Nobel Peace Prize Announced! A Reminder To Visit Bakken.Com -- October 9, 2014

If you are interested in the Bakken, you need to be visiting the Bakken.com website daily.

I could be wrong, but the site pretty much reports the story without editorial comment.

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NASCAR

Two more races in the Contender Round: Charlotte (Saturday) and Talladega (October 19). Charlotte is on ABC so I can watch it at home. Talladega is on ESPN so I will need to visit a sports restaurant if I want to see it live (or stream it on the internet). 

After Charlotte and Talladega, we go into the Eliminator Round with three races: Martinsville, Texas Motor Speedway (just down the road from where I currently reside), and Phoenix.

The Championship Round, actually, the Championship "RACE" is scheduled for November 16, 2014, at Homestead-Miami.

November 16th? I could be on the road.

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The Wall Street Journal

President Obama looking for ways to get around Congress to close Guantanomo. It's all politics.  What does it matter? -- Hillary

Turkey sits out battle on Syria border.

Amazon will open a brick-and-mortar site in NYC. Mistake.

WSJ survey is bullish on the economy.

Immigrant wave resurges. A strengthening US economy has spurred the largest pickup in  immigration since before the recession, driven by Asian newcomers and a gain in Hispanic arrivals

German exports dropped. A country in trouble. How are those sanctions working out?

Six US military planes with US Marines landed in Ebolaland. [Ebolaland is a geographically undefined are of West Africa much like Kurdistan.]

Price drop tests oil drillers. Much more to come.

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Hmmmm..... this is interesting, and perhaps the biggest news of the day: Lego willend its contract with Shell.  Link here. It's no longer politically correct:

In July, Greenpeace circulated an online petition calling for Lego to sever its ties with Shell, which it has accused of operating recklessly in exploring for oil in the Arctic region. Shell suspended an Arctic drilling program offshore Alaska in 2013 but has kept its options open for another attempt. It has also conducted Arctic or near-Arctic work elsewhere. 

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Wow. iPhone 6 demand is so great that the smartphone is delaying Apple's rollout of a larger iPad. Apple is struggling to make enough new iPhones to meet strong demand. I am an Apple fanboy but have never owned an iPhone, and probably never will. But after seeing the iPhone 6 side-by-side with the iPhone 5, I can see why iPhone 6 is selling so well. The iPhone 6 makes the iPHone look old and clunky. If the iPhone 6 is a Ferrari, the iPhone 5 is last year's Volvo.

Hackers stole Fidelity data. Too.

Russian companies are clamoring for dollars to repay and refinance debt, adding to the relentless pressure on the crumbling ruble.

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The Los Angeles Times

Wow, this irritates me. I had her as the winner; I was late in posting my guess. Nobel Peace Prize goes to Kailash Satyrarthi and Malal Yousafzai.  Yousafzai is an Indian children's rights advocate, age 17, the youngest winner in history, and Satyrathi is an Indian children's rights advocate. They did a bit more than tout a PowerPoint presentation. The Nobel committee has redeemed themselves.

Chief of Juarez drug cartel is captured, unfortunately not killed.

Proposes settlement over San Onofre plant closure is revised. Consumer advocacy groups not happy:

Both the earlier proposed agreement and the one released Thursday would cost ratepayers approximately $3.3 billion over 10 years, while the power companies' stockholders would be on the hook for about $1.4 billion.

"It's the same bottom line," said Matthew Freedman, a lawyer for the Utility Reform Network, a San Francisco consumer group that participated in the settlement negotiations.

Fleetwood Mac adds tour dates. Wow, these folks must be as old as I am.

Rhiannon, Fleetwood Mac