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  • "I employed a crew of two young, very fit, strong men from Meathead Movers to move a house full of furnishings sometime back in 2002-03. When I say young, these guys weren't any older than 23 or 24 years old. Company policy back then was for the workers to jog back into the house after each load of items was carried out and loaded into the van. Doing so keeps the tempo of the work high, impresses the shit out of the customers, gives the guys a workout, and cuts down on the time the whole moving process requires. I watched as just those two guys quickly, efficiently, and safely moved & loaded all the boxes and all the furniture we asked them to. Some furniture was bulky and heavy, as you would expect. One piece in particular was brutally massive and insanely heavy - a custom-built, full-sized, solid oak roll-top desk with all the bells & whistles. I watched in fear as those two Meathead Mover dudes strained mightily with the Herculean task of carrying and loading that impossibly heavy desk. I may as well have asked them to load Thor's Hammer or a pallet of spent Uranium into the back of their van. There is not a woman in SLO County that could have performed that task. I believe 90% of men aged 45+ could not do what those young guys did without serious risk of back injury or hernia. The alleged violations and fines levied by the U.S. EEOC are clearly not reality based for the level of expected work capacity and physical work performance that is necessary and routine at Meathead Movers. Instead of huge monetary fines and being forced to hire older workers who are likely to be injured or unable to perform the physical tasks involved in moving, the EEOC should instead require MM to adopt reasonable and articulated employment standards commensurate to MM's various job positions. Prospective employees would be qualified for employment by several means including screening via a medical physical exam and successful completion of a physical performance abilities test to qualify for the most physically demanding positions at the company. This is standard procedure in other industries for job applicants seeking employment with Police, Fire & Military services, industrial divers, professional sports teams and other occupations where standards for physical performance and work capacity are specifically delineated as inherent to successful job task performance."

    Florian75 commented in:
    Meathead Movers settles age discrimination lawsuit on 2026-01-07 04:29:38
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  • "Correction: It's not "everyone's oil" if you can't get it out of the ground. Private companies engage in competitive bidding with other companies to pay huge sums of money to the federal government for the marine mineral rights in managed offshore leases. Managed by the federal government on behalf of all Americans - that's how it becomes "everyone's oil". Winning bidders earn the right to search for and possibly extract oil, if they find any at all. Also, the 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill is not the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Far larger spills were associated with oil tanker ships. The same kind of ships California will depend on to meet the state's demand for oil and fuel after the closure of the Valero and Phillips 66 refineries this year. The largest spills of course are connected to the blowouts of exploratory wells (Deepwater Horizon, 2010, and Ixtoc1,1979) in the Gulf of North America, aka Gulf of Cartelexico."

    Florian75 commented in:
    Oil production to restart offshore of Santa Barbara County on 2026-01-06 21:37:34
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  • "Salud. You would have been in a race with your fellow dems to see who could leak the raid first. Don’t even try to convince anyone that you wouldn’t. You would do anything, anything to see a Trump failure. While I know that hypocrisy is long lost on your ilk, the fact that you were all crowing about Maduro and his illegitimacy as little as a few months ago, and are now crowing at his removal, is such transparent TDS that pretty much anything you say is colored by your ridiculous party line. Thank the stars that UCSB is in your district. Without them you wouldn’t even have a stool from which to spew your nonsense."

    south commented in:
    Congressman Salud Carbajal condemns Trump’s Venezuela raid on 2026-01-06 18:36:15
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  • "If Trump and his administration found a cure for cancer Salud Carbajal and the rest of the democrat party would say let cancer patients die due to their hatred of Trump. Carbajal has been an absolutely awful representative for this area and doesn't care about the people he represents. I know from first hand experience of trying to work with his office to recieve medical care as a veteran and the difficulty and lack of resources for that care in this area that Carbajal represents."

    bb commented in:
    Congressman Salud Carbajal condemns Trump’s Venezuela raid on 2026-01-06 18:31:10
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  • "Salud deserves no salute. Imagine what would have happened if Trump's administration had consulted with Congress before taking action. Shumer, Schiff, AOC, Ilan Omar, etc. would have been on the phone warning Maduro in time for him to respond against our troops. The Dems have shown their anti-American positions in spades."

    TKG commented in:
    Congressman Salud Carbajal condemns Trump’s Venezuela raid on 2026-01-06 16:20:45
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  • ""The Trump administration’s decision to attack Venezuela was a reckless and deeply destabilizing action. Launching unilateral military strikes and seizing Maduro without a clear plan for what comes next risks creating a dangerous power vacuum " So Carbajal assumes there is no follow up plan? Hmmm, well, I did hear they have a follow up plan, on MY news feed! He should be reeling his influence at his favored media, telling them to tell the truth! Instead he supports the degraded news that only presses their agenda. And is solely designed to belittle the President. The American people DO deserve answers, as to why the borders were wide open so he could set up shop here in America, and flood our streets with this deadly drug? "

    LinnieB commented in:
    Congressman Salud Carbajal condemns Trump’s Venezuela raid on 2026-01-06 15:01:47
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