The best posts of the week of February 26, 2023, a week which saw the end of February, and of the 2023 legislative session as well.
Saturday, March 4, 2023
Sunday, March 4, 1973. Allende's minority rule.
Chilean elections resulted in the opposition Confederation of Democracy winning control of the Senate and House, but falling short of the 2/3ds necessary to impeach Salvador Allende or block his policies.
The Confederation's symbol.
While not seeking to excuse things in retroactive advance, it might be noted that this meant that Allende's left wing Popular Unit alliance was a minority government, which is very rarely noted.
The Popular Unity alliance's symbol.
Voting also took place in France but failed to yield a clear result.
The British yacht Auuralyn was struck by a whale and sunk off of Guatemala, putting Marice and Maralyn Bailey adrift for 117 days.
A large group of U.S. Air Force and Navy POWs held by North Vietnam was released, including Norman C. Gaddis and Leo K. Thorsness who would be highly decorated.
For exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility to the Government of the United States. General Gaddis distinguished himself while a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam from December 1970 to February 1973. During this period, General Gaddis displayed professional competence, unwavering devotion and loyalty to his country in the execution of his duties in staff and command positions while in potentially volatile daily contact with the Vietnamese guards and officers. General Gaddis performed his duties in accord with the Code of Conduct, exhibiting leadership, courage, and determination, regardless of the cost in the many tortures and beatings which he had to endure. The singularly distinctive accomplishments of General Gaddis reflected the highest credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.
Thorsness had joined the Air Force in 1951 as an enlisted man, before returning to school after the war and later rejoining as an officer. His Medal of Honor Citation reads:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. As pilot of an F-105 aircraft, Lt. Col. Thorsness was on a surface-to-air missile suppression mission over North Vietnam. Lt. Col. Thorsness and his wingman attacked and silenced a surface-to-air missile site with air-to-ground missiles, and then destroyed a second surface-to-air missile site with bombs. In the attack on the second missile site, Lt. Col. Thorsness' wingman was shot down by intensive antiaircraft fire, and the two crewmembers abandoned their aircraft. Lt. Col. Thorsness circled the descending parachutes to keep the crewmembers in sight and relay their position to the Search and Rescue Center. During this maneuver, a MIG-17 was sighted in the area. Lt. Col. Thorsness immediately initiated an attack and destroyed the MIG. Because his aircraft was low on fuel, he was forced to depart the area in search of a tanker. Upon being advised that two helicopters were orbiting over the downed crew's position and that there were hostile MIGs in the area posing a serious threat to the helicopters, Lt. Col. Thorsness, despite his low fuel condition, decided to return alone through a hostile environment of surface-to-air missile and antiaircraft defenses to the downed crew's position. As he approached the area, he spotted four MIG-17 aircraft and immediately initiated an attack on the MIGs, damaging one and driving the others away from the rescue scene. When it became apparent that an aircraft in the area was critically low on fuel and the crew would have to abandon the aircraft unless they could reach a tanker, Lt. Col. Thorsness, although critically short on fuel himself, helped to avert further possible loss of life and a friendly aircraft by recovering at a forward operating base, thus allowing the aircraft in emergency fuel condition to refuel safely. Lt. Col. Thorsness' extraordinary heroism, self-sacrifice, and personal bravery involving conspicuous risk of life were in the highest traditions of the military service, and have reflected great credit upon himself and the U.S. Air Force.
Other POWs released included Douglas Peterson, who was later the ambassador to Communist Vietnam and William P. Lawrence, who was later Superintendent of the Naval Academy.
Peterson, whose first wife had died, interestingly met Vietnamese born Vi Le who was serving as Australia's senior trade commissioner in the country. They married, and he retired to Australia so that the couple could be closer to her family.
Lawrence is the author of the Tennessee state poem, which reads:
Oh Tennessee, My Tennessee
What Love and Pride I Feel for Thee.
You Proud Ole State, the Volunteer,
Your Proud Traditions I Hold Dear.
I Revere Your Heroes
Who Bravely Fought our Country's Foes.
Renowned Statesmen, so Wise and Strong,
Who Served our Country Well and Long.
I Thrill at Thought of Mountains Grand;
Rolling Green Hills and Fertile Farm Land;
Earth Rich with Stone, Mineral and Ore;
Forests Dense and Wild Flowers Galore;
Powerful Rivers that Bring us Light;
Deep Lakes with Fish and Fowl in Flight;
Thriving Cities and Industries;
Fine Schools and Universities;
Strong Folks of Pioneer Descent,
Simple, Honest, and Reverent.
Beauty and Hospitality
Are the Hallmarks of Tennessee.
And O'er the World as I May Roam,
No Place Exceeds my Boyhood Home.
And Oh How Much I Long to See
My Native Land, My Tennessee.
Thursday, March 4, 1943. Murders of Greek Jews and uprising of Greek partisans.
Jews in Bulgarian occupied Greece, annexed by Bulgaria as Belomorie, were gathered and deported to Treblinka.
This provides another example of how the Holocaust was expanding post German defeat at Stalingrad.
In northern Greece, the Battle of Fardykambos between Greek partisans of the National Liberation Front, and local residents, and the Italian Army commenced. It would be a partisan success.
The Afrika Korps concluded Operation Ochsenkopf in Tunisia in failure.
Mrs. Minver won the Academy Awards for best picture. Her acceptance speech remains the longest in Academy history at six minutes.
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The drama was the first movie to win an Academy Award which was set during World War Two.
Sunday, March 4, 1923. Doomed efforts.
Vladimir Lenin published an article called Better Fewer, But Better, arguing that global revolution was inevitable because the Eastern countries such as Russia, India, and China had larger population than the rest of the world.
Of course, Communism would never come to India, and in Russia it was busy reducing the population. Seas of blood would flow in the Soviet Union until after World War Two, at which point they started flowing in the newly Communized China.
The 68th Congress of the United States commenced.
On the same day, the Anti Flirt Club launched the first, and last, Anti Flirt Week.
The club's purpose was to protect young women from unwelcome attention from men. It had the following rules:
- Don't flirt: those who flirt in haste often repent in leisure.
- Don't accept rides from flirting motorists—they don't invite you in to save you a walk.
- Don't use your eyes for ogling—they were made for worthier purposes.
