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Steven Seagal Helps Vladimir Putin Promote Fitness Plan
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| March 15, 2013
| Ollie John
Posted on 03/15/2013 6:44:54 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
Russian President Vladimir Putin has enlisted Hollywood action man Steven Seagal to help him promote a return to Soviet-era fitness.
The unlikely pair opened a new martial arts center outside Moscow on Wednesday, reports Reuters, to kick off Putin’s attempt to bring back a mass physical training program first introduced in the 1930s under Joseph Stalin.
The revival of the GTO system (an acronym in Russian which translates as “Ready for Work and Defense”) could bring major benefits to the country, said Putin, according to a transcript published on the Kremlin’s official website:
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“Putin and Seagal have long been friends, and they regularly meet each other,” Putin’s spokesman told reporters, according to the ITAR-TASS news agency.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: commiefitness; communism; fitness; napl; obama; putin; russia; seagal; sovietunion
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Anyone seen the ads for Seagal's new TV show? He's twice the man he used to be.
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posted on
03/15/2013 6:44:54 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Slings and Arrows
I ... uh ... oh never mind. Ping.
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posted on
03/15/2013 6:45:43 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
(I love it when spell check selects every single word in my post.)
To: Pan_Yan
He's twice the man he used to be He's a man?
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posted on
03/15/2013 6:47:24 AM PDT
by
11th Commandment
(http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
To: 11th Commandment
Walking head with legs and a very big one at that.
To: Pan_Yan
Why do I fear the nationalism in Russia? Seriously, they are taking from our 1980’s playbook and it just might work.
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posted on
03/15/2013 6:54:28 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: Pan_Yan
Putin should have teamed up with Fedor instead. Do Russians even know who Steven Seagal is?
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:07:41 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?)
To: Pan_Yan
Uh, Steve's looking fairly hefty these days. Maybe a little too much moo shu pork...
I'm surprised at him and Putin. I thought Seagal was a pro-American type.
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:08:39 AM PDT
by
PapaNew
To: Pan_Yan
Yes, he definitely looks like a fit individual. He's so fit that just playing the guitar is a workout.
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:12:31 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
To: 11th Commandment
He sure runs like a girl.
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:15:58 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: PapaNew
I think Seagal is a pro-himself type.
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:17:35 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: EEGator
I think Seagal is a pro-himself type. Who isn't?
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:45:54 AM PDT
by
PapaNew
To: Pan_Yan
He is such an egomanical POS that he destroys every movie he was ever in.
Personally I cannot watch his movies.
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:46:30 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Pan_Yan
I wonder if he is about to be a citizen like Gerard Depardieu?Taxes in Russia are much lower than here. They KNOW communism does not work the hard way!
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:46:57 AM PDT
by
Nateman
(If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
To: Jeff Chandler
First they pick a James Bond that looks like a Putin stand in and now this?
Seagal's gotta cut back on that Mu Shu Pork.
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:49:16 AM PDT
by
PapaNew
To: Pan_Yan
I always liked Segal’s early movies. Before he turned into the Michelin man.
To: Pan_Yan
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:53:59 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: PapaNew
Ha, true. I wouldn’t do photo ops with Putin to stroke my ego, would you?
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posted on
03/15/2013 7:56:04 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
After seeing that I started to wonder how Kelly LeBrock looks nowadays but I decided I don’t want to know.
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posted on
03/15/2013 8:00:56 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
(I love it when spell check selects every single word in my post.)
To: Pan_Yan
A few years ago I grabbed a Steven Seagal movie and brought it home. In the first 10 minutes of the movie a fat Seagal dressed as a cop cussed unnecessarily at his young fit cop partner and then cussed unnecessarily at his 19 year old super model girlfriend.
We laughed out loud at how pathetic it was and turned the movie off. After a minute of reading, we discovered Seagal had written the part for himself which explained a lot.
The man's ego has no bounds, and he has no concept of growing old gracefully. Suuuuuure Steven, you are the doughy lead cop of a swat team and aaaall the super models (young enough to be your grandkid) can't get enough of ya! Haha! :p
He's no Bruce Willis!
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posted on
03/15/2013 8:04:12 AM PDT
by
Casie
(democrats destroy)
To: Pan_Yan
A fitting image for how certain circles view current America. Fairly accurate, too, from that point of view.
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posted on
03/15/2013 8:22:35 AM PDT
by
GBA
(Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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