Wednesday, April 08, 2009

After the Quake

Seventeen thousand homeless people sleeping in tents. It's raining and the outside temperature is just four degrees above freezing. "They should see it like a weekend of camping," Silvio Berlusconi told German TV.

There speaks a man who's seen the Lake District in July.

4 comments:

  1. But they still love him!

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  2. The notion of the state as an enemy is so ingrained in the Italian psyche it actually helps him to be an idiot. He's either a very clever manipulator or a very lucky fool.

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  3. Even Her Maj finds him annoying.

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  4. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3041288.stm

    I'm not surprised.

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