A proposal to allow Wyomingites to possess and use hemp extract has been introduced by a Democratic Green River legislator. It will fail. This seems obvious, which raises the question of why should this be attempted, when it has apparently also failed before.
A bill has been introduced to override most local restrictions on the carrying of firearms.
Wyoming is one of the most firearm friendly states in the union and there are only handful of areas that individuals or local bodies can restrict their being carried. This raises, however, the question of what's a superior right, local policies or even individual ones or a broader public right. As noted in yesterday's item on education and localism, there are dangers in overriding local policies by conservatives as at some point that's no longer "conservative" and it certainly opens the door and strips any defense to the same sort of actions being taken by "liberals".
A legislator from Powell has introduced a bill to keep Daylight Savings Time all year around. It'll fail.
I'd be down with not changing the clock, but I'd just keep in on natural time. Daylight Savings Time doesn't really save any time.
A bill has also been introduced to make the Blotched Tiger Salamander the state amphibian. I'm not going to comment on a controversial bill like that one.
A bill that wold collect statistics regarding abortions has been introduced. It's always curious to me that bills that would collect information are opposed by the right and the left, by topic, but the fact that this bill is regarded as controversial is evidence of that. It would collect this data by age (I think), ethnicity and marital status.
Nationally, the news of the past few days has been almost too mind boggling to really process. Over the past few days the story broke that the FBI started an investigation on Donald Trump following the firing of James Comey. The reasons is that red flags went off when he made certain comments about firing Comey because of the investigation on whether Trump had improper connections with the Russians. Trump apparently wanted to state that publicly but his aids defeated that, which gives some credence to the stories from earlier in the year that Trump's aids frequently defeat his worst inclinations. You do have to wonder, however, if a President was somehow compromised by his associations with the Russians why he'd make statements that were so obvious about that. It's interesting that the FBI was that alarmed and we don't really know where the investigation went, as it apparently folded into Mueller's investigation.
The inside scoop on that is that Mueller's investigation will and with a whimper and not a bang as he's basically been releasing the most significant information as he's moved along. Anyway a person looks at that, Mueller really needs to wrap his work up for the country's sake, one way or another. Special Prosecutors have a way of keeping their investigations open forever, and for a good reason, but as they exist in a political atmosphere, at some point the mere fact that they go on and on does damage to the country. Mueller's is past that point and he ought to sign his conclusions, whatever, they are, and get it over with.
The "longest shutdown" in the nation's history enters a new week with no end in site. Most Americans haven't really been impacted by it yet, in part because Congress returned to a more normal budgeting process last year which means that the "shutdown" isn't really a shutdown but a partial shutdown. It's hard to really figure out what is actually shutdown unless you run into it directly. Clearly a problem is really developing in air traffic and that's going to come to a head really soon if the TSA starts to walk out, which is a real possibility. Those not getting paychecks know who they are as they've now experienced that, and as they loose the ability to pay their mortgages and the like, assuming that this keeps on keeping on for a while longer, it'll really start to be felt on a wider level in the next thirty or so days. . .much quicker if TSA and FAA employees walk out in protest or by necessity.
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