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[sanji499]

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news...l-bid#comments

I thought the wife of the ex president was way hotter.

[Mugiwara_no_Ice]

Well good thing that we don't elect presidents with a beauty pageant of their wives, even though I don't agree with you.

[sanji499]

Well good thing that we don't elect presidents with a beauty pageant of their wives, even though I don't agree with you.

Lol lol. That's more or less what happened in the US in 08, the media coverage on Michelle Obama's fashion was so overwhelming(46 million results!) and obnoxious .

[Cyan D. Funk]

Greece goes into "form new government" mode, can't wait to see how this blows up in everyone's face.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/07/world/...html?hpt=hp_t2

Meanwhile, Putin is sworn in as Emperor and Autocrat of All Russians for another six years.

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/07/152174...nt-for-6-years

[Gliblord]

Greece goes into "form new government" mode, can't wait to see how this blows up in everyone's face.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/07/world/...html?hpt=hp_t2

Meanwhile, Putin is sworn in as Emperor and Autocrat of All Russians for another six years.

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/07/152174...nt-for-6-years

According to the article, he was swon in.

[asm00200]

Meanwhile, Assad still insist on acting like everything is cool by having a parliamentary election .

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middle...616520980.html

[sanji499]

Greece goes into "form new government" mode, can't wait to see how this blows up in everyone's face.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/07/world/...html?hpt=hp_t2

Meanwhile, Putin is sworn in as Emperor and Autocrat of All Russians for another six years.

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/07/152174...nt-for-6-years

KGB's agents are not exactly the most recommendable persons for this job application. He is the last kind of person I would like to mess with or serve under. At least, most russians seem to be aware of the voter fraud. I really hope the war in Iran(after the election) won't trigger a conflict with Russia and China. Let's face it, they are just a bunch of kids fighting for a toy(Iran 4th largest oil) at the expense of the lives of others.

[Monkey King]

Lol lol. That's more or less what happened in the US in 08, the media coverage on Michelle Obama's fashion was so overwhelming(46 million results!) and obnoxious .

Yes Sanji that is exactly what happened in 08'.

[Kaiolino]

lol at fascists casually winning 19 seats in Greece.

What a fucking fail country.

[Monkey King]

Can we call Cyprus Greece and call Greece "The Poopsock Republic".

EDIT

"Golden Dawn describes itself as a "People's Nationalist Movement" and "uncompromising Nationalists. "Michaloliakos described Golden Dawn as opposing the "so-called Enlightenment" and the Industrial Revolution. Religiously, they currently support both Hellenism and the Greek Orthodox Church.The charter also puts the leader in total control of the party, and formalizes the use of the Roman salute for party members.^"

wtffff

EDIT EDIT

Make that TWENTY ONE seats lollll

[Ubiq]

Michaloliakos described Golden Dawn as opposing the "so-called Enlightenment" and the Industrial Revolution. Religiously, they currently support both Hellenism and the Greek Orthodox Church.

Golden Dawn, I hereby redub thee The Ouzo Party.

[Cyan D. Funk]

I was reading about Golden Dawn a few days back. Their logo's like a dollar store knockoff swastika.

[Kaiolino]

Germany forces Greece to pay their debts and immediately a succesful neo-nazi party rises.

This was planned all along. Angela HITLER

[Cyan D. Funk]

Metaxas LIVES!!!!

[Gliblord]

How in the hell did these clowns get in office

[Cyan D. Funk]

All economic woes are entirely the fault of immigrants don't you know

[Ubiq]

How in the hell did these clowns get in office

That powers-that-were in (non-Scandanavian European Country) embraced austerity measures to cut debt (largely at the behest of Germany), the austerity measures didn't work (and cannot), and people that spoke out against said measures got into office. Of course, the Greek Parliament is so fragmented now that they probably won't be able to actually form a government and will have to have another election again fairly soon.

The United Kingdom is projected to have five straight years of increasing unemployment because of austerity measures so the same basic thing will happen there: more extreme political parties will get more representation.

[Gliblord]

Fucking austerity measures.

[Monkey King]

Well I mean cutting retirement up from like age 55, can't much argue with choices like that. That's ridiculously low.

[No Maam]

Well I mean cutting retirement up from like age 55, can't much argue with choices like that. That's ridiculously low.

And then you have people around here talking about retirement age getting pushed up to 70, aka making sure a suitable portion of the population won't be alive long enough to collect any.

Also people over the age of 50 always have a harder time finding work, and I honestly can't imagine someone finding a "normal" job at something like 64.