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The Honeymooners – Complete Series Review – Episode 06 – The Sleepwalker

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This is a very simple story.  Ed Norton is walking in his sleep and because of this Ralph is being forced by Alice and Trixie to go out on the roof and lead him back to bed.  But Ralph is apoplectic because of all the sleep he’s losing.  The climax of the story has Ralph sleeping in Ed’s bedroom to prevent him from sleepwalking but even in his sleep Norton is too clever for Ralph and escapes.  Finally Ralph summons a psychiatrist to get to the root of Norton’s problem and after being administered Pentothal he regresses to his childhood and we find out that he is pining for his lost dog Lulu.  The psychiatrist thinks Norton should be psychoanalyzed for several months to ascertain the correct treatment but Ralph dismisses him and says he’s going to get Norton a dog to replace the lost Lulu.

In the final scene Trixie has come down at midnight to thank Ralph for his idea about the dog and to announce that Norton and Lulu are upstairs sleeping like babies.  After she leaves Ralph announces that he should have been a psychiatrist and that he’s going to have some warm milk and get a good night’s sleep.  But as Alice goes to put a milk bottle outside their door Norton sleepwalks in carrying Lulu.

Now this is a very minor episode with a very limited appeal.  The scenes with Norton sleepwalking are mildly amusing but nothing more.  I’d call this one of the weakest episodes in the series.  Lulu!

The Left Coast is Finding Out What Zero Carbon Means, the Hard Way.

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California, Oregon and Washington (also known as the Left Coast) are some of the most progressive parts of the United States.  And one particularly rabid part of their agenda is green energy.  They have been punishing the oil companies for anything and everything they could think of for more than the last twenty-five years.

And now they’ve succeeded in convincing the oil companies to get outta Dodge.  That right.  California used to be a large-scale extractor and refiner of petroleum.  But those days are over and now the state no longer produces enough oil to cover the gasoline and other petroleum energy products it needs.  And this is even worse for Oregon which has a very tenuous lifeline of gasoline that travels through a single pipeline.  Oregon has literally zero oil refining capacity.  Oregon’s woman governor sent a letter to Shell Oil begging them to return to the state.  She promised tax subsidies and protection from environmental harassment.  They said no thanks.  After losing money on all their ventures on the Left Coast they’ve permanently moved on to working with the more lucrative LNG projects elsewhere on the planet.

Now Washington state has a less dire situation but only by comparison.  These states convinced themselves that electric cars and solar panels were the imminent future of transportation and energy production.  But none of that turned out to be true.  Now they’ve realized late in the game that they’ve chased away they petroleum industry and left themselves without the fuel stocks they need just to keep their economies running.  Now isn’t that special!

So, what’s my point?  Well, basically I’m just gloating.  Schadenfreude is a large part of the pleasure for us on the Right, here in the era of Trump.  I extract enormous satisfaction from watching morons like Newsom and Oregon’s Governor Tina Kotek panic when they discover that fossil fuels still provide the power that keeps their fantasylands from collapsing back into the stone age.  And that they’ve effectively driven away the people who provide these extremely valuable resources.  Listening to them beg grown-ups to give them another chance just does my heart good.

If you watch that first video, you’ll hear that Oregon predicts that if there is a pipeline problem anytime soon $9-$12 a gallon gasoline will be very likely.  Now think about what that will do to the cost of living.  All I can say is it couldn’t happen a nicer bunch.

Alright, I guess that’s enough gloating for now.