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Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.comBlogger12255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-22183808560974268362024-03-18T05:22:00.003-06:002024-03-18T05:40:13.688-06:00Lex Anteinternet: St. Patrick's Day<a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/st-patricks-day.html?spref=bl"></a><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbe5j27l-F1ad6brefmRE3jnRihak4LOd17H5jsK4_mnkeaQytb3cyhPMB6eCYC6iPivcDei8GIVzu3tE9FQdICk1vKvOonKmCXK-BqvXPRzVt1uvZWHpZ-BrvQLTRbImBldxn6QjRROnV4KtY5zB17GhqzG6xZSd2XzFS_VaEU3X-1TKaSWhXdF6p7rw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1440" height="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbe5j27l-F1ad6brefmRE3jnRihak4LOd17H5jsK4_mnkeaQytb3cyhPMB6eCYC6iPivcDei8GIVzu3tE9FQdICk1vKvOonKmCXK-BqvXPRzVt1uvZWHpZ-BrvQLTRbImBldxn6QjRROnV4KtY5zB17GhqzG6xZSd2XzFS_VaEU3X-1TKaSWhXdF6p7rw=w752-h423" width="752" /></a></div><br /><p></p><blockquote><span style="color: #274e13;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/st-patricks-day.html?spref=bl">Lex Anteinternet: St. Patrick's Day</a>: A Celtic cross in a local cemetery, marking the grave of a very Irish, and Irish Catholic, figure. Recently I ran this item: Lex Anteintern...</span></blockquote><p><span style="color: #274e13;">So, after the crabby entry, what did I do for St. Patrick's Day?</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">Well, my St. Patrick's Day really started on the prior day, March 16, as my daughter was in town. We always have corned beef and I hadn't secured one, so after work (lawyers, you should be aware, often work six days a week. . . at least I do) I went to get one.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">Usually, this isn't a problem, but it was on Saturday and I ended up getting one at a specialty butcher shop after going to three of them, which is a nice thing to think of in a way. Distributism saved the holiday.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">I now also have a corned pork butt, or corned pork roast, I'll have to look at the label, from the second one I visited, that visit being due to the recommendation of the first. They were really friendly at all of them, and at that one they insisted I try the corned pork, which they had just cooked one of for themselves.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">It was quite good, much like pastrami.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">Long-suffering spouse informed me that while she doesn't like corned beef (her DNA, I'd note, is almost as Irish as mine, but not quite) she hates pastrami.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">Anyhow, I also went to the liquor store to buy stout and Irish whiskey. I got the last six-pack of Guinness and some Irish ale I'd never heard of.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">Which made me wonder what on earth was going on. To see the shelves cleared that way was downright weird. And all the parking lots all over town were full.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">I chose the liquor store as it was near one of the churches in town, and it gave me the opportunity to go to confession. They informed me in the store, which was new, that the parking lot was full as their bar had just opened, and it was packed. That surprised me as it was about 1:00 p.m. which strikes me as really early to hit the bars.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">I went to confession, as noted, and was right behind my next store neighbors. I avail myself of the sacrament frequently, so I was comfortable speaking to my neighbor while in line. I know what my sins and many failings are. The very traditionally dressed women behind me in line, however, was clearly not happy with us chatting. Anyhow, it's odd as we live right next store, but we don't actually chat all that much.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">Long suffering spouse is a better chatter than I am.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">I went home and I fixed the St. Patrick's Day meal, which is my chore. It was good, but the corned beef was uniquely not very fatty. Long suffering spouse and daughter liked it better than the usual, grocery store bought, one. I like the fatty one better.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">We'll see what opinions are on the pork.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">On St. Patrick of Ireland's day itself, the first thing I did was go to Mass. The Gospel reading was as follows:</span></p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #274e13;">Gospel</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">Jn 12:20-33</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">“I am troubled now. Yet what should I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.” The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder; but others said, “An angel has spoken to him.” Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come for my sake but for yours. Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.” </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="color: #274e13;">He said this indicating the kind of death he would die.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #274e13;">It struck me because of this section:</span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="color: #274e13;">Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.</span></blockquote><p><span style="color: #274e13;">The reason is that I've been going through a lot that's been forced up on me recently, together with others upon whom it's been forced, but I'm finding myself unique making decisions for everyone, and not for what I want to do, but for others. The stress of it has been gigantic and when I stop to think about it, it's depressing.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">I went home and made a breakfast out of a bagel and left over corned beef.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">In the afternoon, I went out fishing and took the dog. On the way, I was listening to a podcast, like I'll tend to do. It was a Catholic Answers Focus interview of Carrie Gress and it was profound. I'll post on that elsewhere. </span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">We didn't catch any fish. Nothing was biting, so we came home.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">By that time, I'd finished the short Gress podcast and listened to This Week. I've later listed to Meet The Press. Both featured Republicans try to tell people that when Donald Trump promised a bloodbath if he isn't elected, he didn't really mean that, but was speaking instead about cars coming in from Mexico from Chinese factories. The full text of his speech stated:</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="color: #274e13;">We’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected, now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars. They’re building massive factories.</span></blockquote><p><span style="color: #274e13;">It's interesting that Republicans feel compelled to continually tell you that Trump didn't mean what he said. It's also interesting that a person with such a strange pattern of speech is listened to. He rambles and repeats.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">The other thing that the shows all dealt with was Chuck Schumer calling for an Israeli election as he's upset with the current Israeli government. A lot of people are upset with the current Israeli government, including a lot of Israelis, but an American elected official calling for a new government in another democracy is really beyond the Pale.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">St. Patrick's Day's meal was left over corned beef and Brussels Sprouts, and cheese lasagna from the prior Friday.</span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13;">No big blowout, no "Craic". Just an observation that probably more closely resembles that of centuries of Irish people, in Ireland and the diaspora. A small family gathering, a small feast, a little regional alcohol. Reconciliation and Mass, and knowing that today the grim problems of the last two weeks, on this Monday, return.</span></p><p></p><p></p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-5402660952817706702024-03-18T04:17:00.002-06:002024-03-18T04:19:14.760-06:00Monday, March 18, 1974. Embargo lifted.<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/03/march-18.html?spref=bl">Today In Wyoming's History: March 18</a>: <span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #141414; color: white;">1974 The oil embargo against the US by oil producing Arab states, called in protest of U.S. support of Israel during the 1973 October War, is lifted. U.S. dependency on Arab oil was already well known to the government, given successful efforts to have the Arabs keep the price of oil from rising during later stages of the Vietnam War.</span></span><div><br /></div><div>The Robert Redford version of <i>The Great Gatsby</i> appeared on the cover of Time. It's frankly not all that good.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Last prior:</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/monday-march-11-1974-obstinate.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Monday, March 11, 1974. The Obstinate</a></h3></div>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-34113710835075808402024-03-18T04:13:00.005-06:002024-03-18T04:21:49.548-06:00Saturday, March 18, 1944. Summoned to Germany.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2qqOvrNm08ZlrmUztAqBStRKPlYJ0PPzpOUPHQ2AB1RSp_75YLY2vWDQMMEu2zcIYDMHNid0HyQpxArGNtk74RGez_dplbUqw-VcKTFF4b1bUnKPrEafLsV27nWrT32sZ1vR7s9gHUvRUZhGwdCS51ah5npbMkTU1GGrer7OtDDeTjNTVP8bF6Y0y5Ts" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="5201" data-original-width="4257" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2qqOvrNm08ZlrmUztAqBStRKPlYJ0PPzpOUPHQ2AB1RSp_75YLY2vWDQMMEu2zcIYDMHNid0HyQpxArGNtk74RGez_dplbUqw-VcKTFF4b1bUnKPrEafLsV27nWrT32sZ1vR7s9gHUvRUZhGwdCS51ah5npbMkTU1GGrer7OtDDeTjNTVP8bF6Y0y5Ts=w523-h640" width="523" /></a></div>VI Corps cleark working near entrance to cave which has been filled by explosion from German shell, March 18, 1944.<br /></div><p></p><p>The Soviets, reacting to their recent defeat, began the Third Narva Offensive.</p><p>They also, on the same day, took Zhmerynka.</p><p>The Germans began a two-day massacre of prisoners, mostly being Soviet citizens and anti-fascists in the Romanian city of Rîbnița.</p><p>Miklós Horthy went to Schloss Klessheim, south of Salzburg, at Hitler's invitation. It was not a pleasant meeting. Horthy was forced to accept a new government and allow German troops onto Hungarian soil, which amounted to an effective German invasion.</p><p>German allies were abandoning Germany as quickly as possible, remaining in its orbit, at this point, by force.</p><p>The German 1st Fallschirm-Panzer Division Hermann Göring bombed the villages of Monchio, Susano and Costrignano, around Montefiorino, and slaughtered their entire population.</p><p>Aimo Allan Koivunen became the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat. The Finnish solider retreated singly after his ski patrol was attacked and surrounded by Soviet troops. He was carrying the unit's entire supply of Pervitin, a methamphetamine used to keep troops awake on duty, and entered a state of delirium and became unconscious. He came into Finnish lines days later with a still retained massively elevated heart beat and weighing under 100 lobs. He'd skied nearly 250 miles during the ordeal.\</p><p>He died in 1989 at the age of 71.</p><p>World War One French general, and opponent of Vichy, Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau, died at age 92.</p><p><b><i>Last prior edition:</i></b></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/friday-march-17-1944-forces-of-nature.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Friday, March 17, 1944. Forces of nature.</a></h3>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-21257459362777928662024-03-18T00:33:00.000-06:002024-03-18T00:33:00.138-06:00Tuesday, March 18, 1924. The high water mark of the Irish Mutiny.<p>Forty armed Irish soldiers assembled at a hotel in Dublin to plan the next move in the Irish Army Mutiny. A possible coup d'état against the Irish government was on the table. </p><p>Loyal Irish troops surrounded the hotel and there was a standoff. The result was that the young Irish government responded by securing the resignation of Irish Army Council members, along with that of Defense Minister Richard Mulcahy.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYOhOUh5OSAA-a6jgEwILGLMDscIFr-_a9s4AYlwVW9weDWGSAndJjz6MmeD170Nfnx1IlI1f8giSHH3BLVakfYYm_Wg5ZyZnX89EBp55vWJgitNMMHLIxSH0VFL_agr5DAP6usfQs1ZHZzLjlmL_iS62jz9hgueiZKtgQmqoxhOjZXfOZbQfbzPP-pL4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhYOhOUh5OSAA-a6jgEwILGLMDscIFr-_a9s4AYlwVW9weDWGSAndJjz6MmeD170Nfnx1IlI1f8giSHH3BLVakfYYm_Wg5ZyZnX89EBp55vWJgitNMMHLIxSH0VFL_agr5DAP6usfQs1ZHZzLjlmL_iS62jz9hgueiZKtgQmqoxhOjZXfOZbQfbzPP-pL4=w461-h640" width="461" /></a></div><br />The mutiny was of the oldest type, an army rebelling for itself. Mulcahy would go on to a long career in Irish government, including as Minister of Education.<p></p><p>A soldier bonus bill was passed in the US.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK2Mk75nka__Sk6U58Kwa3lByI-fDJ6KwF8O9qt522TdmknsmCp-BCjMG78YvG6WcFTMOhbU6nVkHPGkyycfXPzxX3sECrQbrrznh4vnM2H6gTQKmgUoRAOqzIgA-DwDVZVhMNCE6fXhHbnNZRGpJA3rACqMMkajxRBovMV7cKs-GbWTXTGhS4vwZHfTg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1458" data-original-width="1196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK2Mk75nka__Sk6U58Kwa3lByI-fDJ6KwF8O9qt522TdmknsmCp-BCjMG78YvG6WcFTMOhbU6nVkHPGkyycfXPzxX3sECrQbrrznh4vnM2H6gTQKmgUoRAOqzIgA-DwDVZVhMNCE6fXhHbnNZRGpJA3rACqMMkajxRBovMV7cKs-GbWTXTGhS4vwZHfTg=s16000" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>St. Mark's is a major downtown church in Casper today.</p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://churchesofthewest.blogspot.com/2011/01/st-marks-episcopal-church.html" style="color: #d52a33; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></h3><blockquote><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #d52a33; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://churchesofthewest.blogspot.com/2011/01/st-marks-episcopal-church.html" style="color: #d52a33; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration-line: none;">St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Casper Wyoming</a></h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5709194201317936704" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 856px;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Wd9RCHgn75s/TT-tX0MORFI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/HWzgsenosN4/s1600/R1-01448-0017.jpg" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="432" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566358289111729234" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Wd9RCHgn75s/TT-tX0MORFI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/HWzgsenosN4/s640/R1-01448-0017.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Wd9RCHgn75s/TT-tXljDCNI/AAAAAAAAAQs/kNd-p8c2urQ/s1600/R1-01448-0018.jpg" style="color: #d52a33; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" border="0" height="432" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566358285180930258" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Wd9RCHgn75s/TT-tXljDCNI/AAAAAAAAAQs/kNd-p8c2urQ/s640/R1-01448-0018.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>This traditionally styled Episcopal Church includes the office buildings for the church a meeting room, kitchen and a day school, so the interior space used for services is smaller than the large exterior might suggest.<br /><br />The view featured on the bottom photograph could not be seen until recently, as a large house once stood in what is now an open area. The church is across the street from the former St. Anthony's Catholic School, which has moved to a new location across town. The church was built in 1924.</div></blockquote><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5709194201317936704" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 856px;"></div><p>It's stunning to think it was built for $120,000.</p><p>The Douglas Fairbanks film, The Thief of Baghdad, was released.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu-6JjyLw-8Ncg3UNG_3IK-kiMD34KV-5vWGMqU_0pdJgeIWLRZ3z4EkbD0fGDopbUcAjDWiSoVxfIiV_-YY4v2qJNM-qp8CeaXZQyRIOJgNLN79ztqGXkcRQ6hLrYdBDMpfKoirfI1mmuabKKadce-FxDa2_oqrns0EdHja2WiwZKAPxLNT-daYF6zBc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1102" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiu-6JjyLw-8Ncg3UNG_3IK-kiMD34KV-5vWGMqU_0pdJgeIWLRZ3z4EkbD0fGDopbUcAjDWiSoVxfIiV_-YY4v2qJNM-qp8CeaXZQyRIOJgNLN79ztqGXkcRQ6hLrYdBDMpfKoirfI1mmuabKKadce-FxDa2_oqrns0EdHja2WiwZKAPxLNT-daYF6zBc=s16000" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Alice Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, was caught by the paparazzi on the streets of Washington D.C.<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8hXah1SvOQC0tpmXrCGU8dpPgjZKrCjakfZoWS9kwQXCwdV2kmgcqKQoO0fGjRZWBAD6RC4Z1CNVyc80sr9Te5a16s7wRQlJ0lNUpwK2OBeV_NnzUfvBgMCqU5GT_64ETcD_Ay1fHcdnqCbU2X88JABb5dRkmcFGbEKdrAUpAD1RWX0GBTPmsxyS0dHc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="744" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8hXah1SvOQC0tpmXrCGU8dpPgjZKrCjakfZoWS9kwQXCwdV2kmgcqKQoO0fGjRZWBAD6RC4Z1CNVyc80sr9Te5a16s7wRQlJ0lNUpwK2OBeV_NnzUfvBgMCqU5GT_64ETcD_Ay1fHcdnqCbU2X88JABb5dRkmcFGbEKdrAUpAD1RWX0GBTPmsxyS0dHc=s16000" /></a></div><br /><br /></div>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-41971885738569004702024-03-18T00:32:00.001-06:002024-03-18T00:32:00.133-06:00Wednesday, March 18, 1914. "Among the things that Wyoming may be thankful is that it is not on the borderland of barbarous Mexico". Enduring jingoism.<p>British Wilson, border news?</p><p>Wilson was in fact an anglophile, but his government certainly wasn't dominated by the British.</p><p>And Mexico barbarous?