- Don't go out with men you don't know—they may be married, and you may be in for a hair-pulling match.
- Don't wink—a flutter of one eye may cause a tear in the other.
- Don't smile at flirtatious strangers—save them for people you know.
- Don't annex all the men you can get—by flirting with many, you may lose out on the one.
- Don't fall for the slick, dandified cake eater—the unpolished gold of a real man is worth more than the gloss of a lounge lizard.
- Don't let elderly men with an eye to a flirtation pat you on the shoulder and take a fatherly interest in you. Those are usually the kind who want to forget they are fathers.
- Don't ignore the man you are sure of while you flirt with another. When you return to the first one you may find him gone.
The name aside, the club existed for a real reason. Increased mobility in society meant that for the first time a lot of unattached young women either left home for work or college, or were outside the house for most of the day, putting them outside the eyes and protection of family members. The Roaring Twenties, moreover, encouraged a flirtatious attitude on the part of the flapper class of young women, and even a bit of a promiscuous attitude in the case of some. It's often claimed, with some justification, that the 1960s were simply a repeat of the 1920s in this matter, with the 20s interrupted by the disastrous 1930s.
Poster Saturday: Guard Your Freedom.
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United States Information Agency for the Philippines, circa 1952.
Arapaho
Arapaho is part of the Algonquian language family. Fewer than 200 people speak it today, with there being no fluent speakers under the age of 60.
The Lord's Prayer in Arapaho.
Beehiiniisonoonibéíhi-n, nenéénin hihcébe’ héentoo-n,
he-níísih’íít toh-béteenóó-’.
héet-ííne’etiiwóóhu-n heetíh-no’useenóó-’,
hínee heesí3ecóó-n heetíh-néé’eesóó-’,
teesííhi’ bííto’ówu-u’ hínee héesóó-’ hihcébe’ hínee héétoo-n.
cíh-biin-éi’ee nuhu’ híísi’ hééyowuuhu’ ne-bíí3ihiin-ínoo.
heetíh-kóuutenowuun-éi’een neenéis-nóntoo-ni’.
heetíh-kóuutenowuun-óóno’ hei-cíí-niini’ihéiitoon-ín.
cih-’oo’éíxoh-éi’ee héet-noxóxhoo3óó-’ nuhu’ héet-wotóxoobéé-’ hííne’etíít,
heetíh-cih-nóókootíxoh-éi’een héet-cíí-ni’óó-’.
néé’eesóó-’.
The educational agency of mankind.
The group consisting of the mother, father, and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
Martin Luther King
Friday, March 3, 2023
The 2023 Wyoming Legislative Session. Landing. (Vol 6).
February 27, 2023
Bills that have passed out of one house, but haven't made it out of committee in the other, expire today.
February 28, 2023
SF 144 Chloe's Law died due to the end of debate on Monday. Apparently, Sen. Scott's similar bill also died.
This is almost shocking, given the supposed tone of the legislature this year. Moreover, in my view, both bills were meritorious and one should have passed. Mutilation in the name of an unproven thesis in Wyoming, in contrast to Europe where it hit first and has been largely banned when afflicted on minors, will remain legal.
This bill was sponsored by Anthony Bouchard, whom I usually am reluctant to agree with, with the other bill sponsored by Natrona County's Scott. Bouchard ended up drawing an ethics complaint from a Green River resident who emailed him on this bill. Bouchard replied and called the correspondent a "fucking idiot" in the reply text.
Of note, Congressman Hageman attempted a last minute intervention by Twitter on a couple of the bills, including this one, which were bottom shelved. Pressure on Sommers had already caused him to agree to release this one, but on a couple of others which were from the populist far right, he did not yield.
Hageman's tweet drew a rebuke by traditional Republican Landon Brown, and in turn Hageman, who apparently isn't too busy in Congress to get involved in such spats, slapped back.
Senate File 136 by populist Biteman and which would have cut property taxes temporarily died in the same procedural manner.
The bill to honor Lester Hunt likewise died.
Governor Gordon Takes Action on 30 Bills on Monday, February 27
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon took action on 30 bills on Monday, February 27. The Governor signed the following bills into law:
Enrolled Act Bill # Bill Title
HEA0053 HB0101 Uniform trust code-amendments.HEA0054 HB0180 Brucellosis testing-notification requirements.HEA0056 HB0047 Election equipment-federal certification.HEA0057 HB0229 Electronic payment of sales and use taxes.HEA0058 HB0284 Collection agency regulation-debt buyers.HEA0059 HB0016 State land leasing-improvements.HEA0065 HB0188 Wolf depredation compensationHEA0066 HB0108 Sale of THC vaping devices and edibles to minors-prohibitedHEA0067 HB0199 License plate decal-breast cancer awareness.HEA0069 HB0128 Voyeurism within enclosed spacesSEA0045 SF0021 High occupancy vehicle lanes.SEA0046 SF0178 Mountain lion pursuit seasons.SEA0047 SF0038 Special license plates-organ donations.SEA0048 SF0016 State employee-moving expenses.SEA0049 SF0087 Natural resource funding-large project threshold increase.SEA0050 SF0106 2023 large project funding.SEA0051 SF0102 Food Freedom Act-amendments.SEA0052 SF0091 Creation of tenancy by the entirety.SEA0053 SF0009 Medicaid coverage-licensed pharmacists.SEA0054 SF0075 Decentralized autonomous organizations-amendments.SEA0055 SF0129 Background checks-governor's office.SEA0056 SF0148 Preemption of local firearms regulation.SEA0058 SF0052 School finance-special education funding.SEA0060 SF0056 Prohibiting travel across private land for hunting purposes.SEA0061 SF0067 Multipurpose vehicles-disabled license plates.SEA0062 SF0098 Education-certificate of completion.SEA0063 SF0113 Architects practice act-amendments.SEA0064 SF0128 Transfer of state lands-exchange.SEA0065 SF0157 Weed and pest mitigation-tribal inclusion-2.The Governor allowed the following enrolled act to go into law without his signature. The Governor’s letter is attached and linked below:HEA0055 HB0100 Acquisition value study.
