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* I agree with Teodor Baconschi when he states that “the post-communist democracy in Romania is false in its premises, fragile in its content and exhausted by exacerbated conflicts”. In a simpler language, I would say that “in this badly made world, shits are the bosses instead of stinking” * It is not easy to be a Jew in Argentina, but it was much more difficult to be a Jew in Romania and in Hungary” . This is how Thomas Abraham began his conference held at the Congress for Identity, at the Reformed University of Budapest. Insul was born in Timisoara in 1946, emigrating with his family in 1948 and settling in Argentina. How does he know how life was in Romania at the time when his people were in power: Ana Pauker, losif Chişinevschi, Leonte Răutu, Gh. Stoica, Ghizela Vass, Gh. Gaston-Marin, Petre Lupu, Al. Nicolski, Alexandru Sencovici, etc.? * John Major, former the prime minister of Great Britain said: “If you want gratitude, raise dogs, don’t enter politics where there is no such thing”. He felt it on his own skin. * The lawyer and memorialist Petre Pandrea wrote in one of his diaries : “Ion Antonescu no longer used to give the report. He treated the king as a mentally retarded teenager, who changed his camaraderie and censored his gestures”. I can imagine the satisfaction with which Mihai arrested him on August 23, 1944 and handed him over to the Russians. * It is said that Winston Churchill, having reached a old age, on a stage to give a speech, was warned by one of his assistants that the slot was unlocked. The old politician did not panic, answering him sternly: “Keep calm, dead birds don’t fall from the nest . “He was spontaneous and had a reply to any observation. *”Laziness is the habit of resting before tiring”. It is an aphorism by the French writer Jules Renard, much admired by a reader who bombards me with quotes. He has grace and humor. * Lest I forget: a glove fits our parliamentarians, not dear ones, but expensive ones. * More and more “analysts” are expressing concern due to the exponential increase in the number of cars polluting Romania’s cities. I offer them a Ceausescu-style solution , but I’m convinced that it doesn’t suit them: the rationalization of gasoline and diesel. I want to see the ministers, parliamentarians, mayors, directors, employers going to work with public transport, bicycles, scooters and on foot, especially since they always tell us that movement means health. * Some sociologists found that the Romanians are in second place in Europe in terms of quarrels between neighbors. The Turks would be in first place, who also have a proverb to this effect: “If it burns you the beard, the neighbors come to light their pipe”. It might be. (Germans don’t argue, but they call the police if the neighbor snores louder or the dog barks during the “quiet hours”) * Although the penalties for those found behind the wheel smelling of alcohol or cannabis have been tightened, their number has not decreased , on the contrary, and the same for road accidents. The explanations of such drivers are sometimes laughable: “I went to my father-in-law’s name day. I didn’t drink more than a glass or two of wine, thin spritz, because I was with my wife and child. It’s true that I ate about a lot of sauerkraut, and maybe that’s why the device turned green. “It’s not easy for me either when I eat sour cabbage and “put it out” with brandy, but I don’t have a car.