Friday, March 13, 2015
Old Picture of the Day: Planting Corn
Old Picture of the Day: Planting Corn: Today's picture shows a farmer planting his corn. The picture was taken in Mississippi in 1937. Looks like he is planting the whole...
Old Picture of the Day: Spring Potato Planting
Old Picture of the Day: Spring Potato Planting: Today's picture is from Maine and shows a farmer getting ready to plant is potato crop. The picture was taken in the spring of 1943...
Old Picture of the Day: Beans
Old Picture of the Day: Beans: Today's picture shows a farmer picking up his beans in preparation for planting. The picture was taken in 1940 in Pie Town, New Me...
Old Picture of the Day: Preparing the Ground
Old Picture of the Day: Preparing the Ground: Today's picture shows farmers getting the ground ready for spring planting. The picture is in North Carolina and was taken in 1936...
Old Picture of the Day: Old School
Old Picture of the Day: Old School: This picture shows a Farmer's Son getting ready for spring planting. The picture was taken in 1939 in Alabama. I believe the devic...
Old Picture of the Day: Spring Planting
Old Picture of the Day: Spring Planting: This has been a really cold winter here in West Texas, but finally today I was hearing some sounds of spring outside. I am hopeful that...
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
WHEELS THAT WON THE WEST®: An Interview with John Mohler Studebaker
WHEELS THAT WON THE WEST®: An Interview with John Mohler Studebaker: I recently came across an issue of “The Hub” magazine from 1910. This publication, and others like it, is filled with information regardin...
Words of endurance: Toward the Flame | 1870 to 1918
Words of endurance: Toward the Flame | 1870 to 1918
And the link to the Gutenberg text provides even more great illustrations!
And the link to the Gutenberg text provides even more great illustrations!
Monday, March 9, 2015
Lex Anteinternet: Today In Wyoming's History: March 10. Daylight Sa...
Lex Anteinternet: Today In Wyoming's History: March 10. Daylight Sa...:
Bah. If only the legislature, rather than proposing to study the transfer of Federal land management to the state, proposed to study ending Daylight Savings Time and these time changes instead. Ack.
Bah. If only the legislature, rather than proposing to study the transfer of Federal land management to the state, proposed to study ending Daylight Savings Time and these time changes instead. Ack.
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Lex Anteinternet: The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men: Lex Antein...
Our earlier post here discussed oil going down to $40/bbl:
Lex Anteinternet: The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men: Lex Antein...: I've been bumping up this thread from time to time: Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: Lex Anteinternet: $40/barrel? : A couple of we...At the time I started this series of threads out, $40/bbl sounded absurd, and there were plenty of naysayers. Since that time, it's dropped down that low, but then rebounded to $60/bbl. Now, however, some industry analysts are noting that the supply is so over stocked that there's a real chance of it going down to $20/bbl.
That's simply amazing.
And it would truly be devastating to American oil exploration. At that level, it would be at an all time low, lower than its ever been, by a significant margin.
Layoffs in the industry are still going on, and they'd have to accelerate at that point. There's be no way around it. What the overall impact on the economy would be I can't say, other than that's so low it would probably have a temporary deflationary impact. But for the oil industry, it'd be devastating.
Lex Anteinternet: Protesting Too Much: Lex Anteinternet: The return...
Well the bill discussed here:
We'll see how this plays out, but my prediction is that the state will come back with a study that shows it could do a better job of managing the Federal land, even though I doubt it could. It'll propose that the the Federal government, which represents the 300 plus million landowners, who will decline the state's suggestion, and the state will be mad. So, $100,00 will be spent on a dubious proposition that has no chance of becoming reality.
That won't be all, however. Local sportsmen, a large contingency of voters, won't forget this, and they largely have no beef with Federal land management. This will, in the end, come back to haunt some of those who supported this bill, and it'll turn out to be a bill which actually has very few who really support its goals outside of those who think it will expedite use for industry and free local industry from Federal control. In reality, that same industry isn't really doing much complaining about Federal oversight, however, and is used to working with the Federal government. So this will be a gift that just keeps on giving, but not in the anticipated manner.
Lex Anteinternet: Protesting Too Much: Lex Anteinternet: The return...: I've commented several times on this year's legislative efforts regarding the Federal lands in the state, with a comment on the...passed. Although not without the irony of one of the sponsors otherwise noting that the Legislature is spending too much money on tasks forces that could otherwise simply be handled by legislative committees. No doubt, of course, he doesn't see it that way, as this study could not be handled by a legislative task force.
We'll see how this plays out, but my prediction is that the state will come back with a study that shows it could do a better job of managing the Federal land, even though I doubt it could. It'll propose that the the Federal government, which represents the 300 plus million landowners, who will decline the state's suggestion, and the state will be mad. So, $100,00 will be spent on a dubious proposition that has no chance of becoming reality.
That won't be all, however. Local sportsmen, a large contingency of voters, won't forget this, and they largely have no beef with Federal land management. This will, in the end, come back to haunt some of those who supported this bill, and it'll turn out to be a bill which actually has very few who really support its goals outside of those who think it will expedite use for industry and free local industry from Federal control. In reality, that same industry isn't really doing much complaining about Federal oversight, however, and is used to working with the Federal government. So this will be a gift that just keeps on giving, but not in the anticipated manner.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Protesting Too Much: Lex Anteinternet: The return of a perennial bad idea, the transfer o...
I've commented several times on this year's legislative efforts regarding the Federal lands in the state, with a comment on the Wyoming bill being here:
Lex Anteinternet: The return of a perennial bad idea, the transfer o...: Every few years Wyoming and the other western states get the idea that the Federal government ought to hand over the Federal domain to the ...I may have commented on it here (I don't recall) but I wrote my local state senator and my local representative on this, knowing that my rep was one of the sponsors of the bill. I noted in that, that I would take backing such bills into future consideration next time I vote, as I feel many people will.
My rep wrote back, to his credit, but complained a bit that I seems to think there was some conspiracy to take away the Federal lands. Given as the original bill proposed to do just that, I found that objection to my opposition a bit strained. After all, it was a topic in last year's statewide elections and then it showed up in the legislature. Why wouldn't I be suspicious.
Following on that, it occurs to me that there were "take" bills of various types in the Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado and Utah legislators, all in the present session.
Hmm. . . . .
I hadn't thought of any of this in conspiratorial terms, but now I really do wonder a bit.
In recent years, one thing that Wyoming's legislature has seen is some pretty stout effort to bring it into regional efforts that are of a strongly libertarian bent. These haven't worked, but they have been well financed. I have to wonder about these bills now, and if they are indeed part of a wider effort.
The irony to them, of course, is that the philosophical and legal basis for such "take" concepts are so extremely poor. You can't "take back" something you never owned, and never had a legal right to, and the ideal that the Federal government poorly manages this asset and we will do better is strained in an era when it seems that various state agencies are always stretched for funds.
Well, anyhow, folks backing such bills best be careful. This state isn't really capital "C" conservative so much as it is "leave me the heck alone" and use of the public lands by common people is a part of the local culture. Recent efforts here which have attempted to bring in what's going on in national politics haven't been successful, and there's a reason for that. If fisherman, hunters, hikers, ATV users, etc., figure that somebody is outstretching a grasping hand, they may be inclined to cut it off.
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