In our current state of new normal it’s music which gets me thru these very trying times.
For me…this is the best rock song of all-time. Just just close your eyes and drift away with the lyrics.
I find it very relaxing.
I’d strongly suggest this if you’re an oil and gas guy just about now.
What could it hurt?
This bonus song is a classic as well. It ‘s been a tough month so far in Oklahoma. Joe Exotic going Hollywood and oil going negative both in the same thirty days. You need to practice on this one along with the video before you go all out karaoke ninja warrior. What a great music video!
People in the industry knew this this was coming with the expiration of the current future oil contracts. Oil basically is a commodity worth nothing as of today storage hubs such as the one in Cushing, Oklahoma have no space left to store oil.
Oil brokers are literally paying money to get rid of oil. There is no demand for oil with the U.S economy basically shuttered.
Another example of a complete lack of understanding and leadership by Donald Trump as he remained frozen like a deer in the headlights until it was too late to bring the Saudis and Russians in line way back when it could have mattered.
Can you imagine if Barack Obama had overseen this fiasco?
This will have tragic economic consequences for Oklahoma in that I would guestimate somewhere around 20% of Oklahoma’s GDP as a state is oil and gas trickle down related. Add to that how important the retail gas tax is to the state’s budget and this basically spells a very unpleasant scenario for the state moving forward.
I find it ironic that Oklahomans still embrace Donald Trump even as under his watch the U.S. oil and gas industry has been gutted.
Donald Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing. He’s not a businessman. He inherited $414 million from his daddy Fred Trump almost forty years ago. If any blind idiot had just taken that money and purchased indexed securities blind-folded they would be a multi-billionaire today.
Trump isn’t even that and that’s why primarily he doesn’t want to reveal his tax returns.
If you value his golf courses at somewhat coherent market values he may not even be worth a billion.
He doesn’t know how to create, build, or maintain a legitimate business. Every venture he’s ever touched has died.
To quote Michael Cohen, ” He’s a thug, a con artist, and a grifter.”
I’d love to have a chat with Rex Tillerson this morning.
My wife took me out in our backyard and cut my hair like I was a dog as Pauli watched through the glass in what I would describe as a riveted state of interest. It was the longest my hair had gotten since high school. It was kinda cool though almost like a Sam Elliot type of hair chaos bordering on a Mike Gundy mullet. I feel so much better with my first hair cut in the coronavirus era.
Then we had a nice dinner of chicken enchiladas before I settled in and watched the first two hours of the ten hour ESPN film The Last Dance.
I love the movie. I will be in hoops heaven watching the remaining eight segments. As a fan–the Jordan Era of the NBA was by far the greatest in my life because Jordan and the Bulls had to deal with Larry Bird’s Celtics, Isiah’s Pistons, and Magic Johnson’s Lakers to climb to the summit of the NBA world on their way to six eventual NBA championships.
The most staggering Michael Jordan stat for me has always been Michael’s teams never lost an NBA Finals once they got there.
For me…those were the golden days when David Stern’s NBA made the move from being a nice league to becoming a league which today ranks only behind the NFL in overall fan interest across the world.
Jordan, Bird, Johnson, and Isiah Thomas in my hoops world changed me forever as a fan even beyond what Bill Walton did with the Portland Trailblazers on their magical run or what Maurice Cheeks and Dr. J did for me with that ’83 Sixer team.
The Jordan Era in the NBA is the greatest era I’ve witnessed as a sports fan in my lifetime.
The game has softened so much from then to now. It’s still a great game, but not the same attitude towards winning and what it takes to become a champion.
I in no way can even remotely compare the entire decade of Durant and Westbrook to being mentioned in the same breath with Michael and Scottie Pippen. Some of us used to make the those comparisons early in the Thunder glory days, but let’s be candid… Durant and Westbrook quite simply didn’t have the level of mental toughness to take their team to the summit.
Not to say though I won’t be all in when ESPN makes a film on the Thunder story up to the loss to the Warriors in 2016 leading to Durant’s escape to Oakland.
Durant is no Michael Jordan, Isiah Thomas, Magic Johnson, or Larry Bird. In fairness, Russell Westbrook isn’t Scottie Pippin either.
Durant although immensely talented will always in my mind have two asterisks next to two championships while to date Russell remains without a championship.
