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FOOD FIGHT!!!!!

Flounder taking up another role.

See if you can guess what I am now?

::mashed potatoes in mouth, smashes cheeks with fists, spitting it all out::

A zit! Get it?

Are you part Albanian Wally?

Flounder sucking up tp Niedermeyer (at the start of the flick)is like Wendy sucking up to Dale Herspring (who I was told doesn’t know Russian) and the CDI.

I’m simply a fan of food fights and Animal House.

I actually had forgot that Belushi was Albanian.

He met a tragic fate at a young age like other Hollywood comedians such as Freddie Prinze and Chris Farley.

What happened to Freddie Prinze?

Quick Google search…Oh, you mean Freddie Prinze Sr. the guy who was in Chico and the Man. I thought you were talking about Freddie Prinze Jr. What a relief. To think that there may not be another Scooby Doo or She’s All That sequel might be more than I could bear.

Now you bring up the tragic memory of Bruce Lee Sr. and Jr.

NBC had a nice Friday night lineup with Chico and the Man and Sanford and Son.

Based on other, recent threads … playing nice isn’t on the menu.

As Ivanov recently noted, it can understandably draw people away. A reality which has happened.

The flip side is to not let such troll like antics take over the venue.

I think Mike’s superpower must be Super Running. That explains his in-defiance-of-nature-and-reason run time.

Personally I dont believe any of his sports claims at all.
Look at the facts – his continuous self advertisement; his endless references to unamed third parties who say he is an excellent analyst; his failure not only to learn Russian, but also his contempt for suggesting to him that to do so would be useful; and lastly his use of sock puppets. Would you buy a used car from Mike Averko? Draw your own conclusions.

The issue with Russian I think is telling. Anyone who was so successful at running would surely have discipline; Mike, as 44, cannot read the cyrillic alphabet yet claims to be a Russia analyst.

Mike can run so fast, he can make time go backwards.

Ger, you just saw Transformers — what kind of vehicle did the Averkobot transform into? I’m thinking a Yugo.

The two cranks strike again. Individuals who have never formally contributed anything in the form of articles to this and other venues. Those are the facts that the Irishman troll omits.

This appears to be the closest of fame that they get. Constant misinterpretations of what some like myself have said. Constantly going for the trivial in off topic instances. Methods done in a shallow attempt to coverup their lack of knowledge on a number of FSU issues, as well as the non-FSU topics they raise.

To sink to Chris Doss’ off topic low level manner so that he can understand me: it’s obvious that he’s not a well rounded person in terms of his overall lifestyle. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be carrying on like this. The same goes for the other troll. In Doss’s case, I can blow him away in any measured athletic pursuit involving speed, strength and stamina. The same is probably true of the other troll, given his prior admission to smoking.

Huh. I didn’t know they had Internet access in Hell. Who would have thought? What’s your address now, “damnedsoul2768901879.he”?

Hey, have you gotten a chance to talk to Vlasov while you’re done there? Are you guys both on the same infernal level or something?

”… I can blow him away in any measured athletic pursuit involving speed, strength and stamina. The same is probably true of the other troll, given his prior admission to smoking.”

Stop Mike, would you please, I cant stop laughing at this juvenile pissing contest, which by the way YOU STARTED, when lost for a response you started acting like Mr Universe to Chris. Gimme a break Mike. You’re full of shit, and, smokes or no, I’d bury you on the hurling or soccer field. I wouldnt believe a word you say at this point. You’d get one shoulder charge from me and next place you’d be is the stretcher. I actually do not believe you possess any athletic prowess at all, and use these remarks as a way of deflecting from the fact that you’re getting cleaned out here day in, day out.

”Methods done in a shallow attempt to coverup their lack of knowledge on a number of FSU issues, as well as the non-FSU topics they raise.”
Mike, I only pass comment when I know what I’m on about. Its called acting like a grown-up. I’m not going to contribute to conversations where my knowledge is limited or non-existent, or indeed if I just have no interest. I spend most of time reading posts and comments and learning – yes Mike the ‘L’ word. You stopped doing that long ago, probably when you got your degree and you thought you knew everything and the sun shone out of your arse. Well, here’s the news Mike, the fun and learning are only beginning when you walk out the door with your degree. I spend huge amounts of time studying chemistry and spectroscopy here at home. You’ve stopped reading, or more likely you only read things that suit your arguments e.g. Russia is right, screw the rest. What I found most interesting a while back was your view on the Glasser’s book, which you havent even read. You immediately dismissed it as anti-Russian propoganda. This from two people who are fluent in Russian and have spent about ten years in Russia between them. Ask yourself this, who should I believe – a pair of experts like them, or you, with not a word of Russian? But anyway, my main point is this – people, not just me, are going to respond when you are anyone else says something ridiculous or which we know not to be true. When that happens, you start firing shit, we reply, and next thing you’re calling us trolls. This pattern has repeated itself time and time again here. If you avoided making dumb remarks and stopped kissing Putin’s zhopa, there wouldnt be half the flame wars here.

Chris, I was going to say he transforms into a Zhiguli, but that’s too Russian. Maybe he’s like the old Megatron, he changes into a gun – an illegally made PMR Kalashnikov!

“Chris, I was going to say he transforms into a Zhiguli, but that’s too Russian. Maybe he’s like the old Megatron, he changes into a gun – an illegally made PMR Kalashnikov!”

Maybe a tricycle? A Big Wheel? A pogo stick armed with a laser beam?

The pathetic tag team troll duo strikes again.

Fools who obviously can’t have a serious discussion on a number of FSU topics. Note Doss’ reference to Vlasov. Very academic (not) like. Something which “RAN” should be proud (not) of.

Glasser is far from perfect in some of her claims. I make it a point to substantiate my own. Case in point being a recent piece on Lantos and Engel vis-a-vis their pro-Albanian nationalist orientation.

The raising of athletic prowess was in relation to what someone else brought up at a now closed thread. It was closed because the host of this blog wanted to drop that subject. Yet, the two trolls bring it up again here. Yes, Chris Doss and the Irishman are the internet definition of trolls.

Chris’ tricycle and big wheels reference relates to his height, age level mentality and his quite possibly not having a car of his own.

”Glasser is far from perfect in some of her claims. I make it a point to substantiate my own”

Believe me Mike, she substantiates a lot more than you do. I’m not a cheerleader for any bloody journalist, but she’s light years ahead of you.

”The raising of athletic prowess was in relation to what someone else brought up at a now closed thread.”
It was first brought up ages ago by you and Tim. But over at the post where the most recent flame war occured, you brought up Chris’ stature and how much of a ‘big man’ you are. Pathetic.

