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The temperatures in the Lovell, Cody, Powell, Frannie, and Greybull areas Dealing with -40 degree weather from the wind chills factored in.
Many of the Roads have been closed down, including 14A, which runs from Cody to Lovell, Wyoming, caused by blizzard conditions that created whiteout conditions making it impossible to drive and see beyond 20 feet in front of your vehicle at times.
According to the Wyoming Highway Patrol Department, the highway from Powell, Wyoming, to Deaver, Wyoming, including Greybull, Wyoming, to Frannie, Wyoming, and on to Cody, Wyoming, has also been closed due to lack of visibility for driving conditions.
According to the Park County Sheriff’s Department: Park County Sheriff’s Office
“The Wyoming Department of Transportation has closed Highway 114 between Powell and Deaver and Highway 310 from Frannie to Greybull. Highway 14-16-20 E between Greybull and Cody is now closed, and Highway 14A between Powell and Lovell remains closed. Plow crews are struggling to see and get plowing done. All county roads are still marked for NO unnecessary travel as well. Please remain home for your safety and the safety of first responders.”
Wyoming Weather To Hit -40* to -75* Winds Chills
According to weather reports, an extreme cold starting mid-day today north, worsening through the evening, especially Thursday southward.
Temperatures will fall significantly behind the cold front today. Low temperatures Thursday will drop from -20F to -30F. Highs Thursday will be -5F to -15F.
Friday High temperatures should reach zero and above most locations, but wind chills will remain dangerously cold.
Wind chills will drop as low as -40F to -75F with sustained winds of 25 to 35 mph during this time frame.
Wind gusts could be as high as 45-75 mph this afternoon and 45-50mph tonight to late Thursday.
Moderate to heavy banded snow will occur along and just behind the cold front. Local snow squalls are expected late this morning through this evening – ending north to south.
The cold will ease Saturday (Christmas Eve) into Sunday (Christmas), with Highs back in the +30s to +40s.
High on extreme cold starting mid-day today north, worsening through the evening, especially Thursday southward. Temperatures will fall significantly behind the cold front today. Low temperatures Thursday will drop from -20F to -30F. Highs Thursday will be -5F to -15F. Friday High temperatures should reach zero and above most locations, but wind chills will remain dangerously cold.
Repealing Military Shot Mandate or Rescinding Shot Mandate Does Not Go Far Enough
| WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate passed 83-11 the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an $858 billion bill that funds national defense and rescinds the military’s COVID shot mandate. However, the Senate defeated 54-40 an amendment to reinstate service members who were already separated or had their benefits cut for not receiving the COVID injection. Repealing the shot mandate is not enough. The Department of Defense (DOD) has gone on record stating that service members who applied for a religious accommodation (which is their right under the law) set a bad example and undermined military readiness. In other words, those who give their lives to defend the Constitution and the laws of the land should be punished for requesting that their rights be protected under the very laws they defend. Repealing the mandate going forward will not undo the punishment already inflicted and it will not restore the thousands of service members who love God and love America to the military where they are desperately needed. Liberty Counsel will continue to defend these defenders of freedom and seek justice for them against Biden’s abusive mandate. The NDAA heads to the White House where Joe Biden is expected to sign it into law. Last week he vigorously opposed repealing the shot mandate. Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) were among the leaders who hoped to get the approximately 8,400 service members who had been discharged for refusing the shot reinstated. Republican Senators Mitt Romney of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Mike Rounds of South Dakota voted against the amendment. |
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| Yesterday, Lt. Colonel (Ret.) Dr. Pete Chambers, and his military dog, “GI Joe,” joined Liberty Counsel Senior Counsel for Governmental Affairs Jonathan Alexandre to speak with senators about the NDAA and the military COVID shot mandate. Dr. Chambers was injured from the Moderna shot and was forced to retire from the military because he speaks out about the harms to our troops from the shot. He also shared his compelling testimony in Liberty Counsel’s military hearing in federal court last March. Dr. Chambers had to medically retire this year from his Moderna injury after serving 39 years in the US. Army. He was one of only six Green Beret Flight Surgeons in the world. Liberty Counsel is continuing to pursue permanent injunctions against the Department of Defense’s flawed religious accommodation policy for immunizations, in order to prevent the DOD from reinstituting a similar shot mandate, and to undo the adverse treatment against service members who filed religious accommodation requests. On Wednesday, Mat Staver argued at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of a Lt. Colonel of the U.S. Marines and a Navy Commander of a Warship who have been denied religious accommodations from the unconstitutional COVID shot mandate. Then in January 2023, Liberty Counsel will return to federal court seeking to convert the classwide preliminary injunction to a permanent injunction for the U.S. Marines. Before the military COVID shot mandate was issued on August 24, 2021, the DOD issued a religious accommodation request (RAR) policy related to immunization. Applying this RAR policy to the COVID-19 shot mandate, it is clear that the DOD and the military branches violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA). Under RFRA, the military must satisfy the compelling interest and least restrictive means test to the person. Multiple courts have indicated the military violates this stringent requirement of RFRA by refusing to examine each service member individually. Instead, the military issues generalized statements to justify the mandate. Since this RAR policy applies to all immunizations, not just COVID-19, the policy must be enjoined and the DOD must comply with RFRA. In addition, the DOD must be permanently enjoined from retaliating against the service members who submitted a request for religious accommodation, and all service members who were punished, demoted or discharged must be reinstated and their records corrected. Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “Repealing the COVID shot mandate for military members is not enough. A permanent injunction and more action is needed to reverse the punishment already inflicted upon our service members. Joe Biden and the Department of Defense must be stopped from ever violating service members’ religious freedom rights. The military must comply with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. In addition, all service members who have been punished, demoted, and discharged must be reinstated and their records cleared. Our military members who love God and America have been horribly abused and they must be honored again.” |
Cheyenne City Councilman, Ward III, Richard Johnson Pushing Marijuana Drug Use
Richard Johnson from Cheyenne, Wyoming, who sits on the Ward III city council, is trying to promote an ordinance that would, in his words, “decriminalize small quantities of marijuana inside city limits.”
This attempt by the liberal Richard Johnson Ward III city councilman is his way of the first decriminalization of marijuana. Once this has a foothold in the city limits, the next political step is getting the drug marijuana legalized in the state of Wyoming.
At this point and time, marijuana is illegal under Wyoming State laws. Still, Johnson thinks that coming in the back door will help efforts to gain traction in the Wyoming State Legislature to change the status of marijuana laws.
Johnson has become no longer a Cheyenne city councilman but is now a marijuana drug advocate. Johnson has contacted multiple municipalities to get them on board in his attempt to decriminalize marijuana. Johnson wants those communities to also work on passing similar local ordinances.
Johnson’s proposal also would remove local drug paraphernalia laws from the books.
This ordinance would remove drug paraphernalia from arrests.
Johnson wants the Cheyenne police to turn a blind eye when someone they come in contact with has the drug marijuana.
So are the Laramie County Sheriff’s deputies and Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers to view drugs with a blind eye towards individuals with the drug marijuana also? The liberals keep on trying to break down law and order rules. Next they will allow the use of Fentanyl.
Why Pray If God Knows What’s Best?
Exploring the Jewish understanding of prayer.
There is an obvious question regarding prayer: If God is omniscient, then He surely knows what we want. And if he knows what we want, why do we need to ask him for it?
The question is even stronger than that. Not only does God know what we want, He knows what is best for us – what we need. And the two are often not the same. A person may want to win a fortune in the lottery. But how many lottery winners have found that the money has been more a curse than a blessing? They don’t know who their friends are anymore. Their family suddenly has all sorts of financial expectations. Or they start to live way above their means, only to find the money goes quickly and ultimately, they’re left with less than they started with.
What you would prefer: What you think is best for you or what God knows is best for you?
Or someone desperately wants to marry a certain person, but he is infatuated and not seeing straight. If he were to pray to marry her and God were to listen and respond, he would end up in a painful and eventually failed relationship.
