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		By: Mark Cuschieri		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/11/the-leader-of-the-opposition-shirks-his-duty-again/#comment-34481</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Cuschieri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/11/the-leader-of-the-opposition-shirks-his-duty-again/#comment-34480&quot;&gt;Stanley J A Clews&lt;/a&gt;.

and you think the allies wouldn&#039;t have bombed Malta if we fell in Axis hands daphne? wasn&#039;t adolf hitler a ballet dancer ;p]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/11/the-leader-of-the-opposition-shirks-his-duty-again/#comment-34480">Stanley J A Clews</a>.</p>
<p>and you think the allies wouldn&#8217;t have bombed Malta if we fell in Axis hands daphne? wasn&#8217;t adolf hitler a ballet dancer ;p</p>
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		By: Stanley J A Clews		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stanley J A Clews]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The opposition leader does not seem to worry about the Maltese (and UK) war veterans like myself who for the second time noted his absence at the war memorial  last Sunday. Maybe he is one of those who thought Adolf Hitler was the German national team coach?

&lt;strong&gt;[Daphne - No, Major Clews. I think he&#039;s one of those who were raised to believe that Malta was unnecessarily embroiled in Britain&#039;s war, and that it wasn&#039;t ours to fight. People of that mentality appear to believe that if Malta were not a British colony at the time, it would have survived the years 1939 to 1945 literally as a Switzerland in the Mediterranean, skirted by all armed forces, rather than seized within days by the Axis powers. But then I have no doubt that lots of people here would have preferred that last option, while many of the rest would have rushed to collaborate. The tragedy is that so many men and boys died to save those who didn&#039;t deserve to be saved, or who laboured under the delusion that there was nothing to be saved from. But at least the deserving were saved alongside.]&lt;/strong&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The opposition leader does not seem to worry about the Maltese (and UK) war veterans like myself who for the second time noted his absence at the war memorial  last Sunday. Maybe he is one of those who thought Adolf Hitler was the German national team coach?</p>
<p><strong>[Daphne &#8211; No, Major Clews. I think he&#8217;s one of those who were raised to believe that Malta was unnecessarily embroiled in Britain&#8217;s war, and that it wasn&#8217;t ours to fight. People of that mentality appear to believe that if Malta were not a British colony at the time, it would have survived the years 1939 to 1945 literally as a Switzerland in the Mediterranean, skirted by all armed forces, rather than seized within days by the Axis powers. But then I have no doubt that lots of people here would have preferred that last option, while many of the rest would have rushed to collaborate. The tragedy is that so many men and boys died to save those who didn&#8217;t deserve to be saved, or who laboured under the delusion that there was nothing to be saved from. But at least the deserving were saved alongside.]</strong></p>
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		By: john xuereb		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[john xuereb]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/11/the-leader-of-the-opposition-shirks-his-duty-again/#comment-34471&quot;&gt;Tim Ripard&lt;/a&gt;.

Tim,
Man. Utd. were playing Chelsea on Sunday and Drogba got a yellow card for being kicked and beleive me the guys were playing at Stamford Bridge........now that is scandalous.

Sorry, Daphne, I know you don&#039;t like soccer but being a Liverpool fan I had to answer back. Thanks.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/11/the-leader-of-the-opposition-shirks-his-duty-again/#comment-34471">Tim Ripard</a>.</p>
<p>Tim,<br />
Man. Utd. were playing Chelsea on Sunday and Drogba got a yellow card for being kicked and beleive me the guys were playing at Stamford Bridge&#8230;&#8230;..now that is scandalous.</p>
<p>Sorry, Daphne, I know you don&#8217;t like soccer but being a Liverpool fan I had to answer back. Thanks.</p>
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		By: Jeremy J Camilleri		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeremy J Camilleri]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Flout- to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock: to flout the rules of propriety.

&lt;strong&gt;[Daphne - Yes, but you can&#039;t flout adjectives. You can flout convention, the law, policy, rules - that kind of thing.]
&lt;/strong&gt;
R2D2- You&#039;re right there - they are nouns, but I guess you excel there, seeing that it takes one to know one.


Don&#039;t forget to go to church folks...All good Demokristjani do....]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flout- to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock: to flout the rules of propriety.</p>
<p><strong>[Daphne &#8211; Yes, but you can&#8217;t flout adjectives. You can flout convention, the law, policy, rules &#8211; that kind of thing.]<br />
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R2D2- You&#8217;re right there &#8211; they are nouns, but I guess you excel there, seeing that it takes one to know one.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget to go to church folks&#8230;All good Demokristjani do&#8230;.</p>
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		By: Gahan		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gahan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was expecting the first budget discussion/debate on RTK between Dr Gonzi and Dr Muscat. Wonder of wonders Dr Muscat did not turn up because his party communicated to RTK that the Labour leader would not give his reaction to the press before his speech in parliament.

