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It struck me earlier as I bounced around different channels that in a lot of ways she was the queen of the west, a representative of western culture, traditions and values. You'd expect the BBC to be all over this story, and Canadian news channels. But it was basically full time on Euronews, the DW (Germany), France's overseas news net, and even Al Jazeera. Almost everyone in the West has known her as a steady, unwavering political background for most of our lives.

Epstein paid her in money, but mostly in letting her live on his island and experience the life of the rich and famous. Tons of young women would have been happy to do the same. And did. Virtually every rock star from the 1960s on had a cadre of such women following them around. You seem to be as incapable of understanding the difference between Epstein and Andrew as you are in understanding what a pedophile is. Nothing Andrew did was illegal, despite what vacuous and hypocritical moral prudes like you might want to make of it. And given your reverence for Trump and completely waving away all his pervasions, his barging into the dressing rooms of teenage beauty contestants, his adultery, his paying of prostitutes, strippers and porn stars, his bragging about his sexual exploits on air and his lewd statements about his own daughter anything that comes out of that sewer of a mind of yours about Andrew is so much drool.

Charles has had a number of loopy moments and has a number of strange beliefs. I can't help wondering if he'll get into trouble as monarch.

She was a prostitute. And Epstein paid her. She was one of the bimbos who ran around with him and who he loaned out to friends (and were quite content to be loaned out to friends). Her story has changed a dozen times since the lawyers first told her how much money she could make by cashing in on Epstein. You're acting awfully prudish for a guy who would sell his soul for a chance to have Donald Trump piss on him. Do you think he was disgusting for having sex with prostitutes, porn stars and strippers? Do you wonder why he's not in jail for paying them?

Because he never broke any laws, you ignorant twit.

You're a pathetic, immature child. Though, given the lack of thought in most of your posts that surprises me not at all. Andrew isn't a pedophile because he had sex with a 17 year old girl. Do you even know what a pedophile is? And her family are a hell of a lot less dysfunctional than most. I wonder how others would fare under the ceaseless spotlight of cameras and microphones.

Elizabeth II ascended to the title while still of the age most people today are just leaving college. She is the last of the world leaders from "The Greatest Generation" and lived a life dedicated to and restricted by duty and responsibility. She sailed majestically through all the chaos, wars, political drama, family crisis, social change, and the rise and fall of nations. And she did it in a restrained, thoughtful and dignified manner almost completely at odds with what we see of most world leaders today. RIP to her. And God bless the King.

Really? That's the snarky title you choose? That's what's sad.

Yes.

It doesn't bother me to see a black elf. When almost immediately he's shown to be he's romancing a white woman I was like "woke agenda". When the only dwarf and his wife were also interracial it was just like, really? These people really want to rub everyone's face in how woke and virtuous they are. It's like the Wheel of Time series by amazon. They so hyped up all the female roles it go patently silly. In one episode a female warrior who is nine months pregnant and actually going into labour bounces around like a ninja as she kills a number of armed male soldiers. Now I've never been a pregnant woman in labour but from what I've seen, read and heard of it you're not going to be doing anything very athletic. I don't care how determined and well-trained you are. I might add that the writers clearly only saw violence as the way to indicate a character is strong. In the books, these are strong female roles, but not, for the most part, physically so. The writers clearly felt that only violence, only using swords or daggers to defeat someone made you strong. Shitty writers. And frankly, kind of sexist.

Going completely against his family's wishes and doing it in secret, if I recall correctly.

But why would they ever let him marry her?

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/grade-1-teacher-who-said-boys-and-girls-no-different-in-gender-fluidity-lesson-cleared-by-rights-tribunal

I think you miss the point. Racial uniformity was the way things were everywhere on earth until we developed the means of moving long distances in short periods of time. In an era where it would take months or even years to get from one land to another, almost no one travelled those distances. Sailors went the furthest, but when they arrived at another land they had neither the funding nor the language skills to decide to jump ship and stay. And why would they anyway? Everything and everyone they knew was back home.

One of the guys I saw complaining about this online pointed out that the whole thing about the Targaryans is their fixation on race, on bloodlines. They were so obsessed with it they even married their own cousins and siblings. So how the hell is there a black Targaryan?? I watched the first two. They were decent. The writing and cinematography are both far better than what amazon did to the Wheel of Time. I don't really care about the interracial couples or that Galadriel is such a perfect character. Actually, she comes across as more than a bit obsessed for most of the first two shows. Maybe even nuts, given she jumped out of a ship and started swimming home. Across an ocean! WTH!? It is, so far, though, following the same gender path as WoT did. Ie, the women are the smart, brave, tough ones. The men are just... hapless, wrongheaded, and annoyances, for the most part.

It isn't fantasy that's woke. It's the moviemakers. In particular, we've heard disparaging remarks from the guy who is behind the new dragon series about how it's not going to be just a "a bunch of white guys running around with swords'. The LOTR series is from Amazon and Jeff Bezos is as woke as they come. The first episode introduced a black elf - okay, but then a romance with a white human. The second episode introduced the dwarves, and the prince and princes are also interracial, this time the wife being black. I don't have a problem with inserting black elves and dwarves but honestly I think they're trying too hard. Amazon's last disastrous foray into fantasy was a series based on Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. They completely ruined it due to woke. Keeping it as short as possible, the theory behind that is that there is a male and a female side to the one power. The male side was tainted by the dark lord long ago so any man who tries to use it goes mad. The Dragon will be born to confront the dark lord as he escapes prison. That's the background. It's behind the whole story. But Amazon wanted to play with the idea the dragon might be a female. So they didn't explain the lore at all. Who is this dragon? They didn't really explain it very well. Why is he so dangerous? Never mentioned. So in the first book a handful of young people are found in a long, isolated farm village that 'hasn't seen a tax farmer or soldier in seven generations". Yet three of the five are black. Which is just frankly strange. Other characters are now gay or lesbian, and all the male characters are played down, while the female characters are enhanced. Whenever fighting has to be done, it's the girls who do it. The guys are weak and whiny. Including the guy who is to be the dragon. Everything about this adaptation was totally changed for wokeness. And not for the better.

No. Their voters who voted for the Greens. It's the Greens in their coalition government who demanded the nuclear plants be shut down. And from the last news item I heard from Germany support for the Greens has not wavered.

Doubt it's that many. And I don't fear you. I question your sanity.

Not a fan of theirs, but it's kind of hard to compare them to two guys who just murdered ten people.

Put them in jail for a very long time.

Not talking about those who simply voted Republican. Talking about the devotees the people who worship at the alter of Trump, believe every word he says, and hate everything and everyone he tells you to.

How about we just ban criminals?

Trumpsters.