OK, it is going to be hard to keep this short but we plan on going out for a picnic baccanale on the grounds near the broken asphalt across from the entrance. We are pleased that we have most of the answers. Here they are, if you are in a Tuesday rush:

1. Swalwell and that Republican both quit Congress. So long, been good to know you guys. Here in Virginia, the Progressive Revolution seems to be on trial. the election about the big re-Districting bill is causing quite the stir.

2. Oh, and we have committed our Navy to a job patrolling and blockading a strategic waterway almost directly on the other side of the globe. There are apparently some issues about implementing such a blockade, and we got the group together in the Conference Room to chat about what is likely to happen today. And tomorrow.

3. Miles had asked some of the retired Sailors to be there since they had been working parts of this crisis for nearly half a century. Some of the more motivated Zoomers were there with the good questions every generation of naval officers has been asked, the foremost of these being the classic “Is this operation going to work?”

4. Considering the hostile Media coverage, we were relieved to know that it will work and be over by 27 April. We will sum it up this way: only a few ships are being allowed through the Strait of Hormuz. There will more more, and you can take this with clocks ticking and against a backdrop of cash registers clanging:

“The Blockade is in effect and ships pass only with USN permission. Iran cannot export, and oil storage facilities are sixty-percent full. The blockade will make them fill up in less than two weeks. When storage is full, pumping will have to cease. Once that occurs, water will start to pollute the base, permanently locking oil into sediments.

That is not a temporary loss. It is permanent. That is the other invisible figure at the Iranian side of the table, and he has a growing and inexorable negative impact on their ability to stay petulant.

So, with the important work of Tuesday over, we asked Keith to go over to the American Cookies outlet in Fair Oaks Mall to get a couple dozen of their double-filled Tuesday doozies. Then lunch, and picnic until we are full. That leads to the other project we have going now that the Persian Gulf crisis is mostly resolved.

The Iranians are going to want a return to the table. We have a couple weeks before things get critical, you know? Splash is working on a separate project that he is pretty excited about:

He claims he will explain the remarkable story of how a down-home Tennessee country singer with a gritty flair named Chris Stapleton teamed with master blender Jackie Zykan to blend a carefully-selected brand of whiskey sourced across Kentucky and Tennessee. He claims he is going to do a more complete review tomorrow.

Miles said that was OK with him. We won’t have any deadlines for real until Monday the 27th. Salut!

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