- I hear this show consistently pulls down a tree rating.
- “What’s on TV? I can’t deciduous what to watch.”
- Next on the Botany Channel: “Between Two Ferns”
- “This is why we use particle board,” said the Swedes.
- Also controversial in Norway: the Yule Log.
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Stephen Colbert rubbing butter in Norway’s face from last night’s The Colbert Report.
This whole segment deserves a tip of our hats.
“We live in a buttertopia. We’ve got stick butter, tub butter, whipped butter, honey butter, and spray butter. We have so many God-damned kinds of butter that we have produced a product called ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.’”
— STEPHEN COLBERT, re: this, on The Colbert Report
Scandinavian world problems.
I can't believe Norway's out of butter.
AP: "Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was insane when he killed 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage in Norway, and should be sent to a psychiatric ward instead of prison, prosecutors said Tuesday."
People stood at a memorial site overlooking Norway’s Utoya Island Monday. (Photo: Stoyan Nenov / Reuters via the Wall St. Journal)
People hold up red roses during a memorial service for the victims of the bomb and shooting massacre, organized by the Norwegian Labour party and its youth organization, AUF, in Oslo, on Friday July 29. Speaking at the service — among the first for many of the 77 victims of last week’s terror attacks — Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said, “Today it is one week since Norway was hit by evil,”. “We have to live with July 22, but together we will make it.” (Photo: Emilio Morenatti / AP via MSNBC.com)
(Reuters via MSNBC.com)
President Barack Obama wrote a message of condolence for the victims of the Norway terror attacks at the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. (Photo: Larry Downing / Reuters via the Wall St. Journal)
Crown Prince Haakon and foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre were among the people gathered in a Mosque in Oslo to apologize for the treatment of Muslims after the the bomb went off in on Friday and to encourage further unity and respect.
This is the beauty of Norway, this is what the rest of the world needs to see. Not the face of a murderer, but that of a country grieving yet united in the common wish to become stronger and more tolerant.
Islamophobes need to see this and shut up
You know the Wall Street Journal is accurate, because as a (Rupert) Murdoch paper, they’ve got ways to get inside information.
UNITY Thousands of people massed outside Oslo’s City Hall on Monday for a vigil in memory of the 76 victims of last week’s twin attacks. Suspect Anders Behring Breivik appeared in court for the first time today; he admitted to the killings, though he pleaded not guilty. (Photo: Aleksander Andersen / AFP-Getty via the New York Times)
NY TIMES: Death toll in Norway shootings revised downward to 76; terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik claims he murdered "to save the country from ruin"
The Norwegian man charged with attacks in and near Oslo, killing over 90 people, has admitted “to the facts” of the case, the police and his lawyer said on Sunday, and claims to have acted alone in a strike eerily foretold in a detailed manifesto calling for a Christian war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination.
But, acting police chief Sveinung Sponheim told a news conference, “he is not admitting criminal guilt” and his claim to have acted alone contrasted with “some of the witness statements,” Reuters reported.
The attacks on Friday — a huge bombing in central Oslo closely followed by a bloody rampage against young people on nearby Utoya island — was the deadliest attack in this Nordic nation since World War II, and stunned many in a population of some five million used to seeing their land as a haven of peace.
The police said on Sunday that the toll had risen from 92 to 93 people with the death of one of 97 earlier reported injured in the attacks. Most of the bodies were found on Utoya island, where young people from the dominant Labor Party had gathered for an annual camp.
Police identified the suspect as Anders Behring Breivik, 32, a right-wing fundamentalist Christian, while acquaintances described him as a gun-loving Norwegian obsessed with what he saw as the threats of multiculturalism and Muslim immigration.
