Citing, amongst other things, a lack of resources to fight a long legal battle, the City of Cody has issued a building permit for a new Latter Day Saints temple in Cody.
The structure, to be built on Skyline Drive, has been a major source of controversy due to its location.
On this date in 1943, the puppet fascist Italian Social Republic was founded. Venice was its capital, wih most of its government offices in the resort town of Salò.
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And so Mussolini would consign Italy to a species of civil war over a doomed cause.
The Holocaust expanded with Ernst Kaltenbrunner, head of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt issuing an order for the deportation of Jews from Nazi-occupied nations (Italy, Denmark, Hungary and Romania) and to negotiate for the same in Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland and Turkey, none of which would comply.
As if there was any doubt, 80 years later, as of its true focus, as the fortune of the Nazi regime faded, it grasped for complete murderous annihilation of Europe's Jews.
Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian SS official during the war who was a major figure in the murder. He was tried and executed in 1946.
On the same day, the Germans began the removal of Jewish residents of Vilnius.
The Red Army took Poltava.
The Free French took Bonifacio, Corsica.
The British 10th Corps, part of the US 5th Army, began clearing the passes to Naples.
The first version of The Call of the Wild was released.
Lightening killed five competitors at the Gordon Bennett Cup balloon race. Those killed were U.S. Army lieutenants John W. Choptaw and Robert S. Olmsted, whose S-6 balloon crashed in the Netherlands near Loosbroek; two people on the Swiss balloon Génève which burned after being hit by lightning; and a person on the Spanish balloon Polar.
The event is still held annually.
King Boris of Bulgaria dissolved he Bulgarian Parliament, which wasn't meeting anyway. He further declared a state of emergency.
the complete failure of the Government to do anything about out of control illegal immigration or what causes it will be part of the reason why.
For decades, the Government not only hasn't addressed this, both political parties have conspired not to. Now the Democratic Party is at the point where it simply can't, and won't. President Biden has acted to provide 500,000 "temporary" work visas for Venezuelans.
Those will not be temporary.
Americans in favor of massive immigration like to point out how the nation benefits from getting the best and brightest of other nations through immigration, something that may have made sense before the country became overpopulated, which it now is. But that's not what we're doing with Central and South Americans. We're taking in a population that's essentially at a modern peasantry level. Surely, they're not stupid by any means, but they're not well-educated as a rule, and there's been no control of any kind. So, while we take in thousands of innocent hardworking people, who will depress American wages in the blue collar fields they enter, we also take in criminals, which we are well aware of.
These populations are fleeing their messed up countries. They deserve sympathy, and assistance. But they may deserve the sort of sympathy that in 2023 we can't really bring ourselves to provide. The massive numbers of Venezuelans that are entering the country would have resulted, in 1913, for example, in a forced removal of the Venezuelan government and its replacement with a competent one. We don't do that anymore, although we did in Central America as late as the 1960s.
I'm not suggesting that we invade Venezuela, or Guatemala, but I am suggesting we take some sort of action other than simply taking in their entire population. These countries should, and could, do well. Being too much of a wimp to take action while you watch, in essence, your neighbor beat up his wife isn't being a good neighbor.
And there's a point at which this cannot be endured, and we've passed it.
But this Administration isn't addressing it, and Donald Trump's campaign will. Thousands of voters who would otherwise have nothing else to do with him, will start to consider him, particularly if they live in areas that are impacted by the human wave, which will soon be everywhere.
These people are people. They deserve our help and sympathy. But simply inviting the entire population in doesn't make things better there, or here.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
I just inherited 1200 acres of ranch land. WTF do I do?
My father in law wants to pass on his ranch to me before he passes. He’s in bad health and for some reason decided that I would be the best of everyone to take on his property. I don’t know a god damn thing about cows or hay, having lived in a big city my whole life; but I’m a pretty good mechanic and would fix all of his equipment whenever I visited him, so I guess he likes me and he thinks I’m the best to take things over. The ranch, located in southern Wyoming, hasn’t done anything productive in the past 5 years due to FIL declining health and I have no idea what to do with it. Like the title says, it’s 1200 acres of mostly hilly sagebrush with grassy bottom land surrounded by forest land. I promised him I wouldn’t break up the land or develop it; but how does a city slicker move out to the middle of Wyoming and generate a living income off of the land without knowing a thing about ranching? Can I lease the grazing property out; lease the grass land out? Just looking for any advice or recommendations. Any advice is appreciated.
