Thoughts Out Of Season

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  For some apparent reason the United States appears hell bent on provoking Russia into invading Ukraine. The White House has been incessantly beating the war drums for more than a month now. True, Putin has amassed an incredible number of soldiers and artillery on 3 sides of Ukraine's border but this appears more of a head-fake by Putin to draw the United States and its NATO allies into a position "put up or shut up" when it comes to Ukrainian sovereignty. For some reason NATO and the US in particular have a pressing need for war to break out in the region, whether to draw attention away from our bumbling president or to garner more dinero for the huge military- industrial complex. As of right now my opinion is that whether there's war or not it is the United States, particularly its babbling President who will end up holding the dirty side of the stick as far as history is concerned

Why would Turkish officials shoot down a Russian fighter plane that wandered into its airspace for a grand total of 17 seconds? Could it just be a case of schizophrenia coupled with hubris? Someone trying to put a scare into Putin (LMFAO!)? A suicide pact between high ranking Turkey officials? Most laughable, Turkey's membership in NATO where "an attack on one is an attack on all" including the United States led by a president who still fears monsters in his closet? We'll never know but one thing is sure Turkey screwed itself big time . How?: * Turkey is Russia's 2nd largest trading partner. *Russian tourists visit Turkey to the tune of 2.9 million a year spending over $3 billion. *Turkey gets 50% of its natural gas and 30% of its oil from Russia. *Turkey exports billions of dollars in agriculture and other food products to Russia each year. * Souring relations could cause Turkey to suffer a 10% or more drop in GDP if Russia got really pissed at them and...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan now says that he is deeply "saddened" by his country's downing of a Russian fighter plane that entered Turkey's airspace, zipping around for 17 long seconds several days ago. This is in contrast to the statement he made approximately 17 hours ago warning Russia " not to play with fire" by interfering in Syria's civil war. According to unnamed insiders from the Turkish government Mr. Erdoban awoke just a few hours ago with a terrible hangover. Staff advised him of the comments he had made before passing out at a Hooka Bar in downtown Istanbul. Mr. Edrogen's response was "I SAID WHAT!!!!!" "Are you f--king kidding me!". Turkey's President then chased down the first journalist he could find and begged him to report of his "sadness" regarding the downed Russian plane. The reporter tried to explain to the President that he worked for the satirical newspaper The Onion. Erdoge...

      Pyotr Pavlensky  is a Russian performance artist ticked off by what he feels is his country's decent into a police state. Seeking to make his grievances known to the world he decided to undertake a one-man protest that he believed would draw widespread attention to his cause. Lighting on the annual celebration of Russia's police known as Police Day, Mr. Pavlensky made his way to Red Square where he undressed to his bare skin, sat down and proceeded to nail his scrotum to the pavement! That's right! He nailed his most private of parts to the cold cobblestone of Red Square! Such a display of fortitude! Of sincerity! Imagine a man who would perform a sidewalk vasectomy on himself in the fight against tyranny! This man is now my hero. I will use him as a model of guts, determination and uprightness (uprightness?).  Today I declare Pytor Pavlensky  the first winner of the Rock award, an award given to those who through ...