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  For a good look inside the strange mind of Il Cavaliere, click here.

  Eh, Silvio, quando crescera’?

  Posted by rocco on Mar 31, 2006 at 10:29 PM

  “It was moving”, said the Man. Yeah, so were the Nuremburg Rallies. Hats off to Jim McDermott for doing a runner.

  Rocco thanks for the horrible videoclip. Nothing would ever , EVER, surprise me about that creep .

  I googled the film “VIVA ZAPATERO ! “, and found nothing your side of the moat ?

  Came out here in france 21dec, but not in mainstream.  Saw it a coupla weeks ago here in farwest normandy province , and impressed. Very funny, & moving.

  I tried for a trailer, but yahoo was down.

  Posted by frog on Apr 3, 2006 at 1:59 PM

  <yawn>

  The title of this article should have read,

  Head of Stage
  Berlusconi uses members of Congress as props in his bid for re-election
  inthesetimes.com fooled into thinking this is news and fills in slow news day

  Posted by Jay Cline on Apr 4, 2006 at 10:03 AM

  Maybe not action-packed enough for you, jay, but I found it revealing of a bunch of dummies applauding on cue.

  Posted by frog on Apr 4, 2006 at 10:37 AM

  Yes, but what is so new about that?

  Posted by Jay Cline on Apr 4, 2006 at 2:23 PM

  Well Jay , it amused me, “when we stood up for one of the “applauses”, liked the phrase !
  Also berlusconi is closer to home for me, have italian friends, watch the neo-fascists down there with a certain interest
  Also wondered if you all had heard of the film I saw.

  Sure nothing new about dummies, they’re looking more and more alike across the world, same globalista ideas, same bullshit.

  Posted by frog on Apr 4, 2006 at 3:29 PM

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  Posted by brian28 on Apr 7, 2006 at 9:46 PM

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