The Governor Certifies the Trigger Law on Abortion.

 We ran this, this morning:

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, July 21, 2022. The AG reports on Dobbs: Today In Wyoming's History: July 21 :  2022.  Wyoming Attorney General Bridget hill informed the Governor that nothing precluded Wyoming...

The Governor, announcing via Twitter, certified the bill this afternoon, meaning that it comes into effect five days from now.

Governor Mark Gordon

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I have certified HB 92 following the Attorney General’s analysis. I believe that the decision to regulate abortion is properly left to the states. As a pro-life Governor, my focus will continue to be on ensuring we are doing all we can to support mothers, children and families.

Let the screaming, yelling, bad analogies and histrionics commence.

Also, probably to commence, I'd guess, will be litigation.  The first goal of anything filed will be to prevent the statute from taking effect until the Court, whichever court that is, rules on whatever issues are raised.

Post Script:

And, not to be disappointed, in order:

1.  Very bad legal analysis.

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So we’re just throwing the whole Equality State and no arbitrary power thing out the window huh?

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2.  Bad argument with histrionics.

Kai (he/him)

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As a male governor who doesn't know what it's like to have a pregnancy you don't want or one that could risk your own life you should have no voice in the decisions women make for themselves.

3.  Histrionics.

prairie jo 

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Why do you think you should be allowed in the exam room with a woman and her Doctor?

Thursday, July 21, 2022. The AG reports on Dobbs

Today In Wyoming's History: July 21: 2022.  Wyoming Attorney General Bridget hill informed the Governor that nothing precluded Wyoming's "trigger law" prohibiting most abortions from going into effect following the Dobbs decision.

It certainly took a long time.

The Governor now has five days.  He promised yesterday to look things over, overnight.

July 22, 1942. Terror in Warsaw, Gas Rationing on the East Coast, Heroisam at El Alamein

Germany began to move residents of the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka in what was termed Grossaktion Warsaw.

Today In Wyoming's History: July 22: 1942 US initiates gasoline rationing 

This actually took place only along the Atlantic seaboard at first.  It was actually a measure taken to save rubber, rather than gasoline.

The Germans reached the great bend of the Don, near Stalingrad.

It was a very active day of combat at El Alamein.  Among the Australians, was Private Stan Gurney, who was killed there in an action that resulted in a posthumous Victoria's Cross. The citation stated:

No.WX.9858 Private Arthur Stanley Gurney, Australian Military Forces. For gallant and unselfish bravery in silencing enemy machine-gun posts by bayonet assault at Tell El Eisa on 22 July 1942, thus allowing his Company to continue the advance.

During an attack on strong German positions in the early morning of 22 July 1942, the Company to which Private Gurney belonged was held up by intense machine-gun fire from posts less than 100 yards ahead, heavy casualties being inflicted on our troops, all the officers being killed or wounded.

Grasping the seriousness of the situation and without hesitation, Private Gurney charged the nearest enemy machine-gun post, bayoneted three men and silenced the post. He then continued on to a second post, bayoneted two men and sent out a third as a prisoner. At his stage a stick grenade was thrown at Private Gurney which knocked him to the ground. He rose again, picked up his rifle and charged a third post using the bayonet with great vigour. He then disappeared from view, and later his body was found in an enemy post.

By this single-handed act of gallantry in the face of a determined enemy, Private Gurney enabled his Company to press forward to its objective, inflicting heavy losses upon the enemy. The successful outcome of this engagement was almost entirely due to Private Gurney's heroism at the moment when it was needed.

Saturday, July 22, 1922. Perceptions.

Today In Wyoming's History: July 22: 1922 Mount Moran ascended for the first time.  the climb was made by LeGrand Hardy, Bennet McNulty and Ben C. Rich of the Chicago Mountaineering Club via the Skillet Glacier route.

Cleveland's bat boys posed for a photo.

The Chicago Tribune published its second cartoon of the week on how Americans viewed the nation.

Friday, July 21, 1972. Bloody Friday

By IrishBriton - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48182855

The Provisional Irish Republican Army carried out 22 bombings in Belfast, killing nine people in what became known as Bloody Friday.  The actions sparked a renewed British offensive against the IRA, which commenced the next day.

The "Provos" in some significant ways were able to conduct this sort of activity due to romanticized backing by Irish Americans.  It claimed lineage from the Irish Republican Army of the Irish Civil War period, but it had an evolved Socialist agenda that put it in the far left political sphere, which would partially explain how it obtained backing from Libya at the time.

