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Jeneral2885

(1,354 posts) Fri Apr 18, 2014, 09:06 AM Apr 2014

Alaska, you're safe: Putin jokes Alaska is too "cold" to be annexed

http://news.yahoo.com/ex-russian-alaska-too-cold-annex-putin-jokes-134214391.html

In a patriotic fervour, Russians are asking President Vladimir Putin to bring back the US state of Alaska, sold off to the United States in Tsarist times. Putin's answer? It's too cold.

During Putin's annual marathon phone-in session Thursday, when Russians pose questions to the Russian leader, a pensioner asked him to possibly follow the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine with the taking of Alaska.

"Faina Ivanovna, dear, why do you need Alaska?" Putin asked the pensioner.

"We have a northern country -- 70 percent of our territory are in the north and the far north," he noted.

"Alaska is cold too," he said. "Let's not get ahead of ourselves."

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Well the Palins should feel safe.

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Alaska, you're safe: Putin jokes Alaska is too "cold" to be annexed (Original Post) Jeneral2885 Apr 2014 OP

What an asshat. eom MohRokTah Apr 2014 #1

asshat? Jeneral2885 Apr 2014 #3

Putin. MohRokTah Apr 2014 #4

'Record warmth, confused plants: An Alaska January to remember' onehandle Apr 2014 #2

Sarah Palin is watching them and she's a "momma grizzly" dontchaknow. n/t KurtNYC Apr 2014 #5

can we just give him her instead tabbycat31 Apr 2014 #10

No matter what else Putin is sarisataka Apr 2014 #6

Come on we all know that he is afraid that he will have to take palin if he annexes Alaska. jwirr Apr 2014 #7

I'll bet he can see Palin's head from the Kremlin. moondust Apr 2014 #8

Damn...and I was really hoping they could take Sarah Palin off our hands. nt Tommy_Carcetti Apr 2014 #9

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)

1. What an asshat. eom

Reply to Jeneral2885 (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 09:07 AM

Apr 2014

Jeneral2885

(1,354 posts)

3. asshat?

Reply to MohRokTah (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 09:55 AM

Apr 2014

????

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)

4. Putin.

Reply to Jeneral2885 (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 10:18 AM

Apr 2014

He's an asshat.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

2. 'Record warmth, confused plants: An Alaska January to remember'

Reply to Jeneral2885 (Original post)

Fri Apr 18, 2014, 09:13 AM

Apr 2014

Warm weather blanketing Alaska for days now has shattered records, turned plants green and changed the way some people live.

The temperature hit 62 degrees at Port Alsworth, on Lake Clark, on Monday, tying the highest January temperature ever recorded in the state, the National Weather Service reported.

Nome peaked at 51 degrees, topping the city's warmest January with a temperature typical of early June, forecasters said.

In Anchorage, snow continued melting Tuesday in the latest of 15 consecutive days with temperatures at 32 degrees or above. As of Monday, it was the city's fourth warmest January ever recorded.

http://www.adn.com/2014/01/28/3296179/record-warmth-and-confused-plants.html

Clearly 'The Grifter' doesn't spend a lot of time in Alaska these days.