By GottaLaff
Jon in Comments linked me to this (it's from March of this year):
Pop quiz: Whose husband is a BP employee?BP's problems in Russia continued Friday.
A Russian environmental agency announced that it would inspect a large oil field in Siberia, the Samotlor, which is controlled by BP's joint venture, TNK-BP. The announcement came a day after Russian security authorities arrested a TNK-BP employee on charges of industrial espionage.
UPDATE from Jon:
Since writing the above sentence, I went to Moscow Times and found the latest story is secret talks to hammer out a permanent deal. Interesting I'd find that headline today, of all days, because it sure wasn't looking good for the partnership before today.
The future of petroleum supply is the Arctic Circle, and most of that belongs to Russia. Palin and her BP-employed husband ought to particularly understand that. What makes no sense about this ticket is McCain's apparent desire to actively antagonize Russia, as he's done long before the recent events in the Caucasus (and before we found out about Scheunemann's lobbying for Georgia). I can only wonder what McCain's adviser-handlers are really up to, or if the team's incompetence really is worse than we thought.
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Does this mean anything?
MSNBC describes her husband as a commercial fisherman. They're leaving out the "North slope oil fields" part.
Thanks for the bump up, GottaLaff. Thank you also for having already helped me feel at home here.
Also, GL, I have returned the favor. I might not have a vast readership but it might be good for a few referrals. Thanks again.
you know, McColdWar is still fighting last century's wars. for him, Russia is the great commie satan.
so sad that the world has passed him by.
Jon, I tried to leave a comment at your house, but it disappeared.
So:
First, I did make it over to the old site, and it was suh-weet! Good for you!
And as for your feeling at home here, that made my day. We love having you at our house.
Thanks again, GL.
Bucky:
I'm just sorry that it took a hot conflict to open my eyes to how bad that old thinking really is in a presidential candidate, but of course I didn't have prior reason before then to perceive that maybe, just maybe, something is afoot that would be many, many degrees worse than the Lincoln Bedroom thing ever could have been. I know too many good people in Russia and the region to turn against the Russian state (which is at least as democratic as, say, Pakistan, and much more than, say, Uzbekistan, an important partner in central Asia) for mere partisan reasons. I want a world where trade and cultural ties cement peace between nations and, for that reason, I have committed my vote to Obama and I feel good about it, too (and I choose to volunteer that - I'm all about the privacy of the American vote).
Not sure why the comment disappeared. I do have a captcha, implemented because of a particularly racist comment someone left there once (and spam) but I'm sure you complied with that, too. I'm on good old Blogspot, too, but I guess it's imperfect sometimes.
I filled it out, but it still ate me up. : (
I'll see if something's wrong there. It's been a long time since anyone left any comment there so maybe others have also tried. I'm happy with what I've seen you say here, anyway :)
I've had trouble with Blogger all day. It crashed my computer twice when I was trying to load photos on to a post.
So, maybe it's cranky today. Or maybe it was something I did, but I doubt it.
: ) to you too.
Maybe all the other blogs like ours are busier than usual because of the news? I don't have a realistic idea of how the numbers break down according to member blog purpose but this certainly does seem like a special day in American history, both inside and out of the blogosphere.
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