Hopefully William isn’t quite the imbecile that his father the plant talker is, but the signs are not good. Thank God for Americans this is purely of academic interest. Go here to Instapundit to comment. Shatner, get yourself naturalized as an American before you depart on the voyage from which there is no returning.
Thank God for 1776
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Hopefully William isn’t quite the imbecile that his father the plant talker is, but the signs are not good.
There is no indication his father is an imbecile.
They royals vermin who want to make ordinary people’s lives miserable – not unlike America’s traitorous, imbecilic oligarchs and the sociopathic adolescent scum fronted by China Joe. .
American of Irish descent was in London and the queen’s car passed. “{Expletive-Deleted] the queen!” he shouted. A nearby cockney said, “You can’t mate. You can’t get close to ‘er,”
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I was being kind to him Art.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-gUy3X29vc
These guys want you to throw away your comforts and conveniences made possible by modern industrial civilization – based on TOTAL BULL S#!+.
Don’t tell Pope Frank!
2009: Prince Charles says only 8 years to save the planet!!!!!!
Never Happen.
T Shaw,
Every year I get stopped by the Coast Guard fishing off Martha’s Vineyard, I glance at Obama’s beach mansion and ask myself… Will this be the year the oceans rise? Alas so far it has not happened.
There does seem to be some extreme weather patterns occurring. Whether this is a result of human activity or a cycle of nature…who knows. I don’t think Prince William is completely off the mark here…without buying into “climate change” to push ulterior agendas.
That being said, it is amazing that a 90year old was able to go into space. That in itself is remarkable. But the fact it also gave Bezos the publicity he craves- you can’t help but be cynical.
So I think it’s fair that people are questioning the motives of these modern billionaires ie. Bezos, Musk, Branson and their need to flaunt their wealth through space aviation which only serves to stroke their egos and gives them more means to make more billions.
I mean, it used to be governments of nations who put the time and money into space exploration because the knowledge gained was valuable to science. But, because nations don’t have the money like they used to, and it is such a costly exercises, insanely wealthy individuals are filling that gap. Why they are doing it and whether it benefits mankind in the long-run is up for question. These are fair questions.
We also can’t underestimate the possibility of awareness.
For example, in the Bible when Moses is leading Israel out of Egypt, a hurricane might have been hitting the Americas, or Volcanos erupting in Japan. How would we know without someone recording the incident AND that record surviving?
Nowadays we have the entire planet surveilled. Not a tropical storm brews in the ocean that humanity doesn’t notice it. But given that all of this has literally occurred within my lifetime (and that is the tiniest fraction of a fraction of this planet’s lifespan) – the simple truth is that we completely lack the data to know what an average or even standardized amount of “weather patterns” is.
Exactly. And we are custodians of a planet created by our God. As His children and out of respect and appreciation of His creation, we do in fact have an obligation to look after it whilst it serves our needs.
I was being kind to him Art.
He has for decades run a philanthropic foundation, the enterprises of the Duchy of Cornwall, real estate development projects, and architectural restoration projects. He also had six years in the Navy. That’s not how an imbecile spends his time. There are two substantive criticisms of him. (1) That he mistreated his wife and poached another man’s wife and (2) that he employs too many people.
The charities are run by his underlings. His six years of military service was required by Prince Philip and Charles got out of it as soon as he could. The plant talker reveals himself in interviews where he embraces every Leftist Eurotrash idea. I especially liked it when he talked about changing the royal title of Defender of the Faith to Defender of Faith in order to kiss up to muslims. Absent an accident of birth he would be enjoying right now well earned obscurity.
Don and Art:
I find myself somewhere in the middle of you estimable gents’ evaluations. Like lukewarm water, to quote the line from “This Is Spinal Tap.”
He has some of his parents’ steel, the grotesque adultery aside. Which, it should be pointed out, has been a recurring issue with Saxe-Coburg Gotha’s males. When you compare him to Edward VII, he’s almost fastidious.
Six years in service is comparable to his predecessors. George VI (a bottom of his class-er) was in longer, but the First World War tended to prolong things.
