Ber-Loose-Coni
So, Silvio Berlusconi loses last week’s election (President — or Champion o’ Bureaucracy) by a narrow margin to Romano Prodi. Italian politics are hilarious. The Italians are generally upset about feeling the pinch of the poor condition of the Euro. So, they blame the richest man in Italy who also happens to be their president - Silvio. Then, they elect the man that brought the Euro both to Italy and the EU commission. Oh ya, that’s gonna’ make it all better.
Italy & Politics
Politics is enormous, gigantic, grandissimo to the Italians.
Many Italians tell me, “Oh, it’s so much more complex than what you could understand as an American.” Ya, they’re right. It is more complex - ridiculously complex because they want it to be that way. Italy loves systems that are so complex they become absurd; frozen by inefficiency. They don’t even understand it themselves.
And, when they tell me the above line that I’ve heard a number of times, they’re proud of it. It comes across condescending again and again. However, is this really something you want to be proud of? Our political system is so bereft of clarity that it’s incomprehensible … now go American, back to your simple two-party system and don’t come out here where the ‘real world of thinkers’ really are.” I usually smile and crack up laughing inside. They don’t realize how crazy our political system is too.
Silvio’s Shame
Brazen. It’s the one word that I can use to describe this leader. What I’m about to share has been widely reported throughout Europe. However, I couldn’t find any articles that were clean enough to link to.
As a political stunt, Loose tells the nation that he’s going to refrain from intercourse for three months leading up to the elections. I don’t know what his motivations were. Then, he proceeded to compare himself with Jesus Christ and Napolean. And just before the election, he cursed all of his voting opponents with foul language.
One of the more revealing items about Italy’s wealthiest and most powerful man came on a “sleepless” night in Berlusconi’s Villa in Sardegnia. It is no secret that after midnight in Europe, many TV channels revert, subvert, and pervert to pornography and prostitutes-on-parade. Silvio had been watching and perusing these channels into the early morning hours and decided on a straw-poll of his own. Calling into the various programs, he found that 7 out of the 9 phone-sex females he spoke with would vote for him. Bragging about it later, he said he was pretty encouraged by the outcome of his straw-poll. Do you sense a lack of understanding about the obvious here?
Well, it looks like Berlusconi didn’t have enough of the prostitution segment to win the election. They must have slept in.
Jesus said it this way…
“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.” Matthew 12:33-35
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