Cy Young pitched his twelfth consecutive win for the Boston Americans.
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Thursday, July 16, 2026
Sunday, July 16, 1876. Getting a Confederate view of Custer
And a Medal of Honor.
On board the U.S.S. Hartford, Philadelphia, Pa., 16 July 1876. Showing gallantry, Costello rescued from drowning a landsman of that vessel.
Born in 1850, Costello would live until 1887, dying at age 37, maybe. Or he may have remained in the Navy until 1902, have become a Warrant Officer, and died in 1908. I hope it's the latter.
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Saturday, July 15, 1876. First no hitter.
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
June 19, 2026
Those of us in the livestock industry should pray for rain. We also ought to realize that voting for climate change deniers like Harriet Hageman is basically putting a knife to the through our our children, and then cutting their arteries.
Wyoming Ranchers Pray For Rain As Drought, Demand Push Beef To Record High Prices
Drought? Get real. This isn't a normal drought.
June 22, 2026
Senate overwhelmingly passes sweeping bipartisan housing affordability bill
A rare distributist bill. It bans private equity acquisition of homes.
It will be challenged
Senate overwhelmingly passes sweeping bipartisan housing affordability bill
June 26, 2026
West Texas is at $69.53.
June 30, 2026
The 1.5-gigawatt Prometheus Hyperscale data center will now all be in Natrona County on the Falls Ranch property owned by Texas billionaire carpetbagger Russell Gordy.
Trump called the housing bill that passed both houses "a big yawn". He's holding it hostage in hopes it makes congress pass the antidemocratic SAVE Act.
July 1, 2026
ABC reports that President Trump has earned more than $1 billion from his cryptocurrency ventures while in office.
July 2, 2026
Grand Teton National Park employees unionize
July 9, 2026
Wyoming coal company wins federal money to extract critical minerals from Powder River Basin
July 14, 2026
Illegal tariffs being refunded pushed the June federal budget deficit up to $120 billion.
July 15, 2026
Headline in the CST:
Low US birth rate may create future housing glut
Also a headline in the CST:
Out of reach: Research: More young Americans can’t afford to buy a starter home
In truth, the two headlines actually aren't contradictory. An era of declining population will come, and that will cause a housing glut. And that's all a good thing.
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Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 4. Economics in the Dementia Ward.
Lindsey Graham was the best kind of 'operator'| Froma Harrop
Froma Harrop:
Lindsey Graham was the best kind of 'operator'| Froma Harrop
BS. He served a fascist nut.
After tonight, that will be increasingly clear. You can love your country, or you can love Donald Trump. You can't do both.
Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Cynthia Lummis, chicken bastard.
Q: In your mind, are Senators Ossoff and Warnock duly chosen and sworn in?
Lummis: I don’t know.
Oh bullshit you chicken bastard. You are leaving the Senate, and you do know, and you also know that your fellow lawyers, for the most part, think you're a spineless traitor.
You don't have to do this.
Daylight Savings Time, Dangers, and Crabbiness.
This again:
In some ways I'm amazed that a body lead by a far right wing Evangelical zealot who formerly conceived of himself as a latter day Moses has time to do anything other than Trump's bidding.
But this yet again.
Harriet is apparently having none of it. She stated:
The Sunshine Protection Act robs Wyoming farmers and ranchers of precious sunlight and ensures the first hours of a student's day is in darkness, The government isn't funded, our elections aren't secure, and Wyoming's legacy industries need help.
I will not vote for a time-wasting bill that puts Wyoming in the dark.
That's the sort of nasty attitude that some Wyomingites have come to love about Harriet. Sure, she'll say bad things about their educational level, but she's mean.
Um, anyhow.
The line about our elections not being secure is 100% pure bullshit and Harriet knows that. She's willing to lie for Trump if it gets her votes. She never really said the 2020 election was stolen, as she couldn't bring herself to lie that big, but lying gets easier for people over time. Now she's willing to lie about election security. That's reason enough to retire her from politics right now.
If she's sent home (she won't return to Wyoming, I'd wager) she might want to familiarize herself with agriculture again. Hageman is from a ranch/farm, but her comment about robbing "Wyoming farmers and ranchers of precious sunlight" is flat out stupid. I've been around agriculture my entire life, and it's one of those occupations that doesn't pay any attention to the clock at all.
A lot of big agriculture activities start "when it gets light". Light comes, when it comes. It doesn't matter what the clock says.
For that matter, generally, what actually happens is people get where they need to be an hour to 30 minutes before the sun comes up and drink coffee until it comes up, then they start working. That isn't impacted by the official time schedule at all. Generally, if you are working cattle, you start when you are sure you can see them.
I've never ever heard a rancher or farmer say "oh gosh, look at the time".
The concern about school children, however, is more merited. The experiment with lengthened daylight savings time under 1974's Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act, done to conserve energy, did prove to result in increased early morning deaths, including deaths and injuries to school children. When you start to get as far north as Wyoming you are starting to put kids out for school in the dark already.
