The researchers had a hunch he was there. ATOS pass Richard III’s skeleton as fit to work.
Joking aside, the discovery of Richard III’s body is fascinating and wonderful. Aside from Shakespeare’s brilliant play (which is evidently not as physically inaccurate as we have been told for years), and the question of who killed the Princes in the Tower, there is a romance about lost dynasties which appeals to a deep human yearning for a golden age when things were somehow better, and for “lost futures”. What might have been, had those evil Stanleys not turned on Richard at Bosworth and put their miserable Welsh accountant on the throne?
Richard is described in today’s newspapers as the last English King. The Plantagenets were of course Angevin. The last English King – indeed the only English King of all England – was Harold Godwinson. Now there’s a lost dynasty for you.
We now know that Richard’s “Claim of Right” was almost certainly true and Edward IV a bastard, as his father was nowhere near his mother for months around the purported conception. But the so-called Royal line is, I am quite sure, sprinkled with bastards and no line at all. Not to mention that George I was 39th in line to the throne when given it 300 years ago, but the first Protestant.
Monarchy is bollocks, and something we should have outgrown a long time ago. Nice to see that today’s Prince Harry retains the tradition of remorseless homicide though.
Leicester University deserve congratulations on a genuine achievement. I hope Richard can now be reburied as soon as possible – as a Catholic, which is what he was. He was a human being. The degradation and display of his fresh corpse were horrible; but there is a danger of repeating it with a po face and feigned serious intent.
@ Mary :
well, since you were too idle to check it, I did it for you and am pleased to be able to report that the appointment of High Steward of Hull is a purely honorary distinction and is not remunerated.
Where, therefore, is the connection between this and the fact you so gleefully mentioned in the same comment that Hull City Council is cutting 240 posts in order to save money?
Just another cheap sneer, Mary? Please do clean up your act a lttle!
*****
La vita è bella, life is good! (2 different but linked statements, Villager)
Many adjectives can be ascribed to Mary but idle is not one of them. Different people have different agendas, so they check out the things that are important to them.
This might get to the core of your motivation here Hab (if it is not a just commission)
You want something done about ‘Islamic Fundamentalists’ or ‘Islamists’ as they
are also generalised. It appears people concerned about the various threats
and wrongs of Islamists want them to die, and they feel mandated to seek the extermination of them all, for a perceived anti western nature. They think Islamic Fundamantalism should be attacked, diplomatically, economically, militarily and paramilitarily, with no quarter given to humane principles. Helicopter gunships should be sent to splatter Islamists with tungsten and uranium. Supplies and training in viscous disruption should be given to paramilitaries who oppose them. Islamist suspects should be kidnapped, incarcerated and interrogated perpetually without trial, and suspected Islamist movers and any nearby companions and family, should be blown apart by drones, if they cant be readily snatched.
Anywhere Muslims are organised and where a violent act takes place, you believe we all need to discuss the possible Islamist threat and Warbone intrests — as all decent non-Islamic fundamentalists should.
But Hab, you have made little more than a passing reference to this case in Tunisia, before complaining its lack of representation.
Tell readers about it and what you feel is the proper reponse to it.
Habbabkuk
8 Feb, 2013 – 8:22 pm
“I should be very happy to be corrected, but I’m under the impression that nobody here on this blog – none of the Eminences, not even that indefatiguable poster Saint Mary – has posted a link to the matter of the recent assassination in Tunis of one of the leading secular opposition politicians.”
Have you posted a link to it Habbsy ?
Arbed; I meant no derogation. To the contrary, I might miss an entry, otherwise.
Halibaba,
while pissing through a fence to my neighbours garden I had a sudden revelation. Voilà, I yelled. Is “La vita è bella” by any chance the title of the charming little film with the clownish Begnini having a bit of dolce vita in a concentration camp? Very subtle hahaba, congratulation to your inventive mind. I suppose that you wanted to draw attention to the place of your present abode. Like the Duke of Edinburgh, who lives or would like to live in Edinburgh, you are pointing out to us, in your characteristically enigmatic way, one of your possible locations. Should you actually live in a concentration camp ahababa, please give us your address so that I can ocassionally send you an food parcel. Would some frozen beefburgers from Tesco be fine or how about some delicious fish fingers?
Clark
I apologise for not replying to various of your comments related to me, but thanks. If your comments were less decent, friendly and reasonable I would probably be more trigger happy in replying. Thanks for the binary joke.
Mark Golding
Do you like sushi? I’m not sure I understood your last reply to me on the last thread but I apologise for being critical of your calling all those who believe the propaganda fools. The greed of politicians and the violence of their gambling to realise their goals are both off the scales of most people’s imaginations. Not meaning the puppets like Blair and Brown.
