We looked around out on The Patio this morning and there were no lumps of steaming, unexplainable phenomena strewn about. The matter of the impeachment of DHS Secretary Mayorkas seems to have passed without event late yesterday. Senator Schumer, forthright Majority Leader, did not permit the matter to get to a “trial.”

This seems a little familiar, since something similar occurred a couple times in a previous Administration. We thought the Senate Rules dealing with such measures forwarded from the House required consideration. There is apparently a lot of “known to us stuff” that is rather situational in application.

Some say the Secretary has ignored US Code regarding Border apprehensions. He says there are only near a dozen million offenses, so everything is fine and secure.

That was not the only regional matter at issue, of course, nor even the one we understand to have a direct legal impact on the election. A former President- you know which one- has been- has been indicted in New York City in the big trial that criminalizes formerly expired and uncharged misdemeanors to multiple felonies in an attempt to alter the Fall election. We tried reding that sentence a couple times in an attempt to make sense of it.

For the former President’s part, he has been castigated for apparently nodding off during Jury Selection and then marching down the Manhattan Streetscape to visit the bodega of the shop-keeper assaulted by a street thug.

All the rest of that stuff on the slide? It too is happening. The most interesting has been discussion of what the Israelis might do to respond to the massive Iranian missile strike last Sunday. There have been reports that the White House has urged Jerusalem to relax and accept the victory on what has been termed a “failed” military operation. That is an arguable if flawed approach, which had been followed by some domestic disruption here in the United States with demonstrations in major cities on Monday, our Tax Day.

There was some pro-Hamas signage that accompanied the blockage of historic places like the Golden Gate Bridge, but part of the well-organized operation included cities world-wide and one just down the boulevard in Crystal City, Virginia.

The organization responsible for the latter calls themselves the “A15 Action” organization. The name of the group refers to action taken on 15 April all over. Apparently, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards organization is at least partly responsible for organization and funding of the A15 activities, which is almost as startling as the rocket attack the day before.

Large scale disruptions in thirty world cities were claimed, including several in America. It included traffic and commerce conducted by Iranians allied with Hamas are almost as curious as massive missile strikes on the only world state associated with the smallest of the three Faiths of their Books.

That brings us around to the question that left us stumped. The looks on the faces of The Salts around the circle on the Patio were muddled. We had thought the rocket assault threatened the outbreak of a potentially catastrophic regional conflict led by the geriatric Mullahs in Tehran.

Instead, it turns out the conflict is already well underway, happening in the next neighborhood to us here in Virginia. Along with Gaza. We are attempting to adjust to the idea that the regional conflict is already underway.

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