Time to give this one another airing, I think
I have been sent screen-shots of Facebook conversations – if you can call them that – about the sale of citizenship, between people in their 50s of what can be termed a socio-educational background that is/was more privileged than most.
I had to keep pinching myself to remember that they are not 16-year-olds who have just left their convent school (the men, too).
Nowhere were there any facts – just ‘opinions’. When challenged about their opinion, they petulantly claimed that they had a right to it. It doesn’t occur to them for even one moment that it is not their right to an opinion which is being contested, but their opinion itself.
This is a debate about FACTS. Therefore it stands to reason that before you form and hold an opinion, you must first apprise yourself of the facts.
You know who you are, dears – how about you grow up and read some proper newspapers instead of picking up your gossip on Facebook? And what about if you were to read the new law itself (available on PDF) and try using your brains a little?
Rich people coming to live here and buy your paintings? COME ON. It follows – logically, to those who can think – from the government’s refusal to tie citizenship to investment in the economy or residence in Malta (or even an address in Malta) that this cash-for-passports business is aimed 100% at individuals who want to use their Malta-acquired passport to move elsewhere in the EU.
Time to give this video another airing – which is better than sitting around wondering what goes wrong with so many Maltese people that their thinking and emotions never develop beyond the teenage years. If I close my eyes to the bingo-wings, bald heads, wrinkles and general sagginess, I could be at Sliema Pitch or Neptunes, circa 1979 – you know, that age when everyone is trying to be super-cool and clever because they’re privy to the secrets of the universe.
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“I could be at Sliema Pitch or Neptunes, circa 1979 – you know, that age when everyone is trying to be super-cool and clever because they’re privy to the secrets of the universe”
Thank God I wasn’t around. I’d have been really lonely.
[Daphne – You wouldn’t have been the only one, I can assure you. Nothing worse than having to pretend to get along with people with whom you have nothing in common, just because there’s no choice.]
The pro-Labour censorship on Times of Malta’s site is unbelievable. Post an offensive, libellous, pro-Labour rant with a thousand question marks and it gets through, but a reasoned rebuttal will get blocked however many times you re-post it.
Do just like I did, unsubscribe.
If they don’t like your valued opinion, they don’t deserve your custom.
@Gahan
Agree perfectly.
My trick is to out-fascist the fascists. Move so far to the right, you meet yourself coming back.
Daphne, you must install a ‘like’ button!
Here’s another drooling idiot update.
When the PN wanted to incentivise the Maltese to spend money in Gozo, it (the much maligned Austin Gatt) created a scheme whereby if you went up to Gozo on a Friday and stayed for the weekend, as long as you presented your hotel bill you’d get the boat trip for free.
But these idiots just made the trip free for the whole weekend. So everyone and his dog has gone up for day trips, no doubt with packed lunches, clogged up the roads with cars and exhaust and spent nothing. Now there’s a queue of cars from Mgarr all the way to Victoria. So if you’re stuck in Gozo and you want to complain, I suggest you write a letter, And when you address it, on the envelope, just put “Cunt, Valletta”.
The postman will know where to go.
Incentiva li serviet biss ghal qabda mejtin bil-guh biex johorgu harga b’xejn minn fuq dahar il-kumplament tal-poplu.
Labour style.
Min jaf kemm hemm minhom qed jistennew il-butir tac-Cinizi.
Qabda mejtin bil-guh li ma jridhux jahdmu imma jridu jerdghu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi_9IILn-HY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxnCE0Vlc-s
Will they be available at the ‘Pharmacy of Your Choice’?
Not much sales were done there, judging from the feedback of citizenship sales. I thought most of the Maltese were prostitutes for money, but after this week I’m starting to think otherwise.
I was watching the 8.00pm news on PBS. One of the reports was about an interview given by Louis Grech on Super One. He spoke about how the Labour government is implementing its “programme” – I don’t think they reported the use of the word ‘roadmap.’
The video clip of the report showed distant shots of Louis Grech alternating with shots of a computer screen with a continuous electronic message. At first I thought that they were monitoring his heart rate, but later, when I saw the major oscillations in the continuous message, I was morally convinced that they were ‘secretly’ monitoring him on a lie-detector machine.