Sigh. . .
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Saturday, June 17, 1876. Battle of the Rosebud Battlefield, Montana.
Today In Wyoming's History: Battle of the Rosebud Battlefield, Montana.: The Battle of the Rosebud was an important June 1876 battle that came, on June 17, just days prior to the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Fo...
Battle of the Rosebud Battlefield, Montana.
The Battle of the Rosebud was an important June 1876 battle that came, on June 17, just days prior to the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Fought by the same Native American combatants, who crossed from their Little Big Horn encampment to counter 993 cavalrymen and mule mounted infantrymen who had marched north from Ft. Fetterman, Wyoming, at the same time troops under Gen. Terry, including Custer's command, were proceeding west from Ft. Abraham Lincoln. Crook's command included, like Terry's, Crow scouts, and he additionally was augmented soon after leaving Ft. Fetterman by Shoshoni combatants.
The battlefield today is nearly untouched.
Called the Battle Where the Sister Saved Her Brother, or the Battle Where the Girl Saved Her Brother, like Little Big Horn, it was a Sioux and Arapaho victory, although it did not turn into an outright disaster like Little Big Horn. Caught in a valley and attacked, rather than attacking into a valley like Custer, the Army took some ground and held its positions, and then withdrew. Crook was effectively knocked out of action for the rest of the year and retreated into the Big Horn mountains in Wyoming.
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A changing of the Angst Guard
Ugh.
We Gen Jones members are trying to figure out our retirement right now (and unlike the Boomers, who at least in the professional class don't seem to retire, we are) and now this:
As Gen-X nears retirement, new survey says the numbers aren’t adding up
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Sunday, June 16, 1946. Night of the Bridges.
The Hagenah took out eleven highway and railway bridges, while causing no causalities, disrupting mandatory Palestine's communications with neighboring states.
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Friday, June 14, 1946. No nukes.
Monday, June 15, 2026
"Homicide is justifiable when committed by the husband upon one taken in the act of adultery with the wife, provided that the killing takes place before the parties to the act have separated. "
Homicide is justifiable when committed by the husband upon one taken in the act of adultery with the wife, provided that the killing takes place before the parties to the act have separated. Such circumstance cannot justify a homicide where it appears that there has been, on the part of the husband, any connivance or assent to the adulterous connection.
Law of the State of Texas prior to 1973.
Frankly, whatever the law is anywhere now, if I were on a jury, I'd consider not convicting under these circumstances. Of course, that's exactly why I'd never be on such a jury. I probably would, but I wouldn't be keen on it.
Indeed, you have to take an oath that you'll uphold the law, and killing somebody is flat out wrong, but I'd not like that duty.
For that matter, I'd be a poor choice for a juror when an "ex" spouse killing a "new" spouse of his former spouse, as that is adultery, as divorce itself is a civil sham. Same story there. I guess I'd uphold my obligations as a juror, if I survived voir dire, which I probably wouldn't.
In some ways, the weeneyness of the current law is a shame.
Maybe the dilution of the current law is the real shame. The old law, including the "heart balm" laws, were regarded as harsh. They weren't harsh, they were realistic. The decline in realism in this area since May 9, 1960, has not bee a good thing in every conceivable way.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Friday, June 14, 1946. No nukes.
The United States proposed to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission a proposal for United Nations to control all nuclear weapons.
The proposal was remarkable for a number of reason, not the least of which was that it would have subjected the entire collection of the world's nations to a sort of limited central government. It also shows how liberal politics in the U.S. were at the time.
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Wednesday, June 12, 1946. British reject Jewish immigration to Palestine.
Monday, June 14, 1926. The Calles Law.
Mexico_Flag_(Cristeros).png: User:Immaculatederivative work: Jorge Compassio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Mexico enacted the Calles Law attacking the Catholic Church. Clergymen were to be punished for various crimes including wearing clerics and criticizing the government. In a little over a month the Cristero War would break out as a result.
Catholicism was, and is, strong in Mexico, although the Mexican Revolution, which saw the rise of various anti Catholic figures within it, while others remained very loyal to the Church, weakened it. Most historians do not regard the Cristero War as part of the Mexican Revolution, but I'm not most historians and I do. By the same token, the extent to which the Mexican Revolution was part of a worldwide rise of left wing insurrections is not often appreciated.
