I have, not even a month after the Swedish election, where I’ve been elected substitute to the city council, noticed that integrity will be so important in order to survive. Integrity is complex. To be able to keep it, knowledge is essential to say the least. And trust is your biggest enemy. But integrity is not…
Category: Politics
Perspective
Last night, when I lay down in my medium hard bed, with my “medium to warm” duvet, my head was filled with the images from the shores of Turkey, the central station in Budapest, the boarders of Syria and the young children caring for their infant siblings. Somewhere among the pictures of men and women, holding…
Get a life
Really I need to. I need a goal or something to set my mind to before I loose the same. Is it training, a course, a new career or should I go into politics? I just do not know but I must do something. At the moment I am just getting annoyed with all the…
It is not only at drive-through you’re getting f***ed
But then again, are you really getting f***ed if you know you are getting it, but the people doing it don’t have a clue that you know? That my friend is the question of the day…
Children
Watching a film about child labour in the cocoa industry. I know that this is not the only corrup business, but there is something wrong. Terribly wrong. In the entire food business. We really need to demand to KNOW where our food comes from and under what terms they have been produced AND start paying…
Same same but different
It is crucial to share or anchore what you do. If not, people do not know what you have done and someone else might take cred for it. It took me 39 years, 6 weeks and one day to figure that out. Better late than never.
What if?
What if more teenagers, or people in general wanted more. I do not mean more money or stuff for themselves. Watched a TV-show with the girl Malala from Pakistan, who was shot by talibans for standing up for her and all other girls’ right for education and freedom. I got so inspired by her and…
19 hrs friends
The heading could trick you in to think that I am about to talk about short encounters, not going as expected. But it is really quite the opposite. Apparently this post covers all (most) my topics. And that is what happens when you bring old friends together. Meeting them, even if it was 15 years…
Hat off
My and the Mr just finished watching the excellent documentary “The Interrupters“. Following three violence interrupters on the streets of Chicago. I love watching documentaries with the Mr since we always meet in the dicussion of the topic. And it is good to do that – discuss. Brings us closer. Thereto as a mother, I…
Oh, another one
The opinion maker in me woke up as I browsed the online “news” this morning. Anthony Weiner, democrat, has apparently been captured with his pants down, literally. Or to be precise, he apparently captured himself with his pant down. Why, why, why do all these men (please don’t argue, the men must outnumber the women…
Good citizen
Two seconds ago I took my responsibility as a citizen of a democratic society and mother, even if more reactive than proactive, to demand answers from the local authorities. Our school district will be reorganized and the responsibility of “our” school and kindergarten/pre-school will divided between two persons instead of one. Today, we have a…
Jävla skit
I choose to put today’s title in Swedish, because I would probably be banned from WordPress if I wrote it in English. In Sweden you don’t rot in hell for using bad language, even if I believe that one (meaning especially me) could use a better language at times. So why this title? Still not…
Men vs women
I do not call my self as feminist. The only reason for that is that my view of feminists are women (yes, predominately women) with very left winged (nothing wrong, just not my cup of tea) viewpoints, wearing ugly clothes and eating very pale food like sprouts, cress and lentils. But foremost because by the…
I am not alone
Today I found out that I am not alone. Inga-Britt Ahlenius, who among other things has worked at UN, and I share the same view on certain things. To react when she see things that is wrong. She is calling peoples bluffs, lately towards the general secretary Ban Ki-moon of the UN. I do not…
Reflections
I dare to say that it is all Swedish bloggers darn obligation to comment to the swedish election. And so will I, even it was some time ago ( September 19). Since we couldn’t tell until the Thursday after wether the sitting government would get own majority in the parliament or not it was, it was…
Louise Dock 