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Sweden stunned by third night of rioting
STOCKHOLM - Hundreds of youths set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in suburbs of Stockholm Tuesday night in Sweden's worst disorder in years.
A police station in the Jakobsberg area in the northwest of the city was attacked, two schools were damaged and an arts and crafts center was set ablaze, despite a call for calm from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
It was the third night of unrest.
The riots, in one of Europe's richest capitals, have shocked a country that prides itself on a reputation for social justice, and fuelled a debate about how Sweden is coping with both youth unemployment and an influx of immigrants.
"We've had around 30 cars set on fire last night, fires that we connect to youth gangs and criminals," Kjell Lindgren, spokesman for Stockholm police, said on Wednesday.
... The riots appear to have been sparked by the police killing of a 69-year-old man wielding a machete in the suburb of Husby this month, which prompted accusations of police brutality. ...
After decades of practicing the "Swedish model" of generous welfare benefits, Sweden has been reducing the role of the state since the 1990s, spurring the fastest growth in inequality of any advanced OECD economy.
While average living standards are still among the highest in Europe, governments have failed to substantially reduce long-term youth unemployment and poverty, which have affected immigrant communities worst.
The left-leaning tabloid Aftonbladet said the riots represented a "gigantic failure" of government policies, which had underpinned the rise of ghettos in the suburbs.
"We have failed to give many of the people in the suburbs a hope for the future," Anna-Margrethe Livh of the opposition Left Party wrote in the daily Svenska Dagbladet. ...
Clearly, Swedes just don't pay high enough taxes to provide enough social services to troubled youths.
Some 15 percent of the population is foreign-born, the highest proportion in the Nordic region. Unemployment among those born outside Sweden stands at 16 percent, compared with 6 percent for native Swedes, according to OECD data.
Presumably, that 15% tends to be the parents and grandparents of the youths, while the youths tend to be Swedish-born. But I could be wrong about this.
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I see the Swedish left has outdistanced my jokes.
"Some 15 percent of the population is foreign-born"
Not just foreign ancestry, but foreign born. Fifteen percent! More than one person in ten! What possesses western nations to do this to themselves?
I don't get it - did Sweden just beat the Miami Heat for the NBA Championship?
That beautiful, successful country full of good-looking, intelligent White people polluted by lively, vibrant diversity. Whites' current self-destructive need to embrace and surrender to third-world savages is literally pathological.
Yeah well, it seems like those Scandanavians are always rioting and causing trouble.
"Not just foreign ancestry, but foreign born. Fifteen percent! More than one person in ten! What possesses western nations to do this to themselves?"
I think there’s a resurgence of antisemitism because at this point in time Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural, and I think we’re gonna be part of the throes of that transformation, which must take place. Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural. Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies that they once were in the last century. Jews are going to be at the center of that. It’s a huge transformation for Europe to make. They are now going into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of our leading role. But without that leading role, and without that transformation, Europe will not survive.
—Barbara Lerner Spectre, American-born Israeli citizen resident of Sweden, IBA-News, 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QoJGvEVogI
Where's Dolph Lundgren when you need him?
You mean it wasn't Swedish Meatball Cookoff Competition night?
You might ask Swedish-born Jews what they think of Barbara Spectre to see how representative her views are. Try Jews from Malmo. Some of them probably dislike her even more than you do. She's an elite leftist public intellectual who has lived in the U.S., Israel and Sweden, a transnationalist at heart who probably has minimal contact with any violent, undesirable immigrants. Not all Swedish Jews are so elite or so lucky.
It seems the impulse to be "imperial" is related to this obsession with displacing the native population of your country with foreigners. What I mean is, if a European country used to have a large empire, it often seems more willing to allow mass immigration.
The U.K is a good example of this, along with France. Sweden used to have an empire a few centuries ago, controlling practically the entire area around the Baltic at its peak. Not large compared to the British Empire, but it was a huge threat to the Russians for a while.
And now Sweden is suffering the most from mass immigration. Maybe there is something more to this "invade the world, invite the world" that we don't understand.
So needless. So easily preventable. Just don't let them into your country. PERIOD! Problem solved.
I sometimes wonder if the white race doesn't have some suicide gene buried very deep in its DNA. Or if this is all part of some globalist conspiracy against us whites.
Only white countries allow themselves to be destroyed from within by importing, or not preventing the arrival of, alien people who have no reason, business or purpose to be there.
