Monday's NBC Nightly News kicked off “Earth Week” by trumpeting Sweden as an environmental and economic paradise that could point the way for the United States. Anchor Brian William contended Swedes “always seem to be so happy and beautiful” and now “there's another reason to be green with envy about the Swedes. We're told they are living green lives, showing kindness to the planet, and saving a ton of energy in the process.” Sweden certainly enchanted reporter Anne Thompson who rode a bicycle in Stockholm and gushed:
Sweden's official colors are blue and yellow, but it lives green -- from the citizens who can eat the fish from waterways in Stockholm to King Carl XVI Gustaf, who rules the land and drives an ethanol-powered car.
Thompson focused on how the nation is researching “gasified wood” and putting people onto bicycles. Plus, “alternatives like the fuel made from organic waste that powers this train.” Highlighting that “to reduce traffic, Swedes pay to drive in the business district,” Thompson concluded by touting how “Sweden's most important export” is “real world ways to live green.”
Preceding Thompson's story, NBC Nightly News viewers were treated to a promo playing on the name of the corporate parent, NBC-Universal, and championing the network's activist agenda (which was also displayed by NBC making the MSNBC.com logo green on screen):
Green is Universal. Earth Week. NBC News is committed to making our world a better place to live, changing our future, shaping our planet, one story at a time. On air, on cable, online, everywhere, this week, NBC News.
The MRC's Brad Wilmouth corrected the closed-captioning against the video to provide this transcript of the final story on the Monday, April 21 NBC Nightly News:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Have you ever noticed whenever you see those stories about which people are the most contented around the globe, whenever they profile the Swedes, they always seem to be so happy and beautiful? Now there's another reason to be green with envy about the Swedes. We're told they are living green lives, showing kindness to the planet, and saving a ton of energy in the process. Here is our chief environmental affairs correspondent, Anne Thompson.ANNE THOMPSON: Sweden's official colors are blue and yellow, but it lives green -- from the citizens who can eat the fish from waterways in Stockholm to King Carl XVI Gustaf, who rules the land and drives an ethanol-powered car. Can the rest of the world learn from Sweden?
KING CARL XVI GUSTAF, SWEDEN: If you are willing to, yes.
THOMPSON: To learn, the world travels through Sweden's forest to its living green laboratory Vaxjo. A city of nearly 79,000, it is a pioneer in green living, cutting its carbon emissions by 30 percent per person in the last 15 years while still growing its economy. The crown jewel, its power plant that once burned oil.
What does this big pile do? What is it used for?
LARS EHRLEN, VEAB HEAT AND POWER MANAGER: This pile is our fuel for our district heating and electricity production.
THOMPSON: Wood waste goes from truck to conveyor belt to boiler. Though they need 30 times more wood waste than oil, it only costs one-fifth the price and produces near zero carbon emissions.
EHRLEN: We think that we, by doing this, will not increase the greenhouse effect.
THOMPSON: Because Sweden has no oil of it own, scientists like Anders Bowden (sp?) are trying to turn wood into synthetic fuel.
How long will it take before cars in Sweden can run on gasified wood?
ANDERS BOWDEN, SCIENTIST: I would say within ten years.
THOMPSON, RIDING A BICYCLE: In time to meet Sweden's goal to be fossil fuel free by 2020. But even here in Europe's greenest city, some ways of life are much harder to change, like trying to convince people to ride on two wheels instead of four. Mayor Bo Frank thinks he knows how.
BO FRANK, MAYOR OF VAXJO, SWEDEN: You live with the whip and the carrot. The whip is to make it more expensive to use fossils, and the carrot to make it more inexpensive to use alternatives.
THOMPSON: Alternatives like the fuel made from organic waste that powers this train. Why are Swedes so open to the idea of renewable fuel?
BERTIL CARLSON, SVENKBIOGAS TRAIN PROJECT DIRECTOR: We love the nature. We love what we have around us.
