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NATO supply route under attack

Things in Pakistan seem to sliding rapidly toward the abyss. It’s hard to believe sites like this have such little security.

From The Washington Post:

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suspected militants attacked a Pakistan transport terminal used to supply NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan, killing a guard and burning 106 vehicles on Sunday.

The assault was the boldest yet on trucks carrying critical supplies to foreign troops in Afghanistan, feeding concern that Taliban militants could cut or seriously disrupt the route through the famed Khyber Pass.

Up to 75 percent of the supplies for Western forces in the landlocked country pass through Pakistan after being unloaded from ships at the Arabian sea port of Karachi.

About 30 assailants armed with guns and rockets attacked the Portward Logistic Terminal near the city of Peshawar before dawn Sunday, police official Kashif Alam said.

A guard at the terminal was killed in the attack and fire swept through the parked vehicles. Alam said 62 vehicles were destroyed.

But terminal manager Kifayatullah Khan said 106 vehicles were destroyed, including 62 that were carrying Humvees. The other torched trucks were carrying sealed shipping containers or other vehicles, including fire engines and dump trucks, Khan said.

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By Bud Wiser

December 7, 2008 7:05 AM | Link to this

So who is going to secure them, Jay? The Pakistanis have made it very clear on their feelings of the US having troops inside their border, no matter the reason.

NATO? Are you kidding me? With the notable exception of the Brits, these tools have historically proven that they are incapable of protecting their own homelands, in and on their own property. NATO - No one Accepts The Operation; meaning, no one has the stones to step forward and do what needs to be done, except the US, of course.

Curiosity makes me wonder how many of these vehicles were picked through and kept by local officials before they arrived from Karachi on station, and who the Pakistanis allowed for escort for the trip. Also, if the shipment was so poorly guarded, why wasn’t it ransacked first and equipment stolen, or was it? Your report says nothing. Very fishy.

Sounds like an inside job.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 7, 2008 7:20 AM | Link to this

Hell, it was probably the Pakistani army that attacked the terminal.

What is this anyway, are you libs trying to drum up an invasion?

Should we be calling this the Terminal of Tonkin Incident or maybe send Colin Powell to the UN to lie on behalf of the goony CIA?

It’s not often that you see the surrender monkeys mourning over a bunch of shot up jeeps and other war implements.

Waz up?

By leni

December 7, 2008 7:31 AM | Link to this

Who are the “suspected militants”?They could be anyone—sort of like “clueless reporters.”

By GodHatesTrash

December 7, 2008 7:39 AM | Link to this

Kinda stoopid to start an operation where you’re using Pakistan as an important staging area, doncha think?

Oh that’s right - the Bush administration - they don’t think.

By "The Corporal"

December 7, 2008 7:58 AM | Link to this

To GodHatesTrash

Not to worry sir! Private Obama will straighten all this out in just a over a month from now.

Remember, during the campaign he had all* the answers.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 7, 2008 8:00 AM | Link to this

For the incoming Obama administration, a first priority will be to weigh which is the greater risk: drawing down American forces too quickly in Iraq, potentially jeopardizing the gains there; or not building up troops quickly enough in Afghanistan, where the war effort hangs in the balance as security worsens.-Urinal/Jihad

What’s up with all this unilateralism, I thought Oblahmi was going to bring the world “together?”

Yeah, sure thing.

Notice how the mouthpieces for the democrat party have stopped shrieking about the cost of the war, war for oil, blah, blah, blah and now sound just like the Bush Administration?

Now that their as-ses are on the hook and they have to be serious?

“Change” you can count on.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 7, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

Speaking of “change” you can “count” on-

San Juan, Puerto Rico —- The mothers of two men killed in the Sept. 11 attacks are traveling to Guantanamo Bay this weekend, hoping to look into the eyes of the man who says he is responsible for the worst terrorist strike on U.S. soil.

The two will be among those present next week as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the attacks’ self-professed mastermind, and four co-defendants appear in one of the final sessions of war-crimes tribunals under outgoing President Bush at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.-Urinal/Jihad

Finally, after 7 long years, the pinko press is on a campaign to demonize the terrorists at Gitmo.

Why the sudden change of heart you ask, after a decade of whining and moaning about torture and “our standing in the world?”

Cause the libs ain’t going to close Gitmo, that’s why.

Can you imagine would what go down if one of these killers was released and came back to annihilate Washington DC?

