Comments on: ‘Twixt words and deeds https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/twixt-words-and-deeds/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 05 Apr 2014 02:56:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/twixt-words-and-deeds/#comment-1704705 Sat, 05 Apr 2014 02:56:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45650#comment-1704705 In reply to observer.

I see that Nordicism still rears its head, Socialist, Xarabankian and egalitarian platitudes notwithstanding.

What a fine nation of hypocrites.

]]> By: gaetano pace https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/twixt-words-and-deeds/#comment-1704385 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 23:56:20 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45650#comment-1704385 More went into the speech she delivered at the Palace. I could see new legislation in the making, defining the role of the President, with a twist of arch-minister in it.

Apparently Labour wants to bank on the pennant it has just hoisted up the post. None other can flutter in the wake of sweet breezes coming from the windows of Joe`s corridors of his mind. May it not be just another making of a puppet on a string.

]]> By: Barabbas Borg https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/twixt-words-and-deeds/#comment-1704082 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 23:04:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45650#comment-1704082 Let’s not forget Grixti is the brother of Labour MEP candidate Ivan Grixti

]]> By: Barabbas Borg https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/twixt-words-and-deeds/#comment-1704077 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 23:02:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45650#comment-1704077 In reply to Reporter.

Should we refer to her as Notary Coleiro Preca then?

]]> By: observer https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/twixt-words-and-deeds/#comment-1703342 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 19:00:01 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45650#comment-1703342 In reply to Erasmus.

Neither in anyone even very remotely – but pretending to possess ‘royal blood’ – related to a Russian princess!

Bil-malti nistghu nghidu “ma nwaqqghux l-affarijiet ghan-nejk”.

]]> By: C Mangion https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/twixt-words-and-deeds/#comment-1703266 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 17:33:59 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45650#comment-1703266 “Ghamluha president lil Merilwees! Rajta ghand tal-grocer dawritli wicca, bhal li kieku ma tafx min jien! Ja bicca njoranta hamalla” – my gran, this morning.

]]> By: Calculator https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/twixt-words-and-deeds/#comment-1702733 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:18:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45650#comment-1702733 In reply to Evarist Saliba.

Something tells me she’s going to make her predecessor look like a proper saint.

]]> By: Erasmus https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/twixt-words-and-deeds/#comment-1702706 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 15:11:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45650#comment-1702706 “Put not your trust in Princes…” — Psalm 146:3

translated into Maltese by the Ghaqda Biblika as :

“La tittamawx fil-kbarat…”

]]> By: Evarist Saliba https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/twixt-words-and-deeds/#comment-1702554 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:33:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45650#comment-1702554 Actions speak louder than words. Malta’s new President has shown her inclusive standards on the eve of her inauguration. A leopard does not change its spots.

]]> By: verita https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/04/twixt-words-and-deeds/#comment-1702532 Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:28:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=45650#comment-1702532 As is usual practice , the elected president resigns as member of the political party he/she belongs to. As far as i know i have not heard yet of any resignations.

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