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Charles and Camilla
: I have one thing to say:
Thank goodness we do not have tax-supported celebrities.
They’re just celebrities as insipid as celebrities anywhere. But at least we don’t pay for their obnoxious lives.
God bless our founding fathers.
: UPDATE: Ha says in the comments that if you follow that link, you will see the photos above on the same page, prompting the question: “It is hard to believe that these two women live on the same planet.”
Thank goodness we do not have tax-supported celebrities.
What about the U.S. Congress? :)
“Woman Will Wed Foreign Nepotist”. Why would anyone care?
“Politics are for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.”
the royals more than pay there way in entertainment value and tourism dollars.
be happy charles.
I have never understood the appeal of these people who won the birthday lottery. Get married, don’t get married, I really don’t care – just don’t stick up the taxpayers for the Royal Welfare Recipents’ shindig.
As the UK’s Daily Star says: “Two Boring old gits to wed”, sounds about right.
As to their tourism value, why don’t their costs come out of the tourism budget?
If you follow the link, you’ll see an interesting juxtaposition of images. At the top, you’ll see Parker Bowles proudly displaying the meteor sized rock on her finger. On the sidebar, you’ll see an Iraqi woman proudly displaying her ink-stained finger. It is hard to believe that these two women live on the same planet.
Ha: You’re so right!
That’s pretty good actually. I really enjoy when bloggers put two people at similar scale doing seemingly similar yet glaringly different actions.
Thanks Jeff,
lim.
Hey! I get my 15 minutes of fame! Of course it his difficult to savor since I post anonymously. ;-)
Oh, please. It’s not as though Parker-Bowles were some obnoxious jet-setter who flashes the bling all day long. In fact your average rapper has more ice on his cell phone!
Well Hollywood is still a protected industry right? In fact it may even become more so. So in a sense part of your tax dollars pay for Hollywood.
Ha: Oh, the enrichment of such subtle Diversity Training! You should consider making a primer of similar [?] required images to be viewed by incoming Freshmen and Freshwomen everywhere. Then you would also have much more than your 15 minutes. No shit!
Jeff, permit me to comment that Andrew Holden is a jackass and far from the only one on the Royal ‘beat’. I’ve been watching this ‘story’ unfold (for the last 6 years here in the UK). I’m not at all impressed with Jollie Prince Cholly but here he has a strong case.
Charles and Camilla hooked up before anyone ever heard of Princess Di. Before she married Bowles, Charles wanted to marry her. So what’s the problem? Simple. Camilla was a Catholic (gasp). Can’t have a Catholic married to the head of the C of E, can we? BY LAW the Prince of Wales MUST have his sovereign’s (the Queen’s) permission to marry.
The stupid courtiers and C of E bishops whispering in mama’s ear managed to prevent it. Let him marry an impeachable Anglican lass (Diana Spencer) instead. Utter disaster. Charles is a one-woman man obviously. Had the Queen and the bishops possessed the sense God gave chimps Charles would have married Camilla 25 years ago and there never would have been a ‘scandal’ at all.
Was Charles ‘living in sin’ on the public expense? Technically perhaps, but Holden completely fails to mention that Charles would have married Camilla any time he could have for at least 20 years, and there should have been no legal impediment since 1997 any way you look at it. The jackasses at Buckingham Palace ought to have bitten the bullet and allowed the pair to marry after a decent interval (perhaps a year after Princess Di’s death). They would have taken a temporary PR hit, but instead the fools chose to leave the heir to the throne with a bleeding wound.
If there is anyone worth less than the Prince it’s the ‘journalists’ who cover this ‘story’ over here. A bunch of has-beens and never weres if ever I saw some! This is not a demanding life. Good dosh & a lot of schmoozing and boozing. Berstein and Woodward it ain’t. Hell, Larry King it ain’t!
How many US soldiers died so she could wear that ring? Just asking.
A lot of US soldiers died so that my tax dollars didn’t help pay for that ring. Piercingly intelligent question, though.
How many US soldiers died? None. There is no cause and effect here.
This is a little unfair to the lady with the ring. Sure she looks a little silly next to the lady with the purple finger, but just about anyone you could name would look as silly or more so. Neither Camilla or Prince Charles has had anything to say about Iraq or the elections
in public. So let’s not make this a pissed-off Yankee thing, should we?
I’m sick of the Bushies giving their God the credit for something he actively campaigned against. The Iraq elections were only held because Ali Sistani forced Bush to cave in.
Then Allah surely had something to do with it? Ayatola Sistani probably holds that view. And our clerics tell us that God, Jehovah, and Allah are the same thing…..
Jay: God campaigned against the Iraqi elections? Anyway, everyone knows that the elections were held only because Leftists didn’t want them.
Or was it because Jenna Bush was arrested for false i.d. use? Or perhaps global warming? Let’s have a poll. I’m going to play it safe and choose Aliens.