Let's answer the question first, that being, "how does a city slicker move out to the middle of Wyoming and generate a living income off of the land without knowing a thing about ranching?"
The answer is simple. You don't.
Here's the reason why:
level 1With only two sections, in Wyoming, I’m assuming that he wasn't a full time rancher, or that he leased a lot of land to get by. Most working Wyoming ranches are large for a reason.
So, as a starting point, what did he do with it? 1,200 acres sounds like a lot unless you've actually ranched in Wyoming, in which case, it really isn't.
19level 2And to be fair, two sections in Carbon or Sweetwater Counties is different than the same area in Laramie or Albany Counties. Your mention of sagebrush suggests that you are somewhere west of Laramie. That also suggests that there are some state or federal leases that are connected to the privately owned land. How many adult cattle does (or did) he run on his place?
The truth of the matter is that, in today's operations, your mechanical abilities are among the most important skills to make a farm or ranch work.
15level 3True. If you are east of Cheyenne, which is really more farm country, it's one thing. Once you start heading west of Cheyenne and into Albany County, it's another. The sagebrush country of Carbon County, something else entirely. Wyoming has quite a bit of varied terrain and conditions.
None of it will support really dense stocking, however, like some other regions of the country will allow. I'd have to assume, like you, that if he was really ranching, he must have had Federal and perhaps state leases, or maybe some private leases.
As a total aside, the line "Somewhere west of Laramie" is part of one of the greatest advertising campaigns of all time, which some credit with starting modern advertising. The 1923 ad for the Jordan Playboy car, which starts off with “Somewhere west of Laramie there's a broncho busting, steer roping girl who knows what I'm talking about".
Replies, from me, and some other guy.
Now, the same thread is full of advice on how this person can just move out and, yee haw, be a rancher.
Bull.
All agriculture is local. All of it. A grain farmer in Kansas can't walk right into a bandanna plantation in Africa and expect to make a go of it instantly. Gardeners all over the country, if they suddenly inherited a wheat farm, would go broke.
And with animal agriculture, this is particularly true. Ranching in Wyoming may be like ranching in Montana, but it's not like cattle farming in Arkansas. Frankly, a Northern Plains rancher used to low grass and cold winters would have a lot better chance of being successful in Arkansas, than an Arkansas cattle farmer would of being a rancher here.
And somebody from a city, stepping into land on advice from people who don't realize that 1,200 acres doesn't cut it here as a ranch, and who have never endured our winters.
Forget it.
This property will be leased to a neighbor, or sold.
And let us discuss the injustice of things.
From when I was small, I've always wanted to ranch. It's hard to explain these things, but I always wanted to. It's probably one of the two "I want to be when I grow up" things in my personality. The other one was being a soldier, which I've done. Regarding that, by the time I was approaching graduating from high school (I graduated when I was 17 years old, not all that uncommon at the time) that was waning, but that desire was expressed by six years I spent in the National Guard.
And I have been a stockman as an adult, but I was never able to make it my full time occupation.
I came pretty close twice, once before being married, and once after, but events transpired and. . . off to the office I go.
There's a difference between being in the Regular Army (which I was for training) and being in the reserves. And there's a difference between being a part-time stockman and a full time one. Moreover, as I'm in one of the professions, I've entered that weird part of my life, which seems to be the case for at least people in my profession, when the kids have grown up and have their own lives, and your spouse has her own job, and most of the people you meet on a daily basis are in your profession, where your private aspirations just die as other people murder them.
You don't need a stock working horse. . . you can borrow one. Wouldn't you like to sell that old one ton stick shift and buy a nice 1/2 ton sport auto, or maybe a Jeep pickup? You don't need to work cattle this weekend, you can get that big project done at work.
Which is why, I think, that I see so many old members of my profession carrying on into their 70s and 80s. Their actual personality died thirty years ago. Just the shell is left.
