Green: The Sustainable Prince The New York Times Take a look at an interesting article we found.
Prince Charles takes on agricultural lobbies on both sides of Atlantic Guardian Unlimited Take a look at an interesting article we found.
Prince Charles attends Future of Food conference at Georgetown The Washington Post Take a look at an interesting article we found.
Long time Kentucky Derby announcer is not calling the race for a surprising reason.
May 07, 2011
I've gone to my farm in Kentucky for the weekend. It's a great place to relax, do a little hard physical labor, and forget about the rest of the world. If you don't have such a place, I highly suggest you get one.
In the meantime, here's something I found for you to read that you might find a prince of an idea. Or a royal presumption.
See you on Monday.
J. Peterman
From: Des Moines Register
The case against organic food helium.com Take a look at an interesting article we found.
What is Sustainable Agriculture? ucdavis.edu Take a look at an interesting article we found.
History of Organic Farming: the Age-Old Methods of Agriculture Are Rediscovered and Revitalized thehistoryof.net Take a look at an interesting article we found.
still thinking about today...
Prince Charles, a loon again. He needs to stick to his true fantasy, which is to be a tampon inside Camilla Parker-Bowles. Not since the King and Wallis Simpson has there been a royal couple so de-energizing. When I see him, I have a feeling I am seeing something so bad I just don't know where to look.
KSS~ I concur...your analogy is spot on...tampon for Camilla, couldn't have put it better myself.
Fellas, Charles is not really such a bad guy ... he is just Goofy, because Royals have been Inbred for so many hundreds of years, and he is a helluva Polo Player, never whining about occasional Bumps and Thumps that are inevitable during a Chukar ... and I can only imagine that Camilla is a exceptionally talented Woman, whose ministrations were quickly, if not fondly, remembered ... when Diana discovered things that her sensitivities simply would not allow her to do ... Camilla, you will recall, was Charles' Chunk at Oxford .......
CHEFDEB, AND OTHERS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED: The Recipes that I promised are on Yesterday's Page ... and I Thank You for asking .......
What a Prince Charming start to the day, boys. Considering that organic food should produce the best possible taste, you are falling short of the mark.
Girlie joke:- Q:- How should a woman hold her liquor? A:- By his ears.
So Big Ears thinks we don't pay enough for our food. In a crazy world where bottled water costs more than bottled milk how do you judge values? I grow most of my own vegetables and salads and I don't think organic is the issue, it's freshness. Find somebody who grows veg and compare a carrot straight out of the ground to one from the supermarket and you will taste what I am saying. I am taking up new potatos from my polytunnel and they are delicious. Plus they loosen up the soil ready for planting the next adventure. All it costs me is backache!
Hazel, as always, you are correct on all counts.
Boys, don't be bullies.
IVAN--where to start. Maybe with lunch because I am having Shashouka! The Horseshoe Sandwiches (I will do mine with burgers as you do)with Ivan's Secret Sauce will have to wait for my son's visit (because surely there would turn out to be a hell if I made that for myself). You are very generous to share recipes like that. I like to share them as well, but my mother did not like to and she would give a recipe but always leave some important out of it. Isn't that awful!
Food is only as good as the ingredients with which it is cooked. Happy weekend!
The backstory on the sorry opinion of Prince Charles is the fact that not only is he a royal but a died in the wool eugenesist who ascribes to the theories of Margaret Sanger and others of her ilk. Polo player aside...I'll be damned to give him any quarter in this life or any other. Even his own father was quoted as saying that he would like to be reincarnated as a virus in order to reduce human population. How is it we beat the damn Nazis and their proteges are left to espouse their filfth.
That's all I got to say about that...
Are you saying Prince Charles is a eugenecist or Prince Philiip? Philip would not surprise me..but I have to say I am shocked about Prince Charles!
Karma - but doesn't he manage to keep his hand in his coat pocket......just so
The same virus seems to have attacked the Royals in Britain just as it has those in Washington; you know that redistribution of wealth (yours not ours) socialist bug thingy. Those who have lived off others and never have fended for themselves, appear to be the most susceptible to this deadly disease. I suggest rotation our next growing cycle.
We have sustainable, organic traditional and various hybrids of those attempting to grow food in my neighborhood. The USDA, FDA and the local regulatory thugs have chased away the roadside stands that once dotted the landscape. The small guys still don't have a chance. The big sustainable/ organic farmer here lives in a ¾ mil waterfront home and is dripping with gov. subsidies; the small guy just across the road had trouble getting a permit to dig a pond to irrigate his traditional family style produce farm and almost went under while the big nurseries pump millions of gallons a day to water shrubs. The gov( who or whatever they are) has taken control of our food and water supplies.