The bill that may legalize corner cross, SF56, passed:
ORIGINAL SENATEFILE NO. SF0056ENROLLED ACT NO. 60, SENATESIXTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING2023 GENERAL SESSIONAN ACT relating to game and fish; expanding the prohibition for entering private property without permission for hunting purposes to also prohibit traveling through the private property; and providing for an effective date.Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:Section 1. W.S. 23‑3‑305(b) is amended to read:23‑3‑305. Hunting from highway; entering or traveling through private property without permission; penalty; hunting at night without permission prohibited.(b) No person shall enter upon, travel through or return across the private property of any person to take wildlife, hunt, fish, collect antlers or horns, or trap without the permission of the owner or person in charge of the property. Violation of this subsection constitutes a low misdemeanor punishable as provided in W.S. 23‑6‑202(a)(v). For purposes of this subsection "travel through or return across" requires physically touching or driving on the surface of the private property.Section 2. This act is effective July 1, 2023.
Mountain lion chasing season was established, which I think was a poor idea.
February 28, cont:
The now besieged Speaker of the House issued a press release.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | February 26, 2023Contact: Albert.Sommers@wyoleg.govSpeaker of the House: I’m Focused on Wyoming Solutions, Not Out-of-State InfluencesThroughout the last decade serving as a Representative in the Wyoming State Legislature, I have consistently used the following metric to assess legislation: does it solve a Wyoming problem with a Wyoming solution? Some bills that come to the Legislature do not come from Wyoming but instead from another state, or they are templates from a national organization. Bills not crafted in Wyoming often take a one-size-fits-all approach that demands the Wyoming Legislature’s due diligence to ensure a bill solves a problem and does not create a new one.As Speaker of the House, I have the added responsibility of keeping the House of Representatives focused on getting work done for the people of Wyoming. Part of this leadership responsibility is choosing which standing committee a bill goes to and whether it gets sent to a committee at all. I take this responsibility seriously; bad policy can create major consequences for Wyoming. Bills that are unconstitutional, not well vetted, poorly written, duplicate bills or debates, and bills that negate local control, restrict the rights of people, or risk costly litigation financed by the people of Wyoming should not become law.I depend heavily on two particular committees. The Appropriations and Revenue Committees work on many of the most important bills during the session and are comprised of seasoned legislators with critical expertise. Their members currently hold a combined 106 years of experience in the Legislature. I rely on those bodies to scrutinize weighty legislation because they understand the repercussions of legislation on Wyoming's citizens. These two committees are led by four chairmen and other pillars of the Legislature. The members of Appropriations and Revenue are workhorses who use their experience to critically examine tough issues without letting rhetoric and intimidation get in the way.As an example, bills like SF0172 - Stop ESG-State funds fiduciary duty act, in theory, have merit. However, it's our job to determine how bills will play out in Wyoming's reality. I sent SF0172 to the Appropriations Committee to ensure it was evaluated on its substance. The bill bans Wyoming government officials from contracting with businesses that have boycotted fossil fuels or are considering climate change in their investments. Members of the Appropriations Committee identified significant gaps in the language. The Treasurer's Office raised questions about how this bill may impact Wyoming’s investment portfolio. This bill is not worth risking our state's fiscal future just to send a message. I am hopeful that the language in this policy can be tightened up in the interim to allow us to support our base industries while preserving our investment strategies.Keeping bills in my drawer is another way to ensure we stay focused on solving pressing issues for Wyoming. Here is a list of the bills I currently have in my drawer and why.SF0086 - Voter identification-concealed carry permit. The bill allows Wyomingites to use their concealed carry permits as voter identification. I like this idea, but House Bill 79 is a mirror bill that has already passed through the Legislature and became law this Session. Consideration of this bill would have wasted time with duplicate debate.SF0117 - Parental rights in education. This bill disallows public school teachers from teaching sexual orientation and gender identity themes to children from kindergarten through the third grade and directs school boards how to interact with parents. This type of teaching is not happening in Wyoming schools; moreover, the bill strips local control. Regardless of the issue, I've always fought against taking authority away from local school boards, town councils, and county commissions. Additionally, I believe this bill is unconstitutional as it violates the single-subject rule.SF111 – Child Abuse- change of sex is one of two bills that take on the subject of gender change in children. I sent a similar bill, SF144 - Chloe's law-children gender change prohibition out to a committee. I did not see the need to spend time debating two similar bills. I thought SF144 had a more appropriate policy position, and I sent it to the Appropriations Committee to be vetted. The bill was passed out of committee with a Do Not Pass recommendation, but is available for debate if the Majority Floor Leader chooses.SF143 – Wyoming Freedom Scholarship Act is virtually the same bill as HB194, which would have created an education savings account. An ESA account is similar to a school voucher system, giving parents state money to put their children in private schools or homeschool. However, HB194 died in the House Education Committee. The Committee heard that bill once, and it failed. There was no need to waste time hearing the bill twice. I do not support this bill because I believe it is unconstitutional, and it is a major policy shift for the state of Wyoming. I do believe this issue will be taken up as an interim topic in the Joint Education Committee, where the idea can be fully vetted.SJ0001 Amending Wyoming's act of admission for leases and earnings. This resolution would request that Congress introduce a bill and enact a law to amend Wyoming's Act of Admission. It changes the very language that made Wyoming a state, and I have serious concerns about its consequences. I believe it is a bad precedent to alter the document that created our statehood.Bills that I also did not send to committee included: HB0162 - County optional tax-affordable housing, which would have allowed a county to impose a real-estate transfer tax; HB0193 - Carbon capture energy standards-repeal, which would have gutted Wyoming’s carbon capture policy; and HB0115 - Elections administration, which would have taken away election administration authority from the Secretary of State.The Wyoming Constitution allows the Legislature to meet in Session for only 60 working days over two years. This time constraint is by design and helps curtail frivolous bills being debated over a lengthy period. I will continue to do my best to keep us focused in the brief time remaining in the Session.
This is really pretty remarkable as the Speaker is basically accusing the far right Freedom Caucus legislators of being in the service of out of staters, taking a page out of a well-read Wyoming book, and also a page out of the far right's own campaign manual.
Governor Gordon Takes Action on 10 Bills on Tuesday, February 28
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon took action on 10 bills on Tuesday, February 28. The Governor signed the following bills into law:
Enrolled Act Bill # Bill Title
HEA0060 HB0118 Volunteer firefighter pension-funding.
HEA0061 HB0081 Hospital supplemental payments-statutory fix.
