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1959: Buffy Holly, Richie Valens and JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson die when their chartered plane crashed during a flight from Mason City, Iowa to Moorhead, Minnesota. Richardson convinced Crickets band member Waylon Jennings to give up his seat, Valens won a coin toss for the third passenger. Don McLean memorialized the three in his 1972 hit American Pie, calling February 3, 1959 "the day the music died" In one of the most famous crimes of post-Revolution America, Barnett Davenport commits a mass murder in rural Connecticut. Caleb Mallory, his wife, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren were killed in their home by their boarder, Davenport. It would contribute to a change in the way the young nation views crime and criminals. Davenport, born in 1760, enlisted in the Continental army as a teenager and had served at Valley Forge and Fort Ticonderoga. In the waning days of the war with the British, he came to live in the Mallory household. Today, Davenport’s crime might be ascribed to some type of post-war stress syndrome, but at the time it was the source of a different sociological significance. On February 3, apparently unprovoked, Davenport beat Caleb Mallory to death. He then beat Mallory’s seven-year-old grandchild with a rifle and killed his daughter-in-law. Davenport looted the home before setting it on fire, killing two others. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/day/february-3

And when you get quotes like Vance's earlier today, you know this attitude from the MAGA's isn't going away. The old guard rails are long gon

May be a bit too political for the "investment" thread....but hold on

Unelected Pres Musk is doing to the U-S what he did to Twitter. Meanwhile Elected Pres Felon is busy sounding like a crazy uncle as he obsesses about obtaining Canada.

I put the same type of question to chatgpy

Sorry, Multi-tasking. Slow morning at the volunteer desk

Not a Regan fan, but

i guess this will be scrubbed from the MAGA bible

Reads like a breakup letter. Two weeks into the Musk/Trump regime and I feel like an abused child

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/day/february-2

Imperial Overseer Musk is now unhappy because private businesses are making their own decisions where to advertise. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5283271/elon-musk-lawsuit-advertisers-boycott-new

I gotta brag a bit. My grandson won a gold metal in Social Studies in the 7th grade class competition Friday in the Aquinis Academic Olympics at Cabrini High School. His school finished in first place in the Tourney.

Maybe some of our trading partners should have the balls to refuse delivery on US made items for a while.

https://bsky.app/profile/revwar250.bsky.social/post/3lh5euc3dj62z The Association had already banned importation since December 1, but until now, shipments in violation of the ban were still allowed to land. Such shipments were confiscated and sold at auction, with profits being donated to the people of Boston.

The Federal Government is not a business and should not be run like a business. Especially by someone with a history of many bankruptcies and underlings who can best be defined as reality show losers. And if they go after Social Security and Medicare as well as Medicaid they're going to need a big army to hold back a bunch of folks with nothing left to lose.

Democracy Dies in Darkness. They want to treat the American People like mushrooms. Keep them in the dark and feed them Bull****

For the record Trump is the poster boy proof that old white guys can's dance

I know nothing about this guy. He does seem to have a good track record in Minnesota. Hope he's willing to go no holds barred with Trump, Musk and the rest of the Insurrection Party.