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Election Day 2018: Trump says 'success' despite Democrats projected to take House
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iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — President Donald Trump is claiming "tremendous success" on Twitter — even as his party loses control of the House to Democrats according to ABC News projections.
Democrats will pick up at least 23 seats. Meanwhile, Republicans will likely retain control of the Senate guaranteeing partisan showdowns and potential gridlock when the new Congress convenes next year.
Here's the latest:
1:48 a.m. ET — Democrat Lauren Underwood will become the first black woman to represent her district, in Illinois' predominately white 14th Congressional District, ABC News can project based off of exit polls.
1:37 a.m. ET — 21 congressional districts voted for President Obama and then for President Trump. The GOP was able to hold down 12 of them in Congress. ABC News can project that Democrats will flip six of those seats.
1:30 a.m. ET — In Georgia, a vote count error in the state has narrowed the lead of Republican candidate Brian Kemp over Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams. Kemp is just above the 50 percent threshold. If his share of the vote falls below 50 percent, Georgia law states that the race would go to a runoff.
The Abrams campaign said that they don't expect to concede tonight, and that they believe there are enough votes still outstanding to force a runoff.
"We are going to make sure every single vote is counted," Abrams said.
1:25 a.m. ET — Democrat Lizzie Pannill Fletcher has defeated GOP Rep. John Culberson in Texas' 7th Congressional District, which includes the Houston suburbs, ABC News can project.
1:00 a.m. ET — In Maine, another governorship will likely flip in favor of Democrats at the gubernatorial level. Republican candidate Shawn Moody has conceded to Democratic candidate Janet Mills. ABC News has not yet projected a winner in the race.
12:49 a.m. ET — The Democrats will pick up between 32 and 36 seats in the House, ABC News can project.
12:41 a.m. ET — GOP Rep. Steve King has won re-election to Iowa's 4th Congressional District, fending off Democratic challenger J.D. Scholten, ABC News can project.
12:38 a.m. ET — Phoenix: The crowd at the Democratic Election Night party in Phoenix was buoyed by hope and lively music earlier in the night, but it's started to thin out as it seems more and more likely that the Arizona Senate race might be too close to call tonight.
The race between Democrat Rep. Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Rep. Martha McSally to fill Sen. Jeff Flake's seat is neck-and-neck.
Sinema supporter Michelle Rose predicted they'd have a winner by 11 p.m. MST / 1 a.m. EST, and Timothy Bradley said he thought it'd be either by 11 or 12 a.m. Ginny Doherty left a little more wiggle room, telling ABC News she thought it would be closer to 2 a.m. MST.
According to officials, those guesses could be way off.
Part of the problem is that there are still hundreds of thousands of votes that still need to be tabulated in the state's most populous county, Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix. Maricopa County Recorder Adrian Fontes told ABC News tonight that it could take up to a week or more for Maricopa to have their final results.
Sinema and McSally are battling it out for the Senate seat that's being left open by Sen. Jeff Flake's decision not to seek re-election.
Preliminary exit poll results suggest that Sinema is getting help by moderate Arizonans, with a 27 point margin that has her up 63 percent to McSally's 36 percent.
That appeal, and her perceived independent streak, is what drew Matt Winter to volunteer for Sinema.
"In recent history we've had John McCain and Jeff Flake and Republicans who have a strong independent streak, and she's a Democrat with a strong independent streak," Winter told ABC News.
12:18 a.m. ET — Whatever the results in any given election, the rise in diversity is nothing short of remarkable. In the 1990 midterm elections, the division of whites and nonwhite voters was 91-9 percent. Today it's 72-28 percent. The most non whites voters ever in a midterm, and a scant 1 point shy of the record for any election in 2016. The Hispanic vote came in at 11 percent, again a new midterm high, and matched its all-time high from 2016.
12:15 a.m. ET — Democrat Antonio Delgado will defeat incumbent GOP Rep. John Faso in New York's 19th Congressional District, ABC News can project based off of an analysis of polling data.
12:10 a.m. ET — In Iowa, ABC News can project incumbent Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has narrowly won re-election in a tight race with Democratic challenger Fred Hubbell.
12:06 a.m. ET — Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman in Congress, ABC News can project based off of an analysis of polling data.
11:57 p.m. ET — Democrat Ilhan Omar Ilhan Omar is projected to win Minnesota's 5th Congressional District. Alongside Democrat Rashida Tlaib Rashida Tlaib in Michigan's 13th Congressional District, Omar is now one of the two first Muslim women in Congress.
11:53 p.m. ET — Democrat Deb Haaland is on track to win in New Mexico's 1st Congressional District, ABC News projects based on exit polls. Haaland is the first Native American representative from New Mexico and now joins Democrat Sharice Davids, projected to win a House seat in Kansas, in becoming the first two Native American women ever elected to Congress.
There are currently two Native American representatives in the House — both men from Oklahoma.
11:48 p.m. ET — Republican Josh Hawley has defeated Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, ABC News projects, based on analysis of voting data. McCaskill was one of the ten Democratic Senators running in states President Trump won in 2016.
McCaskill has conceded.
11:46 p.m. ET — Sen. Heidi Heitkamp conceded to opponent Rep. Kevin Cramer in North Dakota's senate race. Heitkamp called North Dakota "a 36 point state," the margin by which Trump won there in 2016, and said she knew it was an uphill battle from the start.
"We knew we were in a tough campaign. We knew we took some votes that people were critical of," she said, an apparent reference to her vote against Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
But she never intended to "to rubber stamp any one party," she said.
"This has been the honor of a lifetime," she said, encouraging her supporters not to be bitter about the results.
11:41 p.m. ET — In a strong display of the range of seats Democrats have been able to flip tonight, ABC News can project a win for the party in the deep red state of Oklahoma, in the state's 5th Congressional District.
Democrat Kendra Horn is projected to defeat incumbent GOP Rep. Steve Russell in another upset, based on vote analysis. The district is anchored by Oklahoma City but also includes more rural areas of the state.
Trump won this district by roughly 13 points in 2016, but won the state of Oklahoma overall by just over 36 points in the 2016 election.
11:38 p.m. ET — ABC News has now projected all the competitive races in Pennsylvania.
The congressional delegation in Pennsylvania now stands at an even 9-9. Two years ago, election night ended under the previous congressional map, which was redrawn before the 2018 midterm election, at 13-5 in favor of Republicans.
11:37 p.m. ET — Democrat Abigail Spanberger has defeated GOP Rep. Dave Brat in Virginia's 7th Congressional District, ABC News can project based off of exit polls. Brat unseated then-GOP House Minority Leader in the 2014 primary.
11:37 p.m. ET — Democrat Elaine Luria defeated Republican Scott Taylor in Virginia's Second Congressional District, ABC News can report based off of an analysis of polling data.
11:30 p.m. ET — Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin's projected win in West Virginia tonight comes despite a major effort on the part of President Trump and his family to flip his Senate seat.
Lara Trump and Donald Trump Jr. frequently came to West Virginia to stump for Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Republican House candidate Carol Miller and the president's son was in West Virginia with Kimberly Guilfoyle as recently as yesterday. Trump held rallies in West Virginia a whopping five times in an effort to turn a state he won by 42 points red all the way.
11:28 p.m. ET — Although ABC News can project the senate race in North Dakota for Republican Kevin Cramer, Democratic incumbent Sen. Heidi Heitkamp hasn't conceded just yet. Heitkamp's team says she's not watching the returns — she's out at the movies. Her choice tonight? According to her campaign: A Star is Born.
11:27 p.m. ET — Democrat Angie Craig defeated Republican Jason Lewis in the Minneapolis suburb area of Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District, ABC News can project based on analysis of the polls. Democrats also won in the deep red state of Oklahoma in the state's 5th Congressional District. Kendra Horn defeated incumbent GOP Rep. Steve Russell in a district anchored by Oklahoma City, but that also includes more rural areas of the state.
11:20 p.m. ET — In Michigan, ABC News can project that Democrat Gretchen Whitmer has defeated Republican Bill Schuette, flipping the governorship from Republican to Democrat in a state that narrowly went for President Trump in 2016.
11:18 p.m. ET — The president has weighed in claiming "tremendous success," though the House is projected to flip to the Democrats. Republicans will retain the Senate, ABC News projects.
11:05 p.m. ET — In Florida, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, has conceded to Republican Ron DeSantis.
Gillum said in a speech to supporters that while "we recognize that we didn't win this tonight," that "we still have to be willing to show up every single day and demand a seat at the table."
11:00 p.m. ET — MI-SEN: Sen. Debbie Stabenow is on track to win re-election in the U.S. Senate race in Michigan, ABC News projects, based on analysis of voting data. Stabenow was one of ten Democratic Senators running in states President Donald Trump won in 2016.
11:00 p.m. ET — ABC News can project that the U.S. Senate special election in Mississippi has gone to a runoff between Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Mike Espy, based on exit polls.
10:58 p.m. ET — ABC News projects that the Democrats will win enough seats to gain control of the House. Democrats will pick up at least 23 seats.
