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Whenever I'm surfing the internet and run across the Q&A thing from Parliament, I absolutely have to watch. It is wickedly funny and often very educational. As I watch the Head Knocker (PM?) taking zingers from all around, and then shooting them back twice as fast and twice as funny, I ask myself how many of our recent presidents (or candidates) would have stood a chance under that kind of pressure. Not many, I'll warrant.
I also saw a thing where the Queen makes a speech at the opening of Parliament. Some of the online commenters were bitching because she said Britain lives within its means, while she was up there with a gold chair and a hat made out of diamonds. I figure, though, that the chair and the diamond hat have been paid off for 500-600 years, so the only real out-of-pocket expense would be a little polish, and maybe a rider on the homeowner's policy. So, I think they should get off the lady's back.
Anyway, it is generally depressing to see British politics (and journalism) at work, and then have to go back to listening to our domestic pols, who by comparison are dumb as bags of hair.
I also saw a thing where the Queen makes a speech at the opening of Parliament. Some of the online commenters were bitching because she said Britain lives within its means, while she was up there with a gold chair and a hat made out of diamonds. I figure, though, that the chair and the diamond hat have been paid off for 500-600 years, so the only real out-of-pocket expense would be a little polish, and maybe a rider on the homeowner's policy. So, I think they should get off the lady's back.
Anyway, it is generally depressing to see British politics (and journalism) at work, and then have to go back to listening to our domestic pols, who by comparison are dumb as bags of hair.
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