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Some old headlines are oddly contemporary, as are some jingoistic views, we have to say. This almost sounds like a Trump rally, as over the weekend he declared that some migrants aren't human.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6hP5I-7r8PUSrCitkZTFH2WoAj6hwzosamOCKDyYbRWxswmpg2GMi8kWX-gbEd-HqMbHCmx24ze0TZTHBE4LTH7m8XzImIaaYai3HgKwEl1gorjWkkufbPgTsBsGSZ6EkjsgxLNBYvZbrJkpeoH1EE_rc6h0my637yY3uEuxMRgBLlTJY-XhYwoi0-PY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1881" data-original-width="1412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6hP5I-7r8PUSrCitkZTFH2WoAj6hwzosamOCKDyYbRWxswmpg2GMi8kWX-gbEd-HqMbHCmx24ze0TZTHBE4LTH7m8XzImIaaYai3HgKwEl1gorjWkkufbPgTsBsGSZ6EkjsgxLNBYvZbrJkpeoH1EE_rc6h0my637yY3uEuxMRgBLlTJY-XhYwoi0-PY=s16000" /></a></div><br />Barbarous?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Is the cigarette ad a football helmet, or a pilot's helmet?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXennVvchSGj8q558WZPfGx1VNakQ_Zz_5trU7-IvbnDl1q55-XPZTNhRUzc3PegSwSI3cPj5Q6Fzs6fZdSc8jESwtBHWUbvoY036ssVSRNIHixD3yr2P4oREjpIq09FZzrSvPcMsu1vs4Gt5OuKZNgVAUhBcVWGh4oOuXK0752zLNIEvZab0nG8rXSPM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1912" data-original-width="1444" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXennVvchSGj8q558WZPfGx1VNakQ_Zz_5trU7-IvbnDl1q55-XPZTNhRUzc3PegSwSI3cPj5Q6Fzs6fZdSc8jESwtBHWUbvoY036ssVSRNIHixD3yr2P4oREjpIq09FZzrSvPcMsu1vs4Gt5OuKZNgVAUhBcVWGh4oOuXK0752zLNIEvZab0nG8rXSPM=s16000" /></a></div><br />And the brown bottle thing is correct:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEib1cU_riaZpYfv7P9KyclsMnAWU8OdSmnR-naz8lqALlanmmKtreiF86SQn7ouxHpLJfRaT5gV-Kw8tvtOgBe0Zu_q0cWVuUo2EtLj7v-xGXfH2a0D8OhHJRfBLjKBoDciMR6QMZmoXHcuSSfRWf_9Nbq0zoSRiaxzpEtBRqssQ1U75VQJs_kqMEJ4HwU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1917" data-original-width="1455" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEib1cU_riaZpYfv7P9KyclsMnAWU8OdSmnR-naz8lqALlanmmKtreiF86SQn7ouxHpLJfRaT5gV-Kw8tvtOgBe0Zu_q0cWVuUo2EtLj7v-xGXfH2a0D8OhHJRfBLjKBoDciMR6QMZmoXHcuSSfRWf_9Nbq0zoSRiaxzpEtBRqssQ1U75VQJs_kqMEJ4HwU=s16000" /></a></div><br />The Boomerang was less dramatic, but it did have an interesting item on pipe smoking at a St. Patrick's Day party.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieA6ioRdGor47wdsRx07c2CGoOP3Fu0pk27ie98U16OG1vDOGHp9FK7yzTCD76Op0E_MPdaVoQt8pr_Jz-sAcFT_eXkawhXDoxZx5nQnBLyQ0EYEbmBsjBoDpcrpKWf2Sfl-1FfMCKB6VMg5LK5sN3Eq7JgZbMaqzwPKEHw_vQ8-e6WBWpnKFUCpJGWSk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1922" data-original-width="1493" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieA6ioRdGor47wdsRx07c2CGoOP3Fu0pk27ie98U16OG1vDOGHp9FK7yzTCD76Op0E_MPdaVoQt8pr_Jz-sAcFT_eXkawhXDoxZx5nQnBLyQ0EYEbmBsjBoDpcrpKWf2Sfl-1FfMCKB6VMg5LK5sN3Eq7JgZbMaqzwPKEHw_vQ8-e6WBWpnKFUCpJGWSk=s16000" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrxhTNn1pTYRN0h_jPG4uH5k0RHu8W3Nn0HD2W_8rvI-lS3NE0hHkdFa6QWF4nKNiD5QjJV9buSApY5O14toaGMyygn1UP4w2Lbn65FjZ09jfPEd-fzGbOYPveYzQ5LUvzdwih0FgpH0m2ZQZ-MBHYdqqN_L3E4LArrBpRS4S3taPR00FHGBHf9GSUwqE" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Tragedies.<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/03/march-18.html?spref=bl">Today In Wyoming's History: March 18</a>: </span><span style="background-color: #141414; color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1909. Guernsey hotel keeper John "Posey" Ryan murdered his estranged wife, and her daughter, in the Palmer Restaurant in Cheyenne. From WyoHistory.org.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"> </span></span><div><br /></div><div>In other horrifying Cheyenne news:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWrRy4FDLakiQPJxSoWr4Wu-CN_T4wUUfc0PqVNgcTM2DUWwrLNoiZjgNFBFVEk89zwwoTuvOLDIS0p7T8iQsvv5Gia3YL-txVT9oG9CvODoytpLKZwPOpDxTgbxdg1dyrpqYPJ-gOLmUeW6O9hKTNpqGZExAcdpBIFQaEA4DJpuKfJ0V1GjResWc_XVY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1957" data-original-width="1316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWrRy4FDLakiQPJxSoWr4Wu-CN_T4wUUfc0PqVNgcTM2DUWwrLNoiZjgNFBFVEk89zwwoTuvOLDIS0p7T8iQsvv5Gia3YL-txVT9oG9CvODoytpLKZwPOpDxTgbxdg1dyrpqYPJ-gOLmUeW6O9hKTNpqGZExAcdpBIFQaEA4DJpuKfJ0V1GjResWc_XVY=s16000" /></a></div><br />In Denmark, Einar Dessau spoke over the radio to a government post six miles distant, becoming the first person to speak over the radio.</div><div><br /></div><div>I can, on good days, speak well over three times that distance on my GMRS radio, or on bad ones, about half that.</div><div><br /></div><div>Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., the fourth child of Franklin and Elanor Roosevelt, was born. He died eight months later on November 8, 1909. Five years later the Roosevelt's would name their fifth child the same name. He would live until 1988. His son also named Franklin remains with us to this day.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a19000/6a19000/6a19037r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="2048" height="364" src="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a19000/6a19000/6a19037r.jpg" width="2048" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tampa waterfront, March 18, 1909.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a19000/6a19000/6a19027r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="2048" height="359" src="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a19000/6a19000/6a19027r.jpg" width="2048" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tampa, March 18, 1909.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a19000/6a19000/6a19096r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="2048" height="380" src="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a19000/6a19000/6a19096r.jpg" width="2048" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a03000/6a03500/6a03597r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="1442" height="420" src="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a03000/6a03500/6a03597r.jpg" width="1442" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a03000/6a03600/6a03603r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="1449" height="420" src="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a03000/6a03600/6a03603r.jpg" width="1449" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a03000/6a03500/6a03544r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="1898" height="420" src="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a03000/6a03500/6a03544r.jpg" width="1898" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a03000/6a03500/6a03582r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="1728" height="420" src="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a03000/6a03500/6a03582r.jpg" width="1728" /></a></div><span style="text-align: center;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a03000/6a03500/6a03590r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="1671" height="420" src="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a03000/6a03500/6a03590r.jpg" width="1671" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a03000/6a03600/6a03610r.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="1451" height="420" src="https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/pan/6a03000/6a03600/6a03610r.jpg" width="1451" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Savanah, Georgia, March 18, 1909.</div></span>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-58412187365916588102024-03-18T00:30:00.002-06:002024-03-18T00:30:00.135-06:00Friday, March 18, 1774. Lord North goofs.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLu2yT1-IJ9Ii5m0HAfEtHvTNCvtCzNgBUqtY73wmXVMVywy6WyV0pvzC4oZbxRxJ8Z9CHJ6a0-7SgRAYpxD7lnSQ2-z4_Ogldrgd0j30xc1rKJpM9I6RR7IvUIrkzIulxd5HXazjV48hg2WJg5r520rJBT4XHDgNmi8iKltfs8zkn1Q8brC45IVc_8DY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1016" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLu2yT1-IJ9Ii5m0HAfEtHvTNCvtCzNgBUqtY73wmXVMVywy6WyV0pvzC4oZbxRxJ8Z9CHJ6a0-7SgRAYpxD7lnSQ2-z4_Ogldrgd0j30xc1rKJpM9I6RR7IvUIrkzIulxd5HXazjV48hg2WJg5r520rJBT4XHDgNmi8iKltfs8zkn1Q8brC45IVc_8DY=w504-h640" width="504" /></a></div><br />Lord Frederick North introduced the Boston Port Act to the House of Commons. The proposed act stated:<p></p><p></p><blockquote><p>Parliament of Great Britain</p><p>Anno Decimo Quarto Georgii III. Regis.</p><p>An Act to discontinue in such Manner, and for such Time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, at the Town and within the Harbour of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America.</p><p>Whereas dangerous commotions and insurrections have been fomented and raised in the town of Boston, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, by divers ill-affected persons, to the subversion of his Majesty's Government, and to the utter destruction of the public peace, and good order of the said town; in which commotions and insurrections certain valuable cargoes of teas, being the property of the East India Company, and on board certain vessels lying within the bay or harbour of Boston, were seized and destroyed: and whereas in the present condition of the said town and harbour, the commerce of his Majesty's subjects cannot be safely carried on there, nor the Customs payable to his Majesty duly collected; and it is therefore expedient that the officers of his Majesty's Customs should be forthwith removed from the said town; may it please you Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advise and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the first day of June, 1774, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons whatsoever, to lade or put, or cause or procure to be laden or put, off or from any quay, wharf, or other place, within the said town of Boston, or in or upon any part of the shore of the bay, commonly called the Harbour of Boston, between a certain headland or point, called Nahant Point, on the eastern side of the entrance into the said bay, and a certain headland or point called Alderton Point, on the western side of the entrance into the said bay, or in or upon any island, creek, landing place, bank, or other place, within the said bay, or headlands, into any ship, vessel, lighter, boat, or bottom, any goods, wares, or merchandise, whatsoever, to be transported or carried into any other country, province, or place, whatsoever, or into any other part of the said Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England; or to take up, discharge, or lay on land, or cause or procure to be taken up, discharged, or laid on land, within the said town, or in or upon any of the places aforesaid, out of any boat, lighter, ship, vessel, or bottom, any goods, wares, or merchandise, whatsoever, to be brought from any other country, province, or place, or any other part of the said Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England, upon the pain of forfeiture of the said goods, wares, and merchandise, and of the said boat, lighter, ship, vessel, or other bottom, into which the same shall be put, or out of which the same shall be taken, and of the guns, ammunition, tackle, furniture, and stores, in or belonging to the same; and if any such goods, wares, or merchandise, shall within the said town, or in any the places aforesaid, be laden or taken in from the shore into any barge, hoy, lighter, wherry, or boat, to be carried on board any ship or vessel outward bound to any other country or province, or other part of said Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England, or be laden or taken into such barge, hoy, lighter, wherry, or out of any ship or vessel coming and arriving from any other country or province, or other part of the said Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England, such barge, hoy, lighter, wherry, or boat, shall be forfeited and lost.</p><p>And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any wharfinger, or keeper of any wharf, crane, or quay, or their servants, or any of them, shall take up or land, or knowingly suffer to be taken up or landed, or shall ship off, or suffer to be waterborne, at or from any of the aforesaid wharfs, cranes, or quays, any such goods, wares, or merchandise; in every such case, all and every such wharfinger, and keeper of such wharf, crane, or quay, and every person whatsoever who shall be assisting, or otherwise concerned in the shipping or in the loading or putting on board any boat or other vessel, for that purpose, or in the unshipping such goods, wares, and merchandise, or to whose hands the same shall knowingly come after the loading, shipping or unshipping thereof, shall forfeit and lose treble the value thereof, to be computed at the highest price which such sort of goods, wares, and merchandise, shall bear at the place where such offence shall be committed, at the time when the same shall be so committed, together with the vessel and boats, and all the horses, cattle and carriages, whatsoever made use of in the shipping, unshipping, landing, removing, carriage, or conveyance of any of the aforesaid goods, wares, and merchandise.</p><p>And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any ship or vessel shall be moored or lie at anchor, or be seen hovering within the said bay, described and bounded as aforesaid, or within one league from the said bay so described, or the said headlands, or any of the islands lying between or within the same, it shall and may be lawful for any Admiral, Chief Commander, or commissioned officer, of his Majesty's fleet or ships of war, or for any officer of his Majesty's customs, to compel such ship or vessel to depart to some other port or harbour, or to such station as the said officer shall appoint, and to use such force for that purpose as shall be found necessary: and if such ship or vessel shall not depart accordingly, within six hours after notice for that purpose given by such person as aforesaid, such ship or vessel, together with all the goods laden on board thereon, and all the guns, ammunition, tackle and furniture, shall he forfeited and lost, whether bulk shall have been broken or not.</p><p>Provided always, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to any military or other stores for his Majesty's use, or to the ships or vessels whereon the same shall be laden, which shall be commissioned by, and in the immediate pay of, his Majesty, his heirs and successors: nor to any fuel or victual brought coastways from any part of the Continent of America, for the necessary use and sustenance of the inhabitants of the said town of Boston: provided the vessel wherein the same are to be carried, shall be duly furnished with a cocket and let-pass, after having been duly searched by the proper officers of his Majesty's customs at Marblehead, in the port of Salem, in the said Province of Massachusetts Bay; and the same officer of his Majesty's Customs be also put on board the said vessel, who is hereby authorized to go on board, and proceed with the said vessel, together with a sufficient number of persons, properly armed, for his defence, to the said town or harbour of Boston; nor to any ships or vessels which may happen to be within the said harbour of Boston, on or before the the first day of June, 1774, and may have either laden or taken on board, or be there with intent to load or take on board, or to land or discharge any goods, wares, and merchandise, provided the said ships and vessels do depart the said harbour within fourteen days after the first day of June, 1774.</p><p>And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all seizures, penalties, and forfeitures, inflicted by this Act, shall be made and prosecuted by any Admiral, Chief Commander, or commissioned officer, of his Majesty's fleet, or ships of war, or by the officers of his Majesty's Customs, or some of them, or by some other person deputed or authorized, by warrant from the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, for the time being, and by no other person whatsoever; and if any such officer, or other person authorized as aforesaid, shall directly or indirectly, take or receive any bribe or reward, or connive at such lading or unlading, or shall make or commence any collusive seizure, information, or agreement, for that purpose, or shall do any other act whatsoever, whereby the goods, wares, or merchandise, prohibited as aforesaid, shall be suffered to pass either inwards or outwards, or whereby the forfeitures and penalties inflicted by this Act may be evaded, every such offender shall forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds for every such offence, and shall become incapable of any office or employment, civil or military; and every person who shall give, offer, or promise, any such bribe or reward, or shall contract, agree, or treat with, any person, so authorized as aforesaid, to commit any such offence, shall forfeit the sum of fifty pounds.</p><p>And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the forfeitures and penalties inflicted by this Act shall and may be prosecuted, sued for, and recovered, and be divided, paid, and applied, in like manner, as other penalties and forfeitures inflicted by any Act or Acts of Parliament, relating to the trade or revenues of the British Colonies, or Plantations in America, are directed to be prosecuted, sued for, or recovered, divided, paid and applied, by two several Acts of Parliament, the one passed in the fourth year of his present Majesty, intituled "An Act for granting certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America; for continuing, amending, and making perpetual, an Act, passed in the sixth year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the better securing and encouraging trade of his Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America; for applying the produce of such duties, and of the duties to arise by virtue of the said Act, towards defraying the expense of defending, protecting, and securing, the said Colonies and Plantations; for explaining an Act made in the twenty-fifth year of the Reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, An Act for the encouragement of the Greenland and Eastland Trades, and for the better securing the Plantation Trade; and for altering and disallowing several drawbacks on exports from this Kingdom, and more effectually preventing the clandestine conveyance of goods to, and from, the said Colonies and Plantations, and improving and securing the trade between the same and Great Britain;" the other passed in the eighth year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for the more easy and effectual recovery of the penalties and forfeitures inflicted by the Acts of Parliament, relating to the trade or revenues of the British Colonies and Plantations in America."