Sarcastycon , aka Marcello, is no longer with us, now is where the time has stopped.
They gave me the sad news of his family, who are my most heartfelt condolences. awaiting publication post a much more articulate about his figure and passionate cartoonist, but also a scholar of great culture - which has demonstrated through his other blog reports - these vignettes selected at random from its rich collection of images, that is deemed for all purposes a rich archive of the main developments that took place in Italian political life of the last five years.
I never copy and paste an entire other article, but this is Benfield so I copy it in full without changing a single comma. The copioincollo as it is, also to be able to send in my name to some friends of politicians who need all the "our" strong support. From the site
E 'right to pay "salary" five zeros to the interventions of the usual television guru culture / communication nostrana? To be even more explicit: it is correct, professionally and ethically, shell out, as did "Mamma Rai", 250,000 (two hundred and fifty thousand) Euro Roberto Benigni Italy people to explain the meaning of Mameli Hymn? The figure
paid is frankly out of proportion to the efforts of even good actor / comedian, who - in a few obvious anti-government joke, very easy patriotic rhetoric and an obvious looting of Wikipedia - has entertained audiences for half an hour of the Ariston and the broadcaster. What
stride more lucrative engagement in Benigni and many actors / comedians like him, his heart and his wallet left much attention to his business, is their political morality, the "drawl" deplorable on cutting financial statements and attacks (right) to the culture, their attitude of "precarious" spirit.
Victims of facade in fact they continue to make best use of their advantageous position, made after years of erosion (from left) cultural hegemony, making skilful use of the television (public and private), the consent of the mainstream press, the inevitable political support ( left) and the gullibility of some right, psychologically prone to them.
E 'happened to Benigni, but it happens every night, for characters such as Dandini, Fazio, Saviano, the Cortellesi, Crozza, authentic point of the iceberg of a presence costly, invasive, economically disproportionate (to their real value) of hundreds of authentic "assisted" culture. In the list we put
– tanto per essere chiari – tutti quegli attori, registi, cantanti, affabulatori, opinionisti che, con ingaggi pesanti, dispensano cultura e faziosità, confondono ruolo civile e partigianeria, mischiando – come si dice – l’utile ed il dilettevole, a spese dell’erario, quindi di tutti gli italiani.
Da qui una proposta provocatoria. Sulla scia dell’inizitaiva del Ministro Brunetta, che ha pubblicato, sui siti della P.A., gli stipendi dei burocrati di Stato, perché non rendere trasparenti anche gli “ingaggi” dei guru della cultura nostrana ?
Sarebbe un’operazione trasparenza, questa sì di grande valore morale, nei confronti soprattutto citizens and taxpayers of all citizens and taxpayers (right and left) who are their real employers. And it might also be an opportunity to begin to "moderation" certain gigs, watching, with respect to Italy's precarious, wages and pensions to a minimum. Less rhetoric "social" short and a bit 'more authentic, real, sobriety, beginning with personal examples.
King Solomon's surrounded himself with many women, 700 to be precise, but nobody would have dreamed, nor would dare today to send him on trial because he had so many women, might otherwise to create an image of a further imbalanced what no one, of course, would dream of doing. makes me laugh so that Berlusconi wants to prosecute, because they say or prove that he has brought to bed three women, also nice, and which then may also have made gifts. had, what would be strange, would say somewhere in Italy! is why the question makes me laugh (which is a boiata Fantozzi would say crazy), and Italy do more harm than good, because now the foreigners will laugh at us for that.
From the site: Solomon and his human love "Now King Solomon, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh, loved many foreign women of Moab, the Ammonite, of Edom, of Sidonie, the Hittites, women belonging to the peoples of whom the Lord had said unto the children 's Israel: Do not go to them and they are not from you, because they pervert the course you follow your heart for them. To these women if one be in Solomon's love. And he had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines (1 Kings 11:1-3).
