I own a bunch of small overriding royalties in various natural gas wells in Grand County, Utah. I no longer receive revenue from them as the company that operates the wells, ARB Energy of Utah, simply stopped paying me. They cannot relieve me of ownership, and their obligation to pay me is both written in to Utah regulations but is also a legal “fiduciary” responsibility, an obligation of trust.

Its’ not just me, of course. There are scores of others in my shoes. For me, I planned to have the overrides as part of my retirement, but can survive without them. What I have learned from scuttlebutt is that ARB, taking over the properties in 2019, started out with good intentions, and then made a huge and bad investment in a plant that produces helium, that promptly went broke. The company acted in desperation, and the executive in charge, Humberto Sevint, is a resourceful man who manages to come up with stopgap funding to stay afloat.

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News from the hearing impaired

I’ve been noticing as I watch TV that I will usually go through the steps to get subtitles. My wife occasionally tells me the TV is too loud. I was wondering, is my hearing degrading?

I have some experience in this area, my Dad, who complained for years that he was losing his hearing before anyone actually believed him. That was the basis for the old joke that married men only suffer partial hearing loss, the one frequency that their wives are on. But Dad finally did get hearing aids. He was constantly having to replace the batteries, and also adjusting the level.  I don’t think they worked very well. However, one of my older brothers kicked in $2,500, directly to an audiologist, and then when Dad came to get his hearing aid replaced, the bill was only $1,000 instead of $3,500. Dad was suspicious about that.

Continue reading “Oddball things from the oddball” →

I’ve lived now near Denver since late 2009. When we first moved here, I cared so little for NFL football that I probably did not even know the team record. I was happy when they won the 2015 Superbowl, even as I took seriously the Miles Mathis suggestion that a fumble by Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton looked staged, and more so by the fact that he stood and watched rather than try to recover it. The fix was on.

Since then I’ve come to expect the fix to be on, especially in the big important games. I miss Jake the Asshole, who had found his voice and is now nowhere to be found. But I can’t help it, I enjoy NFL football. They’ve created a masterpiece of entertainment, dwarfing the old National Pastime, baseball, which since Covid and empty stadiums I came to realize was, all by itself, boring.

Continue reading “Yes, Virginia, Philadelphia really did boo Santa Claus” →

The Joe Rogan Experience #2397: Richard Lindzen and William Happer

Most times when I stop over to listen to Joe Rogan, whom I like, he’s interviewing someone I’ve never heard of. That’s fine, except that each interview is two hours long. How he gets away with challenging short attention spans like mine as he does … it is a tribute to his wide range of experience and ability to keep an interview going. Not everyone can do what he does, and hardly anyone for two hours plus. 

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I’ve done this before, as I just can’t help myself at times. Quora is kind of a running propaganda site, with questions asked and answered, I suspect, by the same people. They do a lot of Apollo stuff, making up questions and then answering them with authority. For instance, why was it so difficult for Neil Armstrong to make his step out on the lunar surface? Some inside jackass asked that question only to reinforce the notion that it really happened. 

I answered to the effect that it’s very hard to set foot on a place when you are 238,000 miles away from it. My answers seldom draw responses, and eventually disappear. Quora, after all, is a SNOPES-like Wikipedia-like AI-like authoritative source, meant to be the final word on subjects. (Back in time, did you ever see someone answer a question with the words “I SNOPED it, and …”. SNOPING something became the nihil obstat or imprimatur* of what is accepted in faith to be true. 

Continue reading “The curious case of the missing brain” →

Covering Climate Now is an organization advancing the Climate Change cause. I’ve subscribed to their newsletter for some time now. They want me (all subscribers) to participate by writing up our own experience with Climate Change (now called extreme weather event attribution) and how it has affected us in our daily lives.

Here’s my story:

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Storax Sedan was a shallow underground nuclear test conducted in Area 10 of Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site on July 6, 1962, as part of Operation Plowshare, a program to investigate the use of nuclear explosives for mining, cratering, and other civilian purposes.^[2] The radioactive fallout from the test contaminated more US residents than any other nuclear test. The Sedan Crater is the largest human-made crater in the United States and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [Wikipedia]

Hang on now. I am going to list below all of the numbers surrounding Sedan, and I hope along the way someone explains to me the significance of the number 13. I’ve known since I was a kid that it was considered unlucky, but have no clue as to its Masonic significance.

