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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 - 17:32 | 5296226 Joe Tierney
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Vladdy-Poot is just a stand-up, queer-hating, no-nonsense, dictator who's not afraid to expose liars, push them in the cold water with their Armani suits on, and shoot the bad guys dead. Of course, in the process he's murdered a lot of innocents too. But what do you want? Perfection?

 

I wouldn't want to hang out with this guy or anything like that - but as world leaders go, you have to admire his geopolitical 'testosterone' level!

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:33 | 5296518 Anusocracy
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And the US has a bend over, queer-loving, non-sentient, kept dictator who's been exposed as a liar.

Says a lot about American voters.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:39 | 5296266 new game
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coincidence, but i'm heading out too, to my favorite cedar swamp to clear my mind.

nothing more tranquil than a cedar swamp in northern mn, ha...

(just a laugh at the end so you know i'm not gonna get serious-mindfull of your thoughts).

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:46 | 5296290 Infinite QE
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Let's see. Putin's

1. Against the gay agenda

2. Against GMO's

3. Hunts the New Bolsheviks.

4. For a spiritual belief system.

5. For the growth of families.

 

Now compare that to the GenderBent Commander in Chief:

1. Is the gay agenda.

2. Put a Monsatan exec in charge of the FDA

3. Does whatver the New Bolshies tell him to do otherwise they send monarch droids over the white house fence.

4. Seems devoid of any spiritual system

5. Has children but there is no record of any childhood photos of them. Hmm.

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:30 | 5296987 combatsnoopy
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Obama eats grass fed beef handed to him by a butler and chefs.

Putin is apparently killing his own wild game dinner with his bare hands.

Eric Holder whined about feeling faint and resigned.  (I feel faint a lot for a medical situation, I can't call in sick.)  Putin is off the grid living off the land.  FOR FUN.  The most powerful man in the world Putin is roughing it for his 62 birthday without caddies, butlers, horsemen, the secret service.... we didn't get so lucky. 

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:48 | 5296301 ToNYC
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Fillin' chillums with the homies on the lily-white links, woo-hoo!

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:55 | 5296328 The Fonz...befo...
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I heard he is going hunting with Chuck Norris...no weapons just their hands...

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:55 | 5296334 paul steinert
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The posting of professionally shot, official photo opportunities featuring Pootee is hardly in keeping with the ZH mission of exposing bullshit.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:57 | 5296337 Super Hans
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Hey Mr. Putin

No problem just jerking off!  I mean take your little cock and spread it around?

SH

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 17:59 | 5296351 Brokenarrow
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Putin= loved by russians, chinese, and europeans. secretly admired by americans................

Obama= reviled by everyone, including americans.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:21 | 5296470 Anusocracy
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Obama is loved by a huge number of people.

Everyone in Hell or going to go to Hell.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:28 | 5296500 JR
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"Putin the Great" as some Chinese call him. It’s because he’s seen by the Chinese people as a strong leader who isn’t afraid to confront the West, or so says the WSJ (Oct. 1).

“Books on Mr. Putin have been flying off shelves since the crisis in Ukraine began, far outselling those on other world leaders, sales staff say. One book, ‘Putin Biography: He is Born for Russia,’ made the list of top 10 nonfiction best sellers at the Beijing News newspaper in September."

As for how high his approval among the Chinese people: “A poll by In Touch Today, an online news service run by China's Tencent Holdings Ltd., put Mr. Putin's approval rating at 92% after Russia annexed Crimea in March.”

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:34 | 5297004 darteaus
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He's as loved as Mr. Chau.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:00 | 5296355 Lumberjack
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Happy Birthday Mr. President.

Fly Fishing in Siberia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QakkVFU1Ok

 

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:00 | 5296358 studfinder
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I've always wondered if Russia has hunting seasons, tags, quotas, bonus tags, deer management zones, registration stations, buck only zones, shotgun only zones, t zones, cwd zones???  Sure would be fun to hunt/fish that area of the world.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:20 | 5296459 kowalli
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Russia has hunting seasons

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:29 | 5296505 Lumberjack
Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:01 | 5296363 alexcojones
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Putin welcomes home the Greatest Author of the 20th century.

