Blue Truck, Red State: Michelle's Marilyn Moment

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Michelle's Marilyn Moment

During the Queen's welcome for the Obamas at Buckingham Palace today, a strong gust of wind had the Queen reaching for her hat, and nearly embarrassed the First Lady.

Otherwise, the reception went very nicely. More pictures here.

3 comments:

Frank said...: I guess men's wear is just too practical. Too bad there were no kilts being worn.; May 24, 2011 at 6:19 PM
Anonymous said...: I was looking for kilts, too.

Hope you didn't get hit by all this weather (hail, wind, tornadoes) around here. I already got my new roof; fence is coming soon...; May 24, 2011 at 6:25 PM
"Sir" said...: Kilts?

Kilts!

This is England, not Scotland.

BTW They're going down very well over here.; May 28, 2011 at 1:49 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu