Showing posts with label Blog Mirror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blog Mirror. Show all posts
Friday, April 5, 2024
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Holy Tuesday, April 4, 1944. Battle of Kohima commences, German counteroffensive, Photographing Auschwitz by accident, Bombing Bucharest, Italo-Yugoslav partisands, Charlie Chaplin not guilty.
The Battle of Kohima began around the town of Kohima in British India. The battle would prove to be the turning point in U-Go, and also prove to be long-running.
Japanese forces were depending on taking the town in order to resupply their provisions. In their initial attacks they cut off all access to the town.
A German counterattack by the 4th Panzer Army retook Kovel, a city in pre-war Poland, which is now in Ukraine. The attack blocked the Soviets from gaining a pass through the Carpathians.
The city had a large Jewish population before World War Two, and in fact had a large Ukrainian population that were members of the Communist Party. The Soviet invasion in 1939 had accordingly been largely welcomed. The German invasion would, of course, prove tragic, with 18,000 Jewish residents of the city being murdered. The city became a refuge for Poles escaping Ukrainian partisans late in the war. After the war, the Polish population of the city was forcibly relocated to post-war Poland.
A de Havilland Mosquito from the SAAF 60 Photo-Recon Squadron, flying out of Foggia, Italy to photograph the IG Farben photographed Auschwitz as part of a filming overrun, the latter of which was a practice in photo recon missions. It was the first instance of Auschwitz being photographed by the Allies from the air.
Six Valentine DD tanks sank in Exercise Smash I with the loss of their crews.
Forty-nine Axis aircraft were lost contesting an Allied raid, launched from forces in the Mediterranean, on Bucharest's marshalling yards. Twelve to Twenty Allied aircraft were lost. 2,942 civilians were killed.
African Ameican soldiers Sgt. John C. Clark, Lorman, Miss., and S/Sgt. Ford M. Shaw, Tuscon, Arizona., members of the members of Co. E, 25th Combat Team, 93rd Div. (colored) clean their rifles. Bougainville, April 4, 1944.
Charles de Gaulle announced changes to the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers, including the appointment of two Communists.
In France, the resistance halts aircraft parts production at Bronzavaia.
The First Partisan battalion Pino Budicin in Yugoslavia, made up of Italian Communists was formed.
The Work Truck Blog: Caterpillar Crew.:
Caterpillar Crew.
"When the "caterpillar" crew go out to clear road of snow, they live right on the spot. T/5 Floyd R. Worendorff, Vendrick, Idaho, relaxes in his house on wheels. Truck is fitted with bunks and stove, and supplies living quarters for six men. 4 April, 1944. Camilatella, Italy."
Note the stove in the truck. I haven't experienced that.
Scary thing is, I've done the same thing, over 40 years later.
Charlie Chaplin was acquitted of violating the Mann Act.
The suit was somewhat ironic in that it stemmed from Joan Barry's pregnancy. While FBI files suggest that Barry aborted two children during her affair with Chaplin, which did occur, this child was not Chaplin's, as blood tests proved. Chaplin, in a separate suit, would nonetheless be ordered to pay child support for the girl until age 21.
Moreover, Barry was 21 years old with her affair with 52-year-old Chaplin began. Chaplin definitely fished in the shallower end of the pond, but Barry was of age, which at least one of his prior conquests, whom he married, was not.
Barry was sliding towards insanity, and after her affair with Chaplin ended, stocked him. She'd end up being committed to a mental institution at age 33, by which time she had married and had two additional children.
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Wednesday, June 16, 1943. Noor Inayat Khan inserted in France.
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Holy Monday, April 3, 1944. Attack on the Tirpitz, Racist law in Texas struck down, Budapest hit, The death of Evelyn Sharp, Charles Lindbergh buys a New Testament.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Lex Anteinternet: Hurling invectives.
We published this on March 31:
Lex Anteinternet: Hurling invectives.: This may seem like a strange thing to put up for Easter Morning, but maybe it isn't. One of our major elected office holders in this sta...
