Thanks! And you're pretty erudite and well-written. I mean, Sen. Kerry suggests you army types are all gawking morons too stupid to know to write your names, too retarded to know what you were signing when you entered the recruiting office, and therefore too dumb to know you shouldn't go around killing babies and setting huts on fire. Oh, wait. Maybe he was just having a senior moment, flashing back to his youthful days in the Cambodian army..., or wherever he claimed to be. 
how do you know so much about Italy? The average assburn thinks of the Sopranos, while you actually have a decent grasp on what's going on.
Been there many times, Signor. Love the food, love the scenery. Loathe the people, and they loathe me! Can't say why. I get along brilliantly with Germans and Russians. But not with Italians.
As far as the police and the Carabinieri, they are nothing compared to the donut-eating, couldn't-hack-it-in-the-military-so-I-became-a-retard-cop pigs we have in the states.
Fine, can't argue about the SS attitude and Sargeant Schultz laziness of American cops.
Italia is twice as free as the US, ironically, since we saved them from a dictatorship.
Ehh, believe me, our political system serves us well. Italia could use a jolt of dictatorship now and then to wrap up 40 or 50 of their pointless parties and those caring folk from Western Sicily.
All I'm saying is that the people THINK that the US is the most free nation on earth, when in fact it's not even close. A friend of mine is working in San Francisco right now and when he came back for a visit to Italy, he was appalled at how much our freedom is being trampled on every day...and he works in the homo capital of the US! More and more Americans are choosing to live abroad, and less and less foreigners are coming to the US.
I had the same experience with a friend who lives in Stuttgart. Funny thing is, whenever I'd visit him, he'd spend all his time complaining about the moronic laws and corrupt dogs who run the fat wasteful bureaucracies over there. Not to mention the daily sabotage of police cameras that snap pictures of speeding cars, which costs taxpayers a million euros a year. Shows that there's no such thing as paradise.
This is a good thing, IMO. It lets many Americans see other parts of the world and have a better outlook on the world, while at the same time all the dumbfuck Americans who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground stay right where they are...in their trailer parks.
Yeah, but they're OUR dumbfucks, so let's no be too nasty.
Sometimes I wish we had closed-circuit tv broadcasting so the rest of the world wouldn't see just how much of an idiot our president is. I'm not even talking about his decisions, either...I'm just speaking in general.
Presidential idiocy has caused me humiliation in the past. I'm talking about Signor Bill, sometime in 1999. I was repeatedly cornered by various Europeans across the Continent and even a loudmouth Aussie in Frankfurt, all of whom were asking me why I hate Serbia and want to kill Serbian children and bomb Belgrade on Easter? I was called an imperialist, a terror bomber, and other names that should be reserved for al Qaida.
I had the pleasure of professing that I, too, hated Bill Clinton, and admired Serbia's military confrontation of Islamic albanian terrorists in Kosovo. Which I did. And that I thought our brutal 72 day bombardment of Serbia for no reason was a crime against humanity for which Madaleine Albright and Bill Clinton and Bill Cohen should all stand trial in the Hague...
Been there.
But President Bush, an idiot? For overthrowing Saddam? No apologies, none of the time!
The same goes for the average dumbass who lives in the US and never tries to have an open mind about anything. Keep them there and don't let them migrate to other places...state-sponsored sterilization would be a good decision on their part.
That's all right. They are the toilers, not the decision-makers.
I appreciate your tolerance and I dig your sense of humor. Maybe I was a little overzealous in my criticism...or maybe you really are a dick and just don't care, haha.
This is the only place where I can state my intellectual opinions while pouring spite and vitriol in a violent manner. In other words, I can be a total dick and not feel dumb for it
Jurched
Excellent post. While some of your views may be offensive to some at the beginning, if you dig a little deeper you can see that you really are a cultured man of the world. Bravo.
My problem is kinda the opposite. I get along with a lot of Italians (except for fucking punks), but the Germans really fucking annoy me sometimes. I think it's just the attitude because I'm a really laid back individual and Germans are, well, like Nazis sometimes. Everything must be like THIS, there can be no exception, no deviation. I refuse to subscribe to that theory.
However, you hit the nail on the head with Italian beaurocracy. The politicians here are simply a disgrace...no doubt about it. The Italian people are so fed up with it that they just completely ignore them now...it's quite amusing. They're actually more interested with
our (as in the US) politics than their own because while our politicians may be self-serving hypocrites, they're NOTHING compared to the ridiculousness of politics in Italy.
While there are some annoyances about Italy for me, I can't say that I'm really
disgusted with anything, whereas in the US there are many things that disgust me about how our way of life is. Italy has NO political correctness, and I fucking love that. If you don't like it, that's your problem, in their opinion...and that's fucking awesome. While the US is busy pandering to the Muslim regimes because they have deep pockets, when they should be just letting them kill themselves off, the Italian government doesn't give a fuck. If you are of Arab descent and you are coming through the airport, you're gonna get searched...there's no random bullshit going on here. When I came back through the US a couple of years ago on leave from the AF, I got searched so thoroughly I thought I was gonna get the full-body cavity search. Here I was,
on leave with a military ID getting all but strip searched and Mohammed in front of me was completely let off the hook because it was a
random search and we couldn't use racial profiling or anything like that. Yeah, that makes sense. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck...you better make sure that duck doesn't have a bomb in its shoes. The attitude in Italy is more like, "Oh, you don't like getting profiled because you're Muslim or of Arab descent? Then turn around and go back to your own country." Consequently, we have very little problems with immigrants because the proverbial smack is constantly laid down here. Albanians, north Africans, the works. They know they're on thin fucking ice here. As badass as the US is with all our toys and gadgets, we're ultimately the lap-dog of the Muslim countries as long as they've got their bank accounts in our country. Fuck that and fuck them. Let them kill themselves off. I have no problems with Muslim or Arabic people who come to the US for a better life...it's the people who come to the US and expect us to change our point of views and our way of life to suit them. The sad part about it, though, is that the government does just that to appease them. IMO, a culture who still has the mindset of a society 500 years ago, firmly rooted in a radical relgion and has yet to adapt to the modern practices of free speech and human rights has no place in the modern society. Turkey will never be part of the EU. When the Danish embassy was firebombed, there were Arab women in bhurkas holding signs that read: "FREE SPEECH DOESN'T MEAN OFFENDING PEOPLE". What? Are you fucking stupid? If anything, free speech ENSURES the right to offend whomever you want, as long as their rights aren't trampled on. But this is another debate for another day. The political correctness has got to stop...if the US really wants to be hard line on foreign policy, then don't fuck around and half-ass it. Don't be hard-line on one thing and pussyfoot around everything else. I don't really agree with our foreign policy, but be fair across the board. That means giving the finger to countries who do nothing but cause trouble for you. Don't attack them, just let them starve.
This is my dilemma. I have little bits and pieces from every side for my point of view, so while I may seem very liberal in some aspects, I'm very hard-line conservative on others. I'm for abortion AND the death penalty. I guess I'm just a weird guy.
