Is the political war on rural Md. dead?

The Hagerstown Herald-Mail ^ | June 4, 2017 | J.F. MEILS Capital News Service

[Albion Wilde]

The other adorable thing that OweMalley did was to flood Hagerstown and its rural surroundings with muslims.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

However, thanks to the Democrats and a complicit Hogan, fracking has been banned from Maryland.

This from a governor who supposedly wants more jobs. Hogan is proving to be an environ-MENTAL-ist, just like Owe'Malley, with the exception that he favors highway projects more.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I agree. How many thousands of dollars in extra plumbing materials and labor does that make? And then there are repair bills for the sprinkler system (corroded pipes, faulty sprinklers, etc.).

[Gay State Conservative]

A “Visitor's Center” in Maryland? Why? The only times I've ever set foot in Maryland was to get to someplace else.Ditto Delaware.

[T Ruth]

On top of all that, from what I understand, you have to pay to have them inspected periodically.

[Viking2002]

That 'Visitors' Center' is little more than a glorified souvenir shop with public restrooms.

But Sideling Hill cut is a damn sight better than in the old days, when you have to take old 40 on an uphill grade a few miles, then hit a 100 degree switchback by and old ranger fire tower to come down the other side. I'd done it many times in blowing snow, and it was a fifteen minute white-knuckler. Despite all the flashing yellow warning lights and arrow signs, many a driver would miss the turn and go over the side. It's an interesting drive and shaves a little time off your trip now, but it'll still make you pucker, especially if you're getting crosswinds and/or the cut is ducting them. You know you're getting a little altitude going up the grade, and you can get a tummy flutter if you're not prepared for the downgrade side, especially during the winter. You don't see it coming. You feel like you could fall off the roof in the western lanes, because there's nothing but a valley to the right. I get to hop on that carnival ride again December 22, when we make our annual Christmas trip home to Cumberland. When the road gets to looking like this, you tell your wife to sit in the back seat, because God is your co-pilot.

[Viking2002]

Like Valentine said, it's personal. Remember how they hyped putting those two prisons up there under the auspices of it 'creating jobs'? Bullshit. They did it to A: get the urban thuggery out of their own back yards, and B: poke a thumb in the eye of us 'rubes' who were too 'unsophisticated' (in their rarified air) to toe the line that Annapolis laid. I read my hometown paper every day online, and the amount of drugs and other crime has shot through the roof in the last fifteen years. And who are the majority of the perps? Your expected Urban-Americans from the Baltimore/Washington slums, who also recruit and lure locals into their little cartels, getting innocent people addicted to their junk along the way. I warned my mother and my sister the day they broke ground at the old Celanese plant in Cresaptown, the jungle was coming to Cumberland. Now, here we are. That wasn't a prophecy, that was an acknowledgement of predictable human behavior. I've been trying to convince my mother to buy and learn to shoot a .380 or something of a similar caliber; I told her that the five minutes between her dialing 911 and time the cops get there is when the most damage is done. I'm 750 miles away, so I can't get there fast enough to exterminate the sonofabitch who darkens her door. But, my late dad, who was an otherwise solid conservative Republican, didn't want guns in the house, so she refuses to entertain the thought. We live in a good, quiet, middle class neighborhood that never had to worry about locking our front doors back when I grew up in the 60's and 70's, but she's pushing 80 now and is the perfect target demographic for some sub-human looking to get cash or valuables to score something to shoot themselves up with.

Liberalism isn't just a mental disease; it's a cancer that metastasizes and spreads to infect healthy tissue and consume it, too.

[Salamander]

You are dead on.

Cumberland is Bawlmer West, now.

Wouldn’t walk downtown in the daylight, for love or money.

We still do business with Class Glass but they’re in a pretty safe spot.

Dope rules, here.

The I81/I70 interchange is the Heroin Highway and I have to worry about a state cop friend and his drug dog dying from exposure to fentanyl, every day.

*Every* area with subsidized housing is a war zone.

There is a herd of miscreants living in a tent city beside the train tracks right near the mall.
Between them stealing, begging and terrorizing, you gotta be aware of everything around you, all the time.

The local Sheetz have been taken over by dealers lurking in the parking lots and they all have armed guards.
The only exception to that is the one where all of us bikers hang out during the summer.
[Huyetts Crossroads]

Nothing happens there because we police the place, ourselves.

You cannot imagine what a hellhole Hagerstown and its ‘burbs have become.

The *only* time I will walk around downtown is when they have Bike Night in July.

*Why* they don’t give the cons a one-way bus ticket outta town when they’re released is beyond me.

If you look at that map I posted, 5 miles west of HTown, the crimes stops.

To paraphrase Negan, we will shut that sh*t down, no exceptions.

[Salamander]

I *love* the old 40 trip and make it several times on the bike, during the summer.

The hill up to the death curve is the one that had freaking *trees* growing out of the center line.

They kinda half-ass ‘fixed’ it so you don’t disappear into the potholes, now.

Remember the 90 degree curve entering Cumberland, with all the crosses painted on the granite wall, one for every soul who didn’t make the turn?

I love me some scary roads on the bike but The Cut is something I avoid, whenever possible.

“Falling off the side” is exactly what I feel, going down.

:)

[Salamander]

Dumb luck brought this to me.

Enjoy the irony.

:)

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[Salamander]

Woohoo!

Htown sets a new record!

https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/local/hagerstown-murders-hit-record-high/article_1e9def4c-ca63-11e7-844b-937d9e2f4031.html

[Viking2002]

Yep, it’s creeping out 70, westward. But hell, eight deaths is a slow weekend in Ballmer or D.C............