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Saturday, November 23, 2019

Hunting (and fishing), Stateside, during World War Two.


A note.  And one that I'll note here more than I might otherwise when I'd otherwise note it.  This post engages in a lot of speculation.

That's because the details on this one are really hard to get.


A year ago I posted this item, which dealt with putting game meat on the table during World War One:

So you're living in Wyoming (or the West in general) during the Great War and there's talk of food conservation, and you are a hunter. . .

what would that have been like?

At the same time I posted that, I was going to follow up with one on the same topic, but for stateside during World War Two.  I'm finally getting back around to it.

And in getting back to it, I'm finding that I know a whole lot less about it than I thought I would, and its hard to find information on it.

Before I go on, however, I should note that, in fact, I actually did touch on this topic just a bit, and in a way that's relevant to our topic here. So to show I'm not completely remiss, I'll incorporate that old text back in, right below.  You'll note that we're not only repeating that post, but repeating the photo that we linked in above.

Today In Wyoming's History: October 14, 1943. Material shortages in World War Two and the Hunting Camp.

Deer season opens in much of Wyoming today, and apparently has for awhile, which brings us to this interesting item from 1943.

Today In Wyoming's History: October 14:

October 14


1943  Hunters were asked to donate animal skins to the war effort.  Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.

A Wisconsin deer camp in 1943.  I couldn't find a Wyoming example and this one was available for use. The rifle on the wall appears to be a nice Mauser with a set trigger, perhaps a rebuild of a World War One prize rifle.  Photograph courtesy of the Wisconsin Department of Fish and Game, which retains all rights to the same.

If this seems like an unusual request, we have to keep in mind that the leather requirements for the service during World War Two were quite high, and moreover various uniform items used different types of leather.  Cowhide was the most common leather in use, of course, but elk hide was specifically required for mounted service boots, which were used by cavalrymen, horse artillerymen and other mounted soldiers.  While its common to believe that mounted soldiers did not exist in the U.S. Army during the Second World War, this is in fact incorrect and only horse artillery was actually phased out during the war.  Mounted service boots continued to be made for service use as late as the late 1940s.

As noted in the entry above, leather was a serious war material during World War Two.  Indeed, I could have gone into more detail than I did.  As noted, cowhide was to be found in regular Army combat boots, service shoes (an ankle high boot) and shoes, but also in such things as tanker's helmets.  Horsehide formed the original leather for the famous A2 flight jacket, but apparently due to shortages that was changed to goat hide fairly early on. Those who received the early A2 jackets were lucky as horse hide is incredibly tough, although the goat hide jackets were loved by those who were issued them.  Most of those soldier were airmen, but not all of them were, as they were also a semi dress item for paratroopers, showing in part how many were made.

Sheepskin was the material for an early series of high altitude flight jackets mistakenly remembered today as "bomber jackets".  Like A2s, they were general issue for pilots in Europe until mid war when a synthetic flight jacket began to replace it.  They remain a popular item today, as does the A2, on the civilian market.

So I can see where deer and elk hides would have been in demand.

What's a little more puzzling, actually, in this photograph, is the presence of the young men in the photo. We tend to think of every available man of service age being in the service during World War Two, and as the war went on those eligible for conscription definitely increased as service standards decreased, strained by the war as they were.  But here we see at least a couple of men of service age in the photo.  Of course any number of explanations could explain what we're seeing. They could have been service men on leave, or who had been discharged for wounds.  Or ineligible due to health.  Or in war vital jobs where they were exempt from conscription, or otherwise so exempt.  

Hunting in World War Two, I recall my father telling me (who was in his early to mid teens at the time) was made a bit difficult because of cartridge shortages.  Of course, reloading already existed so some may have had prewar stocks of supplies.  Otherwise, shells were hard to get.  Gasoline to get to the game fields was as well, which might have increased the need to have a camp like these folks (who obviously had one before the war, however, as we can see the years that they've occupied it written on the wall).

Of course meat and other foods were also rationed during the war, which would have made a camp like this all the more attractive for other reasons as well.

Lots to ponder and consider in this one.

Which takes us back to our topic.

For those who may not have read it, the first post dealt with hunting in every sense during the World War One time frame, including conditions and technology.  Like a lot of topics we can and have addressed that contrast World War One with World War Two, the topic is a lot different for the Second World War in every sense. 

So first, take a gander at the first post, so you'll have a grasp, if you can't already, of the general conditions in the 1910s, and more specifically in the 1914-18 time frame.

We'll touch upon the lot of the same topics, and when we do we'll related back so that we've tied in what we've already written on. 

Okay with all of that in the works, let's start off with some basics.  First of all, there were a lot of good reason to go hunting in 1918.


Now, there are always a lot of good reasons to go hunting.  It's a good way to really connect with real nature, not some sort of sanitized look at me in my high tech gear pretending to be in nature.  And its a good way to get the protein you are actually evolved to eat.  It's good to be out in nature in general.  But in 1918, it would have also been a good way to get meat without being subject to the public harassment the government was engaging in at the time.

Easy to do, right?

Well, oddly not so much.

This is one of those topics I should know a lot more about than I do, as I already noted.  After all, my father was in his early teens during this period and he was a hunter and fisherman, so I surely know a lot first hand about this, right?

Well, not as much as you might think, although I can recall broaching the topic with my father.

Part of the reason, in retrospect, that I don't know that much about this in that second hand fashion is that my father really never said that much about his early life.  He did some, and in some areas, but on a lot of topics he was pretty quiet.  My grandfather died just after my father graduated from high school and that was such a painful event that he was just silent on a lot of things that involved my grandfather.  This is likely one of them.

I know that my grandfather was a hunter and fisherman from my father.  In terms of being a hunter, he was a bird hunter.  As far as  I know he was not a big game hunter at any point in his life.  At least in his married years he didn't own a rifle.  He did own a shotgun, and according to my uncle, was so good with a shotgun that he'd hunt pheasants with a single shot .410 and only take the small number of shells needed to fill his limit, and come back with that.  I.e., if the limit was three, he took three shells.

He hunted waterfowl as well, and indeed he used a double barrel, exposed hammer, Damascus twist  12 gauge shotgun for that.  Indeed, I have a letter he wrote to my father, early in my father's college career, noting that he had been invited to Thermopolis to hunt ducks.  I don't think of Thermopolis as a waterfowl destination today, but it does have year around open water and farm fields.  It probably does have good waterfowl hunting.

More than anything else that letter, I'd note, counseled my father not to worry so much.  I don't think of my father as somebody who worried a lot, but he may have.  I do.  But I digress.

Rationing

In my first post dealing with the Great War I noted the following as a good reason to get out in the game fields in 1917 and 1918.

Okay with all of that in the works, let's start off with some basics.  First of all, there were a lot of good reason to go hunting in 1918.

Now, there are always a lot of good reasons to go hunting.  It's a good way to really connect with real nature, not some sort of sanitized look at me in my high tech gear pretending to be in nature.  And its a good way to get the protein you are actually evolved to eat.  It's good to be out in nature in general.  But in 1918, it would have also been a good way to get meat without being subject to the public harassment the government was engaging in at the time.

World War One era poster, one of a series, on various "less" days.  As I've posted here before, for the nation's Catholic and Orthodox minority, the social pressure that applied to such things must have been a particular nightmare during World War One as they already had days in which they abstained from various foods and the government's actions, perhaps intentionally, didn't jive with what they were already doing. So they were getting days added to their already "meatless" days.

There was no rationing in the United States during World War One.  Or not of the type we'd see in World War Two. About the biggest thing that the government did was to deprive brewers and distillers of grain, which started them off to the temporary extension of those industries that would follow the war with the passage of the Volstead Act in 1919.  But meat wasn't rationed, for example.

The government urged consumers to save wheat by switching to other grains, such as corn and oats, for their recipes. It then restricted brewers supplies, and then cut them off, from corn and barley.

Which did not keep the government from engaging in an ongoing campaign of harassment which included all sorts of meatless and porkless days. There were no "deerless" days, or antelopeless days, or the like, so getting one would have involved getting some meat that some annoying campaign wasn't involved with.

In 1941 through 45 there was an additional reason.

Rationing

Grocery store customer presenting ration coupons.

During the Great War the government didn't ration food, or anything else, in the United States. It resorted instead to campaigns, including just outright shaming you if you didn't get with the program.  During World War Two, it outright controlled access to many commodities, including lots of foods.

This was a huge change from the First World War and was no doubt for a variety of reason, including an appreciation that the war wasn't going to be over quickly.  Indeed, World War Two ended more quickly than anticipated (so did World War One, after we reassessed what we'd gotten into).


The Office of Price Control, a wartime agency, was given authority to impose rationing on January 30, 1942, mere days after our entry into the war.  By the spring of 1942 sugar was rationed.  By November, coffee rationed.  The following March of 1943 meat, cheese, fats, canned fish, canned milk and various other processed foods were rationed.  Late war the limits started to come off, save for sugar which was rationed into 1947.


Added to that massive meat purchases by the government impacted supplies in any event.  Military disruptions of regular food supplies and transportation were an enormous feature of the war.  So even if you had enough in the way of ration tickets to buy a leg of lamb at the grocers, there was really no guaranty that it was going to be there.


Contrary to the way a lot of Americans chose to remember it later, rationing was very unpopular.  Black markets and cheating were endemic.  The government always knew that it wasn't popular but in an effort to reduce its impact promoted gardening to alleviate shortages.  Victory Gardens, as in World War One, were common in World War Two.


With that being the case, Victory Hunting, if you will, made sense.  If you couldn't buy meat downtown, shoot it out in the field.  If you couldn't buy fish, catch it.

Big Game

The best way to put quite a bit of meat on the table would logically be to get an animal that's pretty big. So logically, we'd expect big game hunting to have increased. But there were a lot of factors going into that, including of course that a lot of hunters were serving in the military.

Western ammunition advertisement from World War Two.  These are posted here using the educational and commentary exceptions for copyrights.  This advertisement gives a good example of how ammunition companies used their wartime manufacturing in the form of patriotic advertising while also providing the reason for the absence of their product from store shelves.


On that, however, let's note that there was never an era in which every single American male was in the service, as sometimes we also like to hear suggested. A huge number were, but quite a few were exempt from service also. Additionally, a lot of North American men never left our shores.  Stateside service is service, and that should not be noted.  But not everyone's service was like being in Saving Private Ryan.



Anyhow, it occurs to me now that what my grandfather hunted is what we'd expect a Mid Westerner to hunt in the first half of the 20th Century, which is what he was.  Bird hunting was good from where he was from, and it wasn't bad here.  So that's what he'd grown up doing and that's what he did.

By his early years deer hunting had likely declined in the Mid West and all big game hunting had very much declined here.  Indeed, Antelope, which outnumber people in Wyoming, was closed to hunting at some point point in the 1890s and the first hunting season wasn't reopened for antelope until 1943.  This is hard for modern Wyomingites to imagine, as antelope are now so numerous they're a road hazard in town.

For that matter, deer are also.  Both of these events, however, developed in my own lifetime. There were no antelope in town until I was in my twenties.  Now there are deer, antelope and turkeys in town.  Deer appear in a lot of towns all over the United States, and for that matter elk show up in towns like Estes Park, Colorado. That's all quite new.

In 1943, when antelope was reopened, antelope hunting had been illegal in the state for fifty years.  However, anemic law enforcement meant that it likely continued to occur until around World War One.  It was in that decade that the Game and Fish really began to become effective and have the real ability to actually enforce the state's game laws.  Indeed, we've already seen an instance here in which a Game Warden lost his life in 1919 trying to enforce the law, something that is in fact exceedingly rare, thankfully.*

Men my father's age who had grown up here always remarked how much more big game there was in the state in their later years than when they were young.  They attributed it to the solid work of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and also to ranchers, who began to police illegal hunting on their own lands and who put in a lot of water improvements.  People don't think much about that now, but men of that generation frequently remarked how water improvements had created big game populations were they'd never, and we do mean never, been before.  They were well aware of the changes.

This is true for Wyoming but it's also true for lots of the West.  The huge elk, deer and antelope populations today are a produce of those early 20th Century efforts by hunters and fish and game departments.

What that does mean, however, is that in a lot of the country there wasn't nearly the big game there is now.  There were deer camps in the Midwest and deer hunting in the South and East.  In the West it occurred as well. But the huge populations we see today, well that's new and post war.

And all of that is a pretty significant factor.

So, just to start with, for family's like ours, in much of the country, there wasn't a really high chance that you were going to rely on deer or elk for the year simply because the numbers weren't there.  In some parts of the country, this wasn't the case and you could.

Which takes us to the next big game factor which had really changed, and then also hadn't changed to the present level.   Before we do that, however, we'll look at small game and birds, which are actually hunted more than big game.

Other Game


Another example of wartime advertising, this time for Remington ammunition and shotguns.  The dress shown for the duck hunter is correct for this period.  Note the lack of camouflage.

We've spoken mostly about big game so far.  Frankly much of what we've noted would apply to other types of hunting as well (and fishing to some extent), but as big game hunting is more of a dedicated enterprise, and as small game populations were very high in this period, with bird populations recovering from market hunting earlier in the century, the situation was truly different as to hunting these categories.  You could plan, however, to pretty easily supplement the table with game birds of all types as well as rabbits, as long as you could secure ammunition, and by and large, while it was very much limited, it was at least somewhat available.

In fact something odd about mid century not only made rabbits available for hunting, but had risen them to a threatening pest.  Rabbit populations exploded to such a level during the 1920s and 1930s that a lot of communities had "rabbit drives" to try to knock the population of them down. In spite of repeated annual efforts, it was only partially successful, and rabbits remained easily available.

Rabbits, in fact, had established themselves as a category of poverty food during the Depression, when their vast populations coincided with desperation.  Lots of people in various parts of the nation supplemented their tables with rabbit, and sending out a younger member of the family to hunt rabbits as a serious endeavor was extremely common.

Waterfowl was also in good supply during the 1940s and large numbers of men hunted ducks and geese on a dedicated regulated basis.  Indeed, waterfowl hunters fell victim to one of the great stateside disasters of the World War Two period, the 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard, that hit the Midwest.  Forty nine duck hunters in Minnesota alone were killed in the blizzard.  That was the year prior to the U.S. entering the war, of course, but it provides an example of how waterfowl hunting was doing well during the 1940s.

Indeed, one of the things if you look at ammunition posters and the covers of sporting magazines of this era that strikes you is how often they depict scenes of small game and waterfowl hunting. That's what was on hunter's minds, as that's what they were doing.

Of course, if you were going hunting during the war, for whatever you were hunting, you had to get there. . . .

Motor transportation.

In our earlier post on this topic, we noted that in the 1917-1919 time frame, motor transportation isn't what it was today.


So good to go, right?  Just pack up and drive out and go hunting.  After all, there were no "deerless" or elkless days.

Well, that's where the difficulties really begin when we look at this topic.

Col.. Billy Mitchell after hunting boars in France. This photo was taken during World War One under obviously different conditions than we'd see in the states, but the draped over the front fender method of carrying game was really common as long as cars had this general configuration.

