Please quit the primitive behaviour

How low can the PN go? They send a letter wishing a happy birthday, and in the same sentence say that on his birthday he should send a donation to Simon Busuttil’s political party.
That party’s finished, it’s the lowest they could ever go.

PN Meeting Naxxar

Austin Gatt – a totally incompetent Minister for I.T.

How shameful. The Minister responsible for (wait for it!)….  Information Technology doesn’t know that the date of an email changes according to the regional settings of the operating system of the computer it is printed from!

Put more simply, I can copy my emails from my computer, put them on a pen drive, or hard-disk or whatever. Travel to China and find a computer using Windows in Chinese. When I’d print that email the body of the email will remain in its original language but the date would show up in Chinese. Even if that email is dated 2004 (or 1998 or whatever).
And about the ‘Ġ’. Honestly Mr. Minister… if you squint a bit you might see the dot above the letter. Granted the photograph is very noisy and of low quality, but the dot is there.

Compare the ‘G’ in ‘George’ and the one in ‘Ġunju’ in the images below and it becomes very clear.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gonzi and Simon Busuttil – PN’s Freedom of Speech

Incredible. I don’t know this page or whether its creator sympathises with the PL or not, but come on please. Why report pages on facebook just because they might favour some political party? Nice “Christian Democratic” example (sic).

______________________________________________________________________

It’s PL.

Report it to Facebook.

Let’s take it down.

 

PM of Malta Lawrence Gonzi 5 days before the Arab Spring

Not much of a choice isn’t it?

Ara biex qed jippruvaw ifottu.

 

GonziPN on mychoice.pn or whatever. As if anybody would click on that website.

Unbelievable.

They’ve put an advert on FACEBOOK.

 

Of all places. I wish the “sahhara tal-Bidnija” saw this. Probably she did, but she had no choice except to ignore it. Heqq, m’hix ser iddardar l-ilma li tixrob minnu! U tghidx m’hix ser taqa’ fil-bassezzi li tikkwota l-facebook?!? She only prayed vehemently to her hoofed god to let it all pass by without anyone noticing!

 

Il-hasra li l-Gvern stess ta’ GonziPN qed jitfa’ dan ir-racanc. Mhux talli qed jitfghu fuq facebook imma talli qed ihallas lill-istess facebook biex jippublikah bhala advert.

 

 

U leeeeeeeee………. tal-biki!!!!!!!!!

Plagiarising an author’s “shades of grey”. And paying FACEBOOK for an advert for GonziPN?

And justifying it by photoshopping a tie in a blue colour. Who is paying for this advert actually? We wonder………

Daphne Caruana Galizia goes for jealous woman-gossip, right after Muscat-Gonzi on Xarabank and Franco Debono on Affari Taghna.

The title states nothing new. But this is rich coming from DCG: spouting a series of blogs just right after Gonzi’s encounter with Joseph Muscat on TVM, and Franco Debono being hosted on One TV during Affari Taghna at the same time.

Any mention of what Franco Debono said? No.

Any mention of what Joseph Muscat said? No.

Any mention of what Lawrence Gonzi said? No. (And here’s where it gets weirder and weirder).

So what was the topic of the blog of running-diarrhoea-bile this time?
– Drumroll –

You won’t believe this.
Unless you’re an avid DCG reader.

Marlene Mizzi’s physical appearance.

Facepalm.

Yes I facepalm for the extremely poor photo-shopping attempt made on Ms. Mizzi (The photo shown here is the REAL Ms. Mizzi not the photoshopped one from Daphne Caruana Galizia’s blog).

DCG tried to deviate her PN-sheep by not uttering a word on what happened during Xarabank or Affari Taghna.  Obviously so, because there was nothing she could find to denigrate. Gonzi left a very bad impression.

So she went into ‘random mode’ and got a (very untrained) person to photoshop Marlene Mizzi into looking “fat and evil” and blogged twice and trice and more on how she (Daphne) was leaning on the table of the drinks bar and fell down…..  And obviously she illustrates further that it had been Ms Marlene Mizzi who forced her down….. *sigh* Because she can’t just blog that she was drunken-blind, as is normal for her every night when she blogs 13 times in a night between 11 pm and 5 am.

Obviously she can’t blog that Ms Marlene Mizzi is short (as she usually tries to do with the rest of PL sympathisers), since Ms Mizzi towers over Daphne’s “towering 5’6” (poor old lady she thinks she’s a tall person at 5ft 6 lol) , is much slimmer and of a much more beautiful and fair complexion .

Oh, the pity of it Daphne, do you suggest we determine a person’s capability of running the country by the size of his or her back or upper-arms now?

If that were so, Lawrence Gonzi would fail miserably!

DCG should have given her past couple of blogs  the title of “il-par idejn sodi ta’ Marlene”.

While placing a disclaimer of course – that of herself being drunk at the bar. If she fell, she shouldn’t blame others. Put the blame on your own drunk stinky-alcoholic self. Twerp.

Now laugh at the feeble attempt of photoshopping of Ms Marlene Mizzi.

Just check her right hand to see the most obvious photoshopping evidence. See how her dress gets at a very weird angle there…..

And check out the rest…..

Daphne Caruana Galizia does photoshop

Vera tal-biki. Jew tad-dahk? Ma nafx!

Who did Daphne vote in 1987?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXl6cJT7ruI

Michael Vella (tal-liftijiet) is Daphne’s father. (at 0:40 seconds, the bald man with large glasses)

No, Daphne’s family didn’t trust Eddie Fenech Adami in 1987.

Michael Vella, Daphne Caruana Galizia’s father, formed another political party, not Farfett or Spiru Sant, but Partit Demokratiku Malti or PDM.

They didn’t want EFA in Government, one wonders why?

Michael Vella tal-Liftijiet, Daphne Caruana Galizia’s father, contesting the 1987 election not with the PN under Eddie Fenech Adami but with ‘Partit Demokratiku Malti’.

How many first-count votes did Michael Vella, Daphne Caruana Galizia’s father, get in 1987 when contesting the election against Eddie Fenech Adami and the PN?

I wonder when ‘PDM’ was dissolved. I never heard of them. Have you?

I also wonder if it was a case of “if you can’t beat them, join them”.

And finally, why not PN and EFA? Why did Daphne Caruana Galizia’s father set up his own political party and not contest the elections with the PN and Eddie Fenech Adami?

Daphne Caruana Galizia’s pride and prejudice

Look, they photo-shopped a double chin on me, those cheap lejber elves aaaaaa!!!!

She didn’t even notice that her double-chin wasn’t photo-shopped at all but only accentuated by having Lawrence Gonzi’s left shoulder in front of it!

Quoting Daphne:

And of course, to ratchet up the idiocy quotient, they take one of the most publicly available photographs of me off the photographer George Scintilla’s website, without his permission, and tack on an amateur Photoshop double chin like one of those fake beards we used to buy at the Magic Shop as children – ma jmurx xi hadd jghid ‘kemm ghandha ghonqa twil u sabih Defni, se nivvota PN ghax ghandi a neck fetish u dawk tal-Labour msieken kollha bla ghonq bhal Joseph u Kert Farrugia.‘

Imagine even being jealous of a neck, for crying out loud.

I have a neck and they don’t, and we can’t have that can we, because it goes against socialist principles and unfortunately necks don’t fall within the Karl Marx guidelines for redistribution of wealth.

Poor old girl, she was so horrified seeing her face  splashed out on billboards throughout the country that she couldn’t accept her photo being real and started stamping her feet and throwing a tantrum yelling that her face was purposely photo-shopped to look even uglier with a double chin! So much for convent school-girl mentality.

Dear Daphne, rest assured that photo-shopping your face to make you look uglier was the last thing on the mind of the designers of that billboard.

Unlike you, normal people don’t give a shit on how you or other people look physically. It’s character, good-nature, sincerity and respect for others –  especially respect for people who have a different opinion which counts.  And as regards your internal ugliness and murky hatred-filled character, not even the Good Lord would be able to photo-shop that out!

(And by the way, no you don’t have a neck. Your minuscule chin just fades down to your chest. Now if you would call that a neck I might say that I just grew boobs).

I also wonder how come you constantly criticise the receding hair-lines of PL members. They’re men. One expects their hairline to recede. On the other hand……….

Sigh, and please learn Maltese if you want to write it. It’s ghonqha not ghonqa.

Where has the hair on her temples gone?

What has Gonzi done? Created 2,000 jobs? Or was it 20,000 or 200,000? Whatever it was, it was very funny. Sarcasm par excellence!

Ha-ha-haaaajjjjjjjjjjjj!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Meta tela’ EFA fil-gvern fl-1987 hadd ma ppretenda li konna se mmorru lura ghaz-zminijiet ta’ Gorg Borg Olivier fejn in-nisa ma kellhomx vot, meta il-fatt li tkun omosesswali kien reat u kont tispicca l-habs, u fejn il-Knisja kienet tichad l-assoluzzjoni lill-Laburisti u sahansitra tidfinhom go mizbla, u meta n-nisa kienu mhallsa inqas mill-irgiel u mgieghla jitilqu mix-xoghol malli jizzewgu. Meta ghax KMB ried li l-iskejjel tal-Knisja jkunu mhallsa mill-gvern flok mill-poplu (kif ghadhom sal-gurnata mqaddsa tal-lum!) qam kjass shih! Dan biex ma nsemmux ukoll il-qtil makabru ta’ Karin Grech (li EFA ftahar li jaf min wettqu u fl-istess nifs kien qal fl-2008 li Alfred Sant ma halliex lil ibnu jidhol l-universita’ u wehel ma nafx kemm il-elf multa talli gideb), ta’ Raymond Cardona, tat-tfigh tal-balavostri waqt meeting tal-PL. Dejjem vjolenza kontu. Qabel kienet vjolenza fizika , issa vjolenza morali bis-sahha ta’ nies bhal Daphne Caruana Galizia. Mela sewwa, ghax Joseph Grima esprima opinjoni fejn maqdar opinjoni ta haddiehor jinholoq skandlu. Dan jibqa allavolja is-sur Grima irrizenja. Tapprofittaw ruhhkom. Imbaghad ghandkom lil Daphne, li mhux biss tesprimi opinjoni imma tikteb blogs oxxeni fejn tghid li lesta tbul fuq oqbra u tifrah bl-imwiet ta’ persuni li kienu parti mill-partit laburista fis-sebghinijiet. … . 40 sena ilu . … . Madoffi din kif kellha dil-mibgheda mindu kellha xi ghaxar snin? Jew vera kaz mediku jew imhallsa bil-kbir biex lesta tivvinta daqsekk!
Issa ghalfejn qeghdin tghidu li kieku kellu jitla PL gdid immexxi miz-zghazagh fl-2013 se mmorru lura ghas-sebghinijiet? EFA hekk ghamel fl-1987? Mar lura fl-1960’s ta’ Gorg Borg Olivier? Ghalfejn qed tassumu li Gvern Laburista Gdid se jmexxi kollox 40 sena lura?? Ghalfejn din il-politika ta’ twerwir? Tahsbu li l-poplu Malti hu daqshekk injorant li jemminkom? Qabel forsi.. . . imma issa?
Mhux ahjar taraw x’intom taghmlu bhala partit bhalissa u kif qed tmexxu l-pajjiz? Mela jigi Tonio Fenech u jipprova jitfa’ l-akkuza fuq il-PL biex isolvi l-problemi finanzjarji tal-pajjiz?? Mela mhux kapaci jmexxi l-finanzi tal-Gvern wahdu? Jrid l-ghajnuna tal-PL issa? Tafu li intom qeghdin fil-gvern, jew le?
Mela jigi Joe Cassar u jittallab jistaqsi dwar kif Joseph Muscat bi hsiebu jmexxi l-Isptar? Jaf l-Onor. Joe Cassar li HUWA hu l-Ministru responsabbli ghas-sahha? Jew forsi nesa?

Daphne Caruana Galizia two weights (GonziPN) two measures (PL)

This is NOT photoshopped

Is it breaking news if I write that DCG is a hypocrite?

Of course it isn’t!

DCG (rightly so) campaigns in favour of treating everybody equally. What’s wrong with her warped line of reasoning is that she restricts this argument to only where irregular immigrants are concerned (specifically those of a different skin colour). In fact, she regularly uses her poison pen to denigrate and insult the Romanian wife of one of Labour’s candidates by referring to her as a “mail order bride”. Now this fine lady is a qualified pharmacist if you please. Needless to say, she is also incomparable regarding style, education and general manners to DCG! (Note that I didn’t even dare mention ‘beauty’!)

Also DCG writes blatantly that she doesn’t consider Labour voters as her equal. She consistently writes that they’re a savage violent lot, with a low IQ and who don’t know how to read and write Hello, who’s been in charge of the Education Ministry for the past 25 years?. Also who’s been governing the entire country for the past 25 years? Isn’t a bit rich to describe half the population as such, considering that the majority of them were raised under a PN government?

She writes that PL supporters are hamalli. Now this is really rich coming from her. I’m enclosing a screenshot of her blog so you see for yourselves.

Pay special attention to the last paragraph:

 

Her latest line of attack is to track down PL supporters on facebook and put their photos, details, place of work etc on her blog. Their crime? Saying that they don’t agree with her. The sole aim is to try to get them in trouble at their work-place. A side-ways attempt of trying to shut up somebody by indirect threats to one’s income and one’s livelihood. (Freedom of speech anyone?)

In her warped mind she doesn’t even realise that the plethora of facebook groups created in her honour (!) and all the people posting their disgust are just doing so because they don’t agree with her. No, in her psychopathic and paranoid mind she shouts “Freedom of Speech!” as if somebody is preventing her from writing her blog. This is really funny. Well it would be, weren’t it the fruit of the heavily disturbed mind of a paranoid psychopath.

 

Giving due credit to Daphne Caruana Galizia

In my previous blog I illustrated how she fits perfectly into the description of psychopath.

Well, it’s only fair to say that she’s very cunning as well.

