Invite This Man to the Next American Presidential Debate; Send a Lear Jet; Get Him a Work Visa and Into the Ring
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/former-italian-premier-silvio-berlusconi-charms-supporters-on-cruise-a-859015.html
( Don’t know what’s up with this link; check comments)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/former-italian-premier-silvio-berlusconi-charms-supporters-on-cruise-a-859015.html
Chicago on your FDL post tonight…how appropriate. I have that soundtrack, which I bought after seeing the film before moving out of NYC. Saw the show on Broadway on 9/10/01.
Disgusted to see Mayor Noun Verb 9/11 even on a youtube at this point, but heard someon asked him about govt spending and his firm getting “security” contracts…I think someone has WTC7 they would like to talk about.
Check out this and the few before and after.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/expd/8055872413/in/photostream/
My favorite is the jailhouse number…..
Couldn’t find the pictures on your link, but am well familiar with the “Rudy’s Bunker” scandal. In a just world, that guy would be selling fake Rolexes at the Port Authority bus terminal.
Yes, the Cell Block Tango is fab, and I love We Both Reached for the Gun/Press Conference Rag. So true, even today.
The pics and limericks are all here:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-10-05/too-big-bird-fail
Those are awesome; I like the fact that the dog’s back, too. Although I personally dislike dogs, I would never put one on the roof of a car. Better to leave it home, or not have one in the first place. But for dog-addled Americans, though, the dog on the roof is a deal breaker.
Silvio’s back! And his campaign style: refreshing, isn’t it?
I’m suddenly concerned about Mitt “clarifying” his 47 percent gaffe – now ‘splaining that he really loves ALL 100 percent of us – because if Silvio weighs in about the 100 percent HE loves and cares for, it’ll only be about the women. That might throw Mitt off irreparably, perhaps fatally, because Ann won’t countenance even remote references to bunga bunga lifestyles, or anything foreign like that. We must maintain our innocence at all costs.
Silvio really loves ‘em , at least the hotter part of the 53% (of the 100%).
Maybe we can work a trade with the Italians.Mitt,Barry, & Rudy ( & Joe, if they’d take him) for Silvio. We’d all still have corrupt plutocrats, but it’d be something different , and more fun.
That squeaky-clean, innocent Mormon thing is (generally) for real. I went to a summer gathering, of retuning BYU students, with my cousins. ( c.1980) It was a different world. It was like being dropped into an episode of the Lawrence Welk Show ( I suffered through many,courtesy of my grandmother.)
I was catching , in the softball game . I managed to hold my tongue when I only got a triple out of a 500′+ drive , because the guy on 2nd waited until I was almost there, and then fell down three times .But when an opponent missed the plate by 5′, after I tagged him 10′ up the line, and was called safe ( he still hasn’t scored.) , I said something (politely) , and asked the “umpire” ( late 20′s chaperon/church person/something?) to ask for help . Total silence, and everybody staring. :0 Just not done .
My cousins aren’t like that.They seemed “normal”. They were mumbling about it too, but on the way home, where nobody would hear it. My uncle (from here in NY) was fond of saying that they lived more like Navajo ( Minus the truck up on blocks , with five guys working on it . – My observation , not my uncle’s .
), than Mormons . Anyway, to top off the awkwardness ( in my head – everybody was nice about it) , all three of us split our pants, over the course of the afternoon. 
))))) Probably because we put some actual effort into the day’s activities.
That’s *returning* BYU students , although most of those singing, besides my cousin, could have used a re-tune .
Well, once you’re down to the hottest, say, 10% 0f the 53%, you’re talking about a pretty small percentage. Silvio’s tastes may be eclectic, but they’re fairly narrow.
By 53%, I meant the female population, not Willard’s 53% . 10% of the women in Italy, and wherever else Silvio goes , is still a lot more than a US politician is allowed. (to acknowledge
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If you’ve never read Richard Armour, I highly recommend it. In one of his many (now hopelessly politically incorrect) books, “It All Started With Eve,” which opens with the faux-astonished observation that introducing a second sex to the mix was a skosh disruptive, he explains Helen of Troy thusly (I paraphrase out of laziness…)”
“Helen was a beautiful baby, and kept on improving…. Her problem was that she was too beautiful, although most men would argue that the real problem is that so many women aren’t beautiful enough.”
In “Twisted Tales From Shakespeare,” he writes, “… the events of the day have lowered Ophelia’s IQ to the point where it can no longer be measured.”
Armour was like a civilized Silvio.
In a different book, he says, “She was an intellectual, with a nice set of ideas.”