I'm with Paul. Immigration is a boring subject. McCain and Obama are too similar to argue the details. I think McCain is finally taking a more American citizen viewpoint while Obama is taking a more "global" viewpoint, I'm guessing since he's running for President of the world.

Let's talk about the Russian-Georgian conflict.

What's Russia's intent? Is Georgia completely innocent in all of this? Does Russia have the right to protect it's interests (citizens) in Georgia with military attacks?

Or is Russia trying to gain control of the oil pipeline coming out of the Caspian region? I thought it was only evil, Republican Conservative Capitalists who were interested in oil.

Right now here is the pipeline coming from my project location:
http://www.cpc.ru/portal/alias!press/lang!en-us/tabID!3357/DesktopDefault.aspx

I know that in Kazakhstan I've seen a potential future project that shows a pipeline going south from where I'm at towards Aktau (coastal city along SE shore of Caspian Sea). I think all the oil producing companies in the RoK would be more than willing to avoid sending oil through the Caspian Pipeline which goes across Russia and go through the one from Aktau to Baku. But Russia and Iran are both against it: "A pipeline from Kashagan or Kuryk to Baku or a nearby terminal would run approximately 700 kilometers on the seabed. Russia (in tandem with Iran) has long opposed this or any trans-Caspian pipeline, ostensibly for environmental reasons, but in reality for preserving its quasi-monopoly on the transit of oil and gas from the eastern Caspian shore." The Caspian is bordered by Russia to the North and Iran on the South.

Is Russia flexing it's muscle so it can pretend to be a world power again? Do they want another Cold War? Is this "blood for oil"?


Ya'lls thoughts