Lust Solomon grows massively in his life, in fact, the carnal pleasure takes over much genuine love. Repeatedly disobeys the law of God, because when the meat is free to act "is enmity against God, because it is not subject to the law of God, nor can it be," (Romans 8:7). Solomon, dominated by the power of the flesh, can not, therefore, acceptable to God, or express love for God, because "those who are in the flesh can not please God" (Romans 8:8). This and other information about you can learn from the post of Nessie: Ostellino to live in Russia, pardon the Corriere . But most of all by
There is a character that would have exceeded King Solomon in the number of women had, Don Giovanni, homonymous opera by Mozart. In the air Madamin this is a list, here masterfully performed by Ferruccio Furlanetto in the part of Leporello, the Secretary handyman Don Giovanni lists the "unfortunate" Donna Elvira the number of women held by his master around Europe. Puts on notice that only in Spain already 1003, in Italy are already 640, 100 France , Turkey 91, and Almagno 231.
The visit I made to Palermo on 30 December 1980 until New Year's Day of 1981 would was far more compelling if at that time had already had more precise knowledge to what occurred in that city over the centuries XV, XVI, XVII: a great revolution and urban beautification of the city that had attracted skilled workers, especially architects, sculptors and painters, as well as bricklayers, carpenters and labor jointly by the villages of Lake Como ; people looking for work, too lacking in their homeland at that time. And so at that time was that famous immigration backwards from Lake Como to Palermo , during which many inhabitants of the Alto Lario moved, especially in Palermo, leaving them empty and deserted their villages in the mountains. Therefore no exaggeration to say that I believe at that time the mountain villages of the districts of Dongo, Gravedona e Gera divennero di fatto dei paesi fantasma. In virtù di quel lungo periodo migratorio possiamo anche ben dire che molti dei siciliani attuali hanno sicuramente antiche origini lombarde, perchè da Palermo detti immigrati sicuramente si espansero poi per tutta la regione, contribuendo anch'essi al forte incremento demografico sviluppatosi nell'Isola in quell'epoca. Quell'evento migratorio prolungato, e fatto su larga scala, in questo caso renderebbe plausibile la creazione di un gemellaggio tra le due regioni, Sicilia e Lombardia, o quantomeno tra le due province di Palermo e Como; istituzione che, in questo caso, sarebbe supportata da quegli antichi forti legami di sangue.
C'è un libro, La Signora della Painting (*), masterfully written by Daniela Pizzagalli, which annually publishes the biography of a great woman of those times, but then slowly falls into almost oblivion, which describes very well the period of Palermo we're telling. His descriptions are bombastic, just as was the case in the history of the early '500 Correggio . The description that makes Palermo's time is also so accurate that I just have to transcribe it in full, trusting that the author has tacitly to grant me permission to publish his next song.
