Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, September 11, 2009

If You Are Going to Do Business in Russia, It Helps to Be Brain Dead

That way, you won't feel the pain when your Russian associates, the utilities and the courts all conspire to rob you blind.

As Ikea has found out.

Vladimir Putin has signaled that he wants his old job back in 2012, so don't expect much to change in Russia anytime soon. It'll be the same corrupt place that it has been ever since Communism fell (and well before, though it wasn't so blatant). Not that things were going to change much, what with Dmitri Vladimirov Putinik Medvedev doing little more than keeping Putin's seat warm for him.

It probably won't matter much over the long run, since Russia is demographically collapsing. The people in the lower classes will continue to drink themselves into stupors and die early, if AIDS doesn't kill them first. The population losses are going to be far worse then the Great Patriotic War, but without the Germans laying waste to the westernmost regions of Russia.

By the middle of the century, the Chinese may be able to just walk into Siberian Russia and take it without a shot being fired. There won't be enough young, healthy Russians left to make up a decent army, let alone fight a war with China.

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