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After killing more than 320 Palestinians and injuring close to 1,000 this past Saturday by dropping 100 tons of bombs on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Southern Command GOC announced that the Israeli army will "send Gaza decades into the past" in terms of weapons capabilities while achieving "the maximum number of enemy casualties."

Despite these echoes from failed uses of force in the past, the current Jewish-Israeli consensus nevertheless favors Israeli military attacks on Gaza. "The goal of our military actions is to force peace on them," stated member of Knesset Yakov Margi (Shas) in a parliamentary discussion of Gaza.

This attitude demonstrates that neither historical examples nor Israel's own failure to achieve "peace" through destruction have a visible impact on Israeli public opinion or government policies.

The Jewish violation of the cease-fire has complicated the whole picture more than ever. The Arabs can no longer negotiate a fair political settlement from a position of strength and military advantage.

The Palestinians-Israeli war is an American war with American-Jewish soldiers fighting with weapons for the American territory of an American colonyĆ¢€”Israel. The Americans have to win to save their [Israelis'] territory.

-- Ted Rudow III,MA, Menlo Park, Calif.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

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The culture of the world is enamoured with the smooth and the slick, with being big and successful, while humility and love run against the grain. Though Jesus was God, He didn't flaunt His power or position or rights. Instead, He made Himself nothing. His birthplace is a testimony to that. He didn't just take a low place, He took the lowest, and the point is that His commission was to serve. It was to preach salvation to the poor. He came not to be served, but to serve, to give His life as a ransom for many.

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to Afghanistan

It helps when you can so easily forget the past and tune out reality.

The war in Afghanistan, which began on Oct. 7, 2001, was launched by the United States with the United Kingdom in response to the September 2001 attacks. The U.S. military is currently planning to send around 20,000 extra troops to the country in spring 2009.

So now that the invasion of Afghanistan is not over, Americans can forget that the country is as bad off as it ever was — although Afghan men can shave, of course. And when that time comes, Iraq too will be forgotten or relegated to the back pages of the papers, along with the multitudes who died in both of the Gulf wars. America will move on, leaving a legacy of death and destruction, and Americans will forget — but God won't.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Menlo Park

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Never ending war!

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Never ending war
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Dec 21st, 2008
Maybe it's because they have such a short attention span and memory. As one journalist commented, a short memory is a great boost to self-esteem. It helps when you can so easily forget the past and tune out reality. The War in Afghanistan, which began on October 7, 2001 as the U.S. military operation Operation Enduring Freedom, was launched by the United States with the United Kingdom in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. The US military is currently planning to send around 20,000 extra troops to the country in Spring 2009.

So now that the invasion of Afghanistan is not over, Americans can forget that the country is as bad off as it ever was-although Afghan men can shave, of course. And when that time comes, Iraq too will be forgotten or relegated to the back pages of the papers, along with the multitudes who died in Gulf War I and II, the many children and innocents who died from 12 years of sanctions, and the thousands who are continuing to suffer and die from the depleted uranium shells littering the landscape and the unexploded cluster bombs scattered far and wide.
America will move on, leaving a legacy of death and destruction, and Americans will forget-but God won't.
Ted Rudow II,MA

Friday, December 19, 2008

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Dear Editor,
The culture of the world is enamoured with the smooth and the slick,
with being big and successful, while humility and love run against
the grain.

Though Jesus was God, He didn't flaunt His power or position or
rights. Instead, He made Himself nothing. His birthplace is a
testimony to that. He didn't just take a low place, He took the
lowest, and the point is that His commission was to serve. It was to
preach salvation to the poor. He came not to be served, but to serve,
to give His life as a ransom for many.

Ted Rudow III, MA
PO Box 1222
Menlo Park, CA 94026
USA
Tedr77@aol.com

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Letter to the Editor: Auto bailout
To the Editor:

The Bush administration said that it was prepared to intervene to
prevent the collapse of General Motors and Chrysler after Republican
senators blocked a compromise proposal to rescue the automakers. That
they would be remembered for decades as the party of Herbert Hoover
if the industry collapsed.

Everything is moving a lot faster today that it did in 1929. From '29
to '32, President Hoover kept talking like the politicians are
talking now, right until he got fired! For three years, from
October '29 to November '32 in the election that FDR won, Hoover kept
saying, "It wasn't the government's fault, we're doing everything we
can." He repeated this for three whole years as things got worse and
worse, until things finally hit absolute bottom!

I wouldn't be surprised now if it takes half that time. People are
better informed, people know the history more, they're going to be
more scared. If they've got any sense at all they're going to start
worrying about the banks and pulling their money out.

