PETA are terrorists. Their end goal is no domestic animals, and they believe my dog is better off dead. They ran an animal shelter in a southern state and stole dogs out of back yards and euthanized them.

I am plant based for health reasons, I use some leather, don’t care what kind of milk you drink, and while I don’t care if you eat meat, I think it should be raised and slaughtered humanely with an eye on how some animal agriculture affects the environment. (Not a fan of the giant ponds of pig poo maintained by some of the giant pig farms.)

If you never interact with animals, and they are only pictures in a book, it’s easy to justify poor treatment.

To be fair, my husband worked at the university level and throwing dildos around probably would have been deemed inappropriate there as well, even behind closed doors.

The play however, banning that is just crazy.

Are you sure? The Pacific Northwest has Idaho, and Montana is home to one of the main organizers of the Charlottesville, VA debacle.

While the Pacific Northwest is put down for its liberal big cities, step outside Seattle and Portland, and they have more than their fair share of Aryan Nation jerks with the added northwest twist of trying to justify it using their Norse heritage (as the northwest received a huge influx of immigrants from the Nordic countries).

No, just no. Stop bringing these things here and letting them loose. I don't live in Florida for a reason. My dog's breeder is leaving Florida partially due to the heat, and partially due to wanting "gator free waterways."
I lived in Houston for 4 years and in certain parks you didn't want to crash your bike on the trails because gators were nearby.

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.

It really depends on your interests. There are a ton of little ice cream shops to find. If you like history you smack into something someone marched through or fought on frequently. The Cornwall Iron Furnace is close to Annville and is the only intact iron furnace left around here, I believe they cast the canons used in the revolutionary war.

Lots of pretty trails, especially Mt. Gretna.

In Lancaster county, there’s lots of tourist stuff, I enjoyed wandering around Lititz. The Tomato Pie cafe is good.

Check YouTube for videos on touring towns in Lancaster county. I’ve seen videos on Hershey as well.

It’s only more complicated if you still have a loan on the car.

My son switched his CDL in one day, not a big deal, and for that he just needed proof he lived here.

Once that was done the vehicle reg was quickly done at one of the local notary offices.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/temple-university-withdraws-tuition-aid-benefits-for-some-students-strike/

Starting? Isn’t that SOP for Lebanon GOP? They operate by the mantra that “GOP makes right”.

Politics is goofy in any era. At least we still have LebTown trying to report on it.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that I didn’t have the only Fetterman sign on my street. The mayor of my borough is nuts, but other guys on the council seem to try to temper him when he gets too crazy. Definitely a more conservative area, but I lived in Burien WA (just south of Seattle) for five years and a friend who ran for city council had someone leave human excrement on her doorstep, call her son’s school and asked if he sat near a window, and basically harass her for existing on a daily basis. The crazies are everywhere.

We moved to Lebanon County from the Seattle area, it’s very bright here in the winter!

No, my son got his just before his 21st because we moved from out of state and he has a class A license which is more expensive. DMV told him he could get a new one but didn’t need to and he’s had no trouble buying alcohol.

Not a myth in WA state where I moved from. The Seattle area generates more state revenue than it receives, and the rural areas in the state, most everything east of the Cascade mountains, get more from the state than they pay out. Which is why the western half of the state always laughs when eastern WA talks about forming its own state.

I moved here from out of state and enjoy it, but was heartened to see some of the diehard “Trumpsters” on my street finally take their Trump signs down recently.

Don’t worry, every state has these people. Or sadly, I guess.

I live in a red county that has 30-40% democrats. You would basically be telling them their vote would no longer count for anything. Bad enough I have to put up with the misogynistic self aggrandizing schmuck they installed for the state legislature.

I agree. I moved here from Washington state, and we have a lot of amazing scenery, but we decided to move here after dropping my daughter off for med school and seeing how pretty it was. We took a leap and retired here, enjoying it so far.

Terms are already limited., voters just need to do their jobs. The Supreme Court needs a mandatory retirement age, there has been a group advocating for that for years.

If PA limited the terms of those we send to DC, it would put us at a severe disadvantage.

I’m all for getting rid of folks who aren’t doing their job, but there’s something to be said for those who know how it all works and are good at it.

Get the dark money out of politics.

That’s like the electoral college. No thank you.

Why aren’t elections term limits?

Very nice.

I’m sorry it’s so difficult. It is long past time we should have fixed our immigration rules.

Oh, but they built a playground and named it after him. That’ll fix it.

Considering that in my county a child died because no one knew he existed, and his parents starved him to death, I’m tempted to think that number is “lowest reported cases”, not really lowest cases.

I don’t think it’s the only factor, but combined with some others I do think it has an effect.