Happy Israeli Independence Day, Abolitionist Thoughts, and Def Leppard Musings

People who staggered out of Auschwitz formed a tiny, weakling, nation 74 years ago today. Now Israel is an economic, military, and technological powerhouse. Happy Israeli Independence Day. God bless President Truman. Mensch. We'll say Kadish for him tonight. 

Remember the fait awaiting all enemies of the Jews. 

Today is also Cinco de Mayo, traditionally Taco Night in Casa de Stroock. This is the 19th anniversary of our grandmother's death, a nice little old Jewish lady born in Nachez Mississippi and raised in Baton Rouge, later Waterproof Louisianna. Heh, In World War 1990: The Weser, the chaplain of the 211th ACR, Rebel Renegades is a Rabbi. See also the Southern Jewish Historical Society. 

Shifting back to domestic issues...This blog finds it particularly galling that many (most?) Jews are pro-abortion. Hitler didn't get enough of us? You know how many Jews there were in 1938? Fifteen million. You know how many Jews there are now? Fifteen million. Given that the world population has tripled since 1938, the math is horrifying. 

Boy, those wailing feminist harpies just don't disappoint, do they? Yikes. This blog declares once again, we think abortion is usually wrong and always a tragedy. Feminists think the baby should be born and kept comfortable until execution. 

Just ask former blackface Virginia governor Ralph Northam, 'The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.' 

If it's not a person, why even bother keeping the infant comfortable? To save time and resources, practical abortionists might consider strangling the infant to death with its umbilical cord. This is the method recommended by the National Organization for Women. It's possible the previous sentence is not 100% accurate. But it is 100% true that feminists hate babies. 

So last night we watched the old VH1 Classic Albums doc (now 20 years old) about Def Leppard's Hysteria. One producer called Hysteria a 'greatest hits album'. Another said Hysteria was 'all killer, no filler'. Goddamn right. Every song on that album could have been a single. Which is one of the reasons Hysteria still sounds so good 35 years later. Here's 21st Century Sha La La girl off 1999's Euphoria. Not bad, no? This song just sounds like the late 90's, we don't know any other way to describe it. Hanson could have sung it. Which isn't such a bad thing. 

Saturday Updates

Blood, Frogs, Lice, Wild Animals, Cattle Disease, Boils, Hail, Locusts, Darkness, Death of the First Born...One dips a finger in red wine and touches a plate with each plague. Never ceases to give me chills. The recitation of plagues sounds even cooler in the original Hebrew*, like you can actually feel God smiting the Egyptians. When the Israelis launched their final offensive against Egypt in 1948, they called it Operation Ten Plagues. The Jews have a knack for really cool sounding operational code names. As the Imams say...

A fine, and shockingly fast Seder last night. Those dishes didn't wash themselves. We have a couple of teenagers in the family now, and per tradition they're allowed wine on Passover. Between that and the post-dinner sweets, the teens got a little punchy. We sent them away.

This is post 4902. According to calculations made by the Stroock families' crack mathematics team, at the current pace post 5,000 will be made on 24 July. You people know what happens then.

On to the things.

A frustrating and disappointing week working on The New American Order. The novel's opening chapter takes place at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Here the president will be sworn in for his second term and give his inauguration address. The three scenes we want to write are written, but we have not written the fourth and concluding scene we wanted to write. In fact, we don't know what we want to write because we're not sure how to transmit the president's four points without showing a speech. We don't want to show a speech.

That being said we made a lot of progress on TNAO this week, writing, re-writing, and adding to scenes, packing those scenes with more info and detail.  

We think TNAO's foreign plot will be about India, Pakistan, and the Commonwealth leading to Will's Good Idea for the Week of 4/16/22, which we'll write about tomorrow. You people know where this is headed. 

The question arises, do we want to write several novels in the universe? We know we're writing three. In fact, we sent The Great Salvation of 1976 to the editor this week. And we have a fifth idea for a novel. It all depends on sales. As of this morning 75 is still in the top 25 of its Amazon category. In theory this post-nuclear universe could be as big as the World War 1990 universe...

...Speaking of...people still have World War 1990: The Weser. More people will have it next week.

*Even cooler in Klingon, no?

A Very Israeli 20th

With a horrid terrorist attack in Israel yesterday, The Times of Israel reminds us that 20 years ago right now, the Israelis were conducting Operation Defensive Shield. The operation ended the Second Intefadeh and marked the beginning of the end of Arafat, who would die of AIDS two years later. After two years of sitting around and waiting for the world to condemn Arafat and the PLO, it was glorious to see the Israelis finally do something about the wanton slaughter. The Israeli's breaking point came after 27 March, the Passover Massacre. God bless Ariel Sharon. Had Sharon not suffered a stroke in 2006, well...the Hezbollah War would have turned out differently. 

The Clintons spent the 1990s propping up the Palestinian's homosexual leader. They turned Judea/Samaria and Gaza over to Arafat, and browbeat the Israelis into making more and more concessions. Bill and Hillary!. had Arafat over to the White House more than any other foreign leader. When Arafat walked out of the July 2000 Camp David negotiations, Secretary of State Madeline Albright actually chased after the man and shouted for the Marine guards not to let him leave. War was inevitable. 