You might ask Swedish-born Jews what they think of Barbara Spectre to see how representative her views are. Try Jews from Malmo. Some of them probably dislike her even more than you do. She's an elite leftist public intellectual who has lived in the U.S., Israel and Sweden, a transnationalist at heart who probably has minimal contact with any violent, undesirable immigrants. Not all Swedish Jews are so elite or so lucky.
Have any Swedish jews voiced criticism of Ms. Spectre? They'd be in a good position to do so. Same goes with others of her ilk. Jews sure need to do some housecleaning.
"Not just foreign ancestry, but foreign born. Fifteen percent! More than one person in ten!"
US is 12.9% foreign born (not counting Puerto Ricans). CA, NY, and NJ are over 20%.
source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Raisers_(pla
The Fire Raisers (German: Biedermann und die Brandstifter), also known in English as The Firebugs, Firebugs, or The Arsonists, was written by Max Frisch in 1953, first as a radio play, then adapted for television and the stage (1958) as a play in six scenes. It was revised in 1960 to include an epilogue, or afterpiece.
This dark comedy is set in a town that is being regularly attacked by arsonists. Disguised as door-to-door salesmen (hawkers), they talk their way into people's homes and settle down in the attic, where they set about the destruction of the house. Written in the years following World War II, as a metaphor for Nazism and fascism, the play shows how "normal" citizens can be taken in by evil.
The main reason that Sweden is worse than the rest of the Nordic countries, is the Bonnier near media monopoly in Sweden. To even talk about the ethnicity of the "owners", is considered a hate crime.
Having said this, the riots are the best thing that have happened in Sweden for a long time. We need non-whites behaving bad in a way the press can't hide, before the Bonnier brainwashing wears off.
On the bright side, the strict censorship in the "Swedish" old-media, has made Sweden have the largest new-media per capita in the world, and they are growing exponentially at the moment. After the riots, they are going to be even bigger.
police killing of a 69-year-old man wielding a machete in the suburb of Husby this month, which prompted accusations of police brutality
Yeah, what the deal, bro? Isn't wielding machetes on the streets a universal human right or somethin'?
I sometimes wonder if the white race doesn't have some suicide gene buried very deep in its DNA. Or if this is all part of some globalist conspiracy against us whites.
Only white countries allow themselves to be destroyed from within by importing, or not preventing the arrival of, alien people who have no reason, business or purpose to be there.
Correct for wealth before you get too far down this road. There aren't many houses on the block worth looting, and whites own most of them.
Where's Dolph Lundgren when you need him?
Why he's Right Here!
I love how they spin the Swedes finally cutting back on the welfare state and deregulating their economy has the cause of violence among people who were not in the country when they initially built the welfare state. It's those heartless free market guys, not the fact that Sweden imported lots of third world immigrants. What am I thinking! It couldn't possibly be Muslims rioting, it' gotta be ethnic Finns!!! You know people in Finland have really high rates of gun ownership don't you?
A Working Class American said... "15% nonwhite is not that bad."
It's not 15% nonwhites, it's 15% foreign born.
The demographic stats collected by Scandinavian countries are almost useless, too. "Foreign born" might include Norwegians living in Sweden. On the other hand, a "foreign born" person from Germany living in Sweden might be ethnically Somali.
Those who possess privilege enough should tour the banlieus surrounding Paris. And I mean to really hang out there, wander about and speak with the average Ashraf or Nisreen.
Most of the folks there are really nice. But they're not the beret-headed, wine-drinking French of old that we imagine. They somehow eschew the confirmed benefits of alcohol. Their loss ;)
My take is that EU countries rather passively try to "contain" these foreign populations. Yet those foreign folk are everywhere obvious! The traditional populations can pretend that it isn't happening, but that's an ultimately fatal coping mechanism.
Well, we do wish them and ourselves luck, don't we?
Relevant statistics...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_sweden#Demographics
Demographics [edit]
According to Eurostat, in 2010, there were 1.33 million foreign-born residents in Sweden, corresponding to 14.3% of the total population. Of these, 859,000 (9.2%) were born outside the EU and 477,000 (5.1%) were born in another EU Member State.[11][12] The largest groups were:
Finland (163,867)
Former Yugoslavia (157,350)
Iraq (127,860)
Iran (65,649)
Poland (49,518)
Germany (48,731)
Turkey (45,085)
Denmark (44,209)
Somalia (43,966)
Norway (42,884)
[13] The number of Assyrians in Sweden is about 100,000 – 120,000.[14][15] Christian Assyrians are in fact the majority of people from Iraq in Sweden.
