The real truth is that it seems that only around 7% of the funds are really going for research. The question is, where does the rest go?

Are you serious? The first acts of this government were the transfer of the commissioner of the police and a number of high ranking and honest policemen, the reolacement of these by puppets and the re-engagement of retired police offficers, most probably mostly PL supporters.

I think you’re forgetting that the silliness of it is the reason that so much money for research has been raised. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of narcissism involved, but the fact that adults are doing what fives year olds normally would is the reason why the campaign has been so successful.

The ALS association is a very transparent organization so the money isn’t just disappearing into it, as very often happens with these things. It’s directly funding the research.

I wouldn’t do it myself because the way it’s been done does feel a little frivolous but at the end of the day it does help and it has been effective in a very concrete way.

You don’t actually need a psychiatrist to commit someone to a psychiatric hospital if using an emergency application (http://www.justiceservices.gov.mt/DownloadDocument.aspx?app=lom&itemid=8755 article 15).

He should be named and shamed, and maybe some real journalist, having done his ice-bucket formality, will plunk a microphone in his face and ask a few pertinent questions.

They also go as far as committing perjury to try and get a conviction. I, like many others, speak from experience. ttp://j-dalli.blogspot.co.uk/

It is not this man that has a psychiatric problem but the authorities.

Carmel Grima • 2 days ago
Il-Ministru tal-Gustizzja jghid hafna affarijiet imma ma jasalx biex jghattwa dak li jghid. Xi xaharejn jew tlitt xhur ilu kien bghat ghalija biex niddiskutu il-problema/ilment tieghi fuq il-frame-up ta’ missieri, Karmenu Grima. Minflok kelli niffaccja sinjorina mill-customer Care unit tieghu, u li din ma setghet tifhem xejn sa anke ma gharfitx x’se tikeb u twassal lill-ministru. Onor. ministru jekk jghogbok tista’ issib hin u tibghat ghalija biex niddiskutu il-problema/ ilment tieghi u ma noqghodx nghid u nikxef il-verita’ fuq dan il-frame-up u hadd ma qal jew ikkonfrontani li dak li ghidt ma hux veru?Possibli kullhadd mill-politici tat-tmeninijiet , kemm laburisti u kemm nazzjonalisti jisthu juru wicchom minhabba dan il-frame-up, u li ikkommettew bejniethom, u li kellu jehel il-povru missieri, biex ma jinkixfux il-politici li ipperpetwaw il-vjolenza tal-15/10/1979?

Carmel Grima • 2 days ago
Biex nirrispondi lis-sinjuri li issimpatizzaw mieghi: Missieri kellu informazzjoni li l-Lorry Sant kien qieghed jifthiem ma Dr. Guido de Marco biex jekk jitla l-gvern Nazzjonalista fil-1981, il-Lorry ma jigix akkuzat b’korruzzjoni. Fl-ittra li kiteb lil Dom Mintoff , il-habib intimu tieghu fissirlu kollox u ipprezentahielu il-Marsa meta Dommy kien riekeb fuq iz-ziemel, pero dan dlonk qallu biex jikteb kollox u imur Kastilja u jghatihielu biex jinvestigaha. Hekk ghamel pero tkellem mal-messggier u kixef kollox mieghu. Dan minflok cempel lil Lorry Sant u kixfu, u peress li kien daqshekk f’sahhtu, il-Lorry ordna lil Maggur biex jitterminah hemm fuq il-post u tohrog l-ahbar falza li Grima mar biex joqtol lil-Prim u jehel b’kollox hu. Wara li dahhluh f’kamra maghluqa u sparawlu 9 tiri li 3 minhom laqtuh u baqghu f’ gismu sa ma miet, komplew ituh bil-butt tal-pistola u ghamlulu 40 punt go rasu meta semghu il-passi mghaggla tal-gurnalist tat-Times u hallewh ghall-mejjet fl-art. Missieri, kemm skond l-inkjesta Filletti u kemm l-Inkjesta Muscat Azzoppardi ma kienx armat u qatt ma spara, skond ix-xhud P.C.Sammut li kien prezenti ghall din it-tracedja.Ittiehed l-isptat fil-karozza tal-gurnalist u mexa on his own steam, ghax missieri kien ruxxan hafna u kullma tilef ftit demm miz-zejjed li kellu. Saru 4 attentati fuq hajtu u fl-ahhar salvah Dom Mintoff; pero il-Lorry baqa jhedded li jrid joqtlu biex jinghalqu l-kotba u hu ma jinkixifx. Dan kollu qalithu l-Inkjesta Muscat Azzoppardi, li gieghelt jien biex jghamel lil Dr.EFA fil-1990.Din ghamilha bil-mohbi tieghi imma Dr, Wenzu Mintoff kixfu ghax tlitt darbiet staqsieh fil-parlament x’fijha din hekk perikolus li Dr EFA heba fl-istrong room tal-parlament u dejjem irrisponda li ma hux fl-interess tal-poplu.Skond Mist. Parl. 14066 din insterqet minn Dr. Alfred Sant fil-1996, u l-ombudsman ma jridx jghamel investigazzjoni fuq hekk ghax se jinkixfu shabu li wettqu l-frame-up u l-iehor li kien jaf li se jaharquu l-bictejn ghamara minn gimgha qabel!
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You idiot. Stick your head in a bucket of water and count to 5,000.

Like everything else in Malta this ice bucket thing has become a meaningless fad.

Being “nominated” is considered hip. Filming it (preferably in a bikini by a pool) even cooler.

The general script is “I thank so and so for nominating me. I now nominate Tom Vella Muscat Scerri, Dick Sammut Busuttil Fenech and Harry Scriha Scerri Pace.”

Donations? ASL? Not so important after all.

All that matters is that the world knows we are considered important/wealthy enough to be “nominated” and have, of course, flaunted it off on Face Book and Twitter.

By the way, welcome back, I hope you had a nice hoiliday.