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Thursday, November 12, 2026

Tuesday, November 12, 1946. Song of the South. Winters of the 1940s.

Disney released Song of the South, the first production to combine animation with live action.


The cartoon is considered a masterpiece of animation, and is controversial for being racist.  It's never been released in a home format.

When I was a kid, Disney used to run it in a compressed form, or perhaps snippet form, on its Sunday evening television program.  We learned the song Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah in school.

Regionally, the Rocky Mountain West was getting pummeled by a major snow storm.



It's often noted in certain circles, but not generally discussed, that the weather of the 1940s in its entirety was odd and severe.  1940-1942 featured an event called the 1940-42 Global Anomaly which featured a strong, prolonged El Niño and two of the coldest European winters of the 20th century, but unusually warm temperatures in Alaska and the Arctic.  The War Winters of the 1940s were very bitter, with the UK experiencing its worst winter in 1940 since 1895.  Bitter weather was often a feature of horrific field conditions in Europe, with for example the entire Battle of the Bulge being notoriously cold and snowy.  The Thames and Berlin Canals froze in 1940.  1940 in the US saw the horrific 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard.  The Winter of 1946-1947 was catastrophically cold and snowy in the United Kingdom and Ireland.  The Winter of 1947 would be catastrophically severe in the American West.

When these are considered they're sometimes considered as singular localized events, but they are not, as the War Winters and the 40-42 Anamonly demonstrate. Some global weather phenomenon was going on globally, just has the warm weather of the 1930s had been.  In today's News item, we can see that what was going on in the UK and would go on in the West in 1947, was already expressing itself in the Rocky Mountain West, and indeed it had been since at least 1940.  The Winter of 1947 is regarded as a climatic shift resulting from Global Warming, which can cause weather to not only be warmer, but more severe.

The causes of climatic shifts were already being debated by the 1930s, but in general scientific consensus, in spite of what climate mythologist like to suggest, by the mid 20th Century it was understood that human beings were effecting the climate and scientists were urging action and caution by that time.  As that was ignored, it's now the point at which very pronounced action needs to take place, something that is continually hindered as the American Republican Party is an enemy of science.

The News ran a radio log for radio programming, just like a lot of newspapers currently run a television log.


The Exchange National Bank of Chicago opened the country’s first drive-in banking service. The facility had ten drive up tellers, which is quite a lot.

Last edition:

Monday, November 11, 1946. Proclamation 2710.

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

A modest proposal.

Donny Trump lost his press babbler, Lying Karoline Leavitt, who quit as her second child arrived and she wanted to spend time with him so much that she got a job at babbling on the Volksempfänger.  After she left, a second blond was found in the form of Kate Zacharia but she didn't work out for some reason.  I'm not sure what it was, as this job could be done by a 7th Grader in Trump's administration, although based on recent people occupying it, it would have be a tall blond 7th Grader.

Then he offered it to to UFC CEO Dana White, who publicly declined it. Trump later said the offer was a joke, as if he offered something to somebody, and they declined it, it might mean that he's a loser with the stench of rotting defeat.  

Now it looks like he might offer it again to Kate Zacharia, who if she has any self respect at all should decline it, particularly as the buzzards are now circling over the administration

Assuming that being a tall blond is not a requirement, a natural perfect solution can be offered up by Wyoming.

King Donny should choose Chuck Gray.

Now, admittedly, Gray has some drawbacks.  He's not tall and blond and not even a woman.  He's actually short, dumpy and balding.  But he did campaign on loving Donald Trump more than Trump loves Trump, and even more than that.  So he has that completely covered.

And he has radio experience as after he got out of the Wharton School of Alleged Economics, he worked for his daddy's radio station in Casper Wyoming where he hurled right wing Freedom Caucus carp into the radio waves.  Indeed, the well funded Gray helped bring the Dixiecrat Caucus into Wyoming, and eventually ended up in the legislature.

Lots of Wyomingites don't like him.  Indeed, as far as we can tell, he's liked by his campaign manager, who holds him as one of his few friends, and some imported Dixiecrats in the state.  He would have lost the primary election if the campaign had gone on a couple of weeks longer.  

Now, of course, he's headed to be a lame duck in Congress during a time in which the GOP's fortunes are declining by the day.  Hageman has already occupied the "everyone who disagrees with me is a commie" Joe McCarthy position, and Barrasso is just wondering around the halls giving people blank stares until he can discern what his next chameleon like personality is.  Gray will probably be given a toilet brush for his committee assignment.

