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Originally posted by electricdruid at The fiasco continues


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I would like our current government to read this. So please stop kicking sick people off health benefits and force them to find any job they can find in order to survive, or worse, force them into the "phase 3" jobs where people have to work just as much as everyone else but at a fraction of normal pay.

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The people of Egypt are living in interesting times. The Swedish Foreign Ministry are now recommending that people do not travel there, and planes are going empty to Egypt in order to pick up tourists and bring them back home. On the news yesterday (or day before, I can't remember), the radio news crew had interviewed some would-be Swedish tourists ( Read more... )

For the Swedes.

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Förklädda demokrater sätter kängan i mitt bröst. Märkligt hur aktuell en låt kan vara fast den är mer än 25 år gammal.

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One of the really bad effects of the suicide bombing in Stockholm this past weekend is that now there are suddenly much lower hopes of abolishing the FRA law.

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"Let those who doubt that literature not only submerges us in the dream of beauty and happiness but alerts us to every kind of oppression, ask themselves why all regimes determined to control the behaviour of citizens from cradle to grave fear it so much they establish systems of censorship to repress it and keep so wary an eye on independent ( Read more... )

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Done my civic duty.

You know, if we actually had elections for who gets to be general, the military would be a lot more democratic.

I went to see Sherlock Holmes (again) with kattahj and a couple of her friends yesterday. I enjoyed it just as much this time as the first time. I think it's a film that might stand for yet another wiewing ( Read more... )

Apparently Robert Downey Jr (bless 'im) is very cool and funny about it in interviews. Like this:

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BUT. The reaction of the Forces of Conservatism and Primness isn't tardy.

The executors of the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are being all paranoid and saying they'll block a sequel if they try to bring more of teh gay into it. Not because they ( Read more... )