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A Jonesborough man is at the center of an unusual Walmart controversy after allegedly spending three weeks posing as an employee despite never being hired. The 46-year-old reportedly wore a blue vest, carried a walkie-talkie, and spent his shifts giving customers brutally honest shopping advice. Things finally unraveled when a manager overheard him telling a customer, “Don’t buy that TV. We’ve had six of them come back this week.” The man allegedly told employees he wasn’t stealing anything and was actually providing better customer service than most of the staff.

And, to through even more gasoline on this dumpster fire, there is now a PM tool called Jira that a lot of USAF cyber acquisition organizations are using... Jira is a popular project management and issue-tracking platform developed by Atlassian. It is widely used by software development teams, IT departments, and increasingly by business and operations teams to plan, track, and manage work. What Jira Does Jira allows teams to: Track tasks and action items Manage projects and workflows Plan and monitor work across teams Report progress and performance Coordinate agile development (Scrum and Kanban) Common Jira Terms Term Meaning Epic A large body of work or major objective Story A user requirement or capability Task A specific piece of work Bug A defect or problem to be fixed Sprint A fixed period of work, typically 1-4 weeks Backlog Prioritized list of future work Kanban Board Visual workflow board showing work status Example A state military headquarters implementing a new personnel system might organize work as: Epic: Deploy Personnel Readiness System Stories: Members can update contact information Leaders can view readiness metrics Administrators can manage user accounts Tasks: Create database Configure authentication Conduct security testing Train users Why Organizations Use Jira Jira provides: Visibility into who is doing what Accountability for tasks and deadlines Workflow automation Dashboards and reporting Integration with tools such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Confluence Simple Analogy If you think in military staff terms: Project = Hurricane Response Modernization Epic = Personnel Accountability Stories = Muster capability, reporting capability, alerting capability Tasks = Individual actions assigned to specific staff members In one sentence: Jira is a work management and issue-tracking system that helps organizations plan, assign, track, and report on projects and tasks from start to finish. We can now return to our regularly scheduled discussion about pilot training...

This might help if there is a next time (or for anyone else that's interested)... Waterfall (top row): The product is built piece by piece—first wheels, then an axle, then a partial vehicle—until the final car appears at the end. Each step delivers components, but no usable vehicle exists until the very end. Agile (middle row): Each stage produces a usable solution, starting with a skateboard, then a scooter, then a bicycle, then a motorcycle, and finally a car. The product evolves while delivering functional value at every step, even if it is not the final form. AI (bottom row): The first version already looks like a strange but complete “car‑like” solution, and subsequent iterations are refinements that steadily improve it. This implies rapid generation of a complete but imperfect solution, followed by iterative optimization. What it represents conceptually The image represents different development mindsets and value‑delivery models: Waterfall: Sequential, linear process Long time before the user gets value High risk if requirements change late Agile: Iterative and incremental Continuous user value and feedback Adaptable to changing requirements AI‑enabled development: Immediate generation of a working solution Nonlinear progress (big jump early, refinement later) Emphasizes speed, experimentation, and augmentation of human effort The core message The image argues that how you deliver value matters as much as what you deliver. Waterfall delays value, Agile delivers value early and often, and AI compresses timelines by producing usable solutions almost immediately—even if they need refinement. It is often used to provoke discussion about modern software development, innovation speed, organizational change, and decision‑making models, especially in leadership or technology contexts.

Even bigger questions in the Texas State Guard. There has been a push to move that organization out of the TMD and into TDEM, making it a civilian agency. The new TAG will be a huge influence over that decision, and if it's one of the forerunners, that greatly increases its likelihood! For those not familiar, the TXSG is a state defense force that mainly conducts emergency management missions under the TMD. It is considered the third branch of the Department alongside the TXARNG and TXANG. It is mainly unpaid volunteers but does use a military structure (organizationally, uniforms, ranks, etc.). Unlike the National Guard, the TXSG cannot be federalized and serves only under the authority of the Governor of Texas. At the height of World War II, every state maintained some form of state guard while the National Guard was Federalized; but currently only about 20 other states and Puerto Rico have similar organizations, with Texas being the biggest followed by California and Florida...

I agree with some of what you say except for Rubio, who I felt has done a good job distancing himself from the Trump Shit Show unlike Vance and Hegseth. If he, DeSantis and/or Cruz can maintain a safe buffer from the expected insanity over the next two years, they can be well positioned to make a run for the presidency or vice presidency. He and DeSantis could also change their state of residency over the next two years as Cheney did before 2000. I hear Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming are all nice places to live! 😁😁😁😁 As for Cruz and DeSantis being "deeply unappealing weirdos," they're nowhere near the level on insanity that the Democratic party has put foward over the past ten years. Lastly, while "the presidency and congress are at odds because it’ll just be gridlock that ensures nothing too crazy happens in either direction" may be true, it also prevents good things from happening as well. I'm not sure what term I'd use to describe the next two years, but "optimistic" is not high on the list!

Cruz, not Crus; but we would have accepted "Cruiser" as well! At this point I think the R's best bet would be a Rubio/DeSantis ticket if they could make that happen! Trump needs to be marginalized if there is any chance of a Red recovery in 2028! The mid-terms have proven he is not the demigod he thinks he is! As for Texas, Tuesday was a bit of a shock but not surprising with all the immigration (i.e., Mexico, California, etc.) that has been going on here for the past decade. I wasn't a fan of putting Paxton up (too much luggage), and the Lt Governor Dan Patrick was too far off the reservation. Abbott did great things for the state and I thought he'd survive, but the border efforts during the Biden years and supporting ICE did him in. I guess he can now join this crowd!

More worrisome is the new Congress not only re-invoking the tax but indexing it to inflation, which would be roughly $4,700-4,900 in 2026 dollars!! The initial $200 tax's "real value" has fallen by about 95-96% since 1934 due to inflation. That is why legal scholars argue the NFA has evolved from a substantial tax-and-registration scheme into primarily a registration and regulatory system!

Concur, if the Republicans want a chance, they need to push Rubio to the front of the line. Vance won't win it in 2028! They have two years to figure that out, will they learn from their mistakes?

Stolen from social media... The NTSB held its second and final on scene media briefing regarding N722BD this afternoon. The agency says it recovered the aircraft’s left elevator in three pieces between 1.3 and 3.8 miles from the crash site. Most likely, it broke off at FL150-250 due to stress from the overspeed dive. ie, damaged during the dive, not damage that caused the dive. The following is from a pilot who flew the Lear 60 for over 15 years. "“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.” “Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.” “I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck. So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window. This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.” “I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from. These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it. These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times. This is not a beginner airplane."

Video by Co-Pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras posted to her TikTok, 9/2/26, 1 month before her final flight in the jet that crashed near West Palm Beach, FL, 11/1/26.210K views · 9K reactions Video by Co-Pilot Nathalia Gadelha, posted to her TikTok, 9 2 26, 1 month before her final flight in the jet that crashed near West.mp4

The co-pilot has been identified by her family as 20-year-old Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, who began flying lessons at just 14. By 17, she had earned her private pilot’s license while attending West Boca Raton High School. Per her family, she was so proud to earn her wings before getting her driver’s license. Her love of aviation started young, and she was determined to turn that passion into a career flying commercial airliners. Rest in peace.

Who knows, but after 50+ years as a Gator, nothing surprises me anymore... 😞😞😞

Also, too good not to share!!