Saturday, October 3, 2026
Thursday, October 3, 1946. Game two of the 1946 World Series.
St. Louis Cardinals beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 8–4 to win the second game of a best-of-3 series in the first National League playoffs ever held. They advanced to the 1946 World Series to face the Boston Red Sox.
The worst civilian air disaster up to that time occurred with a DC-4 airliner crashed in Newfoundland. The plane was on its way to Berlin.
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Tuesday, October 1, 1946. Crime, Punishment, and World War Two.
Sunday, October 3, 1926. First postseason no hitter.
The first post season no hitter was pitched by Red Grier of the Bacharach Giants in Game 3 of the Colored World Series, against the Chicago American Giants.
St. Louis won game two of the World Series.
Fr. Charles Coughlin began his broadcast of his weekly sermons on radio station WJR of Detroit.
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Saturday, October 2, 1926. Game 1 of the 1911 World Series.
Tuesday, October 3, 1911. Shelling Tripoli.
After having given residents of the city three days in which to evacuate, Italy became a blockade and bombardment of Tripoli.
Suffragist and USLA professor Maria Guadalupe Evangelina de Lopez delivered a pro-suffrage speech entirely in Spanish at the Los Angeles Plaza.
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Sunday, October 1, 1911. The 1911 Mexican Election.
Thursday, October 3, 1901. Victorolas and the Episcopal Church.
Tuesday, October 3, 1876. Colorado elects its first State Governor and State Assembly.
Territorial Governor John Long Routt was narrowly elected the first State Governor of Colorado in a contest against Democrat Bela M. Hughes.
Routt had been in politics for awhile in Colorado, starting of as the Mayor of Denver. He was a carpenter by trade.
In contrast to the Governor's race, the State Assembly, the first of which was also chosen on this day, was heavily Republican, something that would become a factor in the upcoming Presidential race.
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Monday, October 4, 1876. Registration starts at Texas A&M
Friday, October 2, 2026
Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 12, the Deflect and Deny edition.
October 2, 2026.
We are, of course, about one month away from the General Election and it's universally agreed that, at least as of right now, the economy is not doing well, which is to say that it's not doing well for average people. Having said that, all the monkeying around Trump has done with the economy has not resulted in a general collapse, as some feared. This tends to give credence to the assertion that some make that the American economy in general is so strong that it tends to keep on chugging along in spite of everything.
Having said that, prices on many things have gone up, and are now at the paint point for average people. Beef prices, for example, are up about 25%. That can't really be blamed on Trump, as its due to a historically low cattle heard, but Trump's efforts to address it were pretty much non existent at first, and the ineffectual when they were tried.
Beef Imports Haven’t Lowered Prices As Hoped. ‘I Told You So,’ Says Wyo Rancher
Addressing the price can only really come through a recovery of the North American herd. Trump's constant crazy hatred of Canada and Canadians isn't helping this at all, as Canada is part of the North American market. Mexican cattle, which had been banned from coming into the US due to screwworm, which we're not hearing much about, which is concerning, have started to come back in. That is likely to have some effect.
Petroleum prices have shot up enormously since Trump started an ill advised and poorly planned war on Iran for no real discernable critical objective.
Wars are inflationary by their very nature, but attacking a critical global petroleum supplier is definitely going to be inflationary, and this is set to really start hitting home. Everything in the US, whether it moves by truck, by rail, or in the air, uses petroleum. That impacts the price of 100% of American goods. Gasoline, Diesel fuel and Aviation fuel is way up in price. Heating oil is up 50% to 70% just as we're entering the season where it starts to be used on the East Coast. NOAA, which usus science, predicts a warm winter in the East, like last years, so that might not be as impactful as it could be. The Old Farmers Almanac, which I put no stock in whatsoever, predicts a cold winter.
An interesting side impact of the cost of things is that even Wyomingites are looking at electric vehicles. I overheard a conversation the other day in which two people were wishing to get them, and they're both highly conservative individuals. A report on increasing EVs appeared in one of the local online journals today.
Is Wyoming Going Electric? EV Registrations Surge Tenfold In Two Years
There are still a lot of naysayers out there, but there were when automobiles started to become common for that matter.
Anyway, the Trump Administration has handed out its flood of excuses for all of this, starting at first with "it's Joe Biden's fault". Everything is Biden's fault according to Trump, whom while he routinely falls asleep in public still calls Biden, on occasion, "Sleep Joe".
The it's all Biden's fault is no longer selling very well so the "it's not much to pay to keep Iran from getting a bomb" has been tried and is still being tried, but it's not selling that well . First of all, well informed people know that while Iran is a very secretive state, the evidence that it was about to make a nuke is thin. And frankly Israel's major early role in the war made it pretty clear that this was a joint Israeli American adventure in which the Trumpites had been heavily influenced by Israel. That's adding to an anti Israeli sentiment that's been building in the US for several years and you'll even now hear, in response to the suggestion that it's all worth it to keep Iran from getting a bomb, that maybe we don't really care if Iran has a bomb.
We didn't care enough about North Korea having one in order for the US to attack it, and Trump loves the communist leader of North Korea.
So that excuse isn't working either.
So time to distract.
The government just announced that children under 16 years of age are being automatically enrolled in "Trump" savings accounts. The Government, which has no money whatsoever as it's borrowing piles, will place $1,000 of the money it doesn't have into such accounts, but parents need to claim it.
