Comments on: Final Tally http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/06/23/final-tally/ sex and politics Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:27:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: More Arrests As Janša Looks For A Comeback in Polls And Ends EU Presidency | SLEEPING WITH PENGOVSKY http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/06/23/final-tally/#comment-84317 More Arrests As Janša Looks For A Comeback in Polls And Ends EU Presidency | SLEEPING WITH PENGOVSKY Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:41:16 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/06/23/final-tally/#comment-84317 [...] ten days. It is worth noting that two of them (Politbarometer, Ninamedia) were conducted prior to referendum on regions. Politbarometer poll showed a steep increase in ratings for Social Democrats, but Ninamedia poll, [...] […] ten days. It is worth noting that two of them (Politbarometer, Ninamedia) were conducted prior to referendum on regions. Politbarometer poll showed a steep increase in ratings for Social Democrats, but Ninamedia poll, […]

]]> By: Bora.La » Solo l’11% va a votare per il referendum sloveno sulle Regioni http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/06/23/final-tally/#comment-82222 Bora.La » Solo l’11% va a votare per il referendum sloveno sulle Regioni Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:36:08 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/06/23/final-tally/#comment-82222 [...] degli scrutatori chiede al blogger al seggio “ma di cosa tratta questo referendum?”) e qua (post dopo le elezioni). Tag: Janez Jansa, [...] […] degli scrutatori chiede al blogger al seggio “ma di cosa tratta questo referendum?”) e qua (post dopo le elezioni). Tag: Janez Jansa, […]

]]> By: pengovsky http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/06/23/final-tally/#comment-81932 pengovsky Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:52:48 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/06/23/final-tally/#comment-81932 Hear hear! Hear hear!

]]> By: Disablez http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/06/23/final-tally/#comment-81914 Disablez Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:03:41 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/06/23/final-tally/#comment-81914 if we could only accept [...]. Amen to the guy. if we could only accept […].

Amen to the guy.

]]> By: Cornelius http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/06/23/final-tally/#comment-81895 Cornelius Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:35:40 +0000 http://www.pengovsky.com/2008/06/23/final-tally/#comment-81895 As I half-assedly expressed in the blog entry previous to this one, I feel that the question was too vague, and no real explicit opinion of the public can be garnered from the results. I mean, it's been done before (for instance, I voted "no" on the "should shops be closed on Sundays" referendum, but the message I was attemting to convey was "shop clerks should get paid fair wages for Sunday work, and have the option to decide, whether they want to work Sundays or not"... I doubt that message got through, though...), but this time it's all just ridiculously vague. A "no" can be interpreted to mean diametrically oposite stances, as Igor pointed out in the "less than 10 percent" entry. I felt powerless and unable to express myself in light of this referendum. Also, Janša's response to the Central Slovenia region "no" is apparently: "Well, we'll divide it into Northern Central and Southern Central then." Excellent, following the "a municipality for every village" logic we now have the "a region for every municipality" logic. I believe it was Gustinčič who wrote in an editorial a few weeks ago that we are so obsessed with the "smallness" of our country, that we put on airs and try to pretend we are bigger than we are and that we, too, can have over ten regions in our country. The counclusion of that editorial was that, if we could only accept that we *are* a small country and stop pretending we're not, and that being *small* is not necessarily bad and nothing to be ashamed of, we could work much more efficiently towards a better future, without wasting all this energy on all the Potemkin village building. As I half-assedly expressed in the blog entry previous to this one, I feel that the question was too vague, and no real explicit opinion of the public can be garnered from the results. I mean, it’s been done before (for instance, I voted “no” on the “should shops be closed on Sundays” referendum, but the message I was attemting to convey was “shop clerks should get paid fair wages for Sunday work, and have the option to decide, whether they want to work Sundays or not”… I doubt that message got through, though…), but this time it’s all just ridiculously vague. A “no” can be interpreted to mean diametrically oposite stances, as Igor pointed out in the “less than 10 percent” entry.
I felt powerless and unable to express myself in light of this referendum.

Also, Janša’s response to the Central Slovenia region “no” is apparently: “Well, we’ll divide it into Northern Central and Southern Central then.” Excellent, following the “a municipality for every village” logic we now have the “a region for every municipality” logic.

I believe it was Gustinčič who wrote in an editorial a few weeks ago that we are so obsessed with the “smallness” of our country, that we put on airs and try to pretend we are bigger than we are and that we, too, can have over ten regions in our country. The counclusion of that editorial was that, if we could only accept that we *are* a small country and stop pretending we’re not, and that being *small* is not necessarily bad and nothing to be ashamed of, we could work much more efficiently towards a better future, without wasting all this energy on all the Potemkin village building.

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