It's been coming for years, with all the pro-US sentiment in Georgia against all the resurgent Russian nationalism coming out of Russia... and it finally exploded.
The main question is, who started it, Russia, trying to deal with the Georgian threat -- that is, that Georgia wants to be part of Europe and the West, not part of the Russian orbit -- or by Georgia, trying to retake South Ossetia?
The fact that, as that article says, Russia continues to attack despite Georgia's attempts to give up and let them have South Ossetia and Abkhazia suggests that Russia may be at fault... but they could be simply using the excuse to carry out this plan. We just don't know...
Either way though, Russia's actions are clearly aimed at wrecking Georgia. Bombing Georgia, attacking its military in the country, blockading the coast, bombing the Tblisi airport...
This video interview with Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili is also interesting.
Sierra died years ago. Of course this dismemberment is sad, but... this wasn't Sierra, this was another company just calling itself Sierra. Sierra is gone... though I will admit that it was kind of nice to see them bring back a few franchise names recently, even so. Sierra died years ago. Seeing this thing dragging itself around calling itself "Sierra" while doing things like making an Aces game... a rail shooter has been kind of cruel (sure it's a good rail shooter, but it's a rail shooter!).
And, of course, there's that little "Sierra/VUG has had problems for years (financially, etc)" issue that is the whole reason this happened in the first place...
But anyway, sadly, I think the article is right, someone's probably going to resurrect Sierra again. It's inevitable. The question is, how?
Overall, I think I more miss him than not... sure he was a hassle, and was often unhappy, but he is so, so good... you should keep players like that. :(
Part of me hopes he completely falls apart and fails, the other part that he does well and shows the Red Sox ownership that they made a mistake... :)
Midsummer, right? Oh wait, it's 63 degrees today, and was no warmer yesterday? I'm wearing a long sleeve shirt in midsummer? And it's been continually cloudy and has rained just about every other day for weeks? Huh...
Now, I can't stand hot weather --80 degrees or up is too hot -- but all the rain is pretty awful... and 63 is just cold for summer. Maine... :)
This is a very, VERY good article on Islamic extremism and some growing divisions within the movement, and one Dr. Fadl who, despite being one of the founding theorists behind Al Qaeda, has turned on Islamic extremism.
I just read the article in the paper version of the New Yorker, had me interested from end to end... it's from one of last month's issues, but is still definitely quite current. I won't quote it all, as it's very long. Just go to the site and read it. Highly recommended!
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