Harry, if your prediction comes true, I’ll buy us both a crate of Veuve Clicquot. You have my word on it.

Ciccio, you mean they would steal my progeny? A Yana Mintoff – Baxxter hybrid?

Dear god in heaven.

On another note, my friend, this incompetent, misguided man has succeeded in turning Malta into the laughing stock of the year. All of Europe has rejected his scheme. My friends in North America are incredulous.

Sant took almost two years to screw up. This twit has done it in ten months. I still predict he’s out and will beat Sant’s shortened term. Maybe one more year of fuck-ups, then out.

Errm, sorry to disappoint you Baxxter, but yours is not a brilliant idea.

Name one thing in the world the Mintoffiani would want to lay their hands on to become rich quickly…

A bank.

Baxxter, one commodity? Bitcoin fits the bill. Traceless also.

I think this is a great idea to show off talented companies in Malta. I’ve made mockups to show you all that this is real investment and not prostituting the country.

http://imgur.com/a/dpjBd#3

Just think about it – even Wikipedia would have to show the advertising. And it’s a great idea because Libya has writing on its old flag. I can’t read it, but it was almost definitely a Coca Cola sponsorship…

Be careful what you wish for…..

The following struck me as applying to Malta in a different context by applies just the same:

“But – and there was bound to be a but – to be a leader, a man or woman of state, does involve questions of character. And by character, I think, we simply mean the power to refrain – to not do the things that we have every right and reason to do because there’s some other larger reason not to do them. And by character in leadership we mean just having the unusual capacity of being able to ask other people to refrain, without looking a prig or hypocrite while doing so. A sane state involves some balance of appetite served and appetite curbed. Right now, in France and elsewhere, ordinary people are being asked to take less from the state than they quite expected, and the rich are being asked to give more to the state than they quite want to. When the leader shows himself unable to control his own appetite, the symbolic message, larger than any political speech, is that the indulgence of appetite is not one among many goods, but an absolute good – one that trumps prudence, caution and risks, signalling that everyone needs to curb their appetites except for those with power. “