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Incredible. @WSJ reporting that companies are forcing college interns to sign non-compete agreements. @tekMountain - which should now be boycotted - is forcing summer interns to LEAVE TOWN to get jobs when they enter graduate from college. Other examples of companies to boycott?
@WSJ @tekMountain ...so now, Americans companies want college students and graduates to work for free, and then if they land paying jobs, they want to stop them from taking them? Man, corporate America is really f'ed up. Companies like @tekMountain and @CastleBranchinc need to be closed down.
@WSJ @tekMountain ...for this folks saying the dick move by companies like @tekmountain are unenforceable: You're probably right, simply on a "shock the conscience" constitutional standard. But how many just-graduates from college are willing to take on corporations who like near-slave labor.
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1. Another (long secret) Ross Perot story. The family of a friend of mine lived near him. The friend, while training for Olympic Decathlon in Nowhere, Texas, was in a car accident. Local hospital said he couldn't be transported, and they couldn't save this great person.....
2...the mom went to Perot's house, asking for help. Without a moment's hesitation, he arranged for an emergency team from Parkland Hospital in Dallas to get on his private plane and flew them to this flyspeck of a town, where they went to work on my friend.

While the accident...
3...ended his Olympic career, and left him with long-term damage, this man is alive, happy, married, and a symbol of perseverance to Dallas.

Perot didn't say "not my problem." Like with everything, he said "Whenever I can help and do what's right, I will."

He was a great man.
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Deficit, all of fiscal year 2015: $439 billion.

Deficit, first SIX MONTHS of fiscal 2019: $746 billion.
Annualized: $1.49 trillion.

Yes, the GOP has added $1 trillion to the annual deficit. But they screamed food for children was too expensive in 2015 because of deficits.
...they had a trillion dollars available for billionaires, but not money for the Children Health Insurance Plan in fiscal 2018.

I do not understand this kind of inhumanity - and then they run off to church and call themselves "good christians."
...they scream now that there is just no money for treating immigrants held in cages with basic human decency, so people like @tedcruz say "Oh, let's take donations from humans who aren't billionaires."

But they had a trillion for billionaires....
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I heard the favorite kids' song, Baby Shark, with my goddaughter. This was not around when my kids were little, and apparently today's kids like to listen to it over and over and over.

Today's parents of toddlers have my sympathies.
...oh god. By typing those words, the song has started running through my mind again. I just caught myself going "doo doo da doo-da-doo." HELP ME!
...now people are telling me that, by reading the tweet, the song is running through their heads as well.

It's like the world's most communicable disease. Or the "zombies by sound" method in the great movie Pontypool.
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