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		By: La Redoute		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/not-as-smart-as-we-thought-they-are/#comment-100195</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[La Redoute]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/not-as-smart-as-we-thought-they-are/#comment-99473&quot;&gt;Gahan&lt;/a&gt;.

Malcolm Seychell? Are you serious?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/not-as-smart-as-we-thought-they-are/#comment-99473">Gahan</a>.</p>
<p>Malcolm Seychell? Are you serious?</p>
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		By: Matt		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Daphne, Franco Debono should not be trusted to work in any department let alone in Castille.
Like you said, his nefarious motives are crystal clear- he wants no PN candidate to challenge his district or else he is prepared to bring down the government. Debono is no honourable gentleman as he placed his interest before his nation, his constituents who put him there thinking they are electing a PN candidate and his party. No one believes for a second that he abstained from voting for the sake of democracy. Only a fool thinks the people are fools.

I hope the Prime Minister doesn&#039;t succumb to blackmail. After the budget vote Dr. Gonzi should kick him out of Castille and go on national television and tell the people what were Debono&#039;s true intentions. The PM must put the brakes now. Only bad things can come out from this MP. JPO will be also watching to see how the PM will react.

Dr.Gonzi and the party still have some leverage here as Debono is now finished. No one trusts him and not even the MLP. As you revealed Daphne, Muscat will never trust his former classmate and the MLP surely doesn&#039;t need any former PN candidate to win the Ghaxaq district.

What a self destructive man.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Daphne, Franco Debono should not be trusted to work in any department let alone in Castille.<br />
Like you said, his nefarious motives are crystal clear- he wants no PN candidate to challenge his district or else he is prepared to bring down the government. Debono is no honourable gentleman as he placed his interest before his nation, his constituents who put him there thinking they are electing a PN candidate and his party. No one believes for a second that he abstained from voting for the sake of democracy. Only a fool thinks the people are fools.</p>
<p>I hope the Prime Minister doesn&#8217;t succumb to blackmail. After the budget vote Dr. Gonzi should kick him out of Castille and go on national television and tell the people what were Debono&#8217;s true intentions. The PM must put the brakes now. Only bad things can come out from this MP. JPO will be also watching to see how the PM will react.</p>
<p>Dr.Gonzi and the party still have some leverage here as Debono is now finished. No one trusts him and not even the MLP. As you revealed Daphne, Muscat will never trust his former classmate and the MLP surely doesn&#8217;t need any former PN candidate to win the Ghaxaq district.</p>
<p>What a self destructive man.</p>
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		By: Dee		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Joseph Muscat&#039;s declared ambition is to be Malta&#039;s youngest-ever prime minister.

I think Franco Debono has exactly the same aspirations.

&lt;strong&gt;[Daphne - They&#039;re too late already. Mintoff beat them to it long ago.]&lt;/strong&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Joseph Muscat&#8217;s declared ambition is to be Malta&#8217;s youngest-ever prime minister.</p>
<p>I think Franco Debono has exactly the same aspirations.</p>
<p><strong>[Daphne &#8211; They&#8217;re too late already. Mintoff beat them to it long ago.]</strong></p>
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		By: el bandido guapo		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[el bandido guapo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/not-as-smart-as-we-thought-they-are/#comment-99509&quot;&gt;edgar&lt;/a&gt;.

Hamalla kbira. If I were Peppi I would have kicked her off air.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/11/not-as-smart-as-we-thought-they-are/#comment-99509">edgar</a>.</p>
<p>Hamalla kbira. If I were Peppi I would have kicked her off air.</p>
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		By: d.farrugia		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[d.farrugia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why do we have to blow everything out of proportion? Franco Debono is not really concerned about buses arriving late at Hal Ghaxaq because with the old system  buses stopped the service to the village at 8.30pm, and now they have buses as late as 11pm.

There&#039;s also a night bus from Paceville. The service has improved a lot in the last two weeks. I know that because unlike Debono I use it every day.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why do we have to blow everything out of proportion? Franco Debono is not really concerned about buses arriving late at Hal Ghaxaq because with the old system  buses stopped the service to the village at 8.30pm, and now they have buses as late as 11pm.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also a night bus from Paceville. The service has improved a lot in the last two weeks. I know that because unlike Debono I use it every day.</p>
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		By: stiefnu		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[stiefnu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I agree with that what Franco Debono wants now is the Justice Ministry.

