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Austria's conservative 'whizz-kid' in election triumph
Yahoo News ^ | 15 Oc t2017 | Nina Lamparski and Simon Sturdee

Posted on 10/15/2017 11:29:17 AM PDT by mandaladon

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To: mandaladon

They’ve elected Justin Bieber! Ach du lieber!


21 posted on 10/15/2017 1:05:49 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: SaveFerris

Hard to say but his selection by the Republican type Uniparty of Austria (Peoples Party) and the positions he has taken are the result of the Freedom Party’s rise in Austria and the need to stop them from being the biggest party.

As it is, Kurz with his positions will be forced into coalition with the FPO instead of the other big Uniparty the Social Democrats.


22 posted on 10/15/2017 1:49:50 PM PDT by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: SaveFerris

“Let’s not have another Justin Trudeau. Please.”

It is possible to have a youngster with his Shiite together. I certainly did at age, and my boys have it together and are younger than him.


23 posted on 10/15/2017 1:53:52 PM PDT by BobL
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To: mandaladon

Proportional representation helps create non-majority parties and coalitions of fractured parties, just in order to govern.

You would think it would reflect more democratic coalition governments but western Europe’s growth of its uni-party political elites was brought about with proportional representation government elections in many western European countries. It has worked like Obamacare - getting some rule or agenda enacted after which no true majority arises with which to undo it; so the socialist crap just marches on.


24 posted on 10/15/2017 2:03:34 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Redmen4ever; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; Nextrush; AuH2ORepublican

2nd place between the FPO and Socialists is very close.

Sounds like the Socialists are taking themselves out of a “grand coalition” making a coalition on the right the only option.


25 posted on 10/15/2017 2:27:07 PM PDT by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: FreeReign
Both spellings are commonly used interchangeably. . .

. . . by editors like those at Yahoo, who are illiterate, even in slang. In a culture where everyone gets a participation award, maybe they didn't grasp that there is a real-world difference between wizard-like intelligence and simply knowing how to pee.

26 posted on 10/15/2017 3:12:27 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: SamuraiScot

And while “whiz” has been used to mean someone so smart, his mind zooms past everyone else’s, a “whizzer” was always a “pisser,” as far as I know. No one goes into the woods to take a “wiz,” and “whizz” by itself is strictly . . . urinary.


27 posted on 10/15/2017 3:18:20 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: mandaladon

“far-right” is the label used in Europe for someone who’s only a smidgen to the left of center.


28 posted on 10/15/2017 3:40:00 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: libh8er

Das Ahnood.


29 posted on 10/15/2017 3:44:26 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: Dr. Sivana
(That's me on the cover of Whiz Comics)

Battling the Big Red Cheese as usual :-)

30 posted on 10/15/2017 3:51:46 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: canuck_conservative

You think it was a “misspelling” of wiz-kid in the yahoo article?

Think again. Intentional slam. Totally.

Yahoo is loaded with, well, yahoos.


31 posted on 10/15/2017 3:55:32 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison...like yesterday.)
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To: SamuraiScot
. . . by editors like those at Yahoo, who are illiterate, even in slang. In a culture where everyone gets a participation award, maybe they didn't grasp that there is a real-world difference between wizard-like intelligence and simply knowing how to pee.

No. Whizz is an alternative spelling of whiz in all its definitions and slang usages.

32 posted on 10/15/2017 4:50:16 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
Whizz is an alternative spelling of whiz in all its definitions and slang usages.

Where can I look this up?

(Maybe the OED, going back to the original Norman or Anglo-Saxon. . . No kidding, it might be there.)

33 posted on 10/15/2017 5:31:04 PM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: Dr. Sivana

So how do you spell “Bear Whiz Beer”? “Bare”? “Whizz”? “Bear” as it sounds in Rear”?

I really don’t care. I just hope that Austria finally finds a decent identity amidst the ruins of Europe.


34 posted on 10/15/2017 6:29:19 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Dr. Sivana

So how do you spell “Bear Whiz Beer”? “Bare”? “Whizz”? “Bear” as it sounds in Rear”?

I really don’t care. I just hope that Austria finally finds a decent identity amidst the ruins of Europe.


35 posted on 10/15/2017 6:29:57 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: catnipman

Forget about labels working in Europe. The Nazi Party...99-percent socialist in nature from 1930 on...is always deemed right-wing.


36 posted on 10/15/2017 9:21:20 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SaveFerris

LMAO!! Proofing is their friend!!


37 posted on 10/16/2017 2:15:23 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: libh8er

What a contrast—looks like a teenager and a 100-year-old man.


38 posted on 10/16/2017 3:17:27 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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39 posted on 10/16/2017 3:24:57 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: dforest

Lol!!


40 posted on 10/16/2017 4:02:20 AM PDT by ANKE69 (Les Deplorables)
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