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Colman:

I'm imagining him going to bed every night, looking in the mirror and thinking "I can't believe you got away with that, you wily Russian bear you".

Funny, the first time I read that I thought you were talking about Obama... you know the guy who turned interdimensional chess up to 11?

Now Putin just showed him it actually goes to 12.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Apr 3rd, 2014 at 05:59:23 AM EST
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I think Putin may be the only one who knows it doesn't actually go up to 11, it's just labelled that way.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Apr 3rd, 2014 at 06:00:41 AM EST
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Touche!

The only one who didn't drink the party punch spiked with brown acid and Kool-Aide.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Apr 3rd, 2014 at 06:05:19 AM EST
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