The biggest lie about the price of oil is that it is controlled by supply and demand. The real truth is that it is controlled by the refiners and the speculators. When […]
Terry Courtright
Nationally recognized dog breeder and field trialer, poet, author, public speaker, wine consultant, advertisinig and marketing consultant, fly tyer and fisherman, common sense advocate and storyteller of uncommon regard. Believer in the American dream made possible by common threads that weave their way through everyday life. People are all the same inside, it;'s just that they look different on the outside.
There’s Water Here, But No Water There, So If I Have It, Why Do I Care?
That’s been the mantra for two thousand years, but it is changing fast in the American West, even in Montana where the Missouri and the Yellowstone rivers headwater, a place of endless […]
Life in a science fiction movie, the birth of Biden, and how to survive in a new era…
If this sounds like a daunting forecast, how’s this for reality? You don’t go to work at the office anymore, you can’t go to the store with out a mask on, and […]
Oil, Oil, Everywhere, Buy It Here, Not Over There…
Translation Why Buy a single drop of Saudi or Russian Oil to sell to American consumers, why refine a single drop of oil in a tanker that sits in port from over […]
The Price of Oil is Killing the Middle Class…
Oil has been on the upswing at a dangerously alarming pace for anyone but the ultra rich and the oil refiners themselves for the last few weeks. And who is to blame […]
Tiger, Kavanaugh, and Keopka, The Tale Of Two Stories, Or More
The recent weeks have seen a swirl of activity, both in sports and the other Great American Pastime, gossip. Gossip has dominated news since the advent of yellow Journalism, circa cable news […]
The Path Of The Stray Bullet
First off , this philosophy is predicated upon the fact that you can’t evade the path of a stray bullet, because it can happen to anyone, at any time, until the moment of death, […]
LET THEM EAT OIL
My new mantra is Let Them Eat Oil, and by them, I mean, Iran, Iraq, Russia, China, and all of OPEC. If oil has neared the bottom and there is a whole […]
The Waters Out West, When The Truckee Was Best and The Rest Is History…
Its a low water year for the fishermen in Montana as all the rivers are running low and the heat cycle is three weeks ahead of a normal year. What that means […]
Waters to fish, waters that were and waters that will never be again
I fished the Missouri River last Friday from Holter Dam down to Craig for the first time in 25 years, not the river, but this particular stretch which is usually littered with boats […]
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