The Russians care more about the drug gangs than they do the Taliban. While the Russians have some problems with Islamic terrorism, heroin addiction does a lot more damage.
There are two million heroin and opium addicts in Russia, and about a quarter of the 40 million such addicts worldwide are in Afghanistan and surrounding countries.
While many Afghan government officials are on the drug gang payrolls, this is much less the case with neighboring nations. All these countries are very anxious to shut down the heroin production in Afghanistan, or at least keep the stuff from being smuggled into their countries.
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Germany has had enough. Any euro-zone state that spends its way into a debt crisis or cannot adapt to a monetary union set for Northern rhythms will face orderly bankruptcy
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Too bad the Germans weren't as insistent in backing bad paper when billions went from the TARP in America to cover paper German Banks invested in that wasn't supposed to be backed by the American government and people.
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we're rejecting Obambi for not being liberal enough. Who knew?!?
We aren't. But their friends are, being very far down the left side of the spectrum. So the dear New York Times journalists are reporting what they see, like that charming lady who was shocked at Richard Nixon's election -- nobody she knew had voted for him, after all.
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A lot of Conservatives were made at Bush and McCain for not being conservative enough. That's what happens when you try to placate the center instead of having policies that the center might naturally gravitate towards (fiscal sanity, pro-American immigration plans for example).
When you've lost your party base, and the other party (of course) you face a landslide. That happened in 2008 and will happen in 2010 but worse since the middle is also against the Democrats this time.
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Why does anyone listen to Huffington anyway? She was hard right while married to a Republican, became hard left when it seemed useful. Her website chews through money incredibly fast and is far from profitable. All of this qualifies her to know what??
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She's got a point. America wont'be rejecting Democrats per se. Reality suggests that America has rejected unpopular Progressive policies. But somehow I don't think that's what she meant.
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American voters are so fickle. They may not all understand the finer points of progressive policy (aka communism) but they understand higher taxes, unemployment and pay cuts perfectly well.
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I know democrats who know that nationalized humanitarianism/war on poverty can only work if there is money in the bank. They are unhappy campers as well...almost like they were fed some BS.
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I don't really care what A. Huffington says. I'd say the voters are thoroughly pissed at Washington over how badly they have screwed things up over the years. If the Pubs win they will be under scrutiny too.
Why does anyone listen to Huffington anyway?... Her website chews through money incredibly fast and is far from profitable. All of this qualifies her to know what??
You answered your question -- she gets attention from "journalists" trying to catch a bit of that sweet cash. It's easy money -- just toe the line, hate Jews, hate Americans, hate capitalism... just be a normal journalist!
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Don't think of it as an election. Think of it as a restraining order.
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I don't know how easy the money will be -- apparently Ms Huffington burnt through several hundred thousand dollars bussing all those people from New York City to Washington, DC.
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HuffinPuff and the rest of the left (and a fair share of the Republican Leadership) still don't get it.
People aren't pissed off at a particular party as they are against the power-hungry elitist of *BOTH* parties - Democrat and Republican who think larger government, more spending, more regulation, higher taxes is any way to fix things.
Gallup models the number of seats a party will control based on that party's share of the national two-party vote for the House of Representatives, using historical voting data in midterm elections from 1946 to 2006. The model takes into account the majority party in Congress entering the elections.
Gallup's historical model suggests that a party needs at least a two-point advantage in the national House vote to win a majority of the 435 seats. The Republicans' current likely voter margin suggests that this scenario is highly probable, making the question of interest this election not whether the GOP will win the majority, but by how much. Taking Gallup's final survey's margin of error into account, the historical model predicts that the Republicans could gain anywhere from 60 seats on up, with gains well beyond that possible.
It should be noted, however, that this year's 15-point gap in favor of the Republican candidates among likely voters is unprecedented in Gallup polling and could result in the largest Republican margin in House voting in several generations. This means that seat projections have moved into uncharted territory, in which past relationships between the national two-party vote and the number of seats won may not be maintained.
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Pubs had better remember: we're not electing them so much as un-electing the Dhimmicrats. If the Pubs don't do what we want them to do, we'll un-elect them in '12.
Posted by: Steve White ||
11/01/2010 9:24 Comments ||
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Prediction Political Class Brand B to win market share over Political Class Brand A.
Apart from Marketing the contents of Brand A and Brand B are identical Brand A's image has fallen after new management failed to perform leaving Brand B to pick up share by default.
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"...we're not electing them so much as un-electing the Dhimmicrats."
Precisely on target. We will have to ride herd on them for quite a while. They work for us, although they would like to think otherwise.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
11/01/2010 11:27 Comments ||
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In this environment, it would be wise for all Republicans to remember that their team didnt win, the other team lost." Scott Rasmussen.
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11/01/2010 11:45 Comments ||
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Apart from Marketing the contents of Brand A and Brand B are identical Brand A's image has fallen after new management failed to perform leaving Brand B to pick up share by default.
Really? How many Republicans helped Code Pink slip cash and supplies to the jihadis in Iraq?
"No difference" my ass...
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
11/01/2010 13:29 Comments ||
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