Today, the Tribune has a very similar article by a Wyoming poet laureate, entitled:
What we say when we speak
Monday, April 1, 2024
Saturday, April 1, 1944. The closing curtain for the Axis.
Today in World War II History—April 1, 1944: Countdown to D-day: Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsay (Allied Naval Commander, Expeditionary Force) takes operational control of US naval forces for D-day.
Sarah Sundin's blog.
There's so much good stuff on her blog today, that I thought about just not posting anything else here. She notes, in addition to the above:
On other topics, Task Force 58 attacked Woleai islands in an ongoing devastating aerial assault in the Caroline's.
In the Admiralities, the US occupied Ndrilo and Koniniat.
Roosevelt spoke on Victory Gardens:
I hope every American who possibly can will grow a victory garden this year. We found out last year that even the small gardens helped.
The total harvest from victory gardens was tremendous. It made the difference between scarcity and abundance. The Department of Agriculture surveys show that 42 percent of the fresh vegetables consumed in 1943 came from victory gardens. This should clearly emphasize the far-reaching importance of the victory garden program.
Because of the greatly increased demands in 1944, we will need all the food we can grow. Food still remains a first essential to winning the war. Victory gardens are of direct benefit in helping relieve manpower, transportation, and living costs as well as the food problem. Increased food requirements for our armed (cut off at this point)
Patton spoke to US Troops in Northern Ireland.
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Friday, March 31, 1944. Japanese command disaster.
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Going Feral: The 2023 Season. Third Year (or more) Running
Going Feral: The 2023 Season. Third Year (or more) Running: 
I noted last year, when I did this report, the following:
Doves were abundant, but I mostly missed shooting at them, which was sort of the story of the year in a lot of ways. I did get a Mongolian Collared Dove for the first time, so was able to appreciate how much larger they are than Mourning Doves.
Sage chickens were also plentiful this year.
Chukars and Huns, which are in my experience very hard to hit, were abundant, but I didn't do well with them as I missed them more than I hit them. I did get in a lot of late season chukar hunting close to town for the first time.
Waterfowl, which we hunted more than anything else, was very abundant.
So, not a self-reliance banner year. . . or was it?
The 2023 Season. Third Year (or more) Running
I noted last year, when I did this report, the following:
The 2022 Season
The 2022 hunting season has ended.
In 2022, when I wrote about the 2021 season, I started off with this:
It wasn't a great one, for a variety of reasons.
And that statement was true once again for 2022, but for different reasons, a lot of which had nothing much to do with the hunting season itself.
That's because 2022 has been the year of the field of Medicine, or age, or perhaps lifestyle, or whatever, catching up with me.
Well, I'm beginning to sound like a broken record on that, as it was once again quite true.
On big game, I didn't draw anything. So, no antelope tag again.
Indeed, sometime in the fall, in one of the blogs linked in here, an out-of-state hunter posted about the great time he'd had in Wyoming antelope hunting and I nearly posted a crabby linked in post regarding that. If out of staters are getting tags, in staters should be.
I didn't want to insult that person, so I didn't make that post, but I'm still not very happy about it.
I had general deer and elk tags, and I did go out for deer, but no luck. For deer, I did have a very pleasant early winter hunt, if that's what we call this frighteningly warm mid-year season this year, but the only white tails, and that's what it was limited to, that we saw were on private land where I didn't have permission. So, no deer.
Bird wise, the season was good for the most part. Blue Grouse, which are illusive in my experience (a Game Warden who checked me didn't seem to think so) did make an appearance this year, so we did okay, but not great.
Doves were abundant, but I mostly missed shooting at them, which was sort of the story of the year in a lot of ways. I did get a Mongolian Collared Dove for the first time, so was able to appreciate how much larger they are than Mourning Doves.
Sage chickens were also plentiful this year.