Images for vladimir putin welcomes solzhenitsyn to russia

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:05 | 5296374 ifishivote
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My favorite Obama picture by far is the one in Martha Vineyard when he is wearing dad jeans and a helmet while riding a bike.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:07 | 5296388 Consuelo
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Do Cock-us in the tank...?

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:05 | 5296383 Consuelo
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Call him what you want, but he's the real deal.   The man likes real things and likes to get things done.   Authoritarian heel or 'freedom fighter', people gravitate to a decisive Man who calls it like he sees it and who is not cowed by Politically Correct Nonsense.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:07 | 5296387 gcjohns1971
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Countries don't kill people.

National leaders kill people.

It is their particular genius to make us all accept a measure of guilt for their personal decisions.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:12 | 5296416 sainchaw
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they have Rambo, we have Erkel. 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:17 | 5296441 gcjohns1971
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"Then I saw when the Lamb broke one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying as with a voice of thunder, “Come.” I looked, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer."

 

WELCOME FIRST HORSEMAN.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:43 | 5296572 Bankster Kibble
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Wait a sec, I thought that was US.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:20 | 5296443 swass
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Kind of reminds me of Bill Brasky... six-foot ten, two-ton son-of-a-bitch that can eat a hammer and take a shotgun blast standing.  

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:11 | 5297460 Eahudimac
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Hey, are you talking about Bill Braskey? I know Bill Braskey!

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:25 | 5296463 falconflight
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You can take the KGB out of the Volga, but you can't take the Volga out of the KGB.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:25 | 5296487 roadhazard
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With his shirt off flexing for the cult of Putin.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:31 | 5296514 Duc888
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Hey, someone throw up a pic of O-Bomb-A on the tinkerbell bicycle with the phag helmut on.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:34 | 5296523 Handful of Dust
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Definitely a "Man's Man."  Notice how his wrist doesn't flop like the POTUS' does?

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:39 | 5296550 Duc888
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"I'll make sure nothing grows back"....hahahahahahaha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftTeIVFqZ-g

 

and....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-_M8Qs4pl0

and...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaNf_Lv6QmI

 

 

 

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:43 | 5296562 limacon
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Beware the Birthdays of kings .

http://www.biblestudytools.com/genesis/passage.aspx?q=genesis+40:20-23

20 Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials: 21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand, 22 but he hanged the chief baker,

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:30 | 5296762 combatsnoopy
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Every year on his birthday, Chuck Norris tosses a child into the sun.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 18:55 | 5296624 Fix It Again Timmy
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Barry Oblunder - America's First Spaghetti President...

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:10 | 5296679 GooseShtepping Moron
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May the immortal and ever-living God save and protect Vladimir Putin, and grant him many more years of bringing sense to this fragile and dangerous world. I will be praying for him.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:53 | 5296845 fxrxexexdxoxmx
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President for Life Putin will spend his birthday much like any other day having sex with nine year boys. After which his supporters will kiss their boyfriends and pray for another night of a hard penis in their ass.

 

Forward Soviet!!!!!!!!!

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 00:47 | 5297686 adeptish
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Your comment says a lot...

Feigning relevance again...

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 02:59 | 5297801 Otrader
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Long list of Jewish Child Molestor Rabbis gets no media coverage and Jewish homosexual pedophiles are undisturbed.

http://iamthewitness.com/listeners/Jewish.child.molesters.that.are.never...

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:28 | 5296760 combatsnoopy
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Hey Putin, Chuck Norris called and said he wanted his thunder back.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:39 | 5296797 grunk
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Yeah, but he's just shooting off mom missiles.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:41 | 5296806 Torgo
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He washes his balls in ice water!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DAy8ygZUqo

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 19:52 | 5296837 bigrooster
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Let's get it over with and have a Putin vs. Obola death match.  Winner take all.  Putin would snap Obola's neck in 3 seconds.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:04 | 5296887 robertocarlos
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I cal BS on Putin flying the Space Shuttle and scoring 6 goals but all the others are true.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:12 | 5296925 HardlyZero
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Judo mat takedown of Poooroshenko ?   or maybe his latest blond fling ?

