The Post Insurrection. Unfit for any office. Part V.

Trump and Mark Meadows.

December 20, 1922

Lex Anteinternet: The Post Insurrection. Falling chips. Part IV.: December 19, 2022

The January 6 committee has referred Donald Trump to the U.S. Attorney General on charges of obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to make a false statement and inciting, assisting or providing aid and comfort to an insurrection.  It has also referred Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry and Andy Biggs to the ethics committee for failure to honor a subpoena to the committee.

The committee has completed its work and issues its report.

The U.S. Attorney General is unlikely to specifically act on the committee's referral, as it is conducting its own investigation.

The committee's report declared Donald Trump "unfit for any office".  Truly, he is unfit for any office and was unfit to occupy his last office, at least after the November election.

In addition to those noted above, Trump lawyer John Eastman was included in the referral on two of the charges.

As noted, I feel it's unlikely that the Attorney General will act on the referred charges, which does not mean that it will not independently charge Trump. Given the current pace of US justice, that risks being so slow as to being meaningless.  It'll happen, but my guess is that it will actually occur in late 2023 or in 2024.

For that reason, the Committee's findings and referral are significant.

The committee's work was significant, even though it has been generally discounted by Republicans and wholly discounted by Trump loyalist.  Wyoming's GOP, which has some figures who were at the insurrection, has actually bellied up to the bar and had repeated shots of the Kool-Aid.  Wyoming has set itself on the path of conservatives who are destroying conservatism through their obstinate insistence on being tied to Trump, who ironically may not really be a conservative at all.

Nonetheless, nationally, it appears the bloom may finally be off the rose.  After Trump's third (or fourth, depending upon how you read it) election defeat for the GOP, Republicans have been pulling away.  It'll be interesting to see if they manage the break.  Kevin McCarthy, who briefly broke away from Trump immediately after the election before running back into his embrace, is in real trouble in his bid for Speaker of the House and might not make it.  He's been referred for charges, and he just received a Trump endorsement for the position, something aimed at Trumpites in the House who may no longer really listen all that much to Trump either, the Führerprinzip having now exceeded even Trump.

The message there is that even as Trump has crashed into the GOP and caused it to burn down in a recent election, the House, for two terms threatens to lurch to the right, thereby pouring gasoline on the fire the Trump flame out has caused.

Mirroring that, Rona McDaniel, head of the Republican National Committee, is facing opposition from Trumpites and may lose her seat to even more hardcore populist Republicans, thereby virtually guaranteeing a 2024 electoral disaster for the party.

On an illuminating personal note, as I am generally usually (if not wholly relably) conservative myself, I was recently included in an email chain of a set of highly educated conservatives regarding an article by a conservative columnist who was writing that Trump, while in the author's view having been a really good President, was destroying his legacy.  He clearly is doing that, which is no surprise in these quarters. What was a surprise was the reaction of some of "why are the Democrats so fixated on Trump?"

That was an illumination. 

May on the Republican right truly believe that the reason that Trump remains in the news is that the Democrats and a Democratic press are focused on him as they have nothing to offer themselves. They are flat out wrong.

Like it or not, the GOP is a minority party and, through its current adherence to Trump, is likely to make itself a very tiny one.  Elections right now are decided by independents who disdain Trump and who lean towards the Democrats for the most part.  Trump remains in the news as Trump insists on being the leader of the party, and he makes himself rather difficult to ignore.

Witness, he's running for the Oval Office again, as somebody who tried to steal the election, and he resorts to such drivel as this:

WY Rep. Landon Brown

@lbrownhd9

Who the actual hell is going to buy this? Please let me know if you are. One cannot simply laugh hard enough at this showcase of lunacy.

1:31 PM · Dec 15, 2022

Why are Democrats fixated on Trump?  Because large numbers of Republicans won't recognize that the man threatened to end American democracy and failed to do so only because a few stood in his way.  He's lied about the result of the election and, moreover, while President, we now know, was so internally unstable that no matter what a person thinks of his implemented policies, to a significant degree it was only the restraint that his employees showed that kept some truly scary things from potentially happening.

Democrats are fixated on Trump because the Republicans are.  He commands a significantly loyal based that worships him in the mold of men on horseback.

