New Zealand, Denmark, Ireland, Japan also take top honors; U.S. is 96th

10 Most peaceful
1. Norway
2. New Zealand
3. Denmark
4. Ireland
5. Japan
6. Finland
7. Sweden
8. Canada
9. Portugal
10. Austria

10 Most Violent
10 Angola
9 Ivory Coast
8 Lebanon
7 Pakistan
6 Colombia
5 Nigeria
4 Russia
3 Israel
2 Sudan
1 Iraq

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18942815/

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/st...04598231&EDATE=

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People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp92vkXcC0w

When you're freezing your ass off 9 of the 12 Months of the year, how rowdy can you get?

I'm a Norsk/American...

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A Liberal is a Man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel (Robert Frost 1874-1963).

realist you make a pretty good point here.

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An informed voter scares the Goverment lackeys.

An American first and always a Conservative.

Go Sooners

Norweigens made a good shoe as well. The Bass Weegun was invented by Norweigen (weeguns) fishermen.

Thats why your feet smell like fish when you wear them

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Its better to have fussed and crabbed then never to have fussed at all - Lucy

Most of my Fore-Fathers "Home Turf" is above the Artic Circle. As soon as Eric-the-Red came back with news of Vine-Land and beyound ,,,we split.

Just think of the variations in History if the Indians had met with followers of Oden, instead of Christian Faith...

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A Liberal is a Man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel (Robert Frost 1874-1963).

They would have killed the indians as well .

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"If that's what it takes to keep the peace , then thank God for the bomb" Ozzy Osbourne Sat Cong !

I may have offended some Christians on my last Reponse. I applied a "what if only" supposition only... Does that count?

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A Liberal is a Man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel (Robert Frost 1874-1963).

There would have been a lot fewer of them when we finally did arrive

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Its better to have fussed and crabbed then never to have fussed at all - Lucy

But not for their Salvation... A point of Order. As of now, we have one Culture (Western) bent on learning as much as we can about the Universe.

Then we have (Islamic) Culture bent on killing themselves, and us,,,over a perverted child molester Mohammand, as their "Guide to Enternal Salvation".


Thus we are left with a 1000 year old Muslim culture bent on killing anyone with the brain power beyond a goat herder,,, to us.















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A Liberal is a Man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel (Robert Frost 1874-1963).

Does anybody realize that many of these peaceful nations also have some of the highest suicide rates in the world??

Just a thought....

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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw

"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
John Galbraith