Doin' The Omoralisk Schagerfestival '10 (7)

It's over for this time and thank god they didn't start the damn search for next year artist directly after the final. Germany won anyway, as I predicted. So it will probably be in Berlin for the first time. A congratulations to all germans for winning the contest. And apparently we just lost out for the finals with 3 points, so the singer should be happy to be best of of the worst. She could have ended up the worst of the best.

Now talking about the Marabou polka... it's marvelous. A minty chocolate without the crisp that get stuck i your teeth like the Marabou Mint Brittle. It's good and well worth a bite. Yes, I broke the chocolate absence streak at around 5 weeks. Well worth it though. Also, I feel like just resetting the timer and redo it, before I get stuck in it again. Probably no problem as I soon will send in the essay (after finishing it of course) and will be done with the stress and need to artificially keep myself on a good mood. Now I wish I just could fix the damned TV so I could relax with some horror Video Games, Resident Evil 1 and 5 (might even do a replay of 4). Or Mega Man & Bass or some Castlevania... or just let the TV be so I don't waste so much time on it.

Snowblind

Have I mentioned a lot of politics lately? I have? No, cause you can't get enough of it. It's addicting, like chocolate. You read political outburst as an injection in your vein, opinion polls you snort up your nose. It's a drug I tell you. It keeps you in ecstasy for every change in the numbers, the closer the election day the faster your heart beats. Constant euphoria. No, I'm not eating any chocolate but I have 2 chocolate bars in the fridge for some other time. You might wonder why I bring this up and the answer is simple... the Alliance is in the lead again. And Sweden's economy is on the right track. Really, as it looks now they shouldn't be able to lose. Unless someone does something stupid, right? No, I don't have anything to put up a "what the hell" moment for now. Feels good does it not?

About the essay it seemed to be fine according to my "instructor" (or whatever it's called) so all I need to do is finish it before Friday and I'm finished. Onward with that. Also, today I actually meet an old friend that I haven't seen since I was in Washington. Completely shocked to see him as he haven't studied in Karlstad since, I don't know, I never saw him here. Fun meeting actually. Sad thing is that it reminds me of all my other friends from that time.

Doin' The Omoralisk Schagerfestival '10 (6)

What shall I say? It was a bit better. I liked Lithuania, funky and a catchy tune, unfortunately it was not as good live as the pre-video. Sweden was okay, but I don't like it. We should not be qualified for the final so that I can gloat in the fact that the Swedish people don't have a taste of music and have chosen the song 2 years in a row proving their failure. Democracy is a LIE bwhahahaha *ahem*... where was I? Oh, Slovenia was fun, liked the guitar sound. And then it was Turkey... GOD MY EYES! I almost got seizures from it, all the blinking. It must have damaged my eyes cause I only see stripes... no wait, that's just the TV.

Is it just me or was those who made the voting entertainment act with the choir on drugs? What the HELL? It must, or at least something influenced by someone's nightmares?

So it's over, the Swedish people have miserably failed in giving us a reason to let them have a say in this contest, haha. I like being an elitist smug person. Only sad thing is that neither of my favorites ended up in the final. Pity, I really liked Lithuania... what? Common, it is good, funky and everything and the clothes... yes, they had silver shorts, and yes, it looked stupid, but I still liked the song. So I have no favorites from the songs voted in the semi-finals which would leave... Germany. My money is on Germany. Cross fingers... yes, I know I'm hypocritical about this whole thing, but that's my business.

Doin' The Omoralisk Schagerfestival '10 (5)

We can agree that the songs in the first semi-final wasn't that good, I don't actually remember anyone special from that show. Didn't watch that much either, it was just on the TV while I was trying to finish the essay. I even have to check the wikipedia page to see who played yesterday. So Greece and Belarus was 2 of the countries going to the final? Alright, they wont win, Greece can't even afford it so it doesn't matter and Belarus is just... to perfect. And apparently the Swedish pianist Robert Wells is sitting behind their piano... behind the piano for a dictatorship! TRAITOR! Why have you cast the liberal values we stood and fought for, you cast it away for 3 minutes, being broadcast toward over 500 million people...? It was nothing. Probably done the same if I could play the piano and they asked me.

The essay you wonder? Lets forget about that for a while. It's more then a week left and I've sent it in for first evaluation to see if it will seem to stand up to the next evaluation. So I'm fine for the moment. Unfortunately they couldn't have the semi-final today so we could have ended this misery a lot faster. Oh, well, can still enjoy Agatha Christie's Poirot.

All The Clowns

I should probably write on the essay as tomorrow is the first deadline for the essay, but I think I will manage and this post is something I must tell the world both as it is hilarious stupid but also completely insane. You who have read this blog for some time knows I voted for the Social democrats in the election of 2006. I agree with some of their policies and they have done good things for Sweden, until 30 years ago at least. I will not deny I will vote for the Alliance this time, especially the liberal party as I find myself agree a lot more with them this time as the situation has changed since last time. It doesn't help that the Red-greens releases statements and ideas I can't even touch without feeling nauseated. The social democrats then makes themeless unvotable from my side.

What have they done you might ask? Well, OK so MP and V first of wants to lower working time between 5-10 hours a week. To my economic education that is just plain to much for our economy to handle at the moment. And it's not a common platform so S have said no and probably can keep them in check and so on. Then in their shadow budget it was the kilometer tax on all transportation that will heighten inflation and a tax raise on petroleum. Meaning the whole non-cities of Sweden will be left empty as it will be to expansive to live there. Also inflation means higher rates that will slow down the economic recovery together with heighten taxes. Summary they don't know anything about politics even though one of them has ruled the Swedish economy for 75 years. Okey, this is workable from my side as they like big government and I'm educated for that which means more jobs for me and I could probably manage the tax raises, but does it end here? F*** NO!

