What's in the news?

[midnightblack]

I find some grim satisfaction in the realization that those in public service share equally from the bounties of idiocy, regardless of continent or history. Guess those social justice peeps are on to something after all.  ::)

[Lustful Bride]

French security agents foil Terror Plot that looked as if it may have involved bombs or poison.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/egyptian-man-in-custody-over-foiled-attack-in-france/ar-AAxsETC?ocid=spartandhp&ffid=gz

[RedRose]

Wonder why no article says which target they were going for. Maybe they didn't choose yet, or it's too creepy.

[Sara Nilsson]

https://nypost.com/2018/05/17/racist-lawyer-runs-scared-from-cameras-outside-home/

Aaron Schlossberg, the racist mother..bleep. who was cursing and yelling at people for speaking Spanish in a restaurant seems shy all of a sudden and can be seen trying to avoid the reporters. Also, https://nypost.com/2018/05/17/racist-lawyer-kicked-out-of-his-office-space/

Seems that people doesnt want to have him around, so he has been kicked out of the office space. The poor guy, all he wanted to do was harass people. Is that to much to ask for in Trumps America?! *giggles*

[Lustful Bride]

Those reactions remind me we are better than the idiots and bigots running around trying to turn the country into their playground.

[Beorning]

Not sure how to feel about this. I am not that familiar with Marx. Though id like a good laugh to see how much his ideals clash with that of the PRC.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/at-the-height-of-his-power-chinas-xi-jinping-moves-to-embrace-marxism/ar-AAxrPoZ?ocid=spartandhp&ffid=gz

Speaking of Marx, this recently happened in Poland:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/poland-apologizes-after-police-interrupt-karl-marx-meeting/2018/05/14/c1847c12-57a8-11e8-9889-07bcc1327f4b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2b9a27638d5d

Another testimony on how we keep drifting away from being a democratic country... :\

BTW. No-one's commenting on Harry and Meghan's wedding tomorrow?

[Deamonbane]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/live-updates-shooting-santa-fe-texas-high-school-150311016.html

High School shooting in Santa Fe, Texas. I know that Texas is a big place, but I also know that there are more than a handful of E members living in Texas. Hoping that you guys are all okay.

[blue bunny sparkle]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/live-updates-shooting-santa-fe-texas-high-school-150311016.html

High School shooting in Santa Fe, Texas. I know that Texas is a big place, but I also know that there are more than a handful of E members living in Texas. Hoping that you guys are all okay.

Sad. So f'n sad. Every time this happens it's sad and tragic and unnecessary.

This one ithough is much too close.

[Oniya]

Sad. So f'n sad. Every time this happens it's sad and tragic and unnecessary.

This one ithough is much too close.

I'm starting to think that kids are starting to get numbed to this, almost like combat fatigue.

[Lustful Bride]

There was also a shooting at a Trump owned Hotel, though this one is very odd.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gunman-shot-at-trump-hotel-was-stripper-porn-actor-and-big-melania-fan/ar-AAxtz5C?ocid=spartandhp&ffid=gz

[Oniya]

Man, remember when headlines like that were part of the National Enquirer?  Or the Weekly World News?  O_o

[gaggedLouise]

Man, remember when headlines like that were part of the National Enquirer?  Or the Weekly World News?  O_o

My vote for "strange story involving a high potentate" goes to this one (push the arrow to get to the second page): https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/sunday-independent-ireland/20061217/282089157284181

Sitting drunk in a parked car, throwing toys around and saying "I am the Bishop of Southwark. It's what I do!" is hard to beat in every way. :D

[Beorning]

But how the heck did he get into this car in the first place..? :)

BTW. Harry and Meghan got married! Now, here's a question: as Meghan Markle's official first name is actually Rachel, is she going to be Duchess Meghan or Duchess Rachel from now on?

[RedRose]

Good question - though I didn't follow the story at all. Do English people go by their first name? French people normally do, but once upon a time they actually used their last given name. Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust is Marcel Proust's full name (granted nowadays people stick to 3 names as a whole though you do encounter 4 or 5).

[TheGlyphstone]

But how the heck did he get into this car in the first place..? :)

BTW. Harry and Meghan got married! Now, here's a question: as Meghan Markle's official first name is actually Rachel, is she going to be Duchess Meghan or Duchess Rachel from now on?

Much like the 500 pound gorilla, I suspect she will be called whatever she wants to be.

[gaggedLouise]

But how the heck did he get into this car in the first place..? :)

BTW. Harry and Meghan got married! Now, here's a question: as Meghan Markle's official first name is actually Rachel, is she going to be Duchess Meghan or Duchess Rachel from now on?

I suspect it's going to be Duchess Meghan - but some British royalty are actually referred to by the names of their husbands: google "Princess Michael of Kent", born Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz.  :)

Also, the future list of British monarchs, in our lifetimes, if everything runs according to plan:

Charles III
William V
George VII

[Oniya]

Sarah Ferguson was pretty much always referred to as 'Fergie'.  (To the point that I had to Google what her actual name is.)

[Shekinah]

I think it will be Meghan as she even used this to say her vows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6QSPoi2g28

[Lilias]

I suspect it's going to be Duchess Meghan - but some British royalty are actually referred to by the names of their husbands: google "Princess Michael of Kent", born Baroness Marie Christine von Reibnitz.  :)

That only happens if they do not receive peerage upon marriage. 'Prince/ss' means simply 'member of the royal family' and all other nobility titles supercede it. The only royals currently called Prince/ss are children, the Kents, and Princess Anne, both of whose husbands were commoners who refused peerage.

[Beorning]

That only happens if they do not receive peerage upon marriage. 'Prince/ss' means simply 'member of the royal family' and all other nobility titles supercede it. The only royals currently called Prince/ss are children, the Kents, and Princess Anne, both of whose husbands were commoners who refused peerage.

Wait, I don't get it. If a princess' husband refused peerage, why would she be referred to by his first name?

Another question: IIRC, the Middletons became nobility, when Kate married William (or am I confused?). If so, then is Meghan's family going to be awarded with titles, too?

[Lilias]

Wait, I don't get it. If a princess' husband refused peerage, why would she be referred to by his first name?

She wouldn't. Princess Anne has her own title. She's entitled to style herself Lady Laurence, as her second husband is a knight, but officially she still holds the title of her birth.

Another question: IIRC, the Middletons became nobility, when Kate married William (or am I confused?). If so, then is Meghan's family going to be awarded with titles, too?

Nope, everyone else is still and will remain a commoner, unless someone marries into a hereditary noble family, of which there aren't too many left.

[Lustful Bride]

Sweet, beautiful, humorous, ironic, revenge. The best kind :)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/campaign-sends-mariachi-band-to-office-of-lawyer-who-went-on-tirade/ar-AAxwn84?ocid=spartandhp&ffid=gz

[Lustful Bride]

The Leader of IS seems to still be alive, in hiding, and trying to indoctrinate as many children as he can to keep his organization alive long after his group is destroyed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/new-clues-bolster-belief-that-isis-leader-is-still-alive-—-and-busy-with-a-chilling-new-mission/ar-AAxwC4Z?ocid=spartandhp&pfr=1&ffid=gz

[Orval Wintermute]

Also, the future list of British monarchs, in our lifetimes, if everything runs according to plan:

Charles III
William V
George VII

Not necessarily, George VI's name was Albert Frederick Arthur George, Edward VII was Albert Edward, Victoria was Alexandrina Victoria etc. so those regnal names aren't a given.

[Lustful Bride]

Not necessarily, George VI's name was Albert Frederick Arthur George, Edward VII was Albert Edward, Victoria was Alexandrina Victoria etc. so those regnal names aren't a given.

Are there any limits to what name a royal can take?