The first women to do so entered the United States Naval Academy.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II began a "Bicentennial tour" of several locations in the original thirteen states. As with much associated with Queen Elizabeth, her tour was a huge success.
South Africa ceased requiring black students to be instructed in the Afrikaans language, which itself is a variant of Dutch.
Soyuz 21 was launched into orbit.
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155 out of an entering class of 1,600 at the United States Air Force Academy were women, the first females to be so admitted. This was the day of their admission.
They were also the first women to enter any US service academy, although the following week women would enter West Point and Annapolis.
The People's Revolutionary Tribunal of Angola found three American and ten Britons guilty of war crimes connected with their mercenary service in the Angolan Civil War. Americans Daniel Gearhart and British citizens John Derek Barker, Andrew McKenzie and Tony Callan (Costas Georgiu) received the death sentence.
Gearhart was a Vietnam veteran who had advertised his services in Soldier of Fortune. He arrived in Angola just days before his capture and may never have fired a shot in the war. Callan, a Greek Cypriot, in contrast, was described by other mercenaries as a homicidal maniac.
Soldier of Fortune still exists, although you don't hear about it much anymore. It was hugely destested in Africa at the time due to its embrace of mercenaries, with the 60s and 70s being highwater mark of a sort of romantic view of soldiers of fortune.
British character actor Stanley Baker died at age 48.
The News had a report about a hijacking.
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For the first time in US history, more Americans are moving to Europe than the other way around.
Indeed, European immigration to the US is at historic lows. US emigration is at historic highs.
Why?
Simple, the US has become a dumpster fire. It's no longer really a democracy but a semi democracy presently ruled by an insane (if we don't assume worst) megalomaniac who is destroying the economy. We look like uneducated morons, which a lot of us actually seem to be. There are absolutely no positive indicators which the US tops the charts at. We are the 23d happiest country on the planet. Finland, Iceland, and Denmark are the first three. We cling to obsolete signs of greatness, such as refusing to have a national health care system and having a tax system that grossly under taxes Americans and funds a government that benefits us little, while people like Reid Rasner campaign for even lower taxes. We've gone from being a country that had nearly no military to having one that has a bloated military that serves an insane President.
What's not to love?
Well, there is the country, but that involves being realistic, which will get you accused of being a left winger (which should not in and of itself be regarded as an insult) by insufferable twat waffles like Chuck Gray.
We are really due for an overhaul.
Ironically, the orange buffoon destroying the White House probably helps show us the way on this. He's shown us where we have massive institutional defects. And he's taken us off the global map as a great power and made us a second rate one. Part of our descent into ignorance was a legacy of what was then a noble Cold War response to things, including a big military and governments that meddled bigly.
Now we are going to have to dance to the tune of others, but the good thing is that the others are adults.
To progress at all, which doesn't mean a return to high immigration or anything of that sort, we're really going to have to get back into education, which people like the Wyoming Freedom Caucus and other right wing zealots hate. Better to be dumb is their default position.
Better to be smart, and educated, and face our problems honestly.
And the sooner the better.
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What a bunch of flaming dipshits. The Wyoming Freedom Caucus decides that the new UW President is too "woke" to serve in that role:
Who is UW's New President?
UW's newest leader criticized for bringing woke academics to West Point
I'll admit, I criticized this choice as well, but not for this reason.
But then I would not have guessed that there would be some people who would try to include in the GOP platform that Wyoming is a "Christian State".
Seriously, this hillbilly dipshitery has got to stop.
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It was a Saturday.
Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
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Lex Anteinternet: New UW President chosen.: Today In Wyoming's History: April 2 : 2026 Brig. Gen. Shane Reeves, currently the dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Aca...
I posted this the other day.
As noted, I don't feel good about this choice.
What's more, I"m not really sure why I don't feel good about this choice. I just don't.
Part of it is that I'm tired of guys who leave the state, spend 30 years doing something for the Federal Government, and then coming back in when they're darn near retired or retired. But there was very little chance that we were going to get a local for UW President and indeed, for the most part, few locals would be qualified.
Except here, one actually was. The fellow who finished second works for US already and is in agriculture.
For that reason, he seems a better fit to me.
Added to that, right now I'm not trusting military figures too much. We're in an illegal war and it part of the way we got into one is that we have a military that's way too large. That made sense during the Cold War, but it doesn't now. In my view its time to go back to the original military establishment system for the US, which would mean that we'd have very little in the form of a standing Army and a Navy that had to rely on reservists I don't think we need West Point anymore at all.
And I fear that this fellow might have been brought in because of the Freedom Caucus's shots at UW. Where does a serviceman fit in, in that fight.
I dunno.
An article about the topic:
University of Wyoming campus sizes up its next leader, but lack of online access raises questions
I know more than a few guys who were career servicemen and I considered it, so I'm probably just paranoid right now. And its not like I wrote to the Trustees either.
By the way, this is them:
To learn more about each Trustee, including their background, professional experience, and term details, please click on their name. This will take you to a dedicated page with a full biography and additional content about their role on the board. Chairman, Elected May 2024
Appointed 2017; Term expires 2029
District 2, Laramie, WY
Vice Chairman, Elected 2024
Appointed 2015; Term expires 2027
District 4, Sheridan, WY
Treasurer, Elected May 2024
Appointed 2018; Term expires 2029
District 2, Rock Springs, WY
Secretary, Elected May 2024
Appointed 2019; Term expires 2031
District 5, Cody, WY
Trustee
Appointed 2017; Term expires 2029
District 4, Gillette, WY
Trustee
Appointed 2025; Term expires 2031
At-Large, Worland, WY
Trustee
Appointed 2019; Term expires 2031
District 6, Newcastle, WY
Trustee
Appointed 2021; Term expires 2027
District 3, Jackson, WY
Trustee
Appointed 2023; Term expires 2029
District 1, Wheatland, WY
Trustee
Appointed 2015; Term expires 2027
District 1, Cheyenne, WY
Trustee
Appointed 2025; Term expires 2027
At-Large, Pinedale, WY
Trustee
Appointed 2025; Term expires 2031
District 7, Casper, WY
RoseMarie LondonExecutive Director & Deputy Secretary, UW Board of Trustees
Laramie, WY
Today In Wyoming's History: April 2: 2026 Brig. Gen. Shane Reeves, currently the dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, was offered a contract by a vote of the UW Board of Trustees. He accepted.
He beat out finalist Kelly Crane, who has served as dean of the College of Agriculture, Life Sciences, and Natural Resources since 2024. Crane served UW Extension as an area educator and range specialist from 1994-2002. He was the principal consultant for Frontier Natural Resource Consulting until 2008, when he accepted the position of assistant professor/range extension specialist at the University of Idaho, which he held from 2008-2011. He came back to UW in 2011 as associate director for UW Extension. In 2019, he was appointed associate dean and director of UW Extension.
Reeves was a 1996 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. He went on to get a law degree from William and Mary in 2003 and is admitted to the Virginia bar. He's been serving as the Dean of the Military Academy. He's originally from Sweetwater County, but obviously hasn't lived there for 30 years.
Hmmm. . .
I think they made the wrong choice.
Anyhow, a news story sets out his early priorities.
