Frozen Rubles in Occupied Canada

Back to the gym yesterday for real. We worked the machines, something we haven't done in months, and feel great. 

Every time we're about to finish book production we ask ourselves if we really need to read the hardcopy. Every time we read the hardcopy we are reminded why we need to read the hardcopy. This morning we found a major continuity problem in The Great Nuclear War of 1975. Major, but easily fixed with just a few words. That's why we read the hardcopy. [It never ceases to amaze me how little you listen to me, knobhead -Ed.]

This blog is seeing increased traffic from Canada. Wonder why? Thank you, Citizen of Canuckstan. We may have another Canuck ready to contribute to Stroock's Books. Who he is and where he is from we cannot reveal. Let's just say English may not be his first language. [Is he QuebecAnnon?-Ed] alright, busted. Get ready for the Montcalm beat. We're also working an Italian and Irish angle, or shall we say, Cavour and de Valeria

We've been working our contacts in Canada. These include sources within the Canadian Resistance, CanadaAnon and QubecAnon. The Canadian Resistance's long term strategy is two pronged. They'll be first and foremost a political entity, running candidates for office, getting spokesperson's on television, and staging anti-government protests. But the Canadian Resistance will also have a military wing which will work closely with the political infrastructure.

As we write this, our contacts within the Canadian Resistance tell us rebel command is setting up bases on the US side of the border. These will be staging areas for cross-border attacks into occupied Canada. Interestingly rebel command, from their stronghold deep within the Maine wilderness, isn't planning attacks into Ontario, they say. Rebel Command feel's the Maritime provinces would be the best place to begin. They're calling the effort Operation Newfie. 

One may wonder how the Canadian Resistance is paying for all of this. All we can say is that the Canadian Dollar conversion rate is very favorable to the Ruble right now...comrades. 

Whoopi Goldberg is a Racist

Up in Canada, the Freedom Truckers' protest in Ottawa and blockade in Coutts continues. Our man on the ground reports truckers last night closed down the Crowsnest Pass, one of the two major passes linking Alberta with British Columbia. 

The Conservative Party of Canada is holding a leadership vote today. Hopefully the CPC will oust professional squish Erin O'Toole. Anybody would be better. Of course we thought the same when O'Toole ousted fellow professional squish Brian Scheer. They're both wets. Each of the last two Canadian elections was winnable for the CPC, if they had Max.

We've been working the QAnon beat, and our old contact, Qbi Wan introduced us to a source in Quebec. We call him QuebecAnon. He says a massive, direct action will take place in La Belle Quebec this weekend. This is a trusted source. 

Ace has a good post on 'Whoopi Goldberg's' racism and Juden Hass. 'Whoopi' argued twice that the Holocaust was not about racism and a 'thing' between white people. 'Whoopi' is a racist and a Jew hater. She's also a dumb, thoughtless, arrogant, buffoon who knows nothing. This morning the New York Post tells us 'Whoopi' has been suspended from The View. Good, but not good enough.  

This blog enjoys 'Whoopi's' squirming. 

Jews are white people...Yeah, about that. Long time reader(s) may recall that we weren't born Jewish. Our father is Jewish, our mother was descended from a long line of bible-thumping Scots-Presbyterian ministers, the Scotch-Irish in America. We were Tories during the War of the Rebellion. Our parent's marriage was considered mixed in 1968, and led to a serious power-lunch discussion between our grandfathers, one a Young and Rubicam advertising exec, the other a geologist at Bethlehem Steel. 

A few years ago we took one of those DNA tests. The test showed that we got a tonne of European DNA from our mom; English, Scots, Irish, with some German thrown in. It is impossible to be whiter than that. From our dad we're 46.8% Ashkenazi Jew. A simple commercial test shows that Jews are a separate DNA group from Europeans, almost as if they/we are another race. And it's not as if Jews didn't come from the Middle East and tend to have what we in America call 'Mediterranean' features. Our dad doesn't look like he could be running a shop in Beirut or Damascus, no....

And we'd hate to break it to black racists like 'Whoopie', but not all white people are alike. We dare her to go to our Irish brother-in-law's family thanksgiving and tell them there's no difference between the Irish and the 'Eye Ties'. Many do not even think the Italians are white. Heh, there used to be Swedish and Norwegian neighborhoods in Minnesota. A thousand Swedes ran through the weeds chased by one Norwegian. Only they can tell the difference. 

