These two panels work on so many levels.All those First World Problems and they come down to walk one block or burn $20 on gas.
Finally, can it be revealed that Del is really “Ol Bob,” the .22 cal magnate who sold enough bricks of ammo to Sam and the twins to rebuild the Double D ranch house? Inquiring minds (as well as Too Tall and JTC) want to know.
BTW Del, does the trailer/shed out back with the inexhaustible supply of .22 cal ammo also include belt-fed and crew served weapons and ammo as Lady Pamela once demurely inquired? There may have been a (purely academic) discussion about flame throwers (or was it Flamenfurfers?) as lawn and garden implements as well.
You are correct, but I don’t understand why Bidenomics hasn’t been reversed.
And this BS playing with Iran is pushing everything higher doe to diesel prices.
The US was and should be a net exprter of oil, it was all the “you can’t drill there because of gorebull warming” crap that drove prices up unnecessarily, that and charging ‘world price’ to yourself…in the ME oil countries, gas is pennies a litre, it should be that way in every oil producing country instead of feeding the speculators. but NO…someone sneezed in Saudi Arabia and I have to pay $2.50/litre for heating oil and it’s forecastedto go up a lot more than that. I’m looking ata $2000/month heating bill this winter, minimum, because we can’t get oil from one side of the country to the other, or develop what there is on the coast because some pimple faced kid iscarrying a sign saying “no drilling”,a kid that’s nevr paid for anything out of their own pocket in their life…
September 19, 2026 at 9:51 am
JTC
OA, is there a Greenland style Art of the Deal in Canuckistan’s future?
September 20, 2026 at 7:58 am
Oldarmourer
Yes, but not with the US, china’s already made a downpayment…to the liebral slush fund.
It sure wold be nice if you could respond to a specific post instead of going to the top of the thread and hoping it lands somewhere that makes sense.
September 19, 2026 at 3:09 am
DDS
In the days of my misspent youth, my ’68 Chevy II drag car used Sunoco 260 that cost me an outrageous $0.31 per gallon. (last of the breed. In ’69 the Chevy II badge was dropped and the car became the Nova.) Bread was $0.22 a loaf and milk around that per gallon.
This was before the war in Southeast Asia gave us such inflation that the Fed had to raise interest rates so high that a mortgage was %13.25 percent in order to get it under control.
The Fed’s current 2% inflation target will eventually have us wiping our behinds on George Washington’s face because toilet tissue will cost more than $1.00 per sheet. It’s just math, folks! Figure it out!
In 1873, a new Colt Single Action Army would set you back a $20.00 gold piece. Nowadays, that same SAA will set you back around that same $20.00 gold piece. Same gun. Same gold. But the government has made the money cheaper. Deliberately!
Rep. Ron Paul once did a rant on the floor of the House of Representatives about how the government failed to keep the gold standard, failed to keep the silver standard, failed to keep the copper standard, and now has failed to keep the zinc standard. The penny is going away as a result and the Mint says the nickel won’t be far behind.
But, cheer up, Bunkie! We’ll look back and call these the “Good Old Days.”
In 1873, a new Colt Single Action Army would set you back a $20.00 gold piece. Nowadays, that same SAA will set you back around that same $20.00 gold piece. Same gun. Same gold.
I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one who remembers Cooper’s First Law of Economics.
Yup, gold isn’t going up, paper money is going down in relation to it. That’s democracy in action, excep that under socialism that paper is worth a lot less and under tribal systems the paper is worth more than the printing on it.
September 19, 2026 at 12:50 pm
JTC
Having buried myself into the biz of buying/selling both the referenced shooters and the coins, I can speak to this; Cooper’s Law (not THAT Cooper) says the First Law is scarcity; as in there ain’t none, esp as relates to the Colt. The coins are not scarce just spendy at today’s listed price of about 4400.00, so you could pick up two of those SAA’s with change for ammo and a good John Wayne style holster for one Double Eagle at the listed price of 1800.00…if you can find them. Really just a fancy way to rephrase Supply and Demand.
What does that actually say about our “law of economics”?