One thing puzzles me: Why is it considered better to lie politely than swear truthfully in and outside Islam? Maybe because we are supposed to understand that humans do not test our patience by themselves. The Creator has put us here solely for the purpose of testing us and can use whatever means He chooses. Our job is to ask ourselves about our Creator’s intentions rather than be distracted by individuals.
We are witnessing a kind of fitna {King James Version Biblical Temptation/Trial } in which deadly subterfuge is being used by Muslims as well as non-Muslim political minds. By the Sushis as well by the non-believing or Zionist minds. You are right when you say that it is not good to respond to the fitna by ‘ always hurting the one you love’. The purpose of the fitna test is to test our capacity for enduring the confusion without taking out the stress on those around.
Karel,
Did you notice the Babblers translation here (from previous thread, link below):
La vita è bella, life is good!
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/01/amelia-hill-is-a-dirty-liar/comment-page-5/#comment-393002
Please also read my comment at:
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2013/02/now-is-the-winter-of-our-disinterment/comment-page-2/#comment-393010
@ Karel (22h39):
Charley, are you demonstrating your Italian language skills again?
It’s Roberto Benigni, not Roberto Begnini.
Cretino!
@ Doug Scorgie (20h15) :
No Doug, I haven’t posted a link. That’s because I’m not particularly interested in Moslem and/or Arab affairs.
But you Eminences are. You’re always rabbiting away about Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Iran, the Arab Spring, the evil US- backed Arab sheikdoms, Libya, Mali, etc etc. That’s why I was astonished that nobody bothered to pick it up.
I’m beginning to get the feeling that some of you rather like the fundamentalists (because they’re the sworn enemies of the US, of course).
@ ThatCrab (20h07) :
That’s an interesting theory, ThatCrab and you probably spent some time thinking it through.
Wasted time though, because it’s wrong.
@ John Goss (19h58) writing about the Saintly Mary :
“Different people have different agendas, so they check out the things that are important to them”.
Not good enough, John, if that was meant to defend Mary. If it was important enought for Saint Mary to post about then it should have been important enough for her to check out.
@ Villager (14h39) :
“Thank you for sharing that vivid glimpse into the past, Mary. Sure that Kuku isn’t one of the boys you spurned, given the stalking?”
It was indeed a nice post, but I didn’t see any mention in it of boys being spurned.
Village Idiot making things up again?
Doug Scorgie, John Goss, Karel [Re-posted from 9 Feb, 2013 – 2:07 pm, Second edition)]
Oh Habitual Babbler, the thought just crossed my mind that you were an old-timer senile stenographer, and just then you show up as CE’s secretary!
Btw, La vita è bella = Life is Beautiful
Good = buona
And another thing:
Fred writes: “Because people don’t go delving into the depths of the BBC web site to find a story about some obscure bloke nobody ever heard of bumped off in a country most people don’t know where it is doesn’t make them biassed, quite the converse I would think.”
Babbler: “Because people don’t go delving into the depths of the BBC web site to find a story about to find a story about some obscure bloke nobody ever heard of bumped off…..doesn’t make them biassed, quite the converse I would think..”
Spot the difference.
Can someone please teach the senile Babbler how to cut ‘n paste.
:::
Babbler, did you enjoy your Belgian Woffles (sic) for breakfast. LOL
You have really turned from being our school superintendent to the resident Court Jester (and a rather poor one at that, given your obscure sense-of-humour).
Of course Life is Beautiful! Even precious and sacred! The latter too subtle for you.
But never mind Babbler, All the World’s a stage, and the world has a place for you in your second-childhood:
All the World’s a Stage monologue
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Now go along and practice typing that…grammar, syntax and orthography et al
And then into oblivion. I hope that is an elegant enough send off for you, and that my fellow cult-members like Clark, David, Doug Scorgie, Fred, Glenn, John Goss, Karel and others will agree, sans objection.
Fare thee well Habakuku.
Villager,
thanks for the translation. A good try but unnecesssary. I have lived in Italy for long enough to master such trivia. I just tried to play with that moron halibaba.
Habbabkuk
The US, the UK and France have supported the dictator Ben Ali of Tunisia for his 24 year rule. The revolution and the subsequent election saw the rise of the Ennahda party.
A party described by the BBC no less as: “Tunisia’s moderate Islamist [party]” Note “moderate.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15487647
Before his murder Chokri Belaid, head of the Movement of Democratic Patriots, said that the Popular Front would seek to keep Tunisia’s decision-making process independent, avoiding domination by the Gulf and Qatar or by French and American imperialism.
(Note: independent, avoiding domination by the Gulf and Qatar or by French and American imperialism).
So who wanted him dead?
The Ennahda party? I think not. The French? Maybe. The USA? Much more likely.
