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Minnesota, who ended up getting killed on Saturday, about the firearm that he had. And you're insisting that it's a P-226-Sig, right? Yes. It's what it is. That was the competition. When there was a competition to replace the 1911s, the Beretta M9 won the competition, but the 226 was SIG's competitor. Yeah.

To my view, though, it looked more like a 3-20. Where do they go wrong on that? I've had both of those firearms. I don't have them now. Yeah, you just can't see the hammer because the slides locked back. Okay. All right. I like the 226 at that point, but, you know, it's kind of a big old, heavy old gun.

You know, but it works. Absolutely. It's a double-stack 9 millimeter. It works very well. My son carried one of those. He was in special forces for seven years. Well, he was in special forces for five years. Okay.

How do you think, though, the president and the Fed should be reacting to something like this? I'll talk with Dr. Powers about this, too, but I think we're getting very close. You know, we're in a soft form of open rebellion to federal authority, which looks to be hardening. But how do you see it? Yes. Well, that's exactly what I see. And that book that I told you about, the lawyer wrote. Jonathan Turley?

for Jonathan Turley, he describes exactly what the situation is. And the people that are riling up the mobs have got them on total emotion. They simply cannot function in any kind of logic because they're so angry. And, you know, it comes from the education system, all the unions and everything. They're trying to protect their positions. And so they rile people up to the point that they cannot have. any kind of logic. Those people out there don't, you know, they think that they're supporting the state of Minnesota for a reason that is false, you know, and it's almost impossible to convince

them otherwise. I'm not sure if putting the, you know, calling it an insurrection, putting troops out there is going to help those people. They might, it might be more of a war. Well, I don't know. It could, Well, of course, if you're going to be a war, bring it out of the open then, rather than hiding behind signal chats and raising funds for weapons and tactical gear and supplies on GoFundMe, which is going on right now in Minnesota. Absolutely. Okay. Well, that's the rage part of it. You know, they're not being logical. You know, the federal government, Trump was elected to get rid of illegals, and he's trying to do that.

the state of Minnesota doesn't want that to happen because... But that's not up to the state of Minnesota to decide. Just like it's not up to... Yeah, it's not up to the state of Oregon to decide immigration policy either. But Steve, I appreciate the call. Thanks for making that. All right. Let me grab another call here, and then we'll get Dr. Powers on in a couple of minutes.

Hi, who's this? Morning. Hello? Hey, Bill, Brad. Yeah, Brad, go ahead. Yeah, so you know what, Bill? I know that if your son called you up and said, hey, dad, I'm kind of bored of what do you think if I go down to the most active insurrectionary I can find in Minneapolis and go right up to the front and really get in the face of these law enforcement brothers?

Oh, yeah, and I want to bring my pistol. What do you think you would tell your son, Bill? I would tell my son, don't be a moron. Don't be a moron. So, Bill, hot off the press, as we find out that on top of everything else, there is this shadow group. I know that you follow this stuff, but a gentleman named Kemp, Cam Higby has infiltrated these groups.

They're called signal groups, and their sole intention is tracking down federal agents, impeding, assaulting, and obstructing them. Yeah, I was reading Higby's ICE post. Yeah, or the ex post, rather, about ICE, yes. Yeah, yeah, this is amazing. Would you please ask Dr. Powers what he thinks about that, and also your thoughts on that would be very interesting. All right, very good.

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Okay, first things first with Dr. Dennis Powers, retired professor of business law. It's where past meets present. We're going to go to the past first and then bring it up to the chaotic current. How you doing this morning, doctor? Welcome back. Oh, my pleasure, of course. And you're absolutely right with the way everything just seems to be going absolutely incredible, especially in terms of, you know, the people that stand taller than most. Let's talk about Shirley Patton this time. In fact, you have her profile today on where past meets president, a legend in her own time, is what you say.

