The royalty in this country sucks.

One of my kind readers has posted a link in the comments section.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7269841.stm

link is hot.
It is a series of pictures of Prince Harry in Afghanistan.
I have seen these before, but I will pass this on to any of those that have not. If I had to give a title to picture number 6 it would be 'The Prince and the Pauper'.

It is a case where royalty is guarding the peasantry. It is, to me, a wonderful turn on history. Over the years peasants by the thousands were slaughtered to defend royalty and in this picture, we have a prince out in the middle of a hotspot defending the peasantry. What a refreshing turn!

Prince William is employed flying SAR missions out over the water somewhere, and that speaks well of him, and I was just told that Harry has checked out on Apache helicopters. I read somewhere that William was green with envy when he heard that Harry had wangled himself a post in Afghanistan.

My guess is that Harry will promptly start a campaign of political arm twisting and bribery to get back into Afghanistan as a pilot.

I have half a mind to send Harry a dozen quaaludes. Good ones. Not those junky ones Lemmon used to make, but good, solid Royer 714s. Not to take for himself. These are to put in General So and So's tea so the good general can wake up in a whorehouse with a 14 year old as Harry is happily snapping away with a good Nikon camera as the good general comes to.

Harry, with a huge grin on his face would be standing there putting the memory card in his pocket telling the good general that the pictures will be mailed to him from Afghanistan, post me there ASAP, please.

For all that is said in this country, I have to give the royals of the latter half of the 20th century and the 21st century credit where credit is due.

The Queen (then princess) jumped into service during WW2 and drove staff cars around. Somewhere I saw a picture of her changing a tire.

Prince Charles, in spite of his reputation of being an old fuddy-duddy has held command of a couple of British ships and is a qualified pilot in a number of aircraft. I was told that recently he has been encouraging organic gardening and a few other causes. From what I have seen of him he has had a pretty sad life, but he has gotten off of his ass and served.

Charles's brother, Prince Andrew has flown choppers in combat in the Falklands, part of his mission description was that he was an Exocet misssile decoy. In case you do not know what an Exocet missle decoy is, it is a job you generally get to do only once. You simply crash your aircraft into an incoming missile to save the ship that the missle has been aimed at. It is generally not too painful as death comes very quickly.

The younger generation of Princes are young, energetic and seem very willing to dig right in and improve the UK by getting off of their dead asses and charging forth and setting an example for others to follow. It is obvious that both William and Harry are most certainly willing to put themselves into harm's way in addition to other things.

Both of them have taken on other causes to improve humanity and that speaks highly of them.

Granted, if either of them were to attempt to make a regular military career it would be far from normal. Their careers as soldiers would be constantly interrupted with having to attend to other regal matters.
After all, they are born into royalty and have quite a few other responsibilities to live up to. In one sense it is a shame. Then again, that's the way it is and both of them have come to accept it.

I see some pretty good leadership coming from Harry and William and maybe it will be followed by others. I'm pretty sure there are a few duke and dutchess type that might follow suit and see what they can do to make the UK a nicer place to live. Maybe the Earl of Somewhereshire will climb out of his gin bottle and open a distillery or some other business and get some people back to work. Who knows? The whole thing might tend to trickle down. It could prove interesting to watch.

I'm fully aware that most of my readership is American and that most of them are pooh-poohing the fact that I am writing about the royals again. Many readers are saying that the reason we became a country is to boot the royals out. That is true. Back then all the royals did was to drain us and keep us from living up to our potential.

What is not true is when many readers will say that there is no royalty in this country.

Bull$hit.

They are wrong. Open your eyes and look. Our royalty doesn't hold a candle to theirs. Unlike the royalty over there where the royals are at least attempting to serve and actually do a few things, the royalty in this counrty is nothing but a miserable drain on us, and just as badly as the ones across the pond did 300 years ago.

Up the street from me there is a King $hit that is convinced that he is special and that the speed limit on my street doesn't apply to him.

Down the street there is the biggest Drama Queen in town. When the wind knocked over her trash the other day her wails and laments were heard for blocks. Neither of these two have ever lifted a finger to serve anybody but themselves in any way, and neither of them are very good at that, either.

The rolls of government assistance are chock full of Welfare Queens that do nothing but leech off of our system and make things more difficult for all of us. Many of these are living a hell of a lot better than those of their subjects that bust their ass all day to support them.

About the only royalty we have had over the 20th century that has been worth sour apples have been Babe Ruth, who was the Sultan of Swat and Count Basie. These two, along with a small handful of others are the only royalty that has seemed to do the country any good at all.

Maybe what we could do is make a trade with the Brits.

We'll send them all of our Welfare and Drama Queens plus all of our King $hits in exchange for either one Prince William to fly SAR missions off of Alaska or one Prince Harry to run a company of infantry in Afghanistan.

It sounds like a pretty damned good deal to me.

If the Brits don't bite for that one then maybe some of you readers ought to take up playing the drum or the fife. I have no musical talent therefore I can probably only carry the flag, but I suppose that with my age I might look pretty good with a bloody bandage wrapped around my forehead.

I might knap up a couple of flints later today. I just checked my powder horn and possibles bag and I have powder and shot. It might be getting to be a pretty good time to chuck the royals out of this country again.

After all, the royals in this country suck. They ought to get booted out.
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