If you haven't been following the Russian/Ukraine issue, it's time to start

[The Guesser]

Not going to go through all the episodes to find it, but it was a couple years ago when Obama was running vs Romney. Romney had supposedly donated like $7000 to some anti-gay charity. She went on some soapboxing and stating she was going to find a "Pro-LGBT" charity and donate $1000 to them to help offset Romneys charity.

So I would assume (how she makes $7mil a year) why would she only donate $1000 to help "offset" Romneys. Why not donate a whole $7000.

And she is all about being gay and proud. But she had to "find" a pro-LGBT charity? Shouldn't she know one off the top of her head?

So I assume she donates a lot less then she should.

So she stated she donated $1000 (fact) and makes $7mil a year = Less then 1%

Whoa dude. That's quite a stretch. Because she donated $1000 to some charity as a publicity stunt, to offset Romney, that means that's ALL she donated to charity that year? C'Mon. You know what happens when you ASSUME.

 

[NFLTrends]

You are naive if you think Isolationism will make us safer.

Getting involved in others politics and religious wars isn't going to stop anything.

They have been doing that for hundreds of years, and nothing we do, how much we spend, will change that.

So... how did the sanctions and everything we put on Russia working out?

What about what we did for Iran a decade ago?

Nothing changed, it still happening. ALL THE WHILE our country is failing on a daily basis. We care more about other countries and what they think of us, that we ignore all the problems here.

How much AID are we sending to other countries per year?? As of right now, its $54.5 BILLION.

What could that money do for those living in the US? How about homeless families with children? Securing our Borders? Use that towards college tuition for our future generation... there are better things we can do with that $$ then send it overseas and hope it gets into the right hands (which I would bet less then 10% does).

It should be the US first, then if we have anything left over, ok lets help someone else.

 

[NFLTrends]

Whoa dude. That's quite a stretch. Because she donated $1000 to some charity as a publicity stunt, to offset Romney, that means that's ALL she donated to charity that year? C'Mon. You know what happens when you ASSUME.

Im saying she is CHEAP lol.... Why wouldn't she donate the whole $7000 to offset the whole thing?

She admitted she donated that. I cant find anything else she has ever donated to. Would be nice to actually see her tax returns and see how much she donates per year. I would bet cash its right around the 1% mark so I would bet UNDER 1.9%.

She tried to make a point and failed miserably. Only $1000??? She should have DOUBLED Romneys and donated $14000 to make a point.

 

[The Guesser]

Im saying she is CHEAP lol.... Why wouldn't she donate the whole $7000 to offset the whole thing?

She admitted she donated that. I cant find anything else she has ever donated to. Would be nice to actually see her tax returns and see how much she donates per year. I would bet cash its right around the 1% mark so I would bet UNDER 1.9%.

She tried to make a point and failed miserably. Only $1000??? She should have DOUBLED Romneys and donated $14000 to make a point.

Why would/should she, a private citizen, show her tax returns??? When/if she runs for office, lets see a bunch, unlike Romney. I would say Romney is Waaaaaaaay richer than 7X Maddow, so her matching 1/7 of his donation was actually quite generous.

 

[neverbend]

What will the USA or the EU do about it? Not much...sanctions and big talk

Putin might just regret taking Crimea, it probably is only a short term gain. In the last 20 years of Ukrainian independence they've had a Russian leaning
President for 14 years. Only from 2004 to 2010 was an EU leaning president elected and that election was very tight. What I'm getting at is Ukraine is split almost 50-50 between attachment to Russia or Europe. The next election is in May. If Crimea votes to become part of Russia then they won't be able to vote for Ukranian President and that's a game changer. Viktor Yanukovych in the last election in 2010 won the election by 500,000 votes only because Yanukovych
won Crimea by 900,000 votes. He would have lost if not for Crimea & that bodes well for the next European leaning candidate not having to overcome the huge Russian Crimean voting block .