I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.

What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.

I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.

She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.

The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.

The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.

https://x.com/gothburz/status/2048810382093922370

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861068&forum_id=2Reputation#49847154)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861068&forum_id=2Reputation#49847208)

I was expecting you to weigh in on the Bangla double murder in Florida

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861068&forum_id=2Reputation#49847177)

so the bottles were already opened?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861068&forum_id=2Reputation#49847199)

who the fuck is shoplifting at airport bookstores?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861068&forum_id=2Reputation#49847510)

I think it has to do with body aesthetics. A birdshit or even a lighter-skinned (olive skinned) person looks way better doing anything, even illegal or chaotic things, than say an indian or african. Indians are especially a very ugly dysgenic people due to centuries of arranged marriages.

So basically a birdshit stealing bottles from an event looks better than a distinguished indian key-note speaker speaking at the event. Sad, actually. Indians should focus on mating with good looking people and improving their aesthetics.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861068&forum_id=2Reputation#49847259)

It’s all so tiresome

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5861068&forum_id=2Reputation#49847512)