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right royal moments .....
While the Queen waited 15 minutes for her red carpet to be unrolled ….
While the New York Times is not mentioning her visit to the US state of Virginia ….
While Her maj is about to meet the fake ruler of the world, I pondered about the accidents of birth that leave some people loaded with presitge & peanuts while others just have to struggle past yesterday's hunger & tomorrow's despair...
And then I remembered Monty Python good words...
- By Gus Leonisky at 5 May 2007 - 12:52am
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joined at the hip...
Gus: At last the Queen visit to Virginia is mentioned in the NYT:
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JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) -- Queen Elizabeth II strolled Friday through a replica of a fortress built four centuries ago at what would become America's first permanent English settlement, then saw remains of the actual structure.
The queen, flanked by Vice President Dick Cheney and Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, strolled through Jamestown's tourist village of thatch-roofed buildings to commemorate the settlement's 400th anniversary.
In his welcoming remarks, Cheney noted the queen's last visit to Jamestown 50 years ago.
''Half a century has done nothing to diminish the respect and affection this country holds for you. We receive you again today in that same spirit,'' Cheney told the queen in a welcoming speech.
The queen did not speak.
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Gus: coming from Cheney, with a two-shot gun in hand, probably the same spirit than on July 4, 1776...
Sicko USA...
From the New York Post...
Michael Moore Faces U.S. Treasury Probe
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary "Sicko," The Associated Press has learned.
The investigation provides another contentious lead-in for a provocative film by Moore, a fierce critic of President Bush. In the past, Moore's adversaries have fanned publicity that helped the filmmaker create a new brand of opinionated blockbuster documentary.
"Sicko" promises to take the health-care industry to task the way Moore confronted America's passion for guns in "Bowling for Columbine" and skewered Bush over his handling of Sept. 11 in "Fahrenheit 9/11."
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control notified Moore in a letter dated May 2 that it was conducting a civil investigation for possible violations of the U.S. trade embargo restricting travel to Cuba. A copy of the letter was obtained Tuesday by the AP.
"This office has no record that a specific license was issued authorizing you to engage in travel-related transactions involving Cuba," Dale Thompson, OFAC chief of general investigations and field operations, wrote in the letter to Moore.