Never say die: KMB wants you to mate and procreate
Karmenu says: throw away your condoms and breed. But what about his dire warnings on EU membership and AIDS?
Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water, our erstwhile prime minister comes splashing along on his prehistoric Lilo with fresh words of wisdom.
“The EU is encouraging immigration to make up for its shrinking population, and yet it is also spending large amounts of money promoting the use of contraceptives, thereby reducing the birth rate,” he told a press conference earlier today.
His Campaign for National Independence, he said, is calling for drastic action. The mind boggles, and shrinks away.
And then the obvious question springs to mind: exactly what has Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici done to contribute to population growth? Fortunately, none of the people commenting beneath the report told him to ‘Keep it up’.
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He should be happy. Scientists have just created (if that’s the word) sperm from stem cells so infertile males can be cured. As though that was an urgent priority on the world’s medical research list. Breast cancer, lung cancer? Aids? This news left me quite speechless.
[Daphne – Mhux ovvja? Left to its own devices, a male-dominated R&D machine is going to research and develop (1) Viagra so that men can regain their virility, and (2) synthetic sperm so that they can regain/gain their fertility. Men are obsessed with these things.]
Oh come, let’s not get petty.
You make it sound as though those scientists had a choice – ‘hmmm cure cancer or make sperm? … let’s sleep on it’.
What you just claimed is as ridiculous as accusing the blogger for ‘wasting time’ because she read archaeology (that is what you read at uni, right?) instead of doing something more practical like finding a way to cure Alzheimer’s disease.
And by the way, Viagra came about by accident as most scientific discoveries do. Scientists were actually testing pills to control high blood pressure and realised from their patients’ reports that there were rather interesting side effects. Incidentally, the company is still investing in its original research.
I don’t think a woman would take being told that she was infertile lightly either. So a cure for infertility is good news (and many infertile men still ‘function’ well so let’s not confuse issues).
[Daphne – I imagine that male reproductive tackle is such a serious business that the very idea that a couple of women might actually be having a laugh at its expense is – sorry about this – inconceivable.]
Since bloody when is R&D “male dominated?” And leave Harrrrmenu alone! He did more to encourage breeding than anyone else. By removing himself from the gene pool he made sure there would be more totty for the rest of us. Thank you, Dr Mifsud Bonnici. You’re a real mate.
I remember an interview with the nonagenarian Censu Tabone, in which he was asked about Viagra. He gave a lovely Delphic response. “I don’t need it” he replied.
As a scientist and researcher I have to disagree with you on this one. The direction that research takes is not a direct result that it is male dominated (in actual fact research has shown that contrary to the academic world where males dominate, in the biotech industry the ratio is nearer to 1:1) but is the result of politics and money.
At the moment, the “liberal” section of society is pushing for embryonic stem cell research as opposed to organ stem cell research and in the meantime are pushing the largest majority to shut up or even worse coerce them to agree so as not to be called stupid and incompetent for not being able to see the emperor’s new clothes.
On the other scale we have the multinationals that look at profit and would thus research and marketing of high impact drugs such as Viagra instead of seriously researching newer drugs for orphan disorders such as malaria, tuberculosis, cholera and another 5000 or so others.
Not really – the coverage on BBC world went on the lines of: “Males could be rendered absolete in the future”.
“Left to its own devices, a male-dominated R&D machine is going to research and develop (1) Viagra so that men can regain their virility, and (2) synthetic sperm so that they can regain/gain their fertility. Men are obsessed with these things.”
…says a member of the sex obsessed with breast enlargements and all things plastic surgery.
[Daphne – Actually, we’re not. In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s men who are obsessed with breasts, and then some women go ahead and oblige, like idiots. Women don’t have their breasts done ‘for themselves’ as some like to insist. Well, let’s put it this way: if they lived on a desert island with a bunch of other women, one of whom was a plastic surgeon with an operating theatre, nobody would be getting any implants. They’d all be swimming, picking coconuts, playing cards and bitching each other while the rest got lunch. And nobody’s body would bother anyone else, because with no men around the basis for competition just disappears.]
Oh come on Daphne..what a ridiculous argument. I don’t think a group of men alone on a desert island would be bothering about Viagra either.
[Daphne – Oh no? You should see what they get up to in prisons and all-male boarding-schools. Isolate a bunch of men in a farmyard with no access to women or girls and after a while even the chickens won’t be safe. And please don’t tempt me to say that we have the Gozitan experience to prove it.]
There are disturbed men, just as there are disturbed women. Gender does not come into it.
If there are “idiotic” women who are prepared to do their breasts just to get their man, then it is their fault for being idiots, not the man’s fault. Besides, I wonder how many of them resort to surgery to be able to manipulate “idiotic” men who cannot see further than their silicone breasts!
Haven’t you ever heard of the expression ‘don’t drop the soap’, John?
Maybe that might help:
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/these_are_not_my_eyes_t_shirt-235248962007729533
I believe that even in all women prisons and boarding schools the same thing happens.
[Daphne – You’ve been watching too much male-fantasy porn.]
You leave me speechless.
Some women’s obsession with implants, make-up, shoes, waxing, and for that matter Pilates might have stemmed from an initial desire to attract men but I’m sure that vanity plays a large part in it now. I doubt you can take that away by suddenly removing men from the equation. If they were born in a world without men it’s another matter altogether but then they’ll have more pressing issues like how are we going to reproduce, who’s going to open the jam-jar, etc…
Also, if a lost traveller was to find this island of yours (it’s hypothetical so he’ll need to have the worst sense of direction ever), I’d love to see his reaction upon discovering that instead of a horde of sex-starved nymphettes he found a bunch of hairy fat chicks collecting coconuts…
If men were attracted only to big breasted women, then the world’s ‘overpopulation’ would not exist since the women who are size-challenged in that department would remain spinsters. That flies in the face of the argument that women have breast enlargements in order to please men.