We had a good explanation by Dr Gonzi what this budget is all about. I can understand why he did not turn up.
Probably he will try to imitate Dr Fenech Adami&#039;s &quot;budget irelevanti&quot; speech of 1986 with a panegyric on black dust, corruption and the energy bills which we can assume to be around the same price we had last April.

Yesterday, a journalist exclaimed:&quot;M&#039;ghidtilkomx li hekk ha jaghmel?&quot;. Maybe I will say the same after his doom and gloom speech.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was expecting the first budget discussion/debate on RTK between Dr Gonzi and Dr Muscat. Wonder of wonders Dr Muscat did not turn up because his party communicated to RTK that the Labour leader would not give his reaction to the press before his speech in parliament.</p>
<p>We had a good explanation by Dr Gonzi what this budget is all about. I can understand why he did not turn up.<br />
Probably he will try to imitate Dr Fenech Adami&#8217;s &#8220;budget irelevanti&#8221; speech of 1986 with a panegyric on black dust, corruption and the energy bills which we can assume to be around the same price we had last April.</p>
<p>Yesterday, a journalist exclaimed:&#8221;M&#8217;ghidtilkomx li hekk ha jaghmel?&#8221;. Maybe I will say the same after his doom and gloom speech.</p>
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		By: NGT		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[NGT]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/11/the-leader-of-the-opposition-shirks-his-duty-again/#comment-34468&quot;&gt;kev&lt;/a&gt;.

Er.. Kev, seriously. The former CMO of Finland also claims that there&#039;s a UFO cover-up in the West...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/11/the-leader-of-the-opposition-shirks-his-duty-again/#comment-34468">kev</a>.</p>
<p>Er.. Kev, seriously. The former CMO of Finland also claims that there&#8217;s a UFO cover-up in the West&#8230;</p>
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		By: Gahan		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gahan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pardon me but I don&#039;t give a hoot about him shirking his duty of a wreath laying ceremony. It&#039;s not a national day. On the other hand I expected him to do his duty like the PM and exhausted Tonio did, and answer to an unlimited amount of questions from the journalists in the press conferences after the budget.

He posed in front of two flags and some pot plants on a staircase and read what he probably scribbled during the sitting. I expected all the opposition MPs to be on that flight of stairs. It looks like we have another know-it-all as Labour leader.
He could have easily issued a press release and sent it by email to them. But then there would not have been that photo opportunity.

One journalist was overheard on radio saying &quot;I told you that he would not take questions. That&#039;s what he always does&quot;.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pardon me but I don&#8217;t give a hoot about him shirking his duty of a wreath laying ceremony. It&#8217;s not a national day. On the other hand I expected him to do his duty like the PM and exhausted Tonio did, and answer to an unlimited amount of questions from the journalists in the press conferences after the budget.</p>
<p>He posed in front of two flags and some pot plants on a staircase and read what he probably scribbled during the sitting. I expected all the opposition MPs to be on that flight of stairs. It looks like we have another know-it-all as Labour leader.<br />
He could have easily issued a press release and sent it by email to them. But then there would not have been that photo opportunity.</p>
<p>One journalist was overheard on radio saying &#8220;I told you that he would not take questions. That&#8217;s what he always does&#8221;.</p>
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		By: Leonard		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leonard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/11/the-leader-of-the-opposition-shirks-his-duty-again/#comment-34471&quot;&gt;Tim Ripard&lt;/a&gt;.

&quot;had appeared to dive&quot; ... bbc.com should cut out the lawyery bull  http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2721804/Cheat-caught-Red-handed.html

Refereeing standards in the PL have nose-dived.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/11/the-leader-of-the-opposition-shirks-his-duty-again/#comment-34471">Tim Ripard</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;had appeared to dive&#8221; &#8230; bbc.com should cut out the lawyery bull  <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2721804/Cheat-caught-Red-handed.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2721804/Cheat-caught-Red-handed.html</a></p>
<p>Refereeing standards in the PL have nose-dived.</p>
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		By: Moggy		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moggy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shame.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shame.</p>
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		By: Joseph Micallef		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Micallef]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This person is thrifty with Malta&#039;s history. This person is thrifty with his own political history. This person is thrifty with the current global financial crisis.

Can anyone seriously expect him not to be thrifty with showing respect to those who have made it possible for him to walk this earth? An irresponsible nitwit.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This person is thrifty with Malta&#8217;s history. This person is thrifty with his own political history. This person is thrifty with the current global financial crisis.</p>
<p>Can anyone seriously expect him not to be thrifty with showing respect to those who have made it possible for him to walk this earth? An irresponsible nitwit.</p>
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