War Ration Book

[BA Deere]

I was looking through some old family papers and came across some war ration books with stamps in them.   this is a story about those books from WWII

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/hfc_hfccp01025/ 

http://www.ameshistory.org/exhibits/events/rationing.htm 

Rita Hayward donated her car bumpers to the war effort.

http://flashbak.com/hollywood-stars-in-world-war-2-43-photos-7883/ 

Even the Hollywood crowd did their part, how could we lose.   🙂

[rawhide]

Couldn't you see today's hollywood weenies flying bomber missions? Ha!

[bruce MN]

We most likely know how they'd have done, had the Iraq War have been as justifiable as WW2. And, of course, there been the selective service draft that would have leveled out the conversation and brought some sanity to the dishonest drive to that conflict.. Interesting how many of those greatest generation folks from show business turned out to be post war progressives. Large numbers of them coming under the knife of Joe Mcarthy. And how noticably absent are the 2 biggies that most thick skulled conservatives would hold up as the greatest of the greatest gen, John Wayne and Ronald Reagan.

[hardnox]

The leftist crowd supported the effort fervently. And there was a substantial number of them in those days as compared to now when Saul Alinsky is required to serve posthumously.

Although somewhat shameful insofar as that wasn't so true while Hitler still respected the non-aggression pact with the Soviets. But of course probably a majority of conservatives also thought they could live with Hitler.

Churchill was a significant outlier in that regard although he was on most things- arguably only really right about one thing in his life. But it was a big thing.

[Samthehumble]

Jimmy stewart

[bruce MN]

The gun control advocate Jimmy Stewart? That one?

[Samthehumble]

Republican

[Red Steele]

What do you think it was that made Winston Churchill make the stand he did for the sovereign future of England, and what is it that Obama lacks that makes him such a poor leader of American interests?

I have thought about that for a while, and to me it seems pretty obvious. Just wondering if you "get" it, too. Mona Charen has a great article about Obama, Leader of France that you can google and read where she lays it out.

Alexander Dumas was a writer of books, and seducer of women, with about 40 documented affairs and lots of kids. He was a french dumas. America has its own dumbazz, and he is a French socialist wannabee.

We need our own Winston Churchill that came from a family heritage where the country meant something to them. 

[Red Steele]

We can sense plenty of evil in our lives, even here on this board. Just think of the evil that a family man like Jimmy Stewart witnessed during his long career in Hollywood, and he still kept his bearings. 

[BA Deere]

...where that comes from is Republican James Stewart`s support of the Gun Control act of 1968.  Charlton Hesston supported it as did the NRA.  I actually don`t have a problem with the Gun Control Act of `68, all it basically did was crack down on mail order guns, as nutty as the country was becoming at the time with the likes of the "Weathermen Underground", Frank Marshal and Bill Ayers and such something was clearly needed.  No law abiding citizen`s 2nd Amendment rights were infringed by that act.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act_of_1968 

On a related note Sammy Davis Jr was a "gun nut" as was Buddy Hackett.  Here`s one of Buddy`s sweet revolvers that went up on auction.

http://www.gunauction.com/buy/6643944#