Born Royal No More

Avatar photoby

As we contemplate removal of our own would-be monarch surely Britain will finally end the lunacy and shameful example of monarchy when Elizabeth passes. There is no valid purpose for supposed royalty anywhere. It is an anti-democratic abomination as antithetical to free society as Putin himself.

“Prince” Andrew’s criminal behavior is just another example of the depravity of this ridiculous institution.

Edward VIII rightly wrote in his diary after abdication: “The idea that my birth and title should somehow set me apart from and above other people struck me as wrong.”

💬 Add your voice: Comment on today’s post
Share

35 thoughts on “Born Royal No More”

  4. Seven Outright Falsehoods in GOP Staff Report on Impeachment

    Interesting outline for all this morning’s lies.

    On the plus side, Amy Klobuchar has hit double digits in polls for the first time.  More experienced than Pete, more honorable than Bernie, more acceptable to large part of base than Liz, and a hell of a lot younger than Joe.  It would seem folks are starting to notice.  If she were matched with Booker or Castro you would cover virtually every part of the Democrat base and a big chunk of the GOP looking for a place to run in 2020.

     

     

  8. considering picture above, thoughts on that trump meeting with Russian foreign minister in oval office yesterday:

    plotting defection for Donald to escape if need be?
    measuring the drapes and okaying color swatches for when putin moves in?
    retrieving or replacing batteries in the bugs he planted on his first visit?

  9. from msn:

    Christopher Steele, the author of the controversial “Steele dossier” and a central figure in the Justice Department inspector general’s report on the Russia investigation, says the report included “several serious errors and misstatements.”
    The former British intelligence officer said in a statement released by his legal team on Tuesday that he was previously given “highly redacted” portions of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report, which contained “numerous inaccuracies and misleading statements.” Steele said his firm Orbis raised objections and provided suggestions but only some of them were reflected in the final report.
    Steele also said in the statement that his firm Orbis was informed by the Inspector General’s Office late Sunday night that the previously redacted material in the report — which included some “negative information” about Steele, such as negative assessments related to Steele’s primary source — had been unredacted and that Orbis was given no opportunity to review or comment on the material before its release on Monday.
    “Orbis Business Intelligence and Christopher Steele have cooperated voluntarily and fully with the OIG’s investigation,” Steele’s legal team said in the statement, referring to the Office of the Inspector General. “Orbis also provided the OIG team unprecedented access to Orbis internal company documentation, including contemporaneous memoranda of meetings with the FBI.”
    […]
    Responding to the IG report, which questioned the reliability of Steele’s reporting and reprimanded the FBI for failing to reassess the validity of the information, Steele said releasing information about sources is “highly risky” for their safety and for others involved, and that if they had been given an opportunity to respond to interviews in a private manner, the statements would be “put in a very different light.”
    Steele’s team also alleged in the statement that contrary to the IG report’s “apparent suggestion” that none of his reporting about Page has been corroborated, Page’s own statements as well as special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, released earlier this year, supported some of the key aspects of his firm’s research.
    Steele also refuted the IG report’s description of himself as a confidential human source — in other words, an FBI informant — saying that though he had provided investigative work for the FBI as a contractor, he is prohibited from serving as a confidential human source for the FBI because of his obligation to his former government employer — the British government.
    Attorneys for Steele added that the FBI never asked Steele to not disclose information to the media and that Fusion GPS retained ownership and copyright of all of Steele’s material, and that the FBI had “no control over what Fusion or Orbis did with those reports.”
    In the IG report, Horowitz concluded that despite significant allegations of wrongdoing and missteps in the process, the FBI’s Russia investigation was launched with an authorized purpose.

  12. Today’s medical advertisement
     
    If you are older, get a colonoscopy. 
     
    Although a regular feature of my medical life for many years, it was five years ago I had several pre-cancerous polyps removed.  The next year several more plain old polyps removed.  Then I was given a three year break, which turned into four because I forgot last year.  So, this year only one polyp and one thing that looked like a tiny gumball machine.  I am waiting for the word to go three years again.
     
    All this means is I came close five years ago to having severe problems down there.  I get mine done sans twilight drugs, there is only one place where there is pain, but it is manageable.  If you are concerned about pain do it with drugs.  But, getting it done can be life saving.