Caryn Elaine Johnson is a racist. 

Sticking with the racism reportage...

The NFL is racist: 'Brian Flores filed a class-action lawsuit Tuesday against the NFL and all 32 teams alleging discrimination against black head coaches and executives. The suit, filed in the Southern District of New York, claims the Giants interviewed Flores for their head coaching position, despite having already chosen Brian Daboll for the job. Flores maintains his interview was a “sham” in order to comply with the NFL’s “Rooney Rule,” which compels teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and general manager jobs.' Remember that next time you see an 'End Racism' sticker on the back of a helmet or stenciled in the endzone. The Giants haven't done anything right for a decade. Screw them. 

Breaking!

*Must Credit William Stroock*

Begin: After consultation with contacts deep within the QAnon commune, Stroock's Books can confirm that QAnon plans 'action' tomorrow January 6th...

When asked what action entails source known only as Qbi Won replied, 'All will be revealed'...

Developing...

For immediate release: William Stroock, founder and proprietor of Stroock's Books refuses to condemn post election remarks made to Epoch Times. Video follows - 

Stroock: 'Trump won. Why would I condemn or otherwise disavow my remarks. Not one assertation has been disproven. I stand by every word. Besides, I look great.'

Duned

Yesterday we hit the treadmill and did a nice easy hour in which we didn't check the time till the 59th minute. As we suspected running through the soreness cleared out the knee. Some residual soreness remains. We did some good book thinkin' too. Things are coming together, mentally speaking, for the Australian scene. 

We haven't talked about our QAnon contacts lately because they've demanded silence from this blog. However, Qbi Wan has given us permission to break our  silence. He says the parents vs school board conflict was partially stoked by QAnon assets and observers should expect to see more direct actions. Qbi Wan also claims that the Justice Department is designating parents as domestic terrorists so they can redirect Federal resources against Q. Qbi Wan says, 'The plan unfolds'.

Reviews  of Dune are coming in. The Critical Drinker says Dune is (mostly) brilliant. The Critical Drinker is mostly right. Ben Shapiro reviews Dune here and agrees with Will. Ben's 'biggest issue' is the musical score. The brilliant Steve Sailer notices something we noticed: 'Spaniard Javier Bardem (best known as Anton Chigurh) is amusing as Fremen chieftain Stilgar, doing a grumpy riff on Mexican Anthony Quinn’s wonderful Auda Abu Tayi in Lawrence of Arabia.' Does this mean we are also brilliant? It does.

We've been unable to watch Dune, and we've watched it twice now, without thinking of the previous two versions. We just know all the rhythms and beats. It's like we're listening to another version of a song we love. Shapiro says one hasn't seen Dune till one has seen Dune in the theatre. That's our plan. 

A lot of people talk about author Frank Herbert's amazing world building. But is the world really all that amazing? The Dune universe is eerily familiar to those of us who lived in the 20th century. Herbert wrote about a great-power conflict over a must have natural resource found only in the desert. The Atriedes are the west. The Harkonnen are the Ruskis. The Fremin are the Arabs from Lawrence of Arabia. This template also works for Medieval and Renaissance Europe. That said, Herbert's work on Fremin culture is impressive.

Monday Metal and various, also collusion

In New Jersey spring is a stubborn bitch and a tease. Temperatures will climb to nearly 70 and then plummet to the 40s (that's Fahrenheit, we don't recognize fru-fru Eurotrash Celsius numbers). Post dinner evenings can be quite pleasant.   In 2018 we had two snowstorms in April.  

This blog hasn't followed the Fentanyl Floyd trial to closely. Powerline has as they're in Minnesota, and they think the persecution did a great job. Ben Shapiro thinks the defense wrecked the persecution's case. Ben's cute the way he thinks facts matter more than feelings in 2021. Sometimes we think he should have been a rabbi. We shrug. To be clear, we're not rooting for Chauvin. Conservatives 'backing the blue' in 2021 should reconsider how they view the world.* We're not rooting for anyone. The only question remaining is whether or not the riots will be condemnatory or celebratory. 

No post yesterday as we were swamped with QAnon stuff. Not Qbi Wan, but one of his, shall we say, padawans. We talked about some interesting stuff. Let's just call it Jew Anon.