Dom Mintoff was PM till 1981. That’s around the time when Daphne first got pregnant in her teens. Five years later Eddie Fenech Adami became PM.

And allow me to digress – what about the 2 major upheavals which happened during Labour administration ie free church schools and the reason of the doctors’ strike which was to have new graduates work at the state hospital for 2 years? Blood was shed during those upheavals. Many children whose parents were Labour sympathisers found themselves expelled from school.

1987 came and did Eddie Fenech Adami do anything about it?
No.
Doctors are still to-date bound to work for 2 years at the state hospital. And church schools are still free. This is more than 30 years later. How come no strikes or protests occurred when the PN came in power in 1987? After all it wasn’t it the PN who was vehemently against these ideas and who organised those protests? I’d have expected otherwise, considering all the hullabaloo those times! Weird isn’t it?

Well, back on topic. DCG is cunning. She waited and waited. Then threw on the public, viewable world-wide (gosh I wish she hadn’t wrote it in English, would have spared us some international embarrassment!) blogs denigrating Dom Mintoff and his soul, barely an hour following his demise. And she’s keeping at it notwithstanding the body hasn’t been buried yet.

Her aim was perfectly achieved though. Hence the reason I give her credit for cunningness.

She caught PL supporters at their most vulnerable moment – the moment of mourning.

Mourning is that period where emotions are mixed and people are most susceptible. Some might feel love, and happiness for the soul who is now in a better place unencumbered by the frail and ailing body. Others might feel anger for death taking away our loved ones. Yet others would be engulfed in sorrow. Whatever one’s feelings, he’d always be at his most vulnerable at times of demise.

The last thought on anybody’s mind would be bad wishes for the deceased person. It’s hard enough to deal with the loss.

So yes, I give Daphne credit where it’s due. She timed her blogs perfectly to hit where it hurt most, and to get the most dramatic reactions possible to her obscenities.

And she succeeded and is gloating about them now. PSYCHOPATH that she is.

Callous psychopath

Callous psychopath were the first words which sprang to mind when I read Daphne Caruana Galizia’s writing yesterday  , her response to the demise of Dom Mintoff aged 96, ex-Prime Minister of Malta.

BBC news describe him as “Known for his fiery rhetoric, he was a key figure in his country’s politics for almost half a century, becoming a supporter of its independence from Britain and overseeing its switch to a republic, and was involved in a protracted struggle to reduce the influence of the Catholic Church in Malta.” For more than half of the Maltese population, he’ll remain known as “Is-Salvatur ta’ Malta”. Malta’s saviour.

Certainly what Mrs Caruana Galizia wrote is not the product of a mind in full control of its senses.

Who in his or her right mind, would write such venom barely one hour after the decease of a person, a human being? I’m sure Mr Mintoff wouldn’t be giving a damn about her and her insults, he’s in a happy place now, unencumbered by his frail and ailing body. But what about his loved ones? His daughters, relatives, friends? And the many people who respect him and hold him in high regard? Shouldn’t they have been left to mourn in peace without word going all over the internet on how a mentally deranged overweight psychopathic menopausal with a face like a horse is cracking open her champagne and ‘celebrating’ his death as being the best birthday present she ever got?

Makes me wonder what type of presents she normally receives on her birthdays, this being the best one.

Rightly so, many replied to her blog. Unfortunately most of the replies were ones of hurt retaliation where they wished her worse than she wished on Dom Mintoff in the first place. She uploaded those comments with glee, following up with her own replies, in bold font, correcting typing errors, gloating on how hamalli people supporting Mintoff were, and even guessing the area where they live, ironically mentioning Arcipielku or however it’s written – an area which consisted of poor people living in despicable conditions and which Dom Mintoff himself rehabilitated it to one of the nicest and most picturesque places in the Maltese Islands!

But quite persistent were those replies saying “But Daphne, what did he do to you for you to hate him so much?”
Needless to say, these went unanswered. Unless they forgot the comma and hence got told off to learn English (sic!)

Here’s a classic example of her condescending, holier-than-thou attitude:

[Daphne – It’s Daphne, with a flat A and not an e, as in ‘cat’, which you probably pronounce ‘ket’ anyway.]

[Daphne – You are beyond redemption. The tragedy is that people like you have a vote, and if there are more of you than there are of anyone else, you get to decide who runs the country. If anyone doubted that formal education can only do so much with poor genetic material and to mitigate the influence of the home, all they have to do is read through the trash on this comments-board.]

[Daphne – Le, qalbi. Turi li qatt ma qrajt xejn li ktibt. Imma nissoponi li int tiblaghhom wahda sew – ostji, irrid nghid, u mhux xi hag’ ohra.]

[Daphne – Yes, I know. Don’t forget for one minute that I grew up in a Malta run by violent turds like you. I never thought you went away. You just raised the next generation. L-aqwa li jisimna Dale, bhal l-Inglizi li tant nobghodu. Effing freaks.]

A comment by a certain Pierre Fiorentino:

Daphne you need help believe me, psychiatric help I mean. You are truly sick. Maybe one day you will regret that you have made such comments.

[Daphne – Never. The only thing I regret is not being able to use on the internet the litany of pejoratives I have been using in speech all evening.]

About Maltese emigrants:

[Daphne – Yes, Frank, I know that you emigrated to Australia and that you’re a Mintoffian, because you told me. Not that you needed to, because practically all the Maltese who emigrated there were Mintoffians. And that can only be a good thing, because imagine if you’d all stayed here. The frigging bastard would still be prime minister.]

About Dom Mintoff and his supporters:

[Daphne – Well, what do you expect. These people are scum of the earth too. That’s why they like him so much.]

[Daphne – These are not arguments, anon, which is why I don’t bother with them. Condescension? Perhaps you think I should treat these people as my equals. They are clearly not and they know it, which is the root cause of their malice and frustration. Grammar is my particular interest.]

About Dom Mintoff’s relatives:

[Daphne – I don’t give a monkey’s cuss in hell if they are “passing through sad times”, just as they didn’t give a cuss in hell and lived as far away as possible when their bastard father made other people’s lives a misery back home in Malta.]

The very language and venom made me throw up a little in my mouth.

What’s disturbing is that her line of defence is all in the name of freedom of expression.

Excuse me, since when does freedom of expression mean that you can insult a deceased person by wishing him to rot in hell, and increase the sorrow already suffered by mourning friends and relatives? Since when does freedom of expression mean that one can publicise on the internet that certain people do not deserve to be treated as equals? (Hint, Norman Lowell, you have a point you can use as defence here!)Certainly Daphne isn’t the brightest crayon in the box when it comes to fundamental rights and freedom. She says she’s not religious, but for heaven’s sake even atheists have some kind of moral code – knowing of what’s right and wrong. There’s no need to be Catholic or even religious to have an inkling of morality, an inkling of how human beings behave in a civil manner. But then what would you expect, she couldn’t even raise her sons properly, with one of them trafficking drugs in the vicinity of a school!

Almost funny is how when she couldn’t criticise grammar, spelling or reply to the actual argument, she’d post telling the commenter to contact Dr Franco Debono and giving out his personal mobile number! Oh my, oh my the extent a sick mind goes down the drain! She wrote down his mobile number at least 4 or 5 times in her bold font replies. Is that freedom of expression as well? I wonder.

What word describes the kind of person who has no morals?

Psychopath is the word you’re looking for. Psychopathy is defined as having no regard for the rights or feelings of others, it is a personality disorder in psychology. When a psychopath is confronted, he or she will blame the victim or somebody else.

Source(s):

AP Psychology.

What’s even sicker is that not before long she’ll be gloating at the amount of hits on her website. Just the same way she did when not long ago the deceased was in hospital and she posted a similar blog saying how she’d crack open champagne and get ready to piss on his grave.. Her sick mind is all after fame. Even if it’s of the wrong kind. She already started in the same blog saying how she just approved 200 replies and still has more than 300 pending. Perhaps it’s to get a better deal with her sponsor www.maltashopper.com? School-girl mentality of the extreme warped version. Definitely sad to see on a woman pushing her 50’s.

www.francodebono.com – a blog to look forward to.

No. 1 blog for subtlety, sarcasm, and on a more serious note, the truth of what’s going on behind the scenes of Maltese Politics.

http://www.francodebono.com/

Vincent Farrugia, ABC, DCG, JB etc…who would you believe now?

So one fine day a person by the name of Sandro Chetcuti got accused of the attempted homicide of another person by the name of Vincent Farrugia.

Some months later, somehow and somewhat, the charge of “murder” had to be amended to one of “attempted bodily harm”. So far so good.

Even more months later when the trial actually started, the alleged victim Vincent Farrugia (a PN candidate and also Director General of the General Retailers and Traders Union (GRTU)) asked that the court views all the private messages on his mobile phone by demanding that the SIM card of his phone gets exhibited in court.

The defence lawyer quite intelligently countered the argument by saying that hence ALL phone messages should be available to the court, even those inside the memory of the phone and not just those inside the SIM card.

As a result, Vincent Farrugia’s phone got confiscated.

And here are the messages found in his phone. I publish these thanks to the newspaper MaltaToday, with all messages wholly reproduced spelling mistakes and all. No other newspaper had the guts to publish them:

Vincent Farrugia to Jean-Karl (his son and also the lawyer defending him):
“Jan I’m thinking it’s better that I set the ball rolling u nixhed l-ewwel jien ghax I’m worried the others are mixing up and they are not saying that he was screaming at me “noqtlok, noqtlok as he was hitting me. And can’t belie they did not hear him” what do you think? Talk to Kris u fil-kas talk to Prosection toi call me first.”

What went on between Vincent Farrugia (left) and Philip Fenech (right):

GRTU vice-president Philip Fenech to GRTU President Vincent Farrugia:“No you wont I have the commissioner on our side he helped all the way called me about 4 times… The AC told me they are very strong and credible now I hope the doctors report is to..I will guide them what to be careful for when testifying and Manwels ways ! Leave it all to me the police will be helping us..luckelly we have very honest ones of the few left..I worked with them so I am home.”

Vincent Farrugia to Philip Fenech:
“Philip check with Jean if Sandro is in fact in Kordin.This morning he ordered Manwel Mallia toi make sure he does not sleep at Kordin.So money probably is already moving. If he did not tel Mario to pass on to Daphne. We must watch moves on a day by day. The pig must roast!”
Fenech confirmed that the message concerned GRTU official Mario Debono, whom the defence has established as having been a middleman to provide fodder for Malta Independent columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia’s blogs targeting Sandro Chetcuti. 

Philip Fenech to Vincent Farrugia:
Yes I am aware of all this..I am impressed how street wise you are..I have over 35years of night life sitting on the balcony seeing all these moves come out at the bar while they are on alcohol! Do not worry I am focused on this I have all the commissioners help and  Abraham..he will have to watch out on his corrupted people..cause they do anything for money hence all the drugs in there ! The director is strong on principle..the guy that killed himself inside was given a strong order of detention by him for causing trouble. I still have to work out how his father in law will act because I think he is still on the prison board!!
Abraham Zammit is the acting director for Corradino Prisons.

Philip Fenech to Vincent Farrugia:
And never underestimate Sandro. The flood of silly comments on Timesofmalta.com are all organised but read Lou Bondi Sunday Times tomorrow. I still did not give them a photo. The trial will start soon they’l have enough then. Noel and Herman shoed me there piece and our lawyers vetted them. Better like this. Hope DCG MA TAFFIGIEX.

Vincent Farrugia to Philip Fenech:
And The timesofmalta.com comments must be organised as Lou, Noel and Matthew Vella [maltatoday.com.mt editor] all told me messages of sympathy keep pouring in and out there hardly anyone says a good word for him. And I’ve been inundated with messages.anyway the trial hasn’t even started. Inti also keep Joe warm. Din it-tfajla/sinjura li ghandu gdida tafha? She a smart chick BOV divorsee.

Vincent Farrugia to Philip Fenech:
Ok he told me. Talk to Guido as he has influence on Manwel Mallia. Tell him how serious this was. Tell him how he is treathening people dwar meta jitla il-labour.

Philip Fenech to Vincent Farrugia:
Ok will do..just hope Gwido will remain here till the end when we can talk.

 In previous sittings, SMS messages sent out by GRTU director-general Vince Farrugia in the wake of his assault show he was in contact with Mario Debono, asking him to influence Malta Independent columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia to undermine his aggressor Sandro Chetcuti in her blog.

Daphne Caruana Galizia and Andrew Borg Cardona have insisted up to this day that there’s no hidden hand which commands them what they write (even though they mostly do a copy/paste of each other’s blogs).

Weirdly enough though, it’s nearly 2 days past these news and neither DCG nor ABC have retaliated stamping their feet saying that those sms’s aren’t portraying the truth.

Dear Richard….Regards, Lawrence

Disclaimer: lest I be accused of plagiarism, this is a parody of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s blogged post. The original is quoted at the end of this blog post.

Ghaziz Richard, qed inwiegbek wara l-ikla kirxa li gawdejna flimkien….

Lawrence Gonzi’s total lack of breeding screams out from the letter he sent to Richard Cachia Caruana accepting his resignation.

And I’m not talking only about the content, or the gesture itself.

What gets me most is that it begins ‘Ghaziz Richard’ (Dear Richard) and ends ‘Inselli ghalik u ghal familja tieghek, Lawrence’ (Best regards to you and your family, Lawrence).

What a klutz.

Who brought him up? And how can he possibly have lived for 60 years and became Prime Minister without acquiring the knowledge that formal letters demand formal language?

Was Richard Cachia Caruana’s resignation letter addressed to ‘Dear Lawrence’ and signed off ‘Regards, Richard’? No, it was not.

Moreover, he has no clue of written etiquette, which should be given priority especially when the author is the Prime Minister of the country . Assuming both parties have a reasonable grasp of either language, one should reply using the language of the original letter.

Lawrence Gonzi ignored not only protocol but even basic etiquette, and replied to Richard Cachia Caruana’s letter (which was appropriately addressed to “The Prime Minister” and not to “Dear Lawrence) by using the Maltese equivalent of “Dear Richard” i.e. “Ghaziz Richard”.

