Thought I'd put some perspective on this Russian "boss" that something like 30% of Americans are so taken with. While Obama vilifies his political opposition by going on TV and spouting off, Putin silences his opposition by unleashing his FSB k**ler dogs.

The Putin Murders: A Brief History of Putintime

The info below is a sampling.

45-year-old former KGB agent Vladimir Putin is plucked from obscurity out of the St. Petersburg local government apparatus by President Boris Yeltsin and named Deputy Chief of Staff. In June, he defends his PhD dissertation in “strategic planning” at St. Petersburg’s Mining Institute. Later, this document proves to have been plagiarized from a KGB t***slation of work by U.S. professors published many years earlier (as if nobody would notice, and in fact for quite a while nobody did).
Another couple hundred thousand more he will be catching up with obama. OK I give up. 5 times I tried to update with what I wrote the first time and nothing. Forget it.
Another couple hundred thousand more he will be catching up with obama.
Another couple hundred thousand more he will be catching up with obama.
Another couple hundred thousand more he will be catching up with obama.
Another couple hundred thousand more he will be catching up with obama.

July 1998: In a second inexplicable move, Yeltsin names Putin head of the KGB (now called the FSB).

Putin's victims:

November 1998: Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, murdered.

Completing a hat trick of bizarre spontaneous promotions, proud KGB spy Putin is named by Yeltsin Prime Minister of Russia. Almost immediately, Putin orders a massive bombing campaign against the tiny, defenseless breakaway republic of Chechnya, apparently seeing the reassertion of Russian power there as key to overall resurgence of Russia’s military and state security apparatus, his primary political objective. On August 26th, he’s forced to acknowledge the horrific consequences of the bombing. Hundreds of civilians are k**led and tens of thousands are left homeless as civilian targets are attacked.

April 2003: Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, murdered.

July 2003: Yuri Shchekochikhin, a vocal opposition journalist and member of the Russian Duma and the Kovalev Commission, poisoned.

June 2004: Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, murdered in his apartment.

July 2004: Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition Forbes magazine, is shot and k**led in Moscow.

September 2004: Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin.

September 2006: Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank, who strove to stamp out money laundering (basically acting on analyses like that of reporter Klebnikov), the highest-ranking reformer in Russia, is shot and k**led in Moscow.

October 2006: Anna Politkovskaya, author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and k**led at her home in Moscow.

November 2006: Alexander Litvinenko, KGB defector and author of the book Blowing up Russia, which accuses the Kremlin of masterminding the and Pechatniki and Kashirskoye bombings in order to blame Chechen terrorists and whip up support for an invasion of Chechnya (which shortly followed), is fatally poisoned by radioactive Polonium obtained from Russian sources.

March 2007: On Sunday February 25th, the American TV news magazine Dateline NBC aired a report on the k*****g of Litvinenko. MSNBC also carried a report. The reports confirmed that British authorities believe Litvinenko perished in a “state-sponsored” assasination. In the opening of the broadcast, Dateline highlighted the analysis of a senior British reporter (Daniel McGrory, a senior correspondent for The Times of London) and a senior American expert on Russia who knew Litvinennko well. Five days before the broadcast aired, shortly after he was interviewed for it, McGrory was dead.

January 2009: Russian human rights attorney Stanslav Markelov was shot in the back of the head with a silenced pistol as he left a press conference at which he announced his intention to sue the Russian government for its early release of the Col. Yuri Budanov, who murdered his 18-year-old client in Chechnya five years earlier. Also shot and k**led was Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student who was working for Novaya Gazeta and who had studied under Anna Politkovskaya, reporting on the Budanov proceedings.

July 2009: Russian human rights journalist and activist Natalia Estemirova (pictured, left), a single mother of a teenaged daughter, was abducted in front of her home in Grozny, Chechnya, spirited across the border into Ingushetia, shot and dumped in a roadside gutter.

Thought I'd put some perspective on this Russian "boss" that something like 30% of Americans are so taken with. While Obama vilifies his political opposition by going on TV and spouting off, Putin silences his opposition by unleashing his FSB k**ler dogs.

The Putin Murders: A Brief History of Putintime

The info below is a sampling.