THOMPSON: Even in Stockholm, green works. To reduce traffic, Swedes pay to drive in the business district. A three-mile pedestrian mall runs through the heart of the city. Here it is a way of life, even at the royal palace.
KING CARL XVI GUSTAF: We are not perfect, but we can exchange knowledge and experience and technique.
THOMPSON: Creating, perhaps, Sweden's most important export, real world ways to live green.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN RIDING BICYCLE: Unbeatable biofuel.
THOMPSON: Anne Thompson, NBC News, Stockholm.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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Well, the Swedes are
April 22, 2008 - 02:37 ET by PeskyDaneWell, the Swedes are obviously going to be fine. I guess its time for them to start financing their own defense.
Love the savage wit
April 22, 2008 - 03:15 ET by reasonsjesterGreat way to "crack the whip" Pesky Dane!
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius
Yeah, I wonder if they would
April 22, 2008 - 03:57 ET by PeskyDaneYeah, I wonder if they would be able to afford their little Shangra-la if they had to pay the bills and actually had to act like the man of the house. With a population of only 9,000,000 they would have to pull a South Korea and put about 10% of their people underarms... just in case Putin ever decides to roll over them.
I’m with you Pesky, with
April 22, 2008 - 03:36 ET by USA4freedomI’m with you Pesky, with all of extra money for this kind of BS, they can protect that northern part of Europe.
I hope that one day we can be just as advanced as Sweden when we get our own King.
BRIANWILLIAMS: Have you ever noticed whenever you see those stories about which people are the most contented around the globe, whenever they profile the Swedes, they always seem to be so happy and beautiful?
World suicide rates: Sweden 27.7 per 100,000 people
US 21.7 Per 100,000 people.
Well I guess they are just laughing themselves to death..Happy.. happy.. happy..!!!
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Romney / Jendil 2012 (if,we survive)
I hope that one day we can
April 22, 2008 - 04:01 ET by PeskyDaneI hope that one day we can be just as advanced as Sweden when we get our own King.
Guess I'll just have to switch out that keyboard now...
You keyed on the same
April 22, 2008 - 07:55 ET by motherbeltYou keyed on the same phrase I did:
Have you ever noticed whenever you see those stories about
which people are the most contented around the globe, whenever they
profile the Swedes, they always seem to be so happy and beautiful?
Hey, Brian, have you ever noticed how when they do a story about a country, they only show you the things in that country that are favorable to the story they want to tell?
Here's the other side of the Swedish Utopia, from the Brussels Journal:
Swedish Welfare State Collapses as Immigrants Wage War.
Can you guess who the "immigrants" are?
I guess those "youths" aren't interested in riding bikes....
It is interesting to note that these Muslim immigrants state quite
openly that they are involved in a “war,” and see participation in
crime and harassment of the native population as such. This is
completely in line with what I have posited before. The number of rape
charges in Sweden has quadrupled [click this link to see one of those "happy and beautiful Swedish women.] in just above twenty years. Rape cases involving children under the age
of 15 are six times as common today as they were a generation ago. Most
other kinds of violent crime have rapidly increased, too.
I wonder how much longer all those Swedes are going to be "so happy and so beautiful" ?
As for all their ethanol-powered cars...who cares if the world's food supply is going being used for fuel
instead of food? It's much more important to be "green"....being "fed"
is overrated.
Clearly, such a suggestion makes you
April 22, 2008 - 04:54 ET by sarcasmo"An isolationist."
Sigh...With the depth of "debate" we get these days, is anyone surprised the "choice" is now between a statist & 2 socialists?
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
Sweden
April 22, 2008 - 07:12 ET by UnsaneAs I point out below, Sweden has long paid for its own defense. You should like Sweden's military. They only fight on defense and have zero power projection capabilities. You know, just as you want the U.S. military to be like.
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
Actually, in Sweden's
April 22, 2008 - 07:09 ET by UnsaneActually, in Sweden's defense (no pun intended), they have LONG financed their own defense. They are not in NATO nor have they ever been. (I think they are in the OSCE, but I am not sure. In any case, that is much much more a diplomatic grouping than it is a military alliance.)
