June 17, 2011
— rdbrewer The government role in the economy has to be cut.
"The proposition that the government is always right is manifested either in corruption or benefits to 'preferred' companies," he said."My choice is different. The Russian economy ought to be dominated by private businesses and private investors. The government must protect the choice and property of those who willingly risk their money and reputation."
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Medvedev said that the country must begin to tackle the problem immediately to avoid "the point of no return from the (economic) models that are moving the country backwards."
"Corruption, hostility to investment, excessive government role in the economy and the excessive centralization of power are the taxes on the future that we must and will scrap," he said.
This guy is awesome!
This is seen as a political speech and a challenge to the authority of murderous thug Valdimir Putin, who is currently awaiting the chance to run again for president. The Russian constitution limits a president to two consecutive terms. So it appears this "placeholder for Putin" wants to keep the job.
I hope he has some trustworthy bodyguards. And plenty of food tasters. Things are about to get real in Russia.
Added: Medvedev thanks Angry Birds creator for creating an occupation for a huge number of government officials who now know what to do with their time. Dude's funny too. Yeah, boyee . . .
TEA Partiers gotta stick together.
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Posted by: Cheri at June 17, 2011 09:18 AM (oiNtH)
Posted by: © Sponge at June 17, 2011 09:19 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 17, 2011 09:20 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: lan sing at June 17, 2011 09:21 AM (YHrQZ)
Posted by: © Sponge at June 17, 2011 09:21 AM (UK9cE)
OT (Greece)
IÂ’m suspicious of this. It looks to me like they used U.S. government economists to come up with this bailout plan. Tim! Hello, Tim! Are you responsible for this?
HeÂ’s been playing with the Turbotax software again.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 17, 2011 09:22 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2011 09:23 AM (Rlz/P)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 17, 2011 09:24 AM (Rlz/P)
"The proposition that the government is always right is manifested either in corruption or benefits to 'preferred' companies,"
I don't understand what he means by that. Is he saying that, if the government were to pass some sort of mandate that all companies had to comply with but certain 'preferred companies' could be given, I don't know, like, a waiver, or something, out of the mandate, that would probably end in corruption?
I don't know. Seems pretty far-fetched. Maybe that's the sort of thing that used to happen in the old Soviet Union.
Posted by: Matt at June 17, 2011 09:25 AM (vJUsG)
Posted by: Reactionary at June 17, 2011 09:25 AM (xUM1Q)
Posted by: rdbrewer at June 17, 2011 09:26 AM (gGCrM)
Posted by: joncelli at June 17, 2011 09:26 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: "Putinsky," Medvedev's New Chef at June 17, 2011 09:28 AM (gGCrM)
Those individuals like Comrade Putin.
NEXT!
Posted by: Nighthawk at June 17, 2011 09:28 AM (OtQXp)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at June 17, 2011 09:28 AM (lbo6/)
Posted by: joncelli at June 17, 2011 01:26 PM (RD7QR)
A martyr, maybe?
An "I told you so" from the grave?
Posted by: © Sponge at June 17, 2011 09:29 AM (UK9cE)
In a somewhat related article http://tinyurl.com/3q2t6sx, the IMF .... yes the socialist IMF.... reduces US growth outlook and "warnedWashington and debt-ridden European countries that they are "playing with fire" unless they take immediate steps to reduce their budget deficits."
Posted by: fixerupper at June 17, 2011 09:29 AM (C8hzL)
Weiner will bounce back from this as always, give him about 20 minutes and start tickling him.
Posted by: shiggz at June 17, 2011 09:30 AM (mLAWK)
Posted by: "Putinsky," Medvedev's New Chef at June 17, 2011 09:30 AM (gGCrM)
Posted by: Sparky at June 17, 2011 09:31 AM (aepk5)
Posted by: Sub-Tard at June 17, 2011 09:31 AM (Q5+Og)
Now I'm off for a torture session at the dentist. (Someone hold me, please.)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 17, 2011 09:32 AM (UOM48)
This is seen as a political speech and a challenge to the authority of murderous thug, Valdimir Putin, who is currently awaiting the chance to run again for president. The Russian constitution limits a president to two consecutive terms. So it appears this "placeholder for Putin" wants to keep the job.