Qatar has built intimate military ties with the United States, and is now the location of U.S. Central Command’s Forward Headquarters and the Combined Air Operations Centre.
Chokri Belaid’s death was a “false flag” in my view; blame it on the Islamists.
The US is quite happy for the time being [please note; for the time being] that the Ennahda party is in power.
They don’t want a socialist party [note socialist party] headed by Balaid to upset US strategic and economic interests in that part of the world.
This is a murder mystery but I put my money on the US as the perpetrator in this case.
Habbabkuk, do some research and come back on this issue.
Yes Karel now let’s try to leave him to play with himself is all i am saying. I do not consider him to be a master of languages.
Now for a little music–the language of the Gods… Steve Vai playing For The Love of God:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiTXGswyAls
Halibaba,
thanks for the correction. Of course it was Roberto Benigni (you are a real scholar, hahababa), it must have been my prostate that let me down again. Do you live in a concentration camp or not? Otherwise I have to reconsider the beefburgers from Tesco. I have the impression that you pretend to be somewhat jumpy but are in reality rather timid. I would describe you as someone with “coda di paglia”. Would you agree with my assesment?
Sometimes i mull over a comment for a couple of hours, and even decide better not to send it! (yes – i know what y…) but that one was simple for your requirements Hab, it took 15 minutes.
At least you recognised it was intresting, it is quite — to have someone like you putting in hours every week here for months, being as critical and dismissive as possible, and reflectling on what your efforts have to resort to and the substance your criticisms lack. Its persuasive, keep it up.
Habbabkuk
“No Doug, I haven’t posted a link. That’s because I’m not particularly interested in Moslem and/or Arab affairs.”
If you are not interested in Muslim or Arab affairs why do you post comments on this blog regarding… (wait for it…) Muslim and Arab affairs?
I smell a racist rat.
Habakuku or halibaba or whatever you insist on calling him/her, is certainly getting a lot of your attention, people …
Does anyone know if Craig is well? I assume he’s still in Ghana?
Villager,
I agree entirely with you but still worry that halibaba will not find much in his crotch to play with.
In Iceland (the shop, not the country that jailed it’s bent bankers and puppet politicians) they have been selling Fray Bentos family sized steak and kidney pies at £1 for quite a while now. I really like them and have often wondered how they can knock them out so cheap. Also, the meat in Tesco’s Lamb Rogan Josh ready meal is simply bizarre. It has a texture more like jelly than meat.
What the fuck have I been eating? Every politician is stressing that this is a food labeling issue and not a health issue and yet, to my knowledge at least, no one knows the source of the horse meat so how can anyone say it’s not a health issue?
Cows are bred for human consumption and are medicated and tracked appropriately, horses are not. It is being suggested in the media that the source of the horse meat is from horses that were taken off Romanian roads after a law change. Are they just being made a convenient scapegoat? This seem suspicious in light of the recent announcement that the people from that country are not welcome in the UK. A bit like how India has been getting a bad press since they chose not to buy UK weapons systems, preferring Russian reliability and value for money instead.
Karel, very sorry to hear your prostate’s playing up.
But, Charley boy, don’t worry : apparently prostate problems develop so slowly that people usually succumb to something else first.
Senile dementia in your cae, I should say.
La vita è bella, life is good, and it’s still “amico degli amici”!
My psychological assessment of Habbabkuk
Male
Around 30 years old
Still living with his parents
Only child
Not many friends
Inability to form relationships with women
A mind dominated by religion
A racist
A homophobe
A misogynist
A danger to young children
A suicide risk
Blowing the Whistle on Spying, Lying & Illegalities in the Digital Era
Jesselyn Radack
Thomas Drake
William Binney
http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2012/29c3-5338-en-enemies_of_the_state_h264.html
What Happens When Telling the Truth about Secret US Government Power Becomes a Crime
Just ignore the bore.
Short RT clips:
“Israel fans fury as football team signs muslims”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjlBAXr7Ekw
“UK to test Supersonic Stealth Drone”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6FdruyXPJg
-silly ‘robot wars’ theme, but sneeky comment from a Goldsmiths researcher on extra judical killings.
Think i mght catch me some supper,take in a washing…
Then i might hang tough ‘cos that most always the waysss we rolls baby yeh?..uh-huh,uh-huh..
My psychological assessment of smelly habit
female
About 50
Lives with about 90 cats
youngest of a privaleged lot
no friends
inability to form relationships with ANYONE
mind dominated by all M.S. (Mainstream)doctrines
a racist
a homophobe
a danger to young children
a wannabe part of the genocidal elite
a wannabe high powered lawyer defending – bliar, bush, obomer, rumsfeld, cameron, ect, ect ect
and last but not least – i wanna be Mary