45-year-old former KGB agent Vladimir Putin is plucked from obscurity out of the St. Petersburg local government apparatus by President Boris Yeltsin and named Deputy Chief of Staff. In June, he defends his PhD dissertation in “strategic planning” at St. Petersburg’s Mining Institute. Later, this document proves to have been plagiarized from a KGB t***slation of work by U.S. professors published many years earlier (as if nobody would notice, and in fact for quite a while nobody did).

July 1998: In a second inexplicable move, Yeltsin names Putin head of the KGB (now called the FSB).

Putin's victims:

November 1998: Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, murdered.

Completing a hat trick of bizarre spontaneous promotions, proud KGB spy Putin is named by Yeltsin Prime Minister of Russia. Almost immediately, Putin orders a massive bombing campaign against the tiny, defenseless breakaway republic of Chechnya, apparently seeing the reassertion of Russian power there as key to overall resurgence of Russia’s military and state security apparatus, his primary political objective. On August 26th, he’s forced to acknowledge the horrific consequences of the bombing. Hundreds of civilians are k**led and tens of thousands are left homeless as civilian targets are attacked.

April 2003: Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, murdered.

July 2003: Yuri Shchekochikhin, a vocal opposition journalist and member of the Russian Duma and the Kovalev Commission, poisoned.

June 2004: Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, murdered in his apartment.

July 2004: Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition Forbes magazine, is shot and k**led in Moscow.

September 2004: Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin.

September 2006: Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank, who strove to stamp out money laundering (basically acting on analyses like that of reporter Klebnikov), the highest-ranking reformer in Russia, is shot and k**led in Moscow.

October 2006: Anna Politkovskaya, author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and k**led at her home in Moscow.

November 2006: Alexander Litvinenko, KGB defector and author of the book Blowing up Russia, which accuses the Kremlin of masterminding the and Pechatniki and Kashirskoye bombings in order to blame Chechen terrorists and whip up support for an invasion of Chechnya (which shortly followed), is fatally poisoned by radioactive Polonium obtained from Russian sources.

March 2007: On Sunday February 25th, the American TV news magazine Dateline NBC aired a report on the k*****g of Litvinenko. MSNBC also carried a report. The reports confirmed that British authorities believe Litvinenko perished in a “state-sponsored” assasination. In the opening of the broadcast, Dateline highlighted the analysis of a senior British reporter (Daniel McGrory, a senior correspondent for The Times of London) and a senior American expert on Russia who knew Litvinennko well. Five days before the broadcast aired, shortly after he was interviewed for it, McGrory was dead.

January 2009: Russian human rights attorney Stanslav Markelov was shot in the back of the head with a silenced pistol as he left a press conference at which he announced his intention to sue the Russian government for its early release of the Col. Yuri Budanov, who murdered his 18-year-old client in Chechnya five years earlier. Also shot and k**led was Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student who was working for Novaya Gazeta and who had studied under Anna Politkovskaya, reporting on the Budanov proceedings.

July 2009: Russian human rights journalist and activist Natalia Estemirova (pictured, left), a single mother of a teenaged daughter, was abducted in front of her home in Grozny, Chechnya, spirited across the border into Ingushetia, shot and dumped in a roadside gutter.

Thought I'd put some perspective on this Russian "boss" that something like 30% of Americans are so taken with. While Obama vilifies his political opposition by going on TV and spouting off, Putin silences his opposition by unleashing his FSB k**ler dogs.

The Putin Murders: A Brief History of Putintime

The info below is a sampling.

45-year-old former KGB agent Vladimir Putin is plucked from obscurity out of the St. Petersburg local government apparatus by President Boris Yeltsin and named Deputy Chief of Staff. In June, he defends his PhD dissertation in “strategic planning” at St. Petersburg’s Mining Institute. Later, this document proves to have been plagiarized from a KGB t***slation of work by U.S. professors published many years earlier (as if nobody would notice, and in fact for quite a while nobody did).

July 1998: In a second inexplicable move, Yeltsin names Putin head of the KGB (now called the FSB).

Putin's victims:

November 1998: Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, murdered.