The IRA itself did in fact carry on in existence after the Irish Civil War, even conducting a bombing campaign in 1939 against the United Kingdom.  In 1969, after the Troubles had commenced, the IRA split in two over the issue of abstentionism and forming a National Liberation Front with other left wing groups.  The group that became the Provos refused to vote on the second item, and opposed the first.  Sein Finn likewise split.

Tuesday, July 21, 1942. Japan invades Papua.

Today in World War II History—July 21, 1942: 80 Years Ago—July 21, 1942: Japanese invade Papua New Guinea at Buna and Gona, and push south toward Port Moresby.

From Sarah Sundin's blog.

Thursday, July 20, 1922. Echoes of wars.

A press photographer in Washington, D. C. took a photo of men on motorcycles.

Another took a photograph of the dedication to Lt. Samuel J. Harris, U.S. World War One veteran who had died during an insurrection in Lithuania, where he was serving as a volunteer.

Around 1,000 Americans had volunteered to serve the Baltic nation against the Reds in the same time period.

German colonies were transferred officially to European powers under League of Nations' mandates.

Limerick was taken from the IRA by the Irish Army.  The Irish Army also shelled IRA held Waterford.

Sunday July 19, 1942. End of the Second Happy Time, Spreading Murder in the East, the Leningrad Suite.

German submarines were ordered withdrawn from the U.S. East Coast due to mounting effectiveness of American anti-submarine efforts, thus brining the "Second Happy Time", Operation Drumbeat, to a close.

Heinrich Himmler ordered that all Jews with the German "General Government", i.e., occupied Poland, be moved to camps by December 31.

German propaganda poster urging Poles to do farm worth with Germany.

NBC broadcast Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony.  It was a big event at the time, and its gone on to be the most streamed performance of the 20th Century.

Wednesday, July 19, 1922. Oil falls again.

Petitions to free political prisoners delivered in Washington, D.C.  There were still left wing figures who were arrested during World War One, or immediately thereafter, being held on sedition convictions related to their views in that period.

And, as it will do, the price fell again, second day in a row.

 

Saturday, July 18, 1942. First jet engine powered flight of the Me 262.

This day saw the first flight of the revolutionary German Me 262 with jet engines. A flight with a propeller driving engine had been conducted in 1941.

The Me 262 would leap an entire generation ahead of Allied fighters in the war, and it's notable that its first flight came before the escort variants of the American P-51 were fielded.  Fortunately, it would not begin to be fielded until April 1944.

It was difficult to produce and maintain, Given this, there were never more than 200 operational at any one time.

Kay Kaiser released his version of Jingle, Jangle, Jingle, the famous Western song.

Tuesday, July 18, 1922. Crude drops.

St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

The perpetual Wyoming worry, low crude prices, was in the news.

 

It's an interesting and ongoing conundrum.  Low prices mean low prices at the pump, but also fewer jobs in the industry.

Friday, July 17, 1942. End of the Archangle Route, Soviet female snipers, Combat at El Alamein, Case Blue resupplied from the air.

Churchill informed Stalin that in light of the PQ 17 disaster, convoys to Archangel would be suspended. Stalin already believed that the British were exaggerating about their losses.

It's worth noting, in my view, that Stalin's grasp, in my view, of the difficulties faced by the Western Allies tended to be clouded.  The Soviet Union was no more of a naval power than Imperial Russia had been, indeed considerably less so, and Stalin's ability to grasp the problems faced by the United States Navy and Royal Navy was not necessarily great.

Red Army sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko and Roza Shanina appeared on the cover of Life Magazine.

Pavlichenko.

Pavlichenko, as her last name would indicate, was Ukrainian.  She was sent on a tour of the United States and Canada in 1942, where she was very blunt in her comments and found the questions asked of her by the press to sometimes be stupid.  Her husband died during the war, and she suffered from his loss and PTSD until her early death at age 58 in 1974.

Shanina

Shanina was a Russian from northwestern Russia.  Unlike Pavlichenko, she was highly photogenic and there are a great number of photos of her as a result, in which she is usally broadly smiling.

A bright, highly intelligent woman, she was killed in action in January 1945.

Shanina's death notice to her mother.

Australian and British forces at El Alamein attempted to take Miteirya Ridge, succeeded at first against Italian troops, but were later pushed back by combined German and Italian forces.

The Luftwaffe airlifts 200 tons of fuel to advancing German forces in Russia.  Hitler moved his headquarters to Werewolf, where he plans to personally oversee Case Blue.