty panoramic view and you just see
in every direction the mountains and their tops sort of
falling away in a lake here, a lake there, some
frozen snow still remaining here, and it was something to see.
(24:45):
Of course, that was like halfway now they've got to
get down, and they're probably getting down just about now.
That included a seventy foot repel down a cliff face,
and they've been practicing that in the dark over the
last couple of weeks, in the dark, just in case
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they didn't get down to the rock face before the
sun set. At any rate, no doubt, a great view,
no doubt, a wonderful adventure. But as a father, I
rejoice in the independence, the sense of adventure, and I'm
grateful that he and his friends set for themselves this
very difficult goal and spent the time preparing, conditioning, learning, practicing,
(25:35):
and today achieving this difficult thing. So I want to
go on not about this, but as a father, I'm proud,
but not like, oh look what my boy did. I
think I'm more grateful that he did a hard thing
(25:57):
and proved himself to himself. I'm a believer in that.
I think that proving yourself to yourself is useful. It's
been useful, uh uh for me. I am by nature
a whiner and a frightened person. I am weak and
incompetent in so many areas in life. I don't know
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if it goes back to being a kid and you know,
kind of tossed around from person to person and not
really having a home for a while, or I just
may freaking be a pansy, right, But I recognized at
an earlier age that being a freaking pansy is not
going to work very well for me. It will give
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me the sort of life I don't want to have that,
you know, living in fear or incapability. Uh being the
person who can never do anything. That's that that that
that will not be good for me. And uh so,
you know, I it's a dumb thing. But I started
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as a young man doing things that I perceived to
be difficult, that were beyond what I thought were my capabilities,
so that I would have the opportunity to prove myself
to myself. Then I'd set a goal and it would
be beyond what I could do, you know, at that point,
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and of course I knew that if I failed to
achieve that goal, then I would be a failure and
I might be the only one who knew that. But
that's the only person who has to know it for
it to do you harm. Right. But I also knew
that if I reached that goal, and if I surpassed
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what I reasonably thought I could do, that I would
have proven myself to myself. Nobody else needs to know.
It's not about waving in somebody's face, look at me,
I'm cool. It is about, in this moment in life,
demonstrate that, Okay, I can do hard things right and
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having that belief, having that confidence, having that faith again
doesn't make you cocky, but on the hard days, it
gives you that little bit of oomph to put the
wind at your back, to get you over the finish line,
to get done the hard things that life presents you,
the things that really matter at any rate. So I
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was grateful to see that my boy today proved himself
to himself. From the banks of the Mighty Genesee in Rochester,
New York. This is Downtown Section, third Platoon, and we
are ten to seven on the night
Good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Bob Lonsbury and from the banks the Mighty Genesee
in Rochester, New York. This is Downtown Section, third Platoon.
Last night, Michigan looks like selected a gentleman by the
name of Abdul el Sayad to be the Democrat candidate
for the United States Senate. He was very angry today,
(00:32):
very angry at Republicans all this other stuff, shouting and
swearing at any rate, there is some data out from
I think Politico analyzing the vote breakdown among Democrats in.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Michigan last night.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
They didn't think to break it down on the basis
of religion, which might have been interesting, I'm saying. Rather,
they broke it down on the basis of a education,
and they found that people with more college education voted
for the socialist abdulh Al Sayad, and people with less
education voted for the other candidate. This Haley Stevens well,
(01:18):
and you see that a lot in the progressive movement.
The high up socialists all have a lot of education,
and people who vote for Democrats tend to have a
lot of education. People who vote for Republicans tend to
have less education on average. And that was the case
(01:41):
last night in Michigan. Now, the insinuation is that, well,
it's because democrats are smart and Republicans are stupid. In fact,
the insinuation is that that's how you come to be
a Democrat, and that's how you come to be a Republican.
You come to be a Democrat because you're really smart,
(02:01):
you understand the world. You're come to be a Republican
because you're a frigging mouth, brigging moron, probably some kind
of chro magnum idiot. You're stupid, and you see that
a lot in the basic assumptions of so many Democrats.
If you don't agree with them, it's because you are inferior.
