W<\/span>ell, it certainly looked like Russia knew how to put on an opening ceremony for the Olympics! Whew!<\/p>\n

<\/a>As the ceremony went on, and on, it made one give thanks that recent Olympics held in the U.S. only had 230+ years of history to re-cap. Because, 1,000+ years of a country’s history is a lot of production and effort to display in a ceremony.<\/p>\n

I remember that Beijing used a lot of….PEOPLE which made sense since, well, they got a lot of those. But, Russia definitely wanted to flex some technological muscle. And, they did…<\/p>\n

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While all of that was going on all I wanted to ask Vladimir Putin was…<\/p>\n

Where Did You Get That?<\/p>\n

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