So this is everyone's big chance.

He can spend the next two years being Trump's mouthpiece and loving Donald, his true love, more than Trump loves Trump, and even more than that.  Maybe he can get a position at the Don Trump MAGA Presidential Bookshelf after 2028, or go on to be Tucker Carlson's toilet scrubber.  

And Wyoming would be free of him quicker than 2028.

Monday, November 2, 2026

Monday, November 2, 1936. BBC starts television service.

The BBC Television Service was launched. 

There were fewer than 400 televisions in the entire country at the time.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was launched.

1940 CBC symbol.


The BBC and the CBC are absolutely excellent.  Having a state owned broadcasting entity is an anathema to Americans, who seemingly large numbers of detested in the form of PBS, which is unfortunate as the balanced and intelligent presentation of these services serves as a major counterweight to having the American situation, in which people gravitate towards propaganda masquerading as new, particularly on the American right.

The Spanish Nationalist took Nationalists captured Brunete.

Last edition:

Saturday, October 31, 1936. "I welcome their hatred".

Friday, October 30, 2026

Wednesday, October 30, 1946. Color TV.

The first demonstration of "simultaneous color television" was made at the RCA Research Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey. The technology, which was one of several competing concepts, transmitted three colors onto the television screen.

Black and white television, which is what would be common at first, hadn't even become common at the time.

Radio, of course, wsa the entertainment of the day.


Last edition:

Tuesday, October 29, 1946. Giving up, getting, and using The Bomb.

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Thursday, October 7, 1926. Choral Evensong.

The fusionist religion Caodaism was established in Saigon by Ngo Van Chieu with the signing of the "Declaration of the Founding of the Cao Đài Religion".

The still running Choral Evensong was broadcast for the first time, on the BBC, featuring a 15-minute airing of the Evensong, the Anglican church afternoon prayer, at 3:00 pm. 

The Yankees beat the Cardinals 3 to 2 in Game 5 of the World Series, giving them a three to two edge.

Last edition:

Wednesday, October 6, 1926. World Series Record.

Sunday, October 4, 2026

Monday, October 4, 1926. Cristero War in Guanajuato, Phar Lap, Radio recipes.

Gen. Rodolfo Gallegos led an uprising in Guanajuato, Mexico, bringing the region into the Cristero War.

Islamic courts were closed in Turkey, Turkey having completely supplanted Islamic Law with secular civil law.

Great New Zealand born racehorse Phar Lap was foaled.


Like Seabiscuit, he provided much needed hope during the Great Depression.

The horse died at age 5 in California under still debated circumstances.

Housekeepers' Chat, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and featuring the fictional "Aunt Sammy", wife of "Uncle Sam" debuted.  


Running in its original version until 1934, the show was influential. For instance, it helped improve Chinese American food by expounding on traditional Chinese cooking methods.

Last edition:

Sunday, October 3, 1926. First postseason no hitter.

Saturday, October 3, 2026

Sunday, October 3, 1926. First postseason no hitter.

The first post season no hitter was pitched by Red Grier of the Bacharach Giants in Game 3 of the Colored World Series, against the Chicago American Giants.


Grier would die in 1967 at the age of 62.

St. Louis won game two of the World Series.

Fr. Charles Coughlin began his broadcast of his weekly sermons on radio station WJR of Detroit.

Last edition

Saturday, October 2, 1926. Game 1 of the 1911 World Series.

Monday, September 28, 2026

Saturday, September 28, 1946. "I believe the outlawing of the atom bomb is the outlawing of wars... I think the time has come when humanity is intelligent enough to do away with war."

I believe the outlawing of the atom bomb is the outlawing of wars... I think the time has come when humanity is intelligent enough to do away with war.

Dwight Eisenhower, on this day.

King George II of Greece returned to the throne,

NBC radio program National Barn Dance was broadcast for the last time.

Last edition:

Tuesday, September 24, 1946. The Clifford-Elsey Report.

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Sunday, July 28, 1946. Wells exposes the assault of Sgt. Isaac Woodard, War Crimes in the Philippines, the passing of St. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception.

Howard C. Petersen, Assistant Secretary of War, announced that 131,028 American and Filipino citizens, mostly civilians, had died "as a result of war crimes" from December 7, 1941 until the end of World War II.  All but 595 of that figure were Filipino.

St. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, an Indian native, died at age 35.  She is the first woman of Indian origin to be canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church, and the first canonized saint of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.

Orson Welles read the affidavit of Sergeant Isaac Woodard on his radio show.  Woodard had been blinded in a race based assault.


Last edition:

Saturday, July 27, 1946. No to a united India.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Thursday, July 15, 1926. Aragon Ballroom and Belgian inflation.

The Aragon Ballroom opened in Chicago.

King Albert of Belgium was given six months of dictatorial powers in an effort to address inflation.

The USSR's Central Committee approved a plan to resettle 570,400 Jewish families from the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR to the Crimea.

Harold P. Sheldon, Chief U.S. Game Warden, on this date.


Last edition:

Wednesday, July 14, 1926. A new around the world record.

Sunday, March 15, 2026

Friday, March 15, 1946. Soviets in Iran.

The phony baloney Soviet constitution as amended to increase the number of republics in the U.S.S.R. from 11 to 16, and to give the head of each republic a position in the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, meaning nothing whatsoever.

Prime Minister Clement Attlee declared in the House of Commons the government's intention to grant British India its independence, stating. 

India herself must choose as to what will be her future situation and her position in the world", said Attlee, adding that "If ... she elects for independence—and in our view she has a right to do so—it will be for us to help make the transition as smooth and easy as possible.

The UK was, at this time, in the advance stages of divesting itself of its empire while causing its former Imperial subjects to believe that they were forcing it.  To this day, Indian likes to give the UK a guilt trip, which perhaps its entitled to do, but its not like they forced the British out.  The British sprinted out.

Truman exhibited confidence about the Soviets over Iran.


This is quite the contrast to Donny, who loves Putin almost as much as he loves himself.

And:


Seriously, Hemingway, why even bother?

Surplus was proving a problem:


Some interesting back country ski boots were offered. These were much like telemarking boots when I took that up in the 1980s, save for the bindings.  And these were pretty much like what my mother, who learned to ski in the 30s and 40s, used her whole life.

Last edition:

Wednesday, March 13, 1946. Strikes end.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Wednesday, March 3, 1926. National Forest Week.

The Moody Bible Institute made the first radio broadcast of an evangelical radio program.

Odd to think they didn't exist at one time.

Germany and Afghanistan entered into a treat of friendship.

Coolidge proclaimed National Forest Week.

Proclamation, March 3, 1926

Purpose: To proclaim and celebrate American Forest Week

Date: March 3, 1926

(Original document available here)


In again proclaiming American Forest Week it is fitting that, while giving full weight to the evils resulting from impoverished forests and idle land, I should lay stress upon the outward spread of forestry in industrial practice and land usage. Too long have we as a nation consumed our forest wealth without adequate provision for its wise utilization and renewal. But a gratifying change is taking place in the attitude of our industries, our landowners, and the American people toward our forests.

The wise use of land is one of the main foundations of sound national economy. It is the corner stone of national thrift. The waste or misuse of natural resources cuts away the groundwork on which national prosperity is built. If we are to flourish, as a people and as individuals, we must neither wastefully hoard nor wastefully exploit, but skillfully employ and renew the resources that nature has entrusted to us. America’s forest problem essentially is a problem involving the wise use of land that can and should produce crops of timber.

Flourishing woodlands, however, mean more than timber crops, permanent industries, and an adequate supply of wood. They minister to our need for outdoor recreation; they preserve animal and bird life; they protect and beautify our hillsides and feed our streams; they preserve the inspiring natural environment which has contributed so much to American character.

Although our national progress in forestry has been well begun, much remains to be done through both concerted and individual effort. We must stamp out the forest fires which still annually sweep many wooded areas, destroying timber the nation can ill afford to lose and killing young growth needed to constitute the forests of the future. Forest fires, caused largely by human indifference or carelessness, are the greatest single obstacle to reforestation and effective forest management.

We must encourage and extend methods of timber cutting which perpetuate the forest while harvesting its products. We must plant trees in abundance on idle land where they can profitably be grown. We must examine taxation practices that may form economic barriers to timber culture. We must encourage the extension of forest ownership on the part of municipalities, counties, States, and the Federal Government. And we must take common counsel in public meetings to the end that the forestry problems of each region may be well considered and adequately met.

Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of April 18–24, inclusive, 1926, as American Forest Week; and I recommend to the Governors of the various States that they also designate the week of April 18–24 as American Forest Week and observe Arbor Day within that week wherever practicable and not in conflict with law or accepted custom. And I urge public officials, public and business organizations, industrial leaders, landowners, editors, educators, clergymen, and all patriotic citizens to unite in the common task of forest conservation and renewal.

The action of the Canadian Government in likewise proclaiming the week of April 18–24, inclusive, as a period when the utmost stress shall be laid upon the problems of forest conservation and renewal, thus unifying the respective efforts of Canada and the United States, is an added reason why our citizens should give careful thought to a matter so important to both countries.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this third day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fiftieth.

Nassau Street, New York City, March 3, 1926.

Today In Wyoming's History: March 3: 1916  A spinsters convention is held in Gillette. Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

Last edition:

Saturday, February 20, 1926.

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Sunday, February 8, 2026

The 2026 Wyoming Legislature, Part 2. Pre Legislative Committee Edition.

 


November 15, 2025

Wyoming ‘Tim Tebow’ Rule Heads To Lawmaking Session


I'm frankly not keen on this at all.  Playing sports and being in activities are vital parts of school.  They help socialization.  Parents who seek to avoid socialization are harming their children and there are nwo a lot of private school options that would be better choices for those seeking to evade the perceived dangers, often fictional, of public schools

A long time legislator has passed away.

Wyoming Rep. John Eklund dies: Legislators say they will remember Eklund for his mentorship, kind spirit and thoughtful approach to lawmaking.

November 18, 2025

November 19, 2025

November 22, 2025

This is flat out irresponsible and insane:

Wyoming Legislators Advance Plan To Kill All Residential Property Taxes

December 16, 2025

Five takeaways from the Wyoming Legislature’s budget hearings: The Joint Appropriations Committee wrapped up its first round of hearings Friday.

December 19, 2025

 A Q&A with Pine Bluffs’ Justin Fornstrom, Wyoming’s newest state lawmaker: Laramie County commissioners selected Fornstrom to represent a House seat vacated by the late John Eklund.

January 8, 2026

We had this news posted here yesterday:

Abortion in Wyoming and the Law of Unintended Consequences.

 This is what happens when a dumb, paranoid,  amendment to the Constitution is made.

The amendment that brought down the state's abortion laws was passed due to right wing paranoia that the AHCA would create "death panels". That fear was frankly stupid, but it was adopted by far right Republicans who really believed it.  The prime architect of the amendment has gone on record that he'd feel awful if the amendment caused the abortion laws to fail, and in fact he should feel awful.

I'll confess that when I first posted this, I was harsher on the paranoia of the Wyoming Republican Party that gave us the dumbass head in the sand amendment to the Wyoming Constitution based on fear of the ACHA.  I'm obviously being less kind here.

Anyhow, the Tribune notes:

Wyoming Republicans seek to amend constitution

The flaming dipshits that passed the amendment that caused this to occur in the first place ought to just repeal that amendment.  Indeed, they ought to cal lit "B______ B_________was a dumbass paranoid moron amendment repeal".

They won't, as the best thing to do when somebody does something rampagingly stupid is to double down on the stupidity, apparently. After all, look at the ongoing Republican support for Donald Dipshit Trump.

Anyhow, they're going to address their failure with a proposed amendment to the Constitution. That amendment will fail to get support from the electorate, which they'll find basically likes the idea of killing babies as it means they can complain about gays and the transgendered while being sexually immoral themselves.

January 9, 2026

Rep. Elissa Campbell files resolution for Wyoming abortion amendment

That was fast.

Wyoming Democrats, I'd note, are making the classic blunder.  They should simply say nothing at all, and not go out to own a result that they don't really own.  The Wyoming Supreme Court's ruling came about as the far right of the Wyoming GOP went out and shot itself in the foot.  Now it's going to go to the voters.  A smart Democratic policy would be just to sit back and do nothing at all.  But, they  just can't help themselves:

Laramie lawmakers celebrate abortion ruling

The state supreme court ruled abortion is a fundamental constitutional right. Provenza, Chestek and Rothfuss say it’s a win for individual liberty and they’ll resist calls to change the constitution.

