New Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom (HCB) Recreational Use Advisory
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Saturday, July 19, 2025
Going Feral: New Harmful Cyanobacteria Bloom (HCB) and other conservation news.
All-female ‘Forest Corps’ fills federal agency gaps for Wyoming trail projects
Friday, July 18, 2025
Friday, July 18, 1975. Operation IA Feature.
President Ford communicated to Congress, secretly, his decision to authorize $6,000,000 for a CIA operation to combat Communists troops somewhere, but he didn't say where.
Angola was where.
Railroad workers and railroads came to an agreement, averting a strike.
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Thursday, July 17, 1975. United States-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project succeeds.
Wednesday, July 18, 1945. Explosions.
President Truman informed Prime Minister Churchill that the atomic bomb test had been successful in a stating: "Babies satisfactorily born."
Not so coincidently, American interest in Soviet participation in the war against Japan was noticeably lessened.
A fire broke out on the jetty of the Bedford Magazine during the evening causing a chain reaction of fires, explosions, and concussions that continued for more than 24 hours. Fifteen people were killed.
Captured German mines in Italy exploded destroying an American Red Cross club resulting in the death of 36 people.
Aircraft from the USS Wasp attacked Wake Island.
The U.S. Army Air Force, flying out of Okinawa, bombed Kiangwan airfield near Shanghai.
The Brazilian Expeditionary Force parades through Rio de Janeiro marking its return from Italy.
The Belgian senate voted to forbid the return of Leopold III.
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Tuesday, July 17, 1945. The Potsdam Conference begins.
Saturday, July 18, 1925. Nazi tome and Scopes trial.
Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published.
The press was covering the Skopes trial, and lampooning the characters in it.
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Tuesday, July 14, 1925. Getting out of the Ruhr and trying to kick them out of Vietnam.
What history shows us about Utah’s push to take control of federal lands
Thursday, July 17, 2025
I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you.
I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.
Flannery O'Connor
Wyoming Senators Say Their Votes To Defund Public Media Due To Left-Wing Bias
Wyoming Senators Say Their Votes To Defund Public Media Due To Left-Wing Bias
Wyoming Senators vote to defund public media based on long held right wing myth that all disturbing news must be liberal propaganda, apparently.
Carpetbagger asks Supreme Court to decide corner crossing’s legality, says lower court ‘inverted’ law
Ranch owner asks Supreme Court to decide corner crossing’s legality, says lower court ‘inverted’ law: Fred Eshelman’s petition for high-court review asserts that 10th Circuit victory for hunters and the public to access public land constitutes an unconstitutional taking of private property.
Thursday, July 17, 1975. United States-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project succeeds.
An American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docked in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
Occurring at 3:19 Eastern Time, Colonel Leonov welcomed General Stafford with the English words, “Glad to see you.” General Stafford, replyied in Russian,“A, zdraystvuite, ochen rad vas videt” (“Ah, hello, very glad to see you.”).
Protestors thew a Molotov cocktail and Crown Prince Akihito, and his wife, Princess Michito, on Okinawa.
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Wednesday, July 9, 1975. The start of the Angolan Civil War.
Tuesday, July 17, 1945. The Potsdam Conference begins.
The Potsdam Conference between Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman commenced.
The immediate topic was the governance of postwar Germany.
The British participated in a carrier raid on Tokyo.
German Field Marshal Busch, the former commander of Army Group Center on the Eastern Front, died at the military hospital in Notts at age 60 due to a heart attack.
The King, Queen and Princess Elizabeth visited Ulster.
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Monday, July 16, 1945. Trinity.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist, 97th edition. The Epstein Connections.
REPORTER: Why do you think your supporters in particular have been so interested in the Epstein story?
TRUMP: I don't understand it. He's dead for a long time. He was never a big factor in terms of life. I don't understand what the interest and fascination is. The credible information has been given. It's pretty boring stuff.
Uh huh. He doesn't understand it. . .
Oh yes he does.
Let's start with this. There may be more on the Trump/Epstein connection that I had known. Ed Krassenstein reports on Twitter, with some comments by me, note the following:
Trump personally hosted a private party at Mar-a-Lago in 1992 attended only by himself, Jeffrey Epstein, and 28 young women, according to Trump associate George Houraney. (Which wouldn't necessarily mean that they were underaged).
Trump’s name appeared in Epstein’s black book with at least 14 phone numbers, per Vanity Fair.
He flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times, and Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell flew on Trump’s jet in 2000—alongside a very young girl brought by Epstein. (But Trump was not on the plane at the time).
A 14-year-old girl, groomed by Maxwell, was introduced to Trump at Mar-a-Lago, per sworn testimony from an Epstein victim. (Which is super creepy, but doesn't mean that Trump bedded her).
Another woman accused Trump of raping her at age 13 during an Epstein-hosted party, even claiming Epstein and Trump argued over “who would take her virginity.” She later dropped the suit after alleged threats. (But this might not be true, and isn't verified).
In 2000, after Epstein was accused of propositioning another underage girl at Mar-a-Lago, Trump still told New York Magazine that Epstein was “a terrific guy.”
Trump publicly wished Ghislaine Maxwell “well” after her arrest for trafficking minors.
Epstein called Trump his “wingman” in a recording, saying they shared a taste for young women. (But that isn't Trump acknowledging the same).
Former model Stacey Williams says Trump groped her in 1993 during a meeting arranged by Epstein.
