People who resort to rabid self-promotion should not be considered for such awards. From what I know, most if not all of this year’s recipients work in their respective fields quietly without fan fair, and without resorting to manipulation of the media.

People constantly driven by hidden agendas should never be considered for an award. Does Marco Cremona really care about the environment more than he cares about his consultancy business?.

Labour’s birdbrain section. Which it isn’t.

Prosit Joseph il-King

Proset Renato u Mary show mil aqwa marcelle qormi

ahna tal-gamien ma labour ax bhan nassaba jigrilna f’april VIVA LABOUR

tal hamiem nivvutaw labour

proset joseph u il family kollha ta super one keep it up

proset ta kollox! viva Joseph muscat il-futur taghna!

http://maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Follow-the-slime

[Daphne – My take is that when Raphael Vassallo isn’t taking his medication, he goes off at a tangent. and is impossible to read.]

Maltastar, this morning, gives 436,135 euros to the PN, and a piddly 235,902 euros to the PL.

That’s practically 100,000 euros missing. Someone’s lost his wallet again.

Regarding Joseph’s cute twins, I can only say that children have rights and their parents should be the ones who should protect their privacy.

Couldn’t the parents have left the poor innocent children at home with a nanny or their grandparents?

I know MP’s who tried to push their adolescent children into the political arena and who were threatened by their children that they will call them ‘political fanatics’ in public.

Regarding the two fundraising shows, they reflect the standard of our political parties: the PN is like a cold nutritious meal on a chilly winter’s night, while the PL is like a rotten bread pudding freshly covered with chocolate ready to be eaten by someone who is fed up eating the same cold meal.

Can we have a microwave?

One of the comments on the screen of ONE TV struck me , it reflects precisely the PL supporters’ mood. It ran somewhere along these lines: “Kuragg PL , ejja ha nehilsu minn dan il-gvern…”

John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Funds, pointed out that many of us have a “rowboat” mentality. We move forward into the future the way we row a boat – facing backward, looking only at the past.

Everyone engages in a little nostalgia now and then. There’s nothing like time to put shine on even some of the most tarnished moments in history. It’s human nature to remember the good and forget the bad, and we should be thankful for our memory lapses.

D.R. Keough.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111213/local/national-awards-conferred-to-cross-section-of-society.398223

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