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bigworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 10:48 AM Original message |
Iceland best place to live, Africa worst - 2007 UN report |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
1. Nordic, Nordic, Anglo-French, Celtic, 4 of top 5 |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 11:22 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. criminal? |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
2. We're #12!!! We're #12!!! |
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Megahurtz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 09:51 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. We Suck! |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
3. What about other factors |
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SteelPenguin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 11:18 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Daylight was not a factor in the decision |
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Nevernose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 11:40 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Screw Iceland: I can't handle a week in the Ozarks in December |
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gorbal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 12:30 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Don't Worry It will be warmer soon |
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Nevernose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 11:52 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. I already live in the desert, and I'll be dead in 40 years |
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Hayduke Lives (102 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 10:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
22. Are you really from Pittsburgh? |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 03:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. Hey, it's -16 here, I haven't seen the sun in days |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 07:11 AM Response to Reply #3 |
18. I agree. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 11:12 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. That's a Republican myth from the 1950s |
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sutz12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
4. I thought Norway was one of those socialistic hell-holes.... |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 11:21 AM Response to Original message |
6. "Rich free-market countries "? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 09:15 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. I think they are using "free market" in a loose sense as meaning "not centrally planned" |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 02:11 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Reuters is a right-wing wire service |
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leftist_not_liberal (408 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 08:21 AM Response to Reply #11 |
19. IN the capitalist propaganda sense that all our media are infected with... |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 08:43 PM Response to Reply #6 |
25. The article shows it sucks to be poor and in a non western style govt |
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olddad56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
8. Those top five countries are probably democracies. We can't compete with that. |
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sistagoldilocks42 (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 01:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Africa is Rising : Let the Pirates Stop Their Propaganda |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 11:08 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. One man's Mede is another man's Persian! |
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LynnTheDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-29-07 09:41 AM Response to Reply #8 |
28. Including the oldest democracy in the world. |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-29-07 12:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
29. Good point. It's not fair. We'd be #1 in the Corporate Dictatorship |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-27-07 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. As Long as You Don't Count Seasonal Affective Disorder as Part of Quality of Life |
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melody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 09:21 AM Response to Reply #9 |
21. Actually, I have SAD but it's summer triggered, so this would be fine for me |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 12:54 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Right. I'm not conceding this nation to THEM. |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
20. I was going to rant about calling "Africa" a country, but.... |
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bigworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-28-07 11:11 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. There's a new book out that addresses exactly that |
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