Boris Yeltsin RIP

Boris Yeltsin, 76, just died. He was the first President of the new Russian Republic after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Yeltsin worked his way up as an apparatchik, a part of the Soviet political system. He is famously remembered for his stand against a coup plot aimed at Gorbachev. He defiantly stood atop a tank & challenged the coup leaders - an act that could have easily resulted in his death.

His stand rallied the people of Russia & the coup was thwarted.

He was an unlikely hero who rose to defy those who would defeat democracy.

RIP

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it. - Boris Yetlsin

Radical Islam & Tomatoes & Cucumbers

In Baqouba, Iraq, according to an Associated Press report, al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders.
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Islam, like no other religion, seems to have a penchant for attracting psycho-paths, idiots & the mentally disturbed. No rational person, no person in their right mind could possibly think there is something sinful about tomaotes mingling with cucumbers. The Muslim cashier in the Target store who refuses to scan bacon, even though the package is sealed & there is zero chance of being contaminated with reprehensible pig juice, is an idiot. We think these people suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder, along with a host of other mental ailments.

As long as these mental midgets of Islam continue in their idiotic radical beliefs, there will be no hope for the Islamic community as a whole to grow into the 21st century. As long as the likes of this scourge live, we will be witnesses to scenes like this car bombing of innocent children.