racinfarmer

That is what it is everywhere. One district by us has built all new schools within the last 20 years. 2 or 3 elementaries, a pair of middle schools, and a massive new high school. They are in the planning stages of getting ready to replace 2 of those schools. Another one has the perpetual referendum. Or my favorite. One built a new school on a massive referendum, multi hundred million dollar school. Opps, we forgot we are building it on the end of a cow-path road and didn't include the infrastructure improvements. another $50m please! On top of it all, a yuge part of MN's $18b surplus went to education. Guess who is running out of money and coming back to us tax payers with the referendum hands out... U of M is projecting a shortfall of $260m or so. Who has a like $6b endowment? Take it out of that, bitches!

To be fair, he whipped Tim Walz's ass, and Timmy beat off 100 men for the chance to take on Trump.

But it is an issue. We are putting our faith in our government and the honest use of technology at hand and to be frank, they aren't exactly batting 100.

For the life of me I cannot finger out why Republicans hang on to this issue like it is the only lifeline they have. Let it go. Instill your values on this topic into your children and move on.

Lets play the hypothetical, since I haven't taken a stance in this goat rodeo. Lets just say Biden wasn't even in the WH (or at least close to the computer) the "autopen" was used from. Lets say he was at his annual with a jellied and gloved finger up his pooper when the "autopen" was being used. Then what? I'm just curious, because in my mind, this (along with many other things from both sides of the isle) should at least be looked into and if there are issues, then what do we do?

If that is the bar for being "A decent human", I'll be a Saint within the next few months.

I can say I will never be that bored with life. I'll just go drink coffee with all the other old timers at some local cafe instead.

I'd say he is/was losing the game if he wasn't selling shit. Like I told my friend at Princeton one year, there is a difference between a wheeler and dealer there to deal and a hoarder who doesn't sell shit and loads it all back up again.

We bought 1 farm site and hauled shit out by the end dump full. That is me, but with early to mid 2010's race sled parts.

I have family down in that part of the world and we make it down there at least once or twice a year. We love going to Decorah. On the flip side, I'm retired from the drink for a while. Maybe this winter I'll pick it back up as a hobby.

Back when we lived in the hood, there was a place that would do a weekly auction sale. Needing tools and whatnot, I headed on over one evening to buy some stuff. I won a lot of brand new Triumph drill bit sets, number, letter, fractional, and metric for $65. Probably over $1000 if you bought the indexes separately. That got all the old codgers attention real quick. Anything I bid on after that, 2 or 3 of them would just throw up their bid number. Didn't matter what it was, I was not welcome. I ran a no-name bench vise up to over $250 and stopped. Some dickhead ate that one. A used bench vise you'd be lucky to get $20 and is probably $50 at Menards. Another one was when my buddy needed a vise back in the Craigslist days. Found an ad and him and I headed on over. I shit you not, this was probably a 30'x50' shed, 4 or 5 shelves high around the perimeter. The shelves were packed with bench vises, the whole shed. In the center was anvils, the whole shed. Hundreds and hundreds of both. Guy had to be 75-80, wanted the top of top dollar, and really didn't want to sell the one he had listed because he might need it some day. I know he kicked over a few years after that, but never have heard what happened to the stuff.

I guess when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything is a nail.

Why not call out the income like the Democrats would do? $15 billion a month sounds shitty. $1.8 trillion over the next 10 years.

We did kind of a brewery hopping long weekend around Madison and a round-about way home. New Glarus stuff was overall one my least favorite on that trip.. Some were OK, but overall, I'll pass. Goose Island and 312 stuff were far and away my least favorite, but we didn't hit those up in person, just what I've had. My favorite, still, is Toppling Goliath out of Iowa. A bonus is my favorite of their is their cheapest brew too. Damn I want some Psuedo Sue when I get back to drinking. 6 or 7 more months to go.

If you'd put a Spotted Cow and a warm Keystone in front of me, I'd grabbing that warm Keystone every time.

Oh come on now, the US and Japan do not subsidize the EU's healthcare. <insert sarcasm here>

West Coast Customs Racing is closing up shop after 3 years.

They must have a heck of a well run show. The shows they have that I'd like to make it to are Monday to Wednesday shows, and that is a hard one to swing for me

Another weekend at 141 with 160+ cars on a weekly race night. No track around MN gets that kind of car count, not even close.

Got the first meaningful ride of the year in just now, 3 miles to and from the farm round trip. My fat huffin and puffin ass in the reason it was 94-95 out today - had to expel all that hot air from myself. The wind can stop any time now...

Again, the government can't wheel a tire down a hill without fucking it up, what makes you think they'll be batting 100 on healthcare, or even half that? I served my time in med device and have utilized our healthcare system far more then I care to think about. I do not believe our government, current or during the "glory years" of Obama, is or was capable of competently having Universal Healthcare in the US. Great, the rest of the world can do it. They aren't as fucked as we are. If we could competently do it in this country, great. I'd be all for it.

Having seen the cost of a 4 year public school education, I have serious doubts the government, public option or not, would be able to reasonably control the cost of healthcare in this country.

No worries, I saw some comments on some Facespace MN news station pages saying the real reason JD was over there visiting was the deliver Elon's billions to the church to make sure the next Pope was American.

Somewhere a few watercross guys are jerking one another off at the thought of another old Firecat mod sled to chop up for a race sled.