Oklahoma's Governor, Jack C. Walton, who had tried to take on the KKK, was impeached on corruption charged by the state Senate
Mrs. Coolidge visited the Harding Memorial.
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Sunday, November 19, 2023
Monday, November 19, 1923. Not being proved by the test of time.
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Saturday, November 18, 2023
Best Posts of the Week of November 12, 2023
The best posts of November 12, 2023.
The Romans had expeditions that went all the way into what is now Nigeria.
Thursday, November 18, 1943. The (Airborne) Battle of Berlin commences.
The RAF commenced the airborne Battle of Berlin on this day in 1943, hitting Berlin with 440 Lancaster bombers in a nighttime raid. The raid killed 131 Berliners, caused light damage and resulted in the loss of nine aircraft with 53 airmen. Raids would continue through March, 1944.
Cordell Hull addressed a joint session of Congress on the Moscow Conference.
The Germans opened the Ebensee concentration camp, with the first prisoners being non-Jewish.
The 1st Panzer Division pushed the Red Army out of Zhytomyr.
The U.S. Army issued a report on a newly encountered rifle, the FG42
German Paratrooper's Rifle F.G. 42" from Tactical and Technical Trends
German paratrooper in raid to free Mussolini carrying a FG42. By Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-567-1503A-01 / Toni Schneiders / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5412659
Never completely finished in terms of design, the FG42 was arguably the world's first battle rifle, although it is often called an assault rifle. The selective fire rifle, firing the standard full sized German 8x57 round and was designed to fill the role of rifle, light machinegun and submachinegun. It was made in fairly limited numbers.
Following World War Two, the concept would be adopted by NATO countries, in part because of the U.S. rejection of intermediate sized rounds. The FAL, G3, Stg 57, BM59 and M14 are all examples of post war battle rifles.
The Army also reported on German armored cars:
"German Four-Wheeled Armored Cars" from Tactical and Technical Trends
British soldiers exam a disabled SdKfz 222, the most common German four-wheel armored car.
The Germans, like the British, liked armored cars and used four wheel, six wheel and eight wheel varieties, the latter of which proved influential after World War Two and which inspired armored cars currently in use by the U.S., Canada and Germany. Their four wheeled variants were in the Leichter PanzerspƤhwagen class and used for reconnaissance.
The U-718 accidentally rammed and sank the U-476 in the Baltic.
The Greek sailing vessels Agios Demetrios and Kanelos were shelled and sunk south-east of the Kassandra peninsula and Strati, Greece by the Royal Navy, although I don't know why.
The HMS Chanticleer was torpedoed off Portugal and damaged beyond repair.
The Empire Dunstan was torpedeoed and sunk in the Ionian Sea.
German patrol boats sank the Soviet No. 35 motor boat in the Black Sea.
The Columbian Ruby was sunk by the U-516.
The Liberty Ship Sambridge was sunk by the I27 in the Gulf of Aden, where you don't really think of Japanese submarines operating.
The Sanae, a Japanese destroyers, was sunk by U.S. submarines.
French aircraft carrier off of Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, November 18, 1943.
Can somebody please ban the moronic Christmas movies?
You know what I mean. Pretty much any Christmas movie made since It's A Wonderful Life, save for A Christmas Story.
They are freakin awful. The worst are anything that starts with "National Lampoon's". National Lampoon is a byword for "pretentious, juvenile, and stupid".
Make them stop.
Going Feral: This is why we can't have nice things:
Going Feral: This is why we can't have nice things::
This is why we can't have nice things:
The above is a case caption of a lawsuit brought in Montana in which Wilderness Watch is suing the U.S. Forest Service over the Forest Service program to use rotenone to take out non-native trout species so that cutthroat trout, the native species can be reintroduced in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.
So, in the name of wilderness, Wilderness Watch, it acting contrary to nature.
Sigh.
Friday, November 17, 2023
Saturday, November 17, 1973. Richard Nixon - "I'm not a crook"
It's almost charming to think that there was a time when the Republican President had to assure the American people of his morality.
The Athens Polytechnic Uprising, which had started on November 14 as a student protest, was put down by the Greek Army.
Wednesday, November 17, 1943. Battle of Sattelberg commences.
The Battle of Sattelberg began on New Guinea, pitting Australian forces against the Japanese in the Huon Peninsula Campaign.
Australian Matilda tank in action, November 17, 1943.
The campaign would last through the 25th and result in 48 Australian soldiers killed to an unknown, but large number, of Japanese losses.
Sam Lacy of the African American newspaper The Chicago Defender met with Baseball Commissioner Landis to discuss integrating the major leagues.
Saturday, November 17, 1923. The Lost Pearls
Sigh. . . I wish.
The Saturday Evening Post had a more urban illustration.
The German steamer Kronos, Greek for "Time", hit a mine off of Saaremaa and sank with the loss of all 17 hands.
The 2024 Election, Part VIII. Speeding toward the missing bridge
One Year Until The General Election.
Ugh, there's a time when that would have seen like a long time.
And it still should. Would that it would have been only 90 days prior to an election that anyone could even announce.
A full year of watching the clock count down.
A full year of pundits like Robert Reich telling you can't vote for a third party, and must vote for one of the two absurdities that are the current majority parties.
