What A Great Country! -- Nothing About The Bakken; Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Natural Gas Now Exceed Those From Coal In The US -- August 22, 2016

Babe Ruth World Series -- Williston, ND

The Babe Ruth World Series in Williston has come to an end. Torrance, CA, took first, followed by Atlantic Shore, NJ, and Eau Claire, WI, and Tallahassee, FL (tie for 3rd).

Zack Carson, of Williston, ND, was one of ten to make the "Gold Glove All-Defensive Team." The "Sportsmanship Team Award" went to Williston, ND (wow!). 

Pretty cool! What a great country!

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Staggering

From a June 8, 2016, posting:

Walmart sells more than Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft combined.

Then, today in The Wall Street Journal:

Five years ago, Apple Inc. ’s iconic and visionary co-founder Steve Jobs passed the torch to his handpicked successor, Tim Cook. The official transition took place six weeks before Mr. Jobs passed away.

Now Apple is the world’s largest company by market value and remains one of the most influential. Its $53 billion in net income last year was greater than the combined earnings of technology behemoths Facebook Inc., Google’s parent Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

Apple recently sold its billionth iPhone.

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Starbucks In Our Apartment Complex

I went down this afternoon to pick up a package that had been dropped off at the manager's office for us. The manager's office -- a stand-alone building with a business center and a fitness room facing the outdoor pool -- is being renovated.

Today, they tell me that a Starbucks will be going inside the new manager's office. I'll let you know what it's like when it is completed.

Who would ever have thought Starbucks -- or any coffee shop -- would have become this ubiquitous?

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Poster Child For Stupidity

Link here: SecState John Kerry still out there, trying to kill the air conditioner.

By the way, a new milestone: August, 2016 -- greenhouse gas emissions, which by the way, are resulting in no global increase in temperature, but have resulted in "significantly enhanced global greening" -- in the US, greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas now exceed those from coal. The data was posted in a tweet by John Kemp today, so I assume the milestone occurred some months ago.