People like Lawrence Gonzi bring everything to the level of ridicule, not least themselves.
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DCG: two weights, two measures.

PL Billboards were never illegal.

http://maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Court-rules-in-favour-of-PL-billboards-can-stay-20120622

Madame Justice Anna Felice this morning ruled in favour of the Labour Party’s “fundamental right” to pass on its message as a political party through billboards.

The PL had a filed a request to prevent Transport Malta from removing political billboards depicting Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi with his eyes shut, covering his ears.

Arguing that Labour had not filed an application for the billboards to be installed, Transport Malta had wanted to remove the structure. The authority also argued that the billboards were distracting.

But according to Felice, the billboards hadn’t been erected illegally and argued that it was the fundamental right of every political party to pass on its message, as guaranteed by the Constitution and the European Conventions.

“At first glance, the Court has not been presented with any valid reason to believe that the billboards go against requirements defined in Maltese law. It is for this reason that the Courts cannot consider the billboards to have been illegally placed in terms of the mentioned Art. 9,” the Court ruled.

In a reaction the Labour Party said that the billboards were annoying the Prime Minister: “We are now in a situation were state authorities are being used to stop the criticism we raise.”

The PL added that it would continue to pass on its political message according to law with any medium. It also condemned government for making use of authorities to stop the party from exercising its fundamental right of expression.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IfaklmbcLU

PN executive condemns Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, Jesmond Mugliett and Franco Debono

Seriously, does GonziPN believe that the entire Maltese population is composed of idiots?

Why all the hullabaloo about government backbenchers’ votes? Isn’t this a democratic country any more? Why threatening dissenting voters of having to “face the consequences”?

Alfred Sant never raised such hell when just one backbencher threatened government, by voting not to make the minister of justice resign, neither to have an ambassador who was abusing his powers to resign. In 1998 Alfred Sant  was man enough, and had the political balls to decide that for the good of the country, for the good of businesses and employment it was far better to have a government focused on the issues of the country rather than one which might spend years pondering partisan issues. And general elections were called just because the government wanted to improve Cottonera and designate it as a yacht marina. Those times, the PN opposition disagreed whole-heartedly, saying that by doing so the Labour Government was going to ruin Cottonera. The motion went forward. The PN pushed forward the motion for the Cottonera embellishment and the rest is history.

Nonetheless, as soon as the PN was in government, it all was like nothing had ever happened. And Cottonera got converted to a Yacht Marina within a couple of months. So much for consistency. They flushed down the drain all that they got from Dom Mintoff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfDdDTpqNDg

The youngest Prime Minister of Malta

 

 

 

It’s shameful hearing such speech from Dr Lawrence Gonzi.
Vera mohh ta’ tigiega.

The youngest Prime Minister of Malta was Sir Ugo Mifsud, who became Prime Minister at the age of 35 in 1924. Apparently the current PM needs to brush up either  his history or his math: Dr Joseph Muscat was born in 1974 and that makes him 38 now, not 34 Dr Gonzi.

Lawrence Gonzi can lie for all he likes, but change historic past events? Never. No matter how hard he tries.

Malta. a.k.a. North Korea. Just shut up and work for GonziPN. Or else.

Mela sewwa, fil-50 sena li hija hajja din il-bniedma DCG Alla jbierek qatt ma rat xejn hazin f’Dr Emmanuel Mallia. Pero issa ghax Dr Mallia ghazel PL, gie ddemonizzat. Tiddeskrivieh bhala “a sleazy criminal lawyer”. Qisu HU l-kriminal u mhux il-klijent. Jew ahjar nghidu, ma sabitx f’hiex tiddemonizzah ghalhekk qed tivvinta stejjer fuqu, fuq martu u fuq it-tliet uliedu (m’iniex ser nidhol fid-dettalji hawnhekk ghax vera skifuzi l-affarijiet li qalet fuq il-familja Mallia u onestament niddizgusta ruhhi nirrepetihom).

Ejjew nassumu li din ilha splogger minn mindu kellha 20 (ma nafx pero li hu maghruf zgur hu li ghaddiet minn teenage pregnancy miskina, u ta’ 19 kellha tizzewweg ragel 10 snin akbar minnha). Imma dak mhux il-punt. Anki fuq JPO, qatt ma qalet kelma kontrih. Lanqas fil-kwistjoni tal-Mistra. Sakemm ma offriex kritika kostruttiva lil GonziPN u gieghel lil PN jghaddi ligi (tad-divorzju) li Lawrence Gonzi kien totalment kontra. Ehh issa JPO miskin qed jigi deskritt bhala ribell u maverick.

L-istess haga – Franco Debono ilu membru parlamentari mil-2003. Qatt inkiteb xi haga kontrih jew li twaqqghu ghaz-zufjett minn ambaxxatrici tal-partit tieghu stess, bhal dil-hamallagni prima klassi t’hawn taht? Il-klikka ta’ GonziPN kollha kemm huma qed jattakkaw il-karattru u personalita’ ta Dr Franco Debono. Illum. Pero ma nahsibx li il-karattru ta Dr Debono inbidel mil-lejl ghan-nhar minn ftit xhur ilu? Ghax ma jammettux li ma jistghux ghaliha li bniedem minn ta’ gewwa jurihom fejn vera marru zmerc? Dak hu li ghamlu Dr JPO u Dr FD. Mhux sew li jpattuha qares talli fethu ghajnejn il-partit.

Rigward Luciano Busuttil l-istess, blogg wara l-iehor tizzuffjetta bl-isem tad-dar tieghu. Ovvjament ghax ma sabet xejn aktar ma x’hiex taqbad. Pero’ mbaghad tkompli billi ssemmi lil uliedu u l-iskola fejn jattendu. Halli jigu ttimbrati u bbuljati ghax hekk taf kif tipprova ssikket lil missierhom. Tal-misthija! L-istess haga kif ghamlet fuq mart u ulied Dr Emmanuel Mallia.

Hija vera hasra li hadd mill-GonziPN apologists indunaw li kull ma sar kien ghall-gid tal-partit taghhom stess. Daru fuqhom, u talli fethu ghajnejn GonziPN issa qed jippruvaw ikissruhom.

Imbghad ighajru lill-PL li jekk jitla’ se jmexxi l-pajjiz bhal ma kien jaghmel Kim Jong Il.

U le…

Pacenzja nafu li fl-ahhar il-qarnita ddur ghal subghajha, imma hawnhekk din il-qarnita ghandha xi virus li qed jattakkalha mohhha..

Our Prime Minister, Dr Franco Debono

Dr Lawrence Gonzi will go down in Maltese history as a puppet PM led by the nose.
We all know why bulls have nose-rings and it isn’t because Dr Gonzi resembles a bull (far from it!) but because Franco Debono has successfully snapped a virtual nose-ring on him, months ago.

Pulling it will hurt so much that even a fierce bull would subdue and follow.

It’s clear  that Franco Debono always meant business. He wants to remain in power in order to effect the legislative changes which are priorities. Good for him, he’s entitled to his own opinion as to what’s a priority and what’s not. After all, he isn’t asking for anything outrageous but only for the introduction of  laws which have been in force in other EU member states for a long time, which incidentally is one of the reasons why I can’t understand all the hate and storms in teacups created every time he spoke. He won’t get the legislative changes he’s fighting for if he topples the government, so it goes without saying that he will never do so. He’s a clever guy.

But there’s the  “or else” factor  looming like a dark cloud over GonziPN meaning that Franco will be getting his way. All the time. Whether Lawrence Gonzi wants or not. And hello, isn’t Lawrence Gonzi supposed to be the Prime Minister?
What’s surprising to many is why Lawrence Gonzi chooses to remain in this very embarrassing position. Embarrassing for himself personally, embarrassing for himself as Prime Minister and embarrassing Malta. He’s in a hole, he’s holding the spade, and instead of filling it up he’s in he’s obeying orders and digging even deeper. Lawrence Gonzi and his minions appear all the more stupid for ostracising and demonising Franco Debono and his family to boot. Come on, it’s not as if this MP is petitioning to legalise hard drugs or abortion! Daphne Cachia Caruana Galizia even went to the extent of using the word ‘whore’ to describe – wait for it – Dr Debono’s mother of all people! Well, it’s not surprising coming from her, but doesn’t the Prime Minister realise that condoning such insults make him appear even more nauseating than DCG?

[Before DCG pipes up saying that anyone wants her to stop writing, NO. Please continue. I like hearing your opinion. What’s immoral is attacking and demonising private people in your blog, like the parents, girlfriends, children, cousins or any friends or relatives of public personas with the aim of bullying these people and hence force  the public person in question to “shut up”from expressing his opinion  or else their innocent friends and relatives will get bullied mercilessly on the internet in public for anybody to search and read even years from now. Actually, for the PL’s sake you should keep on justifying the means to achieve your ends and continue the irrational bullying. Do not worry, it won’t put the PN in bad light for condoning you! Ha-ha!]

Is it possible that Lawrence Gonzi isn’t realising all of this? Or perhaps he is too much of a wimp to stand up for himself?  That would be amazing. Not even Alfred Sant stooped so embarrassingly low but chose dignity over power after only 22 months as Prime Minister!
It makes more sense suspecting that there might have been somebody else more powerful than Franco Debono who got hold of the bull first. And who got hold of it from the testicles.  The idea of being forced gives a better sense of respect and security than that of seeing one’s own PM as a spineless wimp clung to remain in office at all cost.

The longer the PN clings to  power, the more painfully evident the Franco Debono factor becomes,  the deeper Lawrence Gonzi will dig his hole and the greater the PL victory will follow afterwards.
Hence it makes no sense assuming that the PL might have an interest or advantage were elections called now or within less than a year’s time. If any, the later the better.

The PL has been in opposition since 1987 now. That’s 25 years bar 22 months 16 years ago when the government then also had a one seat majority, a back-bencher disagreed with a Cottonera project (good for him since he was entitled to his opinion), then the PN in opposition agreed with this back-bencher that it was outrageous for Cottonera be sacrificed in such hideous manner (hey, is it just me or is there a sense of deja’ vu here?) and Dr Alfred Sant, not wanting to go down in history as being a puppet PM let by the nose called for general elections. That’s where the deja’ vu ends. Even more so since once in power guess what went first on the PN’s agenda ? Yes. That same ‘hideous’  Cottonera project they had voted against while on the opposition benches. Talk about principles. Their only aim was to bring down the government of the day,  Cottonera my ass. Unbelievable hypocrisy.

I have to take my hat off to Franco Debono for proving himself to be not only more clever than the Prime Minister but even cleverer than the bottoms heating up the seats of parliament on GonziPN’s side.

No wonder Lawrence Gonzi can’t even function as Prime Minister and is searching for people online to replace him a day at a time, giving an iPad as a reward!

A potential prime minister should be judged by his looks

Perhaps any further comment would be superfluous.

Let’s agree with Daphne (with the flat ‘a’) for once, who wrote an entire splog saying how a future PM needs to have, using her own erm, words, ‘sax appeal’.

What’s more, she insists that a male in his 30’s is unfit to be a prime minister because, wait for it, he’s middle-aged!

Sometimes I wish I don’t live on this planet anymore.

 

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Alice Vella = Daphne Caruana Galizia? You decide.

What do you think? Obviously all the photos on that profile are fakes. Unless she dyes her hair every other day and also gets a tan and manages to remove it every other day. Plus every photo’s got different facial features.

 

It’s not the first time that I asked a person on facebook whether she was who I thought she was, or whether I knew her someplace, and but I never had anybody reiterating in such obnoxious and unfriendly manner! If she was for real I’d have wondered if this girl was thinking that I was going to stalk her or attack her or whatever.. instead of just asking a simple question!

She’s taking her time to answer now. A LOT of her time to answer…

“It’s Bouquet, for heaven’s sake. BOUQUET!” And Daphne with a flat ‘A’. Just SAY it. Please DO mention my name!

I see a certain similarity between Daphne Caruana Galizia and Franco Debono.

They both think they’re in the limelight. That they’re the hot-topic of the day. The only problem there is that Dr Debono is, and quite justifiably, but DCG? Oh please.

Daphne’s (pronounce that with a flat ‘A’) latest obsession is that everybody in the media is talking and referring to her continually. She’s just so frustrated that nobody’s mentioning her name. And guess why? Because all the news reporters, bloggers and opinion writers on the island can’t figure out how to pronounce the flat ‘A’ in her name.

As if her flat ‘A’ needs to be written differently…

Paranoia anyone?

And this is the very worst bit: my first name has a flat ‘a’, a vowel sound which doesn’t exist in Maltese and which is unpronounceable by people who grew up speaking only that language. Vowel sounds are learned only in childhood or never at all. The most you can hope for after childhood is a close approximation.

They never say my name because they can’t pronounce it and they know I will laugh at them.

Oh what a terrible humiliation, having Daphne (with the flat ‘A’) laugh at you because you didn’t pronounce her name correctly! (sic)

Excuse me ma’m, if you’re so sure that your name is unpronounceable by any local person then deal with it!

Better go and learn how to pronounce the latest trending names yourself, rather than blogging about how “stupid” names like Byron, Cleavon, Gail, Jamie and Lyon and various other mainstream British and foreign names sound in the language you barely half-learned to speak and comprehend.

Let’s hear you speak one day. Rather than poking fun at Dr Yana Mintoff for her foreign accent notwithstanding her great command of the Maltese language. We’re terribly eager to see you on TV – even if it’s GonziPlus or XaraPaNk – explaining how your name should be pronounced and correcting Dr Yana’s foreign accent.

The only other person we ever heard of having your same issue was Mrs. Bucket who insisted on having her surname pronounced as Bouquet. And thankfully she wasn’t for real but a fictitional character from BBC comedies.