As Sean, quite rightly, is getting less and less amused by all this crap, I’m going to desist. And Mike, I’m not going to comment on anything you say anymore, because frankly, you’re a waste of time, and most of what you say is poorly or totally unreferenced bullshit anyway. Any man in his forties, who claims to be a Russia analyst but cant speak any Russian and criticises others for even suggesting he do so, needs his head examined, and is not worth any more of my time.

Tochno Ger. Mozhet byt, bylo by luchshe prosto perepisvatsya drug s drugom po-russkii zdes. Kak rezultat, vozmozhno, etot debil reshit uiti iz etogo bloga navsegda. Eto budet nastoyashchii, nezabyvaemyi rai!

Kstati, Vlasov byl goluboi.

Glasser doesn’t blow me way on a good number of FSU topics. A point which is more true with the combined efforts of the two trolls.

I’ll once again reply to one of the trolls by noting that Dave Johnson, possibly Ira Straus and a number of other propped individuals can’t speak Russian. I understand that until recently, this was true of Peter Lavelle. Once again, knowledge of a foreign language doesn’t always equate to having a great knowledge of the history and politics of the country in question.

Both trolls have yet to challenge the substance of any of my formally written commentary. Both of them appear to have never provided any formal commentary of their own.

One of the trolls has said that he will no longer reply. An admission of his failure to substantiate his bogus claims of me. Let’s see if he can be true to his word.

Nezabyvaemyi rai! Eto pravda. Ya dumayu chto on budyey zdyes navsegda, i govorit kak durak tozhe navsegda! Seychas ya ne khochu voina c Averkom. Eto skuchnii, i pochemu? Znayu smeshnoi no eto dlya nichevo. On budyet durak vsegda i navsegda. Vsyo Averko skazat’ ”fignya”. On glupii filon!

Before anyone has a go at my Russian, I dont give a shit!)

He lied.

Mike

”Both trolls have yet to challenge the substance of any of my formally written commentary. Both of them appear to have never provided any formal commentary of their own.”

I’ve skinned you on Chechnya, democracy in Russia and incidents of your rubbish like the double-headed radioactive eagle. Chris has done the same on your atrocious failure to learn Russian, and just about everyone here has given you a hiding on some topic at one time or another. I notice this ‘last word” tactic of yours. You’re hoping people will only see you end an argument, not the mauling you usually get early on. What a truly sad individual you are.

By the way I WILL comment if you directly have a go at me -that aint gonna change.

Chto on imenno skazal, malekii debil-pederas malchik moi?

Vot eto smeshno — durak dazhe ne znaet, chto ty napisal, no otvechaet, kak refleks, “on sovral”! On kak kompyuter, kotoryi rabotaet i reagiruet na sobytiya soglasno kakoi-to programe. Vot eto Averkobot!

Mike,

i didnt say I’m not commenting anymore cos of you. I said I’m not commenting on any more of your bullshit opinions or statements, thats all. And if I hadnt metioned you by name in my pigeon Russian comment above, you’d have had no idea what we spoke about.

DURAK!

”Kstati, Vlasov byl goluboi.”
i Averko vonyuchii kazyol!

Podozhdi Chris. Dumaya on zvonit ego geroi iz Peterburga, ”pomogi, Roobit”! Oni ne lyubyat’ menya!!!

The troll lied about no longer replying. He lies about my prior input on Chechnya. He lies about the standing of Russia’s current emblem The other troll has resorted to the Heribert Schindler approach of communicating in another language other than the one used at this venue. This after having been pasted on his feeble minded Eng. lang. comments.

Once again, both of them have apparently never provided any formal commentary of their own (in the form of articles) on FSU matter.

NIKTO MENYA NE LYUBIT!!!! ONI NE PONIMAYUT, KAK YA SUPERGENII! ONI PROSTO ZAVIDUYUT MENYA! WAAAH!!!!

Pathetic.

Ah, poor Mike, you’re a little confused by my Russian-for-Babies?

Funny, thought you were a Russia analyst. And yet….you speak no Russian.
Correct me if I’m a wrong, but is that not a bit sad?

Sean, izvinitye, vsyo. Eto byul moi poslednii skandal zdyes, pravda.

Debil, Heribert Schindler — NEMETS. Ego blog — PO-NEMETSKII. Ty slyshal, mozhet byt, kogda-to davnym-davno, chto sushchestvuet odna mificheskaya strana gde-to za-granitsei, kotoraya nazivaetsya “Germaniya”?

What’s “sad” is how the troll doesn’t reply to my point on the raised language matter. Much like his inability to provide any formal analysis of his own, while having not substantively responded to ANY of my formally written commentary.

http://neznaika-nalune.livejournal.com/126078.html

????? ????? ??????, ? ????? ??? ??????. ?? ?????? ??? ??????, ?????? ??????????. ????? ???????? ?? ???????????, ?????? ?????? ?????? ??????.

? ?????????? – ??? ????????? ??????? ???? ?????? ? ???? ?? ??????????. ?? ????? ???????.

Before anyone has a go at my Russian, I dont give a shit!)

I didn’t say anything )

No need to. He’s a putz.

Mais Mike, c’est pas vrai! Ger a bien repondu en fait — il a repete quaelque chose qui est tres clair pour tout le monde (sauf toi). C’est un fait triste, mais neanmoins un fait — ce n’est pas possible d’etre un expert, si tu ne parle pas la langue et en meme temps insulter les autres pour leur “ignorance.” N’as-tu pas de honte? Tu es bien debil. Tu es certainement aussi un expert sur les questions francaises, n’est-ce pas, Monsieur Averko le Bete??

Chris, French too! You bastard. You ‘re superpower must be languages. I wish I had the language superpower.

Oh and a few more things:

1) Ger how did you get to see Transformers a few days before the release? Illegal copy? I go on July 4.

2) I remember Chris asking if anyone has seen Lil’ Bush. I have. It seems to be getting better each episode. I watched the Tony Blair one last night and loved it. I didn’t care for the first one when Lil’ Cheney got stuck in Barbara Bush’s cunt. I do think it’s funny that Cheney drinks blood and his father is Darth Vader. I also find Lil’ Condi strangely cute. I was going to stop watching, but the Blair episode pulled me back in.

Pardon for the misspell.

Ty prav, Ger — luchshe etu chumu prosto ignorivovat. Ranshe bylo zabavno izdevatsya nad nim, no eto vremya proshlo. Taranky ne zabavnie, no otvratitelnie. Ya uzkhozhu ot etogo “razgovor.”

