Up 56 drill rigs running from a year ago

Up 56 rigs from a year ago, in the week ending October 9, 2026, there were 603 drill rigs running in the US, up five rigs from the previous week, up fifty-six rigs from one year ago. Meanwhile, Canadian drillers opened six rigs, to 222 this past week, up twenty-nine rigs from one year ago.

US raw steel production down from previous week

In the week ending October 3, 2026, US raw steel production was 1,801,000 net tons at an ACUR of 78.3 percent, down 2.4 percent from the previous week ending September 26, 2026. Adjusted YTD production through October 3, 2026 was 71,967,000 net tons at an ACUR of 79.0 percent.

News Headlines

The Democrats are the Bad News Bears of the day, not since the last election cycle have I seen so much lying and hateful propaganda spewed like garbage on television and social media. The “affordability” issue is not really an issue at all, it has been made an issue by the Democrats, who in fact have caused the unaffordability of which they speak. Yes, fuel prices are high, higher than anyone would like but there is a valid reason for that. While Biden wanted to destroy the oil and gas industries, causing the higher prices Trump inherited, now, Iran is NOT to have a nuclear weapon, period. This is a worthwhile endeavor and will be seen as such in the months and years to come, I guarantee that. The list of legislative accomplishments attributable to the Trump administration are many, of course, the idiot Republicans do not talk them up, so the president himself is out doing it, maybe too little too late, time will tell.

France is broke and England is broke. Why? Because they have opened their borders to a massive influx of foreign nationals who have overwhelmed their welfare and healthcare systems. This is socialism in action and is what the Democrats want in our country. I say NO! Vote RED!

Thursday after work I was watching “The Five,” a news show on Fox, Jesse Waters mentioned that the muslim-anti-semitic, anti-Israel chaos is now in the USA. There has always been anti-Semitism in this country, but not to the degree we have seen on campus and in the streets in recent years. I do not understand the reasoning, but it exists. If you look at the rioting going on in our country today, you will see citizens dressed in hijabs and with Arabic towels on their heads. These radicals came in here freely during the last administration and have brought their bullshit with them. now we have muslims in the senate, the house of representatives and many of the same running for office in the upcoming mid-term elections. Does this bode well for American society? I think not.

I don’t know how many of you are baby boomers, I was born in 1951, today, October 9, would have been John Lennon’s 86th birthday. The Beatles came on the music scene in the states in 1963, I was 12 years old and totally caught up in Beatlemania, they were then, and remain, my favorite band. He was senselessly murdered in 1980.

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

“KEEP AMERICA GREAT”

Have a great weekend…. God bless America!

Buy American made products whenever you can, it’s good for you, good for your friends and neighbors and good for our country.

If you are hiring…try to hire a veteran…. they are loyal, disciplined, hardworking…and they deserve our support.

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TEDDY ROOSEVELT ON IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA…1907

In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag…We have room for but one language here and that is the English language…and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”