Someone once quipped to me, “Be very careful what you pray for because God might just give it to you!” So yes, it’s natural for us to pray for what we want – because what we want looks like what’s best for us. But wouldn’t we be better off leaving that to God? What you would prefer: What you think is best for you or what God knows is best for you?
With this in mind, perhaps the safest prayer should be, “Master of the Universe, You know me better than I know myself. Please give me what I need in life and don’t worry about what I might think I want.” Or even better: “Master of the Universe, You know me better than I know myself. It would be incredibly arrogant of me to ask You for what I want – so I won’t. I recognize that You always have my best interests at heart and I know that You will always do as you see fit. So, I just wanted to say ‘Thank You’ for everything that you do.”
While some may advocate such prayers, it’s not the mainstream Jewish view. Jewish prayer is specific. We ask for what we want, not for what God knows is best. I believe there is a strong philosophical foundation for this.
Prayer as an Extension of Free Will
The Jewish understanding is that God created this world for us to exercise our freewill. He gave us an imperfect world (a very imperfect world, actually) and made us His partners, so to speak, in perfecting it. As such, we are tasked with actively taking responsibility for His world, not simply leaving Him to run it by Himself.
Had he wanted to run the world on His own and according to His will, He would not have needed to create us. Of course, there is a balance to be had between our own efforts and trusting in God, but, wherever that balance might lie, our own efforts are very much a part of what is expected from us in this world. And in order to put in our own efforts, we must have our own opinions about what needs to be done. What is the difference, after all, between asking God that he lets me marry a specific girl and getting down on one knee a proposing to her? Either way, I am having an opinion as to whom I should marry and actively following through on that opinion.
To pray for God to do what He thinks is best is like owning a field and waiting for God to make something grow.
Our job as human beings is to have (humbly, of course) opinions about how to improve our lives and the world in which we live, and to actively work towards implementing those opinions. Part of those active efforts is the medium of prayer. To pray for God to do what He thinks is best is like owning a field and waiting for God to make something grow. Although God controls everything, He set up His world where human beings are active participants responsible for choosing wisely.
With this understanding, prayer is a very significant element of our role in this world. We are here to look at God’s world and ask ourselves how we can make it better. We are to undertake to do so – and to do it with God at our side.
It is a delicate balance that we must navigate and prayer is one of our greatest friends. As we engage in our world and change it, prayer keeps us humble. When we achieve, it reminds us from where that achievement comes.
It also places us before God as we reflect on what matters to us. Our priorities are very different when we stand before God than when we live our busy lives without noticing Him. Prayer keeps us rooted to the spiritual, even as we go out and engage fully with the material world.
Prayer is a quiet space in our busy lives – a place where we touch something deeper, something more powerful, something that is more our true nature. Prayer is an anchor. And praying for what makes sense to us is our job.
Through prayer, we engage in the holiest and exalted of all endeavours – partnering with God to create that perfect world that He had in mind from the very beginning of His Creation.
Based on Rabbi Rosenblatt’s new book, Mean What You Pray: A Practical Guide to Connecting in Prayer. Does Prayer elevate your soul, or leave you feeling frustrated and even empty? Prayer is both a science and an art, and is not something that necessarily comes naturally. Mean What You Pray is a book for those who believe in the power of prayer and want to learn how to leverage it more effectively.
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Nina Webber Charged with Reckless Endangerment But Has an Presumption Of Innocence Until Proven Guilty
An ongoing investigation into a weapons offense on November 30th at approximately 7:41 a.m. November 30th, 2022, investigated by the Park County Sheriff’s Office and the Wyoming Game and Fish.
Nina Webber was issued a citation for unsafe hunting on or near the 3600 block area of the North Fork Highway.
The Complainant and his wife have stated to Law Enforcement that they had to “take cover” as they heard bullets whizzing by their heads.
According to the Park County Sheriff’s Office, no injuries were reported, nor was any property damage due to the “whizzing bullets.”