10:55 p.m. ET — With no Republicans or Independents running for Michigan's 13th Congressional District, Rashida Tlaib is favored to win and poised to become the first Muslim-American woman in Congress.
10:40 p.m. ET — Sources close to the president say among many items the focus right now – "he's watching Florida." "He campaigned a lot there so if (Gov. Rick Scott) and (Rep. Ron DeSantis) pull this off it's all thanks to him," said one high ranking source about the president's efforts in the Sunshine State.
Trump often refers to Florida as his second home.
Sources tell ABC News the president is thrilled with results from states he campaigned in like Indiana and North Dakota.
10:15 p.m. ET — Republican Rep. Kevin Cramer is on track to win the US Senate race in North Dakota against incumbent Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, ABC News projects, based on analysis of voting data.
10:10 p.m. ET — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz is on track to win the senate seat in Texas, ABC News can project based on exit polls, defeating Democrat Beto O'Rourke.
10:10 p.m. ET — Democrat Mikie Sherrill is on track to win in New Jersey's 11th Congressional District, ABC News can project based on exit polls. Sherrill will take over the seat from Republican Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, who has represented the district for more than two decades. Trump barely won the district in 2016.
10:01 p.m. ET — ABC News can project that Democrat Dean Phillips has won in Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District and Democrat . The Democrats have now picked up seven seats in the House tonight.
9:57 p.m. ET — Sharice Davids is on track to win Kansas' 2nd Congressional District, ABC News projects, based on exit polls. The political newcomer will be the first Native American lesbian woman elected to Congress. She's also the second openly lesbian woman in Congress.
Davids is from the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin and has focused her career on the advancement of Native Americans.
Elected to represent Kansas' 2nd Congressional District, Davids was a longshot in her campaign against four-term Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder.
9:42 p.m. ET — In the third Democratic pick-up of the night, Rep. Connor Lambwill win his election against Rep. Keith Rothfus, ABC News can project based on exit polls. It was the only incumbent versus incumbent race in the nation.
9:40 p.m. ET — In multiple Senate races, Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin are all on track to win their race, ABC News projects, based on voting data.
9:40 p.m. ET — In Illinois, ABC News can project based on the vote that Democrat J.B. Pritzker will defeat incumbent Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. This marks a flip in the statehouse for Illinois.
Pritzker, the brother of former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, will become one of the wealthiest people to ever hold elected office in the U.S.
9:36 p.m. ET — Jared Polis is on track to win the gubernatorial race in Colorado, ABC News projects, based on exit polls. Polis will be the first openly gay man to win a U.S. gubernatorial election.
9:25 p.m. ET — In Florida, Amendment 4 — which provides voting rights for felons — is on track to pass, according to ABC News projections, based on exit polls. There are currently more disenfranchised felons in that state, more than any other at 1.5 million. Previously, felons had to appeal directly to the governor.
9:23 p.m. ET —
Kim Davis, the county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples in Rowan County, Kentucky lost her bid to a second term Tuesday night.
In an upset, Davis was edged out by Democratic opponent, Elwood Caudill Jr., by about 700 votes, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.
Republican Carol Miller is on track to win the seat in West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District, ABC News can project based on exit polls. Miller ran against Democrat Richard Ojeda. Ojeda campaigned hard against big pharmaceutical companies in a deep-red district heavily hit by the opioid crisis.
9:07 p.m. ET — Incumbent Democrat Joe Manchin is on track to win re-election in the senate race in West Virginia, ABC News projects, based on exit polling and analysis of voting data.
Manchin was the only Democrat to vote to confirm Trump's Supreme Court pick, Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Trump went to West Virginia three times in the last four months.
9:06 p.m. ET — Incumbent Republican Rep. Andy Barr is on track to win re-election in Kentucky's 6th District, ABC News projects, based on exit polls. Democratic challenger Amy McGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot, was a key candidate for the party.
9:04 p.m. ET — Republican Marsha Blackburn is on track to win the senate seat in Tennessee, ABC News projects, based on exit polls. Blackburn will be the first female senator from the state. Trump went to Tennessee three times to rally for the congresswoman.
Blackburn will take over the seat from Republican Sen. Bob Corker, a sharp critic of the president who did not run for re-election.
9:00 p.m. ET — Polls are now closed in the closely watched states of Texas, North Dakota, Arizona, Michigan, Colorado, Louisiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
8:48 p.m. ET — We've now seen the first GOP pick-up of the night in the Senate: Indiana.
Incumbent Democrat Joe Donnelly is one of 10 Democratic incumbents up for re-election in states that Donald Trump won in 2016, and Indiana is a state Donald Trump campaigned heavily in during the 2018 midterms.
8:47 p.m. ET — Another state has extended voting. Alabama now joins the list that also includes Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina and Texas.
8:43 p.m. ET — In what will only make it a harder battle for Democrats' effort to retake the Senate, Republican Mike Braun is on track to defeat Sen. Joe Donnelly in Indiana's U.S. Senate race, ABC News projects, based on exit polling and analysis of voting data.
8:35 p.m. ET — ABC News can project, based on the vote, a few more gubernatorial races: in Massachusetts, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, who is popular in Massachusetts despite the state's reputation for support of Democrats; in Pennsylvania, Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf; in Tennessee, Republican Bill Lee; and in Arkansas, Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson.
8:32 p.m. ET — Democrat Gina Raimondo is on track to win re-election for governor in Rhode Island, ABC News projects, based on exit polls.
8:30 p.m. ET — The polls have closed in Arkansas. The next big wave comes at 9 p.m.
8:26 p.m. ET — NJ-SEN: Bob Menendez is on track to win re-election in New Jersey's US Senate race, ABC News projects, based on exit polling and analysis of voting data.
8:22 p.m. ET — Health care is the top issue for voters, preliminary exit poll numbers show. 42 percent say health care is the top issue of four facing the country. Trump's pushed immigration hard – but it's the top issue to just 26 percent, far trailing health care. The economy comes in at 21 percent.
8:19 p.m. ET — Preliminary exit poll numbers show nonwhites account for 41 percent of Texas voters, including 24 percent Latinos. These are highs in Texas midterms in available exit polls back to 1984.
Texas Republicans outnumbered Democrats by 9 points in the 2016 presidential election and 12 points in the 2014 midterms. Today it's a 5-point gap, 33-38 percent, Democrats-Republicans.
8:10 p.m. ET — Incumbent Democrat Elizabeth Warren is on track to win the race for senator in Massachusetts, ABC News projects, based on exit polls.
8:08 p.m. ET — Democrat Tim Kaine is on track to win Virginia's Senate race, ABC News projects, based on exit polls. Kaine is the incumbent. Kaine, who ran for vice president on the ticket with Hillary Clinton, ran against Republican challenger Corey A. Stewart
8:07 p.m. ET — Incumbent Bernie Sanders is on track to win in Vermont's Senate race, ABC News projects, based on exit polls.
8:00 p.m. ET Polls are now closed in roughly half the country including these notable states: the rest of Florida, most of Kansas, most of Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, the rest of New Hampshire, New Jersey, some counties in North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. As noted, some states have extended polling hours.
7:53 p.m. ET — Democrat Jennifer Wexton wins Virginia's 10th Congressional District, per ABC News projections. Wexton flipped the seat against Republican incumbent Barbara Comstock. Hillary Clinton carried the area by six points in 2016.
7:51 p.m. ET — Voting hours have been extended in some precincts in at least five states: Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina and Texas. High-profile figures and candidates continue to tweet, asking voters to stay in line.
7:39 p.m. ET — Greg Pence, the older brother of Vice President Mike Pence, has been elected to Indiana's 6th Congressional District, per ABC News projections.
The seat was represented by the vice president for more than 10 years before he became governor of the state. Pence is taking over the seat from Rep. Luke Messer, who sought the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate but lost the primary to Mike Braun.
7:35 p.m. ET — The polls are now closed in 9 states. At 7:30, polls closed in the closely watched states of Ohio, West Virginia and North Carolina.
7:19 p.m. ET — Hillary Clinton and Democrat Andrew Gillum, who could become Florida's first African American governor, both tweeted to urge voters to stay in line because if they're still waiting after the polls close, they can still cast a ballot.
In Georgia, preliminary exit polls show turnout among nonwhites is a record 40 percent, including 30 percent black voters, in preliminary exit poll results. The previous high among nonwhites was 36 percent in 2014 – compared with just 18 percent in 1994.
If elected, Stacey Abrams, the Democrat running for governor in the state, would be the first-ever African American woman to serve as governor in the U.S.
7:17 p.m. ET — Sources tell ABC News the president and first lady are joined tonight by his three eldest children along with son-in-law Jared Kushner, Kimberly Guilfoyle and daughter-in-law Lara Trump.
The president's 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale, his first 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and deputy campaign manager Dave Bossie are there and also joining, longtime friends Tom Barrack and Richard LeFrak along with several mega donors close to the President.
The president's top White House advisors are also in attendance.
7:00 p.m. ET — Polls have closed in the first wave of closely watched states with competitive races: Indiana, Vermont, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina and Kentucky.
In Indiana, Democratic Sen. Joe Donnelly faces Republican challenger Mike Braun in a tight senate race, while in Georgia, Democrat Stacey Abrams faces Republican Brian Kemp for the governor's seat.
