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Lorry, Dom and Ode to a Kabocca
You wouldn’t believe it, but even Lorry Sant is on Facebook, from the hereafter. LORRY SANT – WE KEEP THE FLAG FLYING.
Beneath this photograph, somebody called Doris Cardona has posted the comment:
XI GMIEL TA’ RITRAT IKABDEK IL-BARD,KEMM KIEN ZMIEN SABIEH
How in God’s name do they think of those as golden years? Most of them lived horrible lives – except for the Stormy and Tunny Net crowd – and if they didn’t know it then because they knew no better, they sure as hell know it now.
But no. They would rather be living as deprived peasants as long as it was under Labour than live like di mittilkless but with a government that isn’t ‘theirs’.
Now I’m off to watch BondiPlus, but coming up tomorrow: the story of Julia Farrugia’s father, the submachine gun which ended up in a stable like Jesus, Karmenu Vella’s BMW, the Nationalist Party club, a man shot dead in Gudja, another man who was framed for the crime and almost ‘taken out’ while he was in hospital, a man who died of an overdose and another man who fell down a shaft after testifying under oath that it was Karmenu Vella’s driver who had that gun.
Karmenu Vella: the albatross round Joseph Muscat’s neck.
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Thanks, Daphne. I needed something to stay awake tonight to do some urgent work. This is better than coffee.
Meanwhile, I too am watching Lou’s Bondi+.
Seeing some of the captions from Labour’s conference, I can’t help thinking that Joseph’s Moviment Gdid, Generazzjoni Gdida it is looking more like the Grey Hair Party: Karmenu Vella, Leo Brincat, Entni Zammit, Joe Grima, George Vella, Louis Grech, Reno Calleja….
Why are contributors forgetting Alex Sceberras Trigona with his secret treaty with North Korea who then sent thugs to train their counterparts at Police headquarters in the art of suppressing innocent people? Alex is back with the same feelings and with the same ideas.
You are right, red nose. I checked again, and his hair is not white yet.
M’ilux int tkazajt li lil Mintoff lestewlu kamra ghalih go San Vincenz, ma’ kontx taf fuq xiex qed titkellem …..ghal darba.
Ghal-informazzjoni tieghek kieku Mintoff qaghad San Vincenz kien ikollu jaghti 80% tal-pensjoni tieghu u ismaghha: SITTIN FIL-MIJA tar-renti kollha tieghu.
Mela mhux hekk nibqghu! U mar id-dar. U dahal l-isptar. U rega mar id-dar . U rega dahal l-isptar. ‘Mar’ u ‘dahal’ …irrid nghid ‘haduh’ u ‘gabuh’.
“SVPR Fees
A new regulation L. N. 259/2004 came into force with effect from 3rd January 2004 regarding the State Financed Residential Services.
With effect from that date, any resident who becomes a resident of such residential service on or after the coming into force of these regulations, and who is receiving level 2 care, shall contribute 80% of any pension, social assistance and bonus receivable, net of income tax, and 60% of any other income received during the calendar years immediately preceding the year in which the assessment of such other income is made for the purposes of these regulations, net of income tax.
Also, on account shall be taken the value of any property (excluding the house of residence) which is, or could be, invested or put profitable use, excluding furniture, jewelry and other personal effects. The value of the property shall be treated as providing an annual equivalent to 5.5% of its capital value.
So however that such contribution made by the resident shall not be such as to leave the resident with less than Lm600 (Eur 1397.62) per annum at the resident’s disposal.
The contribution from a person who was a resident before 3 January 2004 will not exceed Lm13.50 (Eur 31.45) per day, or be such to leave such resident with less than Lm600 (Eur 1397.62) per annum at the resident’s disposal.”
So what’s your point, John – all you have to do is go over there and ask the residents whether they are happy, and whilst there you can get some information what the waiting list looks like.
[Daphne – John’s point is that this is the reason Mintoff never went there, even though they prepared a special room for him. He doesn’t want them to ‘take’ his pension as payment.]
I can tell you that they are happy and treated well. I read somewhere that there is a long waiting list of about 800 persons who want to go there.
My point is:
Pala trab
u erba kaptelli
u harja f’wicc
il-flus li kelli!
Jghozzhom u joqghod jghoddhom .
Oh God! Oh God! Watching Bondiplus and thinking that these idiots will be running the country in a couple of years time. Shocking!
More plagiarism by Maltastar….even a simple entertainment article.
http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=14088
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12378790
At last they managed to mentioned your name, though it was on Bondiplus.
