Announcement confirming that Trump wine and cider is now stocked at Coast Guard BX's.
Sigh.
Interestingly, just yesterday I heard a Catholic Answers interview of Dr. Andrew Willard Jones on his book The Church Against the State. The interview had a fascinating discussion on sovereignty and subsidiarity, and included a discussion on systems of organizing society, including oligarchy.
Oligarchy is now where we are at.
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The Sheridan Press reported that the Nationalist Army, whom they reported as "regulars", were being rushed to Mongolia to fight the Communists.
That was correct. The U.S. was aiding in that effort through air lifting.
A local brewer that no longer exists advertised in the issue:
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Billy Mitchell's troubles hit the front page.
Beer in Chicago did as well.
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Fawzi al-Qawuqji lead an assault on French security installations in the city of Hama, Syria.
Fawzi al-Qawuqji had started his military career as an Ottoman officer, and then under King Faisal. He thereafter served in the Syrian Legion for the French, before deserting in the Great Syrian Revolt. He served the Saudis after that, and then the Palestinian Cause against the British in the 1930s. He was wounded in the Palestinian uprising and ultimately took refuge in Germany, where he joined the German Army, ending up a prisoner of war of the Soviets. Released in 1947, he made his way back to the Middle East and was appointed the Arab League field commander of the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) in the 1948 Palestine War. His forces ultimately lost control of territory that was to have been Palestinian. He retired to Syria thereafter and died in 1977.
Al-Qawuqui is one of those rare military refigures who had a track record of serving in uniformly losing causes and who not only survived them, but inexplicably continued to receive further commands.
The Soviet Union gave up on restricting the alcohol content of beverages.
Ty Cobb, who was normally a centerfielder, pitched against the St. Louis Browns for one inning. The Browns had George Sisler first baseman pitch for two innings against the Tigers. Non pitchers in the pitching role would not happen again for another 92 years.
The Finnish torpedo boat S2 sank in a storm with the loss of all 53 hands.
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This is a follow-up to something I posted here just the other day, taking the blog away from its comfortable place of depicting courthouses, into the nature of the contemporary practice.
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Here, I'm doing it again.
The CLEs above were on my mind to such an extent, and indeed they still are, that I've discussed them with several other lawyers I know. Turns out some of them are on meds for anxiety. I would never have guessed it.
There's something about this that really disturbs me,. although I don't fault them any one of them a darned bit. Some of them seem to love their careers and are really good at what they do. What bothers me, however, is that we seem to have developed a profession that has to heavily rely upon chemicals just to get by.
Just going back to the earliest of human mind altering chemicals, it's reported that between 21-36% of lawyers engage in problem drinking at hazardous, harmful, or potentially alcohol-dependent levels. That's pretty disturbing, as that's between 1/5th up to a little over 1/3d of all practicing lawyers. Some studies suggest that 36% of Minnesota's lawyers and judges drink at a dangerous level, and if that's not disturbing enough, some studies suggest that 41% of Canadian lawyers do. Around 10% of lawyers have a drug abuse problem, but that probably includes a lot of them who have an alcohol problem.
Not good.
There's really no way to know how many lawyers are on anti anxiety medications. Probably a bunch. It's obviously much, much, better that people dealing with anxiety inducing situations seek medical help than crack open a bottle of Henry McKenna and poor yourself several shots.* It's also better than smoking a joint or whatever else people are doing in the illegal drug categories, although obviously these days marijuana is sort of in a weird still illegal but not enforced much category.**
The laws approach to all of this has been to reach out to lawyers and offer "help". But perhaps what should be obvious, but doesn't seem to be, is the profession itself needs the help. If this percentage of its professionals, including its best and brightest, need chemical help just to get by each day, there's something existentially wrong in the profession. All the CLE's on mindfulness in the world aren't going to fix that.
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*Henry McKenna is an Irish Whiskey named after lawyer and distiller, Henry McKenna.