Of course, that does not excuse their being a Nanny State, and also explains why they cannot project power much further than their own borders. And that ALSO explains why their Foreign Ministry only serves to scold and lecture other nations for their actions alo over the world in a very whiny fashion, with zero way of backing up their whines.
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
Sweeden's Army
April 22, 2008 - 07:59 ET by OneZeroSweeden has an impressive military. I have witnessed them in action. The Sweedish army (all 21 members) have the daunting task of protecting the vatican from foreign invasion. How can anyone forget the uniforms that resemble the Jokers in a deck of cards.
Would our Marines be brave enough to wear that uniform in public? I wonder...
There are 10 types of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
You have it wrong
April 22, 2008 - 09:25 ET by ForeverOnTheRightZeroOne, it's the Swiss that guard the Vatican, and you can bet that the uniforms they have are traditional. Yes they look silly, but that's what you get for being stuck in a century gone past, way past. (I went to www.ask.com to confirm this.)
Oil Free? Really?
April 22, 2008 - 09:18 ET by ironchefofmunchiesI bet Norway and Finland (not to mention Russia) are terrified of the idea of facing the Sweedish Army with their fleet of wood-burning tanks and aircraft.
Just imagine those crack Sweedish tank crews crying out "THROW ANOTHER LOG ON THE FIRE-THE ENEMY IS IN OUR SIGHTS".
Bet those Russians won't mess with Sweeden now, huh?
It would remind me of the
April 22, 2008 - 09:25 ET by taterIt would remind me of the Age of Empires computer game. When one civilization had the most up to date technology fighting another one that still used sticks and rocks. Needless to say Sweden would burn to the ground pretty easily if they faced that.
By justice a king gives stability to a land; but he who imposes heavy taxes ruins it. -Proverbs 29:4
I am picturing a smoke stack
April 22, 2008 - 09:40 ET by USA4freedomI am picturing a smoke stack coming out of their tanks, I bet that makes infrared a little easer to spot them.
Hell they can even make a reliable car anymore.. maybe that cutting edge technology is not what it use to be.. lol.
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
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The gassification process
April 22, 2008 - 10:09 ET by Dan The Man 2The gassification process turns wood into the hydrocarbons that leak from the wood as it is heated. Mother Earth News experimented with this about 35 years ago when they were really a grass roots magazine and interested in all sorts of way out stuff. Look it up sometime it is very interesting stuff.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
SDOD
April 22, 2008 - 13:05 ET by RackieWell, they have ordered 2 dozen knives from the Swiss.
And the sheep lay down to rest...
April 22, 2008 - 03:33 ET by Parker1227...but will they wake up and fight, or die in their sleep.
Searched: Sweden immigrant unrest.
From a couple years ago (wonder if it is getting better or worse?).
Swedish blogger Fjordman trying to make a difference.
An excerpt:
The coverage of this is silenced by the leftist MSM here and in Europe. These are just angry economically oppressed teenagers you see (the bogus Marxist class warfare excuse rolled out for another gasp of air).
GMTA, Parker!! I posted the
April 22, 2008 - 07:54 ET by motherbeltGMTA, Parker!! I posted the same link.
Doesn't that woman look "so happy and so beautiful"??
Sweden
April 22, 2008 - 04:24 ET by Gordon SchumwaySweden's most important export is the Volvo. I'm driving my sixth one now and looking to purchase #7 for Mrs. S. They are great cars. When my son bought his first new car, he bought a Volvo. Saabs are a distant second, but still an important export too.
Gordo
Melmac
Meshuggah
April 22, 2008 - 07:04 ET by UnsaneI have to respectfully disagree.
Sweden's most important export: Meshuggah. Give their new album Obzen a spin sometime.
That is, as long as you are not musically faint-of-heart.
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
Waterloo !
April 22, 2008 - 08:20 ET by KarmaUnsane,
I respectfully disagree.
