Army officer, wife indicted for offering soldier medical records to Russia

From Washington Free Beacon

A federal grand jury in Baltimore indicted Jamie Lee Henry and his wife, Anna Gabrielian, on charges of conspiracy and wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information. According to prosecutors, the couple met last month with an undercover FBI agent posing as a Russian diplomat and offered medical information from Fort Bragg, the home of the military’s elite Delta Force.

The wife said "she was motivated by patriotism toward Russia to provide any assistance she could to Russia, even if it meant being fired or going to jail," according to the indictment. Gabrielian gave the undercover agent medical information on a spouse of someone who works in the Office of Naval Intelligence, and "highlighted" a medical issue that "Russia could exploit."

According to prosecutors, Henry told the undercover agent he offered to join the Russian military after the invasion of Ukraine, but was rejected due to lack of combat experience. Henry allegedly told the agent that he believed "the United States is using Ukrainians as a proxy for their own hatred toward Russia."

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trans-army-doctor-indicted-for-trying-to-give-soldiers-medical-info-to-russia/

Ever think those people make stupid decisions and don’t do any thinking until that ‘Oh, shit!’ moment hits?

4 million borrowers could be cut from of Biden’s student loan forgiveness.

From Daily Mail UK

“The Biden administration quietly announced a change in its student debt forgiveness program on Thursday that could exclude up to 4 million borrowers with loans owned or backed by private companies.

“The u-turn by the federal government comes after the first legal challenges were filed to the policy and following criticism of the huge costs to taxpayers. Critics also claimed the plan is an illegal use of President Joe Biden's executive power.

“The Education Department announced that privately-held loans won't qualify for the relief plan, which the Congressional Budget Office said earlier this week could cost $400 billion over a decade.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11264087/Biden-administration-scales-student-debt-relief-MILLIONS.html

Link at Knuckledraggin

 

 

 

Hurricane

We got the edge, wind and rain, not too much of either. Electricity was out from around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday until 2 a.m. today. Had supper by flashlights and sun streaming through the open front door. Cold Pop Tarts. Our Kevlar lanai screen did what it was supposed to do -- kept wind and rain away from outdoor furniture. The last hurricane we had, in 2017, outdoor furniture wound up in the living room and dining room. A wee bit crowded.

Power comes from the barrel of a gun -- Not Buddha

 

Canadian minister orders RCMP to seize guns, Alberta says, ‘Uh, no’

From TNC News via Gates of Vienna

Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino “asked the province to help confiscate 30,000 newly-restricted firearms beginning this fall,” said Alberta Justice Minister Taylor Shandro.

“Those firearms were purchased legally and the province will not aid the federal government in confiscating them, Shandro said.”

https://tnc.news/2022/09/26/alberta-firearms/

 

 

Androgynous, non-binary bully

Last week at the VA hospital in Tampa, as I was finishing an evaluation in the physical therapy department, one of the technicians spoke to someone at the door. I glanced up and saw (a) one of the most unfeminine women ever, or (b) a 6-foot-tall man wearing a blonde wig and a flowery dress that demanded “See me!” The technician and the person in the doorway exchanged a couple more comments, but I paid no attention, not having any interest in what (b) might have to say about anything. As we were driving away from the facility, my wife said, “That guy in the dress certainly wanted people to see him.” I agreed.

Tonight my wife and I watched the second episode of the new “Quantum Leap.” So far, I do not care for the program. People in charge hit all the modern TV program boxes – a limited number of white men as major characters (none); at least one black person in a supervisory/leadership role; a woman in a leadership role (two, actually – one Asian, the other white); an Asian man as lead; and going above requirements, the most androgynous character ever.  That actor I gave a short Google. His parents gave him a a man’s name at birth; he prefers “they/their”; he says he is non-binary. All references in the article I read said such things as, “they were born…” and “they performed in…”

Watching more episodes is problematic, and not only because of the “is he or isn’t he?” character. TV programs now have too many characters claiming major or semi-major roles. You have to give the non-whites a sufficient amount of camera time, or be accused of favoritism.