From the Republicans who wonder, "why can't we move on?", well look.  Kevin McCarthy, who first acknowledged the insurrection, went immediately down to Mar-a-Lago to cut some sort of deal with the disgraced would be caudillo and is threatened not from the center of the GOP, for the most part, but from the right.  If he doesn't become speaker, it'll be because he didn't have triple shots of the Kook-Aide.  Rona McDaniel, who should be a disgraced failure, faces a threat from her right, not the center.

Want to restore conservative election hopes, and move past Trump? Republicans can do that by openly moving past Trump themselves.

March 19, 2023

Donald Trump, the subject of a New York state grand jury, has announced he expects to be arrested Tuesday.  He additionally posted:

PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!

 IT'S TIME!!!

WE JUST CAN'T ALLOW THIS ANYMORE, THEY'RE KILLING OUR NATION AS WE SIT BACK & WATCH. WE MUST SAVE AMERICA!PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!

Given what occurred last time he called for action, it's reasonable to regard this as an incitement to insurrection.

March 20, 2023

Secretary of State Buchanan, in order to counter claims that the election was tainted, published a set of facts on the Secretary of State's website demonstrating that it wasn't.  When he abandoned his post for the judiciary, the Interim Secretary of State left it up.

The new Secretary of State, Chuck Gray, who campaigned on "election integrity", is now in office and its gone.  Of course, by "election integrity" he meant the fable he campaigned on, that there was something amiss with the 2020 election.

March 30, 2023

Frank Eathorne, head of the state GOP and an individual who has taken the party deep into populist GOP territory, is running for an unprecedented third term as head of the party.

Repeatedly failed far right GOP candidate Rex Rammell is suing the Sublette County Sheriff's Office for its actions searching his horses for brand inspection. That inspection resulted in his being cited and convicted in a jury trial.

An early prediction on this is that Rammell is going to lose this suit.

March 31, 2023

A New York Grand jury has indicted Donald Trump in connection with the hush money he paid to pornographic actress Stephanie Clifford, "stage" name Stormy Daniels, which as an aside might be noted as the least effective hush money of all time.

That apparently isn't the actual crime, and while asking for hush money probably is, paying it very well might not be.  This is apparently connected with something else in the nature of being a campaign violation due to the way the money was handled.

There is, it might be noted, a second film femme fatale, in the form of a Playboy model, Karen McDougal, who also received hush money which might be part of this or which might end up in a separate charge.

My prediction is that this is only the first of what will be several indictments, and this may prove to be an unfortunate one.  Prosecutions for campaign violations are rare, and New York's legal system can be accused of having taken on prosecutions for political reasons in recent years.

Wyoming Congressman Hageman decried the prosecution as a "witch hunt", which brings about the embarrassing flip side of this.   Trump is personally icky, and his payoffs in this area expressed a fear that Americans still had some sense of shame, which proved to be an inaccurate fear. They should.  The party that generally associates itself with "family" and values is now really cosied up with a guy who had at least two affairs with women who had prostituted their image for cash, something that in any prior era would have been the end of his political fortunes. Granted, he apparently denies the affairs.

April 4, 2023

Donald Trump was indicted by the State of New York.  He plead "not guilty"

Indictment.

And so we conclude this installment.

Last edition of thread:

The Post Insurrection. Falling chips. Part IV.

Sunday, April 4, 1943. Airborne tragedies.

Today in World War II History—April 4, 1943: Mrs. Thomas Sullivan christens destroyer USS The Sullivans in honor of her five sons killed in the sinking of light cruiser USS Juneau in November 1942.

So reports Sarah Sundin, who also notes that the US II Corps took Hill 369 near El Guettar and that POWs escaped from the Japanese penal colony on Davoa point.  Their escape would break the news of the Bataan Death March, particularly through POW William Dyess.

William Dyess.

Dyess was returned to flying status but would suffer a mechanically stricken aircraft over California, while taking off, that following December and chose to ride the plane down as it was over a populated area.  He died in the crash.

On the tragic aircraft loss theme, I guess, a B-25 went down over Lake Murray, South Carolina on this day, but the entire crew survived.  The nearly intact B-25 was raised in 2005 in excellent condition.

