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& you piled on, with nothing to add but emojis... also as usual.Kismet wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:07 amand well deserved...also as usual.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:59 amYep. afan responded to me & had to have the last word (as usual),
& dumped a couple crates of apples & oranges, also as usual.
You're so obvious there's nothing more to add. a fan has you rightly pegged, Popeye.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:09 am& you piled on, with nothing to add but emojis... also as usual.Kismet wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:07 amand well deserved...also as usual.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:59 amYep. afan responded to me & had to have the last word (as usual),
& dumped a couple crates of apples & oranges, also as usual.
Except you're not arguing the facts in this case, so when you don't have any facts, make it personal, with insults.Kismet wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:19 amYou're so obvious there's nothing more to add. a fan has you rightly pegged, Popeye.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:09 am& you piled on, with nothing to add but emojis... also as usual.Kismet wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:07 amand well deserved...also as usual.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:59 amYep. afan responded to me & had to have the last word (as usual),
& dumped a couple crates of apples & oranges, also as usual.
No emojis this time. Just the facts.
You need some distilled water to get all the salt out of your mouth this am my friend. And I thought my daughter cried a lot.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:04 amDon't be so hard on yourself.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:37 amIt’s an issue when one is used to giving commands but not believing others are human peersa fan wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:50 pmAs a matter of fact, smart*ss, there is. Remember? In fact, there's were countless rules on pronouns and ways to address people that YOU had to learn.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:29 pmWhere does one go to do such research ? Is there a national registry of official preferred pronouns ?NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:51 pmChallenge? To do like 2 minutes of research per victim? Treating a human as a human being. Treating them how they wanted to be treated and not a talking point is about the least challenging thing to do in a major story like this. And a large part of their humanity.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:07 pmYa gotta admit, on a story like this, getting the preferred pronouns correct can be a challenge,Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:09 pm Culture Warrior; yeah!!!!
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1 ... 98/photo/1
...& standy by to get canceled if you get one wrong.
They're not getting pronouns wrong on accident. It's not a challenge. And no one is "cancelling" them for that. The real "cancel culture" is murdering people for being themselves and not hurting anyone. Literally cancelling their life FFS.
How big of a deal was it to address folks you served with correctly? Call a superior "sir" or "ma'am"? All the little rules civilians don't know...junior members salute first, and hundred of other tiny details you had to learn.
You got that just fine. Honorable discharge, right? So you managed to navigate those far more complicated social rules with no trouble.
But addressing someone in civilian life what THEY want to be addressed is somehow too complicated for you, and you just can't manage the energy to treat your fellow humans with just the barest of respect?
Buffalo cookies. Your'e just arguing to argue.
Research is more than one item. Jesus the density.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:52 amThat's how I found this.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:34 amSomebody isn’t familiar with the Google machine?old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:29 pmWhere does one go to do such research ? Is there a national registry of official preferred pronouns ?NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:51 pmChallenge? To do like 2 minutes of research per victim? Treating a human as a human being. Treating them how they wanted to be treated and not a talking point is about the least challenging thing to do in a major story like this. And a large part of their humanity.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:07 pmYa gotta admit, on a story like this, getting the preferred pronouns correct can be a challenge,Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:09 pm Culture Warrior; yeah!!!!
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1 ... 98/photo/1
...& standy by to get canceled if you get one wrong.
They're not getting pronouns wrong on accident. It's not a challenge. And no one is "cancelling" them for that. The real "cancel culture" is murdering people for being themselves and not hurting anyone. Literally cancelling their life FFS.
https://www.denverpost.com/2022/11/22/a ... on-binary/
Apparently there's nothing in the Google machine about Mx. Aldrich's preferred pronouns or the media wouldn't have missed it for 2 days.