Completing a hat trick of bizarre spontaneous promotions, proud KGB spy Putin is named by Yeltsin Prime Minister of Russia. Almost immediately, Putin orders a massive bombing campaign against the tiny, defenseless breakaway republic of Chechnya, apparently seeing the reassertion of Russian power there as key to overall resurgence of Russia’s military and state security apparatus, his primary political objective. On August 26th, he’s forced to acknowledge the horrific consequences of the bombing. Hundreds of civilians are k**led and tens of thousands are left homeless as civilian targets are attacked.

April 2003: Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, murdered.

July 2003: Yuri Shchekochikhin, a vocal opposition journalist and member of the Russian Duma and the Kovalev Commission, poisoned.

June 2004: Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, murdered in his apartment.

July 2004: Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition Forbes magazine, is shot and k**led in Moscow.

September 2004: Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin.

September 2006: Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank, who strove to stamp out money laundering (basically acting on analyses like that of reporter Klebnikov), the highest-ranking reformer in Russia, is shot and k**led in Moscow.

October 2006: Anna Politkovskaya, author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and k**led at her home in Moscow.

November 2006: Alexander Litvinenko, KGB defector and author of the book Blowing up Russia, which accuses the Kremlin of masterminding the and Pechatniki and Kashirskoye bombings in order to blame Chechen terrorists and whip up support for an invasion of Chechnya (which shortly followed), is fatally poisoned by radioactive Polonium obtained from Russian sources.

March 2007: On Sunday February 25th, the American TV news magazine Dateline NBC aired a report on the k*****g of Litvinenko. MSNBC also carried a report. The reports confirmed that British authorities believe Litvinenko perished in a “state-sponsored” assasination. In the opening of the broadcast, Dateline highlighted the analysis of a senior British reporter (Daniel McGrory, a senior correspondent for The Times of London) and a senior American expert on Russia who knew Litvinennko well. Five days before the broadcast aired, shortly after he was interviewed for it, McGrory was dead.

January 2009: Russian human rights attorney Stanslav Markelov was shot in the back of the head with a silenced pistol as he left a press conference at which he announced his intention to sue the Russian government for its early release of the Col. Yuri Budanov, who murdered his 18-year-old client in Chechnya five years earlier. Also shot and k**led was Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student who was working for Novaya Gazeta and who had studied under Anna Politkovskaya, reporting on the Budanov proceedings.

July 2009: Russian human rights journalist and activist Natalia Estemirova (pictured, left), a single mother of a teenaged daughter, was abducted in front of her home in Grozny, Chechnya, spirited across the border into Ingushetia, shot and dumped in a roadside gutter.

Thought I'd put some perspective on this Russian "boss" that something like 30% of Americans are so taken with. While Obama vilifies his political opposition by going on TV and spouting off, Putin silences his opposition by unleashing his FSB k**ler dogs.

The Putin Murders: A Brief History of Putintime

The info below is a sampling.

45-year-old former KGB agent Vladimir Putin is plucked from obscurity out of the St. Petersburg local government apparatus by President Boris Yeltsin and named Deputy Chief of Staff. In June, he defends his PhD dissertation in “strategic planning” at St. Petersburg’s Mining Institute. Later, this document proves to have been plagiarized from a KGB t***slation of work by U.S. professors published many years earlier (as if nobody would notice, and in fact for quite a while nobody did).

July 1998: In a second inexplicable move, Yeltsin names Putin head of the KGB (now called the FSB).

Putin's victims:

November 1998: Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, murdered.

Completing a hat trick of bizarre spontaneous promotions, proud KGB spy Putin is named by Yeltsin Prime Minister of Russia. Almost immediately, Putin orders a massive bombing campaign against the tiny, defenseless breakaway republic of Chechnya, apparently seeing the reassertion of Russian power there as key to overall resurgence of Russia’s military and state security apparatus, his primary political objective. On August 26th, he’s forced to acknowledge the horrific consequences of the bombing. Hundreds of civilians are k**led and tens of thousands are left homeless as civilian targets are attacked.

April 2003: Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, murdered.

July 2003: Yuri Shchekochikhin, a vocal opposition journalist and member of the Russian Duma and the Kovalev Commission, poisoned.

June 2004: Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, murdered in his apartment.

July 2004: Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition Forbes magazine, is shot and k**led in Moscow.