</p><p>And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every charter party bill of loading, and other contract, for consigning, shipping, or carrying any goods, wares, and merchandise, whatsoever, to or from the said town of Boston, or any part of the bay or harbour thereof, described as aforesaid, which have been made or entered into, or which shall be made or entered into, so long as this Act shall remain in full force, relating to any ship which shall arrive at the said town or harbour, after the first day of June, 1774, shall be, and the same an hereby declared to be, utterly void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.</p><p>And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever it shall be made to appear to his Majesty, in his Privy Council, that peace and obedience to the laws shall be so far restored in the said town of Boston, that the trade of Great Britain may be safely carried on there, and his Majesty's customs duly collected, and his Majesty, in his Privy Council, shall adjudge the same to be true, it shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, by Proclamation, or Order of Council, to assign and appoint the extent, bounds and limits, of the port or harbour of Boston, and of every creek or haven within the same, or in the islands within the precinct thereof; and also to assign and appoint such and so many open places, quays, and wharfs, within the said harbour, creeks, havens, and islands, for the landing, discharging, lading, and shipping of goods, as his Majesty, his heirs, or successors, shall judge necessary and expedient; and also to appoint such and so many officers of the Customs therein, as his Majesty shall think fit; after which it shall be lawful for any person or persons to lade or put off from, or to discharge and land upon, such wharfs, quays, and places, so appointed, within the said harbour, and none other, any goods, wares, and merchandise, whatsoever.</p><p>Provided always, That if any goods, wares or merchandise, shall be laden or put off from, or discharged or landed upon, any other place than the quays, wharfs, or places, so to be appointed, the same, together with the ships, boats, and other vessels employed therein, and the horses, or other cattle and carriages used to convey the same, and the person or persons concerned or assisting therein, or to whose hands the same shall knowingly come, shall suffer all the forfeitures and penalties imposed by this or any other Act on the illegal shipping or landing of goods.</p><p>Provided also, And it is hereby declared and enacted, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed, to enable his Majesty to appoint such port, harbour, creeks, quays, wharfs, places, or officers, in the said town of Boston, or in the said bay or islands, until it shall sufficiently appear to his Majesty, that full satisfaction hath been made by or on behalf of the inhabitants of the said town of Boston, to the United Company of merchants of England, trading to the East Indies, for the damages sustained by the said Company, bv the destruction of their goods sent to the said town of Boston, on board certain ships or vessels, as aforesaid; and until it shall be certified to his Majesty, in Council, by the Governor, or Lieutenant Governor, of the said Province, that reasonable satisfaction hath been made to the officers of his Majesty's Revenue and others, who suffered by the riots and insurrections above mentioned, in the months of November and December, in the year 1773, and in the month of January, in the year 1774.</p><p>And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That if any action or suit shall be commenced, either in Great Britain or America, against any person or persons, for any thing done in pursuance of this Act of Parliament, the defendant or defendants, in such action or suits, may plead the general issue, and give the said Act, and the special matter in evidence, at any trial to be had thereupon, and that the same was done in pursuance and by the authority of this Act; and if it shall appear so to have been done, the jury shall find for the defendant or defendants; and if the plaintiff shall be nonsuited, or discontinue his action, after the defendant or defendants shall have appeared; or if judgment shall be given upon any verdict or demurrer against the plaintiff, the defendant or defendants shall recover treble costs, and have the like remedy for the same as defendents have in other cases by law.</p></blockquote><p>It would pass on the 25th, and help propel the Colonies into war against the United Kingdom. </p><p></p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-55448713578823690082024-03-18T00:00:00.005-06:002024-03-18T03:39:33.791-06:002024 Elections In Other Countries.<p><b><i>Taiwan</i></b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoOoUhCQB6LfZY7c8TsAWFnRISgy66xTZJpj4D-qaD6bnnDY1c45dGfPrbARsNDAMzmv7QaNPNh8_2g3ndC-_qPjud1wAahKMUsbsxSYtL0aSltT7dzF3j9OOBMTtZGxMpIwg0TNrKZXRhstq8MVxln1eiGorG-nlGxDjKD9Fr5HwJh5x820XR2ScCjB8/s442/flag.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="442" height="423" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoOoUhCQB6LfZY7c8TsAWFnRISgy66xTZJpj4D-qaD6bnnDY1c45dGfPrbARsNDAMzmv7QaNPNh8_2g3ndC-_qPjud1wAahKMUsbsxSYtL0aSltT7dzF3j9OOBMTtZGxMpIwg0TNrKZXRhstq8MVxln1eiGorG-nlGxDjKD9Fr5HwJh5x820XR2ScCjB8/w632-h423/flag.jpg" width="632" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div>Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party returned an historic third Presidential victory in a blow to the People's Republic of China.<p></p><p>The party regards Taiwan as de facto independent, which it should be. President Biden, following the election, stated the US didn't support Taiwanese independence, which it very much should.</p><p>January 14, 2024.</p><p><b><i>Hungary</i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYpAf-1KdZRpND5USjdzV6hp7vtJyRfOdH2ceCL4YulDvkujV0Jvj5tNVkBfn3LWPHG2WrWqLgNkHm-NI_RgGPtyjm3R_13OUdYvPfntiwLvNGe_8hae1_TW_wM8Omts56P1omPEmScx09jhnrBm-drjtezMsvt3H8uHftuMEnk0taLouX-y0z4HUagjA/s1920/Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1920" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYpAf-1KdZRpND5USjdzV6hp7vtJyRfOdH2ceCL4YulDvkujV0Jvj5tNVkBfn3LWPHG2WrWqLgNkHm-NI_RgGPtyjm3R_13OUdYvPfntiwLvNGe_8hae1_TW_wM8Omts56P1omPEmScx09jhnrBm-drjtezMsvt3H8uHftuMEnk0taLouX-y0z4HUagjA/w640-h320/Flag_of_Hungary.svg.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The President of Hungary, Katalin Novák, age 46, has resigned due to a scandal involving the pardoning of an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case.</p><p>February 11, 2024.</p><p><b><i>Ireland</i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoD5KoS8VIaGKubVOrqi5DpalZJe_iKkJIn3tP2d1UgWepgIYRUKC3-tTbm9zqGZqeXWDTc1HeSNbl4oUxuqZkVcPWw6gyujzE_gcgUo8dppZYaU2zNuDxbbqFi8mVoRwn6OeGQPdND9lL8nnT40iMHIPIwOKi1ZVEX9M4TJki1ycM1uzJaEgwtfNW2sA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1920" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhoD5KoS8VIaGKubVOrqi5DpalZJe_iKkJIn3tP2d1UgWepgIYRUKC3-tTbm9zqGZqeXWDTc1HeSNbl4oUxuqZkVcPWw6gyujzE_gcgUo8dppZYaU2zNuDxbbqFi8mVoRwn6OeGQPdND9lL8nnT40iMHIPIwOKi1ZVEX9M4TJki1ycM1uzJaEgwtfNW2sA=w640-h320" width="640" /></a></i></b></div><b><i><br /></i></b>I had a post on the Irish referendum to amend its constitution, and was frankly way off <p></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/blog-mirror-on-marriage-family-and.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Blog Mirror: On marriage, family, and the Irish constitutional referendum.</a></h3><p>The referendum failed massively. Actually two proposals, the one that sought to expand the definition of family from a relationship founded on marriage to include other durable relationships, failed 67.7% to 32.3%. The one to replace language surrounding a woman's duties in the home with a clause recognizing the role of family members in the provision of care was rejected 73.9% to 26.1%.</p><p>This deserves its own thread.</p><p>March 10, 2014</p><p><b><i>Russia</i></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgv5w6mOn8eoVPe7Cl3Re93ltOekJmzwN38Q4ROSfGzi9Zth035MVLQHkzhtk-aCrap-lHOvq9ncB1sLf4MuKruE3W1NbOIwEHUpwFkrBrgqnLdJn2btDdSP_x8bYEN_pQB5QCTcLI1yoS9s0IUwDxcCMJmlz8Yc8XAnx2AYEh09_VyShoy1c9CRnxmb0g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgv5w6mOn8eoVPe7Cl3Re93ltOekJmzwN38Q4ROSfGzi9Zth035MVLQHkzhtk-aCrap-lHOvq9ncB1sLf4MuKruE3W1NbOIwEHUpwFkrBrgqnLdJn2btDdSP_x8bYEN_pQB5QCTcLI1yoS9s0IUwDxcCMJmlz8Yc8XAnx2AYEh09_VyShoy1c9CRnxmb0g=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br />Putin. Gee, what a surprise.<p></p><p>March 18, 2024.</p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-67569697447680850492024-03-18T00:00:00.003-06:002024-03-18T00:00:00.152-06:00Monday at the bar. The Fanni Willis Saga<p>FWIW, the profession of law is sufficiently corrupt that questions such as can you have "relations" with your clients, opposing council, and the like, have been debated, and generally the profession has not precluded them, which is therefore to license them.</p><p>All the angst over Willis therefore really doesn't arise in a legal context, but in a public servant context.</p><p>Perhaps it should arise in a legal context, but generally, it doesn't.</p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-10883577454977766862024-03-17T07:09:00.002-06:002024-03-17T16:20:51.836-06:00St. Patrick's Day<a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-obituary.html?spref=bl"></a><p><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8I-TrafOz1jNR_gb32k1jAwgJcW2Sb-fWoAz4Ov1eOfZxkUz0M2TbNFwhFqSrDnX56rlcWaTtI67wqcXyrto3742euwOIqBucqKQcFBXd2g9JXMl8pIMwLZOqFcKC-0pJ9nmon_FaMtxdg2DO84EULeJv007KYhuomS3ZcZgQphkfHmgodNY1KICGIjU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8I-TrafOz1jNR_gb32k1jAwgJcW2Sb-fWoAz4Ov1eOfZxkUz0M2TbNFwhFqSrDnX56rlcWaTtI67wqcXyrto3742euwOIqBucqKQcFBXd2g9JXMl8pIMwLZOqFcKC-0pJ9nmon_FaMtxdg2DO84EULeJv007KYhuomS3ZcZgQphkfHmgodNY1KICGIjU=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">A Celtic cross in a local cemetery, marking the grave of a very Irish, and Irish Catholic, figure.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">Recently I ran this item: </span></p><blockquote><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-obituary.html?spref=bl">Lex Anteinternet: The Obituary</a>: Mira qué bonita era by Julio Romero de Torres, 1895. Depiction of a wake in Spain. I didn't have him as a teacher in high school, but I...</span></blockquote><p><span style="color: #38761d;">One of the things this oituary noted was:</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">"One more St. Patrick’s day craic for you, Dad."</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">That's nice, but what does that mean?</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">From Wikipedia:</span></p><p><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b></b></span></i></p><blockquote><span style="color: #38761d;"><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>Craic</b></i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> (</span><span class="rt-commentedText nowrap" face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-wrap: nowrap;"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa">/<span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span></span>/</span></span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> </span><i title="English pronunciation respelling"><span style="font-size: 12.6px;">KRAK</span></i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">) or </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>crack</b></i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in </span>Ireland<span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">It is often used with the </span>definite article<span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> – </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">the</i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> craic</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">– as in the expression "What's the craic?" (meaning "How are you?" or "What's happening?"). The word has an unusual history; the </span>Scots<span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> and </span>English<span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">crack</i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> was </span>borrowed<span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> into </span>Irish<span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> as </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">craic</i><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> in the mid-20th century and the Irish spelling was then </span>reborrowed<span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> into English.</span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.2px; text-wrap: nowrap;"> </span><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Under either spelling, the term has attracted popularity and significance in Ireland.</span></span></blockquote><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-size: 14px;"></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">A relative who kn3w the decedent well told me that in later years he really got into "being Irish" and had big St. Patrick's Day parties.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">But is that Irish?</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">Not really. That's hosting a party.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">Granted, it's hosting a party in honor of the Saint, sort of. Or perhaps in honor of Ireland, sort of. And there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever. After all, "holidays" comes from "holy days", which were "feasts". There are, by my recollection, some feast days even during Lent, and for that matter, it's often noted, but somewhat debated, that Sundays during Lent aren't technically part of it (although this post isn't on that topic, perhaps I'll address that elsewhere.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">And St. Philip Neri tells us, moreover, "Cheerfulness strengthens the heart and makes us persevere in a good life; wherefore the servant of God ought always to be in good spirits."</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">So, no problem, right?</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">Well, perhaps, as long as we're not missing the point.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">The Irish everywhere honor this day, and some of that involves revelry. Traditionally it was a day that events like Steeple Chases were conducted, sports being closely associated, actually, with religious holidays on the British Isles. But the day is also often marked by the devout going to Mass, and as the recent Irish election shows, the Irish are more deeply Catholic than some recent pundits might suggest.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">Perhaps it might be best, really, to compare the day to the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in North America, which is widely observed by devout Catholics, and not only in Mexican American communities.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">So, I guess, a purely bacchanalian event, which is so common in the US, doesn't really observe the holiday, but something else, and that risks dishonoring the day itself. Beyond that, it's interesting how some in North America become particularly "Irish" on this day, when in fact the root of the day, and the person it honors, would import a different type of conduct entirely to some extent, if that was not appreciated. Indeed, with many, St. Patrick would suggest confession and repentance.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">Am I being too crabby? </span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">Probably, but we strive for authenticity in our lives and desire it. That's so often at war with our own personal desires which often, quite frankly, aren't authentic. Things aren't easy.</span></p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-27908401378053867752024-03-17T07:00:00.001-06:002024-03-17T07:00:00.391-06:00Blog Mirror: Missionary to the Whole World<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #cc6600; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18.2px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://rfrancocsp.blogspot.com/2024/03/missionary-to-whole-world.html" target="_blank">Missionary to the Whole World</a></h3>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-66417639322314120002024-03-17T06:35:00.004-06:002024-03-17T07:43:57.307-06:00Friday, March 17, 1944. Forces of nature.<p><span style="color: #38761d;">St. Patrick's Day fell on a Friday, which means that actual Irish Americans couldn't eat the traditional American Irish meal of corned beef and cabbage, unless a dispensation had been granted by their local bishop. Dispensations were quite common in North America, however.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIRJFNgdwF6ag3SxiV9kwz9RZlDJr1auHqOm0qu5wVeO-_KD16tBamXMII6kgTz-y-H_WriyjybrGM92YyOlCWDgk_wR9Rtq5ef1ybSmOioAnkzsWgax4q_OIHm_bxgmzYFLhMluGoITiOKFVOiTXRKJK2zaY5txRIa7VwCstaHjkVrH3Oz0OJ-BVxjzE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="781" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIRJFNgdwF6ag3SxiV9kwz9RZlDJr1auHqOm0qu5wVeO-_KD16tBamXMII6kgTz-y-H_WriyjybrGM92YyOlCWDgk_wR9Rtq5ef1ybSmOioAnkzsWgax4q_OIHm_bxgmzYFLhMluGoITiOKFVOiTXRKJK2zaY5txRIa7VwCstaHjkVrH3Oz0OJ-BVxjzE=w424-h640" width="424" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">The March 1944 eruption of Vesuvius, by Jack Reinhardt, B-24 tail gunner.</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Mount Vesuvius, not taking a time out for war, erupted, killing 26 Italian civilians and displacing a further 12,000. 88 American aircraft were destroyed.