1Lt. W.J. Hatton, pilot; 2Lt. R.F. Toner, copilot; 2Lt. D.P. Hays, navigator; 2Lt. J.S. Woravka, bombardier; TSgt. H.J. Ripslinger, engineer; TSgt. R.E. LaMotte, radio operator; SSgt. G.E. Shelly, gunner; SSgt. V.L. Moore, gunner; and SSgt. S.E. Adams, gunner.  Crew of the Lady Be Good.

Not so fortunate was the crew of Lady Be Good, a B-24.  It disappeared on its return from a bombing raid on Italy, having taken off from an airbase in Libya, which is interesting to consider as North Africa was still subject to fighting on the ground.

The plane grossly overshot its base and was found in 1958 by a British Petroleum crew some 400 plus miles inland.  The bodies were recovered, save for one, two years later after a search.  The crew clearly bailed out once they realized, far too late, they were deeply lost and that the plane would go down. They appear to have survived the parachute descent but died in the desert. The one remaining crewman was likely found by a British patrol over the borderline with Libya in 1953, but was unaware of whom the crewman was, as the plane had been thought to have crashed over the Mediterranean.

A minor incident, it's recalled simply because of the mystery of what occurred to the crew.  Worth recalling as part of that, and contrary to how this is often portrayed in film, many American aircrews were extremely green early on in the war, as in fact this crew was.  This contributed to an extremely high accident rate.

German radio announced that Former Prime Ministers Édouard Daladier and Léon Blum, and former French Army commander in chief, General Maurice Gamelin, had turned over to the Germans by French authorities.  They would spend the rest of the war in Buchewald.

Wednesday, May 4, 1923. Warner Brothers Founded.

Albert, Jack, Harry and Sam Warner.

The Warner Brothers Company incorporated, formed by the four brothers Wonsal, Jewish immigrants from Poland, and in Jack's case Canada, who anglicized their last name, as was typical at the time.

The first of five Hawaiian biological surveys known as the Tanager Expedition commenced.  They were named after the USS Tanager, a minesweeper, which was used in the effort.

The Tanager was later assigned to the Philippines and was sunk in the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 4, 1942.

Hitler told the Chicago Tribune that he didn't intend to march on Berlin and overthrow the German government.

Oikophobia

Oikophobia is, in psychological terms, fear of one's own home.  In political terms, however, it's the repudiation of your national and cultural heritage.  The right wing accuses the left of it constantly, and its overdone, but the claim is not wholly without merit.  

Indeed, without knowing the term, I've noted the irony of it frequently.  The West, culturally, is the heir of, in chronological order, Greek thought, Roman thought and Christianity.  While we're at it, we'd note that the European East, where not mixed with the West, is the heir of Greek thought and Christianity, with Rome omitted.

In terms of influence, however, the West is, in order, heir to Christianity, Roman thought, and then Greek thought.  One of the features of Christianity is tolerance, due to love, of all humans.  The irony of much of modern leftist thinking is that it's taken Christian views, including tolerance, the equality of women, and the like, and sort of perverted them. That's given rise in recent years to some strains of thought in Christian Nationalism and in Populism.

Anyhow, one of the things I've noted from time to time is this.  In no other society but one heavily influenced by Christianity would questioning everything about what's inherent in the culture, including at least cultural Christianity, be tolerated.  The broadening influence of Rome is part of that as well.  That's why, ironically enough, oikophobia tends to be limited to European cultures, including our own.

I've also personally observed, but I don't think I've posted on it, that the explosion of academic sub disciplines in recent years creates entire fields that only exist in academia.  I.e., while most of what a classic liberal education provides is useful in all sorts of ways, and employable in all sorts of ways, some of the more recent sub disciplines are wholly useless outside of academia.  All the recent higher education focus on, for example, transgenderism that has schools, such as the University of Wyoming, employing people to worry about a demographic which is something like 1/2 of 1% of the American population, but which has morphed in record speed from a demographic that previously was subject to psychological pondering to one now where a 200 lbs+ man can claim to be a girl and then sit around in a sorority, crossed dressed, but with an erection.

What this notes is that, but for academic oikophobia really can only exist in that atmosphere:

The Paradox of Academic Oikophobia

An interesting item in this text:

What makes oikophobia paradoxical is that those who are most infected by this pathology are the greatest beneficiaries of national largesse. In other words, they bite the hand that feeds them, and they bite it the hardest.

It's very true.