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:16 | 5296935 Jack Burton
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I'de love to see Obama in the Taiga forests of Siberia. Candy Asses like Obama dress up like urban faggs and hit a few around the links. I'de rather do some hunting and fishing in the world's greatest forest wilderness in which even Alaska would be a speed bump on the path from the Urals to Vladivostok in the Russian far east. The corporate whores in Washington are always pissing about not being able to get in there and exploit the minerals, energy, wood and water. Vlad has got nukes as an insurance policy of the Russian Federation's ownership of their Siberian wilds and riches.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 22:44 | 5297382 Volkodav
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Bears don't golf

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:47 | 5298494 Toolshed
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"I'de love to see Obama in the Taiga forests of Siberia"

Obama makes Barney Fife look like a man's man. If you missed the images of him in some hotel's weight room "working out" that cirulated a while back, you should search for them. They were absolutely hysterical. He couldn't figure out what to do with the free weights. Based on what I saw, I am quite certain that Moochelle, with her superior mass, would severly kick his ass. Which explains a lot actually.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:18 | 5296947 Reaper
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Vlad is the man that Reggie wishes Obama was.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:53 | 5297060 marcusfenix
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we all know what happens next.

whilst on his birthday get away a highly trained squad of black ops assasins ambush Putin and his party. everybody with him gets killed in a hail of gun fire but the cagy KGB veteren escapes by the skin of his teeth. he then procedes to take out his would be killers one by one by laying traps, shooting them through the eyeball with a improvised bow from one thousand yards, hand to hand combat and psychological warfare.

and he never once pushes the panic button, tosses his sat phone in the lake and turns off his wrist watch gps locator.

all the while feeding the remains of his would be assasins to the group of Siberian Tigers that he befriends durning his adventure though he never allows them to fight for him.

cause that just wouldn't be sporting.

so in the end he not only survives and kills his attackers like the absolute bad ass that he is, but in the process does in fact save the world. those black ops killers were tasked with extracting the launch codes for Russias entire nuclear arsenal from Putin by any means. once in possesion of the codes they would use a secrect and highly advanced AI software program developed by DARPA, called skynet, to launch all missiles and bring about the nuclear apcolypse and the rise of the new world order.

so just remember who to thank when you get out of bed thursday morning bitchez.

happy birthday Vladimir V. Putin. 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:50 | 5297580 scrappy
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Very Funny, Laughed my ass off, thanks! +1000

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:59 | 5297080 Amerikan Patriot
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Why spend so much time in adoration of a man who runs a country with neither rule of law nor a free media?

Why is Vlad idealized here at Zero Hedge?  Except for projecting an aura of invincibility and taking on the US - at the same time the ruble is selling off and capital is fleeing Russia - what really is there to recommend him?

Is it the way he sends his political foes (e.g., Mikhail Khodorkovsky) to the gulag in distant oblasts?  The way a compliant Duma rubber stamps everything he suggests, almost as if he were Tsar Putin?  Or maybe it's the way he manipulates Medvedev at will; first Prime Minister, then President, then Prime Minister again?

It's a head scratcher.

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 21:00 | 5297085 homiegot
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"Why is Vlad idealized here at Zero Hedge? "

 

He has excellent PR. And he's not a sissy.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 22:21 | 5297320 Otrader
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Also, kicked out the Rothchild dual citizen oligarchs and Russia once again became sovereign.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 21:05 | 5297101 Duffy
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lol.

You'll have to do much better, Shmuel.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 22:18 | 5297309 Otrader
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky was another dual citizen arrogant kike who refused to flee with the other arrogant dual citizen kikes trying to take over Russian politics which failed.  Putin was on top of it and gave back the resources they were stealing from the Russian people.  His arrogant billionaire ass landed in jail and hopefully will never see the light of day. 

