Now we know that Italy was on autopilot for the last decade. About 100,000 taped phone conversations from the Prime Minister's home have been published and the main subjects are (1) organization of bunga bunga parties, and (2) complaints that the Pope and foreign visitors are preventing him from spending time with his female admirers. At one point, Silvio reveals that there are 40 women staying in his house who like it so much that they just won’t leave.
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Ah yes Italy. They have a good time there. And why not? The EU Central Bank will bail them out. Never mind the EU Constitution expressly forbids that. Actually it's the French and German banks holding Italian and Greek debt that get bailed out. And to be even more precise, it's the banks' creditors that will get bailed out. Now I learn the U.S. Federal Reserve is doing currency swaps with the ECB, so perhaps the American taxpayer stands as the ultimate backstop for all debt.
I think a lot of men are envious of Silvio. He's older than me and doing eight women in one night! I should have such problems. Most women are mad at him because they are not young enough and pretty enough to get invited to the parties. In the end, the women will do him in. Such is life.
Prime Minister Ruby and her over-age prostitute, Mr B, will never engage austerity.
Assterity perhaps, but not austerity.
Anon.
As a businessman and a freedom loving human being, Berlusconi probably understood that the scheme of the EU is fraudulent and thus it was better to let it die, than to get worry himself sick over it. In the end Berlusconi probably did less damage than the chin-pullers and eyebrow-furrowers.
Ivan
Entre-nous, wasnt he right to spend his time with Ruby instead of the Pope? Would you Ivan prefer to discuss theology in Latin with the Pope while Ruby is waiting impatiently in the next room?
I may prefer to spend time with Ruby, but I'll defer to the Pope. We Catholics live in the hope of a deathbed confession that would absolve us of all sins. Berlusconi may be aiming for the same thing.
Ivan
Berlusconi has the means to be placed on life support until he can receive absolution or whatever it is he is supposed to get in order to insure entrance into heaven (I'm not up on Catholic halacha). I never understood this aspect of Christianity, although there are similar doctrines in Judaism which say that a sinner can repent until the last moment of his life (though you never know when that is, so you had better repent now). It seems to me that this creates a perverse incentive to sin now, repent later.
K
Don Silvio is living the traditional life behooving to an Italian noble and millionaire and Italian voters dont punish him for it. On the contrary, they envy him. Because Pope Ratzinger is German, and he may have a different idea of how to live a virtuous life from the Italians. Remember, Virtue comes from the Italian (Latin in fact), and it means "manliness".
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