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Showing posts with label Ethnicities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethnicities. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Friday, October 16, 2026
Wednesday, October 16, 1901 Booker T. Washington dines at the White House with Theodore Roosevelt.
Booker T. Washington dined at the White House, an event which sparked controversy and massive discontent in some quarters.
Nearly a quarter of Company E, U.S. 9th Infantry, were killed in an ambush on Samar. Six were wounded. It was still a better result than occured at Balangiga on September 28.
Jean-Luc Krieger drove 191 miles in France in an electric car without recharging.
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Saturday, October 12, 1901. The White House.
Monday, October 12, 2026
A Day for Spatting.
Today is October 12, 2026.
Department of Defense logo from 2000.
It's also officially Columbus Day, which has a long history of introduction in the U.S. It was first celebrated, on this day, set to always occur on a Monday, in 1792 by the Columbian Order of New York, better known as the Tammany Society, which evolved into the famous New York political machine. Italian Americans picked it up as a day of Italian pride as Columbus was an Italian. It was recognized annually by the Federal Government starting in 1934, and then officially made a Federal holiday in 1968, to be first on the calendar in 1971.
It's still there.
Native Americans have never been particularly keen on the day, for obvious reasons. This lead to protests over the years and eventually the day was recognized in some areas as Indigenous People's Day.
Taking the guns at Standing Rock.
Columbus Day was the source of increased agitation by Native Americans dating back into the 1970s, which was the height of power of the American Indian Movement, although if you look at today's entry for 1911, you'll see that it was on this day that the first national organization for Native Americans convened. That probably wasn't an accident. Some Native protests against the day have verged on violence, so deep is the opposition to it in those quarters.
Wyoming doesn't officially recognize either day, thereby avoiding taking any kinds of stand, but it does recognize Native American Day, which is in May. Laramie and Jackson recognize Indigenous People's Day on this day, however, those two municipalities being the most "liberal" in Wyoming (which makes Rebecca Bextel's campaign being headquartered in Jackson ironic). Casper doesn't recognize either day but usually finds a means of making the day a municipal holiday.
This year, Casper found a way to recognize both:
City of Casper Releases Indigenous Peoples’ / Columbus Day Services and Hours
City of Casper releases Indigenous Peoples’/Columbus Day services and hoursGarbage collection, water, sewer, emergency services and more will operate as usual.
Casper, Wyo. (October 8, 2026) – The City of Casper administrative offices will be closed for the observance of Indigenous Peoples’/Columbus Day 2026 on Monday, October 12, 2026. Normal water, sewer, 911 dispatch, police, fire, and metro animal control services will maintain their regular schedules. Solid waste crews will collect garbage as usual on Monday, and other crews will be on call to respond as needed.
The following is the complete list of services and hours.
- Trash collection will run on the normal schedule.
- Casper Regional Solid Waste Facility: Open 7:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
- Police Patrol, Fire-EMS, and 911 Dispatch: Regular hours.
- Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants: Regular hours.
- Water distribution, sewer, streets, parks, fleet services, and public facilities crews on call for emergencies.
- Metro Animal Services Patrol Officers (APOs): Available 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.by calling non-emergency dispatch at 307.235.8278. Outside those regular hours, APOs are on call for emergencies by calling 911.
- Fort Caspar Museum: Closed (closed on Mondays for winter hours)
- Casper Municipal Golf Course: Open normal hours, 1st tee time is 8:30 a.m., the Golf Shop will close at 6:00 p.m.
- Highland Cemetery: Grounds open dawn to dusk with burial search map signs.
- Casper Area Transit, operated by the City of Casper: limited services on Monday. LINK transit services will be unavailable. ASSIST services will run limited services from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for scheduled medical-only appointments and for ADA complementary paratransit services.
- Metro Animal Shelter: Closed.
- Casper Ice Arena: 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. (Open Figure Skating), 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Open Figure Skating)
- Casper Family Aquatic Center: 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Casper Recreation Center: 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Donald Trump, who loves a good cultural spat, spoke in Columbus, Ohio last week, which took down its statute of Columbus some time ago. While there, he stated; “We demand that Christopher Columbus be put back into the heart of Columbus, Ohio,”
Well, we demand the dumb ballroom be taken down.
Anyhow, Trump loves to troll in racist waters, which this is an example of. It feeds into the far right belief that "whiteness" is some sort of inherent quality, and that it's being attacked. If you want to polish that up, it would be that the country's European heritage is being attacked.
Yesterday was National Coming Out Day, which always occurs on October 11. It's set by some homosexual rights organization.
