Valpurgis Night...

...or Vaborgsmässoafton. Shees, another year gone by. Having your birthday at this day is kind of cool. There are a national holiday the day after, so you can sleep in.

When I was a kid I could not believe all the kallabahooga that was made just because it was my birthday. Fireworks, bonfires and an endless party, flags being raised and what not. Only later I discovered that it was an aincent celebration for the official springtime and that it also were the kings birthday. Bummer!

Having birthdays were kind of cool- when you where a teenager (or younger), you got presents, you had something to look forward to (driving license, buying alcohole), but why do we celebrate 50- year olds for instance? It's like saying to them that "Now you only have one third of your life left- you bastard! See you in hell!

My sister messaged me and asked what I wanted for my birthday and I answered that I wanted Lego Star Wars for the XBOX360 or pants in size 116-128. Yupp; thats how low I have sinked... A couple of years ago I would have bought me an expensive whiskey and partyed all night long- now I think more of what I need for my son not to go to kindergarten in bad pants or with the right game to brag about.

My son asked me the other day- "Why are you getting older dad?"
I answered- "Every body gets older as time passes by."
He asked-"Why are you not wearing old folks clothes then?"

I think I have to take him out to the woods and teach him a lesson (c;

"Birds Fly Away" by Theresa Andersson

Check it out. It's absolutely amazing. Video here.

Hey everybody

Been away for a while. Done some surgery to my shoulder and when I came home I discovered that Blogger had suspended my account. In the mean time I have read a lot of blogs and taken part in political discourses at other (mainly Swedish) blogs. Some of it will end in a blogpost here.

But I am alive and kicking.

The main interresting things right now is ACTA, the Telecom Package, IPRED and the FRA legislation- all being propositions that will lessen individual freedom, in many cases run and proposed by industry lobbyists and [sigh]- France. What is it with these guys? Really? They laid down on their backs for the Germans during WW 2 and now crawls on all four for the record and movie industries.

I'm all for copyrights- someone doing something that some one else want's to take part of- should get paid for his or hers intellectual efforts. BUT! I also know that the industry are ripping off most of their artist (if not all). I have a friend playing in a much acclaimed rock band who after a whole summer of playing gigs atleast twice a week, was awarded 25 000 SEK ($ 3 100).

Check out one of their videos Chill Chill

Another fact is that some artists that have put up their music on the internet for free (without any record company involved) has made more money than they ever did when they were signed, like Stuck Mojo.

But first and foremost these legislations will reduce the freedom of the individuals. FREEDOM!
In a future the internet might turn in to cable TV where you have to pay for different kinds of content and are not allowed to access other.

Test

Just testing if I'm still here.

So I have been flagged!

This means that the Blogger team has me under surveilance and I now have to verifie every post I do. Annoying but temporarily I presume. But if I disappeare from Blogger, I can be found shortly under an other adress.

Subject: O/T On Becoming Illegal. You'll love this!

Subject: O/T On Becoming Illegal. You'll love this!
From: Old One Eye
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Date: Sat, May 31, 2008 - 03:12 PM ET
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Becoming Illegal (Actual letter from an Iowa resident and sent to his senator)

The Honorable Tom Harkin 731 Hart Senate Office Building Phone (202) 224 3254 Washington DC, 20510

Dear Senator Harkin,

As a native Iowan and excellent customer of the Internal Revenue Service, I am writing to ask for your assistance. I have contacted the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to determine the process for becoming an illegal alien and they referred me to you.

My primary reason for wishing to change my status from U.S. Citizen to illegal alien stems from the bill which was recently passed by the Senate and for which you voted. If my understanding of this bill's provisions is accurate, as an illegal alien who has been in the United States for five years, all I need to do to become a citizen is to pay a $2,000 fine and income taxes for three of the last five years. I know a good deal when I see one and I am anxious to get the process started before everyone figures it out.

Simply put, those of us who have been here legally have had to pay taxes every year so I'm excited about the prospect of avoiding two years of taxes in return for paying a $2,000 fine. Is there any way that I can apply to be illegal retroactively? This would yield an excellent result for me and my family because we paid heavy taxes in 2004 and 2005.

Additionally, as an illegal alien I could begin using the local emergency room as my primary health care provider. Once I have stopped paying premiums for medical insurance, my accountant figures I could save almost $10,000 a year.

Another benefit in gaining illegal status would be that my daughter would receive preferential treatment relative to her law school applications, as well as 'in-state' tuition rates for many colleges throughout the United States for my son.

Lastly, I understand that illegal status would relieve me of the burden of renewing my driver's license and making those burdensome car insurance premiums. This is very important to me given that I still have college age children driving my car.

If you would provide me with an outline of the process to become illegal (retroactively if possible) and copies of the necessary forms, I would be most appreciative. Thank you for your assistance.

Your Loyal Constituent, Donald Ruppert Burlington , IA

Get your Forms (NOW)!! Call your Internal Revenue Service 1-800-289-1040.

Hat tip: every kinda people

Malmös fire fighters has had enough: Dialouge does not help!

Threats, stonings and arsons has had the fire fighters of Malmö to be tired. They are demanding more coarse actions from the commanders and the politicians.

