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Week of February 22, 2009 - February 28, 2009

Obama offers Russia back-scratch 'comradeship'


It sure didn't take long for the Obama Administration to jump into this geopolitical gamesmanship thingy: We're signaling Russia that we'll junk those plans to lace its backyard with "defensive" missiles if they'll help tamp Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Tit, meet tat.

This must be that diplomatic "carrot and stick" we're always hearing about - the gambit played for eight years by the Bush Administration with all the finesse of Bigfoot cutting a six-carat estate diamond on the hood of a chugging Bulldozer.

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San Fernando Curt

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  • Location North Hollywood, CA
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  • Politics Neo-Realist

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  • Favorite Books "Dreadnought" by Robert K. Massie "The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene "Lamprey!" by Jerry Verlan "The Reichsfuhrer Calls You 'Bitchmeat'" by Turner Luce
  • Favorite Quotes "I just don't... uh... 'do' Middle Eastern fairy tales..." - My Own Li'l Bible "You seem ill - you must’ve come down with a severe case of dumb-ass." - Chip Rawlins, my college roomate

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Making it happen here in the San Fernando Valley - sunshine, car-jackings and facial tattoos. Livin' the high!

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