Happy New Year

Shona Tovah, happy New Year Stroock's Books Kibbutzim. Happy 5785. The shofar will sound.

Iran put on an impressive light show yesterday but otherwise didn't accomplish much other than pissing off God's chosen people.* And on the eve of Rosh Hashanah too. The Israelis will celebrate the new year with 2000-pound JDAMs. Iran targeted the Israeli nuclear facility at Dimona. Are the mullahs out of their goddamn minds? 

Meanwhile in Lebanon, the Israeli invasion expands, and the IDF has ordered the evacuation of more villages.  There seem to be some skirmishing but overall, Hezbollah is doing its best impersonation of "IRA Ran Away". Look it up. Whoops that sentence got OTBE'd as we wrote it. Clashes now in southern Lebanon with at least one Israeli KIA...now 14 casualties. Looking like a lot of fighting and casualties now. 

Tim Walz is retarded, obviously. We're not surprised at all that JD Vance wiped the floor with him. Good on Vance, good on Trump for picking Vance, good on us all. A word of caution. Lloyd Bentson humiliated Dan Quayle in the 1988 veep debate. Mitt Romney clobbered Barry S. in 2012. How'd that work out? That said, our gut says the debate helped the good guys enormously. Enormously. These Black Pills are getting harder to swallow. 

Sports Update I: a note on Will's fandom. By birth and heritage Will roots for the New York Giants in football and the New York Yankees in baseball. No one in the Stroock household ever followed basketball and hockey. 

So why do we talk about the Mets and the Philadelphia teams on this blog? Sometime in the 2010s we stopped caring all that much about either team, especially the Yankees. Actually for a while we weren't interested in baseball at all. But the Mets have been an interesting case for many years now, and we admit to paying attention to them. Also, with Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling in the booth the Mets have the best broadcasters in baseball. As for the Philly thing, no we don't like the Eagles now, but Mrs. Stroock does, and we want her to be happy. 

Sports Update II: Forget about betting on baseball, here's the worst thing Pete Rose did to the game. When Bart Giamatti suspended Rose, he could have apologized, shut the hell up, and gone away for a couple of years. If Rose had applied for reinstatement after that, no one could have turned him down. Instead, Rose had to be his pigheaded self. He maintained his innocence and fought Giamatti and later Fay Vincent and later still Bud Selig and baseball the entire time. In doing so he stoked this whole damn Rose in the HoF argument for decades. Everything that happened to Pete Rose is on Pete Rose. 

*Some minor damage to a couple of air bases. So the Iranians can hit Israeli bases. Arabs being Arabs [These are Persians-Ed] they'll think a hole blown in a building is a big success.