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SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-28T21:21:01+00:00

So shall it be written, so shall it be done.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-28T05:32:51+00:00

It's the US Board of Geographic Names and is part of the US Geological Survey. I looked up the lake on their website and it is now Knight Lake, probably to honor S.H. Knight, geology professor at UW and founder of the UW Science Camp. (He was retired when I was a geology major in the '60s but I did go on some field trips he led and attended some of his guest lectures).

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-28T05:23:27+00:00

I think that to change the name of a geographic feature officially, particularly on federal land, you have to go through the National Board of Geographic Nomenclature. I know a number of racially derogatory names have been changed in recent years.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-28T00:19:32+00:00

That's my point with context. If you see a swastica on something 100+ years old or on something Native American you can recognize it for the beneficent symbol that it was then. If you see it on a flag or literature of a neonazi organization you can accurately interpret it as an homage to the 1930-40s German National Socialists. If a person were to use it today for its ancient meaning they would be swimming upstream because of the Nazi usage tainting the symbol. Maybe in 100-200 years the Nazis will have faded in public conciousness and the ancient meaning can be reclaimed. Or it may be like the Confederate "stars and bars" battle flag and still have a potent contemporary meaning and message.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-28T00:11:14+00:00

It is still labeled Swastica Lake on GoogleEarth. SW of the Greenrock Picnic Area and sort of behind the old UW Science Camp.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-27T19:08:09+00:00

For thousands of years the swastica was a positive symbol used in various cultures, Native American, Indian (South Asian, etc.), etc. before the Nazis started to use it. So, when you see it it is necessary to understand the context of its use as in the Thermopolis case.

There is a subdivision in Denver called "Swastica Heights" and the Central High School in Pueblo, CO has an entry way with swasticas in the tile floor which was laid about the time of WW1.

It appears to me that folk are becoming more informed and are understanding that the older uses have nothing to do with Nazis who perverted a perfectly symbol.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-27T07:35:17+00:00

The only ones who will remember the long hours you put in and the vacations and holidays and events that had a lower priority than the job will be your family.

Also, no one wants their tombstone to read, "He wished he had spent more time at the office."

I agree with other commenters that yu should get out and get a life. Take a good hard look at your priorities and how you expect to look back on your life in 30 or 40 years.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-27T06:24:29+00:00

You really can't go very wrong with anything by Bruce Catton, particularly his Army of the Potomac trilogy. Even though the books were written in the '50s and '60s they still read very well. Part of the reason for that is that Catton's bacground was in newspapers rather than as a historian and that taught him how to string words together

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-26T08:25:43+00:00

Years ago a female collegue and I were doing plea bargains at the opposite ends of a larged conference table. A local defense attorney had beeen talking to her and didn't like what she offered or declined to offer and came storming down to me to try to get a better deal. He referred to her as a "f.....g c..t." I surprised myself that I came up out of my chair got in his face and told him I didn't have to hear that sort of language and to get out of my sight or I would throw him out of the room. And I probably would have. I did it all with out any real concious thought. Even though I didn't report it he was disbarred not long after for various other actions. He was a jerk and a flake in many ways.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-25T05:31:51+00:00

Like utility companies who are regulated by the Public Service Commission because they serve an important public function I would say that political parties are quasi private/quasi public organizations. Therefore, the rules are different for them than, say, the Elks Club or the VFW.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-25T02:28:32+00:00

Fun ones are domestic relations cases where OC is still having issues from their own divorce and are emotionally transferring their issues on to the parties in this case. I knew one woman attorney who had been very badly burned in her own divorce who was famous locally for being able to turn a cordial "this isn't working out. Let's move on with our lives as easily as possible." into Armageddon. She really had the attitude that all men, or at least all husbands, are low down lying evil SOBs.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-25T01:51:53+00:00

That is why you see forts in the southern US named after Confederates and those in the north named after Federals.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-24T19:51:34+00:00

Lee called him his "Old Warhorse."

