St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton SC was born in the Colony of New York, in the city by that name. Her prominent parents were protestants, as the overwhelming majority of those in the thirteen lower colonies were, with her mother being an Anglican daughter of an Anglican priest. She married William Magee Seton, a wealthy 25 year old businessman, at when she was 19. Both she and William were devout members of Trinity Episcopal Church. Upon the death of her father in law, the family took in their six young in laws which added to their five children.
The undeclared war with Republican France that was fought on the seas between 1798 and 1800 rendered the merchant family bankruptcy, showing as an aside why the later War of 1812 was unpopular in New England, which depended upon trade with England. In 1803 William was sent to Italy to convalesce due to tuberculosis but died in the British city of Leghorn where he was quarantine. She was introduced to Catholicism while in Europe by Flippo and Antonia Filicchi, her husband's business partners, and converted in New York on March 14, 1805. She began to become involved in education and then became a nun, founding a congregation dedicated to the care of children and the poor.
She died in 1821 at age 46. Two of her daughters predeceased her. A third, Catherine Seton, entered the Sisters of Mercy and is being considered as a candidate for a cause of Sainthood.
The Great Strike Wave of 1945-1945 expanded as Ford Motors was idled due to wildcat strikes.
Contrary to the universal bliss myth so often assumed about the postwar world, the lid was coming off of labor relations as soldiers returned and wartime compromises, which oddly approached a sort of corporatism that fascist states had aspired to, ceased. It was flying apart.
The Japanese garrison on Celebes surrendered at Manado.
The Government of Belgium announced a 17,000 man commitment to the occupation of Germany.
Mitchell was frustrated about the post World War One direction of airpower, and had lambasted the Navy on September 5 (which I missed). At that time, he stated; "Brave airmen are being sent to their deaths by armchair admirals who don't care about air safety."
Yikes.
He was referring to the Shenandoah Incident and the recent Navy long distance flight to Hawaii. I didn't really cover either. I should have, as this was a big event.
The Spanish broke the siege at Tétouan.
The Byzantine cross appeared in the sky over Athens during an old calendar service of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Exaltation of the All-Honourable and Life-giving Cross of our Savior. The Orthodox Church was being repressed by the Greek government at the time.
I wouldn't normally note that, but as the populist far right is busy trying to make a martyr out of Kirk as a victim of a left wing shooter (which so far we're not really certain was the motivation), it probably ought to be mentioned.
The US today has a late Weimar Republic feel to it.
Albania issued a decree requiring minorities to adopt names reflecting a Muslim origin, which of course they did not have. It impacted Catholic and Orthodox minorities.
Welcome Back Kotter premiered. Set in a gritty high school class in Brooklyn, it was one of the best television series of the 1970s. It ran until 1979, and debuted John Travolta.
Back when I was 18 years old and first registered to vote, I registered as a Republican. The first President I voted for was Ronald Reagan.
Soon thereafter, relative terms, and certainly before I went to the University of Wyoming I changed my registration to Democrat. Wildlands had a lot to do with that, maybe everything, almost, to do with that. Sometime prior to the Fall of 1983 I'd concluded that the Democrats wanted to protect nature, where as Ronald Reagan's Administration, with James Watt as the Secretary of the Interior, most definitely didn't care about it.
I was a Democrat for a very long time, but I often voted Republican, following a family trait of really voting very independently. If you aren't thinking about the person you are actually voting for, you aren't thinking. I voted, I know, for our Democratic Governors, but I also voted, I know, for some Republican Congressional candidates. Starting prior to the 2000 election I started to consider 3d parties. Some time after that I became disgusted with the Democrats constant embrace of abortion and changed my political affiliation to none. By that time a lot of Wyoming Democrats were feeling the same way and a lot of them drifted into the GOP, some so solidly that they're regarded as stalwart traditional Republicans now, which in a lot of ways, they are.
I also eventually came into the GOP.
I was comfortable, if often upset, with the GOP up until it nominated Donald Trump for the Oval Office the first time, which absolutely horrified me and still does. This term, which is illegitimate (Trump is a seditionist who has not had the ban from holding office lifted upon him by Congress), has been bad beyond my fears as to what it would be. Trump is all about land rape on the land.
I still am registered as a Republican, but I constantly debate it. The Wyoming "Sweet Home Alabama" pack of carpetbaggers Freedumb Caucus has gained control of the Legislature and is busy driving through the state's culture like the Dukes' of Hazzard through Hazzard County in the Gen. Lee. It's disgusting. There''s some reason to believe that this is changing, but it isn't changing quickly enough. Wyoming's GOP Congressional delegation supported the land raping proposal by the Senator from Deseret, Mike Lee, in spite of the majority of Wyomingite's being opposed to it. "Your dumb" was the practical reaction to Wyoming voters from one of the three.
If you aren't a registered Republican, you aren't going to get to have a say in the primary, which is why I'm still there. Am I one of the RINO's that Chuck Gray cries about? If the current GOP reflects the Republican Party, I am. There's no alternative here, however.
