Great. We’ll import Chinese and Filipino slave labour, and crack down on freedom and human rights.

Oh and why is it “Dubai”? Does “United Arab Emirates” sound too much like the sort of countries we love to hate?

Michelle Muscat is doing her damnedest, what with all those xoppink trips to il-ferries, and her incessant promotion of consumerism.

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/business/business_news/40059/muscat_well_turn_malta_into_the_next_singapore_or_dubai#.U58_SPmSx8E

In certain circumstances significance tanslates to ‘the number of votes if I do angainst the number of votes if I don’t’.

I cannot agree with the specifics of albona’s argument – no one can, but s/he is right in questioning the attitude of certain people who insist on partaking of the sacraments yet lead a life that does not square with a life built on grace.

Your argument,on the other hand, pinpoints the problem in our society. Sacraments and the spiritual life in general are perceived as a “membership card”.

I will not go as far as to say that certain people shouldn’t bother with the sacraments, but I will say that they should better understand their magnitude and significance.

How do they intend keeping in touch with us?
Don’t tell me they are coming back in our kitchen again. it did not work before and it will not work now.

[Daphne – Do what Labour’s outreachers did, Mr Loporto: throw a party for your friends and introduce them to ‘Simon’. It’s a lot better than sitting there in your living-room grumbling about how the PN isn’t grovelling for your precious vote.]

I can understand it too. It’s called paying lip service.

But then they shouldn’t be wearing the secularist badge.

What I really do not understand is that Maltese people claim to be Catholics, practicing Catholics to be more precise and then, when the the teachings of the Catholic Church does not suit them they go into an orgie of criticism of our spiritual leaders starting from local parish priests, local bishops and even the Pope.

These are the same people who approved of divorce, gay marriages, push backs, and soon abortion. The teachings of the Church are pretty clear. But people tend to treat religion as an a la carte menu. What suits me I agree with, what does not suit me I criticise and do my best to change to my liking. No values whatsoever.

Oh, I know why they do it. I just think that it is hypocritical. But then I have spent most of my life swimming against the current and have no problem not belonging if that is what it takes.

That is why I prefer going to church in places like the Netherlands or the UK; at least there I know that the people sitting in the pews next to me are most likely not there for superficial reasons. I could never oppose something with every fibre of my body and then follow the rituals to a tee. Perhaps in a way it is that way of mocking it. I don’t know.

A gilt-bronze one is hardier and cannot be chiselled as easily as a marble one.

It may cost a ‘little’ more. But what the heck. Maytezwell – it’s the taxpayer’s money, not his, you know.