Do you know what is truly pathetic?

That you voted to turn the clock back from 2004 to 1984, to the days of the 20 punt, lockouts of teachers and anybody who wanted to have 29 June as a holiday; to budgets on tonn taz-zejt u corned beef, u budgets tal-qawsalla.

Ma nirratifikawx il-Court of Human Rights biex ma naghtux xoghol lil-avukati (KMB).

To strolling through Republic Street and seeing everybody wearing the same shoddy clothes.

Tkarrib biex ikollok linja tat-telephone u television tal-kulur.

Bombs going off in the middle of the night.

Those where the good old days – if you miss them so much why don’t you go to live in some Central African Country – oh I forgot – those countries are not as corrupt as Malta was in 1984.

Actually it was the search button which was initially used but time and time again =JPO.

I mean you write about Divorce and JPO every single day, loads of articles cropped up.

But yes I am thick, however just as a constructive criticism you should (actually must) provide a better search facility.

That’s the kind of search button a simple software could provide.

I mean the real basic. btw never imagine that initials should be used for research, it will simply deliver nonsense, neither mathematical symbols. Tought it was self-explanatory, but yet again I am that thick.

[Daphne – Listen, I’m going to speak to you straight and plain: you either hate me, I’m a witch and I talk bollocks, in which case what are you doing here. Or you want to join in the discussion because you think it’s relevant, in which case, just do so. Either way, bloody grow up and understand that I am a real person, writing real things, in real language, about real situations, and not some cartoon figure as portrayed on Super One.]

Perhaps not many people realise this, but in effect the parliamentary vote on divorce pretty much reflected the popular referendum result.

A 36 Yes and 33 No reflect a 52.17% and the referendum result was 52.47%, both in favour of divorce.

So the PM’s vote and that of the remaining MPs, all PN, was quite a precise reflection of the popular vote. What exactly is wrong with that?

Gino, press the fast-forward button, please.

Insieh ir-ration ta’ zmien Mintoff dan?

Ara veru ninsabu f’idejn nies li lanqas huma kapaci jahsbu.

Jahsbu biss bil-but u jinsew il-bqija, jinsew il-libertà li gab dan il-Gvern, l-opportunitajiet, l-edukazzjoni. Tassew nispera li m’ghandux tfal jew neputijiet li ‘l quddiem ghad irid jaghtihom rendikont tad-decizjonijiet tieghu.

So, floating voters, “hear, hear”

John Grech must really be very proud to have voted against joining the EU.

Having said that, Joseph Muscat also voted against, so we have to put him in the same league as KMB and Sant.

If the majority are a tabula rasa when it comes to good sense,then we know who should be blamed.

[Daphne – Yes, Randon. Their parents. Children are the product of their parents, almost never of their school, and certainly never of their government. It is the scope for development, through schools, jobs and training, that is provided in part by the state. But the raw material comes from mum and dad. If the parents can’t think, it is 99% likely that their children won’t think either. And believe me when I say that thinking and schooling/university are rarely connected.]

Added to that is the not so inconspicuous dose of arrogance from those in power (ministers and those behind the throne).

A change in government will probably bring a wilderness of monkeys on the throne, but then we are tired of the all devouring pack wolves already sitting there.

[Daphne – I don’t see any devouring wolves, Randon. What I see is people wanting to vote them out because they think they they, personally, are not devouring enough. And you have to be mad to wilfully put a monkey on the throne.]

See what I mean?

The PL is stilted when it keeps pandering to this type of mentality.