That takes us back...ah spring 2002. We'll be going back a bit next week...events with long term consequences. 

Speaking of massacres...The Ruskis bombarded a Ukrainian trains station, killing dozens yesterday. Outrage is universal and condemnation quick. To which Putin replies, so? As predicted, we see the Russian/Ukrainian War morphing into the Yugoslavian Civil War. Back in the 90's the Serbs perpetrated weekly massacres. We think they liked it. 

Segue...once again we are flirting with the idea of writing World War 1990: Esercito Italiano this summer. We know some Italian guys who love the idea. 

What Will's Watching: Jimmy Savile, A British Horror Story. They got it right in the title. This Netflix doc about Britain's longtime disc jockey, television presenter, philanthropist, and pedophile is extremely well executed. Just like with Weinstein, everyone in the industry knew. They all knew. For interested Yanks, here's Mark Steyn's article on the man a decade ago. This blog's takeaway, there was no man behind the image, just a pedophile. 4/4

Below, your Friday Flag:

Will's News Whip Around

Okay...we finished reading World War 1990: The Weser. A couple of beta readers have it now, including a former army tank battalion commander. He's good. This clears the mind for work on The New American Order today and tomorrow. Let's see if we can hit the weekly projected word count. 

After reading Chris Kennedy's Titans (look who reviewed it!), we've spent a lot of time thinking about how to expand our readership.  We looked over sales data yesterday and realized that our fifth best selling market is...Deutschland. The other four are D-Day + Australia. We did some magazine advertising with der Krauts five years ago, and they worked. Not bigly, but we have a small fan base in the Fatherland. Sales in other European markets are very weak though.

This blog believes the best way to get more readers is to write more novels. The best way to expand into Europe, rather than blowing a lot Euros on some magazine ads (man, you should see the rates the Kraut krieg magazines are charging) we should write a novel that would appeal to a European market. [Really? Nederland didn't help you break into the Dutch market, knobhead-Ed]. Still it's worth another try. Maybe the summer sneak in novel should be...Esertcito Italiano. As Spirit said in the island cave with Storm Shadow, we must dwell on this.

Israeli politics makes Italian politics look stable. Says The Times of Israel: 'Idit Silman’s surprise resignation as coalition chair and defection to the opposition is a dramatic turning point for the coalition. The most politically diverse government in Israel’s history had, until Wednesday, clung to power by the slimmest possible parliamentary majority. The loss of Silman marks the loss of that majority.' 

So the Bennett government may collapse leading to...new elections!  This blog would prefer if Naftali Bennett and his center-right coalition survived. That said, Bibi returning to power would piss off all the right people. Heh. As Small Dead Animals likes to say, mischief is important. 

Speaking of bellicose Jews, President Zelensky vows Ukraine will become even more based. The Jerusalem Post reports. 'Ukraine plans to model itself after Israel and not Switzerland in the aftermath of the Russian invasion when it comes to issues of national security, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday. "I think all our people will be our great army. We cannot talk about 'Switzerland of the future' — probably, our state will be able to be like this a long time after," Zelensky said. "But we will definitely become a 'big Israel' with its own face." 

Smart. Of course, reader(s) of this blog know Switzerland is totally based as well. But we all get Zelensky's point. And why wouldn't he point to Israel as an example for Ukraine? The Jews stick together. For the Imams say, the Jew is clever. Five years ago this blog lamented Ukraine's inability to arm itself like it's next to Russia, since it's next to Russia. Now Ukraine is acting like it's net to Russia. The nation's future border along the Dnieper will be much easier to defend.

Moving on to the Continent, France will hold its preliminary presidential election this weekend. Nationalist Marine le Pen is in a virtual tie with current president Francois Macron and will almost certainly face him in the runoff. Vive le Pen! Hmmm...did Orban's landslide victory help le Pen, and since polls underestimated Orban's support are they also underestimating le Pen's support? Pray to the god of your choice. 

Getting to Unmasked

Reader(s) don't need this blog to tell them that Democrats office holders across the country are dropping mask mandates.  Even that bunch of communist perverts can see where the political momentum is headed. The mandates go next month here in New Jersey. This blog maintains that our own governor, Phil Murphy is the least worst of the blue-state governors and not even all that bad overall - for a Democrat. I dunno. Maybe it's just Helsinki Syndrome. As in Helsinki Sweden. [Finland-Ed] If you people don't get that reference....

How to read this situation? The great Stephen J. Miller has said again and again that the pandemic doesn't end until we end it. So mission accomplished there. Still the pandemic squad had their way with this nation for two years. Is this really a victory? At best the Dem's caving on masks feels like a ballgame we won on a last second field goal, but  should have won easily. This blog is cynical and jaded. 

Reminder, I've been to places without a mask that you wouldn't believe [Another reference-Ed]. Schools, doctor's offices, business in the state of Delaware that require a mask. We've been hassled precisely once and, in that case told the manager to fuck off, 'You have my order?' We're not saying we're a Canadian Freedom Trucker, but we have fought small fights. Embrace the awesome power of saying no.*

Russia Today reports that the Israelis accelerated three terrorist's passage to the afterlife.  'Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett triumphantly announced that “The Yamam [Israeli special forces], Shin Bet [Israeli intelligence], IDF – our forces proved today, once again, that there is no immunity for terrorists.” Reader(s) who click on through will see the traditional West Bank Person 'car swarm', an important ceremony dating back to the Second Intefadeh. Thoughts and prayers, guys.