5:59 p.m. ET — President Donald Trump and which party controls Congress are front and center for voters this election year, according to preliminary results from the national exit poll.
In results so far, 44 percent of voters approve of Trump's job performance, while 55 percent disapprove.
And while the House races will be fought district by district, voters by 53-43 percent say they'd rather see the Democrats than the Republicans in control of the House after this election.
Read more here about why Trump has embraced the election as a referendum, and more here about the preliminary results from the national exit poll.
4:34 p.m. ET — Dozens of young Native Americans marched to their local polling place on a reservation near Belcourt, North Dakota.
The group of young men and women, members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, carried signs that read, "Don't disenfranchise us," as they chanted in unison, "North Dakota, you can't do that!"
By the time they reached the polls, more than a thousand people had already cast ballots hours before the polls were to close. In comparison, just 950 people voted at the same polling site in 2016, according to an election official there.
Tribal leaders have scrambled to print at least 3,500 new tribal IDs for Native Americans on reservations in North Dakota in response to the state's new voter ID law, which requires North Dakotans to provide a state or tribal ID with a residential address in order to vote. Many Native Americans living in rural communities on or near reservations don't have residential addresses.
4:21 p.m. ET — The issues with electronic poll books in Indiana's Johnson County have been "resolved," election officials said.
The midsize county, which is located south of Indianapolis, will not be extending voting hours but officials will add more voting machines if need be, according to Johnson County election board chairman Phil Barrow.
Election Systems & Software, the electronic voting vendor the county employs, also confirmed in a statement that the issues were fixed.
"The issue in Johnson County, Indiana has been resolved, resulting in faster check-in times for voters," the company said in a statement Tuesday. "Earlier in the day, the poll book, which is used to check in voters but is not related to voting machines themselves, was running slowly. The poll book operation is now significantly improved. We apologize to voters and to elections officials in Johnson County, Indiana for longer wait times than expected, and we thank everyone for their patience."
Johnson County is in a congressional district considered safe for Republicans, but the Senate race in Indiana is considered competitive, with Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly trying to beat back a challenge by Republican Mike Braun.
3:41 p.m. ET — A 104-year-old woman cast her vote Tuesday.
Margaret Norwood was alive at the time when women did not have the right to vote, according to a tweet from Muriel Bowser, who is running for re-election as mayor of Washington, D.C.
3:19 p.m. ET — Multiple high-ranking sources in the White House and outside advisers close to President Trump say they are bracing for an interesting evening – all the sources believe it is most likely the House will be in the hands of Democrats after tonight's results.
One source said the reality is if there is good news tonight for Republicans, the president will take all the credit; however, he already knows he will get blamed if it's not a great night.
2:52 p.m. ET — Electronic poll books were malfunctioning temporarily on Election Day in Johnson County, a midsize Indiana county south of Indianapolis.
The poll books which are used to check in voters were running slowly during part of the afternoon because of overpopulated servers, the county clerk said.
Johnson County is in a congressional district considered safe for Republicans, with incumbent GOP Rep. Trey Hollingsworth expected to hold his seat against Democrat Liz Watson.
But the Senate race in Indiana is considered competitive, with Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly trying to beat back a challenge by Republican Mike Braun.
2:27 p.m. ET — Outgoing Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California, who did not run for re-election, predicted a Democrat would win his seat.
"Quite frankly, we know the results already," Issa told Fox News in an interview. "It will be a Democrat representing La Jolla to Solana Beach for the first time in a number of years."
Democrat Mike Levin and Republican Diane Harkey are vying to replace Issa, who has held the seat for eight terms.
1:56 p.m. ET — Los Angeles voters waiting in line at one polling station at least got serenaded by a mariachi band.
1:49 p.m. ET — Federal authorities aren't seeing anything out of the ordinary on election a Department of Homeland Security official said.
There has been a typical scanning and probing of some election systems, but authorities haven't seen an "uptick" in cyberactivity, the official told reporters Tuesday afternoon.
1:20 p.m. ET –- Two high school seniors were excited to cast their ballots for the first time Tuesday in Georgia, where Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp are running in a close race for the state's highest office.
Grace and Claire, both 18, of Decatur, said they spent a lot of time researching candidates before deciding who to vote for.
"It was hard to find an unbiased source, but we did as much research as we could," Claire told ABC News. "It feels good to finally have my opinion out there."
"I'm very excited that I got to vote this year," Grace told ABC News. "It's a right that I'm very proud of."
Georgia set a record for early voting this year, with 2,079,351 people in the state who cast their ballots before polls opened Tuesday, according to data from the Georgia Secretary of State's office.
1:00 p.m. ET — Polls are now open across all states, including Hawaii.
12:27 p.m. ET — Some Arizona voters will be treated to a cute, cuddly surprise at the polls.
The Arizona Humane Society is bringing puppies to some polling sites around the Phoenix area to help lower blood pressure among voters and ease the strain of waiting in long lines.
"It's funny, you see people see the puppies, and they just melt," Bretta Nelson of the Arizona Humane Society told ABC News in Phoenix, adding that it's also a "unique way to get our puppies adopted.
11:59 a.m. ET — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is confident Democrats will win control of that chamber of Congress in Tuesday's election.
When asked at a press conference if she is 100 percent certain her party will become the majority in the House of Representatives, the California Democrat said, "Yes, I am."
11:32 a.m. ET — Trump retweeted a tweet he had initially posted Monday morning that warned about "illegal voting."
The tweet reads, "Law Enforcement has been strongly notified to watch closely for any ILLEGAL VOTING which may take place in Tuesday's Election (or Early Voting). Anyone caught will be subject to the Maximum Criminal Penalties allowed by law. Thank you!"
10:49 a.m. ET — Humid weather is reportedly causing problems in some election precincts in North Carolina.
North Carolina's state elections office said it has received reports that ballots in some precincts in Wake County and other areas cannot be fed through tabulators. But officials said "procedures are in place for these types of events."
"Initial reports from county elections offices indicate this issue is caused by high humidity levels. When ballots cannot be ready by tabulators, they are stored securely in 'emergency bins' and will be tabulated as soon as possible," the board said in a statement Tuesday morning. "All ballots will be counted."
10:20 a.m. ET — Democrats in Florida voted prior to Election Day in slightly higher numbers than the state's Republicans.
More than 5.2 million Floridians in total cast ballots either by mail or early voting. Of that number, 2,110,782 were Democrats and 2,088,429 Republicans, according to newly-released data from the Florida Division of Elections.
10:03 a.m. ET — Newspapers across the U.S. splashed headlines conveying some of the emotion and tension around this election.
Here are a few of them.
– The Columbus Dispatch: "It's up to you now"
– Connecticut Post: "Midterm mania grips nation"
– Chicago Tribune: "A fight for control"
– The Des Moines Register: "IT'S DECISION DAY"
– The Detroit News: "Battle for Congress spirited until the end"
– Houston Chronicle: "DAY OF RECKONING IS HERE"
– Los Angeles Times: "Trump's reputation is on the line"
– New York Daily News: "YOUR CALL, AMERICA
– The Oregonian: "Ready or not, it's finally Election day"
– Orlando Sentinel: "FIERCE RACES AWAIT DECISIONS"
– The Washington Post: "Uncertainty rules as the midterms reach the wire"
9:46 a.m. ET — Mark Salter, longtime aide and speechwriter for the late Sen. John McCain, a Republican, urged his Twitter followers to "vote for the Democrat (in most cases).
"That feels weird to write," Salter tweeted. "But the bigger the rebuke of Trump the better for the country. Resist."
McCain was one of Trump's most outspoken Republican critics. The Arizona senator died in August at age 85 after a yearlong battle with brain cancer.
9:17 a.m. ET — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate who ran against Trump in the 2016 presidential election, made a final appeal to voters.
"For the past two years, we've watched this administration attack and undermine our democratic institutions and values. Today, we say enough," Clinton wrote in a series of tweets.
"But we won't just vote against radicalism, bigotry, and corruption today. We'll vote for fantastic candidates all over the country—including a historic number of women—who want to raise wages, fight for justice, and help more people get health care," she tweeted.
"If they win, they'll do great things for America. Let's exercise our birthright as Americans today, put those people in office, and continue the hard work of saving our democracy. It'll take all of us. Happy Election Day."
7:43 a.m. ET — Authorities in some states are warning voters to be vigilant about possible election problems.
The New Jersey Department of State urged residents via Twitter to beware of "false information regarding your polling locations."
High enthusiasm evident in early voting
The conversation ahead of the midterms has been dominated by talk of Democratic enthusiasm that could bring a "blue wave."
Democrats appear more poised for victory in the House, where they need a net gain of 23 seats to win the majority. In the Senate, Democrats would need a net pickup of two seats to take control, but there are 10 vulnerable Democratic senators running in states Trump won in 2016.
Early voting has also been read as a signal that enthusiasm is up — though in some states, it's a result of newly-expanded early voting opportunities. According to data from Michael McDonald, an early-voting expert at the University of Florida, 2018 early voting has already significantly surpassed 2014 figures.
As of Friday, over 30 million early ballots were cast, compared to 17 million as of the same day in 2014.
According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, the top issues driving voters this year are health care and the economy, which are almost tied in importance, followed by immigration. Democrats have made health care — and especially coverage for people with pre-existing conditions — a key part of their platform, while Trump has significantly upped his rhetoric on immigration, using a migrant caravan that's weeks away from the U.S. border to bring the topic to the forefront.
A diverse set of candidates
Despite ingrained partisan positions on these issues, the candidates running for election across the country this year are diverse, and many are poised to make history.
If elected, Democrat Stacey Abrams, running for governor in Georgia, will be the first African-American woman governor in U.S. history. Three other states south of the Mason-Dixon line could also elect their first-ever African-American governors.
It could be a historic year for Native American women as well. In the House, Sharice Davids of Kansas and Debra Haaland of New Mexico, both Democrats, could become the first Native American congresswomen. And, Paulette Jordan, a Democrat running for governor of Idaho, could become the country's first Native American governor, as well as her state's first female governor — and its first Democratic governor since 1999.
There are also two female Muslim congressional candidates, Rashida Tlaib in Michigan and Ilhan Omar in Minnesota, who are poised to make history as well.
And Vermont is poised to make history for the LGBTQ community if voters in the Green Mountain State oust their current governor in favor of first-time candidate Christine Hallquist, who would be the first transgender governor in the nation if elected on Tuesday.
In some states, both candidates on the ticket offer diverse and historic choices.
In New Hampshire, Eddie Edwards, a Republican, would be the state's first African-American member of Congress. His opponent, Democrat Chris Pappas, would be its first openly gay member of Congress.
And while many individual candidates could be historic change-makers, taken together, there are also some record-breaking numbers.
More women, for example, are running for Congress than ever seen before.
In the House currently, 84 of the 435 members are women, while a staggering 239 women are on the ballot Tuesday. They range from former fighter pilots to intelligence officers, doctors, nurses and scientists. By a 3-to-1 margin, the women candidates are Democrats.
Veterans are also on the ballot in record numbers. According to a nonpartisan veterans' super PAC, over 200 military veterans are running for Congress — a stark number considering there are fewer veterans in Congress today, at 20 percent, than ever before.
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After months of fundraising, advertising, door knocking and block walking, the candidates have made themselves known.
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Gisele Bundchen never misses a chance to celebrate Tom Brady's great success. This time the Brazilian supermodel celebrated the Patriots win in Sunday's AFC Divisional Round match against the Los Angeles Chargers.
Gisele took to her Instagram account to post a picture of her and Brady right after the Patriots win. She congratulated Brady and his teammates on the win.
"Great game my love, congratulations! So happy for you and your teammates!" the caption read.
Gisele and Tom have been together for a while, and they are definitely our favorite couple. But, things did not always look too good for the couple. Gisele had to stumble and stumble, but here she is today, living a happy life with her husband.
"I felt my world had been turned upside down. Needless to say, that wasn't an easy time. But it was a time that brought about so much growth," she wrote about the problems she faced at the beginning of her romance with the Patriots quarterback.
The couple has two children together, and Brady has a son with his ex-girlfriend, Bridget Moynahan. But, that has nothing to do with their big love and their perfect marriage.
Gisele has found a perfect way to balance her career and motherhood. However, she does have to reject modeling offers the situation requires her to do so.


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RAMS NATION TALK
NFL should think twice on Rush Limbaugh
MauiRam
Sports Columnist Bryan Burwell
Rush Limbaugh wants to own the St. Louis Rams. Well, good for him. His money is green and plentiful and his politics are conservative, which means he'll pretty much fit right in with the rest of the gang within the NFL ownership's corridors of power.
They probably don't care about his politics. In fact, if you checked most of their campaign contributions, you'd find that most of them probably are staunch supporters of the guy who has been called "the unofficial voice of the Republican Party." With a wink and a smile, they will surely welcome him to their club, because ultimately all they care about is whether or not his check will bounce, and we all know that's highly unlikely.
They will all look the other way when it comes to Limbaugh — forgetting his polarizing racial politics, conveniently ignoring (perhaps even quietly agreeing with) all the mean-spirited divisive bile that comes along with his ample financial clout — just like many of you surely will, too. They will look the other way because of his wealth and influence. You will look the other way because to some of you, he is your politically incorrect hero, and the rest might be willing to ignore all of that just as long as he can put enough money on the table to help keep your football team in St. Louis.
I don't have that luxury.
Though I think it is his right to take a shot at becoming part of a new Rams ownership group, Limbaugh's American Dream is a potential nightmare waiting to happen for the Rams, the city and the National Football League.
"Look, let me put it to you this way: The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it."
Those are Limbaugh's words. So are these:
"I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark."
I know how those words play out in Idiot America. They are embraced as gospel. But inside the locker rooms of the NFL, where the overwhelming majority of the players are descendants of slaves, Limbaugh's ignorant ramblings resonate with entirely different emotions.
His money might be green, but his words are colored with hate and intolerance. Bringing Limbaugh back into the NFL family will ultimately be met with the same disastrous effects from the last time it was tried.
Remember the failed experiment with the ESPN NFL pregame show?
Remember the seething anger and pained expression on the face of ESPN analyst Tom Jackson when he tried to express his feelings about what Limbaugh had said in the aftermath of the notorious Donovan McNabb disaster?
Remember the uncomfortable backtracking that had to be done when Limbaugh spouted off on his predictable anti-affirmative action screed and took McNabb down into the cesspool with him?
That's why I keep scratching my head and wondering why so many people foolishly believe that at some point Limbaugh's mouth won't cause another embarrassing situation for the Rams and the league. This isn't about conservative politics. If that's all you could say about him, it certainly doesn't disqualify him to be a potential NFL owner. In fact, that makes him highly qualified to join the club. He would fit right in with the rest of the exclusive boys club of ultra-wealthy, ultra-conservative white men who rule the ownership suites of most professional sports leagues.
But even if he fit in with his politics, let's hope he doesn't fit in with his polarizing, racist demagoguery. And yes, that is exactly what it is, no matter how many of his blindly loyal supporters want to put the "politically incorrect" party dress on it.
"The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."
Again, those are his words. I wonder how Roger Goodell, the no-nonsense NFL commissioner whose primary personal directive is to "protect the (NFL) shield," will cope with an owner as potentially combustible as Limbaugh. If Goodell has issues with the embarrassing antics of some of his players, what will he do when Limbaugh inevitably crosses the line of good conduct?
Did you notice that I didn't say "if"?
I didn't say "if" because anyone who is even marginally familiar with Limbaugh's act knows it's only a matter of time before he says something that is at the very least embarrassing but will most likely top out at downright hateful.
So Rush Limbaugh wants to own the Rams. Well good for him. That's his right as an American. But I just wonder if the NFL has learned its lesson from the last little dance with him. Dancing with Limbaugh is like dancing with a snake. Eventually, the snake will bite you. That's his nature.
You just might want to consider this while everyone is conveniently forgetting (or perhaps even quietly agreeing with) all the polarizing racial politics that comes along with Limbaugh:
In this modern age of the NFL, where free agents have the right to pick where they play, how many will turn their nose up at the Rams once they get a whiff of Limbaugh's "Bloods vs. Crips" sensibilities?
txramsfan
Re: NFL should think twice on Rush Limbaugh
As a moderator I will say that please don't comment on his political views. This is a football forum, not a forum that talks politics. This is just one man's version of Limbaugh. Don't take it as the be all / end all version of Limbaugh.
I am taking this type of stance when it comes to Limbaugh and the Rams: he hasn't been granted the chance to buy it yet so to me he's a non-issue for now. Him and Checketts may not be the ownership grouped picked to buy the Rams. It may be another group, there is more than one group that submitted a bid to buy the Rams. I'm just trying to say that until Limbaugh is given the pink slip to the Rams......all this is a non-issue to me.
maineram
-10-08-2009, 02:31 PM
But just think of all the Mega Ditto Rams hats in the stands !!!
Maineram -
AvengerRam_old
So the NFL should prohibit anyone with controversial views from investing in a team?
And who gets to decide where that line should be drawn? You, Burwell?
That's not how the system works. I'm certain the NFL has a list of criteria it is looking for in deciding whether to back a potential ownership group.
I'm equally certain that "political proclivities" is not on the list.
For the life of me I can't remember where I heard this, but I believe I heard that Limbaugh is not the "biggest" money in their proposal. It makes me curious as to who the "silent partners" are in this offer.
Of course, for that matter, I'm very curious to see who are the wallets in the other 5 proposals.
01d 0rd3r
Originally posted by AvengerRam View Post
Im pretty sure racism is controversial no matter who you ask.
PeoriaRam
Considering how image-conscious this league has gotten over the last few years, I'm pretty sure "political proclivities" is on the list of automatic disqualifiers. At least if said proclivities consist of incendiary, race-baiting rhetoric.
So (taking your hypothesis as true that Rush is a racist), we're all certain that currently there are no NFL owners (part or full) who have racist viewpoints?
What's that? You don't know?
Well, doesn't that mean that we need to have a Blue Ribbon commission to determine this? Otherwise, how can you single out one person?
Why... that would be... dare I say... an act of prejudice, would it not?
r8rh8rmike
I'm just hoping one of the other groups takes the lead and actually buys the team so we can move on and put all this behind us.
RamOfDenmark
Well said and pretty identical to my own opinion. I'm not going to add to it, tempting as it may be, since that would quickly end up in a political debate - which are wisely banned around these parts.
I will add one thing though, those here that have been claiming he's not a rascist should go back and read some of those quotes one more time.
Not really. It would be 'innocent until proven guilty' - something I would assume a lawyer would be familiar with.
If you have evidence of NFL owners who are rascist by all means bring it forth.
Originally posted by RamOfDenmark View Post
The problem with your argument is that Rush is not a "convicted racist" either.
I frankly am not a fan of Rush's, but I don't think he's a racist. To explain why, allow me to make an analogy.
Last Sunday, a new episode of Family Guy aired. The plot centered around Lois learning that her mother is Jewish. Through the episode, every Jewish stereotype was portrayed in a (in my opinion, lame) attempt at humor. There was even a scene that was a reenactment of a scene from Shindler's List.
Now, if you ask me (as a Jewish person), whether I was offended by this episode, my answer would be "yes."
However, if you asked me whether I think that Seth McFarlane (the creater of Family Guy) is anti-Semitic, my answer would be "no."
Because there are some people who have a goal of shocking people and then saying "ha ha, you can't stop me. I have First Amendment rights!" In other words, they are looking for a reaction, and will ignore every taboo and cross every line necessary to get what they want.
Is that an admirable quality? Absolutely not.
But it does not mean that people like that really believe what they are shouting when they scream for attention.
I don't know what Rush really thinks and feels, so I'm not going to label him.
If he becomes a part owner, my only concerns are that his checks clear, that he keeps his mouth shut about the running of the team, and lets Checketts handle that side of the business.
And... as Forrest Gump once said... That's all I have to say about that.
Goldenfleece
I don't know whether Limbaugh is truly a racist--as a talking head, his job is to stir up controversy--but whether he is or not, the public perception of him could have a very real impact on the team. All things equal, I suspect there are probably NFL players out there who would prefer not to play for Rush, whether because of his politics or because of their interpretation of his comments on race. There might even be those who would take less money not to play on his team.
Conversely, there might be some players out there who would prefer to play for him, but I think it would be an unfortunate kind of unintended consequence if the team was ever perceived to be "Rush's Team". There could be ramifications not only on the team, but on the fan base. I'd worry that the day would come that people would think of the owner first instead of the franchise's long and storied history when they hear the name "Rams". If Checketts is the main man in that arrangement with Limbaugh as merely a minority shareholder, I would hope we could avoid that.
ScottD413
I read this the other day. It reeks of racism. But Burwell won't be called out for it.
This line in particular really gets me: "He would fit right in with the rest of the exclusive boys club of ultra-wealthy, ultra-conservative white men who rule the ownership suites of most professional sports leagues"
Right there he basically calls every white owner in the league racist. How is he any worse than Limbaugh?
I never said I thought he was personally racist. All I said was that what he says on his show is race-baiting. Such public comments of intolerance, regardless of whether or not the speaker believes them, are still enough to scare off the NFL.
Sources: Checketts To Drop Limbaugh
by r8rh8rmike
Updated: October 14, 2009, 3:36 PM ET
By Adam Schefter ESPN Archive
Rush Limbaugh is expected to be dropped from a group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams, according to three NFL sources.
Dave Checketts, chairman of the NHL's St. Louis Blues and the point man in the Limbaugh group attempting to buy the Rams, realizes he must remove the controversial conservative radio host from his potential role as a minority member in the group in order to get approval from other NFL owners, the sources said.
Three-quarters of the league's 32 owners would have to approve any sale to Limbaugh and his group. Earlier this week, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay predicted that Limbaugh's potential bid would be met by significant opposition. Several players have also voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's potential ownership position, and NFL Players Association head DeMaurice Smith, who is black, urged players to speak out against Limbaugh's bid.
Ultimately, the sources said, Checketts must reconfigure his group and find another investor to make his bid more viable.
Exactly when Limbaugh will be dropped is uncertain, though some familiar with the situation said it could be within the next week. It is unclear if the two sides even have spoken.
Earlier Wednesday, on his syndicated radio show, Limbaugh was defiant, holding on to hope that he still could be part of the ownership group that buys the Rams.
"I'm not even thinking of exiting," Limbaugh said on his program, according to a transcript provided to ESPN. "I'm not even thinking of caving. I am not a caver. None of us are. We have been betrayed by too many who have caved. Pioneers take the arrows. We are pioneers. It's a sad thing but our country over 200 years old now needs pioneers all over again, but we do."
Without Limbaugh, Checketts and his group would have to find a financial substitute to replace the sizable investment that Limbaugh intended to make. At the NFL owners meetings this week in Boston, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell addressed Limbaugh's potential involvement in the league and said "divisive comments are not what the NFL is all about."
Goodell added: "I've said many times before, we're all held to a high standard here. I would not want to see those comments coming from people who are in a responsible position in the NFL -- absolutely not."
In 2003, Limbaugh was forced to resign from ESPN's Sunday Night Football broadcast after saying of Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb: "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."
Channel: RAMS NATION TALK
With Limbaugh out, Faulk to join bid?
Varg6
by Varg6
ST. LOUIS -- Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh lashed out at NFL union leader DeMaurice Smith, activists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and the media a day after being dropped from a group trying to buy the St. Louis Rams.
On his syndicated show Thursday, Limbaugh said he was approached by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts earlier this year about participating in a Rams bid. Checketts assured him his involvement as a minority investor had been vetted by the NFL, he said.
"I said to him at this meeting, 'Are you aware of the firestorm?' He said 'We wouldn't have approached you if we hadn't taken care of that,' " said Limbaugh, a conservative favorite who is reviled by many liberals.
AP Photo/Photo courtesy of Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh is blaming the players union in part for his being dropped from a potential Rams ownership group.
Limbaugh added that Checketts had told him his involvement had been cleared at the "highest levels of the NFL."
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Colts owner Jim Irsay each expressed misgivings this week at a league-wide meeting about Limbaugh's involvement, with Goodell saying Limbaugh had made "polarizing" comments and Irsay vowing to vote against him.
On Wednesday, Checketts said Limbaugh had been dropped from the bid.
"This reflects where we're moving in an ethical nature," said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for Sports and Society at Northeastern University.
"The league has 78 percent African-American players," Lebowitz said. "Do you bring in someone who has made racist statements to own a team that's largely made up of players the owner has made slurring statements about?"
With Limbaugh out, the Checketts group is sifting through new investors. A person familiar with the process said global financier and philanthropist George Soros is not under consideration to be a part of the Checketts group. Former Rams running back Marshall Faulk could be part of it, a source said.
Checketts is a ways away from reconfiguring the investment group, as the Rams are a ways from being sold at this point.
During a 15-minute counterattack at the start of his show, Limbaugh said he believes he's been made an example by a players' union seeking leverage in talks over a new collective bargaining agreement. What happened to him was an illustration of "Obama's America on full display," the commentator said.
Limbaugh's history hurt his participation in the bid. In 2003, he was forced to resign from ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown" after saying of the Eagles' Donovan McNabb: "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."
According to transcripts...
Did the Limbaugh fiasco prompt Khan's secrecy?
EvilXenu
by EvilXenu
Bernie has commented that Khan has been involved in the bidding process for months, but has done so privately and, in fact, managed to keep his interest in the team from being leaked to the media.
Makes me wonder... why all the secrecy?
Could it be that Khan, as a Pakistani Muslim, feared the (entirely unfair, as he is a long-time American citizen with no known ties to radicalism) potential backlash from a public that is prone to knee-jerk reactions to Muslims?
It would make sense if Khan feared such a reaction. Look what happened with Rush Limbaugh. He was set to be a small minority investor (as opposed to the primary owner that Khan would become), and the public went balistic.
Again, fair or not, Khan - had he been viewed as a mere potential candidate along side people like Dave Checketts - could have prompted a similar reaction.
By keeping it under wraps until now, it is more difficult for the knee-jerk crowd to do or say much about it. Its nearly a done deal, and the unfounded protest of a vocal, prejudiced, minority won't stop the deal from being completed.
If my suspicion is right, its kind of a sad commentary on the world we live in, no?
Diversity, money are key issues with Khan's Rams bid
Per stltoday.com
By Bernie...
Now that Shahid Khan has signed off on a deal to purchase majority ownership of the Rams, it will be fascinating to watch how the NFL receives him.
If approved by NFL owners, Khan would become the first minority owner in control of a franchise in league history.
Khan, born in Pakistan, came to the U.S. in 1967 at age 16. He became a U.S. citizen, was educated at the University of Illinois, built a hugely successful auto-parts manufacturing company, raised a family and has lived in central Illinois for 40 years.
But we're reminded that the NFL is a private club, with only 32 lead owners/members. That point was underlined in a story that appeared in Saturday's Post-Dispatch.
This passage caught my attention: "As one observer familiar with the process emphasized, it's more than just a matter of money. Using the analogy of an exclusive tennis club, the observer said, 'Do you like him enough to invite him to join your club? And if so, can he afford to pay the dues?'''
I think it's ridiculous that we're even having this discussion. But Khan's application certainly will be a matter of keen interest for those who want to see if the NFL is truly inclusive at the highest level.
I believe NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is a man of integrity. I would be absolutely shocked if Khan is treated less than fairly by the NFL or the owners. And if Khan's finances check out, he should be fine. (More on that later.) I would think the NFL would be proud to open the doors to its inner sanctum to Khan — an ambitious, self-made man who represents the American dream.
After all, Goodell spoke out against popular radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh when Limbaugh briefly partnered with Dave Checketts in a bid to buy the Rams.
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay also denounced Limbaugh; Irsay happens to be a member of the NFL Finance Committee, which will review Khan.
After taking Limbaugh to task for making "divisive" comments, Goodell was challenged by a member of Congress during an appearance on Capitol Hill.
Goodell responded, in part, with this: "The NFL is about bringing people together, it's about unity and that we do not — we do not move toward divisive actions. And, in fact, our teams, I think, have demonstrated that both on and off the field. Nothing brings a team and a community together better than the NFL."
The NFL received a "B" — its best grade ever — in the 2009 Race and Gender Report Card issued by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES). The NFL had five minority general managers and six minority head coaches in 2009. But in its report, TIDES also pointed out that "no person of color has ever held majority ownership of an NFL team." And according to TIDES, no minority...
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RamsFanSam
by RamsFanSam
According to Rich Eisen on Total Access, Checketts announced that Limbaugh is no longer part of the group trying to purchase the Rams.

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D e s e r t E x p o s u r e October 2005
Borderline Insanity
Is America's battle against illegal immigration backfiring?
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Changing attitudes about illegal immigration.
If you'd told me, when we produced our first issue of Desert Exposure back in April 2003, that by this fall we'd be publishing 64-page issues and that one of them would include a nearly 10,000-word package about illegal immigration, I wouldn't have believed it. But here we are, thanks to the support of our wonderful advertisers, publishing a bulging 64-page October issue, after an equally fat September edition. The pages made possible by all that advertising give us the room to treat complex, controversial topics such as illegal immigration, the Minutemen and the border "state of emergency" at the depth they deserve and demand.
The response from our readers-who say that not only do they actually read even such long articles but that they particularly value our balanced, in-depth coverage in this era of "sound bites"-also makes such projects possible. At 9,700 words (but don't panic-that includes three boxed "sidebars"), I believe that this issue's "Borderline Insanity" is the largest story ever to appear in Desert Exposure. It just tops our September 2004 investigation of the pros and cons of trapping, and our May 2004 look at rancher Kit Laney and his anti-environmentalist backers.
That Laney story, "Range War," was our first major foray into controversial territory. People warned us that we'd make somebody mad, that caravans from Catron County would come down to protest or burn brands into our lawn (good thing we don't have a lawn). That story and subsequent articles on "hot topics" certainly generated plenty of letters to the editor. But we didn't lose a single advertiser over it. I think readers and advertisers both respect that we try to play fair and present both sides of any controversy we cover, as even-handedly as possible. The finished article may come to some sort of rough conclusion about the controversy, as the evidence we assemble piles up, but we never go into such an investigation with minds already made up.
This issue's illegal-immigration opus is a prime example. As I attended Rep. Steve Pearce's "Immigration Listening Tour" this summer, followed the controversy over the Minuteman Project and began assembling a stack of research that's now about three inches thick, I really didn't know what to think about New Mexico's border woes. If I came to this article with any bias, it was probably in the opposite direction of where the story ultimately points, if it points anywhere at all in the confusing, frustrating muddle of America's battle against illegal immigration.
My own ancestors on my father's side, after all, were poor immigrants themselves when they arrived in this country from Sweden in 1876. As great as the contrast is today between the poverty of much of Mexico and the opportunity in America, conditions in rural 19th century Sweden were at least as harsh. According to a short biography written by one of his sons about my great-great-uncle, who immigrated with my great-grandfather, the winter before the brothers left for America, the family's cow starved to death. My great-grandfather lost his winter coat, so he had to stay indoors all winter because the family couldn't afford to buy another one.
And yet the descendants of those two poor Swedish brothers epitomize the American dream. Not only did they go to college; many became college professors. That son who wrote my great-great-uncle's biography became one of America's leading geologists, with a building named for him at the college in the town where the family settled. The American melting pot worked for my family, and so I'm naturally leery of any hint that later waves of immigration might be keeping themselves more apart. (In fact, though, as I discovered researching this issue's lead feature, the evidence indicates that today's Hispanic newcomers are becoming part of the American mainstream, even as they share their unique heritage-much like the Scandinavian immigrants of the latter 19th century.)
My Swedish ancestors also arrived in America legally, of course, so I confess to a similar innate wariness of any immigrants who "don't follow the rules." So, while deploring the call to vigilantism of the controversial Minutemen, I guess I could empathize with their frustration, that feeling "something has to be done" about our porous border.
As a journalist, though, I couldn't let those unfocused if deep-seated feelings bias my investigation. I tried to go into this project with eyes wide open, willing to be convinced-by the evidence-of any possible point of view.
But I wasn't prepared, I admit, for the mounting evidence that America's whole attack on illegal immigration may in fact be backfiring. Those calls for "beefing up" enforcement on the border? It turns out that's exactly what's been happening, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. We can all see the sad results, including the record number of deaths among would-be border crossers. The only type of enforcement that hasn't been beefed up, ironically, is that against US companies that hire and exploit undocumented workers-enforcement against that law-breaking has become a joke.
So this issue's deliberately provocative cover line is accurate, at least when it comes to the author of "Borderline Insanity": Pretty much everything I thought I knew about illegal immigration turns out to be wrong. Whether there's a hint of a solution to this seemingly insoluble problem someplace in those 9,700 words, I'll leave up to you, the reader, to decide. I know I'll think differently about this issue from now on. Agree or disagree by article's end, I hope you'll invest the time to investigate for yourself.
On a lighter note, one of our previous, er, investigations has recently won an award for author and frequent contributor Jeff Berg. The American Association for Nude Recreation gave its 2005 "Public Relations Non-Nudist Media Award" to Jeff's "Welcome to Nude Mexico" article in the October 2004 Desert Exposure. According to the Suntree Travel Club in Las Cruces, which was the subject of the story and which nominated Jeff's work, the judging was held at the association's national convention at the Caliente Nudist Resort in Land O' Lakes, Fla. A photo of Jeff accepting the award-we dare not speculate about his attire in said photo-will appear in an upcoming issue of the Kissimmee, Fla.-based association's newsletter, The Bulletin. (We also have a number of far livelier suggestions for retitling the group's newsletter, of which we will only share "The Naked Truth.")
Needless to say, we-ahem-blush with pride to have a Desert Exposure article so honored, and extend to Jeff our unadorned congratulations.
David A. Fryxell is editor and publisher of Desert Exposure.
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Before you got pregnant, you used to exercise regularly, and be on a permanent healthy diet. Once you have seen positive result of your pregnancy test, you think that you should change your lifestyle. Nothing could be more wrong! First of all, when it comes to your healthy food habits, it is perfect as each mother-to-be needs to be on a really healthy diet. Usually, women who had not paid their attention to quality of their food might struggle with someproblems as it is quite difficult to get used to the new eating habits. As far as sport is concerned, this issue is not so obvious. In general, a lot of activities are permitted during a pregnancy period. If you do not suffer with any of serious illnesses like diabetes, asthma or heart disease, and your pregnancy is not high-risk, then you could be allowed to do some exercises. Nevertheless, before you do anything, consult your intention with your doctor. If there are no contradictions, you can start be active again. Exercising during pregnancy has very positive impact on women's health. One of the most beneficial results of doing exercises is that our body is well adapted to all physical changes related to pregnancy. Additionally, active women feel better in the latter stages of pregnancy than those who were passive. What is more, sport will help mothers-to-be toimprove their posturers, allay back ache, and reduce pain experienced during the labour. There also must be added that most pregnant women who take up any sport, come back to their previous figures faster and easier. That is really encouraging and optimistic reason which should appeal to all mothers-to-be.
In general, during pregnancy exercising is allowed but with common sense. You should remember not to overexert your body. However, there are several inadvisable activities such as scuba diving, football, basketball, or the exercise demanding jumping, running or skipping, and sports which carry a risk of falling, for example, skiing. Nevertheless, it can be harmful for you, if you train inimproper conditions like humid and hot air, or if you hold your breath. Rebirthing is crucial point not only in sports but in your all everyday activities.