HEA0062 HB0067 Special license plate decals-women veterans.
HEA0063 HB0059 Wyoming national guard tuition benefits.
HEA0064 HB0038 Wyoming national guard member referral.
HEA0068 HB0140 Mental Health care Access-Collaborative Care Model.
SEA0057 SF0140 Building code requirements-refrigerants.
SEA0059 SF0053 Wyoming national guard medical insurance premiums.
SEA0066 SF0123 Military dependents-school choice.
SEA0067 SF0032 Prohibiting drones over penal institutions.
March 1, 2023
It’s very clear that the Freedom Caucus voted with the Democrats to end debate and thus killed nine bills that were on the bottom of general file, including Chloe’s Law, two ESG bills and the last remaining bill that would have provided property tax relief. That’s on their shoulders, not ours.
Speaker of the House, Sommers.
Oddly, this is true. Those on the left and the right joined to shut down debate at 8:00, killing nine bills in the House.
The following bills remain alive:
HB0004 Medicaid twelve month postpartum coverage.
HB0014 Civil case filing fees-amendments.
HB0022 State land lease deficiencies-cure process.
HB0033 School finance-career technical education grants.
HB0052 Revisor's bill.
HB0064 Legislative stabilization reserve account-obligations.
HB0076 Licensing boards amendments.
HB0093 Omnibus water bill-construction.
HB0144 Senior citizen district programs and services.
HB0152 Life is a Human Right Act.
HB0171 State land leases.
HB0195 American rescue plan act appropriations-amendments.
HB0208 School foundation program reserve account-investments.
HB0222 Colorado River advisory committee.
SF0042 Taxation of cigars.
SF0048 Education-suspension and expulsion model policies.
SF0051 School finance-regional cost adjustment.
SF0061 Legislator per diem.
SF0066 School capital construction funding.
SF0072 Employees-forced microchip implantation prohibited.
SF0076 Wyoming digital asset registration act.
SF0080 Visitation rights.
SF0094 Federal Indian Child Welfare Act codification.
SF0096 Omnibus water bill-planning and administration.
SF0099 Witnessing of wills-remote methods.
SF0101 Wyoming legal tender act amendments.
SF0107 Acquisition, exchange and sale of trust lands.
SF0109 Prohibiting chemical abortions.
SF0120 Restoration of civil rights.
SF0127 Wyoming Stable Token Act.
SF0133 Student eligibility in interscholastic sports.
SF0137 Subdivisions-fencing requirements.
SF0146 State funded capital construction.
SF0147 Government contracts-labor organization.
SF0151 Wyoming prescription drug transparency act.
SF0152 Occupational therapist criminal history.
SF0153 Election security.
SF0164 Public improvement contract requirements-amendments.
SF0167 Domestic violence protection hearings-remote appearance.
SF0174 Wyoming charter school authorizing board.
SF0181 Drug induced homicide.
SJ0003 Property tax exemption for the elderly and infirm.
The legislature is really down to a handful of bills now, most of which should not be too controversial, although a couple may be.
March 1, cont.
March 2, 2023
Yesterday we noted that Bouchard was reprimanded. What we didn't note is that he called the person he insulted with profanity the same thing again on his Facebook page, where he stated:
I stand by what I said - F***king Idiot.
Dr. James testimony was extremely misleading. As she testified about WPATH being the ‘so-called’ safe standard that supposedly protects minors from Sex Change procedures.
Dr. James omitted a very important detail from her testimony.
All of the so called medical professionals have been lying about, Sex Changes on Minors.
They don’t want you to know the TRUTH— that Europe is breaking away from the ‘standard of care’ that Dr. James cited in her testimony to Appropriations Committee last week.
As it turns out, the evidence in favor of sex changes on minors — just isn’t there.
What does all of this really say about the medical community that is still supporting the butchering of children?
He is correct about Europe pulling away from allowing the mutilation of children in this area.
Bouchard's two Facebook pages are a trip through the extreme far right wing, fully of attacks on other Republicans, including Keven McCarthy and Harriet Hageman, and including attacks on COVID vaccines and the like. He's made a name for himself by being extreme, which is unfortunate, as it probably doesn't help a rare piece of deserving legislation that he sponsors, such as this one, get through. Republican moderate columnist Rod Miller correctly tapped into his own self-immolation when he noted, in response to this story:
Don't interrupt your enemy when they are attempting suicide.
Sun Tzu
Bouchard's Facebook comment would have been perfectly legitimate, and indeed not without merit, if he hadn't repeated the profanity, granted that profanity has become very common in our era. That aside, he's made such a name for himself being brash and aggressive that he's actually pretty ineffectual. Most people experiencing that would pause and reflect on it, rather than take their own causes down with them.
The far right fantasy bill SF 72 died in the House. The bill prohibited employers from requiring their employees to be microchipped, something that isn't happening in the US to start with.
HB 152, the Life Is A Human Right Act, passed the Senate and is back at the House for reconciliation. It's been significantly amended, so it is not as broad as it once was. It's one of the very few conservative bills that has survived so far in this legislature.
SF109 banning chemical (pharmaceutical) abortions has passed the legislature, making it one of the few which has actually passed.
Efforts to amend the bill banning students claiming transgender status from competing in sports of the opposite gender failed, and the bill is advancing.
Governor Gordon to Hold Public Bill Signing Thursday, March 2
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon will hold a formal bill signing ceremony Thursday, March 2 beginning at 1:30 pm in the Governor's Ceremonial Conference Room in the State Capitol Building. The ceremony is open to the public.
The Governor will sign the following bills:
Enrolled Act # Bill# Bill Title
HEA0075 HB0099 Property tax refund program.
HEA0076 HB0276 Shed antlers and horns conservation stamp.
HEA0077 HB0123 Collection of antler or horns by residents and nonresidents.
SEA0069 SF0079 Plan of safe care-newborns.
SEA0072 SF0169 State shooting complex task force.
SEA0073 SF0154 Energy authority project financing-refineries.
SEA0074 SF0108 Court reporter fees-district court discretion.
SEA0075 SF0112 Peer support counseling-confidentiality.
March 2, cont:
Governor Gordon Signs Bills Focused on Strengthening Wyoming FamiliesCHEYENNE, Wyo. – Property tax relief, providing a plan of safe care for at-risk newborns, protecting Wyoming outdoors and supporting energy development were among the bills Governor Mark Gordon signed on Thursday.