Gotta go weed, I don't have time for the full rant today.Altruism is a lovely and noble thing; right now I'm just a tad more concerned about my friends and family.
good morning ANDY !!!!!
ChefDeb~ Phillip as well as his son Charles, their whole agenda for 'saving the planet' is all about human population reduction. We sheeple just blissfully allow these people to bounce about espousing all manner of sinister deeds and we clap in the audience thinking they are so enlightened. Murderers the lot of 'em. Sorry for the vitriol but these guys really get my blood boiling...along with their lackey Al Gore.
KSS, she probably knows more knotts than an Eagle Scout and I'm sure looks great in her spiked colar and black rubber siut : )
Miss Blue~ Here...! Here...!
K.C. You have given me much to consider (and Google). My mother's personal experiences with David & Wallis have always led me to an extremely low opinion of them and what a bullet the UK dodged with his abdication, but I admire Queen Elizabeth and did not extend my usual skepticism to her heir. I have always believed he was just an idiot but now I realize he is a dangerous idiot.
Bob, there are WAY too many people on the planet. Our lofty ideals of feeding all the starving and eradicating natural population controls like smallpox have backfired. Of course they want to reduce the populations in educated, free thinking countries. They want masses they can control with food supplies etc.
I gotta get going. Time used to be money, now it's food.
An inconvenient truth indeed...it's time we pull the curtain back on these bugs and see them for the serpent's they are. Ivan...I need a prayer for blood pressure reduction...if you can fit it in between jullif's...much obliged.
I wondered if I could find that recording of the tampon story but haha...found something better!an interview of a rather gay story..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un__imwE3vg&feature=related
I wondered if I could find that recording of the tampon story but haha...found something better!an interview of a rather gay story..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un__imwE3vg&feature=related
I wondered if I could find that recording of the tampon story but haha...found something better!an interview of a rather gay story..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un__imwE3vg&feature=related
I wondered if I could find that recording of the tampon story but haha...found something better!an interview of a rather gay story..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un__imwE3vg&feature=related
I wondered if I could find that recording of the tampon story but haha...found something better!an interview of a rather gay story..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un__imwE3vg&feature=related
I wondered if I could find that recording of the tampon story but haha...found something better!an interview of a rather gay story..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un__imwE3vg&feature=related
Interesting point:
The EPA has stopped, or is attempting to do so, the spread of chicken , horse etc manure on fields here( organic and sustainable), due to alleged runoff into the Chesapeake( even with buffers etc.). Washington, Richmond, Hampton Roads and Philly continue to dump millions of tuns of sewage in. Go Figure!
I wondered if I could find that recording of the tampon story but haha...found something better!an interview of a rather gay story..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un__imwE3vg&feature=related
I wondered if I could find that recording of the tampon story but haha...found something better!an interview of a rather gay story..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un__imwE3vg&feature=related
Karma ~
You've been steps ahead of my thinking all morning: Gore and Wales, born to privilege and wealth, making short-sighted, ill-considered arguments based on the fragments of human history that suit their positions and ignoring the rest not to mention completely disregarding contrary geologic and archeological data.
All they really want is to restructure world economies to the disadvantage of the currently most successful nations.
As for the high-born prince, a natural suppository, he aspired only to move forward... a little.
Holy Sh*t ....sorry about that!! I've got whatever Berts got
Spring~ Are you having a Bertday? That link is hilarious.
Spring I figure you berted so much cuz you were laughing so hard!
Stoney! "a natural suppository" You guys! I still have stuff to do around here I cannot be laughing all morning.
The "inside you" reference came from the phone tete a tete with Camillla, didn't it? I think I saw that conversation released in print....old Charlie getting romantic! Ugh!
KC.......................I almost never Google things, but I did google Prince Charles & eugenics comments & the first article that came up was from "The Real Agenda." I found his remarks pretty common sense. In countries w/ vast starvation something's got to give. We and other countries keep sending money & aid and nothing changes. We continue to just bandage the problem. The simple fact is: if you don't have enough resources to feed your population then you have to have a birth control plan. I'm sure some people get up in arms and jump on the race bandwagon because it is true that the countries that are teeming w/ starving people w/ little to no resources are composed of mostly brown and black people. That is a fact, but in that (granted one article that I read) piece on Prince Charles I saw only common sense arguments.
