Brittney Griner suddenly stands for America

Brittney Griner returned to a Russian courtroom Tuesday and her defense team is claiming she uses marijuana to treat pain. She was caught with marijuana vape cartridge with CBD oils in it at a Moscow airport in February and has since been languishing in a Russian prison. She pleaded guilty to the drug possession charge but said she didn't intentionally break Russia's anti-drug laws. She faces up to ten years in prison.

Griner is one of the tallest WNBA basketball players, standing at 6 feet 9 inches tall.

Griner came to the forefront of public attention in 2020, after she voiced her opposition to the playing of the National Anthem before WNBA games. She and many of her teammates also began kneeling while it was played because Colin Kaepernick, a mediocre NFL football player used the same ploy to try boosting his career.

But Griner also has a spotty past. In 2015 the WNBA suspended her and her ex-wife, Glory Johnson, for seven games after the not-so loving couple got into a domestic dispute. They were both later arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.

In 2020, Griner faced suspension for an on-court brawl she had gotten into, and during the George Floyd riots, she and her teammates refused to take the floor for a preseason game which was eventually canceled.

She had this to say: "I honestly feel we should not play the national anthem during our season. I think we should take that much of a stand." She also said that she "does not believe that the national anthem should be played at sporting events"

But that was then.

Several days prior to Griner's guilty plea, she wrote to our so-called President Joe Biden (D) begging him to use his apparent power to get her butt out of jail and back home where she is free to kneel for the National Anthem once again and beat up on her wife.

In her letter, she wrote in part, “On the 4th of July, our family normally honors the service of those who fought for our freedom, including my father, who is a Vietnam war veteran. It hurts thinking about how I usually celebrate this day because freedom means something completely different to me this year.”

Griner’s defense argued she used  medical marijuana to treat pain from injuries like many other professional athletes. But medical marijuana is against Russian law and Griner should have researched that before traveling there, after all, it isn't as if there exists no pain treatment alternatives.

"With the prescription in place, Brittney may have used it for medical but not recreational purposes," her lawyer Maria Blagovolina said in court, as per Reuters.

Another hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Thursday the U.S. laws legalizing cannabis in some states have no bearing on what happens in Russia. 

"You understand, if drugs are legalized in the United States — in a number of states — and this is done for a long time, and now the whole country will become drug addicted. This does not mean that all other countries are following the same path," Zakharova said.

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Russian media has speculated that Griner could be exchanged for Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, who is imprisoned in the U.S. Russian authorities have said that no swap could take place until Griner is sentenced.

A Russian court has authorized Griner’s detention until Dec. 20.

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Biden's past blather may have created international incident as Russia pulls its ambassador

It wasn't just those historical words to Corn Pop that might have resulted in an all-out interracial kerfuffle, but more recently it might be the words about Vladimir Putin's soul, or lack thereof, that may have just sparked an international incident.

In an obeisant interview with George Stephanopoulos [no relation to Nicholas Dellarackkatakkapolous] that aired on "Good Morning America,"  Biden called Vladimir Putin a "killer" and then claimed that in 2011 he told the Russian dictator to his face that he was soulless, but did not go so far as to challenge him to an arm-wrestling match as is Joe's wont. 

It's possible, however, that Biden was exaggerating and instead told Putin, in no uncertain terms, that he likes the way he rides horses without a shirt.

Sounded like his effort to throw down with Corn Pop with the chain. The reality was he was attacking Mitt Romney in 2012 for saying that we should be concerned about Russia.

The U.S. intelligence community released a report this week stating that Putin was behind the influence operation in the 2020 election aimed at helping Trump and hurting Biden. The Kremlin has denied the claim.

This seems to be the modus operandi by the Democrats as we've seen in the 2016 election in which Hillary Clinton vilified half of the country by calling us "deplorables." Russia had nothing to do with her loss--she simply sucks at campaigning and only got to where she is at on Bill's coattails.

We don't know for sure whether it was the intel report or Biden's macho braggadocio that got the Kremlin to recall its ambassador, Anatoly Antonov, for "consultations," but there's little doubt that our current relationship with Russia is strained..

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that relations with the U.S. “are in a difficult state, which Washington has brought to a dead end in recent years. We are interested in preventing their irreversible degradation, if the Americans are aware of the associated risks.”

According to Russian politician Alexey Pushkov, it was Biden’s remarks that caused the rift:

Посол РФ в Вашингтоне вызван в Москву для консультаций – в ответ на оскорбительный выпад Байдена в адрес Путина. Это – исключительный в дипломатии шаг, следующий – отзыв посла и понижение уровня дипотношений. Москва явно настроена на переоценку всей совокупности отношений с США.

— Алексей Пушков (@Alexey_Pushkov) March 17, 2021

Translation:
“The Russian ambassador to Washington has been summoned to Moscow for consultations – in response to Biden’s insulting attack on Putin. This is an exceptional step in diplomacy, the next is the recall of the ambassador and the lowering of the level of diplomatic relations. Moscow is clearly determined to reassess the entire set of relations with the United States.”

Well there you go, Joe. Your "mine is bigger than yours" mentality, [if there's any mentality left in that head of yours] has needlessly put us at odds with Russia. Now it isn't only Corn Pop who's angry at you, it's Putin. You and your puppet masters have really gone and screwed things up.

Do you guys miss Trump yet?

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Russian ambassador killed by Muslim jihadist

Ankara, Turkey -- a news photographer captured a photo of a jihad attacker screaming "Allahu Akbar!" ("Allah is greater") and shot Russia's ambassador to Turkey in an Ankara art exhibit. 

Three others were also shot in the apparent Islamic terror attack. The ambassador has since died.

click to see the graphic video

Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov was giving a speech when the Muslim gunman suddenly shot him in the back. 

Still and video cameras caught the cowardly attack as Karlov fell to the floor and the Islamist moved toward him shouting Islamic slogans that may have gotten him laid in the afterlife as he was soon thereafter killed by Turkish forces. 

Flipping the 'shahada' finger

Turkish media reported that the gunman had been killed and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that Karlov had been killed in a live television statement.

The Muslim assassin was identified as a Turkish special forces police officer, Ankara mayor Melih Gokcek said. This was probably why the gunman was able to be armed and to be so close to the ambassador. 

The mayor told the media that the attack was aimed at ruining relations between Turkey and Russia now that the two countries had started to normalize ties in June.

The Islamist gunman could be heard screaming in Turkish: "Don't forget about Aleppo, don't forget about Syria! Don't forget to have my 72 virgins waiting for me, Allah, for I'm ready to make the trip to your promised land." (I made parts of that up.)

Russian officials told Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, that the shooter was believed to be an Islamic radical and could be heard yelling "Allahu Akbar."

Wow, ya think?

U.S. State Department puppet, John Kirby, said U.S. officials were aware of reports about the shooting. Then pulled out his worn index card and read: "We condemn this act of violence, whatever its source. Our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family."

Yadda yadda.

Ambassador Karlov was 62 and has been Russia's ambassador to Turkey since July 2013. Prior to that, he was Russia's ambassador to North Korea from 2001-2006, indicating that Russia gave Karlov the crappiest ambassador assignments.

He is survived by a wife and son. 

The condition of the other wounded is not yet known.


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