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misscam*yawns* I hate early mornings, I really do.
The reason I got up early is that I went shopping very early today, as Monday is the 17th of May (Norway's National Day) and a public holiday, so everyone stocks up slightly. It was insane. There's a strike in food deliveries to all the major grocery chains save one, and everyone's going there now. The lines reminded me of Norwegians shopping across the border (that truly is insane). The newspaper journalists are striking as well. The breweries might strike next week and the teachers the week after that. I cannot recall the last time Norway's had this much striking going on. Good grief.
In other news, the Danish crown prince has married his Australian sweetheart and all of Denmark is very happy. Huzzah for them!
And the Mirror editor, who published those pictures of alleged British abuse of prisoners, has been sacked. It seems those photos were fake after all. Interesting...
On that note, I was watching a foreign affairs show the other day, and they were talking about the American abuse pictures and how the impact of these might be similar to the impact of pictures from Vietnam. And so they showed those images. I've seen some of those before, but... Good grief. I felt sick. But it made me wonder. Has the US forgotten what it did during Vietnam since so many Americans seem to refuse to believe abuse in Abu Ghraib happened or seem to want to blame everyone and anyone else for it? Ordinary people can do terrible things. Europe learned it through two horrid, horrid wars. I don't wish that kind of lesson upon anyone. Not even Bush.
Meanwhile, on a more cheerful note... Today is Eurosong night! And the arsenal of WMDs that Norway will have for our invasion of the US (now called "The Return of Leif") will grow. Ye-es... (Incidentally, if you are American and wish to join our side,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
norwegianne and I will consider your plea.)
The reason I got up early is that I went shopping very early today, as Monday is the 17th of May (Norway's National Day) and a public holiday, so everyone stocks up slightly. It was insane. There's a strike in food deliveries to all the major grocery chains save one, and everyone's going there now. The lines reminded me of Norwegians shopping across the border (that truly is insane). The newspaper journalists are striking as well. The breweries might strike next week and the teachers the week after that. I cannot recall the last time Norway's had this much striking going on. Good grief.
In other news, the Danish crown prince has married his Australian sweetheart and all of Denmark is very happy. Huzzah for them!
And the Mirror editor, who published those pictures of alleged British abuse of prisoners, has been sacked. It seems those photos were fake after all. Interesting...
On that note, I was watching a foreign affairs show the other day, and they were talking about the American abuse pictures and how the impact of these might be similar to the impact of pictures from Vietnam. And so they showed those images. I've seen some of those before, but... Good grief. I felt sick. But it made me wonder. Has the US forgotten what it did during Vietnam since so many Americans seem to refuse to believe abuse in Abu Ghraib happened or seem to want to blame everyone and anyone else for it? Ordinary people can do terrible things. Europe learned it through two horrid, horrid wars. I don't wish that kind of lesson upon anyone. Not even Bush.
Meanwhile, on a more cheerful note... Today is Eurosong night! And the arsenal of WMDs that Norway will have for our invasion of the US (now called "The Return of Leif") will grow. Ye-es... (Incidentally, if you are American and wish to join our side,
norwegianne and I will consider your plea.)
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Date: 2004-05-16 03:34 am (UTC)Norway and Denmark's twelve points to Sweden was really a shocker... really ...
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Date: 2004-05-16 04:21 am (UTC)Dad's actually hoping for an a teacher's strike, for as he puts it, 'it'll save my budget!' Given that this year it's not the state, but the poor, already broke local authorities who will negoiate with the teachers, I'm thinking there will be a strike. We'll have to wait and see.
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Date: 2004-05-16 09:37 am (UTC)Well, I'm not hoping for a strike. At least not on college/university level. What happens further down, I don't care much about, but I hate all that effort on papers for nothin.
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Date: 2004-05-17 02:14 am (UTC)If they do strike, they might not pull everyone out at once, so your paper might still get graded. *shrugs* We'll have to wait and see. Either way, I'm sick of strikes this year. I want my food at my local stores and my newspapers, you bastards! *shakes fist at strikers*