Lex Anteinternet: A Day for Spatting.: Today is October 12, 2026. Department of Defense logo from 2000. It's also officially Columbus Day, which has a long history of introduc...
Today is October 12, 2026.
It's also officially Columbus Day, which has a long history of introduction in the U.S. It was first celebrated, on this day, set to always occur on a Monday, in 1792 by the Columbian Order of New York, better known as the Tammany Society, which evolved into the famous New York political machine. Italian Americans picked it up as a day of Italian pride as Columbus was an Italian. It was recognized annually by the Federal Government starting in 1934, and then officially made a Federal holiday in 1968, to be first on the calendar in 1971.
It's still there.
Native Americans have never been particularly keen on the day, for obvious reasons. This lead to protests over the years and eventually the day was recognized in some areas as Indigenous People's Day.
City of Casper Releases Indigenous Peoples’ / Columbus Day Services and Hours
City of Casper releases Indigenous Peoples’/Columbus Day services and hoursGarbage collection, water, sewer, emergency services and more will operate as usual.
Casper, Wyo. (October 8, 2026) – The City of Casper administrative offices will be closed for the observance of Indigenous Peoples’/Columbus Day 2026 on Monday, October 12, 2026. Normal water, sewer, 911 dispatch, police, fire, and metro animal control services will maintain their regular schedules. Solid waste crews will collect garbage as usual on Monday, and other crews will be on call to respond as needed.
The following is the complete list of services and hours.
- Trash collection will run on the normal schedule.
- Casper Regional Solid Waste Facility: Open 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Police Patrol, Fire-EMS, and 911 Dispatch: Regular hours.
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants: Regular hours.
- Water distribution, sewer, streets, parks, fleet services, and public facilities crews on call for emergencies.
- Metro Animal Services Patrol Officers (APOs): Available 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.by calling non-emergency dispatch at 307.235.8278. Outside those regular hours, APOs are on call for emergencies by calling 911.
- Fort Caspar Museum: Closed (closed on Mondays for winter hours)
- Casper Municipal Golf Course: Open normal hours, 1st tee time is 8:30 a.m., the Golf Shop will close at 6:00 p.m.
- Highland Cemetery: Grounds open dawn to dusk with burial search map signs.
- Casper Area Transit, operated by the City of Casper: limited services on Monday. LINK transit services will be unavailable. ASSIST services will run limited services from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for scheduled medical-only appointments and for ADA complementary paratransit services.
- Metro Animal Shelter: Closed.
- Casper Ice Arena: 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. (Open Figure Skating), 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Open Figure Skating)
- Casper Family Aquatic Center: 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Casper Recreation Center: 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
I don't pay much attention to this as I largely do not care if people with same sex attraction come out. I don't think that people have to make social martyrs of themselves. But Adam Kinzinger made an observation that no GOP members of Congress came out. Well, I wouldn't have expected any to, but he's suggesting that there's at least an appreciable number, or perhaps a number who are significant, in the GOP in Congress. That might actually matter for a party that takes a position, sort of, on social issues in this arena.
There are consistently rumors to this effect. Hunter Biden, who may very well not be the most reliable witness on this topic, claims there's a Republican "closeted gay mafia". There are some figures whom rumors circle around continually. I was once told by a very inside member of the state's GOP that a certain Republican figure was a homosexual, which is the first time I heard the term "beard" used to describe a female spouse of a male homosexual, married to camouflage the attraction. The marriage, in that context, made sense to me. I've been told the same thing about the same person by an openly homosexual politician, but that person is sort of wildly unreliable. And there are questions that circle about others simply due to their state in life, I suppose.
None of these people may actually be homosexual, and if they are, that doesn't make them "gay" or "queer". Still, it matters because if you are holding yourself out as a defender of traditionalism in all sense while engaging in homosexual liaisons, you are being hypocritical.
Back to Trump, or rather the Trump Administration, Scott Bessent, who is a homosexual in a homosexual union, sent Elizabeth Warren this letter last week.
