Nahseb Musumeci dalwaqt jissieheb mal-Karizmatici
Published:
February 24, 2010 at 10:28am
I forgive you (you never know, it might get me elected one day)
His Thought for the Day on Facebook:
Kif kien jemmen il-Papa Gwanni XXIII, irridu nnaqsu l-loġika tal-konflitt u minflok nadottaw il-loġika tad-djalogu.
Ma, x’ipokrezija fahxija.
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For someone who dislikes Facebook you do spend an enormous amount of time on it.
[Daphne – I spend no time at all, in fact. Others are more than glad to do it.]
Ma nafx, Daphne. Your recent posts are almost all Facebook gossip . . . and that picture you once put up of me when you quoted my Maltastar article . . . well . . . that’s only uploaded on Facebook.
[Daphne – Yes, Adrian. People send me things. As for your picture, one word: Google.]
Oh yes. Forgot about that . . . Bloody thing, Google . . . So, coming to see THE SEDUCTION OF ALMIGHTY GOD? Yep, I don’t give up.
[Daphne – No.]
You mean you never give up on a chance of free advertising of your wares, Mr. Buckle.
Google Slapped in Italian Abusive Video Case:
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/europeinsight/archives/2010/02/google_slapped.html
Aww Daphne, you’ve broken my heart . . . I shall post about it on Facebook now . . .
Daqt jghid li l-Papa Gwanni XXIII kien jippromovi l-adulterju.
My my my what a joke! Robert Musumeci quoting Pope John XXIII and equating his behaviour to his. Incredible!
Oh, so he’s quoting Pope John XXIII now, is he? Here, let me help him out. He can upload this too on his Facebook, taken from Pope John XXIII Encyclical Letter dated 11th April 1963:
“La famiglia, fondata sul matrimonio contratto liberamente, unitario e indissolubile, è e deve essere considerata il nucleo naturale ed essenziale della società. Verso di essa vanno usati i riguardi di natura economica, sociale, culturale e morale che ne consolidano la stabilità e facilitano l’adempimento della sua specifica missione.”
There, Robert, you’ve got your quote ready for tomorrow. All you have to do is translate it into Maltese.
I’m just listening to some lovely music – it’s John Mayer’s Free Falling. It occured to me that this is precisely what’s happening to Musumeci and co.
Why on earth would he want to quote the late Pope when he’s clearly not following his advice at all?
[Daphne – Because Maltese people are schizoid in their approach to Catholicism. Catholics are what they ARE and not what they DO.]
Ara din ma kontx nafha. Issa qed isejhulu “djalogu”.
Or maybe ‘Quando non se ne puo’ piu’, si ricorre al buon Gesu’…just a thought.
All priests should say this one sentence next Sunday and then shut up.
Daphne, I think it has more to do with sounding smart and philosophical than quoting a Catholic figurehead. You know, like what Jospeh Muscat’s doing….using 11-letter words to woo the people.
He’s saving Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious for the last meeting before the election.
John XXIII must be turning in his grave, miskin.
Looks like a trend
” ….but if there is one Christian Democratic principle I treasure, it is forgiveness… And therefore I forgive her.”
(Musumeci in MaltaToday’s interview)
Ego te absolvo a peccatis tuis, in nomine Consi et MaltaToday et Mores Sancti.
Gah .. the man’s turning out to be a real plonker. Someone please tell him to shut the hell up so he can start limiting the damage.
Amen to Daphne’s “Ma, x’ipokrezija fahxija”, or should I say, QED.
Are these phrases uploaded automatically by some add-on gadget or are they selected personally by the person on whose page they pop up?
[Daphne – They are selected by the person in question.]
Nahseb jien li dan il-bniedem, il-poter u il-fama telghulu ghal rasu u hlief hmerijiet mhux qed jghamel. Din qalilu il-kappillan tas-Siggiewi meta mar iqerr il-bierah?
No Bookworm, he is preparing material for his file for when Fr George Dalli presents his character reference.
There is now a new Code of Ethics for local councillors, issued a couple of weeks ago. Has anyone seen a copy of it? I am sure there will be some interesting guidance on the behaviour of public servants in that role, and maybe someone can upload them onto the wall – and I do not mean Humpty Dumpty.
Cool Facebook application for magistrates, architects and the rest: Which Muppet are you?
