The best posts of the week of February 25, 2024.
Friday, February 25, 1944. Operation Avalanche concludes.
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Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
The best posts of the week of February 25, 2024.
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The best posts of the week of February 18, 2024.
I've traveled it countless times myself, that stretch of highway between Laramie and Ft. Collins.
It's not a great road.
Yesterday, three UW swimmers were killed in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. 287 in northern Colorado. Two more were injured. They were 18, 19, and 21.
In September of 2001, eight members of UW’s cross-country team were killed in a two-vehicle collision south of Laramie on U.S. 287 near Tie Siding.
In September 2010, UW football player Ruben Narcisse, 19, of Miami, Florida, was killed on U.S. 287 six miles south of the Wyoming state line after the driver of the vehicle he was a passenger in fell asleep. That one, I guess, you can't blame on the road.
Seems like something should be done.
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Governor Gordon Issues Statement Following Fatal Car Accident Involving University of Wyoming Swimmers
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon has issued the following statement after learning of a single-vehicle car accident that claimed the lives of three members of the University of Wyoming swim team on Thursday on U.S. 287 in northern Colorado.
“I am heartbroken to learn of the tragic deaths of three University of Wyoming student athletes in a motor vehicle accident on US 287 in Colorado. Jennie and I join the entire university community and all of Wyoming in mourning this loss, and we ask you to keep their families, friends and loved ones close to your hearts during this difficult time.”
The best post of the week of February 11, 2024.
The Vietnamese lunar new year was noted.
The legislature went into a budget session and promptly disposed of a lot of populist bills.
It was a week in which Ukraine, now cutoff from ongoing aid due to "Republicans" in the House holding up aid to a democratic state, under orders of their Putinophile Donald Trump, lost a city, while the "stable genius with a really good brain" claimed New York would be abandoned in the wake of his civil conviction for fraud. It might, or might not, be looked back as the week that put an end to the Trumps as a business entity, and maybe even his campaign for office.
We took a look at illegal immigrants, and who they are.
A Russian opposition leader died in a gulag, one of many opponents of Putin to go to early deaths.
We took a look at a Chinese American pilot.
And we wondered Thai American Senator Tammy Duckworth isn't replacing Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.
I'm not endorsing Duckworth, and I'm sure she has left of center opinions that I have problems with, but there's no earthly way that a guy with contempt for veterans and whose views toward women appears rather, well whatever, could handle a smart, female combat veteran, like Tammy Duckworth.
Trump and his supporters couldn't handle her, and Trump would insult every single veteran, Asian American and woman in the country within 12 hours.
Curious.
The best posts of the week of February 4, 2024.
There was an absurd amount of posts thsi week, but then, in some ways, it was an absurd week.
The Russian online community noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not offer any new information in his interview with American media personality Tucker Carlson and simply repeated longstanding Kremlin talking points about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine for American audiences.
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The best posts of the week of January 28, 2024.
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