Friday Anniversaries, Collusion and Flags

This is the big day, 7/16/21. Twenty years ago today Mrs. Stroock and ourselves moved to a quaint and rustic farmhouse in bucolic Peapack, New Jersey. We knew we'd been living in Northern Virginia too long because people were complaining about a heat wave and we didn't think it was that bad. Anyway, we lived in Peapack for four years till moving to Bridgewater. 

Ah....the summer of 2001. The summer of the shark. We remember everything; Gary Condit, Corey Stringer, the whole bag, The calm before the storm. It was our first semester back to school at American Military University, online.  It felt great to be back in the New York Metro Area. We could watch the Yankees. We were around Italian people again, there was a curious lack of them in Northern Virginia, which explains the mediocre Pizza. We used to go to Pizza Hut. We went to a game at Shea Stadium and saw Barry Bonds. 

We told Mrs. Stroock about the big day, her reply was, 'And?'

Here's our latest bit of Soviet Agitprop: 'All throughout 2021 the Democrats have been trying to exploit the 1/6 Capitol Hill Riot for political gain and disgruntled Republicans have been happy to join in. Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and former chair of the House Republican Caucus voted to impeach Trump over the 1/6 riots, as did ten other House Republicans. Six Senate Republicans voted to convict. Columnist George Will, a giant of the post-war Conservative movement declared, ‘I’d like to see Jan. 6 burned into the American mind as firmly as 9/11.’ Steve Schmidt, former John McCain presidential campaign strategist and co-founder of the ostensibly Republican Lincoln Project said, ‘The 1/6 attack for the future of the country was a profoundly more dangerous event than the 9/11 attacks.’ Click on through. The pic alone is worth it. Just add it to the rap sheet, NSA. Count one: the defendant wrote brilliant and inciteful articles for Inforos...

Now more than ever, it is time to liberate Cuba. This blog has no doubt that the boys of the 82nd Airborne Division will be welcomed as liberators. Seriously though, we saw the Squad's head communist, AOC, called the embargo cruel. That's stupid, because so is AOC. Send her home to Venezuela [She's from Yorktown, two towns over from where you grew up, knobhead-Ed]. But despite being a dumb brunette, AOC has a point. What has the embargo ever accomplished?

Moving on to another War of Liberation. We listened to a MINT Press livestream about the Cuba situation and the US in general, and one of the interviewees claimed that US law mandated an invasion of the Netherlands if an American was ever detained and tried by the International Criminal Court. That would be so cool. We could send the 82nd and 101st to Eindhoven and Nijmegen just to reminisce. 

What Will's Watching, The Godfather. We're probably not the only ones here that watched the Godfather* movies on AMC the other day. We were always confused by the final scene in the Godfather II, where the film flashes back to December 7th 1941. Okay, the Japs attack Pearl Harbor on Vito's birthday, Carlo meets Connie. We learn Michael joins the Marines. Is Coppola telling us that Michael will do what he has to do? We pondered this the other night and then realized what Coppola is trying to show us. Vito arrives and everyone gets up to greet him, except Michael, who remains at the table, alone. In the end, Michael will always be alone. 

The boat is in the water. We admit it felt good to drive it from the boat ramp across the lake to our dock. But we'll be damned if we get back in that thing. The bilge is busted and we need to put a new one in. On the drive back, a wheel came off the trailer. When we say that thing is haunted by our grandmother, we mean that thing is haunted by our grandmother. Man, she really doesn't like that boat. Do not mess with southern women. EVER.

Below, our Lake Buel neighbor's late CSA flag:

*The Godfather III is unfairly slammed. It's a decent movie, it's just not as good as the other two.