Let’s put aside for a moment the infidel’s battle for the hearts and minds of Babylon, the compassionately devastating policies of Emperor Bush II and his Gaurdians of Privilege, the incomprehensible bargaining tactics of the shameless French, the trauma of fattening up lovely white skinned avocados, etc.
The quibble of the day comes from free riding, non-aligned Sweden. And it is not about yet another boxy Volvo.
The Social Democratic government in Stockholm has ordered Sweden’s armed forces to drastically cut costs. To comply, military HQ has decided to transform the Swedish military into a 9 to 5 army, air force, and navy. It will cut fighter plane patrols to an absolute minimum, keep navy ships in port, mothball armored vehicles and stop using large caliber live ammunition during exercises.
Now that sounds like a force to be reckoned with doesn’t it?
This seems like a good opportunity for a couple of Danish guys with paintball guns to wait until just after 5 pm quitting time and then invade. They would have Sweden taken by midnight.
Could the 9 to 5 army trend catch on in the rest of Europe?
[quote=“way2go!”]Let’s put aside for a moment the infidel’s battle for the hearts and minds of Babylon, the compassionately devastating policies of Emperor Bush II and his Gaurdians of Privilege, the incomprehensible bargaining tactics of the shameless French, the trauma of fattening up lovely white skinned avocados, etc.
The quibble of the day comes from free riding, non-aligned Sweden. And it is not about yet another boxy Volvo.
The Social Democratic government in Stockholm has ordered Sweden’s armed forces to drastically cut costs. To comply, military HQ has decided to transform the Swedish military into a 9 to 5 army, air force, and navy. It will cut fighter plane patrols to an absolute minimum, keep navy ships in port, mothball armored vehicles and stop using large caliber live ammunition during exercises.
Now that sounds like a force to be reckoned with doesn’t it?
This seems like a good opportunity for a couple of Danish guys with paintball guns to wait until just after 5 pm quitting time and then invade. They would have Sweden taken by midnight.
Could the 9 to 5 army trend catch on in the rest of Europe?[/quote]
As the Winter is to Russia, so will the Midnight Sun or lack of turn back any would-be Swedish invaders. Then the native girls, a la South Pacific style, will simply assimilate and disarm all aggressors.
What the heck does Sweden have besides IKEA, SAAB, and Volvo?
Isn’t there a hiway linking Denmark with Sweden across the Baltic?
Doesn’t even have the cars anymore, both bought up by Ford and GM. IKEA is a trust in Holland, but still Swedish, I think. Hasn’t been in a war for 194 years, though, since the Russians took Finland in 1809, so why keep an army?
Hate to disillusion you, and myself, but it appears that I am actually wrong in my assumptions. Thank you Kenny for the PM, it really made my day complete. They say that bad things happen in threes and here’s me, halfway through my life, and wrong twice already!
To deflect criticism let me add the following story: I met a Danish girl a while back who came from the borderlands. There was also a German present, and she mentioned that her bit of Denmark was ‘connected to Germany’. He looked amazed and replied “They built a bridge?”
I got a shag, and he didn’t. You may think this is not important, but that’s only because you don’t understand the vikings like I do. You wanna be on patrol in one of those silly helmets, or at home with a warm friendly man/woman?
My highschool buddy is in the Canadian Reserves, a specialist in the infantry division, i think he passed a recent written exam and made master corporal.
Anyways, the Canadian gov’t has been cutting back on military funding so bad these last 10 years that he said for a while they were rolling in the mud on their monthly training exercises but were no longer given bullets for their live fire exercies… their ranking officer told them to make *bang *bang sounds and “pretend” they were shooting their rifles
Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, a 46-year old mother of two, was shopping in the crowded NK department store in Stockholm when a 6-foot, 30-ish, man “with bad skin and shoulder-length dark-blond hair” stabbed her. She ran but he chased her up an escalator and repeatedly stabbed her in the stomach, chest and arm. Doctors at Karolinska Hospital fought for Lindh’s life but she succumbed to massive internal bleeding caused by a damaged liver.
Why didn’t anybody come to help defend her while she was being attacked?
Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot in 1986 in downtown Stockholm while walking with his wife just after leaving a cinema. Neither the killer of Palme nor the murder weapon have been found.
