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With this election either party is going to make the people losers. This is worse than the 2000 election, and that was scary enough.
The electoral college was fine when people were far less informed, but now it as got to go.
Omega's right on the spot for the riders, which is where most of the pork is, I've been mentioning that for years. A bill for that would end up with so many riders creating loopholes that it would be useless.
Then the fact that the general population knows that what they want means squat to the politicos after they are voted in that they do not care.
There are two or three Supreme Court spots that may open from retirements, and if McCain gets in he will appoint people that will set back women's rights with the reversal of Roe vs. Wade. While I do not condone abortion I do condemn the government for getting into people's lives far far too much.
Palin is a lifetime member of the NRA, while Obama is anti 2nd Amendment.
I think McCain's choice of Palin was only to try for the women voters that want a woman in at least the VP spot. Most women I have talked to see through the ploy though, so all is not lost to narrow minded thinking.
A vote for anyone else is a vote against Obama and McCain. Nader may get my vote this year.
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Anyway, just saying that Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland (to stretch the definition just a little I guess) are near the top of just about every list for non-corrupt governments and people's satisfaction in their leadership in general. Well, and New Zealand. And, uh, Singapore, but it has certain other qualities that might (or, heck, might not) weaken its appeal.
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Mars was refering to that Onion piece I linked in.
I think smaller governments tend to be better run and less corrupt- for the obvious reasons of complexity and ease of oversight. Also, I find the English language corrupts the soul, discourages rational discourse and encourages all manner of sin: accept no substitutions.
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With what should I communicate with you then, moosebites?
After all our opposition against Stasi and KGB and the murdered journalists we have lost in the former Soviet union and the DDR, I get really angry when ignorant foreigners (from traditionally right-ish countries) call my country socialist, in a derogatory "Stalin"-sense.
The leading party in our country has never been Socialists, they are called social-democrats, and there's a world of difference when adding that word. But hey, guilt by association, for the win. We actually have a party called Left Party and they have never held the prime minister post, not once in the 90 years of their existence. And the Left Party don't easily ally themselves with the social-democrats, not even when the extreme Right-wing party, Christian party and the Centrists go into coalition (like four years ago, which has led them into power).
If anything, we got problems with hate crimes, "nationalism" and ultra-right grassroots parties that inofficially support neo-nazis. The largest of those parties actually got enough votes last election to grant them a damn seat in parliament. The global community don't know jack about these things.
The only thing a visiting outsider or foreigner would notice that in any way sets us swedes apart from other countries (except for all the little blonde hotties) is that when riding the escalators in subways and malls, we automatically stand on the right-hand side, so that people in a hurry can pass on the left side. Maybe we are not alone there, I've never been to SWITZERLAND. (!)
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We, here in the States, have no shortage of neo-nazi/white supremacist nutjobs: many of which are in very well funded organizations.
Strangely, some of them voted for Obama, thinking that a bi-racial president will unite the oppressed white man and inspire them to rise up... Or some crazyland bullshit.
Of course, even though their numbers range in the thousands (by some estimates), they represent only a very timy fraction of any given state's population.
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Well, you only need one teaspoon of rotten machine mayonnaise to spoil the fresh water supply of your standard war galleon.
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