We have fun reading your blog Mrs. Bouquet. Especially where you start insisting fervently that you are not of menopausal age and you are not middle-aged.
And in the same sentence you refer to people in their 30’s as middle-aged.
As long as they’re not PN activists or supporters.
We’ve never heard you describe people like Wayne Hewitt as middle-aged, balding, or for using hair gel to try to . We wonder why?

We also never heard you make fun of the Hewitt family because a good half of them can’t write their last name properly. Log into your facebook alias and check out for yourself. Half his family writes their surname as Hewitt and the other half write it down as Hewett.

Do your research properly Daphne (with the flat ‘A’) before you blurt out your splogs and describe people in their early and mid-30’s as ‘middle aged’:

According to the current edition of the Oxford English Dictionary middle age is: “The period of life between young adulthood and old age, now usually regarded as between about forty-five and sixty.”

You can’t bend the facts, no matter how much you wish to.

Il-vera HOPELESS from www.daphnecaruanagalizia.com

Perfect article. Thanks DCG!

Il-vera HOPELESS

Kijjp it app, sabiha… (sic!)

I’ve received another email from Kurt and the Coconuts. “Garanzija għaż-Żgħażagħ – Tagħlim Taħriġ Xogħol”. Oh, so now I’m not menopausal or post-menopausal and hysterical.

Now I’m classified as Żgħażagħ.

“Matul dawn l-aħħar ġimgħat il-Partit Laburista poġġa l-edukazzjoni fuq quddiem nett tal-aġenda,” it begins. Fantastic, I said. That’s long, eh? Imagine that: a political party which has prioritised education for as long as the last few weeks. Amazing.

Damn shame they haven’t been prioritising education for the last 40 years. But I suppose we should be grateful they started thinking about it a few weeks ago at least. Things are looking up.

But I must say they need to get to grips with their public relations machine. The email includes a link to a YouTube video “bid-diskors ta’ Joseph” and mini interviews with others. The problem is that you can hear only Joseph, while the others open and shut their mouths silently like fishes in a bowl, while the music plays on.

Jahasra. How low can you go to have no choice other than to put up this video to attempt to belittle the political party you hate so much? The PL must be thanking you for the publicity!

 

“Wara l-eta’ ta sittax-il sena, gvern Laburista jaghti garanzija li l-persuna tkun jew fit-taghlim, jew fit-tahrig, jew fix-xoghol”.

Alice Vella ‘likes’ Rosianne Cutajar

She started ‘liking’ the new mayor of Qormi since, March 2012. What a coincidence!

Of excuses and justifications, and pornography.

No one can deny that we’ve currently got an entirely messy situation in parliament. A “froġa” par excellence.

What’s interesting are the excuses and justifications brought forward by various people regarding why this happened.

The PL are saying that it’s due to general discomfort created by cabinet ministers and the leading personas within the PN itself, irritating several backbenchers – basically all those who are only expected to keep their parliamentary seat warm and vote with the government. And they are righteously irritated because they’re constantly being told to keep their mouths shut and not dare criticise anything concerning GonziPN. Or else.

Let us not forget the un-named backbencher who spoke with Saviour Balzan and told him that he’d have joined Franco Debono himself but was forced to keep a low profile and his mouth shut tight since he’s got a wife and children! Smells of mafia-like pressure here!

The PN cabinet ministers and Lawrence Gonzi went all out against Dr Franco Debono initially, to the extent of even accusing him of mental instability. Then when they realised that their position wasn’t going to help to keep them in power till the end of the legislature they went all sweet and diplomatic with Debono, taking him out to meals, meeting him in secret, and all the works.

Since blaming everything on Franco Debono was counter-productive, GonziPN had to find another scapegoat. And fast. So all abruptly the PN decided to blame the loss of their one-seat majority in parliament resulting in government instability on Joseph Muscat and the PL. Since no feasible explanation on how this might have occurred could be found, they keep repeating ad nauseam that it’s the PL’s fault, even going to extreme measures like spreading the false news that the PL is encouraging North Korea to conduct nuclear tests! Pull the other one Dr Gonzi! By now I’m ready to bet my meagre bank savings that the next step would be spreading the rumour that if elected in government, Joseph Muscat would start World War III. Let’s wait and see.

But the funniest part remains, as always, DCG’s blog. She’s always the winner there. The party machinery have told her to quit attacking Franco Debono and embellishing her blog posts by posting a picture of a cock whenever she mentioned him. Strangely enough DCG has never as yet thrown the blame on the PL for destabilising GonziPN. She threw all her ire and vomit on Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando with no less than 7 or 8 blogs about him and his lovely partner and their private life in the last 48 hours. Suddenly Dr Pullicino Orlando is a traitor, because his partner of 10 years votes labour, she insists. Very incoherently since she fails to explain why he wasn’t a “traitor” in 2006, or in 2008. Or in 2003. Even though he had the same partner way back then. She never attacked him of being a traitor when he was married with Dr Marlene Pullicino, a PL member of parliament, and that had been since….. 20 years ago?

It’s really damn hard to try to follow the weird reasoning of a crazy menopausal woman (any volunteers care to come forward please?) But it can be entertaining on lazy weekends.

Even funnier was how Alice Vella (who as most of you know is DCG under a faked alias for facebook purposes) managed to get screenshots of the malware going around on facebook with metacafe videos and made a field-day about them. Sure, people not much versed in IT might go all horror of horrors on how come family gentlemen like Manuel Mallia and Stefan Buontempo got videos of porn posted on their facebook profile. But dear Alice, people on the internet know about malware and we all know how facebook is very susceptible.  People who frequent the net know that porn isn’t allowed at all on facebook, and that it only comes up through viruses or malware. That malware in question was something which if I were to find it on my profile and click it, it would automatically appear on the profiles of all my facebook friends. But anyway it’s useless explaining to you because you already knew it all and orchestrated it to appear otherwise. Unfortunately for you DCG, it’s not true that PL voters have a low IQ no matter how much you wish they have.

Then you have the nerve to attack the intelligent and beautiful mayor of Qormi, over nothing else but her choice of make-up.

I understand you, just a little bit there. It must feel bad looking like this:

when the mayor of Qormi, a PL mayor to boot, looks like this:

Free health care in Malta

Till some months or years ago we had free health-care centres in nearly every town and village of the Maltese and Gozitan islands.

“Free”. But they’re not because every working citizen contributes between 10% and 15% of their wages to sustain this service, whether they use it or not. So all the Maltese Citizens are paying for this service, it’s not something that’s just given for free or as a charity for those who can’t afford to pay.

Those who can pay are lucky, because to avoid the long queues of our national health service they just fork out more money out of their own pockets and do whatever they need to do in a private hospital. But these people still paid 10-15% of their income to sustain this national health service, which they will never use!

Other people are even less lucky. They paid National Insurance for 50 years, that’s 10% of their salary for 50 years. 3 years after retirement they get diagnosed that they need a hip-bone replacement operation. 9 years later, they’re still in the queue for the operation. Now, 9 years later they’re 75 years old. I’m not sure how much a hip replacement op might cost, but I wonder. What if  this lady had saved her money instead of giving it in National Insurance? 10% – 15%  of her wage for over 50 years. Heck she’d probably have enough to pay for not only her own hip but that of a couple of friends as well!

Now let’s go back to the first sentence of this rant of mine.

There’s no longer a free health-care centre in every town and village of the Maltese and Gozitan islands as there was before.

No. Now we’ve only got 3 health care centres which are open 24/7. Mosta, Floriana and Paola. To cater for 450,000 people of Malta.

No health-care for Gozo!

There are some 40,000 other citizens living on the island of Gozo. They don’t have a health centre at all now. What the hell? Are Gozitans second class citizens now? Or has helicopter service been extended so that Gozitans get free transport to one of the 3 functioning health centres in Malta?

Constant information is being propagated that unless one’s situation is very serious and life threatening, one should not go to the general hospitals (of which there is only one in Malta and one in Gozo).

Nice. So some guy would fall from a height and break some bones.
Since it’s not life-threatening he won’t be attended to at hospital. He’d have to get someone to get him to Mosta, Floriana or Paola. (And only God would have to help him if he were in Gozo at the time of the accident.) And then the health centre would obviously refer him to hospital to get further tests done. A couple of days later. And oblivious to the pain suffered.

I think the Government, considering the very sorry state it’s in, should declare an “opt-in, opt-out” NI system.
i.e. if you pay N.I. then you’re entitled to free health-care and pensions, whereas if you don’t then you’re not entitled.

It’s terribly unfair to have everyone forced to pay N.I. in a compulsory manner otherwise they’d be getting penalised for not paying.

Take as an example one pensioner who forked out €3000 for a cataract operation. She was already 70 when she did it, she couldn’t afford waiting for another 10 years as she was told to. She always paid 15% of her income as a self-employed business woman. That results much more than €3000.

What do you think about this?

Why I’ve taken a (temporary) break from blogging

It’s because I obtained a good shipment of milk, at wholesale price, and am sweating it out working to make ġbejniet. Because, you know, they are expensive.

Joking apart, I took a break because DCG is doing a great job.

I preach to the converted, but she’s preaching to her own ilk. Her own ilk won’t read my blog, but they read hers. Cool.
If they’re intelligent enough to analyse her freudian slips properly.
And even if they’re not, hopefully their much cleverer sub-conscious mind might get that light-bulb moment and analyse it while dreaming. Who knows?

Come on, one day she goes “Ara kemm hu tal-flus Jowzef Muscat ax andu puuwl u andom tuu kars ukoll!!!”

The next day, she criticises him for wearing ‘cheap’ denim trousers, and criticises his wife for wearing ‘cheap rubber rain-boots’ and an ‘unbranded jacket’ during the 10th of March, Local council voting day. *sigh*

Some months earlier, she attempts to downgrade the PL leader saying she spotted him shopping at Primark for bargains at the U.K. sales.

Then she attacks once again by hollering out that she suspects some handbags of the wife of the potential future prime minister might be branded Gucci or Luis Vuitton. Oh, the horror of it all!! X’għarukaza how dare she even go within a meter’s distance from such ‘despicable brands’! Oh, My, God, what a downright scandal!!!

 

Come on baby, what were you expecting? That the wife of the leader of the opposition party wears some clown outfit by Desigual? Like this one you wear to court?

 

It’s SEJJJL at Desigwal!!! Ara sidri kemm jinġabar u jidher ippuppat aktar b’dawn il-bwiet fuqhom, tgħidx mhix ser immur inhallas ghal xi operation il-Kapwa!

Has the internet developed its ‘online version’ of artistic licence?

The poet enjoys a special linguistic licence which would be frowned upon were it to be used by authors of prose. This doesn’t mean that the poet can misspell or use bad grammar at whim, but that there are subtle rules which he is allowed do away with in order to help him achieve the rhyme and rhythm necessary for his work.

Can we say that there exists an online version of this special licence to be used by those who write online? To a certain extent yes, it exists for the main reason that it is being used by the majority right now. But is it being used correctly or is it waaaay tooo exager8d?!?  :p? That’s what I plan to analyse below, and the reason why I bolded my example.

To start with there’s a difference between writing online and writing online.

Let’s take the first scenario being a blog, article, opinion or review, where one’s using the internet medium as a replacement for physical printed papers.In this case the author is just that – an author. He’s using the internet instead of a magazine or newspaper.

On the other hand, there’s the second scenario which consists of chat-rooms, comments to blogs, reviews or news articles, forum posts and replies.

The difference between the former and the latter is that while the former is a replacement for physical printed matter the latter is trying to replace conversation. This written conversation is at a distinct disadvantage over the spoken one because the reader is only viewing written words.
In spoken conversation there is no ‘reader’. There is a person who is listening to the tone of your voice, and who is reading your body language. Even a phone conversation has more advantages over one conducted through written words on the internet since on a phone people can change the tone of their voice which would make a great difference in knowing for example whether one’s being serious or sarcastic, or just joking in a friendly way.

Even the internet media have realised this. Taking MSN as an example, they moved on from just people typing to each other, to people speaking to each other and later to video-calls where one can see the other person you’re talking to.

But back to online comments and forum posts. Were such a user to type a reply using correct English the online world would be a monotonous one, with people writing and misunderstanding each other 80% of the time.

All internet discussion fora (mostly called ‘forums’) have recognised and attempted to soften this invisible barrier through the introduction of what are called ‘smileys’ (or ‘smilies’).
These smileys attempt to show the body language the writer would have used had he been speaking and his body visible to the reader.
Caitlin is a young adult who enjoys travelling. She is so much into travelling that she’s a member of several online forums discussing travelling, where people share their experiences and pictures. She’s been writing on the same couple of forums for some months now and she’s known through her writings and through her username as “Little_Cait”, while she also knows other people who in turn reply to her posts in the same forums.
Following her recent trip to India, “Little-Cait” makes a post on one of these forums describing her experience, and also includes a couple of pictures showing her wearing traditional Indian costumes.
Someone replies, telling her “You look really great today.”

Taken at face value (remember it’s written hence there’s no tone of voice nor any visible body language) our Cait takes this as a compliment, that she looked good but mainstream. Nothing out of the ordinary there.

But let’s assume the reply was one of the following:

It’s precisely the same sentence, but what a difference the smiley face does!

Look at each reply. Not one of them is the same.

Other media like chatrooms and facebook are even more limited because there are little or no emoticons available to convey the message as it was meant to be conveyed.

And that’s where the ‘online artistic licence’ comes to play, not to destroy grammar and language but to act as a means to convey the gist of the message as it was intended to be.

Let’s assume our “Little_Cait” found a nudist beach and she chose to wear the traditional costume.

Here’s what an admirer of Caitlin would post:

I won’t go into details as to what Little_Cait’s grandpa might opine…

So far I covered body language but what happens where not only body language isn’t available but also there’s no other way to convey the accent or tone of the spoken comment?

Enter the facebook scenario.

Let’s go back to Caitlin’s photo.