Maybe, maybe not.

Now, by 1918 cars weren't brand new in the US by any means.  Scenes like that in The Wild Bunch in which a person is amazed by the presence of a car in the Teens are baloney, where as a scene like that in The Professionals in which a Model T is already old would have been common.  The Ford Model T was by far the most common automobile in the United States at the time, but the car had not achieved the universal ownership standard it would soon.  Lots of people didn't own a car at the time, even though a lot did.  People living in larger metropolitan areas, particularly did not. Surprisingly a lot of rural people also did not; they did not need them.

So things had changed by 1939-1945, right?

Well yes and no.

Motor vehicles came on rapidly after the Model T was introduced, and indeed it didn't take very long for the Model T to have substantial competition.  In fact, we've been running, in a different context, Gasoline Alley cartoons from 1919, in which the use of, repair of, and the buying of selling of, automobiles was a common and repetitive theme.  And that cartoon started in 1919.

By 1939, a mere twenty years later, the early automobiles had yielded to the next generation of automobiles, which are more recognizable to us.  As they came in, as another thread will shortly explore, so did the pickup truck.

Having noted that, a lot of early cars were in fact pretty truck like, or at least SUV like, if we don't require a SUV to be a four wheel drive.  They had good clearance and relatively low gearing, both of which were features of the fairly primitive roads they were expected to have to be driven on, at least on occasion.  As the other thread will note, even the 1954 Chevrolet Sedan I once owned had surprisingly good clearance and I'd use it to go fishing in the summer.  Lots of people did just the same with their 1920s and 30s vintage vehicles, which are the ones that would have been in use in the 1939 to 1945 time frame.**

Also in this time frame the pickup truck came in, with the first examples of production models come in during the 1920s.  The pickup truck rapidly became a highly common vehicle in the West.

Just like today, right?

Well. . . no.

What didn't exist in average hands were four wheel drives.

Four wheel drive as introduced mechanically very early, and it actually predates World War One. But it was also extremely primitive and heavy duty.  The details of how to make an effective four wheel drive vehicle on a less than industrial vehicle level really weren't worked out, with some odd ball exceptions, just prior to World War Two and frankly because of it.  Four wheel drives made their appearance in various armies between the wars and in the American Army and the British Army in particular there was a lot of emphasis put on developing them.  Indeed, in the U.S. Army the push was such that a dissatisfied artillery branch developed its own 6x6 vehicles between the wars and the Army manufactured them itself until the cost was simply to high to rationalize.  By that time, however, they'd advanced the technology sufficiently that by the late 1930s civilian manufacturers were ready to take over.

Just prior to the U.S. entering the war civilian manufacturers were at the point where they were ready to make 4x4s for the military in the light vehicle roll.  The Army adopted 1/4 ton  and 1/2 ton trucks, and spinoffs of the same, just prior to the war  Fairly early in the war these had been supplemented by 3/4 ton trucks.  In the light category, 1/4 ton, Willys was the leader with its Jeep, although the light vehicle manufacturer Bantam had taken a serious run at the field, and Ford was in it as well. At the 1/2 ton and 3/4 ton truck level, Dodge was the leader in the U.S. but Chevrolet was in the mix as well (and oddly the leader for Commonwealth 4x4s, which were heavier) and International was also making 4x4 trucks.

All that set the stage for post war, but it didn't mean anything in terms of civilian vehicles.  Civilian vehicles were 2x4.

And 2x4 vehicles, including trucks, are limited in the winter and in rough country.

Indeed, while it comes well after this, this enters into the area of my personal experience.

My father, who was an outdoorsman, only ever owned one 4x4 pickup, and it was one that he bought from me.  Otherwise, he didn't ever own one.  He acknowledged the rough country merits of 4x4s, but like a lot of drivers of his generation he never owned one as he believed that the increased number of moving parts they had meant they had to be maintained more and wore out quicker.  This belief was common.

Indeed, this belief was so common that area ranchers held it as well.  Quite a few ranchers in this region, well into the 1960s, relied upon 2x4s for daily ranch duties. They often, but not always, had a 4x4 but it was often a really heavy duty one like the flat fender style Power Wagon and they used it only for rough use and feeding.  They typically didn't use it as a daily driver, with there being some exceptions.

As an example of this, my father in laws father, who was a rancher and farmer his entire life, didn't drive 4x4s, just 2x4s.

For men of that generation, if conditions were really bad, they'd used tire chains to remedy it.  Everyone who had a 2x4 pickup had tire chains.  Now, a lot of people who have 4x4s do not have chains, although people who traverse the really nasty country in really nasty conditions do.  I do.  Even more amazingly, however, it was fairly common for men, and they were mostly all men, to just chain one tire.  In an era prior to positrac, all rear axles were "lockers" and that would usually work.

The point of all of this is this.  The same generation that relied on 2x4 pickups didn't go out in really horrible conditions when they could avoid it.  So, once winter really hit, and in a lot of areas it hits early, a lot of the country was just shut off.  There were no ATVs (I wish there wasn't now) and most urban dwellers didn't have horses, so the seasons in the really remote areas shut down at that point, whether they were open or not.

Added to that, the pickups of the day had surprisingly short range.

Up until at least the late 1960s pickup trucks had "saddle tanks", which were gasoline tanks that were in the cab of the truck.  The bench seat, and they were all bench seats, was right in front of the gasoline tank in the cab.  Off hand, the only exceptions I can think of were military trucks in the pickup truck class, which did have gasoline tanks that were located under the box.  Why this wasn't universally done I have no idea of.

Anyhow, the tanks usually only held around 13 gallons of gasoline.  As trucks of this era all got bad mileage, the far edge of your range was really only around 140 miles at the most.  Indeed, when I drive a 1960s vintage truck from Casper and Laramie, and vice versa, as a student, I stopped off in Medicine Bow to top off the truck.  Laramie is 145 miles from Casper.

Given this, it was the universal practice of outdoorsmen to take cans of gasoline with them if they were going way out into the hills.  My father, for example, would take a Jeep can with five extra gallons of gasoline if he was going up into areas that today I would never think of doing that for.    Not too surprisingly, therefore, most people stuck  much closer to town that a person might otherwise suspect.

Added to that, during World War Two gasoline was rationed in the United States.

The story of gasoline rationing is a little more complicated than generally portrayed.  For one thing, it didn't come into effect in all states at the same time.  Originally seventeen states on the East Coast were subject to it starting in May, 1942.  In order to make the pain of the effort universal, the Administration brought it to the remaining states by the end of the year.

Oddly, the effort didn't exist in order to conserve gasoline, but rubber. The logic was that with less gas there would be less driving, and that would save rubber.  Rubber was in short supply during the war and there were constant concerns about rubber.  In order to even get a ration stamp you had to demonstrate that you didn't have more than five rubber tires.  For the same reason, the speed limit was made to be a maximum 35 mph nationwide, half of that which applies on many of the state's highways today.

Stamps were affixed to car windows indicating their gasoline acquisition priority.  A stickers limited a car to 4 gallons of gasoline per week.  B stickers could get 8 gallons per week, and were issued to those who worked for a military industry.  C stickers were issued to those who were essential to the war effort, such as physicians, and X were priority stickers which allowed for unlimited gasoline purchases.

For most people, therefore, you weren't going to get much gasoline in the first place and therefore your ability to go very far was constricted.  You weren't going very far.  And if you saved up so  you could, you were only going to do so maybe once.  That would certainly impact how you did things, at a bare minimum.

But people did indeed go out.  Saving up gas rations, traveling with companions, there were ways to get it done, but with an economy of resources.

Shortages of other things

Among that economy of resources, we'd note, were cartridges.

Wartime advertisement explaining part of the reasons that shotgun shells were in short supply. . . they were going to the military.

Every manufacturer that could be pressed into making war materials was, and those that basically made something that was a war material was naturally pressed into service.  Such items as washing machines, for example were not made during the war as their makers were making other things for the military.  Cars weren't precluded from being manufactured for civilians after a date in 1942 and therefore 1942 was actually the last model of civilian vehicle until the war was over.

Ammunition manufacturers obviously had a specific wartime role to do.

While most civilians probably don't appreciate it, the military has made its own ammunition for a very, very long time.  Those familiar with cartridge cases can identify which government arsenal ammunition came from simply by reading the information stamped into the cartridge's base.

Be that as it may, the military never makes enough ammunition during war time or times of crisis to supply its own needs, so companies that made ammunition were busy during the war making it for the military.  That means, for civilians, ammunition was hard to get.  People did get it, but at least based on what I've been told, the supply of ammunition really curtailed a lot of hunting during the war. Even hand loaders would likely have found supplies of components very hard to get after a certain point, although I suspect that those who were dedicated shooters probably started stocking up in 1939.

Indeed, they would have had reason to as American ammunition manufacturers also supplied ammunition to Allied powers.  I don't know how extensive this was during WWII, but I know that at least the British purchased U.S. manufactured ammunition. As during the war certain U.S. weapons spread to our Allies, U.S. ammunition no doubt did as well.

Yet another example, this time from Savage. The Savage Model 99 was the most modern and unique lever action of the time and in fact had been purchased in small numbers during World War One by at least one Canadian militia unit.  The hunter is again shown in correct clothing for the era, note the red hat.

Suffice it to say, arms manufacturers also were busy with wartime production. However, while the war lasted for the U.S. from December 1941 until August 1945, there was no shortage of civilian arms and therefore this would have had very little impact on civilians during this time frame.

On those arms, quite a bit had happened since World War One, because of World War One.

Prior to World War One, the great American hunting rifle was a lever action and the great cartridge in most hunter's minds was the .30-30 Winchester.  We dealt with that, somewhat, in a footnote in the post on this topic in relation to the Great War.

The First World War exposed millions of American men to bolt action rifles for the first time, and by the same token to the U.S. .30-06 cartridge.  The combined impact didn't cause the lever action .30-30 to disappear, but it did make huge dents in its occupation of this field.  Soon after the war hunters took up hunting with bolt actions in greater numbers, some of those rifles being 98 Mausers that were brought home as war prizes.  More than a few of those rifles are still in use today.  Surplus M1903 Springfields and M1917 Enfields soon became available as well.  Winchester introduced its Model 54 bolt action, a rifle based on the M1903, in 1925 and a real evolution in this era began.

The Model 54 never achieved the legendary status that its successor the Model 70 did, which was introduced in 1936.  It went on to be a legend and achieved that status nearly from the onset of its introduction.

Remington actually beat Winchester to the punch, introducing the Model 30 in 1921.  In doing that, Remington was making a virtue out of necessity, as the Model 30 was a civilian version of the M1917, a rifle that Remington had made over 1,000,000 of for the Army during World War One, but which had seen an abrupt and financially devastating contract termination for as soon as the war was over.  Left with a large number of M1917 parts in process, in 1921 it took to using them for a civilian bolt action rifle.

In some ways the Remington rifle was better than the Model 54 and Model 70.  For one thing, it's "dog leg" bolt handle was so law that it would accept any scope without modification.  This was not true of the pre World War Two Model 70s.  As it was, however, this hardly mattered as few American hunters of the time used scopes.  Indeed, the Lyman Alaskan, with a mere 2.5X magnification, was introduced just prior to war and was about as popular of scope as there was, which says something as its a marginal product at best.  Target shooters were using the expensive 8X Unertl by this time, which is a super scope for the range.  The inadequacy of American scopes of the period is shown by the fact that the Marine Corps chose to use this scope, rather than the anemic Alaskan, in spite of it  featuring fragile mounts and being rather complicated to use.

Shotgun wise, the years between the wars made the Winchester Model 12, which had been introduced in 1912, absolutely dominant.  Other designs existed but the years between the war were the years of the Model 12, when it achieved absolute dominance.

That it achieved dominance is remarkable for another reason.  Up until extremely recently, and even to a fair extent now for that matter, most men who hunted big game tended to own one rifle, or perhaps two.  Multiple gun batteries were uncommon.

Frankly, they are now as well. And it would be totally untrue to suggest that there were not men who owned multiple rifles.  There very much were. But the rule tended to be that a man acquired a rifle, often as a gift, when he was of hunting age and that rifle, if it was new, tended to be the one he used the rest of his life.

That was very much the case for men that I knew who had grown up in the 40s, and for that matter it was also generally the case for men my age as well.  My own father had first gone big game hunting in the late 1940s with a borrowed .30-40 Krag lever action.  As he wanted his own rifle, and had limited funds, he ordered a surplus M1903 from the government soon thereafter but the onset of the Korean War precluded it from arriving.  At some point, his mother bought him a Remington 721 .30-06 and he used it for the rest of his life.  Two friends of his had Winchester Model 70s they had acquired when they were young and they never owned another rifle even though they were dedicated hunters.  All of these rifles were fitted with scopes from the period when they were new, and those scopes were never replaced.

For boys here, when you were old enough to big game hunt, which is somewhat older than it is now, the topic of rifles was an intense one.  Types and calibers were debated, and hit was hoped that whatever was given to you as a gift fitted your hopes as it was assumed you'd use it forever.  Quite frankly, that assumption was largely correct and undoubtedly many big game rifles given to boys here in their teens remain in use by their owners today exactly as anticipated.

This is noted here for a couple of reasons.  One is that it means that a lot of hunters in the 1940s were using rifles that were from much earlier decades and always would.  Bolt actions may have been the acknowledged cutting edge, but for men who had been shooting lever actions since their teens, that wouldn't have been persuasive enough as a rule to cause them to acquire something else.

Something about shotguns, however, was different.  It always has been to an extent as seemingly shotgun shooters are a lot more likely to change guns as time moves on.  Even in industry history this has had an impact as Browning's Auto 5 design became a gigantic success as hunters in North American and Europe adopted it, but the same design in the Remington Model 8 sold hardly at all.  Bird hunters were willing to give up the guns they were using in favor of the new automatic, rifle hunters weren't.

Before moving from the topic, hunting with pistols didn't exist, even though advertisements of an earlier era often shows a handgun carrying hunter defending himself against a bear.  Only one magnum cartridge existed for handguns at the time, the .357, and it was carried mostly by law enforcement officers.  Indeed, it was favored by highway patrolmen.

Bow hunting, that is hunting with a bow and arrow, made its reappearance in North American in this time frame.



A host of early bowhunters made their appearance after World War One, with the best remembered one today being Fred Bear, who was a bow manufacturer as well.  Dr. Saxton Pope and Arthur Young, however, were also quite active and today the records on bow hunting are kept in a periodic journal named after Pope and Young.

I'll confess that like a lot of topics in this thread, I'm fairly ignorant on the early history of bowhunting as, in part, I'm not a bowhunter.  I'm actually surprised to see how early its 20th Century reappearance was.

In my state bow hunting became legal, I think, in the 1970s.  Most, probably all, states have cartridge regulations that provide how large a cartridge must be, and by implication bow hunting was illegal.  That's really changed and now there's "bow season" and "rifle season".  In the 1940s, there was only rifle season most places, or simply the season.  Being not sure when cartridge requirements came in, I can't say exactly how that worked at the time.