Speaking of Jew Anon stuff, here's a long article about how the IDF's Iron Dome has changed the strategic calculus in Israel. Nutgraph, as the J-school non journos say: 'Questions remain about what comes next. Iron Dome gave Israel strategic depth and breathing space and enables Netanyahu to avoid new wars in Gaza. That was particularly true in the fall of 2018 when defense minister Avigdor Liberman resigned over Israel’s unwillingness to go back into Gaza. Israel has to wonder how the system will stack up against a major war with Hezbollah or Iranian-backed proxies. It has yet to face this test.' Remember, Gaza is just the warm up. Mowing the Lawn, the Israeli's call the Gaza campaigns. 

In the long run it doesn't matter. The real threat is Hezbollah and Iran. When Bibi says 'we won't let Iran obtain nukes' he means we won't let Iran obtain nukes. Why do people not take the Jews seriously? As the late John McCain said, (Himself, Hell) the only thing worse than war with Iran is a nuclear Iran.

Our latest bit of collusion with the Soviets: 'Last week YouGov released a poll about the public image and rankings of the 50 American states plus Washington D.C. Respondents ranked their own state first 77% of the time, meaning larger states were at the top of the list and smaller states at the bottom. Washington D.C. finished dead. This is probably because of D.C.’s small population and Republicans loathing the District. Unsurprisingly Hawaii ranked first. This observer has been to the Aloha state. Honolulu is basically a midsized American city with great weather, beaches, and a lot of Japanese tourists. Signs leading to Pearl Harbor are printed in English and Japanese. Nevada is number 4; and people are probably thinking of Las Vegas.' Click on through.

Monday Metal...let's see, what are we listening to lately....Def Leppard's most underrated song. Stick with it till the end to hear those transitions. This song really clubs one over the head. Heck of an innovative video too:

*Sorry, this blog thinks the police exist to write tickets and we don't think we can count on them at 3 AM.

Saturday Updates

Spring is finally here and we're looking at several days of 50-60 degree weather. We and the Stroocklettes will, repeat will, be spending a lot of time outside. We shaved our winter beard:

It was an experiment that lasted about six hours. We ain't no Tom Selleck.

Well it's time to come clean about something. All this week Mrs. Stroock has been caring for a sick relative in Indiana and will remain there for some time. It's the six of us here at New Jersey Command, me, three girls and two cats. 

There probably won't be anything on Substack for a while. We're working on a piece for the Politburo this weekend. I want my Bibi, my Bibi, my Bibi....

The Vietnam War reading has been slow but interesting. We're looking forward to getting to a book about the Easter Offensive. After that Black April. Then what?

Our QAnon sources have been quiet for the last few days. The cliché is that when the enemy goes quiet then he's preparing something. But in our own experience Q uses chatter as cover. So iff Q is quiet there's probably nothing happening. Qbi Wan did tell us to be patient and reminded us, 'You're ears can deceive you. Don't trust them.'

We ended up not working at all on the '76 chapter yesterday. There's  little we can do to it at this point. The political outcome chapter remains. We added two Ulan Ude scenes and need at least two Matt scenes. That is the last time we'll look at '76 for a while. 

Next week we work on the '75 Falkland's chapter and that ought to be just about it. Don't even ask. We won't consider releasing '75 till '76 is done and probably not till the third volume is down too. At this point 2022 figures to be the year Will Nuked America.

We've begun prepping for World War 1990: The Final Storm. This entails watching Youtube clips of F-111 and Tornado strikes. April.

Sales rose a bit after a few weeks of decline and plateau. Interestingly World War 1990: Arctic Storm is now our number two selling book. That's a great sign as readers will plow through the series. Some of the spike must be happening because people are picking up Nederland as a stand alone novel. 

Peace Process Roundabout with Toilet Busting Morons

We were having some ankle trouble the last few days, but an hour at the gym yesterday cleared it right up. We did eschew the stair master. We find running through pain cures the pain. Wonder why? Post St. Patrick's day, the Irish World Cup Football Song get's us through the tough part. One day a British commander in The Weser will say, 'We're prepared and we'll go and we'll do our best. It's not going to be easy for us but it's not going to be easy for them either. The battle's about being effective, being aggressive. Winning the battlefield getting on with the advance. We'll put 'em under pressure.' Readers saw shades of this in Nederland. Oley Five-One!

The farm and election prep chapter is coming together nicely and we have started two scenes about the Soviet City of Ulan Ude. We need more Matt scenes. We're on track for the '76 edit job to be finished by 1 April. But we'll have more to write. April is The Final Storm month. A break for '75 and '76 will be good anyway. We're running out of steam.

