Off the hook

The ad for Sverigedemokraterna at the roadside is gone -- again. I don't know if it blew away, or was damaged in the storms, or something. It is possible that someone took it.

In a very general sense, I disapprove of tearing down political advertisement (most advertisement, actually). People have a right to express their opinions. The rest of us have a right to find those revolting and unworthy of our attention. And yes, that is an important part of it.

That said, I really admire those who are willing to look into for example Sverigedemokraterna, find out what they do, what they say, and think about how to counter them. I just get depressed when I hear them.

Meanwhile. it appears that one fifth of the Swedish voters are willing to vote for them.


Edit: ... and it's back,

I have seen similar things (after the murder of Olof Palme, for example), but never of this scale

( Flowers )

Edit, having cleared my own thought a little: Usually, there's a small pile of flowers wilting miserably on the ground. But when the flowers cover everything, it starts looking worth it.

The news showed a quick flash of a headline saying something like: "The day when the people took Norway back".

In other news, the Sweden Democrats are being their usual kind of arseholes. "This wouldn't have happened without the multiculture" indeed. I'm not going to say what I think, because I don't use such language.

In the last weeks I have had some insight into some aspects of Swedish bureaucracy, specifically ones involved with buying a house. Fortunately the bank takes care of most of it, and we simply signed the papers, but there was this little issue with the acquisition permission.

What on earth is that? Never heard of it. Well, it seems that when you buy a 'farming property' in a rural area, where a 'farming property' is a property which the tax authorities think is a farm, you need a permission to buy it. This permission costs 3200 SEK, but if we had been living here for a couple of months more than we have, we wouldn't have needed it. Sigh.

Getting the permission involved some googling, a couple of phone calls, and being very puzzled at the form (They want us to specify 'socken'? Which has been obsolete for how many decades? Welcome to the countryside, I suppose). But it looks like it worked, because after a week we got a large paper stating that we were indeed allowed to buy our house. Which was good, since we had already bought it. I went to the bank this morning and gave it to them, so they can fix the rest of the paperwork.