A full year of bizarro weird diction from Donald Trump.
A full year of two really old men compete for the votes of voter less than half their ages.
Nifty.
November 6, 2023
The latest polls show Trump beating Biden in the Fall election.
Simply amazing.
It'll all come down to five states, and about 100,000 voters, who will decide which of the two ancient men will lead the most powerful, if declining, nation on earth.
Both, FWIW, are showing signs of cognitive decline. This has been obvious for a while, but it was mentioned in regard to Trump for the first time on one of the weekend news shows. He's now getting noticeably confused and increasingly erratic.
Regarding cognitive decline, the fact that these are the nation's choices make it appear as the United States itself is suffering from cognitive decline.
While there will be plenty of it "it's not too late" comments, it pretty much is unless the Democrats dump Biden. The electorate doesn't want him, or Trump. And yet the parties insist on offering both of them. At least with the GOP, it's because their base really does want Trump, as frightening as that is. The Democrats do not want Biden.
November 8, 2023
And yet another poll shows Biden slipping further behind, even as the Democrats did well in yesterday's election.
If Biden isn't replaced as the candidate, there will be a second Trump term.
November 9, 2023
Donald Trump, yesterday:
Kim Jong-un leads 1.4 billion people, and there's no doubt about who the boss is, and they want me to say he's not an intelligent man.
Geez Louise, this is wrong in so many ways.
First of all, 1.4 B is the approximate population of China. North Korea has about 24M.
And nobody is saying that Kim Jong-un isn't intelligent, they're saying he's bad.
Trump has a thing for dictators. . .
During the GOP debate, one of the candidates proposed bombing targets in Iran.
cont:
Joe Manchin will not be running for reelection to the Senate in West Virginia.
Manchin was quite conservative, a fact which had given him a power broker role in the Senate. His departure, while not wholly unexpected, does put the GOP within striking distance of taking back the Senate.
November 10, 2023
Jill Stein has opted to lose again as the Green Party's candidate for President.
November 13, 2023
Tim Scott has dropped out of the GOP race.
In terms of serious candidates, that leaves Haley, Christie, DeSantis, and of course, Trump. There are others, but they're already reached the point of now return. The winnowing process is now well-developed.
Overall in the Republican race right now, the following are the serious candidates in terms of still (sort of) being contenders against Trump.
Trump.
Doug Burgum
Chris Christie
Ron DeSantis
Nikki Haley
Asa Hutchinson
Of the above, Hutchinson should drop out, as his campaign is gaining no traction and is essentially the same as Christie's. Burgum should drop out as well as his campiagn has generated little interest, mostly due to his own waffling on Trump.
GOP candidates still around that nobody is paying any attention to are:
Scott Alan Ayers
Ryan Binkley
Robert S. Carney
John Anthony Castro
Peter Jedick
Perry Johnson
Perry Johnson
Donald Kjornes
Mary Maxwell
Glenn McPeters
Glenn J. McPeters
Scott Peterson Merrell
Darius L. Mitchell
Vivek Ramaswamy
Sam Sloan
David Stuckenberg
Rachel Swift
Of these, only Ramaswamy is newsworthy, but most due to his being noisy and somewhat of a gadfly. So, in terms of real candidates, what the GOP actually has is:
Trump.
Doug Burgum
Chris Christie
Ron DeSantis
Nikki Haley
Asa Hutchinson
Vivek Ramaswamy
On the Democratic side, there are actually just about as many people running, but really only Biden and Dean Phillips are serious candidates. . . so far.
While it'll put me outside the mainstream, I very strongly suspect that Joe Manchin and Joe Biden have had a conversation about Biden dropping out, and Manchin stepping in.
Manchin is in his early 70s, which is still old, but younger than Trump. He's also a bonafide centrist. Liberal Democrats would hate this development, centrist Democrats, independents and traditional Republicans would welcome it. It would be a smart move. Right now, I'm predicting, as radical as it is, that Biden will drop out this month, followed by Manchin announcing a run.
In other news, Californian Republican House member McCarthy is indicating he may not run for reelection.
November 14, 2023
Apparently a retired lawyer has filed a 14th Amendment challenge to Trump, and oddly Cynthia Lummis who doesn't run again until 2026, in court. Secretary Gray sent out a press release on the matter.
Secretary Gray Condemns Attempt to Remove Donald Trump and Cynthia Lummis from Future Ballots in Wyoming
CHEYENNE, WY – In response to a recent filing in Wyoming District Court seeking to remove Donald Trump and Cynthia Lummis (whose term ends in 2026) from future ballots in Wyoming, Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray announced his plans to vigorously defend against the filing (Newcomb v. Chuck Gray).
“The attempt to remove Donald Trump and Cynthia Lummis from the ballot is outrageously wrong and repugnant to our electoral process,” Secretary Gray said in a statement. “I am preparing a vigorous defense to stop these blatant, radical attempts to interfere with Wyoming’s elections. The weaponization of the Fourteenth Amendment to remove political opponents from the ballot undermines the sanctity of the Constitution. We are preparing to file a motion to dismiss to block this attempt at election interference. And we are committed to protecting the integrity of our elections and ensuring that the people of Wyoming can choose who to elect for themselves.”
November 15, 2023
A Michigan Court has rejected a 14th Amendment claim against Trump. It will be appealed.
November 17, 2023
Rep. Hageman went after Tim Newcomb's lawsuit regarding Trump being disqualified from being on the ballot for insurrection.
This isn't really surprising, Hageman is in political debt to Trump, but it's interesting in that she partially attacks the effort as unconstitutional and for using the legal system. Attempting to use the legal system is exactly what Trump attempted in order to try to retain office, and Trumpites have continually taken refuge in that fact.
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The 2024 Wyoming Legislative Session. The Super Early Riser Edition (Part 1)
Having passed a bill to prohibit "cross over voting", which will in fact simply lock in as Republicans most of the Democrats who crossed over, to no effect, in 2022, the legislature is now pondering tying residence requirements for holding office to the same date.
Indeed, they should, in my view.
One recent, and fairly in effectual, member of the House of Representatives, Jeanette Ward, had arrived so recently from Illinois that she didn't qualify for office until after the primary, something that oddly didn't seem to come up in her primary election. She's been in the state a little over two years now. She was interviewed about this proposal and stated she had no strong feels one way or another, which is a bit difficult to believe, but perhaps.
A better solution would be to make a residency requirement stretch out to five years for the house, and perhaps seven for the senate and higher office. Perhaps ten or fifteen years for the Governor's office.
April 13, 2024
Karlee Provenza will not be sanctioned for her recent comments, in the form of a t-shirt, which will upset some but which makes the leadership of the House in Wyoming continue to be admirably fair-minded and prudent, and which in the current atmosphere contrasts nicely with Tennessee.
An interesting aspect of this is that her political polar opposite, Anthony Bouchard, came to her defense. He also, oddly, called for new state GOP leadership, calling the leadership "undocumented Democrats".
March 21, 2023
On May 19, the Cowboy State Daily ran an op ed by Wyoming "Freedom" Caucus head John Bear and another by Speaker of the House Albert Sommers. We already noted Bear's article on this with, with this:
The blaring of the propoganda bugle.
Wyoming Rep. John Bear writes, "It was the Speaker’s decision to create an Appropriations Committee consisting only of socially liberal legislators from big cities, and now it appears that the President of the Senate sees some benefit in a Senate Appropriations committee loyal to the Uniparty’s cause as well.John Bear, head of the Freedom Caucus, in the Cowboy State Daily.
There is no Uniparty.
A person would be hard-pressed to find a single "socially liberal legislator", let alone one from a "big city", in the State Legislature.
I note this as this is the current drumbeat of the Freedom Caucus, and it's a fantasy. A better case could be made that the Freedom Caucus is not made up of Republicans, as it doesn't reflect traditional Wyoming Republican values. Of course, Bear isn't a Wyomingite, being a transplant.
The problem with false propaganda, however, is that people will believe it, including those spouting it.
We read Sommers, but didn't comment on it. It's title raises a good question:
Albert Sommers: Why Does Freedom Caucus Tell Its Members How To Vote?
In it, Sommers states, reflecting the way that the Wyoming GOP has traditionally been:
I believe Wyoming Republicans remain “a Party for free men/women, not blind followers, and not conformists,” and yet the media, hardline conservative pundits, state party leaders, and the Freedom Caucus want to push all Republicans into the round hole of conformism when we are truly the square peg of diversity.
By doing so, he really does define the current state of affairs between the traditional Wyoming GOP and the populist branch. The Wyoming GOP is traditionally conservative, but Wyomingite, the populists are something else, and do very much march in lockstep. Indeed, failure to adhere to uniformity yields to insults such as being accused of being part of an imaginary fictitious "Uniparty" to ending up getting listed on the WyoRino website which list traditional Republicans as RINO's.
Populist do appear to be driving the bus nationally in the GOP, which frankly just doesn't behave the way it used to in any fashion. It's interesting that this fight is developing in Wyoming, which still is heavily Trump country, when Trump's supporters brought the FĆ¼hrerprinzip into the party. It might be telling that "think for yourself" is appearing here now.
June 28, 2023
A committee rejected a bill proposing to make EMS services essential. This would have provided for some level of state funding.
August 25, 2023
A committee heard testimony from Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray on a bill that would require 30 days residence in order to vote in a Wyoming election. It was formerly one year, some time go, but that was struck down by a Supreme Court opinion and never re addressed.
In spite of Gray's having been voted into office, he's not universally popular with long time Republicans or long time residents, and one multi generation Wyoming rancher and former legislature apparently also testified and called Gray a "snake oil salesman".
August 31, 2023
The 30 day's residence bill was tabled by the Corporation's Committee.
The Committee unanimously passed a bill that banning private funding for the administration of elections in Wyoming. My prediction is that the Law of Unintended Consequences will end applying to this bill as political parties are private organizations and primaries are the use of public funds for their internal choices, and somehow this will blow up on the parties, which will be fine.
The committee passed in a 9-5 vote a resolution asking Congress to propose a constitutional amendment that would restrict corporations and organizations from making campaign contributions, an act that will go nowhere as Congress won't do it.
"Freedom Caucus" legislator John Bear, originally of Missouri, wrote a longish letter to the Casper Star Tribune complaining about Senate President Ogden Driscoll using the term "Uniparty", which FC members use to slam anyone who is not a member of the populist right.
