Sentences were handed down from the major Nuremberg Trial with verdicts having been rendered the previous day. Twelve convicted were sentenced to death, those being Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, who was sentenced in absentia and in fact already dead, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank,Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Arthur Seyss-Inquart
All told, 19 people were convicted. Three were found innocent, those being Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen, and Hans Fritzsche.
Mensa was founded.
Kim II Sung University was founded, named in accordance with the despicable strong man trait of naming things after yourself while you are alive. . . kind of like somebody else we could name.
A stunned Leon Czolgosz was sentenced to death for the murder of William McKinley. He gave a brief statement noting that nobody else was involved in the murder.
The British annexed the territory of the Ashanti Empire into Ghana. The war that had preceded it, the War of the Golden Stool, did not recover the stool itself, the object of the war.
A report from South Africa indicated that 1,268 Boer civilians had died in concentration camps in the Transvaal, and a further 1,052 in the Orange River Colony. Most of the dead were children.
During the Revolutionary War, George Washington ordered his troops inoculated against Small Pox.
This week Pete Hegseth lifted the requirement that troops be inoculated for influenza for "religious" reasons.
The current GOP is heavily anti scientific.
Opposition to vaccinations has been in American history largely a thing of smaller Christian and non Christian sects which are fairly anti scientific, as opposed to the majority of Christians who have no objection to vaccination. However, when the far right of the country started to turn weird, listening to such medical lights as boob model Jenny McCarthy, that began to change a bit. Covid really made it worse as a significant portion of the country turned anti vax under the leadership of Donald Trump, who got the vaccine, but who recommended some really lethal approaches to the crisis as well.
Troops who don't get inoculated ought to just be given dishonorable or less than honorable discharges. That's what should have occurred to those who refused the Covid vaccine.
April 24, 2026
The war department stands ready for what comes next. Locked and loaded. May God continue to breast—bless our warriors each and every day and on each and every mission.
Hegseth.
Breast?
Okay, I get that it's a slip of the tongue, um, well, but it's an odd one.
May 12, 2026
The Aryan Nation, the Nazis, and the KKK are not far-right organizations. Those are far-left organizations, and they always have been. The KKK was created and started by the Democrats in the United States to prevent blacks from being able to participate in the political arena, if you will. So, I'm going to say they've never been associated with the right, they've always been associated with the left.
Harriet Hageman.
Hageman's no dummy and she knows this is crap, or has drank so much of the Kool Aide she'll spout stuff that's absurd.
Every one of these organizations is from the far right and any claim to the contrary is patently absurd. The claim about the Nazis, which I've seen before, comes from the party's very early, and frankly pre Hitler, days and its name, the National Socialist Party. The absurdity of that claim fails to realize that "socialism" in the context of nationalist parties doesn't necessarily mean Marxism, but "for society". In the case of the Nazis, way early on their did espouse Socialism but by the time they'd come to power they'd abandoned it in favor of autarky and the early socialist in the party were sidelined or expelled.
And the claim about the KKK being founded by the Democrats and therefore left wing completely ignores that originally the Republican Party was the left wing party, and the Democrats were a right wing party. The Democrats didn't evolve into the political left until the 20th Century and in the American South remained the conservative party into the 1980s. Hageman herself is old enough to have voted in Reagan's first run for the Oval Office and therefore should be well aware of that.
This is totally reprehensible.
Cont:
Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal?
Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation.
May 13, 2026
So it turns out that Trump's advisors uniformly told him not to launch the war against Iran, but he did anyway, and the advisors, not wanting to be blamed for his stupidity, leaked. He wants them prosecuted for treason, and sycophant Todd Blanche is looking to to it.
The real crime here is Trump's, who launched an illegal war. With no declaration of war, every single Iranian killed in it has been the victim of some sort of crime, and every American who has died has been the victim of some sort of crime ultimately attributable to Trump as well.
Blanche is pathetic. When this is over, and it will be, his careers should be flushed down the toilet.
And then there's this:
PabloReports: Ted Cruz called you a parasite and disparaged your work as a bartender.
AOC: I think it’s funny that he’s been taking a government paycheck for 23 years but has the audacity to criticize someone who has come from a family that had to work their way up and earn their place here.
This is really becoming a Republican specialty around here. We get retired servicemen who come in after sucking on the government tit for 30 years, retire, and then start sucking on the other government tit, and then run for office on the "I hate the government" ticket.
In that sense, the Democrat running against Collins in Maine is really refreshing. He's given a speech about his combat service and then noted how he can't figure out how that's relevant to being a Senator. It isn't.