Additionally, people flat out hated it.
I can remember the experiment from the 1970s, because I can recall walking to grade school in the dark. We walked, but I only had .2 of a mile to go and I didn't have to cross any dangerous streets. Still, I wonder if parents today would regard simply walking that distance too risky.
Not that it would matter today. At that time we went to the school within our boundary and if parents didn't like it, their option was to look for one of the very few religious schools there were, with St. Anthony's being the biggest one. Interestingly, while my extended family is a large Catholic family, none of us went there. I was told my parents had thought about enrolling me there, but there wasn't room at the time.
I frankly don't think going on year around Daylight Savings Time is a good idea. I'd like the natural time, year around, and I don't see a good reason not to return to it. Daylight Savings Time doesn't save any daylight, it just makes you start an hour earlier in the day than nature would provide.
Still, I can't help but find Hageman's Grand Master Crab Blaster response amusing. "We control Congress and cut taxes and now we're bankrupt and I have elections that I want to help steal. .
Things that would be best done in the dark.
Related threads:
Hey, wait a minute, didn't the Government make daylight savings time permanent?
Monday, July 15, 1946. Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation, loan to the UK, birth of Linda Ronstadt.
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was conferred a Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation.
The Senate approved an emergency loan to the United Kingdom.
Linda Ronstadt in 1976.
Musical great Linda Ronstadt was born in Tucson. Still living, but unable to sing due to Parkinson's, Ronstadt was a commanding singer of the 1970s and had a very long career thereafter, ranging from Country Rock, to pop, to Mexican Folk music. She's never married, but did raise two adopted children.
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Monday, July 8, 1946. Germans ordered to go home.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Aircraft, Austria, Germany, Howard Hughes, Nazi Germany, Occupation of Austria, USSR
Thursday, July 15, 1926. Aragon Ballroom and Belgian inflation.
The Aragon Ballroom opened in Chicago.
King Albert of Belgium was given six months of dictatorial powers in an effort to address inflation.
The USSR's Central Committee approved a plan to resettle 570,400 Jewish families from the Ukrainian SSR and the Byelorussian SSR to the Crimea.
Harold P. Sheldon, Chief U.S. Game Warden, on this date.
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Wednesday, July 14, 1926. A new around the world record.
Saturday, July 15, 1911. Unreasonable demands.
Germany demanded that France cede French Congo to Germany in exchange for a withdrawal of German troops from Morocco.
Turkish troops ambushed Albanian rebels at Ipek.
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Thursday, July 13, 1911. Edward, the Prince of Wales. The Third Anglo-Japanese Agreement of Alliance.
Monday, July 15, 1901. Tom Horn goes visiting.
Today In Wyoming's History: July 15: ..
1901 Tom Horn, returned from Army service in the Spanish American War, and employed by John Coble, member of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, visited Jim and Dora Miller's ranch near Iron Mountain, as well as Glendolene Kimmel, the 22 year old teacher at the Iron Mountain School.
The Millers and Horn, including the Miller children, engaged in target shooting later that day, with Horn shooting his .30-30 Winchester.
Kimmel would go on to be a defense witness for Horn at his trial for the murder of Willie Nickell, one of her students. That would end up in her being charged with perjury, although the charges were dismissed. She moved to Missouri and thereafter lived with her family in Hannibal. She moved with her mother to California in 1913, and lived there until her death in 1949 at age 68. She never married.
The Kimmel story has been a feature of the Tom Horn legend from nearly the beginning, but in truth she had very little connection with Horn, having met him on a very limited basis. On this occasion, he told stories, and given his role as a frontier scout and in the Spanish American War, he had stories to tell. But Horn was nearly 40 years old on this occasion and Kimmel, a single woman in Wyoming, would have been sought after by nearly any single male in the region.
She would claim that one of the Miller boys claimed the murder, which is certainly possible even if he didn't. She swore an affidavit to that effect. She also wrote an unpublished book on Horn defending him. While that might show a strong degree of interest in him, it didn't rise to the level of a romantic relationship as suggested in later day.
A better view would be that based on her limited interaction with him she took an interest in his fate, and felt honor bound after hearing a confession of the murder, whether it was true or not.
Indeed, the more surprising things is that she never married.
The Edison Manufacturing Company attained a monopoly over the production of American motion pictures after a federal court in New York ruled in its favor in a suit against the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company for patent infringement.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers went on strike.
Christy Mathewson pitched no-hitter for the Giants against St. Louis
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Saturday, July 13, 1901. A good effort.
Saturday, July 15, 1876. First no hitter.
George Washington Bradley of the St. Louis Brown Stockings threw the first officially recognized no-hitter in Major League Baseball history while pitching against the Hartford Dark Blues 2-0.
Bradley's major league career started in 1875 and lasted, as a player, until 1890. He was a Philadelphia policeman thereafter, and died at age 79 in 1931.
