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\n(A topic of moderation this morning, this is a “six pack” of the Gold Bar adult evening beverage. Courtesy Three Brothers).<\/p>\n
\n(A topic of moderation this morning, this is a “six pack” of the Gold Bar adult evening beverage. Courtesy Three Brothers).<\/p>\n
Friday Watch: Before Breakfast<\/strong><\/p>\n VIRGINIA BEACH | HAPPY HOUR FRONT<\/strong> Or more accurately, the afternoon slides into evening while the smart Persians on the other side of the globe try to figure out the best play available to them as oil flow shuts down and the wells begin eating themselves permanently into the rock around the pipes.<\/p>\n That is what they are sleeping on tonight in Tehran. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE<\/strong> Copyright 2026 Vic Socotra (A topic of moderation this morning, this is a “six pack” of the Gold Bar adult evening beverage. Courtesy Three Brothers). Friday Watch: Before Breakfast VIRGINIA BEACH | HAPPY HOUR FRONT What was going on back here wasn\u2019t much new. Maybe more by Happy Hour. Then it starts all over again. Or more accurately, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33100,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33092\/revisions\/33100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/050826-2b.jpg\")
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\nWhat was going on back here wasn\u2019t much new. Maybe more by Happy Hour.
\nThen it starts all over again.<\/p>\n
\nSomething timed to arrive before breakfast in America.
\nWhich is why we present the meals that kept Protesting strong:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/050826-2c.jpg\")
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\nThere are smart people in Iran who live on the other side of a bridge from home.
\nThink about that for a minute.
\nImagine some hard-faced foreign authority strolling into your living room and announcing you cannot walk to your own kitchen without permission issued by somebody three thousand miles away.
\nThat sort of thing changes people.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/050826-2d.jpg\")
\nWEEKEND AMERICA<\/strong>
\nTwo worlds running simultaneously.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/050826-2e.jpg\")
\nOVERNIGHT WATCH<\/strong>
\nMore of this in about four hours.
\nThey will try to have something ready for us before breakfast.
\nWhat do they roll out tomorrow morning?
\nSomething to energize us?
\nFrighten us?
\nSuccor us?
\nDistract us?
\nIt changes how they think.
\nHow they sleep.
\nHow they negotiate.
\nHow they threaten.
\nHow they endure.
\nMeanwhile here:
\ntraffic,
\nbeer taps,
\nshore breeze,
\ntelevision noise,
\ngas stations,
\nweekend plans,
\nbase traffic,
\nThe ordinary machinery of Friday evening.
\nOne side wondering about tomorrow\u2019s media cycle.
\nThe other wondering whether pressure inside a field line
\nOr export terminal becomes irreversible before dawn.<\/p>\n
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