Fishing

I haven't touched much on fishing, and I didn't in our post on World War One as well. That's really a significant omission.

One really notable development in the past few decades has been the development of "catch and release" fishing.  This really didn't exist when I was a kid and I frankly find it odd now.

Almost all of the men I at least somewhat knew when I was a kid fished, and frankly a huge number of them do now as well.  But the fishing when I was young implied fishing for the table.  People did let fish go, but if they were really too small to eat.  Going out and fishing for a day and letting everything go would not have occurred and frankly it's an odd thing to do from my prospective now.  I get why its done, but living a bit closer to nature than most, I still find it odd.

One thing that was notable to me even when I was young was that the men who grew up here who came of age in the 1940s tended to be fishermen first and hunters second. They did both, but they were inclined somewhat more strongly towards fishing.  Men who grew up after that, and now women, tend to be hunters first and fishermen second.  Men who grew up in neighboring Nebraska in the 40s, however, tended to be bird hunters overall.  Men who came from neighboring Montana were almost always big game hunters.

Why this was never occurred to me but in retrospect I suspect it had to do with available game populations.  People hunted (and fishing is hunting) what was available.  In Wyoming, the fishing was good but the big game hunting really wasn't.  This must have been the case for Colorado as well, as Coloradans were heavily fishermen.  Elsewhere, other game animals were more available and that reflected in men's primary focus.  People did everything, but there was, and tends to remain, a focus.

Anyhow, around here I know the fishing was good and all the men who grew up in the 40s had lots of stories about fishing.  They did a lot of it.  The fishing was for the table.  For men who came from Catholic or Orthodox families, moreover, fishing for the table meant fresh fish on Fridays, something that really mattered during a time when all Friday's were meatless.  That rule had become so habituated with my family that, as my father fished at least twice a week during the warm months, that we routinely had fish on Fridays long after it ceased to be a requirement.***

One thing about fishing that is different from hunting is that in some places you can do it basically in town, or very close to town.  In my area a major river runs through town, for example.  Having said that, it's also the case that it wasn't until the Clean Water Act of the 1970s that a lot of water in and around towns was safe to really take much out of, at least near town.  Here too, in my area three refineries bordered the river, and that may be perhaps why I was in my 50s before I saw anyone fishing in town.

Also, in the West, the summertime control of rivers was extensive.  This simply isn't done now, but rivers wtih dams were often choked down to nothing.  In Wyoming this is only done now in the are of Guernsey for some reason, but it was widely done in the 1940s.

An example of a pre war manufacturer showing its much different wartime production, again providing a reason that its products were not readily available.

World War Two came before the cost of fishing equipment became insane following the film A River Runs Through It, so it was additionally affordable.  But here too the war impacted things.  Companies that were capable of making rods and reels were capable of making other things, and they were.  Moreover, one thing that was used by fisherman as a matter of routine,  lead, used a critical war material that was being heavily used for war production.  So, here too, there were shortages.

On materials as we've noted changes in various things over time, one thing to note here is that the modern Spinning Reel didn't exist.

Ancestors of the Spinning Reel did, but at this point in time fishermen were usually using fly reels or Bait Casting Reels.  Spinning Reels of the modern type would be introduced by the French company Mitchell in 1948 and they've dominated in their application ever since.  But in the 40s, if a person was fishing a lake, he was using a Bait Casting Reel. For that matter, he might be using one if he was fishing a large enough river.

I have a Bait Casting Reel that dates back this far as it was my father's.  I have no idea whatsoever how to use it.  I also have a fairly old Mitchel Spinning Reel.  Until doing this post, it never occurred to me how old it might be.

Fly Reels haven't changed that much since the 40s and indeed well before that, except that this period saw the height of the popularity of the spring loaded fly reel.  I have one of these and when my daughter was young I pressed it back into service.

Pemco automatic reel






This is a Pemco fly fishing reel that's rather old, which I recently pressed back into service.  I'm pretty sure I have it mounted backwards here, but I rather absentmindedly did this as the line was feeding out from the other direction.  I rather obviously could have fixed that, but I just took it for granted that it was feeding out from the correct direction.

The action of this reel is rather odd, and I wouldn't buy one if it were offered now.  It's an automatic reel.  That is, the line retracts when the trigger is pressed.  Having said that, I'm rather surprised by how well it works.

Anybody know anything about these?

Epilog

I had the occasion to take this apart the other day, as I had to add line to it.  In the process, I stripped it down to clean it. Turns out it works much like a wind up clock.


Here's what keep the whole thing running. A long steel spring that is set to an axle, which is set by tightening the base.

This is another item that was my fathers' and it likely dates back to the 1940s.

Refrigeration

One thing that had definitely changed between the wars was the advance of refrigeration.

In our post about hunting during the Great War we noted:

Here too we have to consider something that came in during the last century but hadn't really arrived yet. .. refrigeration.  And more particularly freezers.

Now, this had changed and was changing.



The first home freezers were introduced just prior to the United States entering the war.  It's estimated that somewhere between 45% and 55% of American homes had home refrigerators, rather than "ice boxes" by the very early years of World War Two.  That's a pretty rapid transition, but of course it also means that roughly half the homes in the United States were still relying on ice boxes.




The first really successful widely used home refrigerator was General Electric's "Motor Top" refrigerator, which was introduced in 1927.  A separate freezer compartment was added to home refrigerators in 1940 for the very first time.  Some time after that giant freezers came about, but exactly when I don't know.  That may not have been until after World War Two, but I don't know  that.  What I do know is that it's not uncommon to find freezers even today in some households that likely date back to the 1950s, or at least the 1960s.  While the GE Motor Top refrigerator contains some dangerous constituents, they were so well built that apparently its not uncommon for them to still work today, although there are dangers to that.



The first large home freezer, or "deep freeze" as they used to be called, was introduced in 1945, too late to be common for homes during World War Two.  Today, big freezer units are really widespread and in fact they became so very quickly.  In fact, by the 1970s the number of homes that had a freezer was statistically 50% in electrified homes.  I don't know what it is today, but if it was 50% in the 1970s, it has to be at least that today.


Our home acquired one in the 1970s and big game hunting was the reason why.  It gave us the ability to freeze antelope and deer and keep them for long periods of time.

Now, while I have addressed this in the earlier thread, there's obviously something I'm missing here and I'm not sure what it is.  There was a lot of deer hunting across the country prior to the 1940s and people were keeping the meet somehow, but how?

One suspicion I have is that I think you may have been able to rent space in meat lockers, but I frankly just don't know that.  And I doubt every hunter would have done that. Something was done, but what?

One other thing to note is that in the cold parts of the country, and not all of the country is cold, meat was likely kept for a long time just by hanging it.  This is done in Alaska and the Canadian far north today, but I suspect it was also done in the more northerly regions of the country earlier on. Indeed, I also suspect that some people simply hung meat in cool places, if they had some sort of cellar in wich to to that.

You wouldn't do that now, as there'd be the fear that you'd get something awful, bacteriological infection wise.

Of course, fairly recently in this blog we looked at meat preservation.  I've never heard of anyone speak of meat preservation in terms of wild game, but there's probably some of that which occurs.  Indeed, in thinking on it, I know that people smoke fish now.  If you follow the links on this site you'll find that people even now do in fact smoke wild meat, including deer, and some salt it. There's plenty of recipes for corned deer, or corned bear, for example.  So maybe a lot was going on like this in earlier eras and I just don't know about it.  That's highly likely, in fact.

A note on equipment

I thought about adding a comment on this here, determined not to, and then changed my mind.

One thing I thought I'd note is that frankly equipment hasn't changed as much as people might suppose it has, either from 1914-1918 to 1939-1945, or from 1939-1945 to the present.  If you look through a hunting catalog and you aren't a hunter, or even if you are, you might naturally leap to the opposite conclusion about the present.  With one basic assumption, or maybe two, modern hunting equipment is very close to what it was in the 1940s, or frankly to what it was in the 1910s.

One thing that changed somewhere after World War One, and I'm not sure exactly when, is that regulations came in requiring visible clothing  for big game hunting and that clothing was red.  Now its blaze orange, although in Wyoming it also includes florescent pink.  Around World War One there were no such regulations, although it was already the case that in much of the country hunters were wearing red coats. By the 1970s the laws had changed from red to orange.  I'm not sure when the change itself actually came about.

A lot of people would note that outdoor clothing has certainly changed since 1945, and that would be true.  For one thing, warm coats in the 40s were almost always wool.That's true, but I'm not going to really get into the history of outerwear here.  I would note, however, that recently I've been seeing a lot of winter wool coats show up being worn by ranchers, so the wool mackinaw is coming back in some heavy outdoor uses. Wool vests certainly have.

At any rate, the 1940s remained very much in the wool era, although cotton had started to come on strongly due to the washing machine becoming common. During the Great War the modern washing machine was just coming on and it was still, quite frankly, more than a little bit frightening.  By the 1940s washing machines were arriving, their universal onset, as we've already discussed, only retarded by the Great Depression.  It was the modern washing machine that made cotton the clothing of choice for everything as it is so easily washable.  Lots of cotton clothing was becoming quite common for everyday wear and rough wear by 1939 and so we'd expect to see this in the game fields as well. We do, but not as much as you might suspect.  The durability of wool really caused it to keep on, keeping on.

One thing a person would note about hunting clothing of the 10s, or the 40s, or for that matter the 50s and 60s, is that it was likely a uniform color or checked, assuming that it was purpose bought.  Red "buffalo checked" shirts, for example, were common for hunters of the 40s.  Checked coats were as well.  Otherwise, a person might expect to see dark green or the like, a color associated with hunters since Medieval times.  Duck hunters commonly wore cotton duck coats, as cotton duck, the heavy canvas, is nearly water impervious and in fact can be water impervious if waxed.  Camouflage wasn't seen in game fields.

Camouflage has come in, and in strength since World War Two but it was not a feature of hunter's clothing at the time, something that modern hunters may well wish to ponder.  Duck hunters brought it in after World War Two and probably because of World War Two, as the "frog pattern" introduced by the US during the war was adapted to duck hunting clothing.  Indeed, this was so much the case that by the early 1960s Cuban counterrevolutionaries deployed in the disastrous Bay of Pigs Invasion and U.S. Special Forces troops sent to Vietnam who are seen wearing what appears to be WWII frog pattern uniforms are usually in fact wearing civilian "duck hunter" pattern clothing.  When bow hunting became big, however, and as bow hunters are exempt from the blaze orange regulations in most places and they increasing adopted it.  At first, camouflage in big game hunting indicated either that the hunter was a bow hunter or had served in the Cold War military.  Now its extremely common irrespective of the fact that most big game animals have a type of vision for which camouflage is fairly irrelevant.  Waterfowl are distinctly different, which is why it appeared first here.

For one reason or another camouflage has so come into American society that at the present time its seen simply everywhere.  Some of this is due to companies that want to associate with the activities of their employees, so they have camouflaged company hats, but a lot of it is simply a fashion trend.  Camouflage started to make its way into everyday wear after the Vietnam War and its very much everywhere now.

One change in clothing underappreciated, is that by the 1940s outdoorsmen were wearing rubber soled boots.  In the teens they weren't.  The era of hobnails had come to an end in North America, if not in Europe, where millions of soldiers were still marching in hobnailed boots. American soldiers weren't.  The era of the universal vibram sole was still thirty years away or so, even though the Swiss design already existed, but rubber soles were now standard in American outdoor footwear.  Interesting, soles that were regarded as revolutionary at the time would be regarded as inadequate now.

Hobnails were standard on most heavy duty outdoor shoes well into the 1930s.  Alternatively, men simply wore leather soled shoes with no hobnails. Shoes of this type are incredibly slick, but that's what was around.  Good rubber soled shoes started to be introduced in the 1930s and in 1937 Italian Vitale Bramani introduced the Vibram sole after designing it in the wake of the deaths of two friends of his mountain climbing.  Even before that Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. had praised much less aggressive rubber soled shoes in his book East of the Sun, West of the Moon, about hunting in the Himalayas.  Vibrams were so much of an advance that the U.S. Army had adopted them for mountain boots by World War Two, although the adoption of that sort of sole for combat boots in general had to wait until they appeared on Jungle Boots, from which they spread to all types of combat boots thereafter.

Sportsmen were quick to pick up on rubber soled boots and they were very much in the fields by the 1940s.

In terms of equipment simply carried by hunters, by and large most hunters today would find the equipment very similar and for that matter they would all the way back to 1910 and back.  I've already dealt with rifles and things associated with them, so will not deal with that again. Beyond that, most hunters carried a hunting knife and maybe a few accessories. Some, if they were way out back, might carry a compass and maps. All this is still true, except the compass has been replaced by now almost entirely by the GPS which is now almost a universal item owned and carried by hunters. While I don't appreciate a lot of modern technology, rather obviously, I"m a huge fan of the GPS.  Between WWI and WWII there were no advancements of that type at all, so there would have been no changes.

One thing I should note is that once in the game fields hunters were afoot. That sounds obvious, but today thanks to the unfortunate introduction of the ATV, this is much less the case.  I despise ATVs and are the one thing, together with the cell phone,t that I wish I could banish.  Anyhow, in the 1910-1920 time frame, as with the 1939-1950 time frame, once hunters were where they were going, they were afoot.

Well, maybe. 

Most hunters I knew who had started hunting in the West early on weren't shy at all about driving across the prairie if they felt it warranted.  It was very common.  It still frankly is with ranchers, who while they may complain about people "making new roads" aren't shy about doing it themselves.  In recent years, due to the onset of the ATV, there's been a dedicated effort to restrict vehicle access in all sorts of ways, and I"m in favor of that.  Hunters with vehicles in the 40s, however, were only really restrained from doing that out of concern for damaging their vehicles or wearing out hard to replace tires.  In the 1910-20 time frame vehicles were amazingly durable off road and this was no doubt the same, for those who had them.

For really rough country, then, before, and now, there were horses and mules. I don't know the extent to which town people in the 40s kept horses, but it may be a lot more common than I'd imagine.  I know that in my own town there were places to rent horses on the edge of town forever, and as far back as I can personally remember there were men who kept horses for no other purpose.  Indeed, this takes us back to vehicles a bit in that at least as far back to the 1920s and all the way through the 70s there were men who carried horses in the back of pickup trucks with stock racks.  I haven't seen this done now since that time.  There were also quite a few very light duty horse trailers that were towed by trucks we'd regard as light now.

Turning to fishing, I've already discussed reels.  Fishing equipment itself, beyond that, changed very little between World War One and World War Two, other than that the first primitive waders started to come in.

This was due to advancements in the production of rubber prior to World War One.   Commercial waders were offered as early as 1850, but it was really in the 1910s when they started to be really practical.  Having said that, rubber production in that period still wasn't really perfected for clothing, and it wasn't until 1942 that this would be the case, due to World War Two.

Anything that came in during the war wasn't available commercially until after the war.  Therefore, modern waders really came in at that time.  Prior to that, therefore, most men simply waded in with clothing somewhat suitable for that, something most would not do today.  Cotton trousers and canvas tennis shoes were very common for this in the 1940s. Chuck Taylor high top tennis shoes were in fact very common in this use, having come in during the 1920s, and that was the early practice of my own father. 