The article is incredibly fair, just interviewing a selection of students. Some liked Kirk, some didn't but were appalled by his violent death, and one indicated that he supported it.
The views, I'd note, that a lot of Americans hold.
The Freedom Caucus has decided to go into a corner and sob big tears of the left wing media is picking on me.
The 1945–1946 War in Southern Vietnam began with the arrival of Major General Douglas Gracey in command if Indian troops. He arrived to take the Japanese surrendered but immediately apprised the situation as being nearly out of control.
One of his first acts was to arm liberated French POWs. His Indian Forces and the rearmed French soon evicted the Việt Minh from Saigon.
Gen. Leclerc of the French Army reviewing British Indian troops, Gen. Gracey in the background.
One of the really astounding elements of this is that the British not only won the Malayan Emergency, but arguably won their own portion of the Vietnam War.
The Japanese surrendered at Rangoon, save for their commander who would not surrender until October. The Japanese 18th Army surrendered in New Guinea.
The Chinese Communist prevailed in the Battle of Dazhongji while the Wudi Campaign (无棣战役) began.
British military authorities publish a Gestapo "death list" of 2300 British and Allied notables, including Churchill and the leaders of the French, Polish and Czechoslovak governments in exile.
Not surprisingly, there are piles of comments about Kirk and the meaning, if there is one, to his assassination, something made difficult by the fact the shooter has not been arrested and its beginning to look as if he might very well never be.
As previously noted, I didn't follow Kirk at all, which is probably a generational thing. He was apparently a very significant figure amongst young Republicans, something that's addressed by this interesting NPR Politics edition:
Not having followed him at all, I'm not prepared to really form an opinion on him. I'm not an adherent of the Latin de mortuis nihil nisi bonum maxum but more of a adherent of Ernie Pyle's soldier quote o such things, but I can't do either here. Kirk said some horrible things, but I've seen him in debates where he was quite gracious to those who opposed his views. I frankly suspect that he was more of a traditionalist than a true populist, or that he would have evolved that way, much like Malcolm X evolved from a Baptist, to a member of the Nation of Islam, to Islam, and I suspect was on his way back to Christianity. It's a bit notable that Malcolm X, who certainly said some outrageous things, was 39 years old when he was assassinated.
Indeed, on this point, I saw, but I'm not endorsing, this interesting image:
I don't know that the label on this is correct, actually. Malcolm X was killed by member of the Nation of Islam, which he'd left, and you'd have to study that to really understand it. As noted, in terms of the truth, I think he was evolving towards it, but hadn't gotten there yet.
The two Kennedy's are example of what I've termed here the Kennedy/Guevara Effect, and was actually going to have called the Kennedy/Guevara/Wessel Effect, but I thought the latter name would be misunderstood. Having said that, George Conway drew that analogy specifically. It is a little different.
Anyhow, the Kennedy's were subject to what Jimmy Akin has called a "canonization", with which he includes Lincoln, by which he means they were instantly regarded as great men and near saints due to being assassinated. That's going on with Kirk right now. The JFK in particular had massive flaws, but his getting assassinated has resulted in an absurd secular hagiography which still benefits the Kennedy family and hurts the nation.
An interesting and thoughtful clip by Douthat on Kirk.
A much different view is posted here, again taking on the secular canonization that's going on:
I don't doubt that the Wyofile article, which is already also in the Cowboy State Daily is correct, but it's an interesting example of The Denver Effect, which is the tendency of Denver Colorado to claim a connection with anything that occurs anywhere.
I hope that this does become a horrific exception As noted in our article yesterday, murdering the outspoken is a feature of democracies that are descending into autocracy. Which brings me to this:
I asserting this is an example of the Horst Wessel Effect, but I'm not comparing Kirk to Wessel. What I'm noting is the latching on to a murdered figure in order to intentionally make the person into a political martyr. I don't know if Trump is doing that or not. He's not a very smart man anymore and is demented, as we noted again yesterday.
The following is worth noting as contrary to what the MAGA right is claiming right now, there have been a lot of weird killings and acts of political violence. I noted to a very right wing friend this and asserted the January 6 riots as the first one, with which he countered with the BLM/Floyd protests prior to that. He has a point. Anyhow, over the last several years we've had right wing wackos attempting to kidnap a Governor, the January 6 Insurrection, the murder of Democrats in Minnesota, and now this. The criticism here is valid.
Indeed, while I saw that some government employee was canned for saying the same thing, I don't think flags should be flown at half staff. I don't think they should be for the deaths of local politicians or school shootings either.
Regarding the government, Kash Patel is now in Utah and at yesterday's press conference he had a deer in the headlights look, but then he often does. Coming into office as political figure who was going to wreak havoc on and with the FBI, now the FBI has a real crime to solve and he better not blow it. In the same agency, Dan Bongino re emerged after retiring to his home over the Epstein scandal and Trump's big change in attitudes on that.
