41 Replies to “The World Still Has Too Many Reporters”

  1. Oh, what can one say? God save the Queen. Also, this can be compared to the American Foulness’s outings, where Its private army outnumbers the size of the crowd above.

  2. There are a lot of reporters there. Still, I have to say that I swore my oath to the the Queen but I am getting just a little tired of the Royal family. The Queen owns everything and we simply have title in fee simple? Yeah, right. She is our head of state? Quaint but powerless. To me the idea behind the crown has long lost its usefulness and the Queen or any future royal would quickly see exactly where their real power was if they ever tried to exercise it. It’s why I so enjoy the constitutional scholars getting so worked up over the “crisis” of the new succession rules. As a symbol, and not a terribly expensive one, I can live with it, but the idea of royalty or nobility, titles, knighthoods and such, it really begins to rankle as I get older. And if they ever really got in the way of how the people of Canada run their affairs, well, let’s just say that other royals ended up on the short side of that argument in the past.

  3. Who says the Monarch owns everything? I think you need to rethink that, maybe beginning by researching the Statute of Westminster. As to the Monarchy misusing its power or getting in the way the way of how the people of Canada run their affairs, I would suggest that it’s been literally generations since that was even a question of debate (say, King-Bing 1930s).
    Worst job in the world, anyway.

  4. ROYAL pain is what they are….isn’t it prince stupid (Philip) who keeps humping off at the gums about gorbullwarming???

  6. After enduring the last half decade of media Obama worship and creepy rising obama sun bumper stickers in my liberal hellhole just outside of philly, I got absolutely no problem with this diversion. Plus kate is hot. When does she visit Canada so we can see her ass again.

  8. The point is, that the media thinks its important, therfore, this is what the populace “must think”!
    The media, of course, is out of touch.
    So the offspring made a xerox copy of themselves. Who gives a fek? The coverage is ridiculous

  9. I have no quarrel with the monarchy. Better than Madonna or the rest of the Hollywood degenerates.

  11. I have no problem with the monarchy although it’s rather irrelevant. I like Queen Lizzy and I like Will & Kate and wish them well. But in between we will have King Charles??? Yech!

  12. While I’m happy for Will and Kate (and now George) I find it so funny that the media is so caught up in this (considering that Will can just barely disguise his hate for the media!). Its almost like the media has NOTHING else to report on. Or more likely everything else that the media could report on requires hard work and dealing with numbers. So much easier to wait outside a hospital for days waiting for a baby to be born.

  13. The media literally kneeling at royalty’s feet-love it.
    Kate should go for the full “lick my shoes, peasants” next time.

  14. I have no problem with the Monarchy or its aristocracy, it is the least harmful to the common man and woman; it is dripping with tradition, and has religious affiliations,(though not mine) but Christian nonetheless, and providing UKIP gets in, it will never be Muslim.

  15. Hadn’t thought of it that way and what you say makes sense. The Royalty is FAR, FAR better than the Hollyrude nonsense that passes for cultural significance.

  17. The present British royal family is perhaps a little ostentatious. Something along the lines of the
    Dutch royal family might suit Canada better (no curtsying, for one thing). Monarchs can be useful at times, for which see the history of Spain since Franco, or watch the movie “The King’s Speech”.
    Oh yes – God save the Queen. Thank you, God, for giving us QEII rather than the American Foulness.
    Thank you, God, that while Justin Trudeau’s father was Prime Minister, and he might become PM, neither could become Head of State (which really narked Chairman Pierre).

  18. Do I want a modern Queen riding her bike through the streets unattended in order to unveil a plaque, I don’t think so.
    It was a very odd spectacle, but her dress didn’t reveal too much above the knee.

  19. Oh yeah, the Monarchy was like a flame yo high to PET.
    Until Obozo’s arrival, I used ta say the monarchy prevented PET of bein’ a Nixon….I take it all back now….we have a real signal example in the White House.
    For Canada, the Monarchy is a regular bargoon. Yeah we have the expense of security for the duration of a Royal visit, but enough yanks flock in to wave at her….and leave a whack more coin here, than the cost of security.
    I recall the US Bi-Centennial. All sortsa stuff was scheduled but it was pretty much a non-event until Royal Visit, then it rocked….when she left…it was over. Funny that.
    Sorta like the beret, that the Canadian troops adopted during WW2. Every nation including the Norks have it as the head-dress of their elite troops. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

  20. The real awe comes from the amazement that this anachronism still exists.
    You cannot deny the popularity of the Royals in Britain, which far outweighs their detractors,a popular head of state having a history of approval ratings any American President would kill for.
    If the purpose of a head of state is to remain popular, inspire and lead the people, then it’s a bit daft to get rid of one that seems to achieve it quite spectacularly.
    I’m not a supporter of royal succession, but my ideology doesn’t make me blind, sometimes you gotta just go with what works.

  21. Longer than that, Sasquatch. We’ve had aristocratic political dynasties in the US for a long time now. We had Bush I and II, we had Clinton I with Clinton II making a run for it in 2016. And we’ve still got the perpetual Kennedy dynasty looming always from their fiefdom on Cape Cod.
    The Great Republic degenerated into dynastic politics decades ago. Just as aristocratic rivalries destroyed the Roman republic, so too is it undermining the Great Republic. This year marked the 350th anniversary of Cromwell’s dissolution of the Long Parliament, and it’s worth revisiting in whole for its relevance today.
    Dissolution of the Long Parliament by Oliver Cromwell given to the House of Commons, 20 April 1653
    “It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
    Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
    Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
    In the name of God, go!”

  22. The media is pimping royal worship = return to age of kings servitude to the state and its political aristocracy. It’s media mass conditioning at its best folks.
    You would think in this age of so-called democratic republics, we would view these parasitic royals and their feudal privilege as the plague on mankind’s freedom/development they were – but the social engineers have other uses for royal privilege now in the ensuing collectivist super state – they need to get us used to the worship of parasitic elites. The media is a willing pawn in the mass conditioning of the public to accept and love their servitude. The power structure has come full circle and we are approaching a new age of serfdom and privilege courtesy of parasitic collectivist political elites.

  23. I’m always amused that Americans, so noisy about poor old King George III and his putative tyranny, could do no better for themselves than elect presidents from the same two families for 20 years straight (1989-2009). Over three hundred million Americans and the best they could come up with was a Bush and a Clinton?
    And say what you want about President Obama but at least the US was spared the positively Argentinian spectacle of electing a woman whose only real claim to fame was that she slept with a president. Right now the US could have been heading towards 28 years of Bush-Clinton rule.
    If you want a solid argument for constitutional monarchy, ponder this: Justin Trudeau or Paul Dewar as head of state.

  24. The Observer is of course The Guardian in its weekend “opinion” guise.
    A good lot of the target readership for this paper consists of the usual progressive luvvies and lefties who’d like nothing better than to turn the UK into a tatty old people’s republic of dinge and defeat.

  25. The vast majority of citizens are not mature enough to take responsibility for their affairs so the diversion of monarchy or lessor personalities in Hollywood plays a roll. If Canadians had any gonads they would have thrown in with the Americans in 1776. The result might be that we would be fawning over Madonna right now instead of Kate. If we had a choice of King Charles or Obamma who would win?
    The slide downward is increasing in speed. To late to jump off so enjoy the ride.

  26. “The vast majority of citizens are not mature enough to take responsibility for their affairs…”
    The fundamental nature of any democracy is that the citizens are required to make the fundamental decisions of State. The fundamental nature of a republic is that sovereignty lies with the citizenry. What you are saying is that democracy is a failed system of governance. So what are you asking for, Bonapartism? If so, welcome to Egypt.
    Please note that Winston Churchill disagrees with you. “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

  27. You guys are killing me here.
    There’s nothing wrong with the USA, and Canada, and Britain, and the monarchy, that can’t be cured with a TAX CUT.
    Our constitutional monarchy and the America republic have been replaced with fascist police states. The way to fix that is to cut their budgets. Like, by 90%.
    The Queen, for example, is one of the wealthiest women in the entire world. Let her pay for her own yacht. Let her fly commercial or buy her own plane.
    And really, is there any reason why the Monarch or the President shouldn’t be able to head over to a ribbon cutting without half a regiment of SWAT and a convoy of armored cars? Assuming a FREE POPULACE who were, you know, FREE, she’d be able to do that. Like in Holland. Before the mooselems wrecked it, anyway.
    Jeeze!

  28. Plainzdrifter wrote, “Better than Madonna or the rest of the Hollywood degenerates.”
    My opinion exactly. Better Kate Middleton than Kim Kardashian.

  29. cpg: Perhaps my early morning pessimism was running amuck. Your criteria for responsible government are truly legitimate. My problem is that the individual responsibility of the citizenry is being usurped by special interest groups and the government itself. All this with the apparent acquiescence of the ruled. My point whether it be Madonna or the Royals it makes no difference.

  30. At least we got to see the presentation of Prince George from a different viewpoint, which is a good deal more than we got to see on “Glib/Glee” (CTV News Channel) or “Earnestly Justin/Glee” (CBC News Network), considering the goofily overbearing coverage, which went on for years, it seemed, at great expense to both the Canadian taxpayer and the Canadian cable ratepayer (probably more than the, er, actual Monarchy, you know, costs Canadians, at the end of the day).
    “Modern or trapped in the past?” Well, both, actually: which is really what it’s all about, isn’t it? And, I’d have to say that William is behaving quite like his grandmother and great-grandfather, isn’t he? As is his father, after his, er, 1960s fashion, or something.
    The fact of the matter is that there is no serious discussion of a replacement for the Monarchy in this country, the UK, Australia or NZ, and there hasn’t been, ever, in my politically-aware lifetime. Just a whole lot of media “republican” (whatever that means) self-loathing and nothing else to do. Heck, the Prime Minister of Quebec, who’s at least a nominally Roman Catholic woman and who’s supposed to be opposed, or something, can’t even accept the possibility of a change to the Act of Succession to allow a first-born woman who marries a Roman Catholic. What’s that about?
    Besides which, what would it look like, precisely? And what are the implications for governance, precisely? I vote “no” on both counts, in advance: kind of like the left-wing American bumper-sticker, “I’m opposed to the next war, too”.
    So, suck it up, buttercups: it’s here to stay. Oh, and yes, there are way too many reporters, as the photograph clearly demonstrates.

  31. CT, with your latest I agree entirely, particularly with respect to usurpation by special interests. There’s a trend here which has become one of “minority veto” rather than “majority rule”. And it contributes greatly to undermining constitutional law.
    There’s another aspect of this you might want to think about. The larger government has grown, the more susceptible it has been to court politics. Those who want government to do things seek to bribe, flatter or influence it in certain directions (aka the special interests to which you refer above). This becomes possible if government becomes so overweening (because we the voters ask it do to so much) that trying to persuade the public as a whole no longer matters. For example, I have no problem if the Green slime want to launch a PR campaign to push for a carbon tax or some other foolishness. They’re asking ME for MY support. But when they do it behind my back talking directly and privately to government bureaucrats and legislators, then I have a problem.
    I think the solution then to more responsive and responsible government and more meaningful political discussion is to get government to do less for us, to assume greater responsibility for ourselves.
    In short, the special interests go directly to government because they are afraid of the public. Because they know that generally the public has more sense than to accept their silliness at face value. This I think speaks volumes about the fundamental good sense of the average voter.

  32. Yawn,
    It’s scary times when the grandchildren of those that fled the British Empire’s tyranny to Canada, Australia, and certainly the US, who then helped build something much better,sit and idolize the symbolism of thier ancestors terror and repression.
    If your not a blood member of any Monarchy, your nothing more than a walking dollar sign in thier eyes.

  33. The Queen does pay her own way:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw&feature=fvsr
    And British immigrants to Canada and to Australia (omitting the convict minority) and N.Z. And South Africa weren’t fleeing Royal or British terror and oppression or, self-evidently, they would have immigrated to the republican States or elsewhere and not to British colonies.

  35. Are you micks still griping about Drogheda? What a bunch of crybabies. What’s missing from the account is that Aston was stupid and arrogant enough to fire on the flag of truce. He was sufficiently stupid to refuse surrender terms AFTER the walls had been breached. No sensible governor ever did that; as the town could expect to be sacked for putting the besiegers through the horror of storming a breach. By the standards of the 17th century, Drogheda got exactly what it deserved and what was expected.

  36. cgh >
    “Are you micks still griping about Drogheda?”
    What the f*ck are you talking about now? Has everyone on SDA gone completely mental these days?
    As not an Irishman, I will say the Republic of Ireland sure did make the brits look like complete losing ass’s in the end didn’t they?
    I suppose all that financial support coming from the “former colonies” to free themselves from the limy’s paid off to be sure.
    Heh, but we can all laugh about it now, “the Empire” is gone, and what is left are crusty old rummies, Islamic radicals, and stunned looking liberal white people, all watching the Royal’s run off with whatever’s left of that sad country.
    But let’s be fair, everyone kicked their ass’s from the US to India, we should have let Hitler have it first then repaved it like Japan.

  37. You’re the one introduced the topic, not me. Or don’t you read the links you post?
    “I will say the Republic of Ireland sure did make the brits look like complete losing ass’s in the end didn’t they?”
    How’s that? We’re talking about the Irish, right? Nation of Nazi stooges during the war? Third world country in a first world continent until the EU gave it a big leg up? How’s that worked out by the way? Financially sound, and all that?

  38. Heh, who cares about Ireland or it’s economy, I used them as a representation of the defunct and tyrannical British Empire still represented by the Monarchy whose boots are still licked by its desperate.
    Desperate subjects that is, comprised of a beaten people wishing for a glory of the past that was never theirs to share with their masters.
    Nice.

  39. When you see Libertarians going out of their way to engage in Cromwellian apologetics, well, that should tell you something.

  40. When you see modern-day statists sympathizing with King Charles, that tells you all you need to know.

  41. The Royal Family generates untold millions in tourism income – estimates of the tchotchke trade alone (cups, tea-towels, teapots, spoons, thimbles and all those other naff souvenirs your Aunt Flo in Victoria loves).
    As a business case, the UK alone gets a vastly better return from HM The Queen Inc. than it does from big tax-avoiding companies like Apple and Starbucks.
    And everybody’s happy – hotels, restaurants, charter airlines, tour guides, pubs – everyone except the mealy-mouthed republicans who’d prefer a dingy, bankrupt people’s paradise that no one would want to visit.

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