" The thinking here was that the whale would be blown into small pieces, which would be eaten by sea gulls, and that would be that. A textbook whale removal...I am probably not guilty of understatement when I say that what follows, on the videotape, is the most wonderful event in the history of the universe."

Dave Barry's writeup of this incident will live in my memory forever.

Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure

That's the point.

It happened all the time back then too, the morality police just wanted it to remain one of those things that no one talked about

Too bad there's only one dance, The Robot

They'll use poisonous gases and they'll poison our asses

When I worked for now nearly defunct big box mall store famous for its catalog in shipping and receiving, I had an inventory control device that allowed me to see both the wholesale price that the store paid for items along with the retail price that they were sold for. Markups are obscene.

My favorites were the sunglasses. The generic ones cost the store about a dollar each and sold for $20-40. They were shipped in the same box, from the same factory, as the fancy designer ones "made" by vacuous reality TV women. They were almost indistinguishable except for the logos. They cost the store $2-5 and sold for $80-300. It boggled my mind.

Also, no matter how crazy on sale something is, it's never less than the store paid.

This is the entire Grey Goose business model. It's been spectacularly successful.

How fortunate

Their base consists of people who are terrified to admit they are wrong about anything, ever, even to themselves. So they have no choice but to continue to double down on these bullshitters no matter what they say or do.

Cutler keeps trying to reframe it as money "raised" by Republicans for Republican use since it was collected while Republicans were in office.

It's PA taxpayer money that existed in those accounts to do the business of the legislature. It's theft. Imagine if an outgoing president transferred all the taxpayer money to fund the operations of the white house and executive offices to their own accounts and those of their political party!

Just by looking where it's supposed to be bad, might be worth diverting a bit west, going up 79 to 90

FIVE CASH FIVE

It's great, needs even more mushrooms

Yeah, I've hit grandpa Joe's there and in Ohio when traveling. Erie though is a barren wasteland of birch. Tops has a store brand birch but it's pretty awful.

What is rutters?

Love birch beer. It's so hard to find in western PA.

You're just Wingin' it

What a bizarre set of questions.

First time dealing with the police?

Their whole platform is that government is useless. It's a lot easier when you're there, making sure it is useless

PA has many good local credit unions which would be first choice.

PNC ATMs are ubiquitous, but they are reducing their actual retail locations

You shut your mouth

Love, Erie

Or, as we liked to call it, The Bludgeoning Station

If only the state wasn't gerrymandered to hell. Dems frequently win statewide offices but never come close to legislative control. At this point I read somewhere that dems need something like 60% of the vote to win the state house

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