Friday, December 23, 2005

Use Cat Shampoo To Wash My Hair

A poem for Crhistmas

The Man With the Blue Guitar

I The man bent over His guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The Day Was green.

They Said, "You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are."

The Man Replied, "Things as They Are
Are changed upon the blue guitar."

And they said then, "But play, you must,
A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,

A tune upon the blue guitar
Of things exactly as they are."

II

I cannot bring a world quite round,
Although I patch it as I can.

I sing a hero's head, large eye
And bearded bronze, but not a man,

Although I patch him as I can
And reach through him almost to man.

If to serenade almost to man
Is to miss, by that, things as they are,

Say that it is the serenade
Of a man that plays a blue guitar.

III

Ah, but to play man number one,
To drive the dagger in his heart,

To lay his brain upon the board
And pick the acrid colors out,

To nail his thought across the door,
Its wings spread wide to rain and snow,

To strike his living hi and ho,
To tick it, tock it, turn it true,

To bang it from a savage blue,
Jangling the metal of the strings...

IV

So that's life, then: things are they are?
It picks its way on the blue guitar.

A million people on one string?
And all their manner in the thing,

And all their manner, right and wrong,
And all their manner, weak and strong?

And that's life, then: things as they are,
This buzzing of the blue guitar.

V

Do not speak to us of the greatness of poetry,
Of the torches wisping in the underground,

Of the structure of vaults upon a point of light.
There are no shadows in our sun,

Day is desire and night is sleep.
There are no shadows anywhere.

The earth, for us, is flat and bare.
There are no shadows. Poetry

Exceeding music must take the place
Of empty heaven and its hymns,

Ourselves in poetry must take their place,
Even in the chattering of your guitar.

VI

A tune beyond us as we are,
Yet nothing changed by the blue guitar;

Ourselves in the tune as if in space,
Yet nothing changed, except the place

Of things as they are and only the place
As you play them, on the blue guitar,

Placed so, beyond the compass of change,
Perceived in a final atmosphere;

For a moment final, in the way
The thinking of art seems final when

The thinking of god is smoky dew.
The tune is space. The blue guitar

Becomes the place of things as they are,
A composing of senses of the guitar.

VII

It is the sun that shares our works.
The moon shares nothing. It is a sea.

When shall I come to say of the sun,
It is a sea; it shares nothing;

The sun no longer shares our works
And the earth is alive with creeping men,

Mechanical beetles never quite warm?
And shall I then stand in the sun, as now

I stand in the moon, and call it good,
The immaculate, the merciful good,

Detached from us, from things as they are?
Not to be part of the sun? To stand

Remote and call it merciful?
The strings are cold on the blue guitar.

VIII

The vivid, florid, turgid sky,
The drenching thunder rolling by,

The morning deluged still by night,
The clouds tumultuously bright

And the feeling heavy in cold chords
Struggling toward impassioned choirs,

Crying among the clouds, enraged
By gold antagonists in air--

I know my lazy, leaden twang
Is like the reason in a storm;

And yet it brings the storm to bear.
I twang it out and leave it there.

IX

And the color, the overcast blue
Of the air, in which the blue guitar

Is a form, described but difficult,
And I am merely a shadow hunched

Above the arrowy, still string,
The maker of a thing yet to be made;

The color like a thought that grows
Out of a mood, the tragic robe

Of the actor, half his gesture, half
His speech, the dress of his meaning, silk

Sodden with his melancholy words,
The weather of his stage, himself.

X

Raise reddest columns. Toll a bell
And clap the hollows full of tin.

Throw papers in the streets, the wills
Of the dead, majestic in their seals.

And the beautiful trombones -- behold
The approach of him whom none believes,

Whom all believe that all believe,
A pagan in a varnished car.

Roll a drum upon the blue guitar.
Lean from the steeple. Cry aloud,

"Here am I, my adversary, that
Confront you, hoo-ing the slick trombones,

Yet with a petty misery
At heart, a petty misery,

Ever the prelude to your end,
The touch that topples men and rock."

XI

Slowly the ivy on the stones
Becomes the stones. Women become

The cities, children become the fields
And men in waves become the sea.

It is the chord that falsifies.
The sea returns upon the men,

The fields entrap the children, brick
Is a weed and all the flies are caught,

Wingless and withered, but living alive.
The discord merely magnified.

Deeper within the belly's dark
Of time, time grows upon the rock.

XII

Tom-tom, c'est moi. The blue guitar
And I are one. The orchestra

Fills the high hall with shuffling men
High as the hall. The whirling noise

Of a multitude dwindles, all said,
To his breath that lies awake at night.

I know that timid breathing. Where
Do I begin and end? And where,

As I strum the thing, do I pick up
That which momentously declares

Itself not to be I and yet
Must be. It could be nothing else.

XIII

The pale intrusions into blue
Are corrupting pallors...ay di mi,

Blue buds of pitchy blooms. Be content --
Expansions, diffusions -- content to be

The unspotted imbecile revery,
The heraldic center of the world

Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins,
The amorist Adjective aflame...

XIV

First one beam, then another, then
A thousand are radiant in the sky.

Each is both star and orb; and day
Is the riches of their atmosphere.

The sea appends its tattery hues.
The shores are banks of muffling mist.

One says a German chandelier --
A candle is enough to light the world.

It makes it clear. Even at noon
It glistens in essential dark.

At night, it lights the fruit and wine,
The book and bread, things as they are,

In a chiaroscuro where
One sits and plays the blue guitar.

XV

Is this picture of Picasso's, this "hoard
Of destructions," a picture of ourselves,

Now, an image of our society?
Do I sit, deformed, a naked egg,

Catching at Good-bye, harvest moon,
Without seeing the harvest or the moon?

Things as they are have been destroyed.
Have I? Am I a man that is dead

At a table on which the food is cold?
Is my thought a memory, not alive?

Is the spot on the floor, there, wine or blood
And whichever it may be, is it mine?

XVI

The earth is not earth but a stone,
Not the mother that held men as they fell

But stone, but like a stone, no: not
The mother, but an oppressor, but like

An oppressor that grudges them their death,
As it grudges the living that they live.

To live in war, to live at war,
To chop the sullen psaltery,

To improve the sewers in Jerusalem,
To electrify the nimbuses--

Place honey on the altars and die,
You lovers that are bitter at heart.

