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How Vladimir Putin Will Spend His 62nd Birthday

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Whereas two months ago Obama spent his 53rd birthday in the usual style, by playing a casual round of golf with his Hawaiian childhood buddies at Andrews AFB before escaping to Camp David, tomorrow that other Cold War 2.0 nation leader, Vladimir Putin, will be celebrating his own birthday, the 62nd, in a way that is about as diametrically opposite as can be. As reported by RIA, the former KGB spy will spend the day in the Siberian taiga, a vast forested area in the northern regions of Russia covering hundreds of thousands of square miles, according to Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Monday.

"Putin has booked a holiday for tomorrow. Tonight he will fly over to Siberia, to the Siberian taiga, 300-400 kilometers away from the nearest town or village, where he will relax on his birthday," Peskov said.

To be sure, as golf is to Obama, so various outdoor unorthodox activities are to Vladimir Putin:

Peskov added that no "official meetings" were planned for Russian leader's birthday.

"Most likely, everyone will send their best wishes to the President tomorrow. Although I cannot tell you who he will be with, because I do not know," Peskov said.

"Everyone who can, will be able to reach him by phone. Also everyone who wants to will be able to send telegrams, just like they do every year. We receive a huge number of letters, best wishes, telegrams, etc.," Peskov commented.

The peculiar retreat into the wilderness is a first, even for the president known to wrestle various species of wildlife. When journalists asked the Presidential spokesman, why Putin decided to take time-off on his birthday for the first time, Peskov said that "everything is evolving... this year he decided to spend it this way."

"You know that in the past his birthdays were busy with official meetings, you know this year his timetable is not simply tight, but extremely tight, sometimes he gets close to a 24-hour-long busy schedule with a very large area to travel," Peskov explained.

And considering that over the next 5 months, Europe is only going to get colder and Putin's schedule will only get busier, as will the volume of angry inbound telegrams from unelected and cold Weastern European bureaucrats, resting up now is probably not a bad idea.

 

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Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:05 | 5296118 shouldvekilledthem
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It seems like some of the Tylers have a crush on the dear leader.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:11 | 5296141 Cacete de Ouro
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Man love at it's cuddliest

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:13 | 5296152 Latina Lover
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Vlads a real guy, unlike the limp wristed poseur that occupies the WH.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:20 | 5296163 hobopants
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Is this from the guy's E-harmony page or what? This is still ZH right? or have I stumbled upon the Russian version of people magazine?

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:29 | 5296210 Escrava Isaura
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"If I owned a company, my employees would love me. They’d have huge pictures of me up the walls and in their home, like Lenin."— George Costanza (Seinfeld)

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:32 | 5296220 Divided States ...
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That driver in the last pic looks like W.

Putin holds a gun, while Obola holds a putter.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:39 | 5296262 Latina Lover
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Yeah, Obama likes to hang onto Reggies putter, LOL.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:53 | 5296323 Joe Trader
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Title should be:

Putin pics ZH Tyler Durden keeps posted in his mother's basement: Exclusive!

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:15 | 5296414 strannick
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Putin is one kick ass mofo. No wonder the NWO hates him. Don't think Kissinger, Soros, and the Queen have pics like that. He's as kick ass as Obama is kiss ass.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:18 | 5296446 Joe Trader
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Say that when it's you in the trenches against his army. Dumbass.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:30 | 5296510 angel_of_joy
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Why don't YOU go in the trenches if you feel like it. I won't fight to support some NWO moron who thinks he's the master of the Universe, just because he woke up one day in the WH...

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:54 | 5296615 Escrava Isaura
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It has nothing to do by who's in the White House!

 

“We are twice armed if we fight with faith.”Plato

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:25 | 5296747 angel_of_joy
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I beg to differ. Somehow, I don't believe that you could have pushed a guy like Eisenhower to declare war on Russia, or China... Even Truman, who was no political genius, had second thoughts about going toe to toe with China...

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:55 | 5297073 palmdetroit
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Just dont ask about the price of the 'rubble'

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 21:08 | 5297111 TahoeBilly2012
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Putin's skiing on twin tips...I would like to see him go switch.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 21:16 | 5297136 palmdetroit
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the 'ittle man in .. Broke Back Mountain!

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:22 | 5297501 The Doofus
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Putin is such a homo.  That's why he's snapping these macho pictures of himself.  It's all a beard.  He'd rather be wearing panties and nylons. 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:40 | 5297559 Volkodav
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why so many stupid inane posts?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 00:06 | 5297615 adeptish
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Doofus wants a cookie.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 05:05 | 5297885 TahoeBilly2012
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Most middle aged American men either ride bikes around with bank logos on them or they watch football on the couch so Putin is a threat to there manliness.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 21:44 | 5297223 Socratic Dog
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Maybe he wouldn't have climbed into the cage with China, but he climbed in with the Bonus Army.  Slaughtered american vets. His former comrades.   McArthur, Patton, Eisenhower. Hall of shame.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 22:35 | 5297334 Escrava Isaura
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angel_of_joy,

 

Your history is pretty distorted.

 

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In office: January 20, 1953 – January 20, 1961

 

US overthrow of foreign governments by the Eisenhower administration:

1953 Iranian coup d'état

1954 Guatemalan coup d'état

1958 Lebanon Crisis

1959 Tibetan uprising

1959/1961 Cuba, Bay of Pigs Invasion

 

And I guess American history is not your favorite subject.  

How can we tell?

You wrote: Even Truman had second thoughts about going toe to toe...

I guess you never heard of the “Truman Doctrine”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Doctrine

 

“What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.” -- Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

 

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 02:20 | 5297781 Titus
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Do you have such a list for every US pres?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 04:07 | 5297837 joe90
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Yep paid he is.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 06:48 | 5297942 Escrava Isaura
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Not organized by US Presidents.

 

But, here's how I (you can) do:

Read Chomsky on the Computer (internet); then, Highlight whatever topic Chomsky is writing about, Right Click it with your mouse, and click on Search Google for…

You’ll be amazed how accurate Chomsky is about history.

Now, for what’s coming, for a raw view of how America society really functions, read Chris Hedges.

Chris Hedges has a very bleak view of the future of humanity, compare to Chomsky.

And I agree with Hedges.

 

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199711--.htm

http://www.truthdig.com/staff/chris_hedges

 

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 11:48 | 5299042 angel_of_joy
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And what the fuck is your point ? As said, none of them tried to start a war with a major power. When MacArthur tried to argue about nuking the Chinese in Korea, Truman just fired his ass. You're in no position to give me any history lessons... you little twat...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:44 | 5299638 Titus
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Thanks! I'm specifically interested in a list of all foreign entanglements the US has gotten into as rebuttals for president/party worshippers. Chomsky is sharp. He got banned from Israel for telling the truth too.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:44 | 5296811 TungstenBars
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Sounds like you will be in the enemies trenches then, tool. 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:48 | 5296828 TungstenBars
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Welcome, new .gov payroll shill. Go suck on some foreskins 
Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:38 | 5297550 Volkodav
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what makes you think against?

dumbass

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:04 | 5296890 Shaznardickleze...
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He is... the most interesting man in the world.
Stay thirsty for Vodka my friends. 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:03 | 5296891 Shaznardickleze...
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He is... the most interesting man in the world.
Stay thirsty for Vodka my friends. 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:40 | 5296271 Stackers
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The taiga forest produce more O2 into the atmosphere than the Amazon rain forest does. Gives you some perspective to it's size.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:58 | 5296339 Leonardo Fibonacci2
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Putin is badass while Obama is an ass!

http://www.tomatobubble.com/putin_obama.html#.U9vrUm0X30c.email

 

p.s. love the picture of Putin with the 9mm gun.  Obama uses a water pistol and sometimes his wee wee.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:01 | 5296651 thamnosma
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Obama's a butter knife, Putin's a machete

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:33 | 5296519 djcando
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Correction: "while Obama holds his putzer".

