OlDawg

I dunno. Maybe because they all always blame the previous guy?

Must have heard us talking. LOL [Hidden Content] [Hidden Content] Numbers I’ve heard about needs are around 500,000. THIS I love!

I understand. This will be a long post, so don’t read if you wish. I’ll try to explain my thoughts. To answer your gas questions, this was my business for decades. Gas is a commodity that fluctuates with the seasons & barrel pricing. While Brent & WTI are low right now, Spring seasonal blends (required for environmental regulations) add significant cost. I wouldn’t expect prices to come down a lot until late summer if the barrel price remains low. Mudbugs are expensive everywhere this year. Plus, core season isn’t until Mid May. You’ll pay more the earlier you buy. Now, to the core with some background. I grew up on a farm in far north Texas. We were literally poor as the dirt we farmed & went bankrupt due to a bad season & weather. My dad was able to get on at the local DuPont La Porte plant starting out bagging 100 lb bags and paid back all of our debts. I learned to be frugal at an early age. My wife & I have always lived well below our means. I shop for basics at Aldi as I find them much cheaper than anyone else. Other groceries I typically buy at Kroger using digital or regular coupons. If it’s not on sale—or I don’t have a coupon—I don’t buy it. We only eat out 1 or 2x a month. Then, it’s usually Chilis, or Subway, or our local Texmex. Sometimes, Popeyes—if I have a coupon. I use my Veteran discount everywhere that allows. My wife’s disease is untreatable & incurable. It is a Parkinson’s Plus disease (CBD/PSP) which has a life expectancy of 7 years. We’ve beaten that already by almost a year. Every day is a blessing. I’m sure you know what I mean & Im sorry for your cancer. Wishing you the best! What I don’t want is to lose her prematurely because of a side effect that we can’t get medical care to address. For the first time, I didn’t vote. So, I won’t slam. But, I can critique with—what I try to be fair—criticisms. I wouldn’t have voted for Harris—period. Trump scared me with his stance on medical. But, I felt he would be better on immigration & the economy. Not a fan of tariffs, but I understand his goal. I wish the tax cuts being permanent had been first on his agenda. I’m good with immigration. Basically, I’m okay for now with his performance. I haven’t seen a large spike in prices because of how I shop. The prices that are higher have been higher since the last administration and are because of ‘sticky prices.’ Once they go up, they rarely come back down to Pre-inflation levels. We’ll see how it goes from here.

??? We don’t import toilet paper from overseas. We don’t import most bread. We don’t even import the packaging materials. Hyperbole much? Before retirement, I did a lot of work with China. Was a lead design engineer for multiple Lubrizol projects in China. As soon as they were complete, the CCCP basically took them over. I’m pretty familiar with the Chinese economic system. Their collapse would happen long before the U.S.

I think they knew. I just think it was the biggest fraud ever perpetuated on the American people. I may not be a major Trump fan—although I do like more than a few of his policies during these times—but how people can claim he’s a dictator, an oligarch, and all this other nonsense about a threat to democracy when they themselves totally disregarded democracy the last election cycle is beyond me. If I was a Democratic voter, after what the Party did with superdelegates to put Clinton over Sanders, and then oust Biden—after voters selected him— & installed Harris, I wouldn’t trust them with my vote. They’ve proven to not give a whit what their voters want. At least the Republicans let their voters choose the candidate. For better or worse. I can see this, and I’m a frickin independent, libertarian kinda guy who thinks they’re opposite sides of the same coin.

Biden didn’t do it. He was senile the day he took the oath of office. He was just the acceptable puppet for the Democratic machine and the Press to pass off on the nation’s voters as a moderate. We’ll never know—truthfully—who was pulling the strings. But, it wasn’t Biden.

Make up for it for him. I dare say everyone here would root for you—regardless of your political disagreements. Your Maker gave you everything you need to succeed.

China dropped their 125% tariff on ethane from the U.S. this morning. They buy 50% of their ethane from the U.S. Hard to make all that cheap, plastic crap they sell to everyone without ethane. They must be hurting worse than many think. (Still a free/fair trade guy. Maybe this is a breakthrough for talks.)

Sorry about your uncles. As for your Dad, you weren’t even an itch in his pants in the ‘60’s. But, you’ve taken his seat at the back of the bus voluntarily. As for the Trail of Tears, read a little. Educate yourself instead of feeling like you’re owed something.

La Porte vs Baytown Sterling May 1, 7:00 p.m., Bulldog Field, La Porte

There are those who wish to be victims, and those who don’t. You can’t help those who do.

Sounds like it was a tight game. Pretty decent series. Good Luck!

BH too tough. Looked like LP had the lead for a little while early. Just ran into a buzz saw. Still, not a bad game.

And some of mine walked the Trail of Tears. What’s your point?

62 years young