Comments on: A national disgrace on Remembrance Sunday – Instead of commemorating the courage of those who died in battle, Labour demonstrates for courage in paying electricity bills https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/11/a-national-disgrace-on-remembrance-sunday-instead-of-commemorating-the-courage-of-those-who-died-in-battle-labour-demonstrates-for-courage-in-paying-electricity-bills/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: M. Bormann https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/11/a-national-disgrace-on-remembrance-sunday-instead-of-commemorating-the-courage-of-those-who-died-in-battle-labour-demonstrates-for-courage-in-paying-electricity-bills/#comment-17644 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:37:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1062#comment-17644 @ Lino Cert – “They have a point. Literature and history , however interesting and enthralling they may be, are relatively unimportant and unnecessary.”

What, is literature unimportant? Is Shakespeare unimportant? What about Dante, is he of no importance? Is the Divine Comedy unnecessary? What about King Lear and Hamlet, were the days Shakespeare spent writing them an unnecessary waste of time?

You see, this is what’s wrong with this gawd-damned country of ours – the idea that you can get along without knowing anything about history or about literature. Some university students are only educated in their particular subject matter and in nothing else.

]]> By: Corinne Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/11/a-national-disgrace-on-remembrance-sunday-instead-of-commemorating-the-courage-of-those-who-died-in-battle-labour-demonstrates-for-courage-in-paying-electricity-bills/#comment-17643 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:40:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1062#comment-17643 Cikki: I doubt he is capable of feeling shame. He isn’t even capable of recognising a truly good PR opportunity when he sees one. He could have been at Floriana in the morning and then told the massed sheep in the afternoon why he wore his poppy with pride – two sets of news photos, and all in one day, with none of the backlash of his latest, most horrible gaffe.

Instead Muscat chose to hitch his wagon to Obama’s rising star, oblivious to the irony of basking in what he thinks is reflected glory. We knew all along that Muscat is not very good at sums, but he still feels the need to prove it. If he applied his and his party’s calculation of what constitutes a majority vote, he’d have to conclude that Obama’s is not a majority election.

]]> By: cikki https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/11/a-national-disgrace-on-remembrance-sunday-instead-of-commemorating-the-courage-of-those-who-died-in-battle-labour-demonstrates-for-courage-in-paying-electricity-bills/#comment-17642 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:01:43 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1062#comment-17642 @ Corinne Vella – If comparing those clips doesn’t shame
Joseph Muscat, I don’t think anything ever will.

]]> By: Corinne Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/11/a-national-disgrace-on-remembrance-sunday-instead-of-commemorating-the-courage-of-those-who-died-in-battle-labour-demonstrates-for-courage-in-paying-electricity-bills/#comment-17641 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:12:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1062#comment-17641 A ‘MANIFESTATION’ OF COURAGE – SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081110/local/its-time-for-action-muscat

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081110/local/the-veteran-soldier-who-will-not-miss-remembrance-day

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081110/local/raf-tornadoes-fly-past-in-remembrance-day-ceremony

]]> By: Sybil https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/11/a-national-disgrace-on-remembrance-sunday-instead-of-commemorating-the-courage-of-those-who-died-in-battle-labour-demonstrates-for-courage-in-paying-electricity-bills/#comment-17640 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:54:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1062#comment-17640 Corinne Vella Monday, 10 November 1008hrs
“London Area: It sounds like you had one too many last night. What are you doing bickering about the unimportance of history? You sound like something out of Orwell’s 1984.”

Or from tHE not-too-distant local past when school children were taught that Maltese history started in 1971 when the MLP took power.

]]> By: Vanni https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/11/a-national-disgrace-on-remembrance-sunday-instead-of-commemorating-the-courage-of-those-who-died-in-battle-labour-demonstrates-for-courage-in-paying-electricity-bills/#comment-17639 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:13:49 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1062#comment-17639 Slight tangent, with your permission.

From the Maltatoday site:

“LATEST: Muscat calls on Government to withdraw tariffs immediately (Sunday 09 November 2008 – Updated 19:00 CET)”

Errrr, and what if the Goverment refuses to do so? Will Muscat keep on calling, and calling, and calling…..?

However this gem takes the biscuit:
“Illum interview: Charles Mangion respects social partners’ decision not to attend Labour manifestation ”
Nice of him to tell us that he feels that he needs to tell us that respects people with opposing views to his. Ah well I guess the time is gone when they would have been called as lacking in the bocci department.

]]> By: Vanni https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/11/a-national-disgrace-on-remembrance-sunday-instead-of-commemorating-the-courage-of-those-who-died-in-battle-labour-demonstrates-for-courage-in-paying-electricity-bills/#comment-17638 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:17:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1062#comment-17638 @ London Area

I wouldn’t be seen dead in a Skoda, sorry.

]]> By: Michael A. Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/11/a-national-disgrace-on-remembrance-sunday-instead-of-commemorating-the-courage-of-those-who-died-in-battle-labour-demonstrates-for-courage-in-paying-electricity-bills/#comment-17637 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:11:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1062#comment-17637 London Area: “Therefore in conclusion I believe the kids of today may be wise in giving history such little importance, because perhaps history is not as important as we used to think.”

What is important is not so much history itself, but the lessons that may and should be drawn from the events. The latter is obviously dependent on the knowledge of the former, so history must never be put aside.

]]> By: Corinne Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/11/a-national-disgrace-on-remembrance-sunday-instead-of-commemorating-the-courage-of-those-who-died-in-battle-labour-demonstrates-for-courage-in-paying-electricity-bills/#comment-17636 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:09:47 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1062#comment-17636 And London Area: car production is hardly the best example to bolster your argument. It just highlights the importance of what you denigrate.

]]> By: Corinne Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/11/a-national-disgrace-on-remembrance-sunday-instead-of-commemorating-the-courage-of-those-who-died-in-battle-labour-demonstrates-for-courage-in-paying-electricity-bills/#comment-17635 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:08:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1062#comment-17635 London Area: It sounds like you had one too many last night. What are you doing bickering about the unimportance of history? You sound like something out of Orwell’s 1984.

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