(Nado izuchat kirilskyu klaviaturu…)

It wasn’t me that asked about Lil Bush — I never heard of it. Sounds — interesting though.

I used to speak French just about fluently and published some translations for Catholic University of America Press when I was in grad school, but the part of my brain that deals with foreign languages seems to have been taken over by Russian. If I try actually speaking anything in French or German, one or two French or German words pop out and then heavily accented Russian follows automatically. In fact I’ve started to forget some of my more obscure English vocabulary, I’ve noticed.

I always really liked languages. This learning Latin thing out of a grammar book is hard work though. I probably have a working vocabulary of many 25 words. If I ever happen to find myself in Ancient Rome, I’ll have trouble!

I brought up Lil Bush. Love the Cheney depiction. The Condi one is cute.

” You ‘re superpower must be languages”

Don’t you remember me from the New Mutants? I was buddy-buddy with that alien robot thingie.

Nado izuchat kirilskyu klaviaturu…

Try http://www.translit.ru instead.

Jane from Daria was another IMO cute cartoon character

Don’t you remember me from the New Mutants? I was buddy-buddy with that alien robot thingie.

For all you True Believers, that is useless Doug Ramsey and the affable Worlock! For a time they merged to become Douglock!

Excelsior!

God I’m a dork.

You can watch clips of Lil’ Bush here on YouTube.

I loved the New Mutants of that era! And they had a Russian character too, making it an appropriate subject for this blog!

Sean, you need to start a thread all about Russian superheroes — not that there are a lot of them, There’s Colossus, and Magick, and Black Widow and, well, that’s it. Damn Russophobic court appointed not so Russia friendly Stan Lee, you suck.

Sean, you need to start a thread all about Russian superheroes — not that there are a lot of them, There’s Colossus, and Magick, and Black Widow and, well, that’s it.

Black Widow was hot. Hmmm, this might explain my strange affinity for henna-colored Russian women …

You shouldn’t forget Red Son either, although it was an alternative history concept seen through American eyes.

For those who don’t know (and care) Red Son is an alternative-history DC comic in which the infant Kal-El (Superman) crashes not in smalltown America but in Soviet Ukraine and becomes a Soviet superhero.

Supes started out as kind of a lefty character in the 30s, taking on bosses and sticking up for unions. I wonder if the people who did Red Son were influenced by that.

Chris, you can always use the “cheater” keyboard for Cyrillic

http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/gw-cyrillic/cyrilize.htm

So, the Russian “?” will be where the English “S” is, and so on. It doesn’t correspond 100%, of course, but it’s a hell of a lot easier than trying to learn the Russian keyboard.

I use (and recommend) this phonetic keyboard.

Sean,
Transformers opened on general cinema release in Australasia last week and I saw it here in Wellington. It is a cinema film – the mayhem would be lost on the small screen. Its well worth going to see and Megan Fox is hypnotically beautiful.

Ivanov -thanks for not complaining)! I apologise for the rape of your language by amateurs like me!
By the way everyone, especially Chris, how does one really get stuck into learning? I find after a days work, then writing up, I cant seem to move my arse to study Russian, even though I’ve very good reasons to do it. How did you set about conquering it?

Mike, you’re a twat, which is British Isles translation of ‘putz’. If you’re going to through shit, at least have the decency to fire something decent. And go and learn Russian, you silly boy! Maybe then you’ll get a bigger audience. And crap about DJ, Ira Strauss and all these other people not speaking Russian is neither here nor there. Just because they have these obvious faults doesnt make it ok.

On the other hand, your dumbass self appears incapable of acquiring a better knowledge of Russian history and politics.

On your disingenuously ongoing language reference, my mentioning about Johnson, Straus and Lavelle is quite appropriate, you phony **** hypocrite.

”On your disingenuously ongoing language reference, my mentioning about Johnson, Straus and Lavelle is quite appropriate, you phony **** hypocrite.”

Mike, that argument is wrong and based on an unsustainable principle – that ignorance is somehow ok because others are ignorant. If DJ and Strauss stopped taking showers, would you do the same? Or jump off a cliff if they did?

”On the other hand, your dumbass self appears incapable of acquiring a better knowledge of Russian history and politics.”

Au contraire Mike, my mind is open and not set to any agendas like yours. You’re biased because of your tenuous links to Russia and also the fact that you feel you need to appear pro-Russian because you want that job. I have no such issues, and again, do not claim to be a journalist of any sort.

Mike,

I’ll make you an offer you cant refuse.
You go and study Russian, and in one years time come to Moscow to do the TORFL first certificate exam at MGU. If you get an A or B grade, I’ll pay you 1,000 dollars towards your ticket. Me, you and Chris Doss and maybe even PL can then go out for a few beers and shoot the breeze.
I cant be any fairer than that. Its a win-win for Mike Averko. You get a foothold on Russian and a trip to the stolitsa. And the added bonus of shutting all of us up. Is this not fair, everyone?

The Irishman strikes again with his troll like antics.

He has yet to write a formal essay of his own on FSU related matter. He has yet to offer any substantive criticism on any of my formal commentary.

In short, he’s a dope.

To suggest that I’m not open to other thoughts is an absurdity. I directly reply to those in opposition to my views. This contrasts with others who don’t do the same and-or change the topic to other issues like language proficiency. A matter which continues to be hypocriticaly brought up here.

”He has yet to offer any substantive criticism on any of my formal commentary.”

Repeating this tired, boring line, which you do to everyone, is not going to make it true.

”He has yet to write a formal essay of his own on FSU related matter.”

I’m not a journalist or analyst. Then again, neither are you I guess.

“By the way everyone, especially Chris, how does one really get stuck into learning?”

Go to grad school! One lives in poverty, but then one’s job is reading books! That’s what I did for 6 years!

Actually I have a very flexible job, except around deadlines (like now), which gives me a lot of free time. Much of which is wasted in studying Latin and playing Warhammer 40000 on my computer.

”Go to grad school! One lives in poverty, but then one’s job is reading books! That’s what I did for 6 years!”

Pardon my utter ignorance, but what is grad school? Like postgraduate?Is it somewhere you go after getting your degree? Is it like studying for MBAs, etc? I’m just not familiar with American terminology.

I didnt mean just learning, I mean learning languages!) You seem to have some skill in this. Sadly i dont have all day at all, with work, wife, writing up my masters, cigarettes etc taking up my time.

