But France sent two Rafale C planes from 1/7 “Provence” Squadron to join the aerial display. Goes to show that one’ll do anything for a few miserable trade deals (not using “miserable” in a deprecatory sense here. The deals are really worth bugger all).

Dassault even stooped as low as publishing full-page birthday wishes to the Colonel in the local papers. Knowing the old bastard (he’s on a par with Mintoff in my book), he’ll renege on the whole deal, just to humiliate the gullible whiteys yet again. And he’ll probably end up buying US planes, like everybody else.

Oh what a beautiful world we live in.

We get a lot of money from our SAR zone , so it isn’t at all surprising that they want it.

I’m beginning to dislike Italians more and more each day. First it was this clingy Italian salesman who wouldn’t take no for an answer (came again a few days ago) and now it’s Musso V2 trying to take what is ours again. The impression Italy gives me is of a thief that tries to steal candy from kids at a given opportunity.

Perhaps you would like to answer the question I put to Antoine Vella, since he does not seem to be inclined to do so.

By the way, last night I watched all three hours plus, celebration of Senator Edward Kennedy’s life on CNN.

The mood, even in the presence of his casket, was a heck of a lot more upbeat than the subjects’ demeanor shown in the above picture!

1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, and so on.

They try to forget 1996-1998. How very convenient.

The PN has been in government for almost 20 years (biex inkompli mieghek) because the country never had any alternative. Allura Twanny hi, ma tahsibx li qieghed tahli il-hin lobbying in favour of the MLP (yes MLP not PL ghax ma nbidel xejn hlief li issa sirtu Progressivi minghalikom).

Go figure!

Mr Vella, why is it that, despite being in power for more than 20 years, the PN Gov/Party has never published this famous “Secret Treaty” so that we could all see the horrors it contained?

[Daphne – The Nationalist Party has not been ‘in power’ for more than 20 years, but for almost 11 years, since 1998.]

There’s no mention anywhere of the secret treaty with North Korea and the law against “foreign interference”. The “old dog” seems to know more tricks that he gives himself credit for.

I suppose that son of a bitch Mintoff will be a guest of honour.