Recently I saw somebody post something in favor of Brent Bien here in Wyoming, noting that he's served in combat or dangerous conditions all over the world, and how that will make him ready to lead. Yeah, lead troops, not a state government.
We have a whole host of candidates from the He Man Government Haters Club running locally. They have a right to run, but while they're doing it, they shouldn't be draining their mommy. It's hypocritical.
June 22, 2026
Unqualified for her office Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said her office would prosecute individuals caught vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
That would mean prosecuting Donald Trump, which should be done for a variety of reasons.
June 24, 2026
The ideology of the Mooslims is slightly different than the ideology of the Catholics. We have the Catholics and the Mooslims. Slightly different. But Venezuela has been great and Iran has been great.
Donald Trump.
Insulting in the extreme.
The ideology of Catholics, of which I am one, is the ideology of Christianity, as Catholicism is the first and original Christian religion It's more than "slightly different" than Islam.
This provides a good reason for those Catholics who support Trump to really question what they are doing.
June 26, 2026
Under President Trump the U.S. unemployment rate is at a historic low of just 4.3%. It was at a dismal rate of 3.4% under Biden.
Karoline Leavitt.
What the crap?
June 27, 2026
The new special edition passports with a glowering Supreme Leader Trump's image in them features the words, "Welcome! But be good".
Apparently some moron didn't realize that these were passports, not visas.
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August 7, 2026
After an embarrassing display of conspiratorial lunacy, in which Rand Paul notably played a part, a panel of Republican dimwits voted to send a measure to the Senate floor to hold Dr. Fauci in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer their moronic questions.
The basic truth of the matter is that the GOP has become completely scientific and dimwit conspiratorial in nature. Basically, Flat Earthers, really. I'm sure the whole panel will hold an investigation soon on whether we really went to the moon, and decide we didn't.
Not really on ignorance, but on the perversion that surrounds everything Trump, Republicans have been more or less silent on Rep. Max Miller after having a fit about Graham Platner. Miller has been accused of abusing his wife by pouring boiling water on her and breaking the collar bone of his daughter. Even his father in law, who is in the Senate, has been reluctant to criticizes him.
That's your party of family values.
August 20, 2026
We have a spike in oil prices that I don't really understand
Scott Bessent.
Seriously?
September 16, 2026
Trust in vaccines for deadly childhood diseases including measles has fallen according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. Measles is on the uptake.
People who don't vaccinate their children for measles are, quite frankly, criminally stupid.
September 20, 2026
Yeah, sure the military asked for that. . .
September 24, 2026
"We almost have to go back to, what did medicine look like to the pioneer days in America?"
Republican Minnesota state auditor candidate, Dr. Scott Jensen.
Eee gads.
Oh, but it gets better, Sen. "Coach" Tommy Tuberville was holding forth on the Senate floor yesterday about the dangers of transvestitism and furries in commercial avaiation.
It’s possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal.
U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville.
Maybe a Star Wars convention was in town?
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Tuberville says stuff all the time that's flat out stupid. How he was ever elected is a mystery, but frankly, he raises questions about Arkansas because of his routine idiotic comments.
Somebody else who routinely raised eyebrows before he was appointed to the government is Dr. OZ, who yesterday stated:
More than a third of people on Obamacare have never used the insurance policy once. If you were gonna pay your hard-earned money to buy insurance, would you ever use it? The answer is yes.
What an idiotic statement that was. You never want to have to use your insurance. Did Dr. Oz go into the office everyday thinking "golly, I hope I get to turn something in on my malpractice insurance today!"
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Sen. Jim Justice held a huge birthday party for his dog on Capitol Hill, wheeling it in with a small covered wagon.
It's like the last days of the Roman Empire.
Justice is a West Virginian Republican.
So, we had John Barrasso calling the Democrats "weird" last weekend. . .
September 25, 2026
Tommy Tuberville doubles down on stupid.
Tommy just causes me to unfairly bring to mind all the stereotypes I have about football coaches, a game I don't really like.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith announced on television that he agreed to a transition of the country to majority rule, without clarifying more than that. The country had lost South African support after Operation Eland.
Patty Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Former Chilean Foreign Minister, Defense Minister and Ambassador to the United States Orlando Letelier was assassinated by Pinochet agent Michael Townley by means of a car bomb in Washington D. C. Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a coworker of Letelier's at the Institute of Peace, was also killed in the blast.
Townley is an American who became involved with far right wing Chilean elements while living there. He had partially grown up in Chile. His current whereabouts, if he is alive, are unknown.