And once the banks fail, businesses fail, manufacturers fail,
industries fail and unemployment skyrockets! It will be worldwide and
worse than ever.

Ted Rudow III,MA

Menlo Park, Calif.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

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Spending millions on weapons of war does nothing for prosperity or quality of life
Unlike your editorial of December 12, I don't find it bad news that there is a delay in a major order for the Ministry of Defence. It would be even better news if the order was cancelled.

Like John Watson (Letters, December 10), I am saddened if not surprised to read of the devastation and oppression around the world. Most of this can be attributed to the policies pursued by western governments, the US and UK in particular.

Jacques Diouf, director-general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, has highlighted the fact that the world spent £820bn on weapons in 2006. I have a cutting from the Herald (April 13, 2006) in which the American journalist Ted Rudow III declared: "American economy, western economy, capitalist economy can thrive only on war." He went on to predict depression and economic collapse. This was more than two and a half years ago, and since then expenditure on warfare has steadily increased.It is estimated that, in the US, 50 cents in every dollar of tax goes to the military. Here, large amounts are spent not only on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but also on such military items as Trident and the aircraft carriers and other warships being built on the Clyde and elsewhere. Large sums are spent at Aldermaston, Porton Down and at other sites where weapons of mass destruction are made, and on research and development into more efficient ways of killing human beings. In all, how much of each pound of our tax goes to the military?

At this time of year, people are wishing for peace and good will. What an indictment of our government, our society and capitalism that such vast resources are squandered on warfare and preparations for continuing warfare. Jobs are vitally important, particularly at this time, but how sad it is that so many are dependent on the manufacture of weapons of war. It would make sense to send that industry's workers home on full pay. The armaments they produce may be technically brilliant but they do nothing to increase prosperity or enhance quality of life.

The civil manufacturing sector has been neglected and is crying out for investment, with more than one million jobs wiped out. Would that the "big items" were turbines or others to assist in the development of renewable energy, not weapons of war.
Ron Mackay, Milton of Campsie, East Dunbartonshire.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

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SAN FRANCISCO -- The age of the dinosaurs ended abruptly about 65 million years ago when some catastrophic event drove them to extinction, and now a vehement controversy over their disappearance is emerging anew........
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There is no proof for evolution. It has to be believed, therefore it's a faith, therefore it's a religion! So they're teaching a new compulsory religion in today's hallowed halls of higher learning. Even the great high priest and founding father of this new false faith, Charles Darwin himself, confessed that "the belief (note the emphasis on belief) in natural selection (evolution) must at present be grounded entirely on general considerations. Does biological evolution exist? The surprising answer is yes!Microevolution happens within species, when small adaptations either take place to accommodate environment or are brought about by breeding.Once I was a tadpole long and thin, then I was a baboon with my tail tucked in, then I was a monkey in a tropical tree and now I am professor with college degree. Did Charley make a monkey out of you?
Ted Rudow III,MA

Sunday, December 14, 2008

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The Bush administration said on Friday that it was prepared to intervene to prevent the collapse of General Motors and Chrysler after Republican senators blocked a compromise proposal to rescue the automakers. That they would be remembered for decades as the party of Herbert Hoover if the industry collapsed Everything is moving a lot faster today that it did in 1929! From '29 to '32, President Hoover kept talking like the politicians are talking now, right until he got fired! For three years, from October '29 to November '32, the election that put FDR in. He kept saying, "It wasn't the government's fault, we're doing everything we can," for three whole years as things got worse and worse, until things finally hit absolute bottom! From the '29 Crash to the bottom in '32 was about three years. I wouldn't be surprised if it takes half that time. People are better informed, people know the history more, they're going to be more frighten.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Car bailout

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by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Dec 13th, 2008
The Bush administration said on Friday that it was prepared to intervene to prevent the collapse of General Motors and Chrysler after Republican senators blocked a compromise proposal to rescue the automakers. That they would be remembered for decades as the party of Herbert Hoover if the industry collapsed.

Everything is moving a lot faster today that it did in 1929! From '29 to '32, President Hoover kept talking like the politicians are talking now, right until he got fired! For three years, from October '29 to November '32, the election that put FDR in. He kept saying, "It wasn't the government's fault, we're doing everything we can," for three whole years as things got worse and worse, until things finally hit absolute bottom! From the '29 Crash to the bottom in '32 was about three years.
I wouldn't be surprised if it takes half that time. People are better informed, people know the history more, they're going to be more sacred. If they've got any sense at all they're going to start worrying about the banks and pulling their money out!--And once the banks fail, businesses fail, manufacturers fail, industries fail and unemployment skyrockets! It will be worldwide and worse than ever!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

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By The Editorial BoardIn case it wasn’t already clear that Barack Obama is going to have a lot to deal with when he takes office, the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s investigative agency, has released a list of 13 urgent issues for him and the next Congress. The 13, listed alphabetically by the G.A.O., are:
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In fact, almost all American industries, even non-war industries, are making money at the expense of the poor of other nations of the world. America–huge green and greedy, gluttonous, wasteful, selfish. Its dollar, the “greenback,” or the American dollar that is sinking American!
The car industry, a quick bankruptcy is impossible. Chapter 11 would take years to unfold during which time the companies would lose unrecoverable market share. Airlines don’t compare to auto manufacturers with independent suppliers providing credit and some four thousand parts needed every day; just one missing part can prevent assembly of a whole car.
As long as a nation demands more than they need, in other words more than plenty, they demand absolute excess, extravagant luxury.–They have to rob the poor to get it, and to rob the poor to get it they have to wage war.The American people have been making war and making money in their war jobs and their high salaries at the expenses of the poor Iraqi!

— Ted Rudow III,MA


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A demonstration to those in high standing of who is really the boss. Even the big money boys are as pawns in the hands of the puppeteer. The puppeteer's total power works by fear. The puppeteer sends a strong signal that it is indeed he who holds the bag and manipulates the strings, and all must yield to his gestures and signals, else they will be tangled up and put out of commission. his ability to keep the marionettes moving and flowing and dancing in apparent sync and coordination.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Sunday, December 07, 2008

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The atmosphere: You're supposed to feel festive. It's the holiday season. Instead, you feel rushed, tired and sick of all the crowds in the stores, gridlock on the streets and packages cutting into your calf as...
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Christmas Day gets lost in the days and weeks surrounding it. In fact, many Christmas cards and signs simply state 'Season's Greetings' with no mention of Christmas. Now it's a 'holiday tree' rather than a 'Christmas tree'. They even call it 'XMAS' to cross Jesus out of Christmas. In other words, to take Christ out of Christmas. In some cities, all you ever see are signs of 'Xmas Holidays', 'Xmas Sale', 'Xmas Shopping', 'Xmas, Xmas, Xmas'. They wouldn't think of putting up 'Christmas', that's the name of Jesus Christ! And, of course, they've got a new god called Santa Claus, who is really the big department store! One of the horrible horrors of it is that when they teach their children about Santa Claus, and then they start teaching them about Jesus, the truth and the real story and meaning of Christmas, the poor kids think, "Oh, this is just another stupid idiotic fairytale like the one you told me about Santa Claus!" There's so much more to Christmas than trees, decorations!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Saturday, December 06, 2008

Pearl Harbor

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Pearl Harbor
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Dec 6th, 2008 6:56 PM
Americans who went to war to resist the Japanese economic development of Southeast Asia. Probably if they'd left the Japanese alone--and of course if the Japanese had left the Americans alone, which is where they made their biggest mistake, attacking Pearl Harbor--the whole of Southeast Asia would be better off!

Of course the Americans were just waiting for an excuse to go to war with Japan. They had already been fighting a trade war with Japan, which in those days was not much hotter than the one they're fighting with Japan right now! So they were all gung-ho for war, not only the Japanese but the Americans.
It's said that Roosevelt allowed the attack on Pearl Harbor even though he had advance warning of it! The Japanese were too smart, too clever, could make things too cheap and could undersell the Americans all the time. And of course they used the excuse that Japan was conquering the East.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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.....But no. Instead, he told Gibson that his "biggest regret" was a mistake made by others: intelligence analysts who got it wrong about Iraq.

The only inference we can draw is that if the intelligence had been more skeptical of Saddam's WMD prowess, there might not have been an Iraq War. Karl Rove recently sounded this same revisionist theme, saying that "absent weapons of mass destruction" there likely would have been no invasion.

But there was plenty of skeptical intel about Iraq's alleged WMD, particularly its nuclear program – the potential "mushroom cloud" that Condoleezza Rice so chillingly evoked. Shaky or ambiguous reports – such as the bogus document about Iraq's attempt to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger – were presented as gospel. International nuclear inspectors, meanwhile, were inside Iraq doing their job.

There's another problem with the way Bush is trying to rewrite history. After U.S. forces combed Iraq for WMD and established that none existed, the administration came up with other backdated rationales for the invasion. Vice President Cheney even kept insisting on some link with 9/11 that only he could perceive; after a while, nobody paid him any attention.

The president spoke of having created a democracy in the heart of the Middle East, one that would shoot tendrils of freedom to take root throughout the region – which is a hard story to sell when the war's greatest geopolitical impact has been to strengthen theocratic Iran to the point that it dares to dream of ancient Persian glory.

Bush pats himself on the back for keeping his eye on the ball – the "war against ideological thugs." But those ideological thugs are ensconced somewhere, probably in the lawless frontier territories of Pakistan, rebuilding their murderous networks and plotting new attacks. I'm betting that they don't regret Bush's decision to invade Iraq, either.
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In fact, almost all American industries, even non-war industries, are making money at the expense of the poor of other nations of the world. America--huge green and greedy, gluttonous, wasteful, selfish. Its dollar, the "greenback," or the American dollar that is sinking American! The car industry, a quick bankruptcy is impossible. Chapter 11 would take years to unfold during which time the companies would lose unrecoverable market share. Airlines don’t compare to auto manufacturers with independent suppliers providing credit and some four thousand parts needed every day; just one missing part can prevent assembly of a whole car. As long as a nation demands more than they need, in other words more than plenty, they demand absolute excess, extravagant luxury.--They have to rob the poor to get it, and to rob the poor to get it they have to wage war.The American people have been making war and making money in their war jobs and their high salaries at the expenses of the poor.
Ted Rudow III,MA

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Stanford University’s financial investments have continued to lose traction, sliding further down the nation’s slippery economic slope into what Provost John Etchemendy Ph.D. ‘82 — the University’s chief budgetary officer — is calling a “worsened” investment climate.

In light of the investment declines, Etchemendy and University President John Hennessy will immediately cut their own salaries by 10 percent, according to an email sent by the provost to some 12,000 faculty and staff members on Tuesday. A recent report by The Chronicle of Higher Education found that Hennessy brought home a total compensation of $701,501 during the 2006-2007 year.

Each of Stanford’s deans has also volunteered to take a salary reduction.

In addition, Etchemendy and Hennessy may axe further into Stanford’s general funds budget, chopping as much as $100 million from the $800 million budget over the next two years. This prediction has been upped from the administrators’ October estimate of a $45 million cut per year.

“We now anticipate a need for deeper, permanent reductions in the general funds budget, which funds most of our faculty and staff salaries, central administrative operations and non-research expenses,” Etchemendy wrote in Tuesday’s email.

Last month, the provost asked each unit of the University to submit reduction scenarios for a three percent cut, a five percent cut and a seven percent cut. Those three numbers have now been upped respectively to five, seven and 10, “in the context of an overall plan to eliminate 15 percent over the next two years.”

Still, Etchemendy noted that he is being cautious, and that the reductions may not be that severe.

“The ultimate cuts may not have to be this deep,” he said, “but we would be irresponsible not to prepare for this eventuality.”

Part of this preparation will include “unavoidable” layoffs, according to the provost. At the same time, he and the president will try to reduce the impact of layoffs by implementing hiring freezes to preserve some employment, providing a retirement incentive program in certain units and granting some employees the option to permanently reduce their work hours. Where layoffs are the only option, an “enhanced severance program” may also be provided.

Additional details on these programs will be provided in January, according to Tuesday’s email.

Stanford’s budget cuts will also delay or halt campus construction projects. In an interview with The Daily early last month, the provost explained how University officials decide which projects will continue and which will not.

“Any project that is currently underway is going to keep moving,” Etchemendy said. “Further, we will move forward any project that is a donor-supported project with a naming gift, because of the donor’s expectations.”

Although he did not mention specifics, the provost said the remainder of Stanford’s construction projects will be prioritized according to “academic need,” then halted and delayed starting from the bottom.

On Tuesday, following similar announcements recently made at Dartmouth and Brown, Harvard University announced that its endowment plummeted 22 percent in four months from its Jun. 30 value of $36.9 billion. Stanford budget officials have not yet announced the recent activity in Stanford’s endowment, which, at over $17.2 billion as of earlier this year, ranks third in higher education behind Harvard’s and Yale’s.




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Robbing the poor

In fact, almost all American industries, even non-war industries, are making money at the expense of the poor of other nations of the world. America–huge green and greedy, gluttonous, wasteful, selfish. Its dollar, the “greenback,” or the American dollar that is sinking American!

The car industry, a quick bankruptcy is impossible. Chapter 11 would take years to unfold during which time the companies would lose unrecoverable market share. Airlines don’t compare to auto manufacturers with independent suppliers providing credit and some four thousand parts needed every day; just one missing part can prevent assembly of a whole car.
As long as a nation demands more than they need, in other words more than plenty, they demand absolute excess, extravagant luxury.–They have to rob the poor to get it, and to rob the poor to get it they have to wage war.The American people have been making war and making money in their war jobs and their high salaries at the expenses of the poor Iraqi!



Thursday, December 04, 2008

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Students and community members walk past the Paseo de San Antonio Ferris wheel on Tuesday night as part of Christmas in the Park.



Twinkling red and green lights, uplifting holiday music and laughing children can be seen and heard long before reaching Plaza de Cesar Chavez in downtown San Jose.

Surrounding a 25-foot Christmas tree, displays depicting motorized bears, reindeer and elves captivate old and young passersby alike. A light of joy washes upon children's faces as the snow machines sprinkle white snow-like material into the air. Christmas in the Park, a free event running from Nov. 28 to Jan. 1 has, for 29 years, been a part of downtown San Jose's community, said Martie Degutis, vice president of the Christmas in the Park board of directors--/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2/03/08 I think the commercializing of Christmas by the merchants, it's hypocritical, and it's polluting our children's minds with the wrong meaning of Christmas, the wrong purpose of Christmas, the wrong things.
The Christmas tree itself even can be made to symbolise the beauty of life and living. In Wintertime the evergreen, even in the midst of death and decay, is sort of a symbol of everlasting life. If you can constantly make it a reminder of Jesus.
If the true meaning of Christmas doesn't get lost in the Christmas tree somewhere and its decorations then good! Somehow you can manage to make the true meaning of Christmas and Christ and Jesus and His birth still shine through then I'm all for it, the more it glorifies Jesus! The more it extols Christ!
Ted Rudow III,MA
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

The dark side of credit

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Dear Editor: Instead of lending 10 times the value of their underlying assets, investment banks started lending out 30 times their asset value. They were getting colossal quantities of almost free money. “Leveraged buyouts” (LBOs) became the name of the corporate game. Groups of investors would get together, target a company, borrow to buy it, sell it at a profit, and move on. Hedge funds flipped multibillion-dollar companies the way amateur property speculators in California flipped houses.
But it was all based on credit, and the dark side of credit is debt. All of this leveraging works only as long as the underly­ing assets, the collateral for the loan, retain their value. Using leverage seemed like free money. But when assets decline in value, the ugly side of debt appears in the form of “de-lever­aging.”
“And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, ‘Come and see.’ And I beheld, and to a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, ‘A mea­sure of wheat for a penny; and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine’” (Revelation 6:5-6 KJV.).
This black horse’s rider with the pair of balances in his hand symbolizes the rich capitalists who have a major impact on world conditions through their manipulation of national economies. Only one other verse in the Bible pictures a man with balances or scales: “The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud” (Hosea 12:7 NIV).
Ted Rudow III,MA

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The best immediate indicator of what an Obama administration might look like can be found in the people he surrounds himself with and who he appoints to his Cabinet. And, frankly, when it comes to foreign policy, it is not looking good. Obama has a momentous opportunity to do what he repeatedly promised over the course of his campaign: Bring actual change. But the more we learn about who Obama is considering for top positions in his administration, the more his inner circle resembles a staff reunion of President Bill Clinton’s White House. Unstable global financial markets, waves of bankruptcy, deepening unemployment, economic busts, markets plunging, collapsing consumer confidence, banking systems crashing — it does not seem that there is any place on earth immune from the financial crisis. Who will be able to rescue the world from this mess? Where have all the leaders gone? Who is capable? Though he’s unknown to most people, his presence can be felt as he manipulates and put things in line and sets the stage for his grand entrance. There is a strongman behind the scenes (not Obama) who is bringing to the attention of the world the need for a savior, someone to come forward and take the reins. But it will cost your soul?


Ted Rudow III,MA

Monday, December 01, 2008

Yield to the rich — shame on him

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On Jan. 31, 1975, it was raining, I was driving and I passed a truck. We hit another car, head-on. When I emerged from the coma, I had to relearn how to walk, talk, read and write. I spent almost one year in therapy, learning to cope with only my left side working.
Now, after three surgeries and kidney and heart problems because of diabetes, I am very disabled and have not worked in seven years. Social Security is all that I have, and to think a foreign-born ex-bodybuilder is going to cut tools for the disabled and cut their income to yield to the rich — shame on him!
– Ted Rudow III, M.A.
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