Sweden's most important export: ABBA. Give their old 8-tracks a play sometime if you can find a player that won't shred them.
Volvo
April 22, 2008 - 08:33 ET by Matthew Sheffieldis actually owned by General Motors. Lots of the vehicles they produce are made in U.S. iirc.
Matthew
April 22, 2008 - 11:06 ET by SmartypantsActually, Volvo is owned by Ford. Saab is owned by GM. There are few independent auto companies anymore. I believe BMW remains its own entity. Most Saabs and Volvos are still made in Sweden, although many are now made on platforms of other Ford or GM vehicles. For instance, the Saab 9-3 is the same chassis as the Pontiac G6, even though the 9-3 continues to be assembled in Sweden. The Saab 9-7, however, is indeed made in the U.S. on the same assembly line that puts out the GMC Envoy and Chevy Trailblazer. All of this is definitive proof that it is increasingly more difficult to tell the difference between an American car and a foreign one.
Gasified Wood = Gasified Media
April 22, 2008 - 04:27 ET by reasonsjesterI love the lexicon this little socialist despot drags out - "whips and carrots"? Why don't we just drag out the "Judas Cradle" or the "Garotte" and get serious with these global warming "deniers"? The effect is particularly comical given inane and childish quotes like, "Sweden's official colors are blue and yellow but it lives green - " a tried and true propaganda technique of trying to "brand" the most vague and universal concept imaginable, in this case, the color green.
As far as the gasified wood concept, I am a bit astounded by the contradictions in the proposal of using a plant that absorbs carbon dioxide to fight global warming. That is, until we consider the raison d'etre of climate change paranoia - world government expansion and eco-communism. Research shows that plants grow in proportion to the amount of CO2 available, a potentially potent antidote to the marginal growth in CO2 levels - unless one takes into account the methane production of trees, a more serious problem than CO2 to begin with. For an excellent example of the quandry of eco-communists trying to decide how to use trees to "roll back" industrialization, the New York Times puts forth the question of using trees to combat global warming, but then also posits the possibility of using trees as biofuel. In addition, we find that the math is bizarre - "we need 30 times more wood waste than oil, it only costs one-fifth the price and produces near zero-emissions." (1) Notice how 30 is in alpha-numeric form and one-fifth is in Roman alphabet form? This is to disengage and disorient your cognitive processing center from right-brain to left-brain - comparing apples to oranges and leading to cognitive dissonance. (2) Taking trees out of the equation leads to net more CO2 in the atmosphere, since trees, overall, "eat" and store CO2 in the form of cellulose. (3) Cutting trees and using them as fuel appears to be at least 6 times more inefficient than using oil, and as a whole, will be more costly using Marx's theory of labor-value (I love using Marxist ideas against my ideological enemies!).
To say that the global warming argument is convoluted is a vast understatement, and to watch socialists trot out global warming ponies like some kind of show until the public bids on one would be more fun if there wasn't such a purposely dumbed-down or brainwashed public that seems willing to do so.
By the way, I am much more concerned about global cooling than global warming. For a beautiful illustration of the Mark Twain dictum, "There are three kinds of lies. Lies, damn lies, and statistics" - see Dr. Carter's graphical expose of how to use linear multiple regression on varying periods of climate scores over the last 16,000 years to support either global warming or global cooling arguments.
On the whole the (Gramscian) strategy of the left is manifold. (1) Centralize government control. (2) Gain control over education. (3) Concoct an education program based on relativism and a lack of critical thinking skills. (4) Repeat "grand lies" (as Leninist theory dictates) through a leftist media that lead to a sense of a lack of control over the environment until people accept it. (5) Use ostracism to discredit and shun skeptics. (6) Attempt to use "democracy" against "liberal' democracies until you have an un-democratic "tyranny of the majority." (7) Democratize eco-communism. (8) "Unify" democracies under the rubric of global climate change.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius
Happy Vladimir Lenin's Birthday, April 22!