Graduate school. I’m ABD in Greek and German Philosophy, as in, I took a “break” from my dissertation to visit Russia, and that “break” turned into 7 years. Said dissertation has now been lost in the mists of time, along with almost all my books on philosophy. @sniffle@

I studied French, German and Classical Greek (that is, Attic) Greek when I was an undergrad and kept up with them later. I also studied very small portions of Latin, Hebrew and Norse (and started on Irish, actually, but that lasted about a week and I remember nothing), mostly for purposes of comparative grammar because I was interested in linguistic structures for reasons tied into philosophy of knowledge. I barely remember anything of any of those three though — I can conjugate a basic Norse/Icelandic verb (“I love you” is “eg elsa ther,” substituting Latin characters for those cool Icelandic rune-letters) and remember a few Hebrew words (“sus” = “horse,” “ish” = “man,” “ishah” = “woman,” “meleq” = “king”) but that’s about it.

I’m really getting into Latin now though. I find there’s something indescribable about reading Julius Caesar in the original, even if it is in a heavily annotated textbook that explains all the vocabulary to you. Something like talking to the dead.

Marcus in Coloseo stat. Sed ubi est Cornelia? Marcus sedet et expectat. Subito Claudia videt. Marcus gaudet et salutat.

That’s all I remember from my Latin class. I once could read a little bit of “Omnia Gallia divisa est in partes tres” (I decided not to cheat and look it up;)

I love studying classical languages. French textbooks all have long sections where you talk about the arrondissements in Paris. Greek and Latin and Hebrew textbooks, on the other hand, have you translating passages about putting cities to the sword and Zeus doing the nasty in the form of various animals.

Does anybody here have any knowledge of Old Slavonic? That would be interesting.

Poor Marcus. Cornelia is such a tease.

and started on Irish, actually, but that lasted about a week and I remember nothing

Irish is easy:

Here horse! Are ye workin’ tha morra? If yar, then fock away aff wi’ ye! If no’, then we’ll drink a feed! It’ll tighten ye fo the ploughin’!

At least, that’s how my farmer mate from Strabane speaks.

”Here horse! Are ye workin’ tha morra? If yar, then fock away aff wi’ ye! If no’, then we’ll drink a feed! It’ll tighten ye fo the ploughin’! ”

Thats not Irish, ya cheeky bollix!)
Did ya ever get a fong* up da hole, ya feckin Taffy!)

We definitely have people who speak like that!) But the Northern Irish/Ulster accent is much different to our soft tones and deep vowels(though I get a horrendous time here from Kiwis cos of my accent). Some of the phrases we do use ‘a feed’ meaning ‘a lot’ etc, but Northerners are a different breed altogether really. But our own language -Gaeilge(Irish) – is messy enough to learn, though I imagine Welsh is even worse.

*a kick, not something else!

”Does anybody here have any knowledge of Old Slavonic? That would be interesting. ”

Not word sadly but I heard enough of it from the priest when I got married in Moskva. Seemingly he said something like ”God Help this lost non-Orthodox child” during the ceremony!

From I can gather during services, slavonic seems not too different from modern Russian. I guess once you remove all the wacky letters from way-back-then, it should be positively comprehensible for the most part.

How many people speak Irish as a first language? Isn’t it really small, mostly in one particular rural area?

You most certainly aren’t a journalist or analyst like myself Irishman.

The Reverse Irishman:

He knows the Eng. lang. Now, following the SRB submission guidelines, let’s see him write a 500 word or more essay, which substantively critiques any of my formally written commentary.

A much more honest approach than the bullshit he posts.

??? ??? ?????, “Reverse Irishman”? ??? ?????-?? ?????-??????

??????, ?????? ??? ??????? ??????.

Calling him out on his recent “offer” by making a better one that stays more topic focused.

Good to see Sean acknowledge the below referenced site, after I recently posted the following:

http://neznaika-nalune.livejournal.com/126078.html

????? ????? ??????, ? ????? ??? ??????. ?? ?????? ??? ??????, ?????? ??????????. ????? ???????? ?? ???????????, ?????? ?????? ?????? ??????.

? ?????????? – ??? ????????? ??????? ???? ?????? ? ???? ?? ??????????. ?? ????? ???????.

?? ???? ??? ??????. ?? ????????? ??????? ??????? ? ????????, ? ?????? ?? ????? ????? ??????, “???? ?????! ???? ?????! ??????! ??????!”

?? ??? ??????? ????????, ??????.

Yes, Chris knows Russian and some other languages. This in know way proves himself to be more knowledgeable on a number of FSU issues.

?????? ?? ????????? ????? ?????? ?????-???????? ?? ??????? ???????? ?? ???? ????????? — ????? ???? ???? ??? ???????.

By the way, Russophones, is that the proper Cyrillic spelling of Roehm’s name?

Ideologically or otherwise, Ernst Roehm had nothing to do with Vlasov. Chris Doss is proof that knowledge of a foreign lanaguage doesn’t always mean having a great knowledge of the history and politics of the nation in question.

Also note how I earlier corrected him on his incorrect transliteration of Mikhail (he posted Mikhael) and Chisinau (he posted Chisineu).

Does he still believe that “there’re” isn’t valid Eng. lang. short hand for “there are”?

???????? ????, ??? ???? ?????????. ?????????? ??????? ?????? ? ???????? ? ???????? ??????????-?????????? ? ?????????? ???????. ??? ?????? ?????? ?????? ??????? ????? “????? ??????? ???????-?????? ?????? ?????”.

????, “there’re” ???????? ?????????. ??? ??, ??? ????????????, ??????????? ???? ?????. ??????, ????? ????, ??? ??.

???????? ?? ???????????? ????????????.

Oops, it’s “Röhm”.

????, ???? ?? ?? ??????? ??-?????????, ?? ???? ?? ??? “Roehm” ????????????? ???????????? ??????? ????????? ???????, ??? ???????.

You’re wrong again Chris. Rohm was and Vlasov wasn’t. If anything, Vlasov was said to be heterosexually active.

Let’s see Chris submit to SRB a formally written essay documenting his views of Vlasov.

Vlasov was no more of a Nazi than FDR and Churchill were Communists for being on Stalin’s side.

??? ???? ????????! ?????? ?????? ???? ? ??????? ??????????? ???, ? ??? ???? — ?? ????????? ???????. ?????!

I’ll get to your email later DC. Herr Doss is amusing me.

?? ????, ??? ?????? ?????????? ??????????? ?????? ? ????? ?????????? ??????. ???? ??? ??? ????. ??????, ?? ????????? ?? ?????? ??????, ?? ????? ????. ?????? ???????, ??????. ?????????? ???? ?? ??????? ???????????? ????? ? ?? ???????? ?????????? ????????????.

