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One thing that stands out for me is insurance, mine has almost tripled in the last 3 years, with homeowners taking the biggest jump.

1 hour ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

not surprising at all.... there's a lot more blue cities with apartment buildings.  think NYC, Chicago, Etc. 

wonder how many red-state maga's could afford the rent in the aforementioned?

 

now let's do states vs. education... guess what color states the least educated are in?    

 

Most Educated States

 

 

Overall Rank*	State	Total Score	Educational Attainment Rank	Quality of Education Rank
1	Massachusetts	82.32	1	1
2	Vermont	76.30	3	6
3	Maryland	75.97	4	5
4	Connecticut	73.51	6	3
5	Colorado	70.83	2	34
6	Virginia	70.43	5	10
7	New Jersey	69.97	10	4
8	New Hampshire	68.32	7	15
9	Minnesota	66.98	8	16
10	Washington	64.27	9	25
11	Utah	63.33	11	18
12	Delaware	60.05	19	7
13	Illinois	59.19	16	12
14	Montana	58.30	13	31
15	New York	58.29	18	14
16	Rhode Island	57.77	21	9
17	Oregon	57.44	12	43
18	Hawaii	57.43	15	27
19	Maine	56.51	14	37
20	Wisconsin	54.84	25	13
21	Florida	54.54	35	2
22	North Carolina	52.80	28	17
23	Kansas	52.18	17	48
24	Nebraska	51.97	20	41
25	North Dakota	51.69	24	38
26	Pennsylvania	51.38	26	30
27	Michigan	51.19	27	28
28	Wyoming	50.87	23	42
29	California	50.37	37	8
30	Georgia	49.20	32	23
31	Alaska	49.10	22	49
32	Missouri	48.94	31	26
33	Iowa	48.76	30	29
34	South Dakota	48.48	34	24
35	Ohio	48.33	36	20
36	Arizona	46.02	33	40
37	Idaho	45.97	29	45
38	South Carolina	44.55	38	35
39	Tennessee	43.38	40	19
40	Indiana	43.32	41	11
41	Texas	40.50	42	22
42	New Mexico	37.12	39	50
43	Kentucky	36.06	45	32
44	Nevada	35.67	46	21
45	Alabama	35.62	44	36
46	Oklahoma	34.93	43	46
47	Arkansas	31.03	47	33
48	Louisiana	28.84	48	39
49	Mississippi	25.72	49	47
50	West Virginia	24.82	50	44

https://wallethub.com/edu/e/most-educated-states/31075

Now add who couldn’t pay their student loans.

9 minutes ago, ZR6000RR said:

Are you 10000000% sure? They update mapping every year. That is factual!

Krom's right, and 99% can tell the difference between a 137 and 129, only 1% (you) can't.

Trying to have her removed because she had an affair seemed a little silly and I'm surprised she didn't just admit it and move on (even though that was a line she used against her competition to get elected) but by digging in and perjuring herself on the witness stand should be her biggest problem, if she's not charged with perjury everyone should question the two tiered justice system. Her credibility is gone.

What about all the questions the judge asked about selective prosecution? 

Most of the talk is about Biden avoiding talking about the border, and Biden talking about the violence problem but ignoring the violence by illegals. Kristi Noem has been making good points.

I just logged in again,  

I just checked and it's not down.

17 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

they had more than ample time to make it law... but

Even though the Democrats in control of the senate have chosen not to address it, each State is addressing it and that's the way it should be. 

10 minutes ago, f7ben said:

Wait ….so turbocharging and turbo normalizing are different things? 

In sales terms yes, a turbo-normalized engine is a turbo-charged engine limited to 30 inches of manifold pressure, any thing boosted over 30 inches of manifold pressure is no longer considered turbo normalized. So if Doo, (all components the same), increases boost over 30 inches of MP it would no longer be considers turbo-normalized. 

13 minutes ago, Pete said:

He’s inflating his blow up Biden doll right now. Getting cigars and cognac ready for his boys show..

ahhh what a night on the way..

I bet there are a lot of drinking games planned..

3 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

I don't disagree but the playbook on this topic is open and everyone knows the game plan. 

Roe vs Wade was always considered an emotional decision that wasn't based in law, even Ruth Ginsburg said it wouldn't hold up to scrutiny. If the Democrats are so Hell bent on it becoming federally controlled wouldn't now be a good time to make legislation that supports it? The only thing overturning Roe vs Wade achieved is turning it over to individual States, so why is that such an issue? I'm all for less Federal Government overreach. 