The fastest growing groups of foreign-born residents in Sweden between 2011 and 2012 were the following nationalities:
Syria (+5,153)
Afghanistan (+3,995)
Somalia (+3,801)
Bosnia & Herzegovina (+2,458)
Iraq (+2,361)
Thailand (+1,941)
Iran (+1,821)
Eritrea (+1,741)
Turkey (+1,176)
China (+1,161)
Some Swedes may be for this mass immigration, but what about those that are against it?
This is not a trivial matter of say raising taxes by 1% or something; this is the importation, by force, of a new people in their ancestral homeland. This is essentially an invasion of their land by the hand and force of their own government.
To all those bemoaning People of Colour rising up against the white opressors in the West I have only this to say:
Stand still, don't make any sudden movements, and try not to scare those chickens coming home to roost.
Only white countries allow themselves to be destroyed from within by importing, or not preventing the arrival of, alien people who have no reason, business or purpose to be there.
Do non-white countries typically have tight border control? Or is that irrelevant because no one wants to move there? I guess Japan would be an example. Any others? Do African countries have tight immigration policies?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Sweden#Current_population_of_immigrants_and_their_descendants
if you subtract residents from other white nations, you can see that sweden is roughly 10 pct nonwhite.
The swedes and danes and nords will fight back, unlike white americans
For the people who say 'invade the world' causes 'blowback' explain Sweden.
US is 12.9% foreign born (not counting Puerto Ricans). CA, NY, and NJ are over 20%.
Appalling to be sure, especially as an American, but there's just something extra visceral about the dispossession of the homeland where the Swedes' ancestors lived for millenia rather than just our centuries.
A Working Class American said...15% nonwhite is not that bad. And most other white nations have lower percentages than that.
Dont be fooled mate, 15% foreign born, the percentage non-white but Swedish born is going to much higher.
What does "youth" mean in Sweden? Arab, or black? I already know it doesn't really mean "youth".
"We have failed to give many of the people in the suburbs a hope for the future," Anna-Margrethe Livh of the opposition Left Party wrote in the daily Svenska Dagbladet. ..."
Maybe it's time for Anna to go bake cookies and let her husband decide just how much hope Sweden owes every third-world savage who shows up on their door step. I simply cannot understand this mindset. Sweden is run by the most female government in the world. Is this kind of pathological xenophilia in part an expression of female political sensibilities?
I see the Swedish left has outdistanced my jokes.
The right in Sweden is as crazy as the left. (You may you think a Swedish right wing party is an oxymoron, but the Swedish "conservatives" are in fact pretty right-wing in the economic sense these days.)
Anonymouse pondered: For the people who say 'invade the world' causes 'blowback' explain Sweden.
Hunsdon explained: It's a tripartite formulation, homes, and any of the three will do: Invade the world, invite the world, in hoc to the world. Sweden invited in people who aren't compatible with what was traditionally Swedish behavior. Reap, sow.
The Third World Immigrant's Thought process: the nation I come from, and whose values and customs I've internalized can't get its act together long enough to produce the standard of living and accumulated stuff I want. Probably because it is filled with people just like me who have internalized these unproductive customs and habits. The obvious solution is to move to a nation like Sweden where they've got functional customs and habits and demand that they hand over a sizable portion of their accumulated wealth to me and adopt the customs and habits I prefer. If they don't I start rioting.
The rioters are turkish, somali and middle eastern, a fact omitted from most reports: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/05/immigrant_riots_in_sweden_involve_hundreds_of_youths.html
Sweden is 95% white, 1% black, 3% arabic and 1% swAsian if you look at the numbers a little more carefully. Under US census definitions, of course, it would be 98% white as arabs are categorized as whites. I'm not saying Sweden is 95% Swede, just 95% white (or European, if you like). That's a different universe from what we in the US face.
For the people who say 'invade the world' causes 'blowback' explain Sweden.
Sweden has been an explicit accomplice in the occupation of Afghanistan and gave behind the scenes support for the invasion of Iraq.
There's definitely a tone of malicious glee in this sort of reporting. That the writer takes pleasure is seeing Sweden in flames.
Richwine's views sure are discredited and debunked, as well as odious and noxious.
African immigrants are gonna do wonders for the Swedish economy.