??????, ?? ?????????, ??? ?? ????? ???????? ?????? ? ???????? ? ???????. ?????????. ??????, ????????? ??????? ?????? ??????????!

Chris, did you actually read what I formally wrote about Vlasov?

Feel free to submit to SRB a formally written rebuttal, which point by point replies to what I’ve said on the matter.

The editor of http://www.russian-victories.ru/ respects my views on Vlasov and doesn’t see him as a traitor. Note how Stalin is portrayed at that site.

Also note how I earlier corrected him on his incorrect transliteration of…Chisinau (he posted Chisineu).

Actually, “Chisineu,” while not the generally accepted transliteration of the Moldovan capital’s name into English, may be more phonetically correct than “Chisinau.”

The spelling in Romanian/Moldovan is “Chi?in?u,” and the “?” is generally transliterated into Russian as “?”. Chris’s transliteration may actually be truer to the way that “Chi?in?u” is rendered in Cyrillic: “???????”.

Not in the overwhelming of instances vis-a-vis Eng. lang. usage.

????, ???? ?? ???????? ??? ??? ????????, ???? ?????? ???????????.

Much of which is wasted in studying Latin and playing Warhammer 40000 on my computer.

I haven’t tried Warhammer. My son wastes time playing GuildWars: Nightfall. He’ll wake up at 5:30 in the morning when visiting me, just to play that game.

When I was in high school, I did the Dungeons and Dragons thing. Dice, maps, lead figures, endless books, graph paper, etc. The whole geeky works. These days, the computer games I waste time with are Civilization 3 or Diablo 2.

My Latin is limited to phrases I’ve picked up here or there. Veni, vidi, vici or in vino veritas .. that sort of thing. I used to be quite good in German, not fluent … but good enough. I’ve lost most of my German over the years. My Russian is just basic, I don’t really get to practice it enough (you would guess otherwise, seeing as I live with a Russian linguist).

Warhemmer 40,000 Dark Crusade rocks. I’m playing the Russian version as the ???????????? ?????.

I was a big RPG geek, but never got into DnD. I was a Call of Cthulhu guy.

Poor Soviets never had RPGs. What a tragic existence!

Chris, not that his sexual preference is important. If anything, the record shows him preferring this:

http://individualki.ru/59/enter.html

over what Rohm liked.

In any event, even JRL found that article you mention to be of interest. I once again welcome your putting together an article which point by point addresses my views on the subject matter.

????, ???? ?? ?? ???????, ??? ?? ??? ??????.

Chris, you’ve quite a hangup on his sexual preference which again if anything was on the actively heterosexual side to Rohm’s homosexuality.

I gather that you aren’t going to write a formal commentary on the subject.

????? ??????, ??? ?? ??? ?? ??????? ????? ???????.

??????, ? ???? ???? ???? “??????” ???????? ?????????

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Ich verdanke dich sehr!

Chris,

Dein Franzoesisch, Russisch, und Latein moegen zwar gut sein, aber Dein Deutsch ist Kacke;)

Ich weiss — ich habe fast alles vergessen! Ich bin schuldig.

????? — ?????, ? ?? ?????…

”How many people speak Irish as a first language? Isn’t it really small, mostly in one particular rural area?”

Its spoken in 4 areas as a first language – small enclaves in Galway, Cork, Donegal and Meath. Its spoken by around 100,000 as a first language. The rest of us can speak bits and pieces of it and understand a good bit. My father is fluent for example, and watches Irish language tv all the time, but my mother hasnt a word of it. To build a house in these areas one must pass a proficiency test in Irish – its one of the few ways the State can protect these areas from getting swamped with English. The people who live there are fluent in English too already though.

”You most certainly aren’t a journalist or analyst like myself Irishman.

The Reverse Irishman:

He knows the Eng. lang. Now, following the SRB submission guidelines, let’s see him write a 500 word or more essay, which substantively critiques any of my formally written commentary.”

Mike, could you list the following;
1. What print media your articles have been published in -newspapers, magazines, academic journals etc?(no offence, but blogs and letters to the editor, as well as fictional newspapers like the TTT are not formal venues really)
2. What formal(ie recognised) journalistic qualifications do you have?
3. In view of your claims on being a Russia analyst, would you please tell us what your formal qualifications in the area of Russia are, academic papers published etc?

Answer those, and I’ll write that essay. Now, the gauntlet is thrown down. I know you havent the answers to those; prove me wrong!

And once again, before you put the reverse on me, bear in mind, for the 100th time, I make no claims of being a Russia analyst or journalist of any description.

If you’re the Reverse Irishman, does that mean if I say your name backwards you will be banished back to Ireland?

Chris,

I’m already banished back Thank God! I’ll be home in 3 weeks, cant wait!

Some in New Zealand must have said “Namshiri.”

“The Reverse Irishman” is a great idea for a supervillain. He would be everything good popularly associated with Ireland, but the reverse. E.g. he would dress like a leprechaun, but all in black.

Didn’t you catch Mike’s series of articles in Foreign Affairs?

A supervillain, moi? I suppose i have fought long and hard against the threat of Russocentric sock puppets!

I’ll be sorry to leave NZ. The Kiwis are very nice, decent people and fine chemists. I’ve learned a lot here and will miss them.

No I didnt – is it a magazine or newspaper?

Did you bring back any sheep?

I was, I hope you know, joking about Foreign Affairs (psst, Mike — you know who has been published in Foreign Affairs? Here’s a hint — he works at Russia Today!). FA is an American sholarly journal on foreign relations and international politics.

I totally think Reverse Irishman would be a great supervillain. Much better than in the lame Leprechaun movies.

”Did you bring back any sheep?’
No, but I had a few affairs!! There’s something like 60 million sheep here, and the country can produce enough food to feed 80-100 million people. Its green everywhere – a really beautiful place, and I’ve never met a bunch of people so clued into the countryside – everything is trees, birds, animals. One man at work is having trouble with Australian parrots robbing fruit from his bushes. Another guy has possoms laughing outside his window, and another girl, a Serb actually, has big trouble with feral cats robbing her chickens! The problems are hilarious!) Fuuny enough, i spoke to the Serb girl at length about Kosovo one day, whilst training her to use an LC-MS. She said Serbs consider Kosovo to be all but gone. She said Tito allowed Albanians to begin migrating there after WII and gradually they supplanted the Serb population, which began to leave in droves as time went by and more and more Albanians arrived. The slow invasion also included ignoring the Serb language and other refusals to integrate. Its now at the point where Serbs are only present in very small pockets and the poplulation is mostly Muslim. Serbs arent happy about it, but they seem resigned that the game is up.