She gets this comment:

“good”

Would it be the same as:

“goood” or “yummmy”?

or as “awwww I luv you darling”?

or as “you really look great my friend…”

Which brings us to the “……” which online signifies something similar as “to be continued but I want only the people who understand me to know what I’m saying”

Which ultimately brings us to facebook-speak. Unfortunately facebook is still quite limited where smileys are concerned. People reply to each other in the same way as they would in the real world while face to face but they realise that the larger part of the meaning would be lost due to the lack of tone of voice or body language. So they make up for it by trying to emulate voice into their typed words.

Let’s imagine someone replying on facebook (a.k.a. chatting with our Caitlin since she’s in real-time and can reply):

“You’re looking good” or

“You’re looking goooooood!!!!” or

” you look good…xxx” or

“LOL you look good”

“I luuuvvv yoo my sweetheart you look sooo greeeaaaaat!!!”

In the Maltese language these are even more exagerated.

“Inhoooobbboook qaaaaalbbbi!!!!!!”

“Sabiiiiieeha! xoxo!!”

We Maltese tend to exagerate the vowels to convey an even deeper message to answer that written word to try to emulate the written word when spoken and compare it to the impromptu spoken word.

But at the end of the day, what would seem to be the best in online communication?

Telling your better half “I love you”?

Or telling her “I ♥ love you ♥ moooore than anything else in the world and I soooooo want you to know it because I love you so much!!!!!”

What would you be telling your best friend:
“Come on” or “comeeee onnnnn?”

It might be read as stupid by the people who don’t understand  but it makes a lot of sense in internet chatting since it shows the general tone which at the end overrides grammar and ultimately gets the reader to “hear” the tone of such comment in the same way as were he to use emoticons or smileys.

Allow me to end this by typing “LOL” because by the time I finished this I ended up laughing out loud.

To conclude,  this is a country of just 400,000 adults short and we can’t have people who expect to be at some higher hierarchy and not use internet-speak so as  to appear belonging to some category above the others who shun the same idea. We can’t have people who get bullied out of commenting on news and blogs just because they either make what somebody else considers to be a  spelling mistake or because he included some extra question or exclamation mark. This just wouldn’t be democratic at all.

And the mystery is solved!

Malta Today – Raphael Vassallo.

This is just an extract from an article where he covered a wider variety of topics.

There are indeed indications that the mood of rebellion may now have spread from Debono to some of his colleagues within the parliamentary group. And if the rumour is anything to go by, these would include a certain Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Jesmond Mugliett, both of whom have been singled out for particularly savage attacks by the madwoman of Bidnija this week, in spite of their apparent ‘support’ for the beleaguered Prime Minister.

Yes, indeed. As mastermind political strategies go, I must say this one takes the goddamn biscuit. Let’s try and work it out, shall we? So Gonzi’s government is now hanging by a thread – on this, at least, I think we can all agree – and the only thing keeping that thread from snapping is the continued collaboration of ALL his backbenchers… one of whom has already declared his loss of confidence in Gonzi, and another two (if not more) could very easily flip at any given moment. Why, what better way to handle such a delicate and precarious situation, than to turn your media pit-bull loose on the very same people you now depend on for your own survival? And without whose support you will have already lost the race before the starting pistol is even fired…?

Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps it’s my fault for always expecting things to make at least a tiny bit of sense. Perhaps I attribute too much intelligence and clear strategic thinking, to situations characterised by the conspicuous absence of both. But in the 15 years I’ve been closely following Maltese politics – during the course of which I have witnessed any amount of daft and stupid things – nothing quite competes with Daphne Caruana Galizia’s sustained attacks on Jeffrey and Jesmond this past week (not to mention their children/wives/mothers/mothers-in-law – delete where appropriate) for sheer, demented nonsensicality.

I mean, seriously. What on earth could she possibly have hoped to gain, by egging on two visibly irate backbenchers, and practically daring them to launch themselves headlong into the Franco revolution?

Hang on, wait: that was a silly question – it presumes that there is still a vestige of sanity left in that particular head, despite the staggering, overwhelming evidence to the contrary. No, the real question ought to be: what does Lawrence Gonzi and/or the Nationalist Party hope to gain, by permitting such attacks on the very people whose support is so desperately needed if they are to cling on to power? How can this strategy possibly translate into anything but defeat, for a man who has already lost his parliamentary majority… and therefore cannot realistically afford to piss off any more of his already exasperated colleagues…?

Honestly, I have looked at this question from every conceivable angle, and there is not a single one that makes even an iota of sense… unless, of course, it is all part of a sinister and bizarrely far-fetched plot, hatched by the madwoman herself to destroy Gonzi utterly (for reasons that require a dark and twisted mind to even begin to understand).

And then, out of nowhere, it suddenly hit me. There is an explanation for the otherwise nonsensical state of affairs; an explanation only makes sense when viewed in the context of LOSS (which, let’s face it, is exactly what the present political situation is all about).

OK, we are now leaving the realm of rumour and gossip, and entering instead the territory of conjecture and interpretation. According to my interpretation (this being my column, and all), Lawrence Gonzi has not only managed to lose his one-seat majority in the House of Representatives; he has now also lost what little control he might once have had over the monster he and his henchmen created in their secret core strategy laboratory.

I can see it all now: that classic ‘Houston we have a problem’ moment, when Gordon Pisani turns to the Prime Minister, and ashen-faced speaks unto him thus:

“Sir – Remember that top secret experiment we conducted some years ago? The one in which we created a hybrid media aberration that would instantly tear into all your political enemies – even friends, if they so much as dreamed of ever criticising you… and rip them limb to limb, before turning her attention to their mothers, their fathers, their children, their grand-children, and all their dead relatives, and so on ad infinitum? Well, she’s kind of lost the plot, I’m afraid. It seems she is no longer responding to our commands, and is now simply attacking everyone and everything, whether it’s in our interest or not. I fear it’s only a matter of time before she finally turns on us, too…”

To which Lawrence, equally ashen-faced, promptly replies:

“I see. Tell Richard to get the escape pod ready. We’ll start the evacuation procedure immediately…”

Ah yes. It’s all so… predictable, isn’t it? In a B-movie kind of way, I mean. But back to reality, and the Prime Minister’s now total loss of control – of parliament, of government, of his own media strategy: in short, of everything – is now becoming more painstakingly visible by the minute. Remember, for instance, how just last Sunday Lawrence Gonzi made a public appeal for ‘all personal attacks’ on Franco Debono to stop? Well… not only did the personal attacks spectacularly fail to stop as requested; but they actually intensified alarmingly over the next few days, reaching a rough tally of around 15 a day (and counting).

It’s almost as though there was a sort of warped reverse psychology at work behind the scenes: on the rare occasion that Gonzi actually makes his intentions rather clear… what happens, if not the very opposite of what he actually wants to happen?

Andrew Borg Cardona’s extra-sensory perceptions

Many people are right when they comment about how the standards of the Times of Malta have fallen these past years.

It’s incredible.
The questions which were put to Joseph Muscat during a genuine interview are in bold.
The answers following are not Joseph Muscat’s genuine answers but what Dr Andrew Borg Cardona “mind-read” through immense extra-sensory efforts of his.

ABC reading Joseph Muscat's mind

In reality what he wrote is only a failed attempt at satire to cover up what would otherwise be putting his own words in Joseph Muscat’s mouth.

The answers which ABC  “mind-read” out of Joseph Muscat, are nothing but what ABC and his ilk so desperately wish the rest of the Maltese population to believe.

Like their theory of attributing Franco Debono’s actions to old school rivalry with Joseph Muscat rather than due to being fed up with the flawed ‘puppet-on-a-string’ leadership maneuvered by a clique within the PN. The most laughably unlikely of theories: sure, Franco Debono destroyed his very own future with the PN out of spite against Joseph Muscat. Oh, and he did so also in order to become a minister. Or was it, according to the last one by Beppe Fenech Adami, that he did so in order to become Prime Minister and to make Beppe minister for justice?

Here’s ABC’s mind-reading session reproduced below to spare you clicking other links. The author still thinks that the Maltese population has a lower IQ than a hen. And that the elite creme de la creme PN clique have a higher IQ than the back-benchers of Parliament. Wishful thinking dott! We know parrots and parroting have become fashionable lately but please next time try writing something funnier instead of parroting what’s being churned out by the PN propaganda machine.

I hope ABC takes this criticism of mine in good stride and doesn’t get overly offended. Like his blog-mate Daphne he’s quite an excellent writer as long as politics is not a topic, I’m not being ironic here because I do respect their eloquence and ways of tackling a topic.
However at the very mention of politics both come out as subtle, objective, reasonable and believable as Squidward writing on Spongbob’s best features*,  hence undoing the reputation they’ve been building for years within a couple of minutes. One has to admit that political satire is far from being their forte.

For your convenience and reading pleasure, I’ve reproduced the question in bold, after which the Thoughts of the Leader appear.  For the actual answer given, you’ll have to do your own digging.

The timing of the vote of no confidence is being interpreted by the PN as a sign of hunger for power on your behalf. Don’t you think this PN strategy could eventually work against you? Hmm, he knows I didn’t really think this one through, especially with Franco starting to mess me around again – I should have been nicer to him at St Aloysius…

The PN only called a vote of no confidence the following March and that was linked to Mr Mintoff’s abstention to a vote on foreign policy. You’ve pounced at the opportunity after a couple of weeks.  What do you mean, it’s already been a couple of weeks?  I want to be Prime Minister and I want to be it now, darn it…

So you’re saying the PN should also have called a vote of no confidence in late 1997.  Well, if they had, we wouldn’t be messing around, I’d be Prime Minister already, but I can’t say that…

How will the Labour Party react if Franco Debono abstains from Thursday’s vote? I shouldn’t say we’ll weep and wail and we’ll stamp our feet, should I? Oh well, back to the instability issue: I wish he’d get off this tack.

Are you saying the situation will remain unresolved even if Dr Debono supports the government on Thursday? Get off this line, already – I can’t bear to think what will happen if Franco doesn’t bring the Government crashing down next week, I need to be PM and I need it now. I’ll spin the investment line, that always sounds good.

The PL has evidently jumped on the Debono bandwagon. Be honest, do you think Debono’s demands and ways are justified?  Does this guy think I’m a total idiot?  It’s only the Lil’Elves, bless’em, who think Franco makes sense – I’ve known him too long – flipping heck, way too long – to risk being seen in the same neck of the woods as him.

How would you react if one of your MPS acts this way when you’re PM? I’ll belabour him or her about the head with a rolled up copy of the Orizzont, that’s what I’ll do, but I can’t say that, so it’s back to blaming Gooonzi.

Considering the global problems, does it pay the PL to go for an election now? Who does this guy think I am, Edward Scicluna or something. How the heck am I supposed to know about global problems, it’s all I can do to focus on local ones?  I’ll just say we’re ready to govern, no-one will know different and by the time we’re in, it will be too late.

At what point has your electoral manifesto reached? Again, does this guy not know who I am?  Better dump it onto Karmenu Vella, he’s old enough not to mind taking the blame.

You said the PL is the underdog in this election.  Damn it, are they never going to let me forget this one?  Yes, we’re the underdog, because the electorate isn’t stupid and it’s made it clear to us so many times that I’ve lost count.

You might say you’re not taking things for granted, but in the party there’s strong optimism. MP George Vella has even referred to you as the “Prime Minister”. Well, wasn’t he right to do so?  He’ll have to get used to it … but wait, I can’t look over-confident, dial it back.

MEP Simon Busuttil said: “Muscat walks like a Nationalist, talks like one. He even dresses up like one. But he does not have PN policies. Correction – he does not have any policies.” Do you have policies?  Policies?  Now there’s an interesting idea, I suppose we should get some.  I wonder if I can remind people I used to be in Brussels, maybe they’ll forget I tried so hard not to be.

So are you saying the government’s track record on the economy – which is its biggest propaganda call – false?  Ouch, this one hurts, I’ll just chuck him a one-liner “Ask the people out there” will sound nice.

Do you fear the people might ultimately vote for continuity, a ‘ safe’ government for the economy?  Have I been talking in my sleep or something – what do you think is one of my biggest fears?  I’ve got to get the house swept again, the klikka must have bugged it.  All I can do is waffle, and I’m even starting to bore myself.  I’ll tell him to look at our track record.

What track record? You’re in Opposition and you only get a track record when you’re put to the test.  Bugger, I didn’t think of that answer – time to wheel out the past, and when they shove it back in our faces, I’ll rely on the chorus-girls to screech that we’re living in the present.

What’s the first thing your government will do for the economy? Bingo, water and electricity diversion time.

Last November, you had told me you will divulge the plans on how to slash rates when the time is right. With an early election looking likely, is it the right time? Keep hoping, chummy, I’m not as stupid as some of my Lil’Elves sound.

‘When the time is right.’ When is the time right?  And now for one of my specials: “The time is right when it will be right.”   Hang on, is that an oxymoron?  No, it’s a statement of the bleedin’ obvious, so that’s ok then.

When? Weeks, months before the election?  Enough of this, shut up. Shut up, shut up, shut up.

Almost always, elections will also be fought on the strength of the leaders. Will your young age put you at a disadvantage with voters?  And your point is?  Stand by to be dazzled with a good dose of “me, me, me”, if Franco can do it, I can do it standing on my head, although he got better marks than me in Form Two.

What would you tell those voters who are saying the PL cannot guarantee the continuity they clamour? Now there’s a thought, people not thinking I’m the best thing since sliced bread.  How could they?  Back to the stability line, I like it.

And you are ready to govern. Gagging for it, matey, gagging for it.

* Squidward Quincy Tentacles is SpongeBob and Patrick’s next-door neighbor; an ill-tempered, grouchy octopus with a large nose and a rather snobby attitude. He adores playing his cherished clarinet, which he has been shown to bring to bed with him at night sometimes, and loves to paint self-portraits in all sorts of different artistic styles, which he hangs up all around the walls of his Easter Island head house. He abhors SpongeBob and Patrick for their irritating, disruptive personalities and would rather lead a peaceful life as a famed musician and painter instead of as a cashier at the Krusty Krab, which is his current occupation. Source.

