Posted on 05/24/2017 5:08:21 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The pop star Ariana Grande has canceled the remaining dates of her "Dangerous Woman" tour following the murder of 22 fans (at the time of writing) and the injury of dozens more at her concert in Manchester. The Manchester Royal Infirmary reports that half the victims brought to the hospital overnight are children. The killer was a suicide bomber. Theresa May says the police believe they know his identity. The usual, predictable details will follow. [UPDATE: He's Salman Abedi, the Manchester-born son of Libyan refugees and another "known wolf".]
As The Independent's headline has it:
There's only one way Britain should respond to attacks such as Manchester. That is by carrying on exactly as before.
That's not actually the "only" way Britain could respond, but it seems the way to bet, judging from the responses of the political class. "Carry on" is a very British expression. One thinks of the famous scene in one of the most famous of the Carry On comedies, Carry On Up The Khyber, surely the most insightful film ever made about Afghanistan: as you'll recall, the revolting Khasi of Khalabar grows ever more enraged at the British Governor's refusal to let the shelling and destruction of Government House disrupt his dinner party. Even when the Khasi has the main course replaced with the head of a decapitated fakir, Her Majesty's viceroy declines to let his eye be caught by these vulgar attention-seeking jihadists. The film received unenthusiastic reviews from London critics in 1968. One would not have predicted that half-a-century later it would be official British policy on the home front.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
A dangerous woman isn’t a 4’ 10’’ waif singer.
A dangerous woman is one with a gun who knows how to use it.
Or any of my exes with a knife.
how many ex’s do you have?? why do they want to kill you?
Do they all live in Texas?
Well...there’s something to be said for being a bomb-magnet.
You must like them well up on the Hot and Crazy scale.
I hear Tennesee is the place where you can hang your hat
Bkmk
HOT AS HELL AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN COMMITTED YEARS AGO CRAZY!!!
Which would explain most of my life’s problems :)
Were all those nights with a hot and insane red haired woman worth the destruction!?!?!!?
YES!! :)
That’s a great piece by Steyn.
“What is the happy ending here?”
Ariana Grande is not the enemy here.
Too bad Hollywood Squares is no longer on where she could land.
We will never hear about her again.
She’s more upset about the impact to her career this has had than on the children killed.
She is not innocent because she thought it was cool to be naked and evil talking.
It ain't.
“Ariana Grande is not the enemy here.”
Collaborators are not the enemy?
See Comment #11.
“... the way we were...”
Actually, she brought it all on
She is the archetype of our enemy within
lol
Word to the young men out there.
A woman who uses your bathroom on the first date and comes out in her birthday suit is NOT just like the woman that married dear old dad!!
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