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:50 | 5297583 imaginalis
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I thought that it was W too.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:26 | 5296495 nmewn
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"Is this from the guy's E-harmony page or what?"

ROTFLMAO!!!

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:34 | 5296228 kill switch
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Who the fuck would you want in your foxhole???? limp wrist or the bear killer,,,fuck it,,, you choose...and with your kids on the line.....

Crack your jaw on that one my favorite friends on this the  ZH... truth emporium..

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:04 | 5296373 Funny Money
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We all know who the average ZHer wants "in their foxhole".

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:09 | 5296402 Anusocracy
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You, but specifically, your head.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 04:36 | 5297865 The9thDoctor
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I'd rather have Putin in the White House than...

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, John McCain, George W. Bush, John Kerry, Al Gore, Bob Dole, George HW Bush, and Bill Clinton.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:57 | 5296341 Anusocracy
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You're just jealous because your boyfriend, Aunt Jemima"s idiot child, doesn't have any primary or secondary male sexual characteristics.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:17 | 5296942 takeaction
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Yep...I agree...and this is why...Obama vs Vlad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAtn7rsToY

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:11 | 5296145 Bananamerican
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Reindeer pettin'? Yeah, Putin's bad like that....

chuck norris, watch yer..........just watch out....

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:49 | 5296304 Jumbotron
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"Reindeer pettin'? Yeah, Putin's bad like that....

chuck norris, watch yer..........just watch out...."

 

And they're RADIOACTIVE Reindeer at that !!

http://www.thelocal.no/20141006/radioactive-reindeer-found-in-norway

 

"Honey Putin doesn't care.  Honey Putin doesn't give a shit."

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:14 | 5296429 Anusocracy
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Obama pets reindeer, but only as a prelude to interspecies sex.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 21:39 | 5297205 83_vf_1100_c
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Fixed your mistake. Obama pets male reindeer, but only as a prelude to interspecies sex.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:11 | 5296146 Latina Lover
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Happy Birthday Vlad.  

PS don't light the candles on the Birthday Cake,

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:18 | 5296172 ForWhomTheTollBuilds
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It's all propaganda on all sides of course, but the kind of propaganda that Americans and Russians find attractive is rather revealing, no?

 

We seem to like our leaders engaged in non-violent, sweater wearing "non-offensive to anyone" activities.  I don't think we'd be comfortable with a tiger-stabber leader.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:04 | 5296379 Anusocracy
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Americans may not like a tiger-stabber leader but they sure love their droning metrosexual killers.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:19 | 5296462 August
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Just give me a "leader" who enjoys hunting wild boar with two good dogs and a machete.

Well, maybe that's overkill, but said boar-hunter would be preferable to the current Mr. Obola.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:58 | 5297081 palmdetroit
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Ones like form 40 years ago

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:33 | 5296225 heywood2
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I don't think it's a crush. I think they get paid (probably indirectly) by the Russian state.

As for Vlad, I think he spent about an hour on his vacation takign those pictures. And he spent the rest of it fucking teenage boys.

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:47 | 5296282 pot_and_kettle
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I hope there's ebola in those discarded foreskins you're chewing, you budding zionist pederast

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:51 | 5296316 fonzannoon
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The best part about those pictures is WB can't do a mock up. They are already perfectly ridiculous.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:37 | 5296476 hobopants
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I think they got the pics in the "manly vacation" folder mixed up with the pics in the "vist to the petting zoo" folder...I'm thinking his publicist is going on a more permanent vacation to siberia

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 22:52 | 5297410 Amerikan Patriot
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He got your goat, Bob, just admit it.   :-)

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:06 | 5296391 JR
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If only the Russian state would pay some of our elected officials to lure them away from the money provided by AIPAC. By the way, I think your comments about Putin are stupid, demeaning and of no value.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:44 | 5296571 TheFourthStooge-ing
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It's certainly interesting how frequently the Russophobe Putinoiacs resort to homo tarring and fag lames when they are unable to articulate any valid criticisms of President Putin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 01:04 | 5297707 COSMOS
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Heywood is a member of the zionists who are still bitter Putin put a stop to their thieving.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:10 | 5296410 darteaus
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YOU JERK!!

