Powerpoint of powerpoints, all is powerpoint.
Birdshot or salt then please.
I agree. Self-regulation seems to be de rigeur.
I think they'd control the ground for 6 weeks, and then would find their losses when not en masse so huge they retreat to base, and that would be the end of it. New Republic.
And yet Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel (the 'Rahmfather™') is cozying right up to someone (Louis Farrakhan) who adheres to a religion that not only opposes anything dealing with homosexuality, but includes, in varying parts of the World, some major sects that are very violently opposed to it, indeed.
They're a great success at controlling the ground in Afghanistan. Don't you go there drunk and think you're on the winning side.
It's not the guns that are keeping US forces at bay but rather the explosives that the Taliban have access to. A combination of IEDs and heavier American vehicles means the US doesn't have ground access to places they once did. Then when you don't have ground control, those old CIA supplied Stinger missiles become more of a threat to helicopters that were already hampered by the hazardous terrain and elevations. So it boils down to the fact the Taliban has successfully limited American access to much of the country which would be extremely difficult to do in the US.
I think this can be explained by a combination of redistricting and voter turn out. Obviously redistricting is not an issue for a Senate race but voter turnout certainly is. The Tea Party is much more enthusiastic than the majority of Republicans, so they're going to turn out in disproportionately higher numbers.
Yesterday was primary day for state and local races here in Georgia. The big statewide issue was a vote on regional SPLOSTs to fund transportation improvements, which failed in spectacular fashion - 9 of the state's 12 regions rejected it. The metro Atlanta vote went 63% against, 37% in favor. The local press is painting the defeat of the SPLOST here in the metro area as a Tea Party victory...there was Tea Party opposition, but the huge margin of the overall defeat, combined with the fact that it failed in all 10 metro counties (some of which are fairly blue), suggests that opposition was much more widespread than just the Tea Party folks. Personally, I place most of the blame at the feet of the SPLOST supporters, who sunk millions of dollars into what was possibly the worst political ad campaign of all time....it was like watching a massive train wreck unfold in slow motion over a two-month period. At no point did the supporters make an effort to actually try and educate voters on exactly how a regional approach to improving transportation, including heavy support for transit, would improve the overall traffic situation here in the ATL. None of their literature contained contact information for more information, and the overall theme of their campaign was basically "vote for this and everything will be magically better - you're welcome!" And, when polling a week in advance of the vote showed that the measure was probably going to crash-and-burn, their response was a TV ad invoking the ghost of Ronald Reagan ("hey - look - the Gipper would've liked this!") and an exhausting barrage of robocalls (we received 23 at the house in the four days prior to the election - I would reconsider voting for my wife for anything after an assault like that).
Morons.