October 7, 2024.
Senator Bob Ide has an op ed in the paper today, promising to introduce legislation to somehow require the Federal government to turn over the Federal domain to Wyoming. He terms the Federal Government's possession of its public land in Wyoming illegal and contrary to a promise it made at the time of Wyoming's statehood, both of which are absolutely false.
This would be a disaster for the state's sportsmen and the state in general, and would soon result in the land likely going to the wealthy, and wealthy out of staters. It would frankly make it not worth living here and destroy the character of the state.
Ide cites the popular transfer of the Marton ranch to the Federal Government and the recent southwestern Wyoming BLM plan as part of the reason this needs to occur, both of which are reason why it should never occur.
Poster from several years ago.
Ide is a far right member of the legislature and was in Washington, D.C. at the time of the insurrection, although there is no reason to believe he participated in it.
October 15, 2023
Oh brother:
A legislative committee will draft a measure to prohibit state and local authorities from aiding or cooperating with federal land management agencies “when they pursue policies which harm Wyoming’s core interests.”The move is in response to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s draft plan for managing 3.6 million acres of federal land in southwest Wyoming.The Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee also voted unanimously to draft a bill creating a new full-time position in the governor’s office to act as a watchdog “protecting the state’s interest against federal overreach.” Lawmakers on the panel suggested recruiting current and former BLM employees for the position with a signing bonus. They also discussed offering “bonuses and or opportunities for promotion” for state employees who go “above and beyond in protecting the state’s interests” against perceived federal overreach.
Casper Star Tribune
November 2, 2024
A $68M inflation adjustment funding bill for education will be introduced.
At least this makes sense for a budget session.
November 4, 2024
Election related bills will appear in the upcoming budget session.
A bill to require a person to be a resident for 30 days prior to voting in an election will move on to the budget session.
A bill to expand the definition "of organization" for campaign donation reporting also will.
A bill to add a misdemeanor offense for intimidating an election official has been added to the one that already exists at the felony level.
November 10, 2023
After a special purpose bill failed, judges were added to the statute that makes it a felony to intimidate jurors, witnesses and peace officers while they are fulfilling their duty.
This seems to fall considerably short of the originally proposed bill which was specific to judges.
November 14, 2023
A bill to create a Rural Lawyer Incentive Pilot Program which grant entering lawyers in rural communities $16,000 each year over five years, so little as to be of no practical effect whatsoever, is advancing to the legislature.
The bill states:
HOUSE BILL NO.
Wyoming rural attorney recruitment program.
Sponsored by: Joint Judiciary Interim Committee
A BILL
for
AN ACT relating to attorneys-at-law; establishing the rural attorney recruitment pilot program; specifying eligibility requirements for counties and attorneys to participate in the program; specifying administration, oversight and payment obligations for the program; requiring reports; providing a sunset date for the program; authorizing rulemaking; providing an appropriation; and providing for an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
Section 1. W.S. 33-5-201 through 33-5-203 are createdto read:
2024 STATE OF WYOMING 24LSO-0061
Working Draft
Bill Number
ARTICLE 2 – RURAL ATTORNEY RECRUITMENT PROGRAM
33-5-201. Rural attorney recruitment program established; findings; program requirements; county qualifications; annual reports.
(a) In light of the shortage of attorneys practicing in rural Wyoming counties, the legislature finds that the establishment of a rural attorney recruitment program constitutes a valid public purpose, of primary benefit to the citizens of the state of Wyoming.
(b) The supreme court may establish a rural attorney recruitment program to assist rural Wyoming counties in recruiting attorneys to practice in those counties.
STAFF COMMENT
In light of the Committee's discussion at its last meeting, the Committee may wish to consider whether the Supreme Court or the State Bar should establish and operate the rural-attorney program.
(c) Each county eligible under this subsection may apply to the supreme court to participate in the program. A county is eligible to participate in the program if the county:
(i) Has a population of not greater than twenty8 five thousand (25,000);
(ii) Has an average of not greater than one and one-half (1.5) licensed attorneys in the county for every one thousand (1,000) residents of the county;
16 STAFF COMMENT
The State Bar proposed the following alternative qualification/standard to paragraph (ii) above:
(ii) Has an average of not greater than one and one-half (1.5) qualified attorneys in the county for everyone thousand (1,000) residents. As used in this paragraph, "qualified attorney" means an attorney who provides legal services to private citizens on a fee basis for an average of not less than twenty (20) hours per week. "Qualified attorney" shall not include an attorney who is a full-time judge, prosecutor, public defender, judicial clerk, in29 house counsel, trust officer and any licensed attorney who is in retired status or who is not engaged in the practice of law;
(iii) Agrees to provide the county share of the incentive payment required under this article;
(iv) Is determined to be eligible to participate in the program by the supreme court.
(d) Before determining a county's eligibility, the supreme court shall conduct an assessment to evaluate the county's need for an attorney and the county's ability to sustain and support an attorney. The supreme court shall maintain a list of counties that have been assessed and are eligible to participate in the program under this article. The supreme court may revise any county assessment or conduct a new assessment as the court deems necessary to reflect any change in a county's eligibility.
