from russia with...nada

Wow. I've noted for some time that Russia was second to the US in hits to my blog. Now they've ceased altogether, incredible. This happened with China back around 2007. Things must be getting bad for free speech there! In Russia, you don't surf the Internets, only secret police do, all day, all night!

 Postscript  03.19.2013: Russia is back, but with far lower traffic than normal.

In Russia, accent speak for you: a panoply of picklesmells

Ya'lls:

How to shut up a conspiracy nut momentarily: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof#Science_and_other_uses

Dennis Hopper's shithoard is still up for sale:  http://gawker.com/5986447/there-are-two-days-and-20-hours-left-in-the-dennis-hopper-estate-sale?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

The best evidence that Bobby Flay isn't seen in the Patterson-Gimlin film of nineteen-and-eleventy-twelvty: http://www.bigfootencounters.com/files/mk_davis_pgf.gif

songs from the sitemeter: in russia...

I commented on this before, but wow, interesting, and hello to my Russian readers!

Here's the gist: there are nearly as many Russian readers of this blog as Americans. I'm still trying to process this to understand why. If any of you can enlighten me, I'd be very pleased. Either way, it's pleasing in itself.

What can I say except that I feel the US and Russia are so similar, what with both nations being oligarchies and police states? Shhhhh, I know, don't tell the little people here in A'murka that, especially the ones who still have purchasing power...

A very curious spam...

Ed.--You wouldn't believe some of the crazy emails and comments I get from operating this blog. Today, I got this in my email box as a comment, and in Cyrillic (Google translator did the rest):

Ladies and Gentlemen [This must, in fact, be Yakov Smirnoff].

If you are interested in a little politics, you must have noticed - this sudden unrest in Africa
has an ulterior motive.

There are 2 versions of these events - the "official" and "informal," and both versions are probably far from actual facts:

[B] Version 1: [/ b] Gaddafi - a tyrant and autocrat, shot at civilians, so it should be removed.
[B] Version 2: [/ b] in fact Europe and America wanted a little Libyan oil, and they decided to put on a small "riot"

Consider Version 1.

Yes, Qaddafi has one more old man, he of course it would be time and retired. But did you know that specifically in Libya people have a very high preference under his rule? Teachers receive a $ 3,000, paid the unemployed about $ 1,000 and so on. Yes, he was tame small group of rebellious Bedouins, but does anyone understand the real causes of these riots? This version does not hold water.

Version 2.

Oil Libya? Yes, it is of high quality, Libyan oil is very clean. But she was not so much.
And besides, why would haunt Egypt and other African nations, which the whole of last
year in general no one disturbed and worried? And then suddenly they're "tyrants," "Monsters", etc.

Yes, this situation is further fueled the price of oil. Individual corporations are profitable.

But the truth is shorter.

Gaddafi is not so long ago began to combine Middle Eastern country under the idea to move to the calculation for oil and products are not dollars, not euros, and an alternative to all this. And Egypt - one of the countries which it supported ...

Read more here:

http://sterligov.livejournal.com/4389.html

However, in the popular media, it will never say.

PS: Saddam Hussein, incidentally, also had such undertakings. Generally, after the crisis, sooo many the country began to think about getting rid of reliance on the U.S.. Sooner or later
it happens. The Fed has no place to lower rates.

Spread it where you can. People need to know the truth.


By the way, is also on the topic: The military operation in western Libya, Libya, France suffered an invasion of Libya in the day, destruction, France has promised to attack Libya after a few hours, against France has promised to attack Libya after several hours, killed ...

Hey, it takes all kinds. Whoever wrote it must know English as well. Anyway, some of the observations strike me as true though it would be a stretch to call Gadaffi's regime just or even reasonable.

What did they post this comment on? An observation I made from 2006 on Mark Foley and the GOP being a gaggle of sexual perverts, which is true. Moose and squirrel...

Misspake

With so many unemployed and with so many politicians misspeaking these days, it's time that we considered the creation of a new national career-path: Misspeak Translators.

"What the slobbering, orally defecating ostensible senator from Mississippi meant to say was that he loves chiaroscuro, but won't be voting to save the marshlands or helping the homeless, so go die suckers," would perhaps be some of the words emanating under law from the lips of these "truth-employees" who could steer our very weak officeholders towards--well, the truth--and to serve this great nation's interests in a way that's traditionally been reserved for ten-year-olds and wise asses like me.

Finally, a paycheck! What a country (don't start)!

The GOP: Party of can-don't!

GOPland--You can't say they're the party of non-sequitters! Well, OK, actually you can. Like Sarah Palin, they've quit being relevant, human, and a solution to our nation's problems. In fact, they are our nation's problem along with the rest of the two-party non-system, soon to be on the same scrapheap as the former Soviet Union! Soon, very soon, Yakov Smirnoff will begin all of his jokes down in Branson, Missouri with, "In America..."

America gets the politicians it deserves, don't kid yourselves. And soon--sooner than you might think--we'll all be in the streets! Well yeah, because we're already going to be there! Wheeee!!!! Quit believe that the GOP is behind all the problems getting a decent health care system created through actual reform. The Democrats are falling on their own swords in the name of profit, of greed. OK, keep fooling yourselves and wait-and-see.

If Congress and the President keep putting band-aids on shotgun wounds...

Yakov Smirnoff will be able to do national tours again and preface every joke with: "In America... ." What a country!