Last year, in an effort to help Wyoming households impacted by rapidly rising home prices and property tax bills, Governor Gordon’s supplemental budget request included an additional one million dollars to be appropriated for the Property Tax Refund Program. House Bill 99–Property Tax Refund Program expanded the qualifications for the state’s Property Tax Refund Program, delivering relief for more homeowners than ever before. The Legislature also followed through on the Governor’s request for additional funds for the program. Brenda Henson, Director of the Wyoming Department of Revenue, estimates that HB 99 will allow at least 6,000 additional households in Wyoming to receive property tax relief. Property owners may apply at their local County Treasurer's office or online at wptrs.wyo.gov beginning April 1st.
“This bill is one important step towards addressing the concerns of those impacted by the combination of rising inflation and increasing property tax bills,” Governor Gordon said. “I’m grateful that the Legislature saw fit to deliver a bill that provides a measure of targeted relief for those that need it most, especially our senior citizens and those living on fixed incomes.”
Governor Gordon also signed Senate File 79–Plan of safe care-newborns sponsored by Senator Baldwin. The bill requires healthcare providers to develop plans of safe care for infants born with prenatal substance use exposure. The Governor said he views the bill as a truly pro-life bill, consistent with his view that caring for newborns and mothers is critical to ensuring the best health outcomes for both.
The Governor also signed a pair of bills–House Bill 123 and House Bill 276–sponsored by freshmen Representatives Wylie and Berger (House Districts 39 and 49, respectively), ensuring Wyoming residents have the first opportunity to enjoy the long-held tradition of shed antler hunting. Governor Gordon congratulated the freshman on their legislative success and thanked the representatives for focusing on legislation that reflected Wyoming solutions for Wyoming problems.
Senate File 154–Energy Authority Project financing-refineries, sponsored by Senator Cooper (Senate District 6), was in direct response to Governor Gordon’s Gas and Diesel Working Group that came together in the summer of 2022 to find ways to bring down the cost of gas and diesel. Limited refining capacity in the U.S. was repeatedly identified as part of the dramatic increase in petroleum products. Senator Cooper recognized an opportunity to help Wyoming families and our energy industries by developing and constructing oil and gas refineries in Wyoming.
Additionally, Governor Gordon signed the following bills into law today:Enrolled Act Bill # Bill TitleHEA0071 HB0009 Juvenile courts-concurrent jurisdiction clarificationHEA0072 HB0011 State park rangers-retirement.HEA0073 HB0200 Nonresident hunting licenses-application fees.HEA0074 HB0002 Town officers-salary waiver.SEA0072 SF0169 State shooting complex task force.SEA0074 SF0108 Court reporter fees-district court discretion.SEA0075 SF0112 Peer support counseling-confidentiality.
March 3, 2023
Today is the Last Day of the 2023 Legislature.
The Cross Over Voting ban, which was based on a fantasy, passed into law without the Governor's signature, giving Chuck Gray a political, if de facto pointless, victory.
Governor Notes Minor Flaws and Allows Crossover Voting Bill to Become LawCHEYENNE, Wyo. –CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon notified Speaker of the House Albert Sommers that he will allow House Bill 103 to take effect without his signature. There were no constitutional concerns raised with this bill, and it had a near super-majority of support in the Legislature. Still, the Governor notes the crossover voting legislation may create confusion for voters. But, the flaws were not sufficient to issue a veto.Governor Gordon had hoped to receive legislation that would strengthen the closed primary system because he believes Republicans should vote in Republican Primaries and Democrats should vote in Democratic primaries. He made this case in his State of the State Address in 2022.Nearly three-quarters of Wyoming voters were registered Republicans for the 2022 elections. From this, Governor Gordon noted this perhaps makes the presumed changes more academic than real. “I urge voters to learn about these changes so that they may vote for their desired major party ballot in 2024, stated Governor Gordon.”Governor Gordon also secured a commitment from the bill’s sponsor to clarify the bill’s ambiguity before the next primary election.Please see the full Governor’s letter here.
Clearly the Governor was not pleased with the bill.
The irony of the bill is that that Democrats who did cross over to vote for Cheney are likely still in the GOP, and will likely not think about rejoining the Democratic Party until the next primary, at which point they'll miss the deadline and be trapped in the GOP.
Now maybe Chuck can devote his full energies to his elected duties, I have something sitting around in his office waiting to be filed, and perhaps he can get to it. At any rate, I'm sure he'll claim this as a major victory when he moves on from the Secretary of State's office, which he clearly will, and tries to run for something else.
Harriet Hageman's attempted intervention in the Legislative Session continues to make waves, with Al Simpson criticizing her for her actions.
Of note, her opponent in the last election, Liz Cheney, has apparently turned her back on Wyoming forever and joined the faculty of the University of Virginia.
March 3, cont.
Governor Gordon to Hold Public Bill Signing Today, Friday March 3CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon will hold a formal bill signing ceremony today Friday, March 3 beginning at 1:45 pm in the Governor's Ceremonial Conference Room in the State Capitol Building. The ceremony is open to the public.The Governor will sign the following bills:Enrolled Act # Bill# Bill Title
HEA0084 HB0004 Medicaid twelve month postpartum coverage.SJ0003 SJ0003 Property tax residential property class.
This will be the final entry on this volume, before a new volume, no. 7, takes over. The reason is, barring anything odd and unforeseen, the legislators will pack up and head home tonight.
Anyhow, the bills above are interested in that the first one is yet another defeat for the Freedom Caucus, which opposed it. Those following this thread will recall that freshman legislator J. Ward, formerly of Chicago, opined that we were in fact not our brother's keeper, in speaking against medicaid extension for postpartum coverage.
Apparently the legislature felt otherwise, as they surely should have.
Last prior edition:
Wednesday, March 3, 1943. Accidents.
173 people were crushed to death in London's Bethnal Green tube, where they were sheltering from an air raid.
The rush to the shelter was started when people fled into the tube due to a salvo of British anti-aircraft rockets being launched from Victoria Park.
British anti-aircraft rockets.
The German minelayer Doggerbank was sunk by the German U-43 in a case of mistaken identity. Following its routine orders, the U-43 departed without attempting to pick up survivors, and 365 people drowned. A single person survived, lasting 26 days at sea before being picked up by a Spanish ship.
