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I remember early in my civi ER tenure where I had a generously proportioned male with abdominal pain. The problem was that we needed to know how much he weighed, as the CT deck could only take a certain limit. He didn't know, and neither did anyone else. Our solution was to roll him down to the...

Belarus is landlocked. They'll have to move it east, so that it can be loaded in a Russian port, because it's likely not going to go through Poland, Lithuania, or Latvia, and certainly not through Ukraine. There's also this: On the same day Trump posted his big announcement, Lukashenko sat...

Looks like any progress on the Hegseth impeachment won't come until after Nov 9th. Johnson adjourned the House until then. For those interested, the text of the impeachment resolution: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/935/text

The question should be: "What happens when realize that we are now them?"

Thomas Massie pushes surprise impeachment vote of Pete Hegseth House Democrats were privately dreading a politically charged — but purely symbolic — vote on impeaching President Donald Trump triggered by one of their own members. Then came something unexpected...

History has it that on the night of 24-25 Aug 1940, a German crew erroneously bombed London. The next night England retaliated by bombing Berlin. Hitler was so incensed by this, that he ordered the bombing of British cities, which took the pressure off the RAF airfields...

Jim Jones?

True enough!

In my business, this would meet the definition of "confabulation". A memory error where the brain unconsciously creates false, distorted or fabricated information to fill missing memory gaps without any intent to deceive. It is a hallmark of frontal lobe dementia. Of course he could be JFN...

Giving me V1 vibes...

This is the sort of talk that makes foreign asset holders think about dumping them. There's more than one way the USD and CAD reach parity.

Somebody's been watching Starship Troopers too often.

Then there's this observation from Christopher Duffy, in The Military Experience in the Age of Reason: On a personal note, I've done medical coverage on several Winter Indoc courses, and the folks who had the greatest difficulty seemed to be more gym rat than "regular guy". Granted that is...

Maybe Hegseth should focus on his own troops first: Nearly 70% of US troops are overweight or obese, research report says Trends in the Prevalence of Obesity Among U.S. Active Component Service Members and Civilians, 2013–2023 In fairness, our statistics are similar, but that does not negate...

The Man From Berlin Book one of four in the Gregor Reinhardt series by Luke McCallin