It’s only a slight exaggeration to say that half of the
comedy you see on Norwegian TV is anodyne whimsy about Norwegian dialects and
the other half is P.C. mockery of the U.S. and/or of that most pro-American of
all Norwegian political parties, the classical-liberal Progress Party. The very
funny Norwegian-produced series Lilyhammer, then, most of whose humor
derives from parody of Norwegian social democracy – historically an almost verboten
comic target – as well as of the country’s manners and mores, is a
remarkable departure. Our hero is New York mobster Frank Tagliano (played admirably
by Steven van Zandt of The Sopranos and Bruce Springsteen’s E Street
Band), who, after turning state’s evidence, asks the Witness Protection Program
to relocate him in Lillehammer, Norway, because he remembers watching the 1994
Winter Olympics on TV and being impressed by the “clean air, fresh white snow,
gorgeous broads…and best of all, nobody’s gonna be looking for me there.” The
fact that most Norwegians actually can laugh at cutting satire at the expense
of their own society was proven by the show’s massive domestic success: a fifth
of the country’s population watched the first season when it debuted in early
2012. It also performed well internationally on Netflix, on which its second
season is now available…… To Read More….
Editor's Note: I have been following these issues and posting articles for some time. I have also posted "My Take" on many of them. The safety and well being of Scandanavian citizens is literally being sacrificed on the alter of "Politically Correct socialist fantacies and mulitculturalism". Here are some past articles I found worthwhile. Please take some time today and follow these article, especially the rape articles. How can 'leaders' throw their own people to such wolves?
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The scene
of Sweden's worst riots in years, Husby is on the surface at least a typically
neat suburb of colorful playgrounds, manicured parks and low rise apartment
buildings. Conversations with ...
Paradigms and Demographics:
Why Sweden has riots Jun 09, 2013
Sweden? Since the standard
interpretation is that violence is the only weapon the marginalised have
against an oppressive socioeconomic system, it is more difficult to explain it
when it takes place in 'the most successful ...
On June 20, 2013 Bruce Bawer
posted an article titled, “Crime and Non-Punishment in Sweden” discussing rape
in Europe, and specifically Sweden because it has become rampant there. He
discusses the gang rape of a ...
Europe is awash in dhimmitude,
but Sweden is a case unto itself. There's something desperate and demented
about the levels of dhimmitude on display in Ikea-land. In no other European
country, moreover, is there so little ...
They're Muslims! And they
don't' want to assimilate. They want domination! They want to control and
convert these societies to Islam and impose Sharia law. And blaming Sweden's
leaders and government for their 'failing' to ...
And it's not just
Scandinavians: The Economist, which has been whitewashing the Islamization of
Europe for years, recently called Sweden's high rape statistics “a bit of a
puzzle,” saying that “the most likely explanation” for ..
And it's not just
Scandinavians: The Economist, which has been whitewashing the Islamization of
Europe for years, recently called Sweden's high rape statistics “a bit of a
puzzle,” saying that “the most likely explanation” for ...
Well, it's done. I just made
the first of my two compulsory yearly payments to NRK – short for Norsk
rikskringkasting. In English it calls itself the Norwegian Broadcasting
Corporation, but believe me, there's nothing remotely ...
Akhtar Chaudhry, the speaker of
Norway's Parliament since 2009, has been pushing to change Norway's flag to
better suit Muslims there who only account for at most 3.4 percent of the
entire population. No one has inquired if ...The neighborhood of Grønland in Oslo, Norway, is not terribly large. It's on the east side of town, adjacent to central Oslo, and has traditionally been a place of working-class flats and unpretentious pubs. Ever since Norway ...
Paradigms and
Demographics: Islam, Rape and Theology Jun 28, 2013
Five days before 9/11, a famous
Norwegian social anthropologist (and Norway may well be the only nation on
Earth where there is such a thing as a famous social anthropologist) instructed
her countrywomen that the way to ...
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