Impartial_Observer

.1% of 800 million will go a long way towards a college education, or hookers and blow, whichever he chooses.

Is B's All-State QB also an All-State DE......LB.......S....CB....

Alcohol taxes amount to about 10 billion in FY 2018.

Well that and I would guess congress has their fair share of alcoholics.

You sir win the Internet today!

Everyone take a deep breath, war is not imminent. One of the players in the destabilization of the region is dead. The Iranians put on a show that didn't amount to much in the dessert, so they get to save face, as promised they struck back at the evil west. The next news cycle will come around soon enough and all this will be forgotten as the media delves into the next Trump scandal du jour.

Two schools of thought. 1. My neighbor will typically buy something needed every summer or fall at auction for pennies on the dollar and spend the winter rebuilding it. For instances a few years back a relatively new combine that had caught fire and burned. The machine was written off, but from what I could tell it just melted the paint and stickers off of it, and melted belts and hoses. He has the cash out of hand for parts, the 5Kish he spent with the insurance company, and come spring he's got essentially a quarter million dollar combine. 2. A large farmer south of town buys a new combine every year. He has 0 maintenance costs. If a new machine breaks down the local distributor has a truck in his field within the hour, because he buys so spends so much money with them. This has been going on for years with the hillbillies and their diesel 4x4's. The first and second generation Cummins engines from the Dodge trucks are in high demand and fetching stupid prices, because they don't have all the electronics on them. They're a lot easier to customize and work on at home.

Doesn't the running clock supersede the rule?

OK first of all, Waffle House is delicious. Yes I have a Blackstone as part of my arsenal on deck and I'm certain it gets used more than our kitchen range does. I cooked on it twice over the weekend. Range was used 0. There is NOTHING more entertaining/fascinating than going in an old school Waffle House where the grill is right behind the bar, and watching a guy/gal who's good on the grill ply their craft. I could literally do it for hours. Best I ever saw was at the Waffle House on Roswell Road in Marietta, GA. Dude was a magician. And yes I'm a redneck.

Obviously learned his telestrator skills from Randy Marsh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiPUjGNTi24

I think it went well.

Depends. The cooling cycle is a lot more electricity dependent than the heating cycle. Nationally according to EIA coal amounts to about 27% or our electricity generation. I would guess that percentage is a lot higher in Indiana. Heat exchangers would run on a variety of fuels which is typically mandated by location. I'm not sure coal is in the equation. Fuel oil, natural gas, and propane I would guess are the major fuels. Of course there are still electrical components. My point being industrial facilities are the largest users of energy across the board. Whether a high rise office building or a manufacturing facility. Individuals switching the light bulbs in their home is akin to pissing in the ocean.

Industrial chillers with boilers systems, now you’re in the ball park for reducing energy consumption.

Typical green gobblygook. Residential lighting accounts for less 6% of our nation’s energy bill. A 7% decrease in lighting costs amounts to about .4% reduction in energy usage. No mention of the increase electric cars are causing power consumption.

IO walking thru the door: Mrs. IO: How many beers did you have? IO: 2 or 3 Mrs. IO rolls her eyes.

CFL’s were a train wreck shoved down our throats. I have been switching everything in home and business to LED. The technology is fairly mature at this point, the price continues to fall, it makes fiscal sense. You can’t look at the initial costs, in the long term LED is a better investment. I’ve been using LED for several years and have only replaced on bulb, within days of it being installed, it was obviously a defective bulb. The real issue I had was what the government did to the fluorescent industry, first ramming immature technology of digital ballast down our throats, then essentially banning T12 lamps......

I think both of you are missing the point, Hamilton himself didn’t do anything other than listen to their problems, there’s no conspiracy.

1. I never said it was a scam, I merely stated how he stayed in office. 2. Lee retired after two incredibly close elections to Jean Leising. In a district that was hand drawn for a D, it didn't take Baron long to piss it away. 3. Wiki is not always your best research tool.

I posted a cowpie! We debated feces.....but I will admit, it's junior high level entertainment.

The issue, everyone hates congress, but loves their representative and keeps sending him back. I watched it play out for years with Lee Hamilton. He was a less than stellar rep in my opinion, however he would hold town hall meetings all over the district, old people would show up with a problem with their SS or Medicare, he'd have some lackey take care of it, and he was the best congressman EVER. Unfortunately all of those old people eventually died, the district became a lot less gerrymandered, and ol' Lee was out of a job, but his career of sucking at the public teet, continued.