But yes, Charles does have too much of an ear for the goofy, even though I admit to genuine interest in his agricultural ideas. IOW some values of “goofy” include the present speaker, so account for my opinion accordingly.
Final diagnosis: A mixed bag, but almost certainly a serviceable monarch when his time arrives.
Passenger carrying air travel started out as a thing done by the rich. It took a while for it to get to the point to where the average person could afford to fly. The cost of space access has an impact on the kinds of activities that we can do in space. The Branson and Bezos sub-orbital systems are reusable. SpaceX has brought down the cost of space access with its reusable technology like the Falcon 9 reusable first stage, space capsules, and payload fairings. SpaceX just did a commercial orbital mission called Inspiration4. It will be interesting to see how things go with their upcoming reusable Starship/Super Heavy Booster being prototyped at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. They are also building out a LEO (Low Earth Orbit) low-latency broadband internet satellite constellation called Starlink. It is primarily intended to service underserved, and mobile internet customers. They have been running a public beta of the Starlink service and are getting close to operational status.
The charities are run by his underlings.
What is your evidence of this (other than there are people working under him)?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/12/world/prince-charles-charity-russian-banker-investigation-intl/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince%27s_Charities
. A LOT OF CHARITY WORK
The Prince’s Charities is an umbrella group of 14 charitable organizations of which HRH is president (read: mostly a figurehead, but a well meaning one); according to his press materials, he founded 13 of them himself. These charities range in character from the Royal Drawing School, an educational initiative he co-founded with artist Catherine Goodman that offers free, high quality drawing instruction to worthy students; to the Prince’s Regeneration Trust, which works to preserve historic buildings; to the British Asian Trust, which helps funnel donation money to local charities in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the UK. Also according to his press materials, The Prince’s Charities is the largest multi-cause charitable enterprise in the UK and brings in more than £100 million annually. But that’s not all—the Prince is patron or president of some 400 other charities. Sound like he’s bitten off more than he can chew? Maybe—but again, it’s mostly a figurehead thing. The Prince’s projects that appear to be nearest and dearest to his heart involve sustainable agriculture and environmental preservation, so look for him to be more hands-on there.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51922/11-things-prince-charles-does-his-time
He has some of his parents’ steel, the grotesque adultery aside. Which, it should be pointed out, has been a recurring issue with Saxe-Coburg Gotha’s males. When you compare him to Edward VII, he’s almost fastidious.
Roughly 15% or so of the male population in Anglophone countries, give or take. Charles has been atypical in that (see Lord Snowden for contrast) his sidepiece has been one woman who also stood down for about 10 years.
I’m more sympathetic to him than I otherwise would be because of things which have been attested to by people who put their names to it. (1) His wife had three paramours to his one; (2) at different times over a period of 20 years she was estranged from her mother, her stepmother, her brother, and the younger of her sisters (and the sister’s whole family, all of whom lived in one of the other residences at Kensington Palace); (4) she had a running feud with her immediate neighbor at Kensington Palace (the wife of one of the Queen’s cousins); (5) Among the guests at Prince William’s wedding were two women who had been nanny to the princes over the years; one was someone she’d sh!tcanned; the other was a woman hired by Charles after the separation whom she couldn’t fire; she adjusted to that by slicing the woman up in the media; (6) one of the Queen’s ladies-in–waiting was assigned to her in 1981 to tutor her on how public appearances are conducted; the tutorials failed because she would not cooperate or learn (“Sue, this is boring”). She was one of the world’s difficult people.
As for the Windsors, they seem abnormally drawn to sketchy characters: Wallis Simpson, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Mark Phillips, Sarah Ferguson, Meghan Markle. You’d think after a century of companionate marriages they’d have a better sense of how to spot prospects and build a quiet life.
There is a video on YouTube about space tourism titled “When Will Space Tourism be Affordable?” It compares commercial space travel to commercial air travel. It also gives a history of heavier than air aviation.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNrobOYWZQE&t=1s