September 2004: Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin.

September 2006: Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank, who strove to stamp out money laundering (basically acting on analyses like that of reporter Klebnikov), the highest-ranking reformer in Russia, is shot and k**led in Moscow.

October 2006: Anna Politkovskaya, author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and k**led at her home in Moscow.

November 2006: Alexander Litvinenko, KGB defector and author of the book Blowing up Russia, which accuses the Kremlin of masterminding the and Pechatniki and Kashirskoye bombings in order to blame Chechen terrorists and whip up support for an invasion of Chechnya (which shortly followed), is fatally poisoned by radioactive Polonium obtained from Russian sources.

March 2007: On Sunday February 25th, the American TV news magazine Dateline NBC aired a report on the k*****g of Litvinenko. MSNBC also carried a report. The reports confirmed that British authorities believe Litvinenko perished in a “state-sponsored” assasination. In the opening of the broadcast, Dateline highlighted the analysis of a senior British reporter (Daniel McGrory, a senior correspondent for The Times of London) and a senior American expert on Russia who knew Litvinennko well. Five days before the broadcast aired, shortly after he was interviewed for it, McGrory was dead.

January 2009: Russian human rights attorney Stanslav Markelov was shot in the back of the head with a silenced pistol as he left a press conference at which he announced his intention to sue the Russian government for its early release of the Col. Yuri Budanov, who murdered his 18-year-old client in Chechnya five years earlier. Also shot and k**led was Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student who was working for Novaya Gazeta and who had studied under Anna Politkovskaya, reporting on the Budanov proceedings.

July 2009: Russian human rights journalist and activist Natalia Estemirova (pictured, left), a single mother of a teenaged daughter, was abducted in front of her home in Grozny, Chechnya, spirited across the border into Ingushetia, shot and dumped in a roadside gutter.

Nice Job Blade and I have to say I am a bit surprised. The only thing I would disagree with is your assessment of 30% of Americans and replace that instead with 70% of conservatives who find themselves enamored with Putin and his system of authoritarian justice. And I might add that at the top of that list of admirors is your man 'The Donald' who finds someone like Putin, who skirts the democratic process to insert his own individual will, as someone to be admired for his ability to control his country and bring order to the dysfunction of rudimentary democracy--all be it through the manor that you just described. The question begged is just how much of Putin's methodology will Trump try to emulate and what percent of that 70% will come to Trumps defense when he does. After all, it seems like pure reflex for you guys come to defend Trump anytime he is attacked without ever examining whether that attack was justified or not.

Anyway, Merry Christmas Blade and I hope you have a wonderful day with you and your...

I'm as Conservative as they come and I am no admirer of Putin. His people seem to be. Just because Trump is not saber rattling you call Trump and those who v**ed for him friends of Putin. Does that mean that 90% of you liberals are friendly of the Ayatollah of Iran? Obama gave him way more money than anything being talked about with Putin. Trump doesn't seem to want an antagonistic relationship right off the bat with a nuclear (modern) armed Russia that supplies much of the oil and gas to our allies. Until Trump actually bows to Putin or gives in economically and militarily all your BS is conjecture. I find it amazing that liberals are condemning something that hasn't happened yet but applauded Obama's friendship with the Muslim Brotherhood, the leaders of Iran and Cuba. It's no wonder you guys lose.

Nice Job Blade and I have to say I am a bit surprised. The only thing I would disagree with is your assessment of 30% of Americans and replace that instead with 70% of conservatives who find themselves enamored with Putin and his system of authoritarian justice. And I might add that at the top of that list of admirors is your man 'The Donald' who finds someone like Putin, who skirts the democratic process to insert his own individual will, as someone to be admired for his ability to control his country and bring order to the dysfunction of rudimentary democracy--all be it through the manor that you just described. The question begged is just how much of Putin's methodology will Trump try to emulate and what percent of that 70% will come to Trumps defense when he does. After all, it seems like pure reflex for you guys come to defend Trump anytime he is attacked without ever examining whether that attack was justified or not.

Anyway, Merry Christmas Blade and I hope you have a wonderful day with you and your...

