Archive for the 'England' Category
Bookworm on Feb 06 2013 | Filed under: England
Tweet My sister and I got to talking yesterday about Richard III. He was, she said, a decent king during his two years and his administration was terribly maligned by subsequent Tudor historians and, especially, Shakespeare. She’s right. Contemporaneous records show that he was a good leader up in his home base, the north of [...]
Bookworm on Feb 04 2013 | Filed under: Al Gore, Britain, Climate change, England
Tweet I think Al Gore must have been behind this eco-friendly housing subdivision, because it’s making money for the rich and screwing every one else: Residents promised cheaper bills to live in a multi-million pound eco-friendly ‘homes of the future’ complex say they will have to move out after being hit with sky-high electricity charges. [...]
Bookworm on Feb 04 2013 | Filed under: England
Tweet “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York,” says the malevolent Richard III in Shakespeare’s eponymous play. Generations of Shakespearean actors have portrayed him is a sinister hunchback, greedily eying his brother’s throne and eventually murdering two young boys in order to obtain it. The play was [...]
Bookworm on Jan 22 2013 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet It’s no wonder Brits, contra Obama, want out of the EU. Aside from exerting nit-picky control over every aspect of British life, the EU makes it virtually impossible for Britain to stem the endless tide of immigrants coming in, legally or not, and immediately getting public benefits that are not available to the Brits [...]
Bookworm on Sep 12 2012 | Filed under: England
Tweet Two things from England wandered across my computer screen yesterday. The first was a link to Party Bingo, a fully-licensed online bingo site in England. The second thing that wandered across my monitor was a 1972 informational video for new students attending the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology has hit the [...]
Bookworm on Aug 28 2012 | Filed under: England
Tweet My sister asked me “What do you think about Prince Harry?” For starters, I don’t think about Prince Harry too much, but right now, the front page coverage is making one forcibly aware of him. Frankly, this is how I think of Prince Harry: He’s an Australian sheep dog, and perhaps with the same [...]
Bookworm on Mar 29 2012 | Filed under: Britain, England, Free speech
Tweet I’ve been following a free speech story out of England and have been meaning to blog about it. Since the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, I never did get around to writing that post. Fortunately, someone else did, and a whole lot better than I would have done so.
Bookworm on Mar 22 2012 | Filed under: Britain, England, Second Amendment
Tweet Perhaps I’m misunderstanding things here, but as I read this article, five British police officers got badly mauled by a single dog because none had a gun. It wasn’t until a SWAT team arrived that the attack ended. In America, the police are minutes away when seconds count. In England, the police are there, [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2011 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet A few stories from England’s Daily Mail, all showing that the country is not in the best of health. Each of these stories highlights, not the horrible things individuals can do, because those crimes transcend national boundaries, but the way in which England has rendered itself unable to react in any way to the [...]
Bookworm on Aug 21 2011 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet I fought my husband for years about taking the kids on vacation to England. Despite growing up as a complete Anglophile (I can talk for hours, unaided, about British history) and despite having spent one of the happiest years of my life there, I have a lot of issues with modern day England. My [...]
Bookworm on Aug 15 2011 | Filed under: England, Religion
Tweet When he was 6, my son suddenly started stealing things from his classmates. Market value wasn’t the object. Like a magpie, he went for the sparkling, brightly colored stuff. Naturally, he got caught. The school imposed appropriate consequences, but it was left to me to explain to him that stealing is bad, not just [...]
Bookworm on Aug 12 2011 | Filed under: Britain, England
Tweet (Thanks to Sadie for sending me to American Digest, where I found the above video)
Bookworm on Aug 12 2011 | Filed under: Britain, Crime and punishment, England, Morality, Religion
Tweet There is a story that Josef Stalin, hearing mention of the Pope, asked dismissively ““How many divisions does the Pope have?” The quotation, if true, is compelling, because it perfectly illustrates the Leftist viewpoint that the only power is that which comes at the point of a gun. The notion of moral behavior and [...]
