Will on the Exam Table

Good afternoon, people of Stroock's Books and good yontiff, Chaig Semeach and happy Shavuot. Yes, we're getting even more Jewy. 

We did a little light yard work yesterday. The knee came through okay. This morning we're a little less sore than we were yesterday morning. Progress. We'd said for weeks our body needed a gym break, damn it. 

We're back from a doctor's appointment. We've had a bit of a cough on and off since August and wanted to have it looked at. The doctor looked down our throat and then stuck cameras up our nose and into our esophagus. Good news, no tumor down there, or anything. Then he looked in our ears and plucked a few hairs deep in the canal (that was an interesting sensation), said one was right on the eardrum and may be the cause of the cough. He ain't called an ear/nose/throat doctor for nothing. 

To be on the safe side, he said, the doctor sent us for a chest Xray. The Nurse Ratchet at the front desk wanted us to wear a mask. We categorically refused in no uncertain terms to put on a mask. 'This ain't 2020 and these things don't do nuthin' anyway,' we insisted. Nurse Ratchet relented. The X-ray girl was cute, mid-20s, glasses, with one of those Sarah Palin governor headshot hair styles (sigh, what might have been). Very cute [Knobhead-Ed]. You jusdge your medical experience the way you want, we'll judge our medical experience the way we want. 

So an Egyptian man firebombed a pro-Israel rally in Colorado. A Holocaust survivor was among those burned. Yes the assailant was a practitioner of a certain religion.  We really don't know what to say. The golden age of Jews in America is over.

On to nicer things. The Trump/MAGA backed candidate in the Polish presidential election, Karol Nowrocki, narrowly defeated the Soros/globalist candidate. MAGA's own Jack Posobiec is delighted, of course! All the right people are angry today. 

Remaining on the Eastern European beat, that daring Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian bomber fleet changes a few things (or everything) doesn't it?* The Iranians make a lot of drones, and the Russians are using them now. Good thing the Israelis have an anti-drone laser system up and running, isn't it? The Jerusalem Post reports 'the much celebrated Iron Beam laser system has shot down dozens of aerial threats during the war...' The imams are right. The Jew is clever.

Lets say Israel attacks Iran's nuclear sites ala Israel Strikes. What's Iran's next move? Earlier in the war Iran launched a pair of missile/drone saturation attacks on Israel. At best they made some holes in the desert, nothing more and tore the roofs off a couple of hangars. We slow clap.  Meanwhile, every day the Houthis fire a ballistic missile at Israel. These attacks are psychological and economic warfare. But they are also probes of Israel's missile defenses. It's What Does Iran do Next week, all week here at Stroock's Books. 

DOGE report...mostly just a lot of thinking. We thought up three scenes in World War 1990: Thatcher's War. The Irish Defence Force CoS, an IRA meeting, and an IRA Active Service Unit getting ready. We're loath to write another meeting. Why not have the Irish CoS thinking about how to defend Ireland while playing golf? General James Parker was an avid golfer. We've learned many things during out research of The Troubles. One of those things is the need to take the Irish Army seriously. 

*Hats off. Most impressive. Clancy-esque. Anyone who's read Red Storm Rising knows what we mean. If we wrote an attack like that we'd delete it for being unrealistic. Bravo. Netanyahu: if Ukraine, why not Israel?