Chances are high that not enough Wyoming voters are going to vote for the proposed constitutional amendment for it to pass, and if there are, the Democrats are going to effect that anyhow.  Indeed, by making it an issue and embracing abortion, it'll drive GOP voters who likely would vote against the amendment or sit the election out, into voting as they'll want to vote against the Democrats.  Given the immorality of abortion, it's truly an example of errare humanum est perseverare diabolicum.

January 10, 2026

Lawmaker Unveils Bill To Prevent DUI Charges For Drunk Horseback Riding

January 13, 2026

Wyoming Freedom Caucus aims at state spending, voting machines and the judicial branch in 2026 priorities: The group of conservative Republicans has promised cuts since last spring, but won’t say where and how deep.

Lawmakers question Wyoming Public Media’s funding

The public radio station is headquartered on the UW campus and receives some state funding via UW’s block grant. WPM weathered a 10% cut when the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was axed.

January 14, 2026

The freakishly dumb caucus votes to keep everyone else as dumb as possible.

Lawmakers vote to axe UW’s block grant, defund Wyoming Public Media: Wyoming Freedom Caucus members on a key budget committee take aim at the state’s lone four-year public university.

My opinion, of course, is harsh, but frankly many of the Dukes of Hazzard crowd in the Freely Dumb Caucus don't trust education.  People who are educated don't believe the same dumb stuff they do, so they don't like it.

And they're going after the Wyoming Business Council.

This one at its core is a completely unthinking objection to socialism.  We don't like socialism, because it's socialism.  Not much more thought behind it than that.

I'll often hear that the WBC picks "winners and losers" which might be right, but the state's economy otherwise is pretty much making all Wyomingites losers.

January 16, 2026

Gov's Office: "This Is Nuts" As Bill To Kill Wyo Biz Council Heads To Legislature

January 17, 2016

Sigh . . . 

January 24, 2026

Going Feral: Lawmaker Unveils Bill To Sell Between 30,000 And 2...: Another moronic idea by a Wyoming Republican, a party which seems to draw from the endless well of bad ideas. Wasserburger is going right on...

Jacob Wasserburger came up with this bad idea, but it sounds a lot like he's been sitting around with Mike Lee, the Senator from Deseret.  He's signed on to the no prescription for Ivermectin act as well, these two things indicating that he's hanging out with, in not in, the Freedom Caucus.

January 27, 2026

Nuclear waste, state land use top Wyoming Legislature’s energy agenda: Recent controversies over sprawling energy development have triggered a slate of bills to empower voters and communities in state-level energy ambitions.

The assault on education in the legislature continues on:

After pushback, legislative committee scales back proposed cuts to public education: Lawmakers tweaked provisions that would have increased class size and omitted positions like school counselors from the funding model. This came after hours of testimony, much in opposition.

Noble act from the football coach.

Wyoming Football Coach Jay Sawvel Cuts Salary $125K To Boost Player Funding

When things are so bad that even UW football is cutting back, you know the "we don't need no education" crowd is way out of control.

The following should be a hard "no". 

Rep. Bill Allemand asks judge to rescind court-ordered alcohol testing during upcoming legislative session: The Midwest lawmaker is contesting his DUI charge following his arrest last month in Johnson County.

Tracking Shot Bears With Dogs Would Be Legal Under Hunting Bill

January 28, 2026

January 29, 2026

February 6, 2026

Wyoming’s 2026 budget session starts Monday. Here’s what you need to know.: Lawmakers have a budget to pass this year. Major cuts to the University of Wyoming and the Wyoming Business Council are on the table.

Tom Lubnau: This Session, A Failed Budget Shuts Wyoming Down

Columnist Tom Lubnau writes, "Stop worrying about appeasement and start worrying about Wyoming. Vote against dumb bills. Vote against social engineering. Vote against unconstitutional stunts and time-wasters. Keep this session about the budget—and only the budget."

February 7, 2026

Wyoming lawmakers exempt two UW programs, one facility from proposed $40 million cut: Lawmakers had previously exempted the education and agriculture colleges from what would amount to an 11% reduction to the school’s block grant.

Wyoming Bill Could Let 18-Year-Olds Carry Concealed Guns On UW Campus

 And something to remember:

Tom Lubnau: This Session, A Failed Budget Shuts Wyoming Down

February 8, 2026

Proposed Bill Would Legalize Corner-Crossing On Wyoming Public Lands

And this closes out this edition.  On to the live nightmare tomorrow.

Last edition:

The 2026 Wyoming Legislature, Part 1. The way too early edition.