tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-195251662011-04-22T06:10:44.151+02:00"In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own." - Thomas JeffersonJShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10616571695257750596noreply@blogger.comBlogger851100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19525166.post-1169896018477584882007-01-27T11:41:00.000+01:002007-01-27T12:23:23.526+01:00

Under imamernes hysteriske skrigeri over JyllandsPostens, i øvrigt ret uophidsende, tegninger af Muhammed spillede Fogh rollen som statsministeren der forsvarer pressefriheden imod formørkede anslag fra både indenlandske og udenlandske barbarer der ikke havde fattet rækkevidden af deres krav (eller også havde de fattet rækkeviden af deres krav, og var bare nogle dumme svin). Dengang var tavsheden

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PZ Myers has a Rethuglican and a Rethuglican-wanna-be being shredded by commenters in one of his threads. Since they are actually able to put up something approaching a fight, I figure I might as well join the dog-pile:"the Republican party stands against... stem cell research"How would you feel about funding churches and anti-evolution seminaries?Apples to Oranges fallacy, with a dose of Red

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I was recently asked by a commenter to make a post dedicated to a discussion of the limits of free speech. I have posted so often in defence of controversial speech that I figure it an interesting exercise to see if I/we can come up with a consistent principle that would exclude the obviously illegitimate and only that.To touch off the discussion, Ted offered four examples of controversial

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The Danish Broadcasting Service now reports that the war criminal Donald Rumsfeld has stepped down. While I observe this with no small amount of schädenfreude, I doubt it'll really change anything much. But you read it here first (at least I beat Dispatches from the Culture Wars to it).EDIT: And it also looks like the Rethugs didn't have enough Diebold machines emplaced...

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At a recent post at Dispatches from the Culture Wars, Ed Brayton comments that:The reason there is both a free speech clause and a free exercise clause is that the latter covers far more than speech, and because in light of their experience freedom of religion was a particularly important right to protect.To which I replied:This is actually a point I've been wanting to take up for some time: What

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It should come as no surprise that they are wrong.Of course, this archbishop is absolutely correct in his overall strategic analysis. Christopaths and Ayatollahcritters share the same overall objective: A return to the dark ages. Let's just hope that the let-us-pander-to-people's-antidemocratic-notions-to-show-'respect' crowd of fellow-travellers and apologets and appeasers will treat this as a

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Now, before any of my Honoured Readers (humour me here) move to pay their dues on any expensive bets, I should probably mention that this is a letter to the editor.Of course, given the editorial - ah - style of the WorldNutDaily, one can surmise that at least some of the editors must agree with at least part of the letter.

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... rarely needs much comment. And in any case, there is a participant in the comments that does an excellent job already.While I don't agree with Giaour on everything he says in the comments - I think the veneer of civility covering Christianity is thinner than he intimates, for instance - and while some of his posts bear some of the warning signs of an incomplete copy/paste operation, he quite

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... that we may yet have friends across the Pond.As long as a college thinks it's a good propaganda tactic to publicly disparage the Moron in Chief, democracy is not completely dead.

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Ed Brayton, over at Dispatches, has a really nice take on prohibiting criticism of moronic religious beliefs.A little snip from the post:It is one thing to prohibit someone from encouraging the murder of an individual or a group; it is quite another to argue, as the government of Victoria did in this case, that you cannot criticize a religion without vilifying its adherents. No government has the

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Look at this study and tell me why I'm not happy...OK, I'll answer my own question: Even at the very top of the list (where Denmark resides), cretinists as a percentage of population goes way into the 'teens. This is bad. In fact it's very, very bad. Remember that our biggest political party commands less than 35 % of the vote.Imagine a christocrat party appealing to this kind of base... Not a

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Sure, bashing the Church is growing old fast. But it still needs to be done.Would you really like a European constitution to condone these people?