(02:23):
You are either intellectually or morally inferior to them. If
you don't understand and agree with them, it's because one
you're not smart enough to understand their brilliance and what
they're telling you, or because you have a moral failing
like racism or Islamophobia, or sexism or bigotry or xenophobia.
(02:46):
There's some moral failing that causes you not to share
their enlightened view of the world. A disagreement from the
perspective of a democrat is sign of inferiority. If you
disagree with them, again your inferior to them. And this
little deal here with the education in their mind simply
(03:07):
bears that out. That those who you know got educated,
they understand, and then you friggin idiot Republicans, you didn't
get educated, and so you don't understand, well, you know,
as one of those uneducated Republicans. I like to offer
a possible alternative explanation for this data point. It's possible
(03:35):
that higher education in America really isn't anything more than indoctrination, brainwashing, propaganda. Right.
It's a training school for being good comrades. And so
the more exposure you have to higher education, the more
(03:59):
of this in doctrination you've gotten. And the less exposure
you have to higher education, the less of this indoctrination
you would have faced. Put another way, if you spend
a lot of time in college, you will have drunk
more of the kool aid, and you will think just
exactly the way they tell you to think, and the
(04:23):
indoctrination a focus of American higher education will have been
successful in you, my little comrade, And I would just
point that out. I'd also like to point out a
data point that our Democrat friends typically don't look at,
and that is that across our country, taxes disproportionately are
(04:46):
paid by Republicans.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
A Republican is more likely to be a payer of
a higher tax than is a Democrat. Right, maybe we
work harder. I don't know. It is interesting that so
many of the big government programs promoted and pushed by
Democrats are only possible thanks to the taxes that are
(05:12):
taken from Republicans. So we are inferior, clearly, But apparently
our money is not okay. And I think you know,
I this notion of oh this one's better educated, that
one's not. You can play that game. But I think
(05:32):
as opposed to a justification of democrats snobbery, I think
it is an illustration of higher education in effectiveness. Here's
another data point. Came out a couple of weeks ago.
Maybe you saw it someplace.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
But if you take that higher education.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
At correlation with progressivism, with being a Democrat, that and
if you look at not just education but income, you
find an even stronger correlation. Highly educated people who are
(06:13):
financially successful I don't mean rich, I just mean got
a house and kids, and you're paying your bills and
you're going forward. Higher educated people went to college whatever,
maybe masters, maybe professional like doctor, lawyer or something like that.
Those people who are successful, pay their bills, etc. They
(06:34):
have a lower likelihood of being progressives. But higher educated
people with low paying jobs, of which there unfortunately are
a lot of them, they are dramatically more likely to
be woke progressives. And again that's another unfortunate indicator of
what higher education is about. You have lots of education,
(06:54):
but you have no paycheck. Mean you didn't learn anything
useful to the society in which you live or beneficial
to you providing for yourself. So to all you smart
folks out there with your nose in the air, the
rest of us say, you know, if your toilet backs
up once you try fixing the damn thing yourself. Okay,
(07:14):
this is Downtown Section third Platoon on news radio WAM
eleven eighty the tune. All of us believe that veterans
with service related disabilities should receive compensation for those disabilities.
I think that's been, to be honest with you, a
(07:35):
bench bar mark of the American government and the American
people since the Civil War. We live in an era
where a very high percentage of military veterans have some
degree of lifelong disability and receive financial compensation from the
(07:59):
government or that lifelong disability. The rate of disability among veterans,
for example, of the Global War on Terror is dramatically
higher than the rate of disability among veterans of both
World War Two and the Vietnam War. Through much of
(08:22):
the Global War on Terror, people being discharged from military
were put through a processing which seemed to be honest
with you, purposefully to have been targeted towards promoting a
declaration of disability that you know, a lot of people
left getting a monthly check, and in instances where you
(08:46):
know that was justified, it's absolutely the right thing to do.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But there has, you know, developed a.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Sense among some in the veterans community that a fair
amount of the disability claims that are being paid by
the government to veterans of our armed forces are illegitimate.