Fifty Soviet T-26 tanks and some BA-3 armored cars arrived in Cartagena, Spain.
The T-26 tank was a very good tank for the period and would serve in the Red Army throughout World War Two.
A cross channel locomotive ferry service commenced between Dover and Dunkirk.
The Rocky Mountain News reported that Franklin Roosevelt had been in Cheyenne the day prior, where he attended Episcopal Church services.
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Babe Ruth asked Ernie Corkran to throw his best fastball at a barnstorming unofficial game at Artillery Park in Kingston, PA. The ball went 650 feet, the farthest MLB home run hit ever, and over 75 feet longer than the official long run ball hit by Ruth in 1921.
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Hubei provinces assembly voted to secede from the Chinese Empire and form a republic.
Colonel Li Yuanhong announced the overthrow of the Qing dynasty and the cities of Hangkow and Hanyang were occupied by the rebels.
The Society of American Indians held its organizing convention, in Columbus, Ohio.
President Theodore Roosevelt officially changed the name of the White House to that, from the Executive Mansion.
Soon it'll be the Super Trump House of Trump Superdom, for the Greatest Trump in Trumpdom, or something dumb like that.
The mansion should be restored to its appearance at that time, the last time it really looked good.
The Empress Dowager of China, Tzu Hsi, announced two edicts of reform.
Lord Kitchener announced that Boer Commandant Gideon Scheepers had been captured.
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September 20, 2026
The Houthis hit the Saudi capital of Riyadh with drones.
September 25, 2026
The Senate voted against a resolution demanding an end to the war or Congressional authorization 50 to 49. Four Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — voted in favor. Spinless wimp John Barrasso of course voted against.
October 5, 2026
The US withdrew its strategic bombers from the United Kingdom in reaction to some sort of attempted attack on a US installation.
Frankly, at this point, it's impossible to know what's a legitimate US. action vs. Trump drama.
October 10, 2026
The Houthis hit the airport at Riyadh again.
King Donald has declared there will be no strikes on Iran until after the election.
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October 4, 2026
Running out of time.
We're starting a new edition of this for several reasons.
To start off with, King Donald has been in rare form the last few days. Whether these qualify as 25th Amendment events or not is another matter. They probably don't. But they do show the titanic weirdness of the man.
The first was a long rambling post about trying to enact Permanent Daylight Savings Time.
Personally, I hate Daylight Savings Time and I always have. It was a stupid idea when it came into being, and it still is. I'd like to see it go. But King Donald and some Republicans, and probably some Democrats as well, would like for it to be adopted year around.
This is dumb, and yes that's spelled with a "b".
The reason it's dumb is that the sun rises and sets when it does with no regard to the opinions and musings of man. In real terms, there's a real high noon, and a real midnight. The clock should be based on that.
The stupidity of Daylight Savings Time somehow accepts the concept that by moving the arms of the clock, it somehow changes that. What Daylight Savings Time is, in real terms, is Go To Work An Hour Earlier. Apparently we're dim enough, however, to accept that if we pretend to move the arms of the clock, we're still going to work at 8:00 a.m. in the summer, rather than 7:00 a.m.
We're not.
Anyhow, Donalds wants the bill to pass. If it does, at least it looks like the 119th Congress did something. Here's his long screed:
Cotton's reasons here are solid. Everything he's stated here is correct. I can personally recall the 1974 experiment with this.
Sunday, January 6, 1974. Messing with the time.
In a bizarre response to the ongoing oil crisis, the U.S. began a trial of year around daylight savings time.
I recall it well, as when I walked to grade school in the morning, it was pretty dark. We still walked, however.
What I noted there has been noted by supporters of King Donald's proposal. Kids don't walk to school as much as the culture's addiction to laziness and automotive transportation actually increased since 1974.
Anyhow, what are the reasons for this absurdity?
Golfing and tennis. Oh, and "farmers want it".
On that last item, farmers don't care one whit about this. They're going to work when they are going to work. DST doesn't change that at all.
Indeed, I've always heard the justification for DST being the one that Trump is giving. You can go out and play sports when you get home from work as you'll have more daylight.