I don't pay much attention to this as I largely do not care if people with same sex attraction come out. I don't think that people have to make social martyrs of themselves. But Adam Kinzinger made an observation that no GOP members of Congress came out. Well, I wouldn't have expected any to, but he's suggesting that there's at least an appreciable number, or perhaps a number who are significant, in the GOP in Congress. That might actually matter for a party that takes a position, sort of, on social issues in this arena.
There are consistently rumors to this effect. Hunter Biden, who may very well not be the most reliable witness on this topic, claims there's a Republican "closeted gay mafia". There are some figures whom rumors circle around continually. I was once told by a very inside member of the state's GOP that a certain Republican figure was a homosexual, which is the first time I heard the term "beard" used to describe a female spouse of a male homosexual, married to camouflage the attraction. The marriage, in that context, made sense to me. I've been told the same thing about the same person by an openly homosexual politician, but that person is sort of wildly unreliable. And there are questions that circle about others simply due to their state in life, I suppose.
None of these people may actually be homosexual, and if they are, that doesn't make them "gay" or "queer". Still, it matters because if you are holding yourself out as a defender of traditionalism in all sense while engaging in homosexual liaisons, you are being hypocritical.
Back to Trump, or rather the Trump Administration, Scott Bessent, who is a homosexual in a homosexual union, sent Elizabeth Warren this letter last week.
I've never been a fan of Warren's, who is one of those Democrats that cause people to avoid the Democratic Party, but this letter is just mean and snarky. Warren legitimately is an expert on economics. The final handwritten line recalls Warren's claim to have Native American heritage. And she actually does, as her DNA tests revealed. It is, however, remote. Trump repeatedly lampooned her for this, calling her Pocahontas, which is mean, but Warren should have avoided the entire topic in the first place.
So should Bessent who perpetually comes across as scared when he's interviewed. Maybe he isn't, but that's how he comes across. And Bessent has been press ganged into the Trump ongoing excuse machine. Some of his own claims have been lampooned, as in "I'm a farmer".
But the point here is that, once again, the MAGA Hypocrisy is at work. Trump's supporters claim to support him due to his traditionalism and his loyalty to Christian values. Bessent is an unapologetic homosexual in a same sex union, which is not traditional to say the least. Trump's a serial polygamist himself. The administration won't release the files on Epstein whose island was an epicenter of child rape.
So, like Festivus on Seinfeld, let the airing of the grievances begin.
Thursday, October 12, 1911. Revolution in China spreads.
Hubei provinces assembly voted to secede from the Chinese Empire and form a republic.
Colonel Li Yuanhong announced the overthrow of the Qing dynasty and the cities of Hangkow and Hanyang were occupied by the rebels.
The Society of American Indians held its organizing convention, in Columbus, Ohio.
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Wednesday, October 11, 1911. First MVPs.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Monday, September 16, 1946. The arrival of the 1946-47 Soviet Famine.
Drought and poor harvest resulted in the Soviet Union massively increasing the cost of meat, dairy products and bread. This would soo be followed by order reducing who could receive bread rations. The famine which would follow, would result in 1,000,000 lost lives into 1947.
Enzo Ferrari produced his first V12 engine.
Member of both of Major League Baseball's leagues privately voted to 15 to 1 to approve a recommendation allowing for black players.
Blues singer Mamie Smith died at age 55.
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Thursday, September 12, 1946. Wallace takes a different route.
Labels: 1940s, 1943, 1946, 1948, Colorado (Denver), Disease, Education, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Henry A. Wallace, Personalities
Saturday, September 5, 2026
Sunday, August 16, 2026
Throwing the pollster off . . .
by answering honestly.
From this afternoon (apparently pollsters don't honor the Sabbath).
Pollster: Your race?
Me: White, I guess.*
Pollster: Do you consider yourself Hispanic, Latino, or come from a Spanish speaking household?
Me: Pause. . . No, I guess. . .
Pollster: Repeats question
Me: A lot of people speak Spanish who aren't Hispanic.
Pollster: Nervous laugh.**
Pollster: Are you a Republican or a Democrat?
Me: I register as a Republican.
Pollster: Are you a traditional Republican or . .
Me: Traditional.
Pollster: Do you have favorable view of MAGA?
Me: MAGA isn't Republican.***
Pollster: Um, would that be unfavorable?
Me: Yes.
Pollster: Do you have a positive or negative view of the Freedom Caucus?
Me; I have a less than favorable view of the Freedom Caucus.
Pollster, um, we'll put that down as unfavorable.
Pollster: Did you vote for Donald Trump or Kamala Harris in the last election?****
Me: Neither one.
Pollster: Did you vote?
Me: Yes.
Pollster: Um, um
Me: I voted third party.
Pollster: Nervous laugh. Thanks me for my honesty.
Pollster: (Reads long ballot initiative that will gut property taxes here). If the election was held today would you vote yes or no?
