"I of course expect that you will want to name the little bugger after me!”
Eighteen-ish years might seem like a long time, but as any upper-middle-aged surf fan knows, it goes by in the blink of an eye. It seems like only yesterday that Mick Fanning won his first-of-three Association of Surfing Professionals trophies.
That lightning strike still tingling.
Bede “White Fijian” Durbidge’s Pipeline win, of that same year, as fresh in the memory as… whoever won last year.
Yes, time moves fast and before we all know it there will be a young man, or woman, with the first name “Huckabee” making his or her own Championship Tour debut.
As the Iran War, or Ramadan War as its being billed in Iran, stretches into its fifth day, the prospect of a new forever war are brightening. U.S. President Donald J. Trump and his Sec. of War Party Pete Hegseth are very bullish on the business being wrapped up quickly, five-ish weeks tops, but who could forget when former U.S. President George W. Bush’s Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared, “Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn’t going to last any longer than that…It won’t be a World War III,” ahead of the Iraq invasion back in 2002.
That operation lasted 20-odd years.
Trump, Hegseth et. al. continue to be bullish about Epic Fury, declaring the U.S. is “winning” though other reports suggest things might not be so rosy, The Islander Newspaper, for example, examining satellite footage shared by The New York Times and surmising that Iran has crippled U.S. communications across the region.
“Iran didn’t just strike US bases. It mapped the communication and coordination layer that makes American missile defense function as a unified system and then it peeled it apart, base by base, across five countries simultaneously. Thirty years of studying exactly how the American military machine sees, communicates, and coordinates and then, when the moment came, going straight for the eyes.”
Oops.
Back to Huckabee, though. U.S. diplomatic staff across the Middle East are either being evacuated or told to shelter-in-place. The ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, seeing a wonderful silver lining in the sulphur-filled skies for a baby boom. In a memo to staffers, the jolly fella informed them they will be spending extended time together and if that “results in the birth of your next child in about 9 months, I of course expect that you will want to name the little bugger after me!”
A no brainer.
Huckabee Jones 2043’s World Surf League Championship Tour Rookie of the Year?
Huzzah.