al caffone calling the elections 'murky' was classic!!

what do do......IT'S THE ENERGY, STUPID!

italy is way behind on the EU's demands that countries become more energy self-sufficient. i find the nickname 'diesel' for 'il professore' very telling, since there is a biodiesel factory 10 miles from here that is silent and unproductive, while germany cruises ahead brilliantly in this regard.

the '10,000 tetti' (rooves) initiative to put solar panels on houses is similarly stalled and has been for years...

why only ten K? paltry and symbolic at best!

i remember burly saying on tv a few weeks ago that in return for top dibs on libya's gas he had chosen to agree to gaddhaffi's demand to build for him a coastal autostrada from one end of the country to the other.....wtf?

like he can't afford it himself???

and italy can???

let me guess.....road construction companies=mafia=kickbacks....

watched d'alema and tramonti duke it out with impeccable civility with bruno vespa on porta a porta last night.

tremonti is full of koolaid, but at least is very intelligent and well-spoken, cute lisp and all!

i like d'alema more and more. his neapolitan roots speak well to me, half neapolitan that i am.

i think rutelli will mature with time and become less vain; he has a bright mind.

perhaps veltroni will step up to doing as well on the national scene as he has done with rome, management-wise.

as for taxes....i'll believe it when the 'declared price' while selling or buying property here moves even marginally closer to the real selling price....

i think i would have barfed blood if i had had to see burlesquoni crowing victory.

good riddance to him and the horse he rode in on, and all the ratfucks that ripped off the country and trumpeted racism on his coat-tails these last years.

there's a spring wind blowing, and hopefully the magistrature will finally be able to do their job.

whether prodi will ever clean up the endemic corruption on every level of local administration in this blessed but tragic country, remains to be seen.

i wish him all the luck in the world....

first off: follow spain and germany's lead in pursuing ALL forms of sustainable energy, ALL STOPS OUT!!!

GO MASSIVE... instead of paying farmers to grow tobacco, pay them to produce electricity for a start...

santo cielo!

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty