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...voters don't like what they are seeing now, they aren't going to be any happier with what happens next if the nuclear option passes. Filibustering is not the only tool the minority has to slow business to a crawl. The Senate last week got a taste of how harsh nuclear winter might be when Democrats invoked an obscure procedural rule to cancel all committee meetings, where the bulk of Senate business gets done. They have also threatened to require full Senate votes for even the most mundane business, a move that could put the brakes on the G.O.P...
...pitchers of beer in each hand. Zielinski carries three pitchers over to a booth and breaks into leader mode, calling friends over, drinking a beer with them, clapping a hand on their shoulders, moving on to the next guy. He sits back down and charts out the bar crawl he will lead to Highland Falls that Saturday. They'll start, it's decided, at Hacienda: "Great margaritas, supercheap." If this is the night for the cadets to savor the choices they have made, then he'll also offer his ode to the infantry. "Everything is based off the infantry. Take...
...instructor says. "God save Iraq from the Jews and the infidel." The second tape shows a group of 15 uniformed men practicing advancing under fire in a lush grove of trees and tall grass. In another scene, recruits navigate an obstacle course that requires them to climb stairs, crawl under barbed wire and dive through a flaming hoop...
...Charles de Gaulle, the Community adopted a compromise allowing a partner country to cast a veto whenever it felt that a "vital national interest" was involved. Since then, the veto threat has been invoked several times on issues like farm prices and deregulation, sometimes slowing Community progress to a crawl. De Gaulle also pulled French forces out of NATO'S integrated military commands and closed down U.S. military facilities in France; NATO moved its headquarters from Paris to Belgium...
...dark figures, tattered and beaten, crawl across the screen. Fighting the unforgiving desert sun, they fortuitously stumble upon a decades-old downed plane. Cut to the next scene: we find the heroes of Sahara windsurfing amidst the desolate landscape using the plane’s right wing as a makeshift sail, as good ole American rock blares in the background. And that’s when it hits you: you have no idea what’s going on, or even what movie you’re watching anymore...