[Daphne – Wrong. Lou Bondi tried to get Toni Abela to mention my name by mentioning it himself, and Abela couldn’t get it out.]
Toni was about to say “Duminka.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DJ34MOu_yQ
Madonna! Dan se jkun id-deputy leader tal-Partit Laburista erba’ u ghoxrin xahar ohra?
This is aother comment from another admirer of Lorry Sant. At least the PL will have one vote less.
Joseph Abela proset ta’ minn gietu lideja li jamel din.
minn amel din andu jikuntatjani hali namlua iktar ativa, u diejm vot lorry sant
The person who created the Facebook Group ‘LORRY SANT MISSIER IL PAWLISTI’ is one Warren Spiteri, whose CV reads: “SECURITY & VIP PROTECTION at SECURITY, BOUNCER & VIP PROTECTION Studied food & safty , city& guilds, basic theory& basic coockery at INSTITUTE OF TOURISOM STUDIES”. I’ve copied and pasted it as it is.
Couldn’t we covertly spread a message among Labour grassroots ordering them to write LORRY SANT on the ballot paper?
(I eagerly await tomorrow’s Maltastar “leader”: ATTIVISTI NAZZJONALISTI F’KAMPANJA SIGRIETA TA’ QERQ BIL-VOTI.)
A bomb was planted in Gianni ‘il-Pupa’ Psaila’s car- a FIAT 500 – exploding and causing serious injuries to both his legs. The subsequent ‘shaft’ incident ran something like this.
A very sharp-eared policeman walking by a building that was closed somehow heard a noise inside. Police broke into the building where il-Pupa was allegedly stealing cash from a vending machine on the ground floor.
Il-Pupa ran up the stairs to the roof two floors above, crippled legs and all, outpacing the police. Il-Pupa was then said to have tried to escape by climbing down a drain pipe – again crippled legs and all, but fell and died.
The Labour deputy leader for parliamentary affairs is claiming on Bondiplus tonight that we do not have “quality of life”.
He waxes nostalgic for the sixties and longs for the “minestra” scented home that his housewife mother prepared for him.
Normally, progressive people with creative ideas squarely facing the challenges of a fast evolving present are not glued to nostalgia and the past.
Most of those brontosauroses speaking at their General Conference were speaking about, yes, listent to it, those sweet seventies and how they would like them to come again.( Reno Calleja)
Joseph Muscat would be better advised to make them all shut their mouths because the more they speak the more they revive our memories from the past.
Joseph Muscat is more than happy about the quality of life we live today. He knows we live in a fast world, and unlike Toni Abela, has adapted to it. He prefers to eat burgers at fast food restaurants, rather than the usual minestra, which, by the smell of it, is also Saviour Balzan’s favourite.
A progressive liberal Labour deputy leader who longs for the days of mummy and minestra, and the simpler life when daddy earned nothing and the little Abelas amused themselves by watching the wind blowing through mummy’s large underpants hanging out to dry on a balcony in a crummy flat in Hamrun, where they still hang today.
So help us God.
We’ve all had an exceptionally busy day keeping up with Labour’s rewriting of history. So here’s a final thought, and a serious one. The MLP is now officially the most reactionary party ever, in all of Malta’s history.
And Nationalist Party is the most complacent party ever.
It worries me to think that we have to rely on one blog run by one columnist for sensible commentary. Everyone else seems to be ignoring the problem, wishing it would go away. But it won’t.
Unless our flaccid intellectuals speak out, and unless our press starts performing its duty, the 2013 election could be the undoing of half a century of stuttering and painful progress towards normality.
Before any geniuses in the Labour media tag this as “in-Nazzjonalisti qed jibzghu mit-telfa”, know this: Of course I’m afraid. There is no end to the grovelling masochism of this nation where Labour is concerned.
I never thought I would say that I am missing Alfred Sant.
At least he kept these guys somewhat under wraps.
That bright young spark who told us this was a new beginning has let them take over again.
He obviously doesn’t understand that this is a sure way of destroying the head-start he had for the next election simply by being the Opposition to a government which has been there for a long time.
If he really wants to be PM he would do well to get rid of every person who was in any way connected to the ’80s. He should acknowledge what happened and apologise for it – only then can he begin to be credible. Until then, give me the PN any day. They are not perfect but better them with all their warts, rather than anyone of the 80s lot.
Very funny
Who is this Carmel? He seems ever so touchy whenever the dregs of Labour’s past are dragged up in the public eye.
