482...More Hating On Hotties

Mara Carfagna is the Italian Equal Opportunities Minister.

In the cabinet.

Big deal politically.

33 years old and a lawyer, she has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006 representing Forza Italia in Salerno.

But she is also a hottie so, of course, the headline in the Telegraph, a proper London, England broadsheet, is not

Italian Prime Minister To Be Escorted By Minister At G8

of course not. Instead the headline is

Silvio Berlusconi picks former topless model Mara Carfagna as G8 escort

Geez, she is a bloody minister of the state, why, why, why is she being hated on? Answer: Because she is hot. Shades of the Shannon Tweed epoch that has unfolded in Ottawa. Get over it folks.

Just because Miss Carfagna is ridiculously hot does not mean that she is any less accomplished.

She is a minister of the state, hello, pay attention please.

BTW, there are many reasons to hate on Miss Carfagna; her looks should not be one of them.

Equality means equality.

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448...July 5th Should Be An International Holiday

History.com's This Day In History reports that "...July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris..."

This should, of course, be a day that is celebrated world wide.

I am surprised that stickman/Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hasn't picked up on this.

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351...I Love Mara Carfagna and Israel

Most things Italian.

Plus I shop kosher.

When it is on sale.

That said, I don't want Canada's democracy to fall into the pattern that Italy had before electoral reform and Silvio Berlusconi's charisma changed the face of their elected houses and Israel has, that being repeated elections that come up with minority government after minority government.

Tom Flanagan, Tory operative and poli sci prof at the University of Calgary writes in today's Globe and Mail that the cycle of minority governments "...could go on for a long time...the NDP winning 20 or 30 seats...Bloc winning 40 or 50, it's almost impossible for either the Liberals or Conservatives to get a majority...there just aren't enough seats in play for either to win 155...for the last five years [government] has been a condominium project of the two big parties."

The one good thing about this Liberal-Conservative, Conservative-Liberal sorta coalition is that it is not, like in the Israel's Knesset, a case of the tail wagging the dog.

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338...Women Aren't Furniture

Flavia Krause-Jackson of Bloomberg News is following Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's visit to Libya's former colonial rulers, Italy.

Colonel Qaddafi met with Equal Opportunities Minister Mara Carfagna and at that meeting he called for a feminist uprising and condemned the Arab World for treating women like “furniture.” “We need a feminist revolution,” Qaddafi said in a speech in Rome last week after the meeting with Miss Carfagna, who Maxim Magazine has in their top 1 of hottest politicians in history.

Sidebar. Not only is Miss Carfagna ridiculously attractive, she is also young, smart and has the highest profile, at least outside of Italy, of any of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's cabinet. Those of you that listen to me on 93.1CKCU are surely aware of the fact that I have had a mad crush on the Honourable Miss Carfagna forever. And a day.

The Libyan leader, who not only talks the talk, he has 40 female bodyguards, demanded to meet her and 700 leading women in Italy on his trip. In his Rome speech he went on to say that in the Arab-speaking Middle East, a woman is “like a piece of furniture that one can change whenever one wants without anyone asking why.”

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