September 19, 2026 at 7:06 am
Cdr215
Cheapest I ever got was 24.9 / gal for my $75 53 Chevy, which used.25 cents a quart reclaimed oil.
In Mexifornia, in 1972, I paid .25 cents a gallon
on my route around LA selling vacation certificates.
No GPS, had a Thomas Bros. map; almost as good.
Then the Arab oil embargo hit, and gas was rationed
every other day by license plate.
My bike was an even # and my van was odd,
so I either rode or drove.
September 19, 2026 at 11:46 am
Jim in Alaska
I remember as low as 11 cents a gallon (South Florida, the fifties, gas wars.), gathering loose change from high-school buddies riding with me to fill the Packard’s tank.
September 19, 2026 at 4:59 pm
LowKey
@Oldarmourer
Not just that it we stopped drilling.
The real killer is that we haven’t built any new refineries in the US since 1976.
Marathon’s Garyville refinery in Garyville, Louisiana.
We’ve upgraded and repaired the ones we have many times, but that was the last time we actually built one.
Because of NIMBY and the EPA.
Our current refineries are set up for heavy/sour crude.
Most of our new wells are extracting light/sweet crude, which we lack the facilities to refine.
So the light/sweet crude gets exported, and we import heavy/sour crude.
Slightly disturbing how the crude is manipulated and costs soar. There’s no real scarcity, just the lack of risk in building a refinery to refine our crude, save on transportation risk, however, reduce shareholder profits, and the principals. And that’s okay. Just get gas back to $2.50.
September 20, 2026 at 8:07 am
Oldarmourer
That and the ‘mysterious fires’ keep popping up in refineries, food processing plants and warehouses, electrical distribution nodes, and churches…never mosques, only churches…
The ‘grebull warming’ fanatics, as well as muslim agents, have been caught lighting most of the large forest fires lately, both to hype the pretend ‘climate change’ mantra and as ordered by the imams as a ‘punishment to the infidels’…the US, Canada, Surope, Australia, virtually all of the fires near cities have been deliberately set but a lot of the ‘save the planet’ funds go to the media so the fires get front page coverage while the arson arrests are on page 36, at the bottom, in small print, cut off halfway through the blurb.
September 19, 2026 at 5:57 am
badger52
ConEd power failure shut down the Exxon refinery in Joliet. Subsequent pump failures caused flooding. Still offline (since 13th). That place furnishes bunches of gas to the region. Produces about 11 million gallons of gas & diesel a day. Or did, anyway. No ETR.
Sadly many voters are like my Mother-In-Law who simply doesn’t like Trump because of the way he looks. Or the way he talks, or whatever reason-of-the-day that the “Lame-Stream” feeds her. Despite she and her husband being life long Repubs and being relatively well-off (two homes, snowbirding to The Villages.) And there is my Millennial co-worker who hates politics, complains of not having enough money yet willing to order Uber-Eats almost daily. WTF really? A frozen drink at $30 delivered to our workplace???
And yet that revulsion of the personal underlying DJT has not kept most who despise him from pulling the Right lever when they consider the alternatives.
Dang, I’m glad I’m an old buzzard. Dang socialists, communists, islamics, demonrats, and our own govt. want us dead. I’m sure I missed several dozen others too. They are bound for the stone age, but I’m not going with them.
Non-productive Utopians all suffer from status inconsistency syndrome; they believe that they deserve to be more powerful, respected, and rich than most of them actually are.
When they don’t get the obsequiousness they believe they are entitled to, they become resentful.
When their Grand Plans fail, it’s inevitably because other people didn’t fund them enough, or work hard enough, or believe hard enough.
In short, anything which doesn’t work is invariably Somebody Else’s Fault.
That’s why, when they are in power, even to a limited extent, they default to Total Destruction and Revolutionary Vengeance mode. They are out to punish anybody and everybody who, in their perfect consciousness and perception of reality, has ever “betrayed” them.
That’s part of why Utopianism almost invariably ends in Blood. Devastation, Death, War, and Horror.
