For the Queen!!!!!
She knighted Rushdie.
I have a newfound respect for Her Majesty. All of you people in the U.K. should send her flowers, or a baked ham, or a giant shiny dildo or some other wonderful gift
Savages will always get violent when they don't get their way. Let the comedic riots ensue!!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle1951462.ece
Baby Quit Your Cryin' Put Your Clown Britches On!!!
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Finally, we of the West really shouldn't give a rats about what the Middle East think. If they are offended who cares, they should keep to them selves in their own region of the world.
#Hillary4prism
BD:TW
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But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra
Freedom necessarily involves risk. - Alan Watts
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Good move.
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Just for accuracy's sake, Her Majesty doesn't choose who gets an honour any more. The process is overseen by an Honours Committee and then the choices are submitted by the Prime Minister (after checking how much has been deposited by the candidate in the Labour Party coffers).
The Queen only gets to do the pinning on and waving of swords.
On the award to Sir Salman, it's about time. He is an excellent novelist. It is saddening however, that mainstream self-appointed spokesmen for the Muslim community like Lord Ahmed have reinforced the stereotype of Islamic intolerance by condemning the award.
One expects oddballs like the Pakistani Religious Affairs Minister to make fools of themselves, but Lord Ahmed is doing his community a severe disservice.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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One wonders what the Queen does independently anymore. It is sad to lower the monarchy to such a low state.
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Monarchs have always been rather more Duty bound then free reign...Originally Posted by Ignoramus
Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
Pape for global overlord!!
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I read The Satanic Verses when it first came out, living in Bradford you would, wouldn't you? I got about 4 chapters in and put it down, never to be opened again.
Still I least I gave it a stab, unlike the protesters who have not even seen a copy, never mind read one.
All this furore reminds me of the national viewers and listeners association who campaigned to get The life of Brian banned. They hadn't seen the film, but they thought it should be withdrawn from circulation.
As to the knighthood, my cheque to Tony must have got lost in the post!
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
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To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
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Very good thing. Every country should be proud of honouring this man.
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The Queen still appoints Knights and Ladies of the Orders of the Garter and the Thistle. And the Order of Merit.
It was not theirs to reason why,
It was not theirs to make reply,
It was theirs but to do or die.
-The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Wherever this stone shall lie, the King of the Scots shall rule"
-Prophecy of the Stone of Destiny
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-Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior
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Great and all but he is one of the most overrated writers ever. Shalimar the clown was ok but god learn how to write a decent line, but the satanic verses actually deserved no less then a fatwa because it was terrible terrible terrible, and what was it called 'anger', poorest ripoff of sartres naussia ever. But, kudo's for her majesty, god shave the queen will have to wait I guess.
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Top stuff from Brenda there. And BTW Salman's wife is a real hottie, just saying.
Boy oh boy, I'm glad these guys are on our sidea government minister in Pakistan said yesterday that Rushdie’s recent knighthood justified suicide bombing
Following on from the gay bomb, do you think there is any chance we could develop a sense-of-perspective bomb? Because I would be COMPLETELY in favour of pre-emptive strikes if so. Especially if we coupled it with "For god's sake get over it" gas.
"The only thing I've gotten out of this thread is that Navaros is claiming that Satan gave Man meat. Awesome." Gorebag
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The Queen really has little say over who gets knighted; she just waves the sword and says "arise."
I support Israel
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Well, then every town in the middle east would be like San Francisco, and I don't know if thats a step in the right direction...Top stuff from Brenda there. And BTW Salman's wife is a real hottie, just saying.
Boy oh boy, I'm glad these guys are on our side
Following on from the gay bomb, do you think there is any chance we could develop a sense-of-perspective bomb? Because I would be COMPLETELY in favour of pre-emptive strikes if so. Especially if we coupled it with "For god's sake get over it" gas.
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Well we could get a Point-of-view gun
"A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mudwrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a stack of French porn."
- Edmund Blackadder
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You are right, of course.
And perhaps congratulations are in order for Sir Timothy Berners-Lee KBE OM on the occasion of his admission to this most exclusive of honours.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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I'm not sure why the media continues to give column space to "Islamic fringe groups". If they are fringe groups who cares what they have to say - quoting them in a national newspaper only makes them feel more important than they are.
"Put 'em in blue coats, put 'em in red coats, the bastards will run all the same!"
"The English are a strange people....They came here in the morning, looked at the wall, walked over it, killed the garrison and returned to breakfast. What can withstand them?"
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The problem being that Lord Ahmed is not a member of a fringe group, but the House of Lords. He is the first muslim peer in that house, and thus can be seen as a mainstream representative.
When a supposedly mainstream figure condemns the principles of free speech that he is supposed to uphold as a peer, it tends to confirm prejudices - which saddens me.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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Huzzah!
I also support EA's plan.
CR
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The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
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