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And I love it. I hope his head explodes. And I mean that literally.

 

Did a quick drive-by of an old friend's Facebook site tonight, saw this image leading off and then reminded myself yet again that it's best just to keep him tucked away in the back of my Old Friends Drawer.

 

That guy is an enormous asshole.

 

I've been on a job site in August. They'd have to fire a lot of people if they tried to make the water cooler off limits. That's just stupid and abusive.

 

The horror:

The law will nullify ordinances enacted by Austin in 2010 and Dallas in 2015 that established 10-minute breaks every four hours so that construction workers can drink water and protect themselves from the sun. It also prevents other cities from passing such rules in the future.

 

I guess the free market will take care of it in time. Nobody will want to work for anyone who doesn’t provide water breaks. Of course, a lot of people will die first.

 

Is that from when the Continental Army retook the airport from the British?

 

MAGAs are the whining motherf*ckers

 

The Post with a good Casey DeSantis profile - especially since she didn’t talk

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06/18/casey-desantis-power-profile/


“By the time Ron was in Congress, Casey was preparing to launch a show called “The Chat.” The idea was a women-led talk show airing every weekday at 3 p.m., a local version of “The View.” She gravitated toward projects that felt like news reporting. She had a mantra in production meetings: “What does the viewer value?” For every segment, every guest, every topic: “What is the viewer value for this?” When the journalist Laura Ling was freed from captivity in North Korea, Casey didn’t wait for her producers to reach out — she booked the interview herself. When she learned about the story of J.T. Townsend, a high school football player left paralyzed by a spinal cord injury on the field, she wrote and produced a documentary that earned a Suncoast Regional Emmy nomination. “You could tell that that was her passion — telling stories like that,” said Chanel LeBlanc, one of Casey’s producers.

Colleagues often found Casey at her desk, reviewing old footage, remarking on what she could have done better. She was hard on herself. And self-critical about her appearance. “She didn’t like to watch herself, but she did,” a former colleague said. Casey kept changes of clothes in the trunk of her car. She came in with wrinkles or dog hair on her dresses. She walked around in sweats and without makeup until it was time to get ready for the show. Stewart, who worked as an operations manager before Casey helped her become a co-host on “The Chat,” once asked her mentor for advice. “Casey said, ‘Practice.’ She told me she would do it in the mirror and practice in the bathroom for hours.”

Casey maintained tight boundaries at work. She didn’t talk about politics, but people knew she was conservative. She always had the television by her desk tuned to Fox News. She read the Daily Mail. Casey’s partner in creating the show, the co-executive producer, Bonnie Solloway, was an outspoken liberal. She pitched segments about racism in the community — one was about a Black girl being forced to straighten her natural hair for a dance troupe. Former colleagues don’t remember Casey pushing a political agenda on the show. She just wanted to know: “What does the viewer value?” She rarely talked about Ron, either.”

 

I've moved into working with occupational safety and health laws in recent years. It is stunning what some employers think is OK to do to their workers and that they stay in business. Some of them have been treating workers this way for decades.

 

Union.