(e) In selecting eligible counties to participate in the program, the supreme court shall consider:
(i) The county's demographics;
(ii) The age and number of attorneys in the county;
STAFF COMMENT
Rather than require the consideration of age as a factor the Committee may wish to consider alternate language for paragraph (ii) above:
(ii) The number of attorneys in the county and the number of attorneys projected to be practicing in the county over the next five (5) years;
(iii) Any recommendations from the district judges and circuit judges of the county;
(iv) The county's economic development programs;
(v) The county's geographical location relative to other counties participating in the program:
(vi) An evaluation of any attorney seeking to practice in the county as a program participant, including the attorney's previous or existing ties to the county;
(vii) Any prior participation of the county in the program;
(viii) Any other factor that the supreme court deems necessary.
(f) A participating eligible county may enter into agreements with any municipality, school district or nonprofit entity within the county to assist the county in meeting the county's obligations for participating in the program.
(g) Not later than October 1, 2024 and each October 1 thereafter that the program is in effect, the supreme court shall submit an annual report to the joint judiciary interim committee on the activities of the program. Each report shall include information on the number of attorneys and counties participating in the program, the amount of incentive payments made to attorneys under the program, the general status of the program and any recommendations for continuing, modifying or ending the program.
33-5-202. Rural attorney recruitment program; attorney requirements; incentive payments; termination of program.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any attorney licensed to practice law in Wyoming may apply to the supreme court to participate in the rural attorney recruitment program established under this article. No attorney shall participate in the program if the attorney has previously participated in the program or has previously participated in any other state or federal scholarship, loan repayment or tuition reimbursement program that obligated the attorney to provide legal services in an underserved area.
(b) Not more than five (5) attorneys shall participate in the program established under this article at any one (1) time.
(c) Subject to available funding and as consideration for providing legal services in an eligible county, each attorney approved by the supreme court to participate in the program shall be entitled to receive an incentive payment in five (5) equal annual installments. Each annual incentive payment shall be paid on or after July 1 of each year. Each annual incentive payment shall be in an amount equal to ninety percent (90%) of the University of Wyoming college of law resident tuition for thirty (30) credit hours and annual fees as of July 1, 2024.
STAFF COMMENT
The College of Law's resident tuition for 30 credit hours for the 2023-2024 academic year and annual fees is $17,946. Ninety percent of that amount is $16,151. The Committee may wish to simply specify the amount of each annual payment in subsection (c) above.
(d) Subject to available funding, the supreme court shall make each incentive payment to the participating attorney. The Wyoming state bar and each participating county shall remit its share of the incentive payment to the supreme court in a manner and by a date specified by the supreme court. The responsibility for incentive payments under this section shall be as follows:
(i) Fifty percent (50%) of the incentive payments shall be from funds appropriated to the supreme court; (ii) Thirty-five percent (35%) of the incentive payments shall be provided by each county paying for attorneys participating in the program in the county;(iii) Fifteen percent (15%) of the incentive payments shall be provided by the Wyoming state bar.
(e) Subject to available funding for the program, each attorney participating in the program shall enter into an agreement with the participating county, the Wyoming state bar and the supreme court that obligates the attorney to practice law full-time in the participating county for not less than five (5) years. No agreement shall be effective until it is filed with and approved by the supreme court.
STAFF COMMENT
The Committee may wish to consider:
Whether attorneys participating in the program must live in the county in which they practice.
Whether language is needed to clarify what it means for an attorney in the program to practice law in the applicable county. Whether a local contribution or match should be required, or whether alternatives to the local matchshould be included in the bill draft. (This was a suggestion raised by the State Bar at the Committee's meeting in September.)
Whether a failure to repay an incentive payment when required to do so should expressly subject the attorney to license suspension (this was an item raised at the September meeting).
(f) Any attorney who receives an incentive payment under this article and subsequently breaches the agreement entered into under subsection (e) of this section shall repay all funds received under this article pursuant to terms and conditions established by the supreme court. Failure to repay funds as required by this subsection shall be grounds for attorney discipline.
(g) The supreme court may promulgate any rules necessary to implement this article.
(h) The program established under this article shall cease on June 30, 2029.
STAFF COMMENT
In light of the Committee's discussion in September, the Committee may wish to consider whether clarifying language is necessary to make clear that attorneys can begin the program before June 30, 2029 and complete their requirements after June 30, 2029.
33-5-203. Sunset.
W.S. 33-5-201 and 33-5-202 are repealed effective July 17 2029.
Section 2. There is appropriated one hundred ninety20 seven thousand three hundred seventy-five dollars
($197,375.00) from the general fund to the supreme court for the period beginning with the effective date of this act and ending June 30, 2029 to be expended only for purposes of providing incentive payments for the rural attorney recruitment program established under this act. This appropriation shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose. Notwithstanding W.S. 9-2-1008, 9-2-1012(e) and 9-4-207, this appropriation shall not revert until June 30, 2029.
Section 3. This act is effective July 1, 2024.
There is a real shortage, but as noted, the amount of money proposed here will do little to address the problem. Most likely, what it would do is allow new law school grads to fool themselves into opening local practices that would soon be closed, something that has been going on for quite some time.
