Right. However dumb he thought this issue was, he could have renamed the drink, rolled his eyes, and continued on. Instead he’s got a closed business for several days, a story in the paper that makes him look like an ass, and probably expiring product because the business was closed. Losses on losses on losses. But hey the libs were owned I guess.

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My favorite thing to do when I come across a small town I'm not familiar with is to find the oldest looking blue-collar bar in town, go in, order a beer and get an expert description of what the town is all about from the bartender, who often has lived in that town their entire life.

Would they rent it out to a bunch of mid-20's looking to have a good time?

PA buries folks with nuisance taxes.

Occupation Privilege.

Fire.

Fire Hydrant.

Street Light.

Per Capita.

Municipal.

County.

School District.

Earned Income Tax.

Personal Income Tax.

Buckle up, bucko; taxman commeth.

There's a big push in Westmoreland now for code enforcement/blight remediation, so hopefully Monessen gets swept up in that.

Lots of places cannot find workers, especially in the restaurant/bar field. The folks who walked out should have no problem finding a new job, but will this jerk find folks willing to work for him?

Well, you are here shitposting so you must have quit your day job.

>Pretty confidant that’s a joke.

Is it? Considering the names of other products, does not come off as a "joke." Guy is a jerk, clearly.

If employees walk out because the owner is a shitbag then it's hard to operate the business. Seems he'd rather listen to his ego than listen to the employees.

Hoffman certainly cannot tax, true. But his attitude appears taxing.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/monessen-building-collapse/

Watch out for falling buildings.

It’s a shame what’s happened to that town. In the 50’s and 60’s it was booming. My mother graduated from Monessen High school in the 50’s with about 300 students. Now they barely have 50.

Robocop and Striking Distance were both filmed in Monessen.

Tom Savini has a special effects school at Douglas Business there.

Frances McDormand graduated from Monessen HS.

The Coolio song “I Remember” has the line “runnin through the streets of Monessen PA.” He wasn’t from here, but someone in his band was.

That’s all I can think of for now.

Just because they are a charity doesn't mean that they have endless resources. They have to pay suppliers, the people that work there need to be paid.
The reality of medical care is that it will always be rationed, always. There will always be some expensive therapy out there that can be tried, even if it shouldn't be.
My husband used to work at the county hospital in Seattle. People would fly their relatives in from another country and try to get them care there. The hospital struggled some years to care for those who lived in the county.
As a country, we decide who rations the medical care, and right now we are letting the insurance companies do it based on who can afford premiums and how much profit they want to make in the current year.
There will always be tough decisions to make in health care, and there will always be families who cannot let go and think their supreme being will perform a miracle, meanwhile the medical staff is at fault when the miracle doesn't occur and everyone is mad when care costs money.
Our inability to set clear policy as a country and as a society means that the medical staff and those who are trying to keep the hospital afloat will bear the brunt of society's inability to step up on this topic.
Even non-profits cannot operate in the red.

How do I subscribe to these fun facts ?

Fun fact:

In 2012, Monessen had ZERO public toilets open before 8AM.

I know because, when I drove ambulance, my partner and I had an 8AM pickup there and we left PGH around 7. We got there with 15 min or so to spare, but no bathrooms anywhere.

The convenience shop would not let us in.

The fire station would not let us in.

Monessen - the public urination capital of PA.

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My family has a lake house up in the finger lakes, less than a 5 hr drive from Philly and lots of options!!

It’s worse than that. It’s totally inconsistent. Some places it property. Some places it’s income. Some it both. I used to work for a large corporation based in another state. They could not deduct from my paycheck as it was too complex for the payroll system.

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Also, Monday was one of the holiest of days for the Dudists (makes me wonder if it had to do with the anniversary of the movie being released)..

Well legal weed is Hardly the 1st priority of most voters. Isn't it always "Jobs Jobs Jobs"? Certainly in Manchin's home state. But anyone who thinks any pol on either "wing" can do anything to bring non-Anthracite coal back is living in la la land . . .

Much of the time, folks vote out of habit for their incumbent, regardless of party. It's an Odd Dysfunction of US Voter attitudes: Most of us absolutely HATE all politicians, especially Senate / Congress in general, BUT . . . Most will also say, at the same time, they Love/Like their individual Senator / Congressman. Polls have been demo'ing this for decades, at all levels, Fed / State / Local. Or else they "pull the party line" in a "wave" year (blue or red). Even when "party lines" have been eliminated from voting machines (ok we don't use those types of mechanical lever machines anymore, you know, the ones everyone used to trust blindly, but were Fraught with 10,000x the errors, & susceptibility to Fraud, of "modern" systems, that now no one trusts).

Considering it's based on white people I would say it's probably bland AF.

Honestly those look really familiar, but I remember having a conversation with my road tripping partner about going through Pittsburgh, and we decided against it. I don’t think we would have been that far north. But man those do look familiar, I wonder if there’s another set of those somewhere?