What Will's watching, The Expanse series finale. Are you watching The Expanse? If not, why not? This season was only six episodes, we suspect because producers spent a tonne on space scenes. These were well done. The finale was solid, but rushed. We were like, 'Wait, this is how it's ending?' The Expanse is certainly better than anything Lucas Films is churning out. Overall a fine finish after the disastrous Season-4.  3/4. 

*Turn it down you say. Well, all I got to say to you is time and time again I say no! No! [Mature-Ed]

The Friday Round

Good morning Stroock's Books commune.

Yesterday's post was post number 4800. By our math post 5000 will be made on August 9th. [Is that a countdown?-Ed] No, it's a fact. 

The Times of Israel confirms that Will has the sight: 'Israeli fighter jets carried out a large drill over the Mediterranean that included practicing mid-air refueling, according to a report in a Saudi-run news outlet Thursday. The unverified report in London-based Elaph described air maneuvers on Thursday by “an unusually large” contingent of F-15, F-16 and F-35 fighter craft, as well as Boeing mid-air refueling tankers, in what would likely be seen as a warning beacon to Iran amid Israeli threats to take military action in order to stop Tehran’s nuclear program. Shalom motherfuckers! A spokesmen from the PM's office said.'

[Will added that last bit-Ed]

The consequences of the regime's incompetence will be felt in the Middle East. When Jerusalem heard Joe's brain-melted 'minor incursion' murmur, Jerusalem surely concluded, 'Well fuck-all. We're just going to have to do this ourselves.' An admin filled with Obama junior varsity holdovers that has no problem with Soviet, sorry, Russian 'minor incursions' will have no problem with Iranian 'minor nukes'. 

A reader asked us about the planned World War 1990: Esercito Italiano. We've been teasing the Jugoslav civil war for several novels now and we do some serious scene setting in The Final Storm. Readers may assume that the events in our own 90's are accelerated by the Third World War and Jugoslavia has completely fallen apart by the end of 1991. Esercito Italiano will be about an outright invasion of the former Jugoslavio by the Italian army with some American help. Yes, we have an 'Italian guy' on standby for when we write Esercito Italiano. Exit question, should that be the next FORWARD World War 1990 novel?

Below, your Friday Flag, pre-emptive strike edition:

Monday Post (Supplemental)

We plan on writing more posts to more quickly get to the 5000 number, at which point we stop blogging. This is post 4,769. Were we to do one post per day from this point, we'd hit 5000 on Friday, August 19th, 2022. Right? Someone want to check the math on that one?

The girls got a PS4 for Christmas. Bear in mind we haven't gotten a new video game system since 1995. Anyone else remember Sega CD? We set up the PS4 yesterday, a much easier experience than we anticipated. With an Atari one needed a screwdriver. We ourselves got a game, Star Wars: Squadrons. Not bad.

Post-Christmas, a report from The Times of Israel on the nation's Christian community. 'Israel’s Christian community grew by 1.4 percent in 2020 and numbers some 182,000 people, with 84% saying they were satisfied with life in the country, the Central Bureau of Statistics said in a report released ahead of Christmas.' Huh. We thought there were more Christians in Israel. Anyway, try being a Christian in any other Middle Eastern nation, see what that gets you. We remind critics of Syria's Asad that he is the only Arab leader who has lifted a finger to protect Middle Eastern Christians.  

What Will's Watching, the New York Giants. We sat through the Giants getting thrashed by the Eagles 34-10, while flipping to the Jets on occasion. We don't know who needs to hear this, but the Giants suck and have sucked for a decade. This is the Giants' first sustained bout of suckitude since the 1970s. That's a baaaaaad thing. We don't know what's wrong. Fire the GM and coach, send Barkley and Jones on their way. 

Your Monday Not Metal, courtesy of NJ.com: 'In what may be the largest deal ever inked for a single musician’s body of work, Bruce Springsteen has reportedly sold his publishing catalog to Sony for $500 million.' The state's very own millionaire man of the people. What a joke. Bon Jovi is better. Once again:

Hillary Readies Her Sardaukar

Hmmm...more afternoon posting.

We are halfway through World War 1990: The Weser. So far the Battle of the Farm looks pretty good. We'll finish going over that chapter today and then go back over it before proceeding. One of the problems with writing scenes that have lots of tanks is those scenes get crowded with lots of gunners, loaders, etc etc. 

We have a new piece on Substack today, The Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain. 'In the year 447 AD, three Saxon ships landed on the Kentish island of Thanet. Led by the war chiefs Hengst and Horsa, the Saxons had come at the behest of the Vortigern, king of the Britons who was desperate for help against the savage Picts, or painted people. The Saxons quickly defeated the Picts in Britain and drove them north of Hadrian’s Wall. They then sent word of their victories back to the continent and called on their cousins, the Angles and Jutes, to send reinforcements.' Click on through.

The Imams are right. The Jew is clever. From The Times of Israel: 'An extremist Jewish group arranges for its members to disguise themselves as Muslims in order to enter the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, where they quietly recite Jewish prayers while pretending to engage in Islamic worship, according to a report Monday.' ROFL. That ought to be worth a Day of Rage to the Imams. Of course the Temple Mount is the site of Solomon's Temple. Funny that. 

Sticking with the Jews, Debkafile reports on Iran's development of a two stage rocket, ' DEBKAfile’s military sources say that if the Iranians can pull off a successful space launch this time, that assessment would be confirmed. It would also indicate that Iran may be closer than believed to the ability to mount a nuclear warhead atop an ICBM missile with a range of 2,000km. US and Israeli intelligence sources’ estimate hitherto is that the Iranians were at least two years away from developing the necessary technology for this critical stage in weaponizing its nuclear program.' All while Iranian nuclear negotiations continue. Oh, those fools in the Biden Regime. What part of the Israelis will never allow the Iranians to acquire nuclear weapons is unclear? Exit question: what are the unknown unkowns? 

Stephen Kruiser wonders if Hillary! is going to run in 2024. We nod. We nod like Ben Kenobi repeating, 'Obi Wan Kenobi..Obi Wan...' Yes. By the gods, yes. That...that thing is going to it. Isn't it? And why not? The field will be wide open. And Hillary likes to skip a cycle, anyway. 2000, 2008, 2016, 2024. Yes, there's the symmetry. Ready the Sardaukar chanting. The Emperor commands it. It is done.  

Will's Good Idea for the Week of 12/12/21

Hmmm...this morning we see lots of Swedish traffic to this blog. That can mean one of two things. People in Stockholm really like us, or Nightingale Russia! Yes, you guys anticipated our next move. A series of pro-Russian articles that the Kremlin can use to undermine American support for Ukraine. Nightingale Russia, that's sarcasm.

Because we were bored, we put three medieval warfare pieces up on Substack. One is free, the other two are behind the paywall. We will put up more medieval warfare pieces as time warrants. We are usually looking for something to do in the mid-afternoon, which is why we started this blog. That's it. That's Will's good idea for the week of 12/12/21.

Yesterday afternoon we cracked open World War 1990: The Weser and read the first two chapters. We found well written and edited chapters which introed the setting and characters. We were comforted but not at all surprised. Remember, we are among the best there is at what we do. 

The Jerusalem Post reports: 'Defense Minister Benny Gantz updated American officials that he has set a deadline for when the IDF will need to complete preparations for an attack against Iran. The Americans did not voice opposition to the Israeli preparations when presented with the date by Gantz on Thursday, a senior diplomatic source said the following day. “There was no veto,” the source said.' 

The Jew is brazen, no? Remember something about a potential conflict. There's all the stuff the Israelis have told us about; the assassinations, the document smuggling, the computer viruses, but there's also all the stuff we don't know about. The Imams are right. The Jew is clever. Final thought, as Jerry Springer used to say: Should the Israelis attack Iran, that lets us off the hook for writing a third Israel Strikes novel, no? [You're really keeping the important things in perspective -Ed]

Segwaying to potential war, let's pop over to Russia Today and see what's what...Not much going on. An article about the Ukrainian president, an article about the US sending missiles to Ukraine. If Russia goes silent about something, does that mean the crisis is cooling off or heating up. Kremlinologists? Anybody? Exit Sovietski question: can we start writing for Inforos again? 

Converging Israel, Russia and our own collusion now, our very own Inforos reports on last week's Israeli strike on Syria: 'This time, the Israeli Air Force missile strike hit the cargo platforms of the commercial sea port of Latakia in Syria's northwest. Local observers say there were several powerful explosions with a subsequent fire across a huge area following localized strikes on several dozen containers in the port. A container ship was also hit, suffering great damage.' Hmm, can't import stuff from Iran if your ports are destroyed. What day Israel's quasi war against Hezbollah and Iran in Syria will make a heck of a book. 

Hack Again you Drunk

Via Hotair, you'd have to be an inhuman monster not to laugh at, mock, and taunt Hillary! as she breaks down while reading the victory speech she'd intended to give on election night 2016. This woman deserves none of our sympathy. Hillary! has no soul. Bash the late Bob Dole all you want, but just a few months after losing the election, he was at the White House cracking jokes about it, 'I, Robert J Dole...' he began to great laughter. Cough again you high functioning drunk. Pass out and be tossed into the back of a van. 

The Washington Examiner has a long piece about Jews and Israelis being shutout of the publishing industry 'the literary world writ large appears to have an Israel problem.' No kidding? The piece goes on at some length about award ceremonies, writer's groups, author organizations etc etc...The trad published author's need for these things astonishes this highly successful and talented writer. Or does it? We say publish yourself and write whatever you want. 

Jews are increasingly problematic for the publishing industry. The modern Israeli is no victim. He is a victor. The Israelis ruthlessly hunt down terrorist masterminds, bomb the hell out of their enemies and stand ready to rain biblical level destruction on Iran. Of course Israel has a vast nuclear weapons stockpile. These are not acceptable Jews to the Manhattan smart set. Netanyahu is nothing like Woody Allen or Steven Spielberg. Aerial Sharon was the greatest Jew since Moses. 