This morning the Times of Israel cracks us up: 'The Biden administration will reportedly push for a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 lines, with mutually agreed upon land swaps, reinstating US policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to more traditionally held positions than those of former president Donald Trump.' You dumbass, idiot, fucktards. You anal reprobates who wouldn't know a good idea if it came up and fucked you in the mouth. As we wrote last fall, the Palestinian/Israeli conflict is over and the Israeli's won. These people couldn't sit the right way on a toilet seat and Joe uses Depends.

Reader(s) have probably seen the Biden 'green screen' footage. This blog is not prepared to say if it's real or fake. We can't prove it's not real, sooooo. We learned of the 'green screen' the day before the story broke because Qbi Wan  gave us a heads up. A 'professional courtesy' he called it. He'll need a favor from us.

The Tuesday Q

Weights on Sunday and an hour on the treadmill between dropping the Stroocklettes off at dance and picking them up yesterday. Dad score: Superior. We glided, jusst glided. We feel great this morning. Also a little gimpy. Mrs. Stroock is off dealing with a family issue for an indefinite period of time, so it's us, three girls and two cats. Everyone off to school this morning A-Ok.

A report from the Bridgewater Breeze on last weekend's parents protest: With chants of “Kids Voices, Kids Choices,” “Facts Over Fears” and even “We Appreciate Our Teachers,” a crowd of about 100 parents, teachers and students gathered at the Bridgewater municipal building March 13 to call for a full five-day option for students to return to school, exactly 365 days after the schools first closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The rally was hosted by the BRRSD Parents for a Plan Forward, and mirrored a number of rallies held statewide to recognize the one-year anniversary of schools being closed due to the pandemic. “The purpose is to give kids the opportunity to get back in school five days,” said parent Adam Juechter, who MC’d the rally. “This group came together organically, and is focused on getting kids back into school for a full five days.” We were there. Scroll through the pics you'll see a man in a red hat. That's us. Then we stormed the district building. 

 The New York Post reports: 'According to Bloomberg, proposals currently under consideration by the White House include raising the corporate tax rate to 28 percent from 21 percent, reining in tax preferences for “pass-through businesses,” raising the income tax rate on individuals earning more than $400,000, broadening the estate tax, and a higher capital gains tax rate for individuals earning at least $1 million per year.' We're sure fiscal conservative fraudsters who have accomplished nothing as the Federal Debt doubled and doubled and doubled again in the last generation, are rising in opposition. But this blog see's nothing with which to disagree. Why should MAGA nation oppose raising taxes on the woke rich and corporations? Bad economic policy? Conservative please.

We went through The Great Salvation of 1976's latest chapter yesterday and found it totally lacking. Ideas need to be fleshed out. Scenes needed more detail. In other words we have a lot of work to do. We'll need to talk a lot about the Department of Agriculture. Riveting we know.

Man, on the treadmill did we ever conceptualize World War 1990: The Weser. Just imagine an opening scene with the commander of French II Corps paying homage at Lafayette's Tomb before battle.  If Israel Strikes: War with the the Turks is a good business decision now, it will be a good business decision in January 2022. A clean one too, with a fresh start. No decisions have been made. 

We talked to Qbert a little yesterday. He had some interesting things to say about QAnon online-ops but wouldn't give me many details. Qbert said cryptically, 'When you know, you'll know' and pointed to the Super Straight thingy as an example. Plots within plots, he says. Yes, Qbert is doing that on purpose. 

Saturday Updates

An hour on the treadmill yesterday.

We're on Spanish lesson 9. Things are going well. We can introduce ourselves, ask directions, order dinner, etc etc. 

The Vietnam War reading project has slowed. Not sure why. We will press on. 

We opened an account on VK. Why not? We're mostly interested in meeting some Ruskis. We suppose this is self Kompromot.

Seeing that we're bitten by the travel bug again, Mrs. Stroock said, 'You know, if you want to take a week and go someplace by yourself, you can.' She's told us this before but we could never figure out where to go. Yes this is Kara and Nate related. Maybe this fall? [Who are you kidding. You like being home with you're family-Ed] True, but maybe try it once, just to see? [Ok, that's not bad thinking-Ed.] But where? Someplace in South America? 

Killer Andy C. is done, right? We think Killer Andy C. is done. On the broad political front this blog vacillates between we're doomed and calm down. We shrug. 

We made some interesting contacts in the Q Commune this week. We introduced reader(s) to an individual we call Qbi Wan. Qbi Wan put us in touch with a person we'll call Qbert. The allusion there is important. Qbert does things. We admit to being used, but also intrigued. What we know about these individuals we know because they want us to know it. 

Just about all that remains to finish on The Great Nuclear War of 1975 is the Falklands chapter. We anticipate doing that in a week or so. We'll need to go back and make mention of a few items to set up in The Great Salvation of 1976 described below.

We have one more chapter to read through in The Great Salvation of 1976. Right now the novel stands at 62,000 words. We're adding scenes about the Soviet city of Ulan Ude and probably some kind of anti-warlord task force. One of their targets will be Vacaville Prison, where Charlie Manson is running things. 

Yesterday we outlined The Weser. For the record, we never outline. We also did some outline work on Israel Strikes: War with the Turks. Once again, the summer sneak in idea isn't about what we want to write but what we can write. In April we switch back to The Final Storm no matter what.

Qbert, Qbi Wan, Q-Gon? You tell me

Last night we dreamt we were on the Greg Gutfeld Show. Really. If only. 

No gym yesterday, the body needed a break. Today we do treadmill, rope pully, stair master, and rowing machine.

A distracted day of editing The Great Salvation of 1976. We are again pleased with progress though. We have Rockefeller out on tour and will today be writing a scene where he visits the new Federal Reserve in Chattanooga. More Matt scenes needed. Oh, one more barbeque crack from the Confederates and we're moving the Fed to Auburn, Bear Bryant gets on the President's Select Commission on Reconstruction, and Archie Manning dies a gruesome death. 

So let's say we get the two nuke novels done this year and then follow it up with The Final Storm (a certainty) and write The Weser this summer.* What are we doing in 2022? The third nuke novel, and another WW1990 novel or two. Or will it finally be time to branch out a bit? 

Israel National News reports that the Mullahs are humiliating Joe. Who isn't? But also, "Something is cooking between Israel and Saudi Arabia right now, and I'm saying this from knowledge of a detail or two. I don't know what [it is]. Something strategic-security, with a diplomatic aspect, is happening, which aims to prepare for the huge storm called [US President Joe] Biden." Some brilliant and incredibly talents and good-looking author wrote about the Israeli's overflying Saudi territory to hit Iran. The Imams are right, the Jew is clever. 

We read a story about troops staying in DC till May at the earliest and followed up with a source, we'll call him Qbi Wan. He wouldn't tell us much, but he did tell me that they have people in DC right now. Remember, we're using Qbi Wan and Qbi Wan is using us. He tells this blog things because he wants information to get out into the public space. This blog likes reporting news. It's a symbiotic relationship, reader(s) must understand that. Exit question: who's playing whom?

*Again, not a matter of what we want to write but what can we write. 

Warm Weather Wednesday

The weather has turned here in northern New Jersey and we're looking at a week's worth of 60+ degree temps. That's Fahrenheit, Limeys, so no we're not all burning to death. But the snow is finally melting. [I'm not talking to you or any other Yank. God save the Queen-Ed]. We barbequed last night and ate a burger. So far not a twinge of gout. Winter is dying, but not dead. Mother Nature is a fickle bitch, we predict one last winter storm before April.

Our favorite troll these days is to post, 'You misspelled Mostly Peaceful Protest' on NJ.com stories about the Mostly Peaceful Protest on Capitol Hill. Prog heads just explode. Free The QAnon Shamon!  

Another hour on the treadmill yesterday. We spent a lot of time thinking about World War 1990: The Weser. Given our reading list of late, we had a flash of inspiration for a Vietnamese-American army officer. As we said before, the summer sneak in plan isn't about what we want to write but what we can write. So unless we can figure out a way to get the mind to think about Israel Strikes: War with the Turks, we'll be writing The Weser. 

A good day editing The Great Salvation of 1976. The reconstruction and political prep chapter is really coming together. We had an idea about the problem of warlordism in post nuclear America.  It'd be cool if the government formed a special task force for fighting warlords. We'd have to lay the groundwork in The Great Nuclear War of 1975. This could be an opening blockbuster for '76.

From Robert Kagan to Q

Weights yesterday. Felt good.  