I mentioned the “non-binary” actors’ pronoun preferences to my wife. She said, “He has the right to say how he wishes to be called. But, I have just as much right to call him whatever I wish.”

A few minutes later she said, “That man in the dress at the VA. He probably insists on people calling him what he wants. Most people probably do, even though they think he is wrong. He is forcing people to speak the way he wants. He is a bully.”

'If only' is a statement made to a mirror

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.”

-Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag Archipelago" 1918–1956

So now the IG delivers?

My wife answered an Unknown Caller yesterday. She almost never does, but this time she did. After listening for a time she ended the call.

“She (the caller) said I have a delivery scheduled on Friday and I was to press 1 to confirm the order.” She called the number.

“Who is this? … You called me and said I have a delivery on Friday. … No, I will not press a number. … You are a thief. I doubt you own the company you’re calling from, but by working for them, you are a thief. … No, I will not give you any information. You have my phone number.” She hung up.

“She said her name was Agent Amber and she was with the Inspector General’s office. What kind of inspector general makes home deliveries?”

Those calls must be successful a percentage of times in order for them to continue.

Thieving bastards.

Bullpup and bingo

Taking a Google tour of Sinjar, a city in Northeast Syria, from nearby oil fields which Russia says US tanker trucks are smuggling oil across the Syrian border not far away, and I spotted “Casino.” Cursored over and clicked for a look-see at the casino. These guys apparently take security seriously. In this photo https://www.google.com/maps/place/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%88+%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A9+%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86+%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%E2%80%AD/@36.3007933,41.7995073,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipPGy1KtTn_NbUlJ5ClCoMmkJS6aEtHjg9EDKe1h!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPGy1KtTn_NbUlJ5ClCoMmkJS6aEtHjg9EDKe1h%3Dw203-h152-k-no!7i1600!8i1200!4m5!3m4!1s0x154ce589b81be949:0x9b37ff9720c8f954!8m2!3d36.3009375!4d41.7994375

a man in the lower center appears to be carrying a slung bullpup rifle of some kind.

Link to US oil theft:

https://sputniknews.com/20220925/us-forces-reportedly-smuggle-79-more-tankers-filled-to-the-brim-with-stolen-syrian-oil-1101213908.html

Sputnik News is owned by the Russian government.

Old Soviet and new Democrat

“The past is rewritten so fast that you don’t know what will happen yesterday.” – Soviet joke, now a Democratic reality.

Maori point of honor shown to German army

On 20 May 1941, B Company, 28th (Maori) Battalion, was sent as reinforcement to near the airfield on Crete, which the Germans invaded by parachute and glider infantry. Movement necessitated a foot march of eight miles.

“During the march they came in contact with a platoon-sized force of Germans which briefly held up the company before reinforcements could arrive. The German force surrendered, but in doing so one of their number threw a grenade at the New Zealanders, wounding two men. In response the Māori fixed bayonets and carried out the first bayonet charge by a New Zealand force during the war, killing 24.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Battalion

 

Hurricane shopping season

We are going to be hit by a hurricane, weather guessers say. Maybe. Or not at all. I’ll take the latter, thank you.

My wife braved crowds and shortages and noneses for more than two hours today. One place, no gasoline. Another place, gas and lines and 10 cents higher than the place with no gas. She got in line at another place only to be NSCAR’d by an impatient but quicker customer. Okay. Time to go to the grocery store. “My car has 48 miles of gasoline,” she said when she got home.

The grocery store? “There were more people walking around in the parking lot than at the day before Christmas,” she said. In the grocery store, she got to talking with another woman. “She said her husband was at Walmart, and he said it was empty. There were no groceries.”

We have plenty of food, and did before my wife went out. Now we have more. She sold the propane grill about six months ago. “We’re not using it as much as I thought we would,” she said. If electricity goes out for an extended time, I will make fire and heat water for coffee. Maybe I should gather dry wood. I think we have matches.

Somebody has not been paying attention

A post from the Bannack Association on a double barrel shotgun at the Montana Historical Museum in Helena:

“Goodrich intern sold it to Fred Peck, who intern sold it to Ameade Bessete.”

