Friday, April 17, 2009

Used Go Kart For Sale

Prodi

Se un tempo Bologna era considerata il laboratorio della sinistra nazionale, dove si scavavano le fondamenta per il futuro, oggi la città has dropped to the back room. The return of the Union, complete with the appearance of Romano Prodi at the convention of Delbono two days ago, shows that the future of the Democratic Party in Bologna is hidden in the past, experiences already tried and failed to tell the truth. Eventually the professor Mantua gray, perfect for a city turned in on itself and just graying, has not found something better to redo the old crowded.

course, the numbers are on his side. And we were easy prophets at the time of the investiture of Delbono to predict the outcome it has come from a few hours. Bologna is a symbol for the old Communist Party, and losing it would mean the final shipwreck. Remaking the Union, therefore, it guarantees the immediate result (maybe). But the knot is just that: the political horizon of an entire ruling class of what is left by the former Christian Democrat UDC looking at between PRC and the Greens just can not go beyond June 8, 2009 .

To use a language of sports journalists you want to win but not convincing. In the sense that the true goal is to win back the seats that count and not to get out of hand the management of power, knowing that when you start to grow back administer those frictions and the ideological distance that will result in the inaction of local government. He's right Filippo Berselli, coordinator Regional PDL, when he speaks of "deja vu".

But here's something else at stake that the defeat of the center. We have a city that is about to end in the hands of those who present themselves with the physique du role of the undertaker, who already knows who will take their time to mediate, explain, pull to the jacket one or another ally. Everything but steer and plunge headlong to pull out of the city from the shadow that has sunk some time. The Union is the perfect coalition to accelerate, rather than to reduce the degradation of Bologna. And Delbono, without political charisma and unable to transmit optimism, it is the right person to perform the task.

Si può contrastare questa prospettiva? Intanto ciò che sta maturando all’interno del Pd sul piano nazionale potrebbe portare a conseguenze imprevedibili anche in periferia. Se le elezioni europee finiranno male, come molti segnali indicano, si dà per scontata la rottura definitiva fra ex-Ds e ex-Margherita. Rottura che difficilmente potrà riflettersi sull’esito della consulatazione elettorale bolognese, è vero, bensì sulla tenuta della coalizione subito dopo, con rischi consistenti di implosione. Oppure c’è il rischio più grave per Delbono: quello di non vincere al primo turno. Se il vicepresidente della Regione non porta la rinata Unione immediatamente alla vittoria, dovendo ricorrere al “secondo tempo”, the snowball effect will be uncontrollable.

course, a combined center would help a lot to reach the goal. Instead it is split between two strong candidates as Cazzola and Guazzaloca, whose presence in the newspapers and the media in general is almost entirely monopolized by unnecessary controversies that do not help to erode mutual consent Delbono.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Fireplace Damper Operation

Earthquakes and original sin

There is a deep question that is also revealed in cases such as the earthquake Aquila. It is the fact that our society has lost two concepts that are familiar with, however, in our opinion would be decisive also in social and political, that of providence and that of original sin.
Three centuries of
rosseauvismo led us to think that nature and humans are fundamentally good and perfect in itself. Our company was corrupt only selfishness of private property and religious superstition.
are things you do not say more, and even makes you more aware of thinking, but the dominant cultural facilities in our Western society, even today, are based on this paradigm.

One of the most pernicious side effects of this (along with that famous, progressive, identification of right with the desire of which we have already spoken
other times) is that now people can no longer cope with a tragic event of their own or others' existence, without immediately going to try those responsible.

Apart from the earthquakes, we all know by now that most of the hospital doctors, even good ones, in the course of his career are at least three to four cases on the rump. E 'became inevitable, as soon as some of their patient who had died less than eighty years, the family lawyer should be even before it went by the funeral home.

Then, I agree, no one says that science and technology should not investigate, seek, and that there should be incentives for individual responsibility, etc. .. and this also in the prevention of earthquakes. But

should be a different cultural system, partly because the so-called "scientists" are now almost all "tecnoscienziati, doing research only to the extent financed or financed, so they must always deal with practical needs. It 's a reality that can not be liked, and you may regret what you want the systems based on public funding (something they know our carers and our Ukrainian builders Albanians, more often, they all graduated from their beautiful show).
But the fact remains that our Western society has progressed well, and without the knowledge of this system could not go forward.

Leaving aside the characters to the Labor, perennial search advertising, which are also in the scientific world, by now should be made clear that research on the predictability of earthquakes has very poor economic compatibility, since the real problem is what if anything to get their homes in safety.

The Japanese and Californians have managed it better than us, but in their case should take into account the pressing needs of a much higher seismicity, which over time has forced them to many more restorations. They do not have to deal with urbanization static stretching back centuries ago.

I will always remember the expression on the face of that fellow Japanese visitors, who look in front of a basilica in Bologna I repeated "but, is it old?" . As well as that of an American student, with whom I was struggling to pass the notion that those Roman walls that date back before we were the fourth and the fourteenth century.
The Japanese built the houses with walls made of wood and paper for their innate sense of insecurity, and that attitude has helped them in keeping abreast of seismic criteria.
But we build in reinforced concrete and masonry, when just can not build in stone, because we assume that a house is forever.

E 'therefore inevitable that, after an earthquake, there are those who try to strike up controversy over the lack building security. It 's normal that, in cases like this, especially on the left, there are those who is angry with the lack of control and funding from the State and Local Government: the earthquake is a natural event such as rain, and when it comes the rain ... the thief who is to blame?

At least, it is to breathe a sigh of relief that this disaster has taken place during the Prodi government. Otherwise we would be doing at this time deal with the new surcharge on Abruzzo earthquake, which in turn would have been attached to the fee for disposing of rubbish in Naples by 2011.
But other than that, since - if you want to stay on a level of reality - it is unthinkable that the fine paghi sempre Pantalone, avete mai visto come diventano selvagge le assemblee di condominio, quando arriva l'amministratore a dire che ci sarebbe da andare in tasca per mettere a norma l'impianto elettrico oppure per smaltire l'amianto del tetto?

Ecco, sommessamente domandiamo, ma la gente a queste cose ci pensa, quando scende al bar, apre la Repubblica , e poi comincia a polemizzare sulla incapacità di fare prevenzione dei terremoti?

Friday, April 3, 2009

2003 Honda Pilot License Plate Bracket

But the gnawing dell'Arci retirees (and Senator Guzzanti ...)


Dedicato a tutti compagni di oggi e di ieri - che tanto sono sempre gli stessi - ecco qui lo spottone di Silvio che, come un imperatore al Colosseo, ostende il pollice recto assieme all'abbronzato mr. And Russian President Medvedev. In the picture gallery of un'imbarazzatissima Republic there is also a step in which Obama is just repeating the same gesture. But he could draw on more than Fonzie, which also was his sponsor election.


Our amarcord election of Bologna - with a little 'sound of the bell tower, still not resigned to a very different emphasis Ferrara of the liquidator of the largest Italian institution useless - it still has image old pensioners sitting outside the circle Arci. With a double chin coming out from the neck of his shirt unbuttoned taken Pitch , speaking loudly because sentissero tutti i compagni e anche gli avventori causali, loro sì che ci spiegavano la pulettica con la prosopopea di chi veniva da lontano, e andava solo in autobus con l'abbonamento a prezzo politico.


"Finalmente con Prodi avremo uno che ci potrà rappresentare all'estero, che sa parlare bene l'inglese, mica come quello là ...".