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Hat tip to The Mad Biologist for the pic.Egentligt er inklusionen af Jacob Lange her mest for the honour of the flag, da det var ham der skød denne uges debat om studiegæld igang. De newsier der tog historien og løb med den uden at gøre sig de mest elementære overvejelser (såsom at tænke over hvorvidt der kunne være en sammenhæng mellem det faktum at SU-en er lavere end den laveste ordinære

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I spank, of course, the Roman Catholic Church. Recently, Mel Gibson has had a rather embaressing run-in with the local authorities (hat tip to Brayton at the Dispatches). If the RCC had the least shred of common decency, this would put it in a grave conundrum.I should probably advice people not to hold their breaths waiting for the Church to grow enough moral backbone to realise this. I hear that

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Jeg ved godt at kritik af Politiken ikke er det mest spændende at læse: Det meget amerikanske udtryk shooting fish in a barrel er nok det mest nærlæggende at bruge om bemeldte aktivitet.Men i går gav Politiken udtryk for en holdning der giver et udmærket billede af hvor tyndt et markedsføringstrick deres 'íntellektuelle' stil er. Tag nu f.eks. denne passage:Vi hverken kan – eller skal – indføre

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I attended a talk by a guy called Sir Harold Kroto last tuesday. He pointed out a fact I'd like to highlight [quoting from memory]:I don't know what the solution to the problems in the Middle East is. But I'm pretty sure that what's going on right now is not it.Truer words are rarely said...

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As Sir Kroto says in his usual talk: Goodbye Fox Newshttp://www.vega.org.uk/In particular, don't miss the Feynman's lectures.

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from a webcomic I only just came across today. Well, yesterday, if you want to be technical about it...[Link]Do read the Archives. They're... Interesting... This, in particular, struck a chord with me. Although, in my version, the finger-doll is John Bolton. I mean, everyone already knew that the White House (any White House, really, regardless of the party affiliation of current occupants)

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...is complete before mention has been made of the Roman RatlinesRead it and learn.Were these people prosecuted?Was there ever an independent investigation as to just how far up the Vatican burocracy the rot went?Was the Vatican leadership purged the way other axis governments were?The answers, my friend,are blowing in the wind.

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I believe that this picture speaks for itself... Oddly, though, the people who made it seem to think it's pro-christian... I myself can hardly think of anything less likely to prompt me to convert...EDIT: Aargh, this clearly isn't my day today... I forgot to hat-tip PZ over at Pharyngula for advertising the pic.

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This is a project I've been wanting to take up for some time. In point of fact, it's a project I've been wanting to take up ever since the French told the European 'Constitution' to drop dead.I have boldly boasted that I could write a European constitution that'd pass popular referendum - by a wide majority - in a majority of the European countries (well, a majority of the countries I want to be

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Looks like él Prezidenté Shrub has been violating the constitution of the United States for quite a while longer than I guessed...Not, I hasten to add, that I should be surprised by this...

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Man har vel lov at håbe.Regeringen har netop meldt ud at de ikke ser sig i stand til at afslutte 'velfærds'forhandlingerne i aften. De har foreløbigt udskudt afslutningen til i formiddag. Herfra udgår et lønligt håb om at afslutningen af de forhandlinger bliver udskudt permanent...

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But at least they're polite about it (Statsradiofonien kunne lære en ting eller to om falske positive og almindelig høflighed af de her folk)Note to Blogger: If you're reading this during the manual check-up, you may want to consider building a language patch in your detection filters: I somewhat suspect that much of the 'nonsensial' text your filters identified was actually Danish text, since I

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I particularly like this feature:[Link]

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Deres 'sikkerhedspolitik', er - som det fremgår - stort set at stikke hovedet ned i sandet som en anden struds, og forestille sig at verdens probemer kan løses alene ved bistand og civilsamfundsopbygning. Tag ikke fejl: Civilsamfundsopbygning og bistand er ikke bare vigtige midler til at sikre en fredelig og civiliseret verden; de er ganske uundværlige - noget amerikanerne aldrig rigtigt har

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The sad thing is though that "news" punditry shows have turned into the late night talk show too. They have guests on merely to trumpet their opinions. Questions are meant to prompt the next topic in the speech, not to challenge what the guest says too harshly. This isn't a hard and fast rule. You'll see challenging questions every now and again, but they are few and far between.From Pharyngula..

