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Subject: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: Davester on 12/31/07 at 12:38 am
Time's man of the year has always been quirky even before quirky was fashionable. The resurgence of the Russians is welcome given what the US has done with its autocracy...
And to think that we all welcomed the end of the Cold War. How foolish and optimistic we were to think that it would bring in an era of co-operation and peace...
Person of the Year
Catwoman will be pleased to know that J.K. Rowling was a runner-up... :)
saver will be pleased to know that his buddy Albert Arnold Jr. was a runner-up...
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 12/31/07 at 12:59 am
Dumb choice. I dunno who it should be. I just know it shouldn't be Putin.
::)
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: Davester on 12/31/07 at 1:14 am
Dumb choice. I dunno who it should be. I just know it shouldn't be Putin.
::)
Give 'em enough of the green stuff, it could be my mug gracing the cover... ;D
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: McDonald on 12/31/07 at 1:24 am
Dude, Putin is a KGB old boy, and he runs his cabinet and country as such. He's also creepy if you ask me.
http://www.informationliberation.com/files/putin_nikita.jpg
Weirdo...
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: Davester on 12/31/07 at 12:45 pm
Dude, Putin is a KGB old boy, and he runs his cabinet and country as such. He's also creepy if you ask me.
http://www.illuminati-news.com/graphics/06-07/070806/c/PutinPedophile.bmp
Weirdo...
I wonder what's up with that... ???
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 12/31/07 at 12:54 pm
I wonder what's up with that... ???
I hate when that happens!
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: Davester on 12/31/07 at 1:00 pm
I hate when that happens!
Yeah. It happens to me all the time... :-[
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: MrCleveland on 12/31/07 at 1:07 pm
Gore should've been person of the year!
He had 'An Inconvient Truth' in his hands and he has as much money as the other guys runing Washington! Maybe more.
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: CatwomanofV on 12/31/07 at 1:14 pm
I was watching the Bill O show with Laura Ingram hosting (since Bill is on vacation). She was talking to someone-can't remember who-saying that they thought it should have been Gen. Petraeus. They don't seem to GET Time's Person of the Year. They also have to remember that Hitler even made Person of the Year once. Personally, I think it should have gone to Al Gore.
As for JK Rowling-well at least one of her characters got it. :D ;D ;D ;D
http://belomor.pisem.net/pic/putin&dobby.jpg
Cat
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: Davester on 12/31/07 at 1:16 pm
As for JK Rowling-well at least one of her characters got it. :D ;D ;D ;D
http://belomor.pisem.net/pic/putin&dobby.jpg
Cat
That's so uncanny it had to be intentional...
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: Macphisto on 12/31/07 at 7:35 pm
Dude, Putin is a KGB old boy, and he runs his cabinet and country as such. He's also creepy if you ask me.
http://www.informationliberation.com/files/putin_nikita.jpg
Weirdo...
He's impersonating Mark Foley. Nah seriously, the story behind this is that Putin was out doing some PR thing, when a kid who apparently really admired him started talking to him about his admiration for Putin. From what I can tell, this kissing the belly thing is a Russian custom, so even though it looks really pervy to us, it's apparently normal over there.
I'm guessing it might be our equivalent of giving someone a noogie.
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 12/31/07 at 7:37 pm
I'll agree with Al Gore.
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: Davester on 12/31/07 at 8:56 pm
He's impersonating Mark Foley. Nah seriously, the story behind this is that Putin was out doing some PR thing, when a kid who apparently really admired him started talking to him about his admiration for Putin. From what I can tell, this kissing the belly thing is a Russian custom, so even though it looks really pervy to us, it's apparently normal over there.
I'm guessing it might be our equivalent of giving someone a noogie.
Okay, I might have figured it was a Russian custom...
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: McDonald on 01/01/08 at 1:46 pm
He's impersonating Mark Foley. Nah seriously, the story behind this is that Putin was out doing some PR thing, when a kid who apparently really admired him started talking to him about his admiration for Putin. From what I can tell, this kissing the belly thing is a Russian custom, so even though it looks really pervy to us, it's apparently normal over there.
I'm guessing it might be our equivalent of giving someone a noogie.
Well that makes it even more confusing, because he took a lot of flak about this in Russia. I think he even had to explain himself after that.
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: Foo Bar on 01/02/08 at 3:37 am
I was watching the Bill O show with Laura Ingram hosting (since Bill is on vacation). She was talking to someone-can't remember who-saying that they thought it should have been Gen. Petraeus. They don't seem to GET Time's Person of the Year. They also have to remember that Hitler even made Person of the Year once. Personally, I think it should have gone to Al Gore.
Karma for getting the idea of POTY. It's not an endorsement. Like it or not, Adolf earned it. And I'll respectfully disagree with you on Gore -- when the Dems take the Presidency, he can get POTY whenever they implement some sort of green agenda. Putin earned it in 2007. The KGB's back in charge again, and judging from the changes in the USA post-9/11, has arguably won the Cold War.
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: Davester on 01/02/08 at 5:59 am
Karma for getting the idea of POTY. It's not an endorsement. Like it or not, Adolf earned it. And I'll respectfully disagree with you on Gore -- when the Dems take the Presidency, he can get POTY whenever they implement some sort of green agenda. Putin earned it in 2007. The KGB's back in charge again, and judging from the changes in the USA post-9/11, has arguably won the Cold War.
Good times are returning, I say...
Elections are abolished and the air is free and full with freedom and meteors. There is magic and this particular thread makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. How I've longed for a return to Cold War paranoia, duck and cover and the possibility of alien invasions...
Makes a person wonder how many believe Russia is a poor dying country or realize exactly what Putin is capable of...
In Soviet Russia, Person of Year chooses you..!
Subject: Re: Person of the Year 2007: Vladimir Putin...
Written By: CatwomanofV on 01/02/08 at 2:53 pm
Karma for getting the idea of POTY. It's not an endorsement. Like it or not, Adolf earned it. And I'll respectfully disagree with you on Gore -- when the Dems take the Presidency, he can get POTY whenever they implement some sort of green agenda. Putin earned it in 2007. The KGB's back in charge again, and judging from the changes in the USA post-9/11, has arguably won the Cold War.
I'm not saying Putin is a BAD choice, I think Gore would have been just a bit of a better choice, because he has been in the news A LOT in 2007-especially because of his Nobel Prize. Putin has also been in the news a lot, too.
BTW, right back at ya with the karma.
Cat