I got back from my visit to Italy on Tuesday night, and boy is my wallet tired. I got to see family members that I had not seen in years. I also got a sneak peak into what America will be like if The Chosen One is allowed to reshape America in his Marxist image. I left on the 17th, the day after Iggy's seeming awakening at the Tea Party rally. I'm not sure if he has continued on the road to recovery - based on what I have heard over the last two days, he has relapsed - but perhaps these highlights of what I found will help him.
Obamacare - Just before we left, we learned that a 42 year old cousin of mine in Switzerland had died of a brain tumor that the doctors "had not caught in time". Last Wednesday, we learned that a 74 year old uncle, after waiting two and a half years, was finally scheduled for prostate surgery yesterday. Is it cancer? Well I'll guess we'll find out . . . eventually; as of Monday night, the hospital had still not called to confirm the surgery. This is after thirty-five years of decorated service as a Carabinieri, a kind of hybrid FBI/state police force at the federal level. Imagine what kind of treatment the little people get under socialized medicine - oh wait, my cousin was one of the little people.
Cap and Trade - Gas was a about 1.30 euros a liter, which with the current exchange rate works out to about $7.25 a gallon. Why so high? Because energy is taxed to hell and back to help pay for the socialist welfare state. That is really what cap and tax is about, only at the level of nations. It is intended to force the redistribution of wealth on a global scale, from the West to the hellholes of the world. In the home where we stayed for most of the time, my uncle uses about eight cords of wood a year to heat the house (a wood stove/fireplace rig that hears hot water). Why not use natural gas for heat? Because second mortgages suck. Oh, since the gas taxes are mostly used to support the welfare state, they use tolls to pay for the roads. The cost of the three-hundred mile trip (of which only about 270 were on the highway) to Florence; $58.00! That's like having to shell out sixty bucks to drive from Providence to Atlantic City - on top of paying over seven dollars for a gallon of case.
Government Workers - Government office workers work six hour days (Wait 'till the Beacon Hill hacks here about that one!), with a schedule of either a six-hour day, or three hours of work, a two-three hour lunch/siesta, followed by three more hours of "work". The local provincial director for a given department makes the determination. Of course there is also the six weeks of vacation and the cushy pensions that follow . . . oh wait, that's pretty much where we are now.
Consumer Prices - We know about energy; how about $2.09 for a 1/2 liter bottle of milk. $2.80 for a two liter bottle of coke? Plus, everyone has to buy bottled water to drink because the water from virtually every municipal water supply smells like a swimming pool.
This is all just the tip of the iceberg from a casual observer. Imagine what lies beneath the surface. I will say that all of those left-wing morons talk about how great things are in Europe, and how we need to do things more like they do are right about one thing; how Europe handles immigration. When I last saw Italy in 1987, it was a country of ethnic Italians, only twenty years removed from the last wave of emigration to America and Canada.
Today, it is a country to which people emigrate. I saw Slavs, Somalis, Eritreans and Pakistanis among others. They work as street vendors, souvenir peddlers, and happily work low-level jobs; just like my parents when they came to America. Also like my parents when they came here, they learned the native language. Not only did they speak Italian for commercial reasons, many of them better than I, they often spoke it amongst themselves. I even heard one group of Pakistanis discussing the play of various Italian soccer teams (OK, that I did have a problem with) in Italian.
It is completely unlike here, where liberals now insist that we Balkanize America rather than adhere to the policy of assimilation that worked so well for over two hundred years, Undoubtedly, that is also how it is in Spain, Germany, France et al. - hell, the French get angry at tourists who don't speak French! Just remember that the next time you see your state's driver's license exams in eighteen different languages paid for with your tax dollars.
Bob, RI
Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Ciao!
Hey folks, I'm currently in Europe getting an edumacation on all the "wonderful" things that we will "enjoy" once Obamunism takes hold. In the mean time, feel free to email me or post comments about any Iggyisms that I miss.
Bob, RI
Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!
Bob, RI
Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!
Friday, April 16, 2010
Iggy You Enlightened Slut
At least that was what one texter to D&C had to say about Iggy on Thursday. There's an old saying that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged; usually metaphorically but sometimes literally. For foolish young liberals like Iggy, it usually occurs during the journey from being single and young, to getting marriage, then having kids, and then buying a house. Iggy only just recently got engaged, but boy, he sure sounded well on his way when he was describing his experience at Thursday's rally.