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Fighting continued at Monte Cassino. Regarding that, Sarah Sundin, on her blog, </span><a href="https://www.sarahsundin.com/today-in-world-war-ii-history-mar-17-1944/" style="text-align: left;">Today in World War II History—March 17, 1944</a>; <span style="color: #38761d;">notes that in the town of Cassino, which is often forgotten was parat of the battle, N</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;">ew Zealanders took its western part of town and train stations.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">She also noted in her blog the death of Félix Éboué, Governor-General of French Equatorial Africa, died of a heart attack in Cairo, age 60. He was a native African, the first to rise to such status in the French Empire.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimLVKoTKW6gOnLE9VfuV3qOoQ2BWIsz2o6nOfL9zmwBwEAbXGNvlA0IyKv3vsquCYzpoftFHJtH3G9BHrNpKRf9AhFnfI7zlFF7RtGdGXlbxVwgDez341JnANrwwmU9xkpGHTHJ2EBDhALCmeHiHsLwOSmtBDLmNzuriH25NxBXrVU0oxG-Uc0_z0DsOc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3016" data-original-width="3751" height="515" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimLVKoTKW6gOnLE9VfuV3qOoQ2BWIsz2o6nOfL9zmwBwEAbXGNvlA0IyKv3vsquCYzpoftFHJtH3G9BHrNpKRf9AhFnfI7zlFF7RtGdGXlbxVwgDez341JnANrwwmU9xkpGHTHJ2EBDhALCmeHiHsLwOSmtBDLmNzuriH25NxBXrVU0oxG-Uc0_z0DsOc=w640-h515" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Actor Ray Milland moves through the chow line in the mess hall of the 8th Special Service Co., Espiritu Santo, as the company cooks get a helping hand from Rosita Moreno, left, Latin-American dancer, and Mary Elliot, MGM starlet. March 17, 1944.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDyPMhg8o4u8b97-zmVD_WlvCvrUG5e_hD9gu9ItQ8DprJQMsku1qN4_7OT0eCZlnYFnNXDoWTIHd-sCfYXeD4BZUdO0YSEQ0oMeJeI-Hv_ND8rNdLQ-MY9TLNt1bCZDYgB9Soont9SnBkbzdsEXzyLVKR3kd3pKSIXLqONwRxbhKfJGYOslbCaZyz0nU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2882" data-original-width="3786" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDyPMhg8o4u8b97-zmVD_WlvCvrUG5e_hD9gu9ItQ8DprJQMsku1qN4_7OT0eCZlnYFnNXDoWTIHd-sCfYXeD4BZUdO0YSEQ0oMeJeI-Hv_ND8rNdLQ-MY9TLNt1bCZDYgB9Soont9SnBkbzdsEXzyLVKR3kd3pKSIXLqONwRxbhKfJGYOslbCaZyz0nU=w640-h488" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Ray Milland and two female entertainers of his USO-Camp Shows troupe visit the tent of two members of the 8th Special Service Co., on Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides. March 17, 1944.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitLZ3fB9F55dPHTj7ZhYVEFbI7xZ1TeHKdT7EnwqspWsZ3Z2UVXx_TJjPxD7ehJMLrcZ9VWg1wHzoPMD4Uhe9r_jywFemtrMUtm12cfMCGKKPDIPjI7kVxVR2Gaw_cfZO3egjgtGgKy42FwqU9bS-b3cKSJDPoZu4QFBYrXC4e50jbyjO-i4QzhVDMwAg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2905" data-original-width="3717" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitLZ3fB9F55dPHTj7ZhYVEFbI7xZ1TeHKdT7EnwqspWsZ3Z2UVXx_TJjPxD7ehJMLrcZ9VWg1wHzoPMD4Uhe9r_jywFemtrMUtm12cfMCGKKPDIPjI7kVxVR2Gaw_cfZO3egjgtGgKy42FwqU9bS-b3cKSJDPoZu4QFBYrXC4e50jbyjO-i4QzhVDMwAg=w640-h500" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #38761d;">Bombing run at Bougainville.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d;">The Red Army took Dubno.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d;">The U-801 was sunk by American aircraft and warships in the Atlantic.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Famous photographer Pattie Boyd was born in Taunton, England. She would marry George Harrison and Eric Clapton.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Musician John Sebastian was born in Greenwich Village, New York.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i>Last Prior Edition:</i></b></span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/thursday-march-16-1944-lucky-legs-ii.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Thursday, March 16, 1944. Lucky Legs II</a></h3>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-38540919590562274022024-03-17T06:07:00.001-06:002024-03-17T06:07:46.093-06:00Monday, March 17, 1924 Telephones and grim news.<div><div><span style="color: #38761d;">The first around the world flight attempt was commenced by the United States Army Air Service. The aircraft consisted of four Douglas World Cruisers.</span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSh2q2CTgW73s3UWoIIC56RtxcUTnkK82EDL5yNxS-grQykAzNBXc8fB6EUOj1n6nFjCjqQGiCT2APmil7FMiMp8jg2LBc9lPpKqpKj4vGfCsQ-yBxfTTFKg5JIGb3ydmQEVYz-ApeJWBMM1Tnxd2VQwByJMzeY1oy-aMqwOjmFdyir2jM6Qa1U_zW8gE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="499" data-original-width="640" height="916" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSh2q2CTgW73s3UWoIIC56RtxcUTnkK82EDL5yNxS-grQykAzNBXc8fB6EUOj1n6nFjCjqQGiCT2APmil7FMiMp8jg2LBc9lPpKqpKj4vGfCsQ-yBxfTTFKg5JIGb3ydmQEVYz-ApeJWBMM1Tnxd2VQwByJMzeY1oy-aMqwOjmFdyir2jM6Qa1U_zW8gE=w1175-h916" width="1175" /></a></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></div>The initial leg of the trip was from Santa Monica, California, to Seattle, which was the actual departure point.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTR1u7UT8YK8pg9cwS7yhQs0oMdEkbuAMJpgzzGoJR3Tz1J2DlIEBjggHeS8zZicbn3bgpfxfvkBuTdDOzSQGIeyLzMDXpv9aPVgkTKpErw3QfHsqRQaRHDc6WE2495x5MKbFKySRvuDePet8l-zYxbASNRXCU5DlImEQSebDyJ7zZG7S1e-ArvsCD6CI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1349" data-original-width="2000" height="794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTR1u7UT8YK8pg9cwS7yhQs0oMdEkbuAMJpgzzGoJR3Tz1J2DlIEBjggHeS8zZicbn3bgpfxfvkBuTdDOzSQGIeyLzMDXpv9aPVgkTKpErw3QfHsqRQaRHDc6WE2495x5MKbFKySRvuDePet8l-zYxbASNRXCU5DlImEQSebDyJ7zZG7S1e-ArvsCD6CI=w1176-h794" width="1176" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://wyominghistory.blogspot.com/2012/03/marcch-17.html?spref=bl">Today In Wyoming's History: March 17: St. Patrick's Day</a>: <span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #141414; color: #38761d; text-align: justify;">1924 Work began on a dial telephone system at Guernsey. </span><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;">If Guernsey was getting good news, there was grim news on this St. Patrick's Day for central Wyoming residents.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCeCahOFVDBf9O8nhXQu1F0Hfrr3b9hINEV0mSsrgIqTIHl9AGfnXfFtkEoQYIUCEsNXGXBEnijUn7w95hTL6QBDOw1Tr6VdMFMbFGKiApy4sL8N_y_QWf7oG9c_U7iyg32-7uLqVJA9NSiQD-hPr1PWCKG2Q2kU9tc3gwU-XXvqV71U4ZsdW3NfV56iE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1449" data-original-width="1197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCeCahOFVDBf9O8nhXQu1F0Hfrr3b9hINEV0mSsrgIqTIHl9AGfnXfFtkEoQYIUCEsNXGXBEnijUn7w95hTL6QBDOw1Tr6VdMFMbFGKiApy4sL8N_y_QWf7oG9c_U7iyg32-7uLqVJA9NSiQD-hPr1PWCKG2Q2kU9tc3gwU-XXvqV71U4ZsdW3NfV56iE=s16000" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i>Last prior edition:</i></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/saturday-march-15-1924-passing-symbols.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Saturday, March 15, 1924. Passing symbols and elections.</a></h3></div><div></div>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-39243243372816101442024-03-17T05:43:00.004-06:002024-03-17T05:50:32.842-06:00Wednesday, March 17, 1909. John Redmond appeals to the readers of the Rocky Mountain News.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUI5bmg4d6d67rvr-_SMAXTaa6BOnApexh-kvwLe6hZXfsFXSZ9KV5IplRGnqEikhiQU1CoyUHb58I_RLbh7FT6uam3Aou8Jw3fQ07H-VTsgxSYdUzJ1iLU03NsLuCJakK4t_F7NfLnfAotE6nPmHLgZ2XSpaNg9sPWw4pGTJ0mtLeZWwTWa8lU3z3wns" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="964" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUI5bmg4d6d67rvr-_SMAXTaa6BOnApexh-kvwLe6hZXfsFXSZ9KV5IplRGnqEikhiQU1CoyUHb58I_RLbh7FT6uam3Aou8Jw3fQ07H-VTsgxSYdUzJ1iLU03NsLuCJakK4t_F7NfLnfAotE6nPmHLgZ2XSpaNg9sPWw4pGTJ0mtLeZWwTWa8lU3z3wns=s16000" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">Colorado had a substantial Irish and Irish American population, both of which were represented by my father's grandparents, who at that time lived in Victor, near Leadville. Redmond was a major Irish figure who was working diligently towards Irish self rule, something that would come flying apart due to World War One.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i>Last prior edition:</i></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/tuesda-march-16-1909-serious-congress.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Tuesday, March 16, 1909. A serious Congress.</a></h3>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-85940225584721751782024-03-17T05:26:00.004-06:002024-03-17T05:30:15.518-06:00Tuesday, March 17, 1874. John Younger shot and killed<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0bix-S9Ard4gkBiDPvypWViBcyUgn7c_wSyXobW94OupcxECeUpj2JqJzVzbt268PAyvcl_YauzVZwtczi6pvyoEs9Y5Lmp38zM1jnNuXD3RYhyC4wKIwoXZ5kfgyekqGHPMMNWjcyvaib8i003NSShaDPeRLkvvQlx0zMzhVEUMr6vLLMDKXcssbLAU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="608" data-original-width="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0bix-S9Ard4gkBiDPvypWViBcyUgn7c_wSyXobW94OupcxECeUpj2JqJzVzbt268PAyvcl_YauzVZwtczi6pvyoEs9Y5Lmp38zM1jnNuXD3RYhyC4wKIwoXZ5kfgyekqGHPMMNWjcyvaib8i003NSShaDPeRLkvvQlx0zMzhVEUMr6vLLMDKXcssbLAU=s16000" /></a></div><p><br /></p>John Younger of the James Gang was paid with the wages of sin when he went down in a gun battle when he and Jim Younger ambushed Pinkerton detectives who had asked them for directions. After detaining them, detective Louis Lull drew a hidden pistol and shot John in the neck, Jim killed Deputy Sheriff Edward Daniels, John pursued Lull into the woods and shot him. John Younger then died of his wounds, Lull died three days later.<p></p><p><b><i>Last prior edition:</i></b></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/sunday-march-15-1874-second-treaty-of.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Sunday, March 15, 1874. The Second Treaty of Saigon.</a></h3>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-50191104669245070572024-03-17T05:18:00.007-06:002024-03-17T06:38:29.014-06:00Tuesday, March 17, 1824. Irish in Savannah and Old Glory<p><span style="color: #38761d;">Savannah, Georgia held its first St. Patrick's Day parade on this day in 1824.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">We don't tend to think of the Irish immigrating to the American South, but there were some, although the story is complicated by the conflation of the Irish with the Scots Irish, the latter group actually being a Scottish Protestant population imported by the United Kingdom with the intent to create a sort of Protestant wall in Ulster. The actual Irish were a massively unpopular "race" in the United States at this point in time.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_5oQPsTFIfvRBAQBYcZ7znYh7hLceQUd856aBRF5C6DR2djhetLtAY6TZRwY-0Ju17O8uShlpu_vHJPC98yeVJPRzVs1x_JsGwJZFP3Ma6MXSTyVWKSqsjHMjm_Nf6ElTjanzR3hcReKHWQg5Dg8vK28WbqBBIVLxu5oVCLCwkatG0HIe9LyrQb3gvFw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="288" data-original-width="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_5oQPsTFIfvRBAQBYcZ7znYh7hLceQUd856aBRF5C6DR2djhetLtAY6TZRwY-0Ju17O8uShlpu_vHJPC98yeVJPRzVs1x_JsGwJZFP3Ma6MXSTyVWKSqsjHMjm_Nf6ElTjanzR3hcReKHWQg5Dg8vK28WbqBBIVLxu5oVCLCwkatG0HIe9LyrQb3gvFw=s16000" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;">The original Old Glory.</span></div><p></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">The name "Old Glory" was applied to the U.S. flag for the first time, with that coming from Cpt. William Driver, a commercial captain who received it from his mother and local women of Salem, Massachusetts. The name was applied to the individual flag.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">Driver was an interesting character and had originally gone to sea at age 13 as a cabin boy. On an 1831 expedition to the South Pacific, his ship was the only one out of six that survived the trip, and his ship escorted 65 descendants of the Bounty survivors back to Pitcairn Island. He retired from sailing in 1837 and became a salesman. During the Civil War, he remained loyal to the Union while living in Nashville.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">It remained in his family's possession until 1922, when it was donated to the Smithsonian.</span></p><p><span style="color: #38761d;">The Anglo Dutch Treaty was entered into resolving issues that had arisen due to a prior treaty in 1814.</span></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Last prior:</span></i></b></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/thursday-march-11-1823-bureau-of-indian.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Thursday, March 11, 1824. Bureau of Indian Affairs formed.</a></h3>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-24586411362870937622024-03-17T05:02:00.002-06:002024-03-17T05:02:15.221-06:00Thursday, March 17, 1774The Lyme Tea Party<a href="https://boston1775.blogspot.com/2010/12/lyme-tea-party.html?spref=bl"></a><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Celtic;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2540124574202762417/2458641136287093762"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Boston 1775: The Lyme Tea Party</span></a></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Celtic; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">: Yesterday I suggested that when young people in Lyme,
Connecticut , celebrated Independence Day in 1805 by toasting <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">“</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The Tea Party,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">”</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">
they d...</span></span><span style="font-family: Celtic;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p> </p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-58022084018935243752024-03-17T04:43:00.004-06:002024-03-18T05:33:48.636-06:00The 2024 Election, Part XV. The Disappointing Choices edition.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHxLjAvBO29oc8MIhQSBJa0YoI_s5vcAYQXYj5SGuUNfxZSFIyUdSrodgtpQjdoHH7zj8lDYOyOMRQWTEBAQ8Iisv68ar0tpWgE3SAsbWtM98YcxzYOlE8OHQjpfm7vbyTgO3TRsJM0glJP_naRxiTYt9GBLzPvVR9iO1YYT08jNTBkhXUUc6fpqZrrJ4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1168" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgHxLjAvBO29oc8MIhQSBJa0YoI_s5vcAYQXYj5SGuUNfxZSFIyUdSrodgtpQjdoHH7zj8lDYOyOMRQWTEBAQ8Iisv68ar0tpWgE3SAsbWtM98YcxzYOlE8OHQjpfm7vbyTgO3TRsJM0glJP_naRxiTYt9GBLzPvVR9iO1YYT08jNTBkhXUUc6fpqZrrJ4=w438-h640" width="438" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Edmund Ruffin, whom some candidates on the right sound like this year.</div><br /><p></p><p><b><i>March 17, 2024</i></b></p><p>Donald Trump warned in a speech in Ohio that elections will end and there will be a "bloodbath" if he isn't elected.</p><p>Elections surely will not end if he is not elected, but the bloodbath part is probably worth listening too and will be taken by some as a call to arms.</p><p><b><i>Last Prior Edition:</i></b></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-2024-election-part-xiv-wishful.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">The 2024 Election, Part XIV. Wishful Thinking.</a></h3><p><b><i>Related Posts.</i></b></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/if-you-wonder-what-is-giving-rise-to.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">If you wonder what is giving rise to the strong populist/Christian Nationalist/Naotional Conservatism reaction in some quarters . . .</a></h3>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-11180702446308022852024-03-17T04:22:00.001-06:002024-03-17T04:22:28.037-06:00Wars and Rumors of War, 2024. Part 4. "Maybe I shall find them among the dead."<p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.524px; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"></span></p><blockquote><i>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.</i></blockquote><p></p><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; text-align: justify;">Matthew, Chapter 24.</span></p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Too-hul-hul-sote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are—perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.</i></blockquote><p></p><p>Chief Joseph upon his surrender, 1877.</p><p><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqaO3BXlJz5Oxym43roOV9ubYcCsRLwiMLianQQeFNAStOaliwFaRrpe3dX_R5W77enu_M45rNk2z5Z-1ofZA9y04m7uU7i8zgOHeUO6o1jxG58vSuD44V6HyI4ZwagXAMHqi-hAhQXdPBaobWFynvWXTVgnxzUqQEbF0J4E31GyN0iPD-Hh0tbGZvZE/s1119/Chief_Joseph_by_Edward_Sheriff_Curtis.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1119" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqaO3BXlJz5Oxym43roOV9ubYcCsRLwiMLianQQeFNAStOaliwFaRrpe3dX_R5W77enu_M45rNk2z5Z-1ofZA9y04m7uU7i8zgOHeUO6o1jxG58vSuD44V6HyI4ZwagXAMHqi-hAhQXdPBaobWFynvWXTVgnxzUqQEbF0J4E31GyN0iPD-Hh0tbGZvZE/w458-h640/Chief_Joseph_by_Edward_Sheriff_Curtis.jpg" width="458" /></a></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><p></p><p><b><i>March 6, 2024</i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">Russo Ukrainian War</span></i></b></p></div><p>The Ukrainians sank the Russian patrol ship Sergey Kotov with a drone strike.</p><p>It's clear that Black Sea is not safe for the Russian Navy.</p><p><b><i>March 8, 2024</i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: red;">Hamas Israeli War</span></i></b></p><p>The U.S. is setting up an artificial port on the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid.</p><p><b><i><span style="color: red;">Russo Ukrainian War</span></i></b></p><p>As s direct result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Sweden has entered NATO, ending centuries of neutrality.</p><p><b><i>March 9, 2024</i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Indian/Chinese Border</span></i></b></p><p>Indian is sending an additional 10,000 troops to its border with China.</p><p><b><i>March 10, 2024</i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: red;">Russo Ukrainian War</span></i></b></p><p>Pope Francis stated in an interview with a Swiss journalist:</p><p></p><p></p><blockquote><p>In Ucraina c’è chi chiede il coraggio della resa, della bandiera bianca. Ma altri dicono che così si legittimerebbe il più forte. Cosa pensa?</p><p></p><p>“È un’interpretazione. Ma credo che è più forte chi vede la situazione, chi pensa al popolo, chi ha il coraggio della bandiera bianca, di negoziare. E oggi si può negoziare con l’aiuto delle potenze internazionali. La parola negoziare è una parola coraggiosa. Quando vedi che sei sconfitto, che le cose non vanno, occorre avere il coraggio di negoziare. Hai vergogna, ma con quante morti finirà? Negoziare in tempo, cercare qualche paese che faccia da mediatore. Oggi, per esempio nella guerra in Ucraina, ci sono tanti che vogliono fare da mediatore. La Turchia, si è offerta per questo. E altri. Non abbiate vergogna di negoziare prima che la cosa sia peggiore”.</p><p>Anche lei stesso si è proposto per negoziare?</p><p>“Io sono qui, punto. Ho inviato una lettera agli ebrei di Israele, per riflettere su questa situazione. Il negoziato non è mai una resa. È il coraggio per non portare il paese al suicidio. Gli ucraini, con la storia che hanno, poveretti, gli ucraini al tempo di Stalin quanto hanno sofferto….”.</p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p>Translated:</p><p></p><blockquote><p>In Ukraine there are those who ask for the courage of surrender, of the white flag. But others say that this would legitimize the strongest. What do you think?</p><p>“It's an interpretation. But I believe that those who see the situation, those who think about the people, those who have the courage to raise the white flag and to negotiate are stronger. And today it can be negotiated with the help of international powers. The word negotiate is a courageous word. When you see that you are defeated, that things are not going well, you need to have the courage to negotiate. You are ashamed, but with how many deaths will it end? Negotiate in time, look for some country to act as a mediator. Today, for example in the war in Ukraine, there are many who want to act as mediators. Turkey offered itself for this. And other. Don't be ashamed to negotiate before things get worse.</p><p>Have you also offered to negotiate?</p><p>“I'm here, period. I sent a letter to the Jews of Israel to reflect on this situation. Negotiation is never a surrender. It is the courage not to lead the country to suicide. The Ukrainians, with the history that they have, poor things, the Ukrainians at Stalin's time, how much they suffered...”.</p></blockquote><p>This has been reported, in accurately, as the Pope calling upon the Ukrainians to surrender, which isn't exactly what he said. </p><p>The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was in the US, calling up Congress to free up support for Ukraine.</p><p><b><i><span style="color: red;">Hamas Israeli War</span></i></b></p><p>Israel has built a road bisecting Gaza.</p><p><b><i>March 11, 2024</i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Haiti</span></i></b></p><p>Haiti is in internal turmoil as gangs threaten to topple the government. The US has sent in additional forces to its embassy.</p><p><b><i><span style="color: red;">Russo Ukrainian War</span></i></b></p><p>The Pope's comments of yesterday have brought rebuke.</p><p><b><i>March 12, 2024</i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: red;">Hezbollah v. Israel</span></i></b></p><p>Israel struck Hezbollah targets from the air yesterday.</p><p><b><i>March 13, 2024</i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: red;">Russo Ukrainian War</span></i></b></p><p>The Pentagon is sending $300,000,000 in weapons to Ukraine, but also revealed its $10B overdrawn in replenishing weapons it has sent already.</p><p>Democrats are using the discharge petition process to go around Donald Tump controlled Mike Johnson for funding in the House.</p><p>The All-Russian pro-Ukrainian Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), Freedom of Russia Legion (LSR), and Siberian Battalion a limited cross-border raid into Belgorod and Kursk oblasts yesterday.</p><p>Ukraine hit an oil refinery with drones.</p><p><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Haiti</span></i></b></p><p>Haiti's prime minister resigned. It's largely expected that the gangs that control the capital will play a role in choosing the next government.</p><p><b><i><span style="color: red;">Hamas Israeli War</span></i></b></p><p>Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh presented Hamas’ delusional demands in ceasefire and hostage negotiations in a speech marking the start of Ramadan on March 10. They included a comprehensive ceasefire, the complete withdrawal of the IDF from the Gaza Strip, the complete return of displaced Gazans, and the resolution of humanitarian issues, and ending restrictions on the movement of people and goods out of the Gaza Strip.</p><p>Israel isn't going to agree to that.</p><p><b><i>March 14, 2024</i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: #660000;">Haiti</span></i></b></p><p>Florida is deploying 250 law enforcement officers and an air-and-sea fleet to address a potential wave of Haitian immigrants.</p><p><b><i>March 15, 2024</i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: red;">Russo Ukrainian War</span></i></b></p><p>Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev called for the total elimination of the Ukrainian state and its absorption into the Russian Federation.</p><p><b><i><span style="color: red;">Hamas Israeli War</span></i></b></p><p>Hamas killed the head of the Palestinian Dughmush clan, claiming it had stolen humanitarian aid and cooperated with Israel. The armed clan vowed to retaliate.</p><p><b><i>March 17, 2024</i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="color: red;">Russo Ukrainian War</span></i></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-PMBpJPiCaVCxXcILS4wSEue0zTYOvv1V8PXxKuHKNBhOXBYPDlX9gA5DHBA3bwJz_DF1MB8BEv0NxKvzqbYE_-iED77VB92guYhPaYSIwA6AC3HFFvnCWaCOceiG5rTvqXB5RaxuPH8AXJFVX3n4iDJECsU2zkLMWWqXqotGxFoNClIblPO0KOkk8iI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="900" data-original-width="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-PMBpJPiCaVCxXcILS4wSEue0zTYOvv1V8PXxKuHKNBhOXBYPDlX9gA5DHBA3bwJz_DF1MB8BEv0NxKvzqbYE_-iED77VB92guYhPaYSIwA6AC3HFFvnCWaCOceiG5rTvqXB5RaxuPH8AXJFVX3n4iDJECsU2zkLMWWqXqotGxFoNClIblPO0KOkk8iI=s16000" /></a></div><br />Russian rebels in Ukrainian service have been conducting cross border strikes while Russia is conducting an election whose results are basically preordained. The raids have been fairly successful.<p></p><p>The Ukrainian State Security Service (SBU) conducted a series of successful drone strikes against Russian oil refineries in Samara Oblast.</p><p></p><p></p><p><b><i>Last Edition:</i></b></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/02/wars-and-rumors-of-war-2024-part-3.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Wars and Rumors of War, 2024. Part 3. The Putin's Cheerleaders Edition.</a></h3>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-78106492700654525792024-03-17T00:00:00.009-06:002024-03-17T04:50:24.476-06:00Subsidiarity Economics 2024. The times more or less locally, Part I. And then the day arrived (part two).<blockquote style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"><i>Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.</i></blockquote><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;">Dave Freudenthal, former Governor of Wyoming/</p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; text-align: center;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/7MWB51QcWoc?si=Alu59mW4pzOUDYAh" width="480"></iframe></p><p><b><i>January 2, 2024</i></b></p><p>The Energy Information Administration’s Short Term Energy Outlook Report states that combined generation from wind and solar will overtake generation from coal by more than 90 billion kilowatt-hours this year.</p><p>US coal production will drop to its lowest amount since the 1960s, with it taking more miners per ton to produce in the 60s than it does now.</p><p>Pennsylvania's Flying Fish Brewing Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.</p><p><b><i>January 11, 2024</i></b></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h1 class="pw-post-title fp fq fr be fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="177b" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;"><a href="https://medium.com/civic-skunk-works/america-got-a-raise-in-2023-012c5c9e9482" target="_blank">America Got a Raise in 2023</a></h1></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;"><h2 class="pw-subtitle-paragraph go fq fr be b gp gq gr gs gt gu gv gw gx gy gz ha hb hc hd cp dw" data-selectable-paragraph="" id="5f45" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #6b6b6b; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0.92em 0px 24px;"><a href="https://medium.com/civic-skunk-works/america-got-a-raise-in-2023-012c5c9e9482" target="_blank">The Pitch: Economic Update for January 11th, 2024</a></h2></div><p><b><i>January 17, 2024</i></b></p><p>From the Trib:</p><div class="lee-article-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">According to a report put out by the Wyoming State Geological Survey this month, the state’s oil production has not yet surpassed its 2019 high, while nationwide oil production has surpassed pre-pandemic levels.</p></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">More than 95 million barrels of oil are expected to be produced in Wyoming in 2023, which is about 3 million more barrels than in 2022. The drilling of new oil wells has helped greatly.</p></div><div class="hidden-print" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px;"></div><div class="lee-article-text" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 760px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.7em; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">In the first half of 2023, a total of 110 newly drilled oil wells were completed, most of them in the Powder River Basin. This is in line with the first half of 2022, when 118 oil wells were completed.</p></div><p><b><i>January 22, 2024</i></b></p><p>Flying Fish Brewing has declared bankruptcy.</p><p><b><i>January 23, 2024</i></b></p><p></p><blockquote><a href="https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20240117208/the-us-is-breaking-oil-production-records-with-fewer-drilling-rigs-heres-how" target="_blank">U.S. oil production has been holding at or near record highs since October, topping the previous peak from 2020, even though the number of active domestic oil drilling rigs is down by nearly 30% from four years ago.</a></blockquote><p></p><p>New technology is the reason why there is higher production with fewer rigs.</p><p>And also:</p><p></p><blockquote><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2023/12/15/us-producers-have-broken-the-annual-oil-production-record/?sh=b240cce6cc67" target="_blank">The U.S. set a new annual oil production record on December 15, based on data from the Energy Information Administration. Although the official monthly numbers from the EIA won’t be released for a couple of months, we can calculate that a new record has been set based on the following analysis.</a></blockquote><p></p><p>Prices at the pump have been declining.</p><p><b><i>January 25, 2024</i></b></p><p>In spite of repeated Republican declarations about how bad the economy is doing, the economy grew 4.9% in the third quarter of 2023, for which the latest figures are out. This grossly exceeds expectations.</p><p>This is interesting for a lot of reasons, one of which the "bad economy" is a consistent theme of Republicans in the current election cycle, when in fact this is a classic "good economy". It's frankly bizarre.</p><p>Some of that might reflect, however, an ongoing retention of a return to the 1945-1975 economy by Rust Belt voters, and anxiety over an inevitable decline in the fossil fuel economy in the West. The post-war economy is of course never returning, and the change in the direction in the energy economy cannot be arrested, although it too is doing well right now.</p><p><b><i>January 28, 2024</i></b></p><p>The Administration plans on providing billions for microchip subsidies for US producers to assure production can be made in the US.</p><p>It's worth noting that with war looming with China, there's more than one reason to do this.</p><p>The Biden Administration has paused all pending export licenses for liquified national gas (LNG) to consider the climate impacts.</p><p><b><i>February 8, 2024</i></b></p><h1 class="post-title unpublished" style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: var(--font_family_headings, var(--font_family_headings_preset, 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol')); font-size: var(--font-size-32); font-weight: var(--font_weight_headings_preset, bold); line-height: var(--line-height-36); margin: 0px; text-align: center;">Getting Wall Street out of our houses</h1><p><b><i>February 10, 2024</i></b></p><p>US Credit Card debt is at an all-time high.</p><h1 class="p8ohjcd p8ohjc2 _16zsq5h2 _16zsq5h1 vbxqml4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c3a4e; font-family: var(--aryb5y3x); line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; max-width: 76vw; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0 var(--aryb5y17); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/02/09/oregon-sheep-expert-important-to-500-million-wyoming-solar-farm/" target="_blank">World's Foremost Authority On Solar Sheep Advising Wyoming $500 Million Solar Farm</a></span></h1><h1 class="pw-post-title fp fq fr be fs ft fu fv fw fx fy fz ga gb gc gd ge gf gg gh gi gj gk gl gm gn bj" data-selectable-paragraph="" data-testid="storyTitle" id="216b" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #242424; font-family: sohne, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: -0.011em; line-height: 52px; margin: 1.19em 0px -0.27em;"><a href="https://medium.com/civic-skunk-works/jobs-jobs-jobs-48d0d40fa781" target="_blank">Jobs, Jobs, Jobs</a></h1><p><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p><b><i>February 11, 2024</i></b></p><p><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwGdFqIX38m3SukCEmbHXjXqP09-Uw8hPf5GZ-EAvDb_g1f9sOWCGRNtW6tgKl6Ri0lwQoskrc33Eoztt-QKQq3lGMJEE2PclFRsRMgV9zR5qaQj4pYGdcRDraqAnOsDIFWdG2rc8gGSh4kHMcRy8m6_ntVdnxFYVE3jFoBSO53c2Xw7DT6uZ696ReM5Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="740" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwGdFqIX38m3SukCEmbHXjXqP09-Uw8hPf5GZ-EAvDb_g1f9sOWCGRNtW6tgKl6Ri0lwQoskrc33Eoztt-QKQq3lGMJEE2PclFRsRMgV9zR5qaQj4pYGdcRDraqAnOsDIFWdG2rc8gGSh4kHMcRy8m6_ntVdnxFYVE3jFoBSO53c2Xw7DT6uZ696ReM5Q=w461-h640" width="461" /></a></i></b></div><b><i><br /></i></b>It is estimated that over 10% of Canadian craft brewers will close this year.<div><br /></div><div><b><i>February 13, 2024</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>The city of Gillette and BWXT have agreed to work together to look at the possibility of having nuclear facilities and operations in Gillette </div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>February 15, 2024</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>While this should be no surprise, given what we earlier reported here:</div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2018/04/remington-arms-manufacturing-companys.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Remington Arms Manufacturing Company's bankruptcy. A Distributist Economic Lesson and a National Tragedy. And Chrysler Too.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Remington, in its new form, will close its facilities in Ilion, New York, in March.</div><div><br /></div><div>Colorado has filed suit to stop the Kroger Albertson's merger.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>February 21, 2024</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Japan's Nikkei stock index soared to an all-time high.</div><div><br /></div><div>Rivian, the electric truck maker, is laying off 10% of its salaried staff.</div><div><br /></div><div>This will cause piles of cackling from those who are convinced electric vehicles, which have taken off, will never take off. Rivian was an automotive start-up, something that's really tough to do. Basically, their business model depended on getting into the saturated truck market before other maker went to electric, a real gamble.</div><div><br /></div><div><p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wyoming Gets a Big Win in Court for Coal </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">CHEYENNE, Wyo. –</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wyoming’s coal industry’s earned a
long-awaited legal win today, as three Ninth Circuit judges unanimously sided
with Wyoming’s arguments in support of the continuation of the federal
coal-leasing program. The decision vacated a lower court order that reinstated
Obama-era coal-leasing restrictions and required federal officials to perform
duplicative National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">“This ruling is an unequivocal win for our coal industry and a
reminder that the Biden Administration has to follow the law,” Governor Mark
Gordon said. “The Department of Interior now has one less excuse to thwart its
federal coal leasing responsibilities. I appreciate the Attorney General and
her staff for their excellent work on this case.” </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The complicated case spanned seven years and involved conflicting
orders issued by former Interior Secretaries, in which Secretary Jewel issued
an order to cease federal coal leasing and conduct a Programmatic Environmental
Statement on the entire coal leasing program. Before that review was complete,
Secretary Zinke rescinded the Jewel Order so coal leasing could resume; lastly
Secretary Haaland rescinded the Zinke order. The district court ruled that the
Department of the Interior needed to conduct additional NEPA analysis before
resuming coal leasing under its existing authorities. Wyoming argued that
the case was moot, because the Zinke order was rescinded by Secretary Haaland.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Litigation costs for Wyoming were covered by the Federal Natural