Indeed, being short of stature and having a hard time finding waders, and beyond that simply being cheap, wading in with light tropical weight Army trousers and tropical combat boots was my own practice up until extremely recently.  It's definitely different that using waders and even now in streams I'll do that.  Anyhow, if you want an idea of what the practice was during the Second World War era, or the First World War era, watch the fishing scenes of A River Runs Through It and you'll know.

Conclusion

Well, that covers a lot of ground, more than I meant to cover at first.  Hopefully its been interesting.  If you know something that's been omitted here, add to it.  Or if there's something to correct, do that.


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*I should note the seriousness with which Wyomingites take game and fish laws is not universal everywhere. Recently an oilfield electrician told me about an event, some years ago, in which he was part of a local electrician's crew that marveled at the stew and chili that was served by a Texas oilfield crew everyday on location. They learned, in the process of this, that the crew was poaching deer and that is what they were eating.  They accordingly turned them over to the Game and Fish.

The Texas crew was stunned. They just couldn't grasp what is that they'd done wrong.

**During World War Two civilian manufacture of automobiles ceased. So basically it's nearly impossible to find civilian vehicles manufactured in model years 1943 to 1945 and there were really not many 1941 and 1942 models either.

***This is another way that I compere very poorly with my father.  For that matter, I compare poorly in every respect, of which this is a notable one.
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Reasons for wilderness huts 2/10: hunting and fishing

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Friday, November 22, 2019

The Impeachment Testimony

All the Impeachment Testimony in transcript form, here.

Just in case you wonder what the testimony actually states after reading what other people have said it says.
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November 22, 1919. Carlisle Missing, Labor having a party, Petroleum and its costs.

Those following the posts here recently (fewer in number now that the Great War and the drama associated with it are over, somewhat), have been reading about the quixotic flight of Wyoming train robber, Bill Carlisle and may be disappointed to not find him here again.  Well, the pursuit having fizzled, he was off the front page.  He was out there, hiding, or something, but posses headed for the Hole in the Wall or expecting another train robbery were disappointed, and therefore the local newspaper's readers were as well.  Instead, they read about the coal strike and increased tension with Mexico.

First national convention of the Labor Party, Chicago Ill.  November 22, 1919

In Chicago a new political party was meeting, the Labor Party of the United States. This back when third parties still had a chance of success.

This party wouldn't have much, as such.  It merged with another party in 1921 to become the Farmer Labor Party.  That party lasted until 1936 when a further merger created the Federated Farmer Labor Party, which became the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party at that time.  It lasted until 1944.

The populist party was a left wing populist social democratic party.  Three of its members occupied the Minnesota state house as governor from 1931 until 1939, showing it to be successful.  It also sent Congressmen to Washington every year from 1918 until 1942, save for one year.  One year it sent five Congressman back east.  Four Minnesota Senators were also members of the party or associated with it.  In 1944 it reorganized and became the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party which is affiliated with the Democratic Party, meaning that its relevance is minimal in real terms.  Democrats in Minnesotal are part of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party whether they know it or not, meaning that current Presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar is a member of it.

"Block 818 from the west".  November 22, 1919.

Down in Texas more panoramic photos of big oil fields were being photographed.  

Elsewhere, the Gasoline Alley bunch was meeting and pondering the costs of transportation.


Thanksgiving Day, then as now, was coming right up.  On this Saturday The Literary Digest anticipated the holiday on its cover with a Rockwell illustration.  Thanksgiving day itself in 1919 was on November 27.



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Loyalty to Principals and Disappointment.

The test of a person's real commitment to a process is when it yields results they can't stand.

By that measure, most people, or at least a lot of people, have no commitment to the processes they claim to hold dear.  And we have that example in the form of two people whose ideals couldn't be more distant. . . Donald Trump and Pope Francis.

A lot of people don't like Donald Trump or Pope Francis.  I don't have any idea what the two men think of each other, assuming they often do, but to the extent there's been commentary by one about the other, Trump has taken some heat from Pope Francis.  He appears to have wholly ignored it, as we'd expect him to do.  As far as I know, Trump hasn't made any significant comments about Francis, but he may have.  Clearly they don't see eye to eye on nearly anything.

Which brings up the question of how can I link them in a common comment and what the title of this entry is about.

Donald Trump was elected President under the electoral system mandated by the United States Constitution. During the primary that ran up to his election the Democrats were horrified by him as well as a lot of traditional Republicans.  On the latter point, there was real doubt that he'd have the support of any Republicans at all when he took office, but he has, probably largely as the GOP determined it had no where else to go.

Trump has horrified a lot of people for a variety of reasons that all boil down to his personality in some ways.  He's brash, rude, crude and seemingly doesn't abide by any rules and often appears to be making things up as he goes (which later on appears to be less the case than it might at first seem). Democrats have absolutely hated him from the very first moment of his Presidency but he's far from popular with a lot of Republicans and independents.

In some ways he's a Rust Belt throwback that looks upon the United States as it was imagined to be in the 1950s and has acted to try to take the country in that direction.  In other ways, he's the President that the guys who have Confederate flags on their trucks and who claim to be Tea Party members wanted and still love.

Pope Francis, like most popes, was unknown to the world when he first became pope, but it didn't take long for him to gain the ire of Traditionalist Catholics.  His first encyclical, on economic matters, horrified them and he started to get assertions that he was a closet Socialist.  Since that time his vague statements to the press, poor choice of press correspondence, and constant flirting with what may be regarded as the hard edge of Liberal Catholicism has caused Trads to now hold him in contempt.

They aren't each other, to be sure, but they've acquired a nearly equal level of animosity.

And that animosity has grown so extreme, it betrays the principals, or the declared principals, of their opponents.

All American political parties have asserted, since the very onset, that at their core, over everything else, its democracy that they value.  So surely with Trump the thing is that his opponents will simply wait until 2020 and seek to secure an elected replacement.  Well, not so much.

From the very first moment of his presidency he's secured uniquely hostile opposition.  Talk of removing him started in some quarters as soon as he took office.  Into office there was serious discussion of removing him through a never used Constitutional vehicle to go around impaired Presidents on the basis that surely he's impaired, as nobody who thinks the things he evidently does could not be.  Right now, an effort to remove him is going on in Congress even though the election is only one year away. That process, the impeachment process, has been badly used twice before, but at least as of right now it appears that there's no illegality involved, just more of Trump's incredible willingness to mix the personal with the political and act in a fairly crude and brash manner.

With Trump it's now clear that there have always been insiders and officials who have pretty much ignored his instructions.  Indeed, it's amazing how many people who have had high jobs have just ignored him, to be celebrated for that fact later.  Trump came in with some raving about a "deep state" that was anti democratic and, as Victor David Hanson has recently written, recent events have shown that while there's no "deep state", political insiders and career bureaucrats are so vested in their concepts of a large state and how things should run that they have worked against the Chief Executive continually.

Pope Francis in turn has met with  an unmatched level of opposition in recent years.  Clerics whom we did not previously know of have publicly gone against him on some things.  He's received a Dubia (not without justification I might add), a process so rare that the authors of it were not themselves sure of how to go about it. An insider wrote a book accusing him of being mean and dictatorial  Most recently, and shockingly, some senior figures have accused him of heracy publicly and some senior church officials have questioned the legitimacy of his election as Pope.  That latter claim was one that was previously regarded as the province of nutty sedovacantist but as recently as a couple of years ago that started to evolve to where some of the Cardinals in the College were accused of violating a prohibition against campaigning and then now there's some well known Catholic figures in the Traditionalist camp who basically hold his election to be invalid, even though they don't quite go so far as to say that.

Well, what of this.

Americans claim that they value democracy as the primary virtue of politics.  If so, they ought to wait for elections rather than seek a judicial or political bypass to them.  We haven't been doing very well at that recently.  Indeed, since 1973 we've been giving up on that at an increasing rate.

It doesn't matter if you like the President or not.  Those who go back and read my comments on the 2016 election will see that I was stunned Trump was nominated and assumed that he would be defeated and worried what his election would mean. But here we are.  There's a year to go.  If people who find that Trump offends them are offended, they should find a candidate to take the offensive.  

Notably, on that last point, the candidates most qualified to take on that role are the ones getting the least attention in the Democratic field while those least likely to prevail in 2020 are sucking all the air out of the room.

Orthodox Catholics assert that the Holy Spirit protects the Papacy from causing permanent doctrinal error.  Therefore, while they can make their displeasure over Pope Francis' papacy known, and I'll place myself in the camp that frankly finds him to be not only a disappointing Pope, but one who I really wish had not been elected to the position, that doesn't mean that they can morally engage in wild sedovacantist theories (Patrick Coffin . . . are you listening?).  He was elected the Pope. Even if several Cardinals violated the ban, to their own detriment, against campaigning, that doesn't impact that fact.  He's the Pope.

We betray our real beliefs by what we want when we don't get what we want.  The real measure of our commitment to something is supporting it when we don't get that.

Institutions that are damaged by their disloyal supporters take a long time to recover.  Impeaching a President because he's the antithesis of liberal values and polite society, no matter how much his policies may be despised, means it will happen again and that the rift in the nation's politics will solidify for a generation.  Trump's supporters already feel that Liberals are engaging in a constant effort at a coup to their detriment.  Removing a President on thin legal grounds will in effect actually do that. Even trying the President on such claims will anger them for decades to come.  If there's any doubt, the mere fact that an impeachment is even being considered is due to the GOP making that same attempt on President Clinton in spite of completely lacking any legal grounds to do so.

The Papacy will survive I have no doubt. And no lasting damage or iffy doctrine will result.  But Traditionalist hanging around in the near sedovacantist camp is doing damage if for no other reason that it casts doubt on their beliefs.

There is a way to be a loyal dissenter.  It's hard, as it requires a person to act in accordance with their stated beliefs, rather than their deepest desires.
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Blog Mirror: Southern Big Horns

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I couldn't agree more:

My Dog Is Not A Fur Baby


Dogs aren't people.

I really dislike the rampaging anthropomorphism that is going on in our society now days.  It shows how much we've departed from nature.  A dog is a dog, just as a cat is a cat.  Recognizing that doesn't demean them, it's to honor themselves for what they are, and us for what we are.


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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Chasing Carlisle. November 21, 1919

The Hole In the Wall Country, November 2019.

On this day in 1919, the newspapers were reporting that Bill Carlisle was headed for a location that was the archtype of destination for regional bands. . . some twenty years prior.

The Hole In the Wall.


After all, where would a Wyoming train robber on the lam go, other than to the same place that Butch and Sundance had?

Scene from the Red Wall Country, November 2019.

Well, it was a romantic notion.  Wyoming in 1919 wasn't the Wyoming of 1899, or even 1909, no matter how much the thought of a wild flight to the Hole In The Wall might have been fancied the imagination of a people for whom that region had been an impenetrable criminal fortress only a couple of decades prior.


In 1919, the territory was still wild in many ways.  Indeed, the first decade of the 20th Century saw an ongoing range war in the form of a cattlemen v. sheepmen killings.  As late as the latter part of the first decade of the 20th Century a criminal escapee simply disappeared forever.


But by the same token, by 1919 the criminal sanctuary no longer was one. There was no more Hole In The Wall Gang.  Most of the former members of that group were dead, in prison, or reformed.  Following the Tipton train robbery by The Wild Bunch, the authorities were no longer willing to tolerate the lack of law enforcement that allowed it to continue to exist and were willing to expend the resources necessary to penetrate it.  Prior to that happening, the badmen dispersed. Some would return, and as late as the 00s, but they weren't hitting trains.


Carlisle was.

Buffalo Creek Canyon, December 2019.

Indeed, part of the appeal of the Carlisle story is that he was already an anachronism, in his own time.  In 1919, the year after the Great War had ended, a war which had featured aircraft and submarines and mass violence on a mass scale, Carlisle was out on his own, in the vast countryside, raiding trains, badly.


People were sort of rooting for him.


Even as they knew, he'd be caught.


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It's a quid pro quo, but is it criminal?

The testimony of Gordon Sondland made it plain that Donald Trump did expect something in return for releasing military aid to Ukraine, and that was a Ukrainian investigation that included investigating the nature of Hunter Biden's activities in Ukraine.  Beyond that, and perhaps more importantly, his testimony makes it plain that knowledge extended to others in the administration, including Vice President Pence.*

While there will be those who continue to deny this, it can't rationally be at this point. But that still doesn't answer the question.

Is it illegal?

And if it isn't, is it an impeachable offense?

This gets us uncomfortable close to the "everybody does" it defense in some ways that was raised by an administrative official some days ago . . .if a defense is needed.  One well argued op ed, by Daniel McCarthy, argues that no defense at all is needed, and we'll get to that in a moment.

Let's start with the "quid pro quo" aspect of this.  That means, in Latin, "this for that".

A quid pro quo arrangement isn't illegal per se. Indeed, lots of things people do every day are done on a quid pro quo basis, and almost all business deals are based on it to at least some extent.  In the use in regard to crimes, however, it's meant to suggest something that's an illegal exchange.  A bribe, some type of coercion, or the like.  Even where bonafide professional criminals are involved, however, a quid pro quo arrangement isn't necessarily illegal.

But quite a few are.  Don Coreleone's taking care of the thugs who hurt the morticians daughter, for example, in The Godfather, in exchange for a favor, is illegal.

But was this illegal?

It's not clear at all that it is.

Keep in mind, and Americans need to very much keep in mind, that an immoral exchange isn't necessarily illegal.  Indeed, while Americans are very fond of claiming that "you can't legislate morality", they only mean that in the case of their own favored vices.  Americans are very much in favor of legislating morality as long as its the immoral acts of other people.  In recent years, entire crimes have been added to the books based on things being unfair for other groups I'm not part of, for example. The outlawing of insider trading, for example, is just that.  Insider trading is a natural advantage of insiders, and making it illegal is legislating morality.

When we hear cries to put bankers in jail, and the like, for bank failures or something, that's what we really mean. They made a lot of money without caring, perhaps, about everyone else, and that's bad.  Bad behavior should be illegal, we feel.

Except for our own.

Be that as it may, not everything has been covered yet, and Donald Trumps pressure to have a foreign government investigate the son of a political rival isn't clearly illegal.  At least it isn't to me, although I profess not to be an expert in the criminal law.

Indeed, quid pro quo arrangements seem to be standard fare of Executives in diplomacy.  We tolerate a lot of them, as long as they're of a somewhat different nature. For example, if arms had been voted for Iraq, we'd tolerate an Administration withholding them until internal reforms were made in the country.  And we'd likewise support withholding aid to a country if an administration was pressuring it to address a problem we all agreed was a problem.

We'd even tolerate an insistence that a regime conduct a criminal investigation, as long as it didn't seem so targeted.  So when people argue that this isn't clearly illegal, it in fact isn't clearly illegal.