You made me laugh so hard, I hurt my back!

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:57 | 5296862 TungstenBars
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Welcome, other .gov payroll shill. May you and yours pay for your crimes against humanity swiftly. Now go suck on some foreskins. 
Mon, 10/06/2014 - 21:42 | 5297213 83_vf_1100_c
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fucking teenage boys. You speak with the voice of experience?

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:31 | 5297531 Volkodav
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stupid

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 05:18 | 5297887 Gavrikon
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Hey asshat, how's the weather in Tel Aviv?

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:48 | 5296298 honkadoo
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Man do the ZH'ers love them some Putin.  Panty-dropping like it's hot.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:08 | 5296395 JR
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I'd like to think that Sunstein's megaphone trolls are better than this. Are you getting spread too thinly?

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:44 | 5297034 Endgamer
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BTFATH propaganda?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 05:52 | 5297899 AndreiC
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Oh, what a man would do for his 30 silver coins... And to think that a few years back I was reading ZH religiously...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 12:55 | 5299342 orez65
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"It seems like some of the Tylers have a crush on the dear leader."

No, it's just that the contrast is so sharp.

Obama comes across as an unwise, left wing ideologue with visions of a liberal worldly paradise.

Putin comes across as a wise and strong leader looking out for what is best for HIS NATION.

We in the US just keep electing loser after loser!

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:08 | 5296122 stant
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Is that Ted nugent in the boat with him?'

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:15 | 5296139 oddjob
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That sure looks like Pavel Bure on the ice with Putin.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:40 | 5296546 Berspankme
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I think it is

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:23 | 5296963 Macchendra
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That is Defense Minister Shoigu, and he's even more badass than Putin.  I imagine that Putin likes to hunt the worlds most dangerous prey on his birthday.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 02:57 | 5297799 HardlyZero
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a most interesting man.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:07 | 5296123 pods
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Fonz, take a Xanax. :)

I would love to pike fish up there. Kind of like Northern Canada.  Some fish up there have never seen a lure.

pods

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:09 | 5296132 fonzannoon
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LOL great call by you.

Good flick by the way speaking of that area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1pOjj49d9Y

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:10 | 5296404 darteaus
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It's great, until you want a chocolate shake, or a girlfriend or a dentist, etc.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 21:49 | 5297236 Socratic Dog
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Vlad don't need no stinkin' dentist.  He's got a pair of pliers.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:24 | 5296967 pods
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Damn, I cannot stand NY in November.  Or even before I became southern (apologies to all the native Southerners) swimming in Maine.  That was something you only do once.

I did figure out why the lobster tasted so good.  They have refrigerators under the water to keep them cold up there!

pods

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:50 | 5296314 Jumbotron
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I would love to pike fish up there. Kind of like Northern Canada.  Some fish up there have never seen a lure.

pods

 

<ahem>.....Pods.....you sure you're talking about fish and not Russian babes ?  Just askin'.  ;)

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:20 | 5296953 pods
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Nice. Well Mrs. pods would be in my boat so she would have to agree. And after the last bout we had with Stoli, I think she would be a bit too sober.

I too found Stoli not quite how I remembered it. We started calling it Kalashnikov ever since.

:)

pods

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:50 | 5296308 Kirk2NCC1701
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Yup, it's how a real man with his head screwed on straight might spend it.

Gotta say that he's got a Bucket List that can only be topped by my name's sake.

Have a great one, Vlad.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:01 | 5296649 Karl von Bahnhof
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Happy Birthday Vladimir!