Reno Calleja can read this, because according to his interview with Julia Farrugia, he does not sleep at night.
But according to his The Times letter, he does not read blogs (actually Daphne’s blog). Like Alfred Sant, who ran the country without watching TV (and that includes the news). What is it with these Labour guys?
Labour’s got only one Guy. He is writing their electoral programme.
Ah, but can he read?
During Bondiplus Karmenu Vella phoned to say that he was fined because he did not report to the customs tower when he entered territorial waters. That was a crime in itself.
BUT I and a dozen persons saw car loads of boxes being unloaded from the two yachts and also four waiters worked for more than an hour carrying sealed boxes to the Tunny Net restaurant.
Now why did he have to lie about this when it was broad daylight with lots of people watching.Toni Abela then said that they were fined because they came in at night. Another lie. They came in and berthed just after lunch time around 2 pm.
One must also remember that Labour MP john Dalli owned the Tunny Net restaurant at that time.
[Daphne – It’s all playing about with words. He did not deny bringin stuff in and unloading it at the Tunny Net. He said he wasn’t prosecuted for smuggling, but only for not reporting to the ‘torri’. The fact that he wasn’t prosecuted for smuggling does not mean he didn’t smuggle. It only means that the government-controlled police of the time did not want to prosecute a cabinet minister and a Labour MP for smuggling, but felt they had to do something because of the press reports, so they prosecuted them for not reporting to the port authority. That alone should have been a resignation matter. Yes, they did unload cargo. Yes, many people saw them. And yes, he’s a fine one to talk about contraband.]
Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt. Would you drop everything to call the chap at the Turretta from the bridge when you’re busy looking at tits on the prow? Oh sorry, that was another boat. HMS Bristol or Brazenly or sumfink.
Silvio of La Spiaggia didn’t look like he had tits. A smuggled budgie in those snug Speedos, perhaps, but not tits.
You shouldn’t belittle President Buttigieg, God rest his soul. He was a good and principled gentleman, and he did play significant role in Malta’s democratisation.
Yeah, like boring us to death in our Maltese O Level?
Oh, yes, that book about the “reed shaking with the wind”…
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2010/09/15/chaos-theory-a-reed-shakes-in-the-wind-and-joseph-muscat-ends-up-with-a-medical-condition/
No. You probably forget that he addressed the PN General Conference that was held in Hamrun and urged those present to fight for their rights and to not allow anyone to trample on them.
It was a couragous and moving speech that brought the house down. Those were not times when the Labour government would tolerate dissent within its ranks…..President or no President.
It is for this reason that I admired the man. He had the courage to speak out against his own regardless of the consequences. This means that, unlike the rest of the crummy lot, he had a conscience and recognised the signs of the times.
My poetry comes from the heart, and talks about the real world. I’m flattered that you remember our little poetic interlude on this blog.
Willywonka, you said that Buttigieg spoke out “..regardless of the consequences.” What consequences?
No, he never spoke out publicly against violence.
Lorry Sant has a Facebook site? Too bad. Robert Musumeci can now claim that the virtual flowers and gifts sent to him by Ronnie Pellegrini this time last year were just a mistake – Ronnie intended to send them to Lorry.
If you are going to go on about how Pietru Pawl Busuttil was framed – then please do not forget that this semi illiterate farmer was very nicely rewarded by a Nationalist government for the few days he spent under arrest and in hospital.
[Daphne – Really? How?]
The only difference between him and some of Lorry Sant’s henchmen is that he happened to be born in a PN voting family.
Had he been born a ‘Mintoffjan’ I am sure he would have behaved like a true Mintoffjan. Look him up in MaltaToday and you will find factual stories about how he got permission to build villas in ODZs etc.
[Daphne – A factual story in Malta Today? It would have to be prior to 2004.. Is it?]
1. He was awarded monetary compensation of tens of thousands of euros. So well and good. But what about all the other people who have been arrested and treated badly by the police?
[Daphne – Oh, I thought you were talking about special and illegal favours and corruption, dery, not legal compensation for torture and suffering. All the other people you mention have a right to claim compensation and they should press their suit. If they are not prepared to make their own case for compensation then they can’t expect anyone to come running after them to press on them money they haven’t asked for.]
2. He was given permission to convert his pig farm into two villas with swimming pool. Permission was revoked after 2008.
[Daphne – Exactly what are you objecting to here? The permit was revoked – not by Labour. How you can describe the withdrawal of a permit as a reward or compensation is quite beyond me.]