Anti Catholic elements in Mexico had existed since at least the mid 19th Century, and interestingly reflected similar movements in Europe, which itself shows the extent to which those revolutions in the country in the mid 19th Century reflected how close Mexico was to Europe in comparison to the United States. For all his faults, Porfirio Díaz, who came from a devout Catholic family and who had originally intended to be a Priest, seemingly put those stresses behind the country, but they revived during the Mexican Revolution. Madero was not a practicing Catholic, which in some ways made him an odd leader for the Revolution. Zapata, while he certainly strayed in regard to sexual morality (he had a least fifteen children, but only two by his wife Josefa "La Generala" Espejo Merino, was Catholic. Other figures were most definitely not practicing Catholics and some were anti Catholic within Madero's ranks. In Baja California, American and foreign Wobblies tried to estaliblish an Anarch Socialist state.
Had Madero, who was not a practicing Catholic, but who was egalitarian in nature, survived, Mexico would not have taken the giant left word lurch it did.
Brazil announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations.
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Friday, June 11, 1926. First flight of the Ford Tri Motor.
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Wednesday, June 11, 1911. Not yet stars.
The West Point Class of 1915, "the class the stars fell on" took their military oaths. New cadets included:
President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
General of the Army Omar Bradley.
General Joseph T. McNarney.
General James Van Fleet.
Lieutenant General Henry Aurand.
Lieutenant General Hubert R. Harmon.
Lieutenant General Stafford LeRoy Irwin.
Lieutenant General Thomas B. Larkin
Lieutenant General John W. Leonard.
Lieutenant General George E. Stratemeyer
Lieutenant General Joseph M. Swing.
Major General John Stewart Bragdon
Major General Ralph P. Cousins
Major General William E. R. Covell
Major General Luis R. Esteves
Major General Vernon Evans
Major General Thomas J. Hanley Jr.
Major General Thomas G. Hearn
Major General Leland S. Hobbs
Major General James A. Lester
Major General Edwin B. Lyon
Major General Henry J. F. Miller
Major General Paul J. Mueller
Major General Vernon Prichard
Major General George J. Richards
Major General Charles W. Ryder
Major General Henry B. Sayler
Major General William F. Tompkins
Major General Albert W. Waldron
Major General Leo A. Walton
Major General Leroy H. Watson
Major General Douglas L. Weart
Major General A. Arnim White
Major General John B. Wogan
Major General Roscoe B. Woodruff
Brigadier General Herman Beukema
Brigadier General Carl C. Bank
Brigadier General Frederic W. Boye
Brigadier General Charles M. Busbee
Brigadier General John F. Conklin
Brigadier General John F. Davis
Brigadier General Michael F. Davis
Brigadier General Donald A. Davison
Brigadier General Benjamin G. Ferris
Brigadier General Adlai H. Gilkeson
Brigadier General Walter W. Hess
Brigadier General Clinton Wilbur Howard
Brigadier General Reese M. Howell
Brigadier General John Keliher
Brigadier General Pearson Menoher
Brigadier General Lehman W. Miller
Brigadier General Earl L. Naiden
Brigadier General Hume Peabody
Brigadier General Norman Randolph
Brigadier General John N. Robinson
Brigadier General Robert W. Strong
Brigadier General Victor V. Taylor
Brigadier General Clesen H. Tenney
Brigadier General Edward C. Wallington
Brigadier General Edwin A. Zundel.
The RMS Olympic departed Southampton, UK, on its maiden voyage.
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Monday, June 12, 1911. Madero meets Zapata.
Wednesday, June 14, 1876. The Grand Old Party convenes.
The 1876 Republican National Convention convened in Cincinnati, Ohio. Candidates for the office of President, in light of President Grant's decision not to run for a third term, were: Governor Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, Former Speaker James G. Blaine of Maine, Treasury Secretary Benjamin Bristow of Kentucky, Senator Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York, Governor John F. Hartranft of Pennsylvania and Postmaster General Marshall Jewell of Connecticut.
Grant remained a highly popular figure, both nationally and internationally, but his administration had been scandal plagued, Democrats had gained in the mid term election, and the country was tragically wearing out on Reconstruction. The latter was not the fault of Grant, as had Andrew Johnson supported it immediately after the Civil War it would have stood to be more effective.
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Friday, June 9, 1876. Battle of Prairie Dog Creek.
Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 6. The screwworm edition.
Exports of petroleum products and capital goods jumped to record highs reducing the U.S. trade deficit.
The capital goods item is interesting and I haven't seen it explained. That is a positive trend, if sustainable. The oil exportation one is not as it depletes a diminishing resource at the expense of U.S. consumers. A lot of it seems to be related to AI exports, which isn't necessarily good, aircraft production, and war related purchases. If all that is correct, it won't be sustainable at the current levels, probably.
Screwworms have reappeared in Texas after a sixty year hiatus. The Trump administration is blaming the Biden Administration, as that's its default thing to do, but the Trumpistas lifted protections that were in place and allowed importation of Mexican cattle via ports in a probable attempt to lower beef prices. This is likely to have the opposite effect. It's a more likely cause, although there were concerns about animals moving across the border illegally during the Biden Administration.
Mexico itself was screwworm free as of 1991. Somehow that got reversed one way or another, and now the problem is back. Given that, it probably was coming back no matter what. It is a major crisis.
Nobody has cited the weather, but it is spread by a fly, and that may very well have resulted to the spread of the flies range.
Inflation is up to 4.2%.
cont:
Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning?
Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.
Johnson is already saying that's not what he meant.
June 14, 2026
Indeed, this would be horrible news:
Wyoming Outfitters, Hunters Say Screwworm Would Be Wildlife Disaster If It Hits State
And Carney continues to press for the new reality of American unreliability.
‘A global rupture’: Carney calls for Canada-EU unity before G7 summit
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Wednesday, June 7, 1911. Madero enters Mexico City.
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Saturday, June 13, 2026
Donald Trump: "I love the inflation". What if this isn't quite as crazy as it sounds (while still being really darned scary).
$100 when this bond was issued had the spending power of $1,892.16 today.
How did the U.S. pay off much of the debt from the Second World War and the Cold War?
It inflated the economy out of it.
Let me note something here right from the onset. I think Donald Trump is suffering from dementia in a major way and doesn't come up with plans for anything on his own, very often. Put another way, I think he's a puppet at this stage, pulled by National Conservative and Populist strings, the two not being the same.
Which brings me to this.
What if, behind the scenes, somebody on the NatCon end has come up with the plan to inflate the economy and steal as much of the petroleum oil belonging to Venezuela and Iran as possible.
It'd be way sinister, and evil, and destroy the lives and savings of many, but it might work.
But it'll be devastating to individuals.
Here's how it might works.
Raise tariffs to the point where domestic production actually is increased. That would make everything much more expensive, and hence inflation would result. Putting US oil increasingly on the global market would do the same, as that only happens when the price of oil is high. The value of the debt would decrease as the value of money would decrease.
Crazy?
Well, that's similar to what was done with the World War Two and Cold War debt.
The problem is, of course, that living in inflationary times is devastating to individuals, which is why it can't be, and never has been, done openly.
NatCons, however, may very well like this idea, if they can pull it off. At the end of it the thesis would be that government spending would be brought under control, the national debt greatly reduced, and domestic production realty increased. All of which would be for those who economically survived the ten to twenty year period it'd take to pull it off.
Which many would not.
And it might not work at all. Indeed, it would only work if it was accompanied by high employment, which often high inflation operates against. That's why the increased domestic production would be necessary.
NatCons are a really different group and they've operated in this administration very much in the shadows, which doesn't mean they aren't operating.
The control of nature.
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.Rachel Carson
Thursday, June 13, 1901. Murderous logic.
Boer General P. H. Kritzinger authorized Boer troops to shoot any blacks who were riding a horse without the permission of an employer. The illegal order was based on the concept that such Cape Colony blacks must be spies.
The London School of economics was incorporated.
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Wednesday, June 12, 1901. Corrido de Gregorio Cortez
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