No rain outs

Larry was visiting Bo in the hospital. Bo told Larry he knew he was going to die. Larry said, “Do something for me. Let me know if Heaven has baseball.”

Bo died on a Saturday. Sunday night he appeared to Larry. “Hey, buddy. Just wanted to tell you I have good news and I have better news.”

Larry said, “Give me the good news.”

Bo said, “There is baseball here in Heaven.”

“Well, all right!” Larry said. “What news can be better than that?”

Bo said, “You are starting pitcher on Tuesday.”

That bonus check you got? Yeah. It was too big, so …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A company employing thousands of people in central Ohio is asking its workers to pay the company. Honda sent a memo to employees at its Marysville factory, saying it overpaid bonuses and needs that extra money back.

Employees say returning the money will be hard for their families, but an attorney not involved with this case said Honda is properly going about collecting the overpayments.

“Not a lot of people can handle this kind of a hit,” said the wife of a Honda employee, who spoke with NBC4 on the condition that she or her husband not be identified.

https://kfor.com/news/honda-requests-cash-from-employees-after-overpaid-bonuses/

People can say, "Company's mistake, my money, I'm not giving it back."'

Yeah, you are. If you fight the company over a mistake, you will be labeled several kinds of miscreant and maybe lose promotion points, not to mention any reputation for honesty.

 

Hash tag 'misfortuneteller'

 

'Dopesick' lets Congress off the hook

Hulu’s Dopesick does a good job pointing out pharmaceutical company blame for opioid addiction, as well as pointing to doctors who prescribed the drugs and pharmacists who willingly filled prescriptions.

But the series fails to include the U.S. Congress in its list of villains. In 2000 the Senate and the House held hearings on pain and pain management, and wound up deciding the poor and the uninsured deserved opioids as much as did wealthy and insured citizens.

The bill encouraged “practitioners to prescribe and administer controlled substances to relieve pain and discomfort.” The bill also says “practitioners should be encouraged to treat pain aggressively even when the treatment may increase the risk of death.”

Taking off from the encouragement of prescriptions and possible death, Congress instructed Health and Human Services to "undertake activities that will promote and advance scientific understanding of pain management and palliative care."

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-106shrg72844/pdf/CHRG-106shrg72844.pdf

A reader the bill will determine that part of the intent of Congress was to bring equity to pain management; that is, poor, uninsured people deserve opioid-based drugs just as much as do wealthy and insured citizens. The mention of making illegal federal funds or programs for “assisted suicide” is but a smoke screen. The purpose was not to make illegal something that already was illegal, but to give Congressional approval and force increased use of opioid-based pain pills and to force more federal dollars into prescription drugs.

Pharmaceutical companies and willing doctors share blame in the “opioid crisis” that led to addiction and increased crime rates. But Congress cannot be let off the hook for its culpability in causing addiction to “poor people” it so often uses as a banner for assistance.

Dishonest people got COVID $$?

Who would have thought?

Alleged non-profit got $250 million for claiming to feed kids at 250 locations, Justice Department says.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-attorney-announces-federal-charges-against-47-defendants-250-million-feeding-our-future

  

How long before it all falls apart?

Math is racist. Therefore, the entire physical world is racist. Math drives explanations of physics. Therefore, physics is racist. Math drives mechanics, economics, aviation theories…If you have anything that works as it should, the thing is racist.

Heather Theijsmeijer, high school math and physics teacher, Tweeting: “There are many math education practices that we (white folk) don’t see as racist or supremacist because they are so ingrained in our background and experiences (and we have been the ones to benefit from them). Thanks Jason_To for shining a light on them.”

To also is a mathematics teacher in Canada. “Currently, I serve as the Coordinator of Secondary Mathematics and Academic Pathways in the Toronto District School Board. My role is to support the TDSB with challenging academic streaming from K-12, paying particular attention to inclusive and culturally responsive mathematics instruction. I view math education through the perspective of equity, inclusion and anti-oppression and its intersection with student identities. As a powerful tool and vehicle for social change, I see math as student empowerment and ensure they see its learning as a social enterprise that challenges them to think critically and collaboratively.” – at Ace of Spades HQ.

