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A Polar Bear for Every Zoo and a Drug Free Parliament by 2020
Just occasionally there are those stories comprised of such self-evident moment (and perhaps more than a touch of such deliciously placed absurdity in the form of a Tina Turner theme song) as to render any attempt at comment redundant at best and destructive at worse. This, dear readers, is one of those occasions.
Promising a polar bear for the Reykjavik zoo, free towels at all swimming pools, a Disneyland theme park at the airport and a drug-free parliament by 2020, the newly formed Besti Flokkurinn (“The Best Party”) took the political establishment by surprise when it became the biggest party in Sunday’s municipal elections in the Icelandic capital, Reykjavik, securing six out of 15 seats in the new city council.
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The Best Party in Reykjavik was established just half a year ago by a core group of comedians, actors and musicians....
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According to the EUobserver, The new party ran their campaign under the slogan “Whatever Works"....
h/t: Econotwist's Blog.
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Love it :)
Every country should have a party like that :)
Actually... I ALSO WANT A POLAR BEAR!!! The kids would love that! He can sleep in the freezer and run free arround all day!
That was simply the BEST...
And now, here is Japan's answer from a few year's back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOuumGX-6uc
A classic minority upriser with some of the greatest lines ever.
Yes, I want to move to Iceland. Well done, good luck!
You can do Polar Bears and Rohypnol at the zoo, but not in Parliament? Like, discriminatory, dude.
Hey, better than a guillotine. ;-))
NOT, better than a guillotine.
This is amusing, and funny, but let's be real; this is war.
The part that I found most interesting was at the very end about the end to all debts. Hurray somebody finally talking about a jubilee, but its couched between nonsense.
You want a better Iceland? Execute the criminals and repudiate the debts.
Yes, but that is why I admire them. It's a groundswell of optimism and grass roots reaction to get rid of the slavemasters. They threw out their corrupt government by nonstop pot banging. Gotta give em credit. I do fear for that small country though.
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I so bad want to profess my adoration of you, but instead I will just say thanks Marla.
This reminds me...
A local university once had a student body president who ran for office with a paper bag over his head. He claimed to be too embarrassed to show his face. He quit as soon as he was elected, and the university had no student representatives for the next ten years.
Son..all you had to do was have ANYONE show up and put a bag over their head and call 'em POTUS. No one would know.
Oh man...
Iron law of politics: The people always get the government they deserve. Or, in reverse, look at a nation's politicians to learn of its people. With that in mind, we can know that in Iceland the people are not serious, and here in America that the people want a sugar-daddy to fix all their problems. Sobering.
Agree with you in part. Certainly, far to many folks in the US have grown comfortable with the idea that there really is a free lunch, and that government really will look after their best interests better than they can. The indigestion afterwards is a b*tch, but most haven't gotten there yet or realized that indigestion is setting in.
However, we have an amazing combination of a government that excels at spinning any and everything, combined with an abysmal public education system, particularly by "1st" world metrics - coincidence? Our current national environment stacks the deck against serious independent analytical/critical thinking and discussion, while providing a plethora of brain-rotting, soma-eque distractions.
It seems that the the last couple of years has caused enough disruptions that even the best spinmeisters can't entirely keep up and gloss over it. Perhaps as a result, more folks are taking the red pill. Wish it didn't take a crisis to make that happen.
That is the "bestest" pol ad. The corrupt incumbents are laughing their collective asses off right now....saying "What? Me worry?" Platform=polar bears & an Iceland Disneyland, really? He should promise ash masks for every citizen, or something remotely relevant to people's lives there...
This must be farce or parody--this can't be real.
This a SNL skit.
On a serious note, this is real, and it's merely a vote for, "None of the above".
Iceland is bankrupt, and there are no solutions. People have lost faith in all promises by all parties, as they should, because there are no solutions.
From the "healthy" standpoint, the best you can do with corrupt ruling elites is to ignore them: Don't ask for anything, don't expect anything, don't give them any power or authority over your life. If you're mad, you can guillotine them, but if you're well-adjusted, you merely take away all their authority (because they only have the brain capacity of three-year-olds anyway).
This will happen throughout Europe, and in the United States. This is not a surprise. Rather, this is the expected next progression.
SNL hasn't produced anything this funny in decades.
Apparently you missed Betty White hosting a few weeks ago. She was brilliant.
Yea you're right, I did miss that one. I heard it was good. Maybe she brought her own writers with her.
Keep in mind that this "country" called Iceland is only slightly bigger than a large American town, population-wise.
Euuhhh.... Iceland is as big as Texas you know...
http://maps.google.be/maps?hl=nl&tab=wl
I already heared a lot about the fact that most Amercians think the world is shaped like this:
http://buelahman.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/world-according-to-america.png
or this...
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/images/largepng/33.png
But it's actually shaped like this:
http://www.tcnj.edu/~miller47/world%20map.jpg
I might be shocking to you, but it's a fact. Sorry to burst your bubble buddy...
He said in terms of population. About 300000.
