Ralph Peters

Talking with General Odierno.
I liked this quote.

“The Shia have not yet recognized that they’ve actually won. . . They need to get past that and move toward reconciliation.”

NYTimes

Front page of the NYTimes today

The Wealthy Get an Extra Shield for Wildfires

OMG the rich are getting special treatment!!! Why, oh why would an insurance company cover extremely expensive homes with fire retardent but not your shack??!!!

Mr. LaPeter, who owns shopping centers and splits his time between Idaho and Maui, said the service might be a security blanket for the rich, but that it was also good business.

“At first I thought, I’ve never heard of an insurance company coming and doing that. But, duh! Of course they should,” he said. “I mean, compare the cost of these guys’ coming out to the cost of replacing a $3 million or $4 million home.”

Mr. Futral weighed in. “Save one $10 million house and it pencils out pretty quickly,” he said. “And there are a lot of nice homes here — Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood.”

Oh

Yes FRONT PAGE NEWS!!! I think I’m going to have to start reading other pages.

WARTIME SHORTAGE OF AMMUNITION!

Front Page of the Washington Post today.

Police Feel Wartime Pinch on Ammo
Target Practice Cut To Conserve Bullets

OMG you think!! We need those bullets here rather than overseas in foreign places!! If only Bush hadn’t started this damn war we’d have enough bullets to handle our own criminals!! We’ll have to arrest people using spitballs! (I still miss Zell)

Turns out that article, that page one article, notes the ammo shortage is occuring during wartime. Not BECAUSE of wartime.
And frankly it’s old news. Confederate yankee already fixed the AP story that came out on this on the 21st of August. How? By calling a major ammunition manufacturer.

Let me make that crystal clear.

According to two spokesmen for the world’s largest ammunition manufacturer, which runs the military’s ammunition manufacturing plant and separately, is a major supplier of law enforcement ammunition, it is a massive and unexpected increase in law enforcement ammunition demand that is causing delays in law enforcement ammunition delays, not the war.

Once again, a media organization with target fixation seems to have widely missed the mark.

Read the quotes, click on through….be amazed.