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• When the boat stops come in

  13 May 2018 ( #future, #Lolland, #Fehmern, #tunnel, #ferry )

  Here near my house ferries sail for Germany every half hour. It has been so since 1963 when the new fast link to what back then was West Germany started. Over the years people have gone to Germany and they only stop near my house because they have to...

• Easter - masive lunch

  29 April 2018 ( #Easter, #family, #gathering, #beers, #tradition )

  Like many Danes Easter is the time of the year where we gather as a family. Uncles, Ants, cousins and children. In our family we meet the day before and start the cooking. Some have been down in Germany collecting 200-300 cans of beer, candy and soft...

• It has been a long time

  12 May 2020 ( #Covid-19, #Denmark, #work, #beers, #isolation, #co-workers, #children, #family )

  It is 2 years since my last post. I had a lot of things going in my private life and frankly said: When you pay 50 percent of your income in taxes like we do in Denmark, little time is left for yourself and family. So I did not update my blog. What have...

• 2021 was a year we can only write off as wasted

  15 February 2022 ( #2021, #2022, #trade unions, #Denmark, #EU, #pandemic, #Covid-19, #suffering )

  I have not been in the mood to write on my blog for a long time. Fact is that 2021 was a year spent mostly at home when I was not at work where I could do nothing. Now where the pandemic seems to be converted into ordinary flu like epidemics there could...

• Can you make your child disappear?

  05 November 2014 ( #died, #teenagers, #wilderness programs, #Turn-about Ranch, #behavior modification, #Youth transport firm, #missing )

  In the United States you can. Friend and class-mates of Ellie Parker from Corvallis in Oregon are very concerned. On a family trip she suddenly disappeared from the world. Last contact from her was a call from a mobile phone followed by silence. Rumors...

• Will Denmark ever be trustworthy again?

  28 June 2018 ( #Atea, #Ib Kunøe, #bribe, #police, #fine, #punishment, #sponsorship )

  Yesterday in Denmark a large IT-company as well as some small employees were convicted in a case involving bribe of several public servicemen. The company Atea had created a special account where some of the discount the customers should have gotten were...

• The end of 2020 is finally near

  31 December 2020 ( #Covid-19, #China, #job, #minks, #Denmark, #Sweden )

  With only hours left before we leave 2020 for a hopefully better year, I will put some words down in this blog about my thoughts of the year 2020, which for most Danes have proven to be the year where we realized that no people in any other country on...

• Proberly a joke - Liberia wants to bring a Dane to justice

  07 May 2012 ( #Liberia, #Dane, #Samuel Doe, #Niels Holck, #India, #Camilla Broe )

  and all he did was to show how reality is in this remote country, which could use a new Samuel Doe. As we learned it in school a group of corrupt wealthy group of Americans - former slaves - formed the country many years ago and ruled the native people...

• Homeschooling children in a Christian environment is impossible in Denmark

  09 September 2012 ( #Christian, #Muslim, #parenting, #Elsinore, #Denmark, #homeschooling )

  Danish children have a world record when it comes to drinking alcohol. In fact most high schools have Friday bars where the teenagers drink alcohol after school just before the weekend. Is it unthinkable that some parents want to spare their children...

• When the public failed

  01 April 2018 ( #Boot Camp movie, #child abuse, #Paradise Cove, #Samoa, #Tranquility Bay, #Jamaica )

  I just saw the movie "Boot Camp" from 2008 As the text says in the end there were and are many camps like this. Most known is Paradise Cove in Samoa. More than one of the teenagers who were forced there killed family members. It is uncertain what they...

• The Danish government wants to close down the ghettos

  04 March 2018 ( #ghetto, #The Danish Government, #legislation, #Lolland, #The Rotten Banana )

  I am living in the part of Denmark called Lolland. If I name the village I live in you will know who I am for real, so I will not do that due to concerns of my neighbor. I live in the part of Denmark the people in the cities call "The Rotten Banana"....

• At new year - this time 2018 - awaits us

  01 January 2018 ( #Lolland, #jobs, #housing, #student-loans, #Denmark )

  I have hope for 2018. Our small town here in Lolland has not jobs. Many of our youngsters drink and sleep all day long. I cannot hold anything against them. Without jobs. Without any possibility of education beyond high school, there are no future for...