Spot on. Iceland is like the Cheers theme song--You want to go where everybody knows your name.
+10
Antarctica is damned big too. Are you getting the point we're making here?
Like the MSM? A Content versus Volume Thing?
When content can't work all that's left is volume... Too bad the volume being discussed and wasted is the volume of quality O2. Except by these marvelous musicians & comedians that are bringing a bit of it back.
Bubble busting is a responsibility of the FED. Know your place Sudden Debt.
It just may be the start of the AWAKENING OF THE MASSESS TO...
TPTB are seeing it.
roflmao, disagree............politicians shyting in pants, a funny absurd song gets voters to the polls to throwout incubents...........................................................................................................................................
my guess is people get the joke, yet, it's very similar to "change we can believ in"
and people always wonder how revolutions start............in the most benign funny ways, when they refuse to believe anymore lies
The only question left - who is the bigger joke? I would vote for those guys instead the very serious and dangerous jokers in government.
Reagan
Schwarzenegger
Bono
Ventura
Frankin
McMahon
We are trending a little heavy on professional wrestling personalities vs Iceland.
When the people lose faith in their governments... but wait is that not what our current fiat form of money is based upon, the full faith and credit of the U.S. government?
Good time to be an anarchist. Or an idiot, they seem to be ruling the world now.-30
Jim Billy Bob J
Love your name. Coming from a family of overeducated nuts, as children we watched the Waltons to make fun of it (as we did with every TV show).
From watching the Waltons, my younger brother, Jim, became known as Jim Ed Bob Paul Mark Fred John. We are all in our 40's and 50's now and Jim is still called Jim Ed Bob at holiday dinners.
Seeing your name just cracked me up. As for Iceland...Reykjavik is a small town that went nuts and they now literally have nothing to lose, except Bjork. But at least they have geothermal. Oh, and yeah, that erupting volcano.
You forgot to mention their unmatched capacity at wintering over my dear Howard... Again, another tell from such a close knit society... :) Which reminds me, are there any Icelandic folks lurking about that would like to sponsor a wayward American writer and philosopher for a year or two?
/ack snurf gack/ ....bubble...spin...trip...
A schnicken in pevery snot,
A pitten in nevery kettle,
A Mickey in all dickies!
Woooo! /noisily sick/,
but when I sobered up I didn't do stuff like that.
There is only one lyric that can play there, Butthole Surfers:
"And my father looked at me, deep in my blue eyes, and he said: Son,
SATAN! SATAN! SATAN!" Sweatloaf, if you are interested.
Direct to you voters! You asked for 'em! You demanded them.
Rise from the grave! I present: "The 4 Horsemen!"
(likenesses and recordings of any kind not to be used without express written consent of A-Pack-O-Lips Productions)!
Leni Riefenstahl would love to have made this!
Hey baby, Leni and Joe are still writing the script.
I want "top notch stuff as a general rule.."!!
It's funny, because it's really no different to politicians everywhere else. Promise a bunch of bullshit, then don't do any of it
Reminds me of the glory days of the Rhino Party.
All hail Cornelius the First!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada
Dear Best Party People: Here is the BP Oil Spill suggestion box - http://bpoilnews.com/gulf-oil-spill-response/bp-oil-spill-suggestion-box...
Please use your elfin magic to plug this damn hole which is smaller than most American asses yet becomes a bigger problem every day.
The literal translation is "ice bear" which I've always found charming, but more to the point..., can we get some of whatever they are smoking?
Don't worry you've seen a template for effective third party advertising here.
Drop the polar bear and it's kinda seductive.
HA!
At least they've got a sense of humor about it (at least I hope).
Haha. Vote for us because we promise the most. Instant classic :)
Right. Reminds me of this piece from FFF.
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0407a.asp
They laughed at Hitler too.
What some of you are missing is these guys are now the largest party in Rejkavik municipality.
Can't wait to hear what Jim Kunstler makes of it, he was in fine form this morning.
http://kunstler.com/blog/2010/05/welcome-home-to-slum-nation.html
"We'll be lucky if some honorable as-yet-unknown colonel in the wadis of Afghanistan comes home to overthrow president Glenn Beck, or whichever lethal moron ends up in power after 2012. We'll be a very different America then, with no going back".
This isn't satire is it? Scary.
It's political protest. Yelling theater in a crowded fire.
Outside the US, it is perfectly normal to have more than 2 parties contest an election. Often, the smaller parties know perfectly well that they stand no chance of forming a government. But they want their voice heard all the same.
Sometimes the situation becomes so crazy that only the absurd makes sense.
Jeez, if anyone should get it, I would think it would be this crew.
The ad reminds me of a boiler room operation, and the suckers [er...voters] that they land. Voters fell for the siren song of the current?/prior political power group. Didn't go so well. Now a new operation/party springs up, promising lots of goodies to those on the sucker list. Largely same game (or so it seems to me), different group. However, the video is a hoot and on my "gotta forward" list.
We could lock the legislature in the parliament and release polar bears among them to dispense sorely needed justice.