The Medicine Man and his Great Leader
The Great Leader with one of tasteyourownmedicine's ace reporters, Jurgen Cachia of FZL
Mario Debono of the GRTU was at the tax-free shop in the airport departures lounge this morning when a strange short man went up to him, raised his mobile phone and clearly believing that he was some ace paparazzo, popped the rhetorical question: “Can I take your photo?”
Apparently, he thought he was very smart and looked really pleased with himself. Debono asked him who the hell he was and the Useful Idiot (because you really have to be an idiot to do something like that) replied, even more pleased with himself than before: “I’m from the website tasteyourownmedicine”.
The man in question was a tubby little thing. As you can see from this photograph, he’s even shorter than the very short Joseph Muscat, so that’s saying something. Debono, who is rather on the large side, grabbed him by the scruff of his neck in a scene straight out of a situation comedy, and hauled him over to the police at immigration.
“This man has been following me around and photographing me,” he said. Dangling from his shirt-collar and rather less smug and self-satisfied than he was five minutes earlier, the Useful Idiot began to stammer and bluster that it’s a free country and he can follow people around taking photographs of them if he wants to.
The police asked for his particulars.
He turned out to be Jurgen Cachia, an activist in Forum Zghazagh Laburisti, secretary of Forum Zghazagh Laburisti ta’ Hal Ghaxaq, and a Labour candidate in the Hal Ghaxaq local council elections last June.
Then the police scrolled through the pictures on his mobile phone. There were several of Mario Debono – Jurgen Cachia had been following him since he checked in. He was made to delete them.
Debono filed a formal report with the police and Jurgen Cachia scuttled off to catch his flight.
A quick look at the Useful Idiot’s Facebook wall revealed that – I mean, really, what a twit – he began to promote the site the very day after the domain was registered, when only those involved in its setting up would know of its existence.
Better still, he gave his employment status as ‘support engineer, 2x Software’.
I can only imagine that Jurgen Cachia, support engineer with 2X Software, carried away as he was by the thrills of claiming that Daphne’s husband is gay/having an affair with a woman/having an affair with a man/married to a transsexual/father of the devil’s spawn/forced to marry against his will to somebody of vastly inferior social status, hadn’t bothered to find out who his employer’s legal consultant is.
That’s right. It’s transsexual Daphne’s gay husband, father of the devil’s spawn.
Roll on Monday.
With Useful Idiots like these, the Labour Party really doesn’t need any more enemies.
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Again and again, the more I read facts about these idiots of PL, I come to thank you because I was a doubtful voter for next elections, now I am not anymore……………….
Check out Super One – Joey with the orange tie an’all … thinks he’s Clegg, for heaven’s sake.
Michelle Muscat, regarding Joseph’s wardrobe:
“I choose his clothes cause he is not that good with colours,” she admits. “I even number them for him sometimes but we choose the ties together.”
I think she wasn’t there for this paint-by-numbers one.
If they keep on digging their hole so deep they are going to end up in Austrailia.
Wouldn’t be allowed in. They have IQ tests there.
Byon Jo, Nikita, Charlon, Quinton, and now another fancy name: Jurgen. Their parents must have really worked hard to come up with names like these.
This man is so stupid, it’s not even funny.
Insomma, thanks Jurgen – your cock-up might make other Laburisti open their eyes.
Does Jurgen have a secret fetish for masochism?
Tajba din, vera tad-dahk. Meta jitla Joey jista jahtru Kap Tas-Segret Service.
Il-politici Maltin kollha overweight?
Living off the fat of the land, as they say.
roll on Monday and roll on even faster 2013 – with a pack of imbeciles like these who the hell needs mules!
@SDS not in Australia but on my Planet.
Did Jurgen Cachia miss his flight, then?
[Daphne – No. He had a bag in the hold, remember.]
I had always counted on that bag in the hold – until once at Brussels airport, having dazed around till time stood still, the plane took off without us, bags in hold and all. No announcements and not a minute’s worth of delay. Careless pilot?
‘The pilot knew what he was doing – no way around that’ my dad had said, himself a former air traffic controller.
Indeed, the names were familiar. The bags presented no danger. Ready for take-off…
Oh, and by the way, reference to the main story – Jurgen Cachia committed no crime, especially since Mr Debono had recently been in the pharma-news and TYOM is today a well established media entity in medicinal affairs.
Muscat is on One TV wearing his orange (revolution) tie. What an orator! His wife is listening very attentively, but without her rosary beads. The crowd is demure and subdued and have obviously been warned against shouting, waving and bringing out their torca flags.
And how come the wife is ever so present and always seems to be trying to upstage her husband? What’s with the polka dot trench?
