And he is now saying, I am going to acclimate the American public to the use of military force anywhere I deem it. Appropriate under any circumstances, and I may well, the president may be thinking, I may well have us in a war by the time the elections roll around, which will enable me to say any opposition to me and my party is basically treason and unpatriotic.


I would consider livestock less than half, maybe even a third of the farming effort up here. Vermont does the dairy thing but that’s about it. It’s generally very mixed, some livestock, but mostly agriculture.