Says the person who responded like a salty little girl to my posts without any self reflection.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:05 amModelling her fathers behavior.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:35 amMy daughter once cried because she couldn’t find her bike helmet while standing over it in our front porch…that’s what we’re talking about here -6yr old level stuffNattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:49 pmSeriously? Their wallet is an unfortunate dead giveaway after getting killed by people who make jokes about pronouns. Ask loved ones. Look up their social media accounts.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:29 pmWhere does one go to do such research ? Is there a national registry of official preferred pronouns ?NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:51 pmChallenge? To do like 2 minutes of research per victim? Treating a human as a human being. Treating them how they wanted to be treated and not a talking point is about the least challenging thing to do in a major story like this. And a large part of their humanity.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:07 pmYa gotta admit, on a story like this, getting the preferred pronouns correct can be a challenge,Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:09 pm Culture Warrior; yeah!!!!
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1 ... 98/photo/1
...& standy by to get canceled if you get one wrong.
They're not getting pronouns wrong on accident. It's not a challenge. And no one is "cancelling" them for that. The real "cancel culture" is murdering people for being themselves and not hurting anyone. Literally cancelling their life FFS.
You're saying it's challenging to do a few minutes the simplest journalistic research? It's like asking my kid where he left his shoes.
There's not enough bandwidth on this site to respond, in kind, to all of your cheap shots. That's why I usually don't reply.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:34 amSays the person who responded like a salty little girl to my posts without any self reflection.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:05 amModelling her fathers behavior.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:35 amMy daughter once cried because she couldn’t find her bike helmet while standing over it in our front porch…that’s what we’re talking about here -6yr old level stuffNattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:49 pmSeriously? Their wallet is an unfortunate dead giveaway after getting killed by people who make jokes about pronouns. Ask loved ones. Look up their social media accounts.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:29 pmWhere does one go to do such research ? Is there a national registry of official preferred pronouns ?NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:51 pmChallenge? To do like 2 minutes of research per victim? Treating a human as a human being. Treating them how they wanted to be treated and not a talking point is about the least challenging thing to do in a major story like this. And a large part of their humanity.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:07 pmYa gotta admit, on a story like this, getting the preferred pronouns correct can be a challenge,Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:09 pm Culture Warrior; yeah!!!!
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1 ... 98/photo/1
...& standy by to get canceled if you get one wrong.
They're not getting pronouns wrong on accident. It's not a challenge. And no one is "cancelling" them for that. The real "cancel culture" is murdering people for being themselves and not hurting anyone. Literally cancelling their life FFS.
You're saying it's challenging to do a few minutes the simplest journalistic research? It's like asking my kid where he left his shoes.
Literally "I know you are but what am I" repeatedly...
Yeah sure.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:29 amExcept you're not arguing the facts in this case, so when you don't have any facts, make it personal, with insults.Kismet wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:19 amYou're so obvious there's nothing more to add. a fan has you rightly pegged, Popeye.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:09 am& you piled on, with nothing to add but emojis... also as usual.Kismet wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:07 amand well deserved...also as usual.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 7:59 amYep. afan responded to me & had to have the last word (as usual),
& dumped a couple crates of apples & oranges, also as usual.
No emojis this time. Just the facts.
Sure...I get that your mental bandidth is super limited in general, but you felt compelled to do it numerous times today...old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:40 amThere's not enough bandwidth on this site to respond, in kind, to all of your cheap shots. That's why I usually don't reply.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:34 amSays the person who responded like a salty little girl to my posts without any self reflection.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:05 amModelling her fathers behavior.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:35 amMy daughter once cried because she couldn’t find her bike helmet while standing over it in our front porch…that’s what we’re talking about here -6yr old level stuffNattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:49 pmSeriously? Their wallet is an unfortunate dead giveaway after getting killed by people who make jokes about pronouns. Ask loved ones. Look up their social media accounts.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:29 pmWhere does one go to do such research ? Is there a national registry of official preferred pronouns ?NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:51 pmChallenge? To do like 2 minutes of research per victim? Treating a human as a human being. Treating them how they wanted to be treated and not a talking point is about the least challenging thing to do in a major story like this. And a large part of their humanity.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:07 pmYa gotta admit, on a story like this, getting the preferred pronouns correct can be a challenge,Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:09 pm Culture Warrior; yeah!!!!
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1 ... 98/photo/1
...& standy by to get canceled if you get one wrong.
