December 5, 2018 $2.29 a gallon for regular unleaded.

December 5, 2018

$2.29 a gallon for regular unleaded. “You didn’t do that.” I did, sort of. If Bullshit Barack can claim credit for the United States of America, not Mexico, being the top dog in hydrocarbon production in the whole, entire world well…screw him ‘cuz I was there first.

I fracked my first well in 1974 in Duval County, Texas. [In addition to that significant achievement, Duval county is where Honest Abe Fortas “found” the votes, and would you believe that they were in alphabetical order, that sent “Landslide Lyndon” to the Senate and then to the White House and then to the Vietnam Wall, the one with 59,319 names of Americans killed there on it.] I also had significant production in the Permian Basin, sometimes as much as 500 barrels a month. That, plus the wells in Ohio and Wyoming, the coal mines in Kentucky and West Virginia, signaled a well-earned “thumbs up” and “not bad” for a guy from Bayonne, NJ.

When I started oil was $2.75 a barrel.

If “Ca-Ca for Brains” Obama, a modern American Liberal Luddite & Lysenkoite, can claim credit for ham-stringing OPEC then I can claim credit for the Nazis getting a Texas-sized ass whupping at Kursk in 1943 because that was the year I was born. Also, I claim credit for Marist beating Bayonne on Thanksgiving, 1965 because that was the year my son Sean was born.

The above is what happens when you ignore the legacy that was shaped, fought over, fought for, and handed down to us by a variety of DWEMs – Dead White European Males – in the form of the Trivium, the capstone of which is Logic.

Only someone with his head so far up his ass that he could pull his own eye-teeth from inside could confusingly conflate correlation with causation. Also, the perpetual error of constructing universals from particulars and hoping no one notices is noted.

What a putz! Is that racist?

Meanwhile, speaking of Presidents….

The youngest Naval Aviator ever.

118 carrier take-offs

58 combat missions

116 carrier landings

Varsity letter winner

Husband

Father 

Congressman

Ambassador to China

Head spook

Grandfather

Vice President

President

Great Grandfather

Damned impressive resume, right?

The most impressive part of his CV, the one that is glossed over, is that he got his wife, also a child of wealth and privilege, to move to Midland, Texas and raise a family there. And, he got her to move from Greenwich, Connecticut. I’ve been to both. “Friday Night Lights”, a Midland/Odessa phenomenon, exists only in the abstract in Greenwich.

For that alone he has earned his F-18 flyover.

Kevin Smith

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PS – It is owed to the ledger to note that the basest, vilest canard that has followed Biush41 for 30 years still has legs. Willi Horton was a convicted rapist and murderer who was imprisoned in Massachusetts. When Michael Dukakis was Governor Horton was granted a weekend furlough. He went to Maryland where, surprise, he raped and murdered again. Some family members went to Massachusetts to ask Governor Wee Mikey what the Hell happened. He refused to meet with them. Did I mention that Horton, the rapist/murderer, convicted in 2 states, was Black? Somehow the above narrative became an example of racist Republican politics hatched by the notorious hit man Lee Atwater. True enough, but the story was told before Bush told it. I heard it during the New York primary in April/May, 1988. It was told over and over and over by Senator Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. in his effort to win the primary election. It must be noted that this is the same Gore, also a child of wealth and privilege who was raised in the Shoreham Hotel by white gloved Black men attendant to his quotidian needs, who gave us 10 years to live 30 years ago. 20 years ago, he gave us 10 years to live.10 years ago he gave us an additional 10 years. 9 years ago, we were told that the world would be cooled and the seas calmed. Maybe that’s what keeping us going. Thanks for that Alpha Gump and also for the thrilling saga of Willie Horton.

When was the last time you heard the term “Peak Oil”? It was used by moronic nit-wits, people who are troubled by progress and human advancement to say that our way of life is doomed because we are running out of oil, gas, out of everything that makes life better. The argument about the glass is half filled or half empty forgets that he glass can be refilled. The Untied States is now the biggest producer of oil and gas in the world. Fracking and slant drilling, uniquely American things, are responsible. In addition, Exxon, now  a Texas-based energy company with its roots in New Jersey, a company that employed my grandfather and father, announced yesterday that its discovery field off the coast of Guyana now has recoverable reserves in excess of five billion barrels of oil. That’s 5,000,000,000. Production of 750,000 barrels per day is expected to begin in less than 2 years. Nature and Nature’s God have a way of rewarding human aspiration and achievement with accomplishments that are still incomprehensible to modern American Liberal professional Jeremiad trollers. When my children were in Saint Cloud Grammar School in West Orange, NJ they would come home with notes from school importuning us to conserve energy, to keep the house cool in the winter and warm in the summer. Also, gas guzzlers were to be shunned if not banned. I told them, gently, that since their father was always a net producer of energy, that is to say that it was impossible for me to use more energy than I produced, it was OK for me to be able to hang meat in the library, and yes, I built one, in August and raise orchards in the dining room in January. And the 12-cylinder Jaguar E-type 2+2 that I got their Mom one Mother’s Day fit nicely into the envelope of conspicuous consumption but gave surprisingly good gas mileage.

Late breaking news! The Jersey Journal has an obituary listing today for Kevin Smith. I agree with Mark Twain: “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”