Resource Policy Account as directed by Governor Gordon. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">-END-</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p></p><p><b><i>March 15, 2024</i></b></p><p>Nippon Steel proposes to take over U.S. Steel.</p><p><b><i>March 17, 2024</i></b></p><p>Tyson, the giant chicken corporation, announced that it's closing a plant in Iowa in June which will result in 1200 people, 15% of the entire town, losing their jobs. Simultaneously, the company is working with an asylum advocate group to hire 2,500 asylum seekers who are cleared to work elsewhere.</p><p>Um. . . we've been running a series on our companion blog entitled <a href="https://agrarianslament.blogspot.com/search/label/An%20Agrarian%20Manifesto" target="_blank">An Agrarian Manifesto</a>. . . might be worth reading, perhaps particularly these:</p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://agrarianslament.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-sort-of-agrarian-manifesto-whats_0627354293.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">A sort of Agrarian Manifesto. What's wrong with the world (and how to fix it). Part 2. Distributism</a></h3><div><br /></div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://agrarianslament.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-sort-of-agrarian-manifesto-whats_14.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">A sort of Agrarian Manifesto. What's wrong with the world (and how to fix it). Part 5. What would that look like, and why would it fix anything, other than limiting my choices and lightening my wallet? The Distributist Impact</a></h3><p><b><i>Last Prior Edition:</i></b></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2023/12/subsidiarity-economics-times-more-or.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Subsidiarity Economics. The times more or less locally, Part XVI. And then the day arrived.</a></h3><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Recent Related Threads:</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/01/whats-matter-with-wyoming-and-iowa.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">What's the matter with Wyoming (and Iowa)?</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/01/thursday-january-10-1924-soaring-oil.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Thursday, January 10, 1924. Soaring oil prices.</a></h3></div></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2018/04/remington-arms-manufacturing-companys.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Remington Arms Manufacturing Company's bankruptcy. A Distributist Economic Lesson and a National Tragedy. And Chrysler Too.</a></h3></div>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-38980234868022589112024-03-17T00:00:00.007-06:002024-03-17T00:00:00.188-06:00If you wonder what is giving rise to the strong populist/Christian Nationalist/Naotional Conservatism reaction in some quarters . . . <p> it's complete crap like this:</p><h1 class="citation__title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c1d1e; font-family: "Open Sans", icomoon, sans-serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-weight: var(--global-headers-weight); line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0.5rem 0px;"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jomf.12971" target="_blank"><blockquote>Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality</blockquote></a></h1><p>The abstract:</p><p></p><blockquote><p>Abstract</p><p>In this article, I draw upon critical feminist and intersectional frameworks to delineate an overarching orientation to structural oppression and unequal power relations that advantages White heteropatriarchal nuclear families (WHNFs) and marginalizes others as a function of family structure and relationship status. Specifically, I theorize that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy. Marriage fundamentalism can be understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family. But it is also a hidden or unacknowledged structural mechanism of White heteropatriarchal family supremacy that is essential to the reproduction and maintenance of family inequality in the United States. Through several examples, I demonstrate how—since colonization—marriage fundamentalism has been instantiated through laws, policies, and practices to unduly advantage WHNFs while simultaneously marginalizing Black, Indigenous, immigrant, mother-headed, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) families, among others. I conclude with a call for family scientists to further interrogate how marriage fundamentalism reproduces family inequality in American family life and to work toward its dismantling. A deeper understanding of how these complex and often covert mechanisms of structural oppression operate in family life is needed to disrupt these mechanisms and advance family equality and justice.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Marriage is a human universal. It's not "white", and indeed "white" doesn't really exist either. When people say "white" they mean Western European culture, maybe, or maybe they mean American European culture. Or maybe they just don't know what they mean and are in fact simply reinforcing the language invented for the more recent form of slavery that existed in North American until 1865.</p><p>Anyway you look at it, when you wonder why people go in and vote for Trump, well, stuff like this has an awful lot to do with it.</p><p><br /></p>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-21276888079319917852024-03-16T23:30:00.001-06:002024-03-16T23:30:00.348-06:00The Best Posts of the Week of March 10, 2024.<p>The best posts of the week of March 10, 2024. A week featuring a traditional Wyoming Republican set reacting against more recent, and much more far right, arrivals, the anniversary of a famous photograph, and we continue to imagine we can fix things.</p><p>Ireland surprised.</p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/01/2024-elections-in-other-countries.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">2024 Elections In Other Countries.</a></h3><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/wednesday-march-10-1909-field-gray.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Wednesday, March 10, 1909. Field Gray.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/saturday-march-11-1944-rittmeister.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Saturday, March 11, 1944. Rittmeister Eberhard von Breitenbuch attempts to assassinate Hitler.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/popesplaning.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Popesplaining.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/amen-amen-i-say-to-you-when-you-were.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">The traffic circle.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/thursday-march-12-1914-weird.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Thursday, March 12, 1914. Weird fascinations.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/on-duty-and-other-things.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">On duty and other things.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-grand-old-party-1854-to-2024.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">The Grand Old Party. 1854 to 2024.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-agrarians-lament-sort-of-agrarian_14.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">The Agrarian's Lament: A sort of Agrarian Manifesto. What's wrong with the world (and how to fix it). Part 5. What would that look like, and why would it fix anything, other than limiting my choices and lightening my wallet? The Distributist Impact.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-post-insurrection-part-ix-waiting.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">The Post Insurrection. Part IX. The waiting upon justice edition.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/01/wars-and-rumors-of-war-2024-part-4.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Wars and Rumors of War, 2024. Part 4. "Maybe I shall find them among the dead."</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/monday-march-15-1909-walking.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Monday, March 15, 1909. Walking.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/saturday-march-15-1924-passing-symbols.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Saturday, March 15, 1924. Passing symbols and elections.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-agrarians-lament-sort-of-agrarian_15.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">The Agrarian's Lament: A sort of Agrarian Manifesto. What's wrong with the world (and how to fix it). Part 5a. What would that look like, and why would it fix anything, other than limiting my choices and lightening my wallet? The Distributist Impact. The Professions.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div>Notice began to be taken, in certain GOP quarters, of more recent imports into the state.</div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">The 2024 Wyoming Legislative Session. Part 6. After the Party</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-2024-election-part-xiv-wishful.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">The 2024 Election, Part XIV. Wishful Thinking.</a></h3></div><div><br /></div><div>A famous photograph was taken.</div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/thursday-march-16-1944-lucky-legs-ii.html" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Thursday, March 16, 1944. Lucky Legs II</a></h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #997755; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-42156720448271267" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 1.5; position: relative; width: 952px;"><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZrfgutGGNPUQijloI7i-EeD1sWuul-AoQxLdGVJeNCg7YVrtCyOsvLWeNGT9ab2GQ4DGhPqf-v9MwrWUN_8sUMNCXgm-rbaPRJZk4l8HMpukaKNXDmovXTu-Wwn8K7nveolJwPMk0eojeMZxdmlYX66DTfG1RgnOe3ZHlfc0EmjITaHD05e-L4OFe2SA" style="color: #cc3300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img data-original-height="2325" data-original-width="3000" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZrfgutGGNPUQijloI7i-EeD1sWuul-AoQxLdGVJeNCg7YVrtCyOsvLWeNGT9ab2GQ4DGhPqf-v9MwrWUN_8sUMNCXgm-rbaPRJZk4l8HMpukaKNXDmovXTu-Wwn8K7nveolJwPMk0eojeMZxdmlYX66DTfG1RgnOe3ZHlfc0EmjITaHD05e-L4OFe2SA=w640-h496" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div></div></div><p><br /></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://agrarianslament.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-sort-of-agrarian-manifesto-whats_0536226424.html" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration-line: none;">A sort of Agrarian Manifesto. What's wrong with the world (and how to fix it). Part 6. Politics</a></h3><p>Last prior edition</p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-best-posts-of-week-of-march-3-2024.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">The Best Posts of the Week of March 3, 2024. Horrendum sabbati</a></h3>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-36877862380751021112024-03-16T04:47:00.002-06:002024-03-16T04:47:16.486-06:00The Agrarian's Lament: A sort of Agrarian Manifesto. What's wrong with the world (and how to fix it). Part 6. Politics<a href="https://agrarianslament.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-sort-of-agrarian-manifesto-whats_0536226424.html?spref=bl">The Agrarian's Lament: A sort of Agrarian Manifesto. What's wrong with th...</a>: <div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://agrarianslament.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-sort-of-agrarian-manifesto-whats_0536226424.html" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration-line: none;">A sort of Agrarian Manifesto. What's wrong with the world (and how to fix it). Part 6. Politics</a></h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #997755; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.88px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6917882475014621733" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; line-height: 1.5; position: relative; width: 905px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6_t5d306lKNqtIEpLpjMsrNI4x9DbEp3LMG89KGy1D4KC83PpqYz0rXvUsgbJKtM2O5fmyLN_1UjQspCtSf9tAO-73sieUNIQLQJtuwB7Nk-RIs06piL70ApRlurRMbG_87V8DMrSJLsVuq4ng-8iU06x2eHyHlD9Pw2KvplhYhpfH5gkJJNR5goELSc" style="color: #cc3300; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img data-original-height="1006" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6_t5d306lKNqtIEpLpjMsrNI4x9DbEp3LMG89KGy1D4KC83PpqYz0rXvUsgbJKtM2O5fmyLN_1UjQspCtSf9tAO-73sieUNIQLQJtuwB7Nk-RIs06piL70ApRlurRMbG_87V8DMrSJLsVuq4ng-8iU06x2eHyHlD9Pw2KvplhYhpfH5gkJJNR5goELSc=w509-h640" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="509" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">James Monroe. </div><p>And, yes, we're still not on to the Agrarian finale in this series. That's because we have one more important topic to consider first.</p><p>Politics.</p><p>If you read distributists' social media, and you probably don't, you'll see that some people have the namby pamby idea that if we all just act locally everything will fall in line. While people should act locally, that's a bunch of crap.</p><p>What these people don't realize is that politically, we're a corporate capitalist society, and we are where we are right now, in large part due to that. Corporations are a creature of the state, not of nature, and exists as a legal fiction because the state says they do. This is deemed, in our imaginations, to be necessarily because, . . . well it is.</p><p>Or rather, it's deemed to be necessary as we believe we need every more consolidation and economies of scale. </p><p>We really don't, and in the end, it serves just itself. We do need some large entities, particularly in manufacturing, which would actually bring us back to the original allowance for corporate structure, which was quite limited. Early in US history, most corporations were banned from being created.</p><p>Legally, they would not need to be banned now, but simply not allowed to form except for actual needs. And when very large, the Theodore Roosevelt proposal that they be treated like public utilities, or alternatively some percentage of their stock or membership would vest in their employees, would result in remedying much of the ills that they've created.</p><p>Likewise, eliminating the absurd idea that they can use their money for influence in politics could and should be addressed.</p><p>Which would require changes in the law.</p><p>And that takes us back to politics.</p><p>Nearly every living American, and Canadian for that matter, would agree that a major portion of the problems their nations face today are ones manufactured by politics. The current economic order, as noted, is politically vested.</p><p>The United States has slid into a political decline of epic proportions, and its noteworthy that this came about after Ronald Reagan attacked and destroyed the post 1932 economic order which provided for an amplified type of American System in which there was, in fact, a great deal of involvement in the economy and the affairs of corporations, as well as a hefty income tax on the wealth following the country's entry into World War Two. It's never been the case, of course, that there was a trouble free political era although interestingly, there was a political era which is recalled as The Era of Good Feelings due to its lack of political strife. </p><p>That era lasted a mere decade, from 1815 to 1825, but it's instructive.</p><p>The Era of Good Feelings came about after the War of 1812, which was a war that not only caused internal strife, but which risked the dissolution of the nation. Following the war the Federalist Party collapsed thereby ending the bitter disputes that had characterized its fights with the more dominant Democratic-Republican Party.. . . . huh. . . </p><p>Anyhow, President James Monroe downplayed partisan affiliation in his nominations, with the ultimate goal of affecting national unity and eliminating political parties altogether.</p><p></p><p>Borrowing a line from the<i> Those Were the Days </i>theme song of <i>All In the Family</i>, "Mister we could use a man like James Monroe again".</p><p>Political parties have had a long and honorable history in politics. They've also had a long and destructive one. Much of their role depends upon the era. In our era, for a variety of reasons, they are now at the hyper destructive level.</p><p>They are, we would note, uniquely subject to the influence of money, and the fringe, which itself is savvy to the influence of money. And money, now matter where it originates from, tends to concentrate uphill if allowed to, and it ultimately tends to disregard the local.</p><p>"All politics is local" is the phrase that's famously attached to U.S. politics, but as early as 1968, according to Andrew Gelman, that's declined, and I agree with his observation. Nowhere is that more evident than Wyoming.</p><p>In Wyoming both the Republican and the Democratic Party used to be focused on matters that were very local, which is why both parties embraced in varying degrees, The Land Ethic, and both parties, in varying degrees, embraced agriculture. It explains why in the politics of the 70s and 80s the major economic driver of the state, the oil and gas industry, actually had much less influence than it does now.</p><p>Things were definitely changing by the 1980s, with money, the love of which is the root of all evil, being a primary driver. Beyond that, however, technology played a role. The consolidation of industry meant that employers once headquartered in Casper, for instance, moved first to Denver, then to Houston, or were even located in Norway. As the love of money is the root of all evil, and the fear of being poor a major personal motivator, concern for much that was local was increasingly lost.</p><p>The increasing broad scope of the economy, moreover, meant that there were economic relocations of people who had very little connection with the land and their state. Today's local Freedom Caucus in the legislature, heavily represented by those whose formative years were out of state, is a primary example in the state. Malevolent politics out of the south and the Rust Belt entered the state and are battled out in our legislature even though they have little to do with local culture, lands or ethics.