We’ll hear stories about the “torture policy being reviewed,” sob stories about the horrors the Bushies committed upon these little darlings and then everything will go right back to status quo, except they’ll probably get their 5 Star World Class dining arrangements cut back to “save” money.

It’ll be harder for these murderers now than it was under Cheney.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 7, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

Like I said, taking advantage of the situation to impugn and slander those who risk their lives to protect them-

Iraqis hope the charges, to be unsealed Monday, finally will bring justice and improve relations with the United States after the gruesome slayings on Sept. 16, 2007.-Urinal/Jihad

Nobody knows what the charges are but does that stop the AJC from grandstanding at the expense of these brave men?

And check this out, something you probably didn’t know-

And Blackwater has protected almost every single US senator and congressman who has visited Afghanistan and Iraq over the past few years - even when Obama visited Iraq in 2006.-BlackWaterFacts

Maybe these guys did murder children just for the fun of it, I doubt it, but don’t you think the sniveling coward democrats could at least wait to see what the charges are before they ruin the lives of the people they hide behind?

By GodHatesTrash

December 7, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this

Can’t our military protect US senators and congressmen visiting Iraq? Do they have to be protected by thugs and mercenaries?

Things are worse than portrayed, I guess.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 7, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In a year when national Republican fortunes took a turn for the worse, Louisiana delivered the GOP two seats in Congress in elections delayed by Hurricane Gustav.

Indicted Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson was ousted Saturday from his New Orleans area district, while Republicans narrowly held on to the seat vacated by a retiring incumbent.

The wins followed Republicans’ reconquest of another House seat earlier this fall that had been lost to Democrats.

Heh.

You’d think in NO of all places, where the Bushies committed one of the most “heinous crimes” ever with Katrina, this place would be solid pinko.

Apparently the actually living there saw things differently than what the drive by media was telling everybody.

So many lies to be outed.

And what about thee Oblahmi mania, it only goes so far, huh?

By getalife

December 7, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Andy,

We handed over the most corrupt State to Alaska.

By getalife

December 7, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

The man that defeated the corrupt Jefferson is the first Vietnamese American elected to Congress.

By Road Scholar

December 7, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Here is a link to a video showing the outcome:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7769758.stm

One guard? When will the Pakistan pay us for our loss due to their inability, or disregard for security? I’m about ready to nuke NW Pakistan! What good has come out of that region? The innocent civilians…give me a break…they are in cahuts with them.

Pakistan must have a hell of a track team… they constantly run from any fight!

By psu-psuedio

December 7, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

What happened it India could easily happen here unfortunately. Especially after 1/09.

Lay under your psuedo security blankets obamamaniacs.

By getalife

December 7, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

You are correct pu.

We are a country in crisis and a prime target for another attack.

w’s legacy.

By Ray

December 7, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

What makes the Cold Cash Jefferson story even more pathetic is that in the No4th primary, the voters in his district had a chance to eliminate him from office by just voting for Moreno, his democratic opponent. But no, we must be loyal and vote for our black candidate, even though he was indicted on 16 counts of bribery, theft, lying and extortion. All of his aids pleaded guilty. When will black voters stop voting for an obvious criminal against someone from another race who is better qualified to represent them in Congress? This blind loyalty speaks volumes about their intelligence.

By AmVet

December 7, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

When will black voters stop voting for an obvious criminal against someone from another race who is better qualified to represent them in Congress? This blind loyalty speaks volumes about their intelligence.

The day the crackers and assorted “conservative” bigots/white christofascists here in the Moron Belt lead by example.

In other words, probably never…

By Abomi Nation

December 7, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

Speaking of Louisiana lawmakers I hear Sen Vitter (R) is going to run for re-election. When are “moral Republicans” going to stop voting for diaper wearing hooker loving politicians?

Boxers or briefs? Not applicable.

Huggies or Pampers?

By Ray

December 7, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Amvet,

You would probably vote for Jefferson if you lived in his district. Or if you lived in DC, maybe Marion Berry is more to your liking. Or if you lived in North GA, how ‘bout Cynthia McKinney. Maybe Maxine Waters in CA or John Lewis. All of these very effective politicians who are so far in the bucket for their “cause” but are poor representatives for the people who elected them. But race is the all important thing, now isn’t it. The Annointed One took DC by 82% to 13% and it can’t be because all of those informed voters thought he was the best candidate for the job.
But look what happened to Martin. Wasn’t white. Forget about supporting him. Black vote in GA was l8% less in his runoff than in the general election. Wonder why? Parade a bunch of thugs and gangsters on the podium trying to get the black vote….. didn’t do much good, now did it? Maybe Martin should have lowered his pants and put his cap on backwards. Should have been good for a few votes.

