And…..another one
Labour EP candidate Claudette Abela Baldacchino, with one of the bunnies that escaped boiling
Straight into the concrete wall again – if these bunny-boilers knew how to read they would pick up the information I’ve handed to them on a plate. But no.
Issa lura ghall-hwejjeg serji. Din Deffni bint l-ilsiera li toqghod tiftahar bl-antenati ta’ zmien l-Inglizi, xi tghidilna dwar x’ghamlu missijirietha fi zmien l-Internati?
Louis Vella u l-Velliet l-ohra, tant impoorrrtaaanti fl-istorja ta’ Malta, fejn kienu meta Nerik Mizzi u l-patrijotti l-ohrajn sfaw ILLEGALMENT internati l-Uganda? Kienu ma’ dawk li waddbulhom il-gebel fuq ix-xarabank? Kienu ma’ dawk li ghorku idejhom? Li mbaghad bellghulna l-George Cross fuq il-bandiera? U lahqu u mxew ‘il quddiem fil-hajja?
Last night I wrote that one of the portraits at the Edward Caruana Dingli exhibition is of my grandfather Louis Vella’s sister, Agnes Montanaro Gauci. What are the odds that she was married to Judge Antoine Montanaro-Gauci? I would say, if I were a bunny-boiler, that the odds were pretty good.
In fact, yes, she was married to him, bunny-boilers. Now who was the judge who ruled against the exile of pro-Italian Maltese during the war, even though he had absolutely no sympathy for their political sentiments?
That’s right. He did.
For the benefit of the bunny-boilers, I quote from a speech given by the Chief Justice on the occasion of the unveiling of a portrait of Sir George Borg, in the conference room at the Courts of Justice, on 3 October 2005:
“A few names of judges who stood up to be counted in difficult times, sometimes even to the detriment of their physical health, invariably come to mind: during the war years, Mr Justice Anthony Montanaro Gauci, an Anglophile par excellence and a former member of Strickland’s party, who ruled, on strictly legal grounds, against the proposed deportation by the Governor of the internees to Uganda, even though some historians are of the view that he may personally have liked to see them deported;..”
So, bunny-boilers, no members of my family threw stones at the buses taking the deportees away. They would never have been so crass. The idea of my grandfather, described by the celebrant at his funeral as one of Malta’s last surviving true gentlemen, throwing stones at a bus, still less a bus packed with human-beings he knew personally and cared about, is so ludicrous that anyone who knew him will shake their heads in disbelief. Or just laugh, as I did.
Well, I suppose if you were raised in a family in which it was normal for Pa to go on jollies to trash the law courts and the archbishop’s curia while nannu burned down newspaper buildings and ripped earrings off the leader of the opposition’s wife’s ears, then you would see the behaviour of common thugs as universal to all.
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There are some backs of buses which truly say “throw stones at me.”
Daphne, by investigating your family tree, they really seem to be “Barking up the wrong tree.”
For the benefit of the chickens, meanings attributed to this phrase include:
“to be pursuing a mistaken or misguided line of thought or course of action”
“So basically it means that 1) you have got the wrong idea about something or 2) you are trying to do something in a way that will not work.”
That’s rich, coming from people whose relatives were probably among the ones who threw bottles through my grandfather Louis Vella’s balcony window near The Times building while on their way to raise hell outside the newspaper offices.
Bunny boilers? I don’t think they’d even know how to light the match.
I’ll add to that comment. Flying shards of glass from the shattered windowpane split open our grandmother’s head and, when a few bits of glass fell into the street below, the mob screeched that they’d come back during the day to find out who had dared throw glass at them.
Daphne, I’m wondering why Labour elves are so fascinated by your family tree. They should look up Joseph Muscat’s pedigree instead, maybe they’ll find he’s descended from Moses; he’s supposed to lead them out of the desert, after all.
Like this one ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQQkopQSOlA
Antoine, they can start here.
http://www.poodlepedigree.com/about.htm
Yes, and he’ll organise the manna from heaven too.
They started out the with a ‘warning’ on the blackmail website, for Daphne to stop uploading the truth about Consuelo Scerri Herrera.
Judging by their own lack of character, they expected Daphne to back off quivering at once.
When she did not, they ran out of lies about her and her immediate family, so they resorted to trying to ridicule her about her family background. Little did they know.