Medvedev may be wise and stary carrying a Geiger counter with him everywhere just so he isn't poisoned with Polonium.
Putin is very much an autocrat and centralist - he believes that the preference for these tendancies is embedded into the very DNA of Russians.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 17, 2011 09:32 AM (9hSKh)
25 JOTD,
Weiner will bounce back from this as always, give him about 20 minutes and start tickling him.
Weiner is now in his forties. I think 45 minutes is the minimum recovery time. However, considering all he has to pump up is a full five inches maybe 20 minutes is doable.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at June 17, 2011 09:33 AM (Q5+Og)
Color me more than a little skeptical for not taking the word of a politician in Russia of all places.
Yes it sounds nice in light of the asshole running us into the ground right now but if I would still be very hesitant to go to Russia and invest big bucks in a business there.
So yeah, nice words, now prove it.
Posted by: Roadking at June 17, 2011 09:33 AM (yhaWU)
Posted by: kelley in virginia at June 17, 2011 09:34 AM (VIqi1)
Posted by: brak at June 17, 2011 09:34 AM (wOwDN)
Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at June 17, 2011 09:34 AM (4136b)
Posted by: nevergiveup at June 17, 2011 01:22 PM (i6RpT)
Yep. (You going to be on Parris Island this summer? I saw a linky somewhere they have a new general....a woman. The general who's been in charge in going to Okinawa with the 3rd Marines.)
Off to the dentist. Ugh.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 17, 2011 09:35 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Peasant living under Emperor Jeff's Iron Boot at June 17, 2011 09:35 AM (/COcn)
Posted by: joncelli at June 17, 2011 09:36 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at June 17, 2011 09:37 AM (lbo6/)
Weiner is now in his forties. I think 45 minutes is the minimum recovery time. However, considering all he has to pump up is a full five inches maybe 20 minutes is doable.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at June 17, 2011 01:33 PM (Q5+Og)
Just have him visit Low-T.com!!!!
He'll be 'ole stiffy again in no time!
Posted by: © Sponge at June 17, 2011 09:39 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: rdbrewer at June 17, 2011 09:40 AM (gGCrM)
Posted by: joncelli at June 17, 2011 09:41 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at June 17, 2011 09:41 AM (4136b)
All this gruesomeness of poorly disguised assassinations makes me think you all would enjoy a short, lighter breakÂ…
KudoÂ’s to this group of patriots whoÂ’ve bravely cut back on wasteful use of resources in solidarity to those negatively impacted by the Obama economy. Might I just recommend just a bit more sacrifice would meet with broad popular support.
Regardless – FB weenie pics all around. It’s the least we can do.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 17, 2011 09:41 AM (jx2j9)
When a fiddle player and her band toured the prison camps at Guantánamo recently, guards told of a new devious and disturbing tactic confronting them.
A captive on a hunger strike had been jamming something foul up his nose (his shit) to contaminate the pathway for medical staff who feed him a nutritional shake twice a day.
Posted by: lan sing at June 17, 2011 09:42 AM (YHrQZ)
Maybe not their DNA but definitely their culture. Read Richard Pipes' Russia Under the Old Regime -- he makes a compelling case that Russians are historically and culturally wired for autocracy.
The Russian Orthodox Church sees itself as a part of government not a separate moral entity from it. Its mission is to support the state. Kind of like Roman Catholic countries use to be. Thank God for protestants.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at June 17, 2011 09:42 AM (Q5+Og)
Posted by: taylork at June 17, 2011 09:43 AM (5wsU9)
>>> I can't believe I like Medvedev more than Romney.
Was Medvedev wearing a Cornbrero when he gave this speech?
Posted by: Roadking at June 17, 2011 09:44 AM (yhaWU)
A captive on a hunger strike had been jamming something foul up his nose (his shit) to contaminate the pathway for medical staff who feed him a nutritional shake twice a day.