Almost nobody is willing to actually defend the conduct . . except maybe some people implicitly are. That takes us to the op ed in the New York Times.  In it, the Times author argues that not only do some not see a problem, but that Trump's conduct is simply Trump being Trump and, moreover, Trump engaging in the very activity that he was elected to perform. That article is here:

Trump Is Doing Exactly What He Was Elected to Do

Don’t impeach him. His actions have all been within the scope of the presidency.
And like it or not, the article has a point.  Trump might not have seen this as wrong as his world view is so different from most who are in politics, and who follow it.

Indeed, for those in politics, and those who really follow it, this seems so shocking as its beyond the established political pale, which Trump himself is also beyond. This means we now have two groups, irrespective of party, that really don't conceive of the political world even remotely similarly.  For those who really like politics, this is so far beyond the established rules, it seems like it is criminal, even if it isn't. For those who feel that all politicians have let them down, this is just a businessman doing what businessmen do, and there's nothing to complain about.

And that explains why the needle isn't moving at all on who supports, and doesn't support, the President.

Impeachments by their very nature are highly risky.  They threaten to wreck democracy simply by occurring. Those in the Democratic Party who argue that impeaching Donald Trump is necessary to preserve democracy should consider that, and might be better off putting their efforts into the election instead.  Both prior impeachment trials conducted by the Senate have been wholly unjustified and served to make things worse.  This effort won't succeed. 

Indeed the last effort was hopelessly tainted by the fact that Bill Clinton hadn't come even remotely close to engaging in an impeachable offense.  He had not violated the law.  Here, it's not clear what the law is that Trump can be accused of violating.  Engaging in improper pressure on a foreign government isn't a crime, it's just really bad behavior.  Lots of administrations engage in really bad behavior, but this is uniquely bad as its uniquely outside of the rules.  But be that as it may, it doesn't appear to be criminal.

Everyone seems to be aware of this.  The Democrats in the House, therefore, have been trying to use the term "bribery" now rather than quid pro quo. It doesn't seem to really fit that definition, however, and it certainly doesn't from a criminal prospective. That makes the effort much closer to a vote of no confidence.

But our Constitution doesn't feature such a provision.  As it doesn't, use of the impeachment process to do that, which frankly will be the third such attempt, stands at some point to result in a success, at which point no President will be safe from those who oppose him attempting it.  During the portion of my life in which I can recall people's views on Presidents, not one single one hasn't had some rabid detractors, and for at least four of those Presidents outside of Trump there are those who used the word "impeachment" pretty loosely.  At least two of those Presidents did things that were arguably illegal, but nobody would have seriously considered impeachment.

Donald Trump has been a unique President in nearly every fashion imaginable.  A person doesn't have to like or dislike him to acknowledge that.  He received less than 50% of the popular vote and a person has to at least suspect that he will not gain reelection in 2020.

In recent years political elites have operated on at least one other occasion to use the judicial power to remove questions from the voters.  All that has ever done in this country is to preserve an argument in a more virulent form.  Removing Donald Trump for bad conduct will confirm in the minds of his supporters that he was taken out by a "deep state", and in an odd sort of accidental way, that argument will gain credibility as it will be a professional political class that would be taking that step, horrified as it is by Trump acting outside the rules that almost everyone agrees are there.

At least at this point, that action entails more long term risks to the nation, no matter what a person's views are, than forgoing that attempt.  At a bare minimum, it won't work, and only serves to focus an argument over Trump himself, rather than actual policies, for the fall election.

These are odd times, and odd times are dangerous.  With seemingly only a few days left in the hearing, the House should go home for Thanksgiving and ponder the deeper questions that this episode raises.  The risks of acting here would seem to exceed the advantages of just waiting until the fall.  On this, Nancy Pelosi's original instincts are likely correct, showing that her supporters who credit her with vast political skills would seem to be right at least here.


*The inclusion of Vice President Trump implicitly means that if President Trump is removed from office via impeachment, the Vice President logically faces the same possibility.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

The lesson of past hearings. . .

Joseph Welch, hand in head, being questioned by Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Welch was the chief legal counsel for the U.S. Army when it fell under the gaze of Joseph McCarthy.  McCarthy asserted that there were Communist that had not been brought to light by the Army in the Army, in defense plants, or in institutions associated with national defense.  The claim wasn't actually wholly without merit, actually as at least a few Communists, in 1954, were in the service and more in industry, which was not surprising if we consider that the 1930s had been the high water mark of American Communism and there were more at that time, the 30s, than there ever would be again. Some would end up in the service by default, and indeed at least one openly Communist American officer, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, received the Silver Cross for heroism in the Pacific before later being killed in action. The Army certainly wasn't a hotbed of Communism, however, and the claims were seen as extreme at the time.

On June 9, 1954, Welch, now in day 30 of the hearings, challenged McCarthy confederate Roy Cohn to provide the Attorney General with the names of the 130 subversives that McCarthy claimed were working in American defense plants "before sundown" that day.  That wasn't done, but McCarthy called out the name of a lawyer who worked in Welch's Boston law office as a member of a Communist front organization.  The lawyer had indeed been a member of it in his youth (recall the comment about the 30s again).

When this occurred, the famous exchange resulted.  Welch at first commented:
Until this moment, Senator, I think I have never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Fred Fisher is a young man who went to the Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us....Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is true he is still with Hale and Dorr. It is true that he will continue to be with Hale and Dorr. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty I would do so. I like to think I am a gentleman, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me.
McCarthy should have known better than to attempt to joust with a figure like Welch, but he kept on and didn't yield, resulting in:
Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild ... Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
McCarthy still wouldn't yield. Welch rebuked him and informed him he wouldn't answer any more questions. The audience broke into applause.

McCarthy was wrecked forever.

Yesterday Republicans in the Impeachment hearings suggested that Lt.Col. Vindman, the child of Ukrainian immigrants, might not be fully loyal to the United States as the Ukrainian administration offered him a position as their defense chief several times.  He declined every time.  There's no suggestion that he ever entertained the offer, and to entertain it would not be a sign of anything in particular.  After all, Douglas McArthur was head of the Philippine's army after retiring, the first time, from the U.S. Army. That didn't make him disloyal.  And apparently at least one senior American Air Force officer with Eastern European ties has taken up such a position.  Claire Chenault spent years in the service of the Nationalist Chinese, but he's never been considered to have been disloyal.

The real question should have been what did Lt. Col. Vindman hear, and what did it mean.  Both Vindman and another witness said that they were distressed by what they heard, Vindman very much so, but that they didn't hear the word "bribe" and neither came so far as to claim what they heard was regarded as a bribe. Vindman did go further than the other witness in his opening remarks in upholding the reputation of the removed ambassador, a noble thing to do, but perhaps straying outsides of the confines of what he should have done.

Still, for the second time in two weeks the House Republicans have managed to attack a witness and have the attack fall back on themselves.  

Joseph McCarthy attacked a lot of witnesses in his hearings in the early 1950s.  Now forgotten, McCarthy's claims were a lot more accurate, indeed highly accurate, than recalled.  He benefited from the work of a prior committee from the 1930s and he was also almost certainly getting information secretly and without Administration knowledge from the FBI.  But his behavior just went to far.  Attacking the Army itself went too far, and then attacking Fred Fischer in a collateral attack went way too far.  It was so devastating, in fact, that McCarthy's apologist have accused Welch of cleverly setting  it up.  But McCarthy' set himself up.

Americans don't like politicians attacking servicemen, and the GOP, which has been closest to the service since World War Two, has members who dislike it most of all.  McCarthy didn't survive attacking the Army.  Today's House Republicans would have done well to remember that.

The results of these hearings, as already noted, are foreordained.  But the election isn't.  For undecided voters seeing a soldier like Vindman impugned may be hard to forget. 

McCarthy ended up censured later that year.  His career declined.  He died in 1957 with the cause officially being hepatitis, but which is widely believed to have been due to alcoholism or contributed to by alcoholism.  He was 48 years old.  He left behind a wife of for years, Jean, whom was 33 years old at the time of his death.

Joseph Welch would die three years after that, at age 69.  He's often best remembered today for his role as the judge in Anatomy of a Murder, which he played after his role in the Army McCarthy hearings.
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November 20, 1919. Rumors


Carlisle was being reported as sassy and successful on this day in 1919.  In fact, his attempt at robbing a Union Pacific passenger train near Medicine Bow failed due to his own scruples. . . he couldn't rob soldiers, and he'd been wounded disarming a passenger.


Rumors were circulating that he'd sent a bragging telegram.  I'm not that familiar with the details of this story, but I don't believe that he did.


He had been lost track of, that's true.


But I don't believe that he'd made it to Casper.

The press was giving him greater abilities than he had.
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Mid Week at Work: Mule on main street in Columbus, Georgia. May, 1941.


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For those trained in courtroom law. . . .

one of the really aggravating things about the House impeachment hearings is how gut wrenching funky the procedure is.

As an example, in a trial, let's say a criminal trial, the prosecution presents its opening statement, and then the defense.  Then the evidence is put on. At the conclusion of the trial, the prosecution delivers its closing, then the defense, and then the prosecution, which has the burden of proof, gets the last word.

Often the court puts the lawyers on the clock. As in, each side gets X minutes for its statements.

In the impeachment proceedings, however, which I guess are sort of like a grand jury, there were openings, then witnesses, and then on Tuesday the 19th (the resumption of testimony), new statements again.

That's absurd.

The entire wacky process really shows why a real jurist should preside over hearings of this type so that they're run like real judicial proceedings. I'm not opining on the outcome in any fashion, but giving House members repeated openings is really gratuitous and shows a real lack of ability.  If you didn't cover it the first time, cover it in your closing.
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Mid Week At Work: Howitzers head west: Military sends guns to B.C. for avalanche control

Howitzers head west: Military sends guns to B.C. for avalanche control: Castanet- The military has mobilized, moving large 105-mm Howitzers west from Manitoba. The annual pilgrimage is part of the Canadian Armed Forces efforts to keep drivers along the Trans-Canada . . .
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

November 19, 1969. Apollo 12 Lands on the Moon.


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International Men's Day, 2019

Photograph of a Soviet soldier prior to the Battle of Kursk, 1943. This photograph is really remarkable in that it shows a soldier in the Red Army making a visible religious devotion in a state that didn't approve of that.  Given the style of the cross, he was likely Catholic and probably Polish or Ukrainian.

I'm sure that this day will go largely unnoticed and unobserved.  I'm only aware of it due to Kursk.  Perhaps its a day that can serve for meaning more than its intended to mean.
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November 19, 1919. Robbing No. 19 and Rejecting the Versailles Treaty


Robbing a train as soon as you escape the pen for robbing trains does seem like a pretty bad idea.  At least one paper wondered if it was actually him.


You have to wonder what Carlisle was thinking.  How did he plan on getting away with this?


By this time, it was also clear that the proposed Versailles Peace Treaty was in real trouble in the U.S. Senate.


Indeed, it was in so much trouble that on this day in 1919, the Senate voted to reject the Treaty, with Republican opposition to the League of Nations being a major cause of that vote.


There would be a couple of more attempts, but the United States never did ratify the treaty, passing instead a peace treaty with Germany later that adopted much of it, but not all of it. The US would not join the League of Nations.
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You have to see the battle flag (follow the link).

Today in World War II History—November 17, 1939 & 1944

POSTED: Sunday, November 17, 2019 by Sarah Sundin
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Monday, November 18, 2019

First week of Impeachment Hearings Highlights and Impressions

The country, for only the fourth time in its history, has now endured an opening week of impeachment hearings in the House of Representatives.

Some people who have the time have watched it blow by blow and minute by minute.  But most of us haven't.  For those of us in the latter category, this think offering is served up.

The highlight that shouldn't have been turned out to be the testimony of former Ambassador to the Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.  The daughter of Russian immigrants, Ms. Yovanovitch is a career foreign service officer. She was removed from her Ukrainian position, under criticism from President Trump, before the now infamous phone call.

The fact that she was removed before the phone call should have made her a fairly irrelevant witness unless the Democrats were able to lay foundation, which it does not appear that they could do, that she was removed as she was an obstacle to the quid pro quo suggestion.  It now appears quite certain, as we'll note below, that this was more than a flight of fancy for Trump at the time of the call.  Proving something like that is very difficult to do, and the GOP members of the House knew that and initially were taking the position of "why are you here?".

That blew up with the President, who claims he isn't watching the hearings, started tweeting about the former Ambassador while she was testifying.  The tweets were insulting and the House Republicans couldn't endure it.  In the end, they praised her service and the House gave her an ovation as she left.

The President and his Twitter account have long been subjects of discussion and now the nation is more or less immune to them. Still, this brings up one of the things we'll note below.  Presidents shouldn't have Twitter accounts at all, and this conduct is not dignified. In addition, Twitter is frankly extremely juvenile in general as any conversation limited to a few words would have to be, and to the extent it isn't, it's when it points to something else. The fact that the President can't keep off of Twitter is itself quite disturbing.

The second think that occurred happened after the hearings were over for the week when it was revealed that a former National Security official has testified in a closed deposition that Gordon Sondland, envoy to the European Union, acted on the President's orders to require Ukraine to open an investigation into the Biden's.

So where does this leave everything?

It might make no difference at all, long term.  Indeed, it now appears that the Impeachment Hearings aren't affecting the views of the electorate at all. Those who support Trump still do. Those who oppose him rather obviously still do. The murky middle, which hasn't made up its mind, still hasn't, left stuck as they are between tolerating a President that they don't like personally and at least partially politically or turning towards Democrats who themselves are turning more and more to the left.  Indeed its notable that middle of the road Democrats are suddenly either entering the race or gaining ground in the polls, and that President Obama even made a statement about the hard left positions of his party over the weekend.

In terms of impeachability, the question still remains whether or not the conduct complained of is actually illegal.  It frankly may very well not be.

For that reason the Administration floated the "everybody does it" defense a couple of weeks ago, which wasn't well received. And frankly, the couple of instances of analogous, roughly, conduct that I can think of in some cases were illegal.  Not all, but some.  Be that as it may, not everyone does this.

But that may make it really politically unwise, not illegal.  For that reason, some Democrats have suggested that the "misdemeanor" line in the Impeachment text of the Constitution means "misdemeaning the office", whatever that is.

That argument takes the power really close to a vote of no confidence type of roll, which is what these hearings really strike me as.  While what exactly the founders meant when they stated that a President could be removed for "high crimes and misdemeanors" is somewhat unclear, they didn't mean that the process could take on that role.  The House should be, therefore, extremely careful about evolving it into that, as once that occurs, there's no end to claims by an unhappy political party that an opponent is "midemeaning" his office.

Probably aware of that, there's been a recent effort to convert the "quid pro quo" conversation into bribery, but that frankly doesn't float legally.  Lots of conversations, including reprehensible but legal ones, have a quid pro quo aspect to them.  The real time tweeting by the President about the Ambassador was floated as witness tampering, but that is really a strained suggestion as well.

On that latter point, something occurred to me that I was going to post and then I heard a pundit note the same thing, depriving me of a clean "you heard it hear first" claim.  I'll claim it anyhow.