XVII

The person has a mould. But not
Its animal. The angelic ones

Speak of the soul, the mind. It is
An animal. The blue guitar--

On that its claws propound, its fangs
Articulate its desert days.

The blue guitar a mould? That shell?
Well, after all, the north wind blows

A horn, on which its victory
Is a worm composing on a straw.

XVIII

A dream (to call it a dream) in which
I can believe, in face of the object,

A dream no longer a dream, a thing,
Of things as they are, as the blue guitar

After long strumming on certain nights
Gives the touch of the senses, not of the hand,

But the very senses as they touch
The wind-gloss. Or as daylight comes,

Like light in a mirroring of cliffs,
Rising upward from a sea of ex.

XIX

That I may reduce the monster to
Myself, and then may be myself

In face of the monster, be more than part
Of it, more than the monstrous player of

One of its monstrous lutes, not be
Alone, but reduce the monster and be,

Two things, the two together as one,
And play of the monster and of myself,

Or better not of myself at all,
But of that as its intelligence,

Being the lion in the lute
Before the lion locked in stone.

XX

What is there in life except one's ideas.
Good air, good friend, what is there in life?

Is it ideas that I believe?
Good air, my only friend, believe,

Believe would be a brother full
Of love, believe would be a friend

Friendlier than my only friend,
Good air. Poor pale, poor pale guitar...

XXI

A substitute for all the gods:
This self, not that gold self aloft,

Alone, one's shadow magnified,
Lord of the body, looking down,

As now and called most high,
The shadow of Chocorua

In an immenser heaven, aloft,
Alone, lord of the land and lord

Of the men that live in the land, high lord.
One's self and the mountains of one's land,

Without shadows, without magnificence,
The flesh, the bone, the dirt, the stone.

XXII

Poetry is the subject of the poem,
From this the poem issues and

To this returns. Between the two,
Between issue and return, there is

An absence in reality,
Things as they are. Or so we say.

But are these separate? Is it
An absence for the poem, which acquires

Its true appearances there, sun's green,
Cloud's red, earth feeling, sky that thinks?

From these it takes. Perhaps it gives,
In the universal intercourse.

XXIII

A few final solutions, like a duet
With the undertaker: a voice in the clouds,

Another on earth, the one a voice
Of ether, the other smelling of drink.

The voice of ether prevailing, the swell
Of the undertaker's song in the snow

Apostrophizing wreaths, the voice
In the clouds serene and final, next

The grunted breath serene and final,
The imagined and the real, thought

And the truth, Dichtung und Wahrheit, all
Confusion solved, as in a refrain

One keeps on playing year by year,
Concerning the nature of things as they are.

XXIV

A poem like a missal found
In the mud, a missal for that young man,

That scholar hungriest for that book,
The very book, or, less, a page

Or, at the least, a phrase, that phrase,
A hawk of life, that latined phrase:

To know; a missal for brooding-sight.
To meet that hawk's eye and to flinch

Not a the eye but at the joy of it.
I play. But this is what I think.

XXV

He held the world upon his nose
And this-a-way he gave a fling.

His robes and symbols, ai-yi-yi --
And that-a-way he twirled the thing.

Sombre as fir-trees, liquid cats
Moved in the grass without a sound.

They did not know the grass went round.
The cats had cats and the grass turned gray

And the world had worlds, ai, this-a-way:
The grass turned green and the grass turned gray.

And the nose is eternal, that-a-way.
Things as they were, things as they are,

Things as they will be by and by...
A fat thumb beats out ai-yi-yi.

XXVI

The world washed in his imagination,
The world was a shore, whether sound or form

Or light, the relic of farewells,
Rock, of valedictory echoings,

To which his imagination returned,
From which it sped, a bar in space,

Sand heaped in the clouds, giant that fought
Against the murderous alphabet:

The swarm of thoughts, the swarm of dreams
Of inaccessible Utopia.

A mountainous music always seemed
To be falling and to be passing away.

XXVII

It is the sea that whitens the roof.
The sea drifts through the winter air.

It is the sea that the north wind makes.
The sea is in the falling snow.

This gloom is the darkness of the sea.
Geographers and philosophers,

Regard. But for that salty cup,
But for the icicles on the eaves --

The sea is a form of ridicule.
The iceberg settings satirize

The demon that cannot be himself,
That tours to shift the shifting scene.

XXVIII

I am a native in this world
And think in it as a native thinks,

Gesu, not native of a mind
Thinking the thoughts I call my own,

Native, a native in the world
And like a native think in it.

It could not be a mind, the wave
In which the watery grasses flow

And yet are fixed as a photograph,
The wind in which the dead leaves blow.

Here I inhale profounder strength
And as I am, I speak and move

And things are as I think they are
And say they are on the blue guitar.

XXIX

In the cathedral, I sat there, and read,
Alone, a lean Review and said,

"These degustations in the vaults
Oppose the past and the festival.

What is beyond the cathedral, outside,
Balances with nuptial song.

So it is to sit and to balance things
To and to and to the point of still,

To say of one mask it is like,
To say of another it is like,

To know that the balance does not quite rest,
That the mask is strange, however like."

The shapes are wrong and the sounds are false.
The bells are the bellowing of bulls.

Yet Franciscan don was never more
Himself than in this fertile glass.

XXX

From this I shall evolve a man.
This is his essence: the old fantoche

Hanging his shawl upon the wind,
Like something on the stage, puffed out,

His strutting studied through centuries.
At last, in spite of his manner, his eye

A-cock at the cross-piece on a pole
Supporting heavy cables, slung

Through Oxidia, banal suburb,
One-half of all its installments paid.

Dew-dapper clapper-traps, blazing
From crusty stacks above machines.

Ecce, Oxidia is the seed
Dropped out of this amber-ember pod,

Oxidia is the soot of fire,
Oxidia is Olympia.

XXXI

How long and late the pheasant sleeps...
The employer and employee contend,

Combat, compose their droll affair.
The bubbling sun will bubble up,

Spring sparkle and the cock-bird shriek.
The employer and employee will hear

And continue their affair. The shriek
Will rack the thickets. There is no place,

Here, for the lark fixed in the mind,
In the museum of the sky. The cock

Will claw sleep. Mourning is not sun,
It is this posture of the nerves,

As if a blunted player clutched
The nuances of the blue guitar.