 

From all of us, ZeroHedge geeks who enjoy what you are doing to these clowns pretending they are leaders of the west.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:15 | 5296697 PhilofOz
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IMO he is more of a statesman than any of the chicken-hawk warmongers of the west combined that I'm familiar with, starting with Obama, Cameron, Abbott, Hollande, and a whole bunch more!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 05:22 | 5297889 Gavrikon
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My children (including my son Vladimir Gavrilovich) and my wife and I pray that God grant you Many Years, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:16 | 5296937 takeaction
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Happy Birthday Vlad.....Watch this video.

VIDEO:OBama workout vs...Vlads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lAtn7rsToY

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:09 | 5296130 reader2010
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Do you think they dare to drop some bombs where he's going to be?

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:10 | 5296133 Cacete de Ouro
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Being shot from a cannon? Into a hoard of bears... Then bare back riding a bear into a pack of wolves and single-handedly wolf whispering to the wolves... before finding artefacts of an ancient civilisation and also finding some alluvial gold deposits which lead to the biggest gold vein on earth

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:15 | 5296161 Latina Lover
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The only bare back riding that Obama  does is with Reggie. Take your pick.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:10 | 5296134 potato
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What better place from which to initiate a nukular strike than an undisclosed locations hundreds of kilometers in the middle of a forest?

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:11 | 5296144 BKbroiler
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What better place from which to be picked off by a drone than an undisclosed locations hundreds of kilometers in the middle of a forest?

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:35 | 5296530 angel_of_joy
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Yeah, good luck with your stupid drone anywhere close to a Russian border...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 01:13 | 5297719 COSMOS
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Hey BKBroiler, what better place to find you in lol than your namesake, dont be a jealous loser like the rest of your kin.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:11 | 5296135 Boxed Merlot
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There is a similarity though,  "It's great to be King".

 

jmo.

 

 

 

(By the way, Go Giants)

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:11 | 5296137 Bell's 2 hearted
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sounds like the "no way in hell to catch ebola" vacation

 

can i go?

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:27 | 5296205 himaroid
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Hope he takes my man Snowden with him.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:11 | 5296140 StormShadow
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Not a single bathhouse in any of those pics

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:15 | 5296165 Latina Lover
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Or Reggie.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:16 | 5296168 JuliaS
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Not a single golf club either.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:31 | 5296516 roadhazard
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If he had ZH'ers would be all over him for his choice of clothes... oh wait.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:12 | 5296147 besnook
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putin is in siberia to determine how cold he wants the euros to be this winter.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:13 | 5296150 hairball48
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I'm old enough to remember the KGB of the cold war days. I have no doubts about Putin and the treachery, etc he is capable of..

That said, Putin is a LEADER even if we all agree the direction isn't what we'd like. At least he LEADS.

I dunno what one calls what  Barry and his band of lackeys does, but it sure isn't "leading".

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:20 | 5296178 Infinite QE
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He's the only world leader I'd have any interest in meeting. Barry and the rest of the New Bolshevik frontmen, forget it.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:20 | 5296180 schatzi
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You can lead into an abyss or a dead end. Just leading means fuck-all.

Personally don't like leaders. I like to decide for myself and I hate big government too. The less leading, the fuck-ups happen. The Swiss don't have leaders but instead have the closest thing to direct democracy out there - and they do really well for themselves. I wonder why.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:40 | 5296551 angel_of_joy
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You guys should know more than anybody else about leaders going over the cliff...

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:02 | 5296884 bigrooster
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The Swiss do well because they never let the joos control their money...

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:14 | 5296933 PhilofOz
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Hmmm.... I don't believe you.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:31 | 5296221 messymerry
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Barry and his legions of Dingle Barrys

Leading from the rear...

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:13 | 5296692 JR
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Why are we projecting Obama’s and Stalin's warmongering on Vladimir Putin?

As for Putin and the KGB, Bush #I was head of the CIA.