There have been a lot of comparisons to this process and earlier impeachment efforts, but none of them really feel right.  It didn't occur to me at first, but then the tone of the last week caused it to occur to me.  These hearings don't feel like prior impeachment proceedings, they feel like the hearings of the McCarthy Era.

Now, before anyone jumps up to make assumptions on that, I'm not making a direct overall comparison and I don't even really hold the fully standard view of Joe McCarthy that is accepted text. But what I will note is that McCarthy, who really broke very little new ground of any kind in his hearings (and who was almost certainly being fed information from the FBI), grew increasingly extreme in his tone.  The entire thing broke down and his career was ruined during the McCarthy Army hearings at the point at which witness Joseph Welch asked him "have you no decency sir?"  After that, McCarthy was done.

The point here is that McCarthy was not a polished man and came across as a bull in a china shop from the onset.  Other hearings on the same topics had happened before and in fact were going on in the Senate at the same time.  McCarthy's behavior drew the attention of a press that didn't like him and his own boorish behavior brought him and his work down.  He was a hero for awhile, but in the end, things blew up on him.  When they did, the press and the Democrats really turned on him and his own party distanced itself.

President Trump should take a lesson from that, but likely won't, and can't, just as McCarthy seemingly couldn't arrest his own inclinations even when there were warning signs it was going to get him into trouble.  The entire atmosphere here has bee similar to the McCarthy era with the President taking the role of McCarthy.  Attacking the Ambassador definitely went too far.  The hearings now have the feel of those 1950s hearings in which civility was completely stripped and accusations flew out in public in a raw form.  In the end, that didn't serve McCarthy well even though, when his claims are looked at years later from a factual and analytical light, he was more right than wrong.

All that should give us a little hope, however, as when the McCarthy era ended the nation returned to a normal level of civility very quickly.  We've been living in an increasingly rude and ruder era now for at least twenty years.  If we're now surprised by how quickly insults fly, we probably shouldn't be.  Maybe this is where the pendulum swings and people start addressing each other with more civility.  If so, perhaps we can now quit having an entire selection of East Coast politicians that should like they're playing roles in Goodfellas.

And maybe Congressman Jim Jordan can find his coat.

Off to the next week of hearings, which may conclude them.
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Some thoughts on how little the public understands about the Supreme Court

People are truly clueless on how the United States Supreme Court functions, or what it even does.

There are, for example, a lot of news stories around right now suggesting that the Supreme Court had determined that plaintiff's who have sued Remington Arms have a meritorious suit.

The Court has determined no such thing.

The Court simply didn't act to intervene to stop the suit.  It rarely does that on any suit.  Anyone who has any familiarity with the Court at all would have been stunned if the Court did take that step.  

What it hasn't done is is to decide the merits of it at all, or whether there's any legal basis for the suit.

The Court will be taking up DACA.

DACA is just the sort of nightmare scenario that the Court now has to deal with as Congress will not do its job.  Indeed, that's basically the issue.

It's been clear for at least forty years that Congress needs to do something on immigration.  Nearly anyone who has looked at this has that opinion.  But it won't.  It won't in part as doing something is tough and any bill will be unpopular.  It also won't as the Democrats tend to see every immigrant as a future Democratic voter (a dangerously inaccurate assumption) and the GOP tends to seen every immigrant as a future servant of some sort (likewise inaccurate). Both parties also tend to secretly feel that immigrants serve a larger American economy by depressing wages and therefore prices, although nobody is going to admit they think that.  The reason that they don't want to think that is that this make both parties co-conspirators in an economic concept in which the lower rung of American jobs is made to intentionally evaporate. . . except for immigrants occupying them, and it also operates as an intentional act to keep wages in those occupations at rock bottom.

So it's easier to do nothing whatsoever.

Congress' failure to act caused President Obama to bring DACA into effect through an executive order.  That was almost certainly an unconstitutional act, but as its a lot easier to do nothing rather than something liberal members of Congress cry about the Court acting on DACA, which would in effect be a direction to Congress to do its job.  

You'd think that Congress would be screaming to resume its traditional powers, but of course it can actually do that just be doing it. And indeed, recently the Democrats have been voicing that view as they've been very unhappy with some things that President Trump has done.  Not so unhappy as to actually decide that they'll cause Congress to resume its mandated functions, but unhappy enough to suggest that they might to that.

Anyhow, DACA is going before the Supreme Court and some seem to think that this means they'll be deciding whether it was a good idea or not. They won't. The only question is whether the executive order that brought it about was constitutional or not, and it probably isn't.

Protesting in front of the Court has really become a big deal the last few sessions.  It's pointless.  There's no reason at all to believe that the Justices consider protesters views on anything.

If people really want to protest an issue in front of the Court, they ought to do that in front of Congress.  Things get to the Supreme Court because of things Congress does, or in the case of DACA, refuse to do.  And members of the House and Senate are elected and do have to consider the views of the voters.

No matter.  The inaccurate reporting and the protests will go on, I'm sure.
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Baseball

  • Uncle Mike's Musings: A Yankees Blog and More
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Agriculture, Agrarian, Ranching, and Gardening Blogs

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  • Agrarian Trust
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  • NSAC’S Blog
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  • USDA Blog
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  • Going Agrarian
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  • Blog - This Farm Wife
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  • Sarah's NoDak living
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  • Hunger Math
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  • Cows and cheese
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  • The Beginning Farmer
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  • Musings of the Lunatic Farmer
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  • Double H Photography
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  • Watch Out For The Bull
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    9 years ago
  • The Agrarian
    You’re Invited to a Super (Potpourri) Bowl Party! - Article moved to: https://www.agrariahome.com/youre-invited-to-a-super-potpourri-bowl-party/
    11 years ago
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Buildings and Architecture

  • Courthouses of the West
    Lex Anteinternet: Governor Gordon Appoints Keith Kautz Attorney General - Lex Anteinternet: Governor Gordon Appoints Keith Kautz Attorney General: Governor Gordon Appoints Keith Kautz Attorney General This is a great choice by...
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  • Churches of the West
    Lex Anteinternet: Catholic Opposition to the Big Ugly. - Lex Anteinternet: Catholic Opposition to the Big Ugly. Catholic Opposition to the Big Ugly.
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  • Painted Bricks
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  • Churches of the East
    Lex Anteinternet: Friday, June 11, 1915. The murder of Christians at Mardin. - Lex Anteinternet: Friday, June 11, 1915. The murder of Christians a...: Friday, June 11, 1915. The murder of Christians at Mardin. Capuchin Friar Ble...
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  • Churches of the South
    Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, May 20, 325. The opening of the Council of Nicea. - Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, May 20, 325. The opening of the Council...: Thursday, May 20, 325. The opening of the Council of Nicea. Well, at least probab...
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  • Our Grandfathers' Grain Elevators
    Newly discovered photos emerge of a 1950 blowout at a Tillotson ‘clone’ elevator in Bird City, Kansas - Thanks to reader Steve Wilson, who sends two family photos, we have new views of the aftermath of that blowout, and these give a clue as to why the name Vi...
    10 months ago
  • Preservation in Pink
    Nebraska School House - Location: Highway 26A, right after Junction 385S before Scottsbluff County Click on the photos for full size images! Taken August 2006 as I traver...
    17 years ago
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Food and Cooking Blogs

  • Researching Food History - Cooking and Dining
    The little blog that could... with over a million and a half views - Actually, I missed it at one million... and now its over 1 1/2 million... since I rarely look at the stats (or the comments which I am woefully behind upli...
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  • Beer Et Seq
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  • Sandwiches of History
    Swissnut Sandwich (1936) on Sandwiches of History⁣ -
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  • The View from Great Island
    Almond Peach Cake - [image: serving almond peach cake on white plates with forks.] Almond Peach Cake made with fresh peaches and almond flour is an unfussy and deeply satisfy...
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  • Musings Over a Barrel
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    10 years ago
  • Echoes of Elbert County
    80th Anniversary Remembrance of the 1935 Flood - "Here Comes The Flood, There Goes The Train" will be a special 80th anniversary remembrance of the May 30, 1935 flood though Elbert and Kiowa. The event is...
    10 years ago
  • Manitoba's Prisoners of War
    Following in their Footsteps - *Originally posted at www.powsincanada.wordpress.com* For my 50th post and my one-year anniversary on Wordpress, I'd like to share what I've been up to th...
    10 years ago
  • This Day in Tech History
    It Only Took 100 Years – From 39 MPH to 630 - October 23, 1970: Gabelich Sets LSR of 630 MPH The Blue Flame was the rocket-powered vehicle driven by Gary Gabelich that achieved the world land speed rec...
    11 years ago
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History of the American Revolution and Colonial North America

  • Emerging Revolutionary War Era
    “our cause is just…” The Olive Branch and Declaration of Causes Petitions - On May 10, 1775, the delegates convened their Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Unlike the First Continental Congress held a year before, this C...
    21 hours ago
  • Fort Ticonderoga Blog
    July 4, 1775: A Typical Day, One Year Before Independence - 250 years ago today—July 4, 1775—the Continental Congress was a year away from adopting the Declaration of Independence, but this year, the day was ordin...
    1 day ago
  • Journal of the American Revolution
    That Audacious Paper: Jonathan Lind and Thomas Hutchinson Answer the Declaration of Independence - The Declaration of Independence is commonly revered in modern America as the aspirational apotheosis of political and social egalitarianism, although in ...
    2 days ago
  • Boston 1775
    “My Daughter, which she really is, tho’ but an adopted one” - This story came up (in my head at least) during yesterday’s online presentation from King’s Chapel about how the Revolution affected members of that Angli...
    4 years ago

History of the American Civil War

  • Civil War Memory
    Say Goodbye to the National Park Service As We Know It - Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which is now the law of the land cuts 1.2 billion dollars from the National Park Service’s budget.
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History of World War One.

  • Canada’s Army of Colonels: Battalion Commanders of the First and Second World Wars
    Lt-Col. C.M. MacMillan - Lieutenant-Colonel C.M. MacMillan Canadian Fusiliers (City of London) A smart clean-cut off[ice]r, who doe not look his age of 40 years, alert, of good per...
    20 hours ago
  • Roads To The Great War
    6 April 1918: Woodrow Wilson's Most War-Like Speech - After President Wilson brought America into the war in April 1917, much of what he shared publicly about his war aims seemed to be a continuance of his Jan...
    23 hours ago
  • With the British Army In Flanders
    Erquinghem-Lys – Of Dead Men & Heroes - We’ve been here before. More than once. Although not at this time of year. We’ve been here more than twice, actually – the trees within the cemetery hav...
    6 days ago

History of World War Two

  • World War Two Today
    'Faces from the Home Front' - A collection of rarely seen and never previously published images that reveals how Britain faced up to war
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  • Canada’s Army of Colonels: Battalion Commanders of the First and Second World Wars
    Lt-Col. C.M. MacMillan - Lieutenant-Colonel C.M. MacMillan Canadian Fusiliers (City of London) A smart clean-cut off[ice]r, who doe not look his age of 40 years, alert, of good per...
    20 hours ago
  • Today World War II
    Today in World War II History—July 5, 1940 & 1945 - 85 Years Ago—July 5, 1940: Vichy France breaks relations with the United Kingdom. In occupied France, Germans ban signs of national identity: the Tricolo...
    1 day ago
  • Pacific Paratrooper
    You could have heard a pin drop! - Once upon a time, when our politicians didn’t tend to apologize for our country’s prior actions, here’s a refresher on how some of our former patriots hand...
    5 days ago
  • PT Boat Red
    PT boats in transit - With special thanks to Ray Bean for sharing this remarkable photo showing how PT boats were transported during WWII. Four PT boats are on their way to do t...
    1 week ago
  • POWs In Canada
    What Happened to the Survivors of the Bismarck? - Some eighty-four years ago, on May 27, 1941, British battleships and torpedo bombers engaged the Bismarck – Germany’s famed battleship – in its final battl...
    1 month ago
  • 1,000 Men, 1000 Stories
    Memoirs: The Roy Burt Collection, RCNVR and Combined Operations (4) - *Remembrance Day 2012 from the Osoyoos Times, B.C.* *"Roy Burt took part in Historic D-Day raid at Normandy..."* Roy Burt, World War II veteran (RCNVR, Com...
    3 months ago
  • At The Front
    About an Iconic WW2 German Helmet - The basic silhouette of the Stahlhelm is immediately recognizable as an imposing symbol of force, so recognizable in fact that it’s said that it even inf...
    7 months ago
  • Operation Meatball
    "I feel like I have saved part of history" - *2024 Bridge to History Ambassador Jett.* *"My interest in WW2 began when I was around six years old. My day came home from an antique store with an ori...
    7 months ago
  • Amateur Historian Leonard's WWII History Blog
    Review: “Camp Crowder” - I highly recommend Jeremey P. Amick’s “Camp Crowder” (Arcadia Press) for any members of the WWII Signal Corps and family of those trained at the Midwestern...
    5 years ago
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Military

  • MandatoryFunDay
    The Army is investing in AI centered career paths for Soldiers. #military #veteran #militaryspouse -
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  • Task & Purpose
    Army authorizes combat patches for soldiers in parts of Africa, the Middle East - Soldiers who deployed in 14 countries between October 2023 and June 2025 are eligible to wear the patches on their uniform sleeves. The post Army authori...
    14 hours ago
  • Defence Blog
    Swedish Army buys 1,000 XT 250 motorcycles - The Swedish Armed Forces have announced the acquisition of the new Yamaha XT 250 motorcycle as part of efforts to enhance communication and logistics cap...
    19 hours ago
  • Duffel Blog
    This July 4th, remember to honor veterans who lost limbs last July 4th - Officials urge Americans to keep all limbs attached until at least July 5th
    1 day ago
  • The Chieftain
    Unofficial High-Speed Tour of the Battlefield Vegas Vehicle Park -
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  • The Angry Staff Officer
    All I Really Need to Know about Leadership I Learned from Spaceballs - Editor’s note (with apology built in): Reader, if as you peruse the following, you wonder whether the author is sick in the head or does not understand F...
    3 days ago
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Outdoor Blogs