I think it is especially a sticky topic because people are afraid of being called (almost always it seems now) a rascist. We, along w/ other countries are sending out so much to poorer countries while our country is literally falling apart. We need that revenue here. I don't think it at all bad to tell a country that RELIES on your dollars that they will get aid money if they tackle their birth rate. It is simple birth control. That is not eugenics. I would hate to see eugenics become linked to someone when they are making comments that are clearly not in that category. I do feel that today so many people have been called out for being "rascists" over comments that are clearly not rascist at all. It is a way to shut down an argument because no one wants to be tainted w/ the label of either a eugenisist (is that a word?) or a rascist.
I may be in the minority, but exploding populations in severely poor countries IS a HUGE burden on the rest of the world.
CHEF DEB.....................I have to say I agree, it would not surprise me about Prince Phillip.
Bebe....nicely put. I do think the Prince does put forth some well thought out arguments which surprises me greatly 'cos I always thought he stumbled out of the shallow end og the Royal Gene Puddle.
His biggest fault is that he is unable to relate to people very well but would like to establish a positive legacy. I have not read enough to fully understand all he is attempting to say so I'm sure there are some flaws..... But at least he is thinking about something other than Camilla's knickers for a change.
I also agree that there is too fast of a draw on labeling ideas just because they don't seem politically correct. That is like putting a Post It note to cover the blinking oil light on the dashboard of you car because it irritates you.
It's the intent of the content that matters, which isn't always easy to discern...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyZS0aCIYIk
bebe~ Do you ever wonder why all the aid we send these countries never seems to reach the ones that need it most? Mostly because it's a form of extortion...author John Perkins wrote a book 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman'. In it he describes how he was sent by the American government to underdeveloped countries bringing buckets of money promising the moon to get at their natural resources. The leadership of these countries would agree the terms and pretty soon the resources were leaving their countries but nothing was coming back. Promises of roads, bridges, clean water, jobs...all the things a good leader would want to provide the people. Only to have the multi-national companies come in and rape the country side leaving not much more than a pile of septic and toxic waste behind. So that even if they wanted to grow their own food and provide for their own people they have nothing but bespoiled and fallow land left in the wake of the deal. This happens on a daily basis and sadly the only way we ever hear of it is when an insider writes a book, blows the whistle or when some tree hugging leftist goes in the field with a cameraman and a journal and tries to tell the truth. Of course in every case the 'respected media outlets' marginalize and patronize these people as crackpots and do gooders. Not saying I buy into the whole story but something smells rotten when the 'respected reporters' tell us 'nothing to see here, just move along'. Then we have pompous non-elected elitists treat us like the lemmings we are and tell us, in effect, to sit down and shut up slaves...we know what's best. The worst part is that even the elect are deceived...
Miss Blue~ One of my favorite Dylan tunes...thank you for the distraction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrnpQDvfbMY
Miss Blue~ I suspect you to be a fan of John Hiatt and Tom Waits as well...?
Good grief! The British Royals are colorful (sometimes to an extreme) but irrelevant. Charles would so like to have some influence and he has what for England is a bully pulpit. I think Jalopkin has it right that they are so inbred as to be unstable. Add to that the British habit of sending upper class boys to all male boarding schools for twelve years without much female contact, and you have the breeding grounds for all sorts of unsavory behavior, abusive, homosexual, etc. I am amazed his parents named him Charles given the bad luck of I and II. And to my eye, Camilla is a great horse face, a rather homely woman, especially compared to Diana. But enough of that. I don't expect I'll ever meet any of them. After all, Charles did not ring me up to come over for some tea. Spring Fragrance, I love the YouTube videos. Somehow I missed the allegation that Charles was also queer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re3-xo9bRc8
Lynn830~ Colorful...? The queen is one of, if not THE richest, women, in the world, her husband would have us all dying of disease, her son is a cleverly disguised sociopath and we consider that colorful?