Trump and Epstein were frequently seen together in New York and Palm Beach throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
And it doesn’t stop there—Trump surrounded himself with others deeply tied to Epstein:
Alan Dershowitz, Trump’s impeachment lawyer, was accused of sexual misconduct by Virginia Giuffre, who said Epstein forced her to have sex with him. Dershowitz also defended Epstein in court. (Dershowitz denies the rape).
Alexander Acosta, Trump’s Labor Secretary, was the prosecutor who gave Epstein his sweetheart deal in Florida—granting him and his co-conspirators immunity. Trump later rewarded him with a Cabinet post.
Steve Bannon, Trump’s former strategist, worked on efforts to rehabilitate Epstein’s public image after he was accused of trafficking minors.
Roger Stone, one of Trump’s closest advisors, defended Epstein publicly and downplayed the abuse allegations.
George Nader, connected to Trump’s 2016 campaign, was later convicted of possessing child pornography and linked to Epstein investigations. (That doesn't really mean anything in regard to Trump).
William Barr, Trump’s Attorney General, has no direct link to Epstein—but his father hired Epstein to teach at a private school despite Epstein having no degree, raising long-standing questions. (This also means nothing).
What's it all mean? Perhaps nothing whatsoever.
But there's a really severe smoke situation going on here, so no wonder people are looking for a fire.
Trump, with his GOP Senatorial lackies, is fighting tooth and nail to keep secret something they formally accused the Democrats of hiding. The Democrats indeed introduced a bill to open the files, and its going down in defeat.
There's some reason for that.
Okay, now the Democrats are trying to open the files up.
The old Republican story, which I heard from a loyal Trumpy just this past week, was that the files were hidden by Biden as they showed that Bill and Hillary Clinton had improper relations with Epstein. It all fit into the Q Anon conspiracy theories.
Donald Trump, who wants the press to quit paying attention to this, advocated for the files to be opened, but now wants to keep them closed.
Maybe Bill (I doubt Hillary) had some dalliance on Epstein Island, although there's no proof of that whatsoever. But Trump's connections with Epstein are really clear. Trump's desire that people look away also speaks volumes.
Trump (and fwiw Bill) fit into the statistical group of men that are more likely to fish in the shallow end of the pool, that being men who have had more than eight sexual "partners". I can't recall where I read that, and I'm not going to look it up, but with each added partner over one a man's sexual drive becomes more disordered, and after that point, no doubt varying by individual, the drive really becomes totally self focused and there's a heightened incidence of screwing teenage girls.
And Trump has in fact acted in a rather direct manner in this category once before, when at age 1997 he walked into the Miss Teen USA dressing room and stated: "Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before."
I'm sure he'd seen it all before, that's not hardly the point.
Indeed, Trump reported on the incident.
I'll go backstage before a show and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else. And you know, no men are anywhere. And I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant. And therefore I'm inspecting it.
* * *
Is everyone OK? You know they're standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that.
One of the former contestants said Trump groped her.
Of course, Trump denies all of this, and the pageant has somewhat too, saying that it was exaggerated.
But here too, odd associations creep in. When Trump became involved in pageantry, in his 30s, John Casablancas was a figure in the whole thing. A personality in the modeling profession, Casablancas hosted events where he and others allegedly propositioned teenage models, although nobody says Trump did. Casablancas was married three times, all to models, and at the time of his third marriage he was 50 and the bride. . . 17. She was close, it might be noted, to the age of his children, who were 22 and 14 at the time. And it seems relatively well established that he'd had an affair with another teenager before that, who was 16.
So here we have Trump, who is on his fourth marriage, and a marriage to a model, who has a sexual track record that's not admirable, and who hung out, since his 30s, with men who were into screwing teenagers.
So why the focus on Epstein?
Well, it raises questions about Trump.
And he's sure acting like a man who has something to hide. . .
Maybe he doesn't. But opening up the files at this point is the only way to show that.
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Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist, 96th edition. The Epstein Files.
Monday, July 16, 1945. Trinity.
The first detonation of an atomic weapon.
The name is nearly blasphemous. The device itself was called the "Gadget".
Nuclear power, sadly, arrived in the form of a weapon. It had not, however, yet been used that way.
British soldiers were taking advantage of the relaxation of the fraternization rules by chatting with German women. We often hear of the calorie deprivation of the Second World War, but, while not seeking to be vulgar, the young woman on the far right clearly hadn't been too calorie deprived in the late stages of the war.
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Saturday, July 14, 1945. Verboten und Nicht Verboten
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Sunday, July 15, 1945. Lifting the blackout.
George Washington Onion item. Onions Brazilian Style.
This looks really good to me, even though the host wasn't impressed.
Trump administration withholding school funding angers districts but not Degenfelder
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Sunday, July 15, 1945. Lifting the blackout.
The U.S. surface naval raid on the Japanese home islands continued with the bombardment of Muroran, a steel making location. Air Force and Navy air raids also continued.
Australian troops captured Mount Batochampar on Borneo.
Blackout restrictions on London's West End were lifted.
Belgium's King Leopold III again refused to abdicate.
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Saturday, July 14, 1945. Verboten und Nicht Verboten
Wednesday, July 14, 1915. Men of letters.
Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, and Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Egypt, began correspondence on steps to achieve Arab independence from the Ottoman Empire.
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Tuesday, July 13, 1915. Internment.
Monday, July 14, 2025
Hundreds Of Landowners Angry Over Proposed Wyoming Hunting Tag Changes
Frankly, even the proposed change really means a person can get a landowner tag with fewer acres than should really be the case.