They're not getting pronouns wrong on accident. It's not a challenge. And no one is "cancelling" them for that. The real "cancel culture" is murdering people for being themselves and not hurting anyone. Literally cancelling their life FFS.
You're saying it's challenging to do a few minutes the simplest journalistic research? It's like asking my kid where he left his shoes.
Literally "I know you are but what am I" repeatedly...
...good week, back up to ~~ 4,000% LTCGFarfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:53 amSure...I get that your mental bandidth is super limited in general, but you felt compelled to do it numerous times today...old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:40 amThere's not enough bandwidth on this site to respond, in kind, to all of your cheap shots. That's why I usually don't reply.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:34 amSays the person who responded like a salty little girl to my posts without any self reflection.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:05 amModelling her fathers behavior.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:35 amMy daughter once cried because she couldn’t find her bike helmet while standing over it in our front porch…that’s what we’re talking about here -6yr old level stuffNattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:49 pmSeriously? Their wallet is an unfortunate dead giveaway after getting killed by people who make jokes about pronouns. Ask loved ones. Look up their social media accounts.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:29 pmWhere does one go to do such research ? Is there a national registry of official preferred pronouns ?NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:51 pmChallenge? To do like 2 minutes of research per victim? Treating a human as a human being. Treating them how they wanted to be treated and not a talking point is about the least challenging thing to do in a major story like this. And a large part of their humanity.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:07 pmYa gotta admit, on a story like this, getting the preferred pronouns correct can be a challenge,Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:09 pm Culture Warrior; yeah!!!!
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1 ... 98/photo/1
...& standy by to get canceled if you get one wrong.
They're not getting pronouns wrong on accident. It's not a challenge. And no one is "cancelling" them for that. The real "cancel culture" is murdering people for being themselves and not hurting anyone. Literally cancelling their life FFS.
You're saying it's challenging to do a few minutes the simplest journalistic research? It's like asking my kid where he left his shoes.
Literally "I know you are but what am I" repeatedly...
Meanwhile I've been working since a bit after 4am... real work.
tell me about your genius in investing in tech stocks again.
old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:40 amThere's not enough bandwidth on this site to respond, in kind, to all of your cheap shots. That's why I usually don't reply.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:34 amSays the person who responded like a salty little girl to my posts without any self reflection.old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 8:05 amModelling her fathers behavior.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 6:35 amMy daughter once cried because she couldn’t find her bike helmet while standing over it in our front porch…that’s what we’re talking about here -6yr old level stuffNattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:49 pmSeriously? Their wallet is an unfortunate dead giveaway after getting killed by people who make jokes about pronouns. Ask loved ones. Look up their social media accounts.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:29 pmWhere does one go to do such research ? Is there a national registry of official preferred pronouns ?NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:51 pmChallenge? To do like 2 minutes of research per victim? Treating a human as a human being. Treating them how they wanted to be treated and not a talking point is about the least challenging thing to do in a major story like this. And a large part of their humanity.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:07 pmYa gotta admit, on a story like this, getting the preferred pronouns correct can be a challenge,Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:09 pm Culture Warrior; yeah!!!!
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1 ... 98/photo/1
...& standy by to get canceled if you get one wrong.
They're not getting pronouns wrong on accident. It's not a challenge. And no one is "cancelling" them for that. The real "cancel culture" is murdering people for being themselves and not hurting anyone. Literally cancelling their life FFS.
You're saying it's challenging to do a few minutes the simplest journalistic research? It's like asking my kid where he left his shoes.
Literally "I know you are but what am I" repeatedly...
Brooklyn wrote: ↑Mon Nov 21, 2022 12:27 amNo surprise that the bigoted gun man is a Republican.PizzaSnake wrote: ↑Sun Nov 20, 2022 9:04 am “Five people were killed and 18 were hurt late Saturday in a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs in Colorado’s latest episode of mass violence.”
https://coloradosun.com/2022/11/20/club ... MAIL_ID%5D
NattyBohChamps04 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:51 pmChallenge? To do like 2 minutes of research per victim? Treating a human as a human being. Treating them how they wanted to be treated and not a talking point is about the least challenging thing to do in a major story like this. And a large part of their humanity.old salt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:07 pmYa gotta admit, on a story like this, getting the preferred pronouns correct can be a challenge,Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:09 pm Culture Warrior; yeah!!!!
