This should help trade deficits.

The energy information administration and the International Energy Agency, a global group of oil-consuming nations, had predicted that the U.S. would eventually pass Russia and Saudi Arabia but possibly not until 2019. MORE

My wife, RIP, was from Lawrence. A Moriarty a royal Irish name. Might be some still there.

LAWRENCE, MASS. 
A series of gas explosions an official described as “Armageddon” killed a teenager, injured at least 10 other people and ignited fires in at least 39 homes in three communities north of Boston on Thursday, forcing entire neighborhoods to evacuate as crews scrambled to fight the flames and shut off the gas. MORE

My company, tears for the Beetle.

This was my company folks. Volkswagen of America, Western division. The new Beetle was designed in Our designed center in Simi Valley, California. It brought people back to our show rooms at the time when we came out with the Jetta, Golf, and the Passat.

It was the best place I ever worked.  Started in 1974 as a shipping clerk, lead man, shop steward and even did some truck driving for them. 18 wheeler, no less.  Once I got my 25 years in I decided to take an early retirement in May 1999 to get more active in the Traditional Catholic Movement. This worked out for me as I was able to give my first public lecture in Burbank, California on November 6, 1999. My subject was on “The Great Apostasy.” One well known noted speaker was Father Gregorius Hesse, from Austria. RIP.  

News media low keyed on this one.

Vol 11 Issue ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
September 15, 2018 ~ Seven Sorrows of the BVM

1. What is the Sacrament of Confirmation
2. Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
3. Saints Cornelius and Cyprian
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

Next week will be the Ember days, when Holy Mother Church will fast and pray that God will bless the earth and provide a good harvest, not just in material things, but more especially in spiritual. The outcome of these prayers is the vocations to the priesthood and the ordinations that are normally administered on Ember Saturday.

One person called radio show host Rush Limbaugh and accused both Limbaugh and Trump for the Hurricane. Since Hurricanes know that neither men believe in climate change, so they strike even harder. 

“All of us have a mission here on earth. I prepared myself for a moment like this, because you run risks,” he said.

He lamented missing the Sept. 7 Independence Day parade in Rio and quoted his campaign slogan: “Brazil above everything and God above everyone.” MORE