Anyway…looking ahead to next Sunday’s two episodes I thought I’d post this video on how Michael finally pushed his Bulls beyond the Bad Boy Pistons in ’91.
Finally…something sports related I can sink my teeth into for my sports addiction.
After staining myself permanently by ‘witnessing’ seven episodes of the Joe Exotic human train wreck…something sports related I’ve been eagerly awaiting on television tonight.
Michael is the most competitive athlete I’ve ever observed in my lifetime. Period. I hope the film doesn’t let me down. I need something beyond the Tiger King right now in my life.
This film has ten episodes so I’m hoping this is a quality production like most of the ESPN films.
It was a very solid show this morning with Amy Klobuchar getting the headline interview spot. She’s always very grounded, well informed, and competent…which of course made her in no way a viable presidential candidate in these times in which we live.
The poll question is the one on every American’s mind this morning. How should we re-open the country? By state, by region, or one blanket national program?
With just under 20,000 people responding the results were….
42% on a state by state basis
41% on a regional basis
17% on a one blanket national policy basis
I responded to on a regional basis. In a perfect world we would all answer on a national basis, but this isn’t a perfect world. At some point you cannot completely crater your own economy which generates revenue for things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, small business assistance, FEMA, ect, etc.
At some point you have to calibrate risk with sophisticated testing and get this country back to work or at some point you will lose the country you are in essence trying to protect.
This is a service economy based on consumption. With some real smarts attached the country needs to get back to consuming and living. Unfortunately…we have a president who has less nuance than any president in our history which makes this an even more difficult task.
It’s a great question when you consider every angle of the dilemma.
Lest we forget Michael Cohen’s testimony pertaining to our sport fuckster POTUS. Cohen testified he used $150,000 from a non-profit account to silence escort Stormy Daniels from telling the world of her sexual relations with Donald Trump.
For her part, Stormy Daniels said the sex was awful and the small hands weren’t the only thing lacking in substance.
So now Cohen will be released early from federal prison in New York pending a 14-day quarantine. He has to be home confined, but given the times we all live in currently because Trump has less governing nuance than Joe Exotic or Mike Gundy….I would think Cohen should feel blessed.
Hopefully, when Trump is defeated in November and then convicted of multiple federal crimes in New York’s Southern District… he’ll be assigned the very cell which Cohen occupied.
Surely that is how all this will end as the United States becomes the macro version of Atlantic City.
I was driving home this evening just before dusk and this song came on the radio. I hadn’t heard this song since I watched the Oscar winning best picture whenever it was released.
I forgot what a great song this truly was and is. Hope you enjoy it.
With each passing week we honor a champion from last spring which will not get a chance to defend their title from 2019.
The St. Louis Blues won their first ever Stanley Cup Championship with a Game 7 road win over the Boston Bruins last spring in what was a tremendous Stanley Cup Finals.
Both teams were at the top of their respective conferences this season and it appeared there might be a solid chance for a rematch.
In honor of the still defending Stanley Cup Champions…. St. Louis Blues.
This is fairly simple. The rubes who attend his rallies would believe him if he told them the earth was flat and that Mike Gundy preceded Obama in the White House. Gravity as we know is fake news.
So if you’re really the George Constanza of Lying…how hard is it to deny the month of February actually exists?
Not all that hard.
Just talk about CNN’s third place ratings, pretend like you’re at GOP debate and tell the world Ted Cruz’s father killed JFK or that Hillary is the father of Birtherism.
You have to give this guy style points. He’s well beyond Costanza at this point. His ability to troll his own base is like nothing we’ve seen before on this earth.
I could write a whole page of content to support the headline, but is there really any point to me doing that?
Obama is everything Trump isn’t, unfortunately the president in charge of this country during the coronavirus pandemic is Donald Trump.
On an unexpected positive note today though… Oklahoma’s junior U.S. Senator James Lankford finally stood up to Donald Trump arguing the point you shouldn’t be running the financial part of the stimulus with temporary Inspector Generals every other week.
That’s clearly an insane mode.
I’ve called Lankford’s D. C. office seven times since Trump occupied the White House.
Finally, for the first time I’m on the same side with Lankford on a Trump related decision.
I know…I know…this Obama video won’t play big here in Oklahoma, but since my search for a video of Tiger King and Jeff Sessions in an embrace came up empty—this will have to do for this post.