And in the weird way of the world, here we are. Some urban dude who has little interest in ranching inherits a small (and it is) parcel, but one that has entertaining possibilities, and isn't really that interested, whereas some rural dude spends his whole life, more or less, in suit and tie.
M'eh.
My wife always says things work the way they do for a reason. We're placed in one place, under one set of circumstances, because God wants us there for some reason. We should accordingly accept it, and be happy with it and that we can do what we do, even if we don't realize whatever the good is that we're supposed to be doing by our placement. I try to accept that, but I'll confess, stuff like this frustrates me.
It was day two of Operation Source.
It would take until March, 1944, to repair the Tirpitz.
Having commenced killing surrendered Italian soldiers at Cephalonia the day prior, the Germans started killing Jews, both Italians and non Italians, at Lake Maggiore.
On the same day, over the recommendation of local administrator, Gestapo member Werner Best, Hitler approved the planned deportation of Danish Jews, to commence on October 2. As earlier noted, the actions of the Danish underground, combined with a local diplomat providing them information, frustrated this effort and most escaped to Sweden.
Best would be convicted of war crimes after the war and serve a prison sentence.
The German Governor General of Belarus was assassinated by his maid, a secret Soviet partisan, who placed a bomb in his bedroom.
Japanese Prime Minister Tojo declared a state of emergency. Plans were made for the evacuation of Tokyo.
The Huon Peninsula Campaign began on New Guinea with the US and Australian landing at Scarlet Beach.
As part of the offensive, the Battle of Finschhafen began between Australian and Japanese forces, following the Australian landing at Katika.
The Red Army took Anapa in the Kuban Peninsula, and Novomoskovosk.
Toni Basel, popular in the 1980s, was born. This is an odd thought as it means that her teen pop hit came when she was well past the age that it normally would.
A major raid in Chicago on speakeasies resulted in the jails being filled to capacity.
Crime was a major story in Casper as well:
Interesting article by Robert Reich:
Resurrecting the Common Good: Honor and Shame
Note without, however, more than a little irony associated with it.
Reich's points are correct. At the same time, however, he's in the category of "no shame" progressives that have sought to remove any remaining social behavior standards whatsoever.
They all go together, as they all have, in the end, the same source.
Lex Anteinternet: D'uh: “This is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down,” Mr. McCarthy said on Thursday. “It doesn’t work.” ...
In fairness, far left Democrats joined in with far right Republicans to bring the defense measure down, with the "progressives" voting against the Republican bill as it had eliminated social programs within the Defense Department which they favored.
And so the extreme right, and extreme left, joined, to shut down the government.
Comment by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy after his party's far right blocked a bill funding the military on a procedural vote.
Really Kevin? You just realized the crowd you were running with. Yes, they want to burn the place down. You are helping them do it.
Henry Kissinger was confirmed as Secretary of State by the Senate. He had been serving as National Security Advisor under Nixon prior to that.
Kissinger is still alive at age 100 and still occasionally gives his views on foreign policy. Born in Weimar Germany, he immigrated with his parents in 1935 and served in the U.S. Army during World War Two.
A practitioner of realpolitik, I'm frankly not a fan, and regard him as complicit with Nixon in a cynical abandonment of the South Vietnamese.
Ford Motors introduced the lighter, disappointing, Mustang II, demonstrating the decline in American automobiles of the early 1970s as the realitites of being a petroleum importing nation started to set in.
Proceeding the disaster had been a period of indecision by the Italians on whether to resist the Germans or not. The Allies were reluctant to allow the Italians to use aircraft that were in the area, and therefore the Italians did not have air cover. Ultimately, the Italian soldiers did resist and an unsuccessful battle broke out. On September 18 that "because of the perfidious and treacherous behavior on Cephalonia, no prisoners are to be taken." A group of Bavarian soldiers objected and were threatened with summary execution.
The Red Army captured Demidov.
Sarah Sundin notes:
Today in World War II History—September 21, 1943: 80 Years Ago—Sept. 21, 1943: In the Solomon Islands, US secures Arundel and Wana Wana. Soviets cross the Dnieper River south of Kiev, Ukraine.
Kate Smith appeared for a continuous 18 hours on the CBS Radio Network, starting at 8:00 a.m. in a bond drive. 85,000,000 listeners tuned in and $39,000,000 was raised.
