Time to add a new caveat, because from email it's not clear to some folks (mind you, if you don't read this it won't matter...) Being an open post, people (collectively, the Denizens) other than I post in the H&I. They sign their work (most of the time) - keep that in mind when you want to flame someone in email please - if it doesn't say "The Armorer" or "John" then I didn't write it! And honestly - if you don't like something said or posted... leave a comment, and hash it out (within the context of The Rulez which are clearly posted on the comment form, I would add).
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Dobroe utro! Dobro požalovat! mnE nrAvitsa Russkiy, so I figured why not start the day with something a little, different, da?
It's the not-so-early morning, rainy day Soviet edition! With your host, your ever lazy, barely blogging, crazy leg BloodSpite! Oh and PiridAyte DzhOnu ot minyA privEt :)

On to the show:

A Finnish Band
Named After Leningrad
With funky hairdo's
And the Russian Red Army Choir singing back up
And the Red Army
Singing Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Home Alabama, no less!
Ahh, Western influence....I do love it so :)

I present, The Leningrad Cowboys!

Russia comes under fire for supporting totalitarian regimes in Iran and Syria.

Russia to supply support for Peace talks in Cyprus. Now theres a thought!

And headline you don't excpect to see....Russia to watch investigation of Butt case in Thailand...

And Becky Hammon, Point Guard for the San Antonio Silver Stars a 9 year WNBA Basketball Player, tall, lithe, good looking, female, and blonde, a graduate of the Rapid City South Dakota High School decides to play in the Olympics at age 31....for Russia!

“This is a once in a lifetime chance for me. Come August, I would be staring at two doors. One would lead to Beijing, and the other to my apartment......“This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to play in the Olympics, and it was always a dream of mine to play for my country,” Hammon said. “But at the age of 31, I had to let that dream die.”

Russia, or the US, if your playing in the Olympics all I can say is good on you girl.
*cough* and..uh..*cough* kakoy u vas nomer? ;)

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Ahhh - 'Tis a beautiful morning here in Eastern Penna. Just the sort of morning to take your honey for a leisurely stroll ACROSS the railroad tracks - BOQ

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24th Marines Expeditionary Unit is in Afghanistan ready to start operations. For those who know, the Marine Reserves of 24th MEU are from just south of our Fair City and I know a few good souls from there. Good luck and good hunting.

Remember those "controversial" ads that equated using drugs with supporting terrorism? Well, it does. And, while one might feel sympathy for the addict, it is somewhat mitigated by the fact that a $10 baggy of heroin just contributed to the death of one of our soldiers or some other innocent civilian.

Bulgaria’s Government was accused of high-level involvement with organised crime gangs yesterday, in a hard-hitting report that highlighted the failure of the ruling coalition to stamp out corruption or convict anyone for 150 gangland killings.

Government secrets were leaked to mafia figures involved in drug trafficking and a senior minister met alleged underworld bosses regularly, according to the investigation by MPs into corruption in the Interior Ministry. The profits of the drug trade were channelled to terrorist groups in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East.

“Bulgarian crime groups engaged in trafficking . . . drugs sometimes work together with Arab citizens linked to terrorist organisations,” the MPs said.

“We can make the conclusion that part of the money accumulated from drug trafficking is used to finance the work of terrorist organisations such as Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Christian militias.”

By the way, the "Christian Militias" he is talking about are down Africa way where a group who calls themselves the "Lord's Army" (nothing godly about them) routinely steals children as young as six to indoctrinate and turn into "child soldiers". They rape, murder, destroy and all the other things that any other terrorist group does. They are a terrible scourge. -Kat

Er...and Bay concurs with "What Powers a Terrorist Organization?"
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I keep seeing "failure in Basrah" memes in the press (do they have only one editorial board? is this this month's "talking point"?), yet, in the Iraqi Press, Iraqi Security Forces are rounding up weapons and munitions in huge numbers. Is that failure and defeat? I'm so confused. ;) -Kat
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“You can’t be against the war and for me -- because I am the damn war.”