Bookworm on May 13 2011 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet In the preceding post, I gave you Geert Wilders’ entire speech about the threat Islam poses to the West. I now offer you living evidence of the threat he describes.
Bookworm on Apr 22 2011 | Filed under: England
Tweet We’re getting used to the fact that, no matter what we say or do, we’re racist. Want to shrink government? You’re racist. Want stronger border security? You’re racist. Think Obama is so inept even Carter looks good by comparison? You’re racist. A candidate in England, though, has taken the name calling to an entirely [...]
Bookworm on Feb 28 2011 | Filed under: Abortion, Britain, England
Tweet I’m not quite sure how to describe this one without giving away the whole weird little joke. Suffice to say that it’s quick and amusing. As for this one, you’ll be interested to know that Britain’s Royal College of Obstetricians (“RCO”) believes women should be advised that, generally speaking, abortions are better for their [...]
Bookworm on Feb 11 2011 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, England
Tweet As the younger citizens limit their involvement to videotaping a crime in progress (“Oooh, won’t this look cool when I show it to my friends”), a 71 year old grandmother, Ann Timson, acts with extraordinary — and effective — courage: You can read more about Timson here.
Bookworm on Feb 09 2011 | Filed under: Britain, Christians, Crime and punishment, England, Europe, Islam
Tweet The Archbishopric of Canterbury used to be a pretty important job. The guy who held that position, going back to the earliest Middle Ages, was the premier leader of the English church, whether that church gave allegiance to Rome or the British Monarch. The current Archbishop, Rowan Williams is, as best as I can [...]
Danny Lemieux on Jan 27 2011 | Filed under: Economics, Education, England, Europe, Socialism, Uncategorized
Tweet As we settle into the Obama Depression era, one thing that I and others have noticed is that many of the very youth that voted enthusiastically for Obama are the ones already feeling the consequence of his policies: they are unemployed. As one of my college-age kids put it, “our generation is so over [...]
Bookworm on Jan 12 2011 | Filed under: Britain, England, GBLT
Tweet I’d like to think this is a joke, but modern Britain being modern Britain, I’m actually sure it’s not. One can only hope that at least some people will give the correct response to such an intrusive, inappropriate question: “Bugger off!” Are you straight or gay? Police and nurses to be asked their sexuality [...]
Bookworm on Jan 07 2011 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Muslim violence, Sex
Tweet Thirty years ago, I went to England through my university’s junior year abroad program. Although I had visions of walking across Cambridge’s or Oxford’s sun-dappled lawns, I actually ended up in the north of England. My disappointment swiftly turned to pleasure when I discovered that the north of England was much more “English” than [...]
Bookworm on Dec 10 2010 | Filed under: Britain, England, Leftist morality
Tweet It turns out that the young man who hung on the Union Jack flag in order to climb a cenotaph dedicated to the dead of WWI, a cenotaph that has inscribed on it in large letters “the glorious dead,” has apologized, claiming he knew not what he did. Hogwash. First of all, any halfway [...]
Bookworm on Dec 06 2010 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Sex, Women
Tweet In past posts, I’ve noted that it isn’t surprising that British women are converting in surprisingly high numbers to Islam. In a secularized, socialized, de-moralized Britain (and, by de-moralized, I mean a place remarkably free of traditional morality), the women are pickled in alcohol, and encouraged to have sex at the drop of a [...]
Bookworm on Nov 13 2010 | Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Britain, England, Islam, Israel, Muslim violence
Tweet Yes, you read that post caption correctly. British Liberal Democrat Jenny Tonge, in a speech in the House of Lords, claims that terrorism around the world is Israel’s fault, because Israel treats the Palestinian’s badly: On the issue of world conflict prevention, Tonge then said: “It is a disgrace to us all that problems [...]
Bookworm on Nov 12 2010 | Filed under: Britain, Education, England
Tweet When I studied in England, I did so using money I’d saved from a decade of work (starting when I was ten). I took care of neighbor’s houses, mowed their lawns, babysat their kids, cleaned their cars, etc. I had a goal and I worked to pay for it. I was taken completely aback [...]
