<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the New Yorker at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://preview.tinyurl.com/Furious-Obama">http://preview.tinyurl.com/Furious-Obama</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: ny-irvin-heading, 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 3rem; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 3.8rem; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-transition: all 0.3s ease-out; transition: all 0.3s ease-out; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Furious Obama Says Calls to Putin Going Straight to Voice Mail</h1><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img src="cid:9406F4D5-34A3-4FC6-A025-F595A9DC9C01" alt="image.jpeg" id="9406F4D5-34A3-4FC6-A025-F595A9DC9C01" width="640" height="473"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WASHINGTON (<a href="http://bit.ly/NhEEu0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The Borowitz Report</a>)—In what he called “a provocative and defiant act,” President Obama charged on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has started letting his calls go directly to voice mail.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 28px; padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking at the White House before this week’s <small style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">NATO</small> summit, a visibly furious Obama said that Putin’s new practice of letting his calls go straight to voice mail “hampers our ability to discuss the future of Ukraine and other important issues going forward.”</span></p><div class="content-ad-wrapper first" style="margin: 140px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: baseline; clear: none; top: 0px; float: none; text-align: center; position: absolute; right: 0px;"><div class="advertisement loaded" style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; 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padding: 0px 50px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The President hinted that Putin’s failure to respond to his voice mails could result in additional sanctions and signaled that he did not intend to call the Russian President again. “I have left my last voice mail for him,” he said, adding that the last time he called Putin his mailbox was full.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">--------------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></body></html>