One of my clients here is an 80 year old descendant of a long line of physicians. Every time he comes to see me, I set aside extra time for him to reminisce and tell me stories. Some of these are tales of his ancestors who were physicians and surgeons to the aristocracy in the UK, who believed that if you were expensive, then, you must be good. His father became a sort of Robin Hood, charging the aristocracies double so that he could then offer free services to the poor. Considered just barely upper middle class, the doctors' children were often invited to balls to fill the numbers and, so that
the darling female children of the aristocracy would be assured of having more than enough dance partners. My client would mimic the conversation he had with these poor "darlings" which inevitably included shopping for a hat to Ascot or the number of balls their mummy had made them have. He couldn't stand the snobby and class ridden society. There is a hierarchy in the medical system and one day when the most senior Registrar snootily told the next in line that he didn't think much of his suturing, the latter, an Australian, told him to "up yours" and promptly went out to let the air out of the Registrar's car. My client had never seen anything like that before, and was so enthralled he ran after the man asking if all Australians are like that. He was told, "Mate, I'm the mildest of the lot." My client went home, threw some things into a suitcase and left after that weekend, on an Italian liner to Australia. His greatest adventure
took him through the Flying Doctors service, doctoring in the bush, and even doctoring over the radio. In the end, he settled in Tasmania with absolutely no regrets. Some links, which Hazel esp, might find interesting, if only because it talks of the places it mentionshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Henry_Tooth http://www.thestar.co.uk/lifestyle/features/life_and_love_of_a_country_doctor_1_217490
LYNN.....................I agree that they are quite colorful..................................... I imagine that when you live in a bubble your whole life things are quite different. the british are eccentric & that's why we Britophiles love them!
KC................... Your comment on Charles being a cleverly disguised sociopath seems quite odd to me; it's the first I have ever heard, but if you believe it, good on you. As for
Prince Phillip; he seems strained just w/ the effort of standing now......................he may be dreaming of cocktail hour, but wanting to kill us all off w/ disease.....................probably not so much...................................
I need to go & shower before the black helicopters come for me............................
SPRING......................great story, I love it. I lived in London for close to a year & a half when I was younger & more naive & their class system makes ours look positively hillbillyesque..........................
SO MG & i have been ahving this arguement for the last few weeks - about wether or not charles will give up his time on the Throne in favor of William.
I think he will pass because Camilla will never get the title of Queen or Queen consort even when QEII passes away.
MG however feels I am wrong, whether or not Camilla gets the title, the fact that Prince Charles has Eco-friendly ideas he wants the country to follow & will rule for at least 5 years to get this all implemented.
MG's thinkingis interesting, yet I feel with the admiration ogf the New Duchess of cambridge that the country has Poor Prince Charles doesn't have a chance to ever be King Charles (or whatever kings name he chooses.)
As for whether or not his ideas are gonna help or hurt those of us who actually are working class, I will say that i don't think many people actually put too much stock in what he says as I have sent back to the publishers last month about 15 copies of his book "Harmony" due to lack of sales....
Stoney - A stop in by you on you're way north woudl be Lovely.
bebe~ My crackpot rants always occur whenever I take off my tin-foil hat. Seems the radio waves make me say the damndest things...
I think I just saw Elvis...!!!
Apparently Prince Phillip has the same problem when he removes his tin-foil hat...................................Philip, Prince of Eugenics
"In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation."
The above statement, reported by Deutsche Press Agentur in August 1988, presents in the most concise manner, the commitment of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, to genocide against the world's population.
Spring - Your PC is hiccoughing badly...Quick, give it a good scare!
Your link to the Colbert report of Prince Charles's alledged indiscretion with a gay partner is so funny, suggestive, and in such questionable taste that the guys themselves are cracking up over it! The bit with the banana doesn't leave much to be explained. I noticed one of the comments after the skit listed names of at least a half dozen partners who had been linked to Charlie. Probably best that the royals skip his seat on the throne, and let Elizabeth live long enough to pass the crown on to Will. Ya' think?
Sorry for getting off topic, but does anyone have a clue about when the winners of the photo contest will be announced?
World Wildlife Fund (WWF, now the World Wide Fund for Nature)
Prince Philip recruited a card-carrying Nazi into the leadership of the WWF, notably Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Bernhard had returned his Nazi Party membership card in a letter to Hitler when he was given the opportunity to marry the Dutch Queen Wilhemina, but betrayed his ongoing sentiments by signing the letter "Heil Hitler." Bernhard was the first head of the WWF-International, while Philip presided over the U.K. branch.
As head of the WWF, Philip openly called for population control, calling human population growth "the single most long-term threat to survival." Prince Philip is a grandson of Queen Victoria (Opium Drug Queen).
