February 11, 2012
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High profile Centre Party member of parliament Fredrick Federley passed the buck to Ursula, his transvestite alter ego, when put on the spot for accepting an all expenses paid trip to Gran Canaria.
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An employee at a high school near Uppsala, in eastern Sweden, has been detained by police on suspicion of rape and sexual harassment of several students, much to the shock of his colleagues. READ (2 COMMENTS) »
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"Remember how your kids used to dance around the room to The Gummy Bears and Astid Lindgren? And now, since they started gymnasium, they listen to guitar or electronic music, or reggae, or hip hop, or Sean Banan?? That's not proper music! They are clearly junkies!" READ »
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A suggestion. Instead of the playground giggling by the journalists in the local, how about some articles that go in depth into politics, economics, science, current events, etc.
If he is just a liar without imagination, he must go home, his job is way too much for somebody like him.
In fact, as a professional I can say: he might be just a punk!
"At least it's an original excuse. Give the guy points for trying. "
Kinda like Ben Johnson?
If someone is not white hetero anglo saxon male, so what, Grow up.
@ Greg in Canada
Good point, never thought of that one.
Also at least he has a harmelss hobby:)
I must admit it is original and outside the box. A bit of outside the box thinking might help Sverige.
@ dammen
A person being a transvestite is nothing to do with there ability to run a country. It is a harmless hobby. He is not sick for being a transvestite.
It does not matter if a person is a diasbled black islamic bisexual drag queen in government. What matters is there ability to make goods decisions in government.
If a person makes good decisions I will vote for them. There personal life is there own business.
A persons personal life is only an issue if the person is someone who complains about and tries to interfere in everyone's personal life with family values stuff, which usually means the family values campaigner is a paedophile or has a thing for rent boys. They I think they should be exposed for being a hypocrite.
Federly is out there doing his thing. So what. I hope he enjoys himself. Personally I have known far better looking drag queens in Belfast.
Also I stand by what I said earlier, the local, needs to stop scraping the bottom fo the barrel and start cdovering the issues. English speaking ex-pats to Sverige are not all retarted imbeciles, which the local only seems to be catering for.
@ Nordicreb
Barney Frank is one of the sickest around. He is one of the people responsible for removing banking regualtions under Clinton and unleashing the banks in an unregulated frenzy. As far as I am concerned he should be tried with his cohorts for destroying so many lives for that action. Personally I would love to put Barney Frank in a room with a thousand people who have lost there homes due to his actions. That would wake the narrow minded, bigot up.
The belief that anyone advocating moral lifestyles is a hypocrite or a pedaphile lacks any basis of fact in my culture.
My neighbors in the US are still heterosexual and big advocates off the whole male, female thing. Wy can't we all just enjoy that, without the men in dresses and scaring the children???? I think everybody in Sweden and the world would be happier if they stuck to that.
Your need to live your puritan lifestyle choice is noted.
Sweden is in Europe, not the USA. There is over 6 billion people outside the USA.
This may suprise you, someone can belong to more than one group in society.
In the USA family values people usually end up in the newspapers at some point, after being caugth is some sort of weird sexual act.
Transvestites only scare children, if parents make them into something scary in the childs mind by teaching the chld prejudice is acceptable.