The following is a list of all entries tagged with politics.
3 CommentsAmerican politics are fun! Say about Hillary what you will, but she’s helped make it more fun by putting up a fight. Naïve idealist as I am, I’d love to see both on the bill for November. It would be like Batman vs. Superman: you know they’d fight in the beginning until they realize who the true enemy is. Penny for your thoughts?
5 CommentsApparently, Hillary Clinton seems to be going the way of the HD-DVD. To the annals of history, that is. Does that make you sad?
CommentFor the American readers about to engage in election, ABC News has a political match-maker that should help you find your candidate. I’m always bogged by the actual amount of candidates outside of the republican/democrat two-party setup; it’s just sad that voting on one of them would most likely be throwing away your vote.
13 CommentsToday is the big day for likers of clean air: the first day of the danish public smoking ban. That means no smoking in:
busses, schools and institutions
locations accessible to the public such as museums
all workplaces, with exceptions possible in one-man offices
indoor food serving places
In all above cases there’s the possibility of assigning designated smoking areas. [...]
11 CommentsSome time in March 2003 Bush started the war on Iraq. It was all about fighting back at Al Quaeda for what they did in September 2001, oh and also disarming Saddam of all those nuclear weapons he had bought in Africa.
There weren’t any ties to Al Quaeda, and so far they haven’t found any nukes. Or chemical weapons. Or anything.
2 CommentsA tyrant is always stirring up some war in order that the people may require a leader.
- Plato
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them that they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and [...]
13 CommentsWhen Tim O’Reilly drafted a Bloggers Code of Conduct, it sent waves through the so-called blogosphere. While O’Reilly encourages open discussion on this draft, it begs the question: do we even need a code of conduct at all?
55 CommentsSmoking is evil. It always has been. Fortunately it seems, times are changing — public smoking bans are on the horizon. Some countries have already adopted them, like Ireland and Sweden. Backwater countries, like Denmark, are slower to catch the scent of the times. That scent is fresh air.
2 CommentsA few faves from the list collected by Daily Kos:
2 CommentsWith Donald Rumsfeld on the way out (why now, why not twenty years ago?), Craig Ferguson of the Late Late Show presents a fitting goodbye-video.
17 CommentsThis last year, it’s become increasingly clear to just how much religion permeates the fabric of society. In my experience, for the worse. Ethical issues that require us to rise above our animal instincts of vendetta and fear have become religious and political questions of “moral values”. In the words of Karl Marx:
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
CommentSitting here with the morning coffee, waiting for the rhythm of the day to settle in, I’m reading in the newspaper. It says that Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the danish Prime Minister who unilaterally chose for Denmark to participate in the Iraq war, admits the invasion strategy had it’s faults and shortcomings.
It’s roughly 3? years since the war started, March 18th 2003. Like many others, I thought it would be a bad idea. Turns out we were right and the people we elected weren’t. How is it this happens more and more often? To date, the war has cost the lives of 5 Danes, 2804 Americans, $336,999,380,179 and maybe as much as 600.000 Iraqis. I’d say that’s bad planning.
9 CommentsHere?s the key portion of the Fox News Sunday interview with President Clinton. He sets the record straight on his efforts to combat terrorism, the Bush administration?s record and the tactics of Fox News.
View the video. Clinton 4TW.
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