Me: No.
Pollster: Are you sure?
Me. Yes.
Pollster: Any chance of changing your mind?
Me: No.
And people wonder why polls are wrong. The questions were too narrow, and my guess is that my results are now put down inaccurately. They'd nearly have to be.
Or they're just tossed out.
Footnotes:
*I'm caucasian, but I don't get the question in some ways. A lot of Hispanics are just as caucasian as I am, and I have a little French ancestry, does that make me something else? Most of my DNA is from Ireland. Before WWI Americans regarded that as some sort of separate race.
For that matter, horror of horrors, I have a trace of Beaudoin Arab. Probably some crusader brought home Mariam from Tyre when he went home to Beuvron-en-Auge. "Mama, Papa. . . J'aimerais que vous rencontriez Mariam."
M'eh.
A point, for those who follow such things, Normans are fair skinned people. The French, however, often are not. In the summer, I'm not, and my skin doesn't burn. Look at my daughter, and you'd think she was a Viking. Look at me, and you'd think I was an, well, Arab.
**So are people who learn to speak Spanish suddenly Hispanic
**MAGA is not more Republican than the Social Democrats are Democrats. MAGA are some strange sort of fascist for the most part.
****What kind of stupid question is that? I voted for Brian T. Carroll.
Monday, July 27, 2026
Saturday, July 27, 1946. No to a united India.
The Muslim League rejected British plans for a united independent India.
Lynchings in Georgia hit the nationwide press.
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Friday, July 26, 1946. OPA back in business.
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Thursday, July 25, 1946. Crossroads Baker.
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The first underwater nuclear explosion.
George W. and Mae Murray Dorsey, and Roger and Dorothy Dorsey Malcom were lynched (shot) in Georgia. They were two married couples, the men were sharecroppers. Roger Malcom was a World War Two Army veteran who had just returned home after five years of service.
Martin and Lewis commenced their duo act at the 500 Club in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Humor is transitory and perhaps its just because I'm not from that era, but I never found either one of them funny. Frankly, I can hardly stand to watch film clips of Lewis. I can of Martin, but I don't find him funny.
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Tuesday, July 23, 1946. Last of the POWs sent home.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Chance for Gray, Rasner, and even Degenfelder, to be a man among men.
Okay, this is a Rhodesian Army recruiting poster, but in this "right culture" super "high T" administration, it seems appropriate.
This will sound completely facetious, but I don't mean for it to be.
42 years of age is the maximum enlistment age for the Army and Air Force.
28 is the maximum enlistment age for the Marine Corps.
41 years of age is the maximum enlistment age for the Navy.
42 is also the maximum enlistment age for the Space Farce.
Chuck Gray, who loves all things Trump more than Trump does, and who loves Trump more than Trump loves Trump, is 36 years old.
Reid Rasner, who claims to love Trump even more than Chuck loves Trump, is 40 years of age.
Megan Degenfelder is age 37, and the Armed Forces take girls now, at least for the time being. She proudly boast that she's endorsed by Trump in her race for the Governor, although the WFC has endorsed government tit suck Brent Bien.
Bien, a Marine Corps veteran, is 58 years old. The general retirement age for Marine Corps officers is 62 years of age. He could get back in.
The good news for all of these red blooded Americans is that they can now sign up to fight Iran and show their support for their Commander In Chief.
After all, they wouldn't want the dead for Trump to be mostly New York African Americans, American Hispanics and American Central Asians, and 3/4's women, now would they.
That wouldn't be very High T.
And, and I'm serious, if these people think Trump can do no wrong, and is so great, they can show it by offering something serious that isn't just self promoting.
Sunday, July 19, 2026
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
Saturday, July 18, 2026
Thursday, July 18, 1946. The murder of Maceo Snipes.
African American World War Two veteran Maceo Snipes was murdered after voting in the Taylor County Georgia Democratic Party primary. He was the only Black person to vote in the entire county. Four men were involved in the killing, two were later identified as Edward Williamson and Lynwood Harvey, also WWII veterans. The KKK had been particularly active in the county. Williamson claimed self defense, asserting that Snipes had pulled a knife on him in a confrontation about a debt. In 1985 he committed suicide, overcome by guilt.
Snipes and his mother were both sharecroppers on Homer Chapman's land in Butler, Georgia.
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Wednesday, July 17, 1946. African Americans were allowed to vote in Georgia's primary election for the first time.
Labels: 1940s, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1947 in the movies, 1960s, 1964, Austria, Clothing, Collaborators, Ethnicities, Georgia, It was because of World War Two, law, Racism, Teenagers, Women, Yugoslav Partisans, Yugoslavia
Friday, July 17, 2026
Wednesday, July 17, 1946. African Americans were allowed to vote in Georgia's primary election for the first time.
