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Space Tycoon
10-16-2006, 05:35 AM
This is taking La Dolce Vita a little too far, dontcha think?


Blow Up: Lawmakers in Coke and Hash Scandal (http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2558524&page=1)


A Satirical Italian TV Show Has Revealed the Startling Extent of Drug Abuse Among Italian Politicians

ROME, Oct. 12, 2006 — Imagine if 15 American congressmen tested positive for using cocaine.

Then another dozen were found to have smoked hash. And then imagine that the evidence came from an experiment by a television show.

Well, it's happened in Italy after a popular TV program that specializes in satire took it to another level.

No strangers to scandal, or backlash, the nation's honorable members of parliament are front-page news again. This time, over drug use and abuse.

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Meathead
10-16-2006, 06:52 AM
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Too funny...

Space Tycoon
10-16-2006, 05:27 PM
The Italians know how to do political scandals. If forced to choose, better a stoner or cokehead than a kiddie-diddler.



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Daltons Chin Dimple
10-17-2006, 11:53 PM
See, the Italian way of life and methods of governance will be completely alien to 90% of the people out there in cyberspace. In Italy, governance is more of a suggestion than a hard rule..... and it is a far better place for it. Try and govern an Italian and you will get precisely nowhere.