[Daphne – I just mentioned that trench in my column for tomorrow. Maybe she’s planning a bracing walk in a light drizzle. It’s the perfect day for a trench-coat, wouldn’t you agree?]
Perfect day to hang your trench in the closet and pick the three-quarter arm cardi….I bet she has some kind of shopper in the background who prepares her outfit, and I bet this person has an English background where that trench would have been ‘just right’.
And I’m waiting for the day they do a Posh-and-Becks and wear coordinated clothes. I’m already doing sit-ups in order to have abs strong enough to handle the laughter.
SDS you’re forgetting the laws of gravity.
Their air heads will keep them afloat.
Oh please tell me that is your belated April 1st blog-post!
These people are an embarrassment. Keep up with the comedy, guys – never a dull moment with you around!
At least they have one thing in common, they all have the toothpaste advert smile.
Hilarious!
I can imagine him reading this and not understanding a thing and then wondering “Imma roll on Monday x’ghandu x’jaqsam ghid?”
Mamma mia, dawn in-nies kemm qeghdin sew.
…please keep us posted on this story next Monday please.
[Daphne – Roll On Monday: the ‘panciera’ Jurgen Cachia’s mother bought from fellow Laburista Mona Farrugia’s stall at the Birzebbugia market to wear under her polyester slacks on the second day of the week.]
With all this tomfoolery, where does Muscat think he is heading to? Kastilja?
Muscat will soon start feeling paranoid, as he looks around him and realises that he is captain of the Ship of Fools.
I think he knows it; but obviously, he can’t / daren’t say a word.
In the position he is in, I think he’ll just let things be as they are and ‘chance it’ in 2013.
As it stands today, he is already in too deep to do anything about what he has surrounded himself with.
For a truly equitable election I have been dreaming of for a couple of decades, where the two parties are on par with each other, I hope I am wrong. I however suspect that I will keep on dreaming in 2013 and beyond.
Classic……Love ’em to death (hopefully). What a bunch of twats.
I suspect Jurgen was on the way to the US having been head-hunted by the FBI. What a plonker, a sandwich short of a picnic.
So now we have TYOM, another Lejber boo-boo which has backfired straight up their sorry arses.
Did they seriously think they’re going to muzzle you, Daphne, with that trash? You must have lost so much sleep reading those ‘intelligent’ comments of theirs.
What a pathetic load of idiots. They can’t even organise a piss-up in a brewery.
Il-vera pajjiz ta’ coatti pushing forty trying to look twenty. X’qal il-Poeta? “Aghti d-dehen lil min jahkimha”? Ha!
Oh my God !
Jake, see what I mean? How does your brain let you associate with the likes of Jurgen? Appreciate the freedom that the Nationalist party and many of its supporters fought for. Do you prefer the rule of law or the rule of (and by) the marmalja?
Just had a glimpse of One News’s adulatory report on Muscat’s speech at the non-event at Fgura.
Every time I ask myself how this man manages to be more and more pathetic in his speech whenever he addresses his brainless crowd. His battle cry today was that the debate on the power station contract should be broadcast live and PN MPs should be given a free vote.
Unbelievable nonsense. I really try to find some logic in whatever he says, but somehow fall very short. As if it makes an iota of difference whether the discussion is shown live on state TV or not – does Muscat really believe that this would that affect the voting intentions of the PN members, or is he just after another platform where he can throw accusations of corruption, handouts, sleaze, etc without being exposed to being sued for slander?
This man is not fit to be leader of the Opposition, and it’s downright scary that he might just make it to be prime minister in 2013.
@Jurgen Cachia. Aw hi, man, kemm int “cool”.
Ibqa’ ghallimna bhas-sur Manwel. Ghidilhom ftit lil Joey, Anglu u Toni biex il-Partit jaghmluh “cool” ukoll halli nivvutawlu naqa. Prosit Jurgen, tal-assignment tal-airport. Thallihomx jintimidawk.
Int ghandek dritt taghmel li trid ghax vera bully int. Kellu bzonn il-kbir partit tal-lejber jiehu ftit pariri minghandek. Urihom kemm taf u mhux ihallu lil Marisa tmexxihom minn imnehirhom.
Prosit man u keep it up. Il-Lejber ghandu bzonn hafna izjed bhalek. Ghidilhom to taste your own medicine ghax jekk mhux ser ikollhom bullies bhalek l-elezzjoni li gejja naqilghu tkaxkira.
