>Talk about interesting though. I just came from the coffee shop (it's where my buddies from other countries hang out). The typical group was there (a mix of Greeks, Georgians, Bulgarians, English, Irish, Russians, and Czecks - the latinos hang out at another shop) but today there was a fella from S Ossetia. Everyday it's the same crew plus a few new ones. I've seen him before, but I never knew where he was from because I don't ask. He was in a very heated argument with the guys from Georgia, not the guys from Russia. I couldn't tell which language they were speaking in - it was too fast and I only know a little Russian from high school, not whatever it was they were speaking. I looked over at the others and one of them volunteered that they couldn't keep up either because they both kept switching languages in the same sentence). My friend Madeline (Magdalina) is from Bulgaria. She was once Miss Bulgaria or Miss something from one of the cities there. She is here on break from
> school (she's in med school at Virginia Tech). She told me they were arguing about the conflict and neither one was making sense. Everyone was trying to translate for everyone else. They would mix English amongst their words, but as the discussion grew more heated they would change languages. She said the fella from Russia was not even going to open his mouth - it was too hot (volatile). These same people meet every single day and discuss U.S. politics and life in the U.S. Get them involved in a discussion on their homeland though and it's a free-for-all.
The whole Gruzian thing (btw, take a recorder and get these guys to pronounce the names... then analyze later) has got me very upset, because I have seen the whole setup of the late nineties, and that it's yet another "no matter what you do, your pants are falling and you will be bent over" situation where only one side is heard, only one side has people while the other has numbers... such a fucqueing deja vu that at some point I just hurled my glasses (the cheap ones I got for $4 - even when I'm mad I'm not insane) and started shouting at NPR. Wouldn't even count it as much damage if I smashed the radio, it's more than eight years old and wasn't much to begin with.
>It got me thinking, if folks
from that area cannot get it together, what hope does anyone else who might think they could assist or even mediate? Nuts...
Who called them?
Yet so many of these satellite countries have presidents who have graduated in the U.S... hmm... today's marionettes are probably wireless. Technology has advanced.
You know the story - CIA is spying all the world, because the US's greatest fear is to be surprised with another Pearl Harbor. Russian greatest fear is that they'll be surrounded like in 1919-20. So, the not-so-rhetorical question is why are the US doing exactly the thing that they know will deurinate the Russians the worst? How much fist thumping on the table is too much? Will the US governments be forever wagged by any dog who says "you're too soft on {insert threat} (and I need to sell the weapons)"?
