Our State Department criticized Russia for their human rights record. Oh, boy

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62B37620100312

Russia dismisses U.S. human rights report

(Reuters) - Russia indignantly dismissed U.S. criticism of its human rights record on Friday, saying the United States was guilty of its own abuses from Afghanistan to "the streets of America."

MOSCOW
Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:32pm EST

In a statement laced with sarcasm, the Foreign Ministry said the main purpose of what it called the U.S. State Department's annual "opus" on human rights worldwide was to "solve the internal political problems of the American establishment." snip

The Russia section of the State Department report, released on Thursday, cited problems and abuses ranging from corruption and unfair elections to the killings of journalists who reported critically on the government. snip

As in past years, Russia said the United States had no right to lecture others. The Foreign Ministry said it was looking forward to a U.S. report on human rights in the United States and singled out U.S. military prisons in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

"It would be interesting to learn how (the State Department), which loves to moralize on the issue of human rights, would comment on torture and inhumane or humiliating treatment in the United States itself," the statement said.

"And not just the widely known cases in Bagram and the special prison in Guantanamo -- which, contrary to the administration's promises, just doesn't close -- but also in the prisons and on the streets of America," it said.

[jwirr]

1. Interesting. Does Russia have a universal health care program?

[stray cat]

2. In name yes - but that just means you have access in theory not that they do anything

Unless you have money up front for services and to bribe the doctors and nurses into actually caring for you. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/28/business/worldbusiness/28iht-russhealth.4.6394606.html

Socialized medicine without funding doesn't get one health care - the term itself doesn't make it work

[Bumblebee]

3. Shows your basic ignorance -- as well as awful spelling.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. Sorry to be a grammar fascist but

As I've written in a number of port a potties on construction sites;

There: A place.
Example: I fucked your sister over there.

Their: Belonging to them.
Example: I fucked their sisters over there.

They're: They are.
Example: They're over there, fucking their goats.

I hope this clears things up.