Impartial_Observer

My guess is the same people that feel the need to stop before entering a roundabout.

I was the same way with Making a Murderer, I just couldn't get into it.

Star of pre-prime time TV.

I watched this a couple of weeks ago, interesting.

Not me, between the noise of the mower and my noise cancelling JBL cordless cans, I couldn’t hear her yelling if she was standing in my ear. Mowing time is my sanctuary.

My mom and I used to watch Emergency every week when I was small. Oddly enough over the weekend one of those clickbait links that show up at the end of articles online was "what ever happened to Dixie McCall?" I saw Emergency on the list which reminded me. I didn't realize it was on seven years. Pretty cool link, I'll check it out more as time allows.

That's funny right there, I don't care who you are. A down stroke on this says way more about the voter than the poster.

Amtrak is the poster child for all that is wrong with government intervention into free markets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak Founded in 1971 as a quasi-public corporation to operate many U.S. passenger rail services,[1][2][3] it receives a combination of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit organization.[4] Amtrak's headquarters is located one block west of Union Station in Washington, D.C.[5] Another 19th Century relic that has probably outlived it's usefulness. Of course I still have customers who hand write checks and use a Paymaster, so I guess the taxpayers will continue to dump money down that bottomless pit as well.

Semantics, it’s a privately owned entity with government subsidies. It has a long and storied history of mismanagement, bleeding cash, and an increasing dependence on the taxpayers. Who do I talk to about getting subsidies for my business?

Same as any business, to make money.

I personally would love that, but I doubt it. History says it's Faulkens, I tend to agree with Bob, good chance the IHSAA has it's first female commissioner.

I still have the first three on vinyl, I'd have to do some searching on CD's of the later albums. I loved the early albums.

Great read. Never got the chance to see Zeppelin live, was able to catch Robert Plant at MSA back in 85.

That makes perfect sense: London has nearly 9 million people Paris has over 2 million people Their roads were designed for horses Easy Jet does the same thing for about 65 bucks, but you'll have to use binoculars to get the same view, it does appear to go by slightly slower from 35,000 feet though. Yea about that high speed rail in the US.... I'm not arguing the merits of train travel, I love ya man, but I don't think it's my place to subsidize your ticket.

I'm not going to lie, I'm a little disappointed Maxine Waters didn't make the tournament team. She would have added a lot of entertainment value. Does anyone think Nadler suffers from a touch of Napoleon Syndrome?

Been going on since the summer, they have updated the parental behavior section of their school handbook though.

Usually when he's got nothing, just the shoot me thingey.

I disagree with Dean Wormer, fat, drunk, and stupid is a way to go thru life. Honestly DE, I tried to engage you, I've raised valid business concerns as well as taxpayer concerns, you refuse to answer any of it, you just want me to watch a stupid video. I don't know jack squat about passenger rail, but it's not hard to figure out. In order for mass transit to work, you have to have masses, which do not exist in flyover country. There used to be a bus stop in every little berg and a train station in every other little berg. Seymour was founded on a RR crossroads and named after the engineer who opted to locate the crossroads where it is, instead of in the already established town of Rockford. But those days are gone. Two income homes, an extensive interstate system, cars that become more reliable every day, safe predictable air travel, passenger rail just does not make business or logical sense, regardless of what some youtube video says.

I ain't going to lie, we are taking advantage of the situation. Mrs IO and myself did some math last night, with college knocked out for the kids, we can shorten our terms at a lower fixed rate and save ourselves a substantial amount over the life of the mortgage, not to mention losing about 3 three years of payments. It's a no brainer. If we were a little closer to retirement, I'd probably go the full amount and get a little more serious about a house in south Florida.

Plenty of studies on the economic impact of licensing, bottom line it costs the consumer more because it restricts the labor pool. Some studies indicate that licensing is particularly harmful to the lower income segment of the population. The OP is certainly an example of this. Young single mom and can't get a job based on some arbitrary law. Licensing comes in all shapes and sizes, for instance look at plumbers, you can have a large plumbing firm all working under the umbrella of the owners license. That doesn't guarantee your crapper isn't going to back up just like it did before they sent a flunkie out to fix it the first time. Then they're marriage licenses.....that panned out well. What is really interesting to me is as union membership has fallen dramatically, licensing requirements have risen dramatically.

Political theater. As I have stated since this began, it's all a foregone conclusion. Weren't you paying attention in 1998?

The nearest intercity bus to me is Bedford. Two things, first I still have to hitch a team to the wagon to get maw to Bedford, to catch a bus, to catch the train. Or instead of driving 40 minutes to Bedford, I could drive 60 minutes to IND or SDF and still be at my destination cheaper and most likely before the bus makes it to Indy to catch the bus to Chicago to get on the train. Why are the taxpayers funding this boondoggle that makes zero business or logical sense. FTFY and I don't really know, I didn't watch the video. Yes, Amtrak should operate money making routes in the northeast corridor, where they can be profitable and thus not rely on taxpayer funding or they should just go out of business. If government subsidies are the answer, I'm sure you'd have no problem with the government subsidizing my business would you? And I'd only need fractions of pennies on the dollar of what Amtrak gets. Or even better yet, like farmers, perhaps the government would pay me not to produce anything?

So without Amtrak, we’d have to hitch a team to the wagon to get maw to the doctor in the big city? What about all the rural areas Amtrak doesn’t serve, what about those poor people, how will they connect to the wider USA. In southern Indiana we have to either get to Indy or Louisville to get on a Greyhound to get to a train. Or you could just stop at the airport and get where you need to go cheaper and before the bus even gets you to the train. Amtrak in the northeast corridor seems to make sense to me, gets cars off of already congested roads, and they have the masses to support mass transit. This isn’t the 19th century, the US taxpayers don’t need to be supporting people’s travel.