Comments on: And here’s another one who has no regrets

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:36:20 +0000

@ miriam drago

That because The Professor was busy predicting a Lejber win ruhi, with the braying Justyne leading the charge :p

By: miriam drago

miriam drago — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:23:49 +0000

analyists, of course

By: miriam drago

miriam drago — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:21:15 +0000

@meerkat
come to think of it Edward Scicluna never mentioned this phenomenon. we must have more female election result analysits ha ha ha rega waqa l-ass…. :)

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:15:21 +0000

@ miriam drago

Good one girl! Hekk mela leave such heavy election analysis stuff to drones like Edward Scicluna.

By: miriam drago

miriam drago — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:33:08 +0000

@moderator. Agreed. lamenting means that at least we will be talking about it; we could be lamenting about a much overdue breakthrough. good point.

@meerkat. can’t burn my bra, I’m a 38D. the Sarah joke tickled my funny bone too. good one. thks.

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:20:32 +0000

@ miriam drago

So, since you must be a bra-burning feminist lemme throw this one at ya –

do you know that the first joke in the Bible was cracked by a woman? In Genesis, Sarah, pregnant way past her fertile, childbearing years, named her son Isaac. In Hebrew, ‘Isaac’ means ‘laughter’, because it tickled her funny bone that she had a son in her dotage…Ejja! don’t be so serious about first woman this and first woman that.

By: miriam drago

miriam drago — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:18:38 +0000

wasn’t talking about congratulations. I was talking about mentioning the fact that it happened. It’s an exception and the exception proves the rule. The rule being that we never had casual elections for parliamentary seats made vacant by women. It is not a perception, it is a reality that no woman has ever been elected on two districts until 2008.

[Moderator – Why, when it is normal in the rest of the civilised world? We should instead be lamenting.]

By: miriam drago

miriam drago — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:04:06 +0000

I don’t know what’s all the fuss about the support. Two smart and moderate ladies got elected from two districts this election. I think that’s a first for women which no one has mentioned. We’re always hearing women’s first this and women’s first that. Nothing about this breakthrough though. And it is a breakthrough as it is no joke managing two districts I’m sure. As Marie Louise well knows; when she contested on two districts in 1998,she barely got a few hundred votes on one of them, in fact she was one of the first to be eliminated

[Moderator – No, a first will be when we don’t think that we have to congratulate women any more than we do men. If we do, then we only persist in upholding the perception of women in politics as being handicapped freaks.]

By: Meerkat :)

Meerkat :) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:00:44 +0000

To me MLcP is Cikka ta’ Lahlah personified. This is not a classist remark because I am not exactly blue-bloodied myself (except for my political allegiance) but because she spews out such brainwashed comments that only those of Cikka ta’ Lahlah’s ilk are capable of. Dazgur she has the support of the grassroots, if those at the grassroots speak the same kind of warped lingo.

By: Herbie

Herbie — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:16:09 +0000

Then we get Ms josainne Cassar writing in the Independent on Sunday telling us that the depriviations of the 70’s and 80’s are now passe and she feels sick whenever these issues are brought up. No Ms Cassar these issues are very serious indeed and we should not only not forget them but we must make sure that all future generations are made aware of those years of terror lest one daya they might have to go through them themselves. Remember history tends to repeat itself.