Asle O. Sorbel, a teenager, met the fleeing Younger brothers and Charlie Pitts near Madelia, Minnesota and recognized them. They were traveling on foot. He rode a plow horse into Madelia, over the objections of his parents, and informed the authorities. The Sheriff and local volunteers rode out and engaged them in a gun battle in a swamp called Hanska Slough, just south of La Salle, Minnesota. Pitts was killed. The rest were taken into custody.
I don't blame Riverton's Central Wyoming College for being upset, quite frankly.
Wyoming has a really good group of community colleges. They are Casper College (Casper), Central Wyoming College (Riverton), Eastern Wyoming College (Torrington), Gillette College (Gillette), Laramie County Community College (Cheyenne, )Northwest College (Powell), Sheridan College (Sheridan), and Western Wyoming Community College (Rock Springs). The best of them is Casper College, which has crept up over the university status in some things and accordingly offers some four year degrees. The University of Wyoming, which has always lived in fear of a second four year university being established in the state (it would frankly be quite an undertaking), has a Casper campus at Casper College.
LCCC has always baffled me a bit as its so close to UW that I'm not quite sure why somebody would go there. But it is actually the second biggest educational institution in Wyoming, second only to UW. It maintains a campus in Laramie for that matter.
So, the name change might make sense.
Bye, Felicia
Cynthia Lummis has not been in the public radar much since being elected to the Senate. Most of the time when she surfaces its on the topic of cryptocurrency.
Wyoming doesn't give a rusty rat's ass about cryptocurrency. We're in a climate change induced drought, diesel fuel is $8,000/gallon, mystery meat is being imported by King Donald into the country.
Just go home Cynthia. Nobody is really going to notice.
A good reason to pack heat.
I always carry when I'm traveling. Things like this are the reason why.
Of course, a person could say what are the odds of being attacked in such a fashion?
Not high, but not nonexistent.
Amy Roe Bechtel's killer had tried to gain control of a van driven by a family on I80 some years prior to her murder, they wrestled a rifle out of his hands and left him there. Of course, he later killed Ms. Bechtel. I knew one man who was carjacked, briefly, by a hitchhiker (he shouldn't have given the hitchhiker a ride). A kid that I was in high school with is serving a life sentence for being part of a highway side murder. I've been stopped once on the Medicine Bow Highway and then waved through as I had a rifle on my dashboard.
Teenage members of the Unión de Estudiantes Secundarios were rounded up by masked agents of the Argentine government and would continue for the next several days. The victims would be tortured, raped, and in most instances, murdered.
The victims were:
María Claudia Falcone, age 16. She is missing and presumed murdered. According to her brother Jorge Falcone, she was a Montoneros militant.
Claudio de Acha, age 17. Missing and presumed murdered.
Gustavo Calotti "Francés" age 18He was a police cadet. He survived.
María Clara Ciocchini, age 18. A Catholic school student, she was murdered.
Pablo Díaz, age 18. He survived.
Francisco López Muntaner "Panchito", age 16. Missing and presumed murdered.
Patricia Miranda, age 17. He did not belong to any militant organization and was ultimately released.
Emilce Moler, age 17. She survived.
Daniel A. Racero, age 18. Missing and presumed murdered.
Horacio Ungaro, age 17Missing and presumed murdered.
Quite frankly, with the US on the very eve of an upcoming attempt by populist extremist to steal the 2026 election, things like this are now quite imaginable here in the US.
The first angioplasty on a human being was performed by West German surgeon Andreas Gruentzig.
Mao's widow Jiang Qing altered the Chairman's final directive with the help of three others giving rise to the Gang of Four which would briefly rule Communist China.
The House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church of the United States voted to permit the ordination of women into the Episcopal priesthood.
1976 was at the height of the first wave feminist movement and the Episcopal Church, traditionally the richest and most powerful Church in the United States, had taken a definitely liberal bent. Nearly all American Christian churches were going through a left wing wave at the time. In the case of the Episcopal Church, this was effectively the beginning of its downfall.
The James Gang was disastrously shot up in their attempt to pull off a bank robbery in Northfield Minnesota. Three were killed outright, others wounded, with arrests following, with posses being made up principally of local volunteers.
Frank and Jesse James escaped, but the raid was the end of the gang.
The raid itself was a really stupid endeavor. The gang members were not folk heroes with a sort of post Civil War partisan ranger aura about them in Minnesota. The local residents, for that matter, proved exceptionally capable in the gun battle that broke out in the town.
The body of African-American WWII veteran John Cecil Jones was found in a bayou near Minden, Louisiana. He's been lynched along with his cousin Albert, who survived.
The NAACP investigated the matter and this resulted in the FBI following up. The lynching, the only known one to occur in Louisiana after World War Two, would help move the Truman administration towards intervening against Southern racism.