Continue reading “The Sedan nuclear test – spook number fest” →

Follow me on truecrimecasereopened.substack.com … Mark is a shill he just proved it. I am personally connected to this tragedy, Eric and Dylan were real. I sent Mark all their info, he knows better. Maybe this will go to your email before he bans me. (Final (I hope) deleted comment by Goodwomb420)

[For the record here, it doesn’t occur to me that people don’t see what I see. This dude, Goodwomb420, whoever he/she might be, never contacted me or this blog before the last few days. He didn’t send me “all their info”. That’s merely a strategy to gain trust, and he is playing that trust by his claim that he has the inside information on Columbine. He might have some of it, and if so, got it from inside sources familiar with the players, to be released here mixed with falsehood, classic misdirection. That falsehood is that Dylan and Eric were real persons. If anyone has looked deeply into this abyss as have I, it emerges slowly that Columbine high school was closed every year for the month of June, and in one of those Junes prior to 1999 all of the inside footage of the event was filmed. My piece on Columbine has a fatal flaw … it is long. There are therefore precious few readers of the whole piece. It needs to be worked over and published in Readers Digest to highlight that no one died, nothing happened inside the building that day, that there was no Dylan or Eric, and that SWAT patrolled the grounds for one purpose: To prevent interference by goddamned innocent bystanders.”]

Interesting strategy here … to foreordain an action and then claim victimhood. Anyway, you’re provided above with a link and are on your own to judge his worth. For myself, he’s just a bit hyperactive, perhaps knowingly so. If I say he was “sent here” to discredit me, I rise to the bait. His appearance here, I suspect, is built around my posts concerning Mathew Silverstone, whom I regard as a ghost and fake victim of the fake shooting at Evergreen Colorado High School on 9/10/ 25. My Silverstone rantings might have actually reached some people and caused them to wonder. I used NextDoor for that purpose. That’s a high-profile place, my comments sometimes drawing in excess of 2,500 reads. I provided a photo of Silverstone, noting that we had no such family living in our area, openly at least, and that the photo had been doctored. NextDoor, which warned its patrons in March of 2020 that anyone criticizing WHO or CDC would be censored, and then banned if the behavior was repeated, is a large national operation with local tentacles everywhere. It, like Facebook and YouTube, was seen as too important to be left alone during the fake pandemic and willingly went along with it. I withdrew at that time, and only recently rejoined the fracas. That comment and photo was quickly censored. But it was not without effect. 

I quit NextDoor after that blowup, but they tell me I cannot do that, that they must keep my comments for legal reasons. I took that to be a veiled threat. But never mind anyway – Facebook never deletes comments. I doubt that NextDoor does either. They can always be mined for dirt. 

I am drawn to controversy. I am reminded of my childhood when I and friends would visit the local dog pound. Maybe it was an asshole thing to do, but I would drag a stick down the cages, which were all outside, just to hear all the dogs bark at once.  Well, not “maybe”, but actually a real asshole thing to do. But I was a kid. That’s my excuse, and I stand by it. 

Anyway, I recently received an email from GoFundMe, advising me that my fraud complaint against the effort to raise money for Silverstone would be investigated. I advised them, and now everyone, that I filed no such complaint, and that whoever the impostor is will probably be found nested in Jefferson County Colorado Sheriff or School District offices. Both are infiltrated by spooks … it can be no other way. Columbine could not have been pulled off so successfully without their cooperation. I advised the school district of my noninvolvement, suggesting they look inward for the impostor. 

That won’t happen. They might be forced the bring Silverstone forward, possibly in a wheelchair. If, as I contend, Silverstone is a ghost, they will have to bring in another actor to portray him. We are not without some technology here to detect such fraud. 

As always, readers here are on their own. Goodwomb420 accuses me of being a shill. Defending myself from that accusation would achieve his objective. I cannot convince anyone of anything and will just carry on as usual.