Not how to make friends...

 It is really hard to keep up with Biden's screw ups since there are so many to pick from every week.

Watching the US-Saudi relation unravel in an interesting study of watching a good relationship fall apart.  Not sure how it happened, but as Barack Obama said, if you want to screw something up, "give it to Joe Biden". It was phrased a bit more colorfully, but you get the point.

The US used to depend on Saudi Arabia for oil, but by 2016, tapping her own reserves, America achieved the energy independence that President Nixon said the US would achieve by 1980.  Better late than never!

Biden slithers into office, shuts down the US oil pipelines and America's economy nosedives.  After going to Saudi to beg for more oil, Biden is refused to his face and Riyadh raised the price of oil on the US. Saudi drops it for European and Asian nations, but raised it twice on the US in two months.

So much for years of diplomatic experience.

The easiest way out of the oil mess is to drill in North Dakota.

Instead, Joe Biden starts releasing oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve without putting anything back in.  This is the path to disaster.  Somehow this does not surprise anyone.  

Regaining oil independence means the US does not have to worry about what Saudi Arabia thinks. Getting oil from Venezuela is not the answer.

Now Saudi Arabia is thinking about joining BRICs, the economic alliance between Brazil, Russia, India, and China.  Saudi inclusion makes this group even stronger.  Watch for China or Russia to try to solved Irainian-Saudi troubles in the Persian Gulf and if successful, their prestige in the region rises.

After two decades of warfare in the Middle East, Americans should be infuriated. 

Guess we will see after the midterm elections.

COVID ends in Canada

 

Common sense and decency returned to Canada as the Trudeau morons dropped all COVID restrictions.  There are some universities still pursuing this insanity, but the rest of the nation is free of this stupidity. Meanwhile, a lawsuit challenging this actions is making its way to the Canadian Supreme Court.  Violations of Canadian Charter of Rights have a way of doing that....

Many areas have been ignoring the Covid decrees for a while, but the US-Canadian border is finally reopened. at least from the Canadian side.  Meanwhile, Washington demands vaccines to enter the country, while hundreds of thousands cross over from Mexico, a violation of US law.

Now we have to make sure this does not happen this again!

Listening to these idiots and their decrees is what gives them power.  If you don't listen, it is like pulling the plug.

Governors of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin have had their emergency powers stripped from them.  So, quite a few people get it!

Now, go forth and conquer! 

Happy Anniversary!

 

On September 27, 2008, I married my soul mate, Michelle!  The planet is still off its axis!  LOL

All Hail the Vienna Vikings!

 

I have been watching the European League of Football since its season started back in April.  I am always a fan of startup leagues and having been in those cleats before, I often cheer for the players in general rather than a team in particular!

On Sunday, the Vienna Vikings defeated the Hamburg SeaDevils

Never Forget!

 

King Charles III

 

Saying "King Charles III" is going to take a lot of getting used to!

Right after getting a new Prime Minister, Britain got a new monarch.  

Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch in British history, passed on to a better dimension, putting Charles, the Prince of Wales since 1969, onto the throne.

Elizabeth II had been a permanent fixture in Britain and she, although a figurehead, ruled (?) with grace, humor, and respect for all.  She was a great example for the whole world!

Gnarly Charlie is the oldest person ever to ascend to the British throne at 73, so he all ready has Prince William on deck at the new Prince of Wales.

Charles I and Charles II were not good kings, so maybe three is a charm.  Of course in 2022, the King of Britain (again, hard to say) is only a ceremonial head of state, so the whole thing is kinda academic. 

Charles I got into a civil war with Parliament and lost his head (literally) and Charles II had 12 illegitimate kids and owed money all over the place.  He paid it off with land, giving one group of investors land south of Virginia, that they named for Charles, giving it the feminine Latin name of "Carolina:.  Charles II also owed money to a one William Penn, who got a grant for the land between New York and Maryland.  Seeing how densely forested it was, he called it "Penn's Woods", diving into Latin to come up with "Pennsylvania"

Maybe we were too hard on Charles II....LOL

Best of luck to Charles 3.0!  I am going to see if he is handing out any land on Mars!

New PM for Britian!

 

Boris Johnson finally was caught from behind by Partygate. While "Gram" was dying in hospice and you were not allowed in to see her, he was partying with his staff.  Personally, I think he got off easy.  

At least he is gone.

I am not sure if Liz Truss is going to do well or horrible, but she has two years to fix up a lot of messes left in the wake of BoJo's departure.

Britain has an energy crisis about to explode, inflation is higher than at any other time since the 1970s, and there is a tidal wave of illegal immigration that the previous PM promised to halt.  Toss in the aftermath of the COVID insanity and lingering Brexit stuff and it is pretty obvious that she needs to hit the ground running.

Two years before the next election....get to work, Liz!