Comments on: As I said way back in May, Joseph Muscat has no leadership qualities

By: Lino Cert

Lino Cert — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:00:22 +0000

@Daphne
“And there’s always a reference to porn. It wouldn’t be maltastar otherwise.]”
Actually this is their main selling-point, google “air-hostess porn” and they’re in the top ten ranking! They should have called their site “MaltaPornStar”

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:49:45 +0000

What’s wrong with the gossip section, I enjoyed the story about Claudia Schiffer and her “helicopter hanger”.

[Daphne – And there’s always a reference to porn. It wouldn’t be maltastar otherwise.]

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:25:38 +0000

I’m sure many of you are aware of the relaunch of maltastar.com. I actually found it quiet striking upon first entering, but they really didn’t finish it off very well.

Certain things that just bug the hell out of me:
1. their use of Georgia is phenomenal on titles, but atrocious in body text;
2. if Georgia is not installed on the machine, it reverts to sans-serif fonts… make up your mind guys;
3. very uneven spacing on the page (twice the distance between images and titles than between content section and side menu);
4. The BBC-inspired boxes inside articles, next to the leading images – looks awful, uneven padding, too large font;
5. background – although admittedly this might be due to my own personal hatred of cyan;
6. footers which have no correlation with the rest of the page;
7. “beta version” – would be ok if they had a sharp version people could use and the beta would be for people willing to test only; looks incredibly unprofessional;
8. gossip section – WHAT… THE… F…. ?

These were just some initial thoughts. There are some good things and they might be on to something, but it doesn’t feel very serious at this point. Perhaps I gave them some pointers. Anyone had any other thoughts about it? Any impressions?

[Daphne – Dead and lifeless, and it doesn’t allow you to print pages. Also, the grammar and spelling are as atrocious as ever.]

By: Tony Pace

Tony Pace — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:25:28 +0000

@Harold:
Don’t I know it, and that is precisely why I said in my previous post “start praying to your God…..” because the thought really gives me shivers up my spine.

By: Harold

Harold — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:31:59 +0000

@ Tony Pace: that little twerp might someday be your next prime minister.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:38:21 +0000

NGT
“Let them drown? Give them petrol and food and send them off to Italy? What exactly is this so-called action plan to stop immigration?”

You have identified the basic weakness of Joseph Muscat’s “action plan”: he does not explain what we are to do with the immigrants in excess of “what we can handle”. Basically, he toys with the idea of towing them out to sea – though, being less forthright than Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, he does not spell it out – and, incidentally, he repeated most of what Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando said on television tonight. Moreover, he sees no contradiction in claiming to be for the rule of law while suggesting that we break international law.

I have only read an online summary of Muscat’s speech but apparently he did not refer to his visit to Libya (a “breakthrough”) where he supposedly discussed migration and set up a joint committee on Mediterranean policies, whatever that means. When he came back from that visit it seemed as if he had solved the immigration issue.

By: Tony Pace

Tony Pace — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:21:39 +0000

And I've just seen his puerile and inane contribution to the immigration problem. On my god, bet you he wrote it in a pitazz .

By: Tony Pace

Tony Pace — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:11:04 +0000

I cannot understand why you guys are so amazed at the antics of this little twerp who takes himself much too seriously to realise that he is making such a fool of himself doing so. I have no choice but to be unkind to the man. I shall repeat: anyone who inflicts the names of Soleil and Etoile on to his children (remember Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue”) needs his head examined. To say he’s just an upstart would be complimenting him because upstarts occasionally mature into professionals in their own right………but oh no, not this one. The pattern has been set, and guys, start praying to your God, because you could be looking at your future prime minister!

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:59:57 +0000

Daphne,
‘preaches to the lowest common denominator’. The most cogent description of the ongoing woes of this abysmal group that I have read. So succinct, so appropriate, so true. Bet they can sell a lot of soap, though.

By: NGT

NGT — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:01:47 +0000

“if the international community did not act and the number of arrivals continued to exceed what Malta could handle, Malta should not exclude the suspension of its international obligations” – any idea what this means? Let them drown? Give them petrol and food and send them off to Italy? What exactly is this so-called action plan to stop immigration?

[Daphne – The thing that really gets me about the Labour Party is that it invariably preaches to the lowest common denominator: people with very little intelligence, of whatever social class. Labour, like the church, depends on thinking skills not being taught at school or learned later on in life, which is more difficult. If you don’t have a grudge or an axe to grind, and if you weren’t raised Labour, then it is impossible to be both intelligent and a Labour voter, given the on-going state of that party.]