Putin’s career in the KGB also saw a considerably different organization than the old agency under Stalin. Essentially, the modern KGB is a bureaucratic organization where career officers are promoted based on their service to the nation.

As J. Michael Waller wrote in his book, ”Russia: Death and Resurrections of the KGB”: The KGB has many structures and functions that were necessary for the preservation of a democratic society. “Like any country, and more than most, Russia needs services to fight organized crime, terrorism, and weapons trafficking; to conduct intelligence and counter-intelligence, to guard borders and protect elected leaders; and to perform various other duties related to law enforcement and national security.”

In short, the modern KGB is not like the CIA; it’s considerably more inclusive with its responsibility to the Russian Federation. The CIA is a spy agency.

Sharon Tennison in “Who is Vladimir Putin? Why Does the US Government Hate Him?” sheds more light on Putin and the KGB: 

“March 2000: I arrived in St.Petersburg. A Russian friend (a psychologist) since 1983 came for our usual visit. My first question was, ‘Lena what do you think about your new president?’ She laughed and retorted, ‘Volodya! I went to school with him!’ She began to describe Putin as a quiet youngster, poor, fond of martial arts, who stood up for kids being bullied on the playgrounds. She remembered him as a patriotic youth who applied for the KGB prematurely after graduating secondary school (they sent him away and told him to get an education).

“He went to law school, later reapplied and was accepted. I must have grimaced at this, because Lena said, ‘Sharon in those days we all admired the KGB and believed that those who worked there were patriots and were keeping the country safe. We thought it was natural for Volodya to choose this career.”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-vladimir-putin-why-does-the-us-government-hate-him/5381205

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:16 | 5296167 Cacete de Ouro
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One of the keywords of this article is SPY. Is that some type of ZH hint?

Putin would have ZH for breakfast, unless there is an understanding

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:28 | 5296207 disabledvet
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Well...those were General Electric turbines installed on the Dnieper back in the 50's. Russians blew up that entire dam complex during their retreat...which was rebuilt in the 1950's.

Be interesting to see what Kiev is using for power "post Chernobyl"...won't be here of course.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:19 | 5296179 Ariadne
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Beware the drones, white man.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:22 | 5296184 ml8ml8
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Vladimir Putin =/= Richard Branson.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:22 | 5296185 Hulk
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Hmm,never see Putin with a chick, wonder if he is a trowser pilot ???

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:31 | 5296211 Cacete de Ouro
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Putin is not to be trusted in the realm of sex. Trust me. It's not the orgies that's the problem, it's the illegal procurement pipeline that he used to facilitate that's the problem.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:04 | 5296369 Hulk
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ooh, an olympic gymnast, that ought to be fun !!! Must be hell though,to get scored foreach dismount...

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:45 | 5296580 Anusocracy
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I see what you mean.

She's got some bruises on her leg.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 03:04 | 5297803 HardlyZero
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From what I read Putin was divorced in the last year (from a long marriage) and has older kids.

So he might be busy in his cabin.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:48 | 5296583 Anusocracy
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If they have a boy he's going to be a diabolical Justin Bieber.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:10 | 5297463 Volkodav
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seems to be your thing...

stupid post

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:23 | 5296189 Cow
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Putin tries too hard to be macho. He's a poser.  How's the ruble, Vlad?

On the other hand, Obama is a puffter.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:44 | 5296281 new game
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think he is just doing what ever a billinaire does, but the spot light follows-no thanks, but show no enviousity unless that is the life you want. i wouldn't trade for it, that's a no brainer. more power to him...

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:53 | 5296324 pot_and_kettle
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Not an English monitor, but " enviousity "?? Seriously?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 01:19 | 5297731 COSMOS
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I see a dude enjoying the beautiful nature of his country.  I dont see some dual citizen on his super megayacht bought with money stolen from common Russian folk.  I like what I am seeing.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:35 | 5296193 Millivanilli
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Lest I remind you of Obama's work out video or first pitch.

