Dave

@hammer59.bsky.social

💙 Left of center. Middle age lazy. Former Jackrabbit football/track athlete - Ring the Bell!!! Cubs/Twins/Vikings/Timberwolves masochist South Dakota denizen

Buzzed on a beautiful evening away from people. The Grateful Dead’s “Eyes of the World” (live with Branford Marsalis) is on iTunes as the fire burns merrily away. The good life as I see it. Have a happy and safe Halloween

A fire burns in a black firepit near a wooden fence and a vintage lawn chair.

Having a thunderstorm here in Sioux Falls, SD, rn. Loud thunder and a fair bit of lightning. Love it…especially since that means it’s too warm to snow 😬

"The Iran war has been very lucrative for American oil companies, which have earned more than $130 billion in profit as people pay much higher prices for gasoline and diesel. These companies earned less than $47 billion collectively during the same period in 2025" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/30/b...

U.S. Oil Industry Earned Over $130 Billion in Profit During Iran War

That was almost three times as much as what businesses producing and refining oil in the United States made in the same period in 2025.

nytimes.com

Please excuse legacy media. They have been too preoccupied with the similarity of two names on an Alaska ballot to report that former Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul alleges that Donald Trump brutally raped her in a suite at New York's Plaza Hotel in November of 1993.

They want us distracted and divided. They want us to point fingers at each other and ignore the billionaires and the wealthy politicians who are ruining everything with their greed. Hopefully we keep that in mind as we go forward. This election cycle has some alarming tendencies. —- off soapbox.