Guest opinion; Dr. Tim Ball
At a 2014 Buckingham Palace presentation Prince Charles said,
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.”
“All of a sudden, and with a barrage of sheer intimidation, we are told by powerful groups of deniers that the scientists are wrong and we must abandon all our faith in so much overwhelming scientific evidence.”
He also referred to the “headless chicken brigade” who were carrying out “the barrage of sheer intimidation” to push their false agenda. He then said,
“As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me.”
Yes, more and more people express concern about this propensity. There is even a very pointed play about his actions. Hopefully, this practice and the inanity of his words will prevent what he likely believes, namely that it is his divine right to be the monarch.
English playwright Ben Jonson (1572 – 1637), best known for his satirical plays, anticipated and almost specifically identified our modern prince when he wrote,
Hood an ass with reverend purple. So you can hide his two ambitious ears, and he shall pass for a cathedral doctor.
Prince Charles doesn’t just talk to the plants, he instructs them. It appears the tree in Figure 1 asked for more CO2 and so the Prince used his Royal prerogative and is trimming its demand. He instructs us to reduce our demand for fossil fuels, but as with all hypocrites does not reduce his.
Figure 1
With six houses from Romania to Wales, his carbon footprint makes a mockery of Al Gore’s hypocrisy. (Figures 2 – 7)
Figures 2 – 7
The following information is only for what Charles controls, the Duchy of Cornwall.
The Duchy of Cornwall was established in 1337 and is passed to the eldest living heir of the reigning British monarch. The Duchy is roughly the size of the city of Chicago and produces income mainly from apartment rentals, agriculture sales and natural resources. In 2012, the Duchy of Cornwall produced an income of $31.77 million for Charles. After $15.22 million worth of costs were removed Prince Charles was left with $16.55 million. He voluntarily pays a 40% tax rate on that income which equaled roughly $6.71 million last year. The total estimated value of the Duchy of Cornwall is $1.3 billion. Interestingly, though Charles volunteers to pay taxes, the Duchy itself does not. Think of the Duchy of Cornwall like a corporation that does not have to pay any taxes. For example, the Duchy owns the land that houses Dartmoor prison. Dartmoor pays $2 million in rent to the Duchy for the use of that land. No tax is paid on that $2 million. Many royal critics cry foul at this arrangement and would love to see the Duchy pay capital gains and corporate taxes like any other major business operation.
Nice work if you can inherit it.
All plants and animals inherit characteristics earned in the Darwinian struggle to survive. Charles has some of those, but he also inherited unearned wealth, power, and beliefs. He is a combination of the worst of nature and nurture. This Prince of Hypocrisy inherited his attitudes to his position and the rest of society from his father. In 1986, Philip wrote,
I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers that it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist…. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.
By 1988, he condensed the idea.
In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.
There’s that word overpopulation again. Apparently Philip is frustrated because his ancestors got to decide who lived and died, and he doesn’t. Philip doesn’t specify who would be culled, but it would likely be those Malthus’ advocated and Darwin identified as “unfavorable.”
Overpopulation is related to the concept of carrying capacity not directly examined in my last essay. Malthus’ claim said that the human population will outgrow the ability to feed itself; that is outgrow the Earth’s carrying capacity. It is always discussed in ecology and agriculture, but then animals are unable to enhance their food supply while humans can, a fact Malthus and Darwin overlooked.
The ability to control land and food production is central to power over society. Charles and his ancestors are well aware of that. He knows that political powers ceded were an illusion, and he and an elite few retain control of land and wealth that would make his ancestors proud.
One of the great illusions in British history is that Magna Carta was about rights and freedoms of the individual. Signed in 1215, it involved the power elite, the vast landowners among whom the most powerful was the King, at that time John. Individual peasants owned very little land before or after Magna Carta. The vast majority didn’t own it until enough middle class British people moved to the United States. There they revolted against Prince Charles’ ancestor, George III and established in their Constitution the private ownership of land.
Somebody told me on a phone-in radio program that the US was the last bastion of free speech. Actually it is the first and only bastion of free speech and private ownership of land. The US Founding Father’s understood how important and precious these were and how people, like Prince Charles, would try to take them away. The Second Amendment was created so the people could defend their right to free speech and private ownership of land.
The combination of free speech, private ownership of land and a fertile country led the US to produce more food than any in history. There is now approximately two percent of the population identified as farmers feeding the other 98 percent, with a surplus for export.
In March 2009, Charles said the world had 100 months left “to save the planet from irreversible damage due to climate change.” So, as of May 2015 we have 25 months left. Charles also said, “I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.” On the surface, it seems ironic that it was the socialist government of Gordon Brown who identified his ability.
Senior sources have revealed that Gordon Brown’s Government wants to make more use on the foreign stage of Prince Charles’s experience, expertise and contacts, particularly on climate change.
Government officials believe that the Prince’s passion to protect the environment is hugely respected abroad and that he can play an increasing important role as he inevitably moves closer to becoming king.
I say “on the surface” because underneath it is the paradox of totalitarianism of the left supporting totalitarianism of the right. By 2011, Charles had raised the alarmism further.
Referring to himself as “an endangered species”, he warned that the world is already in the “sixth extinction event”, with species dying out at a much faster rate than at any time since the death of most of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
The only comment the claim deserves is the hope that he really is an endangered species. Apparently he is accelerating the demise of his group and its power over society. His ignorance about climate and the environment coupled with his distorted view of his privileged position are pushing him to overstep his “God-given ability”. Unfortunately, all it will do is force another deception of appear to yield God-given rights.
Some believe the Queen is hanging on to bypass Charles and go directly to William. The problem is the nature/nurture hypocrisy will continue. William purchased
“250 pheasant, duck and partridge for a shoot at their grandmother Queen Elizabeth’s Sandringham Estate,”
to celebrate his brother’s birthday. Other stories underscore the inherited hypocrisy. William appears to be more blatant than his father.
A day after going hunting for wild boar and deer in Spain, he appears in a video with his father Prince Charles condemning illegal hunting of endangered species. Non-endangered animals are fair game it seems.
Charles and William confirm Oscar Wilde’s satirical observation,
“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”
He is German/Greek and thus a cnut! Shame he is still supported by the “civil list” to the tune of millions of pounds every year! And building up to the UK elections, we have a woman that had a baby.
King Cnut, perhaps? Is he going to try and make sea levels go down….??
Hey thanks Paddy.
Like it or not I have no respect for the “British” (German) royal family.
It’s one reason why the name Battenburg was changed to Mount Battent in WW1.
We have our own classes of “Royalty” here in the US and most are as big of hypocrites as Charles in their own way. Movie Stars. The likes of Leonardo De Caprio, Barbara Streisand, and Arnold Schwarzenegger are our most visible ultra hypocrites. Then there’s the likes of Al Gore and John Kerry. And there are others.
Don’t forget James Cameron and David Suzuki, also rich, fabulous and famous carbon footprint phonies.
…. and that other turd, whatsisname Tom Steyer ?
I remember hearing Prince Charles tee off against global warming 20 years ago. He gave us 50 years to correct our ship to avoid extinction. So yeah…
Charles is seriously deluded by his relevance to the world. A few months ago, it came to light that when he ascended the throne he ‘would not rule with an iron fist’. The hoots of laughter from across the Commonwealth are still echoing.
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/charles-says-he-knows-proper-limitations-on-the-role-of-a-constitutional-monarch-and-wont-try-to-rule-with-iron-fist
Not to be overlooked is that Big Ears is also a keen supporter of that totally discredited snake oil homoeopathy. Man is a complete idiot and one of the best arguments for the UK moving to a republic…
At least homeopathy won’t kill you, directly*. The London Homeopathic Hospital had a lower fatality rate during the cholera epidemic of the 1850s than neighboring hospitals**. Can’t say the same for Big Socialism, the cholera of socioeconomic theory, which killed 120,000,000 people in the 20th Century. That’s 20 Holocausts to allow some people to live on other peoples’ money.
