★ ★ Yesterday Yesterday, in Italy, there was a large demonstration in defense of the Constitution. In the last year I took to the streets more than once a month, and at another time such a golden opportunity I would not ever lost. Yesterday, I stayed at home. time ago, in fact, on January 19th to be exact, I decided that I would not have participated in protests. The date is not accidental: for that day had been arranged hastily in a meeting at the Quirinale after yet another insult to the ducetto Arcore institutions and Italian citizens, known as the Ruby case. I expected the end of the world: the allegations of bribery and child prostitution, so credited to induce the attorney to request the immediate ritual, they would dismiss any statesman of any civilized country. But Italy is not a civilized country and ducetto Arcore is not a statesman, then in addition to dovermelo sipped the next day to rave about imaginary girlfriends, in Piazza del Quirinale, I found a hundred people, very few politicians and a few journalists.
short, a debacle that has given me much to think about. Not so much in substance, as in the method. And I am convinced that the fate of this country will not change with the sit-ins and demonstrations, with petitions and protests. In most cases, in fact, civil society and citizens do not have to deal with honest and enlightened rulers, but with parasites and scalzacani with outlaws, with real miracles that also look out of place to serve french fries at a fast food restaurant. Then I do not understand all these references to composure, accountability, non-violence, this continuous wave Gandhi: If a character like had he lived today would have ended up in a cement pylon. With what effect? Probably no one: after the murder of Matteotti that weight had to uproot the fascist regime?
Thus, from January 19, 2011, I will stay home.
strange cases The ducetto Arcore, explaining the great reform of the justice, he shot another of his menate, namely that it would have been acquitted twenty-four times. On this latest numbers thrown in there haphazardly, Gilioli wrote a post, "24" precisely. One of the commentators, noting that the grimace Neapolitan associated with no less than 24 "guards," he proposed to couple it to 71, "The Man of shit", and gamble the lottery.
Yesterday afternoon I walked over and asked if he had the sense that the wheel of Rome or Milan. Probably I would have played on both, putting up a euro each. I say probably because, not being a regular player, I forgot to switch to the receivers. But before going to bed, struck by a flash of lucidity I checked extraction : 24 and 71, both dry Milan.
Illinois abolished the death penalty in CUD Pat Quinn, Governor of Illinois, has today completed the last step towards the abolition of the death penalty by signing the law that replaces it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole. The device also provides that the State used for capital punishment to be transferred to a fund for services to the families of murder victims and law enforcement.
The abolition of the death penalty in Illinois comes after a moratorium period eleven, declared by former Republican Governor George Ryan.
L'Illinois è il sedicesimo Stato ad abrogare la Pena capitale, facendo con ciò registrare il maggior numero di Stati abolizionisti dal 1978.
Beware! The genius of the nation La somma totale raccolta grazie all'8xmille per l'anno 2009 è di 967.538.542 euro. L'88,1% è andato al sostentamento del clero (381.300.000), alla manutenzione ordinaria della sua macchina sul territorio (381.238.542) e al carburante per muoverla (90.000.000); il 7,8% ai poveri del Terzo Mondo; il 3,1% a quelli nostrani.
È così da sempre. Da quando c'è l'8xmille – ormai è un quarto di secolo – il criterio di ripartizione è costante: mai più del 12% of the poor, never less than 83% of the priests.
(stolen - out of laziness! - To Malvino )
