I'm guessing that servers in a tourist town like Gettysburg are not worried about finding another job.

So where do you draw the line on where that should stop? A free lollipop? Free generic drugs? 1 day of treatment? 10? 100?

For-profit or not for profit, it is flat out immoral to view health care decisions based on profit opportunities, and it's flat-out immoral to judge whether to provide life-saving health care based on an ability to pay. And if you think it's a great way to make money and that a person should not get care if they don't cough up for it (or have someone paying for it) YOU are why this country is suffering from the late-stage effects of malignant capitalism.

So non-profits pay all the property, state income and sales tax?

So when I give a non-profit ID # to stores when I buy stuff for the non-profit charity fund-raising group I'm affiliated with, we're NOT getting the benefit of claiming to be a non-profit?

(I was under the impression non-profit health care providers in PA had to provide a certain amount of charity care, but sadly, I was very wrong.)

And yet LVMC goes under the auspices of being "non-profit" to avoid taxes. Pretends to be a charity.

people who own cyber charters, obv

Blood spatter analysis? Are you telling me Dexter was a fake?

As a former Catholic, I've got no horse in this race, but are you aware of all the sex scandals that are happening with protestant "Youth Pastors" hooking up with teenagers in their Youth Groups?

It's also rampant in a lot of the higher-control religions like JW, Mennonites, Amish, etc. It's everywhere.

God I'm old: English Beat at the Keswick

Positioning all Democrats as pedophile "groomers" and child abusers sets gullible conservatives/Christians into a mindset where they need to "save the children" by killing Democrats. If you don't think this speech inspires murder, just look at the Comet Pizza debacle.

It's not binary: "Nazi" or "not-Nazi" - you don't get to Full Nazi overnight. I totally get your concern about cheapening the word "nazi" but there's value in warning people that we seem to be on a similar track to Germany in the 30s.

I'm a Quaker now, and my Catholic mother asked me the same question. I suggested that bringing a pre-teen to Vietnam War midnight peace vigils (why yes, my brother did have a crazy-low draft number) was probably a contributing factor to me, I don't know, supporting pacifism.

When I see a large number of of yard signs about politics of any sort I assume there's a whole lot of crazy happening in that house. We have more than one near us. Always with the GIANT OVERSIZED CUSTOM SIGNS

That's a Catholic wording and Catholic philosophy, though

No horse in this race and not positive or negative opinion of Gym, but there's a huge difference between being the member of a conservative organization, and going to a fund-raiser using their ballroom as a venue

I always tell young colleagues to keep a running list of the projects they worked on, disease category, clients, and notes on what they contributed or learned. Then, when they go to look for another job, they aren't rummaging through their memory for this information. Employers will ask for that, and it's nice to have right in front of you in a spreadsheet.

I get wanting to be warm and miss out on cold, damp winters, but I kind of like knowing that if and when the electricity goes out, my state is actually fit for human habitation, unlike AZ and NV. I've been in those states when the temp climbs well over 110 and that's a hard no from me.

Isn't the COLA in Pittsburgh extremely low in comparison to comparable cities? (high compared to Carnegie maybe but low compared to like Boston)

One of my friends works for the govt and has an apt in Hbg and a house on the Main Line. She find Hbg weird, creepy and empty.

EDIT: She agrees with the commenter who said everyone knows each other from high school or previous work for the govt.

The abortion thing might play well with evangelicals, but it runs contrary to the "leave me the fuck alone" core approach of the 2A, anti tax, anti regulation old timey Republicans I know

Lemon pies

It's Pennsyltucky; his partner probably had kids at 15

And yet they don't do without decent government, like so many low-tax/no income tax states.

My friend's kid had a slight developmental delay and damn, did Delaware get on that, with an army of people doing assessments, speech therapy - the works. So low taxes AND relatively strong govt services, thanks to the credit card companies.

This is the solution. Clearly.

And we'd have to relegate my alma mater Penn State to Pennsyltucky, but once I saw people wearing "Penn State cammo" to games, I had already resigned myself to that.

Way back in prehistory I was calling my employer's marketing dept to have something shipped to the Dover Mall.

"I don't think Fed Ex ships to Dover" (like I said, pre-history)

"It's the state capitol, of course they ship there"

"State capitol? Of what?"

"Uh, Delaware?"

"What state is Delaware in?"

Ghost cats? My husband worked there when it was first offering tours and we locked up some nights. That place used to be full of 3 spooky things: bats, rats and REAL cats

I worked one night many years ago at a precursor to the Terror Behind the Walls. It was so bone chillingly cold in those cells. So cold. God bless the people at London who sent over soup.