Groan, leprechauns! I prefer our own heroes, like Fionn McChuill and Diarmuid and Grainne from our mythology. I remember once being on a Delta Airlines flight home from Atlanta and I overheard a man saying ”I wanna see Killarney! And the leprechauns”! I’m sure Killarney separated him from his money but leprechauns I doubt! Funny how that has become attached to Ireland. The Irish version is different – Irish folk tales contain fairies, but they arent like leprechauns of popular knowledge, and indeed even now some elderly people are wary of certain places, etc, for fear of upsetting the fairies!

Well see this is proof that you aren’t really Irish, because everybody knows that the Irish all believe in leprechauns, just like Icelanders believe in fairies and New Zealanders believe in the beauty of a personal relationship between a man and his sheep. You must be a Welshman.

But somewhat seriously, I think Berezovsky looks like a leprechaun and may in fact be one. Where do you think he got his money from?

he would dress like a leprechaun, but all in black.

I thought Orange was the opposite of green ….

“I thought Orange was the opposite of green …. “

Yes, but we’re talking comic-book logic here, and he’s evil, so it’s black. Orange would look stupid.

Unless he is a Unionist leprechaun supervillain…

”Unless he is a Unionist leprechaun supervillain… ”

Good Grief! I’m a lot of things, but Unionist isnt one of them!)

Years ago a friend of my brother managed to get a ticket to see Northern Ireland vs The Republic of Ireland in Belfast. He was warned not to go, as, to say the least, the welcome wouldnt be so warm for us southerners at Windsor Park. He went anyway, in Northern Irish shirt, and kept his mouth shut.
The man is still traumatised by the experience I think! He said he never felt such unbridled hatred in his life. The things the fans were shouting, their goalkeeper egging them on, an absolute cauldron. In any event, the match was a draw, enough to send us to the now-legendary World Cup USA’94, and enough to keep them happy that we didnt beat them.

Six months a re-match in a Euro ‘96 qualifier, again in Belfast. We won 4-0. That shut the bastards up!

You see, that’s who was behind the Manchester bombing — evil leprechauns. They are a force to be reckoned with.

There was an article in Russian Newsweek awhile back on violence in Northern Ireland against immigrants, specifically from Eastern Europe. The title was “??? ???? ??? ????.” Apparently it’s pretty severe.

I’m not sure about leprechauns carrying out bombings..might be a bit beyond them. Scraping bits of brains, unborn foetus, limbs and burned skin off the walls of Belfast, Omagh, Manchester and Warrington and everywhere else is probably a thought too much for them to bear. And me as well, to be frank.

As for Northern Irish violence against immigrants, seemingly the Chinese, who have been there much longer than the rest, bear the brunt. Northern Ireland even now is not a happy place, economically its the blackspot of the British Isles(although it has improved a lot). Polish and Baltic men have a habit of walking around in vests with their muscles and chests out, trying to look like hard men, and have a general thuggish look about them. I’m not saying its right, but Northern Irish wouldnt take kindly to that at all and I can see the Poles especially getting into grief. The Republic, where I’m from, is flooded with Poles as well but our attitude is ‘whatever’. Our women hate their women though! Polish women wear even less than our own which earns them plenty of catty remarks from the Irish women. As you can imagine I have no issues myself with how they dress)

It is now only a matter of time before we get a post using this information to negatively contrast Ireland to Russia. I’m surprised it hasn’t happened before.

Hey, what are the variants of elves/leprechauns called in Russian folklore? I know there are ?????.

Interestingly, a friend of mine (who reads this blog) who is knowledgeable in these matters says that classical (pre-Christian) Russian/Slavic mythology is similar to Greco-Roman — deities in approximately the same roles and so forth. I’d always assumed there would be more of a link with Scandiniavian/Germanic mythology.

Unless he is a Unionist leprechaun supervillain…

Yes, that was the not-so-subtle reference I was trying to make.

Actually, the nasty comparisons would have to be Brits vs. Irish … to Russkis vs. Chechens.

Ohhh … a “western” woman having a problem with how an “eastern” woman might dress? I can’t imagine it!! ::eyeroll::

Katja is about 5′8″ and 120 lbs. 34 inch legs (ok, 173 cm, 55 kg, 86 cm leg for you who use a sane and rational form of measurement). She was never in the habit of wearing a bra before coming here – and wears one only occasionally now. And while she has excellent and metropolitan taste in clothes, she definitely dresses like a rather feminine woman, prefers high heels for any business or semi-formal setting, etc. Not typical when compared to the majority of American women, who I have come to regard as basically dressing like men. Katja and I have had endless discussions about this, the visual cues that American women pick up on in how a woman dresses, etc.

In any case, she has had some various interviews for jobs. Typical job interview, she’ll wear a black skirt, just at the knee .. matching high-heels and a selection of cute tops, nothing revealing. She’ll put her hair back as well. On her, this plays as … the sexy librarian look.

Most recently she had an interview with a small company here in Portsmouth. She said it went very well, as she was interviewing with the owner, a middle-aged man. However, the business is family-owned, and about half way through the interview … his wife comes into the room. Large middle-aged woman. Katja said she could feel the temperature of the room cool as this woman’s eyes bored into her, with annoyance/anger/bitterness.

She’s pretty sure she won’t get the job now.

It always sort of amazes me how these unspoken boundaries or rules exist. If I continue on with all my observations of American vs. Russia women, I’ll likely come across as a misogynist or something, so better that I stop my rant here.

Better just to say that a greater degree of femininity is permitted in the behavior and dress of Russian women, than is typically permitted among American women. There are exceptions – but as a rule, women can be extraordinarily catty towards one another.

Chris, that RTTV person you mentioned never made The NYT op-ed like myself. Not that he’s alone. Once again, I did it pre-internet, when it wasn’t as easy to make that page. I’ve also appeared as an analyst on a prime time 50K watt NY news talk radio station, in addition to having produced radio shows on international affairs. What exactly do you do at RAN?

The Irishman troll strikes again with his hypocritically applied challenges. He often and very disingenuously brings this matter up as an attempt to deflect attention away from his lack of knowledge on a number of FSU issues.

Once again, David Johnson, possibly Ira Straus and other propped individuals don’t know Russian. It’s my understanding that Peter Lavelle only recently acquired Russian language fluency.

