Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
You first, Charlie.
Yeah, how’s that lead by example thingee working out?…..and what was the carbon foot[print of all those castles again?…And that of the Royal Yacht? What?….what’s that ya say?….Ah say, speak up boy! Ah can’t hear ya! (h/t Foghorn Leghorn)
Virgil, “that boy’s got a mind like a steel trap – full o` mice” (also Foghorn Leghorn
And I thought Brits were not Nekulturniy
He obviously follows the ManBearPig school of leadership.
Prinz Chahlie and Al Bore must be drinkin’ from the same sour mash barrel these days.
Those boys of Charlie’s definitely got their manhood from their mama. There ain’t no doubt about that…
His boy seems to have a lick of sense, and it is a limited monarchy which acts as head of state, not head of government.
We have bigger worries.
King Georges V and VI seemed to have much more common sense that Charles. No wonder Queen Elizabeth II is hanging on to power vice abdicating to Charles.
I think she’s hoping that Charles goes before she does… I know I am.
Helo pilot. SAR qualified. Tends to be an advantage.
Why yes. Someone who was trained from birth to believe that he is extra special telling the serfs what they can and cannot do.
NaCly Dog… Prince Charles appears to have gotten dippier as he has grown older. Maybe that’s why Camilla looks perpetually aggrieved. It is to be hoped that Prince William is as sensible as he appears to be. He certainly has picked an exquisite and intelligent wife as a life partner. Perhaps Queen Elizabeth is hoping to skip a generation and have William take over when she goes to her last reward. The country would seem to be the better under King William than King Charles.
Marianne
Marianne, I quite agree with you. When Price Charles had Lord Louis Mountbattan as his mentor he was pretty sensible. He has some good ideas on architecture and organic farming, Global warming and being King of all Faiths, not so much. Price Charles may have genetic issues, as the Prince of Edinburg, his father, has had a number of clangers in his recent past as well.
I also agree that Queen Elizabeth has a strong sense of duty and is hanging on to pass the crown to Prince William.
OBSF: Nevil Shute in his futuristic tale of In the Wet, had the UK degenerate into silliness. None of the Queen’s children wanted to wear the crown. Consequences insued. If he could see the UK of 2011, Nevil Shute would weep. He emigrated to Australia because he could not stand the UK of the 1950s.
Glad someone else reads Shute. I have a copy of all his stuff. Bless his memory.
Shute couldn’t write a bad book.
Trustee from the Toolroom is great, Town called Alice excellent.
Amen to that. Nevil Shute was a man for the generations. Gifted engineer and an even more talented man of words. My personal favorite is “Trustee from the Toolroom”, I will say that “In the Wet” was wizard.
Glad to see Nevil Shute’s talented writing still resonates. I have all of his works also. Slide Rule was a great testimonial to private enterprise vs. government in the R-100 and R-101 airship competition. Trustee from the Toolroom is the book I loan out to get friends hooked on Shute, but Round the Bend is my favorite of his many excellent stories.
And Lex, your writing can get Hollywood movies made, probably Silicon Valley game designers wanting an interview, New York publishers …. Hmm, so that’s why you’d rather fly than write. Very wise.
I rather like Stephen Morris. The Pilot/Engineer gets his girl. Now If I could just get life to imitate the book.
I did like “On the Beach”. Was also a good movie -a bit of a rarity in making the transition.
Have to admit that I am still sulking that I cannot get a Pep’s pizza unless I head back Up North. Darn that Badger fellow -must have something against Former Wolverines.
It’s the inbreeding.
A mother knows her son. Long live the Queen, indeed.
Never has been an IQ requirement to be a royal. Charles seems to make that more obvious than most.
Royal people care more than the rest of us.
Afterall, we have them to thank for all of those green-powered personal jets and limousines.
Look this aging ninny has already passed through the “I want to be a tampon” stage. If that gaffe didn’t disqualify him, nothing will.
crap another keyboard ruined or at least despoiled with a liberal spray of rum and Moxie.
Didn’t you the Royal Family cease to be relevant to you guys, oh, about 200 years ago?
As a former Royalty & diplomatic protection officer, I can tell you that they are not at all eccentric. Why even when Her Maj refused to allow the police to install mains vhf radios in the Royal automobiles we just shrugged and went along with it – until some nut tried to kidnap Anne and the PPO took 3 rounds without being able to radio for assistance on his out of range uhf – that and because he was under fire and dealing with a stoppage. Fortunately my mate Mick was nearby and put in the call before he too was shot. Mick still has the bullet, nicely quarterised, nestling next to his liver. They fitted radios to the cars after that little scare. Eccentric? Nah!