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2013/04/30 19:09:31
Subject: Iceland forms new government.
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Most Glorious Grey Seer
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http://news.yahoo.com/icelands-center-progressives-form-government-155605286.html
The story states that Iceland's "center-right" party is forming the new government. I'm not entirely familiar with Iceland's political landscape so can someone explain what "center-right" means in the context of Iceland vs. the US? Thanks.
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2013/04/30 19:30:06
Subject: Iceland forms new government.
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Imperial Admiral
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 Breotan wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/icelands-center-progressives-form-government-155605286.html
The story states that Iceland's "center-right" party is forming the new government. I'm not entirely familiar with Iceland's political landscape so can someone explain what "center-right" means in the context of Iceland vs. the US? Thanks.
I believe it's the three families that literally live on on the center-right portion of the island, using longitude as the reference, versus the four families that live on the far right side, the two that live on the center-left patch, and the five bachelor fishermen that occupy the far left.
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2013/04/30 19:33:31
Subject: Iceland forms new government.
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Fixture of Dakka
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Breotan wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/icelands-center-progressives-form-government-155605286.html
The story states that Iceland's "center-right" party is forming the new government. I'm not entirely familiar with Iceland's political landscape so can someone explain what "center-right" means in the context of Iceland vs. the US? Thanks.
What counts as right for Iceland would still be considered radical left by America. Social conservatism in Iceland is completely dead. As in they've elected open homosexuals to be heads of government level dead.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2013/04/30 19:34:41
 Midnightdeathblade wrote:Think of a daemon incursion like a fart you don't quite trust... you could either toot a little puff of air, bellow a great effluvium, or utterly sh*t your pants and cry as it floods down your leg.
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2013/04/30 20:02:15
Subject: Re:Iceland forms new government.
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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Equal rights for homosexuals? We tried that here in Iowa once.
As someone who is posting this from Davenport, I assure everything in that article is 100% factual, unlike, say, CNN.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2013/04/30 20:04:54
 lord_blackfang wrote:Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
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2013/04/30 20:14:33
Subject: Iceland forms new government.
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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 Seaward wrote: Breotan wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/icelands-center-progressives-form-government-155605286.html
The story states that Iceland's "center-right" party is forming the new government. I'm not entirely familiar with Iceland's political landscape so can someone explain what "center-right" means in the context of Iceland vs. the US? Thanks.
I believe it's the three families that literally live on on the center-right portion of the island, using longitude as the reference, versus the four families that live on the far right side, the two that live on the center-left patch, and the five bachelor fishermen that occupy the far left.
Thats probably more accurate then we know.
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2013/05/01 07:40:50
Subject: Re:Iceland forms new government.
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Basically Iceland is another in the growing list of elections in which the party that says 'austerity is causing hardship and only making the financial crisis worse' is winning office.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2013/05/01 07:42:48
Subject: Re:Iceland forms new government.
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Depraved Slaanesh Chaos Lord
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sebster wrote:Basically Iceland is another in the growing list of elections in which the party that says 'austerity is causing hardship and only making the financial crisis worse' is winning office.
Uh, hasn't it been (in theory, at least) shown that there's some truth in that?
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2013/05/01 08:32:35
Subject: Re:Iceland forms new government.
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Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress
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 azazel the cat wrote:sebster wrote:Basically Iceland is another in the growing list of elections in which the party that says 'austerity is causing hardship and only making the financial crisis worse' is winning office.
Uh, hasn't it been (in theory, at least) shown that there's some truth in that?
Yes, though not because austerity doesn't work but because wrong things are cut and wrong things receive continued funding.
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2013/05/01 10:29:01
Subject: Re:Iceland forms new government.
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Fixture of Dakka
Temple Prime
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 Orlanth wrote: azazel the cat wrote:sebster wrote:Basically Iceland is another in the growing list of elections in which the party that says 'austerity is causing hardship and only making the financial crisis worse' is winning office.
Uh, hasn't it been (in theory, at least) shown that there's some truth in that?
Yes, though not because austerity doesn't work but because wrong things are cut and wrong things receive continued funding.
The arguments for austerity were based on documents whose proof was made by a clerical error misplacing decimal points in many key places.
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Midnightdeathblade wrote:Think of a daemon incursion like a fart you don't quite trust... you could either toot a little puff of air, bellow a great effluvium, or utterly sh*t your pants and cry as it floods down your leg.
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2013/05/01 12:34:58
Subject: Re:Iceland forms new government.
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Battlefield Tourist
MN (Currently in WY)
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Orlanth wrote: azazel the cat wrote:sebster wrote:Basically Iceland is another in the growing list of elections in which the party that says 'austerity is causing hardship and only making the financial crisis worse' is winning office.
Uh, hasn't it been (in theory, at least) shown that there's some truth in that?
Yes, though not because austerity doesn't work but because wrong things are cut and wrong things receive continued funding.
Of course. Austerity can not fail, it can only BE failed.
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2013/05/01 17:05:04
Subject: Re:Iceland forms new government.
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Depraved Slaanesh Chaos Lord
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Kain wrote: Orlanth wrote: azazel the cat wrote:sebster wrote:Basically Iceland is another in the growing list of elections in which the party that says 'austerity is causing hardship and only making the financial crisis worse' is winning office.
Uh, hasn't it been (in theory, at least) shown that there's some truth in that?
Yes, though not because austerity doesn't work but because wrong things are cut and wrong things receive continued funding.
The arguments for austerity were based on documents whose proof was made by a clerical error misplacing decimal points in many key places.
Yeah, that's the stuff I'm referring to. I coulda sworn that the report most austerity measures are based upon has been very thoroughly debunked.
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