The problem that this bill addresses is caused by a variety of things, a significant one being the adoption of the Uniform Bar Exam which has caused Colorado firms in particular, but also Montana and even Texas firms to license lawyers in Wyoming while they practice from their actual localities. This has made practicing law in Wyoming less viable, and in return reduced and consolidated local practice. This could easily be fixed by requiring residency requirements to practice in Wyoming or restoring a Wyoming specific bar exam.
November 17, 2023
In an act of flaming hypocrisy, the Converse County GOP voted 20-12 to censure state Rep. Forrest Chadwick R-Evansville, for a record that doesn't follow the state's GOP platform and which claims he violated“the oath that he made to God.” Seeing as the state's GOP is presently heavily supportive of sedition, that's rather rich.
It's not surprising that Chadwick has run into trouble, however. The Businessman turned politician is a Natrona County resident and it could have been predicted from day one that Converse County would not really appreciate a Casperite being in the legislature for some of them, something that occured due to recent redistricting.
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Friday, November 16, 1973. Transforming Alaska.
Today In Wyoming's History: November 16: 1973 President Richard M. Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law.
The building of the Alaska pipeline was huge news at the time. There were those then who expressed concerns about the environmental costs, but by and large, in the midst of the oil crisis, it was looked at by Americans with a lot of hope and often compared to big prior endeavors, such as the Transcontinental Railroad.
The oil would forever change the economy of Alaska, as it also had already, and was continuing to do, in Wyoming.
Skylab 4 was launched.
Tuesday, November 16, 1943. An attempt on Hitler's life.
Major Axel von dem Bussche, a confederate of Claus von Stauffenberg, planned to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a concealed landmine which he planned to detonate while embracing Hitler during a viewing of a new winter uniform the striking looking Major would be modeling. The viewing was canceled when an Allied air raid in Berlin destroyed the rail car in which the new uniforms were contained.
Von dem Bussche was of German noble lineage, as the name indicated, and had turned against the Nazis after accidentally witnessing a 1942 massacre of Jews in Ukraine. He volunteered to attempt the assassination again in 1944 and was set to do so when he was badly wounded on the Russian Front and had to have a leg amputated. His being in the hospital at the time of the July 20 plot saved him from being a suspect in it.
An East Westphalian by birth, much of his ancestral holdings were in East Germany after the war, which required him to pursue a civilian career, which he in turn did. After 1990, however, he was a plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking their return, which failed. His eldest daughter, however, has since bought the larger portions back from the Federal Republic of Germany. He died in 1993 at the age of 73.
The Battle of Leros ended with an Allied surrender. The Germans, however, had taken tremendous casualties in the effort, and were on the verge of calling the offensive off when the surrender came.
The British village of Tyneham in Dorset was ordered evacuated by the British War Department, which needed the grounds for a training area. It remains a British military facility today.
The U.S. Army Air Force struck heavy water facilities at Rjukan and a molybdenum refinery at Knaben, damagign the German nuclear weapons effort.
USS Corvina.
The submarine USS Corvina was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-176, becoming the only U.S. submarine to be sunk by another submarine.
The I-176.
The I-176 was in turn sunk in June 1944.
The U-280 was sunk by a British B-24.
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Lex Anteinternet: A trial strategy.
Lex Anteinternet: A trial strategy.: I once knew a lawyer who was instructed by his client to say something that they knew would result in a sanctioned mistrial. After warning ...
Yup. Trump asked for a mistrial today.
He won't get it, today. But the strategy appears to have been evident.
America Recycles Day
While it will probably also provoke the ire of Wyoming's far political right, which will accuse the DEQ of being Communists Marxist Fascists, Democrats and Roman Catholics, today is also Recycling Day, as the DEQ notes:
DEQ Recognizes
America Recycles Day Today, Nov. 15
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CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Department of
Environmental Quality (DEQ) is recognizing America Recycles Day (ARD) today
and celebrating the recycling-efforts of Wyoming’s citizens that play an
important part in keeping our state beautiful. Find out more about the recycling efforts in
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Thursday, November 15, 1973. Lowering the speed limit.
Washington state lowered its speed limit to conserve gasoline. Coincidentally, highway mortality drooped 11%.
Israel and Egypt exchanged POWS taken during the Yom Kippur War.
Monday, November 15, 1943. The Combat Infantry Badge.
One of the awards most respected by soldiers to be issued by the U.S. Army, the Combat Infantry Badge, was authorized.
Limited to infantrymen alone who have seen actual ground combat, the creation of the award acknowledged the particular horrors experienced by infantrymen in combat. The World War Two awards were upgraded, which they likely should not have been as it cheapened the original awards, to Bronze Stars in the 1980s, reflecting the particular horrors of World War Two in which soldiers were not rotated home but served until severely injured, killed, or the end of the war.
It followed the authorization of the Expert Infantry Badge, which had been authorized on November 11, 1943.
Both awards remain enormously respected in the U.S. Army.
"Nomadic" Gypsies in the Soviet Union were reclassified by Germany to be in the same racial category as Jews and therefore subject to the death camps, whereas "sedentary" Romani were classified as citizens of the country they were in.
The order would ultimately extend beyond the occupied regions of the USSR and was another example of how, as Nazi Germany's fate became sealed, it became more homicidal.
