U.S. To Boycott Sochi Paralympics In Protest Over Ukraine Incursion: Sanctions are "likely"

Time Magazine's Swampland ^ | March 3, 2014 | Sam Frizell

[lee martell]

You have a close link to a history making event!

[DocJhn]

“Let me be perfectly Clear” “No wheelchair will cross the Red Line!”

[bgill]

More “likely” flying this out as a distraction for what he’s really up to.

[Ancesthntr]

State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said Monday that sanctions on Russia were increasingly probable, given the escalation in tensions. “At this point we’re not just considering sanctions. We are preparing options and we are likely moving down that path if things proceed.”

How much you want to bet that one of the sanctions will be to end imports of Soviet, errrr, Russian guns, ammo and ammo components? It is a virtual guarantee in my book, as it follows Klintoons actions against the Red Chinese. That's what American Commies do when they have a spat with their overseas cousins.

[a fool in paradise]

How “Carteresque.”

[a fool in paradise]

Bathhouse Barry is still upset over the restrictions on homosexuals recruiting in Russia.

If only he showed this same outrage at Americans who are imprisoned for sharing Christianity in North Korea, Iran, et al...

[kaehurowing]

“The boycott effectively means a presidential delegation will not be attending the games.”

That should reduce the gay contingent considerably.