Vince Farrugia used Daphne Caruana Galizia to hit out at Sandro Chetcuti – defence

Straight from the mouth of a local paper unaffiliated with any political party (click here for more details):

 

The SMS messages sent out by GRTU director Vince Farrugia in the wake of his assault show he was in contact with a third party, asking him to influence Malta Independent columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia to undermine his aggressor Sandro Chetcuti in her blog, the defence counsel told the court in the compilation of evidence against Chetcuti.

Lawyer Manwel Mallia was reacting to an objection by Farrugia’s legal counsel, who asked the court presiding over the prosecution of Sandro Chetcuti, to ban the publication of his client’s SMS text messages in the press.

The text messages, which have been published in MaltaToday, are part of the evidence brought by the defence in the prosecution of former GRTU director Sandro Chetcuti, who is accused with the attempted murder of Farrugia after assaulting him in the Valletta offices of the GRTU.

Dr Chris Busietta, appearing in parte civile for Farrugia, said a newspaper was publishing “irrelevant details” and defying a court order by publishing the text messages.

Chetcuti’s defence lawyer Manwel Mallia hit back at Busietta, saying the text messages revealed Vince Farrugia’s “manipulative” character.

“Who do you people think you are? Where do you think are in, a communist state? What is your client trying to hide?” Mallia said.

“The text messages show how Vince Farrugia tried to influence the media and amplify a simple case of slight injury into attempted murder,” Mallia said.

Mallia added that the texts show Vince Farrugia was in contact with a third party, urging him to instruct Malta Independent columnist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia to hit out at Sandro Chetcuti, himself, and other people.

“This is filth and Vince Farrugia wants to hide from it but he can’t hide from it and I won’t let him use a GRTU publication to continue his campaign,” Mallia said, referring to a recent outburst against Mediatoday managing editor Saviour Balzan in the GRTU’s pamphlet.

“I will defend every journalist’s right to publish the material Vince Farrugia himself chose to write… this is what you get in a communist state, using power and influence to get your way against people.”

Mallia also accused Vince Farrugia of using Caruana Galizia to fuel her blog in using is to “destroy other people and spread venom… so who wants to stop the media now? Is Vince Farrugia regretting it?”

I’ll leave it to the readers  to conclude whether Daphne Caruana Galizia writes her articles independently to reflect her own thoughts. Or whether she’s guided or sadly manipulated by other people who dicatate what to write and on whom.

So it’s Franco Debono who’s insane, huh? (An open letter to Daphne Caruana Galizia and her mentors.)

Oh and while you’re at it, add to the mélange Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, Jesmond Mugliett, John Dalli, Robert Arrigo, Jean Pierre Farrugia, Guido De Marco (RIP), and even other people not having ever formed part of parliament like Robert Musumeci and John Bundy.

They’re all insane. Bat-shit crazy people who dare have a different opinion to that of Dr Lawrence Gonzi our Great Leader!

And guess who declared so?

To add insult to injury, just today  Dr Austin Gatt parroted back her very same words to the public.

It seems to be fashionable to play parrot lately. . .

DCG: Austin, repeat after me “Franco Debono is insane”.
Austin: “Franco Debono is insane.  .  Franco Debono is insane.  .  Franco Debono is insane.  . “

I have great respect for women especially those older than my own mother, as you are. So don’t interpret my blog as being somehow racist against menopausal women in their early 50’s or so because I’m just stating the facts here.

It’s not normal for a person to churn out 140 (yes an entire one hundred and forty) blog posts in less than 15 days. That comes up to 10 or 11 articles a day. Assuming you sleep for eight hours like a normal person does, in your 16 hours awake you write a blog every 30 or 40 minutes. Add to that having to moderate heavily the posts which you choose to show to your readers, being very careful to remove all those which might instil some doubt to your argument or for which you don’t have an answer, and keeping the ones with enough spelling and grammar mistakes so that you can spend even more minutes and hours criticising at length focusing on ‘ignorance’, ‘elvishness’, or whatever you call it  . . .

Daphne, are you even living your life? Are you enjoying any life at all? Are you doing anything else worth in your life in those 30 minutes between each blog? Writing continually on the same topics with no break in between. . .  hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year can’t do good to your psyche.

The only difference is the dangling cigarette and the lack of a glass of good Merlot. So be careful, or you might grow a beard! *wink*

Don’t misinterpret me please. I do not want to “stop you” or to have you accuse me of anything fictitional like having the PL wanting to stop you or whatever.. As you usually say, KIJP IT APP, and that’s what I say too: you’re the best asset the PL can have.  Go – go – go . . .  . . Daphne you’re the best!

But politics apart, do take care of yourself too. An intelligent person like yourself doesn’t deserve to remain stuck in a rut like this.

By the way, I also wrote all this in less than 2 minutes.  Add to that the couple of seconds needed to search for the images and have them uploaded here (thanks Melita for the great service).  But to spend all your waking time working on a blog, thinking about nothing else during the entire day, and probably dreaming about it while asleep? No way, thanks. Even if one’s really sane, he or she won’t remain so for long after 4 years without any break.

The Times of Malta’s poll is a tampered failed gimmick!

Have you ever realised that if you clear your internet browsing history and re-open your browser you can vote again? And again… and again?
This is apparently well-known because I read about it elsewhere and decided to try it myself. Amazing, for the standards such a news-site expects of itself.

But that’s nothing.

Apart from having die-hards on some particular issue voting multiple times a day, and their family and friends doing the same, check this out:

I was curious to see what was the difference in percentages between the people voting to “delay a general election as much as possible” and those who either want a snap election now, a confidence vote in Parliament or the Prime Minister’s resignation.

Since the former is 53%, the other three should add up to 47%.

But.

27 + 14 + 4  =  45!

Where did the other 2% go? That’s a total of 385 votes which went to oblivion.

If the minds behind the poll’s software can’t even get their additions right (or at least be bright enough to hide the tampering), I can’t imagine the correctness of such polls themselves, they’re just a FAILED GIMMICK with a hidden agenda!

What being a politician means for the P.N.

One gaffe after the other:

Literally translated, the above headline is accusing Franco Debono of wanting to eat all the ‘food’ by himself.

A large freudian slip which unfortunately shows what being a politician means to the PN.

On being elected they are seated at a buffet table full of nice ‘goodies’.

In their vain effort to discredit Franco Debono, a new accusation cropped up: that of wanting to take all the ‘goodies’ for himself.

Weren’t it so sad that our politicians think of their job as a “plate of goodies” one might even start pitying them for fighting on who gets allowed to grab the most lucrative morsels.
This is in stark contrast to the same Franco Debono’s declaration that for him being a politician means he’s there to serve, and not to be served.

Quite some food for thought (no pun intended), what do you think?

And by the way, it’s “jrid” not “irid” because Debono ends with a vowel. And also, “mill-platt” not “mil-platt”, the latter doesn’t even exist unless the word to which the article refers starts with an “l” and everyone knows very well that the word “platt” starts with a “p”. Ahem..

 

Lessons on how to counter-argument: by Daphne Caruana Galizia

Need some ideas on how to offer a sophisticated and intelligent argument against what Dr Franco Debono is accusing the government?

Look no further.

Of course she’s right. Dr Debono’s accusations of the PN being internally divided, that there’s a clique of 3 or 4 people pulling the PM’s strings, and that consequently the democracy and stability of the country are suffering are all fruits of Franco’s imagination and no problems exist at all.
Franco is insane to allow such thoughts, and to act on them.

A sane person doesn’t discuss or write about democracy, or about how to make the country a better place, or how to fight corruption and preferential treatments, or how to be of service to the people instead of expecting to be served and fill one’s pockets.

Here’s what a sane person should write about:

Franco Debono

While not renowned for having a sweet silver tongue and probably as notorious as heavy-weight Austin Gatt for being vehemently out-spoken and lacking diplomacy, Franco Debono is well-known as a sincere person and one who does not beat around the bush. That’s what irked Lawrence Gonzi and his circle of faithfuls, and I don’t blame them.

No political party likes having its dirty linen paraded in public. It hurts much more when done by a member of their own.

Few, if any, know for how long Franco Debono had been working and finding opposition/unappreciation for his ideas and suggestions before ‘the volcano erupted’.

What’s pretty sure is that incidents like this one do not happen overnight. The pot had been boiling for months.

Not the best analogy, but taking the scenario of husband and wife they wouldn’t go filing for divorce upon their first disagreement would they?

On 3rd November I wrote about Lawrence Gonzi calling a general election being the best way to get the his party back in order. That was more than two months ago, and even months before that general disagreements between cabinet and the back-benchers were already being leaked out to the general public.

I don’t think Franco is alone but not everyone has the guts or can afford to go all the way out like he did. They don’t want to ruin their political future, and ultimately no one can blame them.

The PN is shooting itself in the foot by insisting that Franco’s actions are all “for his personal gain”.

Why?
– First of all, he insisted not once, not twice and more than thrice that he never expected to be promoted to minister.
– Secondly had his sole aim been that of getting higher up in the party’s ranks (as he’s been accused of) he’d just have played along the rules of the game pleasing the bosses all the way.
– Thirdly, he clarified more than once that he had informed the PM on his position before the cabinet reshuffle was announced.

If you still feel Franco Debono’s aim is only his own personal gain, forget points one and three above and let’s focus on point two: imagine the scenario of a company employee who’s suspecting that some of his work-mates are getting preferential treatment. He loves his job and he wants wage increases and promotions like his peers. Let’s even for argument’s sake say that his dream is to climb so high up in the ladder to become a company manager, and perhaps one day he might even become director. Let’s imagine that he’s only after personal gain/promotion/money and nothing else, similar to the accusations currently brought by the PN against Franco Debono. Do you think he’d go all out in public accusing his boss of preferential treatments? Do you think that this employee, who wants a higher pay, a managerial position and who ultimately dreams of being one of the directors himself would be reporting his boss to his trade union or to the regulatory agencies? No because by doing so even his current position would be compromised!

Franco did what he did because being a sincere and out-spoken person he just couldn’t bear the hypocrisy, the closed-clique manoeuvres, any longer. He did not do so to overthrow the government and neither because he wanted to become a minister. He spoke up because his interests in the country and the way it is being governed have a much larger priority for him than his own political future!

Franco would have done the same had the government enjoyed a 3 or 5 seat majority. He’d have made himself heard just the same, but probably little or no panic would have arisen.

It’s nobody’s fault (except that of the PN itself) that the PN managed to garner only a single seat majority by barely winning the last election with slightly more than a thousand votes, secured by not updating the electoral register and hence leaving more than three thousand young people unable to exercise their voting rights. But let’s not digress.

The instability Malta is facing is solely the PN’s fault, brought upon themselves through maladministration and incorrect practice. It’s very rare that a politician, whether a budding or an established one, finds the guts to risk his political future in order to protest and make his voice heard against the ingrained maladministration of his superiors.

Browsing the internet, one finds conflicting attempts at explaining what is happening. Yesterday on maltarightnow.com – headlines about the opposition leader Joseph Muscat ‘helping’ Franco Debono.
Other blogs of similar political affiliation say that Franco’s actions are just to spite Joseph Muscat because they were in the same class at school twenty-five years ago. Who to believe?

Even if you’re seeing Franco as the devil incarnate at this moment for spoiling the PN out of its last 15 months of governance, I’m sure the large majority of PN supporters do not condone the dragging into the discussion of Franco’s  family members, girlfriend, and last but not least the continuous allegations of insanity against him. This really hit rock bottom and only helps to illustrate the absence of real and constructive arguments available to counteract what Franco is saying.

Intelligent people fight arguments with arguments. They shouldn’t stoop so low as to resort to personal attacks:  “you’re insane and should be locked up”, or “your girlfriend should leave you”, or “your mother’s hairstyle makes her look like a chav”.

What’s sad here is that for the PN media, the absence of good arguments to counteract those of Franco’s, apparently justify hitting hard below the belt. It was either that, or losing their last 15 months in power. And they concluded that it’s better to try to destroy a person’s reputation and inflict as much hatred as possible by directly bullying him and the ones close to him, rather than risk losing their last 15 months of fun.
And it’s not me who said this first:

Inevitably, some might accuse me of writing this blog because I don’t sympathise with the PN. That’s not the point. The country needs stability. The country needs democracy. It’s not democratic to try to shut someone up through bullying him and members of his family. I was still very young then but looking in retrospect Alfred Sant did the right thing in 1998 albeit the situation (it was over the Cottonera Marina development wasn’t it?) wasn’t as serious as this one (in fact then a PN government got elected and the Cottonera project continued as if nothing had happened). For the sake of democracy and stability, for the sake of jobs and investment, not only we but also the rest of the world needs to know where this country is heading. We can’t afford to have a caretaker “non-“government impotent for 15 months insisting on clutching frantically to the last straw for power till the end.

Silence, please! And some respect.

2012 started on a sour tone. Especially for the family and close friends of both Duncan Zammit and Nicholas Gera. .

Murders are relatively rare in Malta. Especially double murders. And especially double murders committed on the first day of a new year.

People mourn when their elderly relatives die of natural causes.
Imagine the distress when young adults die.
When young adults get killed. Their life got stolen.
Imagine the parents’ sorrow… They who always expected to go through their own demise long before their offsprings’.
Imagine the wife’s sorrow, she who surely believed they would be a happy family together enjoying grand-children and great-grand-children while in their 80’s and beyond.
Imagine the children’s sorrow, when one day they’d realise why daddy’s not there with them. And they don’t even remember him holding them, feeding them or playing with them. Their sole solace would only be the photos he so lovingly took…
Imagine the torture all these people would go through every first day of January throughout their whole lives. When everyone is celebrating the new year. When all the streets are lit up, and everybody else is happy…

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What prompted me to write this out, apart from the reality-check above, is the irascible and callous way this issue is being politicised.
I’m the type of guy who reads all online news –  timesofmalta.com, maltarightnow.com, di-ve.com, maltatoday.com.mt, maltastar.com, and knowing that he’s got a penchant for crime I also checked out johnpisani.net who not surprisingly had the most extensive reportage surpassing all the rest put together.

