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Hanover Co trends bright scarlet. I guess ICE has eyes on empty warehouses, space for 1500 state "prisoners".

@romad1 Did you see that ICE wants to build another detention facility in Hanover County? BOS is supposed to vote on it this week

Along with Sherman and to a certain extant Grant's no holds barred treatment of the insurgents in the west and south.

Good JVL today. Calling Minnesota Trump's Gettysburg moment. Comparing Trump to another traitor named Lee... https://www.thebulwark.com/p/our-gettysburg-moment-minneapolis-trump-dhs?utm_source=substack&publication_id=87281&post_id=185847441&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false&r=45wcm&triedRedirect=true

Opus lives !!!! (????)

I'll stick with my Allison Krauss playlist this morning, thanks

I think we may have had a few in Farmington Hills when we lived there pre 2017 or so. I thought I saw one in the sub while walking the dog a few years before, (13 mile and Haggerty)...There was a buffer area behind the house that backed up to a golf course. We would occasionally hear something like dogs (?) and deer. I'm not sure what the pack was but the sound of deer screaming was a bit scary in the late night early mornin hours.

Thank's for installing it in my addled brain this morning.

What is it about US boarder patrol agents? The few times I've made the crossing from Canada to the US, I've found them to be jerks. Not always but it's been significant, this was well before the current situation.

January 26 Happy Admittance Day Michigan

Been there done that. Spent the 90s there. It’s a nice place to visit….. Seriously the Hawk blowing thru Streeterville in the Winter is a serious drawback. The ice storm we had here Sunday will have melted by midweek. I hope

According to this the NRA was in favor of reforms until 2A Activists pulled a coup in 1977 known as the Cincinnati revolt https://www.wideners.com/blog/history-of-the-nra/ I'm old enough to remember NRA gun education classes when I was young, mostly promoting recreation and hunting.

Norfolk, Va and environs had a major storm in 1980. I think it was late February that year. Once again a Sunday afternoon storm. The circus was in town at the big arena in Norfolk. The building also hosted minor league hockey, the Virginia Squires when the ABA was a thing and concerts. The storm was bad enough for police not to let people leave for a day or two. Her parents came to Richmond Saturday afternoon (about 2 hours away) and ended up spending 4 days. The station had a four wheel drive by then, International Harvester whose wipers broke with the first serious snow. My wife was putting in 18 hour days covering stories and ferrying employees. She wondered why she was so tired. Turned out she was five months pregnant.

I remember a few "blizzards" in the late 70's in Virginia. Especially 1979 and 1980. My favorite story was in 1979. My wife was working at a radio station in Richmond, Va. WRVA was the equivalent to say WJR in Detroit or WGN in Chicago, a 50 thousand watt clear channel blowtorch. Long time legend for a morning man and monster ratings. Anyway we got about 9-10 inches of snow, if I remember correctly. I was working at a local Arby's at the time and when we closed early I put a set of chains on my Pinto. It was a Sunday afternoon, I heard her boss on the air on the way in and mentioned it. She called in, he said come on in. We spent the night in the sales manager's office. They got us up around 5, the only station folks were the morning guy, news guy, overnight jock who usually did his show from a truck stop 35 miles away, my wife and myself. Too long story short, they put out a call for 4-wheel drive vehicles to ferry staff in. I think they were offering $50 an hour. When enough staff made it in, my wife and I took off, all these guys standing around with their big trucks, I cleaned off the Pinto and drove off. I still can remember the look on their faces. "GODAMN PINTO"

That's it Noll, Cowher, Tomlin were not exciting coaches. Cower and Tomlin came from the Noll coaching tree. McCarthy is older, he's a QB whisperer supposedly, he won't be around for the next 7 years or so. At the same time he's a Pittsburgh guy, a placeholder to reset the ship and hopefully setup the next guy. Pittsburgh ownership is also in a state of flux so again he fits in well with that organizaation.

https://bsky.app/profile/mattcameron.bsky.social/post/3mdbji6z2e22l

Same guy as above

And they are randomly grabbing REAL NATIVES...

"But, But, But, he's a Pittsburgh Guy" (Most Yinzers)

I'm not sure it's been mentioned here but Death By Lightening is a good short series. It's about the election and Presidency of James Garfield. Excellent cast. Michael Shannon as Garfield, Matthew Macfayden as assassin Charles Guiteau, Bradley Whitfield as James Blaine, Nick Offerman as Chester Arthur, Shey Whigham eating up scenery as Roscoe Conklin. It's fairly accurate but does overplay a few roles. Macfayden and Shannon are especially impressive