Last year when I went to a race at Iowa Speedway a fella walked right through what passes for ‘security’ with a fairly sizable pistol on his hip (100% legal even if the speedway does not allow), and then took his seat in the grandstands a few feet away from me.

I suspect someone tattled on him because about 20…

Dunno about Delaware, but in a lot of places the signs at private establishments have no force of law.

Trespassing if you refuse to vacate is about it.

The #1 reason: Cautions

On an oval in the rain, every spin is highly likely to result in contact which necessitate a full course caution.
So every time they go green you’ve got 1 or 2 laps of green if you are lucky, before someone hits the wall, then its back to caution for a few laps.

On a road course, they don’t need…

I seem to recall there being some built in operations the 83 (or maybe it was the 82) could do that the 85 could not that would have been helpful in AP Calc.

That you could write programs for it was handy because I was able to replicate what was missing.

Then again my memory could be faulty as the last time I used…

I’m suddenly glad I was unable to convince my wife that going to the 500 would be a great way to spend the weekend. (Was a long shot idea anyway as she just doesn’t understand the attraction to auto sports)

Actually, the US Government’s standard practice is to increase spending over and above population grown + inflation.

Since 1947 (chosen because it was after WW2), spending by the US government has in most years outpaced that which would be accounted for by population + inflation. For fifteen to twenty of those years…

It is absolutely true and real cuts (in the normal person sense) are actually usually rare. They have been a bit more common in recent years because of the 2008/9 budget having very radical increases and the fact that no real, honest to goodness, actual budgets have been passed and signed into law in the last 5-8…

Thanks for assist

One important thing to remember when someone (a booster/department head/Reporter) talks about a “budget cut” is, they usually aren’t talking in the same terms that normal people think of when they think ‘budget cut’

Normal people think “budget cut” means last year a department got 100B and this year they get 90B

In…

Everyone complains about Cup drivers in the Xfinity race.

Now they get to complain about Cup drivers calling the Xfinity race.

Kinda

I meant stop making entirely non-political things political. Like math for example. I recently read about an effort to blend ‘social justice’ with math.

Your example underscores my point about depoliticizing everything.

Public/social acceptance of transgender was rapidly increasing. Something government had virtually no role in at all.
Introduce government to the equation and then you invite backlash and slow the acceptance.

Realize that the world is nowhere near as dreadful, crazy, or dangerous as it was in say 1980, 1940, 1915 or any time prior to 1900 when nearly half (or more) of people born didn’t make it past age 5, and the overwhelming majority of those who did survive past age 5 endured a short and very hard life in extreme…

I think 5 is the minimum they can really do on the ovals.

They are going to have to figure out how to speed it up at the road courses.
If they run that many laps under stage cautions at the road courses its going to ruin them.

The unfortunate thing is it will never happen.

It reduces the number of people who are government dependents. The thought of that happening sends shivers down the spines of nanny statists, and authoritarians everywhere.

I don’t think you understand what that proposal was.

The proposal was to take 10% (or 20%) of your SS contributions and instead of going to SS, go to private investments while the remaining 80 to 90% went to SS.

The example you are poo-pooing presumes no raises, and was only contributing 10% of your SS payments to…

Hear hear.

The only other thing I would say is that those who stay in the SS program can only receive befits from what it takes in. If the revenues drop then the benefits drop.
No borrowing to make up the difference.

If you don’t understand that logic, look at people who were looking to retire in 2008 when the market crashed. Many couldn’t retire because their portfolios were cut in half.

They worked a couple extra years and then retired after things got better.
They temporarily downsized their lifestyle, retired anyway. and drew…

Its really a question of motives.

The motives are not so much because they have a problem with government malfeasance, but rather who is in charge of the government.

It would be nice to be wrong on this and that they have been awakened to the fact that governments, no matter who is in charge, are habitually hostile to…

I’m afraid it won’t sink in.

Principals before principles.