Putin Is Getting on My Nerves
I have to admit that I am not a big winter Olympics fan. I live on the Gulf Coast where the sun let’s her rip. Mostly, I have to put on a parka just to watch the winter Olympics. I don’t like heights and I don’t like cold so the only kind of skiing I do is on water while gulping gas fumes from the powerboat ahead of you.
Generally, I will bundle up a watch a few winter Olympic events. I’m not so sure about this year, though.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says gays should feel welcome at the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, but they must “leave the children in peace.”
Putin told volunteers Friday that gays visiting Sochi “can feel calm and at ease,” and vowed that there would be no discrimination at the games. But he emphasized that, according to a law banning homosexual “propaganda” among minors, gays cannot express their views on gay rights issues to anyone underage.
“Leave the children in peace?” Oh, for cryin’ out loud. That just burns my biscuits.
Here’s some guy who takes off his shirt more often than a Chippendale dancer telling people that gays are sexual predators and prey on children.
Thanks to John for the graphic.
Don’t you know that Abbott, Perry, and others of their ilk would like to enact the same laws here?
1Why didn’t he also say to leave the animals at peace? These people ALWAYS try to tie in bestiality and pedophilia with being gay.
2Y’all may be right but it IS against the law in Russia, which means the gays participating from the U.S. may be in danger. Okay, I really haven’t read their laws on it, just going on hearsay. What DOES their law say? other than if you’re gay, you can’t tell children about it?
3Sam,
They try it regularly here in Tennessee….cue Stacey Campfield….again. Lege in session, not medicaid expansion, RomneyRichBoy Guv @billhaslam still lying about his Plan B over ACA. Wants TennCare (Medicaid) recipients to pay co-pays on everything.
4Well, sure. Leave the animals at peace. And the folks at the next table who prolly want your signature anyway.
5The government may not come after you, unless you “endanger” kids, but neither will they lift a finger to help anyone whom the violent homophobic latents kidnapping and torturing suspected gays decide to call prey.
6I believe they only require you to leave the animals in peace if it’s a same-gender animal. If it’s opposite sex then it’s okay to mess with them ’cause it’s straight.
7First of all, we need to know exactly what is the ‘age of consent’ and the ‘age of majority’ in Russia? Perhaps Mr. Putin could tell us.
8Somehow people got this wierd idea that being abusive is the same as being manly…
9What knocks me out about Putin is that photo of him barechested on horseback. He is also bareheaded and bald and it made him look like an unfinished plastic toy. And I also think he hasn’t a clue what he’s talkin’ about, but heck, don’t tell him. He’s so full of himself he can’t hear you!
10Putin’s ignorance on the subject has and will negatively affect Russian society and possibly the Olympic visitors. My concern is for everyone’s safety, given the terrorist threats which have been issued.
11Putin’s ploy here isn’t really about gays or gender. That’s just a convenient sideshow. Autocratic regimes find convenient scapegoats to deflect the wrath of the more ignorant segments of their populace. Except in some quarters of the Middle East, Jews are no longer the most fashionable minority to pick on.
12And what, exactly is different from our resident Republican Moralists? Not one thin dime.
13I’m certain I could be wrong and certain I will be corrected if I am but I dont recollect seeing from an authoritative source a connection between homosexuality and pedophilia. That is pedophiles can swing either way or both. Strikes me that pedophilia is about dominance and control, which make it assaultive in nature, not about sex.
So maybe Mother Russia should concentrate on identifying the pedophiles amongst them, regardless of their orientation.
14Micr, maybe they want to get all up in gays’ faces about little boys who might be harmed so they can ignore all the little girls abused by straight men. (I don’t think I’ve ever heard about lesbians abusing underage girls.)
But I agree with Umptydump– it’s just scapegoating a minority as usual.
15I guess he won’t be watching the Men’s Figure Skating competition.
16Putin was KGB…..
17LOVE the graphic! And I agree with Barb that Putin probably won’t be watching the men’s figure skating. Although you nevercantell as he does like to dance. Putin is definitely getting on my nerves too and has been for some time. He’s definitely of the legend in his own mind type and those are always annoying.
18You’re not scoring points, Vlad. The Olympics are an event that should be free of political games. These athletes train to represent their nations in healthy competition. Fun moments such as the Jamaican bobsled team, Jesse Owens, the barefoot Kenyan runner Tegla Loroupe, and so many other great athletes serve to remind us of how much we have in common.
People can and do get along. Governments, not so much.
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