  14. Royals don’t bother me….they’re just kinda like the figure-head on the bow of a ship. If there would be a question, mine would have to be, “What do they hurt?”  There may be some answers but it’s not something I’d fret over trying to answer.

  17. Sturgeone

    Agree about the Royals.  Craig and I go around the block on this one at regular intervals.  They are figureheads to history and probably contribute more dollars in tourism than they cost.  Add in all the charitable work and there is a purpose.  Randy Andy was never a favorite.  I imagine Charles may skip in favor of Will and Kate when the time comes to do so.  

    What the Royal Family Really Costs

     

     

  18. The Royals:1. Andy. There’s a suite waiting for Andrew in the Tower. Her Majesty can remove him from his distant position in the line of succession by fiat. Case closed.
    2. Without the Monarchy, the existing relationship(s) between England, Wales, N. Ireland, Ireland, and Scotland will dissolve to be replaced by goodness knows what. And, the the makeup of  NATO will change. Will Scotland and Wales choose to join. What about the military installations in those countries? Will ordinary people in Northern Ireland, the ancestral home of my grandfather’s side of the family, be crucified if they don’t genuflect to the Pope? That’s my very crude way of saying that the upheaval shouldn’t be minimized.

  19. My response…. who cares.  I’m not an Anglophile.  I haven’t watched any royal weddings or any royal anything else.  It’s their country….  if they want to keep the monarchy… fine… if they want to get rid of it… fine.
     
    Brexit….  that’s a much more interesting topic, IMO…

  22. Jamie…  I know…  and it has implications for the world economy.  That’s why I find it a fascinating subject.  We have a subscription to The Economist and, of course, they do many articles on Brexit.
     
    about the M due in March….   congrats!

  24. Lindsay Graham.  Squirming around.  Jerking around in his seat…as Putin pulled the strings. Afraid of not getting his Russian stipend?  An asset, comrade, if I ever heard one! 

  26. Careful about my relatives.  I am related, by marriage in the seventeenth century, to them.  Cousin Liz and even Cousin Henry VIII.  What is interesting is back in the seventeen hundreds my ancestors would have been familiar with the linage, and they still fought the Brits.

  28. ed windsor may have felt it unfortunate to hold higher station than his low-life aristocratic pals, however, his democratic tendencies never stretched to include non-Christians, non-Whites, or poor people. Churchill should have made him the governor of Hong Kong, and then left him for the Japanese to deal with. 

  30. flatus, good caption.

    Jamie, beautiful family and so nice to see smiling rather than crying kids on santa’s lap.

    bbronc, yeah mine too –  [per wiki] Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122 – 1 April 1204) was queen consort of France (1137–1152) and England (1154–1189) and duchess of Aquitaine in her own right (1137–1204). As a member of the Ramnulfids (House of Poitiers) rulers in southwestern France, she was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. She was patron of literary figures such as Wace, BenoĂ®t de Sainte-Maure, and Bernart de Ventadorn. She led armies several times in her life and was a leader of the Second Crusade. … [yada yada yada then married henry II] …Over the next 13 years, she bore eight children: five sons, three of whom became kings; and three daughters. However, Henry and Eleanor eventually became estranged.

    Henry imprisoned her in 1173 for supporting their son Henry‘s revolt against him. She was not released until 6 July 1189, when her husband Henry died and their second son, Richard the Lionheart, ascended the throne.

    As queen dowager, Eleanor acted as regent while Richard went on the Third Crusade. Eleanor also lived well into the reign of Richard’s heir and her youngest son, John.

    as ms Nancy would say, craig, don’t mess with me & bb or the royal We will send you to the tower.

     

  32. “…having no constitution a future royal could abolish Parliament and take control.”

    well, we have a constitution and it hasn’t seemed to stop trump from obstructing congress to the  effect he has almost abolished it – at least half of it – and taken control

  33. in addition to the hundreds of bills passed by the house that the senate (or shall we say Moscow mitch, the emperor’s toady) is sitting on now we have this according to msn:

    WASHINGTON — After weeks of blaming Democrats for delaying President Donald Trump’s renegotiated trade deal with Canada and Mexico, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R- Ky., said Tuesday he would delay it further.
    “We will not be doing USMCA in the Senate between now and next week,” McConnell told reporters on Capitol Hill Tuesday. “That will happen, in all likelihood, right after the trial is finished in the Senate.”

    [continues]

Comments are closed.