The rest is mostly because the kind of people who become Utopians really don’t like anybody else very much to begin with. But they tend to be good at faking it. (Yes, that is the classic definition of a sociopath.)
H. Beam Piper went into people with this sort of mentality in his “Paratime” and “Terro-Human Future History” stories. Most of his villains were of this ilk.
Three good starting places are the novellas “The Last Enemy” and “Flight From Tomorrow”, and the novel Space Viking. One of the minor baddies in the latter, a Grima Wormtongue type yclept Garvan Spasso, has a very simple philosophy; he knows that he’s a crook, but has no qualms of conscience about it because his philosophy is
“Everybody is just like me- but I’m better at it than they are.“
You are never going to be able to reason with someone like that.
And “someone like that” accounts for nine-tenths of post-modern pseudo-Utopians.
Meanwhile, up here in what used to be one of the largest beef producing countries, the stores are full of mexican and australian beef because the gov’t deliberately and with malice aforethought ‘regulated’ the beef industry almost to death when Alberta started musing about declaring their independence…that should get them a lot of support from everyone because it wouldn’t take as long to import from there as it does from australia !!!
I made a tongue-in-cheek comment up there about Canada being the next Greenland on DJT’s radar…only with DJT it might not be tongue-in-cheek for long. Wasn’t it just yesterday that the whole of the uniparty system was laughing at his plans and comments about Greenland, and now we will have a permanent military base there (sorry Putin) and unrestricted access to the natural resources to be jointly developed in the interest of all concerned?
And his crazy like a fox antics are getting the attention of the old-guard pubs…just read where the Never Trumpers of 2006 are getting the band back together to destroy him and his political sway before the Nov elections…the Greenland deal will set them back some but since it is not the best interests of the USA they have at heart, they won’t won’t quit trying to kill him and MAGA.
In a Truth Social post on Saturday, the President laid out three alternative names to replace AI: Super Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, and Supreme Intelligence.
I asked ChatGPT… it prefers ”Synthetic Intelligence”
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Daniel,
Thank you for being a Patron.
Daniel and Chris,
These two panels work on so many levels.All those First World Problems and they come down to walk one block or burn $20 on gas.
Finally, can it be revealed that Del is really “Ol Bob,” the .22 cal magnate who sold enough bricks of ammo to Sam and the twins to rebuild the Double D ranch house? Inquiring minds (as well as Too Tall and JTC) want to know.
BTW Del, does the trailer/shed out back with the inexhaustible supply of .22 cal ammo also include belt-fed and crew served weapons and ammo as Lady Pamela once demurely inquired? There may have been a (purely academic) discussion about flame throwers (or was it Flamenfurfers?) as lawn and garden implements as well.
Good times, good times….
Prices may be high, but remember, it was “Bidenomics is working just fine” that caused the inflation that drove them up.
November is in six weeks.
You are correct, but I don’t understand why Bidenomics hasn’t been reversed.
And this BS playing with Iran is pushing everything higher doe to diesel prices.
The US was and should be a net exprter of oil, it was all the “you can’t drill there because of gorebull warming” crap that drove prices up unnecessarily, that and charging ‘world price’ to yourself…in the ME oil countries, gas is pennies a litre, it should be that way in every oil producing country instead of feeding the speculators. but NO…someone sneezed in Saudi Arabia and I have to pay $2.50/litre for heating oil and it’s forecastedto go up a lot more than that. I’m looking ata $2000/month heating bill this winter, minimum, because we can’t get oil from one side of the country to the other, or develop what there is on the coast because some pimple faced kid iscarrying a sign saying “no drilling”,a kid that’s nevr paid for anything out of their own pocket in their life…
OA, is there a Greenland style Art of the Deal in Canuckistan’s future?
Yes, but not with the US, china’s already made a downpayment…to the liebral slush fund.
It sure wold be nice if you could respond to a specific post instead of going to the top of the thread and hoping it lands somewhere that makes sense.
In the days of my misspent youth, my ’68 Chevy II drag car used Sunoco 260 that cost me an outrageous $0.31 per gallon. (last of the breed. In ’69 the Chevy II badge was dropped and the car became the Nova.) Bread was $0.22 a loaf and milk around that per gallon.