Since aviation was brought into the discussion and I debated heavily putting a TAT Whirlwind III on my Bonanza, I'll add their comparisons of turbocharging and turbo-normalizing.

 https://taturbo.com/tnvtc.html

Turbonormalizing Vs Turbocharging.

Understanding the important differences

Let us begin.

TN and TC engines share the following characteristics:

1. Both involve compressing outside ambient air to make it available as denser air to the engine induction system so that the engine can make more power.
2. The degree to which the air is compressed is just a matter of design choice when one decides to specify the engine and its ability to make horsepower across the normal range of desired altitudes.
3. Any time you compress air - you make it hotter. (As discussed below - almost everybody in the early days missed the importance of intercoolers.)
4. Both TN and TC systems use an exhaust driven turbine to drive a centrifugal compressor - at speeds that may range as high as 120,000 RPM on some units.
5. Both TN and TC systems can use the same turbo components.

The TN system designer typically starts with a normally aspirated engine and asks the following question:

12 minutes ago, Deephaven said:

Well, he's right.  No one has behaved like a pre-pubescent teen in a debate more than him.  Seriously an embarrassment.

One of the problems I've noticed going back to the Obama vs Romney debate is the moderators becoming a 3rd debater, I still remember Maddow interrupting Romney and telling him he's wrong, not letting him finish and just being a bitch, after it came out he was right I really thought it would end her career, but her response was even though she was wrong it served her purpose to change the debate in favor of Obama. (he was loosing bad).

4 minutes ago, jonlafon1 said:

You must have shared the "racer gear set" with him!

I heard he brought a water-cross sled.

At just over $20,000 for the 136.

20 minutes ago, racinfarmer said:

And the 2023-2024 XC season is now finished.

Man do I feel bad for COR, this year had to hit them hard..

Polaris swept the Pro-Open top 3 today in Naytahwaush along with the top 2 in the most important class, Sport Improved Stock.

1 hour ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

Nothing to see here. Everything is normal. 

It kinda is for Texas, last year was wetter than normal so the fuel loading (grass) is incredible this year.so a big fire season was expected and with 2 days of 50-60 MPH winds there's not much they can do, Mother Nature helped today cool temps and it snowed really helped check it up.

On 2/15/2024 at 12:28 PM, Crnr2Crnr said:

I was 12 and wanted that JD Liquifier BAD

 

but our Citation SS was still pretty good in the woods for a twelve year old 

what's funny thinking back is the amount of miles of trails we had as kids through private property in the woods, fields and often right through neighbors yards.   it was actually kinda rare to go riding on the 'groomed snowmobile trails'.

how we did all that without mountain sleds on small lug short track sleds is just baffling.

😁

13 minutes ago, racinfarmer said:

At one time, we had 4 or 5 or 6 really nice little club lake races around here you could run, but club insurance companies started pushing back saying no ISR, no insurance for your event.  The members really weren't interested in putting in the effort, so that has died off.  Really miss it sometimes.

What series?  I don't remember MRP, ISOC, or USCC running anything better then 440's or 600's.

Pretty much.  I think in like 03 didn't they try the 500's for a year?  Or maybe that was like a 1 series 1 year thing?

I remember all the hooting and hollering when Brian and USXC announced they were moving away from the all out race sleds to what we race now.  I'm told Pat and USCC had been working with the manus on that before he passed.

People thought it was going to be the end of XC racing and I'm over here like "Wait, you are going to make me race a EFI, 91 octane, oil injected sled and Cat is even going to kick in engine reverse too?  OH NO!  I don't get to fight those bitches on a -20°F morning or premix 110 and 91 anymore!"

If you aren't going to enforce the rules you have, you might as well not have them. 

That isn't a racer's issue, that is a rules enforcement issue.

Ice racing seems to get more entries then the terrain races do, and more in terms of pure number of racers too.

Nope.  Cat would have the 858.  850 max.  Got to draw the line somewhere.

It was 1990, I had a 500SP I forgot about that one.

11 minutes ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

seems too logical... 

at least XC still allows MODZ 

I forget what year Bunke's brought their SOO sled to Pine lake, everyone was blown away to see an actual Mod sled, the Mod class up till then was always used as a pre-run to get their stock sled ready for Pro-Stock. But now instead of the Pro class it looks like the Sport class is the most important, I wonder if Herf will move down?

45 minutes ago, ZR6000RR said:

Been tried. Back in the fucking 90's. To dangerous. 

Back in the 80's it was 56hp racing, 90's they moved to 440's, as the 440's disappeared they went to 600's in the 2000's and finally to EPA compliant 600's.

2 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

 

Newsflash:

Racing is expensive

 

 

Thanks Captain Obvious! 

 

Ya know what's more expensive?  Children 

Children that Race..