African Americans were allowed to vote in Georgia's primary election for the first time.
At the time Georgia used an odd primary system similar to the archaic electoral college, which needs to be abolished. In this instance, "county units" determined the candidates, so while James V. Carmichael received more votes than former Governor Eugene Talmadge, with the help of the African American vote, Talmadge received the nomination.
The county unit system was abolished in 1964.
U.S. trademark protection was reestablished for Austrians.
Chetnik general Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović was executed by the Communist Yugoslavian government.
The Second World War was extremely complicated in Yugoslavia, and unlike the movie treatment you'll occasionally see regarding them, the loyalties of various partisan bands in the country were varied and changed. The Chetniks started as a royalist anti German movement and actually fought alongside the Communist partisans in the early part of World War Two, but by the end, they were collaborating with the Germans.
The Rocky Mountain News ran an article about a 16 year old girl who was, well, a creepy fan of a trombonist and made up a lurid tale of how he was involved with her, in the hopes that it'd destroy his marriage and he'd marry her. The headline referred to her as a "Bobby Soxer", the oldest use of that term, which I'd associated with the 1950s, that I've ever seen, although apparently that's just a misimpression on my part. The Wikipedia article on the demographic subset composed of teenage girls has several photos from 1946.
"Bobby Soxer", January 1946.
Apparently the origin of the term for short sox worn by young women dates back to 1943 and appeared in Life as early as 1944.
Months ago colored bobby sox folded at the top were decreed, not by anyone or any group but, as usual, by a sudden mysterious and universal acceptance of the new idea. Now no teen-ager dares wear anything but pure white socks without a fold. [
Life magazine, Dec. 11, 1944.
The term was particularly associated, apparently, with the fans of Frank Sinatra and oddly enough the Rocky Mountain News used it in that context on the same day as Life did in the quote immediately above. The News used it as late as 1972 in the context of an all girls softball league.
I probably shouldn't have been surprised, as I'm aware of, but have not seen, the film The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, which is a well known film featuring Cary Grant and an 18 year old Shirley Temple. It was released in 1947.
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Tuesday, July 16, 1946. New agencies. Sentencing the perpetrators of the Malmedy Massacre.
Thursday, July 16, 2026
CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 145th Edition. The Department of Manly White Men.
An AP Headline:
Hegseth announces new policy to test troops for low testosterone
Umm. . . .why?
There's something more than a little creepy about this.
Presumably female troops won't have to be tested for testosterone.
And then there's this:
Hegseth intervenes on promotion list (again), blocks female and Black officers
The Secretary's campaign against female officers I'd guess to be part of a back door move toward limiting the role of women in the military, but what's up with the seeming bias against black officers? Maybe it's just a statistical glitch, but then we have the taking down and relocation of a portrait of black Air Force Gen. Daniel “Chappie” James Jr. a genuine hero. The excuse was that it was being relocated due to renovations or something. Chappie actually stared down Muammar Qaddafi during the latter's 1969 coup and nearly drew his M1911 on him in a true Western style standoff.
Maybe it's all a coincidence but it's an odd one.
For that matter, the entire Trump Administration is the whitest administration imaginable, which we could chalk up to coincidence too but for all the recent rumblings about who is and isn't a "real" American. Black have of course been in the country since before it was a country, indeed since 1619. At that time the Trumps were just doing whatever it is they did in Germany. Nonetheless, I can't think of any prominent black members of the current illegitimate administration.
Even the Joint Chiefs, who represent members of the Armed Forces, which have 30 to 33% minorities in the ranks, are lily white, and of course all male. African Americans, who are 13.5% of the population and 20% of the military, don't show up there.
Seems a bit odd.
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CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 144th Edition. Just in case you've begun to think that being governed by an 80 year old demented dictator is somehow normal, here's. . .
Labels: 2020s, 2026, 930, 930s, Donald Trump, Iceland, Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir, Politics, Social Democracy, United States, Zeitgeist
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Monday, July 15, 1946. Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation, loan to the UK, birth of Linda Ronstadt.
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was conferred a Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation.
The Senate approved an emergency loan to the United Kingdom.
Linda Ronstadt in 1976.
Musical great Linda Ronstadt was born in Tucson. Still living, but unable to sing due to Parkinson's, Ronstadt was a commanding singer of the 1970s and had a very long career thereafter, ranging from Country Rock, to pop, to Mexican Folk music. She's never married, but did raise two adopted children.
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Monday, July 8, 1946. Germans ordered to go home.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Aircraft, Austria, Germany, Howard Hughes, Nazi Germany, Occupation of Austria, USSR
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