[ignatz_q]

The story about the Queen is really very touching. The British will be on the right side of this one, I am confident.

[jodorowsky]

Steyn Bump

[FormerLib]

>>>Yet my pastor's principal concern was the ugliness of Americans.<<<

Mr. Steyn, the Lord works in mysterious ways. I believe He is telling you to find another Church.

[OldFriend]

Feel free to call Lehigh University and let them know what you think. That this university just landed itself on the list of party schools says a lot about it's dedication to education. Lehigh 610-758-3000

[TomB]

Her Majesty gets it.

Why yes, yes she does.

I only wish more here at FR "got it".

We are NOT the bad guys.

[Ethrane]

WOW!!>>

Thanks for posting this...it rings, unfortunately, too true as a goodly proportion of Americans still "don't get it".

Americans spend entirely too much time beating themselves up over relatively trivial things and take any criticism of their actions or inactions right on the jaw, while hardly ever taking any significant time to consider the positive impact our nation has had on the world.

No nation gets it "right" 100% of the time. Except for the past 8 years (of WJC), it was always hard to credibly impugn our motives in matters of world affairs. We believe in freedom and representative government, laws and individual rights. It pains me to say that I wonder if a preponderance of Americans today would voluntarily state that these beliefs are superior to those held by any other nation (excepting of course like-minded nations England, Australia among others).

When Americans refuse to recognize their moral and ideological superiority, and give credence to other inferior governmental systems, we will cease to be great...

[xp38]

Steyn continues to soar like an eagle.

[ken5050]

The man has a marbelous way with words.....Could we commision him to write bin Laydin's obituary in advance?

[Turret Gunner A20]

Thank you very much. I have admired your Queen since I was in England in World War II. Along with her Parents, she not only did not flee to safety somewhere, but she served in the uniform of her country and was subject to all of the dangers that her fellow contrymen endured. A great Lady indeed. God Save Your Queen.

[aculeus]

Brilliant! And damn the Guardianistas.

[pollyshy]

Thanks for this post,Pokey.

kayak,lepton - I believe paragraph 7 contains the definitive clarification of the "pity party" comment. Oh, to be able to write like that!

[Polybius]

A salute to our one true Ally.

God save the Queen and God bless the Brits.

[GretchenEE]

And at that same service she also sang "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic," for the second time in her life — the first was at the funeral of her first prime minister, Winston Churchill. On Friday, she fought back tears.

I have always loved The Battle Hymn of the Republic, find it difficult not to cry when singing or hearing it, and after it was sung at the National Cathedral on Friday, I checked out its history. Julia Ward Howe wrote it in 1861 as she watched Union soldiers march off to fight in the War between the States. (She was an ardent abolitionist.) The melody was a "United States campmeeting" tune of that time. The fifth stanza lacks attribution, but Howe wrote the first four. I wish someone would have pointed these facts out to me when I was a child.

[GretchenEE]

But she [QE2] understands something that few other leaders of the West seem to — that today the ultimate guarantor of the peace and liberty of her realms is the United States. If America falls, or is diminished, or retreats in on itself, there is no "free world."

[VOA]

The Queen stands on ceremony and she has a lot of ceremony to stand on.

Anyone who likes Corgis and horses must be basically OK with me.
QEII, considered yourself invited to drop by my place anytime for some humble American fare.
But I'll apologize in advance for not having a color guard available for the occassion.

[mountaineer]

"We are not at war," said Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel, his nation's signature on that NATO document notwithstanding.

Words cannot express how furiously angry I am at Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Norway. Let's destroy all but one of bin Laden's suicide bombers, and then let him take his pick of highly populated Belgian, French, German, Italian or Norwegian landmarks into which to fly a fully-fueled plane.

[July 4th]

I just started law school a few weeks ago. Many of the cases we've been reading are British, rather than American. Many of the precedents in our nation's judicial system were taken directly from courts in London, Newcastle, and York. Like it or not, Britain is the foundation of what we started here in America. For that reason, we must always see to it that our relationship is the tightest between any two nations on earth. God save the Queen, and God bless our President.

[VadeRetro]

. . .Robert Daubenspeck of White River Junction, Vermont . . . advised against retaliation. "Someone, someday, must have the courage not to hit back but to look them in the eye and say, 'I love you.'"

I love them, too, Robert!

I'm gonna miss my dead Osama
Some of these days!

[GretchenEE]

fyi

[summer]

Pokey78, Great post. BTTT.

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Ivan, I hope you have posted a link HERE to the Brit version of FR you have going on. The people on THIS thread will DEFINATELY want to check out your site. Best, summer :)