Now by politicised I do not mean the news reportages themselves were politicised.

After all, all news reported on all websites I mentioned above quoted “the police” as their source.

If anything was not as it was supposed to be, the police should take action. And they should be doing so immediately if such is the case. No one should bother on opinions or hearsay on some blog or its comments. Blogs are there to convey opinions, but news are there to convey real facts. Hence where news are reported it’s adamant that the journalists concerned remain 100% faithful to their sources. Everyone ‘believes’ news to a certain extent, but blogs and comments should be taken with a pinch of salt.

What made me nearly vomit were some of the replies allowed on the comment boards of some online media and a couple  of blogs which pride themselves on being “heavily moderated”. (sic)

Suffice it to say that without going into the merits of the case at all, one can arrive to conclusions not only as to the writers’ political preferences but also at the political preferences of the repliers and of the victims themselves. Not nice at all, especially when such a sensitive case is under discussion.

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Whatever happened it’s extremely sad.

If we let the police do their job without political interference, their job would be easier, faster, and would have less impact and drama on any of the grieving relatives..

God Bless and Happy New Year.

LLB 2011 graduates meet the Prime Minister at the Nationalist Party’s H.Q.

Click here for video.

Of all the graduates who went to the P.N.’s ‘Dar Centrali’ to meet the Prime Minister Dr. Lawrence Gonzi, whose behaviour do you think was most becoming for a university graduate?

Watch the video, and check who’s not drunkenly shouting, beer-can or whisky in hand, “boo Labour” or “vivaa Gonziii”, and who’s not inebriated enough to strip to a t-shirt rather than don appropriate clothing for the month of December.

 

I wonder what booing a political party had to do with them celebrating their graduation, but anyway congratulations to you all friends!

And we must admit, Charlon Gouder showed guts in joining this to meet the Prime Minister at his political party’s general headquarters rather than at the Office of the Prime Minister where Dr Lawrence Gonzi could have congratulated the graduates in his official capacity rather than using this redneck way.

 

Consuelo Scerri Herrera shows her true self

At last.

I was wondering how come a Magistrate sued a gossip-journalist for libel. Such people (and I’m referring to the latter) allow their digits to tap-tap along according to their mood – straight from finger to keyboard, missing the brain on the way.

It doesn’t help much when the fingers tapping belong to some woman at the apex of her menopausal crisis either.

But the reason dawned on me when I read the culprit statement on which the libel case was based: that the Magistrate held parties where “talcum-powder” flowed freely.

We all know that everyone and their grandparents would be preferring a Vodka and Red Bull over talcum powder at a party. Unless they’re babysitting a chafed baby at the same time.
Especially parties hosted by a Magistrate where the main purpose is to collect money for charity.

One has to be really dumb and crazy (or hormonal) to suggest that hard drugs are flowing during a party held to raise funds for charity, and moreso publicised as such.
Any further comment would be superfluous.

Now I don’t blame Dr. Scerri Herrera for instituting the case in the first place.

Daphne herself admitted she never meant to equate talcum-powder to cocaine and probably the Magistrate herself sighed a sigh of relief herself.  Daphne gave a bland excuse that she never meant saying talcum powder at all but wanted to say that the Magistrate uses deodorant. (What a sick and sorry excuse Daphne!)

As did all of us – our lawfully paid taxes are going  for this woman’s privilege to have a policeman guarding her door 24/7 while inventing gossipy stories about others, attempting to ruin their reputation in the process, just because they don’t agree on her political stance?

And what’s the result? She invents gossip on her blog and then attempts to give frivolous excuses in court to try to make up for her loose and unleashed tongue.

Just get this: she first uncovered Lou Bondi and his partner Rachel who were attending a charity dinner hosted by the Magistrate. During this charity dinner, Daphne got mentioned for throwing cutlery and dinnerware at her husband who lodged a complaint at the Mosta Police Station against  her.

Lou and Rachel, who were cordially invited to the above charity dinner, sought the occasion to go to the bathroom in the Magistrate’s house and phone Daphne about the conversation.

Understandably due to  Daphne hormones at al going berserk, and she launched a full-fledged attack against Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera, a very impartial and impeccable Magistrate.

Was it because Magistrate Herrera’s brother is  a PL candidate?

Was it because Daphne’s violent marital turmoil got mentioned during this charity dinner and made newspaper headlines the following day?

Daphne herself insists that the Magistrate started criminal procedures against her only because she blogged about her backside being the size of a bus (s…i…g…h…)
I had been thinking about not writing anymore after getting a couple of good threats myself but I couldn’t get this one pass.

I’ll let you readers conclude .

If the Government falls, wouldn’t someone be ready to pick it up? So why the panic?

(With no apologies to who doesn’t get the sarcasm in the title.)

So one Nationalist MP isn’t agreeing with the government on a particular issue.

As a result, everything is boiling over.

Andrew Borg Cardona and Lou Bonzi’ are working overtime, with the latter embarrassingly sharing how pissed off he feels for Franco Debono not attending his Gondi’+ program on the national television station tonight.

For the first time in history, Daphne’s lagging behind by repetitively pondering, discussing and analysing, blog upon blog, again and yet again Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, his “makk of Earl Grey” tea (ghidli fuq x’hiex ser tpatpat meta m’ghandhekx ma x’hiex taqbad.. anke l-isem tat-te’ li jixrob taha f’ghajnha!) the “ignorent lejjberristi hawswajvs” who comment on his blog, and wait for it because you won’t believe this one –  “il-pettsss ta Jeffri”.

But let’s depart from lowly gossip and resume discussing current affairs, which after all is what this blog should be about:

Is the P.M. Dr.Gonzi a man of enough courage to do as Alfred Sant did in 2008? Upon seeing that that there was no confidence in his government Dr. Sant did the the honourable thing – dissolved his government and called for a general election, albeit he had  been governing for less than 2 years, albeit it meant accepting defeat. Does Dr.Lawrence Gonzi have the guts to take the bull by the horns, and understand the meaning of the vote of no confidence for what it is? Will he accept defeat in the half-hearted way his predecessor did when he described his own electoral defeat as a “photo-finish result”? Or has being in government for a quarter of a century given the P.M. and those in his clique a serious infection of what we describe as the “Ala l’maws” attitude?

Let’s wait and see.. But whatever the result, the shame of rejection will always remain there, and everybody knows about it.

STOP writing now – No sorry I don’t think I will. Even if you intimidate third parties with court action.

Apologies for writing this post in my native language, I’ll try to find the time to translate it for the benefit of my English readers:

Nahseb qed inpaxxi lil min ma jixraqlux ikun paxxut pero’ ddejjaqt nircievi rapporti li jew ghandi profile falz fuq facebook, jew li l-facebook tieghi gie mnehhi ghax kont qed nirreklama xi ditta, u jew haga jew ohra. U aktar iddejjaqt nircievi theddid biex nieqaf, kliem fahxi u oxxen indirizzat lili u lil familti, u dagha sfrenat fuq dan il-blog.

Nippreferi li nies bhal dawn ma jaqrawhx.

Wara kollox, zgur mhux ser idawru fehmithom bl-opinjoni tieghi!

Meta jaqraw isiru rrabjati hafna, u jien l-iskop tieghi mhux li nindanna lill-nies bhal dawn, imma li bniedem ikun jista’ jaqra’ b’mod oggettiv l-opinjonijiet tieghi u jasal ghall-konkluzjonijiet tieghu.

Ghalhekk iddecidejt biex ghal ftit sieghat biss naghmel dan il-blog privat, ghalkemm temporanjament sakemm il-qiegha ma tibqax daqsekk tahraq.. Nghidilkom li straht ghal ftit sighat, u skuzawni tal-inkonvenjent, imma wara li DCG qalet fuq il-blog taghha li baghtet lill-pulizija wara JPO ghas-semplici fatt li jien tfajt link minn fuq website ohra fuq il-wall tal-facebook tieghu, ma nafx – jew ghax nirrispetta lil haddiehor jew ikolli nammetti li rnexxielha tintimidani.  Jien ma rridx inkun kagun li xi hadd jispicca tiela’ u niezel il-qorti kawza ta’ link ikkwotata minn fuq website ohra li hi miftuha ghal kulhadd biex jaqra.

Araw it-theddida hawn (click image to read it):

Unbelievable. Today she edited out her post to remove the source link to tasteyourownmedicine.com

Below is a screenshot of “today’s” edited blog, compare and contrast with above screenshot (Which I had put up hours before she blogged about it). And note that the link from which I had quoted my entire post is entirely missing from the screenshot below!

Note how the "source" of my writing suddenly vanished.

Very unprofessional, she makes it seem as if I wrote everything myself. I hope she won’t be accusing me of plagiarising next!

U din kienet is-site li tfajt il-link taghha fuq facebook. Artiklu li ma ktibtux jien (ahseb wara kemm seta’  kitbu Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando) u li tajt il-kreditu talli kkupjajtu billi tfajt link diretta ghall-istess artiklu fl-istess kumment tieghi.

Forsi l-quddiem insib il-kuragg li ma nibzax mill-intimidazzjonijiet, la fuqi u lanqas fuq haddiehor.U ma nergax inwaqqaf il-blog tieghi minhabba okkazjoniet bhal dawn.

Jien bniedem li l-politika nohodha, kif ighidu, “with a pinch of salt”. Ma nemminx li, biex nghidha bil-Malti pur, kif tboss bassa ghandhek ssib ruhhek quddiem imhallef, b’xi multa ta’ Gesu’ Kristu jew sentenza ta’ habs fuq rasek. Pero’ milli jidher bosta minn dawk li jiktbu l-opinjonijiet taghhom fuq l-internet bhal ma naghmel jien jahsbuha mod iehor.

Nirringrazzjakhom ta’ ‘l fuq minn hamsin messagg ta’ nkoraggiment li rcevejt fuq il-facebook tieghi biex inkompli. Nammetti li kienet sorpriza li qatt ma stennejt. Grazzi hbieb!

Daphne says Dr Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and Dr Alfred Sant are alcoholics.

Just in time for Halloween I might say.

I’ll spare you the trouble from clicking DCG’s post by quoting it in its entirety below.

This should also show the old lady that yes, all those who do not agree with her views, like we do, find her bogging blogging as absolutely hilarious ramblings.

They’re fun to read.

So please, let us tell DCG, using her own mangled words, to KIIIJJJP ITTTT UPPP PLLLIIIJJJSSS!!!1!!11! or whatever.

As long as we’re on the same wavelength, we’d be fine and still friends. It’s not worth to ruin everything over politics isn’t it?

Anyway, here goes, enjoy the show:

If you go to Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s Facebook wall, you’ll find that he’s probably spent his Sunday afternoon knocking back the whisky. Again.

You can always tell when he’s fallen off the wagon, and it’s usually late at night or on the weekend.

That’s the trouble when people use Facebook as their live diary, telling us when they’ve been pulling teeth or drinking tea or walking or making breakfast or reading in bed.

They also tell us when you’ve been drinking, but they’re not aware of it.

Jeffrey Facebook wall is full of references to his favourite drink, Earl Grey tea (in a mug, for crying out loud, which is strictly for builder’s tea), but that’s not his favourite drink at all, is it?

He really is a problem, largely because he’s got so many himself.

He’d get along famously with Alfred Sant, but let’s not go there.

I honestly don’t know what’s happening to this place. Cabin fever or what? Half the country seems to be on anti-depressants or anti-anxiety pills, and most of the the other half seems to be drinking heavily or on cocaine. Now they’re even snorting it in the lavatories at football matches, for heaven’s sake.

The House of Representatives might really be just that: the House of Representatives.

Incredible isn’t it? So in a couple of paragraphs she manages to invent stories on Dr Pullicino Orlando being drunk on whisky while at work (she says while pulling teeth), colluding him with Alfred Sant (remember the pre-1998 lie-campaign focused on inventing Dr Sant being a drunkard… on which he won numerous libel cases albeit too late for the results to be efficient and timely?) And concluding her miserable blog is a reference to ‘snorting’ “it” (whatever it is) as well.

Does this woman have any limits for heaven’s sake? I’d hate to say this but even Bondi Blog is emerging to be more true to actual facts than hers. And that’s a very sorry situation. Very sorry situation indeed.

What are her limits? When she throws plates and cutlery at her husband? I’d really love to know who ‘knocks back the whisky” and even more eager to know who is “on anti-depressants or anti-anxiety pills, (or)  drinking heavily or on cocaine.” For heaven’s sake.

I don’t know why I even bother with this woman’s blog after all. She writes so much silly stuff. Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando has a wide-open defamation case in front of him right now. She presented her evidence clean on a plate. Excuse the pun Dr. Peter Caruana Galizia. Oh, and Happy Halloween, we know you’re really enjoying it so much better than us, lucky guy your wife doesn’t even need a costume to get all the family in the atmosphere. What a pity that all the family has already escaped from Dar Rihana! Home alone for Halloween, trick or treat?

Real reasons why PN wants to equate Gaddafi with the PL.

Gaddafi is dead.

Check the title of DCG’s latest blog…

I won’t elaborate this into a blog, just judge for yourselves:

Sane people would be asking – why the title of “Labour has left the building” instead of “Gaddafi is dead”?

But let us not forget: The real reasons why PN apologists are so eager to equate Gaddafi with Labour. Read on…

“We have to shut this guy up!”

Well this was a great surprise and something which I never expected from the very same PN apologists who strive so hard to ram down people’s throats that they are in favour of freedom of speech. From people who pretend to be shocked when faced with questions on why the present government condones certain blogs which have almost racial tinges where it concerns political party affiliations. Which authors at the very same time break all rules of ethics, netiquette, morality, journalism… you mention it…

Today I went to log into my facebook and was met with the following:

So they managed to destroy my facebook account by leading facebook administrators (hmmm have I ever mentioned that Matthew Caruana Galizia‘s very own employer is facebook?) to believe that I’m using it to promote a brand, business, organisation or idea.