As many of my fellow Amercians prove, their knowledge of English doesn’t always equate with a great knowledge of American history, politics and sports. Earlier, the Irishman ignorantly challenged the fact that penly discriminatory policies against the Irish was evident in Boston.

The Irishamn troll has yet to substantively challenge any of my formally written commentary in the form of written articles. He hasn’t written any of his own.

My formally written commentary has been picked up in the NY Times (letters section and pre-internet, when it was difficult getting published at that venue, as many have never appeared at that outlet), the Action Ukraine Report, Eurasian Home, Intelligent.ru, The Tiraspol Times, Serbianna, Russia Blog, The Russia Journal and Sean’s Russia Blog. His remarks about TTT are factually flawed.

Let Irishman troll or anyone else attempt to challenge any of that commentary in the form of a formally written article of their own. Until then, his bogus reamrks about me appear all the more bogus.

Contrary to what the Irishman troll says, the Serbs haven’t given up on Kosovo. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be maintaining their just claim with Russia’s support.

I dunno — the Russian woman I rent an apartment with dresses like a Berkeley lesbian. But she’s a theater person.

“I did it pre-internet,”

I’m surprised you don’t say you did it pre-New York Times. That would make getting published there doubly impressive. Or better yet, you did it prior to the invention of writing. Your op-ed was in the form of a long heroic poem passed down generation through generation by the village wise men.

Mike, have you ever actually met a Serb?

I saw Transformers last night. It was fun. Good eye candy both in the Megan Fox, cool robots, and big explosions categories. Still an awful movie but unlike other Michael Bay productions I didn’t want to shoot him and then slit my own throat during it. It was certainly his best since The Rock. There is no doubt in my mind that there will be a sequel.

Basically the film met all my expectations, which wasn’t hard since I only expected eye candy. I wonder how much GMC paid to get a 2 hour 45 min commercial?

While I love these big blockbuster CGI filled science fiction-action flicks, they move so fast it is almost impossible to enjoy the effects. I felt the same way about scenes from the last Spiderman (a far lesser movie because it actually tried to have a plot). The fights move to fast that anyone who isn’t constantly plugged into the quick cut culture of MTV can’t keep up. At least I can’t. I found the film poorly edited in that scenes jumped from one to the other leaving you thinking that something should have happened in between them.

The film was an interesting allegory for the troubled American Century. The government is completely incompetent. Attacks are quickly thought to be from “rouge nations” except that the technology is too advanced. There is no way N. Korea can build a kick ass robot scorpion. One young hip scientifically blond analyst (just recruited out of high school) suggests something about organic robot DNA which the old men quickly scoff at. More cleavage might have better gotten her their ear. Dismayed and ever so reluctant to think outside the box, the G-men do what they know best: mobilize all America’s big cocks for war.

Enter the teens to save the day. Nerdy “I must get laid” boy and hot “no one ever listens to my problems because they are too busy staring at my tits” girl from Anysuburb USA discover before the G-Men despite all their big cocks and fancy computers the real story behind the story. Alien transforming robots have come to earth looking for some long lost jewelry.

Then we have the third group of young upstarts. A group of army brats who while initially get their ass kicked in Qatar, find a way to kick ass. Living by their own rules and bucking protocol is the name of their game. Thank god because if people listed to the old men everyone would be dead. Like any good American action film, the good soldier fights not so much for honor, country or God, but for himself. And it is this self-interested ethos that allows him to prevail in the end. All the lead nameless white soldier wants is to return home and hold is baby daughter.

The film is thoroughly stripped of any grander ideological pretensions. The only ideology is the black/white of good and evil. But this is not Bush’s good/evil world because his is based in relativism. No, Transformers is based on objective good and evil. The robots represent the moral figures among the vapid humans. They are a sort of innocence lost in out times, figures of a nostalgia where evil really fucked you up and good saved your ass. The ethical lesson is to purge the relative good/evil and return to the unadulterated, unmediated good/evil. The question is how so we make the moral myth a reality? How do we transform so that we too are more than meets the eye? Especially since we have no transforming alien robots let alone any super smart teens to guide us?

I love how in these movies there is always one guy who has a super computer in his bedroom. Of course he’s not making billions with his talent but instead squanders his skills on video games and donuts. He doesn’t even seem to be using his big hard drive for storing internet porn. For once I would like to see him have to press Ctrl-Alt Delete and have to reboot.

In the end, nerd tuned teen savior Sam sure had to do a lot of stuff to get laid. Megan Fox is hot but she doesn’t look like a three input girl.

In the end the kids are all right. Especially when they are bred with American ingenuity and attitude and they are backed by robots with moral clarity. Thanks to them, the world is saved. Thank the Lord Jesus Christ because if it was up the government we would have started WWIII or be stuck in some quagmire in some far off country.

Some great highlights include: Bernie Mac’s great cameo, red socked George Bush who orders a plate of Ho-Hos on Air Force One, and the Indian phone operator (the latter of course is a comment on outsourcing and globalization).

Worth seeing just for fun, but only in the movies. DVD won’t do it justice.

Chris regarding your NYT reference, you’ve done jack shit in comparison vis-a-vis the FSU material I discuss.

As for your question, it shows your ignorance. I wrote a very well rfeceived commentary about an 11/5/05 Njegos Foundation gathering at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute. I know far more about former Yugo. and disputed former Communist bloc territories than your pundit friend.

I’m in regular contact with Serbs. Some very well connected ones at that. They like my work.

I’ve been thinking about this. It seems doubtful that getting a letter to the editor (not an “op-ed”) published in the NYT was harder prior to the Internet. If anything it was probably quite a bit easier, seeing as it is now much easier to send them material.

PS Sean, when did Mike collaborate with you?

Are you serious Chris? Email wasn’t a widely used option back then (for a good period, it wasn’t available at all) and there were fewer media outlets.

The fewer news outlets made The NYT more influential. NYT letters were also more lengthy than the 100-150 word present day standard.

“Email wasn’t a widely used option back then”

That is sort of my point. No email. Ergo, it was less easy to send them material.

There was the fax and snail mail available. Easy enough options. Regarding that pre-internet period, once again:

- The diminished number of other news outlets when compared to the present day.

- How The NYT leters section was much more lengthier than the present day 100-150 word standard.

These factors made The NYT more influential and more difficult to get published in.

more influential.

Surely you’re not suggesting that policymakers were sitting around in Washington, DC — as were their Wall Street investor-counterparts in NY — waiting for the next Averko letter to the editor to be published? I know I don’t start my day without a nugget of Averkian wisdom.

PS Sean, when did Mike collaborate with you?

I wrote the introduction and edited his Vlasov article.