* With quack medicine, the failure to seek competent care is what kills.
** Morrell, P and Cazelet, S., The History of the London Homeopathic Hospital
The Classic erudite British mouth is any thing but puffed up. Case in point is C.S Lewis, who understood all too well the danger leaders like Prince Charles posed. Charles on the other hand is the poster boy for “Puffed up”
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Thanks for the link to this excellent series. I discovered Lewis and his deep thinking when I was in my early 20’s. I had almost given up hope there were any thinkers left. CAGW is in many ways dependent on subjectivism: We will tell you what you should be worried about, we know, don’t ask about the man behind the curtain, give me your money.
Very nice. Had to watch it twice. Did you notice the hockey stick at the end, adjacent to “…Who will not make up his facts…?”
This little video sums up our opposition, those who discard law and reason and ethics in favor of the sovereignty of their own interests. They claim to pursue noble causes, but, in the end, it is self-will that drives them. Small wonder they splatter children in their daydreams, urge the death of “deniers,” misrepresent falsehoods as Science, and try to silence all voices but their own.
Ah the comments on in breeding, you forget that many royal offspring were bastard children, figuratively and literally.
“Big Ears” is more than a few slates short of a full roof, however the more publicity he receives the better, he demonstrates the lunacy of those of a “green ilk”.
It’s a shame we don’t still have “court jesters” to put the modern royals in their place. Mind you Phil does a pretty good imitation of a jester, it’s a wonder he can still stand up after shooting off so many of his toes.
Health and safety consultant Nikki Hollis said: “Science is pretty sturdy and can generally cope with a person warning about CO2 emissions whilst being chauffeured around in a big fuck-off Bentley.
Charles and many of the members of the cult of CAWG appears to be twits as they have never had the life experiences that bring wisdom and humility.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twit
If Charles were a younger person he might attain wisdom by trading places. Living a year in say a small village in Mali, with no servants, with his food limited to what he can purchase with money earned by his own labour.
Professor Ball
I wish you were American so we could vote for you for president.
As the years turn into decades with no global warming a few of the smarter politicians will begin to doubt catastrophic global warming. Then there are the others.
Here comes Tim Ball with another piece afirming that over population and breeding like rabbits is somehow good and virtuous. Is this reIigiously inspired, by any chance? Conversely, in the UK we have had a long tradition of understanding that no species can truly call itself civilised, unless it can control its own population.
That aside, Charlie-boy is a retard who needs to be put out to grass. We should have the redhead Harry as king, in the great tradition of all our Scando-Viking monarchs from William The Conquerer onwards (and some before that, too).
R
There you go again, trying to push your failed religion onto others.
The world isn’t over populated, not even close.
Err, I don’t have a religion, I have logic, reason and rationality. You obviously don’t have either.
And reasoned logic dictates that there is no point pushing the limits of population levels, and despoiling all our countryside. For what purpose would anyone want to do that?
The average size of a UK house has decreased by 30% over that last 60 years, because of a lack of land-space (ie: higher prices). Why would anyone want to push people into poorer and poorer housing?
The average journey time on all modes of UK travel – car, train and aeroplane – are increasing, not decreasing with new technologies. Why would anyone want to push people into ever poorer and ever more crowded transport links?
The idea that we need more people on this planet is plain nuts, driven by a warped ideology.
R
You do have religion, you just call it something else.
Logic does dictate that we don’t push the limits of population. However logic also demonstrates that those limits don’t exist.
The fact that you continue to fret that we must limit population without any evidence that we are actually having a problem is just further evidence that you come by your positions from a religious, not a scientific viewpoint.
The fact that the politicians are creating problems with transportation is not evidence that there are too many people, it is evidence that there are too many politicians.
Silver R
Ing-land was created by the Anglo-Saxon (Germanic) followers of Woden and were people of the God of the Sword – Ing – landed from SW Denmark in the 5th century and drove the Romans off the island, saw off the Scando-Vikings and created ‘England’. It was a society of fearsome sailor-warriors who, unlike William the Conqueror, valued equality of the sexes and numerous aspects of independence, fairness and honour. They destroyed utterly everything they could find that reminded them of Rome including the large city of Eagles and its colosseum. Great female warriors were buried with their swords. They were guided by the 9 English Values.