Posted by: lan sing at June 17, 2011 01:42 PM (YHrQZ)Poopie....It's what's for dinner.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 17, 2011 09:44 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: t-bird at June 17, 2011 09:44 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Barbarian at June 17, 2011 09:45 AM (EL+OC)
Yup, it won't be long before Medvedev can read a book in the dark from his own glow.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at June 17, 2011 09:47 AM (d0Tfm)
This is just a bit of theater to create the illusion of a "choice" in soviet-land.
Guess I'll just to to Pravda and take the opposite of whatever they say about it as the truth.
Posted by: shiggz at June 17, 2011 09:47 AM (mLAWK)
Posted by: Damiano at June 17, 2011 09:47 AM (3nrx7)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 17, 2011 09:48 AM (FkKjr)
Was Medvedev wearing a Cornbrero when he gave this speech?
Cornbrero! Heh.
Posted by: rdbrewer at June 17, 2011 09:50 AM (gGCrM)
Posted by: © Sponge at June 17, 2011 09:50 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Jackoff Smirnoff at June 17, 2011 09:50 AM (zgZzy)
Potemkin democracy: Medvedev and Putin are part of the same small faction and try to edge out the real alternatives through staged competition.
Posted by: Elize Nayden at June 17, 2011 09:50 AM (JLomc)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 17, 2011 09:51 AM (f9c2L)
Posted by: rdbrewer at June 17, 2011 01:50 PM (gGCrM)
I was going to suggest a copyright or patent.....
That's funny stuff.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 17, 2011 09:52 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Coldwarrior57 at June 17, 2011 09:52 AM (nYTrG)
The government role in the economy has to be cut.
We have officially crossed over into Bizarro land.
I mean really what are we on now, seal number 5 or 6?
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 17, 2011 09:52 AM (0q2P7)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 17, 2011 01:51 PM (f9c2L)
That's back when actors really did their homework, apparently.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 17, 2011 09:53 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Damiano at June 17, 2011 09:53 AM (3nrx7)
Posted by: RushBabe at June 17, 2011 09:53 AM (Ew27I)
Posted by: Vladimir Putin at June 17, 2011 09:53 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: � Sponge
.........
Yeah.. that's when comedy was really comedy too!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 17, 2011 09:54 AM (f9c2L)
Posted by: Cicero at June 17, 2011 09:54 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Hollowpoint at June 17, 2011 09:56 AM (SY2Kh)
Posted by: GM at June 17, 2011 09:56 AM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 17, 2011 09:56 AM (f9c2L)
Posted by: lan sing at June 17, 2011 09:57 AM (YHrQZ)
Russia knows socialism doesn't work. Cuba knows socialism doesn't work.
So why is Obama using a failing paradigm?
Posted by: harleycowboy at June 17, 2011 09:57 AM (wSTfB)
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at June 17, 2011 09:58 AM (0q2P7)
The Russian Orthodox Church sees itself as a part of government not a separate moral entity from it. Its mission is to support the state. Kind of like Roman Catholic countries use to be. Thank God for protestants.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at June 17, 2011 01:42 PM (Q5+Og)
The Orthodox Church was much more analogous to the Anglican Church under Henry VIII, except moreso.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 17, 2011 09:58 AM (FkKjr)
No one's getting my cornbrero!
Hah!
It works on so many levels -
Headline - WILL TPAW FINALLY KNOCK OFF MITTS CORNBRERO?
Or in a debate - "Well I think my friends Cornbrero may be on a little too tight...
Posted by: Roadking at June 17, 2011 09:58 AM (yhaWU)
Posted by: joncelli at June 17, 2011 09:59 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 17, 2011 01:54 PM (f9c2L)
And Saturday Night Live was actually entertaining television worth staying in for.
C'mon.....Land Shark was effing BRILLIANT!!!!
Posted by: © Sponge at June 17, 2011 09:59 AM (UK9cE)
69 O/T - Why Pelosi Finally Caved on Weiner (via Lame Cherry). If all this comes to pass, you could get a much smaller govt before 2012, through more resignations.