M'eh.
The reason, anyhow, this appears here is that Trump posted, and therefore wrecked, Cotton's cell phone number. That's really mean. Only a self centered asshole would do a thing like that. Trump's been asked to justify it in a press interview and just repeats his reasons that he wants the vote.
Personally, and I have no way of really knowing this, I think he wants it as the Republican 119th Congress has done nothing and now we're headed into a general election with inflation ramping up, an illegal war going on, and none of the list of usual suspects excuses working anymore.
Also for the same reason, Trump's been running around giving campaign rallies to the true believers. I haven't tracked where he's been going, but I've read that it tends to be in places where there's a lot of MAGA. Quietly some candidates in battleground states are trying to distance themselves from him. Anyhow, at one such rally Trump, who didn't graduate from Wharton with honors and never appeared on the Dean's list, stated:
I am a person with very high intelligence—one of the highest IQs in the world.
Okay, this is at the really weird level.
Generally really intelligent people don't run around saying "I'm high IQ". Trump says it all the time, which suggests that he's really insecure about his intelligence.
Frankly, at this point, if anyone believes he's super intelligent, they're probably either stupid or incredibly gullible. MAGA by now is the bottom of the bell curve in intelligence and ignorance.
What's going on with the 25th?
It's rather clear at this point that my prediction that the 25th Amendment would be applied after the first 18 months of Trump's illegal occupation of the Oval Office were off the mark. This probably should be regarded as a failed prediction.
Having said that, I saw somebody hinting at the possibility that their similar thought might not be.
I think it's a long shot right now, but there's still a chance, and a not insubstantial one, that a backroom plot, basically, remains in place. The same basic parameters would be in operation, replacing Trump with J.D. Vance before the 2028 election.
My thought was that it would occur before the 2026 election in order that the GOP had a chance to save itself before that election. Clearly that was wrong. But that in and of itself might be part of what's going on. The various factions in the Trump backrooms that supported his campaign and which boost their pet theories on everything may very well have realized that the results would be unpopular. Economic radicals behind the tariffs, for instance, likely were aware that they'd be hugely disruptive. They may have given up the 2026 midterms from the onset. They likely didn't appreciate that Trump would start a war with Iran, but most of the rest of the stuff Trump has done has backers within the administration. All of those people also know that they're in the minority in terms of American culture so Trump is their best chance of making this stuff happen.
But, if I'm correct, at some point Trump has to go and take the stench out with him. There will come a day, and it's probably in November, when Trump will be personally blamed for what's occurred. The Republicans are going to lose both houses of Congress in a month. A Fall Guy will be necessary, and Trump has made himself that person. He's even asked for people to imagine him on the ballot.
A lot of people will.
After November 3 being a Trumpite in most places will have lost its value. A lot of the Republican politicians who have supported him all along will grow silent, or more silent than they already are. Harriet Hageman will likely not be heard to mention his name. John Barrasso won't either. Poor Chuck Gray, who has campaigned more than anyone else in Wyoming on being a deep lover of all things Trump, will be lost, but even he will rally to claim that "true conservative values" need to be defended.
Anyhow, the point is Republicans are already dog trotting away from Trump. Trump is, at the same time, stabbing some of them in the back. Chip Roy got it, and now Cotton is getting it. After the vote in November, there will be very little reason to be a Trump backer in the GOP, save for being in a district of diehard MAGAs, which is a declining population.
The National Conservatives and Christian Nationalist still need Trump, however. Nobody else is going to help them get in their worldview. They can sort of home that Vance will, but Vance is too savvy to adopt anything fully that's going to wipe out his hopes of being President.
And hence the gamble.
Right now, it may well be the case that NatCons and Christian Nationalist are seeing how far they can have Trump carry on as a sort of dictator until it's too late, and Vance's chances in 2028 are destroyed. That may have already occured. Letting that occur might be one reason that Marco Rubio hasn't acted. But my guess is that they're riding along and just don't quite know where that point is.