ROSENGÅRD. - They [the politicians] do not do done enough; thinks fire fighter Peter Tegerup.

After new threats on the night to Friday, when stone throwing escalated in Herrgården the emotions were higly strung among the fire fighters at the fire station of Jägersro.

- Dialouge does not help any more, says the commander Ulf Whalström in interviews.

- We can stand there and talk with them [guess who], and everything seem fine, but when we turn our backs at them they cut our hoses, he explaines.

From Sydsvenskan.

EVERY rape done in Oslo over the past three years are done by immigrants

Every violent attack rape in Oslo Norway over the past three years have been committed by non- western immigrants according to Hanne Kristin Rohde at the Oslo vice and violent crime section of the police.

"The evil doers are relatively young men that comes from other countries. They are often asylum seekers and comes from tramatuizised countries or countries with a whole another look on womans, say's Rhode.

We see that the perps have a look at womens [and others] that says that they when ever can take controll over the person- preferably womens."

Translation from me from Norwegian- everything faulty is to blame at me!

For those of us who has a mind not to entierly trust MSM, this does not come as a surprise. It has been a "secret in the dark" for so long now that virtually everybody knows the thruth even though statistics regarding attack rapes are forbidden to access here in Sweden.

As a second generation immigrant- I'm ashamed- but not surprised. But then I don't come from a muslim environment.

Sweden set to break wind farm record

From the Local.

Sweden looks likely to play host to Europe's largest wind farm after a northern county gave its seal of approval to a major new energy project.

the Swedish government gives its green light as well, a total of 1,101 wind turbines will be built in northern Sweden at an estimated cost of 55 billion kronor ($6.9 billion), the Norrbotten county administrative board said in a statement.

Its environmental assessment delegation recommended that the government give the Swedish company Markbygden Vind AB a permit for the project. Stockholm is expected to announce its decision within the next 12 months.

"This would be Europe's, if not the world's, biggest wind farm," Caj Noren, a spokesman for the board, told AFP.

Construction could begin in two-and-a-half years and would be completed after about a decade, Noren said.

The wind farm would be located in Markbygden, west of the northern town of Piteå, in an area measuring about 450 square kilometres (175 square miles).

If and when the wind farm is fully operational, it would produce a total of eight to 12 terawatt hours per year.

The Markbygden project alone could thereby generate enough energy to meet Sweden's 2015 national wind power target of 10 terawatt hours per year. A terawatt is equal to one trillion watts.

The turbines would have a maximum height of 200 metres (650 feet), according to the plans.

Markbygden Vind AB is owned 75 percent by the Swedish group Svevind Holding and 25 percent by German group Enercon, one of the world's biggest wind turbine makers.

No contract has been signed yet for the construction of the turbines.

The late (and deeply missed) Kurt Lundgren are probably spinning so fast in his grave that he alone could generate 10 Terawatts of energy!

As he often pointed out; wind turbines are nothing but a hoax. They cost enormous amounts of energy=money, to produce. At any given day- even under ideal conditions about half of them stands still, producing nothing. To counter that, you need enourmous parks of accumulators to store energy to be used. The batteries themselves costs a lot to produce and have a very limited lifespan= more money (not to mention that the old used up batteries has to be taken care of somehow=more energy spent). If there are no wind- they produce nothing. If there are to much wind- they produce nothing. They break down at regular intervals, most likely it's the gearboxes who gives up. Replacing them costs even more money and energy. As you all know by now money=energy and energy= money. Money is just tokens of spent energy!

There is no way a wind turbine can produce enough energy to produce itself let alone give any excess energy.

So how is it that you actually can make profits from a wind turbine then?

That's because they are made with cheap nuclear energy! And furthermore, they are state subsided. That's MY tax money at work!

However you turn, your behind is at your rear end...

After looking in to it a little bit more, I discovered that an average wind turbine generates about 2 MW/year. That means that 450 of them would produce 900MW/year- no where near the 10 Terra watts that are spoken of in the article- and that's under ideal conditions! A more propable number I believe would be closer to 450MW or even less.

Also Wikipedia states that a wind turbine generates enough energy in ten months to make up for the energy spent building it and that the yield is on par of a factor of 5-30 : 1 under it's life span. What it does not say is what I remarked on earlier. The cost of a wind turbine "on the shelf" is NOT the actual cost of producing it, transporting it raise it, maintain it and the batteries needed! THAT cost is an order of a magnitude higher. Then there also is the esthetic factor. They are butt ugly!

Update no2:
Ok, now they report that it is going to be 1100 wind turbines. That still would only make up for 2200 MW a year, nothing remotely close to the ten terawatts they are speaking about. Every wind turbine needs a security zone of 200 square meters, that would mean that a wind turbine park like that would need 220 000 square meters to be deployed or roughly 50 soccer fields in size (well really 44 with the standard 2MW/Y turbines, but the security zone grows with the diameter and the yield of the turbines. Also maintainace roads and facilities has to be taken in to the equation, so 50 is a feacible number I believe).

Wise words from a wise man

Something for Obama to think about (aswell as our Europeian leaders).