So I now have facebook showing my real name and surname. Barely a couple of minutes passed after contacting some old friends, and I got greeted with this message:

Good work guys. You’re sharp. Oh… and you need a life, separate from staying fixed in front of a laptop monitor googling and searching on facebook and elsewhere where the name “Garnaw” is going to pop up next. Sorry but I have to use your mother’s expression:

SIGH!!!

Thanks for giving me full proof that I’m writing on what matters, in true good sense, and obviously stepping on PN toes.

Had I been writing just fibs and nonsense no one would have bothered with my facebook account created just 2 months ago, considering that a good 35% of facebookers use a pseudonym. Had I wrote gibberish not only wouldn’t they have bothered to FALSELY report my facebook account to be an advertising one, but they’d have filled more than half of their blogs on how some “lejber elve” was writing nonsense.

Sabrina Agius – what happened.

It’s easy to guess what happened in the case of Sabrina Agius’ emails. (Google search on ‘can your employer read your emails).

Apparently the lady was naive enough to use her work computer to log in to her personal gmail email address.

In the light of what happened recently (she filed a protest in the industrial tribunal against RTK over unfair and discriminatory treatment during a selection process to be appointed editor) RTK decided to check their server for what was outgoing and incoming from her computer. That’s why emails from 2010 were leaked only now. The persons in charge of RTK’s servers can do this with relative ease and without any hacking of passwords. But whether it’s legal or not to do so is another argument.

On the other hand, there is the possibility that Ms Agius didn’t send those emails from RTK but from her personal home computer. If this were the case, then yes surely hacking is involved, since in that case the emails wouldn’t be stored in the server at her place of work.

 

[To be continued…]

The Untouchables

It’s amazing how just one sentence uttered during yesterday’s “Inkontri” led to all hell breaking loose in a specific area of the internet blogging arena. DCG wrote 9 blogs in less than 24 hours, ABC another 2 or 3. Lou Bondi… well I didn’t really check the latter’s but presumably he’s still worrying about which excuses to find for kissing catholic crosses and taking religious oaths instead of solemn declarations after declaring that he had been an atheist for long years.

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Back on topic, this time the truth really seared them like a hot iron. And incited  PN apologists to explain themselves, albeit in vain.

Of course they are doing more damage to the PN than to the PL. Ironically they’re harming the political party with which they claim to be so in love.

There are many reasons for this argument but allow me to mention only the ones that spring to mind. I’m not eager to go digging into cesspits right now…

1)  intolerance.
Try to post in Daphne’s blog. No chance at all, your post will be moderated and deleted. She’ll only approve your post if you “rajt juwzing dis tajp of inglixx u tfajjar xi botta baxxa”.  And she’ll comment below your post describing you as a “classic PL voter”. Try it if you want. Send her a reasonable and well-written reply and it’ll vanish into thin air. Then purposely write something using incorrect grammer and she’ll turn the subject of the blog on you and ‘your low I.Q.’.

Or she’d go ‘sighing’, all condescending, and call you an ‘elve’ (sic):

Rachel says:
Tuesday, 18 October at 2028hrs
Daphne – did you or did you not attack Joseph Muscat’s kids? While I cannot stand the guy or most of the PL, you of all people should know what it means to attack children. And if you want to stir controversy try not to do it to the detriment of their children. Stop your personal vendetta. While I, for the most part admire your writing, I… can only despair that a mother should be so bitchy.

[Daphne – Sigh. How does a person attack toddlers, Rachel? Go on, tell me. As for personal vendettas, pop along to Mad Jeff’s Facebook Wall or watch Super One, which gives me more coverage than it does most cabinet ministers. Now pop along, because you’re trying my patience. You don’t for the most part admire my writing. This is an archetypal elve comment.]

2)  lack of respect.
I could quickly find and quote the following instance from Andrew Borg Cardona’s blog, though I remember reading it on another blog or two:
Where he declared that Joseph Muscat’s…

“two deputies think nothing of posing with elephants or doing weird things with puppets”.

Whoa hold the phone! We’re not discussing Cicciolina and horses here and you’re excused for having thought about that first. It was that blogger’s intention after all. The ‘crimes’ involved are:

– Dr Anglu Farrugia posting a picture on the internet of when he was enjoying a private holiday abroad. I don’t care where he was, but apparently elephants were present in the same picture. Had he gone to Australia he’d probably have kangaroos in the same photo… Or a Maltese dog…
– About Dr Toni Abela doing, ermmm “weird things with puppets”, I admit I didn’t see that show but since it was shown on TV and no action was taken against the host then there was nothing wrong, just a relaxing program where you could see a public person laze, joke around, and be fun. No puppets were harmed or abused in the process… (sigh)

3) childish primary-school type name calling.

I’ll refrain from commenting. Enjoy the quotes:

Andrew Borg Cardona:

“you come to conclusion that if this is the person who is going to run the country, it’s time to the head to the hills”

“taking part in this piece of rubbish”

“the ghetto-mentality that still seems to pervade Labour”

“it fitted in with the mind-set of the Lil’Elves who love to stir it up”

Daphne Caruana Galizia:

“Mad Jeff, chairman of the Malta Council of Science and Technology”

“violent Labour halfwit”

“Marlene Mizzi, chief of the Labour Business Forum and a woman pushing 60 who behaves like a 15-year-old girl by photographing her new shoes (with her legs inside them)”

“you Labour voters are slow to catch on”

“She runs two small toy shops, for God’s sake. With that reasoning, you can pick any village shopkeeper and tell them to run a state corporation. Marlene Mizzi is a relentless self-promoter in a fish-bowl where there is no competition. She tells everyone repeatedly that she is a ‘businesswoman’, but nobody bothers to ask what the business is. Two frigging hole-in-the-wall shops.”

“Bundy must be even more dim-witted than immediately obvious if he thought that I might wish to go out of my way to accommodate a televison station that has dedicated a considerable part of its resources to harassing me and members of my family.”

“ja qabda injoranti”

3.1 – liars. One TV harrassing Daphne Caruana Galizia and members of her family? Giving her more coverage than it does most cabinet ministers?
Oh, please!

Blegh that was enough. Any volunteers to quote more immature name-calling, tipo women insulting each other from one balcony to the other’s on the opposite side of some narrow street, are welcome.

4)  the hypocrisy. While on defence, they try to drum into their readers’ minds that since they own their own private companies and aren’t employed by the PN, they should be considered as independent. The hypocrisy is ever apparent throughout. Andrew Borg Cardona is a partner of Daphne’s husband Peter, they run the same law firm together. Daphne writes sbout a magistrate accusing her of ‘stealing’ another woman’s man. Not that we would want to know all gossip like her readers do, but no mention is ever made of Rachel Attard ‘stealing’ Lou from his beautiful wife and children.

5)  creating a rift within the PN.
Or excarbating the already raw and bleeding one.

Attacks on:

Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando (why? ABC and DCG agreed with him even on the divorce issue which was the only instance where Dr Pullicino Orlando thankfully expanded his horizons within the PN)

Dr Franco Debono: attacked for defending Cyrus Engerer (it’s a long story but in short, as soon as this person ‘defected’ [can’t choose a better word!] from the PN suddenly years-old criminal cases started cropping up). The most famous one is a lovers’ rift where the party who felt offended had long since forgiven him and dropped the case.

Dr Jesmond Mugliett and his wife. When her brain cells dry up, Daphne starts writing about them. Who knows why.

Robert Musumeci…

Same goes for Robert Arrigo, with tales being spun on him playing clever on the government as if he were concocting some form of revenge.

John Dalli, google on how he had to resign due to Joe Zahra the private investigator’s report (incidentally Joe Zahra was also employed by Where’s Everybody, the company co-owned by Joe (Peppi) Azzopardi and Lou Bondi…

And the list could go on and on.

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There’s so much more I could reasearch and find, but…

Anyway, one has to really try hard to understand these people.

One might clutch at a straw in despair, but in this case they are literally dunking their very own mates underwater and attempting to drown them in the futile hope of saving the very organisation they and their victims form part of.

It’s a vicious circle where the drowning man tries to save himself by grasping at another man having a heart attack on the shore.

The octopus greedily feeding on it’s own fingers in the belief that it will get larger by doing so.
Wishful thinking.

Pssstt, we fired Matthew Bonanno but it’s all Malta Today’s fault!

Yet again I have to give full points to Mrs Caruana Galizia because she is so right on the ever-lowering standards of The Times of Malta.

Who would ever expect that the Times of Malta’s editor totally ignores what Matthew Bonanno, the journalist he himself fired, had to say and excuses himself ever so pettily by finding a scape-goat? It’s so easy to shift the blame on Malta Today since it’s the only newspaper left on the islands which reports all news and doesn’t care whether they step on anyone’s toes. There’s no better target isn’t there, Mr Bugeja?

Duh, the very editor of the Times of Malta, of all people…

Here are some excerpts from Matt Bonanno’s explanatory letter which he posted on several media, to refresh one’s memory:

“I have no ill feeling towards The Times, especially my former colleagues in the newsroom. Even though I feel my sacking was harsh, I was still on probation and they were well within their rights to give me the boot. The only thing I was disappointed about was not being given the chance to explain myself or apologise, in person. I was of course asked to explain myself via email on Thursday, since I was off that day, but I kept it brief and intended to explain myself fully, in front of the editors, the next day. On Friday, after being left in the newsroom for about 2 hours, I was called to HR and told my probation was terminated with immediate effect.”

and also:

“Neither am I going to be bearing a grudge against the bloggers who blew the incident out of proportion. They do what they do and I should have known better than to give them fuel to fire their own agendas. And before they claim they don’t have an agenda, if Messrs. Bondi and Caruana Galizia were the journalists they claim to be, they would have phoned me to get my side of things before stampeding towards their own, warped conclusions. But that’s not how they work, obviously.”

I took the liberty to bold the above phrase since the Times of Malta’s editor constantly attacked the journalists of a competing and (really) independent paper by concluding all nine paragraphs in his editorial with the same sentence, this being:

“How many real journalists do that?”

I’m not that preposterous to prevent my own readers here to judge and answer for themselves… I only expect journalists to behave like journalists, and not have a ready and written agenda, which they hastily change upon direction from Mr Morgan Freeman……… 😉

But let’s get back to the facts leaving all joking aside. What was the course of action? What really happened?
This happened:

1) Ms Abela Garrett does what she did at university.

2) Suddenly, Daphne Caruana Galizia (the woman who doesn’t even have a facebook account, or so she says) posts a conversation mysteriously taken from Ms Abela Garrett’s facebook wall (which wall she can’t access since she herself doesn’t have a facebook account) where Mr Bonanno happens to mention the already well-publicized fact that Minister Austin Gatt was attending university the following day.

3) A few minutes later Lou Bondi posts a quasi-identical blog to that of his Missus complete with screenshots of the same event.

4) Andrew Borg Cardona first posts a blog on the Times of Malta praising Ms Garrett for her guts. All of a sudden someone gets him to note Mister’s and Madame’s  blogged opinions so he had to gobble everything back and go through the pains of having to write on the same topic yet again, but this time a lengthy eulogy on how bad and evil it was of Nicola’ for not having done everything impromptu, but that she had planned it (using as a source Lou’s and Daphne’s stories) the night before “after she read Matt Bonanno’s comment” about Minister Austin Gatt attending university the following day.

5) The PN propaganda machine, worried about the bad impact this might have on their leader Dr Austin Gatt, spun up the story that Matt Bonanno and Nicola’ Abela Garrett were in cahoots and orchestrated the entire thing in total secrecy. [At night, during a full moon, while sacrificing a delicious fried egg…….. but let’s not get unduly carried away now ;)]

6) Even more out of the blue, the next day Matt Bonanno’s contract of employment with The Times of Malta gets terminated.

Did the editor of the Times of Malta give any reason for Matt Bonanno’s termination of employment?
No.
He only wrote an entire article criticising Malta Today, Malta Today’s editor and Malta Today’s journalists.

Sooooo VERY professional, Mr Editor. So very professional I would adorn your paper with a gold star if I could!
Keep it up and in 2013 you’d have Daphne, Lou, Andrew et al praising you for having helped the PN.

I suggest that Mr. Bugeja, as editor of the Times of Malta tries to refrain from reading any more of Daphne’s blogs where she emphasises that everyone who isn’t very pro-PN has an abnormally low I.Q.
He might get an unexpected surprise.

More hypocrisy at its finest!

From Lou Bondi’s blog:

“In a court case which has dragged on for six years, Toni Abela, the PL leader appearing as a lawyer for the other side, asked the magistrate to give a ruling on my public declaration of atheism. His point was that since I swore on the crucifux, all my testimony
is now called into question.“

Where is this person’s integrity?

He forms part of the same political party which had stirred up a x’gharukaza u x’biza’ storm in a teacup when in 1996 Alfred Sant didn’t kiss the crucifix upon taking office.

Who would you trust the most, a declared atheist who behaves like one?
Or a half-way closeted atheist who for appearance’s and credibility’s sake takes oaths in court by kissing the Catholic Cross as if he fully embraced the Catholic faith?

We have to keep up appearances, Richard!

It can’t be more clear:
If Alfred Sant ma tistax tafdah (cannot be trusted) according to the PN, how much less can a person of no integrity and principle like Lou Bondi can be trusted?

garnaw

It’s amazing how just one sentence uttered during yesterday’s “Inkontri” led to all hell breaking loose in a specific area of the internet blogging arena. DCG wrote 9 blogs in less than 24 hours, ABC another 2 or 3. Lou Bondi… well I didn’t really check the latter’s but presumably he’s still worrying about which excuses to find for kissing catholic crosses and taking religious oaths instead of solemn declarations after declaring that he had been an atheist for long years.

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Back on topic, this time the truth really seared them like a hot iron. And incited  PN apologists to explain themselves, albeit in vain.

Of course they are doing more damage to the PN than to the PL. Ironically they’re harming the political party with which they claim to be so in love.

There are many reasons for this argument but allow me to mention only the ones that spring to mind. I’m not eager to…

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