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footfootfoot · 08-07-2012, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

You must have a big back yard.

That's nothing. You should see my front yard!

HungLikeJesus · 08-08-2012, 09:19 PM

By the way, fff, I'm going to be in Putney first week of September. Currently in Milwaukee, then Chicago-Detroit-Denver-Haiti-Putney. Is that a good bicycling area?

xoxoxoBruce · 08-08-2012, 11:44 PM

Putney? Poultney.

HungLikeJesus · 08-08-2012, 11:53 PM

Putney - near Brattleboro.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-09-2012, 12:10 AM

Yeah, I know where Putney is but 3foot was talking about Poultney.

edit, OK, I clicked your link, you got it. nevermind

infinite monkey · 08-17-2012, 07:40 AM

Members of female Russian punk band Pussy Riot found guilty on charges of hooliganism. A plea deal was reached late afternoon on Thursday: charges of shenanigans and tomfoolery (each carrying mandatory minimum sentences of 20 stonings) were dropped in exchange for the guilty verdict to hooliganism.

Hooliganism carries a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison.

Raskolnikov has nothing on Pussy Riot.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

orthodoc · 08-17-2012, 09:32 AM

Under the Soviet regime, they would've been sent to the gulag for 25+. Or just raped and then shot.

But after all this time, this is how the courts view free speech. Oh yeah, free speech - we don't have that here.

Russia has had so many centuries of oppression, it's an integral part of the culture. Only the players change; the roles remain the same.

BrianR · 08-17-2012, 09:43 AM

I have been following this. I'm not going to say what they did was right, or even very smart. But that should have garnered, at most, a minor summons and a fine.

The Soviet Union isn't yet dead and gone.

infinite monkey · 08-17-2012, 09:45 AM

Alrighty then! Soooooooo...

HOOLIGANISM! TOMFOOLERY! SHENANIGANS! HI JINKS! CAPER! MONKEY BUSINESS! HANKY-PANKY!

sexobon · 08-17-2012, 09:50 PM

Looks like female Russian punk band Pussy Riot will be singing the blues and doing the jailhouse rock. They may have to change their name to Stray Pussy.

Flint · 08-18-2012, 12:47 AM

Quote:

... for performing a song critical of President Vladimir Putin in a church. ...

Wow.

ZenGum · 08-18-2012, 02:39 AM

Having seen them "performing" on TV, I'd say hooliganism is about the one crime they haven't committed.

Putin's Russia. Like the old Soviet Union, bit with more oil barons in Mercedes.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-19-2012, 09:52 AM

The trial.

Quote:

Those of us who live in Russia often feel like we have been forced into a time machine. Now the rest of the world has seen it happen: three women shaped by 20th-century thought tried by a 17th-century court. Consider the testimony of altar warden Vasily Tsyganyuk, classified as a victim because he claimed to have suffered psychological trauma as a result of the performance.

VICTIM: “Those who are possessed can exhibit different behaviors. They can scream, beat their heads against the floor, jump up and down...”

DEFENSE ATTORNEY NIKOLAI POLOZOV: “Do they dance?”

VICTIM: “Well, no.”

JUDGE: “Stop questioning him about those who are possessed. Tsyganyuk is not a medical professional and is not qualified to render a diagnosis.”

Griff · 08-19-2012, 11:01 AM

Sometimes I feel like we're headed in that direction.

BrianR · 08-19-2012, 11:37 AM

Free Pussy Riot!

08-08-2012, 09:19 PM	#2
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	By the way, fff, I'm going to be in Putney first week of September. Currently in Milwaukee, then Chicago-Detroit-Denver-Haiti-Putney. Is that a good bicycling area? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

08-08-2012, 11:44 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Putney? Poultney. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-08-2012, 11:53 PM	#4
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Putney - near Brattleboro. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

08-09-2012, 12:10 AM	#5
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Yeah, I know where Putney is but 3foot was talking about Poultney. edit, OK, I clicked your link, you got it. nevermind __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-17-2012, 09:32 AM	#7
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Under the Soviet regime, they would've been sent to the gulag for 25+. Or just raped and then shot. But after all this time, this is how the courts view free speech. Oh yeah, free speech - we don't have that here. Russia has had so many centuries of oppression, it's an integral part of the culture. Only the players change; the roles remain the same. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

08-17-2012, 07:40 AM	#6
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Members of female Russian punk band Pussy Riot found guilty on charges of hooliganism. A plea deal was reached late afternoon on Thursday: charges of shenanigans and tomfoolery (each carrying mandatory minimum sentences of 20 stonings) were dropped in exchange for the guilty verdict to hooliganism. Hooliganism carries a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison. Raskolnikov has nothing on Pussy Riot. http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

08-17-2012, 09:43 AM	#8
BrianR Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,338	I have been following this. I'm not going to say what they did was right, or even very smart. But that should have garnered, at most, a minor summons and a fine. The Soviet Union isn't yet dead and gone. __________________ Never be afraid to tell the world who you are. -- Anonymous

08-17-2012, 09:45 AM	#9
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Alrighty then! Soooooooo... HOOLIGANISM! TOMFOOLERY! SHENANIGANS! HI JINKS! CAPER! MONKEY BUSINESS! HANKY-PANKY!

08-17-2012, 09:50 PM	#10
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	Looks like female Russian punk band Pussy Riot will be singing the blues and doing the jailhouse rock. They may have to change their name to Stray Pussy.

08-18-2012, 02:39 AM	#12
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Having seen them "performing" on TV, I'd say hooliganism is about the one crime they haven't committed. Putin's Russia. Like the old Soviet Union, bit with more oil barons in Mercedes. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

08-19-2012, 11:01 AM	#14
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Sometimes I feel like we're headed in that direction. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

08-19-2012, 11:37 AM	#15
BrianR Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 3,338	Free Pussy Riot! __________________ Never be afraid to tell the world who you are. -- Anonymous

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