Prince Philip was born Prince of Greece and Denmark on Corfu in 1921, the youngest of five children and the only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg. All four of his sisters married German princes and three - Sophie, Cecile and Margarita - became members of the Nazi party. Sophia's husband, Prince Christoph of Hesse, became chief of Goering's secret intelligence service and they were frequent guests at Nazi functions.
My previous three posts were copied from...http://1god1truth.blogspot.com/2009/09/his-royal-virus-prince-philip.html
Yeah the source may be dubious but the information can be found in many 'mainstream' sites just not all in one place.
It's a zero-tolerance deal: if you cannot be trusted to take seriously your responsibilities as a family man, then don't come around preaching to, or as a spokesman for, the family of man.
The Prince entered into what is now euphemistically referred to as a social institution, a consensual and contactual relationship, but it's more than that to me. He lied... straight through.
President Clinton, post blew dress, same deal.
Albert Gore, having attained great wealth peddling fear, will die an obese rich man but not much of an example of a man.
The late Sam Kinnison, was shrieking black humor with his advice to the starving: "Go where the food is!"
The big question, even assuming that the haves accept responsibility for the have-nots, is: is it even possible for the wealthy with underfed and undernourished of their own, to provide for the growing millions in poverty so deep that self-sustenance is not conceivable? And that forever.
http://www.maydaynetwork.com/ Prince Charles start up to combat 'climate change' just peruse the site and read a bit between the lines taking note of the participants. Like ISO9000, if you don't pay your tribute you will be left behind.
I could defend the prince who has been conditioned to be a puppet against his will
Who wishes to be like his sons - who were able to develop their own identity through their mother but allso their father. This father is just trying to be more than a puppet - he has been in a straight jacket since a child and could not free himself from his aristrocratic upbringing that he was assigned at birth. His father was a Sergeant Major to his oldest son. When he was a teenager, he was send to Austrailia - for the first time in his life he got a break - he was treated like Charles not prince Charles. This I am sure of is one of his favored memories of his past.
He can not erase his childhood foundation and has to build upon it or destroy it and that is impossible for him to do in a straightjacket that is restrict his movements at all times. Do not judge him harshly - the public wishes puppets to be a part of their history. He did not create his life - the public and government did.
We did not have to walk in his Royal shoes - which I would not wish upon anyone. Let us give him some flexibility. Remember whatever we think or say - reflect on us not on the one we target. Let us empower ourselves by opening our curious minds - to a prince who had no chance to build his own life. All his riches are not worthy of what he had to give up - a self made life.
I have belabored this topic much too long...making an appeal to all in the village to beg your indulgence. This topic will not be revisited by me as it is too polarising.
Stoney~ I bow to your more measured and wise assessment of the matter and defer to it's less igniting but no less serious testament.
As always...I must be off.
I don't think that the Queen can step down in favor of her son and the same is true for Charles. I think its in their Constitution or wherever their Monarchy rules are. I haven't doublechecked though.
If great wealth and great expectations can be used as an excuse to surrender your dignity, what about cold privation or, for that matter, a life of love, respect and everything just too right?
In the end it all boils down to:
ARE YOU, OR, ARE YOU NOT, AS GOOD AS YOUR WORD?
Some, are obliged to answer: "Not as a rule."
I could be wrong here, but I place a higher value on the advice of those actually at work in the fields of the Lord than the guys whose lives will continue unchanged no matter what.
Oh.. Spring Fragrance...usuallly i just peek on the village and have a chuckle....but today... That my friend, was a great clip!!!LOL Ya gotta keep them coming. LMAO
BIG BLUE W !!
Miss Blue ~ Hello to you too !
Kentucky ~ Impossible to have spotted Elvis.....if he still lives, he would call :)
for you Andy!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FM8ui2ByUI
A reply and some observations: The Queen is the richest woman in Britain, though not in the world (she's not even in the top 20). And she is one of the dowdiest women at times - looks like the fishmonger's wife at times. However, when it is display time, the Royals put on their red or blue uniforms with the medals they give each other (Order of the Garter, etc. - the Queen gives things like that to the Royals for birthday presents), mount their horses, and out they go. That's colorful. Each of them is the honorary colonel of some regiment, and they do the regiment yearly. And there's the Queen's Birthday where she dons a uniform and mounts a horse. Colorful. And then there are the times when they don tuxedos and fine dresses and show up. Colorful. I gather that Prince Philip is a real sociopath - ridicules everyone (unmerciful on Diana) and is generally abusive and mean. Charles is a product of that household. And obviously the Queen is codependent and allows. When one of Charles' sons would not do the military, they threw a collective fit. He now does not ever wear a uniform. The simple term is that they are a dysfunctional household, badly in need of family therapy - which they are not about to do. And that guarantees that the sickness will continue.
STONEY......................a few months ago I saw a documentary on Sam Kinison & he was absolutely brilliant..................I was howling along w/ him. When he would get an audience member to give him the phone number of someone who had jilted them & treated them horribly....................I thought I was going to lose it.......................
The answer to your question at the end of your 1:46....................the answer is sadly no......................it will continue on forever w/ no end in sight..........................
FAY.......................thoughtful comments.................made me think..............
IVAN.........................Yum, just yum...............you have made me food mad today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where is RY???????????????????????
Well.
While they live life in a bubble it doesn't mean they have to be so darn "let them eat cake" about everything.
There have been I'm sure members of a Royal family who don't wish a Pox on all the Little People who make up Humanity - just to clear the decks for better blood, ie theirs.
And whatever happened to "noblesse oblige."
Seems like excuses can be and are made for most everyone, nowadays, no matter how much they don't deserve to be excused. Good behavior is good behavior and bad is bad, no matter who you are.
In my opinion.
And let us always remember this bit of wisdom:
No matter how high or great the throne - what sits on it is the same as your own.
Ah Miss Blue, Thank you!
Regardless of Charles' shortcomings and the Royal family's disfunction, I think they serve a very useful purpose to the English people. Without (naturally occuring) royalty you end up with nothing but political parties to look to. At least the British people have some consistency with the Royal family that cannot be found with perennially bickering parties.
It's not just quiant, its a measure of civilization that is lacking more and more in too many parts of the globe. So what if they are disfunctional. Most families in the entire world are that. At least they offer an example of civility, forced though it may be.
That's my 2 American cents worth of opinion and I'm sticking to it.
p.s. I never thought Diana was the saint that the general public thought. She was only doing the job that was part of her birthright - not her marriage to Prince Charles.
Great discussion today. There are other things that hang in my craw about Prince Charles. One is that prior to marrying Lady Diana, he insisted that she have a gynecologic exam in order to get medical certification that she was a virgin. (No one seems to have made any heavy weather about William and Kate having lived together for years prior to their wedding.) This is exceptionally hypocritical for many reasons, not least of which is the well-established fact that Charles bats both ways.
I think Diana was badly forced into something of a default drama queen role because of Charles's consummate coldness. I am not happy with the fact that James Hewitt (in the RAF, I believe) is the father of Prince Harry, but I think that Charles's abusive behavior drove her to be extremely susceptible to expressions of love by another suitor.
The notion of royal blood somehow being superior is, of course, total poppycock to even a haphazard student of history. Recall how hemophilia A (a genetic deficiency of blood coagulation factor VIII) dogged generations of Russian and European royal families! (Creatures with "hybrid vigor" are always the healthiest.)
Finally, in an age where many bemoan that London is becoming Londonistan, Charles has said publicly that if he were to become king, he'd like to some ecumenicalism to the ceremony, i.e., that he'd like to include some acknowledgement of Islam in the themes, attires and goings-on at his coronation. It is impossible for me to imagine that the cold-blooded "corporation" at Buckingham Palace would stand for this. Not only is the king supposed to be head of the Anglican Church, but also think of the ways, from the times of the Holy Wars forward, in which the Green and Pleasant Land has not exactly placed a sign "Muslims Welcome Here" in its windows.
If anyone wants to read a great and humorous novel where the protagonist (a fictional King of England) is clearly inspired by the sadsack that is Prince Charles, read Martin Amis's "Yellow Dog." You will not be disappointed. I have read it at least 20 times, and each time I grin all the way through.
Prince Charles would not save the world - we collectively have to save the world. Let us start from today and define what we stand for. We are members of a Community of
curious minds. Did we pratice curiosity today? Here is the definition:
Inquistive interest in others' concern;
interest leading to inquiry;
questioning.
How did we do today? Did we have any concern for Prince Charles or the family - they were not there to defend themselves. We did not study them or reseach them - did we judge them very personally? Let's judge ourselves and be objective with our
inquisitive interest in others'concern
I think we showed lots of curiosity about Prince Charles. and Phillip. I mean, look at all the comments!