April 22, 2008 - 07:01 ET by PopularTechWhy is NBC not celebrating this great leader of the communist revolution like the founders of earth day did when they chose the 100th anniversary of his birth, April 22, 1970 to reject capitalism and worship Gaia?
Earth Day Going from Red to Green (FrontPage Magazine)
Earth Day Is Lenin's Birthday: Coincidence or Communism? (Capitalism Magazine)
This Earth Day Celebrate Vladimir Lenin's Birthday! (Capitalism Magazine)
The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource
Celebrate April 23
April 22, 2008 - 07:48 ET by Jack BauerThey should rename 22 April as GULAG DAY...
But all Newsbusters should celebrate 23 April as that is
#1. Shakespeare's birthday, the bard being part of the glorious heritage of all English speaking Americans. A genius whose influence on our everyday language echoes down through the centuries.
#2. St. George's Day
Sweden: Going Nowhere
April 22, 2008 - 07:01 ET by UnsaneOf course, Mr. Williams and Miss Thompson miss a very important point:
The United States is the world's largest and most advanced economy. (This fact fills Mr. Williams and Miss Thompson both with vast quantities of guilt.)
Sweden, while an advanced, First World country, is firmly entrenched in my Going Nowhere club, as they have LONG ago sacrificed dynamism and risk-taking and progression for coddling, pampering, and babying.
And so much for Sweden being "green" (the MSM is forcing me to hate that color). They are scheduled to leave the nuke business in 2010. Contrast that to its next door neighbor, Finland, who has embraced nukes, and in fact is building at least one additional nuke plant that I am aware of.
Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.
Solid Point
April 22, 2008 - 07:06 ET by reasonsjesterI came to a similar conclusion myself about the differing scales of the economies.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius
I heard other things
April 22, 2008 - 07:24 ET by JWFI heard Swedes exhale Vanilla scented nitrogen, fart rainbows, and poop puppies.
Ahhhhh, a magic place, I want to go there.
OMG that’s funny.. poop
April 22, 2008 - 09:09 ET by USA4freedomOMG that’s funny.. poop puppies..
As I sit here with my chocolate lab at my feet.
There are days when I really need a good laugh, with all that is going on with Mc Lame and the direction of the GOP.
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Romney / Jendil 2012 (if,we survive)
Gasified Wood?
April 22, 2008 - 07:50 ET by EvilCon555I just can't reconcile the burning of wood, gasified or not, as a low emission energy source. That said, please don't humor me with technology. I am a Swedish American of the dumb blonde blue eyed variety...and if I think too hard I faint. As for rainbow farting (can I say that on the internet?), we eat WAY too much marinated herring for THAT to happen...trust me..
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table" Ronald Reagan, Jan 21, 1981
So do you want to admit it now?
April 22, 2008 - 08:01 ET by JWFIn order to get all that wood waste, are you now or have you ever or do you plan to someday.....KILL A TREE!
Cuz back in the 90's, NBC taught us tree killing is bad! That is why I choose plastic instead of paper.
Also do not even try to deny that you have killed off all of the amazon jungles in Sweden. Cuz I also heard there is not any amazon jungles in Sweden. So admit it now, you chopped all the jungles down!
NBC confuses me.
BO FRANK, MAYOR OF VAXJO,
April 22, 2008 - 07:59 ET by Jack BauerWell first off, he should be a Democrat like Spitzer, Patterson or McGreavy ... they probably loved the whip too.
But seriously -- have you ever met the perfect storm of arrogant, quasi-fascist/commie thinking?
This is an elected politician who thinks it's his job to "whip" the people. String him up from the nearest lamp-post like il Duce.
Mind you the Swedes are so suppine - and the have one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
No crap?
NBC going green while "WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MATT LAUER!"