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° ""Chissà se anche *, sbarcando a Palermo, sentì nell'aria quella fragranza di violette che il Falzello, nel suo De Rebus Siculis pubblicato nel 1558, assicurava deliziasse tutti i visitatori: un effetto del sale marino scaldato ai raggi del sole cocente. Dal congestionato traffico del porto, sulle cui banchine si riversavano preziose merci da tutto il mondo, comprese di non essere arrivata in una languida periferia dell'impero, ma nel cuore del Mediterraneo, in un attivo centro di smistamento e di scambi animato da una società colta e raffinata. Don Fabrizio de Moncada era probabilmente ad attenderla sul molo * and, over the embarrassment of the first meeting due to his outgoing character and experience in any code of conduct, let himself be guided, excited and curious to explore his new home. The beautiful walled city stood a thousand layers: due to its strategic position sicani, eliminated, Greeks, Phoenicians had popular success that hill, perpendicular to the coastline, located in the inner part of a broad bay protected from the wind, where landings were facilitated by the presence of two streams, one to the north, Papireto, fed by numerous springs, the other to the south, Kemonia, torrential character. The first great city walls, on top of Hill, Carthage and was dated to the sixth century BC The city was conquered by the Romans, Byzantines and Arabs, who made a capital in the tenth century. Palermo In this role he had lived an intense and complex urban development, the old core on top of the hill, called by Arab al-Kasr, then the Cassaro, joined by other neighborhoods, built on the banks of two rivers. The emir was installed at the port, with four doors in the citadel Kalsa Cassaro but remained at the heart of the city with the "green marble" flanked by the buildings of the leading families and mosques, including the cathedral itself, transformed into a place of Islamic worship. With the Norman conquest del'undicesimo century Cassaro was back to being the center of the town, with the royal palace of Altavilla and homes in the new feudal ruling class, while the port area was divided among the various communities of maritime merchants, "nations" of Amalfi, of Pisa, Genoa and also of foreign groups. The reorganization of the defensive circuit, between the twelfth and the fourteenth century, had also incorporated a stable residential areas and more than Papireto Kemonia. With the conquest of southern Italy by the French Anjou, Palermo lost the role of capital in favor of Naples, recovering after the war of Vespers with the occupation of Aragon. Under the dynasty Aragonese in Sicily criteria were introduced to streamline administrative and processing building. The English king Ferdinand of Aragon in 1482, according to the Palermo magistrate for permission to demolish the streets and squares for decoration and adornment of the city, at the beginning of the sixteenth century even enjoyment of the rebuilding of the walls according to the new technique ramparts and ditches. In a city that lived near the Mediterranean all the military events in the years of greatest tension between the English and turkish empire, was to undergo a substantial renovation planning. The commitment to the renewal of the fortified walls predominated in the intentions of the various viceroys who succeeded, from Ferrante Gonzaga che poi, trasferito a Milano, avrebbe portato avanti lo stesso progetto. La potente cinta bastionata, i cui lavori si sarebbero protratti fino a metà Seicento, avrebbe inglobato la Cittadella realizzata sull'antico Castello a Mare ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3jtGfyyavU ), sconvolgendo l'assetto urbanistico. La funzione di piazzaforte comportava un adeguamento degli spazi pubblici e una diversa dislocazione delle sedi politiche e militari. Il vicerè Giovanni de Vega a metà del Cinquecento installò la sua sede nell'antico palazzo reale normanno, attorno al quale fu creata una spianata, fiancheggiata dal nuovo quartiere militare spagnolo. Sempre motivazioni the military in 1565 led the move Viceroy Garcia de Toledo to lay the foundations of a great port to the northwest, separated from the city, and in '67 to expand and correct the path of Cassaro, then prolonging it in a straight line to the Navy, with a substantial evisceration in the medieval. It was so accomplished a flashy urban planning operation which, in close connection with the work of fortification, renewed as the central area of \u200b\u200bthe city, creating a longitudinal axis of communication in honor of the viceroy was called Via Toledo ( hours Corso Vittorio Emanuele ), which also ceremonial high representation, along which we arranged the squares with the major civic institutions and the most prestigious aristocratic and religious buildings. In 1567 was opened the square named after the Bologna family, between the cathedral and the square of Pretoria, where, in turn, the municipal government renewed its head, paving the streets to turn on via Toledo in front of the Senatorial Palace. The road straight, born with clear strategic requirements, remained dominant even when under the next Viceroy, Marcantonio Colonna, took office in '77, they became less pressing military needs: after the victory of Lepanto, in which the column had validly contributed to the Turkish threat seemed loose. L'intera Sicilia viveva un periodo di prosperità. Se all'inizio del Cinquecento contava poco più di mezzo milione di abitanti, a metà del secolo era arrivata a ottocentomila: solo a Palermo, la popolazione era passata da venticinquemila a centomila anime. L'assetto sociale cittadino presentava l'incontrastato dominio dell'élite nobiliare che, facendo parte del Parlamento, era costretta a risiedere nella capitale, rinsaldando così i legami tra Palermo e i feudi rurali disseminati in tutta l'isola. La classe baronale viveva con magnificenza, accumulando forti redditi dalle proprietà terriere, la cui produzione agricola era molto richiesta sui mercati internazionali. The voice was the main export crop, but they were also strong growth in the culture of the vine, the mulberry, an important trade in raw silk, and almost as developed as sugar cane. I "trapetti" Sicily, that the manufactures in which the juice of boiled Cannamele to turn it into sugar, were the oldest in Europe, planted at the time of Arab rule, but was moving forward foreign competition, especially the Dutch, benefiting the labor of slaves in the colonies produced sugar rates. The landed gentry had made lavish lifestyle city, multiplying festivals and celebrations, of which the Church triumphant post tridentine tended, as in the rest of Italy, to take the initiative and guidance, involving the entire population. The competitiveness with which the different nations and guilds of merchants built churches and chapels show the influence of ecclesiastical institutions in the life of the city. "
(*) The name of the Lady of the painting will be announced to coincide with the publication dedicated to the subject of another post.
In view of the assembly's constitutive Fli new political subject, scheduled between February 11 and Sunday 13 tomorrow, has already provided several dropouts, as stated in Article reviewed by Eleanor, which is entitled fli-flops? . From the article, it seems that the greatest intentions to leave the Fli comes from the best minds of the party, the so-called intellectuals, whose flight would question their existence, so at least they would have presented last September. Without them, many voices said, Italy would be plunged into the abyss. They gave me the impression that the weapon Brancaleone was presented as a savior of the fatherland: without them there would be a flood. but that would not last long, as would demonstrate the cancellation of several intellectuals, the so-called talking heads seemed to have written at the time of foundation. It seems that even Donna Assunta is my opinion, if we read between the lines of what he said to the interviewer Giuseppe Cruciani in the program of Radio 24, the Mosquito, a few nights ago. The Fli based its policy sull'antiberlusconismo whole, rather than on the real problems of the country, to bring to fruition (see also the following post: The playacting of Fli , On gullible dupes, Descent in the field of PM, and many others, which can be accessed typing the keyword you want in the white rectangle in the upper left corner), but since it's gone bad, the desire to get rid of Berlusconi on open several fronts, they invented the third pole, making it an actual subordinate to others in that its intellectuals slowly, do not agree, they are leaving on the sly. On the other hand, I have always been wary of the great speakers, those from the brain elegantly witty ", and ended it embodies such a good character. He has a big-talking, as demonstrated in the video below, a mastery of our language spoken, but deep down I see very little of substance. The pinnacle of his oratory, the apotheosis, he touched in the movie by 10 minutes below, in which he promised to resign if it was discovered that the house of Monte Carlo was his brother. But his resignation has not yet given, and, as seems, if it looks good, will stay put until the end of term! 's strange that all others in the Fli, among intellectuals, however, if they are making aware, have not yet realized that they were operated to a desire for personal revenge against Berlusconi Fini! Strange how they manipulate the facts so well. At this point, I just have to admit that it would be a much better pre-election agreement with The Right of Storace. In a later post I will tell anecdotes referring to his land, Cassino. Urban legends tell that I felt when I went to that land in the '70s, on cunning, embezzlement, theft against the state, when Rome ruled the old DC, and was made the law on the transfer of resources from the state to municipalities in accordance with what was spent last year, plus a specified interest rate to cover inflation. It is against the law to the Fli on fiscal federalism. Even those urban legends, I have experienced directly, it could deduce why.
