Placeholder for Hillary: range, 26% to 30%; no change from earlier polls
Sanders: 14% to 22%; the 22% was with NPR/PBS/Marist;
Pocahontas: 13% to 17%
Buttigieg: 8% to 13%; again, the 13% was with NPR/PBS/Marist; overall -- unimpressive
the others are irrelevant, but for the record:
Bloomberg: 5% to 7%;
Klobuchar: 2% to 4%; whoo-hoo; a legend in her own mind;
Steyer: 0% (NPR) to 2% (IPD) but average is maybe 1%
The way it works:
one must garner 15% of all votes to take any delegates
as it stands, Biden -- the placeholder for Hillary -- takes all delegates or shares delegates with Sanders/Pocahontas
others have no chance for any delegates
Final comments:
Steyer and Bloomberg: vanity runs; neither getting much traction
Hillary: recalculating ... recalculating ... recalculating ... as long as Biden remains the under 35% front-runner she can hope for a brokered convention ... but because of the "way it works" there may not be a brokered convention....
I cut the previous note a bit short. I'm watching the Indianapolis Colts / New Orleans Saints game.
Drew Brees set so many records, I can't keep up.
Highest completion percent in game: 96.7% -- 29 of 30.
NFL records for pass TDs.
Others.
Passes Peyton Manning for most pass TDs in NFL history, 541.
Post-game interview: he laughs about missing one of thirty. Says he should have had that 30th pass. LOL. He needs to stop by the White House and say "hi" to President Trump.
I haven't been reading you as much lately due to things slowing down in the Bakken. We have some family mineral rights in the very south end of McKenzie County---- Whiting was going to drill during the big rush in the Bakken, then backed off at the last minute.
Someone that knows a lot more of the geology in the area than I do said that we are right in the "Bakken pinch out."
I joke to my siblings that if our grandparents had just kept going another 25 miles or so north when they got off the freight car at Beach, we would all be in the chips--hah.
What prompted me to write is your comment about CNBC. I am such a loyalist going back to the 90's with the great Mark Haines, and when David Faber and Joe Kernen were his young side-kicks. It was such a great program then, and I never missed a morning.
But over the years, as you allude, it has just got more p.c. and basically crummier---- Andrew Ross Sorkin seems to only know what has been printed by the New York Times--- I get tired of listening to it.
Joe Kernen is the only good reason to listen these days but he is increasingly a lonely voice---- imagine a capitalist on a business channel!!
I always enjoyed Maria Bartiromo when she was at CNBC and finally early this fall I started listening more frequently, and now I have become a devoted fan. Maria is very sharp, an unapologetic capitalist as well as one of the few national journalists who has seen through all the flim-flammery of the Russian collusion and now the Ukrainian b.s. Plus, pleasant to watch.
I just wanted to invite you to join me at Fox Business News and bid farewell to CNBC---- once great but not any more.
My reply:
Wow, what a great note. My comments:
I agree: along with other readers who have written me, we all remember Mark Haines very, very fondly. I think most of us remember the day we heard he had passed away unexpectedly. A really, really sad day.
I watched Fox Business News quite a bit some years ago but I tired of Stuart Varney -- he was too treacly, if that's the right word, when it came to his feelings about free market US capitalism.
I also do not care for Cavuto so much any more. Early on I did, but I tired of him.
But upon your advice and invite, I have spent the last couple of days spending some hours with Fox Business News. I am quite impressed. Much livelier than CNBC. I agree: Andrew Ross Sorkin and The New York Times are joined at the hips. LOL.
I've also bookmarked Fox Business News on the internet and will follow that more closely that CNBC.
Thank you for the invitation and the review of Fox Business News.
There's nothing quite like the AirPods Pro if you have an Apple device, given the noise cancellation and the deep integration with the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Simple pairing, easy device switching, and Hey Siri support are features that third-party headphones can't match.
The Sony headphones also have noise cancellation and great sound if you're looking for an AirPods Pro alternative, but you'll miss out on several of the aforementioned options.
If you don't need noise cancellation, you won't go wrong with the AirPods 2, and for those who want an in-ear fit along with secure earhooks for working out, the Powerbeats Pro are a great choice.
AirPods Pro earbuds are going to fly off the shelves this Christmas. It will be interesting to see if Apple can keep up with demand.
And for investors? Margin for Apple on the AirPods Pro? 35%.
TIME has published a list of what it believes are the 10 most important gadgets introduced in the last decade, and three Apple products have made the cut, including the iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods.
I'm most impressed that iPad made the list. The iPad is awesome but everywhere you see iPhones. One of the very thin Apple laptops certainly could have been a fourth gadget on the list, but my hunch is that the panel had rules/limits on number of gadgets from one manufacturer.
NOG: to start paying a dividend -- April, 2020; 1.5 cents/share; about a 3% yield. NOG is tracked here. I find this something remarkable. Supposedly NOG is producing about 35,000 boepd; Oasis is producing about 70,000 boepd in the Bakken. I could be wrong on those numbers, but that seems to be what I see.
Shale production to continue to grow -- just not as fast -- estimated production for next month, January, 2020.
Permian: an increase of 48,000 bpd, from 4.694 million bpd to 4.742 million bpd, smallest increase since July 2019;
Bakken: an increase of 3,000 bpd, from 1.523 million bpd to 1.526 million bpd;
Eagle Ford: a decrease, falling from 1.366 million bpd to 1.357 million bpd
Tax bill: compromise to extend borrowing long enough to keep government open for next few months. Will likely give military a 3.1% pay raise which would be the largest in decades. Military retirement pay increased 2.8% for 2020; announced back in November.
Pfizer: raises dividend by nearly 6%; to 38 cents from 36 cents. payable March 6, 2020; record date January 31, 2020.
Futures Monday night down slightly. Not unexpected. My hunch: a lot of folks who were afraid of missing out are chomping at the bit to invest, if there's a nice pullback. Personally I have never had so much fun:
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"Dog bites man": minimum wage strangling Seattle restaurant workers. Only reason for posting the story was to note the outrageous minimum wage in Seattle for fast food restaurant employees; I assume lots of kiosk ordering; link here.
The North Dakota Industrial Commission has approved a drilling unit
near Lake Sakakawea, but made some changes that regulators said would
protect royalty owners.
The North Dakota Industrial Commission has approved a drilling unit
near Lake Sakakawea, but made some changes that regulators said would
protect royalty owners.
XTO
Energy proposed to develop 26,000 acres in Williams and McKenzie
counties as one large unit, a plan the company said would allow oil
wells to be farther away from Lake Sakakawea.
The company said during a hearing in
April that the proposal, known as the Hofflund-Bakken Unit, would allow
more oil to be recovered but minimize the impact to sensitive terrain.
Petrogulf
Corp., one of about 150 working interest owners within the proposed
unit, objected to the plan. Petrogulf representatives said variability
in geology within the unit would make developing the resource as one
unit unfair.
Director
of Mineral Resources Lynn Helms recommended the plan be approved, but
divided into two units - the Hofflund and Grinnell units - because of
significant differences in the geology.