The Doggerbank was a captured British vessel, so the mistake was perhaps excusable. Converted into a minelayer, it laid mines off of South Africa in January 1942 and proceeded to Japan, twice being challenged as a British vessel on the way and successfully fooling the challenging ships. In Japan, it took on the survivors of the auxiliary cruiser Thor, a German tanker, and the Altmark. She sank within two minutes when attacked.
The U43 was sunk by an American torpedo bomber that following July.
Gandi ended his protest fast.
Twenty-three year veteran of the Red Army, Andrey Vlasov, published "Why I have taken up the struggle against Bolshevism" in the newspaper Zarya.
Vlasov started off, like Stalin, as a divinity student at a Russian Orthodox seminary. He quit that in 1919 and joined the Red Army. He didn't become a Communist, however, until 1930. He served successfully as an advisor to Chiang Kai-shek from 1938 to 1939 before going on to command the 99th Rifle Division. Up until his capture, he generally was well regarded in the Red Army.
Vlasov would claim that he became an anti Communist while trying to evade German capture. A post-war analysis of the 180 Red Army generals who joined Vlasov's Russian Liberation Army revealed that most of them had personally experienced NKVD atrocities prior to the war.
March 3, 1923. Time.
The first issue of Time magazine hit the stands and bore the date of this Saturday, the traditional day for magazines to so appear. It actually hit the stands on February 24.
Joseph Cannon, the long serving Speaker of the House, was retiring, and hence featured on the cover of the magazine.
Cannon taking down pictures from his office wall on this day in 1923.
The contents of the first issue were impressive, but many of the articles were very short.
NATION
PRESIDENCY: Mr. Harding's Defeat (National Affairs / PRESIDENCY)
Seeking only the nation's welfare, Mr. Harding has suffered defeat at the hands of Congress. Not only that, but the man who was elected President by the largest plurality in history has been reproved by a Congress controlled by his own party.
The Ship Subsidy Bill, never popular, and never made so by the President, was politely strangled to death.
The wisdom of some of the most important of the President's appointments has been questioned. For example, Daugherty, Butler, Reily.
The Bonus ghost is not laid.
Nothing which has recently emanated from the White House which could be called a foreign policy has secured the united support of the President's party.
Today Mr. Harding is prepared to draw a deep breath, for Congressional politics will soon drop over the horizon. After a short holiday in Florida he will gather about him the business men of his cabinet and continue to manage the affairs of the nation, untrammeled until a new Congress rises—from the West.
National Affairs: In 1924 (National Affairs)
National Affairs: A New World Court (National Affairs)
THE CABINET: Postmaster-General New (National Affairs / THE CABINET)
National Affairs: Work of the 67th (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Unfinished Business (National Affairs)
The 67th will receive both praise and blame for what it left undone. Among a mass of interesting business which it will probably hand down to Number 68, there are seventy-seven proposed amendments to the Constitution, including:
An amendment that would prevent issuance of tax-exempt securities.
An amendment to inaugurate the President and seat Congress in January instead of March, following election.
An amendment to provide a minimum wage law.
An amendment that would permit Congress to regulate the employment of women and of children under 18 years of age.
And also bills proposing:
A ship subsidy.
A soldier bonus.
Revised immigration regulations.
National Affairs: Uncle Joe (National Affairs)
National Affairs: New Leaders (National Affairs)
National Affairs: No Extra Session Predicted (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Republican Leadership (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Again, the Bonus (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Death by Filibuster (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Liquidation, Humiliation (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Farm Credits (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Immigration (National Affairs)
National Affairs: The Norris Bill (National Affairs)
SUPREME COURT: Important Cases (National Affairs / SUPREME COURT)
National Affairs: A New Formality (National Affairs)
ARMY & NAVY: General Allen's Return (National Affairs / ARMY & NAVY)
National Affairs: Armament Limitation (National Affairs)
National Affairs: The Cronkhite Case (National Affairs)
WOMEN: Mrs. Pinchot Plans (National Affairs / WOMEN)
National Affairs: Black Mammy (National Affairs)
In dignified and quiet language, two thousand Negro women of the Phyllis Wheatley Y. W. C. A. protested against a proposal to erect at the Capitol a statue to "The Black Mammy of the South." A spokesman carried the resolution to Vice President Coolidge and Speaker Gillette and begged them to use their influence against "the reminder that we come from a race of slaves."
This, of course, will rebuke forever the sentimentalists who thought they were doing honor to a character whom they loved. They desired to immortalize a person famous in song and legend. But that person's educated granddaughters snuffed out the impulse by showing that they are ashamed of her.