And the Jew is clever. Just read this article from The Times of Israel about the new Gaza wall, 'The barrier is made up of several components: an underground reinforced concrete wall that is studded with sensors to detect tunnels; a 20-foot (six-meter) steel fence; a network of radar arrays and other surveillance sensors; and remote-controlled weaponry.' All that's missing is crocodile filled moat. That's just the stuff they're telling us about. 

Will stays Jewey. Military History Matters, for whom we published a piece on Pershing and the AEF a few years ago, just sent us the proof for our latest upcoming article, The Battle of the Chinese Farm, during the Yom Kippur War. It looks great, of course. We are very good at what we do. Wonder if they need anything else?

While talking with the English editor above we've been colluding with our Russian editor. Actually, no we haven't. We've warned the Kremlin that we won't touch the Ukraine matter for them and don't even feel comfortable writing about domestic issues at the moment. This will pass, hopefully. We won't die for Donetsk, but Let's Go Ukraine! You see, one can believe Ukraine isn't our fight and still root for them. If that's our sentiment, maybe we shouldn't be writing for Inforos at all.

Post Thanksgiving Notes

It's 7:55 AM, and the womenfolk are already out the door for Black Friday. 

This morning it's raining here. Mrs. Stroock will be making preparations for hosting her sisters and their families tomorrow. Other than some straightening up, there's not much for us to do till the aftermath. We get dish duty as is right and proper. 

If we may indulge in a bit of nostalgia, 20 years ago was our first Thanksgiving in New Jersey. We hosted a second Thanksgiving for Mrs. Stroock's family in our rustic, colonial era farm house in bucolic Peapack. Mrs. Stroock's mother passed away that spring. 

We got across the Hudson for Thanksgiving at our sister's place in New York State (the one who ran the motorboat up on shore two summers ago) and back home by 6:30. Since the family met in session there was discussion of scuttling the boat and a motion made for getting a pontoon boat, always our preference. The motion was tabled for further discussion. We actually didn't eat all that much. One plate. It was a big plate, but still. 

Traffic there and back was normal and it took us about 15 minutes to get across the George Washington Bridge. From there we hung a right onto route 9A and proceeded up Manhattan's west side opposite the geologically imposing Palisades. 

Did we collude with the Soviets on Thanksgiving? Did we ever: 'This Thursday America will have its second Covid Thanksgiving. Despite treatment and vaccine breakthroughs more Americans have died of Covid in 2021 (392,000 +) than died of Covid in 2020 (377,000+). American Covid cases are surging once again, and as of 18 November the seven-day rolling average stood at 88,482, 16% than the previous seven days. At least 59% of the nation is vaccinated, with the Centers for Disease control approving vaccinations for children and suggesting adults get boosters.' We managed to work in an NFL and a WKRP reference. Click the link, comrades...

An interesting article from NJ.com about a Native American family's Thanksgiving traditions. 'Being a clergyman for more than 40 years, The Rev. John R. Norwood, of Moorestown Township, understands that Thanksgiving’s core meaning is rooted in gratitude and togetherness...“We share a meal with loved ones and share food with those in need, in celebration of God’s continued provision..." with some Native American dishes and customs thrown in. It's almost as if these Native Americans are Americans who love America while honoring their heritage. Imagine. This blog urges reader(s) to read the whole thing. Click on over.

Life imitates Will: 'The former head of the Mossad spy agency said Thursday that the option of an Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites must be seriously considered, days before nuclear talks renew between Tehran and Western powers. “Independent strikes on nuclear sites, if Iran takes this path that endangers our existence, should and must be on the table — unequivocally,” Yossi Cohen told the Ynet news site.' I am a prophet. I have the sight. Click the link.

Will's Good idea for the Week of 6/13/21

Soon after this writing Israel's new, hodgepodge government will be sworn in and Naftali Bennett will become Prime Minister. It's a center right government + Labour, Meretz and the Arab Ra'am party that has one goal, oust Bibi. That's it. That's all they care about. How long they can hang together is anyone's guess. A year? If they manage a few religious reform laws, blog will consider the Bennett government a success. 

Right now Bibi may be loathed but time will pass. 'Don't worry about being a great man, just be a man and let history judge,' said Zephram Cochrane. We used to hate Bill Clinton but now we're kinda OK about him. We voted against Bush the Elder in 1992 but now we think he was a solid president.  And W, well, let's just say our views are evolving. When we were a kid Ike was considered old and bland, now he's a national hero. Nixon? He's a victim of the Deep State. 

In the long run Bibi's legacy will be a strong economic growth, successful military developments and the Abraham Accords. People will point to his handling of the Fauci Flu. Just wait till we learn the full story of ops against Iran. Israel is better off for Netanyahu having been PM. Now go away, Bibi.

Segway.....

Given how well this year's 'summer sneak in' has begun, we admit the possibility that next summer we could do a third Israel Strikes novel. Or we might try a different techno-thriller. Remember that idea for a US-Iran War, action in the Gulf, Marines landing in Lebanon, Airborne in Beirut, Hezbollah terror in the US. Dayum, right? 

[Is that your good idea for the week of  6/13/21? You are such a goddam tease-Ed]

No, this is, World War 1990: Denmark. 

