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September 11, 2017 Vic Socotra

That Day

(Pentagon, 11 September 2001. I thought I lost my whole GDIP Budget Staff. Instead, I lost my pals in the CNO IP). I have already been in tears this morning. I must be getting soft. Or just old. One of the cable networks was re-running the coverage from The Day sixteen years ago on the […]

September 11, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Brinner

Scenes in Key West as Hurricane Irma lashed the lower Keys on September 10 2017 Author’s note: Sketchy reporting indicates the Florida Keys and Florida peninsula, while pretty roughed up, dodged a bullet yesterday. Sixteen years ago, America wasn’t so lucky. The tragedies that took place in NYC, Washington DC, and a farmer’s field in […]

September 10, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Season of the Wicked

Waves crash against the Southernmost Point in Key West, Fla., Saturday, last at night September 9, 2017. Hurricane Irma’s leading edge bent palm trees and spit rain as the storm swirled toward the Florida Keys Sunday morning. (Rob O’Neal/The Key West Citizen via AP) Author’s note: Irma was so strong that national media reporters scooted […]

September 9, 2017 Vic Socotra

Arrias on Politics: Not Self But Country

It’s said that real love only comes with sacrifice, that real love requires placing some cause or some one first, and truly giving of yourself for that person or cause. Several stories have “percolated out” following the two recent US Navy collisions at sea which include a number of sailors who gave their lives for […]

September 9, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Hatch Battening

Editor’s Note: this is late this afternoon but important. I am a professionally certified crisis junky, and it kept me up late, then awake late, and then glued to the latest reports. As someone who grew up in Michigan blizzards and Detroit riots, these are important and validated tips for staying alive…pray for those in […]

September 8, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: On the eve of the Storm

Editor’s Note: So, like most of us, I have been preoccupied with weather porn (family and friends in the path and maybe us here in Virginia), NORK Nukes and all the usual political nonsense here In DC. Montana is afire and most have not noticed the tragedy in one of the almost square states. Add […]

September 7, 2017 Vic Socotra

Troop in’

(Poet and Empire story-teller Rudyard Kipling) Editor’s Note: In view of our renewed commitment to Afghanistan, it is worth re-visiting Rudyard Kipling, Poet Laureate of the British Empir, and recall his thoughts about the troops and service in that troubled land…and America’s longest war. – Vic Troop in’ (Our Army in the East) Troopin’, troopin’, […]

September 7, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Bread, Milk, Toilet Paper

Author’s note: While cold, calculated, political cynicism was in plain sight inside the Capitol beltway yesterday, something else was the focus here in the southeastern USA. We have begun reaching out to our southernmost island friends to offer them shelter. Many are waiting to decide as they put up their storm shutters today. – Marlow […]

September 5, 2017 Vic Socotra

End of Summer

Yeah, another nuclear test from the NORKs, and warning of another atomic conflict, but they shouldn’t do the demonstration over Labor Day. It is wasting time. It is like they don’t get the news cycle and the popular attention span here in America. Let’s concentrate on things that matter. Yeah, I know summer doesn’t officially […]

September 5, 2017 Vic Socotra

Life & Island Times: Irma Not So Douce

Editor’s note: So, I was with Marlow one night in Key West, and we experienced a un-named tropical shower that dumped water up the wheel wells on his car. Not a big deal, and didn’t even cause the transvestite hookers to go inside their bar, though I am sure if affected business. This one has […]