William I, who was descended from Vikings, brought the misogyny of his culture and once again 50% of the island was oppressed on the basis of gender alone, 100% on the basis of language and origin. His policies included the Doomsday Book and his building programme was ‘a sore burden on the poor’.
Colourful details are provided at http://www.englandandenglishhistory.com/english-social-history/anglo-saxon-england-449-ad-to-1066-ad
The Tudors were not foreigners but that didn’t last long.
Scando-Vikings and created ‘England’. It was a society of fearsome sailor-warriors who, unlike William the Conqueror, valued equality of the sexes and numerous aspects of independence, fairness and honour.
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Err, you appear utterly confused. Wiliam the Conquerer and William I were the same person; and yes, the Norman French were Vikings descended from Rollo the Viking. And I don’t think the Vikings were half as misogynist as you think.
Blindingly obvious is it Chucky? The blindness must explain why he’s completely backwards on everything. He reminds me of someone….
And Malthus was perfectly correct. There should be more to life and civilisation than despoiling your land with so many people that you have to live like caged rats. Just what is wrong with the concept of being able to control your own population levels? What is wrong with preserving a part of your environment for beauty and leisure?
Why do so many Americans (presumably central belt Americans) want to live and breed like rats in a sewer, until they run out of resources? Perhaps more of them should go and live in the Brazilian Favelas or the Philippine shanties, and see what overpopulation really feels like and provides.
R
From which of your orifices did that come out ?
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From which of your orifices did that come out ?
What’s up with the quoting mods ? Help please.
Assuming mods are busy, allow me:
Use the characters to enclose blockquote and other HTML commands like i for italic. Your switches are correct, but enclosed in the wrong type of brackets.
The pointy brackets are commonly known as Less-than and greater-than symbols
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Thanks Steve P. On another site I frequent it’s square brackets not pointy things. Noted.
You’re perfectly entitled to control yourself – but no more than that.
Do you notice that it’s not so much that there are too many people. It’s the fact that there are too many of the wrong type of people that drives ralphie bonkers.
>>It’s the fact that there are too many of the wrong type of
>>people that drives ralphie bonkers.
Where did I say that, MarkW ? Show me.
What I said was go to the Favelas or Philippine shanties, to see what your policy of unlimited population increase does to society and people – because these are perfect illustrations of the perils of overpopulation. Go and live on a Favela for a couple of months, and then come back and tell us that you want all of America to live like that. Go on, do it.
Do you even have a passport? I have seen before the good folks of rural Nebraska saying we need more and more people on the planet, when they have never been out of the state (or county).
R
Mark evidently does that in lots of posts! He’s only replied to me three times, and he’s done it twice! I’m always amazed that people read something that isn’t there, makes me laugh every time.
You said it plain and clear. When you spend your time whining about middle of the continent types.
Ghost of an intelligence: The first time you declared that anyone who believed in a God wasn’t intelligent.
The second time I pointed out the inevitable results of the strategy that you wished to pursue.
I’m sorry you are so blinded by your ideology that you can’t see past the end of your nose.
It sounds like you live like a caged rat in some largely populated sewer-like conditions and you resent it. Please don’t move to middle America — where living is nothing like that — to escape your problem.
Do you really want to turn middle America into one vast Favela?
No? So why champion a policy that will eventually do just that?
Give us one good reason.
Just because you believe in fairy tales, don’t expect others to fall for them.
I suppose the people in these Brazilian Favelas or the Philippine shanties that have those conditions because of these…”central belt” Americans(whatever that means) are forcing this on them and also forcing these people to have soo may kids. Lets face it, you have never been to these fabled “central belt” or even know what that is supposed to mean. You are also way off on your evaluation of the birth rate demographic in the US. The positive birth rate is coming from immigrants, mostly from Latin America..you know..places like Brazil and Mexico. The birth rate of the ethnic group you are complaining about is negative..as in more of those horrible “white Americans” dying than being born.
doesn’t that make you happy? i aim to please thinly disguised xenonphobes that use multiple screenames
>>Lets face it, you have never been to these fabled “central belt”
>>or even know what that is supposed to mean.
