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1 posted on 02/25/2018 9:29:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I’ve only known one mafia member - very much a gentleman, courteous respectful honorable and strictly honest. ( I was a cash customer for strictly legal merchandise, never tried to borrow any money —so can’t vouch for the mafia collection department - but it can’t be any worse than our bankers’ lawyers). 😺😺😺
2 posted on 02/25/2018 9:34:45 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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BBB


3 posted on 02/26/2018 2:26:08 AM PST by thinden
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bkmk


4 posted on 02/26/2018 3:18:26 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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Sicily is overrun by lemon and orange groves. And the shepherds who guard them are mostly petty drug dealers and Mafioso. You can't even park at one of the temples in Sicily without some Mafioso nobody demanding money or your backseat window smashed. Sad, because it is very beautiful and the people are lovely.
5 posted on 02/26/2018 3:56:24 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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academics has focused on weak institutions, predation and the poor state enforcement of property rights, ... and a loss of social capital and public trust in the government which was dominated by a foreign occupation.

The impact of Muslim raiders, raping and pillageing seem to be lost on these so called academics


6 posted on 02/26/2018 7:41:25 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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Interesting, my grandfather had a lemon tree farm in Cefalu, Sicily , just outside Lascari. He sold it to pay for his trip to America around 1920.

Lascari borders the following municipalities: Campofelice di Roccella, Cefalù, Collesano, Gratteri.


8 posted on 02/26/2018 8:51:35 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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Ping!

“Leave the gun. Take the lemons.”


9 posted on 02/26/2018 9:17:29 AM PST by Albion Wilde (WeÂ’re even doing the right thing for them. They just donÂ’t know it yet. --Donald J. Trump)
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