Saturday, August 12, 1911. African American Emigration to the Prairie Provinces.

For a period of one year from and after the date hereof, the landing in Canada shall be, and the same is prohibited, of any immigrants belonging to the Negro race, which race is deemed unsuitable to the climate and requirements of Canada.

Canadian Order in Council approved by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier on this date.  The Order, which was never enforced, and would be repealed in October was in response to an influx of African Americans moving to the Prairie Provinces from Oklahoma.

A look at their full story:

Black Immigration Into The Prairies

Hawaiian Duke Kahanamoku broke three world swimming records in his first meet, in Honolulu. 

He'd go on to swim in the 1912 Olympics and would serve as a Military Policeman during World War Two. He died at age 77 in 1968.

Genovevo de la O, a Zapata ally, struck one of Huerta's columns.

Last edition:

Thursday, August 10, 1911. Beaten by the Bishops and the Rats.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Catholic, Democracy, Mexico, Parliamentary democracy, Protestant, religion, United Kingdom

Tuesday, August 8, 1876. A long ride by Captain Jack. Terry resumes the march.

The reconstituted 7th Cavalry and the 5th Infantry, under Terry's overall command moved up Rosebud Creek in pursuit of the Sioux.  Crook's command had also moved to the Rosebud, where it was awaiting the 5th Cavalry as reinforcements.

Scout John Wallace ("Captain Jack") Crawford, having already rode nearly 400 miles with dispatches from the 5th Cavalry, and learning they had gone to join Crook, caught up with Crook's camp on the Rosebud.

Crawford was an extremely entertaining character and was known for his storytelling and poetry.  He also served as a newspaper correspondent during this period.

Last edition:

Monday, August 7, 1876. Margaretha Geertruida Zelle born.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, 1910s, 1917, 1919, Espionage, Frisia, Netherlands, Women, World War One

Sunday, August 6, 1911. New President in Haiti.

General Cincinnatus Leconte was proclaimed as President of Haiti.

General Anténor Firmin had also led an attack on the capital, but he did not obtain the office.

President François C. Antoine Simon was deposed.  He'd outlive his successor.

Lucille Désirée Ball was born.

Ball was an interesting character, although I've never been a fan of her acting or comedy.  She was actually a registered member of the Communist Party in 1936, switching to be a Democrat by the 1940s.  She managed to live it down and not suffer as a result during the McCarthy Era.

I'm sure that Mike Johnson will be railing against her soon.

Last edition:

Thursday, August 3, 1911. Arbitration and tension in Morelos.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, 62nd Congress, Art, Diplomacy, Emiliano Zapata, Francisco I. Madero, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico (Morelos), tobacco, United Kingdom, United States

Monday, August 5, 1946. Neil Armstrong becomes a private pilot.

Neil Armstrong of Wapakoneta, age 16, earned his student pilot's certificate flying an Aeronca Champion airplane.

Aeronca Champion.

It was actually his 16th birthday.

Last edition:

Friday, August 2, 1946. Vlasov executed.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Andrey Vlasov, Art, Cartoons, Collaborators, George S. Patton, German Wehrmacht, Nazi Germany, Operation Keelhaul, Personalities, Red Army, Refugees, Russian Liberation Army, Tennessee, World War Two

Friday, August 4, 1876,. Death of an American commander in Cuba.

Henry Mike Reeve Carroll, who went by Henry Reeve, died in combat against Spanish troops in Cuba at age 26, where he had gone from revolutionary volunteer in 1869 to the rank of general in a Cuban revolutionary army.  He was a prior child soldier in the Civil War, in which he's served as a drummer.

The Ten Years War was the cause he died in, which lasted from 1868 to 1878.  The Cuban revolutionaries would lose the war and Cuban independence would come about, instead, as a result of the later Spanish American War, which up until the current war with Iran stood as the war fought by the US on the least justifiable grounds.

The 5th Cavalry arrived at Goose Creek in Wyoming to reinforce a resting up Crook's command.