By AmVet

December 7, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

You would probably vote for Jefferson if you lived in his district.

A vivid imagination, republican paranoia, more than a few ridiculously far-fetched ideas and the penchant for speaking for others and voial! You have the perfect neo-con!

I’ll hazard a guess that on the surface, would seem just as idiotic - you voted for BushCo twice.

In other words, how could anyone who sh!t the bed (hell, the whole bedroom) that badly, EVER counsel ANYONE on how to vote?

No matter, Two consecutive November bloodbaths and the maroons in the GOP have apparently learned next to nothing. I pray they trot out another slate of knuckle-dragging idiots like they did last time.

It simply means the nation is likely looking at a couple more elections where the neo-cons get their heads kicked in…

By Cheryl

December 7, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

By Ray wrote: When will black voters stop voting for an obvious criminal against someone from another race who is better qualified to represent them in Congress? This blind loyalty speaks volumes about their intelligence.

……Actually that statement speaks volumes to just how much you don’t understand politics, and how unintelligent you may be yourself, as far as political processes anyway…..

Cong. Jefferson held a position of power and seniority in the House, he held a seat on the appropriations committee, he was stripped of his chairmanship, but still sits on the committee. This was an incredible asset to New Orleans, especially in their quest to rebuild. A Freshman representative (democratic) at that vital point was not in their best interest against a republican administration.

Yesterday, the (black voters) did not turn out, apathy won the day, and a Republican won the seat. Now, whites voted against Jefferson, and Blacks didn’t vote at all in protest of Jefferson, but they actually just voted against their own interests. (If you don’t know New Orleans politics, let me tell you, the trend for the past 2 municipal and state elections has been for whites to vote against ANY Black, for anything….. yes this is 2008)

Sending a freshman, Republican representative, to work for them, in a Democratic controlled Congress, and Senate, and White House, will prove to be the biggest mistake they could have made.

They (New Orleanians) were in a position to have their needs heard, and addressed with seniority and good committee assignments, and now their requests will fall on deaf ears…….

So, your incorrect with your assumption because It was the White voters, who blindly and unintelligently voted for the “Non-Black” as a vote to “regain power” and ultimately made a huge blunder in getting their city rebuilt, and back to life! They are now POWERLESS and invisible!

If you did not know that, maybe you should refrain from attempting to determine the intelligence of others, based on race. Look at Georgia, for God’s sake, White Georgians voted Saxby Chambliss back in, the most ineffective member of the US Senate, who has done NOTHING in the interest of the people of GA, just because of blind loyality. It made no sense politically, and it will cost each and every Georgian, who is not a member of Saxby’s social circle. He and they will be alright, they have the money, you and I on the other hand, should be getting used to what it feels like to be slammed from the backside, without the benefit of lubricant, and YOU asked for it!

The majority of the country will recover from the Bush years, Georgia and Louisiana, sadly, chose to stay in the land of suffering. It’s time for people to open their eyes, there is just no excuse to be politically stupid anymore.

To every voter…….Check your own house before you throw a stone, you may be in need of a good civics tutor on how our government really works before there is another election in which you have a chance to vote.

Just my opinion

By saxby is amvet's senator

December 7, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

amvet is angry

By AmVet

December 7, 2008 12:09 PM | Link to this

Not at all, mr anonymous the brave.

But keep telling yourself your various little lies if they make you feel better.

I see it here often.

I’m just amusing myself and providing laughs for those like-minded souls here at the expense of you tools and losers in the BushCo ranks.

Don’t go away mad, just keep getting humiliated every other November and I’ll keep laughing…

By Cheryl

December 7, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

AmVet wrote: I’m just amusing myself and providing laughs for those like-minded souls here at the expense of you tools and losers in the BushCo ranks.

Thank you Mr. AmVet, when you are not a Republican kool-aid drinker and you live in Georgia, you have to be able to laugh once and awhile, to keep from crying.

Excuse me now while I go to my 3rd job to make up for the lack of a cost of living raise in 4 years, lower wages, higher food prices, incredible energy costs, higher property taxes, all of the goodies I have received since having Saxby Chambliss, and George W. Bush crammed down my throat for the last 6 and 8 years by an uninformed and undereducated electorate.

Don’t you just find astonishing the correlation between the states with the lowest education ranking, GA, LA, MS, AL, and they way they turned right around and kissed the keisters of the ones who have cost them EVERYTHING, bankrupted them, outsourced them, swindled them and ultimately are making a run for it with the money. They Re-Elected them over and over again. Even with all of the proof, staring them in the bank account, in the mail, in the lack of a proper paycheck, they still vote for them! Well, there may be hope for the hopeless, but I do not see that, not yet…..

Grow up, and wise up people and stop screwing it up for the rest of us who really do care and have to live with your stupid decisions, and backwards ideologies! I really can’t afford it any more.

Cancel Christmas

By farmer joe

December 7, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

Don’t you just find astonishing the correlation between the states with the lowest education ranking, GA, LA, MS, AL, and they way they turned right around and kissed the keisters of the ones who have cost them EVERYTHING, bankrupted them, outsourced them, swindled them and ultimately are making a run for it with the money.

yes, i wish someone would look deeper into that instead of blaming the crackers.

By AJC/DNC Management

December 7, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

By Cheryl December 7, 2008 12:26 PM Excuse me now while I go to my 3rd job to make up for the lack of a cost of living raise in 4 years, lower wages, higher food prices, incredible energy costs, higher property taxes, all of the goodies I have received since having Saxby Chambliss, and George W. Bush crammed down my throat for the last 6 and 8 years by an uninformed and undereducated electorate.

If you think the Republicans did this to you it sure goes along way to explaining how you got into such a mess.

By Cheryl

December 7, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

*yes, i wish someone would look deeper into that instead of blaming the crackers.

Whomever fits the shoes wears it, but we all pay the price.

I would never blame one racial group, it’s always a mixture of that plus apathy, non voters are just as much to blame as people who make bad voting choices, the end result is the same, and often times the cause is too - It’s not race that keeps this nation in a bind, it’s ignorance.

Poverty has no color, hunger has no color, bankruptcy has no color, man-made drought has no color, the choices we make as individuals effects us all, it’s time we realize that and stop voting as if it’s a “little thing we do”. Uninformed, biased and boneheaded voters matter as much in my life as I do, their vote counts as much as mine, I and everyone else has to live with their decision to vote based on crap that doesn’t mean a thing! Our children all are paying the price for people who are afraid of Gay’s being married, and whether or not a woman wants to have a baby. Your kids are getting a substandard education, our elderly parents have to chose between medication and food, our jobs are gone, and America won nothing, but Hey, at least Gay men and women can’t get married! Big Whoop, what does that do for you?

We must stop voting with willful and negligible ignorance. That my friends, has no color!

I’m very upset that we and many others cannot afford a tree, or lights this year, when we probably need it the most but every little bit matters these days!

By Cheryl

December 7, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Now that’s funny, because I didn’t say all republicans did it, I said Saxby (corporate farm subsidy king and pretty much nothing else) and also the President, and his chicken-hawk, warmongering, robber baron administration who made VERY bad decisions, are at the root. But the point was they didn’t get there by themselves. YOU put them there, ignoring what they were doing; cheerleading some fairytale crap they spoon fed you about Gay Marriage, and Abortion, while they ran rough shod over this nation, looted the reserves, bankrupted us, and borrowed more money than we will EVER be able to repay.

Yes it is partly but not completely their fault because each one of them also have only ONE vote, you silly silly people did the rest for them, and so yes, it’s tough today because of it.

You not understanding that, may explain why I am in this mess as well as much of the rest of the nation, today….. That’s the whole point.

You all have just got to get this. It’s not about republican or democrat, it’s about accountability, and unless you start to give a hoot about what is real and stop drinking the spiked punch, it will happen again and again and again. Vote based on your interests, not on ideology. That’s the point.

And btw, sending a Senator back vowing to “fight” the power, when the power is going to try to fix he mess that Saxby and friends made for YOU, is really very STUPID! How will Saxby Lower your taxes, hes been there, now for 6 years, and mine have gone up every year….. EVERY YEAR! Think before you VOTE!

By AJC/DNC Management

December 7, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

By Cheryl December 7, 2008 1:37 PM How will Saxby Lower your taxes, hes been there, now for 6 years, and mine have gone up every year….. EVERY YEAR! Think before you VOTE!

The only way your taxes went up the last 6 years is if you made more money.

Perhaps you should stop babbling talking points directly from the Huffington Post, you’d be a lot more credible.

By Cheryl

December 7, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Ok.
*The only way your taxes went up the last 6 years is if you made more money.

But not true, my property taxes have increased steadily (due to the housing boom with 700k homes being built all around, which sit EMPTY but new schools and roads had to be built to acommodate the possible new students and traffic to fill the McMansions built on every open piece of land my SPLOOST Dollars are at work).

Food costs and durable goods prices have increased, which means we pay more tax at the cash register for the same goods as we did last year, gas prices until recently climbed steadily for the past 4 years, they are now lower, but we pay “Prepaid Local Tax” on all motor fuel sold for highway use at the time the Prepaid State Tax and State Excise Tax is collected. which means the more gas costs, the more tax is included in that price….. I know what I pay, do you?

If people cannot step outside of their ideas of how things work, and look at how they really work, we are never going to get ahead.

The cost of higher education has skyrocketed, and another tuition increase was just approved, so if you like me, have a child in college, you are feeling it even more. High Schools have to charge students to play sports, and school supply lists which come home every semester are now averaging over $75 just to go to school.

It costs more to heat a home here than it does in Chicago, where the average temp in Jan & Feb is 20 - 30 below zero wind chill, because of deregulation. Electricity is more expensive as well in deregulated states such as this one. And we wont’ even get into charging all those outrageous deposits for lower income people just to have utilities, just because they can get away with it.

Wages in GA are below the national average median household income, The average working person in GA earns $12.45 per hour. That means they earn a little more than 25,000 per year but the cost of living is climbing. The unemployment rate is the 14th highest in the country. More people are losing their jobs every day. If these are talking points for you, instead of REAL issues, then that is wonderful, and you are VERY fortunate. But for the rest of us, the current economic situation is not a talking point, it’s a yelling point! I do my part, I go to work, I pay my taxes, I vote, I teach my kids to do the same. And still, this is the way it is, because others do not do the same.

These guys who have been in charge did not do a good job. If we had that type of job performance, we’d be fired! Saxby got rehired and that’s the point!

By usual citizen

December 7, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

fyi: when you say “mc mansions”, the ear muffs go on

By Cheryl

December 7, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

*fyi: when you say “mc mansions”, the ear muffs go on

lol, that’s a good tip! When I see them being built, I grab a barf bag!

By usual citizen

December 7, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

you must be queasy…

By usual citizen

December 7, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

put dat in yo bag

By AJC/DNC Management

December 7, 2008 4:47 PM | Link to this

By Cheryl December 7, 2008 3:01 PM But not true, my property taxes have increased steadily

What does this have to do with Chambliss?

Food costs and durable goods prices have increased

democrats are in charge of Congress and during that time have mandated that ethanol be used as fuel, with some Republican backers, but have also not allowed domestic energy production increases.

It costs more to heat a home here than it does in Chicago, where the average temp in Jan & Feb is 20 - 30 below zero wind chill, because of deregulation.

Chicago’s energy production is a majority nuclear, which the democrats in Congress now hysterically oppose.

Wages in GA are below the national average median household income, The average working person in GA earns $12.45 per hour.

Illegal and legal immigration and the cheaper labor that comes with it?

See what happens now with a democrat majority and president, the illegals will swarm our labor market, further driving down wages and living conditions.

Chambliss ain’t perfect but he damn sure isn’t the problem.

And it sounds to me like you voted for the problem.

You’ll find out soon enough.

By Cheryl

December 7, 2008 5:35 PM | Link to this

AJC/DNC, you have an answer for everything, & you validate what I am saying.

Sen. Chambliss said in his ads, over and over, that he wants to lower our taxes. If they are low, why do they need to be lowered? Because we pay alot of taxes that’s why. But he has had 6 years to do it, and nothing….. except for the rich folks, theirs were lowered from jump street.

I know he doesn’t control local property taxes, but tell me, what does he have anything to do with? He isn’t against illegal workers, he protects his corporate agriculture friends who hire them.

He isn’t for worker retraining, for funding childhood education, or for expanding pell grants for college, for transportation infrastructure in Atlanta, or fuel alternatives, for clean water, and green space. What is he for that helps us exactly? He isn’t for an increase in the minimum wage, or increasing or extending the schipp program for Peachcare. What does he support that supports us regular working folks?

btw, Chicagoans don’t heat their homes with nuclear power, they use the same natural gas as we do here in GA, (Peoples Gas Co, there are regulations in place with controls on pricing) Nuclear plants generate electricity, not natural gas…..

My original point was where a member sits in congress, what committees he is on, how he votes on legislature, and how he represents and benefits HIS constituents is what you should vote for when considering an incumbent. They should have to defend their record, not attack the opponent. But you voters did not require that of him. You drank the kool-aid. But he won, so then hold him accountable. Don’t just let him go off golfing again, make him work for your support this time with real issues, not fluff and crap like gay marriage and abortion. Make him help his State!

As a voter, If you cannot name One thing that your representative has done, or supported that has made your life any easier, or more convenient, or saved you a buck or two, or made any difference positively in your life or that of your community, then he should go. I am saying that banning Gay Marriage didn’t help me any.

How are illegals Pres Elect Obama’s fault if he hasn’t even been the President yet? I think that was a BUSH failure……. Chambliss was eerily quiet on the subject ,not one campaign commercial about it at all.

Just stop and listen to what you say, and think about what you think and what is true, and what is right, and make better decisions, that’s all anyone can really do from here on in.

By Midori

December 7, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

Cheryl,

you’re using logic as a weapon.

it’s going to get quite messy when his head explodes.

clean up on Blog 4!!

By AJC/DNC Management

December 7, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

Sen. Chambliss said in his ads, over and over, that he wants to lower our taxes.

He didn’t say he wanted lower taxes, he said Jim Martin would raise them. And he is exactly right. How can you argue a position of lower taxes from the democrat side?

Let’s just say that their kampaign promises aren’t lies and they will give a “tax cut to 95% of the people.” So what good is that when you know full well they are going to tax energy to the hilt? There are going to be road taxes, luxury taxes, public use taxes, you name it, they will bury a surcharge in it.

They think no one has enough sense to see it.

He isn’t for worker retraining, for funding childhood education, or for expanding pell grants for college, for transportation infrastructure in Atlanta, or fuel alternatives, for clean water, and green space.

That’s just simply not true. I’m not going to break it all down but the very first thing on your list-

Atlanta - Workers dislocated from the Brown & Williamson facility in Macon , Georgia will receive transition assistance as the result of a federal grant secured by Governor Sonny Perdue. A $4.2 million workforce retraining grant is being made available by the U.S. Department of Labor. Said Governor Sonny Perdue. “I also appreciate Senators Chambliss and Miller for their assistance facilitating this grant.”

To say that he is against clean water, etc. is nonsense straight from the Huffington Post.

btw, Chicagoans don’t heat their homes with nuclear power, they use the same natural gas as we do here in GA, (Peoples Gas Co, there are regulations in place with controls on pricing) Nuclear plants generate electricity, not natural gas…..

I was responding to this-

It costs more to heat a home here than it does in Chicago, where the average temp in Jan & Feb is 20 - 30 below zero wind chill, because of deregulation. Electricity is more expensive as well in deregulated states such as this one.

I was wondering who would be silly enough to heat their home with electricity but I didn’t go there.

As a voter, If you cannot name One thing that your representative has done

Again, I don’t know where you are getting your information but I can name hundreds of things he has done, some good, some not so good, the not so good mostly when he was working with democrats.

How are illegals Pres Elect Obama’s fault if he hasn’t even been the President yet?

Republicans beat back their leaders and stopped this country killing immigration amnesty, trust me on this one, democrats are going to be beating on their leaders to enact amnesty.

You will be competing with waves of immigrants for jobs, health care, schooling, transportation, all of the things you say that Chambliss does nothing on.

Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something.

~~~~~

i r o diM: Can’t you see that two adults are having a discussion? Must you lash out, as usual?

By Midori

December 7, 2008 6:20 PM | Link to this

Jay,

I wish you would have a word with Andy.

I have asked him at least 3 times to stop calling me names, and he appears to be determined to do it.

I’ve had it with him and his silly childishness.

By Midori

December 7, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

Andy,

only in your world would complimenting a poster for using logic translate into “lashing out”.

By Ray

December 7, 2008 6:41 PM | Link to this

Cheryl,

Get a grip. Jefferson is a crook, a good one, but a crook, nonetheless. He negotiated deals with the Nigerians to put big dollars in his pockets, then denied it. There are FBI tapes that implicate him beyond a doubt. Caught with over 90K in his freezer, then complained about the FBI investigation of his office. He’s a crook, a thief and someone who should not be given the responsibility of spending taxpayer money and making our laws. Is that so hard for you to understand??

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