It must be this rhapsody or none,
The rhapsody of things as they are.

XXXII

Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark

That it is this or that it is that,
But do not use the rotted names.

How should you walk in that space and know
Nothing of the madness of space,

Nothing of its jocular procreations?
Throw the lights away. Nothing must stand

Between you and the shapes you take
When the crust of shape has been destroyed.

You as you are? You are yourself.
The blue guitar surprises you.

XXXIII

That generation's dream, aviled
In the mud, in Monday's dirty light,

That's it, the only dream they knew,
Time in its final block, not time

To come, a wrangling of two dreams.
Here is the bread of time to come,

Here is its actual stone. The bread
Will be our bread, the stone will be

Our bed and we shall sleep by night.
We shall forget by day, except

The moments when we choose to play
The imagined pine, the imagined jay.

-- by Wallace Stevens

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Wasgij I See 15 Solution

Conflicts of interest - the origins and causes.

Confitto di Interessi

The conflict of interest, including the opposition in Italy is suddenly roared, and that left the government dare not 'face, and' certainly an unacceptable anomaly in a liberal democracy, but it is not 'in a democracy riddled with socialism, party and Catholicism.

Let's see why ': It is said

conflict of interest, when a group, institution, or any other body, has operated in two positions, or even more positions that conflict with their status and function, but even more is to form a power that limits the only three legitimate powers in a democracy, legislative, judicial and executive.
The formation of a power that tends to pollute one of the three legitimate pollutes democracy and irredeemably corrupt. In
American liberal democracy, from its very beginning, it became immediately aware of this danger and took his address to several amendments of the Bill of Rights. It
leaders' that the creation of a monopoly would be dangerous to democracy that does not tolerate monopolies, kings and absolute powers, but also because such a monopoly would control the market, taking its product and destroyed the competition at the expense of the citizen consumer. ALSO
We realized 'that the formation of permanent political parties, these would become the institutional power that would have severely restricted the legitimate powers of government, law and justice.
And so ', in America, killed all monopolies and are a permanent part of permissions (in this regard read my previous post that explains everything), and there are only electoral committees that form and dissolve only for the time of the vote.

Let the Italian situation

The Italian constitution legitimizes the institution of a permanent part, and outrageously, in defiance of democracy, rather than abolish it finances and fight them. These parties
activities in learning, they become de facto fourth illegitimate power according to the canons of Montesquieu, and worse still a legitimate state television and radio for decades and that 'was a monopoly and drive belt of political parties, which over time have become so powerful and pervasive to be covered by most of the media and any other activities 'should be free from economic and political voncoli limited only by what is' prohibited.
This monstrosity 'the absolute worst that exists only in Italy but also France and Germany do not joke, has ended up legitimizing all conflicts of interest, which he calls, masked: strong powers.

I will mention 'only the most obvious, because the list is too long.

1 .- Conflict and illegitimacy 'of the parties that end up affirming the centrality' of parliament, as parliament and the 'occupied by the parties, they degrade the power of the executive, which it is almost clear. 2 .-
invents a constitutional position, the highest among all, with powers almost monarch "the Presidency of the Republic" by giving the defense of the constitutional charter, in true democracy, not bogus, the defense of the Charter and 'entrusted to the Supreme Court, whose members, given the delicacy of their work, are selected from the most senior lawyers, renowned for their sound, are investigated by the Senate, or the room and then voted by a simple majority. The question arises, how does a banker, though of good fame as the President Ciampi, to improvise a constitutional court; 's a mystery. 3 .-
Conflict of interest from the banking system that accepts major banks are closely affected by the political parties, and if MPS 'well known. 4 .-
Conflicts of interest of banks which own or with minimal, co-owner of major national industries, the Fiat, which end up having total control of the stock market that has enabled stock on speculation action of little value but inflated by the financial power to prey the fools. 5 .-
Conflict of industry and finance fields concerned owners of newspapers and television stations that use the "fourth estate" for purposes of information of interest to the group owner. 6 .-
Conflict of interests of the medium, that being, or belt of the parties, or of property and finance industries, betray their democratic function of correct information becoming tools of propaganda and pressure instruments, with great harm to the citizen who is defenseless, because no news organization Alert 'on a national scam cases Cirio, Parmalat and Fiat itself, or the raiders fiananziere the owner of "Republica "Carlo De Benedetti, who was both a champion of conflict of interest: Industrial Olivetti, Financier assault, and the editor of the second group, the national press. 7 .-
Conflict of interest between the Church as a religious institution and its property finance and banking, the more the monopoly of Caritas on immigrants and their legitimacy. In this case I would say and thank goodness, what if the thing was in the hands of some private criminal, or some party, I get the jitters just thinking about it.

I stop here, but I could go on with banks and insurance companies, unions with political parties, banks and finance Coops, and much much more.

There 's some more or some shameless Nescio who dares to criticize the American democracy and mumbling that true democracy' that Italiota?

There 's still some fool who dares to say that the Left was unable to make a law on conflict of interest?

had done was a law ad personam against Berlusconi, but would soon fall under the ax of the Constitutional Court;
various appeals the court should put his hand to all other conflicts, even if part of the court, the law could not step on it.

Somebody will say ', "but the newspapers are years that amplify the conflict of interests of Berlusconi"
Considering their utter lack of credibility, as mentioned above, these journals has always been interested in cashing out money from the state top ministry official, and hoped that making out Bersluconi, could grab the spoils, as it did with the "Ambrosian".
Agnelli and De Benedetti had already prepared the Ticino, as Charles Albert, were used bribery, Olivetti, Alfa Romeo, Lancia etc ... and they had saved Prodi for this purpose, the poor reward them 'how could' when was the government but it Berlusca and 'defended well, and this time the Piedmont took the drum.