Chukars and Huns, which are in my experience very hard to hit, were abundant, but I didn't do well with them as I missed them more than I hit them. I did get in a lot of late season chukar hunting close to town for the first time.
Waterfowl, which we hunted more than anything else, was very abundant.
So, not a self-reliance banner year. . . or was it?
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The 2022 Season
Blog Mirror: Science in Pre-school
It also demonstrates the Populist use of the word "elite" as a slur, which in fact, it is not.
Science in Pre-school
Friday, March 29, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Monday, March 25, 2024
Courthouses of the West: Meet the Press interviews Stephen G. Breyer
Courthouses of the West: Meet the Press interviews Stephen G. Breyer:
Apparently Breyer just wrote a biography, which must have been his incentive for giving the interview. It was awful. He really didn't comment on anything.
Meet the Press interviews Stephen G. Breyer
Meet The Press's host interviewed retired United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer on last weekend's episode.
Apparently Breyer just wrote a biography, which must have been his incentive for giving the interview. It was awful. He really didn't comment on anything.
The episode is worth listening to, but due to Chuck Todd and Kristen Welker going after their employer, NBC, for getting them set up in an interview of Ronna McDaniel after it turns out that NBC has hired McDaniel to be a pundit. Suffice it to say, McDaniel won't be inviting them to any after work gatherings. But the interview of Breyer was pointless.
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Going Feral: Bill on Rocks Springs RMP Revision.
Going Feral: Bill on Rocks Springs RMP Revision.:
Bill on Rocks Springs RMP Revision.
Very unusual to see a one off bill like this:
H. R. 6085
To prohibit the implementation of the Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the Rock Springs RMP Revision, Wyoming, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 26, 2023
Ms. Hageman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
A BILL
To prohibit the implementation of the Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the Rock Springs RMP Revision, Wyoming, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. RESTRICTION ON DRAFT RMP AND EIS FOR ROCK SPRINGS RMP REVISION, WYOMING.
The Secretary of the Interior may not finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the Rock Springs RMP Revision, Wyoming, referred to in the notice of availability titled “Notice of Availability of the Draft Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement for the Rock Springs RMP Revision, Wyoming” published by the Bureau of Land Management on August 18, 2023 (88 Fed. Reg. 56654).
FWIW, a really good look at the plan was featured on Governor Gordon's podcast. The big complaint with the plan (which I don't think is that bad) what that it was sort of dropped on the area by the BLM after people believed that the groups they were working in with the BLM would have an impact on the plan, and didn't appear to.
I'd guess, but don't know, that the chances of a one off bill passing in the current Congress is really small.
The Agrarian's Lament: Blog Update. New Feature.
The Agrarian's Lament: Blog Update. New Feature.:
Blog Update. New Feature.
We have added a "pages" feature to this blog. The currently visible page is:
There's a couple more in the hopper.
This blog has gotten more active than it was originally, as more original posts are now included here. Originally, it was just a feed for Agrarian topics from Lex Anteinternet. Showing, I suppose, that this is more active, this page is visible on that blog as well.
The Work Truck Blog: Hating on EVs.
The Work Truck Blog: Hating on EVs.:
An earlier thread here:
Hating on EVs.
Oh my, they're here:
The Work Truck Blog: Wyoming Delegation: Everyone Wants Internal Combus...:
Something is really up with the GOP hating on EV's. It's really bizarre. And it's not just Wyoming. Consider that Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska, who was on a tear the other day, posting tweet after tweet about electric vehicles.
Wyoming Delegation: Everyone Wants Internal Combustion Engines, Enough With EV Nonsense
Wyoming Delegation: Everyone Wants Internal Combustion Engines, Enough With EV Nonsense
There is a real holding back the tide aspect to this. Electric vehicles are coming, and soon.
Indeed, they aren't really new.
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California insists it's “speculative” to assume EVs will remain heavier than gas cars.Public policy should reflect reality, not the baseless future dream of featherweight electric cars.What’s speculative, obviously, is assuming with no evidence that their weight will change.
