The title yesterday should have read “April Fools” or something and will refrain from any commentary on the outbreak of hostilities with Iran, the use of thirty-thousand pound bunker-busting aerial delivered ordnance, or the name of the big body of water west of Key West.

Are we clear yet? With the deck suitably cleared of trustworthy activities, the Boomers felt it was safe to retire to the patio and marvel at the amount of rain contained in the clouds over the nation’s midsection.

That is where the confusion began. The interns from Legal were left near Live Burner Telephones in the crowded bustle of suite 138. Those are normally billed to overhead at Socotra House HQ and a name was mistaken for a former retired Lieutenant General.

The storm has not yey be dubbed with a formal title, and lack of supervision of the Foley catheter bag has resulted in JR being trapped in the powered bed in the Suite with only occasional visits from Bronco and other literary luminaries. The name in question was confusion of retired Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine and retired General Jack Keane, once Army Vice Chief of Staff and now Fox News contributor.

The confusion was as inevitable as it was natural. The Foley collection bag was nearly circular due to the amount of bodily fluids collected from JR, which led to confusion on the part of Sarah the intern from Legal who was sent to summon professional staff to drain the reservoir and permit JR’s local area movements. Extremely local area, and of some concern as are the large concentrations of liquids in the body of water we have been directed to call the Gulf of America.

The confusion of who was responsible for liquids was natural, since General Keane had just completed a brief update on the Ukrainian cease fire, which isn’t, exactly, and the massive reduction in Senior Staff at the Federal Emergency Management was a topic under discussion. Lt. Gen. William “Butch” Graham is the 56th Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers, an organization which, among other things, is entrusted with managing the flow of the Mississippi River.

FEMA has not had a chief sine last February, when a “deferred resignation” submitted by Scott Curtis was abruptly recognized. Since neither storms nor the Corps are new, there was talk about who is going to manage this incoming meteorological event, since FEMA didn’t do much about the hurricane damage in the Carolinas or the Santa Ana fires in LA.

The name “Butch,” short and declarative, was the last thing anyone heard at the end of Corridor 1F, and that was coincident with mention that “Raizin” was testifying on the Hill about the status of the Joint Chiefs, and Butch was going to take care of the slow-moving storm.

General Keane was mentioning something about even more B-2 movements in the Indian Ocean, so you can see what the Interns had become convinced a massive joint ‘’’US-Israeli strike” was impending a few hours before dawn today.

They have been chastised by what remains of senior management and the prediction about impending military operations has returned to the usual, which is “maybe a couple hours before dawn local time tomorrow.

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