A cool customer
As chaos reigns 200 miles away and the prime minister cuts short his holiday to try and get to grips with the implications for Malta of the panic across the water (but Dear Joseph continues to eat gelato in Italy with Lil Din), it’s good to know that some people can keep a cool head in a crisis and a proper sense of what’s truly important:
Ms Francesca Abela – timesofmalta.com comments-board
Today, 14:37
Whilst meeting his cabinet Dr Gonzi would do well to have them discuss the total fracass in the Public Transport system by Arriva where after 8 weeks there are still localities, notably one of them is his hometown of Marsascala – which still do not have a decent bus service to Valletta from all residential areas!
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Hope no dog dies or The Times of Malta will give us a breaking news SMS, which the fall of Tripoli apparently did not warrant.
Not if that dog comes with the name of Gaddafi.
Imagine if she had to deal with this:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/5288698/why-has-my-fathers-murder-gone-unpunished.thtml
The Times seems to take on Muscat’s attitude: looking at our navel is all the perspective we need.
Next they’ll be rioting over the price of bread.
I have been using Bus 91 regularly for the last 15 days. This bus leaves Valletta every 20 minutes, passes through Marsa, Pawla, Zabbar and reaches Marsascala after 25-30 minutes.
The same bus leaves Marsascala after a few minutes, taking the same reversed route to Valletta. The fracas is not in the transport system but in Ms. Francesca Abela’s mind.
Ninu – tell Ms. Abela that please. She has been moaning about the Marsascala service since 3rd July and still going on. Besides, she seems to be more interested in the bus service than the situation in Libya.
Libya has nothing to do with her, but she takes buses and she is unsatisfied with the service ergo it is a national problem.
Wait till September 11, when the whole of the civilised world will be recalling the atrocious events of ten years ago, and Malta will be discussing some Arriva deadline or other – http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110725/local/arriva-sets-september-11-as-full-service-target-date.377331
Let us be honest. Whether Joey is in central Italy or in Malta at this very defining moment in the history of Mediterranean nations, what the *uc*.
He has got absolutely nothing to contribute anyway.
It is all way, way beyond him.
I would rather he continues eating his gelato while still being cautious.
Joey, enjoy your holiday. Go away and stay away.
In all fairness we must admit that the P.M. was not in such a hurry, as he seems to be now, a few months ago.
We still remember the pussyfooting that went on both by the P.M. and of course by Dr.Muscat.
It seem that now everybody is eager to join the bandwagon.
You can be sure that the P.L.will soon say that they always sided with the rebels, just like the P.N.
In Italy during the war, there where around 50 million Facists, but a few weeks after the war there where 50 million who had never sided with Mussolini.
Daphne, I’m sitting on top of a mountain in Switzerland and learning more about the Libyan chaos from you than from others. Now Joey the dwarf has ‘disappeared’? So typical!
In the meantime, Jose’ Herrera passes silly jokes about the Minister: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110822/local/minister.381433.
Yes, CMB will be made a Monsignor, and Jose’s sister, what will she be made?
A judge, as soon as he is minister instead of Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici?
Will they send her as our representative in the European Court of Human Rights? If they elevate her to judge as soon as they win, she’ll be fresh and ready when de Gaetano ends his term there.
And all this camaradie between Jose A. Herrera and Franco Debono? What’s this? Ganging up on CMB? While CMB is in intensive care in hospital?
It ain’t over till it’s over. Gaddafi still alive and kicking and a lot more blood will be shed.
It seems that none of his sons have been captured yet after all.
The BBC was reporting that his troops have retaken some parts of Tripoli. Fierce firefights were reported in Green Square. Support for Gaddafi is much stronger than that portrayed by the media.
Nah. It is over. It’s just like Iraq in 2003. Of course there’ll be hundreds more dead but just to put things in perspective: there were 35,000 road fatalities in the EU in 2009.
An interesting read:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/china-urges-libya-protect-investments-032142032.html
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110823/world/saif-al-islam-is-free-after-all.381452
Looks like the rebels were out-foxed.
And the Maltese carry on with their inane comments, such as this one:
“Mr Karl Consiglio
Today, 11:02
Wow he’s like Lupin”
Does John Dalli fit into Joseph’s skip?
““To comment I need to know the facts and I don’t yet know exactly what is happening,” he told The Times yesterday afternoon, adding that he had not kept himself fully updated since he was on holiday in Gozo.
“We know the rebels got into Tripoli with impressive ease. This could be worrying. It could be a trap. At least that’s what some people were saying when I last watched the news.”
He was not keen to provide his analysis, Mr Dalli offered advice on how Malta should approach the future with Libya.”
Although hwww.timesofmalta.com/…/Malta-should-not-remain-a-spectator-in-Libya-
He is slow on analysis but quick with giving advice. His reasoning is not worthy of the position he holds.
With an ego the size of John Dalli’s, Joseph would need a much larger skip or a second one for just Dalli.
It took our Prime minister six months to acknowledge the rebels as the govt of Libya, and you expect Mr.Dalli to comment on something that happened a few hours before?
Come on, let’s be fair.
[Daphne – It is fair, Silvio. John Dalli does not speak for Malta, unlike the prime minister.]
Who knows. We might all be surprised, in a few months time.
It shows that Mrs Abela is a Super One “elve”. I catch the bus to Valletta from M’Scala every single day to go to work and it is not only punctual but also very regular.
Dritt ghal go l-iskip…!
Tell Ms. Abela – she never stops moaning.
A dog was run down yesterday in the vicinity of the local parish church. Does that story qualify as headline news for the Times/Maltatoday/ Mlatasart?
Ah, no doubt Ms. Alamango too is wondering whether it’s Libya being discussed in Cabinet, or Marsascala buses…
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Nikita Alamango
is curious to find out the substance of the ‘urgent’ cabinet meeting this morning …
[Daphne – Madonna, x’injoranza ta’ nies. Imbasta iparlaw bl-Ingliz. ‘The substance’ – ‘is-sustanza’.]
@silvio
‘in Italy during the war there were 50 million fascists, but a few weeks after the war there were 50 million who had never sided with Mussolini’
Wrong. In Italy during the war there was an organised resistance made up of all the political parties forcibly removed from parliament.
They resorted to guerilla tactics launched from all over the Appenines and coastal highlands.
This was the preferred tactic to avoid having entire villages accused of treason, condemning civilians to be decimated by firing squad.
What you’re saying is that people’s fear for their lives justifies their abusive behaviour.
@min weber
Jose’s sister might become the ‘enquiring magistrate with executive powers’ replacing the Commission on Corruption, as suggested by Saviour Balzan.