 

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 22:55 | 5297420 Amerikan Patriot
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You're a little bit behind the curve on the news, Bob.  Khodorkovsky was released from prison some time ago.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 02:32 | 5297787 COSMOS
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Maybe you should take his place, after all you are MK's towel boy, just like Obama

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 22:39 | 5297371 Volkodav
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Even Gorby agreed Khordorkovsky evaded millions in taxes.

Also responsible for many deaths, stealings and terrible depradations

your stupidity showing your depraved indifference to Russians suffering

get lost goat

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 00:51 | 5297690 bid the soldier...
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Not a head scratcher.

First Bush Sr. lied his tits off about what the relationship between the US and Russia would be after the Cold War ended.  

Then Baby Bush, WHO LOST THE POPULAR VOTE IN 2000, felt he had received a mandate to abrogate the ABM Treaty in 2002.

Like clockwork Patriot missiles were raised within spitting distance of the Russian border.

If Bush lied about WMD, there's a 99% chance that he lied about 911, with 19 Saudis on the planes.

Putin knows that the US has been and is still controlled by ruthless and merciless rulers.  And he is protecting his homeland.

   No one would have liked Putin more than the Bard himself.

 

Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;
Threaten the threatener and outface the brow
Of bragging horror

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:40 | 5298454 Toolshed
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Well said bid.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:39 | 5298446 Toolshed
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"Why spend so much time in adoration of a man who runs a country with neither rule of law nor a free media?"

The above statement is much more applicable to Obama than Putin........so wtf are you going on about? Your comments only serve to demonstrate your severe lack of mental acuity. Sad for you.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 20:57 | 5297082 homiegot
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Putin is a man's man. Obama, not so much.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 21:05 | 5297098 Duffy
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Any people with advanced psych degrees care to tender a theory as to why most of the anti-Putin crowd resorts to homophobic imagery?

 

Anyone who ever worked in psy ops 15 years ago?

 

;0}

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 22:59 | 5297432 Amerikan Patriot
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Any folks with advanced degrees care to tender a theory as to why Zero Hedge is fixated on a thug who believes that the 'greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century was the breakup of the Soviet Union'?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 02:11 | 5297775 BingoBoggins
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Look on the bright side. We're regaining those jobs now.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 21:20 | 5297144 talisman
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY VLADIMIR !! !!

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 21:20 | 5297145 Schmuck Raker
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"Putin, James Putin."

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 21:45 | 5297217 fishmonger
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Putin won't spend his birthday being a floppy-eared, Kenyan, mom-jeans wearing fag.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 22:17 | 5297304 Supafly
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Ok, now I know he's a pussy.  If he's not with a drugged up tiger cub, he's wearing a helmet, and if those caribou didn't have velvet, he'd have a half rack up his ass.  And don't get me started on the ear protection at the shooting range.

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 22:50 | 5297404 DipshitMiddleCl...
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Putin = Alpha Male

Obama = Beta Male

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:06 | 5297449 Amerikan Patriot
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When asked whether they would have a he-man full of machismo rule their country as absolute dictator or a metrosexual advancing egalitarian arguments on behalf of the masses, Zero Hedgers are emphatically in favor of the tyrant.

Now that we have that settled....

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:35 | 5297534 antidisestablis...
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Vlad must get an erection reading this shit. So many boy toy groupies in one place must send chills up his spine.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 01:49 | 5297758 Dublinmick
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Lots of MK ultras here, who did you, Kissinger, Bob Hope or Bennyahoo?

Mon, 10/06/2014 - 23:38 | 5297549 N57Mike
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"In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the Communistic, of the bolshevistic; no. but freedom, freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallized, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world. Guided by what? That friendship with the nation that hath even set on its present monetary unit “In God We Trust.” (3976-29).... Edgar Cayce, 1932

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 01:48 | 5297755 Dublinmick
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Was that a Ranger bass boat?

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 09:47 | 5298497 square wave
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They should have given Putin the Noble Peace Prize. The guy's been admirably restrained in light of what's gone on in the last few years.

Tue, 10/07/2014 - 13:22 | 5299472 Monty Burns
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He's the wrong color and not from the 3rd World.

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