Thursday, June 09, 2016

What Do All These Countries Have In Common? UPDATED



Poland
Latvia
Argentina
Britain
Liberia
Austria
Brazil
South Korea
Finland
Nepal
Mauritius
Namibia
Norway
 Grenada
South Africa
The Bahamas
Germany
China
Bolivia
San Marino
Guinea-Bissau
Philippines
Haiti
East Germany
Nicaragua
Ireland
Burundi
Sri Lanka
Ecuador
Guyana
Croatia
Namibia
Malta
Bangladesh
Chile
Panama
Indonesia
Georgia
Pakistan
Liberia
Chile
Gabon
Israel
Lithuania
Kyrgyzstan
Costa Rica
Kosovo
Serbia
Central African Republic

Don't you even want to think about it before getting the answer?
I'll check the comments.  I suspect lots of folks will find this easy to figure out.

[UPDATE June 10, 2016:  They all have or have had a woman as head of state.  For more details see:

http://www.theglobalist.com/women-on-top-of-the-political-world/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elected_and_appointed_female_heads_of_state

http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/Current-Women-Leaders.htm   ]

9 comments:

  1. universal health care? subsidized childcare? paid maternity leave? female head of state?

    whatever it is, it's outdated -- no more East Germany

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    1. You got it - Female heads of state. East Germany is on the list because it had a female head of state.

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  2. Steve, head of state in parliamentary governments isn't the political leader of government. It's many times a ceremonial position, sometimes elected and sometimes appointed. I translated your query from US to UK and couldn't reach this answer...

    Even with a common language, there can and are differences in speech.

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  3. And even this differs from country to country as to those with monarchs or not.

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    1. Jacob, yes. Hereditary monarchs were left off the table and the sources seemed to be focused on elected officials who led the country. As I went through the lists it seemed that these were legitimate leaders like Margaret Thatcher, though some were temporary place fillers when the position was suddenly vacated.

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    2. Hey, Steve. On another subject altogether, why do you have 'The Immoral Minority' on your blog roll. The commentator writing this is every bit as vile as the people he attacks daily. And he attracts like.

      It is fascinating to read as evidence that the 'left' has noggin' heads as well as the right, but beyond that?

      It's tiresome. The Palin harangue is beyond scratched vinyl. I'd just like to hear why you value it. It's not your style, or is that it? He writes what you wish you could?

      I hope not.

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    3. Good question. Even before Palin became the Republican nominee for vice president, there were a few Alaskan bloggers figuring out what we were doing as we covered, at least in part, politics in the state. We got together now and then as we tried to define our roles and whether we could help each other do a job that was much bigger than any of us.

      When Palin was nominated, we all got immediate national attention as bloggers who covered Alaska politics. Immoral Minority, What Do I Know?, and Mudflats are the three blogs who are still around and posting regularly from those times. Immoral Minority and What Do I Know? linked to each other in our blogrolls when we were just starting out. Mudflats already had way more readers and I didn’t think it necessary to push it in my blogroll.

      Immoral Minority was always edgy, but was able to pull it off with a sense of humor and panache that others couldn’t achieve. And Immoral Minority had a lot of important information. Sarah Palin has been Immoral Minority’s bread and butter, as you suggest, probably well past her shelf life. But she’s still out there involved in politics, and while I don’t generally approve of the blatant snarkiness of Immoral Minority, it’s probably a dominant style of bloggers, and no one knows the Palin story better than Immoral Minority. And, he covers religion/atheism, gun violence, and lgbt issues as well. Immoral Minority is my easiest link to lots of good video clips I would otherwise miss.

      And, finally, I get a lot of hits from the Immoral Minority blogroll - particularly for posts that closely overlap its major themes. I do find his unquestioning loyalty to Clinton cloying and his nastiness to Sanders disturbing. He’s often no different in his approach to those he chastises. But he and his readers never let me forget that liberals can be as short sighted and angry as conservatives.

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