Miller and Exclusion

The eclectic Rod Miller, formeraly a Republican candidate for the House of Representatives against Liz Cheney, several elections ago, and more recently a columnist for the Cowboy State Daily in which he has notably taken on the Republican far right, and Frank Eathorne in particular, is now drawing a little flak from the political left.

Probably for showing that he is a thinking conservative, rather than a "RINO", whatever that means, like his critics likely imagine him to be.

I don't read very Miller article and I wasn't even aware of this one until somebody that I follow on Twitter was having a huge negative reaction to it.  The story in issue is this one:

Lex Anteinternet: Down the rabbit hole.

Miller, who has repeated stated he's a conservative Republican, came out with this column:

Rod Miller: The Case For Exclusion In The Equality State 

Well, reaction or no, Miller is right.

Miller tends to be blunt, and rankly some of my comments in this area have been blunt. Sometimes, bluntness is called for.

Miller:

Biological males should be excluded from all-female organizations such as the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at UW. No matter how firmly he is convinced that he is a woman, he is still a dude doing sleepovers in a houseful of women. That chubby in his yoga pants as he watched his sisters undress was a dead giveaway. He is a biological male. 

For anyone who wants to debate that “separate but equal” went out with the Jim Crow South and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, you’re on. You’ll lose. If anyone wants to debate the “free association” clause in the Bill of Rights as a rationale for male inclusion on female athletic teams or sororities, you’re on, too. And you’ll lose. 

There are clear instances in our world where males and females should be separate but equal, regardless of the gender-fluid philosophy du jour. Perhaps all-trans sports teams and sororities is the answer. 

I have absolutely no problem with drag queen bingo, pride parades or guys going to the bar in tutus. That, to me, is a healthy and entertaining aspect of human diversity. I know it makes some of you cringe, but to each his/her own. 

But for men, born with male genitalia and all that follows, who identify as women, to insert themselves into an all-women world and cause harm is something that causes this cowboy’s hackles to raise.  

Frankly, somehow we've gone from applying science to everything, to detesting science, to applying pseudoscience to things.  

And part of that is ignoring biology.  This can't go on, and a society that does that, is, as they say, sewing the wind.

Springtime in the Rockies

 

The New Academic Disciplines (of a century+ ago).

I was listening to an excellent episode of Catholic Stuff You Should Know (I'm a bit behind).  Well, it's this episode here:

THE LITURGICAL IDEAL OF THE CHURCH

The guest, early on, makes a comment about the beginning of the 20th Century, end of the 19th, and mentions "archeology was new".  I thought I'd misheard that, but he mentioned it again, and added sociology.

He explained it, but it really hit me.

Archeology, and sociology, in fact, were new.  Many academic disciplines were.

Indeed, that's something we haven't looked at here before.  People talk all the time about the decline of the classic liberal education (at a time that very few people attended university), but when did modern disciplines really appear?

Indeed, that's part of what make a century ago, +, more like now, than prior to now.  Educational disciplines, based on the scientific method in part, really began to expand.

So, we can take, for example, and find the University of Wyoming recognizable at the time of its founding in 1886.

But would Princeton, as it is now, be recognizable in 1786?

And interesting also how this effected everything, in this case, the Church's look at its liturgy.

But also, everything, really, about everything, for good and ill.

Far away places with strange sounding names. Elections in other countries. 2023, part 1.

I comment from time to time on the elections of other countries, so I decided to finally just put those comments in trailing threads, rather than stand alone posts.  

We'll see how it works.

April 3, 2023

Prime Minister's Seal for Finland.

Finland popular young prime minister, Sanna Marin, will be replaced, probably by Petteri Orpo in an extremely close race.

The Finish parliamentary election reflects results that show the country going from a center left coalition to a center right coalition.  The probably new PM, 53 years of age (still young by American standards these days) promises to continue to support Ukraine.  This edges the country towards a more nationalistic stance.

Commenting on the Ukrainian War, the new probable PM stated:

First to Ukraine: we stand by you, with you.  We cannot accept this terrible war. And we will do all that is needed to help Ukraine, Ukrainian people because they fight for us. This is clear.

And the message to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin is: go away from Ukraine because you will lose.

Concerns over the economy seem to have been the main issue in the election. 

Tuesday, April 3, 1973. The beginning of the end of personal space and time.

Today In Wyoming's History: April 3:  1973  The T E Ranch Headquarters, near Cody, WY, which William F. Cody had owned, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The first handheld cellular phone call was made by Martin Cooper in a demonstration call by Motorola.

Would that this would never have occurred.

Montreal announced Canada's first lottery in an effort to help pay for the upcoming 1976 Olympics.

The USSR launched Salyut 2, it's second space station.  It would be a failure due to hitting fragments soon thereafter, and it would crash back to Earth on May 28.  Well, not crash.  It burned up before it hit.

The Kingdom of Sikkim within India experienced a large-scale revolt which would require Indian intervention, and result in eventual Indian annexation.

Seal of Sikkum, downright scary.

Saturday, April 3, 1943. The Battle of Manners Street

The Battle of Manners Street occurred in Wellington, New Zealand, when American servicemen and New Zealand servicemen came to blows over American racist attitudes, which caused some American servicemen to attempt to exclude Māori soldiers from the Services Club.  The two-hour riot/brawl resulted in many injuries before order was restored.  News of the riot was suppressed.

Such events would repeat throughout the war.

Poon Lim BEM (Chinese: 潘濂; pinyin: Pān Lián) a Chinese merchant sailor who was cast adrift in a U-boat attack was rescued after 133 days at sea on a raft.

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt, who went by the stage name of Conrad Veidt, died of a heart attack.  He's most famously remembered today for playing the German villain in Casablanca, which was in its first running year at the time.  A Lutheran, he had left Nazi Germany in 1933 as his wife was Jewish and personally was opposed to the Nazi regime and its policies.

His heart condition was known to him, although he continued to worsen it by smoking.

Tuesday, April 3, 1923. Murderous Communists, lost rail, the Roaring Twenties

Anyway you look at it, Communists are a bunch of murderous criminals.

This rule is darned near universal.

The Bureau of Social Hygiene, Inc., was asking about "spooning". That didn't mean what it would at some later date, but it wasn't all that far off.  In this case, it applied to what we might call consensual groping, which oddly enough was undergoing a certain fad popularity in certain sets.

It didn't mean chase conduct.  The Bureau of Social Hygiene resulted from the appointment of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to a Special Grand Jury to investigate white slavery in New York City as far back as 1910. The organization, centered under Rockefeller, came into existence in 1913.  Funded by grants, it went out of existence in 1940 when other pressing concerns existed.

It's tempting to look at it as superficial, or "Victorian", but in reality many of the developments of the late 1960s were strongly foreshadowed by the 1920s, including nearly every aspect of what would later be called the Sexual Revolution, if, in fact, not every single aspect, including widespread drug use in some sectors.  The rebellion against convention, as with the later one, was centered in youth, the difference being that the transformative era of the 1920s was in fact much greater than the one of the 1960s.  "Dating", and women living outside their parents households, really only began to become widespread in the 20s.

As with a marked increase in women working outside their households, due to the onset of domestic machinery, this development would be arrested by the Great Depression, and then somewhat by World War Two.  The Great Depression caused a lot of younger women, and men, to go back into their family homes, or remain there, throughout the 30s, something that World War Two likewise caused, although not in the same way given the widespread mobilization of society for the war effort.

This era of the Roaring Twenties is pretty well depicted in the book The Great Gatsby, and very well predicted by the second film variant of that novel.  People like to talk about the loss of an "age of innocence", which in many ways never existed, but the 20s, in some ways, would be a good candidate for that.

A movement was building in Casper to get a new proposed rail spur.  

FWIW, remnants of this spur exist far north of Casper for quite some time today.  The groundwork was done. . . but the rail never laid down.

Turkey lowered its voting age to 18 and removed its poll tax.

Yankee Stadium, April 3, 1923.

It seems being petty and mean spirited is the Zeitgeist of our age

NWS Cheyenne

@NWSCheyenne

Some of our recent posts have been in both English & Spanish. In response, there have been many racist comments. 27,000 WY & 129,000 NE residents speak Spanish & it's the 2nd most common language. Racism & bigotry will not be tolerated. Your comments will be promptly removed.

