So What Did Tomorrow Bring?

 

what level of psycho is this?

A ceasefire, apparently, which led some members of Dallas HQ to scratch their heads and ask, "So what exactly did we achieve by this little Middle Eastern adventure?" Good question, and I wasted no time picking up the Satphone and speed dialing Pete, "Hey, Pete, it's LSP, what's the story?" He mumbled something about "bunnies" and signed off.

Thanks a lot, SECWAR, but maybe he was worried about opsec and our lack of a SKIF. He needn't have, one was installed today, neatly camouflaged as a water heater. The old SKIF had broken, you see, and we had to get a new one. It works well and I enjoyed talking with the lead SKIF Tech about hunting and fishing, mostly fishing.

Look, a new SKIF

He wasn't too keen on people who boasted about catching small trout after clambering about in streams with waders, and even less keen on a pal who took his teenage daughter(!) hog hunting with knives only, "He showed me the video, man," and grimaced. I made the sign of the Cross, with good reason.

That in mind, some people can get bloodthirsty and  perversely weird in the hunting field. I've noticed this and don't like it, not that I'm any kind of expert. Going for fish on the Brazos or Lake Whitney? Different story. Speaking of which, must get back on the water and SKIF Tech agreed, "Gotta clean out the boat first, renew the tag." And that's just it, d'ye need a boat to get on the fish?

How utterly pathetic. At least she's not rusty even if inoperable

I asked my friend about this, who grinned in that toothy way of his, offering nothing; not unlike Pete when you think on it. My take? Boats are evidently a hassle, which you circumvent by having a friend with one or several and using theirs, see the UK. Problem is, you don't get something for nothing. If, for example, you abuse and mock and scorn your old pal, he's unlikely to let you on his boat.

There's a moral in this short tale of North Central Texan life, if you care to draw it.

Yours,

LSP

Back in Dallas

 

Here we are, punters, back at Dallas HQ for Easter Monday and it's not bad. Birds sing, the sun shines and all's well in this small urban haven, a far cry from the race  track chaos of the 'sprawl. In fact, it's more peaceful than the Country Compound because there's no roosters here. Don't get me wrong, roosters play their part and add a kind of problem farm authenticity to the scene, but they're mighty loud. Maybe not as loud as shrieking peacocks, but still.

In other news, you may have followed the pretty remarkable rescue of one of our downed pilots, all kinds of hyper specops action, and some say more than that. They think the raid was a play to get at the mullahs' uranium, and maybe they have a point. But what do I know? Nothing. Why? Because SECWAR Hegseth hasn't been returning my calls. C'mon, Pete, pick up the 'phone.

What if America is already far richer than anyone in the swamp is allowed to admit?

What if the real drag on the Republic isn’t taxes, isn’t debt, isn’t even the deficit, it’s Europe?

What if NATO was never a mutual defense pact, but a 75-year subscription America forgot to…

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) April 6, 2026

Speaking of Persia, 47's been blowing up the airwaves with all kinds of mad bomber incendiarism, "Praise be to Allah!" and dropping an F Bomb on the Straits of Hormuz, It'll be a "GUSHER," and on. What do you make of this? Serious question.

My take, for what little it's worth because SECWAR's apparently blocked me, is something like this: Team Trump hoped for a quick fix. Bold call, didn't get it. So pump up the volume and the bombs and the threats until the other side gets it and walks away before a JDAM hits their bedroom. 

Quite the message. But oh dear, Team Mullah refuses to bend the knee, with their blend of zero sum perverse martyr Islamic sensibility. Next step, 47 gets really loud in the probably doomed expectation that IRGC gets that memo, Viz. if you don't step away from the country we're going to utterly destroy you.

As you know, gentlemen and gentlewomen, the US is more than capable of carrying out the threat of destroying Iran as a functional country. 47, it seems, would prefer we didn't but isn't afraid to go Godzilla all-in if that's what it takes. That's the message, as I see it, Pete might agree, I don't know, he isn't answering calls, perhaps he's busy.

Personally, I'd love it if the Islamo-Marxists who run Persia were taken down, whether we do it remains to be seen. Whatever the case, it's one heckuvva gamble, not least with people's lives, and I hate that. Granted, wars must be fought given our fallen imperfection, but we, as Christians, are about life not death. We build, they destroy. Let's pray the US is on the right side of this Eastertide equation.

Forgive the ramble and feel free to comment on the sit. In other words, what's your take? Over to you.

Cano Arma Virumque,

LSP