Religion & Rhetoric: The Significance of Religion to the Patriot Cause in the American Revolution

 

Final Air Force review finds M18 pistols ‘safe, reliable’ 

The inspection was ordered after use of the pistols was paused last year following claims of an accidental discharge.

Sunday, September 5, 1976. The Muppet Show.

The Muppet Show premiered, with that premier on the British ITV network.  It was soon syndicated in the US.

A much more in depth look at the event is here:

September 5, 1976: "The Muppet Show" Premieres

Last edition:

Tuesday, August 31, 1976. Alice.

Labels: 1970s, 1974, 1974 at the movies, 1976, Country & Western Music, Economics, Folk Music, Growing up in the 1970s, Mexico, Music, television

The Rural Blog: Wendell Berry, champion of natural places and agra...

The Rural Blog: Wendell Berry, champion of natural places and agra...: Wendell Berry, Kentucky poet, novelist, essayist and farmer, died at his home in Henry County on Monday, Aug. 31. He was a naturalist, staun...

 

Hegseth is stripping the military of talent, money, and morale

Going Feral: Angi Bruce's Resignation As Game and Fish Director Catches Sportsmen By Surprise

Going Feral: Angi Bruce's Resignation As Game and Fish Director...:  A good article getting at some of the things that I've wondered about: Angi Bruce's Resignation As Game and Fish Director Catches S...

Angi Bruce's Resignation As Game and Fish Director Catches Sportsmen By Surprise

 A good article getting at some of the things that I've wondered about:

Angi Bruce's Resignation As Game and Fish Director Catches Sportsmen By Surprise

This article notes the influx of out of staters into the Game and Fish.  I've really noticed it.  This has been going on before Bruce was installed, but her installation really emphasized it, and it's not a good thing at all.

We've noted that here before.  

We used to really think highly of the Wyoming Game & Fish Department, but it's really dimmed over the years.  I still do, but it's not what it once was.  I've noted that a bit here:

Indeed, I was recently stopped by a warden and frankly he wasn't very nice.  That's a new trend as well.  I don't like it.  But not only was he not nice, he was extremely intimidating carrying a government issued handgun on a government issued gunbelt and wearing a government issued flak jacket.  

I've really hated the militarization of the policy and this is all part of it. Everytime I see a policeman anymore, including a game warden, they're dressed like they're going into Hue in 1968.  All policemen of every type are civilians.  They're simply deputized civilians.  They shouldn't look like an occupying army.  And if the treat people rudely, and many do, and are standing their armed treating you like you are a detained Vietnamese villager, it's scary.

I've mentioned such encounters a number of times  on this blog. The first time was when I went to great efforts to Jeep into an area all while on public land.  I'd done it before, and received a compliment from the warden then serving that area.  On this latter occasion, which was only about a year or two later, the warden basically flat out called me a liar and followed me out in his pickup truck, which he was lucky not to roll.  He apologized.  He was from California. The year after that, I did the same and was outright harassed in a very hostile manner by a different game warden.  It was so bad I called to complain about it.  I received an apology from the District Warden on that occasion.  This past year I had the encounter above, which was scary to a degree.

On that one, it had a bit of a happy, sort of, ending.  I called to complain but couldn't get in touch with anyone.  Somebody I knew, however, who has a different sort of relationship with the Game & Fish called and it had a huge reaction from the warden himself, who is now my best buddy in the field when I encounter him.  

He, at least, is from Colorado.

Anyhow, every time I look up a new warden, they're from somewhere else, and in the case of the Director, she was.

I didn't follow her service much.  I do know, however, a man and his son in which the son had a live desire to be a Game Warden.  He pursued it in college.  He didn't get on.  It's very difficult to get on, but he attributed it to a sort of agenda.  I don't know if it's really the case that the agenda exists or not, but I sure liked the wardens better when they were mostly locals.

I don't want an out of state head of the Game and Fish.

Related threads:

New Wyoming Game and Fish Director.

Labels: 2020s, 2024, Iowa, News, Wyoming, Wyoming Game and Fish Department

Going Feral: Wyoming corner-crossing pioneer Brad Cape dies at 55

Going Feral: Wyoming corner-crossing pioneer Brad Cape dies at 55:   Wyoming corner-crossing pioneer Brad Cape dies at 55

Wyoming corner-crossing pioneer Brad Cape dies at 55

 

Wyoming corner-crossing pioneer Brad Cape dies at 55

Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Bringing it Back

Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Bringing it Back: On August 10, 1851, Fr. Pierre Jean De Smet S.J. celebrated Mass at what is now know as Lake De Smet. To mark this historic event, the pries...

The Aerodrome: Thursday, August 8, 1946. First flight of the B-36.