Nispera li tghidilhom. Prosit man. Meta tigi lura mis-safar ser nigi l-airport ha taghtini l-autograph. Nispera li ma tiddizappuntanix. JIen inkun fuq ix-xellug kif tohrog u nilbes naqa T shirt hamra ha taghrafni. Nirringrazzjak man.
Int tahseb li se jifhem l-ironijja tieghek?
Red nose ghandu punt hawnhekk. Jekk titnejjek bihom esplicitament jghajjruk Nazzjonalist. Jekk tuza l-ironija ma jifhmukx. Ajjut.
Now this is the kind of guy with whom I can see Marisa Micallef consorting. I must admit I find just the thought of her having to hang around these people, who are a walking representation of all she despises, well…. let’s just say amusing.
Ah and by the way – I hope that after this episode it will be certain heads that will “roll on Monday”! I liked the panciera definition, although it did take the “roll-on” a little while to click. I hadn’t heard that expression in ages, intended as a girdle, that is!
Does Jurgen know about the data protection act? I think he can’t take picture of people without letting them know.Vera miskin.
Maltastar ‘Sport’
“Top horse condition race on Sunday, Carl Caruana in Naples”
Strange name for a horse
Imma possibbli li ma jitghallmu qatt dawn il-glud tal-fniek tal-indi? The sad thing is that they have a vote just like the rest of us.
I did not get the bit about looking forward to Monday. Have I missed something? please explain if not too much trouble – thanks.
@Siggiewi Girl. Trad Malta’s very recent history and I assure you that you will have no shadow of doubt. The Nationalists can be nasty, arrogant, blunt, call them what you will. But the Nationalists never deprived you (or anybody) from the most basic right – and that is freedom. The Nationalists can have a zillion faults – and they do have – but compared to Labour….well you can not even compare. Girly…think before you vote and discuss your views with many a doubting Thomas. What these PL idiots are up to pales into insignificance what they will be up to once given an iota of power.
Off topic – you want to have a good laugh? This is Fox News janitor Geraldo Rivera whitewashing news of CIA and Marines involvement in the cultivation and trade of opium in Afghanistan.
‘The poor Afghan farmers need to grow their opium for security reasons and the marines have no choice but to tolerate it,’ Rivera tells us with his trademark bravado.
Then he introduces us to the Marines guards protecting the cultivation and supply routes leading to the Chinese, Russian and European heroin markets. ‘Tough choice for the Marines. Our heroes have a dilemma… but they’re on a mission…’
Who believes this crap when there is an abundance of evidence, accumulated over decades, of serious CIA/military involvement in the global drugs trade?
The real news to the Afghan story is here: http://www.prisonplanet.com/fox-news-makes-excuse-for-cia%E2%80%99s-afghan-opium-cultivation.html
[Daphne – Kevin, why don’t you take this discussion to Jacques’ blog or to tyom? Jacques’ blog is intellectually superior and tyom is of the same standard as this – apparently. Just curious. ]
This concerns the ‘war on drugs’, Daphne, also known as the ‘global drugs charade.’ You yourself bring it up from time to time as it relates to us and it is good to be aware of the causes and effects of this prohibition era.
Why not tell us why we are unwelcome to discuss such matters on your blog? Just curious.
[Daphne – You’re not at all unwelcome, but quite the contrary. I just find it amusing that those who diss me and this blog end up coming here when they want both an audience and a sane discussion, rather than talking to the wall or mixing with a bunch of jabbering lunatics in Bedlam.]
Intellect has no boundaries. It’s like the call of the wild.
There’s a saying, Daphne – ‘Buzobba milli kellu ddobba’. The fun in dissing and taunting is just an added value. Besides, we all support freedom of speech, here, don’t we?
[Daphne – Some of us always did, Kevin. Others, like the woman you married, are still rooting for Dom Mintoff and KMB. Not much freedom of speech there.]
Indeed, she wants Mintoff back with KMB as deputy.
Alas, those were the days – when the opposition media were all locked down, elections never held and our prison was filled with journalists and dissidents dying on hunger strikes…
You would wish it were so, wouldn’t you? Imagine the 10-course dinner you’d prepare with that, rather than the omelette you dish out from time to time.
[Daphne – There’s a judge at the European Court of Human Rights you might wish to consult about liberty of speech in those days. You might also wish to have a word with my sister’s father-in-law, who was trapped in the burning newspaper building where he worked, after showing those who shared your wife’s political preferences to a defunct press in the hope that they would destroy only that. Oh, but I forget, you and your wife were children then and ‘don’t remember’. So whatever you don’t remember never happened. you live in a sci-fi world of your own. The critical media were not locked down, but burned down. Elections were held to give us a government with fewer votes than the Opposition, and journalists who criticised the Opposition did not use by-lines for fear of being violently assaulted. That’s one of the reasons why there were NO columnists. Imagine that.]
