Yes, good points. Because Bush implementing DHS was the nail in the coffin, so to speak. "It's to keep us safe," or some such muck.

"The martial law thing has been a concern of mine since the current "resident" took the oath the first time." That would be 2008, four years after I pointed out the real threat to invoke martial law was in play. So which is it, were you engaging in hyperbole before, or are you now? Which time did you inflate the truth, when you said that your concern only started when the Democrat took office (probably not, not many assumptions for Lord Ockham there), or when you said that you worried about it while the Republican was doing the actual unravelling of the Constitution (very likely this one, given that evil prospered in a Burkesian kind of way)?

I couldn't agree more.

I was worried about it then, and consider the "Patriot" act to be real close and DHS to be giant waste of taxpayer money. I consider the act to be unconstitutional and that it needs to be repealed along with Ocare, etc.

Yes. Gun confiscation is freedom. Individual Rights are slavery.

Big Brother from '1984', and the Thought Police spring to mind...

Oh, I’m not sure if she ever had any interaction directly with Patton. I just think she heard first hand stories from the front. Patton was a celeb of sorts. But maybe she did? I dk. She kept her mouth shut till she died.

I believe we as Americans should be armed. It is our right. The problem is that they know they have screwed up big time and about to do more. If they continue to allow us to have our guns then we might decide to get rid of them all. Fear is a desperate thing. They are desperate as well they should be. WE are a people that are not going to take much more and they realize that fact to be firm.

Wise woman to keep her lips "zipped", then. That she interacted with Patton! And got a lift from MacArthur! Too cool! Lame word, but really, it sort of fits here. :-)

You're lucky. Raw milk is illegal here. :(

Actually, she never talked about it. Avoided it out of habit, I think. She was responsible for making the calls to the families when a soldier was killed or injured. Because of the nature of the job she would have had direct access at the time to our troops locations and movements.

“Loose lips, sink ships”

She did mention that MacArthur saw her walking, stopped and picked her and another girl up in his jeep, then gave them a lift to work once.
She mentioned Patton often, but never came to the point. She would start:
“That Patton, one time he...”
Then she would fall into a fit of laughter and end it with: “We all loved him, He was crazy.”
We never got the details. Lol.

We have small dairy farms, and they sell raw milk in the little grocery store near me. It's nice.

That's really interesting. She must have had some interesting stories from then.

My favotite bar in the Springs
https://www.facebook.com/MeadowMuffinsBa...

The dairies and creamery around here were regulated out of business, but there's still a lot of beef cattle. Also buffalo.

That depends on where you live. You need to watch where you put your feet around here.

I was only 8 when he was elected, but by that age, I'd already figured out what made the difference between 'good guys' and not...

You know he designed the concrete flower pots for the Old Executive building too. :) He definitely was constructive with his time in office.
I guess now-a-days that seems corny, but every time I pass that building, I reflect on the simple craftsmanship of those pots as if they were priceless,.doric columns.
Of course, Eisenhower was before my time. ;)

My mother worked under his general staff at the war dept years before I was born.

... and to move troops, if that's one of your important goals, the right infrastructure is needed. Great solution and great thinker. Probably still my favorite President of all.

Zen.. no argument at all... I said I was trying to cram it into a tiny nutshell... I agree with you!

Although I did make friends with some design-types at both companies and found a few that could learn some new views AND could teach me some new things, too! But... just a few.

AMEN and spot on! Try offering an 'engineering solution' to a doctor some time... I have... like tossing meadow-muffins against a barn wall. Few stick.

You're right. Nowadays, just the thought that a man of intelligence and integrity wants to run for political office is enough to cast rueful suspicion on him and his motives. But in this case, we have a non-politico who has already had a successful career and was the top guy in his field. Impossible as it seems, it has been done 2 years before an election many years ago Some politicians got together and formed a new party. They chose a dark horse who had failed many times to run for office(s). Somehow Lincoln and the newly formed Republican party won. One good thing Obama has done is to wake up a nearly comatose electorate and shown them that who you vote for really does make a difference.