National Affairs: Mrs. Willebrandt (National Affairs)
National Affairs: New York Protests (National Affairs)
National Affairs: The Mexican Border (National Affairs)
Two plans for drying up the Mexican border have found their way to Washington. One is a request by the Federated Clubwomen of the Imperial Valley, Cal., that Secretary Hughes " close" the border at sundown to persons under 21 years of age, in order to protect their children. The other is a rumor from Mexico City, to the effect that the government is considering establishment of a dry belt 50 miles wide, along the border. So far it is only a rumor.National Affairs: The Marriage at Cana (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Light Wines and Beer (National Affairs)
LABOR: A School for Strikers (National Affairs / LABOR)
COAL: Profiteering? (National Affairs / COAL)
National Affairs: THE STATES (National Affairs)
National Affairs: Political Notes: Mar. 3, 1923 (National Affairs)
WORLD
Foreign News: No Weakening (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Economic Factors (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Violence (Foreign News)
Foreign News: France Will Stay (Foreign News)
Foreign News: German Resistance (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Intervention Proposed (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Lithuania vs. Poland (Foreign News)
BRITISH EMPIRE: The Week in Parliament Mar. 3, 1923 (Foreign News / BRITISH EMPIRE)
Foreign News: The Ruhr from London (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Lord Robert Coming (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Taxes (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Irish Pot-Pourri (Foreign News)
FRANCE: Delcassé (Foreign News / FRANCE)
Foreign News: General Lyautey (Foreign News)
GERMANY: Arithmetic (Foreign News / GERMANY)
ITALY: Fascismo and the Masons (Foreign News / ITALY)
Foreign News: HOLLAND (Foreign News)
Foreign News: DANZIG (Foreign News)
Foreign News: AUSTRIA (Foreign News)
RUSSIA: Famine (Foreign News / RUSSIA)
Foreign News: Soviet Justification (Foreign News)
Foreign News: CZECHO-SLOVAKIA (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Turkey: Mar. 3, 1923 (Foreign News)
Foreign News: KOREA (Foreign News)
JAPAN: Kato Against the Peers (Foreign News / JAPAN)
Foreign News: Age, Wealth, and Votes (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Witty Hanihara (Foreign News)
CHINA: Dr. Schurman Speaks (Foreign News / CHINA)
Foreign News: Dr. Sun and the British (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Bolivia (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Chile (Foreign News)
Foreign News: Mexico (Foreign News)
SCIENCE
Science: Digging Up History
Science: Old Age for New Wine
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Medicine: A Baby's Heart (Medicine)
Medicine: Sight Without Eyes (Medicine)
Medicine: Publicity (Medicine)
SOCIETY
Crime: Counterfeiters (Crime)
Crime: Miscellaneous (Crime)
Crime: Less Crime (Crime)
PRESS
The Press: Public Service (The Press)
The Press: It Pays to Be Decent (The Press)
The Press: The Kept Press (The Press)
RELIGION
Religion: Methodists in Russia
The Russian Soviet government has requested that a committee be appointed from the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church to help reorganize the churches of Russia. The Soviet government has found in the social creed of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America the following principles: Protection of the worker from forced unemployment, old age pensions, minimum wage, reduction of hours of labor to the lowest practicable point, and the most equitable division of the product of industry which can be devised. (This creed was adopted by the Methodists in 1912).
Bishop Nuelsen of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who recently returned from Russia, reports that the Soviet no longer interferes with the worship of any sect that does not oppose the government. Three Methodist Episcopal bishops will go to Moscow in April to present the social creed to the government for approval and to cooperate in working out the destinies of the badly disorganized Russian Church.
Religion: Coincidence?
The Catholic churches of Canada are proving suspiciously inflammable. In the last nine months the three oldest shrines in the ancient province of Quebec have been destroyed by fire—St. Anne de Beaupré noted for its miraculous cures; the Trappist monastery at Oka, and the Basilica at Quebec. The Basilica was built in 1647 and contained magnificent windows and irreplaceable historical documents. The loss was $1,000,000.
Sixteen large churches have burned, and smaller fires have been numerous. At first the blame was laid upon overheated furnaces or defective wiring. But, as fire after fire occurred and only Roman Catholic churches were destroyed, incendiarism was suspected. Staid insurance journals, never influenced by casual rumor, regard human agency as probable; fire insurance underwriters will insure Catholic churches only to a limited extent and at high rates.
If the object of the incendiaries is an attack upon the Church their methods are ingeniously calculated to defeat their own ends. Popular feeling both in America and in Canada is strongly in sympathy with the churchless Catholics.
Religion: A New Church
Under their Bishop-elect, Adrot, several thousand Roman Catholic priests have founded in France a new Church. The tradition of celibacy of the clergy is 1,000 years old, but they have decided to break with this tradition. Bishops of similar churches in Holland, Switzerland, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Hungary will be present at Adrot's consecration, which is scheduled for late in April. Two of these had been duly consecrated as bishops before their break with Rome. The new church therefore claims apostolic succession, and the same authoritative basis as the Church of England.
Catholic and Lutheran organizations appeared before the United States Supreme Court to contest the Nebraska school law. The law prohibits religious instruction for pupils below the eighth grade in public, private, and parochial schools, except after dark and on Sundays. Both churches protest that the statute is an invasion of their constitutional rights.
The Reverend Doctor R. S. MacArthur, 81, died on February 25 at Daytona Beach, Fla. He was President of the Baptist World Alliance, and pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, New York, for 41 years. He retired in 1911, and resigned as pastor emeritus of the church in 1922 when his successor, Dr. John Roach Stratton, held a debate with William A. Brady on stage and pulpit morals.
SPORT
Sport: Greb vs. Tunney
Sport: New World's Records: Mar. 3, 1923
Sport: Firpo
BUSINESS
Finance: Hopefully Complex (Finance)
Finance: Rising Cycle of Business (Finance)
Finance: Reserve Bank's Foresight (Finance)
Finance: Effect on Money Market (Finance)
Finance: Test of the System (Finance)
AERONAUTICS: Chicago to New York (Aeronautics)
AERONAUTICS: A Successful Helicopter (Aeronautics)
AERONAUTICS: A Dreadnaught (Aeronautics)
EDUCATION
Education: Athens and Rome Revive
Education: A View of All the World
Education: Boys Who Are Mad
Education: Federal Control
LAW
Law: Abolishing Reno
Law: International Divorce
Law: A Simple Code
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Books: Black Oxen* (Books)
Art: A Brightness from the Past (Art)
The Theatre: First Nights (The Theatre)
Mr. Zukor's Story (Cinema)
Music: Boston (Music)
Books: The Best Books (Books)
The Theatre: Expressionism (The Theatre)
The Theatre: The Best Plays: Mar. 3, 1923 (The Theatre)
Theatre Notes, Mar. 3, 1923 (Theatre)
New Pictures: Mar. 3, 1923 (Cinema)
Music: Detroit (Music)
Music: New York (Music)
Music: Philadelphia (Music)
Books: Sophisticates (Books)
Books: Shantih, Shantih, Shantih (Books)
Art: Cubism on the Wane (Art)
MISCELLANY
Miscellany: Mar. 3, 1923
TIME brings all things.
Imaginary Interviews
MILESTONES
Milestones: Mar. 3, 1923
TO OUR READERS
Point With Pride:
View with Alarm:
All of the above is from Time magazine's website.
Time was and is a major news magazine. At one time, it dominated a certain category of news. My father subscribed to it, and to Newsweek, and reading them was something I routinely did, and enjoyed doing, from some point in my childhood up until I moved away for university.
Because of his occupation, he also subscribed to Life, at one time Look, and People. Today, only Time and People survive as weekly print magazines.
The Saturday Evening Post went with the tried and true pretty lady cover.
The 67th Congress adjourned. On this, its last day, it rejected Harding's proposal to join the World Court.