Heavy? Great. We used to complain that fuel efficient vehicles were too light.
To read the GOP propaganda in some quarters, Electric Vehicles travel in rogue bands, cross the Rhine, sack and loot villages, and take your daughters.
It's really absurd.
All this comes about due to a Biden Administration proposed fuel efficiency mandate designed to spur on the development of EVs. This is similar to what was done in the 70s and 80s concerning mileage standards, which some people also howled about. And it's similar to what was done regarding water efficiency and electric efficiency in appliances since the 1970s. In each instance, there were complainers who howled it was Federal overreach and the standard could't be met. In each instance, however, industry had little trouble meeting it.
The truth of the matter is that EVs are now here, and there's a real holding back the tide aspect of this. They're going to dominate in the near future, and each and every one of the supposed reasons that won't happen will be proven wrong, as will the common assertions it won't matter.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Saturday, March 21, 1874. Home on the Range.
Dr. Higley.
March 21
1874 My Western Home, better known as Home On The Range, was published by Dr. Brewster Higley, a Kansas homesteader, in the The Kirwin Chief. It was shortly set to music by a friend of his.
My Western Home
by Dr. Brewster Higley
Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam
Where the Deer and the Antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the sky is not cloudy all day.
Chorus:
A home! A home!
Where the Deer and the Antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the sky is not clouded all day.
Oh! give me a land where the bright diamond sand
Throws its light from the glittering streams,
Where glideth along the graceful white swan,
Like the maid in her heavenly dreams.
Chorus
Oh! give me a gale of the Solomon vale,
Where the life streams with buoyancy flow;
On the banks of the Beaver, where seldom if ever,
Any poisonous herbage doth grow.
Chorus
How often at night, when the heavens were bright,
With the light of the twinkling stars
Have I stood here amazed, and asked as I gazed,
If their glory exceed that of ours.
Chorus
I love the wild flowers in this bright land of ours,
I love the wild curlew’s shrill scream;
The bluffs and white rocks, and antelope flocks
That graze on the mountains so green.
Chorus
The air is so pure and the breezes so fine,
The zephyrs so balmy and light,
That I would not exchange my home here to range
Forever in azures so bright.
Chorus
1904 Version of the text
by William and Mary Goodwin:
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the antelope play;
There seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the sky is not cloudy all day.
Chorus:
A home, a home
Where the deer and the antelope play,
There seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the sky is not cloudy all day.
Yes, give me the gleam of the swift mountain stream
And the place where no hurricane blows;
Oh, give me the park where the prairie dogs bark
And the mountain all covered with snow.
Chorus
Oh, give me the hills and the ring of the drills
And the rich silver ore in the ground;
Yes, give me the gulch where the miner can sluice
And the bright, yellow gold can be found.
Chorus
Oh, give me the mine where the prospectors find
The gold in its own native land;
And the hot springs below where the sick people go
And camp on the banks of the Grande.
Chorus
Oh, give me the steed and the gun that I need
To shoot game for my own cabin home;
Then give me the camp where the fire is the lamp
And the wild Rocky Mountains to roam.
Chorus
Yes, give me the home where the prospectors roam
Their business is always alive
In these wild western hills midst the ring of the drills
Oh, there let me live till I die.
Chorus
1910 Version of the Text
by John A. Lomax
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the antelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
Chorus:
Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.
Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free,
The breezes so balmy and light,
That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all of the cities so bright.
Chorus
The red man was pressed from this part of the West
He’s likely no more to return,
To the banks of Red River where seldom if ever
Their flickering camp-fires burn.
Chorus
How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the light from the glittering stars
Have I stood here amazed and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds that of ours.
Chorus
Oh, I love these wild prairies where I roam
The curlew I love to hear scream,
And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks
That graze on the mountain-tops green.
Chorus
Oh, give me a land where the bright diamond sand
Flows leisurely down the stream;
Where the graceful white swan goes gliding along
Like a maid in a heavenly dream.
Chorus
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