**Marijuana is still a scheduled illegal drug in Federal law and students imbibing in it can risk admission to their State bars. Likewise this can be true for people seeking a career in law enforcement.
Backed with Soviet money the Cuban Communist Party was founded. It became the Popular Socialist Party in 1939, and merged with Castro's Organizaciones Revolucionarias Integradas in 1961, the two becoming the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965.
The Herald noted a big beer haul, and that dainty ankles were passe.
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In addition to being the birthday of the U.S. Army, and Flag Day, it turns out today is National Bourbon Day.
I'd have a bourbon, but I had a couple of Irish whiskeys last night, so I'll abstain.
The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial was unveiled in France on grounds where the Battle of the Somme had been fought.
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An interesting observation, and a long boring comment by me.
Okay, I don't know if this blog is "family friendly". After all, it covers all sorts of topics including some that are pretty adult, if we take the word "adult" to mean what it is supposed to mean, rather than x-rated. Normally it's fairly serious.
This Zeitgeist addition might not be.
But it is a bit off color. So, off color warning.
As I think I posted awhile back, the Texas Rangers made a goof on this years special baseball hat edition, in which the first letter of the team's city is appears over the logo, so that the hat spelled out "TETAS", or, in Spanish "tits".
Oops.
They quickly clawed it out, but not before some quick fans ordered them. So, this year, at Texas Rangers games, some bold, probably all men (my wife actually stated to me that she wished she'd ordered one) Rangers fans will go to the game wearing "TITS" hats.
Now, I get some feeds on the first page that comes up when I log on that are food related. This is probably as I'll look up wild game recopies. Anyhow, yesterday, there was a story that came up on the front page of Google or Bing or whatever that somebody had introduced breast milk ice-cream. That was so weird that I hit on the news to be confronted with an ice-cream tub depicting a cartoon lactating breast dropping milk and, yes, it's human milk ice-cream.
That's really weird.
I'm not even quite sure how that would be legal. Milk is normally inspected by the USDA if its sold in stores, save for "raw milk" that some people like as they apparently want to risk deadly infections. Added to that, given that I have a somewhat agricultural mind, my immediate thought was "how do you get a sufficient number of lactating women to . . . " at which point you need to quit thinking about such t hings. Still, being familiar with production agriculture, you need a lot of cows . . . and then again, you need to stop thinking about it.
Maybe this is what Trump meant by making America great again. 2025 in the weird Trumpverse is the year of the boob or something.
Or the year of tariffs.
On food:
Coffee was already getting pretty expensive.
Trump, of course, doesn't drink coffee.
Trump is apparently a huge Diet Coke fan. He has a real affinity for junk food, particularly Big Macs. He apparently also likes steaks, but according to one of his cooks, extremely well done, which is an infamnia.
Scotland is apparently pretty concerned on the 10% tariff dumped on the UK as it might impact whiskey consumption.
Scotch is, in my view (I don't like Scotch) expensive anyway. I'm more concerned about Irish whiskey, which will be hit with a 20% tariff by the Mango Mussolini's misguided economic policy.
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A Casper institution:
I used to occasionally order food through the drive through window when I was a sophomore in high school. The cafeteria was being rebuilt at the time.
One of my aunts loved the place. A cousin and I used to take her there for lunch. She's passed, but sometimes we still will eat there.
The Andrew Sisters song Rum and Coca Cola hit the No. 1 position on the Billboard charts. It was a song I recall as my Quebecois mother liked it.
This song was in the nature of cute at the time, but frankly it's about as accidentally imperialist as possible.
When I was 19 years old, which was the drinking age at the time, this was the first mixed drink I ever ordered in a bar, for the reason it was the only one I'd ever heard of. I was out on the town with a group of my high school friends.
In my view, it's awful. I can't stand rum. Frankly, I wish I was like one of my close friends and never developed a taste for alcohol at all. I do like beer.
The SAS launched Operation Cold Comfort in Italy.
