YIKES...church and state being joined here in the US??? REALLY SCARY!!! Bush is the scariest guy I know.
Cearbhael -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tamara P. Duvall Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 10:00 PM To: chat Arachne Subject: [lace-chat] Re: British Royals On Feb 11, 2005, at 17:03, Margot Walker wrote: > I like the separation of the political head of the country and the > ceremonial head. The American presidential system combines the two, > with the effect, IMHO, 'bowing and scraping' (ceremonial role) to > someone who is really just a politician. Hear, hear :) Monarchy may be an obsolete institution but, when it's a *parliamentary* monarchy (like UK's), the royals are so hobbled, as to be purely ornamental (though I must say that the Danish princes are more ornamental than the British ones; those two are *yum* looking <g>) And, if you think it's money wasted to keep them in castles, etc, think of the stamps... Here, we "celebrate" every dead president willy-nilly at least once (Ronald Reagan has just surfaced; talk about wasted money), thus taking away the opportunity for other potential subjects (esp textiles <g>)... In UK, they plunk the - unobtrusive - Queen's profile in the corner, then go ahead and print wonderful stuff in the main body of the stamp... I'm just grateful that, unlike in UK, our "head" isn't permitted to be the head of the church as well as everything else (still... he's managed to shift us towards the idea of *The* church, which I don't like at all)... :) -- Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