I mean, literally. And tell us a bit about her, please. Yeah, and, you know, we had talked, you know, last week about Bill Wright, who was blind and received the award from the community in Jackson, County, as you did, for meritorious service when he was, you know, really working not only for Knife River, but for others. And now we have Shirley Patton. And you know, Bill, I was very fortunate because I was able to know her well when I was writing for as it was for JPR. And I had like some 300 different scripts that I'd worked with Shirley on. And she was a theater major at Stanford

University in Portland, and this is the late 1950s, Bill. Long story short was the fact that she had heard of this tiny theater company in Ashland, Angus Baumers' behemoth now the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, but it didn't have much then. Long story short was the fact that she came down, she played it the morning of the opening night when the original actress was hospitalized the night before, wasn't even an understality and did so well that Baumer invited her to return, although he'd given out all his scholarships. Now, we'll go ahead and fast forward just a few months. She now comes back, and she was going up to Portland, my friend, to go ahead and to teach so she could earn her living.

and in any event she then is taking and has taken a bus and she is back in Ashland. And here comes this very friendly, good-looking guy, Bill Patton, just minutes after she got off the bus who came by and said, well, I got your bed and I'm moving the furniture now up to the dormitory where you are. Well, they married six months later. We're married for 50 years. Well, I didn't take long, and it lasted a long. time. Well, six months later and boom, off we go. It really did, Bill. And you know, this is the old time values that I'm so disgusted with not seeing like with Minnesota. And in any

event, Shirley then played more than 50 roles for OSF. I mean, she essentially, I mean, she was the OSF, I mean, probably most famous for that. That was her main accomplishment. manner. I mean, we're Mrs. OSF, I guess you could say, right? One of the big deals? Yeah, that's true, Bill. But, you know, in that case, you didn't really weren't paid the best then. So she was going ahead and was in many different theater venues, such as the Criterion, the Camelot, over at Southern Oregon University. but when it came, and I remember this, my friend, so well, was that she played Daisy Wortham in driving Miss Daisy over, I was about 12 years ago at the Camlet Theater, which is the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning story of driving Miss Daisy. But you see, Shirley has had for years Parkinson's disease, which is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. Boy, and know it well. My father died of that a few years ago.

Oh, really? Oh, yeah. Parkinson's is something I would not bless on anyone that I know. It was not fun. How has she been dealing with her? Did she deal with it? Well, with courage, with fortitude. And so when she was going ahead and talked to Olivia, Denise, who was the artistic director then, and I had met Livy a few times. But in any way, she said, okay, I will play Daisy if Daisy can have Parkinson's.

And she worked on the problems, but couldn't mask a tremor in one hand. So this Daisy with Parkinson's had a tremor. And I'll let you know that the applause on opening night was deafening. I'll bet. And she was, you know, my friend, there are people who are. I look at and say they have been blessed. They have a skill that I really admire and respect. She had that in acting and was incredible.

It was the nicest person. Now, is she still with us? Because I know her husband, Bill, passed away, what, 15, 14, 15 years back, right? He did. He did. And that's absolutely correct. And in a matter of fact, OSF, dedicated. its 2011 season

to Patten. That was at 76 who had led the company from 1953 to 1995, which is another story in itself. And in any event, the other part for surely that people may not know, but I saw personally, was the fact

that she was not only the longest standing member of the Tudor Guild, which supports OSF financially, before OSF made its It's slippery dive down the leftist post way before then. But what she did was she would find housing and household items for actors, along with child care for employees, volunteers. Boy, this was her real passion then, and you really have to admire her.

This was OSF before Wokey Brokey, although I have to say, though, it does appear that their ticket sales are going up dramatically. I ended up having that new story the other day that they're about 40% up over the year prior. So maybe the drought is over and maybe they're going to start actually doing good place again? What do you think? Yeah, and you see what people forget, though, is that for OSF, that it really struggled for decades, and along with SOU, which is still struggling. and because of amazing people, such as Shirley Patton and her husband Bill Patton and others, OSF survived because of the kindness and the skill of those that just dedicated their lives to it. So now when you have, like for example, the board of OSF rather than people who are totally dedicated to theater, as you would see in Broadway,

you're having it now for those who were fundraisers. Got it. All right. Doc, final question I have is that I was wondering, is Shirley still alive today? I know she went to live with her family in the late 2010s, I guess, but do you know if she's still around or not? Do we know? Oh, yeah.

