From the Cheyenne newspaper, August 3, 1924.
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And a common political theme in Wyoming, albeit here from a doomed attempt at displacing the current incumbent Senator, with the incumbent right below him:
Wyomingites claim, and very often really do, have a deep love of the wildness of our state and nature. And yet, at the same time, the economy of the state, and its reliance upon extractive industries, causes a deep loyalty to the fossil fuel industries, beyond that, very ironically, which those industries have themselves.
Speak to any of the more knowledgeable and powerful people within the coal or petroleum industries, and you will not tend to get debate on anthropocentric caused global warming. They accept it, and frankly accept that they're going away in their current forms. They will debate how rapidly they can go away, with quite a bit of variance between that. Many in the industry are realpolitik practitioners in regard to energy, accepting the decline as inevitable, but cynical about how fast it can occur. Some, however, are nearly "green" in their view, and see a rapid phase out.
It's at the wellhead level, and the coal shovel level, that you have those who can't accept it. The same people will look forward to elk season, but can't imagine that what's happening is happening, and that it's bad for the elk. But then many of the same people imagine themselves being outdoorsman while planted on the back of an ATV.
Politicians, some genuine, and some not, emphasize the wallet end of this. "America needs", "America depends", etc. Well, it's passing away.
Passing away with it may be the town of Heartville Wyoming, but not due to economics, but due to catastrophic fire.
Human memories are flawed, and that's where we get into false debates and the The Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. The flipside, interestingly enough, is the Imposter Syndrome, in which highly competent people imagine that they are not.
Combine the Dunning-Kruger effect with poor memories, poor education and dislocation from your native place, and you get what we have here.
Add in economic self interest, and well you really get what we have here.
I'll hear all the time that the weather today is the same as it always was. BS. My memory on these things is good, and I can recall that 100F days were so rare when I was a kid that entire years went by in which we didn't experience them. Nor did we experience constant year after year fires like this. Indeed, as a National Guardsmen I was sent to two fires, back when resources were so thin on this topic, as they weren't really needed, that this was routine for the Guard.
Two fires in six years.
I've never heard of a Wyoming town being evacuated for a fire until now.
Yes, fires have always occurred, as the naysayers will note, but not so often and not like this.
And to add to it, whether Wyomingites want to believe it or not, coal in particular is on its way out. It simply is. 500,000 people can sit in a corner of the country saying "nuh uh", but that's not going to make it change. It's been on the way out for a century or more:
Petroleum is less vulnerable than coal, in part because of the often forgotten petrochemical industry. A friend of mine who was a geologist and and an engineer was of the view that the consumption of petroleum for ground transportation ought to be phased out simply for that reason, to save it for petrochemicals. But big changes are coming here too. Electric vehicles are coming in, like it or not. The switch to green, and all that means, some good and some bad, is coming.
Denying that and maintaining that the rest of the country must pretend its 1973 isn't going to change that.
The Siege of Mytkyina in Burma ended in an Allied victory over the Japanese.
The HMS Quon was sunk off of Normandy by German aircraft and ships.
The US 1st Army captured Mortain. The 30th Infantry Division would win a Presidential Unit Citation for its defense to a German counterattack there.
The Germans blew up the bridges in Florence, Italy.
The USSR and Lebanon established diplomatic relations.
The British Education Act 1944 received Royal Assent.
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Germany observed its first memorial day.
German communists disrupted a noontime two minutes of silence, with German police moving in to restore order.
Jewish Berliners held a separate service in the memory of Jewish German soldiers who were killed during the war, as a Jewish cleric was not allowed to deliver a prayer at the Reichstag ceremony held that day.
Soviet agents raided Stolpce Poland in a mission to free two members of the Communist Party of Western Belarus. Seven Polish policemen were killed but the Soviet mission failed and would cause a reassessment of such attacks.
An American plane had made the leap to Iceland in the around the world flight:
Ja'far al-Askari resigned as Prime Minister of Iraq in protest of the Constituent Assembly voting to ratify the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty approving the terms of the Mandate for Mesopotamia and making Iraq a British protectorate.
British novelist Joseph Conrad died.
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The San Ciraco Hurrican, the longest lived Atlantic hurricane of all time and the third longest lived tropical storm in recorded history, was first observed.
It would soon prove to be highly deadly.
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The first American baseball game played in London was held at the Lord’s Cricket Ground.
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Mexico granted to Stephen F. Austin's Old 300 colonists Isaac Pennington and David Randon a league of land in the Fort Bend area.
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Connecticut chose its delegates to the First Continental Congress. They were; Roger Sherman, a lawyer from New Milford; Eliphalet Dyer, a lawyer from Windham; and Silas Deane, a merchant from Wethersfield.
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Socialism is when the government does stuff. And it's more socialism the more stuff it does. And if it does a real lot of stuff, it's communism.
Richard D. Wolff
Let me know that this isn't a shot at Congressman Hageman.
This is, rather, an observation.
Dave Simpson: Harriet Delivered When No One Else Could (Or Cared)
It's interesting how the far right opposes the government doing stuff, except when it benefits them personally.
No place exhibits this more than Wyoming. We're really fine with the government paying for stuff we used. Highways? The Feds should fund them, doggone it. Why? Well, because they ought to.
The above is a road story. The author notes that he could not get to this spot in his car.
Couldn't get there in a car?
Well, that's probably because if you were from Wyoming, which the author isn't, you'd know that you need to go there in a truck.
Getting the road smoothed out on the government dime is a bit Socialist. . . and very soft and East Coasty.
