Comments on: Endorsement by a foreign politician is not the same as endorsement by a citizen of your own country

By: Leonard Ellul Bonici

Leonard Ellul Bonici — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:20:22 +0000

@Ray Borg.

Please come back! Amanda, Daphne you should be more empathic with our friend Ray
You hurt his feelings, miskin poor Ray and he s not coming back no more no more.

Hit the road Jack!! Surely he will come back with a different pseudonym. Jack would be appropriate :)

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:05:23 +0000

@Ray Borg: I never said “socialist men”. I mentioned three or four particularly prominent socialist men, who are the exception and not the rule. The rule is that women almost never marry down. They marry sideways or marry up. This is not me saying that, but established fact. Go and ask a few social anthropologists or sociologists, or just look around you, at your friends, family, acquaintances and wider circle.

By: Xaghra

Xaghra — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:09:48 +0000

@Albert Farrugia

Once again I repeat …..

1. How does your argument re Maltese voters returning to vote equate with the heading…

“Endorsement by a foreign politician is not the same as endorsement by a citizen of your own country”

2. …and again – how do you conclude that the majority of returning voters are Nationalist voters?

By: Ray Borg

Ray Borg — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:34:15 +0000

@Amanda Mallia
A thousand apologies for my spelling. I just mislaid my glasses for a moment so you have to bear with me if my fingers miss a key or two. Dear, dear, dear, “contradicting her for nothing”?????? Now where did you pick this sort of syntax? You lapsed into a shortcut to the vernacular “Qed tmerijha ghalxejn” and Deph is not amused about this howler of yours I am sure. Let me give it to you one more time. Daphne said that socialist marry above their station. Then she said that “women women almost never (kwazi qatt)marry men who are considered their social inferiors”. Don’t you realise that these two statement contradict each other and normal couples, meet, fall in love, marry, copulate, fornicate and live happy ever after without the class hang ups and social stationsthat Daphne is so obsessed about. Now I am really exiting left and ain’t coming back no more, no more, no more!

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:11:54 +0000

“Ray Borg” (whatever your real name is) – You said “… and my reading abilies (sic) are sharper than you think…”. Well, not your spelling, it seems!

As for the original argument, “never” means just that – never. “Almost never” and “hardly ever” DO mean the same thing, but they certainly DO NOT mean “never”, so please don’t try to catch me out.

Read Daphne’s comment once again, and you will see that you are contradicting her for nothing, because you are simply misinterpreting what she said.

Incidentally, you seem to know my sister Corinne well enough to call her “Cora”, so I suggest that you stop using a pseudonym. She doesn’t know of any Ray Borg, as far as I know.

As for this “Sister Act” thing – my comment is no less valid simply because I am Daphne’s sister. (I could use a pseudonym like you have done, but see no point.) Likewise should my sister Corinne choose to comment. Oh, and you haven’t yet discovered our fourth sibling, it seems! (Now do get out your Sherlock Holmes hat and magnifying glass – They’d go really well with your habit!)

By: Albert Farrugia

Albert Farrugia — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:58:17 +0000

@Xaghra
Read the report before you begin writing. Jason was the one who decided that rikorsi should not be persued.

By: V. Cauchi

V. Cauchi — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:08:19 +0000

@ D.Fenech
Mr Cutajar says pretty nothing. What Mr Cutajar brings up are politics from the Mintoffian era. The reality to-day is that from Helsinki to Hamrun we are all citizens of the European Union and Martin Schulz came to endorse a member of his parliamentary group in the European Parliament. This case was a breeze in a tea-cup immediately blown cold by Poul Rassmussen in his short but clear reply to Michael Falzon’s silly protest letter that in all honesty I am surprised how the other three contenders added their name to it.

[Moderator – This is becoming really predictable. If you’re going to post elfin comments under different pseudonyms, the least you could do is to use a different computer each time. That way I wouldn’t have known that you and ‘Ray Borg’ are the same person.]

By: my name is Leonard but my son calls me Joey

my name is Leonard but my son calls me Joey — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:01:32 +0000

@Daphne etc@2057hrs: absolutely on the spot -;

By: D Fenech

D Fenech — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:05:58 +0000

Mr Cutajar says it all:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080530/letters/foreign-intervention

[Moderator – I’m not sure about that last point. I don’t think it was any advantage at all.]

By: Xaghra

Xaghra — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:27:57 +0000

@Albert Farrugia

You have a great knack of missing the point and shooting off at a tangent. How on earth do you equate the arguments (!) in here with Jason and the electoral register. Nonetheless….

No 1 – you, and those like you who believe all the spin emanating from Super One, make the gross assumption that any Maltese voter living overseas is a Nationalist. I guess using your criteria Claude Falzon, the campaign manager who left Malta to take up a position in Brussels, is also now considered a Nationalist (sounds a little like all those that did not vote in the referendum must be No voters :) )

No 2 – who is Jason Micallef? We haven’t heard a whisper from the cringe inducing peacock in weeks. Of course, he had nothing to do with the abysmal electoral campaign. The infamous report was manipulated amateurly to shift the blame to one poor soul and exonerate the real Partnerxipp (the Elfred and Jasin show!)

I am looking forward to the 6th or 7th of June when the peacock slaughter commences… oh damn, our man (his own man!) Joseph will be il-Lijder!! Regardless, we will enjoy watching the mud wrestling as the HDURA comes to the fore like never before!