Saturday, December 3, 2005

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Bukowsky - the conspiracy theory - dialogue for two voices

interesting trade, I read with due care of course.
and then I propose a further reading:
And if Europe was suffering the pain of old age? Not all old
eventually become wise with age we become more fearful, cowards are believed to have seen it all, the fear of imminent death leads them to hope that solutions to eliminate the time being, the safety must become a must.
had already happened after the reform of Diocletian, they retreated into their new small fields, age and incodardirono, refused military service and trembled in the face rain and weather which damaged the crops, accepted the arrival of all the vandals, and did not protest when their women were raped and enslaved, everything was acceptable but not the fight, death became the ultimate evil and the sooner, Romans death did not matter, it was important only a dignified life.
Arm Arm


course, and 'this too, but this' culture 'and' was, in fact, cultivated for decades, not 'just the result of a random drift that would put civilization' on a siding waiting its extinction. There 's a big difference with the timing of the Satyricon,' cause there are now mass education and information. From the anthropological point of view is your point of view and 'correct, but it is not' possible to think that everything is the result of chance. Someone helped me, and still helps. This is not conspiracy, God forbid, but observation of the details. If we prevail, we should conclude that your review was the fall of Fascism to determine the current structure of the economy and then to replace the man has produced these results. It would be like to agree with Hitler and Mussolini. In reality 'the issue and' more 'complex: the idea that dictatorships have ended up with 900 and' In my opinion, extremely optimistic. The view that the Soviet Union, even in decline, he abandoned his project of universalization, or could not take it objectively forward, requires an analysis compliant with the current hegemonic status. 'Cause if the U.S. won the cold war, they have lost the culture war that, even after the break (who knows') the Soviet Union, continues unabated today. Only after Bush jr. and if he 'gained awareness. The 'export of democracy' and 'according to the correctness (for once used to good end), a return to colonialism, and the end of the principle of noninterference that, facilitated by the contrast between the blocks, and' survived the collapse Soviet. As the Latin culture survived the extinction of the Roman Empire, as the Catholic culture survived the French Revolution (for centuries), the Marxist culture survive the collapse of Marxism. You could write on something.


Dear Rudy, say the same things but we connect to various causes, that's all.
Bukovsky absolutist complottistica comes from a culture, a culture that can only think that everything that happens is the result of a plan designed and built by a man or a small group, this culture of conspiracy and 'always been very much alive in both the socialist world that in the Catholic, the only result that has not always been 'was to explain, just to muddy, lodge and destroy the reality of the evidence.
That 'a fact historically ascertained. The two facts are certain: 1 .-

philosophically universal ideology and world, begin to die when their
penetration and propagation stops, and from that moment recedes
dies.
This is true both for Catholicism and for communism.

2 .- The collapse of the Soviet Union was widely expected by analysts, the
Acelera kolkotz the law of Khrushchev, who was in practice the law of
Diocletian, and their inability to keep pace with the production of goods
scientifically and inventions of the West, the USSR had more to maintain a military
expensive and spend most of their GDP to support
totally abandons the car. I do not think scientifically
the Soviet Union has produced many inventions and innovations. Mostly they lived
well-functioning intelligence thanks to their communist parties in the world; cases
Philby in England and England are examples of strong Labour comunisteggiante.
understood this, thanks to Thatcher and Reagan, the West
increase the level of challenge with the idea of \u200b\u200bmissile defense, the USSR had to spend much more
, and supermarkets with their shelves already half empty, emptied of all
and they were hungry.

These are the facts, then there is some Nescio who has dreamed of the end of dictatorships, fool who believed it.
democracy is not 'u permanent government in nature, and dictatorships are just a form of government.
fails a culture and a form of government, it stands just one that broadly mirrors the first in a form apparently different, the following will be dictatorial form of government.
everyone knows that those dealing with history and civilization.
Arm


Of course I agree in principle, but, while not appreciating the conspiracy, I do not consider it credible that a regime based on conspiracy and lead in this field for nearly a century, had waived its essential being economically incompetent. E 'historically documented that the majority of jubilation and "springs" that have just preceded the fall of the Soviet bloc were really' organized by the KGB, Stasi and their intelligence services national. Some service managers have gone up on television (but not in Italy) to explain how this' has been achieved. Some people regarded as "martyrs" of dissent "undercover agents were discovered, and some who considered themselves experts in the" riots "have still in good health. So, while resisting by every means to intellectual paranoid totalitarian conspiracy, they are still facts whose reading is open to various interpretations. The very presence of Putin to head the new Russia and its 'an example that can not' be explained otherwise: there is 'a continuity' between the USSR and the current Russia, c 'and' a continuity 'between the culture of that time and today's culture, so' as there is 'a continuity' between the parties "social" and the Bolsheviks who were present until the day before yesterday. I think what 'is not the result of chance, or last-ditch effort to survive in the environment Ostillio in when the stock of "culture" and' the same as before. As the Soviet Union is dead, its culture remains dominant in the middle of the world, so 'as happened after the fall of the Roman Empire for almost a thousand years, so' as after the loss of the temporal power of the Catholic Church wielded its hegemony to that this was not incorporated into the Marxist doctrine. These are things that can be explained perfectly with the theory of Furet, but not those above. And this I mean me. If the goal of socialism and 'the creation of a "new man" that thinks collectively, this goal and 'was fully achieved: Regardless of the Soviet collapse. And if that 's true, not' by accident, but the goods' and tenaciously pursued a planned action in time. The claim we are, as always, but on no. Since we agree that both factors may have played a historical, and 'the predominance of either that we see it differently. I'll tell you 'that sometimes I feel rather pleased. :-)
Rudy


agree, but you and 'missed reading the last paragraph of mine.
Arm


No, no and I do not 'have escaped ... and 'only one way to exorcise the future, but I think little by little luck.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Battery Operated Prophyhandpiece

We recreation

Sunday, November 27, 2005

Best Clippers For Bald Men

Goddess Fortuna

Dear friends, I do not know why, but tonight I had a dream, I dream often.
The dream was focused on luck.
This goddess who proceeds blindly, distributing her favors at first that happen either, a real bitch, just the opposite of the Goddess Justice that moves with balance and sword. Then I
and 'came to mind as this account and what affects everyone's life and our destiny.
A few examples:
In 1990, thanks to the policies of 12 years of Reagan and Bush Sr. fall of the Soviet system, is rejected back from Kuwait Husseinm that Saddam wanted to control the oil price to force her to economies around the world and take them by the throat.
As a result the global economy begins to seem the coming of the Phoenix.
Only after we realize that it was based on a big scam, swindling virtual finance.
firms producing goods that had to keep investing in technological innovation, leave the virtuous, and threw in financial speculation. Virtual money that dance from one continent to another but that stop in a few hands in tax havens.
One would have expected that Bush Father rivincesse elections as a logical and Justice would like. But no, he won an unknown ex-hippies who lived as a young man snorting in common and that he was born and grew up in a mess, and we will see that his morals will never change.
This is achieved through a decisive factor in Ross Perot aversion to Bush that he wanted the NAFTA to compensate for the new European economic reality.
Perot founded the Independence Party and captures up to 27% of voting Republican the first time and 19% for the second and gives victory to those two Bozos lucky without merit Bill and Al, a cousin of poisonous and useless that if Gore Vidal changes in the Tuscan hills.
crates swell the surplus look huge and endless.
The Clinton who never did anything because this happen if they get fat and steal undeserved merit.
In Italy there is the olive tree that Prodi enjoys this great fortune.
The money comes, the country should enrich rather charges up to bleed the poor citizen, under the guise of Europe, Europe, and Ciampi accomplice in the choir, but also did the trick, the weekly svatutava Lirette, calling technical adjustments by downloading any additional damage to citizenship, to the benefit of industries and banks fraudulent charlatan.
It was for the change: Bush to the presidency in America and Berlusconi in Italy, and the brave who gave Prodi Honorary degrees to speculators who had grown rich as Soros fueling speculation about a pound in 1990 thanks to good information of Prodi and friends, with Amato that devalues' two shots in the Lirette, the first and the second 35% less, and also had the impudence to withdraw from the savings bank for 12% of the city, a real steal, but they will considered proletarian expropriations. The Prodi
ambush in a place of high prestige and grassissime prebends the EU. What you
combines Lady Luck?
It distracts and comes into his cousin Jella. The cheater
false and speculative virtual economy collapses, Wal Street crosses his third after the first great crisis of 1929, companies cheat collapse:
Enron, Parmalat, Cirio and many others. Immediately
the minds of the Islamic imperialist dreams riding fundamentalism hoping to crown the his dream through the possession of the key Energit, attacked the United States on 11 September.
The virtual economy collapses, the collapse had already begun two years earlier, the real one that had been abandoned to be taken into chestnut. The FIAT
should fail but is saved by a trick of contract lawyers and New Yorkers at the expense of GM, the airlines laid off in order to survive, but happily accepts Aalitalia buried in debt has collapsed as the Cirio and Parmalat.
should take the books in court.
But no, the politicians, the politicians to save huge cost to the state that makes them citizens pay.
The U.S. government is facing a terrible crisis.
Economics in the fall and the war declared Islamic imperialists.
In Italy: economic crisis, inflation Euro; surcharges murderers, Cirio Parmalat collapse, FIAT feared failure, to support the U.S. war against fondametalisti.
In these dire conditions, which averbbero shook people from a weak heart, what happens?
America responds firmly on terror, is tougher laws against gay speculation banks and industries Push the industry to return to his job and that 'the options to have the goods. Recommences employment after gaining 1 million workers who had lost 3,000,000.
Berlusconi of Italy in these terrible conditions, with a budget to the bone bleeding from the left in power (the Amato government in his last days I mention 'more than 10,000 senior executives state that they would continually sabotaged the right-wing government.)
economist with a minister who performs miracles, it keeps the debt-GDP to below 2% such as Maastricht, and recover 700,000 jobs bringing Italy to lowest unemployment rate of all European Union countries excluding Britain, a stuff of miracles! It meets the Afghanistan war - Irkuna as an ally of the United States with heavy costs.
And yes, luck and 'blind o' mischievous and definitely mob.
notice for those who would turn up their noses at this mine, if only someone takes a chance to refute facts and EXCLUSIVELY facts I stated above I suggest you ask the Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times to The Economist, or even that it is not 'some wire Berlusca or Bush, or if you want to write to Milton Friedman at the Chicago university, or even the old liberal Kennedy Kenneth Galbraith.
If someone blinded by hatred and factionalism would blame me if I am not a good answer, otherwise choose the appropriate words.
good start all week.

Monday, November 14, 2005

Lilac Dresses Under $50

The century we are experiencing - what to expect. The final

With the violent population explosion we had to attend these events:
- Western cities besieged by desperate people in the world, this assault has expelled the indigenous peoples that has' moved to places more livable;
- the suburbs have become dens of cavemen and the kingdom of all crime ' to the point that most citizens do not dare 'approach to these areas become off-limits areas;
- the vast majority of people have taken to the coastal strips of land, where the climate and' more gentle at the same time have created desertification in
those areas, transforming them into garbage cans;
- Africa, a continent that was virtually untouched only a hundred years ago (Livingstone reached the headwaters of the Nile at the end of 800, the Lake Victoria where previously there had been none) following growth that has brought 80 million in Africa alone 10,000 years
800 million in just 50 years, not giving them the chance to grow in harmony with environment and resources, with the worst having been attacked colonialism, these people are left without guidance, a prey to their wild and destructive, Africa indeed progressed dispatched to desertification;
- a tsunami a few hundred years ago would have caused hundreds of deaths, now because hundreds of thousands, and of course to blame the government for this (VDV Katrina);
- a train accident would have caused a dozen deaths in the last century, now hundreds
;
- the only annual economic losses due to automobile traffic as half the entire GDP country and killed and wounded as many as did the entire Vietnam War;
- the media who are just behind the scoop at all costs and where only the news of the master and dog that bites the 'good news, combine to create more confusion and destabilization;
- according to statistics every person on earth produces 2 pounds of garbage a day, just multiply by 2 to 7 billion pounds for 365 days and we realize that we are sitting on a huge garbage dump, beautiful souls say that the technology can put this away, but lie, there is no technology that can 'put away;
- this garbage pollutes groundwater and water is scarce everywhere now see everything in the water business the world (whatever 'it says the preacher Celentano);
- technology helps to the extent that the use of sewage treatment plants, putting chemicals for the cleaning of the stool, but these chemicals remain circulating in the body of these drinkers treated water, causing disease for many years that is very expensive to eradicate.