April 22, 2008 - 08:10 ET by PawpawNNBC going green while "WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MATT LAUER!" starts this week. They'll fly him and crews with bright lights, trucks, vapor emitting cameras, etc., all over the world while they play their little "WE'RE GREEN" games. Geez, last few weeks Al was all over with "GREEN TRUCKS" with crews, etc. At least when in Colorado they did help melt some of the record snowfall! These people are so sickening, and all the while GE, NBC's parent company is selling these stupid light bulbs that, if they break, you have to get HAZ-MAT crews to come to your home to clean up!
PawPawN- excellent point!
April 22, 2008 - 08:21 ET by Mica the MagnificentOur electric co-op is mailing one flourescent lightbulb to every customer.
It states in the notice that if you break the new 'green' bulb, mercury make pose a hazard. Open the windows to your house for 3 hours. Pick up the pieces with a broom and pan, and bring it to a recycling center.
Five years from now, we'll see commercials on t.v. from lawyers:
Have you ever broken a flourescent bulb? You may have been contaminated! You make be eligible for compensation.
Well this is going to be
April 22, 2008 - 09:08 ET by motherbeltWell this is going to be another can of worms they wish they hadn't opened.
Last year a woman was told to call "Poison Control" when a bulb broke and she ended up with ther daughter's room sealed off and a $2000 estimate for cleanup.
So why is it that now it's OK to just sweep it up and bring it to a "recycling center." Are we supposed to just drop what we're doing and run it over to wherever that happens to be? Wouldn't it be dangerous to have it lying around for a couple of days until we can get it over there?
Do they really think no one will simply throw it in the trash??
Motherbelt, I am guilty
April 22, 2008 - 10:41 ET by Mica the MagnificentI dropped many long-tube flourescent bulbs (shop bulbs) over the years.
I picked up the pieces with my bare hands and tossed it in the trash.
I still managed to have kids, drive a motorized vehicle, and recognize my mother.
Mica, when I was a kid, we
April 22, 2008 - 10:45 ET by motherbeltMica, when I was a kid, we were happy when my mother dropped and broke a thermometer!! We would have a blast playing with the bit of mercury that came out of it!!
BTW, my mother and every one else's mother had potholders and trivets, and linoleum floors in the kitchen, all made with asbestos!!!
Motherbelt, am I correct?
April 22, 2008 - 10:52 ET by Mica the MagnificentDidn't that mercury roll in your hand like a liquid marble?
If I'm correct, then I played with mercury A LOT!
Yep, it did
April 22, 2008 - 19:01 ET by DEVILDOCMOMroll into a little ball-and still does. I have a small bottle I have had for many many years. Great fun to play with...:)
Sorry, it's my age---
April 22, 2008 - 08:48 ET by misterbillSweden's greatest product. I was 10 years old--I saw the product--I fell in love for the first time in my life. The beauty of the product enthralled me then. The memory of the Swedish product still lingers, happily, in my mind.
"For Whom The Bell Tolls". A young boy sitting in the theater and Ingrid Bergman came on the screen. My first crush. In those days, we did not have to leave the theater between screenings. I stayed for a second show. I considered moving to Sweden, but there was no work for a young American boy.
The years passed. The flames of youthful passion changed to a warm mature glow and yet, I still would melt when I saw her on the screen. The last film I remember seeing her in was "Murder On The Orient Express". She was almost 60 years old and still the most attractive woman in the movie. My now old heart, no longer pounded violently, but fluttered softly as I admired the woman who was my first love.
RIP Ingrid
RIP Sweden
No I'm not...I just have
April 22, 2008 - 09:00 ET by KarmaNo I'm not...I just have something in my eye. Hand me a tissue please.
Better prose I will not read today. Excellent, misterbill.
Thank you
April 22, 2008 - 09:24 ET by misterbillKarma,
In all sincerity, ain't love grand?????
Not only beautiful, but an
April 22, 2008 - 10:06 ET by JerNot only beautiful, but an enormous talent. Casablanca, of course, but Bergman in Notorious and Gaslight blows me away.
Jer
jer---
April 22, 2008 - 14:30 ET by misterbillJer---- are you gaslighting me?????