Yes, true, MLP thugs did burn down the Times’ building, yet, still, the newspaper did not miss an issue, which is what I’m talking about.
[Daphne – And your point is what exactly? That we had freedom of expression because a newspaper was printed at a press loaned by the Opposition after government-inspired thugs burned their own press to a crisp? Yes, right. And there was no racism in America’s deep south because blacks could still ride buses even though they had to stand if a white person wanted to sit.]
No columnists? What was Roamer? A wandering cowboy?
[Daphne – Roamer was anonymous. The only columnist, and he was anonymous. Ask yourself why.]
You speak in metaphor, Daphne. It’s a spiced omelette I tell you.
[Daphne – My great advantage, and the reason for my immense popularity (let me rub yours and Jacques’ noses in it – is that I never beat about that proverbial bush or speak in metaphor. I use concise, clear language that even a fool can understand. So where does that leave you? As a prime candidate for a cow-outfit in an EP corridor, I would imagine.]
Yes, you’re clear enough – but you twist an argument to the point of metaphor. What you perceived in the 70s and 80s – when you woke up to the political world – was the political upheaval that followed the dark turmoil of the 50s and 60s.
[Daphne – It wasn’t. It was the result of one man’s twisted ego and psychopathic desire for revenge on society and those who thought they were ‘better’ than him. That’s all. And because of that twisted ego, we had 16 years of social and economic agony that achieved little and destroyed a great deal. The ‘worker’s lot’, and everyone else’s, only improved post-1987, and with no strife whatsoever.]
It took two to tango – Mintoff and the old Reactionary.
Your perception is subjectively biased since you were caught in the crossfire that dismantled your family fortune. I’m not saying all was pink. What happened to your family and to others was unjust. But this does not mean that others did not fare as badly, or even worse, under the previous PN administrations.
[Daphne – Kevin, my family’s fortune – such as it was – was dismantled by the Russian Revolution. That was rather a long time before Mintoff. You seem to think that I despise Mintoff for personal reasons. I don’t. I despise him because he wrecked the country, and more so because he could have done so much by behaving positively, as Fenech Adami did, but he was driven by his own personal demons. Just as he married an aristocratic woman and took great pleasure in ill-treating her and dragging her down, leaving her without money and flaunting other women, including his sister-in-law, in her face, so he did to the country. The man was and still is a sociopath.]
Malta has come a long way since the 40s. It all happened progressively, yet you selectively attack the Mintoff era as a regressive period – which it must have been, for your family and to your eyes. It’s a totally subjective view with no historical reference. You cannot place the Mintoff era in a political vacuum. You need to explore what preceded it and what forces acted against him for him to react in such ways.
[Daphne – Kevin, you are clearly no historian. It is you who places Mintoff in a vacuum. Mintoff could have done in 1971 what Fenech Adami did in 1987, and he could have done it more easily because the country hadn’t had its back broken. But he didn’t. The violence, thuggery, lack of freedom, class hatred and human rights abuses that BEGAN in 1971 were not the result of what came before, but the result of Mintoff. To say that they were the result of what came before is to imply that everything that happened post-1987 was the result of what happened before 1987. It wasn’t. It happened DESPITE and not BECAUSE OF.]
See what I mean? You just proved my point. There are clearly two histories here. You don’t need to be a historian to see that.
[Daphne – History is about facts, Kevin, not ‘feelings’ or ‘impressions’. It’s based on research, not opinion.]
“Mintoff could have done in 1971 what Fenech Adami did in 1987…”
Not really. In 1971 Mintoff found a ‘kaxxa vojta’, around 65 million pounds in the red, and no industrial prospect for the future.
In 1987, Fenech Adami found zero debt, over 1.3 billion dollars in foreign reserves and an industrial base that was not comparable to desolation of the 60s.
Today, we are €4 billion in the red, with a crumbling economy and an EU chain around our neck.
[Daphne – Tirraguna minn sormok, Kev, il-veru kaz. States are there to serve people, not people to serve the state: you don’t fill the state’s coffers by abusing people and having them live in misery. That’s why the analogy between Mintoff’s private life and his public life is so perfect: he did the same thing at home. He kept his wife in such misery that friends would have to give her clothes and help her out, while he stashed away millions in foreign bank accounts and his house fell to bits about him. Poor woman. And he did exactly the same thing with the country: having us live in abject qamel to stuff up his kaxxa ta’ Malta. The myth of the kaxxa ta’ Malta – how simplistic. Why don’t you Google up a graph showing the increase in Malta’s GDP since 1987? THAT’S what you have to look at: GDP not kaxxex.]