Btw, I thought the great thing about immigrants is they create jobs and opportunities. So, why should Sweden take care of the immigrants? Shouldn't all those immigrants with work ethic and entrepreneurial skills be expanding the economy and working to take care of aging Swedes who are facing retirement?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHDGPaSGl6o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZxGXeCs0To
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re9gkLLvxbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OHU5VyI5vI
Vibrant Sweden
Swedes are like the Eternals in ZARDOZ. Too much wealth and stability made them bored and neurotic and susceptible to primitive eroticism and suicidal impulses.
Sweden not only has a high suicide rate but is committing racial and cultural suicide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM8D5fy_g74
A police station in the Jakobsberg area in the northwest of the city was attacked, two schools were damaged and an arts and crafts center was set ablaze, despite a call for calm from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
Oh dear, "despite a call for calm"! And don't you love how the immies targeted such icons of good Liberalism as an "arts and crafts center" (to give the youts something to do!).
Perhaps the elites will ultimately learn that the third-world trash they import will not be docile voters for Left-wing parties, but will be violent criminals who do whatever the hell they want, and who will ultimately take power from the white/Jewish Leftist elite.
Steve,
"Presumably, that 15% tends to be the parents and grandparents of the youths, while the youths tend to be Swedish-born. But I could be wrong about this."
That's about correct, but there is a new trend where the laws forbids rigorous identity checks, or expulsion of, minors so there's a pretty big influx of "boys" claiming to be 17 or 14. Something like 4000 a year currently, with increasing numbers expected.
Here's a representative collage of poor, helpless children: http://petterssons.bloggsida.se/files/2011/12/flyktingbarn1-1.jpg
Here's Ahmed 14 years old: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D6if8fjDEHs/TXoVfTpX3uI/AAAAAAAAGrA/ZY2ZrC3A3fI/s400/Ahmed-14-ar.jpg
Note that the above pictures are from articles in the mainstream media campaigning for their "right" to stay. Anyone who in public points out that these men are in their thirties will be out of their jobs in a matter of days for being racist.
Anonymous,
"You might ask Swedish-born Jews what they think of Barbara Spectre to see how representative her views are."
Seriously, FUCK the Swedish-born Jews.
Jewish-Swedish intellectuals, of which there are unsurprisingly plenty, have been a huge driver in making immigration to Sweden completely dysfunctional and are among the first to lead the attack on anyone even daring to think about decreasing the immigration flow. The only Jews working in the other direction mainly occupy themselves by turning the only sort-of nationalist party into a pro-israel counter-jihadist movement.
And that's not going into the degenerative culture and constant attacks and destruction of native Swedish culture. If there's a culturally important institution it's a safe bet there's at least one jewish intellectual attacking it and smearing any opponents as racists. Hell, even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folke_Bernadotte#White_Buses is currently being smeared as a racist and anti-semite by jewish intellectuals.
Just about the only thing that makes me smile about immigration to Sweden is the increased numbers of decent ME restaurants and the fact that finally Swedish Jews are starting to reap what they have sown.
I'm sure most Swedish Jews aren't Sweden-hating nutcases, but if so they're certainly not doing anything to act against those who are.
A Working Class American said...
I think scotland will secede and that will end the invasion there.
The Scots are mostly lefties and are against immigration restrictions. They either don't understand the problems mass immigration causes or do not care because the overwhelming majority of immigrants are in England.
Take a look at what happened to Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP when he visited the Scottish capital recently:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325679/Nigel-Farage-bundled-police-van-barricaded-inside-pub-going-promote-Scottish-election-candidate.html
Here's some excerpts:
The woman in the wheelchair, who gave her name as Rachel, said: 'He is a racist b******. His views on immigration are just wrong'
But Mr Farage admitted the 'immigration argument' was not as potent in Scotland because there has not been the same influx of foreigners north of the Border as in the south of England.
IMHO, and this is a minority opinion but I hope it will become more popular, is that the English need to encourage Scottish independence, and when that happens, encourage immigrants in England to move to the more welcoming Scotland.
England has lots of Somalis with Dutch passports. I understand that somehow the Dutch government encouraged ethnic Somalis to leave Holland. They mostly seem to have moved to England. I don't blame the Dutch government for doing this, they are looking after their people, and a future English government should adopt a similar policy and encourage immigrants to move the more enlightened and welcoming Scotland.
There are probably more non-indigenous people in England than there are Scots in Scotland. I'm sure the Scots will love immigration in to Scotland as much as they love immigration into England.
Everyone's a winner!
Someone pointed out the Jewish Bonnier family's tremendous influence in Swedish media, but it extends well beyond Sweden. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnier_Group
Lots of cases of immigrants behaving badly lately. The Tsarnaev Bros., then the other Chechen guy stabs a cop, then the London beheading, now Stockholm burning....
At some point you'd think Westerners would get the message. They're just not that into us.
Should be added that 15% foreign-born includes a hefty proportion of Europeans. For example, the biggest foreign-born group is that of Finnish-Swedes who number at hundreds of thousands. The second group are Iraqis.
Now, the latter group has a much younger average age than the Finns, who mostly came during and after WWII.
But still. You also have a lot of people from Denmark, Norway and Poland and increasing numbers from Russia, mostly mail-brides I'd venture.
Also, the biggest group of immigrants coming to Sweden are returning Swedes, most of these are young Swedes working in Norway.
All this said, the situation isn't good. But our net per-capita immigration is only at 20% of what Canada, for example, brings in.
So Canada has a net per-capita immigration which is 5x higher than ours. And Canada is around 80% white.
We're at about 90% if you look at ancestry only and overlook the at-times misleading 'foreign born' stats.
The immigrants don't really pose a threat in terms of political or economic terms. It's mostly rioting. I should also mention that the primary victims of these riots are other immigrants. They're basically shitting where they eat.
Which is why most Swedes have a blasé attitude about this type of 'vibrancy' as of now. The main threat is the high amount of rapes. But things are moving in the right direction, politically, in Sweden.
Europe isn't America culturally. This is a good thing.
My dear Working Class American, you wrote that "They [Swedes] are not as domesticated as americans."
Really?
Have you seen the 1981 film 'Montenegro'?
15% nonwhite is not that bad. And most other white nations have lower percentages than that. The USA is the one that is a mess. We now have, what, at least 35% nonwhite?
A population of 200 million Whites takes time to overwhelm. Sweden, with it's less than 8 million Whites is smaller than LA County. One warm winter and the country is finished.
According to Wikipedia, 19.6% have foreign background (foreign born or both parents are foreign born). In other words, the 19.6% doesn't include mixed race yoofs.
As far as the Scandinavians resisting the immigration onslaught, I don't know about that. There may be something to the theory that Swedes and Norweigians are far more passive than their Viking ancestors (and other modern-day Europeans). Of their forbearers, the more headstrong were either killed in battle or left to settle in other countries (by invasion or emigration). The ones that remained and reproduced were the most passive.
For whatever reason, though, I get the sense that Danes are less passive, and seem to be dealing with their immigration problem more forcefully. I've known a few Danes, and they seem to be far more gregarious than their fellow Nordics. Their country seems to produce hyper-extroverts like Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, for instance.
#momuslimsmoproblems
--Discordiax
"Hunsdon said: Then Swedish Jews should make abundantly clear that this Spectre woman in no way speaks for them, that her version of "tikkun olam" is not theirs. You know, like we expect Muslims who disagree with crazy jihadists to do with their coreligionists."
They are just as PC-whipped as the rest of the population.
For instance, years ago, a young swedish jew wrote in Jerusalem Post about what was going on in Sweden with regards to persecution of jews in Malmö, and dared to (gasp) point out who was doing the persecution.
She was subjected to the full five minute hate treatment, needless to say.
The problem in Sweden is much larger than Bonnier. If anything, the non-Bonnier outlets such as Aftonbladet (the largest tabloid), and SR/SvT (state radio and television) are even more stringent.
The primary reason is simply that the far left took over journalism wholesale following 1968. And "far left" in Sweden means hardcore communist. They have since switched their allegiance from communism to PC.
@11:30 PM
The global elite use a different sales pitch to justify mass immigration depending on the target country, and the immigrant group they wish to import.
Sometimes immigrants (magically?) create jobs, sometimes they are refugees fleeing oppression, sometimes they are urgently needed lest crops rot in the field (lolz).
The underlying product is dispossession of the white population, but it's marketed and sold differently around the world.
"You might ask Swedish-born Jews what they think of Barbara Spectre to see how representative her views are...Not all Swedish Jews are so elite or so lucky."
I'm aware that their are some good Jews fighting the good fight against open borders - Mickey Kaus, etc. But what're the odds that every single one of the 10 Jewish members of the Senate will vote for the current amnesty proposal? Somewhere north of 25 to 1, I'd wager. Every one of them voted for the 2006 amnesty, including "Republicans" Norm Coleman and the late, unlamented Arlen Specter. All three Jewish members of the Supreme Court voted to gut the right of states to enforce immigration laws.
3rd world immigrants do indeed do wonders for Sweden's economy. Once they burn it down, someone has to rebuild it, thus creating jobs.
i KNOW its just a funny coincidence, but the man who pushed multiculturalism on sweden was david Schwartz. Its also a coincidence that the family that owns most of the media there is scots irish..
So assume for the moment the Swedes get really angry, rise up and expel all the incompatible third worlders they invited in (won't happen of course). So where then would they go? It's unlikely they'd go back to the third world. They'll just go to another first world country, one that'd be foolish enough to let them in. The problem just gets exported. The real solution is for third worlders to be repatriated to their countries of origin where they'll be at home in terms of culture, language and sense of belonging. It's ultimately the most humane solution for all; the third worlders are really strangers in a strange land. Of course, part of it would entail refraining from mucking about in places such as Somalia and Iraq whereby war refugees are created to begin with.
I keep hearing that American acceptance of immigration is fueled by the narrow business interests of a handful of companies dependent on cheap labor.
I say hear not read because I've never read any serious analysis that made such a claim. I'm sure that all sorts of General Contractors and Landscape companies favor cheap Mexican labor, but these sort of employers aren't likely to be politically important. If there are larger employers who do have paid lobbyists in Washington - who are they?
This Swedish experience seems to argue that it isn't those nasty rapacious capitalists but rather a problem of soft hearted and soft headed political liberals.
Or am I wrong?
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"15% nonwhite is not that bad"
It's not 15% nonwhite it's 15% foreign born. If you're born in Sweden then you're a native born Swede even if you're coal black and have FOTB parents.
(FOTB = fresh off the boat)
I don't know how the people here can say that multiculturalism is behind all these problems. The issue here is clearly that Western countries aren't being multicultural enough! We're just not being culturally sensitive to these people (especially the Muslims who have been born in western countries).
For example, when a Muslim youth riots in Stockholm or Paris, we have the audacity to treat him in accordance with our white, privileged legal system, when he clearly wants nothing more than to be punished according to his own Shariah law. My proposal is that we convene a panel of the greatest legal minds, from say, Saudi Arabia, to educate our law enforcement and justice systems on how to be culturally sensitive in our dealings with dusky-hued thieves, rioters, rapists, and murderers. I predict safer streets, a huge increase in hand prostheses sales, and a huge decrease in prison expenses.
Multiculuralism: why be half-assed about it?
Chicago said...
So assume for the moment the Swedes get really angry, rise up and expel all the incompatible third worlders they invited in (won't happen of course). So where then would they go?
hopefully the newly independent Peoples Republic of Scotland.
An unpredictable 10K loss is the kind of thing you insure against. So I understand why people are uncomfortable with such medical bills.
The irony of course being that you're a lot more likely to be stabbed by a Muslim youth in Stockholm than you are by one in Dubai.
Heh,heh... a bit of a smug golf clap here. While traveling through Sweden in the 1960's, when a Swede would discover that I was American, a ration of merde was heaped upon this hapless traveler. We treated our minorities so badly! Sweden could show us how it's done! Used to have a stock comeback- "Eskimos can always be counted upon to instruct Bedouins on how to handle a heat wave." Some got it, most didn't.
While traveling through Sweden in the 1960's, when a Swede would discover that I was American, a ration of merde was heaped upon this hapless traveler. We treated our minorities so badly! Sweden could show us how it's done! Used to have a stock comeback- "Eskimos can always be counted upon to instruct Bedouins on how to handle a heat wave."
That's great. Never heard that one.
Some got it, most didn't.
The really maddening thing is that some of 'em still don't get it, even now that they're getting it over the head with a ball-peen hammer. Such obtuseness does kinda spoil the hearty schadenfreude one was hoping to be enjoying by now. (Always alert to the little joys to be fished out of all the bad news, is Rohan.)
If there are larger employers who do have paid lobbyists in Washington - who are they?
Hotel-owner Sheldon Adelson.
"While traveling through Sweden in the 1960's, when a Swede would discover that I was American, a ration of merde was heaped upon this hapless traveler. We treated our minorities so badly!"
How did the Swedes know? Hollywood.
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