Dante’s ‘skinny bitches, well trained and obedient’ corner on the Lebanese Parliamentarian election for the house speaker Beirut Lebanon June 25 2009

'I dreamed of this one here as Lord

and huntsman, pursing the wolf

and the cubs up the mountain

(which blocks the sight of Lucca

from the Pisans).

And skinny bitches, well trained

and obedient; he had out in front

as leaders of the pack Gualandi

with Sismondi and Lanfranchi.

A short run, and the father with

his sons Seemed to grow tired, and

then I thought I saw Long fangs

sunk deep into their sides, ripped

open' Inferno xxxiii

Parliament election for the house speaker in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, June 25, 2009. Lebanese lawmakers overwhelmingly re-elected the pro-Hezbollah parliament speaker Nabih Berri who won 90 votes out of the possible 128-member legislature.
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, casting his ballot
The head of Hezbollah parliamentary bloc Leabnese lawmaker Mohammad Raad, casts his ballot
Lebanese majority leader Saad Hariri, casting his ballot

Walid Jumblatt, the Lebanese Druse leader casting his ballot

She mates with many living souls and shall

yet mate with many more, until the Greyhound

arrives, inflicting painful death on her.

That Hound will never feed on land or pewter,

but find his fare in wisdom, love, and virtue;

his place of birth shall be between feltro and feltro.

He will restore low-lying Italy for which

the maid Camilla died of wounds,

and Nisus, Turnus, and Euryalus.

And he will hunt that beast through every city

until he thrusts her back again to Hell,

for which she was first sent above by envy.