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Jeg har netop i dag modtaget en skrivelse fra Statsradiofoniens licenskontor med flg. ordlyd [kommatering som i original]:Vi vil gerne tro på, at du kun har radioDe fleste kan heldigvis se pointen i at betale licens. Og det er faktisk grunden til, at DR kan producere noget af verdens bedste tv og radio.Men cirka halvdelen af dem, der er tilmeldt radiolicens, har i virkeligheden også et tv. Dette

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And about fucking time, too.Link:http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik/2006/05/29/121436.htm

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This post, over at Majikthise, raises som seriously fucking scare perspectives to what seems like a fairly reasonable proposal.While I personally find her endless repetition of the words 'corporate state' wearying, I must admit that her definition of fascism is clear and concise (I'm keeping it bookmarked to run a comparison at a later date between her definition and the ideology and behavior of

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Jeg har tidligere skrevet om 'velfærds'reformerne - der har samme relation til 'velfærd' som Orwells 'Sandheds'ministerium har til 'sandhed'.I den forløbne uge har vi så set de største demonstrationer siden Schlüters indgreb i overenskomstforhandlingerne i 80-erne. Og de største strejker uden for arbejdstid siden (AFAIK) Krigen. Normalt er det vanskeligt at mobilisere folk uden for arbejdstid, så

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Der er kommet en rapport fra Europarådet, der kritiserer Danmark for ikke at tage rascisme tilstrækkeligt alvorligt. Noget af det de skriver er meget fornuftigt, men en hel del af det er beklageligvis bullshit:* ECRI anfører, at Danmark ikke har taget skridt til at indarbejde internationale menneskerettighedskonventioner i dansk ret.Denne diskussion er ikke ny, og der kan tales både for og

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En af kommentarerne her (ca. midt på siden) fangede min opmærksomhed:There are even atheist theocrats who believe that, while they personally don't need religion, that it is necessary for "society in general" and that it should be integrated into government and encouraged. Most of them believe some variant of "stupid people need religion, but I don't because I'm intellectually superior."-

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Jeg er netop kommet hjem fra en paneldebat hvor jeg endnu en gang oplevede hvor irriterende det er at høre en politiker lyve mig op i mit åbne ansigt.Studenterrådet havde arrangeret en paneldebat hvor man havde inviteret formanden for Venstres Ungdom. Han var blevet sat til den umulige opgave at forsvare regeringens 'velfærds'udspil (der, som en af mine mere aktivistiske studiekammarater siger,

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Looks like a couple of the judges in the US Supreme Court think that the protection from arbitrary search and seizure of person or property - in effect the protection against baseless internment, arbitrary confiscations of property, and the basic guarentee of privacy vis-a-vis one's phone, e-mail, or written letters - is not guarenteed by the US constitution. Those two judges were installed by

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Jeg var vist lidt for hurtig på aftrækkeren i går m.h.t. de Radikale. De går faktisk ikke ind for at maltraktere vores universiteter. Kun efterlønnen.Men i øvrigt gør det dem ikke mindre anti-intellektuelle eller skingre...

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Jeg taler naturligvis i overskriften om regeringens udspil til forringelse af det danske universitetssystem, også kendt som velfærdsudspillet (særligt p. 35).Ret skal være ret, der er faktisk nogen nogenlunde fornuftigt initiativer i pakken (blind høne kan åbenbart godt finde korn): Taxameterordningen omlægges så specialet udløser flere taxameterkroner til universitetet end det tilsvarende antal

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From ThePain with love... or something.

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Presenting, The Order of the Stick, by Giant in the Playground Games.

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I've been meaning to blog on the UN report about the cartoon 'controversy', but with my exams approaching, I'm chronically short on time (hey, at least this time I have a valid excuse).Besides, Ed Brayton (at Dispatches) says it more eloquently than I could.I might come back to blog a little about the politizising of the 'issue', however, since I've noticed that this interesting topic is hardly

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The fascist swine Ahmed Akkari - spokesswine for the Danish Society of Fascist Imams - has issued threats of murder against Danish politician Naser Khader. That is not surprising. That Akkari is a fascist swine is well known. That the Danish Society of Fascist Imams is an organisation of fascist swines is likewise well known. That fascist swines consider threats of murder a legitimate political

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This post at Pharyngula about the Sexist Asshat, William M Napoli, Sen. (R) - who's surprised?, SD, appeals to the reality based community and the pro-civil-liberties part of the Blogosphere to GoogleBomb the Sexist Asshat, William M Napoli.I hereby join the recommendation: All who care about protecting civil liberties and enforcing the Cairo Protocol should place a link somewhere on their