It might be coming very soon. If Trump makes an effort to steal the 2026 midterms, and he will, that might present the opportunity. If it isn't taken then, it has to be taken some time in 2027. 2028 will probably be too late.
October 10, 2026
And you know what they're doing? They go straight down, you know, you can make those drill bits talk. You can make 'em sing, you can make them go, they go down. New York's over here, Pennsylvania-- they go down and they take a sharp left. And they suck our oil out. Can you believe it? Lines of different states, and you'll see one has Cadillacs, because they like Cadillacs better than they like Mercedes, but one has an Escalade, and one has a 50 year old Chevy. And you're talking about 3 ft. It's a line that goes right up. One has some beautiful drilling plants, and one has no drilling plants, it's got no money, it's got poverty.
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You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom
Matthew, Chapter 24.
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
July 26, 2026
China v. Taiwan
The Houthis hit oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia yesterday.
So, in keeping with that, a prediction.
July 29, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
The U.S. Senate advanced Russian energy sanctions legislation Tuesday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the Capitol. The vote was seen as a tribute to the bill’s author, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, on the day of his funeral, which was widely attended by politicos.
Trump fell asleep during it as J. D. Vance seemed oblivious to the dozing octogenarian and Bessent looked nervous about it, but then he always looks nervous.
July 31, 2026
Israeli Hamas War
The Bored of Peas has supposedly worked out a peace plan in Gaza. Sober analysts a 4th Grade level have severe doubts about it.
August 1, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Now Trump is backtracking and saying the US won't license Patriot missile production to Ukraine.
August 2, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Ukraine has run out of ballistic missile interceptors. This comes at the same time that the US supply is seriously depleted due to Donald Trump's illegal moronic war against Iran.
King Donny should free up what remains of the US supply and give them to Ukraine, and start emergency production for the US. As for Iran, we can solve that problem simply by pulling out. Better yet, pulling out, putting every senior commander who agreed to fight in a clearly illegal war on trial, and impeaching Donald Trump.
Crisis in Ceuta
Not a war but requiring Spanish military deployment, a mass flood of immigrants crashed into the Spanish North African city of Ceuta.
About 50,000 North African immigrants stormed the city, leading to dramatic news footage and MAGA "see, it could happen here" claims. Missed in the story is that 48,000 of them returned to Morocco within 48 hours.
A bigger question may be why Spain retains a city that you would figure should be part of Morocco, but it does.
Italy defensively suspended the EU's border-free Schengen arrangements with Spain.
August 10, 2026
Israel v. Hamas.
Israel had rejected the "Board of Peace" peace plan, refusing to enter into a peace deal with Hamas until it is definitely disarmed.
Another blow to King Donny.
August 17, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Both sides exchanged heavy missile and drone attacks yesterday. A NATO jet on patrol shot down a drone that had strayed into Romania.
August 18, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Robert Shaheiev, 49, formerly of the Ukrainian Navy who defected to Russia early in the war died in an explosion in Sevastopol.
Whether he was targeted or not, Ukrainian operatives have proven effective at hunting down figures in the Russian military that they find particularly responsible for various matters. Shaheiev defected with a submarine.
Korean War
Donald Trump has signaled that the US is going to scale back it's participation in joint exercises with the South Korean Army.
What's going on here is terribly unclear. The US has maintained troops in the ROK since the 1945 and the threat of North Korean invasion is very real.
I should note that this isn't entirely unprecedented. Jimmy Carter actually campaigned on the idea in 1976 and tried to implement a phased withdrawal, which was abandoned over conservative and military objections. Since the 1980s, military support of South Korea has been very strong.
Trumps move comes at a time when the US is losing an illegal war with Iran and is having to pull naval assets out of the Pacific. It also comes at a point at which the longtime Red Chinese goal of forcibly reunited Taiwan with the mainland is at its highest point. Combined with that, Trump's administration is packed with National Conservatives who have a sort of Neo Nineteenth Century view of where the U.S.'s foreign policy should be focused.
Given that, Trump's decision could be the result of his listening to National Conservatives, or it could be because or logistical situation is much worse than admitted.
