Well, I lost three days somewhere along the way. I guess the hurricane blew them away! Hey, it could happen!

So we’re down to 59 weeks until the election. Somebody bombed some oil facilities on the eastern side of Saudi Arabia. Of course, SA & USA blamed Iran, as the remains of the bomb material appeared to resemble Iranian-made stuff. But can we believe anything either country says? Geez – that is a harsh indictment of one’s own country, but really, can you disagree? I have no confidence that this administration would tell the truth if it’s in their interest to lie. Lying is what they do – not just el presidente, but the whole lot of them. Media has to pick up the ball and find independent sources to let us know what really happened.

Questions abound. Do the Houthis – the Yemeni rebels that took credit for the attack – have the technology to accomplish it? Not thus far, but why not now? Was it perpetrated by the Saudis themselves as an excuse to…to what? That’s an unknown. And how does Israel fit into this drama? They have an election this week and goodness knows what their issues might be – internal and external politics may play a big role here for that country.

But the big question is: is this the spark for war we’ve been discussing? Killing real estate isn’t the same as killing citizenry – not that the Saudis would necessarily care about that since they kill their own if they are problemmatic. But somehow all this is tied together with the weird stuff going on with oil ships in the straits of Hormuz in the last few months. If I were to guess, I’d say – per Occam’s razor – the most obvious culprit would be Iran. But what if there’s a rogue faction in Iran the Ayatollah can’t control? There’s nothing out there in the blogosphere to indicate that, but that is no longer trustworthy because of censorship from both sides. This one is a wait and see and hope the truth outs – maybe a 40/60 probability.