[Daphne – Take it from a woman, Jomar: women do have breast enlargements to please (a certain kind of) man. The rest – men and women – don’t care, which is why flat-chested women and women with small breasts still find mates and live happily ever after.]
Women have been brainwashed to believe that bigger is better just as men have been brainwashed that size matters, hence all the medical devices, pills, gadgets and other contraptions all aimed at men’s ego and the idea that nothing pleases a woman more than an extra inch or so.
[Daphne – Let’s not get into this. It’s neither the time nor the place.]
Women who have implants are doing it to satisfy their own desires as much as men who care to go to the trouble, do so to prove their prowess.
Very ‘en vogue’ birthday present these days: men splash out on a boob job for their lovers or partners.
[Daphne – You mean a birthday present for themselves, I trust. “Honey, why don’t we fix your tits?” My god, how terrible it must be for a woman to find herself in that position, always the one who is fearful that the man might leave. I can never understand why they don’t start out by ensuring that they are in the reverse situation.]
I don’t know about Maltese men, but in Germany a lot of male adults are madly into toy trains (Märklin Trains). Can you imagine, she is asking him: “Darling, how about a willie extension for Christmas, instead of another Märklin train extension set? We could share the pleasure for once.”
Kenneth
‘says a member of the sex obsessed with breast enlargements and all things plastic surgery.’
I presume you know that more and more men are having facelifts, pec and boob implants, penile enlargments, botox etc…. so it’s time to shut up about women and plastic surgery don’t you think?
Mhux tort tieghu jekk “The EU is spending large amounts of money promoting the use of contraceptives”? Daqs kemm hambaqq li jekk nidhlu fl-EU ha jinvaduna bl-AIDS.
I am enjoying this blog and the way the discussion is moving. To think that the promoter of this is something KMB (of all people) said. To add to the discussion, it is frightening that human sperm could be created without the active participation of men – are we to become redundant? One could even let the imagination run and envisage possibly future humanity (I was going to use mankind) with only females.
I prefer KMB’s conservative antics to the ideas of John Holdren, Obama’s adviser and head of US scientific operations.
Holdren shows who he is in his 1977 government text book, ‘Ecoscience’. Here we find the ways and means for decreasing the world population by, among others, forced abortions and the sterilisation of the entire population by adding infertility drugs to the water and food supply without the people being aware. You can read these eugenisists’ ideas here: http://www.infowars.com/obama-science-advisor-called-for-planetary-regime-to-enforce-totalitarian-population-control-measures/
And you can cry out loud that this is infowars.com and not US Pravda, but all that infowars.com do is quote from this cockroach’s bible. Read a mainstream report here: http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=34198
Unlike KMB, who is not part of any government, Holdren holds a very important post within the US government, and now he is advocating for “large-scale geoengineering projects designed to cool the Earth” – http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10218083-54.html
KMB cannot reach you, but Holdren can.
Why doesn’t he set an example? He hasn’t kids of his own, has he?
What did he do? Well, he did screw the country for a few years, didn’t he?
[Daphne – That explains the number of ugly bastards in Republic Street, then.]
Maybe that’s why the original name of CNI was “Front Maltin Inqumu” … unless I’ve got it wrong!
Mandy, CNI, which was (and still is) against Malta’s membership of the EU, preceded FMI, which was more anti-EU negotiations (and anti-Alfred Sant). Then again, FMI was founded by one Dom Mintoff, so nothing to worry about there.
FMI was founded by Dom Mintoff and KMB was his bridesmaid. Remember that infamous time they decided to speak at Student House? The grumpy old men from the muppet show that is/was FMI were heckled out of the room.
I think most of FMI ended up in Alleanza Liberal-Demokratika Malta.
One, though, must still be in his green rubber outfit somewhere near Delimara.
Even if you may utterly dislike Dr Mifsud Bonnici, you should be fair and not be selective in your quotation.
You failed to mention that he states that Malta is overpopulated. This logically means that in Malta we should have less children and not more. Infact I understand that in Malta the birth rate is decreasing.
Regarding Europe, one must state that many countries as France and I think Germany offer incentives which have resulted in an increase in the birth rate.
One may also discuss whether contraceptives and also abortion are the causes or contribute to the declining birth rate. Also what should we do in Malta, should we have more or less children?
I think these issues are more interesting to comment on.
“You failed to mention that he states that Malta is overpopulated. This logically means that in Malta we should have less children and not more.”
Why ‘logically’? Because a failed former prime minister said so? Who is he to tell everyone else what to do?
As a point of interest, seeing as they are inaminate, contraceptives cannot cause a declining birth rate.
One wonders whether or not he himself ever … mated!
Procreation? Is this animal kingdom or what? Condoms – for god’s sake, promote their use. What do we need “unplanned” babies for? The state dispenses free needles to heroin addicts in a bid to curb HIV, so why not hand out condoms for free as well? Aren’t they another way how to prevent infections/STDs? Plus they also prevent unwanted/unplanned pregnancies.
KMB never Die!
http://www.alchemydesign.eu/bak/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=144 (Maltafly, December 2002)