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Hello there, Americans!

I don't know if it's custom to introduce oneself as a new user of this forum, but I thought I'd say hello anyway.

Right then, I am, as anyone visiting my marvellous weblog will find out in no time, not American, but Norwegian. I've followed DU's fantastic Top 10 Conservative Idiots for well over a year. Then, I found out it would be fun to hook up on this forum, being as I am concerned about what goes on across the pond.

We get only the headlines of how Bush's fascist state is evolving over here, and the average Norwegian is as concerned about it as you lot must be. But since the Norwegian government is the lapdog of the U.S. in the NATO and everywhere else, criticism on an official level is practically non-existent.

For the record I'm 27 years old and I live in Oslo (our capital) with my gorgeous wife. Like all Norwegians I have relatives living in the States too (Sacramento & San Francisco for my part). I'm a moderate socialist, more or less, and am about to have a baby (well, the wife is) at the end of March. Apart from that I'm a pleasant enough bloke, I suppose. Hope we'll all get along ;)

cheers
Trigz