I have every reason to Trust all polls published by Elon Musk. I have every reason to Question all polls published by MSM. Fortunately, I will never see a poll from MSM unless it is in the form of Skywriting while I am tending to my hummingbird feeders. -Sheila Tolley-
As a child I learned that the freedoms U.S. citizens enjoyed enabled anyone to seek high office and possibly become President. Everyone was supposed to have the same opportunity to become whatever they were able to attain through hard work and determination. Of course there is always nepotism and political favoritism to distort this arrangement, but up until not too long ago most of the people were generally qualified for the positions they held.
But in 2020, through a fraudulent national election Joe Biden became President. Not only did he lack any experience in the private sector, he was nothing more than a political huckster throughout his lengthy political career in the Senate, and a world class influence peddler who made millions of illegal dollars. At the time everyone knew his mind was not up to the task of being President of the U.S. and the leader of the free world, but the democrats figured their puppet would fool the public while some unidentified cabal actually ran the country, thus proving that, indeed anyone, regardless of their qualifications, can become President.
Now we’re faced with the possibility that Kamala Harris might become the democrat nominee, and even President, even though she seems to have a room temperature I. Q. All of her political accomplishments seem to have sprung from having a sexual affair with influential California State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. In 2020 she tried running for President, but she did so poorly that she had to drop out before the first democrat primary. She never received a single nominating vote, but now she’s almost sewn up the nomination. Her brain seems to be in worse shape than Biden’s. She doesn’t exhibit any signs that she has any cogent thoughts. She seems incapable of uttering anything other than gibberish. It is true; absolutely anyone can become President. Isn’t that frightening? We need to make sure that doesn’t happen in November.
“THEY WERE CALLED ‘THE GREATEST GENERATION’ FOR A REASON.” -Sheila Tolley-
Seventy-nine years ago, a Band of Roughnecks went abroad on a top secret mission into Robin Hood’s stomping grounds to punch oil wells to help fuel England’s war machines.
It’s a story that should make any oilman or woman proud.
The year was 1943 and England was mired in World War II. U-boats attacked supply vessels, choking off badly needed supplies to the island nation. But oil was the commodity they needed the most as they warred with Germany.
A book “The Secret of Sherwood Forest: Oil Production in England During World War II” by Guy Woodward & Grace Steele Woodward was published in 1973, and tells the obscure story of the American oil men who went to England to bore wells in a top secret mission in March 1943.
England had but one oil field, in Sherwood Forest of all places. Its meager output of 300 barrels a day was literally a drop in the bucket of their requirement of 150,000 barrels a day to fuel their war machines.
Then a top secret plan was devised: to send some Americans and their expertise to assist in developing the field. Oklahoma based Noble Drilling Company, along with Fain-Porter signed a one year contract to drill 100 wells for England, merely for costs and expenses.
42 drillers and roughnecks from Texas and Oklahoma, most in their teens and early twenties volunteered for the mission to go abroad. The hands embarked for England in March 1943 aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth. Four National 50 drilling rigs were loaded onto ships but only three of them made landfall; the Nazi U-boats sank one of the rigs en route to the UK.
The Brits’ jaws dropped as the Yanks began punching the wells in a week, compared to five to eight weeks for their British counterparts. They worked 12 hour tours, 7 days a week and within a year, the Americans had drilled 106 wells and England oil production shot up from 300 barrels a day to over 300,000.
The contract fulfilled, the American oil men departed England in late March 1944. But only 41 hands were on board the return voyage. Herman Douthit, a Texan derrick-hand was killed during the operation. He was laid to rest with full military honors, and remains the only “civilian” to be buried at The American Military Cemetery in Cambridge.
“The Oil Patch Warrior,” a seven foot bronze statue of a roughneck holding a four foot pipe wrench stands near Nottingham England to honor the American oil men’s assistance and sacrifice in the war. A replica was placed in Ardmore Oklahoma in 2001.
It is by no means a stretch to state that without this American mission, we might all be speaking German today.
Special thanks to the American Oil and Gas Historical Society.