• They stay away - Fine!

  05 May 2011 ( #border control, #Denmark, #tourism, #Europe, #European Union )

  Reports are that tourists are canceling their "holidays" in Denmark due to our increased border control measures. Fine! The reason that we introduced them in the first place was that we were robbed by tourists from the eastern and southern part of Europe....

• The riots in Odense - Vollmose causes great concern

  11 August 2012 ( #Vollmose, #Odense, #riots, #Denmark, #police )

  I heard on the radio that you may be taken to a hospital in another town if you happen to be in need of one at the same time of a shooting incident taking place at the same time. 1 hour more or less before you arrive at the hospital may in most cases...

• What is "The Rotten Banana" ?

  18 March 2018 ( #Denmark, #The Rotten Banana, #housing, #business, #Lolland )

  The Rotten Banana is a large part of Denmark where nothing happens. Most tourists never see these parts of Denmark and frankly the people like me who are living here are so special that you want to remain at home instead of coming here. When I saw the...

• Please to not believe that a Green card to Denmark can give you a job

  05 November 2014 ( #Greencard, #Denmark, #education, #career, #credits )

  If you choose to travel to Denmark on a Greencard you will most likely end up working as a cleaner or waiter. It doesn't matter if you have an engineering title or a PhD. The quality of the Danish education system is so good that you will end up competing...

• They tried to cure him and they created – a monster

  05 June 2010 ( #Michael Perry, #Casa by the Sea, #WWASP, #ADD, #ODD )

  I just saw a blog about Michael Perry aka Michael “Romeo” Perry as he is called. Every criminal needs a nick-name. Otherwise they don’t sound that bad. I noticed it because we as society are somehow caught by the marketing from the huge medical firms....

• An awful future awaits us Danes

  31 July 2020 ( #Covid-19, #The European Union, #nursing homes, #high taxes, #torture )

  It seems that we Danes have been told to pay for Brexit and the rebuilding of Europe which have suffered due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is very bad because you properly will not be able to find any place on the planet which have suffered more that the...

• The hunt for pirates can be impossible

  05 May 2013 ( #India, #somali, #pirates, #Italy )

  Two Marines from Italy are wanted by the central government in New Delhi. In International waters they shot at what looked like a ship belonging to pirates. It is rather normal for pirates to operate in the Indian Ocean as the navies from several countries...

• A crazy, crazy world

  05 May 2013 ( #alcohol, #teenagers, #parents, #Denmark )

  A 16 year old boy should have a birthday party. Having a boy at that age I know what it is about. We are talking a lot of beers, wine and soda with alcohol in it. Alcohol is a rite of passage for ordinary teenagers in Denmark. The safe limit is 14.5....

• Hidden deadly marketing - Part 1

  08 May 2013 ( #Ian August, #wilderness programs, #death, #unsafe )

  I was searching down old threads on Ivillage - a message board I am active on. There I found this thread: Skyline Journey, wilderness program..... First you will say: Here is a parent trying to help other parent. But this Kate: Why recommend a wilderness...

• Treating the symptom rather than the source

  07 July 2009 ( #DUI, #Linsay Lohan, #alcohol, #rehab )

  Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days followed by rehab. For what? For a DUI! What is the problem with DUI? That people drink and drive! If they choose to drink without driving, there is no problem. If they choose to drive without drinking there is no...

• New people in town

  12 August 2018 ( #boarding school, #crime, #mental illness, #Efterskole )

  Outside our small village there is a boarding school. It is not for children having done crime (for the most part). Of course some case worker smuggle criminal children into the boarding schools and juvenile detention is costly in Denmark. So they hide...

• Willow Kinloch - a rolemodel and a hero

  05 November 2011 ( #Victoria, #teenager, #hero, #Canada )

  I fell over an article which explained that Willow Kinloch had received $60,000 in damages because she was treated unfairly by the local police during a visit in town. It could happen because they something to protect the inmates against unfair treatment...

• Will you accept to be forced into treatment?

  29 March 2018 ( #Justina Pelletier, #Martin Gottesfeld, #Anonymous, #hacker group )

  A girl asked for help with her illness at Boston Childrens Hospital. She was already in treatment for her illness but the hospital decided that the diagnose was wrong and asked the court to take custody away from the parents. In the end Boston Children...