Putin is laughing his ass off right now.
Get out your crayons and color me surprised, eh, RinaseaofDs? To be fair, I'm sure Putin had faith all along Assad was bright enough to learn the words to the Gimme, gimme, gimme song:
Gimme, gimme, gimme!To be both fair and realistic: how much is a billion dollars any more, anyway? Isn't a billion today about the same as 100 million a few years ago? It's all just imaginary money, isn't it?
Gimme, gimme, gimme right now or else!
Gimme, gimme, gimme!
Gimme, gimme, gimme right now or else!
We print $3B from thin air every day. After Bernanke’s comments yesterday, we’ll be doing this for the foreseeable future too.
The USA, robbed by two robbers who hate each other and accuse each other of lying about being thieves. The GOP and the Socialists/Communists (called the Democrats in the USA)
My worst fear used to be a nuclear strike on DC that would decapitate the country. Now I’m revulsed by furtively wishing it would happen.