He raved about how polite, logical, and willing to talk to him the Tea Party folks were - even though he was wearing his Obama t-shirt. He marveled at how they looked and acted like - normal people. The anti-Tea Party folks? Well, he described them as on the fringe, rude, cursing, buffoons trying their best to provoke fights. You can listen to some audio here. The guy demanding that Dick Cheney stop torturing people via satellite probably took the cake. You can see him and his schematics of the evil machine on the second page of the photos posted at WEEI. Iggy then shocked the world when he said he found himself agreeing with some of what the Tea Party folks were saying!
That is truly wonderful, but remember Iggy, you can't be a little bit pregnant. If you truly find yourself believing in the Tea Party cause, then you can not be in favor of anything that The Chosen One is forcing on us; Either you believe in socialism, or you do not. If you want to turn away from Darth Obama and the Dark Side, we welcome you with open arms. However, you must come of your own free will, and your journey must be total, and complete. Good luck!
Bob, RI
Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!
He raved about how polite, logical, and willing to talk to him the Tea Party folks were - even though he was wearing his Obama t-shirt. He marveled at how they looked and acted like - normal people. The anti-Tea Party folks? Well, he described them as on the fringe, rude, cursing, buffoons trying their best to provoke fights. You can listen to some audio here. The guy demanding that Dick Cheney stop torturing people via satellite probably took the cake. You can see him and his schematics of the evil machine on the second page of the photos posted at WEEI. Iggy then shocked the world when he said he found himself agreeing with some of what the Tea Party folks were saying!
That is truly wonderful, but remember Iggy, you can't be a little bit pregnant. If you truly find yourself believing in the Tea Party cause, then you can not be in favor of anything that The Chosen One is forcing on us; Either you believe in socialism, or you do not. If you want to turn away from Darth Obama and the Dark Side, we welcome you with open arms. However, you must come of your own free will, and your journey must be total, and complete. Good luck!
Bob, RI
Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
The Witless Wonder Returns To WEEI.
Our resident iggyot had not given me much material of late, but the boy blunder has been more than amenable over the last couple of days.
When the Tea Party movement first burst onto the scene, the left ignored it. Any reports about it would describe it as small groups of "fringe right-wingers". Forgetting that they no longer controlled ALL of the media, they assumed that the old tactic of not reporting something would work, and that it would simply go away. When that failed, they turned to ridiculing the movement, describing them as irrelevant, sore losers. When that failed, they changed tactics again, demonizing them by calling them racists and homophobes. When that failed, they turned to fabricating stories about the horrible things that they said and did, such as yelling racial and anti-gay slurs, and spitting on Barney Frank. Finally, now that this tactic has failed, the moonbats are planning to undermine the movement by posing as members at rallies and saying and doing obnoxious things.
John and Gerry tried to explain to Iggy that this was coming, but the fraud failed to even acknowledge the possibility. I just can't believe people would do that, he piously claimed. Why would someone want to do that, he whined. Iggy, you moron, not only are they planning on doing it, on the very day that you were denying it, they were publicly stating that they would! In this story, read the quotes from Jason Levin, creator of crashtheteaparty.org.
Levin says they want to exaggerate the group's least appealing qualities, further distance the tea party from mainstream America and damage the public's opinion of them.
"Do I think every member of the tea party is a homophobe, racist or a moron? No, absolutely not," Levin said. "Do I think most of them are homophobes, racists or morons? Absolutely."
"Every time we have someone on camera saying that Barack Obama isn't an American citizen, we want someone sitting next to him saying, 'That's right, he's an alien from outer space!"' Levin said.
Basically, they intend on faking incidents, so that the lamestream media can record and report them - and they are telling us that they are going to do this! Why? because their target audience is the type of brain-dead lemming who will buy it; you know, someone like Iggy. So Iggy. when you and the other dozen or so folks who watch Keith Olbermann see him reporting and raving on these faked incidents, try to remember that they are fake - instead of screaming: Racists! Homophobes!! Bush!!! Cheney!!!! HALIBURTON!!!!!
Not to be outdone, during this morning's show Iggy went off the rails via his Sarah Palin fixation; no, not that kind of fixation, everyone who listens to the show knows how much Iggy hates icky girls. Iggy just could not believe that Sarah had the nerve to fly - ready for this - first class on her trip to attend today's Tea Party in Boston.
