The Russians, Colonoscopies & Woodchucks

Back on May 31, 2007, in a blog entitled "Food For Thought", I wrote about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the signals that seemed to be indicating his potential to end Russia's experiment with democracy. His belligerent posture as regards the missile defense system we've offered to create with them, the current troubled relations with Great Britain over the murder of Aleksandr Litvinenko, the lack of investigation into the murders of oppostion journalists, cyber-attacks on another nation, and his apparent determination to take a contrary stance to the Western democracies at every opportunity, could easily lead suspicious persons such as myself to conclude that we have a very dangerous bear in Moscow.


Now comes a story in the Washington Post regarding two new manuals for high school history and social studies teachers, written with the help of Kremlin political consultants. Some interesting quotes from that article:


The history guide contains a laudatory review of President Vladimir Putin's years in power. "We see that practically every significant deed is connected with the name and activity of President V.V. Putin," declares its last chapter. The social studies guide is marked by intense hostility to the United States.


The social studies manual, "Social Studies: The Global World in the 21st Century," observes that "from the beginning of the 1990s, the U.S. tried to realize a global empire. The basic political principle underpinning any empire is divide and rule. Therefore one of the U.S. strategies was to isolate Russia from all the other former Soviet republics."

But the United States may be near "final collapse," according to the manual, because "America can no longer integrate into a single unit or unite into a nation of 'whites,' 'blacks,' (they are called African-Americans in the language of political correctness) 'Latinos' (Latin Americans) and others."


According to the new history manual, Stalin was brutal but also "the most successful leader of the U.S.S.R.


Here's the link to the entire article:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/19/AR2007071902707.html?sub=AR



It is difficult for us to understand how anyone could misconstrue the current political framework in Russia as a democracy - it's pretty tough for a lot of Russians too. Something for my conservative friends to consider - the potential for government to control us is omnipresent - so a liberal press is not always a bad thing. Don't be worried, I don't trust the liberal press either, but they serve a purpose and they are functional, just like your anus.


Speaking of the rear entrance, President Bush underwent a colonoscopy this morning. Nothing really newsworthy, other than the fact that it was only the second time in the past seven years that conservatives could walk the streets of America with out fear. Why you ask? Well, since Dick Cheney was acting-President for about five hours, liberals everywhere went to ground and found bunkers where they could survive the potential for Armageddon that the Veep represents to them.


So be careful if you're out hunting woodchucks, the head peeking up out the ground could be a fuzzy-headed liberal, not a woodchuck.