The Lord's Prayer in Farsi.
Ei pedarema, ke dar asman ast:
nameto moghaddas bad.
Malakuteto beayad.
Eradateto chonan dar asman ast bar zamin nafez bad.
Naneruzineyemara dar in ruz bema bebakhsh.
Va an chonan ke gharzdaranekhodra mibakhshim,
gharzhayemara bema bebakhsh.
Va mara dar ma'razeazmayesh
nayavar, balke az sharir khalasi deh.
Zira ke molk va ghodrat va jalal ta abad az aneto 'st
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Tuesday, March 2, 1943. Japanese disaster commences. Jewish residents of Berlin deported to their deaths.
The Battle of the Bismarck Seas started on this day in 1943, in which aircraft of the U.S. Fifth Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force attacked a Japanese convoy carrying troops to Lae, New Guinea,
The Japanese knew that the convoy run was risky, but considered it worthwhile as it stood to be more effective than marching the troops overland. The Allies had detected preparations for the convoy, and then deciphered Japanese communications regarding it so that the details concerning it were well known.
Around 2,900 Japanese servicemen lost their lives in the battle. Thirteen Allied airmen were killed. All eight Japanese transport vessels went down, and four of the eight destroyer escorts over a two day period.
1,500 Jewish residents of Berlin were deported to Auschwitz, with 1,350 of them being murdered immediately upon arrival there.
The Honouliuli Internment Camp opened in Waipahu, Ohau, Hawaii. Hawaiian Nisei are sometimes mistakenly believed to have escaped internment. It was not as widespread as it was on the North American Pacific coast, but it did occur.
Built to house 3,000 people, it initially held 160 Japanese Americans and 69 Japanese citizens. Ultimately it came to house more than 4,000 Okinawans, Italians, German Americans, Koreans, and Taiwanese civilians.
A fire occurred in Douglas:
Today In Wyoming's History: March 2:1943 The Pepsi Cola bottling plant in Douglas was damaged by fire. While soft drink bottling plant operations are not unknown in the state now, at that time smaller ones were more common. Casper had a Coca Cola bottling plant.
The Lord's Prayer in Vietnamese
Lạy Cha chúng con ở trên trời,
chúng con nguyện danh Cha cả sáng, nước Cha trị đến,
ý Cha thể hiện dưới đất cũng như trên trời.
Xin Cha cho chúng con hôm nay lương thực hằng ngày,
và tha nợ chúng con như chúng con cũng tha kẻ có nợ chúng con.
Xin chớ để chúng con sa chước cám dỗ,
nhưng cứu chúng con cho khỏi sự dữ.
Amen.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Today In Wyoming's History: Wyoming Tribal License Plates
Today In Wyoming's History: Wyoming Tribal License Plates:
Wyoming Tribal License Plates
These are neat:
UW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
UW LICENSE PLATES
Tribal License Plates to Fund Native American Student Scholarships at UW
But a question, and I ask it seriously.
Would putting these on a vehicle, assuming that you are not enrolled in either Tribe, be regarded as cultural appropriation?
I think I saw one of these recently, and had simply assumed that the vehicle belonged to an enrolled tribal member, which is partially why I'm asking, the other part being that I think it would matter how this would be viewed by those who are enrolled in either tribe.
Monday, March 1, 1943. Canning and rationing & The Rosenstraße Protest.
Commercially frozen vegetables weren't really a thing until the Birdseye company started its "flash freezing" process in 1929. The popularity of frozen foods expanded during World War Two, but collapsed again after the war. Interest started to recover in the 1950s, and then took off in the 1960s. Personally, I didn't really wasn't exposed to them much until the 1980s, when a university girlfriend was shocked that I bought canned peas and canned corn, as frozen was so much better.
Frozen really is better.
The SS murdered 6,700 residents of Koriukivka, Ukraine, in the largest reprisal raid of World War Two.
The Belarusian Central Council, a putative collaborationist Belorussian government, which later morphed into a post-war Belorussian refugee organization, was formed.
The Lord's Prayer in Korean.
하늘에 계신 우리 아버지
아버지의 이름이 거룩히 빛나시며
아버지의 나라가 오시며
아버지의 뜻이 하늘에서와 같이 땅에서도 이루어지소서.
오늘 저희에게 일용할 양식을 주시고
저희에게 잘못한 이를 저희가 용서하오니
저희 죄를 용서하시고
저희를 유혹에 빠지지 않게 하시고
악에서 구하소서.
(주님께 나라와 권능과 영광이 영원히 있나이다.)
아멘.
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Sunday, February 28, 1943. Norwegians at Vermok.
Norwegian ski
born Norwegian commandos raided the Norsk Hydro plant at Vermok, Norway,
destroying the heavy water inventory that had been produced there by the Germans.
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The plant in 1948.
28,000 Norwegians carried on beyond Norway during the war, joining Norwegian forces that had made it out of Norway when it was invaded in 1940. 15,000 Norwegians joined the German forces, principally in the SS, which mostly fought on the Eastern Front, although Germany attempted to recruit Norwegians for the German Navy as well. About 40,000 Norwegians participated in the Milorg, the Norwegian resistance.
The Vermok event was memorialized in the 1965 British war movie, Heroes of Telemark. It was also featured in a 1948 Norwegian movie, Operation Swallow.
This was the third attempted raid on the plan, this one being more successful than the prior two. Another air attack would take place in November 1943 and a heavy water transporting boat would be attacked in 1944.
The USAAF and RAF made a 1,000 plane raid on Saint-Nazaire submarine base.
Wednesday, February 21, 1923. Time travel.
Greece made its final use of the Julian calendar, thereby going from today, which was February 15 on the Julian, to March 1 the following day, reflecting the switch to the Gregorian calendar.
President Harding signed the Smoot-Burton Act compromising the British war debt somewhat.
France deported the policemen in Bouchum and Herne away from their cities.
The Lord's Prayer in Cantonese
我們在天上的父，
願人都尊祢的名為聖，
願祢的國降臨，
願祢的旨意行在地上，
如同行在天上。
我們日用的飲食，今日賜給我們，
免我們的債，如同我們免了人的債，
不叫我們遇見試探，
救我們脫離兇惡，
[因為國度、權柄、榮耀，全是祢的，
直到永遠。阿們！ ]
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