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  1. With the death of royalty through feminist fiat I no longer care. They ought to just quit that foolishness and just be the rich prigs they are rather than maintaining a broken failed tradition. The only time they seem to involve themselves in politics they are on the wrong side. Then again Britain probably won’t let them. They make more money from them as royalty, due to turning over the land income, along with royal and noble sessions that bring in tourists, than they would on taxing their wealth.

  2. I was Mom’s second. Dad took his two weeks of vacation to bracket the due date. I was born, of course, the day he returned to work.

  3. My wife is a big-time Anglophile. She’s been monitoring “Kate’s” progress breathlessly for the past day and a half. She has a female friend who’s even a bigger Royals-watcher, and they seem to feed off each other. I can trace these interests back to the time of Lady Di.

    I’m relieved that the blessed event has finally occurred; I can now get back to watching Duck Dynasty….

  4. Seeing my wife gazing at nothing happening on the tee vee (while she sipped her morning coffee), . . .

    I was reminded of nothing so much as airborne tee vee cameras studiously trained on a vehicle containing one O. J. Simpson going about its business one California afternoon.

    [ murmurs indistinctly ]

  5. I like Kate and William. I wish Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga, et al had a bit of their class. I wish their little boy well.

  6. A commenter at the Wall Street Journal said:

    “As soon as the Royal Baby is born, Mr Obama is going to appear at a specially-called news conference in the White House Rose Garden to announce that if he had been crowned Queen of England fifty years ago, this could have been him.”

    heh

    Congratulations and felicitations to the young couple. I hope they name him George, after his great-grandad, who along with Churchill fought the secret war against the Nazis (see A Man Called Intrepid: George VI had, as all the English monarchs do, a discretionary fund to be used at his personal command on behalf of the nation in emergencies. He used it to support “Intrepid” and the nascent secret intelligence network, as well as resistance fighters on the Continent.)

  7. Also, the British royal family bring in far more in tourism dollars to their country than they cost, so all this bellyaching about how expensive it all is ridiculous.

    At any rate, they don’t cost us Americans a red cent, so I enjoy the spectacle.

  8. The notion of “nobility” makes me want to puke. The fact that these people claim titles and wealth by inheritance from vile thieving warlords, people who murdered and plundered their way to the top making up BS titles as they went, does not help their case.

  9. }}} [UPDATE: An 8 pound 6 ounce boy! Name: to be announced.]

    As long as they don’t name it after the grandfather…

    “Dufus” is such a bad name… even if you follow it by Roman numerals.

  10. I rather like the idea of a royal Family for the USA. They would provide all the pomp and circumstance, the drama, fashion sense, and scandals, leaving a duly elected government to actually run the country. We now have a hybrid government, the President running around doing celebrity duty, his wife in fetching frocks, lavishly hosting foreign dignitaries, doling out the public’s taxes to his cronies, and accomplishing no good for the US.

  11. Doesn’t need a royal family. Can automatically elevate all actors to the royal class and tax them for 99%, in return for fame and what not.

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