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Seriously?  Weather reports in Spanish upset somebody?
Probably the same crowd, I'd note, that accuses everyone of being snowflakes.
Racism has beeen in the state forever, although when I was young quite frankly it was subtle at best.  It seemed concentratred, at that time, in areas associated with the Reservation, where racist views definately occured.  But it also occured elsewhere. An example of that being, for instance, a black Casper policemen being set up by his workers on a baloney scandal (that wouldn't be a scandal today) so that he had to resign.
But open petty mean spirited stuff. That's new, and seems to have come in during the last couple of decades.

Weaponizing

One of my coworkers weaponizes his lunch (which contains approximately the same caloric quantities as the amount which sustained the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War) every day with Frank's Hot Sauce.  I've never had it, but it stinks.

Any long term student of politics and the American media knows that at any one time there's a World de Jour. Some catchphrase that everyone is incorporating into their speech.

A few years ago, it was "vette", as to vette, or vett, someone.  John McCain was accused of not adequately "vetting" Sarah Palin, and then things were off and rolling.  You couldn't listen to anything without there being commentary on somebody or something needing to be vetted.

After that, it was "double down".  It took  off and became simply absurd.  People didn't back off a bad idea, they "doubled down".  Everyone you went people were doubling down, like you were in a Los Vegas casino on amateur night.  It was really out of control.

Now it's "weaponizing".

Everything is being weaponized.  Justice, laws, whatever.  

Of course, the question is whether or not they're being misused.  Whatever the answer to that is, they certainly aren't being turned into Predator drones or something.

None the less, everyone is using the term.  Right now, I fully expect to have this conversation at a Burger King soon.

I'll have the Whopper with fries please.

Would you like to weaponize that by adding jalapeños?  

It's out of control.

FWIW, the "weaponizing", or misuse, of the justice system as a concept had its origin in my view in the Enron prosecutions in which, effectively, Enron executives, while they were in violation of the law, were made sacrificial lambs for the economy.  That really opened the door to an Athenian concept of democracy, in which people are prosecuted for failure.  Following that, it went ballistic with the rabid GOP reaction to the Benghazi embassy attacks, following which there was all sorts of nonsense about needing to prosecute somebody.  It was pure political theater and nothing more.

At least since 2016 the concept has been rampaging in the far left and far right, with Republicans in the 2016 election wanting to prosecute Clinton.  Now nobody can be a sitting President without cries of "impeach" and investigations into everything.

Which is not to say Trump shouldn't pay for any crimes he committed.  Any President should.

Friday, April 2, 1943. Bulgaria says Не (no) in response to a German Bitte and the Little Big Inch

King Boris III of Bulgaria told German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that Bulgaria would not surrender its Jewish population to Germany.

Tsar Boris.

Tsar Boris, as he was also known, was on dangerous ground and he knew it.  He stuck to his position however and refused until his death later that year to yield on sending Jewish Bulgarians to the Germans.  Bulgaria ultimately conscripted Jewish men for labor on roads, but to some degree at least this seems to have been a pretext to help prevent their deportation.

Bulgaria, which did pass anti Semitic laws, had participated in the war as a German ally only to the extent of the war against Yugoslavia.  It wisely refused to declare war against the Western Allies or the Soviet Union, much to the irritation of Hitler.  Tsar Boris untimely death seems to have been due to the stress of dealing with the Germans, although it remains an open question if he was poisoned under orders of the Germans.

Sarah Sundin reports:

Today in World War II History—April 2, 1943: US War Production Board approves construction of the “Little Big Inch” pipeline to take refined oil from Texas to the northeast states.

We discussed the Big Inch earlier. 

Monday, April 2, 1923. Easter Egg Rolling, Oil Swindlers, Bad Debt Shooting, Japanese portrait.

The annual White House Easter Egg Rolling event occured.

The news of the day declared there to be oil stock swindles and a local shooting.  A New York crime waive was declared broken.
 

Two young ladies were photographed in Nippon.

They were sisters Matsu Miyoko 松美代子 ten year old and Matsu Shizue 松静枝 eight year old.

You heard it here first.

The item about Latino voters, that is. We've been saying that this trend, reflecting cultural conservatism, was bound to come about.

Latino GOP Voters Embrace Culture War & New AI Makes Disinfo Easy

I was wondering.

In the abortion debate in Wyoming, one of the plaintiffs has asserted that Judaism mandates abortion in some circumstances.

That struck me as flat out absurd, and a local Jewish figure did publish an article flatly rejecting that.  It keeps coming up, however.