Misterbill....my first love
April 22, 2008 - 14:38 ET by bassndudeMisterbill....my first love was Marie Osmond...first time I ever saw her was on Andy Williams show..my wife, bless her heart, still gets me birthday cards and signs them Marie...
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
First love continued . . . .
April 22, 2008 - 15:29 ET by Mica the MagnificentI fell in love with Mary Tyler Moore on the old Dick Van Dyke Show.
Every time she cried 'Oh Robbb!' I visualized something kinky!
I named a body part 'Rob.'
Isn't perversion grand?
My my Mica:-) Marie was
April 22, 2008 - 15:45 ET by bassndudeMy my Mica:-) Marie was younger than I, and I was really getting to the point that I was looking at the girls, real hard, when I saw her on TV. After that, I was hooked on her. BTW, Mary was one hot babe to. She was the reason I watched that show.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
Speaking of crushes on hot
April 22, 2008 - 15:53 ET by bassndudeSpeaking of crushes on hot babe, there was Barbara Eden. I loved her outfits!!
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
lol, bassndude
April 22, 2008 - 16:04 ET by Mica the MagnificentIf Marie was within the 'acceptable' range of 'younger than I', say, 10 years, then I will have no reason to notify the proper authorities.
I, on the otherhand, was much much younger than Mary Tyler Moore. She . . . let me explain this in today's terms . . . represented the young elementary school teacher I never had a chance with at age 9.
lol Mica....I am 9 years
April 22, 2008 - 16:11 ET by bassndudelol Mica....I am 9 years older than Marie. If I remember right, she was born in 59, I was born in 50. And the teachers name was Mrs. Tarkington, 3rd grade. And there was 2 HS teachers..but I never had a chance, lol.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
Stop it, Bassndude!!
April 22, 2008 - 16:12 ET by Mica the MagnificentBarbara Eden.
Don't get me started.
First naked flat belly I ever saw on t.v.
Ann Margeret... Since you
April 22, 2008 - 16:29 ET by Clear thinkerAnn Margeret...
Since you have taken us down this road.... Ann Margeret was my first love. As a kid I hoped that when I grew up that all woman would look like her. And yes, I was mad as hell at Elvis when he kissed her.
"Abstain from McCain"
You guys are
April 22, 2008 - 16:33 ET by balboaYou guys are oooolllllld.
(cough)Kristy McNichol(cough)
OOollllldd.
Welcome to shattered expectations, Bal, but . .. .
April 22, 2008 - 16:41 ET by Mica the Magnificentdidn't she move over to the Rosie O'Donnell camp years ago?
Hadn't heard that. That's
April 22, 2008 - 16:51 ET by balboaHadn't heard that. That's alright, though. I quickly moved from her to Cheryl Ladd.
Cheryl, yes, Bal.
April 22, 2008 - 16:53 ET by Mica the MagnificentExcellent move.
I'm old too, but I wanted the best... "99"
April 22, 2008 - 17:01 ET by sarcasmoBarbara Feldon on the classic show "Get Smart." What a '60s hottie she was, and in a public service to all men, she even stayed good-looking.
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
Oh yeah! Feldon was hot!
April 22, 2008 - 17:07 ET by bassndudeOh yeah! Feldon was hot! Wonder what her naked belly looked like.
I am panting like an old dog here!
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
"Mr. Skin" would probably know, but...
April 22, 2008 - 17:18 ET by sarcasmoIIRC, 99 was always wearing a really hot outfit when she had to attract a spy from KAOS, so those were the best episodes for me. Of course, I was about 6 years old, so while I got some of the humor, the reruns have been a good thing, too.
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
Yeah, Sarc, Agent 99!
April 22, 2008 - 17:08 ET by Mica the MagnificentYeah, Agent 99.
Long legs, naive . . . .clean. . . . gentle . . . .mini-skirted . . . .
Let's stop this right now!!
Second only to Joey Heatherton!