And you know, it's hard to know. And I'm not
(09:15):
pointing fingers at anybody. I know plenty of people who
are in the service who do receive disability. And when
I say disability, there of course those who are combat
wounded or received a traumatic brain injury. Some have emotional
issues that linger I recognize obviously as anyone would the
(09:38):
disabilities that those people have, and obviously compensating them and
providing for them over the course of their life is
the appropriate, honorable thing to do. But I think that
we have kind of diffused our commitment to wounded veterans
(10:01):
by overclassifying disabilities and passing out money that goes to
people who, if I can be honest, probably don't deserve it,
instead of to people who undeniably do. And the situation
is that so large has the pool of questionable recipients
(10:22):
grown that the folks who undeniably deserve disability are from
a budgetary standpoint, it's hard to provide for their needs.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Some examples.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Sleep apnea, for example, is one of the most common
reasons for a lifetime military disability pension. And you know,
not sleep apnea that had one that one had coming
out of the service, but sleep apnea that a veteran
may have developed years after.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Well, you know, I don't know particularly that there's anything
in military service that is going to cause sleep apnea,
but I do know that being overweight, as many Americans are,
certainly can be causative for sleep apnea. So if you
are a veteran and you're overweight and you as sleep apnea,
(11:26):
is that a military disability? Well, for a staggeringly large
number of people, the answer is yes, and a check
comes for a certain percentage of disability. Another one that
you wonder about is a rectile dysfunction or a Pyrone's disease,
(11:50):
that thing Bill Clinton had where your business takes a
left turn, or something.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
I certainly there are things associated with military service and
injury that could lead to a problem of this sort.
But you know, you've been out of the service for
twenty years and all of a sudden, you know something
doesn't work. Getting a check from Uncle Sam for that
blaming on your military service. I don't know if I'm
(12:18):
convinced that that's always the case, particularly when, for example,
rates of sleep apnea, rectile dysfunction, and that ringing in
the ears that older people get, when the rates of
those are similar in the veterans population to what they
are in the larger population, and yet we use those
(12:40):
things as justification for a veterans disability pension for the veterans.
I'm left scratching my head it's a maybe. But I wonder,
and I wonder if there may not be among some people,
among some services that help you get your military pension.
(13:01):
I wonder if there might not be a profit motive
there that's unseemly. And I bring it up because we
spend vast amounts of money and that money ends up
not being focused on people who truly were wounded or
injured as a result of their military service. And it's
(13:23):
a hard thing to say, because we value everyone's service
and you know, all that stuff, and you know, we
revere veterans, but we do have to use common sense also,
And the unfortunate reality is, and you know, there are
some veterans proponents who share this, this this view that
(13:43):
right now, we give a lot of money to a
lot of people who, truth be told, don't deserve it,
and the people who absolutely do deserve it, we don't
give them enough. Right, And so you want to say,
let's get rid of you.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Know, let's look at this closely.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Okay, did you know being a supply clerk in Missouri
really give you sleep apnea twenty years later?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And if the answer is no, maybe we could give
that money to someone who is say combat wounded, or
has a psychological challenge they still face or got a
TBI to me that will or some cancer from exposure
to some chemicals somewhere to me that would make sense.
This is downtown section third Betoon on news radio WHAM
eleven eighty this morning, about eight thirty or so, at
(14:40):
the offices some of the offices of Iberia American Action
League up on Clifford Avenue in the city of Rochester.
As people started, you know, showing up for work, they
saw in the parking lot different vehicles which they did
not recognize, and those vehicles seen to be occupied by
(15:01):
individuals wearing tactical vests. And of course, as we learned
in a Facebook post by the BIRO president this afternoon,
they have a protocol there for how to respond in
case federal immigration officers come to the premise. So the
(15:22):
president of IBERIRO was called in. She showed up, She
taps on the window, asked these people if they're there
for services. They say no, and she says, well, it's
private property. If you're not here for services, you have
to leave, okay, And so they leave, except one of
the vehicles comes around then and parks on the street
(15:46):
in front of Ibiro, anybody can park on the street. Right,
at which point, the Iberro president said in a Facebook post,
like I said she put up this afternoon that so
she shut down the whole operation for the day, told
staff to stay home, go away, told whatever you call
(16:07):
the people will go there for services, the customers whatever,
don't come in, go away, And so they just kept
vigil She watching the parking lots through the day to
make sure that ice didn't get up in there. And
she notes that periodically there would be vehicles drive by
(16:30):
or through the neighborhood, which she deduced were federal immigration vehicles.
