An update from Kate.
Small Dead Animals? What’s that? Many Russian net-blocks are banned from SDA.
As I’m not there we’ll have to wait for Kate to explain these photos.
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The other night, she went to the The Mariinsky where she enjoyed The Nutcracker. You really don’t want to know how good her seats were.
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She’ll be back around the 2nd, but I wouldn’t expect a whole lot of blogging from her until the 4th.
Russia?
Something doggie-related?
St Petersburg, I presume?
Doesn’t get any finer than a Russian performance of the Nutcracker.
Go Kate! (and go Trump!)
I think she went for the beaches.
When Kate does get back, I hope she won’t be pissed at how we’ve treated lance. Now, I believe lance could stand a little thicker skin at times, I’ve been called all sorts of vile shit here over the years. But, in all fairness, he is our host and thus deserves a certain amount of decorum. Ha, his Trump snit yesterday aside.
I will certainly give lance credit for supplying a large quantity and variety of threads for us to participate in. In that spirit, and running the risk of now coming across as a TOTAL SUCK, I will take this opportunity to yet again thank the SDA team for being an oasis in a maddening sea of MMGW propaganda and a place to vent to the mostly like-minded when my ears can no longer hold the steam.
Although, for the record, there are other blogs that offer these features without me having to read the rantings of Creationists. 🙂
When Kate comes back she’s going to be a Russian apparatchik, and convert SDA into an offshoot of Russia Today where disparaging Putin gets you black listed.
There are good reasons for liking Vladimir Putin, such as Russia’s bombing the Hell out of ISIS (while a superannuated ***** just bloviates).
“Although, for the record, there are other blogs that offer these features without me having to read the rantings of Creationists. :)”
now now, the right to wax stupid is enshrined in our constitution
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday he still likes the ideas of theoretical communism “very much,” and recalled that unlike many others he had not publicly destroyed his Communist Party membership card, but still keeps it at home.
“In contrast to many functionaries I did not throw my membership card away or burn it in public,” he told supporters in the southern city of Stavropol. “I still keep it at home.”
The Itar-TASS news agency quoted the former KGB official as saying that he had been rank-and-file member and not an office-bearer of the Communist Party.
“I cannot say that I was a hardline advocate of the communist ideology,” he said. “Yet my attitude to all this was very delicate.”
Putin said that while serving in the KGB he liked – and continues today to like – communist and socialist ideas “very much.”
Referring to the “Moral Code of the Builder of Communism” – a set of 12 rules every party member was expected to follow – he said the “wonderful ideas” resembled the Bible in many ways.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/putin-his-communist-party-membership-card-i-still-keep-it-home
If she got to sit in the tsar box …. well I think she deserves it, but I’m still jealous.
Kate in Moscow; Been there, done that for the first five images. For a septuagenarian to stand on Red Square ,in front of the viewing platform on top of the building where the leaders of —“Murders Incredible”— and which is the resting place for what is essentially now a Wax Musum Character of Lenin,—— I surerptiously gave the Soviet Union-now the Russian Empire the—– “finger”.
Yep; the furtive feeling from fifty years of the “cold war” was and is that integral to my understanding of the Russian Menace.
I sure hope she gets to see a shirtless Putin LIVE , If anyone deserves a good thrill and tingle down her leg … it’s Kate.
Pics are all St Petersburg. Just stopping by through miracle of anonymizer. Now need sleep.
Although, for the record, there are other blogs that offer these features without me having to read the rantings of Creationists. 🙂
Heh, same as the warmists, get all bent out of shape because they can’t answer why their favorite theory stopped.
Find it interesting that SDA is banned in Russia. Esau lives away from the ‘fat of the land’ in many different ways…
Maybe she can bring back a #spineforJustin. There are very likely many more of them there than here.
I’ll bet they were great seats, but few years back they were not offering toilet paper in the rest rooms. I wonder if things have improved.
I recognize some of the buildings in the photos, and Kate can correct me where I am wrong.
From the top.
1. A cathedral in the Admiralty/university area on Vasilyevsky Island? Name?
2. The Academy of Arts building?
3. Floating restaurant anchored off Vasilyevsky Island, Admiralty and university buildings in background
4. Catherine Palace (Catherine II), also known as Tsarskoye Selo. Nicholas II and family briefly imprisoned here after February revolution before being transferred to Yekaterinburg and their execution.
5. Inside Catherine Palace
6. Royal family box at the Mariinsky. (The seats we had when there probably had not changed much since 1917)
7. Nobility seating in the Mariinsky
The exteriors look like Flin Flon.
Edward Snowdon may try latching onto the hem of Kate’s Siberian fur coat as she boards her flight home. It’s very ‘code’ in Moscow.
LOVE the photos!
Lance until she is back I find your topics and picks to be great as usual. Thanks for filling in again and keeping the site rolling along.