But then we all like the government to spend if it benefits us, don't we?
Massive state funded shooter's complex anyone?
Former legal counsel to President Nixon, James Dean, was sentenced to a minimum of one year in prison and a maximum of four years for his role in the cover-up of the Watergate scandal.
Ugandan President Idi Amin called off an invasion of Tanzania one day after having ordered the mobilization of Uganda's armed forces.
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The last of the gypsies were murdered at Auschwitz. 4,200 people were murdered.
In their memory, this is Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma.
Clearly seeing which way the wind was blowing, Turkey broke off diplomatic relations with Germany.
The Germans launched 316 V-1s on London. 100 reached the city.
The Allies ceased air strikes on French bridges as the pace of Allied advances increased.
The newly activated 3d Army reached Dinan and the outskirts of Rennes. The 1st Army captured Villedieu.
The USS Fiske was sunk in the Atlantic by the U-804.
German midget submarines attacked Allied shipping in the Channel and sank two vessels, including the HMS Quorn. Of the 58 German Marder submarines used in the attack, only 19 survived.
Fighting continued on Guam, and in Warsaw.
The Arado Ar 234 B Blitz made its first combat flight, a reconnaissance mission over the Allied beachhead in Normandy.
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Danish King Christian IX handed a new constitution to the Icelandic parliament granting it more independence, but not independence. He also asked for every church on the island, all Lutheran, to hold a service in honor of the event. As it was Sunday, they all would have held services in any event.
The date is widely observed in Icelandic communities in North America, but not on Iceland.
A further advance towards independence would come in 1918, when the Danish Kingdom of Iceland was established, and the island declared independence in 1944.
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The Middle East is a large region. The US has forces Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates. Most likely, the Guard is not going to Syria, Qatar (which is mostly USAF), or Iraq, but who really knows?
This is the largest deployment of the 300th since the Korean War, with it being perhaps significant to note that the 300th designation lapsed after the Korean War. During the balance of the Cold War, the Wyoming Army National Guard's artillery in the state was part of the 3d Bn 49th FA, which was part of the 115th FA Bde.
The deployment of a National Guard unit in this role, for this long, really demonstrates the degree to which the National Guard is part of the overall Army structure today. If you are in the Guard, you are going to see active duty.
The Polish uprising commenced in Warsaw. A massive uprising, and part of a series of the same, it was the most tragic of the group. The Red Army, which was already on the outskirts of the city, and which had been advancing, ground to a halt and allowed the insurrection to go on for 63 days.
The Philadelphia Transit Strike of 1944 began.
British scientists announced that DDT was an effective insecticide.
Manuel L. Quezon, age 65, died and Sergio Osmeña thereupon became the 4th President of the Philippines.
The film Wilson, about the 28th President, which is nearly a piece of hagiography, was released.
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CAMP GUERNSEY, Wyo. – A fire near Hartville, Wyoming, is causing the residents of the area to evacuate, July 30, 2024.
The Wyoming National Guard opened its gates to offer shelter on Camp Guernsey. If evacuees are seeking shelter, please go to the front gate of Camp Guernsey to start the process.
According to Wyoming Office of Homeland Security, the fire began due to a lightning strike a few days ago outside and north of the Camp Guernsey training area. The fire was almost out when the heat index and wind sparked the fire back up and according to the last report has burned approximately 2,200 acres and continues to grow.
Camp Guernsey, Torrington and Wheatland fire departments are teaming up to fight the fire.
Operation Cobra concluded.
The month long Allied campaign on Noemfoor concluded with the island in Allied hands.
The Red Army reached the Praga district of Warsaw.
The Red Army also reached the Gulf of Riga, isolating the German's from land supply.
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Russian Cossack ataman and rebel Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev, impersonating Czar Peter III, purported to free the serfs and extend religious liberty to the Old Believers
We, Peter III, by the Grace of God Emperor and Autocrat of All-Russia, etc. This is given for nationwide information. By this personal decree, with our monarchial and fatherly love, we grant to everyone who formerly was in serfdom or in any other obligation to the nobility; and we transfer these to be faithful personal subjects of our crown; we grant the right to use the ancient sign of the Cross, and to pray, and to wear beards; while to the Cossacks for eternity their freedoms and liberties; we terminate the recruiting system, cancel personal and other monetary taxes, abolish without compensation the ownership of land, forest, pastures, fisheries and salt deposits; and we free everyone from all taxes and obligations which the thievish nobles and extortionist city judges have imposed on the peasantry and the rest of the population. We pray for the salvation of your souls and wish you a happy and peaceful life here where we have suffered and experienced much from the above-mentioned thievish nobles. Now since our name, thanks to the hand of Providence, flourishes throughout Russia, we make hereby known by this personal decree the following: all nobles who have owned either pomesties [estates granted by the state], or votchinas [inherited estates], who have opposed our rule, who have rebelled against the empire, and who have ruined the peasantry should be seized, arrested, and hanged; that is, treated in the same manner as these unchristians have treated you, the peasantry. After the extermination of these opponents and thievish nobles everyone will live in a peace and happiness that shall continue to eternity.
The rebellion against Catherine the Great ended in the expansion of serfdom.
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While I'm not really following the Olympics, I am glad to see that Women's Rugby is getting press.
It's awesome.
Included as awesome, is Ilona Maher, US women's rugby player.
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5 ft 10 in, 200 lbs, and all muscle, she's quite the contrast to the female characters the press is usually focused on, like Taylor Swift or Billie Eilish.
