Well, looks like today's events have pushed the....

[Aviation Pro]

...repressor Olympics on to the back burner. To whit:

1. An old quarterback goes to a failure of a football team.
2. An ex-candidate for President admits to having sex.

Oh, I amost forgot,


THE FORMER SOVIET UNION INVADED A SOVERIGN COUNTRY.

[ailsagirl]

1. kick

[Xipe Totec]

2. Meanwhile, the present Soviet Union still occupies Iraq nt

[FiveGoodMen]

7. !

:applause:

[realisticphish]

3. pshaw

no penis involved. Who cares? :eyes:

[nebenaube]

4. seems they are only protecting their UN place peace keepers... n/t

[texastoast]

5. It is very worrisome

Do you think it will make Fox news tonight?

[realisticphish]

6. actually

foxnews.com has it as their headline story.


CNN, however, does not. It's in tiny text in with such hard hitting news as "wedding day disasters." Spiffy.

[unblock]

8. actually, russia invaded georgia. both russia AND georgia were part of the soviet union

the "former soviet union" doesn't exist anymore, and therefore doesn't do a whole lot these days.

[Aviation Pro]

9. Uh, I know that....

...and as a бывшяя русская лингуистка (former Russian linguist) I had a pretty good handle on the relationship between Moscow and Tblisi.

[unblock]

11. i figured you knew, as do most people.

but why misidentify the invading country?

[Blue-Jay]

10. Yeah. Like the American people care about invading a soverign country.