guys like lou brock who had sizemore hitting behind him, murray wills who had junior and -- will tell you how valuable it is to have a number 2 hitter who has the ability to make things develop and given time work in the count. base hit. 9 in a row. he set his own record. a new nationals record for nick johnson. 9 times in a row on base. 11 games in a row and 19 of his last 21. >> rob: as you talked about, bob, he got to a 3-2 count again. brett cecil having to work really hard to get to this count. to get back to what you were saying, for the 3, 4, 5 guys to get basically two leadoff hitters in front of them, they are seeing every pitch that cecil has in his repertoire. the more patient a guy like nick johnson is, zimmerman gets to sit there on deck and see what is going on and dunn gets to sit there in the hole and see what cecil has. that's what makes nick johnson so valuable to the rest of the line-up. you talked about adam dunn, a guy who takes as much pitches is equally as valuable. >> bob: that's a great point, rob, but we do want adam to swing more. we need that guy to swing a

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so we would advocate to more school districts the dedicating the army and giveing going to brock. host: bob on our line for republicans, welcome to "washington journal." caller: good morning. love the program. he kind of answered the question but didn't answer it. you want to know what they taught in these summer schools, and the the most important disability we have today in the united states is dislexya. the right and left brain. and you, none of the education is addressing this, and i'd rather have this monday spent sending kids to ranches in the sum they are in montana and nevada and new mexico and than sending them back to left-brain thinking institutes. and the government is a left-brain-thinking institute. host: bob, thank you. what do you do out there in montana? caller: what do i do? well, i meet brian lamb when he comes out here. i love that man. but i sell cigars and deal in real estate. host: so as a realts real estate cigar fish nodo and entrepreneur, what do you think it could offer a kid versus being in a classroom in baltimore? caller: that's a good question. 80% o

tell you the medications, all the stuff, but i have -- flat forget i brock my leg and was treated for a doctor paid by the the waco independent school district in 1967. >> congressman, our underwriting guidelines really kind of dictate that. but it is my understanding of how our underwriting guidelines work, is that since that condition would the not be material in our initial under writing decision, because it happened so far in the past, and was of a nonserious nature, that that would not have factored into the underwriting. >> and i understand you might not cover me because of my heart attack, i understand that, that would be totally westbound your company's right to say, congressman barton had a heart attack in 2004, 2005, and therefore we cannot issue him a policy. and and i understand that. my question is really, about my leg injury, from way back when if i don't disclose that, does that disqualify me potentially down the road? >> mr. collins? >> sir, the application is looking for information going ten years back, so, that would -- >> would not be material into would not be mat

you could brock it -- block it analytically by saying you've done this, that, and the other, and bow you are -- boy, you are going to get really hit and people might not want to call that bluff. this happened from time to time during the irani' iraq boy. all eight years of t. the convoys that wouldn't go through the straits because lords of london would clean their dlok stretched all the way back to musket and this happened for years and years there so something like that could happen again that would be stratstrofk on oil prices and a whole bunch of other things. insides of berain, you have the last con-- bahrain you have last country in the world where shi'a are the majority and in this case the overwhelming majority far more than than -- far more so than iraq but they are not in control of the government. the degree of dissidence. 4 or 5 times are over so there's an exposure there. with regard to the uae, the other three islands that are still occupied, in iran's special operation forces, in undersea capabilities are seriously to be taken into consideration, almost every year sinc