Cheap and shallow
Look, I'm sorry I couldn't thank you earlier, but it really wasn't prudent.
So let me just get this straight – or in language the Labour Facebook crew understands, STR8.
If Gaddafi hadn’t been finished, Muscat and Michelle wouldn’t have taken the terrible, palpable risk of going down to the wharf to slap the Civil Protection Department on the back.
Have I got that right, or is one of us nuts?
The Civil Protection Department has been slogging away loading aid for the last five months. And Muscat and Michelle never went to say thanks and to raise their morale – nothing raises the morale like a visit from those two – because the Labour Party didn’t want to imperil its relationship with the man who made them vassals.
I hope for his sake that Muscat isn’t actually paying for the advice he’s getting.
But then he probably picked his adviser out of some skip.
Does he even have any idea how bad this looks?
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Why isn’t obvious to the many that this person is as false as dicers’ oaths?
Is it because he is an able impersonator or is it that the many are thick?
One of you may be nuts, Daphne – I’m not qualified to say. But what I can say with certainty is that one of you is as thick as pig-shit. I don’t want to point fingers, but it’s not you.
You reckon they’ll work that one out? Was I too obvious?
I think you’re being prudent.
Absolutely. The disdain is evident. Wrong camera angle.
Could someone ring the chaps in this photo to tell them exactly who they’re shaking hands with?
Knowing the devious impostor, he probably passed himself off as a “prominent Maltese politician.”
In normal countries that would be someone from the government, not from the party that has been Gaddafi’s stalwart defender and agent for 42 years.
Imnalla spicca Ghaddafi ghax setghu jaghmlu show.
Dan mhux ahjar dahhal idejh fil-but u offra xi haga, ghax bil-handshakes ma jsir xejn.
Ejja Joe, ibghat pallet ilma ha nidhru sbieh issa din il-gimgha fil-festa tar-Ramadan
U ma tarax li Joe se jibghat pallet ilma?
Mela ma tafx li meta il-partit tieghu kien fil-gvern lanqas qatra ilma tax-xorb ma kellna?
Issa jrid johrog ta’ ragel b’rihijt il-gvern Nazzjonalista?
Ma jistax jaghmel hekk. Tinsiex li sentenza minn kull tnejn li jghid tkun li hawn krizi hawn Malta. Jekk jibghat pallet ilma l-imzazen ta’ madwaru ma jibqghux jemnuh.
Nothing to do with Joseph Muscat per se, but this letter caught my eye in The Sunday Times, since I am almost certain that Rita Camilleri is Jesmond Mugliett’s mother-in-law, and that the three children in question are Jesmond Mugliett’s:
“Sunday, August 28, 2011 , by
Rita Camilleri, Blata l-Bajda
One-day ticket should be valid for 24 hours
I have three grandchildren, aged 12, 11 and eight, who twice a week come to my house in the evening; we go out together and they sleep over and then return home the next morning.
Six months ago we managed to train them to catch the bus and all was going well. Using the previous transport system the bus fare was 47c each, that is €1.41 coming and going back home the next day – €2.82 in all for the three of them. The cost with Arriva has now risen to €7.80 from €2.82 – a rise of €4.98. Each child, even the eight-year-old, pays €1.30 each trip.
Can anyone please explain why this rise has been allowed tohappen – an increase of €4.98! In other countries the one-day ticket normally covers 24 hours from the time one starts using it. Perhaps Arriva does not yet have the technology to provide this service.
If we were to have this service the problem would not be so bad and night duty workers may also benefit from it as was stated in the papers a few weeks ago. The children will have to spend €1.50 each on a return ticket, that is €4.50 in all compared with the €7.80 that they are paying now for one visit. At present they come to visit twice a week, meaning they have to fork out €9.96 more every week.
I must also mention that last Saturday a 10-minute trip from Blata l-Bajda to Tarxien took one hour 15 minutes – another hurdle. Who planned out all this mess? The public was never consulted about these details.Shame on the Transport Ministry to allow such a situation to arise. Arriva’s managementare surely out of touch with the people.
