A Land Far Away

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00408.html

Vladimir dissolved the current government to place a new prime minister in power just a few weeks from the parliamentary elections. Now, if I understand their system, this is just a tad bit of a strange thing to do, yes?

Personally, I think Putin wants to consolidate his power and increase governmental strength before he has to leave due to term limits, but it sounds like he wants to return after, with more power and possibly full control of his country's government. Of course, I might be reading too much into it.

Time will tell. Sooner or later, time will tell.

Meh. Saw it coming. He wouldn't want a strong personality to take over from him. Better someone whose strings he can pull from behind the throne.

Putin? Undemocratic?

I'm shocked, shocked that you would level such baseless accusations.

Ex-KGB. Expected it. He's a Soviet. Welcome to the old USSR.

I doubt things will evolve along the lines of the USSR. More likely is a move to the current chinese model...authoritarian capitalism.

Putin knows how to play the game.

Since the killings of Anna Politkovskaya and other critics, Russian journalists will only speak out in foriegn news sources. Verily like China.

Well, I was feelin' sad and feelin' blue,
I didn't know what in the world I was gonna do,
Them Communists they wus comin' around,
They wus in the air,
They wus on the ground.
They wouldn't gimme no peace. . .

So I run down most hurriedly
And joined up with the John Birch Society,
I got me a secret membership card
And started off a-walkin' down the road.
Yee-hoo, I'm a real John Bircher now!
Look out you Commies!

Now we all agree with Hitlers' views,
Although he killed six million Jews.
It don't matter too much that he was a Fascist,
At least you can't say he was a Communist!
That's to say like if you got a cold you take a shot of malaria.

Well, I wus lookin' everywhere for them gol-darned Reds.
I got up in the mornin' 'n' looked under my bed,
Looked in the sink, behind the door,
Looked in the glove compartment of my car.
Couldn't find 'em . . .

I wus lookin' high an' low for them Reds everywhere,
I wus lookin' in the sink an' underneath the chair.
I looked way up my chimney hole,
I even looked deep inside my toilet bowl.
They got away . . .

Well, I wus sittin' home alone an' started to sweat,
Figured they wus in my T.V. set.
Peeked behind the picture frame,
Got a shock from my feet, hittin' right up in the brain.
Them Reds caused it!
I know they did . . . them hard-core ones.

Well, I quit my job so I could work alone,
Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes.
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered they wus red stripes on the American flag!
That ol' Betty Ross . . .

Well, I investigated all the books in the library,
Ninety percent of 'em gotta be burned away.
I investigated all the people that I knowed,
Ninety-eight percent of them gotta go.
The other two percent are fellow Birchers . . . just like me.

Now Eisenhower, he's a Russian spy,
Lincoln, Jefferson and that Roosevelt guy.
To my knowledge there's just one man
That's really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell.
I know for a fact he hates Commies cus he picketed the movie Exodus.

Well, I fin'ly started thinkin' straight
When I run outa things to investigate.
Couldn't imagine doin' anything else,
So now I'm sittin' home investigatin' myself!
Hope I don't find out anything . . . hmm, great God!

But but but...

I thought W looked into his eyes and saw in him the soul of a good man?


This, by the way, really is the problem with fundamentalist "Christians":

They believe they have magical powers that you don't.

The time is ripe for the the return of the Romanovs.

Just a note:

Most Christians are altruists, and some are morons, the rest of us look out for them... slowly nodding our head with a smile as one would patronize a child. The key is to not let them know we're patronizing and don't agree with their own made-up policies.

Unfortunately GWBush is not a Christian, is still a moron, and the rest of us are counting down to his forceful removal and standoff in the white house when the Secret Service has to shoehorn him out with teargass. He got elected on the pretence that he wasn't the oil-mongering moneygrubbing fuck he really is.

Charlie wrote:Just a note:

Most Christians are altruists, and some are morons, the rest of us look out for them... slowly nodding our head with a smile as one would patronize a child. The key is to not let them know we're patronizing and don't agree with their own made-up policies.

1 Corinthians 1:21
For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe

1 Corinthians 1:25
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

Of course...you already had that one worked out, didn't you charlie...
Your Friendly Neighbourhood Christian

Ok, back on topic. Anyone thinks this bodes badly for Europe in general?

Yeah because the EU wont do shit. We will have to go bail their asses out again.

I'm not particularly certain we need bailing out because Russia dissolves one of their parliaments.