Sgrena: sicuro che diventa una parolaccia!

Volevo scrivere un post su Giuliana Sgrena, ma qualcuno lo ha fatto molto meglio di quanto possa sperare di fare io.
Ergo: CLICCATE QUI!

Italiano and Español

Alea iacta est!
Ho deciso di scrivere anche in italiano e, sperando qualcuno abbia la decenza di correggermi, in spagnolo.

I'm the new South Park hero!!!

Isn't it great? I'm definitely going to lead the new crusade!!!
Go here to South Parkize yourself!!!

France is a dictatorship

I'm disgusted. That's all.

Gerard Baker

Here is the article about the election of Benedict XVI, it's by Gerard Baker and it goes right to the heart of the question.

Keith Urbahn

A great article by Keith Urbahn. If you think you can think then I think you should read it!!!

Thank you "The Right Nation"!!!

Chinese's Dictat

There is really no limit to the quantity of bullshit the Chinese Government is spitting out. This article is showing the abyss of the insolence it has reached. I hope the answer of the Holy See will be terrible!!! Ultimatum, that's the language a dictatorship understands. A possible initial answer could be: "You want to improve relationships with us? First you readmit the Nunzio Apostolico (the ambassador), then we can dimplomatically start to speak."

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."

Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)

HABEMUS PAPAM

Joseph Ratzinger will be the next Pope, with the name of Benedetto XVI.

Happy Birthday Thomas!!!

Today, Tuesday the 13th of April, is the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States of America (1801-1809). A good post by Krillix about him can be found here.
For the occasion I selected some quotes by Mr Jefferson:

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

"Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself."

"Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment."

"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day."

"Never spend your money before you have it."

"The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper."

"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far."

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

"Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it."

Thomas Jefferson

Theo Van Gogh

Guys, keep on practicing your italian, for you really need it to read this.

The movie I'm talking about can be found HERE.

...and it needs no comment.

Alleluja!!!

At last!!!

Saul Bellow

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep"

"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps."

"All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac."

Saul Bellow

Tomorrow

"The more you worry about tomorrow, the more you realize it's already yesterday"

Paul Morrisroe

Unbelievable Lexi

I hope you guys can read italian, because this post MUST be read! To me it's a masterpiece!
Keep up with the good work Lexi!

My Next 30 Years

I think I’ll take a moment, celebrate my age
The ending of an era and the turning of a page
Now it’s time to focus in on where I go from here
Lord have mercy on my next thirty years

Hey my next thirty years I’m gonna have some fun
Try to forget about all the crazy things I’ve done
Maybe now I’ve conquered all my adolescent fears
And I’ll do it better in my next thirty years

My next thirty years I’m gonna settle all the scores
Cry a little less, laugh a little more
Find a world of happiness without the hate and fear
Figure out just what I’m doing here
In my next thirty years

Oh my next thirty years, I’m gonna watch my weight
Eat a few more salads and not stay up so late
Drink a little lemonade and not so many beers
Maybe I’ll remember my next thirty years

My next thirty years will be the best years of my life
Raise a little family and hang out with my wife
Spend precious moments with the ones that I hold dear
Make up for lost time here, in my next thirty years

In my next thirty years

Tim McGraw

Vivir es elegir

I was walking by the street, when I saw the billboard fo the new movie by Benito Zambrano, "Habana Blues".
How hypocrite is a sentence like that? "To live is to choose", choose? In Cuba? What if I choose to read a certain book in Cuba? What if I choose to chat freely or communicate freely with Internet in Cuba? What if I choose to listen to the music I want in Cuba? What if I wanna be gay in Cuba? What if I wanna say what I think about the government in Cuba? What if I wanna elect my leader in Cuba? What if I wanna vote someone else than Castro in Cuba? What if I wanna leave Cuba? What if I choose to buy something in those fancy mall built for the foreigners? What if I choose to use one of those fancy clinic for the foreigners?

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

George Orwell

The Real Cuba

Next time you think about going to Cuba, remember what your feet are swinging over! It seems to me it's like going to an evil Disneyland done with the suffering of many constrained workers. When we fly there we have the fancy hotels, we have the fancy clinics, they run on this: http://www.therealcuba.com/Page10.htm and live here: http://www.therealcuba.com/page2.htm
With a difference, I met no one of the supporters of the Cuban regime who actually went there to live "as a Cuban", actually renouncing their citizenship and adopting the Cuban one, because it's a one way ticket.
We are the illiterate and ignorant ones and they have the 100% literacy. Would you like to be 100% literate under Mussolini or Stalin or Pol Pot? 100% literacy eh? What do you need it for? For instance, can you freely print a book with your ideas? NO. So, what in the world are we discussing about? I'm even ashamed of myself for having indulged into such an obvious topic. But I owe this to those, especially to all the ones who have died simply for thinking differently, and for ones, the balseros, who already knew they have one chance out of three to get to Florida alive but they tried it anyway.
They can kill you but they cannot kill your love for freedom.

The Real Cuba

When you know nothing, you say nothing. Otherwise...

When I was a child dinners with guests were not as easy as a stroll in the park for me. I always loved to meet new people, confront myself, so the impulse was to chat, and to chat freely about everything, letting myself getting drowned into the river of the conversation. This was not allowed. The directive was to stay "mainly" silent, unless directly interviewed. At that time I took that for extreme and too strict. That was not how my father wanted me to live, it was just a lesson. I did as told, and I also did the opposite. Now I learned, but it's amazing to see how many people seems to "speak dumb". The secret is simple: never speak about something you don't know, then, it may happen that what you know is wrong and discussing you get to change your mind: that's ok. The problem according to me is when you try to speak about something you don't know: it's pathetic! A person who follow this simple rule is usually a good listener, but I can assure you that the stupid arrogant ducks squeaking around about this and that without knowing anything of what they say are the worst listener ever. I just met one, an astounding case, and after a couple of catastrophic conversations I decided to let my silence speak.
Thank you dad!

About this article, if I believe in this rule then Mr Chirac belongs to one of these 2 categories:
1. he doesn't know what he's talking about, and should be blamed twice for he has the responsibility to know what he's talking about, he's a Prime Minister for Christ sake!
2. he knows exactly what he's talking about and like Mr Bean (Zapatero) wants to play the part of the compassionate saint whilst in the meantime minding his dirty own business. Privileged economical communications between France and Brazil? Blaming it once more on globalization? I can't believe how much Mr Chirac wants to go on with that? Are French all anesthetized? Was the "Oil for Food" scandal not enough to be utterly ashamed?

DE PROFUNDIS...

De profúndis clamávi ad te, Dómine:

Dómine, exáudi vocem meam.

Fiant áures tuæ intendéntes,
in vocem deprecatiónis meæ.
Si iniquitátes observáveris, Dómine:
Dómine, quis sustinébit?
Quia apud te propitiátio est,
et timébimus te.
Sustínui te, Dómine;
Sustínuit ánima mea in verbo eius,
sperávit ánima mea in Dómino.

Magis quam custódes auróram,
speret Israël, in Dómino.
Quia apud Dóminum misericórdia,
et copiósa apud eum redémptio.
Et ipse rédimet Israël,
ex omnibus iniquitátibus ejus.

Réquiem aetérnam dona ei, Dómine:
et lux perpetua luceat ei.
Requiéscat in pace.
Amen.