The folks from the Burning Springs M. E. church motored to the Pisgah church for the joint service that was followed with a belly buster meal to welcome the new preacher, Rev. Kevin Gillespie and his wife Terri.
The Creston Community Building now has its IRS 501(c)(3) status. Special thanks to Linda Buchanan for pushing through the paperwork.
The Creston area continues to get rain but Freddie Bush & associates got a significant amount of hay put up between showers. He had four tractors cutting hay at one time.
Local residents were consulting with their medical advisors. While most received good results Bill Duskey was advised that one of the tumors that was removed was cancerous. He will undergo additional tests next month.
The food pantry was held on Friday. Because of the deliberate malaise unleased on the nation, ever more people are obligated to get help with a basic necessity – food.
Bad decisions made far away, now impact folks no matter where on the planet they live. The Great Reset” for the “New World Order” requires, among other things food shortages and high energy prices.
The Creston ATV poker run is scheduled for Saturday, July 30. Because of wet weather & water levels the route remains in doubt but, either way it will be a fun route. Of course one should make sure that the winch works, that you have a spare tire kit, basic tools, etc.
Some of the folks down at the Mouth of the Elk plan to “put it to us” in November by promoting Amendment One. “Why it is wonderful because you will not have to pay tax on your car!” Perhaps a little history would be appropriate because in 1932 the “Taxation Limitation Amendment” was passed which guaranteed lower tax rates on owner occupied homes and farms and the value [for tax purposes] of farm land was its rental value. The teacher’s union has worked for decades to change this and now some perhaps gullible legislators say they are doing us a favor. Of course, some answer to Randi Weingarten too. Kanawha County determined that if the proposition passed the county would lose $51 million in county taxes & that is before the taxes from the utilities would be reduced since, we are told, vehicles, machinery & inventory would be exempt from taxes. In Wood County duPont would get a $5 million tax break which someone would have to make up & the $multibillion gas fractionation plants in Marshall, Wetzel, Lewis, Kanawha, Doddridge & other counties would only have to pay taxes on the office building. The same would be true with the compressor stations like the one [White Oak] near where Calhoun, Wirt & Ritchie counties join. Also, with the constitutional protection removed taxes on owner occupies homes could double and farm values would be based on “best use” valuations even if the land is in the “flood plain’.
Some of the green weenies have been upset that the U. S. Supreme Court ruled for basic law in the case W. Va. vs EPE in which several other states joined. The court ruled that the government agency which in practical terms answers to no one cannot make law. Judge Gorsuch wrote “But no less than its rules against retroactive legislation or protecting sovereign immunity, the Constitution’s rule vesting federal legislative power in the Congress is ‘vital to the integrity and maintenance of the system of government ordained by the Constitution.’ It is vital because the framers believed that a republic – a thing of the people’ – would be more likely to enact just laws than a regime administrated by a ruling class of largely unaccountable “ministers”. The administrative state was liked to the liberal hero, Woodrow Wilson who famously argued that “popular sovereignty” “embarrassed” the Nation because it made it harder to achieve “executive expertness. In Wilson’s view the mass of the people were “selfish, ignorant, timid, stubborn or foolish”. His thoughts on the black folk are well known and he likewise denounced immigrants “from the south of Italy and men of the meaner sort out of Hungary and Poland” who possessed “neither skill nor energy nor any initiative of quick intelligence”. By vesting the lawmaking power in the people’s elected representatives, the Constitution sought to ensure “not only that all power would be derived from the people” but also “that those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people”.
The economic disaster in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] continues to play out on the world scene because someone listened to the greenies and there was no fertilizer to enhance crop production. In Europe the new edict is to reduce land use [for farming] by 10%, fertilizer use by 20% and pesticides by 50%. Farmers in Hollard have been told they can no longer keep their cattle and Bill Gates, the big promoter of vaccines and the reduction of the world’s population says that we should all eat “lab grown meat” or perhaps insect protein. Executive order #14,008 signed by the senile fellow decreed that by 2040 [or in just 8 years] 30% of the land in America and water must be removed from human use. Earlier this year it was reported that a government agency offered farmers [or large farm corporations] money to destroy crops & the green agenda is being promoted by mega food cartels, Goldman Sachs, hedge fund managers & billionaire elitists. Some may remember that Josef Stalin the Russian dictator killed 9 million Ukrainians about 90 years ago. All this might help explain why no fertilizer plants have been built in W. Va. even when there is a bountiful supply of natural gas at the handy. Of course incompetent & venal state officials are no help either.
The state road sprayed herbicide along the local highways & byways. It is clear that one must take care of the herbicide vendors and one might conclude that someone wants to make sure that local folks get their exposure to the chemicals.
It was reported that Ascent Resources acquired 16,800 more acres in the Ohio Utica for $270 million. Ascent was originally a company founded by the late Aubrey McClendon.
The price of natural gas in America is now double the price it was last year and in Europe the price has risen 700%. The ‘wise ones’ said that for the second half of 2022 the natural gas Henry Hub [Louisiana] price would be $8.59/mmbtu but the price is now $7.02 and may go down to $5.97/mmbtu. Of course gas prices here are significantly lower. The price of local Pennsylvania grade crude is now $96.59/bbl. with condensate fetching $82.59/bbl. and Marcellus & Utica light bringing $87.59 & medium $97.59/bbl.