The safest sport and generally applicable to all women are swimming, exercising on indoor bike or aerobic, but only if it is taught by the highly-qualified fitness instructor. Definitely recommended and the lightest from of activity is walking. If you are unable to exercise more intensively, just try to go out every day and walk for at least 30 minutes. Spending time in the open air regulates breathing and relives stress. You should keep mind that in the later stage of pregnancy you are, the lighter exercises you should do. Sometimes, women are unaware of fact that they should limit their trainings. Because of this reason, if you really wish to be active pregnant lady ask for advice not only your doctor but also fitness instructor. Today, in most fitness clubs, there are available special offers designated only for pregnant women.


I'm pretty sure I'm the last person in the world that needs another bible. Between putting a husband through seminary and practically owning every version out there, the last thing I need to request for review is ANOTHER bible, in a version I already own.
I jumped on the journaling bible bandwagon in 2010, when it was more of a Radio Flyer Wagon for one or two. Since then bible journaling has become an insanely popular phenomenon.


Once there was a blue tiger with white stripes.One day tony, the tiger went to the park and saw a bunny and chased after it. While he tried to go after the bunny he bumped into a latter Alex the aligator while he was painting his house orange. Then Tony was all orange because of alexs paint. Tony didnt notice it until he passed by a mirror tony was freaking out and went everywhere to find out what was wrong. Then he fell into a a puddle of water and something amazing happened.


WWE Smackdown returns to the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, TX. for the first time since August of 2016. The arena has been open since 1977 and has hosted WWE events including Superstars of Wrestling as far back as 1990. Previous shows such as Velocity, Jakked, Saturday Morning Slam, Heat, and Shotgun Saturday Night just to name a few have originated from here.
WWE.com is advertising the following items for tonight.
Tribute to the Troops has been a WWE tradition since 2003. WWE supporter Jon Stewart will be in attendance and rising country music star Morgan Wallen will perform. Wallen was in attendance at Raw last night.
Becky Lynch will defend the Smackdown Women's Championship at TLC in a triple threat TLC match against Charlotte Flair and Asuka.
In the opening segment last week Becky returned to television following her being knocked out by Nia Jax just before Survivor Series. She talked about being the hottest act in the industry (accurately so) when Charlotte came out. They went back and forth highlighted by Becky saying if it was her against Ronda Rousey at Survivor Series, she wouldn't be standing the next day. Becky also claimed Charlotte was channeling her to take it to Ronda when Charlotte retorted claiming she was just being herself and was genetically superior. The insults continued when Becky said Charlotte went from copying her "old man" to copying The Man (Becky). Ultimately G.M. Paige got between the two women and announced they would have a TLC match at the aforementioned upcoming PPV for the title.
The heels and babyfaces of Smackdown came out separately all laying claim to want to be champion. Mandy Rose claimed Paige only gave opportunities to her old PCB friends (referring to Charlotte and Becky). Ultimately Paige decided all remaining women would compete in a battle royal to determine a third participant for the TLC match. Asuka won the match eliminating Sonya Deville.
Frank's Analysis: This is why I wish Hell in a Cell and TLC were removed as PPVs. The calendar dictates when to have these matches and not the feuds themselves. Nonetheless Asuka was added to bide time until they're ready to do a proper blow-off to the Charlotte-Becky feud, if in fact that's on their radar. There truly wasn't a need for a third person in this match. Charlotte vs. Becky one-on-one could be potentially taking place at the Royal Rumble. Asuka is likely to take the loss to protect the other women. It will be interesting to see how things are handled in the build as you have essentially babyfaces in all women. Granted Charlotte acted heelish last week, but she hasn't actually turned. In my view the way to get her fully entrenched as a heel would be to attack Becky. I'm not sure how Asuka figures into the dialogue. You would hope they don't try to manufacture tension between her and Becky. There is history with Charlotte as she ended Asuka's undefeated streak at WrestleMania this year. One thing to note is you can tell Asuka is still popular amongst the fans given last week and the night Becky was choosing her replacement opponent for Survivor Series.
"Welcome everyone to the most must-see talk show in television. Welcome to…." You know the rest. I couldn't resist. At any rate, WWE Champion will appear on MizTV tonight in advance of his title defense at TLC against former champion A.J. Styles.
Bryan has displayed a new attitude as of late (heel turn). He will appear on MizTV tonight opposite the Miz, a man with whom he had an intense feud after a long history.
Speaking of Jeff Hardy, tonight he revisits his feud with Randy Orton. These two had a very intense rivalry through the summer that culminated in Orton defeated Hardy at Hell in a Cell this past September.
Frank's Analysis: It felt like a retirement speech out of the gate, considering everyone was on stage and there were pictures of Hardy in the ring through the years. Nonetheless, I didn't think it was appropriate for Joe to cite Hardy's issues with alcohol. I understand it's a wrestling storyline, but it doesn't make it OK anymore than it was for Dean Ambrose to talk about Roman Reigns' leukemia. As far as the match tonight, remember that Orton is in a program with Rey Mysterio and Hardy apparently is getting into one with Joe. It'll be like WWE to turn this into a tag match if Joe and Mysterio get involved.
As I talked about in yesterday's Raw primer and as was announced by WWE, the Bar will defend the Smackdown Tag Team Championship in a triple threat match at TLC against the Usos and New Day.
Last week, the Usos defeated the Bar in a non-title match. Kofi Kingston defeated the Miz after New Day made fun of the Miz in the back, watching him and "Best in the World" Shane McMahon lose the previous week.
Tonight, Xavier Woods of New Day, Cesaro of the Bar, and Jey of the Usos go at it in a triple threat.
Frank's Analysis: It will be interesting to see the reaction New Day gets and in particular, Xavier Woods. As many of you may know, Xavier recently commented that anybody complaining about wrestling are "entitled infants." He went on to say there's a lot of wrestling, and it's all good and awesome. They put their bodies on the line every night. He brought up several other talking points.
He can voice his opinion about people complaining about wrestling but calling them entitled infants is unfair. At the end of the day, wrestling is a performance. As a consumer of the product, you have the right to complain about it. We all want to the product to be as good as it can be. I'm a Mets and Knicks fan. I've been complaining about both franchises for years because of poor performances. Go look up their records and see that the numbers don't lie. My N.Y. Giants have stunk for the most part since they won the Super Bowl in 2012. It doesn't mean I'm not a fan nor do I lack appreciation for what they do. If Xavier is going to be that thin-skinned about things, perhaps he shouldn't be in the business of performing publicly.
U.S. Champion Shinsuke Nakamura was to have a non-title match against Rusev. He attacked Rusev before the match could start, and this it was ruled a no-contest. Look for this feud to continue.
Randy Orton discusses his recent attack on Rey Mysterio as well as taking his mask. He said he didn't care about the history of the mask and wanted to take Rey off the pedestal on which fans have put him. Rey came out with a different mask and the two of them went at it. It ended with Orton kicking Rey in the head while it was lodged in a chair.
The arena website shows a start time of 6:30 p.m but doesn't specify when doors are opening. They advertise a triple threat match featuring A.J. Styles, The Miz, and WWE Champion Daniel Bryan. They don't say whether or not the championship is on the line.
They also show New Day, Charlotte Flair, Smackdown Women's Champion Becky Lynch, and Randy Orton appearing.
Did the RAW writers replace the SD writers? Methane, water bottles, Alexander Hamilton, and the ozone layer? WTF is this???


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Issue 41: Negation
Designated Haters
A Regressive Avant-Garde
PoMo NeoCons
Human, Not Too Human
Palestine, the 51st State
Mark Greif, Marco Roth
W: Our President
A Bunch of Nobodies
Eggers, Teen Idol
Against Exercise
Why Literature Matters When It's Somewhere Else
Art Chronicle; or, The Icon Emigrating
Dushko Petrovich
Paranoiastan
Masha Gessen
Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy; or, Heroes Without War
The Black Iron Prison
Joshua Glenn
Horse Mountain
Age of Chivalry Not Over, French Doctor Says.
David Foster Wallace!
Chad Harbach
File It Under Secular Neglect
Patrick Giles
Editorial Statement
Published in Issue 1 : Negation
Theory and Philosophy
Eastern State Penitentiary. Anna Moschovakis, ©2000
The Happiness that Exploded
In "The Intelligent Coed's Guide to America," an essay from his 1976 collection Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, Tom Wolfe recounts one of his early rhetorical triumphs over the nay-saying nabobs of the American left. It seems that at a 1965 Princeton conference, he lost it when Günter Grass, Allen Ginsberg, and Paul Krassner started babbling about the specter of fascism in America: "Suddenly I heard myself blurting out over my microphone: 'My God, what are you talking about? We're in the middle of a . . . Happiness Explosion!'" According to Wolfe, a curious form of envy was the likeliest explanation for the "ghastly delight" intellectuals of the period took in depicting the land of the free as a gilded cage. "The European intellectuals have a real wasteland? Well, we have a psychological wasteland. They have real fascism? Well, we have social fascism," etc., he ventriloquizes with glee.
