Recent News Missives For A Chilly Saturday

None of them French

• The "party crashers" should be billed for the millions of dollars I guarantee the investigation into their shenanigans and the policy changes that will be made as a result will cost.



• Wonder how many secret service careers will be affected/ruined by these idiots?



• President Obama attended a ceremony to honor an Air Force unit that operates F22 Raptors. His staff had an F22 replaced as a backdrop with an F15 due to the fact his administration opposed the F22 program.



• Good grief- we're in trouble.



• Can't turn on the tube or pull up a news browser without being assaulted by the Tiger Woods crash/wife assault/adultery, non story. Why? Who on earth cares?



• Big news? Kinda sorta anyway- President Obama is sending 35,000 troops to Afghanistan. Bringing the total to a little over 100,000.



• How many do some sources estimate would be required to subdue the insurgency? And I'm nearly certain I've read somewhere the new Army COIN manual itself calls for the same number but, I couldn't find the source.



• 600,000



• That war is lost and we might as well get used to that natural fact.



• The world is cuckoo: recently Ireland was outraged their World Cup hopes were dashed by a French handball- it's a wonder they didn't go into a full on land war and might have if the French president hadn't apologised directly to the Irish PM.



• Do not be surprised if the offending French soccer player is not killed before this is all over. Oh, and I do mean killed, as in literally by gunshot, car bomb etc.



• Funny diplomatic exchange regarding a VIP box for the French President.



• Headline: "Paris museum workers strike". Is there any operation those people can't/won't strike?
• Mood: Curmudgeon-ie