If you talk to today who has signed on to demand the resignation of Berlusconi, and ask them a plausible justification and convincing because has signed, we will respond with the usual cliches, fries and stale, with those sentences to create art from various leaders of the left and right but nothing that comes out as something new from their brain. And I do the example of my town, where even here hath been signed, and with a lot of Gareb planted on the main square opposite the church, as if to hook up the faithful who went or came from the masses. But I was more than once that I no longer go to Mass, and I'm really not in that particular church, it tastes so much of that bell'antico that I like a lot, because I could only make access to the sacristy where the priest of 'Then, his goodness, had built a ramp for wheelchairs, che però è molto ripido e richiede forza, perizia ed attenzione per poter essere affrontato con una carrozzina manuale, e anche l'accompagnatore deve essere ben robusto, altrimenti da soli non ce la si può fare. Si da il caso che mia moglie non se la senta più di spingermi per quella ripida salita, e non sempre si può trovare un volontario pronto e disponibile per darti una mano. Per questo motivo sto rinunciando ad andare a messa. Ma c'è di più, da parecchio tempo il manto stradale del passo carraio dell'accesso alla sacrestia è dissestato; vi sono tali avvallamenti che, se presi alla sprovvista, con distrazione, senza cautele, possono provocare rovinosi rovesciamenti della sedia a rotelle. Il progetto per uno scivolo più suitable, allowing also the entrance to the church on the side where people come without problems, or the installation of the pavement of the driveway of the sacristy, seem to have been asked by the pastor since May 2009.
's the point: we have here is a left-wing administration, an administration whose members were now in the streets to demand the resignation of Berlusconi. Well, translating the affairs of this small town to national affairs, think that if Rome were to get a character from the left would improve things? I did not think and conclude that dall'accanimento well prepared to get rid of Berlusconi in any way, legitimate or not, as they are proving to be here in 17 years, instead of thinking about real problems. Seventeen charges, how many years that Berlusconi and the parliament, all dismounted, and unmount the Ruby case. Frankly, I am among those who have pockets full of this situation where one side wants to bring down Berlusconi by any means. And meanwhile the real problems are set aside, as the case of my town, where you come up with possible strategies to remain anchored to cadreghino, and we neglect the real problems. But despite this, things in Rome you do, contrary to what they want to believe in the various Bersani, Fini and Casini, that if they invent all, the same way as illusionists, but to denigrate Berlusconi per impossessarsi loro del potere, anche per vie non propriamente democratiche.
Se a dirlo è stato Luca Ricolfi (*) , sociologo e professore ordinario presso l’Università di Torino, e nessuno dei presenti al programma Porta a Porta di ieri sera ha smentito il dato (nemmeno quelli di sinistra del PD e dell'IDV) allora è vero: le varie amministrazioni centrali e periferiche dello Stato italiano sprecano ogni anno 80 miliardi di euro in spese considerate inutili , superflue o fatte a cuor leggero. Spese e sprechi che, se evitati, risparmierebbero allo Stato italiano tre finanziarie da lacrime e sangue, consentendogli per lo meno di pagare gli abnormi interessi debt as abnormal. It makes me wonder then that the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano rejected by the municipal decree on federalism, declaring it "inadmissible" (here the news) .
(*) Luca Ricolfi , supporters of the Left, is, among other things, the author of a ponderous essay on the Left: Why we dislike? .
Update
About squander his friend Al sent me this joke that the public at his request, but do not take responsibility about the content.
A company must hire an employee. The two managers responsible for selection, they ask what kind of questions put to candidates. - I'd do a little question easy just to put them at ease! - Okay ... they will count up to 10!
comes the first candidate. And the examiner : - We count to 10, please. - Two ... four ... you are ... eight ... - But no ... with all the numbers! - You know, I'm the postman, and I side of the even numbers, those are only for me now! - Okay ... goes well!
comes the second candidate. - I count to 10, please. - One ... three ... five ... seven ... - But no ... with all the numbers! - Sa ... are connected to one before, only I do the other side of the road, and that of odd for me now exist only ones! - Okay, go.
comes the third candidate. - By chance she is also the postman? - No, God forbid ... I work in town! - Oooh, thank goodness ... We then accounts for up to 10 please! - ace two three four five six seven horse and servant king!
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