Offensive actions by the U.S. Fifth Army were halted by Gen. Alexander.
Manuel L. Quezon was inaugurated as President of the Philippines, in exile. It was his third term. In the Philippines a collaborationist government, not as disdained by the post-war Philippines as might be supposed, was in control, with the sanction of the Japanese.
The Cross Mountain, Colorado post office was closed, putting an end to the Moffat County town.
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
The business of progressives and conservatives.
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.
G.K. Chesterton
November 14, 1943. Torpedoing the President.
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USS William D. Porter.
The USS William D. Porter accidentally fired a torpedo at the USS Iowa, which had President Franklin D. Roosevelt on board.
The Porter was supposed to be engaging in a target practice demonstration with an inert torpedo, but fired a live one. A disaster was averted when the ship's radioman, detecting the sound of an armed torpedo, radioed the Iowa, which was able to avoid it. The entire crew of the ship was placed under arrest at Bermuda and Torpedoman Lawton Dawson was sentenced to fourteen years hard labor.
President Roosevelt intervened and asked that Dawson not be punished.
The Porter was sunk on June 10, 1945 when a kamikaze attacked the ship, and missed, but ended up underneath it and exploded. All hands were saved.
The Battle of Coconut Grove ended in an Allied victory.
The Italian Social Republic's Fascist party, which controlled northern Italy, as a German puppet state, issued the Manifesto of Verona, providing:
Preamble
In announcing its own program of action, the Republican Fascist Party salutes you, Duce, the man who can save the Fatherland, realizing the Fascio of Italian energies for the second time.
In your arduous liberation it sees the providential auspices of what will be the liberation of all Italy. In your thought, and in your more than twenty years of historical work in Italy and in the world, it today finds the certainty and the very current of inspiration for the social ascent of the Italian people, now that the monarchy can finally be swept away from Italian life, together with all those dark, reactionary, compromising forces and their allies.
Under your guidance, through sacrifice and combat, it will bring back honour to Italy, its independence and its greatness.
In its first national assembly, the Republican Fascist Party:
Lifts its thoughts to those who have sacrificed their lives for Fascism on the battlefronts, in the piazzas of the cities and villages, in the limestone pits of Istria and Dalmatia, and who should be added to the ranks of the martyrs of our Revolution, and to the phalanx of all those men who have died for Italy.
It regards continuation of the war alongside Germany and Japan until final victory, and the speedy reconstruction of our Armed Forces which will serve alongside the valorous soldiers of the Fuhrer, as goals that tower above everything else in importance and urgency.
It takes note of the decrees instituting the Extraordinary Tribunals, whereby Party members will carry out their unbending determination to administer exemplary justice; and, inspired by Mussolini's stimulus and accomplishments, it enunciates the following programmatic directives for Party actions:
As concerns internal constitutional issues, we propose:
1. That a Constituent Assembly, whose sovereign power is popularly derived, be convened in order to declare the abolition of the monarchy, solemnly condemn the last treasonous and fugitive king, proclaim the Italian Social Republic, and appoint its Head.
2. That this Constituent Assembly be made up of representatives from all syndical associations and administrative districts and also include representatives from the occupied provinces in the form of delegations of evacuees and refugees residing in liberated territories.
This Constituent Assembly must also include representatives of servicemen, war prisoners (represented by those sent back due to disabilities), Italians abroad, the judiciary, universities, and any other body or institution whose participation contributes to designating this Constituent Assembly as a synthesis of the nation's values.
3. That this republican Constituent grant to citizens, be they soldiers, workers, or taxpayers, the right to audit and criticize the public administration's actions, so long as this right is exercised in a responsible manner.
Every fifth year citizens will be called upon to nominate the Head of the Republic.
No citizen will be held beyond seven days without a warrant from the judicial authorities irrespective of whether he was arrested in the act or detained for preventive reasons. A judicial warrant will also be required to carry out searches of homes, except in cases of flagrant delicto.
The judicial branch of government will operate with complete independence while carrying out its functions.
4. That an intermediate solution be adopted in the electoral domain given Italy's prior negative experiences with elections and its partially negative experiences with too rigidly hierarchical methods of appointment. A mixed system seems the most advisable—one, for example, that would combine popular election of deputies with appointments of ministers made by the Head of the Republic and government. Within the Party, it would probably be best for elections to be held on the Fascio level, with approvals for appointments to the National Directorate being made by the Duce.
5. That the organization responsible for politically educating the people be one. The Party, an order of fighters and believers, must become an organism of absolute political purity, worthy of being the guardian of a revolutionary idea.
Party membership will not be required for any job or position.
6. That the Republic's religion be the Roman Catholic Apostolic religion. Respect is assured for other cults so long as they do not oppose the law.
7. That those belonging to the Jewish race be considered foreigners. During this war they belong to an enemy nation.
As concerns foreign policy issues, we propose:
8. That the main goal of the Republic's foreign policy be the unity, independence, and territorial integrity of the Fatherland. The territory in question comprises the maritime and alpine borders marked in nature, as well as the borders consecrated by sacrifice of blood and by history. Both boundaries are now threatened by the invading enemy and by their promises to the governments that have sought refuge in London. A second essential goal will be to achieve recognition of the fact that a population of 45 million, living in an area insufficient to sustain it, has certain indispensable needs for vital space.