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Thursday, July 13, 1876. Grant informs Congress of what is known.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
King Donald's War, Part 9. The paper tiger edition.
To me, I think it’s over, I don’t want to deal with them anymore. They’re liars, they’re cheats, they’re sick people.Now I’ll let our wonderful negotiators keep talking if they want, but I don’t see it.
July 8, 2026
Donald Trump, after being played by the Iranians.
US strikes resumed.
And Israel hit Gaza with airstrikes.
July 9, 2026
And the undeclared illegal war seems back on full stop with Donald Trump almost disinterested in it.
As an obvious precautionary move, an old Air Force One was sent to the UK to substitute for the Royal Omani Coach gifted by the Gulf State, which turns out not to have countermeasures. That was not admitted, but pretty strongly leaked. Trump claimed the plane was sent to an Air Base in Germany so that the airmen would get to see it.
Um, right.
July 13, 2026
Trump announced that the United States is going to take over the Strait of Hormuz and "run" it for a period of fifty years, taking compensation as part of the occupation.
That's flat out insane.
It's also flat out colonialism.
And it would require ground troops to do it.
It's probably a stupid bluff, and it is stupid.
July 14, 2026
So apparently we fought Iran in order to become the Barbary Pirates.
cont:
Trump apparently was told its piracy, so now costs will be defrayed, he claims, by investments from Gulf States.
So, instead of pirates, we're mercenaries.
It won't happen.
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King Donald's War, Part 8 and CliffsNotes of the Zeitgeist 140th Edition, 25th Amendment Watch Nineteenth Edition: L'arche De La Défaite Édition
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."
Two dead at the hands of MAGA's Brownshirts, or perhaps Redcoats, ICE, in one week.
Perhaps red is a good color for the GOP now days.
Wednesday, July 14, 1976. Carter and Mondale nominated.
Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale were nominated for the 1976 Democratic ticket on the first ballot.
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Sen. Barbara Jordan delivering the keynote address, the first woman to do so.
Cesar Chavez nominating California's Governor Jerry Brown.
Canada's House of Commons approved the permanent abolition of the death penalty.
General António Ramalho Eanes was sworn as the new president of Portugal.
Aparicio Méndez, age 71, was appointed to be the new president of Uruguay effective September 1.
A border clash between El Salvador and Honduras killed several El Salvadoran soldiers.
An earthquake in Indonesia killed 573 people.
German SS special forces leader Joachim Peiper was assassinated in the village of Traves, Haute-Saône, France where he had stupidly been living. Peiper served only nine years of a life sentence and after various post war occupations, relocated to France under an assumed name. Discovered shortly before his murder, he gave interviews, and blamed the French defeat in 1940 on French cowardice. His house there was set on fire and he died within. His body was found with a .22 pistol in his hand.
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Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, July 6, 1976. First women at Anapolis. Not nothing the anniversary.
Wednesday, July 14, 1926. A new around the world record.
Linton Wells and Edward Steptoe Evans completed their record setting flight around the world in 28 days, 14 hours and 37 minutes.
This beat the 1913 record set by John Henry Mears.
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Tuesday, July 13, 1926. Goat Getters.
Labels: 1920, 1920s, 1926, Ethel Hays, Italy, Marriage, Monarchy, Philippine Insurrection, Teenagers, United States Marine Corps, Women
Court Watch Part VIII. The only restraint edition.
July 14, 2026
In a blistering opinion, a Federal Court judge ruled that President Donald Trump improperly used a $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the IRS to extract personal benefits from the government and prevented the terms of a settlement agreement from taking legal effect.
And more locally:
Laramie County sheriff ordered to appear in court, explain why law firm can’t inspect records
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Court Watch Part VII. When the last law was down.
Churches of the West: LDS church would get sacred site, Martin’s Cove, under proposed BLM land trade now gaining steam
Churches of the West: LDS church would get sacred site, Martin’s Cove, u...: LDS church would get sacred site, Martin’s Cove, under proposed BLM land trade now gaining steam
Churches of the West: Christian church vows to fight tribal order to leave Wind River Reservation
Churches of the West: Christian church vows to fight tribal order to lea...: Christian church vows to fight tribal order to leave Wind River Reservation I frankly am a bit distressed by the headline's use of ...
Christian church vows to fight tribal order to leave Wind River Reservation
Christian church vows to fight tribal order to leave Wind River Reservation
I frankly am a bit distressed by the headline's use of "Christian" church. That's a rather loose use of the term Christian, although it's not incorrect.
According to its website, the "Foundations For Nations is a multi-cultural and multi-generational non-denominational Christian church." There's absolutely no such thing whatsoever as a "non-denominational" church. 100% of all churches have some theological grounding that puts them in some denomination. This is some sort of Protestant Church, most likely a sort of do it yourself Evangelical Church, that has a focus on the Wind River Indian Reservation. The controversy arises due to the pastor taking on the Sun Dance, which is a religious ceremony practiced by a variety of plains tribes.
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