Spies like us

With the LeBron fiasco behind us, the Worldcup now in the rear-view mirror and no NFL for a few months the sports calendar has now left us with four months of baseball.    Although I love baseball, it's about as exciting a thing to blog about as watching grass grow so we'll have to turn our attention to something else.   They have apparently put a tighter seal on that gushing oil-well, the heat in NYC has finally left and with that it took some of the smell but the excitement never stops

You know we live in a lame time when even a major spy exchange doesn't get people's blood boiling.   The US and Russia exchanged 10 soviet spies who had been living in Greenwich Connecticut and South Orange New Jersey for the last decade as they reported back to their homeland in invisible paint a bunch of 'secrets' which was a bunch of information you could have easily gotten off of cnn.com.

I for one believe that this is just a set-up, there is no way that Putin who probably has KGB tattooed on his left-ass cheek is going to put the entire Russian spy business in jeopardy to have a bunch of house-wives sit at Little League games.   There has to be more to this, either they've been playing a game of cat-and-mouse with our CIA who have spent two decades spending tons of time, energy and money chasing around a bunch of empty leads or this is just the tip-of-the-iceberg

Honestly this is like the Reagan arm-war all over again.   The way I see it, the Russians paid a couple of families from Peru or Venezuela to send bullshit telegrams over-seas, put them up in a couple of houses and gave them some spending cash which probably didn't cost them more than a few hundred thousand dollars but the US government was probably spending 5 million covering their every-move.    I'm seeing the end of Goodfellas here with helicopters, double-agents, people infiltrating the local PTA all to find out that some lady was sending messages to Moscow with information like "looks like Senator Obama will announce his intentions to run for President"

So if I were the CIA and Eric Holder I wouldn't think that this is the end and I think it's time that they start checking out some of the chicks working over at FD's, maybe they need volunteers