The media happily does not realize--and by the media, I mean every reporter, cameraman, talking head and all of their bosses, directors, owners--that THEY will be the some of the first targets when the shooting starts.

Either side knows that they will not be reported on fairly or accurately, so why allow the report to happen at all, and why allow it ever?

It's soon time for you to decide on 'live or die.' Which you choose depends on you alone. This means your own life, and the life of others.

I've imagined and written up some fiction that has some lower-case "s" ****storms.

We have no idea of how bad it will be. Balkans would be a good outcome.

I'm nowhere near that optimistic.

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1 Thessalonians 4:11 Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders a