WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED This is the true memoir of one US Air Force navigator’s journey from the schoolhouses of Air Training Command to the nuclear alerts of the Cold War to combat in a 35-year-old anachronism called the B-52. It is a first-hand account of life during the last days of Strategic Air Command, the early days of Air Combat Command and the ensuing military drawdown of the 1990s. From peacetime training exercises across the globe to combat operations in Desert Storm, Jim Clonts takes the reader inside the cockpit where life and death are seconds apart. Often comical, sometimes heart-pounding, other times tragic, WHEN PENGUINS FLEW AND WATER BURNED takes you into the world of military aviation, a crucible where warriors learn the true nature of character, conscience and mortality.

Friends of Liberty VOL 13
by Jim Clonts, 2009

06/30/2009

Recently I heard an excellent comparison of President Obama's healthcare plan versus public education. If you listen to liberal prescriptions for fixing education, they always include increased pay for teachers, increased funding for buildings and school facilities and more money for computers, textbooks, etc. In other words, spend more on education, pay the educators more, and get better results. The State of New Jersey currently pays over $14,000 per year per public school student and the libs say that's not enough.

President Obama vows to cut healthcare costs by providing a government insurance option that will limit what doctors, hospitals and drug companies can charge for their services and products. Like Medicare today, Government will reimburse a small percentage, rather than what it really costs the providers. If an insurance company tries this, the doctor drops them. I guarantee dropping the Federal Government won't be an option. Obama says his plan will spend less for medicines, less for doctors and healthcare professionals, while at the same time increasing the number of people being treated. This will improve our healthcare system. If this will work, why not cut teacher's salaries and get smarter kids?

Mainstream Media Quote of the Week:

"You can be individuals all you want, but somebody has to think for the masses"

-Larry King, Larry King Live, April 2nd, 2009

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