Don’t be facetious. The main objective is to get the PL into government. The way Daphne and her family members look, their origins, and the fictitious skeletons in their cupboards are serious obstacles to that goal.
Moses never got to see the promised land.
For heaven’s sake, Daphne – I cannot see how you can stand this tripe! I cannot understand how the chasm between your crystal-clear reasoning and their absurd tripe is going to be bridged.
I suggest perhaps it is now better to ignore them once and for all insofar as comments on your family are concerned – please.
How the hell can these sickos talk about stone throwing? Have they forgotten the throwing of stones at Nationalst Party supporters on their way to and from mass meetings? I remember after the biggest mass meetings ever, during the reign of KMB, when the PN organised a mass meeting on the Floriana granaries and we were pelted with stones just before the turning to the Mediterranean Conference Centre. These sick freaks used to thrive on such occasions. Where was Claudette that day – surely not with her bunny at Popeye’s village?
Neither the Times nor Maltastar have informed us that the Chinese Communist Party and Malta Labour Party (was that not changed to Partit Laburista as part of Muscat’s hype about his reform of the party?) “signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation” during Muscat’s visit in China.
Why did we not know about it, and can we know its content?
Actually, is Muscat meeting the Chinese government, or the Chinese Communist Party?
Some interesting insight here:
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6944809.html
[Daphne – They are one and the same. You might not have noticed, but there is no democracy in China. It’s a communist dictatorship. Perhaps we should ship out James Tyrrell to write to China Daily and give them a piece of his (little) mind.]
“Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping has pledged to further bilateral ties and inter-party exchanges between China and Malta..”
Inter (Labour)-party exchanges I presume. Should be interesting.
Notice how “leader of Malta Labour Party” has a small “l”.
And notice the following bit:
“Muscat …saying his country as a member of the European Union would work for the further development of bilateral relations as well as the China-EU relations.”
Made in Brussels comes to mind.
Not too big a piece, I hope – he can’t afford it.
Is Joseph actually bowing in this picture?
http://english.cpc.people.com.cn/66102/6944962.html
They seem to have forgotten that Nerik Mizzi’s monument was a favourite target of most Labour “celebrations” in the 70s and 80s.
Where were THEIR ancestors then?
“Celebrating”, no doubt……
Daph….if you don’t write anymore about Consuelo and Kermit it’s no fun anymore.
[Daphne – Don’t worry. There’s a court hearing coming up on Monday. She’s going to produce receipts to show she paid for the catering at her two Dar il-Providenza fundraisers, leaving a big question mark on the catering expenses for all the other – private – parties she threw. And maybe this time, it will be the prime minister sending her drinks in restaurants.]
Is she going to produce the receipts for the time she entertained this one http://www2.justice.gov.mt/kawzi/ccm_sitt.asp?FrmCM=222936&lng=ENG?
Maybe Jason Micallef might throw another tantrum in court too.
They’re distracting us from the real issue: Consuelo and her future as magistrate.
These sad cretins never cease to amaze me – a desperate lot lost in their lust for vengeance and trying to get a slot in the Discovery Channel by twisting facts about well-to-do families.
As to the removal of the George Cross, Remembrance Day at it’s very best: Dom Mintoff had suggested this on one of his “good” days but swallowed his words when he realised that he had no backing whatsoever. This specific incident was the heralding of a dictatorship.
“Li mbaghad bellghulna l-George Cross” – the chips these people bear!
Very nice picture indeed. The skinhead in the picture makes another nice bunny.
What is it with these grown-ups posting embarrassing pictures of themselves on the internet?
My daughter and her seven-year-old classmates were treated to a surprise visit by this ‘bunny’ during a school outing to Popeye’s Village. They were really disappointed when the surprise entertainer turned out to be such a dud.
Claudette Abela Baldacchino, on the other hand, appears to be thrilled.
Judge Montanaro Gauci’s ruling will forever be a landmark in Maltese legal history. I recall hearing about it at home when I was still a little child. In the then prevailing situation the significance of his decision was historic. The diminutive man showed himself to be upright and fearless. My grandfather, a staunch Nazzjonalist, used to say “Toni Montanaru subajh dritt”. The ones who stoned the buses of the ‘internati’ were probably the fathers and grandfathers of those aristocrats who destroyed the archbishop’s curia.