If anyone is “trapped”, as a tourist or as a worker, in the “War Zone” around Iran, then they really deserve to be trapped. If you are a tourist trapped in the area, you are demonstrably a fool.  If you are a worker for someone, and think that you should go home now because of the current war, then you could have evacuated a week or more ago.

If you were not aware of the fact that war was imminent starting about 2 weeks ago, then you simply weren’t paying attention. You should have left a week or more before. If you didn’t get a flight out when the embassies told their people to “find a flight, any flight, to anywhere beside the Middle East” then you simply deserve the situation you are in right now.

If you were a tourist in Saudi, or Oman or any other Arab country  in the area, (or even Iran, if you were that stupid), or on a cruise ship now trapped on the wrong side of the Strait of Hormuz, then again, you deserve the situation you are in now.

You gotta be smarter than that.

Stop complaining about the situation you put yourself into.

Stop whining that the US authorities aren’t helping you. You chose to put yourself in that situation, and the US has other things to do right now. You are in no more danger than any of the citizens of the countries in which you are currently staying.

(For some reason this didn’t post at 8 AM as it was supposed to…)

“It ain’t Day Drinking if you don’t start early…”

“Time is the only currency you spend without knowing the balance…Use it wisely.

“Your choice of what to do next matters more than the mistake you last made”

“Most people judge others based upon the model they have of themselves. If they deem people untrustworthy without cause, they themselves are likely untrustworthy”

“Life is hard enough, don’t help it be harder”

“Looking back is foolish”

“The end of a journey with someone is also a part of that journey”

“Muddy water is often best cleared by leaving it alone”

By Iran…., that they have people here, ready to exact revenge for the attack on their homeland…

Maybe the do, and maybe they don’t.

Either way, be specially vigilant and make sure your carry piece is ready.

You never know if there is gonna be some dude that shouts “Aloha Snackbar!!!” (or not)  and does something nasty (or tries to) to you or your fellow citizens.

Be able to be the first responder, if necessary.

“Rubio: “We Knew Israel Would Attack Iran, Which Would Lead to an Attack on America” ”  (via LI)

Gee, Israel pushing other countries to help them disarm and decapitate another country that has declared that they will  destroy Israel? The single largest sponsor of terrorism…..a nascent nuclear power that intends to use those bombs on Israel?

At the end of it, if you didn’t think Israel was being manipulative here then you really haven’t been paying attention to things for several years.

“Some of the cracks had penetrated through”

How would you like to find that the viewport in your space capsule (and your ride home!) had a cracked window?

I mean, this isn;t a few missing thrusters like on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, (ok, it was more than a few) but rather the window that keeps the inside where it needs to be…separated from the outside.

General Caine is telling us that so far, all the new and innovative ordinance that the US and Israel have used so far have worked well.

Plus, he is giving credit to the National Guard and to the logistic staffers that are making the continued attacks possible. While the warriors at the tip of the spear are doing the dangerous work, they couldn’t do so without all the people supporting them, and he acknowledged that.

flying and other stuff in MeatSpace.

Maybe blogging later, maybe not til tomorrow.

There is a rumor that the attack on Iran kicked off early because the US (or maybe the Israelis) had confirmed intelligence that the top leadership in Iran was meeting all together in a specific place at a specific time, so everything was pushed forward approximately 36 hours in order to take advantage of that intelligence and get a somewhat surgical strike in to cripple the leadership of Iran.

It’s only a rumor, but it makes sense. It also explains why many US people weren’t properly evacuated from the danger zones.

I dunno for sure one way or the other

It’s

(especially adherents of Ms Misfit and the like:

How exhausting it must be to be a liberal today. For decades they were defined by standing up to authoritarianism and championing the oppressed.

But now, in the face of one of the greatest liberations in modern history, they can’t allow themselves to celebrate because they spent the last decade consuming buffets of bullshit about the guy who just made it happen.They know it’s a good thing, and they know we know they know;

it must be pure agony.I would love nothing more than for them to join us in being happy today, if only just this once.

I’d like to shit diamonds too, but I know that ain’t gonna happen either.

The attacks on Iran have kicked off.

A bit earlier than I expected, but still.

Epic Fury (Sounds like a Call of Duty thing) kicked off Saturday morning.

It isn’t like we didn’t know it was coming…..

Now, if only the Iranian people can take advantage of the chaos and get rid of their government.