  • Trout On Dries
    Roaming around - ” Aye, aye! and I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up”. Cap...
    6 hours ago
  • The Smokey Wire : National Forest News and Views
    History Snippet: Fairfax on NEPA 1978 - There’s much (potential for) change bubbling away in the NEPA-sphere, but like improving various aspects of the Forest Service, these ideas and concerns ha...
    9 hours ago
  • Field Ethos
    Whiskey Safari - By John B. Chisum I live in rural Louisiana, which is somewhat akin to living in a third… The post Whiskey Safari appeared first on Field Ethos.
    17 hours ago
  • Coyote Gulch
    #Solar panels could help make farms more resilient to #ClimateChange, but they need cash to make it work — KUNC.org - Click the link to read the article on the KUNC website (Caroline Llanes). Here’s an excerpt: July 1, 2025 At Thistle Whistle Farm in Hotchkiss, farmer Mark...
    18 hours ago
  • bearded fisherman
    Boone loves olives #springerspaniel #boone #puppy #dog #goodboy -
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  • Wide Open Spaces
    15 Of My Favorite Shots From This Year's International Aerial Photographer of the Year Competition - Screenshot from This Year's International Aerial Photographer of the Year Competition by: Wayne Sorenson[image: 15 Of My Favorite Shots From This Year's In...
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  • Casting Across
    Podcast Ep. 347: Don’t Fear the Spinner - Times have changed… I think. It doesn’t seem like there is the same kind of animosity from fly fishers directed towards folks tossing worms and lures. Wh...
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  • Going Feral
    The art of the fly: Angler relishes the meditation and creation of tying - The art of the fly: Angler relishes the meditation and creation of tying: Blake Jackson, a guide and co-owner of Casper’s Ugly Bug Fly Shop, ties a carp-sl...
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  • Project Upland
    Upland Bird Hunting in Illinois: Pheasant, Quail, Dove, Regulations, and More - While upland hunting opportunities in the Prairie State are limited, they offer a chance to experience remaining bird populations. Let me be honest: I gr...
    1 day ago
  • Claretbumbler
    Secret venue - I am going to break with my usual openness and not divulge the location of a new venue I have discovered. It is in the Irish midlands and in a built up are...
    1 day ago
  • Troutrageous! Fly Fishing & Tenkara Blog
    Driftless 2025: Part 5 – The Last Stage - All great journeys must eventually come to an end, and the Driftless 2025 was no different. Tuesday was to be my last full day in the Shire. Sure, there ...
    2 days ago
  • Wyoming Game and Fish Department
    Furs, Fins and Feathers Podcast Episode 11 Shovelnose Sturgeon -
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  • BHA Media
    NC: Helene Storm Debris Removal Threatens Native Trout Habitat in Western North Carolina - [image: IMG_5853.jpeg]Nine months after Hurricane Helene ripped through the Southern Appalachians, contractors hired by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
    3 days ago
  • The Land Desk
    Data Dump: Abandoned oil and gas wells in New Mexico - Also: Public lands continue to take a beating, despite one small victory
    3 days ago
  • In Forest and Field
    The Second Two Weeks at Home - *During the second two weeks after I left the hospital I walked further, spent more time in the yard – when it wasn’t raining – mowed part of the lawn, g...
    3 days ago
  • Revivaler
    Porsche-Diesel Super 308 Tractor - [image: Porsche diesel tractor] The name Porsche is almost exclusively associated with high performance automobiles. But the Porsche name also appeared o...
    5 days ago
  • Gun Dog Blog
    How to Properly Introduce a Dog to Water - Take steps to ensure that you properly introduce your dog to water through an easy, necessary process.
    6 days ago
  • Sussex Trout Fishing
    River Rother – 28 June - After a week of decorating during a heat wave, I deserved some down time beside the river. I swapped a paint brush for a rod and the thirty degree heat for...
    6 days ago
  • Wes Siler’s Newsletter
    Mike Lee Withdraws Public Land Sale From Budget - Huge win for America as extremist concedes defeat
    1 week ago
  • Laramie Audubon
    - * Kids and Families Fly on the Prairie* Eight kids and families gathered on the edge of the prairie on Saturday morning, June 28. There was not a cloud i...
    1 week ago
  • Brooks and Becks
    Gone Fishing - Over the last couple of years the whole social media thing Has lost its shine for me so apart from the odd grip and grin on FB and the silly sense of hum...
    1 week ago
  • Crest, Cliff & Canyon
    Two Idaho Rainforest Scenes - The storm above and the bloom below: two views from a very rainy June day in Idaho’s inland rainforest in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.
    1 week ago
  • Forest History Society
    A New Fire Future: Restoring Indigenous Sovereignty and Fighting Megafires Through a Return to Cultural Burning Practices - A prescribed burn conducted on land traditionally stewarded by the Tuscarora, Catawba, and Lumbee People. Photographed during YSE’s 2025 Southern Forestr...
    1 week ago
  • NOLS Blog
    Instructor Spotlight: Caeden Greene - [image: Instructor Spotlight: Caeden Greene] A NOLS experience can truly be a transformative experience for a young person’s life, and that was certainly...
    1 week ago
  • NatureSound.it
    Glaucidium passerinum by Grégory Chamming’s - Reading Time: < 1 minute ZOOM H1e recorder – AOM 5024 Microphones 50 cm apart – file as recorded
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  • Truttablog
    The fruits of your neighbour’s labour and how to be irritating. - Those days when you catch all the fish and eat all the toffees. Be aware! The post The fruits of your neighbour’s labour and how to be irritating. first...
    2 weeks ago
  • AFTCO - Conservation
    The Truth About the Shark Problem - Sharks generally have a hard time winning popularity contests among saltwater anglers, but they are a critical part of the marine ecosystem. As apex pred...
    2 weeks ago
  • Chukar Culture
    Beauty’s Beast - This is for those with their heads in the sand, which is a pretty comfortable place to be usually. But when hunting season comes, and you need to get out i...
    2 weeks ago
  • Call of the Stream
    A TRIBUTE TO RIETA JOHNSTONE AND TROUT BUNGALOW - I was deeply saddened recently to hear the news of Rieta Johnstone’s passing on 4 June 2025 I first met Rieta in 2005 when I was researching trout acclimat...
    2 weeks ago
  • The River Beat
    Wellington's Loddon - Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, returned to England a hero after defeating Napolean at Waterloo. In recognition of his service the state gift...
    3 weeks ago
  • Southern Rockies Nature Blog
    It's Spring, When Large Animals Stomp You - On May 4, 2025, a 47-year-old Florida man was gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park. He survived. “We see about two or three (bison attack vict...
    3 weeks ago
  • Wanderings up North
    Sarek National Park Sept 2024.MLD Trailstar . Day 4 - Day 4,Overnight it had been windy and wet and the forecast we pulled in,gave more of the same for today The Trailstar once again proved its worth a...
    5 weeks ago
  • Paddle Making (and other canoe stuff)
    Historic Paddle Photo: Archive.org - A photo dated to 1902 showcasing some paddles and a very early style of canvas canoe in the New Brunswick area... Lake Nasahie, New Brunswick, 1902 Augus...
    1 month ago
  • Leland Fly Fishing Blog
    North Country Magic: Fly Fishing with the Starling & Olive Soft Hackle Spider - For centuries, anglers have whispered tales of the North Country Spiders – understated yet deadly flies that unlock the secrets of trout streams. These a...
    1 month ago
  • Van Cat Meow
    Not Goodbye, Just a Different Road - The evening is golden and still as the last light squints through the trees. Willow sits on the step of the sliding door, ears darting towards every sound ...
    2 months ago
  • Athabascan Woman Blog
    Shondiin Mayo – Koyukon Athabascan and Diné Storyteller - Shondiin Mayo, a Koyukon Athabascan and Diné storyteller, uses journalism and filmmaking to amplify Indigenous voices. From documentary filmmaking to publi...
    3 months ago
  • AFTCO Films
    AFTCO & Kicker Present Untamed Shallows – LA VERDAD - Head south of the border with the Kicker boys in search of the truth, tackle-breaking grouper, and the raw beauty that keeps calling them back. Featuring...
    3 months ago
  • Hike Pyrenees - walking holidays in the Spanish Pyrenees
    Bus timetable for Ordesa – summer 2025 - [image: Ordesa National Park]Nestled in the heart of the Spanish Pyrenees, Ordesa National Park is a true gem for nature enthusiasts and hikers alike. A UN...
    4 months ago
  • Orvis News
    Meet the Nominees for the 2025 Orvis-Endorsed Awards! - 2025 marks the 40th year that the Orvis Company will recognize excellence in sporting experiences through its Endorsed Lodges, Outfitters, and Guides (EL...
    4 months ago
  • The Filson Journal
    Indy Officinalis: Forager + Urban Farmer - Indy Officinalis is a forager and urban farmer who has been growing food in underserved areas of Los Angeles since 2019. When things seem impossible, she...
    4 months ago
  • Birdhunter
    Mining for Quail - This season was my 26th year of bird hunting. I love it now as much as I did in 1999 when we hunted quail for the first time north of Phoenix. I was captiv...
    4 months ago
  • The Borealist
    “Your Fervent Nationalism is Making Me Nervous.” - “This Song is Called Your Fervent Nationalism is Making Me Nervous” for Gord My favourite words will forever be eh, touque and canoe. and grace. Grace, t...
    5 months ago
  • The Reigning Chukar Champions
    A little relief - The 2024 chukar season was quite a downer for me. Seems like I was always being a puss about something. The back thing really set me back but the surgeon s...
    5 months ago
  • Berkshire Outdoorsman
    It’s time to say goodbye - As noted in my column of August 24, 2024, I am stepping down as the Berkshire Woods and Waters columnist effective year end, which means this is my last ...
    6 months ago
  • Canadian Small Game Hunter's Blog
    In the Mist of Tradition - My drive took me about an hour to make it to one of my favorite hunting spots along the river. It is one of these spots that never freeze over during the w...
    6 months ago
  • Species Spotlight
    Freshwater Bass Guide - In freshwater, bass fishing is king. They bring the bite and a good fight, making anglers work for their catch. Whether you’re an angler targeting largemou...
    8 months ago
  • The Unaccomplished Angler
    A step back in time - As we reach a certain point (age) in our lives, I think many of us begin to look back over the decades with a heightened sense of nostalgia. Through the ...
    9 months ago
  • Mouthful of Feathers
    Cowboy Logic - Call me pretentious or a purist, or worse if you must, but some things are just inherently better than others. Dry-fly fishing and homemade bread, film pho...
    10 months ago
  • Pointing Dog Blog - Dog Willing
    The Glorious Twelfth - Today is perhaps the holiest of holy days among sportsmen and women in the UK. It is the Glorious Twelfth of August, the day the shooting season opens.
    10 months ago
  • The Ultralight Hiker
    Kam Snaps - Kam Snaps The Ultralight Hiker If you are into DIY (as you should be unless you want to be a perpetual victim/pauper) then it’s about time you discovered t...
    11 months ago
  • Our Stories
    Empty nests - Ripple Effect: Dillon Field Office Partners Help Riparian Areas Thrive Riparian areas in the BLM Dillon Field Office area are thriving thanks in part to pa...
    11 months ago
  • The Gourmet Sportsman
    Disappointing Return - * May 3, 2024* Luc has been recovering from a procedure and he is finally ready to go out. He fished the day prior by himself and did rather well for a s...
    1 year ago
  • Today in Conservation
    June 23 - Tero Mustonen, Finnish Environmentalist, Born (1976) Save the rainforest! That’s what we hear over and over—and for good cause. But at the other ends of ...
    1 year ago
  • Writers On The Range
    By: Nicki Marie - I see a similar changes while I am out conducting fieldwork. We observe many changes to the environment now. And water is never as important to us as it is...
    1 year ago
  • U.S. Department of the Interior
    Everything You Want to Know About Katmai National Park’s Fat Bears - Every fall, Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska hosts Fat Bear Week, an annual tournament celebrating the success of the bears at the park’s Broo...
    1 year ago
  • Hunting Dog Blog
    AKC HT prep fun fun fun - Check out the HDB YouTube Channel (see link in tab) for the latest training videos where I set up a great little practice session for our AKC Senior Hunt T...
    2 years ago
  • Diary of a Mad Natural Historian
    Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex (2003) - Last Wednesday, alerted by Toho Studios on my Instagram feed, I put aside my distaste for indoor crowds* and toddled off to Albuquerque to see a special sh...
    2 years ago
  • Hiking in Finland
    Impressions From Cyprus - Hiking with distant views to the sea, climbing sweet limestone cliffs and swimming in the 23°C warm Mediterranean in December - Cyprus has lots to offer ...
    2 years ago
  • Arizona Wanderings
    Wyoming Antelope - I drew a tag and was staring down a long lonely road trip by myself. So, I asked my four favorite people if they wanted to explore Wyoming together. We s...
    2 years ago
  • Beautiful Badlands ND
    A Delicious Twelve Course Ukrainian Christmas Dinner in the Beautiful Badlands - Twelve Course Ukrainian Christmas Christmas in the Beautiful Badlands brings friends and families together. Traditions are demonstrated in the most intens...
    2 years ago
  • Land Cruiser Of The Day!
    1989 Toyota Land Cruiser Bandeirante - Condition: Used Year: 1989 VIN (Vehicle Identification Number): 00000000000000000 Mileage: 91071 Interior Color: Black For Sale By: Private Seller Options:...
    3 years ago
  • TUCKERS CHUKARS
    Moving on. - With my limited ability to adjust to new rules and changes I have decided to start a new site. For over ten years I have enjoyed posting on the blogger ...
    4 years ago
  • Home is where the (H)eart(h) is......
    A weekend of learning by doing and sharing - Last weekend was one for the books! It was an all around pleasant weekend, with some hick ups, because some vitally important things were taught and lear...
    4 years ago
  • A Bird Hunter's Road
    Walking Your Way Into Birds...... - is the only practice I vouch for and is really the only part of the hunt we control. The adage isn't complex, but to what degree we take it, varies from ...
    5 years ago
  • Living with Birddogs
    News From Chukar Country - After the Thanksgiving snows, and successive subsequent storms provided much needed moisture to the eastside, birds began to disburse and the hunting imp...
    5 years ago
  • Blogging from the Pyrenees
    Summer 2020 Pyrenees walking holiday brochure - [image: Summer 2020 walking holiday brochure] Our summer 2020 walking holiday brochure is available to download as a pdf or to view online. Our brochure ha...
    5 years ago
  • Filson Life
    Filson x Danner Grouse Bottomland Boot - When two Pacific Northwest brands team up to create a hunting boot, the result is a rugged piece of craftsmanship. Constructed from full-grain leather an...
    5 years ago
  • Raised By Wolves
    What's That? - It's fun to mess with Our Friend Nancy. She's Minnesota Nice, a retired middle school teacher, and in the eighth grade I would have been the *end* of her....
    5 years ago
  • Tenkara Tracks
    Gear I Use: DRAGONtail Tenkara Komodo - The DRAGONtail Komodo comes with a handy rod sock and a sturdy rod tube. I know, I can almost hear your thoughts..."no...please...not another tenkara rod...
    6 years ago
  • Finnish Way of Hiking
    Millennium hike, part 1: Vätsäri - Welcome to follow a two month long backpacking expedition through the wilderness of Finnish Lapland. This hike took place in November and December 1999. Th...
    6 years ago
  • Like No Place On Earth
    June in Guernsey State Park - It has been a spell - my last post here was in March. But that does not mean we have not been active in the park. We are still walking, and hiking, as...
    7 years ago
  • Pointing Dog Blog
    Details - *In a previous post, I wrote about the different ways hunters **in different parts of the world **behave AFTER a dog goes on point. *Today, I'd like to loo...
    7 years ago
  • Backpackingbongos
    The Arctic Trail – Kautokeino to Kilpisjärvi pt3 (mist and misery) - The Arctic trail starts at Kautokeino in the far north of Norway and heads south for approximately 800 kilometres. It crosses into Finland and Sweden, fini...
    7 years ago
  • Hodgeman's Thoughts on The Great Outdoors
    .22 Aguila 60gr. Subsonic Sniper or....a Dry Treatise on Bullet Stabilization - I'll say right at the beginning, I am an unrepentant grouse junkie. Particularly, ruffed grouse. I'm sure some folks in the sporting dog/tweed jacket/ do...
    8 years ago
  • A Waterman's Woods
    El Nino - We wait Toiling in this drought Whirling like the dust on the horizon Trapped like smoke in a valley Blowing across the rising sun We wait for rain to se...
    9 years ago
  • From Housewife to Hunter . Adding A Rifle To My Apron
    What’s The Difference Between 556 & 223 round? My Husband Laughed - Last week we went to the gun show (read about it here) and saw a lot of over priced items. While we were there, ever time I heard my husband The Soldier ch...
    12 years ago
  • wyomingstateparks
    Reverend Leonard Robinson 3 of 3 -
    14 years ago
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Philosophy, Theology and related stuff

  • Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real
    Fencing for Fun - Priests' vacations are spent in all sorts of ways. Some climb Devil's Tower, others camp and fish on the Powder River, and still others spend a week buil...
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  • Cellmate of Boethius
    Lex Anteinternet: A 2025 Independence Day reflection. - Lex Anteinternet: A 2025 Independence Day reflection.: A 2025 Independence Day reflection. I wasn't going to post a July 4th item this year, as I frankly f...
    1 day ago
  • City Father
    Independence Day - *Happy Birthday, USA!* Today is Independence Day, "the Fourth of July," the 249th birthday of the United States, our primordial patriotic holiday and...
    1 day ago
  • Churches of the West
    Lex Anteinternet: Catholic Opposition to the Big Ugly. - Lex Anteinternet: Catholic Opposition to the Big Ugly. Catholic Opposition to the Big Ugly.
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  • Canon Law Made Easy
    Clergy and Summer Vacation (Repost) - Q: Our pastor seems to go on vacation constantly. This year, he already spent one week at a retreat house, left on numerous short trips to see his relati...
    2 days ago
  • Joe In Black Ministries
    Feast of Saint Thomas, Apostle | July 3, 2025 -
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  • The Catholic Gentleman
    No. 1 Reason Wives Pull Away - What if the most important spiritual formation in your child’s life isn’t happening at church—but at your dinner table? Today, John Heinen and Devin Scha...
    3 days ago
  • What We Need To Know
    Engaging the Whole Parish - Fr. Jonathan Wilson shares how he brought the parish on pilgrimage
    4 days ago
  • Letters from Fiddler's Greene
    A Tailor Retold - In Defense of Trivialities
    5 days ago
  • On Religion
    Summer beats, dashes of theology and the growing glowing power of hip-hop - In the first centuries of Christian life, bishops wrestled with the Greek in this puzzle -- whether God the Father and Jesus were "homoiousios (of similar ...
    5 days ago
  • The Dawn Patrol
    I write for Jesuit Media Lab on Brian Wilson’s spiritual outlook - Many thanks to Jesuit Media Lab for giving me the opportunity to remember Brian Wilson (pictured with me in 1988) with an essay: "Only God Can Make a Tr...
    1 week ago
  • Leila Miller
    It's Good to Preach to the Choir - Photo by samy benabed on Unsplash *Last June, I wrote the following article for **Crisis Magazine**. Most of my teaching and writing throughout the year...
    2 weeks ago
  • I Must Follow if I Can
    Typical Anti-Francis Melodrama from “Traditionalists” - No one can keep up with all the bull coming from fringe corners of the internet. But now and then I’ll respond to one to make a point. Traditionalists love...
    3 weeks ago
  • Churches of the East
    Lex Anteinternet: Friday, June 11, 1915. The murder of Christians at Mardin. - Lex Anteinternet: Friday, June 11, 1915. The murder of Christians a...: Friday, June 11, 1915. The murder of Christians at Mardin. Capuchin Friar Ble...
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  • Churches of the South
    Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, May 20, 325. The opening of the Council of Nicea. - Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, May 20, 325. The opening of the Council...: Thursday, May 20, 325. The opening of the Council of Nicea. Well, at least probab...
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  • About Catholics
    Good Friday - Good Friday is the first day of the Easter Triduum and the day that Catholics and other Christians throughout the world commemorate the crucifixion of Jesu...
    3 months ago
  • About Catholics
    Good Friday - Good Friday is the first day of the Easter Triduum and the day that Catholics and other Christians throughout the world commemorate the crucifixion of Jesu...
    3 months ago
  • Priesthood from the Inside Out
    Prodigal Son - If I were an artist, I would paint a portrait of the prodigal son.
    3 months ago
  • Advocates for Solidarity
    Stepping Stones - Nine states that will determine the Solidarity Party's future
    11 months ago
  • liturgy guy
    SSPX Chapel has Novena of Latin Masses Said for Local Bishop - 𝘐𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘢 𝘯𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳...
    1 year ago
  • Deacon Lawrence
    Illustration: Icon of the Transfiguration - The Transfiguration, the revelation of God in His glory strengthens His disciples for the difficult times they are about to face. For us it reminds us of...
    2 years ago
  • Eric Sammons
    Lessons From the Peace Emperor - What lessons can we learn today from the Peace Emperor? The post Lessons From the Peace Emperor appeared first on Eric Sammons.
    2 years ago
  • In the Light of the Law
    Ignoring law is not remedied by ignoring it even more - I have read with profit many columns by Dr. Adam DeVille but in his latest essay, “Relieving Rome’s burdens: A proposal for handling abuse cases” (CWR, 10 ...
    5 years ago
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Radio

  • OneTubeRadio.com
    Rocket Mail: 1940 - Eighty-five years ago this month, the July 1940 issue of the British magazine Practical Mechanics gave an update on what the Americans were up to: Rocket m...
    1 day ago
  • Buy Two Way Radios
    TWRS-204 – New Wouxun KG-905G Plus and KG-915G GMRS Radios - We announce two new GMRS two way radios from Wouxun and talk about their features. We’ll also take some of your questions from our YouTube channel, email...
    2 days ago
  • The KØNR Radio Site
    HamAlert Is My Friend - Many of you already know about this wonderful alert tool: HamAlert. From the HamAlert website: HamAlert is a system that allows you to get notifications ...
    6 days ago
  • The Adventure Radio Society
    SCOREBOARD: RESULTS OF THE JANUARY 2024 SPARTAN SPRINT - *For an enlarged view, please click on the SCOREBOARD*
    1 year ago

Trains, Planes, Automobiles & Boats

  • Transportation History
    1905: The “Steady Progress” of Tramways and Railways is on Display at an International Exhition in London - July 3, 1905 In the northern part of London, an international electric tramway and railway exhibition was opened in the Royal Agricultural Hall in the inne...
    2 days ago
  • Stream Liner Memories
    The Denver Zephyr in Winter - This menu is dated December 1948, which would have been just before Burlington replaced the shovel-nose locomotive leading the Denver Zephyr with more mode...
    3 days ago
  • The Aerodrome
    Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, July 1, 1915. Synchronization Gear. - Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, July 1, 1915. Synchronization Gear.: Thursday, July 1, 1915. Synchronization Gear. South African forces under Louis Botha defe...
    4 days ago
  • Kingston's Hanley Spur
    CP Switches 'Kingston's Hanley Spur' - As the basement/modelling season winds down for the nice weather, I wanted to try out my new iPhone and decided to follow the CP wayfreight from Smiths F...
    1 week ago
  • Railhead
    Towns and Nature: Cheyenne, WY: Big Boy 4004 Static Display and Stor... - Towns and Nature: Cheyenne, WY: Big Boy 4004 Static Display and Stor...: ( Satellite ) Joss Moni posted that is at Holiday Park in Cheyenne, WY correct. be...
    1 week ago
  • The Trolley Dodger
    Our Latest Book – The Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railway - We are back with an all-new Trolley Dodger blog post, our 315th. We are heralding the impending arrival of our fifth book, The Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Ra...
    1 week ago
  • This Day In Automotive History
    June 23, 1971 – The movie Le Mans, starring Steve McQueen, debuts - “Le Mans,” starring Steve McQueen as a Team Porsche driver, debuted in theaters on this day in 1971. In the film, McQueen’s character Michael Delaney dri...
    1 week ago
  • The Work Truck Blog
    Food trailer and truck. - Seems like you just see these everywhere any more.
    3 weeks ago
  • Lost Rail
    Marching West in Time - Not far from Ravenna and MP1614 the transcon lofts itself over the Clark Fork River above. The river has been a frequent obstacle to the Resourceful ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Great Northern Rwy's Mansfield Branch Line (1909-1985) and the Waterville Railway Co. (1910-1954)
    Douglas Creek Falls April 1981 - Train emerging out the the south tunnel portal near Douglas Creek Falls in the spring of 1981. Olaf Rasmussen photos.
    5 weeks ago
  • Frisco Archive
    MP15DC 361 - MP15DC 361 at Kansas City, Kansas on December 21, 1980 (Jame F. Primm II).
    2 months ago
  • I'm Just Here For The Potty
    State of Wyoming Rest Stop, Diversion Dam Rest Area. - This much welcome and nicely maintained rest area is between Riverton and Dubois. It's large, in addition to having the regular WYDOT amenities.
    8 months ago
  • The Railroad in Detail
    Basil Casabona’s Mega Santa Fe consist running on the AGNR - This is an extract of an e-mail that Chuck sent out today …. “Today [Club Member] Basil [Casabona] got to run his beautiful SF {Santa Fe] consist on our AG...
    5 years ago
  • Building the Railroad
    Building a MOW (Maintenance of Way) Consist - This gallery shows Chuck Whitlock creating a MOW consist [Double click on any pic to see gallery/photos full size]:
    5 years ago
  • Renovation of CWR Caboose #11
    East side of Caboose #11 stripped - VP Lonnie Dickson aided and abetted by President Chuck Whitlock’s grandson Cadu have been hard at work stripping the east side of “our” caboose. They have ...
    6 years ago
  • Lionel Trains
    Freight Car Friday – PFE R-70-20 Reefers - Often our Freight Car Friday features focus on broader topics. This week we devote our blog to one specific class of car – the prototype for our Lionel and...
    10 years ago
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War Game Blogs

  • Grymauch's Solo Wargaming Blog
    Caesar's Gallic Wars: The Battle of the Arar (Hail Caesar) - I was pleasantly surprised how Hail Caesar rules played out in the my last Ancients game 'The attack on Mona'. It has been sat on my bookshelves for at l...
    18 hours ago
  • JJ's Wargames
    The World Turned Upside Down - Rebel Militia Brigade. - The creation of my Rebel Militia brigade picks up the work I did over the Xmas of 2021 into 2022 using an idea from the Perrys to rapidly create multip...
    1 day ago
  • KEITH'S WARGAMING BLOG
    Cotswold Wargaming Day 2025 - Well, here we are in July, and it's time for a reminder about the Cotswold Wargaming Day. *The Cotswold Wargaming Day 2025* *Sunday 19th October * *Big B...
    4 days ago
  • Blog - Stuart Ellis-Gorman
    What’s in a Name – Defining the Hundred Years War - Nobody caught up in the chaos and bloodshed in France between the years 1337 and 1453 ever referred to what was happening around them as The Hundred Years ...
    6 days ago
  • AJ's Wargaming Blog
    Dry-brush texture palette - I made this quick dry-brush texture palette for a friend who's starting their painting journey with the Slap-Chop method. I made myself a similar one abo...
    4 weeks ago
  • The Raft
    Porty gets the Short End – 6th Coastal Forces AAR - It was no secret that Porty and the base’s intelligence officer Lt. Reuben Atkinson couldn’t stand each other. The one a stuffy, ostentiously pious fusspot...
    5 weeks ago
  • The Mad Padre's Wargames Page
    Swan of the East: A Great War Naval PBEM Game - Players Needed - Hello friends: If you've been following this blog for a while, you'll know that I've been thinking about a Play By Email naval campaign loosely based ...
    5 weeks ago
  • War Blog - Modern Warfare 1946-2021
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    2 years ago
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Blawgs I follow

  • Notice & Comment
    Universal Injunctions Are Severely Limited, But What About Universal Vacatur?, by Jeffrey Lubbers - In Trump v. CASA, Inc., the Supreme Court held, 6 to 3, that federal courts lack the authority to issue universal injunctions if an injunction limited to...
    4 hours ago
  • SCOTUSblog
    The morning read for Friday, July 4 - Happy 4th of July! I hope you have a wonderful Independence Day. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supr...
    1 day ago
  • Stories of the Four Courts
    New Irish Barristers, November 1930 - From the Irish Independent, 8 November 1930, a very nice-looking group of new Irish barristers, including one woman (A Caulfield) as well as two members of...
    1 day ago
  • Courthouses of the West
    Lex Anteinternet: Governor Gordon Appoints Keith Kautz Attorney General - Lex Anteinternet: Governor Gordon Appoints Keith Kautz Attorney General: Governor Gordon Appoints Keith Kautz Attorney General This is a great choice by...
    1 day ago
  • Above the Law
    How You Disagree Matters Too, Breyer — See Also - *Former Supreme Court Justice Pretends Sham Legal Theory Is Used In Good Faith*: You can advocate for pragmatism without pretending originalism is a real...
    2 days ago
  • Texas Agriculture Law
    July 3, 2025 Weekly Round Up - Happy Independence Day to all! We hope you all have an enjoyable holiday. We’re here to recap some of the biggest ag law stories in the news over the pa...
    2 days ago
  • Hague Law Blog
    Pull interrogatories and RFP’s before sending your Hague Service Request. - Seriously. Unless you absolutely have to serve them with process (ie: the summons), leave discovery demands out. Lots of plaintiffs’ lawyers gasp when I sa...
    2 days ago
  • Oil and Gas Lawyer Blog
    O. Henry and the Texas General Land Office - I recently ran across a publication containing two stories by O. Henry, purchased at the Capitol Visitors Center in Austin. The stories center on the Texas...
    4 days ago
  • Irish Liquor Lawyer
    WSWA hopes we sleep through tired claims - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgZ7gMze7A&list=RDpIgZ7gMze7A&start_radio=1 Francis Creighton, the CEO of the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America (W...
    1 week ago
  • Mirror of Justice
    New Paper: "Can First Amendment 'History and Tradition' Protect Both Sides in Polarized America?" - I've posted this new paper on SSRN. Abstract: In recent years, religious-freedom issues have become caught up in the nation’s cycle of political and social...
    1 week ago
  • S.J. Quinney College of Law
    From our senior director of development and alumni relations: Spring 2025 - I look forward to the spring semester each year because we welcome old friends to our Alumni Awards (which double as our class reunions) and our Golden Gav...
    1 month ago
  • Howe On The Court
    Court appears to back legality of HHS preventative care task force - The Supreme Court on Monday appeared to side with the federal government in a dispute over the constitutionality of the structure of a task force within ...
    2 months ago
  • Constitutional Law Prof Blog
    Response and Reply in the Alien Enemies Act Case - The plaintiffs filed their response to the Administration's application for Supreme Court review in the Alien Enemies Act Case, and the Administration file...
    3 months ago
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