And as a matter of fact, she comes back and forth, you know, from Portland. just as a matter of fact, a few months ago, there was a picture of her in actually in Action. Dot News in terms of opening a rehearsal studio for OSF. And the thing is, is when we remember how OSF started, it was due to people that believed so much and actually volunteered rather than the way it came into a good place to put on your resume now. It really has changed. All right, I get that. Doc, I appreciate that.

And it's Shirley Patton, a legend in her own time. That is today's where past meets present. And we appreciate that. Hang on. We've got plenty of lawfare and various other stuff to talk about, okay? We're right with you here. Sounds like a winner. Dr. Dennis Powers, retired professor of business law, 825.

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States of America. There is an affordability crisis, one created by Joe Biden's policy. News at the top and bottom of every hour. News Talk 1063KMED. Welcome to the Bill Myers Show on 1063KMED. Day 27, Dr. Dennis Power is a retired professor of business law. Hey Doc, minor day. Out of the Iron Gain ended up asking a question off air, I thought was pretty good. You know how Tim Walls, Governor Tim Walls, essentially has National Guard in Minnesota working against ICE. And working against the ICE agents in Minneapolis, that was reported over the weekend. I remember seeing that. Is that not, in essence, warring against these United States or sort of an insurrection, something which is,

that should be triggering the Insurrection Act. Do you have a take on that? What's been going on? I agree. And I think President Trump has been using a very good approach where, even with this National Guard giving coffee and donuts to the demonstrators, including the violent ones, you see the fact that this is a state that is wildly out of control. But yeah, this is conditioning. This is actually conditioning. the people to essentially get in their face and causing more death and destruction. And I would dare say we had, I don't know what the thought process is, or was rather for the ICU nurse who ended up getting sideways with them. And I'm also not saying that this is even a justified shooting.

I've watched videos that bring up a lot of questions. But you know, you don't bring your gun to your protest. I'm just saying that, you know, if you have half a brain. And I think there's a lot of encouragement from local officials to do this? What do you think? That's true, and this is an insurrection. And I believe that what Trump is doing with the Justice Department is getting all of the little eggs lined up, including the fraud that is going on. This is, you know, really dating back from Biden and Obama, the fraud that's going on in Minnesota is absolutely incredibly deafening. You know, you just can't believe it.

And he's getting all of his ducks in a row, so when he's ready to go, he will. Doc, what actually happens if President Trump goes there and pulls the big hammer, pulls the switch, and puts in place the Insurrection Act, what does it actually mean then to the cities where it ends up being enacted? It means that if he did that, he'd have to have some soldiers on the ground because he's always also been forced to hang back in terms of using the National Guard because you've had a split. And that argument, you know, a split in terms of the pellet courts in the federal court districts, there has been a split. and now that decision, and they are waiting to see to what extent does they have that power

to bring in the National Guard. But the President under the Insurrection Act would not be bringing in National Guard. It would actually be active-duty Army. Is that the case? That's correct. That's exactly what I'm saying. So the courts can't really say anything about that, could they? Well, that's what you would hope.

