Okay, we got a few lines on a major euro election, it's only the biggest election anywhere other than in india. A teeny tiny step to avoiding being merely alt-dumb Americans.

But serious this summary ("Smallest-ever turnout for European Parliament elections favors more conservative candidates, including growth of anti-Islam party in the Netherlands and the anti-immigrant Danish People’s Party") is totally lame.

Ahem, there's no amorphous vague reason turnouts down and the center right won.... the blame for this outcome is the LABOR/SOCIALISTS fucked up and LOST BIG TIME.

It's the fact that the labor/socialists were in power in some of those nations so they take the negative hit for all this economic shit -- their own base didn't come out and vote for them. And they don't have much of a convincing program, it seems.

Um, this means Labor's gonna lose the next election in Britain, likely and Gordon Brown is in deep shit.

And the rise of the far right, holy shit, in some of those nations those parties are like totally anti Muslim.

Oh well, the American election can get 3000 posts and 40000000 comments, but we should be thankful for one little post on the Euro elections, because, you know, we're American so how could anything else in the world ever teach us anything?

In other news, the Lebanese election rejected Hamas, and people are crediting Obama's speech. Pretty good news.

And in Iran there's a surge for the anti incumbent guy Mousavi who's got his wife campaigning. The incumbent Akmejinidad (sp?) (sorry) attacked her in a debate! He held up her photo and lambasted her for allegedly corruptly getting into University~! So in response she's hitting him hard saying this attacks all women and their attempts to get education! 9She's got like two grad degress n shit). Women are two thirds of all univ. students in Iran, btw.

So wow. The Iranian election is opening up that society and a kinda not bad dude might win and he's modern enough to have his super educated wife out there campaigning and talking up feminist shit.

Oh well, let's ignore that too and focus on threesomes in bed and other things of vital import. Just be grateful we got four lines on one election about that place over there somewheres called Europe. Forget about non Europe, those brown skinned people just don't count and we don't need to be informed about them.