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Royal Wedding: Beware the In-Laws. Does Kate Middleton really want to marry into this family?
Slate ^ | 04/20/2011 | Christopher Hitchens

Posted on 04/20/2011 8:18:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 04/20/2011 8:18:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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this whole royal thing is news.....WHY?


2 posted on 04/20/2011 8:22:41 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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3 posted on 04/20/2011 8:24:52 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Vaquero
this whole royal thing is news.....WHY?

Because they said so :




4 posted on 04/20/2011 8:28:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I take it that no one from Slate was invited either?


5 posted on 04/20/2011 8:28:40 AM PDT by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

With the door of eternity beckoning, Chris Hitchens aims the crosshairs of his immense rhetorical skill at the subject of...a royal wedding?

This seems an absurdity; a great swordsman poking an anthill.


6 posted on 04/20/2011 8:38:14 AM PDT by lurk
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh shut up, Chris! (I know it upsets him to be addressed by his diminutive.) People aren’t “getting moist” over this. They just want to see Westminster Abbey and a pretty girl in a pretty dress. The Brits do this kind of thing beautifully.

The very bisexual (ahem) Mr. Hitchens has real problems relating to beautiful women. He disliked Diana and he dislikes Sarah Palin. He once said he couldn’t stand the fact that she moved her hips in a provocative manner!


7 posted on 04/20/2011 8:42:30 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (.)
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Lurk, you hit the nail on the head. That man wastes so much precious time railing against toothless royalty and bashing harmless Christians. What a waste of a good brain!


8 posted on 04/20/2011 8:44:28 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (.)
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It is a waste, but he does it with a certain amount of brilliance. If only he did a CS Lewis!!!! Then, what a light for Truth he would be!


9 posted on 04/20/2011 9:00:55 AM PDT by savagesusie
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I guess I’m getting a little tired of his brilliance. I really haven’t enjoyed his stuff since the publication of “No One Left to Lie To.” He autographed it for me and was very gracious.


10 posted on 04/20/2011 9:08:22 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (.)
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11 posted on 04/20/2011 9:20:47 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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What place does this royal crap have in a so called Democratic nation????

you don’t need to answer, it is a rhetorical question....the answer is ‘nothing’...worse than nothing as they have milked 100s (thousands???) of millions of pounds from the economy.


12 posted on 04/20/2011 9:23:18 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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For why the royal cr@p matters, see the links on this thread...

Why the Obsession with the British Monarchy?

13 posted on 04/20/2011 9:26:09 AM PDT by mewzilla (Were members of both political parties in on the Lockerbie bomber deal?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Something about the way Kate looks now tells me she won’t age well.


14 posted on 04/20/2011 9:48:14 AM PDT by fso301
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To: mewzilla
From a couple of weeks ago...

Prince Andrew attacked for opening door to arms dealers

15 posted on 04/20/2011 9:51:00 AM PDT by mewzilla (Were members of both political parties in on the Lockerbie bomber deal?)
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From March....

Damascus the next diplomatic crisis for London

16 posted on 04/20/2011 9:54:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (Were members of both political parties in on the Lockerbie bomber deal?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Charles and Diana was like Woodstock

William and Kate is MYV’s Woodstock II... nothing like the original and a complete disaster


17 posted on 04/20/2011 12:56:25 PM PDT by Eddie01 (Shooting fish in a barrel since 1966)
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Okay, I left work early to online shop for a new guitar (Gibson LP Studio) and I see this.

Belly Laugh

Thanks,
E01


18 posted on 04/20/2011 1:05:33 PM PDT by Eddie01 (I heart FR)
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I have a feeling that William’s marriage will work though, unlike his parent’s.


19 posted on 04/20/2011 1:06:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure. ...my mom is 100% welsh. I’m 50%. My then young grandparents left the coal mines in Mountain Ash Wales to imigrate in the 1920s.

The first wedding was a big deal. Now, I look at it and think what a crock. Kings? Queens? I don’t have the time of day. Plus with their multiculturalism, I see the whole charade as a joke. Weak and self-serving nothing more.

I’ll reserve my love and sympathy for my family, every child in a hospital and those who are with me in freedom and liberty.


20 posted on 04/20/2011 1:18:38 PM PDT by Eddie01 (I heart FR)
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