But where I'm disgusted with the law these days, and the appointments is that, you know, these federal district judges are going in lockstep with the rest of those who are demonstrating in this civil war and going against whatever the law really was established in trying to put these bindings on Trump on doing everything. I mean, like our gorgeous state here with its far-left platoon has, what, 55 lawsuits against Trump? Unbelievable. I know that right now, you know, right now we're looking at, I don't know if you read the stories over the weekend, showing that there are some pretty deep signal chats, you know, that signal app, which is an encrypted messaging app on many people's cell phones.

and apparently there has been a lot of people connected with the governor involved in the actual ginning up of resistance to this. Now, is that all constitutionally protected that, hey, we're going to take on ice here and try to get in their face and stop them from accomplishing their duty, I guess? That's an absolutely good point. There's no question that with this state, that they've already served subpoenas as onto the governors and the mayor's offices saying, we want to see all of your communications, and they're going to be fighting that in the courts. This is one where these people will go to jail. The only question is, to the extent with this fraud, that they can go ahead and lawyer up, with their friendly little federal district court judges.

Yeah, well, that's, of course, you're speaking to the fraud, and I certainly hope that's right. That's probably... And along with this, too, Bill. Oh, okay. Because they're hand-in-hand. Yeah, because it's one thing to go out there and wave your signs. It's quite another thing to go out there and say,

all right, I'm going to actually actively thwart. I'm going to put my car in the middle of the road. I'm going to get in your face and give you a poke, you know, on the chest, or whatever the case might be. And yet I can't help but think that when you are out there doing your best to deport some of the worst that we have, and some of the people who just are here illegally too, but when you had the husk bring in 10 million or more in his four years in office, as we all know who we're talking about here, it's going to get ugly, isn't it?

I mean, I don't think that there's any way that it's going to look just happy, happy, joy, joy here. And I guess should we be girding our loins for more of this? Yes. And you're absolutely right. This is about power. This is about the far-left radical base, which has taken over the Democratic Party, in terms of a civil war that's going on where they want power. Now, Soros was able to surprise the Republicans by getting in,

Kamimandami and a couple of these others, because he always was able to figure out with his son how to get monies in in different ways. I agree with you. There is an investigation going right now in terms of the signal, use of signals to go ahead and have the latest in GasMax masks, and to also have a foot soldier to bring a gun to this type of situation. The whole thing is now seen, my friend, in terms of we may have another shutdown, in terms of now over ice, which is what the far left party wants to do with the Democrats, and they are going in lockstep. Yeah, this is obviously the hill they're looking to die on here.

At least the one thing that we have learned from all of this after all these years, Dr. Powers, is that there is one non-cop white guy carrying in Minneapolis, also with extra magazines that the leftists get all the way behind. And I never heard so much talk about the Second Amendment coming from the left as I did this weekend, this past weekend. What about you, huh? Because the irony of all this is the way that these far-left Democrats talk out of both sides of their mouth, such as they were very quick in terms of the law that came in, the FACE Act,

having to do with protecting anti-life church movements. But now when they sent their thugs in to a church to break up that church service, not a word by these people. So people have got to understand. This is a civil war. Everything is orchestrated, and it's fighting. We can't do it as much here, although I really respect people like yourself and others who try to clarify and do clarify exactly what's going on in this commie world. And, you know, I have my fingers crossed in terms of the taxpayer association and as to the taxes that have been thrown in. Yeah.

Let me ask you a quick question. Before you take off, though, Doc, and then it has to do with – we haven't heard anything yet from the Supreme Court about the president's tariff power. And I can't help but think that this is strategic. This has got to be a no. They're probably going to rip away his tariff power, wouldn't you? gray or do you think what do you think's going to happen with is won? I think it's an uphill battle for him to win, but you see where the administration is really outthinking, if they'd have a chance from these Democratic appointed district court judges,

is the way that Trump used very quickly with Canada. The tariff power to say, don't you dare go ahead for our strategic interests against our strategic interest and cozy up to China. So he's using it in many different ways. You know, there's a challenge, you know, there's a problem with that, though. Is it really up to the president to tell our sovereign neighbor that you don't have a treaty with China? Now, to the extent that you put on what China's been doing, that they're setting up the argument, which they've already used in terms of the oral arguments that have already been before the Supreme Court. They've set those up in saying that there is a national security issue here,

and they're using it also to come into Greenland. The thing, Bill, that really hits me is the fact that, yes, I would like to see more action, but on the other hand, they being the Trump administration, is really putting in their documents, in order to have everything ready to go as they now deal with another shutdown by the far left. Yeah. Apparently this is about funding of DHS, right? They want to defund Homeland Security and Border Patrol, apparently, right? Well, part of the thing that we need to put together is that these demonstrators are anti-America, anti-country. Take a look at the look. the way they demonstrated and burnt and lit on fire Tesla dealerships.

