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John U Bacon has a new book out about it. I’ve been eating it all up.

I love how small the world is. I once again visited family in TN. We go into Saturday morning because it’s 73 degrees (they closed schools yesterday and today due to ice). Go into a cool looking place called Chill Billees. From talking to the staff it turns out the owner is from michigan and his sister made our meal. She’s there for the week to help get things started so he could tend to his restaurant back here, some BBQ place. The waiter goes over to her and I can see him pointing to his hand to find out where she’s from. “Near Detroit”. I stop by on my way to the restroom and talk some more. She lives across the street from Nancy Whiskeys. 500 miles away.

By platooning you are turning weaknesses into strengths. You can’t legislate it.

Pedophiles are only an issue when the person can be a bigot in pretending to be outraged. It’s not about the victims. They are mere collateral damage. But if they can take down “some of those queers” then it’s worth it to them.

Have no idea on the truth of this but….

That wing is in the White House

Is he by chance related to **** Posthumous?

we were there too... I think it rained. A friend of mine ended up in the hospital with pneumonia. I believe that was the time.

republicans hate cops

I like to say that Berry had the highest Swagger to performance ratio in MLB history.

I'm happy with the results but still somewhat skeptical of any long term impacts. Been through to many "waves" that supposedly reshaped the electorate and doomed a party going forward. It was an off year federal election wise. I sure hope this time next year I'm feeling as good though. It's a cliche to say it so far but as long as Trump is around I'm nervous about this country. If we can get a D congress that goes away in a big way.

You are arguing against a point I never made.

2003.... game 161. Tigers at 119 losses. Saturday night. Bottom of the 9th, tie game. Sanchez walks. Steals 2nd. Steals 3rd. Wild pitch, he scores the game winning run to ensure the Tigers won't break the single season losing record. One of the best pre-2006 moments in Comerica Park history.

Hakeem Jefferies was not speaker in this photo.

I put nothing past Johnson and Vance and the rest.... you know, the kind of thing where only certain results will be accepted. Can you really imagine a scenario where that jag off will hand over the gavel to Hakeem Jefferies and smiling? I can't.

I thought that would happen in '24... but I guess the thought of a "black woman" President revived them a little.

When we bought this house 12 years ago it was empty as the owner had moved in with his girlfriend. He told us, off the record, we could start putting some stuff in before closing, just don't let his agent know. I showed up around this time of year, and he was there knee deep in the leaves. It was near Veterans Day as we were both off work. He said "I bet if you saw this you wouldn't have bought the house, eh?" I devoted probably 7 days, a few hours each day, of leaf cleanup every winter... and dozens of lawn bags. We also have a system to put leaves in the street for pickup but that doesn't always work out time wise.

they put that True Coat on at the plant....

Best $1500 I spent was having my maple taken down. Caught a crew in the neighborhood last year and my jaw dropped at the estimate. He got 4 in my street that day. Time is money and so is energy. I made it back. Plus it was dying and every time it rained or we got wind I was nervous. My birch provides just enough leaves that I can mulch with grass cutting and I let the wind and nature take care of the rest. Lawns aren’t supposed to look like golf courses.

Wonder how many sex workers were captured via a person pretending to be ICE? You know the right wing religious nutjobs love to claim that as an issue. The dude who played Jesus cosplayed it to death, out there “rescuing” peoole in the jungle.

If the Tigers traded Skubal their season ticket sales would nosedive. No, that’s not a reason to not do it if the right deal comes along but it is a reason to think long and hard about making a move just to prove to Twitter that you “have balls”. And the bottom line does affect the roster eventually.

approval ratings are meaningless. Courts are meaningless. Nobody has the power to make them do what they don't want to do.

that might be the most spot on thing that site's ever done.

Former Vice President Richard Cheney dead at 84