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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:19 PM Original message |
The Queen owns more than 6 billion acres. almost 5% of the planet's surface area |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. I am SO excited about the wedding. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I'm sure the prince is a nice guy but all he did to receive such fame is be born. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. I admit, I'm really bad about adding a sarcasm tag when indicated. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
18. it's entertainment, hardly subjugation to the british monarchy |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:45 PM Response to Reply #18 |
27. The argument that the monarchy is a tourist attraction is the only one remotely sane. n/t |
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SaveAmerica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
34. (psst, I think that *is* the prince, Prince Wilms) |
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Confusious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:36 AM Response to Reply #1 |
64. I'll be playing a video game most likely. nt |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. only if you count Canada |
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Kolesar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. Well played...eom |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. I heard it from one of those specials on the royals yesterday. Correct me if I'm wrong |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:52 PM Response to Reply #8 |
40. It's YOUR responsibility to post factual statements. |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:29 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Killed? Because of who they were born to? A bit harsh methinks. n/t |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
15. really? you think all herditary monarchs should be killed? and their offspring |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
5. How do I feel about that? Incredulous, that's how |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:33 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. it's also bullshit. |
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Sonoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
6. Where did you find that? nt |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
7. Thought I read somewhere once that The Crown is the largest landowner in the US. n/t |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:38 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. it is not. |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. Thought wrong then. Maybe someone else read it. n/t |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
9. Ah, Bullshit. |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
10. If this is a reference to land in the Commonwealth, well, don't individual |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
12. I hope she is using a zero turn mower. That's a lot of green, in more than one |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
14. she doesn't really own it. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. thanks for the correction |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:08 PM Response to Reply #14 |
43. I find it facinating that posts like this that state truth on DU get so few responses... |
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grillo7 (243 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 11:57 PM Response to Reply #43 |
57. It's some quirk of human nature... |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:47 AM Response to Reply #43 |
66. +1... |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
17. I have no feelings about it. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
20. Is that more or less than the |
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crickets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 11:51 PM Response to Reply #20 |
56. Good one. -nt |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
21. Yeah but can she sell it? If she can't than her "ownership" is meaningless. |
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Recovered Repug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:12 PM Response to Reply #21 |
47. Just watch, one night she'll get drunk and lose Canada in |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 01:31 AM Response to Reply #47 |
58. LOL |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:23 AM Response to Reply #47 |
63. Isn't that how the crown acquired Canada in the first place? |
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TheMadMonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
23. Hold's in trust actually. It's not hers to dispose of, except possibly... |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
24. Not exactly true if you include "crown land" |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
28. In what sense does she "own" all that land? n/t |
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SDuderstadt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
29. Do you have any sort of corroboration for this? n/t |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:55 AM Response to Reply #29 |
73. maybe facts just aren't their game. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
30. Link, please, proving she actually personally owns the land in question. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
31. Not quite. The "Crown Estate" -- not the Queen herself -- owns about $6.2 billion |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
32. flat out lie by anti-royalists. |
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Curmudgeoness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
33. And yet I heard that the wedding costs will be on the taxpayers. |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:46 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. If we had a "royal family" |
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Curmudgeoness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 12:43 PM Response to Reply #38 |
74. And I would rather tax money is spent on neither. |
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Mark Baker (81 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:42 AM Response to Reply #33 |
65. Not for the wedding itself |
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Curmudgeoness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 12:53 PM Response to Reply #65 |
75. Not entirely. Besides the costs for security and police, |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
35. Remember when America was official anti-Monarchy? |
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Vanje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:24 PM Response to Reply #35 |
49. Rec THIS post....if I could nt |
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freshwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 11:26 PM Response to Reply #35 |
55. And anti-colonial? Okay, don't flame, but if I don't say that, it'll just fester. |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
36. The question is |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:11 PM Response to Reply #36 |
46. I believe they keep Canada open to the public. n/t |
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moriah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
37. Are they referring to Canada? |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
39. Is that true? |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
41. Fact-checking. Not only nerds and academics do it. |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
42. it's absurd. |
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datasuspect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
44. God save the Queen |
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Motown_Johnny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 08:50 AM Response to Reply #44 |
62. We Mean It Man! (Sex Pistols Fan?) |
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Vanje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:21 AM Response to Reply #62 |
71. No future! |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:10 PM Response to Original message |
45. You really should be ashamed of yourself for posting such bullshit. n/t |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:29 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. It points to a woeful knowledge of world government |
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Vanje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
48. ....and OH! How Hard she worked for EVERY square foot |
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Raine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 01:37 AM Response to Reply #48 |
59. Yeah and like she really owns Canada ... NOT! |
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Vanje (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:16 AM Response to Reply #59 |
70. ;';' |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
51. She owns Crown land |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
52. How can anyone believe this nonsense? n/t |
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leeroysphitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
53. How many hectares is that? |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
54. Oh yeah well Obama owns 2 billion acres...I mean |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 08:47 AM Response to Reply #54 |
61. you have to subtract the borough of Queens from Obama's total |
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BR_Parkway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 08:45 AM Response to Original message |
60. Her great-grandparents used to own a lot more. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
67. She owns no such amount... |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:51 AM Response to Original message |
68. Well, she had to work very hard to acquire every inch of it. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:53 AM Response to Original message |
69. I hope she's got a riding mower for grass-cutting day... n/t |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
72. It should say that the British have stolen 5% of the earth's surface |
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