Thousands Await Queen's Virginia Visit

[underpants]

Source: Washington Post

In Richmond, the queen was to address Virginia's General Assembly and meet 100-year-old civil rights lawyer Oliver W. Hill Sr., whose litigation helped cause the 1954 Supreme Court decision ending racial segregation in public schools.

She also plans to have a private audience with survivors of last month's massacre at Virginia Tech and families of some of the 32 who were slain.

On Thursday evening, the queen was expected to take a horse-drawn carriage through Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia's capital until then-Gov. Thomas Jefferson and the legislature fled to Richmond to elude British capture in the Revolutionary War.

On Friday, she is to tour the site where, 400 years ago, Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in America. The royal couple are due at the Kentucky Derby on Saturday and will visit President Bush in Washington next week.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300289.html

[trotsky]

1. I know this wish is futile,

but please Chimpy don't do anything to embarrass us.

[Greeby]

2. That's OK

We've got the Royal Family, they are an embarassment unto themselves

[HereSince1628]

3. I suppose with the pound strong against the dollar this may be

something of an encouragement for English tourists to come and spend money.

But, I am just incapable of yielding up anything like respect for monarchists, it is just too encouraging to the Cheney administration.

[LostinVA]

4. I'm sooooo pissed I didn't win a chance to meet her

:cry:

[underpants]

5. I never could find where to sign up for the lottery

:shrug:

I am headed down to the beach to play golf tomorrow-64 should be fun huh? A friend of mine who I am playing golf with is going to a wedding in the 'Burg saturday and was planning on getting a room Friday night.

"Have you got a reservation yet?"

"Nah I was just going to walk up and get one"

"Are you aware that the QUEEN OF ENGLAND is going to be in the area?!?!?"

"Oh...maybe I should make some calls"

:eyes:

[LostinVA]

7. There was a website

[smiley_glad_hands]

6. She's come to take us back....lol.

Gotta be better than the chimperor.

[gauguin57]

9. That would be a great anti-Bushie protest: Signs reading, "Take us back, Your Majesty! PLEASE!"

Take my effed-up country, please!

[Eurobabe]

15. My first thought too

God save us Queen! From the CHIMPEROR!!

[Ignacio Upton]

8. "Members of the House of Burgesses

You must do something about those traitors known as the 'Founding Fathers', especially that Thomas Jefferson."

:rofl:

[ellie]

10. I think it's exciting!

and I don't even like the royal family!

[legin]

11. Stick it to the bitch

She is 'conferring ligitamacy' to bush* by her state visit and dinner with bush*.

She has given the royal seal of approval to the Iraq fiasco by allowing her grandson to serve there.

She had bush* for a state visit a couple of years ago.

She gave Guilliani a Knighthood.

She is just another right-wing politician.

[legin]

12. She is going to use her 'Queenness'

as a weapon against our intrests.

She needs to be cut down to size.

[dipsydoodle]

17. Cut her down to size ?

She's less than 5 foot tall - if you did that she only be munchkin. lol.

[spoony]

18. Perhaps the least coherent post I've ever read at DU.

[CountAllVotes]

13. you nailed it!

:puke: and I could care less!

[iverglas]

23. Giulani was knighted??

How the hell did he manage that?

Our own dear Canadian Conrad Black gave it a shot, and we gave him a choice: Canadian citizenship or a British title. He went for the title. He no longer has Canadian citizenship.

What are you guys, a bunch of toadying colonials?

She has given the royal seal of approval to the Iraq fiasco by allowing her grandson to serve there.

That's cute.

Can you imagine if one of Bush's offspring were in the US military (which I understand is an honourable thing to do, be in the US military) and her unit were to be deployed to Iraq, and he were to stop her from going? My, my; the shit that would fly.

QEII doesn't "allow" her grandson to do anything, any more than most people do. And if she were to try to disallow anyone from doing anything at all, there's be a constitutional crisis such as hasn't been seen in quite some time. (She did disallow her sister from marrying her lover, for several sound reasons in the circumstances, but you'll notice that this sort of thing has gone out of style and favour, and not been tried, lately.)

You folks who live under an all-powerful executive just don't understand how we out here in the modern world do things at all, do you?

She had bush* for a state visit a couple of years ago.

Gee. Quelle surprise. The head of one state hosted the head of another state ... who was visiting the state in question on the invitation of the head of government. That will be Tony Blair, the elected guy, in case you're not clear on the concept.

What, you thought the Queen got to decide who visits the UK, and who visits her? Again -- the UK ain't the US. Hard to understand from inside US borders, I know.

She is just another right-wing politician.

Oddly enough, she isn't a politician at all.

But it is damned funny how some people who are not affected in the least by her or anything she does can get so awfully riled up about her, based entirely on figments as their riledness is. Much more riled up than ... well, actually, the other people who are not affected in the least by her or anything she does: people in the countries of which she is titular head of state.

She is 'conferring ligitamacy' to bush* by her state visit and dinner with bush*.

As head of state, she symbolizes the people of her country. As, lest you forget, does Bush; sorry about your bad choices, and all. But her duty is to the people of her country, to represent them. She doesn't get to snub the people of your country, no matter how distasteful she might find your head of state.

Haha: http://www.saberingles.com.ar/reading/queen-elizabeth-life.html
"English reading comprehension for ESL students" ... or ethnocentric silly loudmouths.

Elizabeth's political views are supposed to be less clear-cut (she has never said or done anything in public to reveal what they might be). She preserves cordial relations with politicians of all parties. It is believed that her favourite Prime Ministers have been Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson. <Harold Wilson was a long-serving Old Labour Prime Minister, I doubt you'd know.> Her least favourite was undoubtedly Margaret Thatcher, whom she is said to "cordially dislike". She was thought to have very good relations with her current Prime Minister, Tony Blair, during the first years of his term in office, however, there has been mounting evidence in recent months that her relationship with Blair has hardened. She reportedly feels that he does not keep her informed well enough on affairs of state.

The only public issue on which the Queen makes her views known are those affecting the unity of the United Kingdom. ...

There are reports both ways on that Thatcher deal. Which kind of makes the point: the Queen's personal political opinions are carefully concealed and have nothing to do with her role as head of state. That role includes visiting and hosting other heads of state, whether she wants to or not and whether she likes them or not. And whether you like it or not.

[One Sweet World]

14. It's kind of exciting

to have the queen in town but after seeing the movie, The Queen, I really don't have any respect for Phillip.

[Mike Daniels]

16. Phillip as portrayed in "The Queen" was the epitome of "upper class twit"

I kept flashing to Monty Python's "Upper Class Twit of the Year" routine and seeing Phillip competing in Kicking the Beggar, Insulting the Waiter, Waking the Neighbor, etc.

http://www.jumpstation.ca/recroom/comedy/python/twit.html

[MasonJar]

19. We are excited that Queen Elizabeth is coming to Kentucky for the Derby.

It is a great honor; the queen has visited Kentucky several times since she has several thoroughbreds stabled in Kentucky, especially brood mares. She visits them and Will Farish at his beautiful farm in Versailles. A wonderful thoroughbred that I used to own part of is also a brood mare now at the Farish farm so I have been to see her several times. The Bluegrass of Kentucky is God's country; come see it. By the way, Princess Margaret was an honored guest for the 100th running of the Kentucky Derby.

[Dulcinea]

22. Wonder if she'll have a mint julep?

She already has the big hat! :)

Prince Philip definitely seems like a mint julep kind of guy!

[Riverman]

20. It is Treason for Any American to pay homage to any royal from the

former colonists of America! That's All. Send the Bitch back to Winsor Castle! And, tell the Brits to get the hell out of other people's countries.

[Thothmes]

21. Treason

Not according to Article III, section 3 of the Consititution.

[LanternWaste]

24. Maybe you could elucidate

Maybe you could elucidate for those of us who lack your staggering insight why respect for a foreign dignitary is considered treason....

(And before we tell the Brits to stay out of other people's countries, maybe we should attempt to do the same.... I'm just sayin')

[IFC]

25. Irish Freedom Committee condemns Brit queen visit to US

IFC condemns Brit queen visit to US
	 	
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 
Irish Freedom Committee condemns Brit queen visit to US

CONTACT: 
Irish Freedom Committee® 
http://www.irishfreedomcommittee.net
[e-mail]
National Chairman - Joe Dillon, P.O. Box 220182, Boston MA
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Irish Freedom Committee condemns Brit queen visit to US

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Queen’s visit an insult to America

The Irish Freedom Committee denounces this weekend’s visit to
Virginia and Washington by the queen of England, and the crass
display of stolen wealth, monarchy and imperialism she brings
to the US. We decry and condemn the total waste of US
taxpayers' money as politicians in official Washington and
elsewhere fall over themselves to honor representatives of a
monarchy that is unashamed of it's centuries old history of
barbarity and inhumanity to other peoples. 
 
As the matriarch of the one of the wealthiest families in the
world --not one of whose members can be credited with an
honest day's work, being paid by public welfare-- arrives in
this country, the anglophiles and sycophants who bow and
curtsy before these "regals" thereby refuse to honor
and recall the enormous sacrifices of those who fought two
wars to gain America's freedom from the original "Evil
Empire". 
 
We believe it was Mahatma Ghandi who coined the phrase
"The Butcher’s Apron" to describe the British flag.
The name is fitting for a flag that presided over the rape,
pillage, exploitation, and genocide of so many nations across
the globe, including the United States. As Irish Americans, we
well remember the legacy of Britain’s bloody apron in driving
our ancestors out of Ireland, and into a land which been
similarly raped, pillaged, and robbed of natural resources
owned by it’s Native American population.

We see nothing to celebrate in the 400 year anniversary of the
genocide of Native Americans begun at the British settlement
at Jamestown, or the mass enslavement of Africans that
followed under the edicts of Britain’s queen Elizabeth. We are
disgusted that this visit occurs on the 26th anniversary of
the death of Bobby Sands at Long Kesh prison, a cruel and
agonizing death on hunger strike, under the watch of the
British monarchy.
 
After 400 years, it's quite a pitiful sight to witness so many
Americans, purportedly in possession of their faculties, who
blithely forget or ignore this nations struggle for freedom
from that very country before whose "dignitaries"
they fawn. The toadying displays this weekend over this
ancient symbol of British colonial rule have no place in the
United States. We condemn the presence of this relic of
colonialism, genocide, slavery and imperialism on our ground,
and we ask Americans to remember the Britain’s bloody legacy
instead. 
 
God save this nation of 50 independent states!!

####ENDS###

[tabasco]

26. The Queen should visit new Orleans.

Why doesn't she use her unearned position to better the human condition?