[Ah jeeeeez, Edith!-Ed]

Don't worry, we're not going to do it. Denmark would basically be Nederland on the Baltic. The interesting stuff can probably be relayed in The Weser via dialogue; airborne and marine landings around Copenhagen, that sort of thing. So that's how we'll handle the idea.

Unpatriotic Congresspersons and the Jews they Hate

Loyal reader(s) will recall that a few weeks ago [Massive National Chain]* delivered but refused to install a microwave. There followed existential anger cursing, and plotting of revenge on our part.

Yesterday a local handyman installed the microwave. The handyman, or handydude in this case because he was totally cool,  gave us one of those, 'I am very good at what I do' looks and got right to work. Took him an hour. 

We have a stove and a fridge on the way from said [Massive National Chain] and are not optimistic. 

In a remarkable interview, retired Mossad chief Yossi Cohen spikes the football: 'Dayan noted that two major blasts at Natanz were attributed in foreign reports to the Mossad in the past year, and said “a huge quantity of explosives” were built into a marble platform used to balance the centrifuges. “The man who was responsible for these explosions, it becomes clear, made sure to supply to the Iranians the marble foundation on which the centrifuges are placed,” Dayan said. “As they install this foundation within the Natanz facility, they have no idea that it already includes a huge quantity of explosives.”' 

To recap, Mossad sold the Iranians marble that had explosives within. Saying, 'The Imams are right. The Jew is clever,' doesn't even capture the skill, nerve and creativity of that op. Remember, this is just the crap we know about. Quote Cohen: “We say very clearly [to Iran]: We won’t let you get nuclear weapons. What don’t you understand?

Speaking of innate Jewish cleverness, the Jews, or Yahuds, tricked Ilhan Omar into saying more mean things about them. Hot Air has the roundup. Indeed the Jew is clever or duplicitous and diabolical, to put it in terms Ilhan Omar and the rest of The Squad's lovely ladies would understand. Everyone focusses on Omar, AOC** and dingbat Rashida Tlaib. But check out Ayanna Presley and Cori Bush. We've seen this sort of thing before. Indeed the Jew understands who's out to get him.

Below, the Friday, er, Flag:

*The one everyone warns you not to buy appliances from. 

**Nice rack

Will gets all Nostalgic

Yesterday we looked back to 2001. We're going to go back even further today, prompted by an old commercial we caught on Youtube from 1991.  Here's the commercial, Leon Redbone for Chevy. It feels like 1991. The aesthetic is dated but has aged well. Better than 1971, that's for sure. Also this year is the 30th anniversary of a tape us crazy kids made in June of that year.* That time of our lives, that year, a junior and 17, has always been special. When we look back, all we see is the sun. 

Don't know why, there was nothing special going on. We weren't really dating, we weren't on the football team or anything. The Giants won the Super Bowl. We had a bit role in the HS musical, Anything Goes. We still remember our line, 'Hey it's Reno Sweeney and her Angels!' We know all the words to the songs and can still do the dance numbers. We loved, loved, doing Blow, Gabriel, Blow.** 

We wore a lot of ripped jeans and T-shirts, floppy haircut. We looked like a modified version of a late 70's teenager, on purpose. That's the year we discovered classic rock. 

It was just happy. If we could bottle it....man. 

Sometimes we can capture the flavor, the essence of the moment.  We feel silly for reminiscing, but then we recall all the songs doing the exact same thing, Kid Rock, Don Henley, etc etc. 

Here's a great article from the Times of Israel about what a dirty, back stabbing, double dealing sonofabitch Bibi is. Surprise. As noted previously, a more circumspect man would have stepped aside two elections ago. It seems he's going to remain Likud leader in opposition. This blog considers that bad form. Come on Bibi retire. Write your memoirs. Think of the speaking fees you'll command in America. 

A great day before the page, er screen yesterday. On V Corps' front, General Franks will be releasing the 8th Mechanized Division for the NATO counterattack. We found the commander, General David Maddox. Our NATO status update 'shoot around' is turning out great. We have to do US III Corps now, moving out from it's assembly areas in the south Netherlands for the battlefield. After the Ruski advance is stopped on the Weser, they're gonna hammer them. Hmmm...Yes. We think SACEUR is gong to pull a Pershing and insist III Corps isn't used in bits but is assembled for a massive counterattack. Which is one of the reasons why the situation is so dire in NORTHAG. 

*The Black Tape of Mail. It's nothing bad or even interesting. Haven't watched in 15 years. It's in a box someplace in the basement.

**Yes, that presented some challenges in 1991

***We considered cropping that photo but then thought, Cut out the pretty girl, are you nuts?

Fridays

Well, the microwave installers came, took one look and said, 'We can't do this, boss.' They didn't even break out a screwdriver. I've never been ruder to a deliveryman in my life. We were mad, existentially so. We have a fridge and stove coming in the next weeks and we were seriously considering cancelling the entire order. But we held our fire. After 47 years we know that screaming at managers gets nothing done and when it's over one comes away feeling like a jerk.  Instead we unleashed Mrs. Stroock on the bastards. She does that sort of customer service stuff for a living. Let's just say things are working themselves out. 