These immense damage caused by population explosion, causing the huge planetary pollution, but the greenish never say that the real cause and 'overpopulation, limt you to rant against government and against the U.S., which would be the infamous case of all evil, do
Kyoto type agreements are useless, they are only good to take out the western industries for the benefit of China and India, Kyoto do not care.
fanatics Imam ecologists denounce us having to propose laws to limit and utopian, saying that if the industry stops, the third world and that 'already died of hunger more quickly. The data
UN in 2000, but I do not think have changed and the conference in Egypt, we know that all the food in the world, annually producing 120 million tonnes of food running at full capacity.
Just try to use a small computer to make this simple:
120 million tonnes to 120 grams 13sima, divide by 7 billion people, split for two meals minimum diaries and then divide by 365 days;
risultao obtained from deducted for a good 40% losses in distribution and preservation, robbery because the man is human and therefore the satraps of the various Third World nations are grabbing everything to sell and buy weapons that will ensure their power, you will realize that we are already hungry.
not be surprised then that will be wars and do not be duped by forgers, liars, stupid sweetbreads lost in the populist slogans and propaganda in the media supported by rotten and corrupt and rotten and corrupt political parties equally.
wars to come will be 'bloody, and people sbraitera' of injustice, but 'wars will be the only solution and even the fatal destiny of the tragedy that we live in this century.

Monday, November 7, 2005

Professional Compact Camera

century we passing through - What we going to face.


to Understand what we going to face this century, We Should Look at Our Past and history. Most of the problems
Began with 2nd World War and the loss of identity, courage, sacrifice and a clear vision of the world and human beings.
On 1950 the entire world’s population was 2 billions and 5 hundred thousand people.
The West World and Western Civilization was still the world of “ the burden of the white man” and were still on colonization with England, France, running colonies around wide world.
The Western Civilization brought every where their organization to create the basic of a future state and Nation, this is mostly true for English nation;
not for France anyway, cause the France always looked for power and control on their colonies.
They opened the privileges and benefits to all;
W.W. gave easy and free opportunity to attend their University and at same time, they provided the third world with all the advanced technology and medicine.
They provided alla around world the penicillin, and all kind of vaccines.
At the time the Islamic population was about seven hundred and fifty millions of people, Africa population about eighty millions, Hinduist about seven hundred millions of people and China no more then Hindia, South America about two hundred and fifty millions.
With medicines the W.W. defeated the epidemics, saving millions of children.
Unfortunately not always good attitude and generosity lead to happiness for all.
The western civilization generosity had had a violent impact on the people settled down on their countries and nations.
During the millenniums every population around earth developed in harmony with numbers of people and lands available for them with the connected resources .
With medicine they grew up impressively.
China, India, Africa, South America, Islam had a violent and uncontrolled demographic explosion :
China grew up to one billion two hundred thousand;
India up to near a billion, probably more if we consider Pakistan with India;
Africa up to eighty hundred millions;
South America near to eighty hundred millions;
Islamic worlds increased their populations to 1 billion 300 millions.
This new cautry government of 3th world had a violent growth of population with dramatic consequence.
The governments of tirth world were not able to control the relation - land available/population settled down -.
Starvation began the huge problem and every attempt to help failed.
Furthermore western civilization gave democracy, and democracy made problem even worst, because their elected governments were not able to handle any kind of problems.
Democracy is a process not a final product .
The western civilization hadn’t this kind of problem.
They already had had the industrial revolution; the suffragettes and the request of the women to take part and share every part of the society, included political power, were met.
Consequently the population of the western civilization decreased and facing the new situation, their liberal governments set up all kind of privileges and benefits for all.
We have now the pressure at western frontiers and border lines;
billions of human beings immigrating Looking for food and better chances.
We have offered them those chances.
We opened our cities to them, and now our cities are into a wilderness; every rule for a civil life is broken;
criminality reigns, gangs and gangsters have pushed out the native people inhabitants of the cities.
What hirony, it recall the clash of civilization during the pioneers era in the USA;
and we play the role of the native american injuns.
We hope they gave us same chance we gave to the native americans:
a piece of land for us only, were to live peacefully according our rules and traditions, even if will be a white men reservation .
This century will be the harder bloodthirsty century of all.
Many wars will come, atomic bombs and chemistry weapons will be used;
and all the people napping and dreaming for everlasting peace,happyness and justice for all, equity,watching tv as crunch potatoes, will get a bitter awakening sooner or later.
Sooner is better.





Il secolo che attraversiamo - cosa ci aspetta.

Per comprendere cosa ci aspetta in questo secolo, bisogna guardare al recente passato e alla storia.
Many problems arise with the end of World War II, with the consequent loss of identity, courage, spirit of sacrifice and the lack of a clear vision of the world and humanity.
At the end of the war, Western civilization was still that of Victorian values \u200b\u200bof altruism and there were colonies of England and France and the authorities.
They took their organization to provide a basis for future third world nations.
But this is more for England than for France, which was only ever interested in its benefits and the power deriving from control Parigicentrico.
The Western world opened its arms to former colonies, gave them all the privileges and the benefits they had gained over the centuries in the face of enormous sacrifices. Granted easy access to their universities and provide third countries the benefits of technology and medical sciences.
penicillin and distributed all types of vaccines and medicines to the world. Unfortunately, not conjugated
generosity with a clear understanding of the consequences, not always bear happiness and prosperity for all. Therefore had a dramatic impact in those countries and districts of the third world with its people.
These peoples, centuries and millennia past, it was adapted on the basis of land available to them and their population numbers.
With medical advances and health care they have exploded dramatically demographically in just 50 years.
In '50 the Arab-Islamic countries had about 750 million people of Africa only 80 million, China 700 and India a little less, South America about 250 million. This spawned a sprawling
to which these people did not have time to adapt. While their governments, which was given to the democracy that they could not manage, the international community created a set of problems that has destabilized and is destabilizing the world.
Democracy and 'an ongoing process and not a finished product.
course for the West was different, it had already had the industrial revolution also had the suffragette movement for the right to vote and women were able to meet their demands for full participation in society. So did
western populations fewer children and the population dwindled rapidly.
governments they launched new social services, benefits and privileges to the new situation is considered as positive the massive immigration with numerous offspring, as having been built with welfare plethoric, with decreasing birth rates, entering into institutional crisis in all service sectors: the overabundance of teachers in school systems, social housing in the suburbs (those type of Corviale Prodi in Rome is preparing to relaunch), pension and social security and all the laborers needed for the operation of a company. In addition fake philanthropists of our time is launched with NGOs throughout the world with earnings and Improvised mediconzoli nabobs by throwing himself in the business of hospitals in the third world to get rich. This would be completely normal if you do not expect the aura of saints and resorted to the easy demagoguery indifferent (Gino Strada is a good example).
As the world changed in the following sequence:
- China, India, Africa, South America, Islamic countries have had a violent population growth as follows: China-
about one billion two hundred million human beings;
- about a billion and India even more if there is associated with Pakistan;
- South America 800 million
- Africa 800 million;
- Countries 1 billion 300 million Muslims.
This exponential growth has had dramatic consequences.
Third World governments have not been able to handle the land-population ratio-available resources resulting in reduced hunger. This is mainly because the West has created parasitic and corrupt organizations like the UN, which finally ended up taking responsibility away from any government which delegates all the solutions to this Moloch heavy impotence.
The West has opened its arms to third world immigration and allowing easy access to all benefits and privileges - gifts for them now become a sacred right. The West
giving up old nationalities and nationality, opened the doors of its cities, and now these same cities are held hostage by criminal gangs and religious fanaticism became wild jungles.
Abolish the rules, violence and crime reign supreme.
Our borders are crowded with people who are pressing to go in search of food and better opportunities.
This will result in 'a century of the most bloodthirsty.
Many wars are, there will be much pain and much blood will be spilled. It 'better than the beautiful souls, dormant in their dreams and illusions of happiness, equality, justice and peace for all, wake up. It will be a bitter awakening.

