"She smells like lavender and free education."

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oh no, a place where a political ideal is to take care of each other. horrible.

Yeah... Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Iceland for you guys. Pretty much the same thing all over.

Do they just give free hugs in the street? Where I come from, you have to pay a hooker in order to get hugs.

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Do they just give free hugs in the street? Where I come from, you have to pay a hooker in order to get hugs.


Not only that but because they can go to the doctor anytime they feel ill, there's a minimal chance you'll catch a communicable disease from said hugs.

But seriously, how dare they not embrace selfish greed like Fox says we all should?!

I was in tears at Robyn's "crib" coverage Very classy.

Dammit, and familiar vistas too, now I want to visit Sweden again.

"Apparently the assembly line is the only thing that relieves the boredom of 16 months paid maternity leave, 10 weeks paid vacation, free gym membership and the company spa." - gold

America is very socialist already and has been for a long time, that ship has sailed

Yes, we are the roxxors. I'm getting increasingly worried about our censorship of the internet-tubes but other than that, we have it pretty good.

Come join me for a nice relaxing colonic.

♪Do you like piña colonics, and getting caught in the rain ♫

For fellow Canadians: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/#clip163189

Part 2
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=225126&title=the-stockholm-syndrome-pt.-2

The way wing-nuts portray Sweden as a bogeyman is the opposite of the truth. It's a nice place to live, really.

Time to LEARN THE F*CKING DIFFERENCE between USSR and Sweden:

classic USSR:
*Medium-Poor
*one-party Dictatorship
*No free speech
*State planning of entire economy - little or no entrepreneurship

Sweden:
*Affluent
*Democratic
*Freer speech and freer press than the USA according to Reporters Without Borders (Sweden ranked 7th while USA ranked 36th)
*Progressive income tax provides socialist services whilst the economy is still market-based and entrepreneurs are free to start new companies.
*No stupid laws written by religious-conservative-fundamentalists.
*Half the infant mortality and 3 years longer life expectancy than the USA.
*Less than half the murder rate of the USA [reference: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur-crime-murders 219/9M vs 16.2k/303M]
*Had the 2nd highest average math education scores in the world (USA was ranked 19th out of 21 industrialized countries). [Reference: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/98049.pdf]
*Fewer wasteful farm subsidies than the USA

Yay *scandinavia!

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The recycling station had me in tears.

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We need a Scandinavia channel! Who will make it?

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Good idea, but lets not take this recent video out of rotation to achieve it. Link from A Sift Talk post. *return

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