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U.S. residential electricity costs have gone up by 64% since 2000. http://www.in2013dollars.com/Electricity/price-inflation So it sounds like we've paid just about as much as the Germans over approximately the same period, but have fallen far behind them in adopting the next gen technology. Not good.

Nope, just shows that he is not the most vile human on the planet. I now know of two that easily whip him. #DeVos & Muda 2020 ~ Reject the Retards

Another (sometimes rare) instance of SF and me being completely aligned in our views. Call it something else, man. The Whopper is sacred!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wind-idiot-power/ The meme selectively paraphrases language from an article written by an economist. The actual quote is below. You can see how the meme intentionally misrepresents the author's point: "The concept of net energy must be applied to renewable sources of energy, such as windmills and photovoltaics. A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of coking coal and 300 tonnes of iron ore, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons. The question is: how long must a windmill generate energy before it creates more energy than it took to build it? At a good wind site, the energy payback day could be in three years or less; in a poor location, energy payback may be never. That is, a windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it."

Bigger doesn't always mean better. Heritage Hills leads the series between them and Jasper and I would put money on Heritage Hills beating them again next year. IMO if this deal started next year I don't think Jasper would finish in the top three of the conference.

I personally feel that the "problem" of the anti-democratic potential of the Electoral College system is more a symptom than a cause, although treating the symptom may be the only option. It is a symptom of the fact that the Executive Branch, and specifically the President, has assumed so much of the power intended to be exercised by Congress. One of the good attributes of how Congress is set up in that, whenever the country is very evenly divided politically, Congress is usually also very evenly divided politically. As a result, partisan legislation, meaning legislative proposals that are based on policies that appeal strongly to one side of the divided electorate, but are anathema to the other side -- such as, for example, building a wall on the southern border -- cannot be passed. That gridlock is good because it avoids inflaming these political divisions, and whatever does get passed is usually "no brainer", good for everybody stuff. The Presidency, on the other hand, as a unitary office, is not "divided" politically when the nation is politically divided: it is a winner-takes-all position for whichever side of that roughly even political divide carried that the day in November. So when the President is able to unilaterally exercise power that is properly in the domain of the Congress, this bypasses the protection of the natural gridlock that occurs in Congress when the country is very evenly divided politically. And because a President contemplating re-election in such a political environment is dependent on maintaining the strong allegience of his/her "side" in the evenly divided country, he is very likely to use his power in a directly partisan manner. This is especially significant in the context of the discussion on the Electoral College because the anti-democratic aspects of our system of government, like the EC, were designed to act as bulwarks against the "tyranny of the majority." But because the Presidency has now assumed so much of the power the Founders intended to be held by Congress, the anti-democratic potential of the EC actually creates the opposite risk of a "tyranny of the minority". The best fix, obviously, would be for Congress to re-take the powers it has ceded to the Executive branch. But there are so many practical impediments to that ever happening (mainly arising from the deep desire of members of Congress to avoid ever making any hard or controversial decisions that could threaten their ability to get re-elected), doing away with the anti-democratic potential of the EC may be a more doable "solution" to the issue.

A belated reference to his passing. James Edward “JDub” Warren passed away on February 22, 2019. He was a Senior at Indiana State University when he was first diagnosed with Stage 4 Melanoma in September. He took part in 2 State Championship teams as a Lineman. He could have played in college but chose not to do so. Knowing him, he was just a wonderful kid who had a laugh for everyone…yet he was so much more than that. It’s not my place to speak as to just how special he was..…or how hard he fought and how much his Mother and Father loved him…and fought with him, as well, until the end. For those outside of the Chatard Community, I don’t think you will understand just how much so many people gathered round his family and just what they did. He was a special kid. As all in the football community here are…and those outside as well. Chris Ballard (GM of the Indianapolis Colts) and Frank Reich (Indianapolis Colts) spent time at his bedside. Frank Reich even came back a couple of days later and prayed with him for an hour at his bedside. “JDub” wrote a letter to his friends and another to his mother in the sad anticipation of his passing. It was printed at the funeral but I will not post it here. It was inspirational and, yet, broke me to tears. He cared so much for those of us yet living. Perhaps the most seminal part of the funeral was when a coach and so many players there said the Chatard Prayer as they do before each game. The prayer is not so much about victory as it is to bless all those on the field. It was one of the most touching events I have seen in my life. This is a kid I knew. A special kid. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/indystar/obituary.aspx?pid=191654380

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ocasio-cortez-flubs-history-fdr-change-to-constitution She must be upsetting the leaders of the left when the MSM is actually pointing out her flubs........

