Baxxter, I’ll be brief for the alternative would require a whole volume:

I’m looker at the wider picture. You’re clearly appreciating the white lie and the odd exaggeration here and there, all for a ‘good cause’, and I won’t blame you. But in my book Gaddafi is already gone, even if it looks like it’s going to be a protracted civil war.

The media will see to that. And the governments will respond accordingly. The rebels will become a real opposition. The skirmishes will become real battles. The whole area will be inflamed.

So, to cut it short: if you’re appreciating the lies because they suit your cravings, I’m sure you wouldn’t do the same had you known what other distortions exist on a grander scale.

As to your lament, I’m afraid you’ll have to face your own problems yourself. But I didn’t quite get why I should shut up.

Why don’t those losers just start up their own website instead of bitching that yours is too influential?

Oh, that’s right, they did already. And nobody looked.

The same thing will happen if they get themselves an interview show on TVM. Jekk ikun brillanti daqs Reporter ta’ Saviour Balzan….

The first thing they need to get is a personality transplant. And then some talent. But don’t hold your breath. If it hasn’t happened by now, and as you said they’re middle-aged already, it ain’t never gonna happen.

His remarks were an insult to the reporters of Reuters, Al Jazeera, Sky, BBC, Euronews and that’s to name a few who have been risking life and limb to bring us the facts (which according to Johnny ta’ Hal Qormi is a mise-en-scene). But most of all he let down the very same people of Libya he’s obviously been making money on with his various business interests (oops sorry, read that as ‘his children’s).

Wecannot forget the 180,000 people who have evacuated Libya, leaving work which I doubt very much can be replaced when they finally get back home. Shame sir, if you have any dignity you should resign from your from EU post. I for one am disgusted that you are representing me in Brussels.

[Daphne – What’s their problem – arrested development? Somebody please tell them that the age difference between me and Lou Bondi is the same as the age difference between me and in David Friggieri (in either direction), but I don’t even think about it. And I certainly don’t think of David Friggieri as young, because he’s middle-aged – just like me. And Lou. I don’t know how old Ralph is and I don’t give a damn, but it seems to me that I’ve been reading his name in connection with AD or one thing or another roughly as long as I’ve been writing – 1990, not the 1970s or the 1990s. I don’t know why, but they remind me of the freaky boys on the school bus.]

The person who said that was, most probably, Harry Vassallo.

All we need is Kim Jong-il to join the club

I meant Permanent Representative.

He is not our representative in Brussels. Our representatives are the MEPs and, as the name implies, the High Representative. If Dalli’s head were to roll, it’s Barroso who has to ask for it.

Will he go down as the second European politician this Arab revolution claims?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12626320