We need to take a look at what Kirk means in the culture and its politics. But this isn't the best place to do so, so we'll follow up on that in a subsequent thread.
Charlie Kirk was murdered yesterday while delivering a talk at a university in Utah.
I actually heard the news of his being shot from somebody who has a direct connection with his organization. I then checked the net and had the misfortune of seeing a video clip that was already online. I've seen a lot of things shot so I knew he was dead right then. When there began to be reports he survived I flat out said he had not. The confirmation of his death came from the same source, which was before it was reported.
If it seems like I'm somewhat well connected, well I am. If it seems like I know a lot about Kirk, I don't at all.
Before yesterday, the only thing I knew about Kirk is that he was a youngish right wing personality with a net presence. As I don't watch net opinion pieces as a rule, although there are exceptions, I'd never watched him speak. Somebody I know was associated with having him speak at the University of Wyoming, and as that person has definite fascist associations, I pretty much ignored Kirk in the assumption he did as well. Since his death I've read a few of his statements, some of which are horrible, and some of which are not.
The shooter is still at large.
The shooting itself was remarkably similar in tactics to that used by Thomas Crooks to shoot Donald Trump. Lots of details of the Kirk murder are missing, and I don't want to be gruesome, but just based on the evidence available my guess right now is the shooter used an AR platform rifle with fmj ammunition, and the shot placed considerably higher or lower than where he was aiming.
Yes, that's grim.
As we don't know who the shooter was, we don't know his motivation, but its almost certain an act of political terrorism.
Bizarrely, witnesses claim that Kirk had just started to debate somebody in the crowed about whether transgenderism is associated with mass killings (it isn't). If that's correct, and I wouldn't fully accept that it is, it's sort of ironic. Perhaps more ironic is that Kirk, who didn't mind saying very controversial things, had made a statement that killings were the price we pay for the 2nd Amendment, and the price is worth it.
I support the 2nd Amendment, but that's a very shallow view of this issue.
His death sparked a wave of public commentary, with much of it, from the right and the left, lamenting his passing and condemning his killing, and political killings overall. That is at it should be. The demented illegitimate claimant to the Oval Office, who had benefited from Kirk's support, blamed the political left.
Somebody from the left may well have killed Kirk. But the fact of the matter is that the US, where violence has been declining for decades, entered into an era of political violence in January, 2021, when Trump's supporters violently stormed the Capital. Even before that Trump's rhetoric was violent. During the four year inter regime he kept it up, as did his supporters. Since coming into office his rhetoric has been unhinged and he's inserted troops into Washington D.C. and Los Angeles which itself is an act of violence, and sent masked ICE agents in a manner which bespeaks of violence. He's made the country lawless in a political sort of way.
National Conservatives, which Kirk seems to have been, are going to have to live with their embrace of Trump, and sooner or later that's going to mean that they're viewed as bloody. It wouldn't be correct to say that Trump killed Kirk, but he did create an atmosphere which created its likelihood, if in fact not making it more likely than not.
A hallmark of failing states sliding into fascism and communism is the murder of the outspoken. Those same states than make political martyrs out of their own who are killed. Trump, who has never been popular, and whose popularity is slipping, and who is facing increasing demands for the release of the files maintained on his former friend, Jeffrey Epstein, can nearly be counted on to try to use this to boost his own fortunes and divert attention from being a pal of a rapist of teenagers.
We are at that point.
Kirk was 31 years old and leaves behind a wife and two young children.
Hideki Tojo attempted suicide when American troops arrived at his home to arrest him as a war criminal. The self inflicted gunshot wound was not fatal.
He's entered the Japanese Army as an officer in 1905, right after the Russo Japanese War. He became Prime Minister in October, 1941, and advocated for war against the United States, and occupied that position until July 1944, at which time he was replaced as it was realized that the United States would not negotiate with him, and indeed he was tried as a war criminal and executed in 1948.
The U.S. House voted for a Congressional investigation of Pearl Harbor. The measure had already passed the Senate.
The Chinese Nationalist Army occupied Hanoi under agreement with the Allied Powers, pending resumption of French control of Indochina.
I cannot for the life of me understand how the Democrats think this is some kind of winning political message. Yield man! Let the troops come into your city…
Since we published the Administration went into full bore freak out mode, which is really interesting.
Official Liar Karoline Claire Leavitt came out with the story that the signature on the image in question, placed in such a fashion that they're right over the doodles genitals, isn't Trump's and experts have proven it.
Bullshit. It's Trump's signature and it being placed there means exactly what you think it does.
So why so desperate to distance from Epstein?
Trump's defenders keep saying there's no evidence that he's screwed young teen women, but there is in fact an accusers and there's lot of circumstantial evidence that he's taken an interest in mid teen girls. The accuser could be outright lying, however, and there isn't much else to back up that claim directly, in so far as we know. But his actions are certainly making him look guilty of something.
Added to it, his close defenders, like Mike Johnson, are babbling all over themselves with excuses, including that maybe he was a plant for the FBI.
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