I Am A Swede

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJgy3j5QuUI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ridUqEFixQ0

She's back!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95WdpE6QAI

I just received the first volume of "Emmerdale Farm" on dvd, and it really was a completely different show back then. Everything, and I do mean everything has changed! Naturally the characters are completely new, and the village, but also the surrounding countryside. It was much more open and harsher back when the show started. Much more like I imagine Yorkshire, compared to what we see now.

So far 4 volumes have been released (I've already ordered volume 2) and I hope they continue releasing more. The show only aired twice a week back then, with seasonal breaks, so it shouldn't be impossible for them to release several years worth of episodes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRa8g-m4UNk

Pathetic.

http://tpmdc.talking...d.php?ref=fpblg

Oh dear.....

I must say I smiled a little at this: "The conservative Republicans warned that the international community is a scary place."

After reading all the articles and stuff posted in this thread leading up to the presidential election, I would say that it is the US that is a scary place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jo-XYrY6WI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SXUEZXU83I

Last episode (number 5, season 3) which aired here this weekend was heartbreaking. I haven't cried this much over a tv-show since Kate Rowan died on "Heartbeat".

The problem is that when turnout is higher, Republicans lose because more poor and middle class voters get to vote in their own interest. So if you care about democracy then yes, high turnout is great. If you care about Republicans getting and keeping power, high turnout is your worst nightmare.

High voter turnout today in the US tends to = more democrats getting votes. That's why all those states that elected republican governors in 2010 were those at the forefront of voter id laws and led voter suppression. I hope that moron Scott Walker in Florida gets beat for the fiasco again in Florida caused by his refusal to extend pre election day voting which by the way all his predecessors including Jeb Bush extended when they were Govenor.

I understand that high voter turnout is good news for the democrats and bad for the republicans. I just didn't think that anyone would be so candid about being more interested in gaining power than in increasing people's interest in exercising their right to vote.

I'm not surprised he feels that way, I'm just surprised he's so blatant about it.

I don't know what the voter turnout usually is in the US, but I do know that here it was seen as a problem when voter turnout decreased from almost 87% in the general election in 1991 to just over 80% in the election in 2006. It then increased again, and in the election in 2010 we had a voter turnout of 84,5%.

A big voter turnout is usually seen as favouring the Social democrats, but all parties want to see as many people as possible go and vote.

Paul Ryan seriously needs to stop talking

http://www.huffingto...kusaolp00000003

I really don't understand his point, if he has any. What difference does it make where the voters live? More people voted for Obama than for Mitt Romney. Does it really matter where the voters come from?

And I would think that a big voter turnout is a good thing. It means more people took an interest in the election, and that's one of the cornerstones of a democracy isn't it?

http://gawker.com/59...r-with-her-jeep

Republican voters.

Unbelievable! Just unbelievable!

There is now a woman who was fired from her job for tweeting "Well...4 more years of the n-----s. Somebody should just assassinate him!" She was interview by local news and said she wasn't a racist. Then in a later interview said that if the president were to be assassinated, it really would bother her at all.

Well, it's going to REALLY bother her now...because the Secret Service is now investigating this woman.

I wonder if people really realize the consequences that hate like this can lead to. We had a prime minister, Olof Palme, who was the target for the same kind of hate rhetoric from right wing extremists. He was murdered.....

Sure the tea partiers want government to stay out of your business until it comes to freedom of liberty issues like who you want to marry and having control over your own body, where they feel its a-ok for the government to stick their nose into those things. Funny isn't it.

So true!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFORObM3I68&feature=related