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60. Various facts about Norway

Mon Apr 23, 2012, 07:27 PM

Apr 2012

Extensive Social Safety Net

Key Contributor to UN peace keeping Forces and one the biggest financial sources for the UN

Universal Health Care

Higher Education virtually free

46 weeks of parental leave a year

One of best in world in Environmental Protection Index, which is based of effects of government policies on the environment.

Highest Human Development Index in the world.

Reporters Without Borders rank Norway as tied for first in Freedom of the Press

No general death penalty since 1902, DP for treason and war crimes abolished in 1979

4th highest GDP in the World

Only 3.1% unemployment

Full Marriage equality

Foreign Policy Magazine ranks Norway last in "Failed State Index"

As for "stones", perhaps you should stop throwing them.

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"This is the Norwegian way..........We need to carry this out in a dignified manner." [View all] marmar Apr 2012 OP

Good for the Norwegians. CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2012 #1

Agreed. marmar Apr 2012 #2

agreed nt steve2470 Apr 2012 #3

+1 nt gateley Apr 2012 #4

+1000 Blue_Tires Apr 2012 #19

Wow .... such a midset explains much. BOHICA12 Apr 2012 #5

to you executing a human being takes stones? fascisthunter Apr 2012 #20

Thank you. ellisonz Apr 2012 #24

Thank you. white_wolf Apr 2012 #32

So you're saying Norway is devoid of testicles since they don't execute people? DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2012 #26

Kill my kid in a premeditated masacre and face 21 years time .... BOHICA12 Apr 2012 #38

Just let me know the minute your testicles are considered the rule of law, and we're all good DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2012 #47

Post removed Post removed Apr 2012 #50

And in this way, you and the shooter are the same. He's accepting his "societal sanction", if you DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2012 #53

Stones? Really? MineralMan Apr 2012 #33

Various facts about Norway Mendocino Apr 2012 #60

You are very good at making a point. Rose Siding Apr 2012 #61

When the defendant is given a dignified trial then there is no one who cans claim it was not a fair jwirr Apr 2012 #6

Post WWII, Norway handled the collaborator situation rather well Kaleva Apr 2012 #7

Norway is a civilized nation Domingo Tavella Apr 2012 #8

If that's the "Norwegian way," I, for one, am glad we here in the U.S. do not resemble it. n/t. apocalypsehow Apr 2012 #9

Yeah, civility and due process....... marmar Apr 2012 #10

Yeah, because we have neither "civility" nor "due process" in the United States... apocalypsehow Apr 2012 #11

We will evenutally give them a day in court, and call it due process, bahrbearian Apr 2012 #14

Your government can pick you up for no reason and hand you over to the military EFerrari Apr 2012 #43

Or even better... white_wolf Apr 2012 #49

Yes we need to put them in solitary ,Naked,,, bahrbearian Apr 2012 #12

We need to lock them up with no charges for 18 months, in seclusion bahrbearian Apr 2012 #13

I'll take the "Norwegian way" over the American way on so many fronts, any day. SammyWinstonJack Apr 2012 #30

half Norwegian here Skittles Apr 2012 #15

Half Norwegian here, too, and I was IN NORWAY the weekend of the attacks Lydia Leftcoast Apr 2012 #18

Half Norwegian here to but the other half Raine Apr 2012 #35

Once again, the Norwegian way sure as hell beats the American way. white_wolf Apr 2012 #16

And yet, this crime happened..... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2012 #21

Did I ever once say it was utopia? white_wolf Apr 2012 #23

If it happened in the US, he likely would have been dead before he got to his 25th victim. ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2012 #39

No, if someone killed him in self-defense than so be it... white_wolf Apr 2012 #41

Oh, baloney ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2012 #51

There are plenty of ways we are barbaic beyond the justice system. white_wolf Apr 2012 #55

One horrific abberation. For horror in america CBGLuthier Apr 2012 #29

Funny how his reading list was a who's who of crazy American right wingers sudopod Apr 2012 #34

! fascisthunter Apr 2012 #42

Were they the only people on his reading list? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2012 #46

No, really, me and all the other lefties here hate America more than anything else. sudopod Apr 2012 #64

Funny how his reading list is a who's who of crazy Finnish nationalists, isn't it? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2012 #65

It's not too late for you to go experience Norway first hand Renew Deal Apr 2012 #40

A love it or leave it post. white_wolf Apr 2012 #44

There is always an excuse Renew Deal Apr 2012 #45

Immigration laws, eh? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2012 #56

If you are going to resort to one liners, I'm done. white_wolf Apr 2012 #58

No, I'm legit curious as to what those immigration laws are ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2012 #59

I have experienced Norway first hand. Not as a citizen/long-term resident but on several visits LeftishBrit Apr 2012 #62

it's not even a little barbaric where I live, my friend- or a teeny bit right wing. cali Apr 2012 #54

Of course there are worse places. white_wolf Apr 2012 #57

Anybody here remember the Jamie Bulger murder in Britain about 20 years ago? RZM Apr 2012 #17

"21 years in prison" for 77 lives ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2012 #22

Not quite... ellisonz Apr 2012 #25

That man will never breathe free air again in his life CBGLuthier Apr 2012 #31

Watch yourself ProudToBeBlueInRhody Apr 2012 #48

"Due process" is just so . . . pre-9/11 gratuitous Apr 2012 #27

We could learn a lot from the Norwegians...knr joeybee12 Apr 2012 #28

Only 21 years in prison? For killing 77 people? Norwegian justice might be less theatrical, but Erose999 Apr 2012 #36

See Post #25 Above. n/t ellisonz Apr 2012 #52

Actually he probably never will be let loose LeftishBrit Apr 2012 #63

Having known some Scandinavians and one or two Norwegians, they seem to be gentle people who Cleita Apr 2012 #37