Here Daphne – Malta’s GDP from 1960 to 2007: http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ny_gdp_mktp_cd&idim=country:MLT&dl=en&hl=en&q=malta+gdp+statistics
The chart is not adjusted for inflation – hence the apparent exponential rise over the past decade, when inflation went out of control. But from 1971 to 1987, when inflation was kept under control because we weren’t printing extra Liri like the Italians were doing, Malta’s GDP rose from 241 million dollars to 1059 million – a rise of over 500%.
And I remind you, again, that he did not depend on debt to move forward. Today we pay over €250 million a year in interest alone. Prosit, e, ghandkom biex tiftahru. Whether it’s a kaxxa or a bir tas-skieken, that’s where a lot of our taxes end up: debt servicing. We could built a Mater Dei a year with that kind of money.
[Daphne – Kevin, you are hilarious. You have to be wearing some very Labour specs to look at that graph and see in it nothing but the amazingly positive performance of the governments between 1971 and 1987. COME ON, EVERYONE ELSE, CLICK ON KEVIN’S LINK AND SEE WHAT I MEAN.]
You are truly unbelievable, Daphne. Compare the 60s with the 70s and 80s and tell me whether any progress was registered.
In fact, one could simply discount the 60s and claim that our country’s GDP only started to rise after Mintoff came to power. Instead, you are ecstatic over the inflationary rise of the past decade without even addressing the fact that the PN had to borrow through their teeth to maintain a government of sorts – €4 billion and rising. I say again – prosit tassew! Veru ghandkom biex tiftahhru.
[Daphne – No, Kevin, you are unbelievable. You cannot compare Malta up to 1974 (and more so Malta up to 1964) – a military base with virtually the entire economy geared towards that purpose – with any period after that. Mintoff’s biggest and most economically deleterious error was not to shut down the dry docks and shipyards the minute the British left and they became completely redundant. He didn’t shut them down because he didn’t want there to be ‘negative consequences’ to his success story of ‘throwing out the British’. And then he went on to cause further damage by forcing Malta to segue from military base to protectionist economy, carrying the drydocks and the shipyard on its back, with the net result that a few people became as rich as Croesus by selling their inferior Malta-made goods to a captive and desperate Maltese market, and with no other tangible result. When you protect a business in a captive market it has no incentive to improve through competition. But we all learned that the hard way. Mintoff had no vision at all.]
Yes, that’s true – under Mintoff we also had a form of corporatism. There is an interesting relationship between socialism and corporatism (of the Mussolini type).That was the gist of my comment two weeks ago. Corporatism is when big corporations collude with big government to ‘regulate’ the market, kill competition and consolidate monopolies. This applies to today’s USA (as well as the EU). What they have in the US is not a ‘free market’ but a ‘managed market’ that sustains cartels made up of global corporations that would otherwise collapse due to size and lack of flexibility – http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/04/17/as-azzjoni-nazzjonali-departs-stage-right-the-communists-enter-stage-left/#comment-109371
Now we are being told that free-market capitalism has failed and that collectivism is the solution. Even the Vatican has been for decades pontificating on the evils of the free market and private property and the values of collectivism a la Thomas Aquinas… And this is reflected in ‘studies’ churned out by global institutions, such as the Club of Rome (which are eventually legislated supranationally), and such globalists as Rockefeller, who argues that ‘competition is a bad thing’ (yes, sure, for him).
When someone announces “you want to have a good laugh?” – for sure it’s going to fall flat.
Istra! Qatt ma hsibtha din, John. Kont indahhaqkom iktar, ara, li kieku kont naf. Trid tara naqa Lorry and Hardy?
No thanks. And you can spare me the Friesian cow routine as well.
Where else would you get your opium, Kevin? It doesn’t grow very well in Brussels.
How else would I know, Baxxter?
OK, so you grow your own opium poppies in Brussels. How do they compare to the Afghan ones?
Kev – Laurel mhux Lorry – jew forsi kont qed tahseb f’dak il famus Lorry (Alla jahfirlu) li kien Ministru tax-xogholijiet fi zmien il HNIZRIJIET?
Red Nose – What, you mean like Laurel Canyon? You don’t say!
Joseph should have borrowed Jurgen’s sunglasses. Both would have looked better in the picture.
Ghandu x’ghid fuq l-apparrenza ta’ haddiehor, ukoll! X’wicc tost.
How can a witch make fun of other people??? Maybe the witch should invest in a mirror….. I know you would not publish this comment just like the previous comment I left…. you did not publish it…. you biased coward