He again piously spoke about how he believed that someone claiming to be supportive of a group that was formed to oppose government spending should have flown coach. When John informed him that this was a non sequitur, Iggy actually asked him if he was really that brain dead! (I know, I know, insert your own pot head calling the kettle black joke here.)
Iggy, let me explain the difference, and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon. The Tea Party is an organization that champions fiscal responsibility by THE GOVERNMENT, not private organizations. The Tea Party groups do not force people to give them money, unlike your messiah and his goons in the government who steal our money using prison sentences and asset seizures in the same way that common criminals use guns and knives. Well, almost the same way; common criminals are much more honest about their larcenous intentions than Democrats are.
Do you understand the difference? I ask the question in all seriousness because once again, the truth of the matter is so obvious, that one has to wonder if someone can be as dumb as you appear to be and yet still function in society, or if you are again playing the fraud who knows the truth, but will not admit it for the sake of political expediency.
Bob
Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!
When the Tea Party movement first burst onto the scene, the left ignored it. Any reports about it would describe it as small groups of "fringe right-wingers". Forgetting that they no longer controlled ALL of the media, they assumed that the old tactic of not reporting something would work, and that it would simply go away. When that failed, they turned to ridiculing the movement, describing them as irrelevant, sore losers. When that failed, they changed tactics again, demonizing them by calling them racists and homophobes. When that failed, they turned to fabricating stories about the horrible things that they said and did, such as yelling racial and anti-gay slurs, and spitting on Barney Frank. Finally, now that this tactic has failed, the moonbats are planning to undermine the movement by posing as members at rallies and saying and doing obnoxious things.
John and Gerry tried to explain to Iggy that this was coming, but the fraud failed to even acknowledge the possibility. I just can't believe people would do that, he piously claimed. Why would someone want to do that, he whined. Iggy, you moron, not only are they planning on doing it, on the very day that you were denying it, they were publicly stating that they would! In this story, read the quotes from Jason Levin, creator of crashtheteaparty.org.
Levin says they want to exaggerate the group's least appealing qualities, further distance the tea party from mainstream America and damage the public's opinion of them.
"Do I think every member of the tea party is a homophobe, racist or a moron? No, absolutely not," Levin said. "Do I think most of them are homophobes, racists or morons? Absolutely."
"Every time we have someone on camera saying that Barack Obama isn't an American citizen, we want someone sitting next to him saying, 'That's right, he's an alien from outer space!"' Levin said.
Basically, they intend on faking incidents, so that the lamestream media can record and report them - and they are telling us that they are going to do this! Why? because their target audience is the type of brain-dead lemming who will buy it; you know, someone like Iggy. So Iggy. when you and the other dozen or so folks who watch Keith Olbermann see him reporting and raving on these faked incidents, try to remember that they are fake - instead of screaming: Racists! Homophobes!! Bush!!! Cheney!!!! HALIBURTON!!!!!
Not to be outdone, during this morning's show Iggy went off the rails via his Sarah Palin fixation; no, not that kind of fixation, everyone who listens to the show knows how much Iggy hates icky girls. Iggy just could not believe that Sarah had the nerve to fly - ready for this - first class on her trip to attend today's Tea Party in Boston.
He again piously spoke about how he believed that someone claiming to be supportive of a group that was formed to oppose government spending should have flown coach. When John informed him that this was a non sequitur, Iggy actually asked him if he was really that brain dead! (I know, I know, insert your own pot head calling the kettle black joke here.)
Iggy, let me explain the difference, and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon. The Tea Party is an organization that champions fiscal responsibility by THE GOVERNMENT, not private organizations. The Tea Party groups do not force people to give them money, unlike your messiah and his goons in the government who steal our money using prison sentences and asset seizures in the same way that common criminals use guns and knives. Well, almost the same way; common criminals are much more honest about their larcenous intentions than Democrats are.
Do you understand the difference? I ask the question in all seriousness because once again, the truth of the matter is so obvious, that one has to wonder if someone can be as dumb as you appear to be and yet still function in society, or if you are again playing the fraud who knows the truth, but will not admit it for the sake of political expediency.
Bob
Ceterum , exsisto quietis Iggy!
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