A clan called Icelanders

I don't refer to my fellow countrymen as a nation. I call us a clan. How can you call a group of 300.000 individuals a "nation"?

We are all so liked with each other that when you meet a stranger it normally doesn't take more than ten minutes to find someone that you are either related to or both of you know.

And being so small, we are all interlinked and that calls for certain problems in government and most other places of authority. Because the fact is that as humans we are all primarily concerned with our interests and -concerns. And the more the people in government are connected with individuals concerned about their interests, the more twisted the decisions they make can become. Because sometimes they are not thinking of the rest of the clan but only their own closest members.

This is why it has been suggested that a group of independent professionals, who do not belong to this family, this clan... come over here to sort out some of our problems. To clean out the closets and clear the way for something new.

The IMF might be the first step. But there is more to follow. I just think we need some outside counseling, love.

I suppose it's in a way similar to other countries but still different. The clan is then made up by Ivy league students and the sons and daughters of "somebodys". Probably harder to deal with. Maybe the smallness of the nation allows us to clear things up this way? The problem being a solution at the same time.

Tighten the belt

IMF was here today. We got the stash. 2 billion $. The next 6 months will be really hard they said. A lot of people will loose jobs, homes, etc. And the inflation will reach 20%. Lovely...

And we are supposed to reinvent the lifestyle of 1975. Eat our own food. Bake bread. No money to import. What can we export? Elves? Fish? Music?

Looks like we need to get creative... shouldn't be too hard.

For today

Read this and have a look at this. Just remember to scroll down a bit on the "We are not terrorists" page...

Peace,
m

Good news

This kind of idiocracy will soon be extinct...



...at least for half a century I hope ;)

Thrown out

Two icelandic women were thrown out of a petshop in Glasgow today "because they were Icelandic". The shop owner said something like "we don't want you here" as if those women were responsible for the Icesave issue.

They had nothing to do with banks. They just wanted to buy some stuff for their pets.

I wonder what it's like being German. Generations of Germans have had to suffer for the insanity that took place in WW2, even though they weren't even born until 40 years later.

When the shit goes down

Today it has been reported that the rest of our financial institutions will fall down tomorrow. 

This is what the currency looks like. We could just as well be trading with rocks. It's dead and the government seems to be on acid or in complete denial. What can we do. The financial minister is educated as a vet...Dr. Donothing and the one in charge of the national bank is a lawyer and an x radio jockey. 

Can it get any worse?

Do you still have a job?

Good morning. Do you still have a job?

This is the casual question today. The one everyone is asking.

When No-vember kicks in a lot of us are going to answer No, I don't. Can u get me one?