re: #206 Optimizer

At the moment, I happen to be sitting in the very township where SUNY/Buffalo resides. No fair! You’re a Lizard, not the average Joe down there. My favorite instance of NYC geographical ignorance I heard of was when a friend of mine told someone he was from VT when he was down there. As the one guy struggled as to where that was, his friend chided him, “No, it’s Upstate!”

The talk of pork in the article doesn’t alarm me much. We know that practically all of them do it. If anything it’s refreshing to see a politician be open & honest about it. These days I get more focused on “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” (read that, “pro-American foreign policy and capitalism”).

Her “flip-flopping” - to the extent that it exists - seems to focus on gay rights issues, which are not hot buttons for me.

Hey - one of my ancestors fought in the Revolution along the NY/CT border down there. Lived in a little place called “North Salem”, in the NE corner of Westchester Co. 15-year-old kid, apparently with a lot of spunk - got shot up and captured, almost died & got a crippled up arm for life. A trillion thanks, gt-gt-gt-gt grandpa!

Very small world! I liked it upstate. The pace of life is so different. My youngest still roots for the Sabres. We also live in Westchester County…the southern part, near da Bronx.

I just do not feel that she is the one, but OTOH? There is enough time to see exactly where she stands. I hope that a Republican will run, and win…not easy in a blue state.

My ancestors came here in the late 1800’s, and early 20^th centuries…3 from Lithuania, and one from the East End of London. They came to escape Jew hate. My maternal Granddad served as an apprentice in the Royal Navy at age 14, and came here when he served for an unknown number of years, and enlisted in the US Army. He lied re his name and age, and stated that his parents lived in Boston (my home town), gave a false name & address, and he was taken! I found all this out about 20 years ago, as my Grandfather died before I was born. It made it very hard to get a veteran’s pension for my Gram zt”l, but they did, as they found papers. My cousin, who served in the Army, was going through records where he was stationed, and found our Grandfather had served in the very same unit…the fake name, etc., were all there. Incredible.

As for your ancestors? All I can say is ‘thank you’, and bless you! What a family history.