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Via The Mad Biologist, I learned of a post on Daily Kos that frankly pissed me off.By this time, there is very little in the pressure-cooker that passes for a political climate on the other side of the Pond that can surprise me, or seriously raise my blood pressure. But this is one of them.I wish that I could say that this is an unprecedented escalation and that the Bush Regime is now taking

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... here, on the subject of crank economic 'theories.'There is one or two things about the Laffer curve that bother me, which The Mad Biologist doesn't write about.The first is that there is nothing in the model that justifies assuming that there is only one maximum.Rather than being subdivided into two monotonous parts, it could be divided into any number of such, and still obey the boundry

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OK, this is taking the freedom of the Blog too far! Surely, the freedom of the Blog should not be used to depict the holy FSM is such a deregatory manner!\end{thick irony}

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Elendige amatører. Nu kan de flagafbrændende fascister rundt om i verden ikke engang finde ud af hvilke flag de skal sætte ild til...

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www.fatma5.dkDen behøver ikke yderligere kommentarer fra min side.EDIT: Linket til deres film virker ikke, så her er den fra en anden server.

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In the comments to this post on Pharyngula, there are some interesting questions and statements I feel like commenting on.First one from Mike (the Mad Biologist, perhaps? EDIT: Nope. This is another Mike)What world do you guys live in where openly expressed contempt is an effective tool of persuasion?The world in which Henrik Ibsen, Georg Brandes, Jeppe Aakær et al broke the power of the Danish

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... when the subtitle is something like By caving in to fanatics over the Danish cartoons, the West has shown that it is not only gutless but brainless.Over at Salon.com, Doug Marlette has published a nice little rant on the 'cartoon controversy.' (Teach the controversy, perhaps?)The fact that Salon is opposed to the appeasement practiced by so many of those who claim to be intellectuals should

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... from the Panda's Thumb.Specielt er der et enkelt afsnit der meget rammende beskriver den danske situation:Attacks on science are of concern not just to scientists; they threaten the continued prosperity and security of our entire nation in a world where we increasingly have to compete with other nations that have developed strong science-based technologies in areas that were once unchallenged

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I'm usually in agreement with Zapatero, but his latest antics are simply indefencible.It is one thing for the American él Prezidenté to fail to support the freedom and independence of European newspapers against rabid attacks from fascists, and betrayal from the pseudointellectual parts of the 'establishment.' After all, from the point of view of mister Bush, Copenhagen is a long way away, and he

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New Liberal 64% , Distribution of Power 76% Distribution of Capital You believe in a balanced democratic government with a mixed economy.While not going so far as to be a socialist, you do believe thegovernment should act to ensure fairness and safeguards in economics.Your views are the norm in almost all industrialized nations, except America. My test tracked 2 variables How

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... for all those who buy into the bullshit notion that outlawing abortions is a humane position.

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... about the origins of Intelligent Design Creationism.The reason I write about it is that a single paragraph caught my eye:As I have argued before, design is a concept/explanation that has been around since the Greek philosophers. An astonishing example of such thinking comes from Marcus Cicero (106-43 BC). Cicero would write something that sounds oddly familiar: Can I but wonder here that

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De der kan huske hvad der var dagsaktuelle emner i ugerne op til offentliggørelsen af de famøse tegninger af Muhammed har måske undret sig over at det var netop disse der gav anledning til de største protester. Jeg kan i alt fald huske at jeg gjorde mig nogle overvejelser i den retning.Der var nemlig en anden - og ud fra enhver rimelig standard mere alvorlig - sag fremme i den offentlige debat på

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... når Naser Khader taler (hvad laver et så fornuftigt menneske egentligt hos de Radikale?).

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... creationists shoot themselves in the foot - again and again and again.Take, for instance, a look at this amusing attempt to rebut Mark Isaak's fine Index to Creationist Claims.I will not attempt to go through their 'responses,' since that would be both boring and unproductive. If you have a streak of intellectual masochism, you can have a go yourself.No, what I will call to the attention of

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This post by PZ Myers (at Pharyngula) is definitely going on my Links list.

