Take one flannel shirt, one Mike Napoli beard circa October 2013, mix in an iPhone 6 and some workboots, then add an overpolished ax and flavor with homebrewed craft beer and you’ve got the latest lifestyle fashion trend for men: the “Lumbersexual.”

the greenies are going to have a fit when the cost of buying power from the power plants that ended 50 gigawats of generating power by 2016. At some point the cost of having the power come from the power company will be lower than the cost of generating your own power using a small 10,000 watt generator (with efficiency inverters).

right now i just computed the costs, and its potentially cheaper to hook up such a thing and save energy in NY where power is really expensive compared to other areas.

without artificial taxes raising the prices arbitrarily, the cost of power generation from a power plant would be too expensive to buy… note that the smaller you get in terms of generators, the more pollution you get per unit watt.

real independents think independently..

its possible, if you own your own property, to install a large tank, buy gas when its really cheap, and then use it for power over other sources…

its interesting to think that if we didnt vote so poorly and the system was allowed to not be bastardized by arbitrary taxes, fees, etc…. how much would actually get to stay in the earners pockets vs the pet projects of the liberals… like making farting a feminist issue… there is a good use of $$$… (not)

Just came over from reading American Thinker where there’s a great article of how the establishment GOP is clueless about what is going on with the conservative base. It cites how both Levin and Palin have publicly stated that their association with the GOP is hanging by a thread. The next few months could be interesting, in a Chinese saying sense.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/palin_levin_walk_2016_nomination.html

Would one of those economic “worn out cliches” by chance be ‘the law of supply and demand’?

The answer is, no, of course not. My expectation of private sector elected officials, who have a track record of success, is that they have a greater understanding and appreciation of the market and market forces, and that they know that the genius of capitalism is that it harnesses the individual’s impulse for material comfort and security to incentivize innovation for the benefit of all and the greater good. BTW, I’m not referring to the business people who use the revolving door to pop in and out of the executive branch.

Well, many of the Republicans haven’t offered much in the way of opposition to Democrats as of late, so it makes no sense to wholeheartedly embrace that brand. At least, not until the establishment types and the phonies are purged from their ranks, if that is to happen.

Let’s face it, talking about budgeting, saving money, cutting back, setting priorities, etc. is real snooze material compared with the inflammatory rhetoric that can be used when debating social issues. Besides, a 100 billion here and a hundred billion there and people cannot envision what it means. All they know is that conservatives have been talking about fiscal sanity for a long time and yet, even with 18 trillion in debt, the ship, USS Government, is still afloat. The day of reckoning seems remote.

That’s the situation in my neighborhood. The majority are fiscally conservative, but being Puget Sound, many are social liberals. This being Puget Sound they are subjected to a constant narrative of social liberalism and few have ever sat down to think about how economies work, why some countries are richer than others, where wealth comes from or how it’s created.
Most count themselves as proud independents but vote for the social liberals.

I know people who *fancy* themselves conservative, and, compared to those with whom I think they generally associate, by golly they *are* (by comparison) conservative. In some cases, stereotypically speaking here, there are in fact blue-collar no-nonsense type people who are in fact conservative under many variant definitions of the word.

At the same time, there are those who have always been Democrat, whose parents have always been Democrat, whose grandparents have always been Democrat — dear reader is invited to perpetuate the sequence as far back in time as desired — and whose *local* politician in fact does a good job of bringing home the bacon and making sure to look after his constituents. (For example, “blue-collar no-nonsense type people”, anyone?)

So many of them persist in leaning and voting Democrat, partly out of habit, partly out of tribalism, partly out of stasis; particularly towards the bottom of the ballot. Q.E.D.?