Linky: http://www.facebook.com/tos.php?api_key=b76a7531ceef7ebc46e79ff90f044f78&next=http%3A%2F%2Fapps.facebook.com%2Fwhichmuppetareyouacz%2Fquiz%2Fquestions%3F_fb_fromhash%3D93e18ab39f65db3778fee49347b8695e%26quiz_metric%255Bactivated_at%255D%3D1267002009%26quiz_metric%255Bclicked_attribute%255D%3Dfeeds_clicked&v=1.0&canvas
The sheer hollowness of Musumeci’s thought is in itself a worrying statement about the new crop of upcoming, would-be politicians we’re getting in this country, not to mention the boy’s own IQ.
Musumeci is incapable of complex thinking and comes across as a man unable to articulate the content of his arguments – assuming such content exists.
His penchant for platitude, plain axiomatics and cliché marks him as the quintessential parochial politician. His pet phrases include that notorious “politika tal-kompromess”, which he holds up as a virtue, crassly unaware of the double bind the phrase entails, and its possibly devastating implications in the hands of politicians.
The irony lies, of course, in the dodgy lifestyle he is leading – one example of a true “politika tal-kompromess”.
Daphne, take a look at this blog:
http://saudiwoman.wordpress.com/
Dazgur, u ha nghidlek, hu lahqu sew il-livell tal-logika tad-djalogu mal-frend Consuelo.
I see your blog has developed – advertising and email updates!
I suggest saying ‘most Maltese people’ rather than ‘Maltese people’.
There is hypocrisy in all religions, I saw this in Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus.
By the way I am agnostic.
“Allah hu akbar” indeed.
Some people never seize to amaze me at how radically and how quickly they change. I almost can’t believe that this is the same person who yesterday was asking on his facebook wall whether you’d give him some oral sex.
And then they say that certain women are “qabda ddisprati”!
P.S.: Today, we had a really busy day at work and I did not have time to browse the web. I realised how much I enjoy this blog. Blog on, D! Thanks for making my lovely days even more enjoyable.
I guess you meant “cease”.
At least we don’t have all the nutcases re the EU. Look at what a UK MEP called EU President van Rompuy today in his first appearance in Parliament.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8535121.stm
As Blessed Pope John XXIII has written we should distinguish between the error and the errant:
“It is always perfectly justifiable to distinguish between error as such and the person who falls into error—even in the case of men who err regarding the truth or are led astray as a result of their inadequate knowledge, in matters either of religion or of the highest ethical standards. A man who has fallen into error does not cease to be a man. He never forfeits his personal dignity; and that is something that must always be taken into account. Besides, there exists in man’s very nature an undying capacity to break through the barriers of error and seek the road to truth. God, in His great providence, is ever present with His aid. Today, maybe, a man lacks faith and turns aside into error; tomorrow, perhaps, illumined by God’s light, he may indeed embrace the truth.”
(http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_xxiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_j-xxiii_enc_11041963_pacem_en.html)
As the saying goes “God hates sin but loves the sinner” .
[Daphne – Fortunately, the law sees things differently, and jails the errant not the error.]
Of course the law cannot jail the error but only the errant when the latter is considered responsible for his actions. Imprisonment can be said to be a necessary evil.
However one of the purposes of punishment is the rehabilitation of the convicted person.
The Christian view of justice appplies humanity to justice. Justice which is not tempered with mercy would be simply vindictiveness. I think this sounds familiar to you:
“The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.”
[Daphne – ‘The Christian view of justice’…they have justice in secular states, too, you know, and the indications are that it’s a whole lot more just than what happens here.]
Christianity tempered the harsh application and punishments of Roman law.
One can compare the Western system of law with Islamic law or the law applied in countries such as China. These latter systems apply a harsh concept of justice based on retribution.
@ David
Wise words indeed and now we have made our point it is high time we take heed
Eh?
To be honest, in many cases, I want the errant imprisoned as a punishment first of all. Rehabilitation takes second place.
If anyone has a child who has been abused and feels that the attacker just needs rehabilitation not punishment – then I think there is something wrong in their reasoning.
I am not so idealistic as to advocate the abolishment of prisons.
In fact one of the aims of punishment, including prison, is to reform the offendor besides other aims as that of being a deterrent to other offendors.