And she described this as if it was a trauma,
as if it was some act of harassment, as if
you know, this was a stand against evil. And you know,
we all have our perspective, we all have our thoughts,
(16:52):
we all have our political leanings. But it's hard for
me to wrap my head around this hysteria which the
Democrats have whipped up over the enforcement of law, right,
because that's all it is. It's the enforcement of law.
(17:15):
And in twenty twenty, the Democrats.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Told us to hate local cops.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
In twenty twenty six, the Democrats tell us to.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Hate federal cops.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And I don't think that they were right in twenty twenty,
and I don't think that they're right now. And you know,
the fact that you're a very rich and a very
politically powerful nonprofit doesn't mean that, you know, the law
doesn't apply to your employees or to.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
The people to whom you provide services.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Back in the day, a long time ago, I Bureau
American Action League was founded primarily to look after the
interests of Puerto Ricans in Rochester. You know, no doubt,
many years have passed, and you know there's been mission
shift and such like that. But you know, obviously Puerto
Ricans are Americans, right. Puerto Ricans are born American citizens
(18:13):
and have been for more than one hundred years. If
you're a Puerto Rican, you you immigration is not anything
you need to worry about. I don't know if they,
you know, provide services, you know, funnel benefits to illegal
aliens or not.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
It's a very very large nonprofit. It makes a lot
of money off the government. It has many property holdings
across that portion of the city of Rochester, and you know.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I recognize it's not one world.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I also recognize that even by talking about this, folks
in the Latino community are going to be more pissed
off at me. After last weekend and issues that arose
in the wake of the Porto Reconfestival and my comments
upon them, I'm pretty much hated up that way.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
That's too bad.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But at the end of the day, you know, life
is what it is, and I'll be honest with you.
I'm not going to criticize the enforcement of law. If
you don't like the law, and certainly we can dislike law.
Of course, their laws. I don't like their laws. You
don't like and their laws that this lady and Democrats
(19:29):
don't like. Okay, then go to freakin Joe Morelli and say,
Joe Morelli, Congressman, we don't like the enforcement of this
immigration law. Get the law changed, right, at least introduce
a bill. Where is that Democrat bill that would legalize
these people, that would take away the criminality of their conduct.
(19:50):
Where is that right? If you don't like the law,
change the law. But vilifying law enforcers who don't make
the rules, right, the Joe Morellis of the world made
the rules. They're the Congress. This is a federal law.
You are not a victim of a law which was
(20:12):
passed by the elected representatives of the people. Right, that's
the function of a republic. That's how we rule.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
And God bless the.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
People and I Bureau. I'm sure that they're wonderful folks
doing wonderful things every day. But if the presence of
law enforcement officers freak you out, maybe the problem is
with you and not with them. And maybe obedience to
law is the obligation of every citizen, of every citizen,
(20:46):
Madam President, And maybe an organization which is so dependent
on tax dollars from the government, ought to be more
supportive of the laws likewise coming from the government. And
you know, if you're going to shut down your whole
(21:06):
operation because there's a car parked out front, man, you've
let these people move into your brain and take over
your life. And maybe you should just go about your
business and do what you do up there, and maybe
you should let them do what they do. And if
there are people who come to your property who need
to be arrested, then you know, maybe you should let
(21:31):
them be arrested. That's just my thinking. This is downtown
Section third buttoon on news radio Wham eleven eighty tune.
My young son, Jackie's twenty one years of age. Forgive me,
I know we talked about this yesterday, maybe the day before.
He's the one living out in Idaho in the Sawtooth Mountains.
(21:52):
He and a lot of the other folks who work
at the resort where he works and the river guides
down on the river, they take those summer jobs so
that they can get room and board a little bit
of a paycheck while living the summer.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Up in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
And some of them they love the out of doors.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
They love the.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Mountains, and jack has turned out to be one of those.