NBC: Greed is Universal and Conflicted
April 22, 2008 - 09:08 ET by allanfDoes anyone at NBC point out that NBC's parent, General Electric sells high priced solar panels and wind turbines. GE may just have a vested interest in pushing this stuff.
By the way, for all you green fans, coal and nuclear power can be produced at about 2 cents/kwh. Solar power (if you can get any) costs over 30 cents/kwh.
I always notice something
April 22, 2008 - 09:27 ET by USA4freedomI always notice something all the time with the news, if it’s another country, then its better then us. If you watch the post here on this site, we are proud of our great country. Sure we have some problems, but over all we would not want to be anywhere else! I see people busting their ass to get here including crossing sharked infested waters on any dam thing that will float, yes leaving that wonderful country with “free health care” and the lowest illiteracy in Latin America. Yet they strap an inner tube and pick up a paddle and head North..
The same thing goes for Sweden, there is no reason that I would not want to live there, well.. the women are hot, but I am married so that might be one of the reasons for the higher suicide rate then us..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Romney / Jendil 2012 (if,we survive)
Of course!
April 22, 2008 - 09:47 ET by JWFBush created teh 2nd great depression, Bush broke teh economy, Bush did not predict 9/11, Bush did not sprout wings and fly to the rescue and instead listened to goats, Bush stole Afghanistan and now he won't give it back, Bush invaded Al Gore and forgot to clean him up, Bush punches hippies, Bush forgot to give water and food to everyone in New Orleans 5 days before the hurricane, Bush did not let Kerry win, Bush did not surrender in Iraq, Bush kicks kittens and makes wallabies cry, Bush shot Cheney, Bush created all the deficits and put it on my credit card.
Wouldn't you talk up other countries after you spent 8 years telling us that?
USA4freedom
April 22, 2008 - 10:06 ET by dbo..the proof is in the pudding. The US has more immigrants than all the other countries in the world combined.
Population in Sweden in the last 100 years...65% increase. 5.5 million to 9.1 million.
Population in the United States in the last 100 years...250% increase. 85 million to 303 million.
If everything is so good over there, why is everyone coming here?
Green Eco Flag
April 22, 2008 - 09:35 ET by WolfremI'm expecting them to start waving that old eco flag from the 70's again. Remember that one? The green and white stripes with the green square in the upper lefthand corner that was adorned with a white circle-bar symbol.
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana
The "liberal" mantra
April 22, 2008 - 09:56 ET by iveseenitallSweeden great-America bad, Russia great-America bad, Venezuela great-America bad, France great-America bad, Iran great-America bad, insurgents great-America bad, jailbirds great-America bad, murderers great-America bad...and the beat goes on...
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Sometimes I wish that Brian
April 22, 2008 - 10:55 ET by mjgSometimes I wish that Brian Williams and the rest of the news people who seem to sound like this country can never do anything right should move to where ever they like and stay there. They seem to like the people over there doing so much more than they like their own kind. I know Brian is entitled to his feeling, but why is it that the media is so anti-American andhas been so for decades. I don't watch mainstream news like I used to.
Sweden is poor
April 22, 2008 - 13:20 ET by Old EuropeIf Sweden were a US state, it would be the 5th poorest of all. So much for the wealth in good ole IKEA land. And unemployment is inofficially around 10% as no new jobs are created due to the highest taxation in the world where roughly 60-70% of your income are handed over to the state. And state expenditure is at 60% of the GDP which means that the state is hard up for cash. And more and more immigrants are fleecing the lax Swedish nanny state because they know that it's a snap to be on the dole in Sweden which then of course attracts even more freeloaders.
And Sweden's army? What army? They couldn't even pull a trigger because the nanny state has pampered and spoiled them to such an extent that any kind of mental and physical effort is anathema. That's what socialism does to you: It makes you inert and lame. If you don't need to work hard to pay the bills every month, how could you then fight for your freedom? Socialism breeds laziness and effeminacy, but wait: The more metrosexual the more liberal chicks you attract. Way to go, Sweden!