The near-term contract for US benchmark West Texas Intermediate is at $68.16 as I write this, down 15% from its 2025 high (on January 15) of $80.

One thing I've learned by living in Okiehomie is that all the easy oil has been found and developed. What is coming out of the ground from new wells is much more expensive to develop. Oil producers are NOT going to develop wells where the cost of that oil is higher than the market-clearing price. What the market is telling us is that demand for oil is slackening, so the price is falling, and has passed the point of profitability for many wells, so production is also slowing. No one is going to sell oil for less than it costs to get it to market. No one. This is not about Biden's policies, it's about the market. Sad to think that the head of our government knows so little about math and economics that he says things with such surety that his mouth-breathing followers believe him, yet then cannot understand when facts make a liar or a fool out of the fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat...

I'll wager that the political class in each of the states listed here blather on about the 'sanctity of life' in their objections to abortion, while going mute about the slaughter of children at the hands of shooters. These pols should be asked to open their Bibles to this, which may be our president's favorite passage (he has so many):

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
-Matthew 7: 3-5

In the coming week it will be reported that the $134MM spent did not include meals and drinking water, so the deployed Marines will be the local Vons and Safeway, taking donations and liberating boxes of Mac and Cheese...

Two thoughts:
(1) Why can't he just send these foreigners to their home countries? It's simpler, legal and cheaper.
(2) NATO countries will get honked off and hit Der Dotard where it hurts--with more military supplies to Ukraine

Not reported: Stinky Pete heard that Trump can do anything while in a local bar getting an eye-opener the other morning...

Come 2028 this cabal will still be blaming Biden for every disaster--natural or man-made--which will visit these United States. It seems that they will be putting out a great deal of blame, because with so many knuckleheads near the levers of power there will be a boat load of disasters...

The time is right for me to update my Covid shot, which will be about number seven for me. Methinks that the chaos we saw in 2020/21 will be on repeat in the next 12 months, this time with gunplay in hospitals with sick MAGA folks screaming for the horse pill, lights shoved up their ---- holes, and shots of Springtime Fresh Clorox--anything but the 'Rona virus shot Darwin is coming for the Red-Hat goon squad...

Oh, I'm gonna get me religion
I'm gonna join the Baptist Church
Oh, I'm gonna get me religion
I'm gonna join the Baptist Church
I'm gon' be a baptist preacher
And I sure won't have to work

Oh, I'm gonna preach these blues now
And I want everybody to shout
Mm-mm, I want everybody to shout
I'm gonna do like a prisoner
I'm gon' roll my time on out

Oh, in my room, I bowed down to pray
Oh, up in my room
I bowed down to pray
Then the blues come along
And they blew my spirit away

Oh, I'd'a had religion
Lord, this very day
Oh, I'd'a had religion
Lord, this very day
But the women's and whiskey
Well, they would not let me pray

Oh, I wish I had me
A heaven of my own
Yeah, Heaven of my own
Then I'd give all my women
A long, long happy home

Yeah, I love my baby
Just like I love myself
Oh, just like I love myself
But if she don't have me
She won't have nobody else
--Son House, "Preacher Blues"

Good Christian women should keep their knees separated. They are vessels for the men in the congregation--any man, any time, for purposes of propigating the faith and the congregation of those who tithe...
--Baptist preachers, between cups of 'coffee'

If that Jesus guy had just shut up and respected the Roman soldiers in Jerusalem he would still be alive. But no, he had to run his mouth and get up all in their faces...
--MAGA Christians

God forbid this country enter into any significant military action. Stinky Pete will then make George McClellan look like a genius of military strategy and execution...

God forbid this country enter into any significant military action. Stinky Pete will then make George McClellan look like a genius of military strategy and execution...

Great--an afternoon of a 79-year old man pleasuring himself on stage in front of adoring fans and troops. And dozens of ordinary Americans. The day will certainly be considered less scandalous than that time Obama wore a tan suit, or bumped fists, or had a beer with some guys one afternoon on the WH patio. And certainly less offensive than Diamond Joe Biden riding his bike near the beach...

Better get your vaccine boosters now. Winter is coming. People will die...

So...Doge is a bunch of web designers who wanted to make government web sites easier to navigate? Why not just say so at the start? Of course, there was the part about gleaning all data for hundreds of millions of Americans, so some algorithm could be run and produce a list of suspected dead folks, thieves, sexually active unwed mothers, Methodists, bank managers in California, and thousands of other characteristics, so that their lives could be made a living ----. Good plan, Leon...

Trump and his cabal do not know how to back down. They seek to declare some soft of 'victory' instead. Tough to see where they will win this one, without a complete torching of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and a re-design of our nation's flag, to include the visage of a fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat...

Say, whatever happened to all those DOGE committees and subcommittees in Congress and in the statehouses of Red states? Haow about all those DOGE commissions fostered by governors in Red states? Anyone, anyone?

I guess politicians don't like being screamed at by their employers...

Those with no insurance can just go to the hospital for their care. Everyone knows it's all free there. All free. The doctors and nurses will treat them for free.
--MAGA idiots, sounding a lot like communists

All these roundup raids by ICE will NEVER happen in Tejas or Okiehomie. Why not? A large portion of the employment base in the service and construction business sectors will instantly disappear. No one wants to see their exploited, undocumented work force of landscapers, roofers, carpet layers, bussers, dishwashers and room attendants run off. There are not any white folks around to take those jobs. Such raids in Blue or Purple states will continue for show, but NEVER in palces where the undocumented are necessary for functioning economies...

I suspect at this point, it's each man for himself. What are those ICE guys going to do if some Toyota technical with a 50-cal on the back rolls up, and a bunch of guys in keffiyehs carrying AKs and RPGs pop out? They will become guests of some country that is not a pal of America, and meanwhile the detainees will be free to go, and probably given safe passage and airplane tickets...

Wouldn't it be funny if his legal team rolled into court and was populated by a large group of legal studs, each aching to take on the clown posse of DOJ hacks and know-nothing lawyers fresh out of Trump University? I wouldn't be surprised if this poor guy (called so because of the unlawful, possibly tortuous manner in which he has been treated) gets some top-notch folks to step up and represent him pro bono...

Thomas Fugate has a face for radio, and with his brain power a career as a minor-league bat boy awaits...

My local chain pharmacies still over the shot. I'm going to get another, to get me into the holidays. I hope that by then a safe, effective version for the new variant is available to folks like me (i.e., over 65, and with a health issue)...

Does anyone here think that MGT, Gomer Comer, Barkeep Barbie and their ilk understand cryptocurrency? They can barely read, much less have a grasp of the theory of money and currencies.

To reiterate: cryptocurrencies are vehicles for naked speculation and criminal activity, and nothing else. They are NOT investments. They re not money, as so widely defined. Anyone who buys into crypto should do so with money that they never expect to see again...

Heroin Bob is going to get a lot of people killed, and his words and actions will result many, many children suffering. So MAGA folk in this country have that to look forward to...