Author: vicSocotra

The Response to Iran

Sunday post on Truth Social. “Iran has been playing games with the United States, and the rest of the World, for 47 years (DELAY, DELAY, DELAY!),” Trump wrote. “For 47 years the Iranians have been ’tapping’ us along, keeping us waiting, killing our people with their roadside bombs, destroying protests, and recently wiping out 42,000 […]

Small Craft Warnings:

A Legend Leaves, Descano and Lucas in Litigation If you have a moment, just try to understand some of the chaos being described on all the messaging streams. The Iranians apparently have now reached the point we mentioned not quite two weeks ago. An Iranian oil guy let slip the fact that they are aware […]

Gold Bar

How did you do today? We only got through yesterday after than ten PM last night when the new stuff started pouring in from over there. We saw some interesting stuff this morning as the sun was rising here and Tehran was resting up over lunch. Word at this moment, midnight over there, means some […]

Vic’s Swedish Meatballs

Vic is off to the hospital this morning, and we decided to cook up a batch of Swedish Meatballs to have on his return. He thinks it may be sausage biscuits, but we like a surprised Vic when we can coax one out. The other thing is that one energetic preparation can yield enough for […]

Cinco de May-O is Here-O!

“Hi! Don’t start with me this morning. You know what this is, the most surreal of our unofficial national holidays.” “We celebrate a battle fought elsewhere by people who do not pay a great deal of attention to it. We commemmorate the day by drinking to forget. Sort of. It is the Fifth of May, […]

Cinco de Mayo Almost-O

“So, this is Miles. I had Splash and Rocket deal with the Daily this morning and i thought everything was done for the day. At least that’s what I thought until Vic reminded me of his medical exam on Weds. That apparentlly involves jamming some mechanical contraptions into both of his ends, up and down, […]

Project freedom

Last week, the U.S. Departments of State and War announced plans to step up and share information among international partners to combine diplomatic action with military coordination to implement Project Freedom. US contributions to the effort will include guided-missile destroyers, over 100 land and sea-based aircraft, multi-domain unmanned platforms, and 15,000 service members. ADM Brad […]

Deirdre’s Maryland Crab Cakes & Other Current Affairs

The one above is the serious matter DoJ is pursuing. The campaign of weaponizing the Department to go after the people who weaponized it last time. This time it is JIm Comey who is going to have to dig in for some spare legal change, since he sent the image above as an Instagram post. […]

Anti-War Protestor Scales Bridge, Plans To Stay For Days

This is an ongoing story. A fellow named Guifo Reichstadter has done this before, in 2022. Police had closed two lanes of the inbound section of the bridge. There is no word on whether there are plans for Kentucky Derby watching from the spans. Police are telling folks to avoid the area, which could impact […]

NIP 2026 Spring Red Tie Award

The Staff at Army-Navy Country Club turned in one of their customary elegant backdrops for a dramatic iteration of the NIP Red Tie award that featured award of the Red Tie to revered Marine Vince Stewart with keynote remarks by LT GEN Jerry Carter, ODNI Director’s Advisor for Military Affairs. The tradition of the Red […]