They just jumped from one protest to the other using their signal chats and the money coming in from source and to an extent Obama. See, Obama's been forced my friend into this because his legacy is being crushed. And he hasn't even finished his presidential mausoleum. Well, I hope you're right about that. I hope it is crushed that record, okay? All right, Doc. Well, I'm sure there will be something to talk about next Monday,

and we'll do that then. All right? You'd be well. Well, I've learned two things already today, so thank you, my friend, and you take care and have a good week. You too now. Dr. Dennis Power is retired professor of business law and SOU. It is 839, and you're on KMED.

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Yeah, I really enjoy being involved in the Jackson County Republican group. We just try to help out as much as we can to promote conservative values. All right. Well, tell us what is going on with your Social Security seminar. It's actually about maximizing social security. you're going to be doing a series of these, what, lectures or seminars, I guess, starting tomorrow? Yeah, they're educational classes. People don't realize it, but the average person spends, this is a true statistic, the average person spends more time planning a vacation than they do figuring out the right time to elect Social Security.

And so it's extremely important, you know, for my average Medfordite or Jackson County resident, their social security is going to make up around 33% of their income at a minimum. And so it's really important to know what your numbers are. A lot of people will say, well, I'll just go ahead and collect when my friend, so-and-so, did. But each individual-specific situation is different. You might have a spouse that's younger. You have to consider all of the different factors when electing your social security. And, of course, how long you're going to live for is really an important factor.

I have really great software that runs a social security timing report for people, and it's going to show you the different times to elect, and based on how long you're going to live, how much money you would harvest out of social security. All right. Now, that's interesting. So you have some software which actually predicts your life then. I mean, what overall?

Well, I can't do that. It doesn't do that. So you look at me and said, okay, why are you still alive, Bill? No. It doesn't do that. There's lots of factors that come into play when determining mortality, and that, of course, is going to be your family history, how healthy you are, prescriptions that you're taking, any kind of, you know, diseases or any kind of medical issues that you have.

And then you've got your spouse. So if you're married, you might have a really healthy spouse and you might not be so healthy. We want to make sure that Social Security, whoever has the largest one, when a person passes away, that spouse that is remaining is only going to collect the one social security. And so that may affect somebody else other than just yourself. So we want to make sure we're looking at the situation from a household standpoint. What's an example then of how some people, I would imagine more people than not probably take it too early? Or would I be wrong on that?

They're saying, like thinking, hey, it's all right. I'm going to grab my money while I can. Or is sometimes that a good idea? What do you think? Sometimes it's a good idea if you can't afford. to postpone your social security. If you're still working, I would strongly consider postponing unless you really don't have a longevity in your lifetime that you're not going to live that long.

But for the most part, collecting Social Security while you're working is probably not going to be ideal. Why is that? You're going to get taxed more on it. Oh, yeah, I know that. And, you know, you've got to look at the fact that right now you're working and you've got this income coming in and your social security isn't going to grow anymore after you elect it. This is a permanent decision. So it's not like later on you could just change your mind and

decide to postpone. Once you elect your benefits, you're going to be collecting that amount for the rest of your life with just the COLA's on it. And your social security increases by 8% per year for every year you postpone it. So for example, if you're making $3,000 a month right now, and you collect your social security early, and so now it's only $2,000 a month, what are you going to do when you no longer have that $3,000 a month income? You know, you want to make sure that your expense needs are being met in retirement. What is the earliest you can take Social Security? 62.