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Whenever I hear a politician or other talking head extoll the virtues of the free market, I privately run though a little checklist. Certainly, the marketplace can be a very effective way to run sectors - if they are suited to being run by the market. If they are not so suited, privatisation can be a very grave (not to mention costly) mistake. My private little checklist of absolute minimum

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Det er overordentligt glædeligt at en række muslimske organisationer i 12-radioavisen i dag tager afstand fra ideen om at opføre en moske i København som 'kompentation' for muhammed-tegningerne.En ting er at jeg principielt er modstander af nyopførsel af religiøse bygninger - hvis vi skal have en moske i København, så må man rive noget af den overflod af nyopførte (dvs. siden Krigen) kirker, der

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Hvad Helvede gør man ved sådan en notorisk lystløgner og illoyal ayatollah-wanna-be?

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... with this article, in the Haaretz. Thanks to The Mad Biologist for pointing it out.An aside: I'm too young to remember the recognition of al Fatah, the Syrian parts of Hizbollah or the ANC as legitimate political players (no other comparison implied). But I see several striking similarities - especially to the Fatah case. Fatah was widely considered a terrorist organisation that had no

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Det er jo ikke så underligt at socialdemokraterne bliver ved med at tabe valg, når Søren Espersen udviser større civilcourage end Svend Auken.Jeg tror ikke over en dørtærskel på at Søren Espersen er i gang med andet end at spinde politisk guld på Islamisk Trossamfunds åndssvage og skadelige eskalering af den aktuelle 'debat' om hvorvidt nyfascistiske gejstlige skal have lov til at sætte grænser

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... at Islamisk Trossamfund driver femte-kolonne virksomhed, og der har da også været rejst nogle overordentligt interessante spørgsmål om den rejse fremtrædende medlemmer af samme - uh - forening foretog til Mellemøsten umiddelbart før den nuværende diplomatiske krise eskalerede.Men det er da altid rart at tage dem med bukserne helt nede om haserne. Det er da i sig selv ganske interessant at

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Det er da rart at se at DR for en gangs skyld stiller skarpe spørgsmål til en gejstlig. Bestemt en udsendelse der er værd at lytte til, må der blive lavet mange flere af samme slags.Specielt er der to såre afslørende passager; den første ved 5:17, og den anden ved 6:14I det første piver Abdul Wahid Pedersen (hvorfor skal den mandsperson i øvrigt repræsentere de danske muslimer? Hvilket mandat

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All the politicians of all political parties (except the usual crowd of contrarian wingnuts) claim that it's a problem. Then it must be a problem. Right? Wrong. Case in point: Terrorism.From all the media hype and all the scared-looking politicians on your evening news, you might get the idea that terrorism is the biggest threat to civilisation since Attila the Hun. That assertion, however, dies

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Remember the press conference not so long ago where Bush said that he 'didn't worry much about that guy' (or something along those lines), in reference to Osama bin Laden? Appearently Washington hopes you don't, because now they're playing the Osama card for all it's worth in support of a new law that will (among other things) make the illegal NSA wiretappings legal.This must be setting some sort

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Despite the best efforts of the White House to round up any and all incriminating pictures of Bush and his good friend, longtime ally, and valued campaign contributer Jack Abramoff, the pictures are still around.While this is the scandal that has greatest potential to become Mister Bush's Waterloo, it is but the latest in a string of misdemeanors as long as your arm. Leaving aside the fact that

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The word 'empire' has decidedly negative connotations in the modern world. When many modern europeans hear it, they think about the Colonial empires, about the Soviet empire, about the Nazi empire, and about the American empire - and just perhaps about the Empire from Star Wars. All of these - to varying degrees - conjure negative mental images.But empires need not be all bad. Consider, for

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Interesting, isn't it?And you gotta love this one.

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Det er i år 100 år siden Henrik Ibsen døde. Ibsen er en af de helt store skikkelser i opgøret med den puritanske kristendom i Danmark, og det gør det i sig selv værd at mindes ham i en tid hvor både kristen og islamisk puritanisme har vind i sejlene.Dette jubilæum burde også give de dele af det politiske liv der ser sig selv som Ibsens arvtagere en tiltrængt lejlighed til lidt selvrefleksion. Vi

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Hehehe... So that's where the Cobb County Periodic Table spoof came from... I'll definitely be adding that one to my list of readworthy blogs.