This isn't a meme ... but it needs to be.

Howard the Duck. Best buds with Man-Thing in Silver Age Marvel Lamest movie of all time...kind of like this thread.

So the white male candidate is being discriminated against because he can't bring "diversity" to the workforce. Got it. And because this "diversity" is mandated by law we once again have government picking the winners and losers. Frankly I would prefer an actual coin toss in order to choose the candidate in this scenario rather than government fiat.

As a member of the IFCA I don't like this decision.

Aren't you the one who asked in the first place? Why ask if you are so certain?

Idiot cages in the town square is much cheaper.

Yes. Rather than spend a few million to fund the special olympics, it would be cheaper to cage the disabled and laugh and heckle and throw crap at em...cuz ya know...they ain’t normal and offer no material benefit to society.

No doubt at a government sponsored educational factory where the fruits of my hard work are stolen by the government in order to babysit the dregs of society. DeVos and Muda 2020!

Democratic Dystopias: http://reason.com/archives/2019/03/29/democratic-dystopias But the Democratic side of the uni-party won't resist the temptation. If you can't beat 'em then join 'em.

Electoral College: Why We Must Decentralize Democracy: https://mises.org/wire/electoral-college-why-we-must-decentralize-democracy To assume, however, that the same situation is achievable at the scale of the French republic with nearly 30 million is a blunder of impressive size. The reasons for this are well explained by Acton: Thus, Acton understood the protection of freedom lies in division, decentralization, and the liberation of minorities. For Rousseau, however, his latent federalism was no match for the idea of a national will of the people. Any idea of Swiss-style federalism collapsed under the fervor for a single national legislature that could impose the wishes of all the "French nation" to every corner of the Republic's jurisdiction. After all, why divide up the democratic mass if "the people" as a whole are never wrong? "Rousseau's most advanced point was the doctrine that the people are infallible," Acton wrote. "Jurieu had taught that they can do no wrong: Rousseau added that they are positively in the right." Unfortunately, this ideal has never lost its appeal to many, and it continues to plague American politics with the idea that a "will of the people" can be realized in large scale elections across populations of tens of millions. After all, the abandonment of locally-based democracy is not just a problem at the federal level. The state of California today has more people than all of France during the revolution. New York, Texas, and Florida are not far behind. All of these states are controlled by unitary governments lacking provisions that temper democracy and protect minorities. Such a state of affairs would be unrecognizable to the Americans of the nineteenth century. By their standards, the US has become a country of mega-states, mass democracy, and enormous republics that Rousseau might have looked on with approval. On the other hand, the best solution lies in a peaceful embrace of division, secession, decentralization, and disunity. Unfortunately, the electoral college controversy suggests the US is moving in exactly the opposite direction. As a result, division and disunity will still likely come, but in a much more violent way than what might have been.

How about reducing the overall power and scope of the federal government?

Yep, more evidence to vote for a third party candidate instead of the uni-party. Or not vote at all.

https://libertyunyielding.com/2019/03/26/college-students-arent-learning-much-as-taxpayer-subsidies-rise/ Colleges have spent much of the increased tuition they now charge students on vast armies of college bureaucrats and administrators. Professors have benefited far less. By 2011, there were already more college administrators than faculty at California State University. The University of California, which claimed to have cut administrative spending “to the bone,” was busy creating new positions for politically-correct bureaucrats even as it raised student fees and tuition to record levels. As the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald noted in 2011: Some colleges have raised spending on administrators by more than 600% in recent years. "Free" government money absolutely corrupts, and corrupts absolutely.