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May 4 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-4

I'll come clean, it was A-I

Dunmore’s reminder in his order of the colony’s vulnerability to slave uprising or Indian attack is taken by a number of Patriots as a threat to arm Virginia’s nonwhite population if the colonists continue to resist the Crown. Wealthy planter and Patriot member of the House of Burgesses Carter Braxton advises Henry and his men to remain outside town, and rides into Williamsburg himself to negotiate with Lord Dunmore.

All these cardinals are total losers. One of them, a big burly man with tears in his eyes, came to me the other day and said sir, you should be pope. You’d be the best pope, because popes until now have been weak. I would be a great pope, like you’ve never seen before. Did you know popes go back over 1,000 years? Nobody knew that. But I asked, why is all this stuff in Latin, a language nobody ever heard of? Everyone knows Jesus spoke English, which is the only language anyone understands. Did you know popes get to change their name from their real name to a pope name? Like Francis, what kind of name is that? It’s a pretty stupid name, a weak name. I’m gonna keep my name, Donald Jesus Trump. This will all happen soon, very soon, in about two weeks.

Remember in the end Napoleon was exiled and basically was forced to sell the Louisiana Territory to the US. I'm afraid who King Donald the Dunce would sell us to for a pittance

There are times you wished lightning would actually strike

May 3 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-3

If the Trump DOJ wins can Democrats use "Alito and Thomas" gave Musk your Social Security Info?

MAGA Rule one, only Orange Man can weaponize the government...

If Obama or Biden would have done this the Red Hats would be rioting in the streets

May 2 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-2

Somebody needs to propose that Congressional and Cabinet salaries be tied to Social Security. These critters have enough under the table sponsors to live on 1660 a month

The guy whose dad paid for 5 deferments wants a HUGE parade and turnout from people he's called suckers

Re: Faux News. Several years ago pre COVID I had a customer come to the information booth at the McNamara's DTW Terminal and asked why the airport was showing CNN on their video screens. I told him it was probably because CNN outbid Faux for the rights to do so. He was flummoxed

Any chance this dork gets primaried next year? And what’s the deal with hair?

Probably more likely he moved on his own. The pay is similar to fast food work, maybe slightly better. The amount of abuse these folks get on a regular bases wears you down. Think about it an 8 hour shift, 1/2 for lunch and maybe 2 15 minute breaks for $15-20 an hour average (I left my last gig at the start of the Pandemic). Depending on the company your taking 6-10 calls an hour depending on the product and nature of the business, always expected to attempt to upsell while you are looking at the cue line (which means no down time between calls). The burn out rate for some of these jobs are outrageous. The gigs I had were relatively easy in comparison but you left work each day mentally shot.

For whatever reason those of us who don't normally watch Faux don't raise a fuss when we see it on in a business. We notice and file it away in our memory banks for future business. Faux fans on the other hand tend to complain.

From the UTube video I saw it didn't look intentional, it looks like he got up quickly from his seat, lost his balance and tumbled over the railing.

I haven't driven by the Hampton Roads docks lately, but the number of container carrying trucks in I-64 seems greatly reduced

It's a revolving door...

From Wikipedia

Having spent a fair amount of time in CS the problem is weighing what the customer needs/wants vs what management objectives are. A couple cases in point. Metro Airport farms out its ground transportation to private companies who provide cabs/limos on airport property. The company sets the rates, DTW sets conditions. The Transportation company must weigh their costs (upkeep, wages, etc) vs what the consumer expects. Meanwhile for the most part the CS agent is the lowest peon on the totem pole. Having to deal with crazy drivers (who mostly work on commission), angry customers (who usually have little or no clue about logistics of getting around a large region with little or no public transportation). Throw in turnover because pay sucks and burnout for anyone who stays there for any length of time and gets grief from both the consumer and the provider. Currently I spend time as a volunteer at the Colonial Williamsburg Visitor Center. We're usually the first people the visitor sees when they visit. Spend four hours or so balancing your time between the visitor's expectations and the objectives of manage, On Sunday's we get a range of folks arriving for a multi day visit to those passing thru on the interstate and have no clue what CW is about other than it is an old city that someone may have told them about and they had about an hour to kill on their way to or from the Outer Banks. For all they seem to care it could be a Buc-ee's. Throw in a management "cost saving" decision to change the map/program guide to a map only and tell the visitor they can find program information on line. (The vast majority of our Sunday visitors are either senior citizens whose phone skills are still in the early 2000's or really can't deal with reading their phone in extreme sunshine). Meanwhile we are expected to be helpful, friendly, courteous , kind, cheerful and loyal.