Loves to hike, fish, climb, enjoy the out of doors.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
And at any rate, today was the day that he and.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
A group of his friends and fellow workers out there
had decided they were going to climb the Grand Teton,
a mountain in Wyoming in the Grand Tetons with an
altitude or whatever you call it, a thirteen seven and
seventy five feet. And at any rate, the night before
(22:47):
last they drove through the night so they could be
there at the ranger station first thing yesterday morning to
get a camping pass so that they could hike into
the base of the mountain and set up a base
camp there so that they might this morning, with the dawn,
(23:08):
begin their ascent of the Grand Teton. And at any rate,
he sent me a photograph of the rising sun, and
he sent me a couple pictures and videos from their ascent,
and finally early afternoon there was a video. It came
(23:31):
on the text and it showed there. I think they're
called a benchmark. Yeah, I think so. It's like a
round disc, metal disc, and the United States Geologic Survey
will put those in certain places and they'll have the
(23:52):
exact latitude and longitude on there, and they'll have typically
the exact altitude on there or elevation, that's the word
I'm looking for. And you know, if you look at
a map, a topographical map, it'll show you where these
benchmarks are, and you know, you can try to find them,
and they're useful to surveyors, and you know, sucks like that,
but it's a benchmark and it is for this Grand Teton.
(24:19):
And then he picks the video up and he aims
it out over the side of the mountain and he
does a three sixty panoramic view and you just see
in every direction the mountains and their tops sort of
falling away in a lake here, a lake there, some
frozen snow still remaining here, and it was something to see.
(24:45):
Of course, that was like halfway now they've got to
get down, and they're probably getting down just about now.
That included a seventy foot repel down a cliff face,
and they've been practicing that in the dark over the
last couple of weeks, in the dark, just in case
(25:05):
they didn't get down to the rock face before the
sun set. At any rate, no doubt, a great view,
no doubt, a wonderful adventure. But as a father, I
rejoice in the independence, the sense of adventure, and I'm
grateful that he and his friends set for themselves this
very difficult goal and spent the time preparing, conditioning, learning, practicing,
(25:35):
and today achieving this difficult thing. So I want to
go on not about this, but as a father, I'm proud,
but not like, oh look what my boy did. I
think I'm more grateful that he did a hard thing
(25:57):
and proved himself to himself. I'm a believer in that.
I think that proving yourself to yourself is useful. It's
been useful, uh uh for me. I am by nature
a whiner and a frightened person. I am weak and
incompetent in so many areas in life. I don't know
(26:21):
if it goes back to being a kid and you know,
kind of tossed around from person to person and not
really having a home for a while, or I just
may freaking be a pansy, right, But I recognized at
an earlier age that being a freaking pansy is not
going to work very well for me. It will give
(26:42):
me the sort of life I don't want to have that,
you know, living in fear or incapability. Uh being the
person who can never do anything. That's that that that
that will not be good for me. And uh so,
you know, I it's a dumb thing. But I started
(27:03):
as a young man doing things that I perceived to
be difficult, that were beyond what I thought were my capabilities,
so that I would have the opportunity to prove myself
to myself. Then I'd set a goal and it would
be beyond what I could do, you know, at that point,
(27:25):
and of course I knew that if I failed to
achieve that goal, then I would be a failure and
I might be the only one who knew that. But
that's the only person who has to know it for
it to do you harm. Right. But I also knew
that if I reached that goal, and if I surpassed
(27:45):
what I reasonably thought I could do, that I would
have proven myself to myself. Nobody else needs to know.
It's not about waving in somebody's face, look at me,
I'm cool. It is about, in this moment in life,
demonstrate that, Okay, I can do hard things right and
(28:05):
having that belief, having that confidence, having that faith again
doesn't make you cocky, but on the hard days, it
gives you that little bit of oomph to put the
wind at your back, to get you over the finish line,
to get done the hard things that life presents you,
the things that really matter at any rate. So I
(28:28):
was grateful to see that my boy today proved himself
to himself. From the banks of the Mighty Genesee in Rochester,
New York. This is Downtown Section, third Platoon, and we
are ten to seven on the night
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