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Sample Letters To Welcome Future In Laws

church and state in USA

activist judges and constitutions with and without soul.

U.S. Inglese

seems to be very popular lately, quibble about the concepts of church and state which are incorporated in the constitutions or not sono.Il layman, and even when 'caught is a fundamental error I think, speaks of constitutions, quotes great thinkers, making models to perfect coffee table, but everything does except that reflect those models are without heart and 'soul because it does not cater to the man and really like it'. Tocqueville wrote very well explain the "Democracy in America" \u200b\u200band Giovanni Sartori could lead a seminar took on this, but would do the same thing as an engineer designing a bridge or a skyscraper does not consider the man who will use that bridge or that live in that grattacielo.Il liberal secular European conceives a child of the French Revolution been an enemy of the church which is still limited, and attacked, it seems an eternal continuation of the French Revolution.

In America things are different. The Constitution American focuses on "man" and considers him also for his miseries and his few nobility. You may not have read Tocqueville and even those who ignore it, but if you read the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights which states:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free worship, or to restrict freedom of speech or the press or the right of citizens to assemble peacefully ed'inoltrare petition the Government for a redress of grievances. "

This' is necessary to understand the necessity of religion for man and for democracy. The guardians of these concepts are the constitutional judges, guardians of the Constitution and our civilization. Contrary to what one says today, the Founding Fathers did not want to keep God out of politics, on the contrary they wanted to avoid that politics interfere with religion. That and 'exactly the opposite of what is affirmed in turn. That article prohibits the imposition of a state religion, but obliges the state not to restrict the right of citizens to profess their religion.

There are judges like the one that exposed his Alabama courthouse the Ten Commandments. I reacted infuriated secularists and the Supreme Court requires the court to remove the plates, which are now on display in front of the building on land that is not state property. One of the most important supporters of the thesis mentioned above and 'Judge McConnell, considered a genius among lawyers. McConnell is the main proponent of this thesis and the original meaning of the Constitution. Applied in a complex world where it is often difficult to distinguish public from a religious activity, this means one thing: the State should not be "separated" from the churches, rather should be "neutral." If the policy requires the separation of church and state, between government and religion, ends up creating a society that discriminates against believers and restricts the right to citizenship of those who are religious. Thesis confirmed in a book just published by Noah Feldman entitled "Divided by God - America's Church - State Problem and What We Should do about it." McConnell argues that religion is a real problem in modern democracies, because the believers have a dual loyalty, to God and country, and sometimes this dual loyalty conflicts. That's why Thomas Jefferson made the case for a "wall of separation between church and state." According to McConnell, the thesis of the "Separation laity" but it is dangerous to religious freedom, inevitably leads to discrimination because of religion and punishment of those who want to exercise their constitutional right. Why, for example, public buildings can be used by anyone who requests it, but not by religious organizations? "Whenever the secular point of view is allowed - McConnell says - should be allowed on the same basis also the religious point of view."

Jefferson's thesis on "separation" between church and state is invoked by the laity as proof of liberal secularism of the American Constitution. The fact is that Jefferson did not write the Constitution, he wrote the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson did not attend the sessions of the Constitutional Convention because in those years, from 1786 to 1789, he lived in Paris where he held the post of U.S. ambassador. But the judges "activists" with and to interpret the intent of the law, constitution and ousted legitimately elected parliaments, do not give up. The phrase "wall of separation" is not in the fundamental law, indeed the first to coniarla was the founder of Rhode Island about 150 years before Jefferson and, moreover, with a meaning opposite to what is given today. According to Roger Williams, in fact, the "separation wall" was erected to protect the "garden" of religion from the "bush" of the temporal government, not the other way. The U.S. constitutional history confirms this. On 25 September 1789, in the exact same day that the Founding Fathers of the United States approved the first amendment on religious freedom, the same people that give America that formidable text, also voted for a motion to ask the president George Washington proclaimed a national holiday of Thanksgiving to Almighty God that nothing less. A few days after Washington declared itself in favor. Nine years later, President John Adams wanted to impose a day of fasting and prayer to God Jefferson was opposed, but his successor, James Madison, in 1815, decided that Thanksgiving Day oggi.Come know that you can see, things are not just as we think in Italy and Europe. You can not say you want to ensure freedom for all and at the same time discriminating against the Church and its faithful. Religion and 'the man, and' insita ne suo essere, così come lo era per la religione di stato "il comunismo marxista". Pertanto, se discrimini Dio, discrimini l'uomo.