“????”

Much of that commentary was proven correct over the kind of crap being peddled.

Ivanov and Roobit have a point about replying to low life pond scum like yourself.

Sean:

If you recall, we edited each other. I still have the notes on that.

Sean,

all in all Transformers isnt too bad. Like you said, it suffers from dire plot, too much happening at the end(it was really all over the place in the last 30 minutes) but it satisfied an urge, to give it some credit. I didnt think about any of the possible subcurrents, but now that you mention, it really is a good vs evil battle in the old style, with no fuziness at all, which is unusual these days in film, where most heroes have some sort of flaw or troubled background. To my ears, much of the robot dialogue was totally corny ”freedom is the right of all sentinent beings” etc. But, to its credit, some stuff was very clever – the notion of life being given from a spark, which some scientists reckon began life on earth(though it wasnt a magic-style spark like in TF!), the belief by the blonde Aussie analyst that the robots were possessed of quantum computers and the brilliant chase/fight between Prime and Bonecrusher on the freeway. Whatever about three input, Fox is a Fox and to be honest i was more interested in her thong sticking our of her jeans than Prime transforming in front of her. She’s right of my street, precisely the type of look I like.

Walter/Chris
”Actually, the nasty comparisons would have to be Brits vs. Irish … to Russkis vs. Chechens.”
I’m not really sure what to make of this remark really, whether to be offended by it or what. If you use the comparison with modern Northern Ireland and the IRA and Britain, then certainly there is much to compare; with the obvious difference being the Brits have the good manners and intellect not to level cities with fighter bombers. If the comparison is with the Irish Republic, to which I belong, the most obvious comparison is that its empire vs rebels and a lot of blood shed. But the big difference between that and Rus/Chechnya is that unlike the Chechens, we actually won the war in Ireland and became independent, without carrying out terrorist acts in Britain that have made the modern IRA so infamous. If you’re trying to cmpare my interest in Chechnya and sympathy for the people there with any sort of anti-Brit nationalism, then nothing could be further from the truth. I have zero interest in Northern Ireland and couldnt give a shit if it floated off into the North Sea. And I have no dislike for Brits, with whom I’ve loads of work contacts, including the Olympic lab at Kings College in Chelsea.

Mike,

as I predicted, you have not been published formally anywhere. I did say no blogs or letters to the editor, and frankly I dont believe you’ve produced any radio shows – more like you phoned one and got on air live as a contributor. Give it a rest Mike; you havent a leg to stand on. You’re no more a journalist than I’m a cosmonaut.(I’m not, sadly). You’re a clown with pc writing stuff who thinks he’s someone great. Grow up. As for your articles, Mike, some of them are so boring they’d put the zombies in Dawn of the Dead back in their grave.

“Mike,

as I predicted, you have not been published formally anywhere. I did say no blogs or letters to the editor, and frankly I dont believe you’ve produced any radio shows – more like you phoned one and got on air live as a contributor. Give it a rest Mike; you havent a leg to stand on. You’re no more a journalist than I’m a cosmonaut.(I’m not, sadly). You’re a clown with pc writing stuff who thinks he’s someone great. Grow up. As for your articles, Mike, some of them are so boring they’d put the zombies in Dawn of the Dead back in their grave.”

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Apparently, the Irishman troll didn’t read the new comments policy. Contrary to his lies, my work has been well received as he has produced nothing of substance. I’ve in fact appeared as an analyst on a 50K watt NY prime time news radio talk show. My work has appeared at fine venues; some of them being well established. THANK YOU!

Apologies Sean and Mike too. It was over the top, although I maintain my line that you havent been published in any newspapers or magazines or academic journals, as, well, you havent.

YOU LIE.

JRL, AUR and Eurasian Home are three instances. My pre-internet NYT and Newsday appearances are another reference point. The Tiraspol Times being another, along with The Moscow Times.

Sean’s Russia Blog, Russia Blog, Intelligent.ru and Serbianna and are fine sources in their own right.

Did you have articles published in Newsday?

That’s not what you said. You said “published” without saying in what form. Meantime, I’ve in fact had articles published/posted at established news/commentary outlets as mentioned in the above. I forgot to mention The Russia Journal. A few of my Newsday letters were box highlighted in article form with one of them making letter of the week.

The record clearly shows that you’re once again trolling off topic with personal issues which include lies and insults.

As per FSU related matter, you’ve achieved NOTHING in comparative terms.

Hey Mike, just send Ger a CV and be done with it already.

”The record clearly shows that you’re once again trolling off topic with personal issues which include lies and insults.

As per FSU related matter, you’ve achieved NOTHING in comparative terms. ”

Ahem, maybe I should be apologising – but no. To most normal people, publishing means on paper Mike, not blogs/websites etc. If you say clearly you have had actual articles, not letters, published in journals/mags/newspapers, when I will withdraw my remarks. So please state clearly if that is the case or not. When scientists talk about publishing, they mean on paper; I’m sure journalists are the same.

Sean:

He initiated the manner that goes opposite your comments policy.

I on the other hand abide by your comments policy.

He’s the one who should knock it off with his constant half truths, outright lies and hypocrically applied standards.

I reiterate:

If you have been published in verificable print media in the form of formal articles for pay then please say so, indicating where. You claim to be a journalist, now back up that claim. You take the high ground in thread after thread here, claiming to be an analyst, journalist etc – now show us how that is the case.

Its Sean’s perogative, not yours, to give me the red-card if he so wishes. I asked you a simple question. Answer it.

I have. Now stop trolling in violation of the comments policy. What I make is NONE of your business.

You havent. Answer clearly. I dont give a crap how much you earn; but being paid for articles is surely some indication of professionalism. If you havent been paid for writing in mags and newspapers, then you arent a journalist. I’m sorry for making an issue of this, but I firmly belive that you are being disingenuous when you call yourself a journalist. And I’m not trolling. You know I’m not.

Yes you’re by staying off topic with hypocritically applied standards, inclusive of half truths and outright lies. You’ve yet to challenge any of my formally written commentary.

In a recent instance, you said you’d no longer reply to me; only to continue doing so.

That’s probably the minimum definition of journalism… Do you make money with it…? Kind of a Gretchenfrage…

Mike,

More bluster and smoke.
your failure to answer means its fair for me to assume that you arent a journalist. And it means no apology and retraction, which I’d have readily given had you proven me wrong.

Case closed, and apologies Sean for breaching the new policy; it wont happen again.

Look up the meaning of the word “journalist” and Google: internet definition of a troll

The latter can and should be defeated.

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