The rumour mill grinds its victims (Prince Charles Gay)

Scotsman ^ | 11/7/03 | Dan McDougall

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Considering he's with horseface now

Price Charles is with Sen. John Kerry?! I thought he was in the Middle East?

[Darksheare]

Yeah, how is it that it wasn't?!

[Darksheare]

Well.. he might be.
*snort*
Camilla DOES look a bit like Kerry.

[B-Chan]

Republics never work as a lasting form of government. Republics are only as good as the voters, which means that they can be very good and also very awful. The problem is that there is no reliable way to guarantee an informed, intelligent electorate that cannot be manipulated by unscrupulous demagogues or co-opted by powerful special interest groups with lots of money and lobbyists. Simply counting noses guarantees absolutely nothing.

[Calamari]

Why the flap? From all that the liberal press would have you believe, there is nothing wrong with being 'gay'. I have even gotten the impression that it is desirable to being 'straight'. Wouldn't the press want to trumpet the leadership position taken by the next King of England? Confusing.

[boothead]

The rumour mill grinds its victims (Prince Charles Gay)

The only difference between a King and A Ruler is 12 inches.

[Question_Assumptions]

While it is true that there are no guarantees with Republics, either, the one thing that they have in their favor is the law of averages. Well crafted Republics moderate the extremes. Yes, I realize that they moderate the extremes at both ends -- good and bad. I suggest Robert Bork's book The Tempting of America if you haven't already read it. I think it makes a very strong case decentralized power.

The real reason that we have an uninvolved electorate is affluence. Affluence (in the form of an abundance economy) is the bane of sensible thinking and good government. The awful truth is that a good government of any kind will produce an affluent populace that will ultimately be its undoing.

[Oztrich Boy]

There would seem to be some risk in giving power to people who want it.

[mewzilla]

So the story is Prince Charles' gay lover raped another man and the Royal Family is covering it up?

That's half of it. The other half is that Chuckles was allegedly caught doing something with the alleged rapist. You just can't make this stuff up.

[B-Chan]

There would seem to be some risk in giving power to people who want it.

I agree, which is why I despise politicians — power-seekers every one. A man or woman who inherits power whether they want it or not is less likely to be a tyrant, not more, because they have no ambition to power; it is theirs by right of birth.

[buffyt]

My husband says he never contributes money to politicians running for office, he says he doesn't want to ENCOURAGE them!

[twigs]

It does not. I'm from an inbred family and I can assure you that I am not gay (not that there is anything gay about homosexually).

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Doesn't this article make a good case for Diana's death being an accident? If she had been murdered, someone would have eliminated this Paul Burrell person before now.

I don't think so. Because if he DOES have possession of the tapes, etc. then he could have ordered them released AFTER any untimely death. We're talking basic blackmail here, of a kind. This guy probably DOES know "too much" in the eyes of the Royals, but they're not so much afraid of what he says, but what's on those tapes.

One other point on the side here - who does Prince Harry look like, by the way? He doesn't look like Charles - he looks like James Hewitt.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I had much the same reaction ;-). However, Arbiter has been on the British media for years. His biography is here.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

What's the deal, anyway, with the British royal males going after ugly women? Wallis Simpson wasn't exactly beautiful. And there's a lot of speculation that Edward the Reluctant had undersized, well, male organs and that Wallis was one of those XXXY-chromosome females.

[Darksheare]

I'm not sure, seems to be some sort of money/royalty/boredom induced things maybe.

[sticker]

There were also rumors of a dom/slave relation

[Question_Assumptions]

There would seem to be some risk in giving power to people who want it.

Yes. I've worked for my state's government. I don't believe in perfect governments for a very simple reason: Governments, like Soylent Green, are made of people and people are not perfect.