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Agenda fra d. 31/12-05 har et interessant emne: Nypuritanisme. Det lader til at det efterhånden er ved at gå op for DR at indskrænkethed, seksualforskrækkelse og smålighed er ved at brede sig i gamle Danmark. Det kunne dog have været rart hvis de havde udvidet deres horisont en lille smule og betragtet de nypuritanistiske reaktioner som blev skabt af en CD med seksualoplysning for et par år siden

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Så afviste statsadvokaten at rejse sag imod JyllandsPosten for at udnytte trykkefriheden. Det er en god dag for civilisationen.

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... men det er nu alligevel altid værd at dokumentere den tætte ideologiske forbindelse mellem de dele af den danske gejstlighed der søger at forurene den offentlige debat og den alleryderste amerikanske højrefløj - i ved nok, de neo-barbarer der sender miltbrand-breve, forsøger at bilde folk ind at Jorden er under 20 kyrs gammel og myrder læger, sorte og homoseksuelle.Det er så meget desto mere

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What Is Your Animal Personality? brought to you by Quizilla You are a Social Liberal (75% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (13% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on Ok CupidAlso: The OkCupid Dating Persona TestFunny how Americans use the term 'liberal', BTW.My law was that "All newsies would be required to do their

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So, that was 2005. Sure went by quickly. Still, a lot of stuff happened and I suppose that now is the time to sum things up a little.2005 was the World Year of Physics, celebrating the 100th anniversery of the Theory of Special Relativity.2005 was also the year when the US fatality count in Operation Iraqi Screwup reached 2005.2005 was the year ESA kicked off the Galileo program.2005 was the year

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It is, in a way, galling that Europe still uses Russian and American launch pads and rockets for our space missions. On the other hand, there is a certain undeniable satisfaction in the fact that the first Galileo sattelite has been launched from Baikonur - the launch platform used to put the very first sattelite into orbit.The Galileo project is more than simply redundant navigation. It is an

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Boy, have the Faroe Islands screwed the pooch. The Løgting recently turned down an ammendment to the local anti-discrimination law that would have made discrimination because of sexual orientation illegal.That is a sad story indeed - but what is possibly even more omnious is the silence of so many of those politicians who normally pretend to be interested in anti-discrimination.As my regular

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Skal det nu være etnisk diskrimination at man bliver fyret fra sin arbejdsplads fordi man faster under ramadanen? Det skal det åbentbart ifølge Klagenævnet for Etnisk Ligestilling. Jeg kunne forstå hvis man argumenterede for at det var religiøs diskrimination, men etnisk? Og er religiøs diskrimination altid urimelig?Der er to grunde til at tage dette emne op. Den ene er den stadigt mere utålelige

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I was actually a little uncertain which language to write this submission in. On the one hand, it displays a rather unsavory trend in local, Danish politics - and one that foreigners might find it a little hard to understand. On the other hand, it is about an event that should concern the whole world.As you see, the 'international edition' was the one that went to print.I'll start with a little

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At long last Ante Gotovina has been captured and is on his way to Hague, despite the endless obstructionism of Croatian nationalists and, reportedly, the aid of the Catholic Church. This is happy news indeed.Hopefully, continuing progress in capturing the key perpetrators of the atrocities that wrecked the Balkan states will go some way towards healing wounds and improving stability and

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Hvis man kunne tage patent på hykleri (og man kan jo så meget med amerikansk patentlovgivning) kunne man have scoret nogle fede royalties i de seneste par uger.Da op imod 3000 (DRs overslag) muslimske fundamentalister i sidste måned demonstrerede imod trykkefriheden i Københavns gader var reaktionen fra de politikere der ellers burde være forrest i den antifascistisk kamp en larmende tavshed. I

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Den anden større hjerneblødning vor kære minister har haft i denne uge har været et udspil om afskaffelse af gruppeeksaminerne i hele uddannelsessystemet, inkl. på universiteterne.At man ønsker at afskaffe gruppeeksamen i folkeskolen og gymnasiet kan jeg ikke beklage mig over. De har som jeg ser det i langt de fleste fag ikke noget at bidrage med. Det er klart at man kan have gavn og glæde af

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Som studerende ved et universitet sorterer man under Videnskabsministeriet, ikke Undervisningsministeriet. Det kan være en Meget God Ting (som det f.eks. var mens Tørnæs huserede i Undervisningsministeriet), og overordnet set beklager jeg da heller ikke denne tingenes tilstand.Det betyder imidlertid at den Øverste Vilje under Vorherre (eller i alt fald den øverste vilje under finansministeren,

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