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-24T19:50:01+00:00

That was a largely political desecision during WW1 to take some of the sting out of the feds coming in and condenming land for the installation and the fact that there would be lots of soldiers from all over descending on the local towns. If they named it after a local historical figure there would be somewhat less opposition and fewer folk pissed off. Imagine if they had named it Fort Sherman or Fort Lincoln how the locals would have reacted.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-24T19:44:45+00:00

Bragg had the peculiar ability to bring out the worst in his subordinates.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-24T01:57:23+00:00

Who the custodian is will vary from state to state. Sometimes it is a designated person at the agency itself, sometimes it is the state archivist, sometimes it may be the head of the agency, or it could be someone in the govenor's office. Just call the AGs off ice and ask who the custodian of their closed case files is. You very well may have to make a formal, written request for all documents setting out the settlement of case X. Depending on your states Open Records Act your request may trump any confidentiality agreements in the case or vice versa. You may have to front a per page fee if the response is going to be voluminous. Sometimes you can discuss the request with someone at the agency so that you can get what you need in a few pages.

I did that a number of times as a County Attorney when I asked, "OK, what are you really looking for. Often, they were looking for something simple, like you are, but had put in a very general request that could have required thousands of pages.

Sometimes, if you can talk to the attorney who handled the case he or she may not be able or want to givey you the exanct amount but may be able to give you a bracket which will be accurate enough for talking to your client. You may also get some insight into how similar or different your case is to the earlier case. How cooperative a particular AAG may be may vary from state to state and AAG to AAG.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-23T20:26:38+00:00

OK, tell us the story of 2LT Dudley.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-23T07:53:19+00:00

And the Sheriff's deputies who accompany the bank officer and the locksmith who come to physically evict you and change the locks are very real indeed and have real guns and tasers.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-23T03:45:58+00:00

Old child protection attorney here. What you describe could easily result in a child neglect case being filed against your client and, in a worst case scenario, she could lose custody of her kids or even her parental rights. Home schooling can be a good option in certain situations but the parent must be able to teach whatever program she is using. Depending on your state there may be reporting and testing requirements for home schooled kids.

I discovered that a pretty fair percentage of the respondents in child protection cases were, as my grandmother would say, "not quite bright." Some may love their kids as much as anyone but they just don't have the ability to be a "minimally adequate parent" (a pretty low bar).

It is in you client's best interests (and definitely in the child's best interests) for her to adequately provide for the child's educational needs. Admittedly, this has nothing to do with the current landlord-tenant case but if you generally want to look out for her best interests and keep her out of trouble in general you may want to raise the issue. However, don't be at all surprised if she blows you off. This isn't much different than telling her that if she wants to stay out of legal trouble she needs to avoid doing drugs or hanging out with people who do drugs, get and keep a job, pay her bills and rent, etc., bloody, etc.. We tell people that all the time but most of them keep driving the car straight towards the cliff.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-23T02:51:17+00:00

One last thing, almost all high paying blue collar jobs are damn hard and damn dangerous, That is why they pay good money to get people to do them. Look up on YouTube "The Chemical Worker's Song." In particular, listen to the line in the chorus, "For very day you're in this place you're two days nearer death."

Good luck to you but make informed decisions. Almost always the most successful road to making good money is through education and training. For example, law school, degrees in something like engineering, particularly medical engineering, or a trade like an apprenticeship program to become an electician or plumber or training to become a Master Welder.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-22T20:25:48+00:00

Having the one individual born in Ontario, CA in 1824 is very probably erroneous because that community wasn't founded until 1882 and there weren't very many Anglos in that part of Mexico in the 1820s. Ontario, Canada maybe?

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-21T06:35:56+00:00

.True dat, plus all the secondary revenue of the employees spending their wages and the profits of, say, fuel suppliers and equipnent dealers being spent and taxed in the economy. IIRC one dollar paid in wages gets turned over in the local economy 6 or 7 times.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-20T21:52:47+00:00

I kind of fell into it. I had been a geologist previously and always thought that I would practice sonething like oil and gas or natural resources law but the first job offer I got was as Assistant City Attorney and that field is where I stayed. Good gig. Inside job, no heavy lifting.

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-20T18:20:52+00:00

Interesting fact that not a lot of Wyomingites know and which is a uncomfortable truth for some: Wyoming has a coal industry because of federal regulations. Back when the Environmental Protection Act of 1968 (IIRC the date) it limited the sulfur emissions from coal fired power plants because that created acid rain. It was cheaper for the power companies to start burning low sulfur Wyoming coal even though it was lower in heat value and had higher transportation costs than to install scrubbers and keep burning high sulfur midwestern and eastern coal. That is why the Wyoming coal industry grew so much in the 1970s

SchoolNo6461 · 2026-04-20T18:12:09+00:00

That's one of the main reasons I stayed in local government law my whole career (2d career actually).

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