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    Default Putin - Tiger Killer

    Look still new to SWJ and posting so if this isn’t the place or the right sort of material then I apologise.

    But…..working for Fairfax as I do, I spend a lot of time looking at our home page, the online version of the Sydney Morning Herald. This morning over fruit loops I saw this and just thought people may get a small moment of pleasure out of it.

    As a news story goes it will be fairly mainstream, covered by AAP.

    But…the story…Tiger escapes, charges news crew, Putin grabs handy tranquiliser gun and deftly puts tiger to the mat. The beginning of a new ‘don’t tread on me’ campaign by the Russian government?

    http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/put...121171587.html
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    My gut says it was staged. Still, shooting a tiger is alot cooler than this, this, or this. Politicians are lame and their spin doctors who come up with this stuff are lamer.

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    The picture I saw was Putin helping put a radio Collar on the trank'd tiger.

    A rare subspecies biological study.

    He coulda shot the tiger with the trank, but I suspect a professional biologist did the deed.

    No Dead Tiger.

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    The Bush Administration has been all over this and was quick to respond with their own images of Bush with a Bear

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    This UK video is just about what I thought... Showboating Pootie Poo.

    Is he really being instructed on how to load a tranquilizer

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    Check out shirtless Putin. He's trying to invent some sort of macho super hero image for himself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Armchairguy View Post
    Check out shirtless Putin. He's trying to invent some sort of macho super hero image for himself.
    Talking to Russians around the University (not his best base of support) they all think Putin is some kind of super hero messiah.
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    Hawaii is great. But I have to get out of here before I burn through my retirement and kid's college educations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by selil View Post
    Talking to Russians around the University (not his best base of support) they all think Putin is some kind of super hero messiah.
    I can just see the series, Kind of a Rambo/Chuck Norris Slavic Thang:

    Putin: First Vodka

    Putin: First Vodka, 2nd Drink

    Putin 3: Missing Inaction But Stil Drinking

    And finally, Who's Putin? Pull My Finger

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    Default Putin Sexy but Not the Most Sexy

    He is Prime Minister Vladimir Putin — but not quite Russia's sexiest politician. At least, that is, according to the Sex & The City magazine. In its September Sexy Rating list, the glamour magazine ranks who it considers the 20 sexiest politicians. At the top is Boris Nemtsov, a former leader of opposition party Union of Right Forces, now viewed by many as a spent force.

    "Putin's just short — what's sexy about that?" laughed Limonov, before conceding that Putin's power was his biggest attraction.

    In a country with limited media freedoms and carefully controlled images of its leadership, it is unthinkable that an opposition figure could push Putin into second place. But, said Kristina Ilyina, Sex & The City's commissioning editor, "We can afford to take serious issues lightly."
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    Ha, ha, ha. Liminov is now scrubbing toilets at the Kremlin and Ilyina is writing Sex in Siberia...

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    Yeah but now we have Governor Sarah Palin.

    Palin vs. Putin? Has a ring to it doesn't it?
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    If Sarah gave Vlad a ride (yes, on her Harley ), we could have the beginning of normal relations. She could actually fix this Sierra in short order.

    God, the thought of Vlad on US iron

    Jeez, ya think he's driving around the streets of Moscow in one of those top secret Hummers they snitched in Georgia wielding a snappy Remington 700... Those are after all, very much in fashion
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