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2008-04-26 Europe

Italy must be broken up, says Berlusconi's wife

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Posted by Steve White 2008-04-26 00:13|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 See also WAFF.com thread > FREE CORSICA! Looks like some of the Euros are having simil ideas for the EUROZONE, as OBL + ISLAMISTS do as per RUSSIA-CHIN + CENTRAL ASIA = ASIAZONE???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-26 00:21|| 2008-04-26 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 It's worked well for Britain. Now for the return of Greek city-states.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-26 08:49|| 2008-04-26 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Once the EU talks about partitioning England, it will then be Spain, Italy, and Germany...

Every ethnic and regional aspiration will be supported in the end to kill any lingering national identity in order to further the power of the central government.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-26 08:52|| 2008-04-26 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Then the ETA can become a legitimate government like the IRA or Fatah.

I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms and keep it company
I'd like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
"Ah, peace throughout the land"

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-26 09:00|| 2008-04-26 09:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Every ethnic and regional aspiration will be supported in the end to kill any lingering national identity in order to further the power of the central government.

Um, if you break a cup to enhance its various fragments, does the cup still hold water?

Posted by Pappy 2008-04-26 09:48|| 2008-04-26 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 It wasn't a cup, it was a sieve. And it does let liquid pass through more easily.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-26 09:51|| 2008-04-26 09:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Does this mean a return of the Papal State and the Kingdom of the Two Scilies

Posted by Cheadrehead 2008-04-26 11:19|| 2008-04-26 11:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Does this mean a return of the Papal State and the Kingdom of the Two Scilies

Nah, each Sciliy will get its own king.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-04-26 13:21|| 2008-04-26 13:21|| Front Page Top

#9 Fareweill ye banks o Sicily
Fare ye weill ye valley an shaw
There's nae Jock will murn the kyles o ye
Aa the bricht chaumers are eerie

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2008-04-26 13:33|| 2008-04-26 13:33|| Front Page Top

#10 I believe the Papal State exists.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-04-26 16:48|| 2008-04-26 16:48|| Front Page Top

#11 "Italy must be broken up"

They could start by giving the Südtirol and Trieste back to Austria.

Just sayin....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-26 17:09|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-04-26 17:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, Gee. I AM glad she has a say in this.

Reminds me of Hillary, or the Roman Empire, or that TYeeVee show - big brother.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-04-26 17:28|| 2008-04-26 17:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Back to the beginning.

Like planet of the apes.

Posted by anonymous2u 2008-04-26 17:57|| 2008-04-26 17:57|| Front Page Top

#14 "a national pork-eating day to defy Islam"

Thats a start.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-26 21:19|| 2008-04-26 21:19|| Front Page Top

#15 Kinda sounds like Czech and Slovakia.

Of course, the politically correct would say that the Northerners should be proud that their work goes to their lazy cousins in the South.

And God knows that plain-speaking politicians who mean what they say can only be discredited by calling them "coarse and populist". What, you mean they're saying exactly what their constituency thinks? Representative democracy in action, I think I'm getting the vapors...

Posted by gromky 2008-04-26 22:12|| 2008-04-26 22:12|| Front Page Top

#16 Dunno. North is industrial, south is agrarian. Food goes northward, cars go southward. Southerners may seem to be lazy in winter, but northerners will make up for it in summer when they take vacations while southerners toil on their crops.

Posted by twobyfour 2008-04-26 22:41|| 2008-04-26 22:41|| Front Page Top

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