The Aerodrome: Thursday, August 8, 1946. First flight of the B-36.: B-36 (right) next to a B-29. The Convair B-36 Peacemaker was flown by the United States Air Force for the first time. It had originally been...

Thursday, August 8, 1946. First flight of the B-36.

B-36 (right) next to a B-29.

The Convair B-36 Peacemaker was flown by the United States Air Force for the first time. It had originally been conceived of as a bomber that could reach Japan from Hawaii.  It became the US's first dedicated nuclear strategic bomber.

An absolutely massive airplane, it would have a short service life, being retired in 1959 with the onset of the B-52.  It was never flown in combat.

Gen. Billy Mitchell received a posthumous Medal of Honor.  He was also posthumously promoted to Major General.

Last edition:

Wednesday, August 7, 1946. The Dardanelles Crisis commences.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Dardanelles, Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin, The Cold War, Turkey, USSR

Going Feral: "Wyoming Scores 'Win' In Landmark Gun Rights Case Against Trump Administration". . . well not so much. .. but maybe its headed that way.

Going Feral: "Wyoming Scores 'Win' In Landmark Gun Rights Case ...: News broke yesterday about a decision in which the State of Wyoming took place regarding silencers and short barreled rifles and shotguns, a...

"Wyoming Scores 'Win' In Landmark Gun Rights Case Against Trump Administration". . . well not so much. .. but maybe its headed that way.

News broke yesterday about a decision in which the State of Wyoming took place regarding silencers and short barreled rifles and shotguns, all things controlled under the National Firearms Act.

A local news story:

Wyoming Scores 'Win' In Landmark Gun Rights Case Against Trump Administration

As always, with such things, we like to go to the source, as the press so rarely gets these stories correct.  This one is definitely being misreported in some news organs.

The Court did not strike the statutory provisions down, as it was urged to do, and as some parts of the press are reporting it did.  In fact it denied declaratory relief.  Rather, what it did, was to find that the basis for the NFA, which was passed as a taxation bill, fails once no tax is applicable.

That makes perfect sense.

What doesn't is that the Court didn't take the next logical step, which would have been just to strike those portions of the NFA down.  Rather, it simply enjoined the NFA from being enforced as to those provisions on the specific plaintiffs in the suit.

Eh?

That result is frankly rather weird, and not sustainable.  This will be appealed, I think, to the Federal Court of Appeals.  Having said that, the Trump Administration, in spite of supposedly being "pro gun", was fully defending the law and it might make a strategic decision not to appeal.  If it doesn't, this ruling is so narrow that it effectively is a nullity.

Here's the court's entire decision.

On the items in question, I'd like to see the NFA struck down.  Without the taxation element of it, it really fails to make any sense.  

The big question, of course, is automatic weapons, which are also addressed by the NFA. They are not addressed by this decision, and the taxation aspect of the system still applies to them.  Some argue that the NFA violates the 2nd Amendment by restricting them, but I frankly do not think it does as I'm not certain, if analyzed in the 18th Century prospective of the 2nd Amendment, that they would be considered "arms".  Rather, I think they'd likely be regarded as "ordinance", as they're actually more akin to cannon, in context, than small arms, in context.

Americans fought a common foe — smallpox — that forever changed the nation 250 years ago

 

Americans fought a common foe — smallpox — that forever changed the nation 250 years ago

Masculinity isn’t the problem. The absence of it is

 

How to eat like an ancient Greek sailor.

 

Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: July 30, 1926: If Catholics, scarfaces...

Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: July 30, 1926: If Catholics, scarfaces...: The Mexican government is expecting trouble when the anti-Catholic Church law comes into effect. Catholics are ordered disarmed, newspaper ...

Last edition:

Thursday, July 29, 1926. Fascist mindsets.

How to eat like a Silk Road Merchant.

This is, by the way, the first use of "Alexander the Great" as a label on this site, to my huge surprise.

For that matter, it's the first time the Silk Road has shown up as well.

Churches of the West: Northern Arapaho Business Council Requires Outside Organizations to Consult with Tribe before conducting organized activities.

Churches of the West: Northern Arapaho Business Council Requires Outside...:  

Northern Arapaho Business Council Requires Outside Organizations to Consult with Tribe before conducting organized activities.

 

 

The Congressional Oath Does Not Include “Until Death Do Us Part”

What did Japanese soldiers eat in WW2?

 

Little Bighorn Equipment from the Civil War?

 

Today In Wyoming's History: Douglas Photographer Captures Historic Black Ranch...

Today In Wyoming's History: Douglas Photographer Captures Historic Black Ranch...:   Douglas Photographer Captures Historic Black Rancher’s Homestead Under Milky Way

Douglas Photographer Captures Historic Black Rancher’s Homestead Under Milky Way

 

Douglas Photographer Captures Historic Black Rancher’s Homestead Under Milky Way