I am not a math person. I do know English and language construction, and can say Mr. To’s explanation of what he does makes no sense, but is a stringing together of words perhaps understandable to one of similar political belief.

The obvious question is: Since you no longer believe in your professional subject, how do you intend to continue teaching that subject? If 2 + 2 no longer equals 4 …

Doctor: You’re going to die

Husband of patient: Honey, the car is in the parking lot. We’re out of here.

Plano hospital ignores law, patient rights. “You will do what we say.”

Why are these things allowed to happen? Because Dr. Welby knows best.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/hospital-holocaust-woman-escapes-covid-19-hospital-treatment-protocols-says-others-not-so-lucky_4728030.html?utm_source=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-09-15-3&utm_medium=email&est=%2F8WmpdHGakgTtJEVP94grTUpKN5ykHu0gg1Vyxleni

 

 

Animals at the jail

From Borepatch

The Monroe County (Key West) jail has a Children’s Animal Farm.

“The farm was started in 1994 in an open area underneath the jail facility. The Stock Island Detention Center was built to withstand a Category Five Hurricane, and is built on stilts, about 11 feet above the ground. Underneath the building is employee parking, and a secure fenced area used for the evacuation of inmates in the case of a fire. It was in this evacuation area, initially a graveled area not used for anything else, that the farm was started.

“The farm began as a haven for homeless animals.”

https://borepatch.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-jail-is-full-of-animals.html

17 Monroe County residents live on the mainland. 99.9% live on the Keys. Those numbers have nothing to do with the story, but are interesting.

 

 

From some years ago

And Crown Thy Good

We stood for the songs
And waved the banners
And voted in the elections
And fought the wars
And paid the taxes
And raised our children
And retired
And died
So our children could stand for the songs
And wave the banners
And …

(1973 cynical college student)

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Flaming Tongues from Above

“Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer (Stone of Help), saying, ‘Thus far the Lord has helped us.’” – 1 Samuel 7:12.

As a monument we raised you
For ourselves,
For those who loved you,
For those who never knew you.

Raise we now our Ebenezer,
That others might never forget.

As the tales of war are numbered,
So are the ways of death.
Some there are who ease into death,
Slide into the darkness
That some day will become light.
Others rage, battle the angel
Who comes for them.
Some of us
Have seen the angel,
Met him face to face.
We refused to shake his hand.
We had a choice.

The screams of those who feared,
The curses of those who raged …
One voice,
A shout, yet a whisper,
That tickles our ears,
Sears our souls,
Reminds us of who you were,
Who we will be,
One day.

We are on the edge

Headline: Biden climate czar John Kerry jets to Africa to lecture them on being ‘as green as possible’

First thought: “This Perfect Day.” Everybody is equal, except for those who are not. “We will tell you what to do. You have no choice but to obey.”

https://www.weaselzippers.us/485640-biden-climate-czar-john-kerry-jets-to-africa-to-lecture-them-on-being-as-green-as-possible/

The link is to a video only. Too many “news” sites link only to a video. It is as though the site’s authors are too lazy to write.

 

  

Deployed four times, ‘shot by her own government’

Ashli Babbitt

“It has been awful. The phone call you never want to get. Like I said my daughter was deployed four times and there were some days I was surprised not to get a call that something happened to her. But to know that she came to a Trump rally and was shot by her own government was just a completely shocking situation.” -- Micki Witthoeft, mother of Ashli Babbitt

Asked what she would say to the January 6th Committee if she was called to testify, she replied: “I would tell them to kiss my ass.”

https://humanevents.com/2022/09/15/kiss-my-ass-a-mother-s-righteous-indignation?utm_campaign=64487
 

Martha’s Vineyard officials deport yesterday’s alien arrivals

Massachusetts National Guard soldiers activated to assist illegals onto buses.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/quick-buses-arrive-marthas-vineyard-deport-illegals-off-island/

The aliens were taken to Joint Base Cape Cod. No word on what will happen next.

These guys did not care about ‘feelings,’ and they made billions

From Had Enough Therapy

“…I have it on good authority that touchy-feely girl talk has invaded the sanctums of America’s top business schools. Students sit in class and hear their professors ask them how they felt about this, that or the other thing.”

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Elon Musk “did not have empathy.”

“They did not feel your pain. They did not feel for you. They did not shower you with deep understanding. They did not even tell you to feel your feelings or to get in touch with your feelings.

“They were about getting the job done, regardless of how you felt about it.

“In our increasingly feminized world, this triumvirate stands out as the exception that condemns modern corporate practice.”

https://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2022/09/less-empathy-please.html

A good piece, deserves reading.

 

 

Cognitive dissonance in a Leftist? Fuh-git-about-it

From Gun Free Zone

“Leftists feel no cognitive dissonance or hypocrisy declaring themselves more equal than others when championing equality.

“Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and Obama are all for ‘making the rich pay their fair share; while being worth millions themselves.  They will exempt themselves at every turn.

“Anti-gun politicians surround themselves with high walls and armed guards.

“Politicians who called for defunding the police paid for increased police protection for themselves.

“They literally came up with a new definition of ‘racism’ to be ‘prejudice plus power’ so they can say the most racist shit at white people and not claim to be racist.”

https://gunfreezone.net/one-thing-to-remember-on-the-shipping-of-migrants-to-marthas-vineyard/

 

Another child of fearless leader appointed in Chechnya

Opponents labeled ‘goats’ and ‘shaitans’

From Caucasian Knot

Kadyrov's minor son heads children and youth movement in Chechnya

The Russia's Ministry of Education has agreed to the candidacy of Akhmat Kadyrov, the 16-year-old son of the head of Chechnya, for the post of the regional chairman of the Russian movement of children and youth.

Sergey Kravtsov, the head of the above ministry, has promised to support Akhmat Kadyrov, says the report posted on the YouTube* channel of the "Grozny" Chechen State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company (ChGTRK).

The head of Chechnya has 10 natural children – six daughters (Aishat, Karina (Khadizhat), Khedi (Khutmat), Tabarik, Ashura and Eishat) and four sons (Akhmat, Zelimkhan, Adam and Abdulla). Akhmad Kadyrov, who was named after his deceased grandfather, a former President of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov, was born on November 8, 2005.

Let us remind you that on October 8, 2021, Aishat Kadyrova, the 22-year-old daughter of the head of Chechnya, became the Minister of Culture. In June, she received the Kadyrov Order; she was awarded this highest republic's award due to her family ties, Instagram* users then suggested. On December 25, 2021, Aishat Kadyrova received the medal "For the Protection of Human Rights".

On February 19 this year, another daughter of the head of Chechnya, Khutmat Kadyrova, was appointed deputy head of the secretariat of the head of the republic. Earlier, on December 11, 2020, another daughter of Kadyrov, Khadizhat, was appointed the head of the department of preschool education in Grozny.

On March 2, 2020, Ramzan Kadyrov himself treated the residents of Chechnya, who are dissatisfied with the appointments of his relatives, as "goats" and "shaitans".

Источник: https://www.eng.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/61306/

© Кавказский Узел

 

 

Tailor should wear the suit

US company claims its body armor “will stop .50 MG bullets.”

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=130612

 

VA will change its motto because…well, you know

Since 1959 VA had used a quote from President Lincoln’s second inaugural address: "To care for those 'who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan.’”

But, that statement says “his” and “widow.” Sexist and non-inclusive, say those who demand change.

The motto “is displayed at most VA facilities, including offices, hospitals and cemeteries…” But, opponents say, it “is androcentric; makes female, gay and transgender veterans feel unwelcome; and could serve as a barrier to health care and services.”

Really? Unwelcome? And how exactly do those words “serve as a barrier” to health care?

Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY): "In keeping with Lincoln's focus on equality for all, I'm sure if he were alive today he would say women should be acknowledged as well," and shouldn't be left off the motto "just because they didn't serve back then." Ah, Lincoln’s well-known “equality for all.” Yes, we remember Lincoln’s speeches on the equality of women with men, of his arguments that women should have the right to vote and hold elective office. Rep. Rice, then, wishes to ignore Lincoln’s 1858 speech in which he said that “he had never been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.”

The VA now will go searching for a Lincoln quote that includes war, women and minorities.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/09/08/va-weighs-ditching-lincoln-quote-motto-thats-inclusive-of-women-and-minorities.html?ESRC=army-a_220914.nl

 

 

 

Lifted from Knuckledraggin

 

Could be

Real headline: 'King Charles replaces Harry & Meghan with two Corgis in line of succession'

(Real at the Babylon Bee)

Ga. Woman gets 2 years in prison, 15 years’ probation for lying about vet status

She was a VFW post commander and lied about receiving Purple Heart from losing leg in Afghanistan.

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=130586

 

Simon Peter was hungry

He fell into a trance. There came from the sky a sheet filled with all animals and reptiles and birds of the sky. “And there came a voice to him, ‘Rise, Peter. Kill and eat.’” – Acts 10: 10-13.

Not “Rise and find the nearest organic garden…”

Not “Rise and go to the nearest vegetarian restaurant…”

“Rise, Peter. Kill and eat.”

 

The artificial consensus

You have permission to argue what has been put before you, but you may not add subjects to the agenda.

From Sultan Knish

To the ruling elite, “American politics was an old gas-guzzler with tail fins, fuzzy dice and smoke coming out of the hood while the elites wanted a sleek simplified electric car where all the dirty stuff happened out of sight and the public showed up on cue to vote the way that they were told.”

“Democracy is based on a behind the scenes consensus, as he put it, ‘what to do about climate change’ that has no room for someone who says, ‘This is a hoax that the liberals have cooked up.’ Political debate can’t extend to questioning premises, only pathways to outcomes. In a frictionless democracy, captive conservatives can offer ‘free market solutions’ to global warming or racial inequality, but they can’t question whether these should be on the agenda.”

https://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/09/the-frictionless-politics-of-social.html

 

First World problems

 My phone/camera and etc. informed me it was at 15% power and should be plugged in.

My watch informed me it was at 14% power, and etc.

My Nook Book informed me it, too, was at 14% power and would be so grateful were I to attach it to a recharge device.

All that within 30 minutes.

Life in the Ultra-Civilized Planet.

And, the HVAC repair person is scheduled for this afternoon for the twice-annual blowing or pumping of an exhaust pipe.

And, my wife also scheduled a pool repair visit for some problem. The woes accumulate.

In Texas and in Arkansas we did not have the same air conditioner woes as here in Florida. Different woes, but the AC did not go out as often.

Also in Texas and in Arkansas we did not have a pool to necessitate calling someone from pool repair. Of course, there were days and days of extreme heat, 100 and above, as well as days and days of ice and cold, 20-30 degrees.

In Florida, every day is green.

Why not kneecap the bear?

 

A gunny in the Air Force

The civilian handling administrative and personnel matters in my daughter’s Air Force squadron was a retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant.  There are several dissimilarities in that collection of previous/present employment methods.

“He was a nice man,” Kat said. “And, he was very intelligent.”

When I asked about his gunnery sergeant background colliding with the Air Force way, Kat said, “When he needed to get his point across, he would slowly stand from his desk, slowly walk to the offending office, close the door and tell the offender what had been done wrong and how the offender would fix the problem.”

One time she saw him go all gunny. He was on the phone and he said, “So you want me to leave my office, get in my car, drive to your office in Lincoln and stand on your desk with a baseball bat until you fix the problem?”

Get ‘em, Gunny.

Why there were tens of millions of bison

Ten months ago posted, but newly found.

“I would expect hunter-gatherers entering uninhabited America to have done pretty well, and have high population growth rates, especially after they become more familiar with the local ecology. There is good reason to think that early Amerindians did: Bayesian skyline analysis of their mtDNA indicates fast population growth. They were expert hunters before they ever arrived, and once they got rolling, they seem to have wiped out the megafauna quite rapidly.”

https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/11/12/threading-the-needle/

When the early trans-Siberians arrived, the North Americas contained few bison. The newcomers, experienced in killing big herbivores and carnivores, extinguished competitors and predators, leaving millions of acres of nutritious plains grass for the bison. By eliminating native species, the now-Native Americans provided the basis for their own expansion. They were, in modern terminology, colonists.