Been there many times, chum, but I was refraining from calling it the Bible Belt to keep religion out of this. But since you insist, then I will add it to the mix. But how on earth could you not see the intimation?
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>>The positive birth rate is coming from immigrants, mostly from Latin America.
Because America and Europe are currently unable to control their populations, due to political failures both sides of the pond – which is not the mark of a civilised society. As you well know, economic levers can be applied either way to control populations internally, without having to open the doors to immigrants.
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>>i aim to please thinly disguised xenonphobes that use multiple screenames.
The typical straw-man mudslinging technique of the liberal-left. Please explain how controlling population levels domestically within a country can possibly be xenophobic. I presume you know what the word means, and are not simply throwing it in to the thread because you heard it mentioned on the Simpsons. Plus – my iPad gives a different screenname to my desktop. No idea why, and not enough time to try and amend it. Is that another crime in your book, or just another straw-man?
Wrong on all three points. Not bad eh? Made a right Charlie of yourself…..
R
Problem in the population trend of western Europe or the USA? the bible belt describes really any part of rural America that tends to be more religious and Christian. It doesn’t just refer to the rural south or the Midwest. Rural areas in England are also more religious. Since world population growth had flatlined and has been decreasing get in growth in 40 years, I’m not exactly sure what the problem with global population is. If anything you should be worried about third world countries with larger population growth
>>Rural areas in England are also more religious.
No they are not. You know nothing about UK society.
Just because genteel rural society gather at the local church does not mean they are religious. A poll of rural CofE priests showed that 20% did not believe in god. Would that happen in America? No, because America is about 300 years behind Europe in its culture.
R
ralfellis, I take it you are not a student of population dynamics.
Without immigration the populations of most European countries, Canada and the US would be dropping. “America and Europe” are allowing in immigrants to counter that. Without young immigrants their social welfare systems would collapse as will China’s due to their one child policy. Japan already has the same problem of too many elders. Singapore too stopped growing and pays handsomely if citizens will have kids.
Economic fundamentals can in some ways work independently of the population, to a certain extent. What is clear is that “purposeless, perpetual war” is not viable as an economic policy as it requires exploitation of a supply base larger than the nation. There are big changes a-comin’.
What is it about potential totalitarians and their constant desire to control the breeding patterns of others.
Brazilians are poor because their govt wants them to be, not because there are too many of them.
Notice how the ignoramus assumes that it is other people who are the problem and right thinking people like him are the solution.
How long till he proposes a final solution.
>> How long till he proposes a final solution.
Another liberal-left mud-sling, straight from the pages of the Green Peace manual. I think we know where you are coming from, MarkW. Do you see a proposal for a roadside ‘Yield sign’, as meaning that we should shoot all drivers? Is that how your mind works, Mark? If so, I think we should all be worried.
I think you will find we live in a society, Mark, with many rules and many boundaries. Even petty rules like stopping at Yield signs, instead of running over little old grannies. Or perhaps you like running Yield signs, because you see them as being ‘totalitarian’ and unacceptable in a ‘free’ society. These are the many ‘totalitarian’ rules that make a society work, Mark, instead of it regressing into an anarchic free-for-all. Or perhaps you prefer the anarchic model. In fact, having toured many American cities, I think that is how some of them appear to function, with no design, no planning, and no control.
Question for you:
Is the withdrawal of social benefits for parents with more than three children a ‘final solution’?
Is a government payment of $30,000 for every third and fourth child a ‘final solution’?
Has the penny begun to drop yet?
R
I see that your hatred of people who aren’t like you is continuing to make you say really stupid things.
Yes, you haven’t proposed a final solution yet. Never said you had, what I said was that such things are inevitable once you find out your current “solutions” are failing.