Thought I'd put some perspective on this Russian "boss" that something like 30% of Americans are so taken with. While Obama vilifies his political opposition by going on TV and spouting off, Putin silences his opposition by unleashing his FSB k**ler dogs.

The Putin Murders: A Brief History of Putintime

The info below is a sampling.

45-year-old former KGB agent Vladimir Putin is plucked from obscurity out of the St. Petersburg local government apparatus by President Boris Yeltsin and named Deputy Chief of Staff. In June, he defends his PhD dissertation in “strategic planning” at St. Petersburg’s Mining Institute. Later, this document proves to have been plagiarized from a KGB t***slation of work by U.S. professors published many years earlier (as if nobody would notice, and in fact for quite a while nobody did).

July 1998: In a second inexplicable move, Yeltsin names Putin head of the KGB (now called the FSB).

Putin's victims:

November 1998: Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, murdered.

Completing a hat trick of bizarre spontaneous promotions, proud KGB spy Putin is named by Yeltsin Prime Minister of Russia. Almost immediately, Putin orders a massive bombing campaign against the tiny, defenseless breakaway republic of Chechnya, apparently seeing the reassertion of Russian power there as key to overall resurgence of Russia’s military and state security apparatus, his primary political objective. On August 26th, he’s forced to acknowledge the horrific consequences of the bombing. Hundreds of civilians are k**led and tens of thousands are left homeless as civilian targets are attacked.

April 2003: Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, murdered.

July 2003: Yuri Shchekochikhin, a vocal opposition journalist and member of the Russian Duma and the Kovalev Commission, poisoned.

June 2004: Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, murdered in his apartment.

July 2004: Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition Forbes magazine, is shot and k**led in Moscow.

September 2004: Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin.

September 2006: Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank, who strove to stamp out money laundering (basically acting on analyses like that of reporter Klebnikov), the highest-ranking reformer in Russia, is shot and k**led in Moscow.

October 2006: Anna Politkovskaya, author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and k**led at her home in Moscow.

November 2006: Alexander Litvinenko, KGB defector and author of the book Blowing up Russia, which accuses the Kremlin of masterminding the and Pechatniki and Kashirskoye bombings in order to blame Chechen terrorists and whip up support for an invasion of Chechnya (which shortly followed), is fatally poisoned by radioactive Polonium obtained from Russian sources.

March 2007: On Sunday February 25th, the American TV news magazine Dateline NBC aired a report on the k*****g of Litvinenko. MSNBC also carried a report. The reports confirmed that British authorities believe Litvinenko perished in a “state-sponsored” assasination. In the opening of the broadcast, Dateline highlighted the analysis of a senior British reporter (Daniel McGrory, a senior correspondent for The Times of London) and a senior American expert on Russia who knew Litvinennko well. Five days before the broadcast aired, shortly after he was interviewed for it, McGrory was dead.

January 2009: Russian human rights attorney Stanslav Markelov was shot in the back of the head with a silenced pistol as he left a press conference at which he announced his intention to sue the Russian government for its early release of the Col. Yuri Budanov, who murdered his 18-year-old client in Chechnya five years earlier. Also shot and k**led was Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student who was working for Novaya Gazeta and who had studied under Anna Politkovskaya, reporting on the Budanov proceedings.

July 2009: Russian human rights journalist and activist Natalia Estemirova (pictured, left), a single mother of a teenaged daughter, was abducted in front of her home in Grozny, Chechnya, spirited across the border into Ingushetia, shot and dumped in a roadside gutter.

Nice Job Blade and I have to say I am a bit surprised. The only thing I would disagree with is your assessment of 30% of Americans and replace that instead with 70% of conservatives who find themselves enamored with Putin and his system of authoritarian justice. And I might add that at the top of that list of admirors is your man 'The Donald' who finds someone like Putin, who skirts the democratic process to insert his own individual will, as someone to be admired for his ability to control his country and bring order to he dysfunction of rudimentary democracy--all be it through the manor that you just described. The question begged is just how much of Putin's methodology will Trump try to emulate and what percent of that 70% will come to Trumps defense when he does. After all, it seems like pure reflex for you guys come to defend Trump anytime he is attacked without ever examining whether that attack was justified or not.

Anyway, Merry Christmas Blade and I hope you have a wonderful day with you and your...