Last edition:

August 3, 1876. All were invited to attend.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, 2020s, 2026, 44th Congress, Colorado (Durango), Colorado (Leadville), James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, National Rifle Association, Panama, Personalities, South Dakota, South Dakota (Deadwood), The Frontier West

August 3, 1876. All were invited to attend.

Congress approved a joint resolution prohibiting the supply of metallic cartridges to "hostile" Indians, appreciating already that the Battle of Little Bighorn had featured effective native use of cartridge arms.

Frankly, this is appalling.  Native Americans were defending their home grounds and this is the very basis of the Second Amendment.  Of course, natives were not citizens at the time.

We can't help but note, however, that freedom's brave sentinel, the National Rifle Association, has been fascism's craven lap dog since 2016.  I'm confident that if Donald Trump asked us to surrender our arms, the NRA would demand it.

A funeral notice appeared in Deadwood.

Died in Deadwood, Black Hills, August 2, 1876, from the effects of a pistol shot, J. B. Hickock [sic] (Wild Bill) formerly of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Funeral services will be held at Charlie Utter's Camp, on Thursday afternoon, August 3, 1876, at 3 o'clock P. M. All are respectfully invited to attend.

 Notice placed by Charlie Utter in the Black Hills Pioneer.

Almost the entire community attended the funeral.

Utter was a close, and even doting, companion of Hickock's.  He was an unusual frontiersman, being a family man (he had married his wife when she was only 15 years old)  and at 5'6" tall he was meticulous in his appearance, sporting long black hair, a moustache (as any real man would) and wearing hand-tailored, fringed buckskins, fine linen shirts, beaded moccasins, and a large, silver belt buckle. He carried a pair of gold, silver, and pearl ornamented pistols. 

He would not allow anyone into his tent, under pain of death.  

Most unusual, he bathed daily.

Steve [unknown] and Charlie Utter at the grave of Wild Bill Hickok.

He later lived contemporaneously in Leadville when my great grandfather and great grandmother lived there.  Following that, he went to Durango, after having sadly divorced his wife. He ultimately moved to Panama, where he died blind, and remarried, in 1913.

It's really odd to think that my great grandparents, and hence my grandmother on my father's side, whom I knew and loved dearly, where part of all of this in some extended way.

Last edition:

Wednesday, August 2, 1876. Aces and Eights.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, 1877, Crime, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, Movies In History, Personalities, South Dakota, South Dakota (Deadwood)

Friday, August 2, 1946. Vlasov executed.

Vlasov reviewing his troops.  Note the light machineguns, which are captured Russian weapons.  The solider without an insignia on his helmet is wearing a World War One vintage M16 helmet.

Andrey Vlasov, age 45, Red Army General, and then collaborationist general with the Germans, and then against the Germans again, but against the Soviets at the very end, was executed. 

Vlasov has an interesting personal history.  In his adult years he started off, like Stalin, as a student at a Russian Orthodox seminary. While there, he switched to agriculture and in 1919 joined the Red Army.  He did not join the Communist Party until 1930.  He was part of the Soviet military mission from 1938 until 1940 and was regarded as highly effective.

Early in World War Two his performance in the Red Army was sterling, but his forces were encircled and forced to surrender.  He refused to be evacuated by air to avoid becoming a POW.

As a POW, well actually a true prisoner, he met Baltic German Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt, who was serving in the German army and attempting to foster a Russian Liberation Movement with the assistance of some of the figures who later were party of the July 20 plot.  The movement never had the full support of the Germans, and indeed, the opposite is the case to a large extent.  While it was allowed to raise troops, for the most part, they did not fight, and indeed the one significant action they engaged in was right at the end of the war against the Germans.  An attempt by the unit to surrender to the American Army in Czechoslovakia was rejected by the Americans and they fell into Soviet hands.  They were accordingly repatriated to the Soviet Union, an effort that continued on after the war into 1947.*

The Russian Liberation Army, as it was styled, was not, it should be noted, the only group of Soviet citizens or for that matter former members of the Red Army to fight with the Germans.  Sizable numbers did. But the RLA was the largest such group.

A memorial to Vlasov was erected at the Novo-Diveevo Russian Orthodox convent and cemetery in Nanuet, New York. Twice annually, on the anniversary of Vlasov's execution and on the Sunday following Orthodox Easter, a memorial service is held for Vlasov and the forces of the Russian Liberation Army there.

Cartoon by Jewish Polish American cartoonist Arthur Szyk.  Szyk was an illustrator who drew and painted amazingly detailed illustrations.

Vlasov and his men are a good example of the way in which World War Two was not necessarily viewed as a war between fascism and liberty everywhere, and indeed, in the East, it was never that.  The Germans had no intentions whatsoever of liberating Soviet citizens, which is why they never actually deployed the ROA. But many Soviet citizens saw it as a chance to overthrow the Communists, even if that was naive as to what it would actually achieve with the Germans in the lead.  The Finns of course were fighting their own war entirely. Some Frenchmen saw it as a war between the West and Communism, and volunteered, albeit in small numbers to sever in the German war effort.  Spanish fascists saw it as a war between Communism and Fascism.  

Likewise, in Asia, the war on a local level was complicated in ways that we generally don't appreciate.  The Japanese were outright barbaric against the Chinese, but the fighting was done by the Nationalist. The Communists were armed, but largely sat the war out. The Soviet Union did not support the Chinese Communists until the very end of the war.  The Nationalist, for its part, had significant military missions for the USSR and Nazi Germany until just before the war.  Some Chinese fought for the Japanese in collaborationist armies that would be destroyed, post war, when the Nationalist conscripted them in the civil war.  The post war leaders of Indonesia were outright collaborationist with the Japanese, and at least a few member of the Philippine collaborationist government would go on to have political careers in the post war republic.

Radioactive isotopes were sold for medical treatment purposes for the first time.

It was day 2 of the Battle of Athens. The discharged GI's would prevail.

Footnotes:

*The repatriation of Soviet citizens is a topic that's barely mentioned in the story of post World War Two Europe. Naturally, there was very little sympathy for them even though, to a large extent, those who sided with the Germans can be regarded as very misguided anti communists for the most part, although the liberation movement itself included some Communists.  Large-scale suicide occurred amongst those being sent back. Some made it to the United States one way or another where they were generally extremely quiet about their past.  All in all, about one third of the troops in this category managed to avoid being repatriated one way or another.  Gen. Patton largely refused to repatriate Soviet civilians and soldiers and released 5,000 ROA soldiers in 1945.

Repatriated soldiers were sent to the gulags. Senior officers, like Vlasov, were executed. Survivors of the gulags were released in 1953 upon Stalin's death.

The ROA troops who Patton held were those who had been under a German commander, Theodor Oberländer.  Oberländer.is an interesting guy in that he was a Nazi official who was an expert in the East, had a falling out with his commanders, and was released from the German Army.  He went on to be an officer in the ROA.  After the war he served in the Bundestag and became the Federal Ministry of Displaced Persons.  He died in 1998.

Wilfried Strik-Strikfeldt survived the war.  When the ROA was formed the SS tried to have him join it, but he managed to avoid that. After the war he was held in the West with prominent German war criminals.  He had been an Olympian in the 1936 Munich Olympics and prior to that had fought as an Imperial Russian officer in World War One and with the Whites in the Russian Civil War.

Last edition:

Thursday, August 1, 1946. Battle of Athens.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Aircraft, Atomic Energy Commission, Denmark, Education, It was because of World War Two, Norway, Post War United States (and Canada), Sweden, Tennessee, Transportation

Wednesday, August 2, 1876. Aces and Eights.

James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok was murdered in Deadwood by Jack McCall in Saloon No. 10. 

Hickock normally sat with his back to the wall so that he could observe the room, but had been unable to.  He twice asked a person he was playing cards with to switch seats, but his fellow would not exchange.  

McCall had been leant money by Hickock the day prior.

McCall would be tried twice for the murder and was executed by hanging in March, 1877.

I realized in posting this that my view of this matter has been heavily colored by the movie Little Big Man, which is an excellent movie, and an outstanding book, but it's very inaccurate as to this event, which features in it.  For one thing, I had no idea that the murder was after the Battle of Little Bighorn, and indeed was close in time to it, which shows how rapidly Deadwood was growing as a town and have quickly white settlement was encroaching on the Black Hills.  In the film, the murder occurs before Little Bighorn, which I had not previously given much thought to.

Additionally, the killing was somewhat random.  McCall had only met Hickock the day prior.

Last edition:

Tuesday, August 1, 1876. Colorado admitted to the union. Today is Colorado Day.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, Colorado, Colorado Day

Saturday, July 31, 1976. The Big Thompson River Flood.

Colorado's Big Thompson River flooded killing 151 people in Larimer County.  It was a flash flood in an area in which the geography contributed to the disaster.

You'd think I'd have a clear memory of this, but I don't.  I can vaguely recall it happening, but that's about it.

Susan Ellen Stern, a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Weatherman and the Seattle Liberation Front (SLF) died of drug related heart failure.

Last edition:

Friday, July 30, 1976. Spanish pardons.

Labels: 1970s, 1976, 1976 Olympics, Personalities, Spain, Sports, transgenderism

Wednesday, July 31, 1946. Cracking Venona.

American cryptanalyst Meredith Gardner made a breakthrough, identifying the ciphers used for spelling English words, in a team project to crack Soviet espionage codes used in the United States.

His work remained secret for decades, and he personally felt badly about how it was used in the McCarthy era.  He died at age 89 in 2002.

The stillborn Morrison-Grady Plan was proposed by Herbert Morrison of Britain and Henry F. Grady of the U.S., providing for the division of Palestine into three districts.

President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee would both endorse it, but it had no support from Arabs or Jews.

President Truman signed legislation creating the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.

Philippine Airlines made its first transpacific flight.

Last edition:

Monday, July 29, 1946. Anping Incident.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Anping Incident, China, Chinese Civil War, International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Operation Beleaguer, People's Liberation Army, United States Marine Corps, War Crimes

Friday, July 30, 1976. Spanish pardons.

Spanish King Juan Carlos I issued a general amnesty for most of Spain's 650 political prisoners and reinstated university professors who had been dismissed for political activities.

Bruce Jenner won the  gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

A great athlete, and noting that it's not popular to say it, Jenner always appeared a bit odd and at least to me, even back in the 70s and 80s he came across as a homosexual.  He later took up a female persona.  He was married three times prior to that.

Last edition:

Wednesday, July 28, 1976. Earthquakes in northeastern China killed 650,000 people.

Labels: 1970s, 1976, China, Disaster, Geology

Wednesday, July 24, 1901. O. Henry.

Author William Sidney Porter, who would write under the pen name of O. Henry, was released from the Ohio Penitentiary.  He's soon begin his prolific writing career.

A very heavy drinker, he died in 1910 at age 47.

The USS Kearsarge inadvertently fired  a projectile at the city of Newport, Rhode Island and struck the Newport City Hall.

Philippine Gen. Zurbano surrendered to the U.S. Army on Luzon.

Last edition:

Saturday, July 20, 1901. Co. Aytch

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Algeria, Art, Civil War, Confederate Army, French Empire, Morocco, Personalities, Slavery, Tennessee, The written word

Saturday, July 20, 1901. Co. Aytch

 

Samuel Watkins, Confederate volunteer from Tennessee and author of the well known Co. Aytch died at age 62, his health broken from the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Omitted from his memoir is that he came from a well to do slaveholding family and his father held 100 such enslaved people.

Algeria and French Morocco fixed the boundary between the two of them in Paris.

Last edition:

Thursday July 18, 1901. Tom Horn murdered Willie Nickell.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Philippines, Tom Horn, Wyoming

The 2026 Election, 16th Edition. The skeptical eye edition.

July 11, 2026

As we head into the final days of the primary election, which for most offices is, unfortunately, the election, we here in Wyoming are being subjected to a daily bombardment of election propaganda crap, most of which assumes that if Donald Trump bent over and pulled his oversize trousers down, you'd gleefully kiss his big white ass.

And that's exactly what most of the candidates for Congress are doing.

Having said that, either election fatigue or the rise of local issues is baffling a few.

For the House, Chuck Gray is flopping around like a carp thrown out on the beach looking for something he thinks can outrage you into voting for the little rich carpetbagger whose never had to really work.  Gadfly Reid Rasner, who doesn't stand a chance (and whose been mysteriously absent recently) actually seems to have hurt Chuck by calling him China Chuck.  Chuck's most recently effort is to pretend to be horrified by birthright citizenship.  Given as Trump sort of excused Graham Platner from rape accusations the other day, we can assume lil' Chuck is searching for a girlfriend to make accusations against him so that he can get a Trump accolade.

Foster Friess, another rich carpetbagger, has been running for the same position, Congressman, and has hit on the "I've never had to work a real job but you dumb fucks have to so I'm going to pretend that you want a job on the floor of an oil rig where you will get killed".

As noted, Rasner has just dropped off the screen.

And of course we have Florida cracker Frank Chapman on screen looking like his new cowboy boots hurt his feet and pretending to be one of us.

We can hope that Jillian Balow is getting some traction, as she seems by far the least objectionable Republican candidate for Congress. She also must be the least well funded of the good candidates as we don't see her campaign material nearly as often, unfortunately.

This isn't everyone running on the GOP ticket.  Bo Biteman, of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, Kevin Christensen, a vet who'd like to kiss Trump's big white ass, Richard Dodson, David Giralt and Keith Goodenough all are as well.  Goodenough is the most interesting candidate in the race, having been a well know Natrona County candidate whose served in various offices, and who has served both as a Republican and Democrat.

If the primary election were today we would vote for, for Congress, Balow.

Democrats running for this office are Elena Del Real and Boomer Lisa Kinney.  Kinney will win and then go down so badly in the general it'll leave a crater visible from space in her native Albany County.

If we were registered as Democrats and the primary was elected today, we'd just not vote either of these two obvious losers.

If the general election was held today, and we had our choice of candidates, we'd vote for Balow.

For the Senate seat, a propaganda flyer for Harriet Hageman came this week for the first time.  That fact would suggest she doesn't figure she actually has to spend much money.  Other candidates in that race are Jill Edwards, John Holtz, the gadfly Baby Boomer who just won't go away, Sam Mead and Jimmy Skovgard.  Mead is by far the best candidate in this race but he faces an uphill battle against Hageman simply because she's in Congress.

If the primary election was held today we'd vote for Mead.

On the Democratic side  Billy Benavidez is running against James Byrd.  Byrd is a very good candidate and may be the best candidate in the entire race from either party.  A Byrd v. Mead race would really serve the state.

If the primary election was held today and we were registered as Democrats, we'd vote for Byrd.

If the general election was held today and we had our choice of candidates, we're not sure what we'd do.

For Governor the race seems to have Eric Barlow, out in front.  He's a very good candidate.  Megan Degenfelder is running on having been Superintendent of Public Education and that Donald "Grab 'em by the Pussy" Trump has endorsed her.  Brent Bien is running on the "I worked my entire life for the government (USMC) and hate the government ticket".  A lot of WFC people like him as they're gullible and ignorant.  The WFC has a flyer with Bien, Chuck and Hageman circling.  A Curt Blake is also running.

If the primary election was held today we'd vote for Barlow.

On the Democratic side Ken Casner is running as the symbol of the dead Democratic Party in the state, as he's so old he may in fact have already passed on.

If the primary election was held today and we were registered as Democrats we'd scream in anger and refuse to fill out the ballot on this one.

If the general election was held today and we had our choice of candidates, we'd vote for Balow.

For Wyoming Secretary of State the GOP candidates are Jason Fearneyhough, Qwenton Eagle Oviatt, Rachel Rodriguez-Williams, Robert Short and Charles Young.  Of these candidates, right now, the only ones I know anything about are carpetbagger Rodriguez-Williams, an odd man off Hispanic in the Wyoming Fascist Caucus, and Robert Short, long time Converse County Commissioner.

If the primary was held today, we'd vote for Short, but we need to look into these candidates more.

For the Democrats, there's Bryan McCarty, whom we know nothing about.

If the general election was held today and we had our choice of candidates, right now it'd be Short, but we're not wedded to that position.  We'd never vote for Rodriguez-Williams.

For Superintendent of Public Instruction the GOP race features Chad Auer, Steve Harshman and Thomas Kelly.  Harsham is a long time teacher and educator and is by far the best choice on the GOP side.  On the Democratic side Ana Cordova and Sergio Maldonado are running, both of whom are educators.

If the primary election was held today we'd vote for Harshman.

If the general election was held today we're not sure what we would do.

The primary will decide the Treasurer's race as only Republicans Curt Meier and Scott Smith are running.  Meier will win.

In other races, we'd like to see Bear, Allemand, and Ide retired to private life. I.e, lose and lose badly.

In news from elsewhere, Graham Platner officially pulled out of the race, but with the least apologetic message ever.

Platner was, of course, lately accused of rape and had some troubling aspects to him early on.  The rape accusations, however, were a bridge too far for Democrats, thankfully.

One of the main aspects of the Platner saga has been the degree to which it really exposed the hypocrisy of the GOP, which started off by attempting to mount the high horse of morality which was bucking wildly. A party that has "Grab em by the Pussy" "I went to Epstein Island but didn't notice it was rapey" Trump and a host of other moral creeps can't really be complaining about morality  When the Democrats in fact demanded that Platner drop out that left them in a bit of a pickle as they got what they were urging but, by extension, that means they have to clear out the bordello in order to have any moral credibility, which they aren't going to do.

Indeed, Donald Trump came to Platner's defense, noting that sometimes the accusatrixes are fibbers, which sometimes they indeed are.  His point is, of course, that he's maintained all along he's not a moral creep and his female accusers are lying.  It's pretty clear not all of them are lying about what they accuse Trump of, but at any rate he came to Platner's defense.  It'd have been amusing if Trump had endorsed Platner, which I could actually see sort of happening.  In a weird sort of way, Platner is what J. D. Vance once was, but with a side order of massively problematic personal issues.

July 12, 2026

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away yesterday at the age of 71.  Once a staunch opponent of Donald Trump, during Trump's first administration he became a strong supporter.  In recent years, almost pathetically so.

Gov. Henry McMaster will appoint a temporary replacement.  He has absolute discretion, but he's a Republican and will choose a Republican.  He's also a strong Trump supporter.

Graham was facting Dr. Annie Andrews who stood a strong chance of defeating him.  His death makes it likely that his successor will prevail in the fall.

It seems quite likely that Graham died of a heart attack.  He was two years older than his father was when his father died the same way.  That event left him raising his 13 year old sister, as his mother had already passed away.

He attended university while raising his sister on an ROTC scholarship and served after law school in the USAF.  After his active duty career he continued to serve in the Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve.  He was always a JAG officer.  He was a government attorney for local municipalities briefly before entering Congress in 1994.  In his first race, he was supported by Strom Thurmond.

Graham never married.

July 14, 2026

The Governor of South Carolina appointed Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of the late Senator, as his replacement for the balance of his term.  She is unlikely to run for the seat, which is up this term.

Quite a few contenders are lining up to compete for it, with some Nancy Mace practically begging for the seat while pretending that she's being begged to take it.

Closer to home, Chuck Gray (who's never been married and for whom there's no known current or former known former love interest) is complaining about a something gadfly Reid Rasner (who has been married, and divorced, to a man) said in Rasner's doomed campaign.

Gray Calls Rasner ‘A Child' For Bringing His Dad Into Fiery GOP Primary Race

According to the Cowboy State Daily:

From about Friday through Monday, Rasner’s political Facebook page showcased screenshots that depict Jan Charles Gray – who is the father of one of Rasner’s opponents, Secretary of State Chuck Gray – reacting to Rasner’s posts with heart-face and fire emojis. 

“Chuck Gray’s Dad Supports Reid,” says a banner attached to one of the posts.

That upset Chuck who likes to run around calling people names but doesn't like to be picked on.  The Daily reached out to Chuck's father who replied, “Clearly I support my son, Chuck Gray, 100% - and he’s going to win, Reid Rasner is a very troubled individual. Chuck Gray for Congress.”

What seems to be the case is that the elder Gray liked some of Rasner's Facebook posts, which is a pretty good reason to question his political leanings, although they frankly are pretty similar to his son's.

The Gray v. Rasner fight is one that Gray, frankly, deserves.  Rasner is a gadfly, with a campaign so wacky that some have questioned if its a comedy act, but his views aren't really very far from Gray's, which ought to be regarded as comedic.

cont:

Donald Trump is schedule for a television appearance this Thursday which appears to be part of his pathetic fable that he won the 2020 election he lost, and as part of his push for the Stop Americans from Voting Act.

The gullible will no doubt listen to whatever stream of lies he spouts.

July 15, 2026

Early and absentee voting for the primaries starts on July 21 and ends on Aug. 17. 

Primary election day is Tuesday, Aug. 18.

I usually try to vote early since the county decided to consolidate a bunch of voting locations into one, at the Fairgrounds.  I frankly don't appreciate that much.

It was for paranoid security concerns.

A Miller article:

Horses, hats and political propaganda as Wyoming prepares to vote

Miller is spot on.  We are in the hats, boots and horses season, with politicians who don't normally wear Western togs, and probably fear horses, get photographed like they're appearing in Lonesome Dove.

July 16, 2026

Right up until now he was proclaiming his innocence and claiming policy abuse:

Rep. Bill Allemand Pleads Guilty To DUI, Gets Probation And $500 Fine

I don't hold the DUI against him.  Lots of people end up having a one off conviction for this, although you surely should not drink and drive.

No, I do hold the diehard claim of innocence and police misconduct against him, and his lawyer.

And frankly his WFC views.

Don't vote for this guy, there's no reason to.

Nor should you vote for his diehard defender Rozmaring Czaban.  Czaban has an Allemand apologist role the same way that Trump cabinet members have to Trump.  I don't know what the deal is, but Czaban, a candidate for Natrona County Commissioner was defending Alleman as late as earlier this week.

There are a lot of good candidates for Natrona County Commissioner. She isn't one.

Tonight, unfortunately at the same time as the demented fascist seeks to justify stealing elections:

Superintendent of public instruction candidate forum livestream

The forum features three Republican candidates for Wyoming’s education chief.

And also:

Moderate Wyo Republicans battle to reclaim their party

July 7, 2026

In an effort to steal the 2026 election and undermine democracy, Donald Trump, a demented narcissist whose occupancy of the White House is itself illegal and illegitimate, delivered a broadcast which attempted to show that, basically, China had tried to influence the news, but which instead showed that Russia had, and in his favor.

Trump is a traitor to the country and the 25th Amendment or an impeachment, or just a declaratory judgment action demonstrating that he's legally unqualified for the office, should be undertaken immediately.

Anyone claiming to be endorsed by him, or seeking office to support his efforts, is supporting a traitor and should not be voted for.

Republican Party Campaign Poster.

And while Der Fibber was seeking to create a fable, this was included in his release:

Oh my.

An example of somebody who should not be voted for:

Degenfelder Releases Trump Double-Down Endorsement With A Month Before Primary

Republicans with lots of self bucks:

GOP candidates in Wyoming’s US House race self-fund campaigns to the tune of nearly $6 million

Republicans who aren't Dixiecrats or Fascists:

Common Sense Republicans for Wyoming Voter Guide Now Available

July 18, 2026

FEC Report: Four Wyoming House Candidates Loan Themselves More Than $1 Million Each

This edition is only a week old, and it's already uncomfortably large, so we'll close it out and move on to the next one.

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