‘This Prince of Hypocrisy inherited his attitudes to his position and the rest of society from his father. In 1986, Philip wrote,
‘…. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.’
Did it ever occur to Philip that maybe he already was a virus? Never thought of that did he? In fact, I’ll bet he never needed to be reincarnated as a virus since he was a virus all along, and as such he therefore fathered a virus: his son Charles, who is undoubtedly a virus. Now, look at all the characteristics of a virus and try to prove me wrong.
First, a virus cannot reproduce itself, and must alter a host cell’s DNA so as to reproduce the virus from the host cell itself. This is indisputable proof that Philip and Charles are viruses. Both had to inject their DNA into a (probably dissatisfied, and possibly sleeping) non-viral organism in order to cause that organism to reproduce them. (And, there is additional evidence. Virile and virus, while similar in word structure, mean two very different things. In the case of Philip and Charles which do you think would apply?)
Perhaps the most profound evidence of the virus categorization of dashing Philip and dashing (ok, yeah, that’s a stretch) Charles is the nature of a virus itself. Viruses are indisputably useless and annoying organisms. Argue that Philip and Charles aren’t. Can’t, can you? Next; viruses, examined under an electron microscope are real complicated and grandiose appearing things despite how simple and useless they are. Now, anybody care to argue that there’s a lot an awful lot of pomp and grandiosity attached to Philip and Charles despite the fact that they’re truly simpletons and that the world would sail merrily on whether they ever existed or not? Now, again, viruses, despite their Battleship Galactica appearances are, when you think about, really rather unattractive and in relationship to Charles I’ll say no more about that similarity. Finally, and most profoundly; viruses exists solely off the productivity of host cells; getting those host cells to do all the work for them while bleeding those host cells dry. Need I present further argument.
When I’m reincarnated I hope to be reincarnated as a hermaphrodite.
The wonderful thing about kings is you do not get to choose them without an army. If Charles never becomes king because his mother outlives him then the succession would pass by his sister and go to his eldest brother, Andrew. That would be one step away from Queen Beatrice with Sarah Ferguson as Queen Mother. Now that would be something.
If Charles were to die before the Queen, the line continues through his family until that is exhausted – so his son William who would become King, unless he too were out of the picture for some reason, then young Prince George would be king nominally, and if not him the new born Princess Charlotte. Only should they all be gone would the line revert to Andrew and his line.
Oops, forgot Prince Harry, he would be before Andrew.
Readers of this forum may enjoy the story about John Wilkes, a firebrand revolutionary Member of Parliament in the 1750/90s. He was a noted opposer of hereditary privilege, and hence an anti-monarchist. At a function at which royalty was present, it was noted that Wilkes toasted the King – an unusual occurrence – and the Prince of Wales sarcastically asked him: “For how long had he been wishing the King (his father) good health?”
“Ever since I have had the honour of your majesty’s acquaintance.” was the reply….
Was that the Prince Regent?
If so, I would second John Wilkes’ comment… 😉
Oh dear. Open season for republicans (that’s anti-monarchists, not the American political ones). Yes Charles is quite wrong about climate change, but why conflate the two issues. We are all a mix of views, with which some will agree, others not. His green views stretch to organic farming within the Duchy of Cornwall, and he also abhors hideous modern architecture of the “Look at me, all my contemporaries, look what I can do, aren’t I so clever?’ variety.
Ironically, the only UK political party whose policies include the abolition of the monarchy is…
… the Green Party.
Look on their policy website and you’ll find the policy stated there, although with no details as to the manner of the Royal Removal Process. it’s funny that this policy hasn’t attracted more attention during this election campaign. If the Greens were to form a government (not that there’s any chance of that), they would have to approach the Queen to ask to be allowed to form a Government….
Maybe it’s me but the last link in the article under “more blatant” brings up a page not found.
At least he’s got the ears to go with his carbon footprints.
According to Jeremy Paxman, the TV presenter and author, the prince is particularly fond of a boiled egg after a day’s hunting. “Because his staff were never quite sure whether the egg would be precisely to the satisfactory hardness, a series of eggs was cooked, and laid out in an ascending row of numbers. If the prince felt that number five was too runny, he could knock the top off number six or seven.”
