To: nickcarraway
Ive 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 cant vouch for the mafia collection department - but it cant 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))
To: nickcarraway
3 posted on
02/26/2018 2:26:08 AM PST by
thinden
To: nickcarraway
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)
To: nickcarraway
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.
To: nickcarraway
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
To: nickcarraway
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
To: dp0622; Prov1322
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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