Fay, your heart may bleed for everyone, but I just don't have enough blood in me to spend it on those who I think could have done better because of the "lofty" position accorded them because they had the right sperm donor and egg.
You may feel we fell short in our humanitarian assessment of the Royals, but in answer to your question, yes, I think we did justice to them.
And saying "they're not (here) to defend themselves" - I've heard that said about deceased folk and that's just a pardon me but cheap excuse used by those who don't want any bad press going to them. Being dead doesn't make a person a saint, Fay. Neither does being of royal birth.
People, dead or alive, must be judged from their words and deeds, and yes, I think we've done that, and we've done it well, and with remarkable restraint.
And: HI ANDY! Whatever is wrong with me, I was almost a day late and a dollar short again, but I think I got here in time to say : Happy Almost Mother's Day to you!
Even from a high horse, it ought to have been noted that the prince crossed the Atlantic to lecture us.
That opens him to the same critical examination he came here to offer us.
I too have no sympathy for the Royals. They are and have made themselves a public spectacle. And as has been noted, Charles had the temerity to come to the United States to lecture us. And frankly, he is an expert on nothing having no formal degree beyond a general bachelor's and no work experience in academia, the scientific community or elsewhere. He is an expert at opening shopping centers and treating family members like crud.
Point of information: Any royalty has the right to abdicate. Queen Elizabeth, should she feel the infirmities of great age, could abdicate, and the next in line of succession would be coronated. That would, at this point, be Charles. Should he choose not to become King, he could abdicate before the coronation, and William would become King. Abdication is a formal process with specific things needing to take place, including a written abdication proclamation.
By the way, the interesting thing about Charles' grand lecture was its impact in Washington. It was a small article in the Washington Post, but only after the fact. No one was aware that it was going to happen - no publicity and no interest. Charles simply has no clout outside Britain.
Sometimes a Packers fan finds himself living in Chicago and at times in a world of s#!t...if he's passionate about being a Packer fan in Chicago. Wearing the wrong colors in a turf war will result in waking up in the morgue while hovering over your dead body. In eastern Kentucky you can be marked for death just because of the last name you are born with. I had a point when logging on and now it escapes me. It's been a long day with many a back and forth and I feel spent yet invigorated. The best part of this community is that we can sling arrows of outrageous misfortune around like confetti and at the end of the day embrace in thesepiatrain with martini's while sitting in the club car reflecting objectively on the days discussions. I love this place as it allows the complete letting off of the steam that builds in ones mind and still be welcome like the prodical son when the sun dips below the yard arm. Peace and best wishes to the tribe...long live the tribe.
KC - Your points about the billions sent to third world, starving populations are spot on. With the combo of ignorance, AIDS, civil wars, and unscrupulous leaders, the really poor people do not get the money sent to their struggling countries. Look at the Haiti case. We sent loads fo money there, and the place still is in a shambles. Look at New Orleans. We had fundraisers, sent millions, and parts of the city are still unreclaimed with piles of debris in the streets. If the leadership is skimming off the top, the poorest do not get help. We see it from Washington on down in our own country. If those at the top are greedy, the tax money does not fix the potholes, keep the libraries open, pay the teachers, or get the grass mowed on the highways.
Stoney - I like Sam Kinneson's similar comment in his comedy routine when he screams, "Don't send them food, send them suitcases! They need to move! You can't grow food in a desert! Send them suitcases!" Ironic, but somehow too true.
Spring - Your 80 yr. oold doctor client sounds like a great spirit! It must be an inspiration to listen to his stories!
On topic - My tomatoes have blooms! On my deck in big pots, the tomatoes are thriving! Now if I can keep the horn worms off and keep them watered right....Trying to grow our own peppers and tomatoes must somehow fit into the eco-friendly prescription.
Congrats Moose on the tomatoes!!! We got our basil planted yesterday in preparation for lots of pesto this summer. Also have one pot of lavender for good scent on the deck. I wanted tomatoes, but just don't have the patience in me to jolly them along----and fight the brazen squirrels!
Sorry to say this but it seems to me like you all spent a lot of time and effort worrying about a bunch of people who have no practical relevance to anyone on the face of the earth.
Ky, bebe, Shandonista ~
I know what you mean.
Hi Bebe!!! Hi Juruland! Please stay and talk to us!Fay...how did you do that fancy stuff with the text?!Moose! Congrats on those tomatoes ...I always hope one of my colleagues will give me some of her homegrown ones...just so different Shandonista...that is so true...but they do provide some comic relief!