I was very critical of the shortcomings of the previous transport system, but what we have now is worse. I sincerely hope this letter does not fall on deaf ears.” ( http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110828/letters/One-day-ticket-should-be-valid-for-24-hours.382148 )
If my deduction as to the identity of the woman (and, hence, the children) in question is correct, then it would be interesting to note Jesmond Mugliett’s concerns about having mummy-in-law write to the press about such a … trivial … matter.
It is a pity that the same concern about unnecessary expenses was not shown when, for several months, if not a couple of years, Jesmond Mugliett sat comfortably in his chauffeur-driven car whilst his driver walked his daughter (the now 11-year-old) down to the school doors (because he was too important to do so himself?). Maybe no concern was shown then because the car and driver were paid out of our taxes.
Incidentally, I would find it to be a greater concern having three children cross National Road (surely they are warned not to use the subway?) to catch a bus home.
I am neither a relative nor an acquaintance of Mugliett, however I am utterly frustrated at the way Arriva is functioning.
My staff is arriving late for work and also complaining that its taking too long to go back home. I also have two teenage daughters who do not drive and we are ending up having to drive them to their destinations as bus routes are too long and the waiting on bus stops is never-ending.
So I hope the situation gets better, but the fact that we do not hear a word that the transport system is going to improve from Dr Gatt or some high ranking official at Transport Malta, I doubt we will ever have an effficient service.
This is not a political issue. It’s simply a system which is not functioning and the people responsible should be ‘men’ enough to either solve the problems they created or resign.
The issue here (on the blog) was not Arriva per se, but the persons involved, and the past “mode of transport” of the children in question, for want of a better expression.
Not only is it now safe to turn against Gaddafi, it is no longer safe not to do so.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031074/Glamour-model-Talitha-van-Zon-escaped-rebels-partying-Gaddafi-son.html
In this article it is being alleged that a Dutch ‘girlfriend’ of Mutassim Gaddafi escaped from Libya by boarding a humanitarian ship to Malta.
The Times of Malta reports that a ship has left Tripoli with 55 evacuees who areclassified as ‘stranded workers’. Is this the same ship?
If so, why should her evacuation be considered as a humanitarian action? This is even more so if she took the place of somebody more deserving.
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/dutch-model-gives-insight-gaddafis
“A girlfriend of Ms van Zon who was with her in Tripoli earlier this year brought charges against Mutassim Gaddafi for sexual assault upon her return to the Netherlands.
She has now also accused Ms van Zon of people trafficking. Her lawyer, Bram Moszkowicz, says his client (who wishes to remain anonymous) believes Ms van Zon received money for inviting her to Libya.
In the newspaper interview, Talitha van Zon says she was hoping to receive money to help her father who is suffering from Alzheimer.
According to Dutch daily De Telegraaf, the assault claims were not taken seriously by the Dutch authorities, as the woman’s story was thought “unlikely”.
Ms van Zon met Mutassim Gaddafi in an Italian night club in 2004. During a three-month relationship he showered her with expensive trips and gifts.
She ended the relationship after she realised he was seeing other women, but the two remained friends.”
Yes. You can see her in the video here:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110829/local/workers-evacuated-safely-to-malta.382356
Mario Vella in today’s The Times is putting flesh to Muscat’s visit to the Barrakka Gardens monument to Lord Strickland.
When the cat is away, the mice will play.
Gaddafi harab u Joseph liberu u jixxowja kemm irid mal-Libjani. Lucky him ghax giet opportunita’ ghall-propaganda. Minn jaf jista’ jkun li Big Brother Gaddafi qed jarah minn x’imkien fil-boghod.
The chief of Labour’s think-tank IDEAT on Facebook:
Aaron Farrugia
I want to send all Muslim families in Malta and around the world my best wishes for this very special time of Eid