Happy (belated) birthday!

To Britain’s longest-ever reigning monarch: Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.

God save our gracious Queen!
Long live our noble Queen!
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the Queen!

O Lord our God arise,
Scatter her enemies,
And make them fall:
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix:
God save us all.

Thy choicest gifts in store,
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign:
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause,
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen!

I just heard...

Putin: should Turkey's Erdoğan not stop supporting terrorists in Syria, I shall end the job Tsar Nicholas II left unfinished; restoring Constantinople to Christendom

 

 

Here’s one for the books. It seems that sometime last month, Putin made a politically incorrect pronouncement, which somehow found its way to print. But as I am not one to trust politicians, I highly doubt that these words will carry any weight, and become more than what they are already: an empty threat. Nevertheless, one could only hope.

If only…  

Meanwhile in the Dar al-Islam

60-year-old Christian woman caned for selling alcohol in unprecedented Sharia law case

Must be Friday: let us all imbibe and rejoice with the moderateness of the religion of peace.