Winter’s End – Almost
Early morning. Fog rising as the ice slowly gives way to the coming sun.
Too late to go ice fishing …
The days are warming but winter’s not over.
I won’t trust the weather for at least another 6 weeks or so … not that we had any winter this year – so far. Ski resorts shutting down already. Usually doesn’t happen until mid-May.
Summers coming. 43 right now at 6:30am and will be in the 70’s this afternoon. Thinking about putting shorts and t shirt on. Maybe fire up the grill at suppertime, now that it gets dark later.
The grill is a good idea. Mom is coming over tonight. Going to grill some chicken.
Winter is almost over, at least according to the calender. Up Calumet, MI way, where I was most of last week, there’s still 2-3 feet of snow on the ground. Down here where I live in the range of the 44th parallel, there’s been some solid melt, and we’re sposed to hit 65 degrees today, but like DT notes I’ll not put winter gear away for at least 6 more weeks. In fact, the weather guessers guess we’ll have 3 rounds of heavy snow this week, with chances of 5-11 inches of snow each of those days. We’ll see.
From the comments over at Arthur’s place:
” 20 million barrels didn’t vanish. They’re stranded. Production is still running — for now. Storage is filling.
WSJ confirmed Kuwait is already cutting production because tanks are full. Qatar declared force majeure on LNG — first shutdown in 30 years. When storage hits capacity, production stops involuntarily.
Restarting a shut-in field takes months. Some wells don’t come back.
Same shipping lanes carry food. GCC imports 80-90% of what it eats through Hormuz. Same insurers that pulled coverage for tankers pulled it for cargo.
Same Maersk that left isn’t delivering grain either. Qatar’s energy minister told the Financial Times: exports — not just oil, exports — could halt within weeks.
GCC sovereign wealth funds put $131.8 billion into US markets last year. That pipeline runs on oil revenue. No exports, no revenue, no pipeline. Reuters this week: “Gulf sovereign wealth funds were built for a rainy day. This may be it.”
NOW ASK WHO ARCHITECTED THIS.
Axios confirmed Netanyahu spent months in the White House pre-mapping Iran’s ethnic fault lines and armed groups before the first bomb dropped.
He called Trump on February 23 to reveal Khamenei’s meeting location.
Israeli Defense Minister Katz admitted they’d originally planned the strike for mid-2026 — they accelerated it. Netanyahu told Fox News: “what I have yearned to do for 40 years.”
His 40-year wish just produced the largest oil disruption in history. GCC — Israel’s emerging normalization partners — can’t export, can’t import, can’t feed themselves within weeks. American gas spiked 14% in seven days.
$3.7 billion burned in 100 hours. $50 billion supplemental requested. American troops dead in a Kuwaiti command center with inadequate protection.
And Israel? Zero ground troops deployed. Zero economic cost. Got its 40-year war funded by American taxpayers, executed by American pilots, absorbing Iranian retaliation on American bases in countries that aren’t Israel.
1973 was an oil shock that lasted months. 2026 is an oil shock, a food shock, a shipping shock, and a financial shock — running simultaneously through one chokepoint. With no off-ramp because the man who started it demands unconditional surrender and the country he’s bombing just chose the one leader he vetoed.
Netanyahu got his war. America got the bill. The Gulf got the damage. And the only economy not bleeding is the one that drew up the plan in the Oval Office before the first Tomahawk launched. “
https://www.arthursido.com/2026/03/strange-bedfellows-indeed.html
Well, maybe it won’t try that again.
Some gotta learn the hard way I suppose.
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