Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Lady Liberty" just went up. New topic, Deadline reports:
CBS Television Studios has parted ways with one of the top showrunners on its roster, Peter Lenkov. He has been fired from the two series he developed, executive produced and showran, CBS’ MacGyver and Magnum P.I. His overall deal with the studio also has been terminated.
We hear the decision came this week, following an investigation into a complaint about a toxic environment on MacGyver. According to sources, the investigation spanned a couple of weeks and wrapped over the July 4 holiday weekend. We hear that over his long tenure at CBS TV Studios, Lenkov had been the subject of two previous investigations into misconduct allegations.
Good.
We really don't talk about the workplace environment.
For example, have you ever worked with an office bully?
I have.
Her name was Kay. She was crazy. I heard about her when I started at my first ever professional job. It was a government job. Every one was telling me how lucky I was because there was a crazy woman that used to work there. They had plenty of examples. The biggest? When she was laid off, she left the meeting where she and others were told they were laid off -- she left it telling everyone present she was going home but would be back -- with her gun.
I heard all these stories and thanked the good Lord that she was gone.
One year after I started, she was back.
Now they had to post guards the day she was laid off. And she pulled up to the entrance and saw the armed guards and peeled out.
Her plan was to come in with her gun and 'take care of business.'
And that crazy bitch got hired back.
Why? How?
A supervisor hired her without going through the proper process because she was never to be rehired.
Once she was back working there, she was a nightmare.
She would bully people.
She tried to bully me. I ended up quitting and going to HR and explaining why.
I had been told not to "make waves," to just nod along with her. No. I was not going to be screamed at by some crazy woman every day. And I was not going to act like this was normal. Nor did I want to work with someone who bragged about how she planned to shoot up the building. Before she returned, I had only heard it from others. When she returned, anytime she was mad, she would bring it up and offer that maybe it was time for her to go get her gun. "That will straighten everything out," she snarl.
Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Corona, corona.
From her album CHALK MARKS IN A RAIN STORM, that's Joni Mitchell performing "A Bird That Whistles (Corrina, Corrina)."
Starting
in the US and with me. A blogger e-mailed noting that he was
discussing the need for masks at his site and was encouraging others to
do so as well. He doesn't want a link so I won't link to him or name
him -- if he changes his mind, I will note him.
Masks.
It's not my job to tell you what to do. Presumably most of you are grown ups.
I can share what I do.
I wear a mask in public. I wear a mask in private if more than six people are present.
I'm in several at risk groups -- including medical (I'm diabetic and I'm back on chemo).
Do I think a mask is a save all?
No.
I
assume the mask helps others you're around. I also take the attitude
with the masks that we had regarding condoms during the AIDS crisis.
They weren't 100% effective (they can break) but you were safer using
them when you had sex.
What about our rights?
We're
in a pandemic. Traditionally, that means some rights get curtailed.
If the wearing a mask is an infringement on rights, it's an infringement
that I personally can go along with.
Other infringements, I probably would object to.
What should you do?
That's up to you. The numbers are increasing, in the US and in the world.
That's
Najaf in Iraq. It's all around the world, not just the US. If you
have ideas for how to reduce the spread of coronavirus, share them.
Share them online. If you want, you can even send them here and I'll
post regardless of where you stand on the issue -- for the rest of this
week only. It could spark a conversation that we need to have.
The
hope was always that the summer, the warm weather, would send the virus
packing for a few months or at least the warm weather would see a
significant reduction in new cases. That has not happened.
We would all love to see a vaccine but I'm doubtful we'll have that by the fall.
We need to have a national conversation on this issue.
The
president hasn't helped. Congress has outright failed us (refusing to
push for $1,200 a month for every American adult was failure -- and it's
cute how Bernie wanted to lead the charge vocally but didn't do a thing
to make it come true in the Senate).
People who feel the mask is a violation of their rights should especially be discussing what's going on right now.
This
is about public health and public safety. It's a dialogue that, in
this country, every one needs to take part in. That's what democracy is
about.
If you need something noted on cornavirus this week -- e-mail common_ills@yahoo.com and we'll note it.
According to WORLD OMETERS INFO,
Iraq has had 62,275 cases of coronavirus with 2,567 deaths. The CIA
estimates Iraq's population (no census has been done in decades) to be
38 million.
It's a serious issue in Iraq. Last month, Iraq saw a 600% increase in covid 19 cases. AP notes:
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that the COVID-19
pandemic provides new opportunities for the Islamic State extremist
group, al-Qaida and their affiliates as well as neo-Nazis, white
supremacists and hate groups.
The U.N. chief said it's too early to fully assess the implications of the coronavirus pandemic on terrorism, but all these groups seek to exploit divisions, local conflicts, failures in governing, and other grievances to advance their aims.
Guterres told the launch of United Nations Counter-Terrorism Week that the Islamic State group, which once controlled a vast swath of Syria and Iraq, is trying to reassert itself in both countries, ``while thousands of foreign terrorist fighters battle in the region.''
The U.N. chief said it's too early to fully assess the implications of the coronavirus pandemic on terrorism, but all these groups seek to exploit divisions, local conflicts, failures in governing, and other grievances to advance their aims.
Guterres told the launch of United Nations Counter-Terrorism Week that the Islamic State group, which once controlled a vast swath of Syria and Iraq, is trying to reassert itself in both countries, ``while thousands of foreign terrorist fighters battle in the region.''
In other news, AL-MONITOR notes:
Notable Iraqi security analyst Hisham al-Hashimi was assassinated in Baghdad today, according to multiple reports.
On Monday, Agence France Presse reported that Hashimi was walking out of his Baghdad home when three gunmen on two motorcycles shot and killed him at close range.
Hashimi was a known and respected
commentator on Iraqi affairs who was particularly knowledgable on the
Islamic State. Just about an hour before his death, he tweeted
that division in Iraq was the result of the ethnic and religious quota
system put in place following the 2003 US invasion. The tweet, which
some shared after his death, has now been liked more than 11,500 times.
On that last Tweet, Depth Tweets a reply.
Condemn of killing 1 man, but not condemn the killing of servals Kurdish people by Turkish Airstrike. Bravo bravo you corrupt politican!
You people deserve to be overthrown and being punished by the law!
Yes, Turkey's assault on Iraq continues. TRINITY CHANNEL offers this report.
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