I’m fed up of hearing that Marco Cremona isn’t politically motivated
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December 14, 2011 at 11:58am
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Plonker
As with John Dalli, the key to deciphering these people is the facial expression. That pained martyr look….
OK, we know you climbed Mount Everest. No go climb a tree.
They didn’t “climb” anything. They just threw money at the problem. Everest ceased to be a challenge by the late 1970s. I’ve had it up to here with fake Maltese heroes and men of the year.
Everytime I sit on a plane at around 40,000 feet, I come to the realisation that I don’t have what it takes to reach that sort of altitude on foot, carrying my weight and another 20kgs on my back. Money and no money.
So it could be that your standard of what constitutes an achievement is a tad too high, Mr Baxxter. Of course, I must assume that you have a string of “real” achievements under your belt, which you wouldn’t mind sharing with us so the next time some crazy bugger decides to climb a mountain, he would have at least some sort of perspective.
I nominate Baxxter for ‘Man of the Year’, on Daphnes’s blog.
You underestimate the difficulties involved in climbing Everest. It is not much easier today then when Edmund Hillary did it.
It is just that the problems are of a different kind nowadays, such as queues, overcrowding and poor mobile signal.
I have also heard that the stairs are somewhat slippery in some places and do not have a proper railing, a problem that Edmund certainly did not encounter back then.
Harry, I nominate Matthew Camilleri, who put his balls on the line when he joined British Army as a squaddie, and who fought in Afghanistan. And he didn’t join some poncy REMF unit like those RAMC medics who occasionally grace The Times’s centrefold just to tell us how brainy as well as culturally sensitive they are, and oh what a great time they have in the mess. At least there’s one Maltese guy who’s not a goddamn yuppie poser.
Baxxter, point well taken.
Let^s have an Xmas drink.
Give me a shout, if you’re available.
How right you are Baxxter – down to earth as usual. I would call these types adventurers rather than heroes.
Real heroes are brave in difficult and trying circumstances not of their own making or choice ( and I have a few real Maltese heroes in mind) – and they don`t go round seeking constant recognition either.
I admired AD because throughout their history they kept their distance from contractors and industrialist and when not, they used a long spoon when they supped with the devil.
If AD really backs Marco Cremona’s declaration than it has become Faustian and servant to speculators and industrialists.
Marco Cremona is not an environmentalist but a water salesman.
AD please make up your mind. Are you for the environment or are you posing behind commercial concerns that are not sustainable?
A salesman with a probable grudge as he hasn’t sold anything noteworthy to the government yet.
Propably suffering from the “Sargas Syndrome”.
He is often seen with Joseph Muscat.
I follow your blog regularly, but I really do not understand the motivation behind some posts .
His support of AD doesn’t discredit anything he’s ever said regarding the importance of guarding our scarce water resource. On the contrary, it is to be expected that someone who’s continuously speaking for the environment supports a Green party. Actually, it is quite well known.
Whatever his political affiliation, he’s put water on both main parties’ agenda, and that’s something to applaud and not attack.
“it is to be expected that someone who’s continuously speaking for the environment supports a Green party.”
That’s the point of this post: Marco Cremona is not apolitical.
Only the dumb and unthinking who cry “I’m not interested in politics” while still having to pay their taxes are apolitical.
All the other intelligent beings form an opinion, and political parties should by trying to attract them. Accusing someone of not being apolitical is accusing him of forming an opinion.
The same thing Labour is doing to Lou Bondi.
It’s not an accusation. It’s an observation. And it’s less about Marco Cremona than about those who think that he’s apolitical.
Mark, it’s Marco Cremona himself who claims to be apolitical. The accusation (and point of this blog entry) is not that he supports AD but that he is not what he claims to be.
“… he’s put water on both main parties’ agenda, and that’s something to applaud and not attack”
This is an exaggerated comment, because water has been on both parties agenda since time immemorial.
The party in government has long been closing boreholes for example so that the water table salinity settles to acceptable levels.Injecting the water table with storm water has been done with the construction of water catchments in places like Tal-Barrani , Haz-Zebbug and other places, so that the stored water permeates slowly into the ground and than pumped into potable water reservoirs.
Marco is a bit of a salesman; he is doing this Sargas type of publicity. Maybe if Joseph woos Marco towards the PL we will have another “surprise” candidate, and we will have comments on The Times on the vein of “Marco for Minister of water; he is better than Tonio.”
We had the ’scoop’ that the Maestro Mifsud was going to be a Labour candidate: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110828/local/A-rocking-candidate-for-Labour-in-Sliema-.382094/comments:2
Then we had the last ‘surprise’ of the paediatrician Chris Fearne who launched his campaign with the PL some two days ago during the Party Fundraising Holiday.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111213/local/paediatric-surgeon-announces-his-candidature.398232
Somebody even commented beneath the story that Labour voters are “spoiled” for choice (in Silvio Parnis’s district) . Now if I were an old Labour supporter who should I vote for, the health assistant Silvio Parnis who brings me the pills and the nappies or the “professur tat-tfal” whom I never saw in the “Berga tas-Sahha”, and who couldn’t tell the difference between the “kartuna is-safra” and the “kartuna r-roza”?
Interestingly, Mr Chris Fearne has a ‘rokna’ on RTK radio, like the dentist and property/antiques dealer Marlene Farrugia, architect Robert Musumeci and lawyer Toni Abela have.
When is the Church radio station going to wake up and stop these politicians from taking a free publicity ride on its back? Can’t the church find decent guest dentists, doctors, lawyers,and architects for its programmes – people who are not trying to drum up electoral support?
It’s the same with TVM’s “Sahtek l-ewwel” which looks more like a parliamentary programme with guests like JPO, Anthony Zammit, and Jean Pierre Farrugia, than one on healthy living .
well said Daphne
Of course he is!
And AD people are the strangest people around. All of them seem to have a chip on their shoulder, but nobody really knows why.
Or go jump in a lake.
A waste of blog space – this particular post I mean.
Funny how he was accused of being a PL mouthpiece on this same blog two weeks ago. Now he has been uncovered as a person who voted AD in the 2009 MEP elections. Shock horror!
Daphne you are sadly typical of most Maltese politically motivated bloggers and opinion-makers. Anyone who criticises one of the two main parties is seen as being in cahoots with the other main party, vide the attack on Marco the other week. When one is then an AD supporter he is depicted as a loon, a loser and of course someone who still props up the other party in some indirect manner.
Salvu Balzan basically accused AD of being PN supporters when he had a go at Michael Briguglio’s praise for certain measures announced in this year’s budget. Political maturity dictates that one would praise or criticise another party’s policies with honesty and not political gain in mind. It seems that despite a lot of talk about that, it is still a no go area here in Malta. Tribalism triumphs at the end of the day.
As for Baxxter, I am looking forward to his list of armchair heroics.
I’m with Baxxter here. Humility gets you noticed and I think Matthew Camilleri knows exactly what this means.
Geez, get a life!
Try to meet the man in person (am sure he is not interested) and then write about him.
[Daphne – Aren’t you his brother? Then best keep out of it.]
Yes i am. I don’t hide under false names. What i write is correct contrary to what i read.