This article implies that there are Hillary and Huma beaver shots floating around. Methinks the article is full of it. Who in their right mind would want a Hillary crotch shot?
Posted by: Sub-Tard at June 17, 2011 10:00 AM (Q5+Og)
Oh, but the JEF does get it. It's just that he's an anti-capitalist, a Marxist, anti-American, one world govt sonofabitch.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 17, 2011 10:00 AM (kOtPb)
So why is Obama using a failing paradigm?
Posted by: harleycowboy at June 17, 2011 01:57 PM (wSTfB)
Didn't John Kerry once say that the only reason socialism is failing in Europe is because they're not doing it right?
Like that dumb bastard knows how to do anything right......
Posted by: © Sponge at June 17, 2011 10:02 AM (UK9cE)
Posted by: Barry O, Accidental, Class of '83 at June 17, 2011 10:02 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 17, 2011 10:03 AM (FkKjr)
Posted by: t-bird at June 17, 2011 10:04 AM (FcR7P)
Didn't John Kerry once say that the only reason socialism is failing in Europe is because they're not doing it right?
Like that dumb bastard knows how to do anything right......
I run a great senate campaign!
Posted by: John F. Kerry, Always Getting Elected at June 17, 2011 10:06 AM (zgZzy)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 17, 2011 10:08 AM (yQWNf)
Posted by: taylork at June 17, 2011 02:05 PM (5wsU9)
FIFY.....
Posted by: © Sponge at June 17, 2011 10:09 AM (UK9cE)
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You rang?
Posted by: Crunch McLargehuge at June 17, 2011 10:10 AM (e8T35)
Posted by: taylork at June 17, 2011 02:05 PM (5wsU9)
FIFY
Posted by: Jollyroger at June 17, 2011 10:11 AM (NCw5u)
Posted by: Achmed the (Newly) Blind Terrorist at June 17, 2011 10:12 AM (RD7QR)
In Russia, rug cuts you.
In Russia, pop music still sounds like talentless, contrived shite.
Posted by: I Got Nothing at June 17, 2011 10:12 AM (p2IBw)
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at June 17, 2011 02:03 PM (FkKjr)
Da.
You'll have to leave this asylum to receive your important news.
Posted by: Barbarian at June 17, 2011 10:14 AM (EL+OC)
We're Doomed!
When the Russians have a leader pushing Free-Market Principles and our leader pushes Collectivism....you gotta know we are staring down the barrel of 45.
Posted by: Jimi at June 17, 2011 10:15 AM (JMsOK)
We're Doomed!
When the Russians have a leader pushing Free-Market Principles and our leader pushes Collectivism....you gotta know we are staring down the barrel of 45.
Posted by: Jimi at June 17, 2011 02:15 PM (JMsOK)
No, it just means that in case things head south here, I can learn a new language and pick up a hot new alcoholic chainsmoking wife in my new home country.
Theres a bright side to everything
Posted by: Jollyroger at June 17, 2011 10:17 AM (NCw5u)
This article implies that there are Hillary and Huma beaver shots floating around. Methinks the article is full of it. Who in their right mind would want a Hillary crotch shot?
Posted by: Sub-Tard at June 17, 2011 02:00 PM (Q5+Og)
Pushing aside the mind's eye retinal combusion, LC brought up a couple interesting scenarios, I thought -- Weiner was such a slug and was at it for years, that Chelsea could've been a tweetee. Notice, the wheels weren't set in motion for resignation until Huma got home and conferred with him. Do you think she wanted to be married to a disgraced congressman? He seemed to be digging in his heels until he talked to her.
The likelihood that more congressional tweeting offenders are walking the hallowed halls of Congress is good. Maybe they didn't want to cast the first stone.
Posted by: RushBabe at June 17, 2011 10:19 AM (Ew27I)
No, it just means that in case things head south here, I can learn a new language and pick up a hot new alcoholic chainsmoking wife in my new home country.
Yekaterinburg looks nice.