Judaism has lacked, since the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, a central religious body, so perhaps more than any other major religion, it relies extremely heavily on conveyed tradition.  Islam, FWIW, tends to as well.  Interestingly, the body that split away from Judaism around AD30, but which remained mixed within it at the time, Catholicism, retains a highly central organization the way that Judaism did at the time of its founding.  

Anyhow, it's interesting to see what actual orthodox (small o) Jews think of this effort.  An article in Newsweek let's us know.  It's entitled:

Judaism's Stance on Gender Is Clear, Despite Attempts To Rewrite Torah | Opinion

Well worth reading.

The takeaway?  Judaism doesn't sanction abortion.  People who claim otherwise, really, are trying to co opt the religion. 

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Thursday, April 1, 1943. Operation I-Go

SIGSALY, a vocoder, went into operation for a secure phone connection between the Prime Minister and the U.S. President.

The Allies took Sedjenane Tunisia.

The Japanese launched Operation I-Go, an air offensive in the Solomons featuring attacks on air installations and shipping.  It would run until April 16.

Japanese aircraft in Rabaul.

Easter Sunday, April 1, 1923

Members of the Wasatch Mountain Club members on the porch of the Hermitage, Ogden Canyon, Utah, Easter Day, 1923

It was Easter Sunday for 1923. 

The silent classic Safety Last!, starring Harold Lloyd and Mildred Davis, premiered.   The movie is famous for its harrowing stunts, which were preformed by Lloyd.

The United Kingdom began numbering its highways.

France reduced the compulsory military service period from two years, to 18 months.

Going Feral: Governor Convenes Pinedale Town Hall to Discuss Wildlife Losses

Going Feral: Governor Convenes Pinedale Town Hall to Discuss Wi...:  

Governor Convenes Pinedale Town Hall to Discuss Wildlife Losses

 

Governor Convenes Pinedale Town Hall to Discuss Wildlife Losses

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – This winter has been one of the hardest winters Wyoming has experienced in recent history. According to temperatures recorded at the Pinedale airport, the 30-year average for days of temperatures below zero is approximately 39 days. This year, there were 62 days below-zero temperatures. Compounding the winter conditions has been an unusually large  amount of snow, with many areas currently at 125-150% of the average snowpack. These factors have severely impacted Wyoming wildlife, and concerns from the public have grown as antelope, and deer carcasses have become substantially visible.

In response to the growing concerns Governor Gordon heard from constituents and legislators, the Governor called for a town hall meeting to provide an opportunity to hear directly from citizens in areas most impacted and to discuss solutions that work for Wyoming wildlife. The town hall was held at the Pinedale library and was open to the public through Zoom.

Joining Governor Gordon and Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) Director Brian Nesvik was Dr. Kevin Montieth, a professor at the University of Wyoming’s Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. Dr. Monteith shared with the audience that in addition to tougher than usual winter conditions, antelope have been hit hard by a rare bacterial pneumonia, which appears to be spreading. 

Dr. Monteith further explained that some solutions that have been called for, such as feeding antelope and mule deer, are not good solutions because, unlike elk, the digestive systems of these animals cannot quickly adjust to hay. Monteith explained to an audience of more than 200 that the best solution to help Wyoming wildlife is protecting and enhancing the animals’ habitat and protecting migration routes so animals can more easily seek forage. Access to their natural foods over the summer and fall allows the animals to enter winter with higher body fat content, helping them survive winter when shrubs and sagebrush brush are scarce. 

Governor Gordon and Director Nesvik heard many suggestions, including limiting hunting quotas and seasons this year. Director Nesvik explained that this is an ongoing evaluation, and the WGFD continually monitor all the factors, taking them into account in future decisions. “We are experiencing one of the toughest winters for big game in Wyoming’s recent history,” noted Director Nesvik. We have difficult decisions to make, and I appreciate everyone who came to our town hall. Rest assured; those tough decisions will be made in consideration of biology and the advice we hear from concerned citizens.”

Concluding the town hall, Governor Gordon stated, “I thank all who came to the town hall in person or virtually. Wyoming people care deeply about our wildlife. That was clearly shown today. I greatly appreciate all the suggestions, questions and comments they shared today. Wyoming folks are not shy. I am committed to working with our citizens to provide healthy wildlife populations for generations to come.” 

A Zoom recording of the town hall can be viewed here. 

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