bttt
If Sebelius and HHS ran the Olympics this is what they’d look like. This is us in 30 years - we have some infrastructure to burn through first.
About two sentences into this story I got caught up in thinking about slender red haired Ukrainian women... I think Olympic coverage should include this.
ridiculous
why on earth did the Committee agree to this charade
And instead of moving away from this, we’re rushing headlong towards it. Can you imagine our current government fighting World War II or doing a lunar landing successfully?
Corruption is so rampant in Russia, it’s what has security people worried..... ie: a policeman/security person who is slipped a months wages to look the other way as a would-be suicide bomber walks thru their area.
Several American Olympians on TV this AM....they’re loving it over there.
How about Michelle's friend who got the computer contract for healthcare.
I believe all these digs toweard Putin and Russia in general are propogated by Obama.
NBC: Visitors to Sochi Olympics Can Expect to Be Hacked
Immediately opening a computer, iPad or smart phone, malware is downloaded that will capture everything on your device, emails, photos, passwords, etc.
Being tame does not mean being good.
Russia is actualy efficient in that it does not mind a wild and evil people which are now crying for dictatorship to tame them while evil.
All the State aparatus needs is its security apartus to insulate from this, acting like some kind of Brahmin Temple. The rest, like Sochi, make for good silly capitalist Olympic philantropy, with the destitute helping bring in donations from tourists like the pimped cripples of Lahore whose cut is taken by bandits.
A Russian cousin of my father’s got out in the mid-’90s. I asked him what it was like to finally have the Communists out of power.
He said, “Same wall, different wallpaper.”
The KGB is like the Mafia - once you’re in, you can never get out. Putin isn’t merely a KGB agent on temporary assignment, he was a General, and one of the higher-ranking ones at that. Anyone think that he’s given up on what he absorbed with his mother’s milk and protected for most of his life? Bueller? Bueller?
And, of course, the only reason its an “issue” is because a bunch of pampered mainstream media reporters went there and found that they weren’t going to be covering the Olympics in the usual luxury they were accustomed to.
On the other hand, I find it rather aggravating to see spoiled, pampered American Journ-O-Lists ripping the Russians to shreds over the quality of their accommodations. While at the same time they will gladly travel to the West Bank and extol the virtues of the Palestinians, while never making a peep about horrendous living conditions there.
Bingo - only 'progressives' want to live in the hell socialism creates.... the rest of us can watch it 'from the comfort of our living rooms...'
It was with regret that I saw this in Canada' Globe and Mail (left wing). The highlights and the reverse are paragraphed.
Wed. February 5th 2014. (A8)
Mark McKinnon and photographer John Lehmann.
Most depressing moment.
Visiting Nochlezhka, the lone homeless shelter in St. Petersburg, where 70,000 people sleep on the streets and 1000 die each year from the cold.
We learn that even the few resources available have been cut back at the homeless shelter. I sipped my Tim Hortons coffee as I read the Globe. Surely, surely, some of those billions expended could have been used for good works? I hope those figures are wrong, but it must be a living hell for some people there. Sure we have our problems with the homeless, not on that scale though.
Dmitry Kozak, the deputy prime minister responsible for the Olympic preparations, seemed to reflect the view held among many Russian officials that some Western visitors are deliberately trying to sabotage Sochi’s big debut out of bias against Russia.
“We have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turn on the shower, direct the nozzle at the wall and then leave the room for the whole day,” he said.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304680904579366712107461956
Consider it a sneak preview of our future.
Looks like there’s a few light bulbs missing over at the State Department also...