Of course he didn't - must not besmirch the Bush administration.  (Or the security that let Gannon through.)

People die every day -- especially people without health insurance and in horrifying "preventive" wars.  People have horrible, disfunctional lives every day and also don't have billion dollar talents to help offset the horribleness (of course, nor do they have personal doctors "helping" them self-destruct, but that's another story.).  It really is time to get back to real news, important news to the country at large. Maybe Monday will bring things back to where they should be.

I've had 100 percent success in stopping slugs with copper tape, so I'm baffled.  But there are always the slugs that are inside the protected area and then of course can't get out.  Are you sure that's not what's happening?

There's no way to protect a whole yard, but the tape and/or diotomaceous earth (far easier to deal with and less ugly than eggshells) will make a barrier that will keep them from crossing over.

I lay down the copper tape on the ground around whatever it is I really need to protect (a bunch of nice hostas, for example), and then pin it to the soil with ordinary hairpins from the local Walgreen's.  You do have to keep an eye out for mud or dirt getting on the tape after a rain, but as long as it's reasonably clean, it works.

Diotomaceous earth works less well and has to be reapplied periodically.

There's also slug poison you can get in garden and hardware stores, but it's really ugly, gets moldy quickly, and also has to be replaced after it rains or every couple of weeks.

I have to say that my experience with beer saucers alone is that it just attracts more slugs to your yard from neighboring areas.  But it works fairly well to deal with the slugs that are inside a tape-protected area.

I absolutely hate the damn things, so you certainly have my sympathy.