Republicans
by MandysRoyalty

They love Presidents and pandering,
and they’ll protest on your lawn.

We say no to a Republic,
so why do they keep on?

Going to the polls is relatively easy.
I’m aware of what I’m voting,
there is no feeling queasy.

You pull the lever, mark your vote,
Yet still the Queen is a scapegoat.

It is not she who is unfair,
Blame Gordon Brown, Parliament,
or bloody Tony Blair.

So the next time they come knocking,
you’ll know just what to do.
Tell them that you voted,
and that the Queen inspired you.

M.L. Littlefield (c) 2009

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been discussing the 1701 Act of Settlement with the Queen and other officials at Buckingham Palace. He feels it is time to rescind the act that has barred members of the Royal family from succeeding to the throne if they marry Roman Catholics.

The Act has been called a “violation of human rights”, but the Telegraph’s Andrew Roberts says:

[The Act] is not the bigoted, irrelevant and obsolete law that Downing Street presents it as – it is one of the key pieces of legislation that has defined what Britain was and still is. For a Prime Minister who claims to care deeply about the concept of Britishness, the Act should be sacrosanct, rather than sacrificed in a gross bout of politically correct gimmickry.

Personally, I can’t believe this is an issue in this day and age. People seem to be loathe to admit they are associated with any sort of Christianity and are more proud to say they’re atheist or that they’re a “pick-n-mix” of all sorts of belief systems.

Crushing anything to do with Christ seems to be the modus operandi of most of the mainstream. Think about it: Saying “Merry Christmas” is an issue. You can’t say “Christmas Tree”, you have to refer to it as a “Holiday Tree”. Even now, things in the stores do not say “Happy Easter”, but “Happy Spring“.

The world is shutting out Christ.  He said love thy brother, drink some wine, eat some bread, don’t lie, cheat or steal, and I’ll be back soon. Don’t go away! But does anyone listen? Not in the slightest.In fact, His peacefulness and common sense seems to be offensive to people. What a world!

So that’s why I find this Act of Settlement debate so interesting. Since when did the importance of religion come roaring back?

via Gordon Brown’s assault on the traditions of the monarchy is preposterous – Telegraph.

Prince William will marry his on-off girlfriend Kate Middleton this summer, according to Point de Vue, France’s leading society magazine.

Point de Vue, who also claims there is going to be an official announcement any minute, has impeccable contacts within royal families across the world.

Could it be true?  Kate and William are really going to marry? Oh, I could faint at the shock!

via Prince William ‘will marry Kate Middleton this summer’ | Mail Online.

At first I thought this story was just some cheap shot at the Royals. Now I realize that it’s an incredibly scary example of people trying to pass laws to allow society to just do whatever it wants, and hang the consequences.

Writing in an academic journal, Professor David Nutt said taking ecstasy was no worse than the risks of “equasy”, a term he invented to describe people’s addiction to horse-riding. It is short for “Equine Addiction Syndrome”. Nutt cited that horseback riding and many other activities such as base jumping, climbing, bungee jumping, hang-gliding, and even motorcycling are just as dangerous, but those are not criminal offenses. So why should Ecstasy be outlawed?

Said Nutt:

“This attitude raises the critical question of why society tolerates – indeed encourages – certain forms of potentially harmful behaviour but not others, such as drug use.”

Professor Nutt is the chairman of the Home Office’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.

In his article for the academic journal, Prof. Nutt wrote that “equasy” had caused 10 deaths and more than 100 road traffic accidents a year.

Through hunting, it also led to “gatherings of ‘users’ … engaging in violent conduct.”

Sorry, I just don’t see it. Taking a drug that makes you hallucinate, may cause lasting neural damage, and makes you behave like a weirdo just isn’t quite the same thing as riding one’s horse.

via The Telegraph

Hello! I’m Oliver Cromwell, blah blah blah! I think I know sooo much better than the Royals, blah blah blah! I’m not a maniac, oh no! In fact, I will even style myself the same title as the people I hate most – Highnesses! That’s right, I’m “His Highness”! Start bowing!

By the end of my Cromwellian Campaign (see, alliteration there! I’m so smart!) there will be an extensive dispossession of landowners who are Catholic, and I will drive a massive amount of Irish out of their own country, because that’s what honest, hardworking non-hereditary rulers do!

I’m in a bad mood…

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