It could also be because South Korea refused to participate in the illegal war, like every other nation on earth did. Trump has not taken that well. Nobody seems to be pointing out that South Korea did participate in the Vietnam War, which Trump did not. Trump himself, at any rate, referenced South Korea's lack of willingness to get into the losing war with Iran.
Because of Trump's other actions, however, there's widespread commentary about whether Trump is a Russian asset and this is influencing him on the world stage. As radical as that sounds, there are reason to raise this question. Certainly no other President has hurt US interest, and just the US in general, more than Trump, and he's a fanboy of Putin.
We've noted it elsewhere, but we've been worried about a Chinese strike on Taiwan in the near future. The combination of the failed Iran War and Trump's other actions make that inevitable . The question is whether that will come this Fall, or next Spring.
September 4, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
In an attack Ukraine is an intentional Russian signal to the United States, Russia hit a Coca Cola plant in a drone strike.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has killed a House vote on Lindsey Graham’s Russia sanctions bill which passed the Senate in July, stating “We have to build consensus around that final product".
Oh, um, . . . not hat doesn't look a little weird. . . . and doesn't raise any questions, um, like Дональд Трамп — агент России?
What is it with this administration and Russia? Why is Дональд Трамп a Russian asset? Just stupidity and a like for flashy gold things?
September 20, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Ukraine launched a massive drone raid on targets in the Moscow region.
September 22, 2026
Pakistan v. Afghanistan
Pakistan conducted air raids into Afghanistan yesterday.
October 1, 2026
US in Iraq
The U.S. is now completely out of Iraq.
October 4, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Russia hit Ukrainian bridges over the past few days. This appears to be an economic targeting.
Russia also indicated it would resort to the use of nuclear weapons to defend Kaliningrad if it needed to, which it would never need to, as nobody is threatening the Baltic city formerly known as Königsberg.
October 5, 2026
Russia
Darya Shipilova, a 28-year-old researcher at an anti-plague lab died following suspected exposure to a “particularly dangerous infection.” which people believe is likely pneumonic plague. Some 200 people are under observation for exposure to the highly infectious disease which might have killed the young woman due to a lab accident.
Some fairly knowledgeable people assert that there's reason to believe that this may be a weaponized variant of the disease, which the Soviets were working on prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Adam Kinzinger is urging all flights out of Russia to be halted.
God grant that this be contained, whatever it is.
We would note that no country has reacted by banning flights so far. We might also note that with Trump in office the US is extraordinarily impaired in reacting to a threat like this. MAGA still continues to believe that COVID 19 was no sort of a threat and it's unlikely that Donald is going to react until it really turns out to be a weaponized virus that starts killing a lot of people.
October 6, 2026
Yemeni Civil War
Yemeni government forces retook the Bab el-Mandeb Strait up to the city of Mocha.
October 11, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Over the last couple of days Donald Trump entered into some sort of deal to supposedly purchase Russian diesel fuel. We reported on this on another thread:
Sigh. . .
As noted, this isn't going to do anything to the price at the pump and quite frankly it's unlikely any Russian diesel gets here. The whole idea is amazingly dim.
What it does do, however, is make the United States openly declare assistance to Russia, which is completely inexcusable. People are negatively reacting and Trump, who hates criticism, lashed out at Zelensky in defense, claiming he could have ended the war on many occasions and that Ukraine needs a new president.
It's the United States that needs a new President. Like him or not, that man of multiple names would be leagues better than Trump. Trump should be removed via the 25th Amendment, or if the numbers are there, impeached in January.
October 12, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
Trump is claiming the warring parties have agreed to an "energy ceasefire".
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today that he “didn’t know about it. We learned from the media" while the Kremlin stated that ”contacts are ongoing”.
So, no ceasefire.
Ukraine has been hitting refineries as well as Russian data centers, which caused this interesting observation by Adam Kinzinger:
Weird. Most of my haters have disappeared in the last 24 hours. What happened?
Oh…. Russian data centers went bye bye
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