Our very latest at 19FortyFive: 'A few weeks ago in this space, I slammed Robert Kagan’s Foreign Affairs article, A Super Power Like it or not: Why Americans must Accept their Global Role. I argued that the record of American intervention was at best mixed. For every Qasem Soleimani assassination, there’s a Beirut Bombing, for every Desert Storm, there’s a Desert-One. Our Afghanistan intervention will celebrate its 20th anniversary this autumn. Congratulations. With America facing numerous problems at home from the Pandemic to debt to the opioid epidemic I argued that American resources could better be used here than over there. In truth, I once agreed with Kagan about American interventionism.' Click it. 

Read on as we describe the internationalists funding Kagan. It's all out in the open. Do also note that we mention the Battle of Basra and link to our own Substack article on the topic. We call that convergence. Let's see what kind of traffic that generated and...A little traffic. Yes, we find it awkward writing I and me and my. We're going to pick on Robert Kagan for as long as we can get away with it.

On the QAnon front we spent months investigating and accumulating evidence and then we acted. We acted like a reporter.  Something called Blue Anon trended yesterday. We checked with one of our sources within the Q commune and he says Blue Anon trending is no accident. Remember, we've been on Gab for five years. Don't think we ain't met some folks.

A lackadaisical morning editing the Great Salvation of 1976. Wait. What? Huh? Who? Then we remembered what we were trying to accomplish with the chapter on political planning and reconstruction. The chapter goes Casper, Rockefeller off touring a construction site, Casper, More Rockefeller on tour, back to Casper etc etc. Stuff's gettin; done. The Rappahannock River to Fredericksburg scene looks solid. They're turning Fredericksburg into Antwerp on the Rappahannock. We've gotten Matt to the Ohio/Indiana border.

Will's Good Idea for the Week of 3/7/21 and Observations

Another great hour long run on the treadmill. We are now dreaming about being at the gym and misplacing our shoes. What's up with that?

Let's see what the New York Post has to say about Andrew Cuomo. We really wonder if...oh my god! We've always believed it takes a lot of bravery for a woman to come forward decades after the fact and bravely talk about a man acting inappropriately around her. Reap it, Andy. 

You know, there's an idiot named Charles Blow at the NYT's who wrote that Pepe Le Pew contributed to 'rape culture'. No he didn't, schmuck. Pepe Le Pew taught me and a lot of boys like me to not be that guy. Charles Blow is a fuckhead.

As noted before whenever we see a story about teachers, school openings and vaccines we leave a snarky remark. Teachers are really feeling the public's general annoyance. Last night we posted about teachers getting on the New Jersey vaccine list, 'Think Ya'll can go back to work now?' we asked. One replied, 'I'm tired of coming home after teaching every day to this cr@p.' We're having a protest here in Bridgewater next Sunday.

As far as 'sneaking in' this summer and writing a novel, it's not so much what we want to write, but what can we write. We've spent lots of time on the treadmill thinking about World War 1990: The Weser. It's really well organized, mentally speaking. 

The Weser would begin with an opening blockbuster in which an American arty regiment buys time for retreating NATO forces with a massive barrage and fights on at point blank range till annihilation. There'd be a scene at SACEUR HQ describing the situation and the counterattack.  Battered and exhausted West Germans see the enthusiastic Americans coming up the road to get into fight...We may make this a National Guard division, the Rainbows? From there we'd write a chapter dedicated to each nation involved in the counterattack, the US, Brits, French. 

The Israeli thing makes a ton of sense though. It's a solid business decision. Unless it's been too long.

Here's our very latest at Substack, Victory at Basra: 'By the beginning of 2008, President Bush’s ‘surge’ in Iraq was yielding tangible results. Thanks largely to the influx of American troops; Al Qaida was on the run in Diyala, Salahadin, and Babil provinces north of Baghdad. The Sunni population, tired of being the target of Al Qaida attacks, fielded thousands of militia who fought and expelled the terrorists from the western province of Anbar. During the course of the year, the Iraqi Army expanded from 10 to 13 divisions and engaged Al Qaida and other insurgent groups in countless battles. American and Iraqi troops were systematically clearing Baghdad, bringing a sharp reduction in terrorist violence there.'

We admit to being intrigued by the left's obsession with QAnon. We first heard of Q on Gab back in 2017, we're guessing. We never took it too seriously. We're taking it seriously now and picking up some interesting chatter. To compare QAnon to mainstream media like CNN is unfair. One is a nest of crazed conspiracy theorists, the other is Q. Look to this space for updates.