Russia Invades Georgia--back in the USSR

[Lightning Rod]

Lay down your bets
how long do you think it will take
for somebody on youtube
to make a flash movie of Putin's likeness
to this soundtrack?
"Georgia's always on my mi mi mi mi mind"

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yep, it looks like we're back in the USSR

[mnaz]

..took a hiatus for a while, but you knew it never just disappeared.
Timing is everything.

[e_dog]

And on American soil!

(Georgia)


How could bush letthis happen? too busy he was at theolympic gamez methinkz.

gosh.

[Totenkopf]

F the mutha-f-n Olimpix: MIGs vs F-18s, yid vs squid....... It's on, caucasus way. Watch the contradictions of temporality unfold!

[Lightning Rod]

do you think it's an accident that Russia invaded Georgia on the day that the Olympics started? They got an extra bonus because of the Edward's non-story.

They didn't want the world to be paying attention when they invaded.

I know you are right, tote. Hide and watch. This is going to be a fuse.

[stilltrucking]

They have us out gunned Clay
Nothing we can do.
Our navy is still the biggest and the most lethal
But in every other way they are militarly superior to us.
Their airforce is more modern than ours, they have more troops, what do you think they been doing with all that oil money.

I read a lot clay.
I can't remember where I read that
I guess I could google it again
Nothing is going to happen
Europe needs the Russian oil too much
And the only thing we could possibly do is threaten to nuke Russia if they don't stop.
No we ain't going to "whup there ass"
There is no fuse




We are a paper tiger

This is a godsend for McCain
One of those three AM phone calls Hillary was talking about

What interests me is why oil prices have not spiked yet.

[stilltrucking]

We've placed ourselves in a position that globally we don't have the wherewithal to do anything," Stratfor's Mr. Friedman said. "One would think under those circumstances, we'd shut up."

One senior administration official laughed when told of that comment.

"Well, maybe we're learning to shut up now," he said. He asked that his name not be used because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue.

Dallas Morning News

I read my news, I don't want it coming at me 24/7.

Sometimes I hear myself expressing opinions like there is a pull string in my back. Pull my string and I will repeat an pre recorded opinion I heard some pundit give.

[stilltrucking]

I wrote:

What interests me is why oil prices have not spiked yet.

This seems a bit far fetched but what do I know?

Georgia gambit may end slide in crude price

Those of a materialist mindset might speculate that Russia's blitzkrieg into Georgia last week was motivated less by a sense of solidarity with its poor benighted brethren in South Ossetia and more by a determination to manipulate global energy markets.

Certainly, the timing was good. The mini-war in the Caucasus could bring an end to the recent slide in crude oil prices that was threatening to reverse the remarkable redistribution of global wealth from oil consumers to oil producers of the past few years. The possibility of a Russian stranglehold on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, which has a transport capacity of 1.2 million barrels per day, promises to keep another important source of Western energy supply firmly under the influence of Moscow's iron whim.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/b ... 509056.ece

"It's Springtime for Putin and Russia"
I can hear Mel Brooks singing it now.