But Ginsberg, et al., were just a warm-up exercise for Wolfe, who immediately proceeded to dismiss a more intellectually pedigreed challenge: Herbert Marcuse's then-influential theory of "repressive tolerance." The former Frankfurt School theorist had warned of creeping, indirect totalitarianism in the United States. No longer did social domination rest upon authoritarian violence; rather, it depended on the individual's propensity to identify with and internalize the worldview of those in power. "This was an insidious system," snorts Wolfe, "through which the government granted meaningless personal freedoms in order to narcotize the pain of class repression, which only socialism could cure. Beautiful! Well-nigh flawless!"
Three decades later, Wolfe was still at it. In the 150th anniversary issue of Harper's, published not long before 9/11, he berated citizens of the "most powerful, prosperous, and popular nation of all time" for failing to celebrate the imperial glory of America: "an El Dorado where the average working man [had] the political freedom, the personal freedom, the money, and the free time to fulfill his potential in any way he saw fit." If Marcuse was no longer au courant, Wolfe found another European intellectual kook to mock. These days, he wrote, we were asked to believe that "the powers that be manipulate, with poisonous efficiency, the very language we speak in order to imprison us in an invisible panopticon, to use . . . Michel Foucault's term." Foucault and his ilk were standing in the way of the greatest celebration ever! Just ask those regular folks, who, according to Wolfe's Harper's manifesto, voice their opposition to the snarkiness of intellectuals "at night, over cigarettes . . . muttering, grousing, grousing, muttering . . . all the while doubting their own common sense," which tells them there is no cause for alarm whatsoever, that America is really OK.
But in the wake of 9/11, a number of left-leaning intellectuals—particularly, though not exclusively, those who approved of the US military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq—have articulated a similar message of American OKness. Much like Wolfe, born-again liberals have repudiated those thinkers who ever dared suggest our country might somehow be, as the poet Heine put it (of America, in the early 1830s), a "monstrous prison of freedom" in which "invisible chains" weigh far more heavily upon unwitting inmates than visible ones ever did.
Richard Wolin's The Seduction of Unreason is a newly published treatise and tract investigating postmodernism's debt to proto-fascist ideas and attitudes. Along the way Wolin, a contributor to the New Republic and Dissent and the author of a study of Walter Benjamin, takes pains to make scathing remarks about an impressive variety of indirect-domination claims. These include: Marcuse's diagnosis of a one-dimensional society, T. W. Adorno's vision of a totally administered world, Foucault's argument that forces of governmentality have become adept at "inscribing" us in the clutches of power-knowledge, Jacques Derrida's concerns about the hegemonic force of the dominant discourse, and what Wolin calls Jean Baudrillard's verdict on the impossibility of progressive historical change.
Wolin rejects all such insidious-system claims not simply because they are "overtly cynical and empirically untenable," he writes, but because if the workings of power do persist in defiance of even the best-intentioned efforts to disrupt them, then "the emancipatory hopes of the vast majority of men and women seem consigned in advance to frustration and disappointment." To regard the Enlightenment's vision of the future with skepticism, cynicism, irony, or contempt is to be left, he says, "dazed and disoriented—morally and politically defenseless." Wolin's argument against indirect-domination claims is in effect an inversion of Wolfe's. Because social inequality and class injustice have at last been overcome, according to Wolfe, we should stop imagining that America is an invisible-prison state. Wolin's point is that we should stop imagining that America is an invisible-prison state because those same problems have yet to be overcome.
We should always be nervous when ideological enemies agree on anything. Wolin's book points out how disturbing it is that arguments once the prerogative of the counterrevolutionary right should have attained a new lease on life among the postmodernist left. I propose that glib denunciations of indirect-domination claims tossed off with equal aplomb by reactionaries like Wolfe and progressives like Wolin are just as troubling. In fact, it wasn't ivory-tower leftists and poststructuralists who dreamed up indirect-domination theory—it was thinkers closer to the ground, outsider intellectuals with bizarre, unclassifiable politics. There exists what some might call a Secret History of Invisible-Prison Theory, one that reached its rhetorical apotheosis so far not in the scholarly writings of Adorno, Marcuse, Foucault, or Baudrillard, but in the outré poetry of Baudelaire and the pulp science fiction of Philip K. Dick. This history begins, according to my own research, in the early 19th century. Let's take a look.
Issue 1 Negation
There is a kind of fake refinement that turns into a vulgarity . . . it comes from deciding what other people can't say.
Right now we plant democracy like an orchid and depart—leaving behind oilmen to drain nutrients out of the soil.
The problem is hardly a lack of magazines, even literary magazines.
In George W. Bush, we have a president for whom reading a teleprompter seems to be a physical exertion.
Intellect did not interest them, but kids did. Childhood is still their leitmotif.
Reading the Weekly Standard is like stepping into a parallel universe. Not an alien one; one nicely mirrored.
The naked protests, which spread across the globe, were a reminder of what went unsaid.
This bulking-up process has transformed the game. In fact, it threatens to render the game obsolete.
They are better than you because they act, and they will not let you forget it.
Wallace's opus now looks like the central American novel of the past thirty years, a dense star for lesser work to orbit.
His characters are outsiders who create their own communities.
Those jokes, wherein you tweak the Man by suggesting gay sex or quoting Lacan: those are no longer funny.
Issue 5 Decivilizing Process
Bush's foreign policy advisers do not want to break free of the established system. They wish to run the jail.
The Argonaut Folly


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Tracey H asked in Politics & GovernmentMilitary · 1 decade ago
what is us army's mission statement?
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The Army's mission is to fight and win our Nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict in support of combatant commanders. We do this by:
1. Executing Title 10 and Title 32 United States Code directives, to include organizing, equipping, and training forces for the conduct of prompt and sustained combat operations on land.
2. Accomplishing missions assigned by the President, Secretary of Defense and combatant commanders, and Transforming for the future.
http://www.army.mil/info/organization/
THE ARMY MISSION
It is the intent of Congress to provide an Army that is capable, in conjunction with the other armed forces, of-
preserving the peace and security, and providing for the defense, of the United States, the Territories, Commonwealths, and possessions, and any areas occupied by the United States;
supporting the national policies;
implementing the national objectives; and
overcoming any nations responsible for aggressive acts that imperil the peace and security of the United States.
Title 10, U.S. Code, Section 3062 (a)
2-25. Title 10 of the United States Code states the purpose of Congress in establishing the Army and its guidance on how the Army is to be organized, trained, and equipped. Title 10 states that the Army includes land combat and service forces, and organic aviation and water transport. Army forces are to be organized, trained, and equipped primarily for prompt and sustained combat incident to operations on land. The Army is responsible for preparing the land forces necessary to effectively prosecute war except as otherwise assigned. It is also responsible, in accordance with integrated joint mobilization plans, for its expansion to meet the needs of war.
2-26. The Army exists to serve the American people, protect enduring national interests, and fulfill the Nation's military responsibilities. Specifically, the Army mission is to provide to combatant commanders the forces and capabilities necessary to execute the National Security, National Defense, and National Military Strategies. Army forces provide the capability-by threat, force, or occupation-to promptly gain, sustain, and exploit comprehensive control over land, resources, and people. This landpower capability compliments the other Services' capabilities. Furthermore, the Army is charged to provide logistic and other executive agent functions to enable the other Services to accomplish their missions. The Army is organized to accomplish this mission.
http://www.army.mil/fm1/chapter2.html#section6
The United States Army's Mission is:
-To provide protection for the United States and its interest by securing its airspace, land, and sea interest and jurisdictions.
-To provide support to civil authorities in order to provide the protection and support needed to sustain the United State's national interest and stability.
-To provide support during national emergencies by assisting civil authorities in maintaining emergency preparedness throughout the nation.
-To work in concert with the three other major branches of the US military—the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Air Force. Navy ships transport Army troops, equipment, and supplies to bases overseas.
http://www.army.com/UnitedStates/index.html
Army Mission Statement
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Army Mission
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At the Department of the Army (DA) level you'll get what is called a 'Posture Statement' not a mission statement. A mission statement is usually issued by echelons below DA Level.
To read the Army's Posture Statement, visit: http://www.army.mil/aps/08/index.html
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With every day pass, our country is getting into more and more trouble. The inflation, unemployment and falling value of dollar are the main concern for our Government but authorities are just sleeping, they don't want to face the fact. Media is also involve in it, they are force to stop showing the real economic situation to the people. I start getting more concern about my future as well as my family after watching the response of our Government for the people that affected by hurricane Katrina.
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Primary mission of the US Army
provide necessary forces and capabilities, in support of the National Security and Defense Strategies.
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Can USA be successfully invaded by joining migrant caravans from Honduras?
If there's a civil war will you have any weapons at home to protect your family from those that will want to do you harm?
Why Trump didnt declare martial law?
If you were drafted in the military in the 60s when you went to basic could you flunk and be difficult to avoid going to vietnam?
Can military personnel reject the Bill Gates mark of the beast Covid-19 "vaccine" on religious grounds or has the U.S. military gone commie?
If a new recruit has an Option 40 Contract, after Infantry training will he go to RASP before or after Airborne School?
British Army. Military. MOD. Army ?
U.S. Covid-19 Death Toll Nears 400,000 THANKS TO TRUMP?
Could we one day breed or mutate people into "superhumans" for special tasks?


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