(1) His lawyer was Guido Demarco. The case was extremely politicised. Compare it to the case of the prison warden who was imprisoned and tortured under Labour. See what he suffered, what he was given and after how much time, then try and compare like with like.
[Daphne – Dery, Pietru Pawl Busuttil’s case was not ‘extremely politicised’ but ‘extremely political’. You are talking about an innocent man who was framed by the police and the Labour government. A submachine gun owned by a thug called Nicholas Ic-Caqwes Ellul, now dead, used to kill Raymond Caruana and used also, according to court testimony, by Julia Farrugia’s father (Karmenu Vella’s driver) to shoot at PN clubs, was somehow acquired by the police, who then miraculously ‘found’ it as they searched Busuttil’s stables. I hope you are fully aware of just how serious a series of crimes this is, and of the wider implications in terms of democracy and the rule of law.]
(2)The permission was granted just before the 2008 election. I am not saying that there was any pressure for the permission to be granted (neither am I saying that there wasn’t) but it was an ODZ. Permission was only revoked after the election and all the hullabaloo about MEPA wrongdoing. I managed to find one link: http://archive.maltatoday.com.mt/2009/04/22/t11.html
[Daphne – Dery, permission to build in ODZ areas is not granted for political reasons, but rather the opposite. There is no reason on earth why a political party in government would wish to undermine its own authority by getting a lot of bad publicity. There is a variety of reasons why such permits are granted. If that were not the case, they wouldn’t be granted to such a wide variety of people. The crucial point you are missing is that the system is working: the checks and balances functioned. That is democracy – democracy is not prejudicing people because they are ‘Nationalist’ or ‘Labour’, whether by giving them permits or not giving them permits.]
Shame on you and anyone who even dares think what you have written. Pietru (ghax hekk insejhulu dawk li trabbejna mieghu u nafuh) is from a very well respected family in Safi.
Pietru has also been mayor of Safi since the inception of local councils. Modest, but hard working. Making Safi one of the most attractive villages in Malta, with good roads, clean streets, activities for children and great protection to the cultural heritage – especially the village core.
Your ‘illiterate farmer’ comment is meant to be an insult, when in a farming community you expect to come from a farming family.
Bob: I meant the “insult” ‘illiterate’ in the same way that Daphne uses it to denigrate some other people who are unable to speak or write proper English.
[Daphne – You were talking about one identifiable individual, dery, who you do not know, have never met, and haven’t heard speak. You assume that because he farmed, he couldn’t think or speak or read or write. I do not denigrate people who can’t speak or write proper English. I denigrate people who, despite all the benefits of compulsory education, still can’t write or speak even one language, their own. And I denigrate people like Anglu Farrugia and Toni Abela who, despite six years in tertiary education and exposure to all the benefits their way of life brings them, cannot communicate properly in English to the extent that they are unable even to pronounce simple words or to distinguish, in Farrugia’s case, between the ‘Empire Station’ and the Statue of Liberty. That implies a degree of stupidity that is quite phenomenal.]
I do not for a moment doubt that he has managed to keep or make Safi a very quaint and attractive village. My original points had nothing to do with his ability as a mayor of a village of 2000 people. If he keeps getting elected he must be doing something right.
Daphne, as regards your ‘checks and balances’ that keep a democracy functioning… I have just discovered that the original story about Pietru Pawl obtaining permission to build villas in illegal zones was outed by Labour Party newspaper Kulhadd. A good opposition forms part of a good democracy.
[Daphne – The role of the Opposition is not to ‘out’ permits given in what it thinks are dubious circumstances (but then only if the people involved are linked to the other party). That is the role of the independent media. The role of the Opposition is to write policy and render itself fit for government. If the Labour Party thinks that its role is to ‘out’ politicians it doesn’t like and to persecute them, then it is no wonder at all that they think I am part of the Nationalist Party machine.]
Oh, and for the record,I have always thought that what was done to Pietru Pawl Busuttil was despicable beyond words. He was not the only one. One must also remember that the police force that carried out those despicable acts is essentially the same police force today.
[Daphne – With one notable exception, dery, who is now deputy leader of the Labour Party and will be deputy prime minister in 24 months.]
Dery is so confused – Oh, so confused.
red nose, Yes, I may be confused. It is because while I remember the atrocities of Labour and do not trust that the same won’t happen again I am not happy with the prime minister and the ministers he appointed.
I do not want to vote some of the Labour people into government but neither do I want to see some of the present ministers be ministers again for another 5 years.