Will this achieve something?
Well, it might, or might now. Truth be known with inflation being what it is, $1,000 that can't be touched until a person is 18 years old isn't going to seem like that big of a deal right now But it might turn out to be.
Trump also promised people $5,000 if the GOP retains both houses of Congress, but then that would require Congress to do it, and Trump earlier promised everyone a $2,000 tariff dividend. The government handing out cash it doesn't have isn't a good idea and frankly I thought it was a horrible idea when President Biden started handing out cash during COVID. I've heard the Trump proposal compared to that, and that was a bad idea.
The Administration also just sent out $500.00 checks as supposed refunds for Obamacare overcharges. They seem rather strategically placed, however.
Anyhow, stayed tuned for coming attractions. The trade war with Canada is just starting, the war is no where near over, and prices are really set to climb. Trump has less than thirty days to address all of this, or even some of it, which won't be easy at all. Voters who are inclined to vote their pocketbooks are likely pretty much set in their opinions by now.
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Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 10, The Autarky Edition.
Saturday, October 2, 1926. Game 1 of the 1911 World Series.
Cardinals 1, Yankees 2.
It was a Saturday.
Saturday, September 25, 1926. A five day work week.
Monday, October 4, 1876. Registration starts at Texas A&M
Classes were slated to open at Texas A&M for the first time but only a disappointing six students enrolled on that day. Classes were delayed until October 4, when there were 40 students.
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Thursday, September 28, 1876. Return of the 7th Cavalry.
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Blog List updating perfectly now, was Blog Lists Not Updating.
Lex Anteinternet: Blog Lists Not Updating.: It started just about a week ago. Apparently it's a widespread problem that Blogger, run by Google, is having and there is, so far, no ...
Lots of bloggers were experiencing it. People complained where they could. It seems to have cleared up.
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CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 160th Edition. On being a worthless sycophant
Lummis Blocks Dem’s Push In Senate To Condemn Taxpayer-Funded Pro-Trump Ads
Lummis blocks Senate resolution criticizing Trump’s taxpayer-funded TV ads
Tuesday, October 1, 1946. Crime, Punishment, and World War Two.
Sentences were handed down from the major Nuremberg Trial with verdicts having been rendered the previous day. Twelve convicted were sentenced to death, those being Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, who was sentenced in absentia and in fact already dead, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank,Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Arthur Seyss-Inquart
All told, 19 people were convicted. Three were found innocent, those being Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen, and Hans Fritzsche.
Mensa was founded.
Kim II Sung University was founded, named in accordance with the despicable strong man trait of naming things after yourself while you are alive. . . kind of like somebody else we could name.
Violence in downtown Denver.
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Saturday, September 28, 1946. "I believe the outlawing of the atom bomb is the outlawing of wars... I think the time has come when humanity is intelligent enough to do away with war."
Sunday, October 1, 1911. The 1911 Mexican Election.
General elections were held in Mexico. Francisco I. Madero was elected President by a landslide.
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Saturday, September 30, 1911. The Virginian opens.
Tuesday, October 1, 1901. My paternal grandfather born.
My paternal grandfather was born in Iowa, part of a large Westphalian American family that had immigrated to the U.S. in the 1840s. He was one of 8 children and was their fourth child.
He went to work in 1912 in San Francisco, returning home to Iowa sometime after that, and then moving to Denver where he entered the meatpacking industry, his occupation for the rest of his life. He died in 1949.
Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim was published in book form.
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Saturday, September 28, 1901. Battle of Balangiga.
The 2026 Election, 23rd Edition. Stein's Law meets the GOP. The hints of a mutiny edition.
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
Herbert Stein.
September 23, 2026
Something is actually going on in the GOP for the first time since the Dixiecrat MAGA insurgency took control of the party and made it a populist party.
Bit and pieces of the signs are everywhere, all of a sudden. Stein's Law has arrived.
GOP candidates are in trouble all over the country and now they're starting to dump Trump. A good example of this is Congressman Ashley Hinson, who is trying to do the same thing that Harriet Hageman is trying to do, which is to move into a retiring Senator's spot. She's in real trouble in that effort and recent polls indicate that she's behind. The Republican seat appears slated to go to a Democrat. The GOP sent out John Barrasso to stump for her, an odd choice as Barrasso isn't inspiring on his alleged home turf, but the thought must have been that the Senate Whip could show how Hinson winning would help the Dear Leader.
Well, that message didn't seem to take. So Hinson started to bolt. From her Facebook.
Iowans are being squeezed and shouldn’t have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran. We need to use every option at our disposal to provide some relief from high prices.
That includes suspending the gas tax, pausing diesel exports, unleashing E-15 everywhere we can, reinstating the $1/gallon biodiesel tax credit, and creating a diesel relief program to help our farmers and truckers being crushed by the high costs.
While doing this, we should also ensure our highway trust fund is replenished, so that Iowans don’t suffer from crumbling roads and bridges while relief comes our way now. These actions to lower costs are needed ASAP, and the war needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end.
I am working every day to deliver bipartisan results for Iowans and I will work with anyone who is ready to tackle this challenge immediately.
Go home Dave. You drank too much WFC Kool aide.
Elsewhere, Wyoming teachers are organizing against the attempt to bankrupt the state:
Teachers, hospital leaders launch $1M campaign to fight property tax ballot measure
