Thrust of Thursday

A faire Thursday you people of Stroock's Books. 

We've had excellent back-to-back days at the gym. We feel taught, tough, and based. 

Prince Andrew arrested! Holy hell....we don't care. 

Sports update. One more game before the US and Canada meet for an epic hockey rematch. Canada is the mortal enemy of every real American. Exit question: why does the US men's Olympic Hockey team look like the New York Rangers?

And so, the president assembles a mighty host. This is the greatest assemblage of American air and naval power since 2003, they say. Trump and the Israelis are maintaining strategic ambiguity as to the timing of the Iranian op. Each morning now we awake expecting to see, 'Operation Iranian Freedom has Begun'. Is there a wee bit of cynicism in our imaginary headline? Yes. But only a wee bit. 

Reminder, this operation almost certainly includes a massive Israeli effort against Hezbollah. The Israelis hit several targets in Lebanon yesterday and have been prepping the battlespace there for a few weeks.

As far as the Gaza Board of Peace goes, we haven't been following, because we don't care, because we don't think it'll go anywhere. Lol, their talking about developing Gaza's beach front. As if these people are capable of building, much less running, such an endeavor. What can we say? Enjoy your tents, guys. Bomb Gaza. 

Israeli polls are anyone's guess. All manner of polls show all manner of results. Hung parliament is the most common and most likely result. Pollsters are just guessing about what the elecotrate will look like on election day. Interestingly the Arab joint list (of three parties) gets between 12-15 seats in the 120 seat knesset. Netanyahu's bloc usually gets 50-55 seats. Some are speculating that Bibi would cut a deal with the Arabs. He could, he could. Bibi's gonna Bibi. Though we've no idea what he'd offer them. 

Brad R. Torgerson tweets about reading Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising for the first time. Torgerson was 13 he says. We were 14, and devoured RSR on a gloomy winter break in 1988. We also played NATO: The Next War in Europe. The post and subsequent comments went right to our brain. 'Dorky teens and middle aged men,' indeed. We've read RSR three times, February '88, August '88, and January '03. Do click over if you can. 

DOGE Report.

Yesterday was laundry and cleaning day, so we had a lot to do.

Between switching the laundry over and vacuuming we worked on World War 1990: Thatcher's War. 

We made edits to the World War 1990: Ireland MS.

Riveting. Just riveting.