This was before the war in Southeast Asia gave us such inflation that the Fed had to raise interest rates so high that a mortgage was %13.25 percent in order to get it under control.
The Fed’s current 2% inflation target will eventually have us wiping our behinds on George Washington’s face because toilet tissue will cost more than $1.00 per sheet. It’s just math, folks! Figure it out!
In 1873, a new Colt Single Action Army would set you back a $20.00 gold piece. Nowadays, that same SAA will set you back around that same $20.00 gold piece. Same gun. Same gold. But the government has made the money cheaper. Deliberately!
Rep. Ron Paul once did a rant on the floor of the House of Representatives about how the government failed to keep the gold standard, failed to keep the silver standard, failed to keep the copper standard, and now has failed to keep the zinc standard. The penny is going away as a result and the Mint says the nickel won’t be far behind.
But, cheer up, Bunkie! We’ll look back and call these the “Good Old Days.”
In 1873, a new Colt Single Action Army would set you back a $20.00 gold piece. Nowadays, that same SAA will set you back around that same $20.00 gold piece. Same gun. Same gold.
I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one who remembers Cooper’s First Law of Economics.
clear ether
eon
Yup, gold isn’t going up, paper money is going down in relation to it. That’s democracy in action, excep that under socialism that paper is worth a lot less and under tribal systems the paper is worth more than the printing on it.
Having buried myself into the biz of buying/selling both the referenced shooters and the coins, I can speak to this; Cooper’s Law (not THAT Cooper) says the First Law is scarcity; as in there ain’t none, esp as relates to the Colt. The coins are not scarce just spendy at today’s listed price of about 4400.00, so you could pick up two of those SAA’s with change for ammo and a good John Wayne style holster for one Double Eagle at the listed price of 1800.00…if you can find them. Really just a fancy way to rephrase Supply and Demand.
What does that actually say about our “law of economics”?
Cheapest I ever got was 24.9 / gal for my $75 53 Chevy, which used.25 cents a quart reclaimed oil.
In Mexifornia, in 1972, I paid .25 cents a gallon
on my route around LA selling vacation certificates.
No GPS, had a Thomas Bros. map; almost as good.
Then the Arab oil embargo hit, and gas was rationed
every other day by license plate.
My bike was an even # and my van was odd,
so I either rode or drove.
I remember as low as 11 cents a gallon (South Florida, the fifties, gas wars.), gathering loose change from high-school buddies riding with me to fill the Packard’s tank.
@Oldarmourer
Not just that it we stopped drilling.
The real killer is that we haven’t built any new refineries in the US since 1976.
Marathon’s Garyville refinery in Garyville, Louisiana.
We’ve upgraded and repaired the ones we have many times, but that was the last time we actually built one.
Because of NIMBY and the EPA.
Our current refineries are set up for heavy/sour crude.
Most of our new wells are extracting light/sweet crude, which we lack the facilities to refine.
So the light/sweet crude gets exported, and we import heavy/sour crude.
Slightly disturbing how the crude is manipulated and costs soar. There’s no real scarcity, just the lack of risk in building a refinery to refine our crude, save on transportation risk, however, reduce shareholder profits, and the principals. And that’s okay. Just get gas back to $2.50.
That and the ‘mysterious fires’ keep popping up in refineries, food processing plants and warehouses, electrical distribution nodes, and churches…never mosques, only churches…
The ‘grebull warming’ fanatics, as well as muslim agents, have been caught lighting most of the large forest fires lately, both to hype the pretend ‘climate change’ mantra and as ordered by the imams as a ‘punishment to the infidels’…the US, Canada, Surope, Australia, virtually all of the fires near cities have been deliberately set but a lot of the ‘save the planet’ funds go to the media so the fires get front page coverage while the arson arrests are on page 36, at the bottom, in small print, cut off halfway through the blurb.
ConEd power failure shut down the Exxon refinery in Joliet. Subsequent pump failures caused flooding. Still offline (since 13th). That place furnishes bunches of gas to the region. Produces about 11 million gallons of gas & diesel a day. Or did, anyway. No ETR.
Sadly many voters are like my Mother-In-Law who simply doesn’t like Trump because of the way he looks. Or the way he talks, or whatever reason-of-the-day that the “Lame-Stream” feeds her. Despite she and her husband being life long Repubs and being relatively well-off (two homes, snowbirding to The Villages.) And there is my Millennial co-worker who hates politics, complains of not having enough money yet willing to order Uber-Eats almost daily. WTF really? A frozen drink at $30 delivered to our workplace???
And yet that revulsion of the personal underlying DJT has not kept most who despise him from pulling the Right lever when they consider the alternatives.
Dang, I’m glad I’m an old buzzard. Dang socialists, communists, islamics, demonrats, and our own govt. want us dead. I’m sure I missed several dozen others too. They are bound for the stone age, but I’m not going with them.
Non-productive Utopians all suffer from status inconsistency syndrome; they believe that they deserve to be more powerful, respected, and rich than most of them actually are.
When they don’t get the obsequiousness they believe they are entitled to, they become resentful.
When their Grand Plans fail, it’s inevitably because other people didn’t fund them enough, or work hard enough, or believe hard enough.
In short, anything which doesn’t work is invariably Somebody Else’s Fault.
That’s why, when they are in power, even to a limited extent, they default to Total Destruction and Revolutionary Vengeance mode. They are out to punish anybody and everybody who, in their perfect consciousness and perception of reality, has ever “betrayed” them.
That’s part of why Utopianism almost invariably ends in Blood. Devastation, Death, War, and Horror.
The rest is mostly because the kind of people who become Utopians really don’t like anybody else very much to begin with. But they tend to be good at faking it. (Yes, that is the classic definition of a sociopath.)
H. Beam Piper went into people with this sort of mentality in his “Paratime” and “Terro-Human Future History” stories. Most of his villains were of this ilk.
Three good starting places are the novellas “The Last Enemy” and “Flight From Tomorrow”, and the novel Space Viking. One of the minor baddies in the latter, a Grima Wormtongue type yclept Garvan Spasso, has a very simple philosophy; he knows that he’s a crook, but has no qualms of conscience about it because his philosophy is
“Everybody is just like me- but I’m better at it than they are.“
You are never going to be able to reason with someone like that.
And “someone like that” accounts for nine-tenths of post-modern pseudo-Utopians.
clear ether
eon
Meanwhile, up here in what used to be one of the largest beef producing countries, the stores are full of mexican and australian beef because the gov’t deliberately and with malice aforethought ‘regulated’ the beef industry almost to death when Alberta started musing about declaring their independence…that should get them a lot of support from everyone because it wouldn’t take as long to import from there as it does from australia !!!
I made a tongue-in-cheek comment up there about Canada being the next Greenland on DJT’s radar…only with DJT it might not be tongue-in-cheek for long. Wasn’t it just yesterday that the whole of the uniparty system was laughing at his plans and comments about Greenland, and now we will have a permanent military base there (sorry Putin) and unrestricted access to the natural resources to be jointly developed in the interest of all concerned?
And his crazy like a fox antics are getting the attention of the old-guard pubs…just read where the Never Trumpers of 2006 are getting the band back together to destroy him and his political sway before the Nov elections…the Greenland deal will set them back some but since it is not the best interests of the USA they have at heart, they won’t won’t quit trying to kill him and MAGA.
With hardly a whimper from the uni-media…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-strikes-greenland-deal-with-denmark-after-threatening-annexation/ar-AA2cwHMN?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=be4c5b2fcdea4a1cee3ad31f46e31f1e&ei=140
$5.50 here, good thing I stock-up, enough to drive to Salt Lake if necessary
In a Truth Social post on Saturday, the President laid out three alternative names to replace AI: Super Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, and Supreme Intelligence.
I asked ChatGPT… it prefers ”Synthetic Intelligence”
All things synthetic are artificial but not all things artificial are synthetic.
It is somewhat disturbing that the former is the preference of AI itself.