Readers of this blog (all one of you,heheheheh) will at times have seen

the photos of the delicious coffee I get at my nearby coffee experience shop, 

camera it, in Bengtsfors.

Well, they recently introduced me to this guy

and all his friends with Jeff Dunham

and if you haven't met them yet....you are missing something

FANTASTIC

google Jeff Dunham and find out or see the link in the earlier blog entry.

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Sweden Tops the Tables....AGAIN!

Sweden tops child welfare ranking

Published: 12 Dec 08 07:46 CET

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When it comes to caring for children, Sweden ranks highest among the world’s wealthy countries, according to a new report from the United Nationschildren’s organization, Unicef.

full story HERE

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Aha! Winter's coming,huh?

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This is not Sweden-specific, but in the broad human interest I include it.

There can be no doubt of the role humour can and does play in

de-bunking and destabilising the power of politicians, institutions, repressive

or authoritarian regimes....and,of course,deviant religious sects.

If you have never seen this....be prepared....

GO HERE

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SWEDEN TOPS THE TABLES


“The Swedish foreign aid programme is the best in the world in terms of quantity, weighted for country size, as well as its quality,” said a report by the Centre for Global Development (CGD), a Washington, DC-based think tank which compiles an annual ranking of rich countries’ commitment to development assistance.In the 2008 rankings, which were released on Friday, Sweden had the highest ranked foreign assistance programme of any of the 22 wealthy countries included in CGD’s annual Commitment to Development Index.

Sweden’s high score of 13.0 for its foreign aid was also the highest score received by any country in any category.

more on this here
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