And tonight on Xarabank he already hinted what he will do during budget votes as he criticized our justice system, so this farce will be on again in a few weeks&#039; time.

If I were the Prime Minister I would call his bluff. His political career is over anyway.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with that what Franco Debono wants now is the Justice Ministry.</p>
<p>And tonight on Xarabank he already hinted what he will do during budget votes as he criticized our justice system, so this farce will be on again in a few weeks&#8217; time.</p>
<p>If I were the Prime Minister I would call his bluff. His political career is over anyway.</p>
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		By: AST		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AST]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Franco Debono miskin bghata? Qal illi ix xandir huwa ghar min zmien it-80jiet?

Taf ghaliex?

Ghax dak iz-zmien Franco kien ghadu l-iskola imma minghajr klassi ghax KMB kellu gwerra kontra l-iskejjel tal-knisja.

U fuq ix-xandir kienu juru Run Rabbit Run flok il-cartoons.

Hallina Franco bi kwietna ghax int kont ghadek tfal dak iz-zmien li qed issemmi.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Franco Debono miskin bghata? Qal illi ix xandir huwa ghar min zmien it-80jiet?</p>
<p>Taf ghaliex?</p>
<p>Ghax dak iz-zmien Franco kien ghadu l-iskola imma minghajr klassi ghax KMB kellu gwerra kontra l-iskejjel tal-knisja.</p>
<p>U fuq ix-xandir kienu juru Run Rabbit Run flok il-cartoons.</p>
<p>Hallina Franco bi kwietna ghax int kont ghadek tfal dak iz-zmien li qed issemmi.</p>
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		By: edgar		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[edgar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m watching Xarabank and can now understand why Jeffrey could not stay a minute longer with Marlene. Unbearable. For the first time, I could associate myself with Jeff.

&lt;strong&gt;[Daphne - &lt;em&gt;She&lt;/em&gt; left &lt;em&gt;him&lt;/em&gt;. ]&lt;/strong&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m watching Xarabank and can now understand why Jeffrey could not stay a minute longer with Marlene. Unbearable. For the first time, I could associate myself with Jeff.</p>
<p><strong>[Daphne &#8211; <em>She</em> left <em>him</em>. ]</strong></p>
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		By: Impatient		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Impatient]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is Austin Gatt not Franco Debono who embarrassed his party and his government ... but Daphne&#039;s comments are always conditioned by any threat of the possibility of having Labour in government.

This blog has a one track direction.

&lt;strong&gt;[Daphne - There&#039;s no such thing as a &#039;one-track direction&#039;. It&#039;s either a one-track mind or a single direction. This blog is committed to one thing only: the fight against ignorance, stupidity, irrationality and confused thinking, of which your comment is a remarkably good example. You belong to that insufferable class of person who thinks that in order to seem clever, to himself as well as others, he has to run down 1. Austin Gatt and 2. the government. What I find interesting is that this same class of person no longer sees fit to praise Joseph Muscat or the Labour Party, which kinds of leaves them in a dark hole..]&lt;/strong&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is Austin Gatt not Franco Debono who embarrassed his party and his government &#8230; but Daphne&#8217;s comments are always conditioned by any threat of the possibility of having Labour in government.</p>
<p>This blog has a one track direction.</p>
<p><strong>[Daphne &#8211; There&#8217;s no such thing as a &#8216;one-track direction&#8217;. It&#8217;s either a one-track mind or a single direction. This blog is committed to one thing only: the fight against ignorance, stupidity, irrationality and confused thinking, of which your comment is a remarkably good example. You belong to that insufferable class of person who thinks that in order to seem clever, to himself as well as others, he has to run down 1. Austin Gatt and 2. the government. What I find interesting is that this same class of person no longer sees fit to praise Joseph Muscat or the Labour Party, which kinds of leaves them in a dark hole..]</strong></p>
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		By: Dee		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dee]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pearl of wisdom  (one of many) posted on Brian Hanford&#039;s Facebook wall:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=626983175

&quot;Brian Hansford:  indunajtu ghax il-PM ser jitlob vot ta&#039; fiducja waqfu l-attakki fuq franco debono?&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pearl of wisdom  (one of many) posted on Brian Hanford&#8217;s Facebook wall:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=626983175" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=626983175</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Brian Hansford:  indunajtu ghax il-PM ser jitlob vot ta&#8217; fiducja waqfu l-attakki fuq franco debono?&#8221;</p>
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