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1 ... 98/photo/1
...& standy by to get canceled if you get one wrong.
They're not getting pronouns wrong on accident. It's not a challenge. And no one is "cancelling" them for that. The real "cancel culture" is murdering people for being themselves and not hurting anyone. Literally cancelling their life FFS.
Kismet wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:30 amDear elmopetey - UP YOURS a-hole.elonmuskrockefeller wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:20 am "It's hard to think of any person in the media today presented as "objective" yet is more an obvious, explicit, and blatant activist for the Democratic Party than Ben Collins. 'Disinformation', his self-styled field, is a scam industry. A censorship-mad activist parading as a journalist, who aligns with the scummiest Den groups to deplatform and silence."
Agreed, my pushback is on someone who takes the humanity out of it. And where did that originate on this specific thread??? Same person everyone is responding too who will dead and no one will care except the person that owns their viatical settlment.
That's BS. My post was merely about how difficult it can be to know someone's preferred pronouns in a situation like this.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:26 am
Agreed, my pushback is on someone who takes the humanity out of it. And where did that originate on this specific thread??? Same person everyone is responding too who will dead and no one will care except the person that owns their viatical settlment.
old salt wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:43 amThat's BS. My post was merely about how difficult it can be to know someone's preferred pronouns in a situation like this.Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 9:26 am
Agreed, my pushback is on someone who takes the humanity out of it. And where did that originate on this specific thread??? Same person everyone is responding too who will dead and no one will care except the person that owns their viatical settlment.
...then the jackals descended.
Look at everything the WP dredged up, but they still couldn't determine the shooter's preferred pronouns.
How many times did they use "he/him/his" ?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... r-shooter/
LGBTQ club shooting suspect’s troubled past was obscured by a name change, records show
After suffering online bullying as a boy, Anderson Lee Aldrich altered his identity, documents confirm
By Joby Warrick, Robert Klemko, Razzan Nakhlawi, Alice Crites and Cate Brown
November 21, 2022 at 10:56 p.m. EST
Years before he allegedly walked into a Colorado LGBTQ bar with an assault-style rifle, the man now known as Anderson Lee Aldrich had a different name, and a tumultuous past.
Until age 15, he was known as Nicholas Brink, living in San Antonio, public records show. His parents separated when he was a toddler, and when he was 12, his mother, Laura Voepel, was arrested for suspected arson, according to court documents. She was later found guilty of a lesser offense in connection with the same incident.
At age 15, he became the target of a particularly vicious bout of online bullying in which insulting accusations were posted to a website, along with his name, photos and online aliases, according to a review of the site by The Washington Post. At some point, a YouTube account was created under his name, featuring a crude, profanity-laden animation under the title, “Asian homosexual gets molested.”
For unstated reasons, just before his 16th birthday, the young man petitioned a Texas court — with two of his grandparents’ names on the document — to legally change his entire name. His mother’s name did not appear on the petition.
Nicholas F. Brink became Anderson Lee Aldrich, who, at age 22, would gain infamy as the suspected shooter accused of killing at least five people and wounding 18 others inside the Colorado Springs bar known as Club Q. The reasons behind the choice of the new name were unclear.
Whether the events of Aldrich’s childhood had any bearing on Saturday’s horrific violence is unknown. But Aldrich’s earlier existence as Nicholas Brink, reported for the first time, offers possible answers to several key mysteries surrounding the suspected gunman. Public records and databases were oddly silent about Aldrich for the first two decades of his life.
In June 2021, Aldrich was arrested for an alleged bomb threat, one that prompted a partial evacuation of the Colorado Springs neighborhood where his mother lived at the time. He was charged with kidnapping and felony menacing, but was never prosecuted, for reasons that remain unclear. No bomb was ever found.
Despite his run-in with the law, some 17 months later, Aldrich was in possession of at least one weapon, a long gun, which he allegedly used in targeting customers and employees inside a nightclub long seen as a safe haven for the city’s gay and lesbian communities.
