Paris: Climate Change Meeting Brings 144 Heads of State

     Yes, Paris is back in the news.  A conference on climate change opened today with a very high level of security in place.   3,000 soldiers and police are on patrol and full alert as the world's leaders meet to discuss  on how to address the need of an action plan to cope with the future of a world that may be very different than the one we live in today.
     For the next two weeks, discussions will take place.
Stay tuned to Paris.

High Flying Russyan Jet Shot Down

      Mr. Putin.  Mr. Putin, can you hear us?  We are Turks in Turkey.  We warned you about flying in our airspace.  Repeated violations cannot /will not be tolerated.   The old jet we shot down w/ its pilot was not authorized by us and was warned repeatedly.  You ordered him to violate our airspace.
     Horse on you; horse on him.   Maybe you will give him a proper burial; unlike the poor serfs who died fighting your efforts in Ukraine who you claimed to their families that they committed suicide.  So Russyan, so Putinist.
     Oh, yes, Turkey is a member of NATO- the classic Russyan "Bogeyman".   Now you can tell your house organs to spew some more blather to the serfs of Moscova, St. Petersburg, and Vladivostok(wherever that is).
     So, the largest country on earth continues on its pathetic path to irrelevance.
Now about that meeting with Iran's Ayatollah- did you discuss the price of oil with the old goat?  Or maybe you discussed how long you would support Al Assad and his Syrian madmen?  Cute photo of you two:  possible captions-
1. Did you smell that one? 
2. What should I do with Snowden?
or
 3. Where is Rezian and how long is he going to kept in Jail?
 4. What crime was he convicted for?  Secularism?  What you did is soooooo Russyan.  I like it.       
 5.  Reminds me of what I did with "Pussyriot".   Sorry, didn't mean to say the 'P' word.

Early Ski Season: OPenings

     Well, sports fans: snow is in the forecast.  Get those boards waxed and ready.  ^-8" at lakeside(Tahoma/Hwy 89).  Maybe 12" above 8000'.  Wouldn't that be nice.
     Thanksgiving week might just be the beginning of a real winter ski season.  With all the buzz about El Nino, we have come to expect big snow, heavy powder.   Ok.  Let's see it.
    For now, we'll take anything.   keep the chains and cables handy, look out for snow clearing equipment- give 'em a brake!

New President in Argentina

    Goodbye, Christina Kirchner, and good riddance.  Hello Mauricio Macri.  Now maybe there's some hope in Argentina.

Thanksgiving Week is Here

       The holiday season in America is just around the corner.  This week, we have Thanksgiving, when most of America is on the road.  Starting with the exodus from campus' across the country.  The little snivelers are coming home:  blurry eyed, overweight, hung over, stuffed with dirty laundry, out of condoms and birth control pills.  Ah, the holidays.
      Grandma takes center stage, as the offspring gather around the table to hear the stories at her knee.  Grandma, "What did you and Grandpa do during the War?  "  "What war, Darling?  Roosevelt's War?  Truman's War?   Johnson's War?  Bush 1's War?  Bush 2's War?  or Obama's non-War?   Be specific.
     Happy THanksgiving.

Russyan Women Win Big

      Calling all anti-dopers:  get your kits ready for a massive effort against another sweep by Russkies at the Speed Skating World Championships.   It's almost comical:  here WADA has suspended Russya's Track and Field team.  Then the board recommends all athletics be subject to the ban.   The, miracle of miracles, the speed skaters win everything.
     Hmmm.  Don't they read the papers?  Or do they only read Russya house organs, like Izvestia?  I'm sure the chemists in the Kremlin are laughing about the victory.  They think their dope will not be detected-they are so smart.
      How long before they are busted?  Tick,tick, tick..........

Who Turned Out the Lights in Crimea?

       Did Vova do it again?  That is, blow something up so he could claim a necessity for a crackdown, like he did in Moscova early in his takeover of the largest country in the world?  Well, over the weekend, two power lines and towers transport electricity to Crimea were destroyed, plunging the peninsula in darkness.  Hmmmm.  And why now, after a year of occupation by troops of the largest country in the world?
     Must be Mr. Putin wants to tell ISIS something.  Or Obama something.  Or Merkel something.  Or Erdogan something.
     Who suffers?  Ukraine's Crimeans, of course.
      Thank you, Mr. Putin, patron saint of the Hammer and Sickle Society.