Not voting is not an option. So what do I do? You tell me if you are not ‘confused’ or perturbed like I am.
[Daphne – It’s like shopping, dery. You work out which one you like best. Or perhaps, which one you like least. Speaking for myself, every time I look at the Labour Party line-up I have no doubt that I want to vote PN. Looking at the PN line-up does not give me a similar desire to vote Labour. That’s the way I look at it. I suspect, from what you write here, that you are looking for reasons to vote Labour. Believe me, there aren’t any. Nothing they can deliver is better in any respect than what the present lot can deliver, and much of it is worse. Even at the level of education and social intercourse, the PN is much better. I find it very worrying that many of the front-liners in the PL don’t even know how to speak, and that many of them really think like old-fashioned peasants – I mean, for heaven’s sake, the deputy leader of a progressive party waxing nostalgic about the days of minestra and mummy in the kitchen and daddy on the sofa.]
Yes, I know and thanks for your explanation. If I may say what MY ideal solution would be: “Voting in PN but making sure that the more liberal candidates are elected. But that is just me.”
[Daphne – I feel the same way.]
I do not want Gonzi, Carm Mifsud Bonnici (my god!), Tonio Borg et al to determine my life.
[Daphne – I don’t mind Gonzi at all, actually. I think he’s rather good at the job. It’s just his bad luck that he came in at the tail-end when people are at that bitchy stage in a relationship.]
There are others that I prefer but I only have one vote and I do see myself convincing any number of people to vote for PN candidates that will give us a more modern Malta.
Any Idea how I can achieve this, Daphne? :-)
[Daphne- You stick to your guns, like I do, and when there are conversations going on around you about how awful the government is, how hopeless Gonzi is, how blah blah blah, you say ‘Really? I think they’ve done a bloody good job. And I hope you’re not going to be one of those who are going to foist a Labour government on this country. I thought you were smarter than the sort of person who thinks that Joseph, Toni and Anglu can do a better job than the current team, let alone the current team with all the erratic ones weeded out by electors who now know better than to vote for them.’ I never join in any kvetching conversations. I can’t stand them, and kvetching feeds on itself.]
“Daphne – I don’t mind Gonzi at all, actually. I think he’s rather good at the job.”
As I see him at present – he is good at damage control. And you must agree with me that he has surrounded himself with ministers who are extremely conservative.
That is where my point about my wanting to have people with more liberal ideas in positions of power comes in.
[Daphne – I know what you mean, but I’m not a throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater type. And frankly, I see a rather frightening level of right-wing conservatism on the Labour side, starting from how they’re all waxing nostalgic for the 1970s. Nostalgia – it’s always a dead giveaway.]
I suffer from no nostalgia whatsoever. That is what I was trying to say earlier about selective memory. People look at the past with rose tinted, no, opaque glasses. Bring on the future :-)
[Daphne – You’re a bit young for nostalgia. It sets in after 40, and then only if you are somebody like Toni Abela.]
Oh and what about Adrian Vassallo? I’ve just googled ‘Adrian Vassallo’ and in the first ten results I got some info about him that I did not know. Will he be minister of public morals? The horror!
Meanwhile I hate the fact that Carm Mifsud Bonnici seems to be giving Adrian Vassallo loads of time re porn in hotels and ‘immorality’ in general. I have the feeling that CMB agrees with Adrian Vassallo.
[Daphne – No, dery, it’s called giving people enough rope.]
No Daphne, I don’t agree here. Carm Mifsud Bonnici agrees with Adrian Vassallo… I feel sure about this. Carm may not be a hypocrite and all that but still he is as conservative as one can be. I think he might actually be happy that Vassallo brings such issues up.
[Daphne – I doubt it.Nobody wants to have to deal with that kind of hassle.]
They’re wasting their time. Hotel porn is a dying industry. Downloads are all the rage as they save a voyeur’s blushes when checking out of a hotel.
La Redoute, what you’re talking about isn’t hotel porn!
Dery – Daphne gave you all the proper answers – I needn’t butt in. However, think about this:
Do you honestly, in your heart of hearts, want people like Karmenu Vella, Alex Sceberras Trigona, Joe Debono Grech, George Vella , Joe Grima, to run Malta?
I much prefer the present bunch. If they change this lot I might (repeat might) think of bringing in a Labour group. As things are, with Labour harping nostagically over their dirty (very dirty) past, I really wish that people will consider seriously the consequences of a Labour government.