</p><p>Moreover, since 1968 the Democratic Party has gone increasingly leftward, driven at first by the impacts of the 1960s and then by its left leaning elements. It in turn became anti-democratic, relying on the Supreme Court to force upon the nation unwanted social change, until it suddenly couldn't rely on the Court anymore, at which time it rediscovered democracy. At the same time Southern and Rust Belt Populists, brought into the Republican Party by Ronald Reagan, eventually took it over and are now fanatically devoted to anti-democratic mogul, Donald Trump, whose real values, other than the love of money and a certain sort of female appearance, is unknown, none of which maters to his fanatic base as they apply the Führerprinzip to his imagined wishes and he responds.</p><p><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/02/119th-congress-part-2.html" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">We know, accordingly, have a Congress that's completely incapable of doing anything other than banning TikTok</a>.</p><p>Distributism by design, and Agrarianism by social reference, both apply Catholic Social Teaching, one intentionally and one essentially as it was already doing that before Catholic Social Teaching was defined. As we've discussed elsewhere, Catholic Social Teaching applies the doctrines of Human Dignity, Solidarity and Subsidiarity. Solidarity, as Pope John Paul II describe it <i>In Sollicitudo rei socialis</i>, is not “a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of others. It is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good”. Subsidiarity provides that that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority.</p><p>We are a long ways from all of that, right now.</p><p>Politically, we're in a national political era that is violently opposed to solidarity and subsidiarity. Supposed national issues and imagined remote conspiracies, dreamt up by political parties, swamp real local issues. Global issues, in contract, which require a competent national authority, or even international authority, to deal with, cannot get attention as the masses are distracted by buffoons acting like Howler Monkeys.</p><p>Destroying the parties would serve all of this. And that's a lot easier to do than might be supposed.</p><p>And more difficult.</p><p>Money makes it quite difficult, in fact. But it can be done.</p><p>The easiest way to attack this problem is to remove political parties as quasi official state agencies, which right now the GOP and Democratic Party are. Both parties have secured, in many states, state funded elections which masquerade as "primary elections" but which are actually party elections. There's utterly no reason whatsoever that the State of Wyoming, for example, should fund an internal Republican election, or a Democratic one.</p><p>Primary elections are quite useful, but not in the fashion that most state's have them. A useful example is Alaska's, whose system was recently proposed for Wyoming, but which was not accepted (no surprise). Interestingly, given as the state's two actual political parties right now are the Trumpites and the Republican remnants, this a particularly good, and perhaps uniquely opportune, time to go to this system. And that system disregard party affiliations.</p><p>Basically, in that type of election, the top two vote getters in the primary go on to the general election irrespective of party. There doesn't need to be any voter party affiliation. The public just weeds the number of candidates down.</p><p>That is in fact how the system works here already, and in many places for local elections. But it should be adopted for all elections. If it was, the system would be much different.</p><p>For example, in the last House Race, Harriet Hageman defeated Lynette Grey Bull, taking 132,206 votes to Gray Bull's 47,250. Given the nature of the race, FWIW, Gray Bull did much better than people like to imagine, taking 25% of the vote in an overwhelmingly Republican state. Incumbent Lynn Cheney was knocked out of the race in the primary, being punished for telling the truth about Дональд "The Insurrectionist" Trump. But an interesting thing happens if you look at the GOP primary.</p><p>In that race, Harriet Hageman took 113,079 votes, for 66% of the vote, and Cheney took 49,339, for 29%. Some hard right candidates took the minor balance. Grey Bull won in the primary with just 4,500 votes, however.</p><p>I'd also note here that Distributism in and of itself would have an impact on elections, as it would have a levelling effect on the money aspect of politics. Consider this article by former Speaker of the House Tom Lubnau:</p><h1 class="p8ohjcd p8ohjc2 _16zsq5h2 _16zsq5h1 vbxqml4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c3a4e; font-family: var(--aryb5y3x); line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; max-width: 76vw; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0 var(--aryb5y17); position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/03/13/tom-lubnau-analyzing-anonymous-mailers-attacking-chuck-gray/" style="color: #cc3300; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Tom Lubnau: Analyzing The Anonymous Mailers Attacking Chuck Gray</a></span></h1><div><br /></div><div>A person could ask, I suppose, of how this is an example, but it is.</div><div><br /></div><div>Back to the Gray v. Nethercott race, Ms. Nethercott is a lawyer in a regional law firm. That's not distributist as I'd have it, as I'd provide that firms really ought to be local, as I discussed in yesterday's riveting installment. But it is a regional law firm and depending upon its business model, she's likely responsible for what she brings in individually. Indeed, the claim made during the race that she wanted the job of Secretary of State for a raise income was likely absurd.</div><div><br /></div><div>But the thing here is that Nethercott, as explained by Lubnau, raised a total of $369,933, of which $304,503 were from individual donations. That's a lot to spend for that office, but it was mostly donated by her supporters.</div><div><br /></div><div>In contrast, Jan Charles Gray, Chuck Gray's father donated a total of $700,000 to Chuck Gray’s campaign, Chuck Gray donated $10,000 to his own campaign and others donated $25,994.</div><div><br /></div><div>$700,000 is a shocking amount for that office, but beyond that, what it shows is that Nethercott's supporters vastly out contributed Gray's, except for Gray's father. In a distributist society, it certainly wouldn't be impossible to amass $700,000 in surplus cash for such an endeavor, but it would frankly be much more difficult.</div><div><br /></div><div>To conclude, no political system is going to convert people into saints. But it's hard to whip people into a frenzy who are your friends and neighbors than it does people who are remote. And its harder to serve the interest of money if the money is more widely distributed. Put another way, it's harder to tell 50 small business owners that that Bobo down in Colorado knows what she's talking about, than 50 people who depend on somebody else for a livelihood a myth.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><i>Last prior:</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://agrarianslament.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-sort-of-agrarian-manifesto-whats_01354594440.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">A sort of Agrarian Manifesto. What's wrong with the world (and how to fix it). Part 5a. What would that look like, and why would it fix anything, other than limiting my choices and lightening my wallet? The Distributist Impact. The Professions.</a></h3></div></div></div>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-421567204482712672024-03-16T04:32:00.003-06:002024-03-16T04:40:01.266-06:00Thursday, March 16, 1944. Lucky Legs II<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZrfgutGGNPUQijloI7i-EeD1sWuul-AoQxLdGVJeNCg7YVrtCyOsvLWeNGT9ab2GQ4DGhPqf-v9MwrWUN_8sUMNCXgm-rbaPRJZk4l8HMpukaKNXDmovXTu-Wwn8K7nveolJwPMk0eojeMZxdmlYX66DTfG1RgnOe3ZHlfc0EmjITaHD05e-L4OFe2SA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2325" data-original-width="3000" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZrfgutGGNPUQijloI7i-EeD1sWuul-AoQxLdGVJeNCg7YVrtCyOsvLWeNGT9ab2GQ4DGhPqf-v9MwrWUN_8sUMNCXgm-rbaPRJZk4l8HMpukaKNXDmovXTu-Wwn8K7nveolJwPMk0eojeMZxdmlYX66DTfG1RgnOe3ZHlfc0EmjITaHD05e-L4OFe2SA=w640-h496" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>One of the most iconic photographs of World War Two was taken on this day in 1944, that being a rare combat action photograph. The subject was M4 Sherman supported infantrymen on Bougainville.</p><p>From Sarah Sundin's blog:</p><p><a href="https://www.sarahsundin.com/today-in-world-war-ii-history-mar-16-1944/"></a></p><blockquote><a href="https://www.sarahsundin.com/today-in-world-war-ii-history-mar-16-1944/">Today in World War II History—March 16, 1944</a>: US Air Transport Command begins airlift of 5th Indian Division from Arakan in southern Burma to reinforce besieged Imphal and Kohima in India.</blockquote><p></p><p>The Japanese Indian Ocean Raid ended inconclusively with lackluster results, and Japanese atrocities.</p><p>The Tautoq sank the Shirakumo east of Muroran, Hokkaido.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_byo0YEhZ2YwC3kxHyfZgQIRws5unJ9xYvi-7vJez3xqB5rJ6kCljZhVERRrDHWEIBQ-fKM0xBFj3WjBFYxeRBRKTjLa4tRcWpLBjbm9OTOAeXQofjWPczEkCiweRhnvaAZpyPC2R4yXfdYfJMgPIZKaYtOVnzyhE1XDVq8fFzkDhWg1V1YxRHX3C58U" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="4462" data-original-width="5518" height="517" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_byo0YEhZ2YwC3kxHyfZgQIRws5unJ9xYvi-7vJez3xqB5rJ6kCljZhVERRrDHWEIBQ-fKM0xBFj3WjBFYxeRBRKTjLa4tRcWpLBjbm9OTOAeXQofjWPczEkCiweRhnvaAZpyPC2R4yXfdYfJMgPIZKaYtOVnzyhE1XDVq8fFzkDhWg1V1YxRHX3C58U=w640-h517" width="640" /></a></div>M2HB being fired at Japanese installations on Manus Island, Admiralty Group.<br /><br /></div><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;">US and British aircraft sank the U-392 in the Strait of Gilbralter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">President Roosevelt addressed Finland:</div></span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">March 16, 1944</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>It has always seemed odd to me and to the people of the United States to find Finland a partner of Nazi Germany, fighting side by side with the sworn enemies of our civilization.</div><div><br /></div><div>The Finnish people now have a chance to withdraw from this hateful partnership. The longer they stay at Germany's side the more sorrow and suffering is bound to come to them. I think I can speak for all Americans when I say that we sincerely hope Finland will now take the opportunity to disassociate herself from Germany.</div></div></span></div></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjquAJr2FxuQXMsImkNdk5F8sz_zPCAu7tGJ9FiuSZ_OT1aJZxCnGGXd03QkNOh_SJ2GeTejQq2n03CWREghEGEvIPJnP-MY28_KNpRJyVqEiltJO_9MPPZsSKQnf2vy7QnsDzArITVECqz2ThjTQ_JUUQdWt9-6wgv4l4yaaTleCLe1bC3zaYGnnKI-nQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="785" data-original-width="1920" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjquAJr2FxuQXMsImkNdk5F8sz_zPCAu7tGJ9FiuSZ_OT1aJZxCnGGXd03QkNOh_SJ2GeTejQq2n03CWREghEGEvIPJnP-MY28_KNpRJyVqEiltJO_9MPPZsSKQnf2vy7QnsDzArITVECqz2ThjTQ_JUUQdWt9-6wgv4l4yaaTleCLe1bC3zaYGnnKI-nQ=w640-h262" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the predecessor of NASA, proposed a jet-propelled transonic research airplane be developed, which would leads to the "X" series research airplane projects.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrypZvpAlXkXL8GGEqUrYO-_CH8H14oqrMQs4jMmWQnQk1SA7-lYBRZo8E-1vdbExQPM-_4vMEU5XsIN7TGqcspz9U48tfkBWFEJiduQ4yw3Wb-_h95-FNC0b_fI1qmSfWsQrCHHu87OgWRa8Jr2DiB5C0NgNWcoelMHR5GiXXaavjqTjAsc5gA60L_WY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgrypZvpAlXkXL8GGEqUrYO-_CH8H14oqrMQs4jMmWQnQk1SA7-lYBRZo8E-1vdbExQPM-_4vMEU5XsIN7TGqcspz9U48tfkBWFEJiduQ4yw3Wb-_h95-FNC0b_fI1qmSfWsQrCHHu87OgWRa8Jr2DiB5C0NgNWcoelMHR5GiXXaavjqTjAsc5gA60L_WY=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Bell X-1, which would first fly in 1946.</div><br /><p></p><div><b><i>Last prior:</i></b></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/wednesday-march-15-1944-us-ninth-air.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">Wednesday, March 15, 1944. US Ninth Air Force in England begins pre-invasion tactical missions for Operation Overlord.</a></h3></div>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2540124574202762417.post-78193655294349535642024-03-16T03:30:00.003-06:002024-03-16T04:43:54.224-06:00The 2024 Election, Part XIV. Wishful Thinking.<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/K98icNjdGpA?si=IS0WGICjr2LyCMBW" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K98icNjdGpA/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>February 27, 2024</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Just yesterday, I posted this item by Robert Reich:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/02/blog-mirror-less-than-60-percent-of.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;"><blockquote>Blog Mirror: Less than 60 percent of the vote in South Carolina? Sheesh. Trump continues to do poorly in Republican caucuses and primaries Why is the mainstream media referring to them as “big victories” for Trump?</blockquote></a></h3></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm seeing a lot less of this sort of commentary than I did for a while. At first Democrats would post the "I hope the GOP nominates Trump" as we'll beat him for sure, followed by, next "everyone is ignoring how well Joe Biden is really doing." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Over the last month Trump has cemented his nomination. He will be the GOP nominee. He is ahead in the polls for the Fall.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What Reich notes is correct. There's a very larger number of independents who will not vote for Trump under any circumstances whatsoever. And, added to that, there are an appreciable number of Republicans who feel the same way.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But are there enough of both in swing states?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I really doubt it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A second Trump Presidency is going to be, at best, a very unpleasant and bad thing for the United States. It doesn't speak well for the country right now that somebody like Trump can even pull down a sizable number of votes, let alone be a serious contender for the Oval Office. Whether it's a sign of American decline or will be remembered as a tragic, ignorant era for the US is yet to be seen, but it's not good anyway you look at it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of course, I could be wrong. And odd things are now happening. Republicans are being forced to deal with the real meanings of social conservatism for the first time since the early 1970s, and are proving uncomfortable with it. The behind the scene hopeful backing Trump hope to go a lot, lot further yet, even though the MAGA crowd appears perfectly comfortable with its own vices that real social conservatives would address. Mike Johnson, who saw himself as a would be Moses in this effort, looks instead to be pathetically weak. The abandonment of Ukraine by the MAGA GOP over Donald Trump's bizarre love for Putin is looking pretty bad. There are a lot of things left to occur, but anyway you look at it, we're in the strangest American election to have every occured.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>February 28, 2024</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Biden and Trump won their respective primaries advancing the two tickets Americans want the least for the Fall, assuming that Americans continue to believe the absurdity that both parties shove on them, that nobody can vote for a third party.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">About 13.5% of Democrats joined in a childish protest against Biden over support for Israel in the Middle East, somehow believing that throwing the election to Trump, who can be guaranteed to be a bigger supporter of Israel than Biden, serves their interest. This also is evidence of the strong progressive wing in the party, whose influence drives away moderate Democrats. This shows Biden to be in real trouble, but then, as the song says, the Democrats have decided to "knock on wood".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; text-align: start;"><b><i><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-post-insurrection-part-viii-tangled.html" target="_blank">February 29, 2024</a></i></b></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-post-insurrection-part-viii-tangled.html" target="_blank">A Court in Illinois has ruled that Trump is banned from the Illinois ballot under the 14th Amendment, but stayed her decision until Friday in order to give him time to appeal.</a></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-post-insurrection-part-viii-tangled.html" target="_blank">The United States Supreme Court will take up Trump's immunity appeal, which will further delay his January 6 trial. </a></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; text-align: start;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-post-insurrection-part-viii-tangled.html" target="_blank">At this point, I think it highly unlikely that the January 6 trial will be heard this year, which means that it likely won't be heard until 2028, which is s true injustice.</a></p></div><div style="text-align: left;">Marianne Williamson has unsuspended her campaign, and is back in the Democratic race, where nobody noticed she was running in the first place.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Get a clue, Marianne.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>March 1, 2024</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">On the US Mexico border yesterday, Donald Trump complained about:</div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">People who don't speak languages. We have languages coming in to our country, nobody that speaks those languages. They're truly foreign languages. Nobody speaks them</div></blockquote><p>What?</p><p>I think I know what he means, but this is completely nonsensical. People don't speak the languages? Nobody speaks them? How are they coming here then.</p><p>Something isn't right with Trump.</p><p><b><i>March 3, 2024</i></b></p><p>Trump won the Idaho Caucus and Missouri Caucus and took the delegates from the Michigan Convention.</p><p>At a rally within the last few days, Trump stated:</p><p>"And Putin has so little respect for Obama that he's starting to throw around the nuclear word."</p><p>On this occasion, the crowd actually fell into silence. But here we are again. Trump not being able to recall who he is running against is significant.</p><p><b><i>March 4, 2024</i></b></p><p>Hinging its decision on the idea that the 14th Amendment is not self enacting, the Supreme Court reversed a Colorado Supreme Court decision barring Trump from running.</p><p>And so the disaster continues.</p><p>Trump won North Dakota yesterday.</p><p>He will win Super Tuesday today.</p><p>Haley won Washington, D.C. over the weekend.</p><p>Democrats are now pinning their hopes on the 40% of GOP voters who are opposing Trump in the primaries. That's a forlorn hope.</p><p><b><i>March 5, 2024</i></b></p><p>Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, in her announcement that she is not running for reelection, took Americans to task, stating:</p><p></p><blockquote>Americans still choose to retreat farther to their partisan corners... The only political victories that matter these days are symbolic, attacking your opponents on cable news or social media. Compromise is a dirty word.</blockquote><p>She's right. </p><p><b><i>March 6, 2024</i></b></p><p>Trump won every Super Tuesday primary except for Vermont, which was won by Haley.</p><p>Biden won all the Democratic Super Tuesday states.</p><p><b><i>March 6, 2024</i></b></p><p>Nikki Haley had dropped out of the race.</p><p>Dean Phillips dropped out of the race.</p><p>And so the Republican Party will present with an ancient, strange narcissist who attacked the democratic institutions of the country but who is loved by his right wing base like a bobbysoxer at an Elvis concern, and the Democrats will present with an ancient nice man who has been willing to compromise his beliefs to satiate the left in his party. </p><p>It's the race that most of America doesn't want.</p><p>Assuming both men are alive by the election, which given their ages is not a certainty, it's very unlikely that either will survive the next term of office, making the VP choice more important than ever. We don't know who Trump's VP will be, but that person will have to at least appear as a fawning sycophant. Biden's is, of course, the unliked Kamala Harris.</p><p>And so the nation continues to endure the tragedy of inadequacy that is propelling it to destruction.</p><p><b><i>March 7, 2024</i></b></p><p>Mitch McConnell has endorsed Trump, although in a very lukewarm fashion.</p><p>Nonetheless, it's a disgusting end to his role as the leader of the GOP in the Senate.</p><p>John Barrasso, who has already endorsed Trump, and who is running for reelection, has put his hat in the ring to be McConnell's successor as head of the party in the Senate.</p><p><b><i>March 8, 2024</i></b></p><p>George Santos showed up at the State of the Union Address and is indicating he's running for Congress again.</p><p><b><i>March 12, 2024</i></b></p><p>North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Michael Whatley was chosen by the RNC to serve as the party's new Trump sycophantic head, and Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as co-chair in unanimous votes.</p><p>The Republican Party has died, which makes up my mind in my earlier "shall I stay or shall I go" question I posed here.</p><p>Positions with the RNC are being slashed as the party merges with the Trump campaign organization so that it can more effectively apply the Führerprinzip.</p><p><b><i>March 13, 2024</i></b></p><p>Both ancient candidates now have enough delegates from an ancient and outdated electoral system to make them their party's nominees.</p><p>Which doesn't mean they have to be the choices, even though they will be.</p><p>An ABC News/Ipsos survey found that 59% of Americans view Trump unfavorably while 29% rate him favorably.</p><p>A weird sideshow occured on This Week last weekend when the host repeatedly asked Nancy Mace, who had revealed that she was a rape victim some time ago, why she supports Donald Trump, who has been convicted by a civil jury of having committed rape, although not directly. She never could really answer the question, essentially conceding that she's supporting somebody icky for political expediency, while trying to accuse the questioner of shaming her for being a rape victim.</p><p>She looked like a complete political hack.</p><p>She actually had a point, however, and never really made it. Trump wasn't convicted by a civil jury of rape, but rather sexual abuse. What Carroll claimed Trump did was to force himself on her as he shoved his mouth on hers, yanked her tights down, and penetrated her with his hand and then his penis. That would definitely be rape. The verdict, however, would indicate that the jury thought Trump did something unwelcome, but not necessarily the penetration aspects.</p><p>That leaves enough room for those who support Trump to state that in actuality he wasn't found liable in a civil trial for rape itself, as commonly understood. Mace stumbled into trying to say it, but saying "he didn't rape her he instead forced himself upon her and conducted force groping or something, according to a New York jury" is a pretty poor defense.</p><p>So, in the end, Mace did the very thing she supposedly spoke against, excused a man of a type of sexual violation of a woman and shamed her, at least vicariously, for which she should be ashamed.</p><p><b><i>March 14, 2024</i></b></p><p>No Labels Co-Chairman former North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory, region from that position, using the classic "more time with his family" excuse.</p><p>Colorado Republican Ken Buck is resigning his office this month, which means that Colorado will have to hold a special election to replace him. He was from the Freedom Caucus right but took shots at the expired GOP for conducting unconstitutional impeachment efforts and made it clear that his resignation is due to discuss.</p><p>Lauren Boebert had moved into his district in hopes of keeping her political carpetbaggery going and is upset about the whole thing.</p><p><b><i>March 15, 2024</i></b></p><p>Donald Trump endorsed Barrasso for GOP Senate whip.</p><p>Boebert's problems may be much more complicated than originally thought, according to a Colorado newspaper. She's an incumbent but carpetbagging her way to a new district, Ken Buck's, in hopes of retaining a seat. Colorado's law provides that an election has to be held to fill Buck's seat, which is now scheduled for the same day as Colorado's primary. The party has to pick the candidate and there's rumors that Boebert might not be it.</p><p>Moreover, if she is it, she'll have to resign her current seat in Congress as Colorado's law doesn't allow a person to run for one seat while holding another, apparently.</p><p>Or so some say.</p><p>In the <span style="font-family: UnifrakturMaguntia;">Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Führer</span> category, Nancy Mace, running for a seat from South Carolina, who last week couldn't explain why a woman who is a rape victim is supportering somebody found liable for sexual abuse, took the positio that her primary rival Catherine Templeton should drop out of race now that Trump has endorsed Mace's re-election.</p><p>"To do otherwise would be to oppose the direction our party leader, Donald Trump, has set for us,” Campaign Manager John Mason Long stated.</p><p>An interesting article was published in the Cowboy State Daily by former Wyoming Speaker of the House Tom Lubnau:</p><h1 class="p8ohjcd p8ohjc2 _16zsq5h2 _16zsq5h1 vbxqml4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c3a4e; font-family: var(--aryb5y3x); line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; max-width: 76vw; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0 var(--aryb5y17); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/03/13/tom-lubnau-analyzing-anonymous-mailers-attacking-chuck-gray/" target="_blank">Tom Lubnau: Analyzing The Anonymous Mailers Attacking Chuck Gray</a></span></h1><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">The dollar figure aspect of this is a little shocking.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>March 16, 2024.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Mike Pence will not endorse Donald Trump, which is to Pence's credit. He's one of the few Republicans whith a backbone.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The WEA is mounting a campaign against far right Casper Republican Jeanette Ward.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"><b><i><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank"></a></i></b></p></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"><b><i><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">March 12, 2024</a></i></b></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">The Wyoming Educational Association, in the same issue, ran a full page age against Casper's Jeanette Ward, a member of the Freedom Caucus, which read:</a></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: #c0a154; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc3300;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 1px 1px 5px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="976" data-original-width="961" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVjoZTSYrImj6YN9tQIK9XQ1US20hXFPH7g9eN6JBvmwb4NjvhtEy8BvdJ1fv08KryaMVSD1ISwfnO-CGHx6coZyvosrbYNWWbjin0dDO0iIlCZQ6AiK20Ruv3TpinWykAco9AvOhrg5BK0Volh4Q8g3UcMfJLmvzbxlIMlj4IXOMbF44_UlDaRKhhen0=s16000" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></span></span></div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-size: 13.524px;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">Ward is from Illinois and relocated from there to Wyoming under the far right's persistent mythical belief that Wyoming's conservatism is the same as the Rust Belt's, although their influence in the state is making the latter true.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"><b><i><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">March 13, 2024</a></i></b></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">Ward was the subject of a second major ad in the Trib.</a></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: #c0a154; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc3300;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 1px 1px 5px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="990" data-original-width="973" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj8plKwX1EA2QLxhuCit_groV-dOh9p4rOawYoMK3rPzZjbofIOM21ScauHmyY38y5XO50AMfTYgUs4VZOYjxDxAu3aE6f4O5YaeWHhLWbvA1xid9AJnI6teZXEXHSPR5y8nt6v_0bmJpBVWtHEy_ftwBmtkkxBVD0CjnMP_jx7xeilr5qABc3fmOnyagQ=s16000" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></span></span></div><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank"><br style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-size: 13.524px;">Ward also drew a lengthy letter to the Editor in the Trib. Usually I don't post those, but I will here as this is interesting.</span></a><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">Ward wasting time with culture wars</a></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"></p><blockquote style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"><p><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">Representative Jeanette Ward,</a></p><p><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">House District 57, has been doing a poor job of representing her constituents and listening to their needs. She has voted against numerous bills that would have helped Wyoming citizens and instead wasted valuable time during the legislative session touting culture war issues. House Bill 50, the “What is a Woman” act, is a prime example of this. During a budget session the legislature has 20 days to pass a budget. That is literally the only job that legislators have during the budget session. It takes a 2/3 majority to get a non-budget bill to the floor for debate. Knowing this, Representative Ward introduced a bill that wasted time and resources and was completely unnecessary. That bill rightly died because it failed introduction.</a></p><p><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">This session, she also voted against bills that committees had spent many hours considering during the interim period, which was disrespectful to their work and slowed down the legislative process. She voted against funding the 988 suicide hotline even though Wyoming has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation, literally voting against saving lives. Last session she voted against most of the bills that would have helped families and disadvantaged Wyoming citizens, including Medicare for Moms, which helps low-income women provide for their babies. Fortunately, other legislators understood the issue and the bill passed. Representative Ward is not interested in helping Wyoming’s most vulnerable citizens, she would rather propose bills that are solutions looking for problems.</a></p><p><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">This is not acceptable. House District 57 deserves a legislator who listens to constituents, focuses her time on the budget during a budget session, and understands what genuine issues matter to Wyoming. She is not it. We need someone who has solutions to Wyoming problems, not someone who fans the flames of culture wars. Voters need to remember this on election day.</a></p><p><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">Judy Trohkimoinen,</a></p><p><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">Casper</a></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">This would suggest that perhaps there's a rising effort against Ward, who was endorsed by her predecessor, now Secretary of State Gray, because of her far right views, even though she had next to no connection with the state when she arrived, or people are getting tired of her. </a></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">In some ways, this reflects a rising feature of Wyoming's politics in which the old Party is beginning to react more strongly to the Trump Party.</a></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank"><br /></a></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><i><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">March 16, 2024</a></i></b></span></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank">After a break of one day, the WEA resumbed its advertisements on Jeanette Ward.</a></span></p><p style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></a></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: #c0a154; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc3300;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 1px 1px 5px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-2024-wyoming-legislative-session_12.html" target="_blank"><img data-original-height="981" data-original-width="971" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQ8CDwP1MH9TbkhT7jerN7uQiPOOpV6EHh-KBWGNddxv31GaElCvER9A0nd5EbHzozMWHLXOGgjf3RTPMFvy93BiZ-7VWUn1I-ppUCOHIm_vj8hPTy5p_10_XgJcU636E5fS8j-5oxUzTncRaltDKWk2hMmoDLTpGDZZ-gfxdY6kSJ1XrED1gv0Cs8tfQ=s16000" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">I don'tt know of anyone running against Ward, but given the persistence of the campaign, somebody must be lined up that the WEA, the largest union in the state, supports.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Columnsit Rod Miller of the extremely conservative Cowboy State Daily, even though he's a traditional Wyoming Republican, wrote on the invasion of out of state carpetbagging Republicans.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h1 class="p8ohjcd p8ohjc2 _16zsq5h2 _16zsq5h1 vbxqml4" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c3a4e; font-family: var(--aryb5y3x); line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; max-width: 76vw; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0 var(--aryb5y17); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/03/14/rod-miller-the-invasion-redux/" target="_blank">Rod Miller: The Invasion, Redux</a></span></h1></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Miller isn't the only one concerned:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="_1jzoi7b0 _1brwpeua2 _1brwpeu93 _1brwpeugo _1brwpeu186" role="presentation" style="align-self: stretch; 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line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; max-width: 76vw; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0 var(--aryb5y17); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/03/15/wyoming-legislator-has-just-kind-of-had-it-with-mean-divisive-politics/" target="_blank">State Sen. Schuler Says She's ‘Had It’ With Mean, Divisive Politics In Legislature</a></span></h1></div></section></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">Schuler expressed concern that this was in part due to the recent arrivals.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><i>Last edition:</i></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-2024-election-part-xiii-storms-of.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">The 2024 Election, Part XIII. The storms of never satisfied greed edition.</a></h3><div><br /></div><div>Related threads:</div><div><br /></div><div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://lexanteinternet.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-grand-old-party-1854-to-2024.html" style="color: #ff3300; text-decoration-line: none;">The Grand Old Party. 1854 to 2024.</a></h3></div></div>Pat, Marcus & Alexishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13097254988446524947noreply@blogger.com0