It was a busy week. Donald Trump was in peak performance as a demented head of state, the war that was one right away against Iran showed no signs of ending and every sign if getting worse.
Saturday, March 28, 2026
No Kings, March 2026, and the death of the MAGA GOP.
There are events all over Wyoming today.
The Cornfederate Wyoming Freedom Caucus is in trouble, and people are organizing even here. The GOP is in real trouble.
They're going to lose the House and Senate in November, and Trump will outright attempt to steal the election.
Tuesday, March 28, 1876. The Haitō Edict.
The Japanese government issued the Haitō Edict, The Sword Abolishment Edict (廃刀令) prohibiting people, with the exception of former lords (daimyōs), the military, and law enforcement officials, from carrying weapons in public, including swords.
It was an attack on the former samurai class, with their establishment itself having already been eliminated.
Heavily romanticized, the samurai were one of the traditional Japanese classes which were an impediment on the Meji government consolidating power and modernizing the country. Regular citizens bearing arms had been banned in 1870 as part of the effort and the Imperial Japanese Army, with conscription, established in 1873. The moves were resented, but successful in consolidating imperial power.
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Sunday, March 26, 1876. Big Horn Expedition returns.
Labels: 1870s, 1876, 1877, 1890s, 1899, Army, Big Horn Expedition, Great Sioux War, Personalities, Wyoming (Ft. Fetterman)
The Aerodrome: Casper/Natrona County airport resumes food drive for TSA employees
The Aerodrome: Casper/Natrona County airport resumes food drive f...: The TSA isn't getting paid as the Democrats have been opposing additional funding for ICE, the masked cowards who go around shooting pro...
Casper/Natrona County airport resumes food drive for TSA employees
The TSA isn't getting paid as the Democrats have been opposing additional funding for ICE, the masked cowards who go around shooting protestors.
The Democrats are right.
Anyhow, Mike Johnson, sycophantic toady, held up a Senate passed bill to resume funding for everyone but the masked cowards as a political stunt which means that TSA will continue not to get paid, resulting in this headline in the CST:
Casper/Natrona County airport resumes food drive for TSA employees
The article noted the following:
Airport spokeswoman Katie Reed confirmed that Thursday, adding the airport is also accepting nonperishable household items like paper towels, toilet paper, and detergent on top of the standard nonperishable food items.
The really important thing to keep in mind, of course, is that while people may have died and been abused by ICE, no members of the Trump family have been harmed. That's the main thing, of course.
Friday, March 27, 2026
The mad emperor has triggered chaos he cannot control With no domestic institutions to restrain him, Trump has started a war which will hurt every one of us, all over the world.
Ascendant Ignorance in the Age of Donald Trump. Ignoramus Watch Part 3. The Quack Edition.
BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?
DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines
BASH: Oh, come on
From a CNN Interview of Mehmet Oz, a prime example of the Oprah Effect.1
In fairness to Dr. Oz, who in fairness should not be a government official, he does want people to get the measles vaccine.
Also in fairness, the dissing of vaccines isn't really a Trump thing in and of itself, but he gave it some boosted unneeded assistance by taking the political step of promising Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. a job as the HHS Secretary if he'd drop out of the last Presidential race. Kennedy is a quack, and an opponent of vaccines in varying degrees (it seems to change day by day). The rise of this movement, however, started with people like Jenny McCarthy who sadly has a son with autism. McCarthy herself was a Playboy model and her only real expertise is in showing her naked visage, something that really doesn't qualify a person for anything serious, and in fact may achieve much the opposite.
Oh, and by the way, Jenny McCarthy appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show multiple times in the 2000s to discuss her erroneous theories on autism and vaccines, and to promote a book she wrote.
Much of this story has to do with the inability to understand the difference between present conditions and past ones. People tend to assume that negative developments in a population mean a negative present condition. Sometimes they do, but sometimes they also represent a positive one. I'll give a personal example.
In 1982 I had pneumonia while at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. I was extremely ill, literally on death's door.
Before the advent of antibiotics the fatality rates for bacterial pneumonia were between 60% and 70%.
Not good.
Now, the survivability rate is pretty good.
I've had a colon surgery for a developing condition that would have killed me even thirty years ago.
The point? Well, if I go on to develop Alzheimer's, which I pray I do not, it'll mostly be because I didn't die at age 19 of pneumonia.
Also, fwiw, Meet The Press this weekend had a physician on who noted that diseases we can now vaccinate for are associated with cancer, which is a developing field of medicine. I.e., you get some disease that's not big deal when young, and then you get cancer when older. You don't want cancer.
A fellow I know who suffered a heart attack, and who was otherwise very healthy, may have developed his heart condition this way as well.
Get vaccinated.
March 10, 2026
The worst cabinet in American history
And it's not even close.
March 15, 2026
The Trump Interregnum is threatening to pull broadcasting licenses of those who do not give a happy spin to the war against Iran.
March 21, 2026
Waging a war against American airports must be easier than waging a war against a real country that fights back:
March 27, 2026.
In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, President Donald J. Trump’s signature alongside @SecScottBessent's will soon appear on U.S. currency, marking a first in history, and symbolizes @POTUS ' leadership and dedication to our great nation will carry a lasting impact
U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach.
And hence, the era of defacement of U.S. currency began.
Seriously, my prediction will be for those dealing in cash, the number of "F***" next to Donny's signature, or replicas of his public Epstein birthday card's, or any number of defacements, will be epic.
The sycophantic sucking up this this demented twit is beyond all understanding. When this is all over, and it will be soon, Bessant ought to spend every day for the rest of his life apologizing.
Footnotes:
1. The Oprah Effect is so named here to explain the phenomenon of Oprah Winfrey putting some flaming bogosity on to her popular daytime television show and thereby having millions of people give it credence. There are a fair number of examples, including the rise of Dr. Oz.
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Doug Wilson, the Calvinist preacher who appeared in Pete Hegseth's weekly Pentagon prayer meeting, says that in his preferred Christian nation, anything that Protestants consider to be a "public displays of idolatry" would be banned, including Catholic parades.
Labels: Apostolic Christianity, Catholic, New Apostolic Reformation, Pete Hegseth, Protestant, religion, Sunday Morning Scene, United States and Israel v. Iran
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Ascendant Ignorance in the Age of Donald Trump. Ignoramus Watch Part 2. The War is a Racket edition.
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Changes in Army Enlistment Program.
The most interesting one is allowing enlistments up to age 42, which must mean retirements are now at 62.
Friday, March 26, 1926. First tomb guard.
The first guard, during daylight hours only, was posted on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
More on that:
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Centennial: 100 Years Since the First Military Guard Posted March 26, 1926: This feature commemorates the centennial of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier guard, marking 100 years since the first sentinel was posted March 26, 1926. The story traces the origins of the Unknown Soldier of World War I, the expansion of the tradition to honor unidentified service members from World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, and the enduring mission of the Soldiers who maintain an unbroken vigil at Arlington National Cemetery.
Coolidge gave a press conference.
Montgomery: That is a bill in which the Government makes refunds on the tariffs –
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Saturday, March 20, 1926. Coup in China.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, Art, Birds, Chiang Kai-shek, hunting, Kuomintang, Republic of China, Wyoming Game & Fish Department
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