News – No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's. The Russian President's pale blue eyes are so cool, so devoid of emotion that the stare must have begun as an affect, the gesture of someone who understood that power might be achieved by the suppression of ordinary needs, like blinking.
This is very wrong.
What is wrong? The decision by Time? The link to the article? Life itself?
The Propeller branch of the Neocon Party is celebrating - they feared it would be Gore.
I don't care what you've got against him, Al's never done anything worth being lumped in with the rest of those you mention. You take that back. I mean, all he ever really did to tick of you CONs was be Bubba's VP and then actually beat W in 2000. Oh yeah, and be right about the destroying the Earth thingy. And the internet. Everything else he's written about, too, the assault on reason and all. And...
"A VP does what, attend funerals."
yep. that's all cheney does, right?
besides pushing the debate about conserving our environment to the forefront, another positive thing Al has done is that he certainly has managed to get a lot of cons panties' twisted in a knot. just look how much you hate hate hate him. hilarious.
neocons are not celebrating, this is rediculous, only Time could pick a hard cor communist like Putin to be the man of the yr. If you think living in Russia is any better than it was before the cold war then go visit. Now there is a country where the difference between the poor and the rich is one stands in line for bread, the other is filthy rich.
"Now there is a country where the difference between the poor and the rich is one stands in line for bread, the other is filthy rich."
Sounds like the Unite States or soon to be.
Then we can only hope for the best, that you fall on the poor side, so you don't have money to use a computer. That way we don't have to put up with your idiotic posts, like the one above.
Good at calling names, huh? How about educating yourself?
You have so little sympathy for your hungry neighbors. Why am I not surprised?
From the Fed-
"In particular, over the past three decades, much of the gain from excellent macroeconomic performance has gone to just a small segment of the populationÃ;¢;;those already in the upper part of the distribution. As a result, inequality has grown. This inequality, coupled with increased turbulence in family incomes associated with job displacement and restructuring, sheds substantial light on the sources of the disappointment and concern that show up in the opinion polls."
http://www.frbsf.org/news/speeches/2006/061106.pdf
"The USDA said that 12 percent of Americans -- 35 million people -- could not put food on the table at least part of last year."
walden writes:
"In particular, over the past three decades, much of the gain from excellent macroeconomic performance has gone to just a small segment of the populationÃ;»Ã;¢;;those already in the upper part of the distribution. As a result, inequality has grown. This inequality, coupled with increased turbulence in family incomes associated with job displacement and restructuring, sheds substantial light on the sources of the disappointment and concern that show up in the opinion polls."
Don't like living here, waldrip? Move to Russia. I hear the bread lines are shorter there.
And remember waldoofus: NOBODY OWES YOU ANYTHING. NOT ONE THING. If you want a better life for yourself, go out there and get it. Otherwise stay at your oil sludge collector job, collect your minimum wage and be happy you don't live in Bangladesh, Haiti, Burkina Faso or about eight dozen other countries around the world.
stinkytaint-
Unlike bill2936, theido and you I don't judge a culture or society's success by how well I do as an individual, or how much treasure the fewest may amass. I'm doing fine. I work for myself and I have a doctorate degree (300 college credits).
I judge the worth of a society and culture by how well the weakest and those without a voice are doing, whether the sick can get treatment, the cold shelter, the hungry sustenance and the minority protection. The strongest will always survive. They always have and always will.
You three demonstrate perfectly the weaknesses of capitalism and economic Darwinism.
Stinkytaint, you better run I hear the buzzer going off. Your fries are burning.
As long as there are public libraries, walden3 will always be about to give us idiotic post.
"As long as there are public libraries, walden3 will always be about to give us idiotic post."
....and when the public libraries kick him out, there's always the computer in his mother's basement where he lives.
So yes, bill2936, you're right. waldork will always be sharing with us his idiotic posts, and reminding us all of the large chasm of space between his two ears.
But let him have at it. He has so little. No job, no friends, no toys this Christmas - nothing. The least we can all do is read his posts and make him think we care. After all, he's not able to see us pointing and laughing and rolling our eyes.
Putin is well-deserving. His influence is rising both domestically and internationally. Russia controls an enormous amount of natural resources and he is forming regional alliances. I hope he doesn't completely shut down the democratic process though.
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I think he could stare down Ivan Drago.
The summary reads so much like a Chuck Norris Fact I had to double-check the link didn't go to The Onion or something: "Vladimir Putin once stared into the sun, and the sun went blind."
Putin's eye problem started when Bush looked into his eyes to see his soul.
Bush and Putin sat down at a restaurant for dinner. The waiter came over to take their orders. Putin told the waiter, "I'll have the steak." The waiter said, "What about the vegetable? Putin replied: "He'll have one too."
ROLFMAO! That's the best.
lol...true that...g