62, okay. And then most people, their full retirement age, the people that are looking at collecting now, their full retirement age is 67. So that would be the age that you would get the full amount. And then it's going to increase every year past the age of 67 all the way to the age of 70. I know they, I have my Social Security little form, you know, you get online and, you know, download and take a look. And they're saying, yeah, 67 and a half is my full Social Security retirement. But I guess 70 is the cutoff.

You have to take it by that time. So your Social Security full retirement age is 67. Oh, 67. Yeah. And then, of course, it's not going to increase anymore. past the age of 70, so you would definitely want to take it by the age of 70. All right. Okay.

And again, going into that factor that your spouse might live longer than you. And so you want to make sure, or you might pass away before your spouse does or vice versa, and you want to make sure that if one of the people remaining, they're only going to get to collect one social security. So we want to make sure that that's going to sustain them for the rest of their lives. So whoever's going, whichever spouse has the higher social security benefit potential, you want to make sure that that gets maximized, right? Yes.

That's all part of this. Yes. And again, it comes down to the financial planning piece, which really I help people with, is I like to take those numbers and be able to plug them into cash flows to be able to show, if you collect yourself security at this age, then at the end of your life, this is how much money we think you're going to have. We want to make sure you're not going to run out of money. What role is Medicare playing in the planning right now, Melissa, because I got to tell you,

I don't have not actually seen the numbers, but Medicare took a big, big increase this year, didn't it for next year? Yes, it was by 10.3 percent. So last year it was $185 a month, and now it is $202.90 a month. So we were talking about it earlier that a lot of people are complaining, well, I got my COLA, my cost of living increase on my self-security, and then they took it away for Medicare, and so it's quite frustrating. Yeah. Yeah, so much for a cola.

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Melissa Melascoe from Futurity First. Now, these classes that she's putting on, she's putting on a free one tomorrow night, and it's at, well, Central Point Parks and Ruffalo. is where you're putting this on. Yes, and that's kind of hidden over there on South Haskell Street. How do you get there? Do you know how to get there? You go past the silos over the railroad tracks and then make a left.

Yeah, the Grange Co-op, then make a left there. Okay. Yeah, and it's a really nice facility. It's practically brand new and Central Point is gracious enough to always be able to let us do our adult classes there. And this is going to start at 530 tomorrow night. So time is of the essence. Do you have to sign up prior or what?

We'd like to know you were coming so we could have packet ready for you and, you know, to make sure you can get there. And so our website is Futurity Retirement Advisors.com. And you can go there and register directly or you're welcome to also give us a call today at 541-973-210. And my team is Extension 3, but at the beginning of the... phone tree, it also gives you the option to register for a seminar. So again, that's 541-973, 2100, extension 3. Now, I'll put this information up on KMED.com today, but if you just needed a quick email of Bill that Bill Meyershow.com, and I'll give you the information by return email, and this way you can get in touch. So you're going to be talking about maximizing social security.

Is this also include Medicare talk or is that a different time? That's a different time. Today's, or tomorrow and I is specifically to help people understand how social security works. We're going to go through and be able to learn how they came up with your number. We're going to talk about, you know, the fact that, you know, social security might become insolvent in 2033, the different ways that Congress is going to plan on hopefully resolving that. and then really narrowing down to give you examples and to be able to show you how that benefits you. And every situation is different.

You want to know what yours is specifically. What works for one person doesn't work for another. And we're, of course, going to give you a free social security timing report that's specified for you. And this is tomorrow night, 530 at Central Point Parks and Recreation, 235 South Haskell Street in Central Point. 530, absolutely free. And if you could, please pre-register for it, but I guess you don't have to. You could just show up if you want. We'll try to have extra packets, knowing that we did this today, and there might be people

walking in. All right. Melissa, Melissa Milosco, from Futurity First. Thanks so much for being on Open for Business, okay? Thank you for all you do, Bill. Good luck on that and have a great time tomorrow night, helping people figure out when to quit, when to go into Social Security. It's a big decision, 856.

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