How the Colorado mass shooting unfolded — and ended — inside Club Q
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints confirmed in a statement to The Post that the alleged shooter was on the membership rolls of the church but had not been active in the Colorado Springs locations to the best of their knowledge.
The church, which until 2019 described people in same-sex marriages as “apostates,” condemned the shooting in a statement: “The senseless act of violence in Colorado Springs is of great sadness and concern to us. We are greatly troubled by any violence in our communities and condemn most especially violent acts that are the result of intolerance against any of God’s children.”
The mayor of Colorado Springs had said the shooting had “the trappings of a hate crime.” Asked Monday if the federal authorities would bring hate crime charges, Cole Finegan, the U.S. attorney for Colorado, said the Justice Department was “looking at all aspects of this case.”
Until now, no formal charges have been filed, and police remained tight-lipped about key details of the case. On Monday, Michael J. Allen, the district attorney for the area that includes Colorado Springs, said that Aldrich was likely to face murder and “bias-motivated” charges in connection with his arrest. Allen said formal charges were forthcoming.
Speaking at a news conference, Allen said records from the Club Q case had been placed under seal. His office had requested they be sealed, saying in a filing Monday morning that releasing them “could jeopardize” the prosecution.
Suthers and other officials deflected questions about whether Aldrich’s 2021 arrest could have led to a legal action, perhaps under Colorado’s 2019 red-flag law, to prevent the suspect from obtaining a weapon.
“Law enforcement agencies in appropriate circumstances should take advantage of it,” Suthers said of the law. “Hopefully there will be a time when there can be a specific discussion about any prior interaction with law enforcement.”
In 2019, Colorado’s legislature passed a red-flag law, which gave citizens and police departments the ability to petition a judge to have a Colorado resident’s weapons confiscated if the petitioner demonstrates that person is a danger to themselves or others.
New details about Aldrich’s 2021 incident emerged on Monday, shedding light on his disturbing behavior at the time. A video obtained by CNN appeared to show moments from a standoff between Aldrich and sheriff’s deputies who responded to reports of a bomb threat.
According to CNN, Leslie Bowman, the owner of the home where the standoff occurred, made a copy of the video before it was removed from social-media platforms. Screenshots from the video depict a visibly agitated young man wearing a helmet and what appeared to be body armor. The video shown by CNN shows the young man — identified by Bowman as Aldrich — daring law-enforcement officials to breach the house. It is not clear from the video if a bomb or weapons were present.
Little is known about what led to the confrontation. But records from Aldrich’s past as Nicholas Brink offer some insight into his formative years.
Brink was born in 2000 as the only son of Aaron and Laura (nee Voepel) Brink, of Orange, Calif., and a year later, in July 2001, the couple separated. Their divorce was finalized in September 2001, court records showed. Laura gained full custody of the toddler, along with an order forbidding any contact between father and son. In following years, she moved with her baby to Texas, living at times with the boy’s maternal grandmother.
Brink’s maternal grandfather is state Rep. Randy Voepel, a Republican assemblyman who in the past has aligned himself with the tea party movement and spoken in favor of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Voepel lost his seat in November after a redistricting change.
The family was living in San Antonio at the time of Laura Voepel’s arrest on arson-related charges in 2012. The case wound its way through a Texas court for several years, and according to court records, the defendant was ordered to undergo psychological evaluations and mandatory drug testing. Her trial resulted in the dismissal of the arson charge but she was found guilty on a lesser charge of criminal mischief.
The YouTube account under Brink’s name was opened in 2010, with a note to viewers of the channel that read, “wazzap guys, please help and subscribe.” The crude animation with the “Asian homosexual” label was added in 2012. The video received more than 300 views.
The online bullying incident that targeted Brink included photos of the then-15-year-old youth posted to a Wikipedia-like website, along with a fictitious biography riddled with insults and ridicule.
Months later, on April 28, 2016, a petition was filed in a Bexar County, Tex., court requesting a legal name change for the young man. The formal order, issued a week later, appeared under the simple heading: “Nicholas F. Brink to Anderson L. Aldrich.”