Posted on 12/30/2021 8:33:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
The only thing wrong with America is that not enough Italians migrated here.
Buon Natale, I say!
Capra was great.
Good singers too.
No one really cared or thought too much that they were Italian.
But the Mafia came from Italy. Now that’s a serious stain on the fabric of America.
Sometimes I think we shouldn’t have let Italians in, or maybe not even Catholics.
Mr. Potter did.
One of his first hits was his rendition of Charles Gounod's version of "Ave Maria." However, the quality of the recording on Youtube is so poor that I'm not going to link it. In 1950, he scored with Franz Schubert's version of the song.
I was blessed to live in the Napoli area (Pozzuoli) for three years as a “tween.) I love Italians - the culture, the food, the art, the music, the scenery, the way ancient ruins are casually scattered around…
I went back as an adult and was delighted to find it hadn’t changed much. And I could add bellinis and wine to the list of things I loved about Italy.
Well, then, we’d still have the Clintons, but no Antonin Scalia.
That sounds amazing.
My mom’s people are great as long as they stay away from elective office, especially in Italy itself.
Had the US been founded by Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, or the French it would be a very very different place politically.
Nice guy you are. What a piece of shit. Maybe the irish did more harm and should have been banned.
Of course, now we are all just “white people” and those of unmixed origins are fewer and farther between.
Wait, wasn’t this thread about Frank Capra?
It is said that in heaven, you will have an Italian lover, a French cook, a Swiss mechanic, and the English will run everything. In hell, you will have a Swiss lover, an English cook, a French mechanic, and the Italians will run everything.
All I know is I am glad we don't have the 90% tax rate we had before an Irish president reduced it.
I love that joke!
Irish are Catholic. They’d be included too.
Anyhow, you’re quite the snowflake.
“Well, then, we’d still have the Clintons, but no Antonin Scalia.”
Yeah. It’s a mixed bag. Clinton’s wouldn’t have their support perhaps.
It’s just a thought experiment. What if we’d only let Protestants immigrate.
After all, the Founding Fathers had the opportunity to do what you suggest, but they didn't.
“After all, the Founding Fathers had the opportunity to do what you suggest, but they didn’t.”
Where did I suggest that.
I said sometimes I think that, I never said I conclude that, nor do I.
Think about the Eastern European immigration of the late 19th/early 20th. A lot of communists and radicals.
Kind of like people like Omar today. They come here and turn against the country that gave them refuge.
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