This foreign policy will also strive for the creation of a "European community" made up of all those nations that accept the following fundamental principles:
a) elimination from our continent the century-long British intrigues;
b) abolition of the internal capitalist system and combat against world plutocracies;
c) valourisation of Africa's natural resources for the benefit of Europeans as well as natives, with full respect for those peoples, particularly Muslim ones, who have already shaped themselves into civilized nations, such as Egypt.
As concerns social issues, we propose:
9. That the foundation and the main goal of the Italian Social Republic be work—manual, technical, intellectual—in all its manifestations;
10. That the State guarantee private property, which is the fruit of individual labour and savings as well as an extension of the human personality. Private property, however, must not be permitted to have a disintegrative effect on the physical and moral personality of other individuals by way of the exploitation of their labour.
11. That in the domain of the national economy, the State's sphere of action encompass everything that extends beyond the individual interests or within the domain of collective interests, whether due to scale or function.
Public services and, in most cases, armament industries, must be managed by the State through parastatal agencies.
12. That in every factory (whether industrial, private, government-controlled, or state-owned) representatives of technicians and workers must collaborate closely—to the point of having direct knowledge of the factory's management—in setting fair wages and in equitably distributing profits between reserve funds, stockholder dividends, and worker profit shares.
In some factories this measure will be implemented by expanding the powers of the existing factory commissions. In others, the current management will be substituted by a managing council made up of technicians, workers, and a state representative. In others still, a parasyndical cooperative will be set up.
13. That in the domain of agricultural production, landowner's private initiative shall be curbed whenever and wherever initiative itself is lacking.
Expropriations of uncultivated lands may lead to their being parceled out among farm workers (who thereby become farmer-landowners). Similarly, badly managed businesses may be transformed into parasyndical or parastatal cooperatives, depending upon the needs of the agricultural economy.
Since current laws already provide for these sorts of measures, the Party and various syndical organizations are now hard at work on their implementation.
14. That farmers, craftsmen, professionals, and artists be fully entitled to pursue their vocations individually, for their families or other nucleus. However, they are subject to legal obligations to deliver to the masses those quantities of produce that are set forth by the law and to regulation of fees for services.
15. That home ownership be treated not just as an extension of property rights but also as a right. The Party's platform proposes the creation of a national agency for popular housing that will absorb the existing institute and greatly enhance its effectiveness. Its aim will be to make home ownership available to families of all categories of workers via the construction of new homes or the gradual repurchase of existing ones. To this end, the general principle that rent payments ought to go towards purchase of a home, once capital has been paid off in full, must be adopted.
The first duty of this agency will be to address the war's detrimental effects on housing by expropriating and distributing empty buildings and by erecting temporary structures.
16. That workers automatically become members of the syndicate regulating the category to which they belong, but that this membership must not preclude transfer to another syndicate if all requirements are met. All the trade syndicates are gathered together under the umbrella of a single confederation comprising all workers, technicians, and professionals (but excluding landlords, who are neither managers nor technicians). This umbrella organization will be named the General Confederation of Labour, Technology, and Arts.
Like other workers, employees of state-controlled industries or public services are integrated into syndicates as a function of their category.
The imposing complex of social welfare institutions created by the Fascist regime over the past twenty years remains intact. Consecrated by the 1927 Charter of Labour, its spirit will inform all future developments.
17. That the Party considers a salary adjustment for all workers an urgent necessity. This can be effected by adopting a nationwide minimum wage (with prompt regional adjustments). The need is particularly great among lower-echelon and middle-echelon workers, both in the public and private sectors. Part of the salary should be paid in foodstuffs (at official prices) so that this measure not prove ineffective or harmful for all parties concerned. This can be accomplished by means of cooperatives and factory stores, by expanding the "Provvida's" responsibilities, and by expropriating stores that have broken the law and placing them under state or cooperative management. This is the best way to contribute to the stabilization of prices and the lira's value as well as to the market's recovery. As concerns the black market, speculators must be placed under the authority of special courts and made subject to the death penalty, just like traitors and defeatists.
18. That with this preamble to the Constituent Assembly, the Party offers proof that it is not only reaching out toward the people but also is one with the people.
On the other hand, the Italian people must realize that it only has one way to defend its past, present, and future achievements: to reject the enslaving invasion of the Anglo-American plutocracies whose sole aim, confirmed by a thousand precise signs, is to make the lives of Italians more cramped and miserable.
There is only one way for us to accomplish all our social goals: to fight, to work, to triumph.
Bulgaria was bombed by the Allies for the first time when B-25s hit the railyards at Sofia.
Bulgaria was in a strange position during the war. It was an Axis Power, but it had not declared war on the Soviet Union, perhaps judging the likelihood of a Soviet victory in the war more accurately than other German allies. Its hesitancy did not save it from being invaded by the Red Army in September 1944 at which time it switched sides and declared war on Germany. Following a leftist coup that resulted due to the Soviet invasion, it was a Communist country from 1946 until about 1990, at which time it became a parliamentary democracy. The country has been undergoing a demographic collapse since the 1980s.
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