In Which Will Gets Himself Banned From Ireland

One week! We can't wait.

In an odd defensive slug match, Mrs. Stroock's Eagles defeated the Packers 22-10. Not a pretty win, but there ain't no style points in football. Good on Saquon Barkley, it's hard to not be happy for the man. Reminder, the Giants didn't even make him an offer[All right come clean. Are you an Eagles fan?-Ed]. No, we are not an Eagles fan. But we can say we have zero emotional investment in the Giants, not really, not since they benched Eli Manning. 

Los Angeles...how you doing? We'll echo Mark Steyn here: nothing works. Also, no one will be held accountable. Not Gavin, not Karen, not the Lesbian softball team running the fire department. Nobody. And we wrote that before we read this from Colonel Schlichter. 

In the Middle East, A hostage deal has been reached, or nearly reached, or is near, they say. We shall see. There's no downside to this, Stroock's Books believes, not when Gaza and Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon are smoldering piles of rubble. Do note that Hamas chose war.  

Meanwhile, Ynet reports, 'Riyadh exerted its pressure to ensure the election of Joseph Aoun to be Lebanon's new president while Iran's efforts to prevent it failed; Now sources hint at the possibility of normalization with Israel.' There's some serious strategery afoot here.  Think about it. Exit question, if Gaza and Lebanon are quiet does this free Israel to deal with the Houthis and Iran? If so, the imams are right, the Jew is clever.

What do we got this week? Finishing up the War Night readthrough. [When are you going to be happy with what you've written?-Ed] We don't know...we don't know. Maybe when we stop finding needless words to omit. Writing a few Thatcher's War scenes...and research, research, research. Reminder for you goddamn foreigners, in America IRA means Individual Retirement Account. Sorry for the confusion. 

We find the Irish Troubles particularly troubling. We always have. Alert reader(s) will have noticed over the years a certain mockery of  the Irish need to wallow in Irish history.* 'English hung me grandfather they did,' we've joked more than once. Maybe we just saw Patriot Games at an impressionable age. Click the link. That! That scene, just sitting their wallowing in the misery. 

[Ohhhh....look who's back to ragging on the Irish-Ed].

Shut up Ed. When we sent you a pic from Kilmainham Gaol, and said, 'You people should be ashamed!' you replied, 'What lies are they telling?'

Monday Metal (or not): related to our above post, Stroock's Books gives reader(s) Sweet's Los Angels:

*Yes, we do the exact same thing with Jews and the Holocaust. We'd much rather celebrate the IDF, Aerial Sharon, Bibi, and dead terrorists than wallow in the loss. There is a certain kind of Jew who believes the Holocaust is the be-all end-all of Judaism. Not us. [Yeah? What do you believe?-Ed] We don't know. We do know Holocaustism (we invented that just now) doesn't keep Jews safe. Oh, we did get in a Judaism on Saturday [Clap...clap...clap-Ed].