Sorry for using The Guardener as the source
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/sep/23/monarchy.topstories3
I don’t have a source to hand but I am sure that this is not a true story.
Old poem I wrote. Charlie, among other strange things believes in
homeopathic medicine. And he talks about “deniers” blowing off
what science says??????? Actually Charlie is quite anti-science.
King Charlie
Rue Britannia! Here comes your king!
The leaden will replace the gold
He’s something of a feckless thing
And something of a nasty scold
The scepter of too great a weight
His head to small to fit the crown
And swaddled in the robes of state —
The monarchy is sizing down
Eugene WR Gallun
What an avalanche of bile directed against a man who could not help being born in his position , nor do much about his expected role in life . However he has tried to change the traditional image of a king in waiting , not least in his attitude to recognising the changing nature of British society (“Defender of ALL the Faiths”) and his early interest in the environment and our relationship to it , when such interest were considered eccentric in the extreme . That took courage and if he has swallowed the AGW theme completely he is not alone , all the Establishment in UK ( and virtually everywhere else) is singing from that same hymn sheet , as well as the media , BBC , most celebrities and , of course 97% of all scientists.
You could have mentioned that his interest and concern for the nation’s people led him to start the Prince’s Trust , specifically to help the more disadvantaged youngsters in the UK and to quote from their website :
“The Prince’s Trust supports 13 to 30 year-olds who are unemployed and those struggling at school and at risk of exclusion. Many of the young people helped by The Trust are in or leaving care, facing issues such as homelessness or mental health problems, or they have been in trouble with the law.
The Trust’s programmes give vulnerable young people the practical and financial support needed to stabilise their lives, helping develop self-esteem and skills for work.
Three in four young people supported by The Prince’s Trust move into work, education or training. The Prince of Wales’s charity has helped 750,000 young people since 1976 and supports over 100 more each day.”
How many of his detractors can claim to have done the same?
When I consider the alternatives to our constitutional monarch as Head of State , ie Tony Blair as president then my response is ” God save the Queen, and one day , the King”.
The bile has nothing to do with his position in life, but rather what he has done with his position in life.
He has done a lot , in addition to the Prince’s trust he has supported a number of architectural projects , garden projects and boosted the income of the people of Cornwall through business and tourist ventures . Of course he had the enormous advantage of his position in society , and certainly he has been led astray on global warming ( but who in power in UK, EU , US has not) but to state without serious analysis that he has done nothing is just wrong. He could have led the life of a playboy like his great- uncle, Edward, but has not . His interests may not coincide with yours , but they have been followed through with a constancy and strength lacking in most of . our country’s politicians.
mikewaite
Mussolini made the trains run on time. You are right. Give credit where credit is due and just ignore the other stuff.
Eugene WR Gallun
mikewaite
You say HRH Prince Charles has
Really? Strange that those who live in Cornwall (including me) have not noticed this increase to our income.
We do know that for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2013, the duchy of Cornwall was valued at £763 million, and its annual profit to Charles was £19 million. That £19 million was a revenue surplus gain of 4.1% from the previous year and was aided by the duchy being exempt from Corporation Tax.
Perhaps you can say if our incomes are “boosted” by more than the millions we provide to Charles as his revenue from the duchy?
Richard
That his reincarnation fantasy is to return to earth as a virulent deadly virus to kill the human race says about all you need to know about this guy. I think that the fawning press corps in the United States should ask Diana’s kids at every opportunity what they are going to do for their lunatic father. Elisabeth may be beloved but she married one and gave birth to another so what does that say about her really.
That was his father Prince Philip, the one who told English people living in China that if they lived there too long they’d get “all slitty-eyed”.
philincalifornia…I thought one of his telling opinions 40 years ago was when he did a tour to “save tigers” he was asked what should be done about Tiger predation on humans. His answer was something on the order of well there aren’t very many Tigers but lots of people so what’s the problem? He’s a true sahib of the old “empah”