Wlmitch1's channel

@juleanalise Understood. It is interesting to note that the Leftist, racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger originally called Planned Parenthood "The Negro Project" and founded it to reduce the populations of "Negroes, defectives, and other undesirables." As an American who has become disabled, and is...

I was at a friend's house in my old neighborhood on Forrer, 1 block north of Paul, on Sat. Nov. 5; and for the first time in years, the Ruddiman Thunderbolt 1000 sounded, but only for about 1 minute in Alert. I also heard the Dearborn FS-2001s at Warren & Chase and at Ford Road & Mercury Drive. T...

Your Federal Model 2 sounds just like a non-rotating Thunderbolt 1000 at Level 3 without a blower. The best thing about a Model 2 from a siren collector's standpoint is that it is much smaller, much lighter, much more economical, and much easier to set up than a Thunderbolt 1000. The Thunderbolt ...

@TheJade4 Not exactly. The highly venomous Coral Snakes from Florida, the Gulf Coast, Arizona, and Latin America are slender and have round pupils. Copperheads, Cottonmouths, Rattlesnkes, and most of the very mildly venomous North American rear-fanged snakes have vertically-elliptical pupils lik...

That is a Northern Water Snake (Nerodia Sipedon Sipedon). It is not venomous, but its saliva can be very mildly toxic due to some oral bacteria and a Duvernoy's gland in the roof of the mouth. All Natricine snakes such as the Garter Snakes, Ribbon Snakes, Brown Snakes, Red-bellied Snakes, and Cra...

"Water Moccasin" is the slang term for the venomous Cottonmouth, an aquatic pit viper, which is not native to the Great Lakes region. Any large water snake found in the Great Lakes Region will either be a Northern Water Snake, a Lake Erie Water Snake, or a Northern Copperbelly Water Snake, all of...

@Ouranos94 I still pass by Ruddiman on my way to and from St. Mary's of Redford Catholic Church where I am an usher. That may change starting May 15 because much of the Southfield Freeway will be closed until construction ends in October. Over the last 2 years I have seen the Ruddiman Thunderbol...

The Marantz M-16 Speakers are the best vintage speakers for your 2600. They are the "big brothers" to the HD-880 and Design Series 940 speakers. The M-16's are 12" 4-way speakers which can handle 300 watts continuous power and 400 watts peak power at 8 ohms. They were sold in mirrored pairs and a...

The Marantz Model 2500 Stereophonic Receiver is also the rarest of the vintage Marantz Receivers as it was only built for the first couple of months of 1978 and then replaced by the Marantz Model 2600 Stereophonic Receiver. All of the specs on the 2600 are the same as on the 2500 EXCEPT that the ...

@AzDbAck100 Be very careful about Donald Trump. I was listening to the Mark Levin show, and Mark played audio clip after audio clip of Trump wanting a Canadian-style government-run health care system, calling George W. Bush the worst president in U.S. history (now he says Obama is and Carter was...

@SAsgarters I don't know what your protected wildlife laws are like in California, but here in Michigan, they're VERY strict. If you have a specimen of a protected species, you had best have the proper permits and the documentation proving how you acquired it. If you don't, you will be fined hun...

Red-sided Garter Snakes are NOT native to Michigan, where I live, but when I was 13 back in 1973, I caught one near some railroad tracks. It was obviously a Red-Sided Garter, NOT a native Eastern Garter. The snake was a 32" long female. When she got angry, she would inflate her body, vibrate her ...

That is a sub-adult Fox Snake (Pantherophis Vulpinus). Juvenile and sub-adult Fox Snakes are much quicker to bite than adults. Large adult Fox Snakes are usually calm, and sometimes even curious.

@HOPSING08 They simply take their time eating the big rattlesnake. In South America, they have been known to eat Boa Constrictors close to their own length, as well as the big Lanceheads and even Bushmasters. When being circled, all pit vipers keep the rear half of the body firmly in place while...

I lived in Ann Arbor the first 8 years of my life (05/60 - 08/68), and the most memorable weather events for me were the July 1967 tornado and the February 1968 blizzard. The air-raid sirens were sounded before both storms. The blizzard produced the same thunder and lightning, and inky-black skie...

@HairyThorax Obsoletus is Latin for "dull" which describes the northeastern race of the American Rat Snake, known as the Black Rat Snake (Pantherophis Obsoletus Obsoletus), the first race documented by European settlers. Most Texas Rat Snake (Pantherophis Obsoletus Lindheimeri) specimens also ha...

That is a Fox Snake (Pantherophis Vulpinus). They are nonvenomous rodent eaters. Most Fox Snakes tend to be calm, but will vibrate their tails, open their mouths, let out a brief hiss like a cat, and strike when threatened.

That snake is a Lancehead (Bothrops) species. They are highly venomous pit vipers. Do NOT mess with them - they can KILL you!

That is a Gopher Snake (Pituophis Catenifer). It is quite calm compared to most wild ones, which vibrate their tails, hiss very loudly, and go into a striking coil when approached. Gopher Snakes are totally nonvenomous. They are usually reluctant to bite, but they will strike and bite if they are...

That is an average-sized adult Black Rat Snake. They are totally nonvenomous.

@1kingdom1hearts1 Black racers that large have no pattern whatsoever except a white chin and throat. Adult Black Rat Snakes average 42-72 inches in length with a maximum length of 101 inches, and nearly always have at least some traces of a pattern as does this black snake. Black Rat Snakes CAN ...

@SAsgarters You wrote, "I recommend babies, they're easy to catch."

I am simply INFORMING you about the seriousness of taking Federally protected species from the wild to help you stay out of serious trouble. I did not make those laws. I am telling you what I KNOW. The Feds are NO JOKE when they...

@da1andonlypharo AMEN to that!! BTW, it turns out that TSO did indeed produce TWO versions of the Christmas Canon, the Classical Masterpiece which I am most familiar with, and the far less stellar rock version. They definitely "fixed" something that was not broken.

I hope the Indigo Snake was already dead when you found it, although I would rather that it not be dead at all. Be aware that killing an Indigo Snake is a Federal crime as the Indigo is Federally listed as a threatened species. You can go to jail for killing an Indigo Snake ANYWHERE in the United...

@johnnecron Indigo Snakes also kill and eat Rattlesnakes (including large Diamondbacks), Copperheads, Cottonmouths, and Coral Snakes.

The visual quality of the video could have been much better, but it is still beautiful. The Christmas Canon, as performed by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, is a Classical MASTERPIECE!