126,761 views today
Super One's cameraman Byon Jo Zammit and MEPA man Omar Cucciardi party with the middle class
Today (well, yesterday now as it’s half-past midnight) was the second busiest day on this blog since it started out two years ago. And the strangest coincidence is that the first busiest day was also 9 March.
The two busiest days ever for this blog:
Tuesday, 9 March 2010: 126,761 views
Sunday, March 9, 2008: 131,963 views
That was the day votes were being counted in the general election, and the country was all agog for news, information and updates.
Consuelogate is just over 5,000 views short of that big day, which should give the naysayers who have rubbished it as gossip and a cat-fight an indication of the level of interest in this story.
Cat-fights do not stir up the same degree of interest on a blog as a general election. People understand the wider implications here.
If I and the magistrate were both men, what would the shallow, agenda-driven fools at Malta Today have called it then – a cock-fight?
I’m tempted to ask whether Saviour Balzan and his newsroom of Lord of the Rings fans (it’s a type) actually have one of those between them – the feathered variety that crows at dawn, I mean. They make a good soup.
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They make that kind of soup in Indonesia I believe. Mountain Oysters are usually the second course.
i don’t believe that Maltese society treats great writer like you that way, and even takes you to court for freedom of expression issue, if we got a writer in your quality we should give her the country highest rewards ,that magistrate should be dismiss for her misconducts.
2nd, 9th and 14th March then there will be the Ides of March the day when something important should happen.
It would be a great boost for Daphne if contributors to this blog sign with their proper name…and it gives more credibility to the comment written. I understand that there are persons who hold public office who cannot do this.
LOL ITS easier done when you have the typical maltese name like “john schembri” :)
but hey i write mine … i dont mind its my opinion , and its also daphne’s vote to publish it or not. i think i came in here to fight for freedom of speech… how am i ever going to believe in my cause if i write a bogus name …
Tony some people have a typical name but still use a pen name. It happens that mine is a typical Maltese name but somehow many people know that I write comments here.
You are more identifiable than I am. Daphne here needs our moral support. A name gives more ‘punch’ to the comment written even it is Joe Borg.
Stand by for another libel suit – from me. How dare you use the words ‘Lord of the Rings’ like that…
I agree. And to all the commenters on this excellent blog : “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
I was wondering if you could possibly publish a seven-year old photo of Mr Cassar and the other ex-policeman you identified so that we could compare the two and see if there was any likeness.
[Daphne – There’s no likeness at all. And I mean none.]
I’ve taken to napping in the afternoon to make up for sleeping so late these last few weeks. Coffee helps. Then I wake up an hour earlier everyday to check on the progress of this saga. Thanks Daphne, I haven’t had this much fun for a very long time. Your blog is an education in itself. Also, although I suspect this won’t matter to you, I pray for you and your family because you are putting yourselves through a lot for all of us.
Give the magistrate some credit. She may have provided loads of fun to others.
And she’s distressed many more.
Miriam Dalli during her newspaper review read out the front page article of today’s The Malta Independent in which I understood that what Magistrate Consuelo Scerri Herrera said under oath, while bearing witness in court this week, about Assistant Commissioner Michael Cassar was a lie.
I wonder if this was awkward for Miriam Dalli since she was a guest of the magistrate at her 45th birthday party.
Miriam Dalli is head of Super One News. Why would she find this awkward?
Over 15 /16 Million saw Stacey as Archies killer in Eastenders ,(Wlkipedia ) Still remains fiction not fact ,,,, Resemblance ? ..
Times Link
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100310/local/caruana-galizia-case-asst-commissioner-denies-magistrates-claim
Saviour can only dream of having so many views in one night. But then Malta Today is only a third rate rag.
When all this saga is over, I shall sue you for depriving me of food, sleep and sex. I am knackered! Hope I have spelled that right.
This saga is really only the tip of the tip of the iceberg. If one had to begin to uncover how, for example, various persons have built their business empires over the years, flouting every conceivable law with [relative] impunity (yes, by both political parties), Malta’s socio-political structure will simply implode. I may be generalising but I wouldn’t be far amiss by saying that things function in Malta on the basis of: you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.
Watching Skynews and there’s a feature titled “The Live Desk”.
Guess who came to my mind?
“Super One’s cameraman Byon Jo Zammit and MEPA man Omar Cucciardi party with the middle class”
At least the fat bloke is having a G&T, and has yet to be infected by winebar, vecchia taverna, vino veritas huge wineglass bumfluffery. Din ohra li tqabbizieli fuq Malta: having wine on the sofa.
Maybe Omar Cucciardi of MEPA was processing an application from Consuelo for the installation of a gate?