Sallis' Law and Other News

In der news. In all cases, emphasis added.

Amren writes about Italy, so....

JackKrak

OT, I know, any mention of Italian politics always makes me think how we sacrificed so many men there in the war to free a people who, then and now, regularly give about 10-12% of their votes to Communists. Not delusional, Bernie-type leftists, but actual, hard-line Communists.

Tim  JackKrak 

My Dad was there for the invasion of Sicily. And more... As the campaign was winding down his troop ship was converted to a POW one for the voyage back home. So he found a Prisoner who spoke passable English, and gave him his parole and seven dollars, telling him to go find vino and some black shoe polish, on his strict promise to return within the hour. Fifty five minutes later, the POW reappeared at the gang plank as promised, with a basket of Chianti, a shoe shine boy, the shoe shine boy`s big sister and five more POW`s...

Rich at Large 

It seems that Italy's government is always collapsing in any given year. It's part of the "charm" of Italy.

Other news:

Johnson:  Trump is a man of genuine greatness.

Sallis: Trump is a vulgar ignorant buffoon.

The latest:

Two days after he said buying Greenland wasn't a top priority, President Donald Trump canceled an upcoming trip to Denmark, which owns the mostly frozen island, after its prime minister dismissed the idea.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen had called Trump's musing about buying the Danish territory "an absurd discussion" after the former real estate mogul-turned-president began to talk up the idea.

Trump said Sunday that he was interested in such a deal for strategic purposes, but said a purchase was not a priority at this time. "It's not No. 1 on the burner," he told reporters.

Trump even joked about his proposal as it came in for ridicule, tweeting a doctored photo of a glistening Trump skyscraper looming over a small village in the Arctic territory.

"I promise not to do this to Greenland," he joked Monday.

But on Tuesday, Trump abruptly canceled the visit, also by tweet.

One can imagine a tweet that would be Peak Trump. For example:

We are buying Greenland as a strategic base to defend Israel! I will appoint A$AP Rocky as Governor General!

The sad thing is that would be a perfectly plausible Trump tweet.