This is their outline for a new foreign policy for Sweden. What does it say? It says that Sweden should demand that the US leaves its military bases abroad and get their troops home... everywhere. Not only speaking about the ridicules idea that we have anything to say since we doesn't even have a base or even are in an unstable area IT'S JUST COMPLETELY INSANE! They want to destabilize the whole world. Alright, Europe might not be such big of a problem with 2 nuclear states (France and the UK) and the majority of the modern weapon systems in the world although how small they may be. But we are talking about delicate regions in Asia and the Middle-East. In Asia we have Taiwan and Korea protected by the shield of the US military, especially now when the North Koreans are rumbling on the horizon.

And then there is Japan. Did they forget the 2:d World War? The whole of Asia fears a Japanese military resurgence. The only reason the region have been stable is because the Japanese lived under US protection so they didn't need soldiers. Therefore the others didn't need to have an arms race involving probably nuclear weapons. If the americans leave Japan, they need to get some combat ready troops, the North Koreans answer with even more nuclear threats, South Korea builds up, China feels insecure with more armies around them and spend more money on the military. India feels threatened and invest in their army, Pakistan feels threatened by India and don't get me started on the Russian reaction to the Chinese arms race, trying to match them. Then we are in Europe again and then we need the Americans so they can protect us and then we need to arm us again, but that doesn't work since the red greens lowered the military spending with 2 billion SEK ($250 000 000 or €200 000 000) from todays levels of 41,4 billion SEK ($5 175 000 000 or € 4 140 000 000) almost 2,4 % of the Swedish budget (if I'm calculating it correct). Ending in a big bang. Did anyone of them study international relations or even global history?

Sadly I think I know why they go for that. There is no secret that the Left party is strongly against the US (it's something with the left, I don't know) and probably been one of the stronger advocates for this policy. MP then, why would they be behind this insane piece of c***? Mostly due to the lobby organization Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society being behind them. Pacifists that don't see longer than their noses. Yes, I don't like them. So all in all, I can't vote Social democrats, probably never again. Cause if I do, this will be the result:

Hungry For Heaven

Again, I should probably not write this as I got 11 pages left before the 45 page mark, not speaking about what I've written. Only wanted to share my stress and angst with whoever read this. You got angstroll'd. Old I know. Anyway, it's the ESC week with semi-finals tomorrow and on thursday and the grand final on Saturday. Might give something on what I think on these, but as Wednesday is the day I must send in the essay for evaluation I got to finish that. Unfortunately for me, probably lucky for you. I would not probably enjoy the whole show cause my damn TV decided to blow some fuse or something and now the picture consists of stripes in normal, blue, red and yellow or something dissolving parts of the screen. Now I have to take it back to the store and get it fixed (thank god for 5 years insurances) and that means I need a car, either to get it all the way back to the original store in Södertälje or to even get to the closest store of that brand. Work, work work.

Oh, and I haven't had chocolate for 4 weeks. That's amazing, I haven't pulled something like this of since last year that went over the whole of April till the beginning of May. Of course, when I finish this damn essay I shall drown my throat in sweet, wonderful nectar of the gods! Fill myself with beautiful artificial induced euphoria together with the relief of having this lifted from my shoulders, emerging as a god from the sea taking my place among the political scientist of the world! A GOD among MAN!!!... *ahem* Where was I? Yeah, chocolate... Mmm Marabou...

Denial

Should probably not write this as I have an essay to write, but I'm stuck at the moment and still need at least 14 pages, but no worry. Tomorrow I fire out 9 pages and then there is no problem what so ever to finish this until Wednesday next week, no problem at all *longingly watches a chocolate commercial*... Where was I? Oh yeah, the essay. No problem, I've told myself that when this is done I shall have myself some of that new Polka Marabou chocolate. Then it's been over 4 weeks since I got some chocolate and that's pretty amazing in this stressful period as I used to eat one bar every second day last year and the C-essay. Feels good, but I get the feeling my hair is thinning out when I look in the mirror... must be my imagination.

Anyway, you notice that the election is drawing near. Now the newspapers are putting out test to see which parties you stand closes to or which block and whatnot. Here it is, but it's in Swedish so not everyone might understand it. It got 10 parties taking in both SD, PP and F! besides the 7 Riksdag parties. But as always, nothing is perfect. Apparently it was really hard to get S, C and even impossible for PP for those party members who even read the manifest for those people to get them. The problem seemed to be that S and C didn't have clearly defined politics as they either, in S case, ended up as V or in C as FP, KD or M. No clear line that is. PP on the other hand can't get any high score as they only care about 3 questions (that they themselves feel represent so much more) and are therefore not measured the same as they have said that the block that gets their votes decide everything beyond their core questions.

What did I become? Well, I agreed with FP 73,5 %, KD 72.1 %, M 67,1 %, C 62,8%, SD 55 %, MP 26,4 %, S 22,8 %, V 22,1 %, F! 20,7 % and PP 5,7 %. Unexpected? No, since I know which party I would vote for and could manipulate the result to their favor. Strange thing is why SD got so high which some people also complained about. As someone said, populistic party and you say what people likes to hear. The most scary thing though was that KD got so high up. Am I really a conservative?