It seems trendy lately dispute about the state and church, even if this principle is in a constitution or not.The cultured Loik is basically wrong according to me.The Doctrinally loik talk about constitutions, quote great intellectuals, design perfect models on the table, maybe burning midnight oil.They consider every little detail as in a chess game, but not the human Being, not the man.Their constitutional models are heartless and soulless.They do not put the man to the center of their design and do not consider as the human being really is.
Tocqueville wrote well and clear with his "America's democracy" and Professor Giovanni Sartori could lead an excellent seminar, but they do same work as an engineer does projecting a bridge or a skyscraper:Do not consider the man that will use the bridge or dwell in the skyscraper.The European liberal loik is a son of the French revolution, he can think only about a state enemy of the church; the church has to be fought and attacked always and anyway as an everlasting extension and continuation of the French revolution.The American Bill of rights, differently from every other written constitution (the English constitution is not even written, it's root is in the magna Charta and tradition), has the human being as center of it with his misery and nobles.We don't need read Tocqueville, we can ignore who he was, it's clear enough read the first amendment of the Bill of Rights:Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.The nine Judges of the supreme court are he guardians of the American bill of rights and our civilization.
Contrary of nowadays opinions, The fathers of the Bill of rights did not want take God out of the politics, they did want avoid the politic could interfere with religion.That is exactly the opposite of what liberal loiks are spreading around.The first amendment prohibit the institution of a state's religion and compel the state do not threshold the right of the citizens to profess their own religion.An Alabama judge exposed the ten commandments in his court room, the liberal loiks reacted with anger and supreme court ordered to remove the tablets from the state building and now the stonetablets are exposed outside on the front of the court building.
One of the stronger defender of the original first amendment meaning is the Judge Michael McConnel, is directed of high respect among the scholars, a genius.
McConnel says - the application of this principle in a complicate world is hard to detect a public activity from religious, that means one thing only: the state must not be separated from the church, the state must be "neutral." If the politics order and impose the separation of the state and church, of the government and religion, it create a society discriminating the believers and limits the citizen's right of who is religious.The thesis is confirmed by Noah Feldman with his book "Divided by God - America's Church * State problem and what we should do about it."McConnel affirm the religion is a real problem fro the modern democracy because the believers have double allegiance and loyalty, to God and to the State, and sometime this double loyalty is conflictual.
That explain Thomas Jefferson and his point of a separation wall between state and church.McConnell affirm the thesis of the loiks separationist is risky for the religion freedom because it lead necessarily to the discrimination of the religion and punishment the believers and his constitutional rights.
What the reason, as an example, the public buildings can be used by anyone requests but religious organizations? " every time the loik point of view is allowed - affirm McConnell - it must be consent on the same base also the religious point of view."
The Jefferson Thesis is called by the liberal loiks to proof the laicism of American constitution.Jefferson did not write the constitution, he wrote the declaration of independence.Jefferson dit not participate to the constitutional convention.During those years, 1786-1789, he was in Paris as ambassador of the United States.Activist Judges never give up trying to interpreted the law and constitution so they want make law in spite the the legitimacy of the elected representatives.
The Phrase "wall of separation" do not exist in the bill of rights, it was used 150 years earlier by the Rhode Island founder with a different meaning. According to Roger Williams, the "separation wall" was built to protect "the garden" of the religion from the underbrush of the government, not as the liberals cry out.The American history give the proof.The Sept 25th 1789, the same day the first amendment was approved, the same persons that gave this great text to the America, carried and voted a motion to ask the president Washington to proclaim a national holiday for Thank the almighty God.Days later Washington agreed.Nine year later John Adams imposed a day for fast and prayer.Jefferson opposed, Established next president James Madison (1815) the Our Thanksgiving Day.Things are different as the common thought in Italy and Europe.We can not give liberty for all and discriminated against the church and believers. Religion is part of man, is inside the human being as It Was for the religion was "communism Marxism." We
discriminated against God, we discriminated against the man.

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Government No Salt Diet

Lesson two: Conventions, primaries, political parties and selection of its leaders in the U.S..

The Library of Congress The fashion of the primaries in Italy, suddenly sort cloning (bad) U.S. urges me to clarify how the "American system". American democracy and 'democracy of the people, it selects the ruling class from below. It 's a federal democracy with all sovereign states that have delegated the federal government for the common defense and coin money and therefore the economic leadership. The Presidency can 'send troops around the world, but not in a state of the federation, would be a coup that would put the president under impeachment. Each state elects its parliament and its government, its courts, its police chiefs, sheriffs her. The states finally elect the electors who choose the president of all the states, that 'the federal government. Not like in Europe it is believed that the president is elected by plebiscite vote in every state, 'cause if that were true, this de-legitimize the freedom' and autonomy of each state of the federation, and this' would be unconstitutional. In your country at the time of elected Parliament and the Governor, the parties are mainly two: the Republican Party or GOP Elephant (Great Old Party), and the Democrat, the party of the donkey. In some states, there are other parties, the independence movement, ecologists, and the Communist Party, the Labour Working Class, which usually supports Democrats. These parties are "light", 'cause you reorganize only at local or national elections (in this case are federations of local parties in Italy), and dissolve immediately after the elections. In fact for president, the conventions, you vote for delegates attending the convention and the final will elect the party's candidate for the final race; in america, I have already 'explained, more' parties that there are electoral committees. The Republicans are using the majority system where winner takes all, while Democrats use a proportional system with which many allocate delegates in proportion to votes received. In order to vote you must be registered, you do so at public offices, courts, police stations and town halls, presenting a valid identification and register for a party.

Why 'this happens:
A party that should always be present and make the political struggle full-time, 365 days a year, would cost the wrath of God, and they can not be subsidized by the states and the federal government, do not would make, and make it become a element of corruption continues in all areas, donors, media, supported by false assumptions for non-existent jobs in all fields (for example in Italy the first party funding and 'the RAI that only a few years ago had more than 13,000 employees' those of businesses living and production of collaborative programs, which are all persons under effective political parties), because 'should be used to finance covert and illegal and the criminal justice more effective and that it is ready, fill the jails of members politici.La second most important reason is that American democracy is based on a clear separation of three powers and down of any monopoly, both financial and production 'cause that would limit the power of three legitimate powers, executive, legislative, judicial, or rather would have an institutional conflict. The same would be if a party or constituted under state or federal basis in permanently, so 'would ultimately be up and become a fourth estate unlawful and unconstitutional. The selection of political leaders is this: when you re-elect the state legislature (eg, Texas) the parties shall meet in a place where all the registered party to agree that (convention).
This Convention shall assist and listen to the program of competitors to become the leaders of the various competitors, after which you vote, and whoever gets the most 'votes becomes the only competitor for the position that will challenge 'the rival party opponent. Then there is the convention which lasts a few days, then the vote and the result selected. You may experience various conventions that select the various local candidates, until the end of the state convention that designates the last candidate and this is called "primary", meaning 'the first selection or skimming among the various competitors. The same is true on a national scale when you must 'choose the past two participating in the presidential race. I do not think these things you read in Italian by reading corrirspondenti use.