tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post3096576194654116741..comments2024-03-28T09:40:06.621-04:00Comments on Murder is Everywhere: Would you vote for this man?Ovidia Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05749549092493567689noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-59782417211090539612010-05-13T17:02:47.790-04:002010-05-13T17:02:47.790-04:00Are they accepting donations?Are they accepting donations?Timothy Hallinanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00551263887774445511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-41841653421621499402010-05-09T10:20:43.997-04:002010-05-09T10:20:43.997-04:00Hi Yrsa,
Great post, I love the Polar Bears!
Happ...Hi Yrsa,<br /><br />Great post, I love the Polar Bears!<br />Happy Mother's Day<br />SusieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-61342886958420109012010-05-06T17:25:09.309-04:002010-05-06T17:25:09.309-04:00Hi Beth - This is the first I hear of Mumbles Meni...Hi Beth - This is the first I hear of Mumbles Menino who sounds like the opposite og Jón Gnarr, despite possibly being the originator of the Felix qoute. I agree that a comedian is better than a group of clowns - we have those here as well.<br /><br />Hi Michael - I would also find it wonderful if Jón Gnarr became mayor, even though it would mean I would always be late for work because of the delay at the tool booth seeing that I live in one of the targeted suburbs (actually the one that he always mentions when referring to this supposed cash cow for the city). He would make up for it by giving us all here reasons to laugh and for all the right reasons.<br /><br />Hi Susan - America is the home to a great people although as everywhere it is not alway those in the front line that provide the correct or true impression. Regarding the prison issue Jón Gnarr is making fun of us Icelanders as we are very susceptable to grandeur, i.e. we like to think we are best at this, that or the other (similar to Texas promoting itself as being the biggest state stuck to the main body of the US - everything is biggest in Texas - that type of thing). He has chosen something no country really wants to be associated with (prisons) and stuck that one word into countless other statements regarding how this or that will make Iceland the best in something or the other. <br /><br />The poalr bears are pretty much feared here as they are pretty viscious, especially when they have drifted here for days or weeks on an iceberg and are starving. They are however also a really stark and sad reminder of the changed polar climate and the devastating effect it is having on wildlife. So I guess the answer is yes - polar bears do have a speial place in our hearts, double so as they quicken the pulse and warm it at the same time. I am very happy to read that you like our blog - I know we all enjoy writing it so much more when we find it appreciated.<br /><br />bye for now<br />YrsaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-17003284867986863622010-05-06T15:53:23.475-04:002010-05-06T15:53:23.475-04:00Oh America,America..We are really a fine Bunch of ...Oh America,America..We are really a fine Bunch of people,but do not follow our example..This prison issue is strange for me to digest..My Dad who is sadly gone now,gave me My First Polar Bear and Penguin Stuffed Animal He was so Passionate about the two Beautiful Creatures >He used to give us "World Wildlife Stuff all the time,,Do the Polar Bears have a special place in your heart like it does in America?..off topic just wondering...This MIE and so much more is my go to everyday to read about events that we never know about In My Country The USA..I feel so sheltered..Susan Vt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-46837683888023715272010-05-06T09:58:15.544-04:002010-05-06T09:58:15.544-04:00Yrsa, what a wonderful story! One of the things p...Yrsa, what a wonderful story! One of the things politics seems to badly lack is a sense of humor - at least deliberate humor. I think it would be wonderful if Jon Gnarr wins a seat. Perhaps it would stop the others from taking themselves too seriously.Michael Sears (of Michael Stanley)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09886295534214542834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1990338437877873686.post-78783999114837139622010-05-05T23:37:28.979-04:002010-05-05T23:37:28.979-04:00Yrsa - Whoever suggested that people pay to enter ...Yrsa - Whoever suggested that people pay to enter Reykjavik must have visited Kansas City, Missouri and adapted the idea.<br /><br />"Mayor Mark Funkhouser caused a bit of a flap with his statement that he would consider repealing Kansas City’s earnings tax....Actually, he deserves credit for being willing to take a fresh look at this subject. The earnings tax has helped squeeze money from people who work in Kansas City but live elsewhere, spreading the tax load beyond the city’s borders." <br /><br />This is a quote from the Kansas City Star on January 10, 2010. Kansas City taxes people for working in the city but leaving it at the end of the work day. Mayor Bloomberg of New York City has long dreamed of getting a law passed that would allow NYC to tax people who work in the city but live in the suburbs. Boston briefly tried to think of ways to get it done, too. The plan was to charge people who used city services but didn't pay property taxes in Boston. They gave up the idea when no one could figure out an efficient manner of figuring out who lived in the city and who didn't. Maybe they will re-think the plan, using Arizona as a guide. Perhaps the state could issue identity papers to Boston residents so that if a non-resident gets hit by a car, he can be left there until an ambulance arrives from the town in which he resides.<br /><br />Jon Gnarr admits he is a comedian; our politicians aren't as honest about it. He wins people to his side because he admits he is going to be corrupt. That saves voters a lot of aggravation. When the US had investigative journalism, corrupt politicians would sell a lot of newspapers. Now it is just assumed they are all corrupt.<br /><br />In Clinton's first term, mid-1990's, he appointed Ray Flynn, the mayor of Boston as ambassador to the Vatican. The position of the president of the Boston City Council is revolving and when Flynn left, in mid-term, the president just happened to be Thomas Menino, a man unknown to anyone in the city except those from his district. He has been mayor of Boston since 1993, not because he is good but because he is bad. His reputation as the most vindictive mayor to ever serve the city is known but not documented; everyone is too afraid. No one else wants the job anyway so "Mumbles Menino" is the longest serving mayor in the history of the city, the city he refers to as a "world class city" thereby making a lie of the statement because he is making it.<br /><br /> Menino is a man who has never met a sentence he couldn't mangle. He would understand perfectly the reference to the Felix that rises from the ashes. He may have mentioned it himself. <br /><br />You might be getting a mayor who is a comedian; the US has an entire legislative branch made up of clowns.<br /><br />Bethbethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17405199782450351160noreply@blogger.com