RIP thread

[Pat Mustard]

Queen Elizabeth II, who reigned over the U.K. for 70 years, dies at 96 (msn.com)

More like reigned over a tourist attraction in the U.K. She was as real a statesperson as William Shatner is a starship Captain.

Legally speaking the government only presides at the monarch's sufferance. Practically speaking the monarh would need the loyalty of the armed forces to rule (see for example the war of the Three Kingdoms)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

More like reigned over a tourist attraction in the U.K. She was as real a statesperson as William Shatner is a starship Captain.

Legally speaking the government only presides at the monarch's sufferance.  Practically speaking the monarh would need the loyalty of the armed forces to rule (see for example the war of the Three Kingdoms)

The monarch has that loyalty. People tend to forget that British monarchs have a lot of authority they choose not to exercise.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Rejoice, rejoice.

The world is poorer with one less asshole, and that is:

Mujib Rahman Ansari

who died by suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

Some info from wikipedia

An ally of the Taliban, Ansari was a staunch opponent of the Afghan republican government and the presence of foreign soldiers in the country. In the late-2010s, Ansari seized control of a district of Herat, where he established extrajudicial sharia courts and checkpoints operated by his armed enforcers.

After seizing control of the Gozargah district, Ansari began imposing his interpretation of sharia law. Contact between unmarried or unrelated men and women became haram; men who violated this were subject to beatings, while women were returned to their family for punishment. Couples were stopped at designated checkpoints operated by Ansari's enforcers, who forced the couples to show them their marriage licenses. Music was also banned in the district. Ansari also held extrajudicial tribunals enforcing his extreme interpretation of sharia, circumventing the Afghan legal system. In one speech, Ansari stated that he would administer hudud to anyone arrested at a checkpoint for adultery, theft, and drinking alcohol. He also suggested "stoning accused adulterers and chopping off the hands of thieves".

Ansari became well-known for his outspoken misogyny. Ansari was opposed to the "presence of women outside the house under any pretext", and he barred women from attending his press conferences. In one speech, Ansari stated that "most women go to hell", and in another, he stated his belief that most women are from hell.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujib_Rahman_Ansari

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ramsey Lewis, arguably the greatest jazz pianist of all time, dead at 87.

Boru

[Belacqua]

Jean-Luc Godard (1930 - 2022)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ken Starr, conservative Republican with an obsessive interest in Bill Clinton’s penis, dead at 76.

Boru

[onlinebiker]

Ken Starr, conservative Republican with an obsessive interest in Bill Clinton’s penis, dead at 76.

Boru

Impeachable offense?

No. Not really.

But fucking the unpaid help is a real skuzbag move any way you look at it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ken Starr, conservative Republican with an obsessive interest in Bill Clinton’s penis, dead at 76.

Boru

Impeachable offense?

No. Not really.

But fucking the unpaid help is a real skuzbag move any way you look at it.

No argument, but I can’t see it warranting a year-long investigation at your expense.

Boru

[Silver]

Lesbian feminist and activist Susan Silverman dies at 73
Gay City News

[onlinebiker]

Impeachable offense?

No. Not really.

But fucking the unpaid help is a real skuzbag move any way you look at it.

No argument, but I can’t see it warranting a year-long investigation at your expense.

Boru

I prefer knowing who the skuzbags are....

YMMV