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Earth: "Ash Volcano, I choose you!" *flight passengers faint*
BP: "Oil Leak, I choose you!" *fishes and birds faint*.
Gordon Brown: "Sod this, I quit! You're all bigoted anyway!"
Greece: "Aw€som€! Yiamas!"
Merkel: "Verdammt!"
Serbia: "Oh neat - bones! I wonder where they came from?"
Ballmer: "Gimme...that...thing! *stomp stomp stomp*"

OK, I must admit I too thought "This isn't for real, it's a joke, my goodness it's pathetic" many years ago, when I heard of the otherkin communities. "No you losers, you are NOT elves or vampires or angels. You can't play in that dreamworld as if you WERE there ( Read more... )

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I must admit, I like the idea of the electric car. It's an age-old idea, Edison thought of one in fact, so it's kind of interesting it's not gotten more attention until now.

A lot of the argumentation for the electric car is - not surprisingly - focused on the reduction in CO2 emission, because that's what all the hoopla is about these days. And ( Read more... )

"The West Virginia secretary of state's office said most of the problems occur because the machines are not calibrated properly."

Calibrated? It's electronic, isn't it? It isn't? Oy veh!


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A short WP article I found quite interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_direct_democracy (the Swedish version is better in fact)

It sounds like a good idea, a real good idea. But would the politicians like it? :-P

We all die someday. But some ways of dying are worse than others :-(

The day we don't shoot people we disagree with is a triumph for civility.

(crossposted in a slightly altered version in europeanunion)

Today, the Danish government presented the plans for the next term of office.
Alongside many many other things - the now 15 year old so-called National Compromise (the Edinburgh Agreement) will be put to a vote in 2008 or spring 2009 at the very latest.
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