 

The dude is a sock puppet dork.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZGhNAwaKdk#t=32

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:25 | 5296194 Millivanilli
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Lest I remind you of Obama's work out video or first pitch.

 

The dude is a sock puppet dork.  

 

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:01 | 5296362 darteaus
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Check out the "Mom" jeans he wore on that first pitch if you get a chance.

That itself is a war crime.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:25 | 5296195 Goldbugger
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He is also playing a game of statego planning ww3

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:26 | 5296201 messymerry
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Barack Hussein Obama

Pussy in Chief

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:33 | 5296209 Squid Viscous
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the anti-christian hate for putin in western media, so transparent:

this may be why:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3d_yxJhmjk

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:58 | 5296636 Overfed
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Note the lack of a teleprompter. He must be an evil commie.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:08 | 5297455 Volkodav
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Excellent  Spasibo

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:30 | 5296214 working class dog
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Putin's father was Stalin's chef, the apple doesn fall far from the trees, he is a killer.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:35 | 5296242 Zhuge Liang
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i doubt that stalin needed his chefs for killing...   maybe the guy made good cabbage stew.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:38 | 5296543 Anusocracy
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BFD

It's getting to the point that your local cop is a killer, too.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:49 | 5296280 JustObserving
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he is a killer.

As compared to the droner-in-chief who has bombed seven Muslim countries and droned more than 2400 people including women and children and wedding parties?

More than 2,400 dead as Obama’s drone campaign marks five years

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2014/01/23/more-than-2400-dead-as-o...

The Nobel Prize Winner almost lied his way to a major war with Syria last year.  He has his war now:

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has published an article demonstrating that the US government and President Barack Obama knowingly lied when they claimed that the Syrian government had carried out a sarin gas attack on insurgent-held areas last August.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/pers-d10.html

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings,” Mandela

 


Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:59 | 5296356 darteaus
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Not disagreeing with you, ok?

I'm measuring 0bama using the ruler established over the last century or so:

Mao: 60M killed http://popten.net/2010/05/top-ten-most-evil-dictators-of-all-time-in-ord...

Stalin: 20M - 60M killed http://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-people-did-joseph-stalin-kill-1111789

Hitler: 25M killed

Pol Pot: 1-3M killed 

etc.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:19 | 5296455 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Harry Truman: 5M killed (and that's just in Korea)

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:23 | 5296741 vened
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Mao was brought to power by Stalin

Stalin was brought to power by Lenin and Trotsky (Bronstein)

Lenin and Trotsky were brought to power by Rothschild and Schiff

Hitler was brought to power by Rothschild and Schiff (Balfour Declaration and Versai Treaty)

Rothschild and Schiff  were brought to power by gullible Americans who allowed Federal Reserve.

 

Now do your math.

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:25 | 5296968 darteaus
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I can do the math, but your chain of events is associative at best and absolutely not causative.

 

1) Rothschild and Schiff were a power long before the Fed, not the other way around.

2) The Tsar was brought down in part due to the money lent by R&S, but that doesn't ipso facto cause Lenin and Trotsky to come to power.  Many, many things transpired between the two events which could have easiliy derailed their coming to power given the many other "players in the game".

3) Hitler, an unabashed anti-semite, was brought to power by Jacob Schiff, an unceasing supporter of Zionism?!  That's hard to believe on its face.

 

It's the Internet where lots of assertions get made.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 22:52 | 5297407 Volkodav
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Stalin was not a Russian. He was a Georgian criminal.

From 1917 thru Stalin was never Russians in control.

Even Kruschev and Breznev were Ukraine nationals.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:23 | 5296480 falconflight
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Manela?  The Boers shouda wacked him.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:44 | 5296284 Millivanilli
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I guess you have missed the covert and overt coups by the US over the last 100 years and the widespread death and destruction that came in their wakes.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:49 | 5296591 Bankster Kibble
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A killer chef?  Whoa, that sounds like a TV serial.  You do NOT cross those dudes.

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