In the Westminster system, Bibi would have stepped aside after the 2nd or 3rd deadlocked election. Hence the problem with Bibi. As we write this, he's trying to get MKs to defect from Bennet's coalition. This blog admires the man's fight, but it's over Bibi. Go write your memoirs.

Huh. People are just figuring out that the Wuhan Virus from Wuhan China was engineered in a lab, leaked (probably on purpose), and Fauci is a fast talking self promoter protecting his bureaucratic empire. Wait till these folks find out about the election. Reminder: Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. 

Below, apropos of nothing, the Friday flag, Bermuda:

Jews: Russian and otherwise, also East Germans

Greetings from a rainy New Jersey. Mrs. Stroock is back dealing with family issues, so it's just the six of us, me, the girls and the cats.

We're getting a new microwave today, step two in updating our kitchen. The old microwave konked out last week and a generation of Stroocks is learning how to reheat food in an oven. Yesterday we threw a burger, some potatoes and an egg in a pan and fried them up.

The Times of Israel reports they finally did it. You know, the thing about Bibi is that he pissed off all the right people, the Clintons, Barry Soetoro, the International Set, The Washington Post. Powerline writes about the nature of the Israeli unity government and a Postman holding up said unity government as an example to America. Typical.

Look, we say this all the time here. But the coalition is basically right, right, right, center, Labour and Meretz + an Islamist party that's interested in Bedouin rights in the Negev. Personally, we think inviting an Arab party into the government, a first, could be a step toward reconciliation within Israel.

There's a million Russian immigrants in Israel. They're Jews, but they're still Russian which means they look at the Gaza problem the same way Putin looked at the Chechen problem. Crush problem beneath tread of tanks. Target nine, no comrade, ten Katyusha batteries at city...There's a couple of million young people in Israel who know nothing of 'peace' and the 'peace process'. Israel will not have peace. Israel will have victory.

Mossad: It's NEVER an accident. So yesterday Iran's largest warship Jewishly caught fire and sank. Then a massive oil refinery fire broke out in Tehran. The Imams are right, the Jew is clever. This is almost comic. Remember, this is just the stuff we know about.

Journalist Andy Ngo writes a harrowing, no horrifying account of Antifa trying to kill him in Portland last week. Read the whole thing, as Professor Reynolds says. This is the left. This is America in 2021.

We did a lot of reading on Soviet forces in East Germany (GSFG) yesterday, freshening up, as it were. Forty + Soviet divisions + 6 standing East German divisions. These, it seems, would have been attached to existing Soviet armies. There will be a major East German role in World War 1990: The Weser. We're not sure at what level, though. The East Germans require more research.

What's Hebrew for For Fuck's Sake?

Oh for fuck sake, do you want to get rid of Bibi or not?: 'Channel 12 news reports leaders of the change bloc are becoming more concerned about Ra’am’s demands, 10 hours before Lapid’s mandate to form a coalition expires. The network says there is growing opposition within Ra’am, an Islamist party, to supporting the bloc’s efforts to form a government unless the bloc agrees to various demands that the right wing of the potential coalition will find difficult to accept.' This blog was getting genuinely excited, aroused even, at the prospect of a Bennet government. If negotiations fail it goes to the Knesset. If that fails, well, election number five! 

We had a great day yesterday going over The Weser's Soviet intro scene. Recall, Akhromayev flies in from Moscow to consult with commanders on the ground and they take him through the battle and where things stand. We have to wrap up that scene. It's a big one. We have books to order for research purposes, American arty, Apache pilots, etc etc. 

Another good day of reading The Great Nuclear War of 1975. Two chapters down. We'll never get a better look at the MS then we are right now. Things look good. Things we had thought we needed to ad over the last few months we already added; references to Bobby Byrd and congress holed up at The Greenbrier, that sort of thing. We'll have to double check our nuclear research. Is they're anything we should ad? You people got any ideas?

Various

We caught Run Silent, Run Deep last night for the first time in...forever. It's grittier than we remember, mostly because the last sub film we watched was Dos Boot. Talk about grit, kraut tossers. We liked all the interplay between captain and XO. Of course the film doesn't feel like World War II, it feels like 1958.

We gave 75's opening chapter a read through yesterday and came away quite happy. It opens with Matt, then various scenes where everyday people see Air Force One, a scene introducing Rockefeller, Thatcher getting rescued by the RAF as the surviving highest ranking member of Parliament, and then a final Matt scene. That's the basic chapter structure. This went so well we're tempted to add a few more scenes.

We've written two scenes of The Weser. The book opens with General Akhromayev visiting the front as the Politburo's personal representative. Here the commanding general of a Soviet Army briefs him on the their victory at the Battle of Bremen, their breakthrough, and the destruction of the American 2nd Armored Division enabling both. Two Soviet armies have established bridgeheads across the Weser and a third is moving to exploit. This is the decisive moment. 

This is going to be a large scene. Lots to explain. Five Ws of course. But also what's up with the Danes, Belgians, etc etc. 

We better update the 'Future Projects' Page. 

No official word yet on the formation of Bennet government. They're meeting now. This from Israeli National News is interesting: 'Opposition leaders working to form a new government led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid have agreed to ‘unprecedented’ concessions to the Bedouin sector, according to a report by Channel 12 Tuesday morning.' Doesn't sound like anything to get worked up about, right? They need to repair and reconcile, and if the Haredi parties are upset, that's a great sign. 

