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.