I knew there was a reason I had a beard.

The winter must be coming..

I think the following deserves a re-post:

"You probably didn’t know that CNN censored Putin for being just too darn sensible. Yep, it’s true. About two weeks ago, Putin gave the network an exclusive 30-minute interview. And you know what happened? Nothing. It was never allowed to air. CNN doesn’t know it yet, but that decision might have cost them their Russian broadcasting rights."

I'm not quite sure why the interview was pulled, but with dearth of free speech and unbiased journalism in Russian Federation this is just more oil on the fire exactly were it's not needed.  There's a wide spread belief among Russians of a Western world-wide media conspiracy against the portrayal of Russia in the world scene.

Read more:

exiledonline.com/is-cnn-getting-kicked-out-of-russia/#more-781

"A British Muslim convert with a mental age of ten was unable to blow up a restaurant because he'd locked himself in a toilet."

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077808/How-Muslim-convert-set-bombs-error-open-toilet-door.html

Does this mean terrorism is funny now?

I figured I should post these.  They are some of the pictures I took during recent business trip Moscow this past August.

Feel free to comment id you see something you like (or don't).  There's probably a fancier way to embed the whole Flickr set into the post, but I probably have more important important things to do.  Probably.

Maybe like this:

I'm posting this because it's going to get a lot of people riled up and that's a good thing.

From alternet.org : www.alternet.org/story/97907/sarah_palin%27s_9_most_disturbing_beliefs/

This is by the author of the book I'm reading right now:

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/06/russian-government-press-feedom-putin-ames-medvedev.php

Good friend of mine from Kiev duked this one out.

If you like it, show him love.

A.

Some interesting points from Financial Times, London:

"If Mr Obama is elected in November, she could do for him what Senator Robert Wagner of New York did for Franklin Roosevelt. On healthcare, the environment, minority rights and the economy, she could create a record as memorable as the one Wagner achieved by enacting major social security and old-age pension legislation and being the author of the Labour Act that to this day bears his name. Mrs Clinton, emerging as President Obama's principal ally in the Senate, could add immeasurably to her stature, guaranteeing a second run for the presidential nomination in 2016 or indeed in 2012 were Mr Obama to lose the 2008 election to McCain, always a possibility. While Wagner, because of his Catholic religion, could never aspire to the presidency in his lifetime, Mrs Clinton could still expect to become America's first woman president."

I'm still laughing about this. Bush pays a bunch of money to people in Africa not to fuck each other (so much).

What a tool. His populist initiatives in the past couple months have been sickening.