Quote of the Day

 

Vlad walks on water.

"...There are things I believe, which should not in my position, at least, be shared with the public at large for everybody's consumption because that would look like self-advertising or a political striptease." - Vladimir Putin in an interview with Time magazine. From the Wikipedia article. Via Comrade Misfit.

He gets a lot of crap about things like human rights, but Russia seems to be recovering from it's century long experiment with social engineering, murder and mayhem. Not to mention WW2. Russia's experience with WW2 has a much deeper and longer lasting effect on them than it does on the USA.