Posted by: FireHorse at June 17, 2011 10:20 AM (peN5l)
Posted by: Rocky J. Squirrel at June 17, 2011 10:21 AM (SPVfc)
we hardly knew ye Mr. Medvedev... hope you like the taste of Volga mud, you're gonna be soaking in it pretty soon.
Posted by: Shoey/Sgt Batguano at June 17, 2011 10:21 AM (jdOk/)
Plus, we could then team up and kick the shit out of the jihadis and the chicoms! Bonus.
Posted by: Clubber Lang at June 17, 2011 10:22 AM (QcFbt)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 17, 2011 10:22 AM (NtTkA)
37: He'd better decline the invitation to the Tea Summit as well. "Tea Party" means something very different to Don Vladimir.
How many rads, err, lumps would you like with that ?
Posted by: SocietyIs2Blame at June 17, 2011 10:23 AM (N/mVJ)
Posted by: rdbrewer at June 17, 2011 02:21 PM (gGCrM)
You mean they weren't just surfing porn like the US Government officials do with their free time?
Interesting.
Posted by: © Sponge at June 17, 2011 10:23 AM (UK9cE)
No, it just means that in case things head south here, I can learn a new language and pick up a hot new alcoholic chainsmoking wife in my new home country.
My observation is Russian chicks are shithot until the potatos catch up with them. Then they become babushkas. Funny how that works. See Hawaiian, Guamanian, and Japanese chicks and aging. Dittos hot middle easter babes.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at June 17, 2011 10:24 AM (Q5+Og)
Posted by: NW Bob at June 17, 2011 10:26 AM (NO1Mi)
If Russia can finally join the West and become a "normal" western nation ...
Now you're thinking.
Posted by: Peter the Great at June 17, 2011 10:27 AM (peN5l)
Plus, we could then team up and kick the shit out of the jihadis and the chicoms! Bonus.
I think our plan is to play Chicoms against Russkies. Same thing we did in WWII with Germans and Russkies. Let them exhaust themselves and then clean up. BTW - Russkies are scared shitless about China and their common boarder.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at June 17, 2011 10:27 AM (Q5+Og)
86 - "Pelosi caved in on Weiner" may be the worst "thanks for the visual" moment I've ever had. Beating "crotch-shot of Hillary" in a photo-finish.
Two in one comment. I who am about to die (at my own hand) salute you.
Posted by: SocietyIs2Blame at June 17, 2011 10:28 AM (N/mVJ)
Posted by: Oldsailor's poet at June 17, 2011 10:28 AM (NtTkA)
It may sound good to hear this from Mr. Medvedev, but frankly, we should be opposed to this kind of right-wing social engineering, just as much as we should oppose left-wing social engineering.
Mr. Putin and I, on the other hand, can propose bold, solutions-oriented policies that will work!
NEWT 2012
P.S. Calista and I approved this message.
Posted by: Newt Gingrich at June 17, 2011 10:37 AM (piR98)
Posted by: maverick muse at June 17, 2011 10:40 AM (lpWVn)
This article implies that there are Hillary and Huma beaver shots floating around. Methinks the article is full of it. Who in their right mind would want a Hillary crotch shot?
Posted by: Sub-Tard at June 17, 2011 02:00 PM (Q5+Og)Never seen the Hillary beaver shot before today, don't want to see it now.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at June 17, 2011 10:42 AM (eKuOw)
This article implies that there are Hillary and Huma beaver shots floating around. Methinks the article is full of it. Who in their right mind would want a Hillary crotch shot?
Posted by: Sub-Tard at June 17, 2011 02:00 PM (Q5+Og)Never seen the Hillary beaver shot before today, don't want to see it now.
Even I don't want to see that.
Posted by: Larry Flynt at June 17, 2011 10:45 AM (UvFnc)
Sorry if I noticed this, but it is interesting that Barry is driving us down, while those guys are jumping into the void.
Curious. It's all happened on Barry's watch...interesting. It's almost as if there are forces outside the cocoa warriors' little pint-sized mindthoughts.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Alan Simpson at June 17, 2011 10:48 AM (tcSZb)
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