Will's Good Idea for Memorial Day Weekend

On Friday we went to the gym, sans mask.  We did a 15 minute trainer run starting at 4.2 and going up to 4.5. We thought the mask was holding us back and we were right. We ran, we glided, we floated. We added 15 minutes of exercise bike just to use some time. It was glorious. Yesterday we hit the treadmill with great hubris and paid the price. We should have given ourselves a day, but no. Our other mistake was listening to AC/DC. Their songs tend to be on the short side, so we listened to ten and were 35 minutes in when our brain thought we were 45 given the number of songs. We cut off the run at 50 minutes. Damn.

Very few at the gym wore masks. Nice to see those pretty faces again (heh). We got on a rowing machine next to a man who was wearing one.. We asked if he'd like us to move over one, for distance. He said no, don't worry about it. The Thai restaurant we got take out from last night asked nicely to wear a mask when entering. No problem, man. Politeness goes a long way.

The Times of Israel reports they finally drove old Bibi down: 'The government would bring together parties from the right (Yamina, Yisrael Beytenu, New Hope), center (Yesh Atid, Blue and White) and left (Labor, Meretz), with support from the Islamist Arab Ra’am party (apparently from outside the coalition), in a unity government that would seek to extract Israel from two years of political chaos, spearhead the country’s recovery from coronavirus and heal societal rifts in a deeply divided nation.' Don't worry, Labour and Meretz aren't getting any cabinet posts anyone cares about. The big ones are going to the right and center parties.

There are no Haredi parties in the coalition. This will give Bennet and company the space they need to do something about the religious/secular divide. They should start with introducing secular marriage, that will be a pretty good blow to the Haredi's control of religious life in Israel. And Remember, half the guys in the coalition think Bibi is soft on Hamas. 

Oh, meet Ayelet Shaked, one of Yamina's rising stars and power brokers. The below photograph is provided for informational purposes:

Gal Gadot is no fluke, gentlemen. Israel produces just as many Mediterranean beauties as Italy or Lebanon. Next week will be Ayelet Shaked Week. 

[I'm sorry, folks. He's a knobhead, that's just all there is to it.-Ed]

Meanwhile Syria's Bashar al Assad won 95.1 percent of the vote last week, which is still more believable than Joe Biden beating Trump.

Okay, okay, we're writing World War 1990: The Weser. Here's the release plan: The Great Nuclear War of 1975, World War 1990: The Final Storm, The Great Salvation of 1976, World War 1990: The Weser.  Fall, winter, summer, fall. For the Weser, we'll plan on one scene a day for June. At the same time we'll go back through 75 and start getting it ready. It's time. We plan and god laughs. For as it is written in the Torah, we plan and god laughs. 

*Shaked photo: By ניצן חרמוני - ניצן חרמוני, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15802392

Friday Friends and Flags

Hot Air reports on the dismantling of the Newseum in Washington. This was the media's gigantic monument to itself. Admission was $24.95. Folks, the Air and Space Museum is free and it has fighter planes and rocket ships. This blog admits, seeing the Newseum close down arouses us, sexually. Learn to Code, bitches.

A long piece in The Jerusalem Post about the ongoing and never-ending political machinations in Israel. The author argues that a 5th election is the least-worst option. This is about way more than right and left. It's not just that right and left can't agree (there really is no left, anymore), it's that right can't agree. Heh, then there's the secular-right (like Avigdor Liberman) and the religious-right. One of the problems is that Israel has right parties that want a two-state solution, right parties that want to drive the Gazans into the sea, right parties that want to maintain towns in Judea/Samaria, right parties that would withdraw behind the West Bank wall. 

Meanwhile The Times of Israel reports on post-rioting arrests: The Israel Police said Monday that over 1,550 people have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the violent clashes between Jews and Arabs earlier this month. The sweeping operation, involving thousands of police and Border Police officers, arrested 85 suspects on Monday, among them 38 who are suspected of participating in rioting in East Jerusalem. So far 150 indictments have been filed, police said in a statement.' They've also arrested some Jews. We say arrest more Jews. The Israelis need to figure out this Arab anger problem. No, we're not blaming the victim. But we will put some blame on Bibi. In a few of the past elections he ran against the Arabs, literally. 

The Friends reunion aired last night. We didn't see it. Younger reader(s) if you want a window into the 90's there it is. Fun, frivolous, nihilistic. All taking place in a revived New York City. In the 70's Friends would have taken place in LA. As to the ultimate question, are you kidding me? Rachel.  Heh, this blog remembers when Courtney Cox was Alex P. Keaton's girlfriend. 

Friends' best character was Chandler Bing. He's just a normal 100 IQ Gen-X guy. Not a jock, not a nerd, just an everyman working a data entry job because that's what he found after college. In one episode he's offered a promotion and quits. Friends is his story. We related.

Alright now, we got 76's farming chapter straightened out more or less. It manages to talk about farming, wrap up the Korean War, and intro Reagan being tapped to rebuild Hollywood. Matt scenes are now finished through this chapter. At the end of May The Great Salvation of 1976 stands at 70,000 words.

Below, your Friday Flag: