Author: vicSocotra

We’re Speaking Persian Now…

(Keith, Dierdre, Holly, Miles, Eddie Images WER and VS). Now, let’s get things straight. We are not actually speaking Farsi this morning. Or Persian is the way the President summed it up this morning in his abbouncement that he will start smacking the Iranians again today with kinetic strokes on the economic and remaining military […]

Special Birthday Edition: Speak of the Devil

For those of us attempting to celebrate (part) of the past in today’s current moment. The consequences of that resumption of major combat operations in the Middle East will not be known until the Battle Damage Assessment starts coming back thi afternoon, so we are going to trot our Boomer Vic out here to parafe […]

ICE Funded Through 2028 

Trump Locks In ICE Funding Through End of Presidency After House Passes $70B Package We missed this one in the myriad of issues sweeping over us. Remember this from the middle of last week? It may be bigger than the Iran deal, if that is what happens later today. We have allowed the current thicket […]

Socotra house Special Afternoon Edition

This is a special Socotra edition from an equally special week. You can see holly has arranged things in her usual spectacular manner and is fully prepared for whatever pops up in the 4th Floor Conference Room. You can see the carts are loaded in alternate packages of brown llquids, sausage rolls, pigs in blankets […]

Sunday! Sunday!

There is a huge week coming up! Section leader miles is over at Army-Navy Country Club for the weekly Mimosa Meeting to talk about the seven ballistic missiles fired by helpless Iran over night. So that is still going on, and an incredible week is coming up. There is a significant anniversary day coming up […]

Special Note: D-Day , 2026

Special Note: Deirdre and Holly wee going to do a mushroom stroganoff recipe this morning with the magic trick at the end to be able to have veggie and beef versions without a great deal of effort. The problem with that was the screwworm infestation reported in Texas, which could mean real problems for the […]

The Middle Day of Three

(RADM Donald F. “Mac” Showers awarded the Bronze Star for his actions at Station HYPO, home of the Battle of Midway Codebreakers who enabled formation of the ambush that sank all four of the Imperial Navy’s major aircraft carriers. On this day in 1942). OK, OK, settle down out there. It’s a sunny afternoon and […]

Groundhog Day

That pretty much sums up the International situation. We won’t belabor our distant appreciation for what must be an excruciating time in the diplomatic circles attempting to deal with the maundering of the militants and the graceful decisive posturing by the President. The IRGC militants are holding out for the Mid-terms to weaken Mr. Trump. […]

Deirdre’s Afternoon Special: The Parmesan Project

(Shush! Don’t tell Miles! He had a hoo-hah this morning about what got sent instead of the approved copy he sent over for approval. That let the whole Crestive Section spin off on a truly lovely late May Day. So, I have a chance to do my own Daily, and i thought I would do […]

The Next Act

Morning, Gentle Readers! More noise from the Mid-East is competing with noise from the Texas primary elections down south. Mr Trump did well in his endorsements and that may impact his strategy in the Iran conflict. In our National Partisan conflict, the Left has been using the line that Trump cannot complete the Epic Fury […]