The Wyoming News has discovered that this incident was only classified as a (Weapons Offense) and is a misdemeanor.
Nina Webber was out with a group of other individuals. One of the other individuals was cited for not wearing a hunting vest.
The actual wording of the citation charge issued to Nina Webber is “Reckless Endangerment.”
2011 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 6 – CRIMES AND OFFENSES
CHAPTER 2 – OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON
6-2-504. Reckless endangering; penalty.
Universal Citation: WY Stat § 6-2-504 (1997 through Reg Sess)
(a) A person is guilty of reckless endangering if he recklessly engages in conduct that places another person in danger of death or serious bodily injury.
(b) Any person who knowingly points a firearm at or in the direction of another, whether or not the person believes the firearm is loaded, is guilty of reckless endangering unless reasonably necessary in defense of his person, property, or abode or to prevent serious bodily injury to another or as provided for under W.S. 6-2-602.
(c) Reckless endangering is a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year.
Disclaimer: These codes may not be the most recent version. The state of Wyoming may have more current or accurate information.
A phone call was placed to Nina Webber; Webber has yet to respond to the Wyoming News reporter. The Wyoming News has learned that Webber, represented by Counsel, would explain her not wanting to return Media inquiries.
DISCLAIMER: The presumption of innocence until proven guilty means that the burden of proof is always on the government to satisfy you that [defendant] is guilty of the crime with which [he/she] is charged beyond a reasonable doubt
Can Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis, Maintain The High Standards Set By Mt Senator Daines and Wy Senator Barrasso?
WASHINGTON, D.C. –According to a Lummis Press Release, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) announced today that she will take the gavel as chairman of the Senate Western Caucus for the 118th Congress. She succeeds Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) as he steps into the role of chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
“Wyoming issues are western issues and it is critical to elevate their importance with policymakers and agencies here in Washington,” said Senator Lummis. “I am honored to, once again, take the reins of the Western Caucus and work with my colleagues to advance policies critical for western natural resources, economic development and preserving our rural way of life. From energy development, public lands and water, to rural air service, broadband and healthcare, the Senate Western Caucus will champion the issues most important to western states.
Lummis continued, “Senator Daines and previously Senator Barrasso set a high bar in leading the caucus and I look forward to continuing their important work.”
“Senator Lummis is an exceptional leader and champion for our Western way of life, as well as a great friend and trusted colleague. The Senate Western Caucus will be in great hands with Cynthia, my neighbor to the South, at the helm!” said Senator Daines.
“Senator Lummis is a champion for Western issues and devoted to defending the multiple-use of our public lands. The Senate Western Caucus could not have picked a more deserving leader to succeed Senator Daines as chairman,” said Senator Barrasso. “Senator Lummis will continue the fight against the Biden administration’s restrictive public lands regulations and anti-American energy policies. She will represent Wyoming and the West well in this new and important role.”
The Senate Western Caucus, founded in 2009 by Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), educates members on western priorities and values in the United States Senate. The Caucus currently boasts a membership of 27 members of the United States Senate who represent states west of the Mississippi River and are committed to upholding the fundamental principles of the West.
When serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, Senator Lummis was the Congressional Western Caucus chair in the 114th Congress and advocated on behalf of western states in the face of the Obama administration’s overreach on Waters of the United States rule, National Environmental Protection Act, and the Endangered Species Act.
60-70 Mile An Hour Wind Gusts Expected Later Today In South East Wyoming
Blizzard warnings are still in place for the Nebraska panhandle and portions of southeast Wyoming through 11 PM tonight. Minor snowfall accumulations are still possible in the blizzard warned areas with winds gusting as high as 60 and possibly 70 MPH.
Widespread blowing snow will reduced visibility severely.
Laramie County is now under a High Wind Warning until 11 PM with high wind gusts up to 60 MPH.
Blowing and drifting snow is expected.
The Snowy and Sierra Madre Ranges continue to be under a Winter Storm Warning with additional accumulations of 6 more inches.