German scientists evacuated the Peenemünde Army Research Center.
One of my (Canadian) cousins lives on Peenemünde today. He's a scientist. Much of the Western world outside of the United States is still keen on science, including our recent allies, and or enemies. Now that J.D. Vance has indicated that we intend to crawl in a hole and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist, science stands a chance again.
Scopes monkey trials anyone? American being second rate hick nation anyone?
Speaking of Canadians, who entered World War Two in 1939 when the US was still pretending that it could live on a seperate planet, Canadian troops reached the Rhine along a ten mile front.
They were all volunteers.
If I seem bitter, well yes I'm bitter that a Baby Boomer who is morally reprehensible and a South African whose sorry ass should be kicked back to Johannesburg are wrecking the nation, well yes I am.
And, if he's so nifty, why isn't that South African (who, I'll note, emigrated to Canada and incidnetally didn't have to serve in the, mostly black, South African Army as a result) making piles of cash, and producing piles of children, there?
US troops, who were not all volunteers, launched attacks from Luxembourg and near Saarbrucken.
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Dutch resistance fighter Gabrielle Widner died in Königsberg/Neumark concentration camp from starvation. Unusually, she was a Seventh Day Adventist.
The Italian battleship Conte di Cavour and the unfinished Impero were sunk in Trieste harbor by the RAF.
The British landed at Ru-Ya sought of Myebon, Burma.
The U.S. Navy's Task Force 58 hit Tokyo and Yokohama. That the Japanese home island are fatally exposed is now evident.
Pre invasion bombardments continued at Iwo Jima. Counter battery fire damaged several US ships, including the USS Tennessee.
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Wyoming wise, brewing seems to be the most distributist business going.
Cygnet Brewing Company opened in downtown Casper last night, joining Skull Tree, Oil City Brewing, Gruner Brothers, Frontier Brewing, Mountain Hops, Stahoos, and Bull Horn as Casper breweries, and larger Wyoming regional brewery Black Tooth.
Rent shaming is breaking out in various parts of the country to attack absurdly high rents.
January 9, 2025
President Joe Biden blocked the acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel.
January 10, 2025
BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, is leaving the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative under pressure from Republican politicians, which believes that man made climate change is a fib.
Ironically, Republicans trying to justify the demented ravings o. president elect Donald Trump have stated that we need it for the sea lanes once the ice melts.
The Ski Patrol strike at Park City, Utah, ended after the resort agreed to raise their pay by $2 an hour.
January 18, 2025
TikTok will go dark tomorrow.
Good riddance.
January 21, 2025
If the President does choose to proceed with tariffs on Canada, Canada will respond, and everything is on the table.
Prime Minister Trudeau.
Trump's going to wreck the economy after having not even been in office for a month.
January 28, 2025
Welcome to the Trump Economy:
Columbia refused to accept U.S. military flights carrying Columbian deportees.
I don't blame it for refusing military flights. Would we accept military flights?
So now we're slapping 25%, going to 50%, tariffs on Columbian goods.
27% of US coffee comes from Columbia.
Double digit inflation, here we come.
And runs on coffee? Yep. I'm buying some coffee tomorrow, I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Oh, on that, the price of coffee went up today.
| Coffee | 346.67 | 1.53 | 0.44% | 5.19% | 85.44% | Jan/24 |
January 27, 2025
Columbian amazingly backed down and the tariffs are off.
January 31, 2025
25% tariffs kick on on Canadian and Mexican imports tomorrow.
This is insane.
February 1, 2025
The Insurrectionist signed an executive order imposing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and 10% on China.
This horrible person isn't legally the President now. Congress needs to do something.
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Invoke the 25th Amendment now. Trump is insane.
This is absolutely reprehensible. Trump belonged in prison to start with. Now we'll all pay the price for his not being.'
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Oh, and Mexico too. They're also imposing tariffs.
Thanks MAGA. Great job there.
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