Comments on: For Those Who Slept Through the “News” http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/?p=6122 "In a democracy ('rule by mob'), those who refuse to learn from history are in the majority and dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."-third world county's corollary to Santayana's Axiom Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:21:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/?p=6122&cpage=1#comment-231236 David Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:28:54 +0000 http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/?p=6122#comment-231236 Well, the Norwegians used to have backbone. Heck, even I am probably partly Norwegian (and Dane, though not Swedish or Finish), given the way both Norwegians and Danes "sprinkled" their seed in the British Isles over the centuries. But. Somewhere down the line, a great many Norwegians seem to have lost the genes that impart a backbone and some sense of rationality. Oh, I know some Norwegian relatives who are not that way (<em>Per Lønning comes to mind. No, not Per Ståle Lønning of Stord--he's just a harmless eccentric Nordski, if he's still around. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_Lønning" rel="nofollow"><strong>This one</strong></a>-- to whom I was "introduced" at one remove by my mother-in-law, who was his cousin. At the time, I was reading everything by and about Kierkegaard that I could lay my hands on and one of his little books on Kierkegaard had caught me</em>), but such seem to be few and far between. Even the Norwegian-heritage Minnesotans I know seem largely infected with the same nonsensical arationality we've seen in in the Nobel committee of late (<em>say, the past 20 years or so, at least</em>) BTW, if only for some connection to the original Golden Bear (Gustavus Adolphus), I'd not mind having some Swedish blood... ;-) Holger Danske, though. THERE was a guy... We could use a few like him and Gustav and even, perhaps, old Olaf (the Nordski) nowadays. Maybe the Holger Danske myth will manifest itself as reality before things are too far gone for Denmark and the rest of Europe. One could always dream, eh? Well, the Norwegians used to have backbone. Heck, even I am probably partly Norwegian (and Dane, though not Swedish or Finish), given the way both Norwegians and Danes “sprinkled” their seed in the British Isles over the centuries. But. Somewhere down the line, a great many Norwegians seem to have lost the genes that impart a backbone and some sense of rationality. Oh, I know some Norwegian relatives who are not that way (Per Lønning comes to mind. No, not Per Ståle Lønning of Stord–he’s just a harmless eccentric Nordski, if he’s still around. This one– to whom I was “introduced” at one remove by my mother-in-law, who was his cousin. At the time, I was reading everything by and about Kierkegaard that I could lay my hands on and one of his little books on Kierkegaard had caught me), but such seem to be few and far between. Even the Norwegian-heritage Minnesotans I know seem largely infected with the same nonsensical arationality we’ve seen in in the Nobel committee of late (say, the past 20 years or so, at least)

BTW, if only for some connection to the original Golden Bear (Gustavus Adolphus), I’d not mind having some Swedish blood… ;-) Holger Danske, though. THERE was a guy… We could use a few like him and Gustav and even, perhaps, old Olaf (the Nordski) nowadays. Maybe the Holger Danske myth will manifest itself as reality before things are too far gone for Denmark and the rest of Europe. One could always dream, eh?

]]> By: The Random Yak http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/?p=6122&cpage=1#comment-231232 The Random Yak Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:22:43 +0000 http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/?p=6122#comment-231232 ...and thanks for the props and link. …and thanks for the props and link.

]]> By: The Random Yak http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/?p=6122&cpage=1#comment-231231 The Random Yak Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:22:03 +0000 http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/?p=6122#comment-231231 Never, ever have I been prouder to belong to one of the Norse races....and never, ever have I been more glad that that race...is the Danes. We may have raped, burned and pillaged our way across Europe...but at least we're not Norwegian! Never, ever have I been prouder to belong to one of the Norse races….and never, ever have I been more glad that that race…is the Danes.

We may have raped, burned and pillaged our way across Europe…but at least we’re not Norwegian!

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