Prince Albert married Queen Victoria

I'd much have preferred visiting sacred trees in ancient forests to my churchgoing experience growing up. Less potato salad sure but ultimately a small price to pay.

@1 - I wonder if Charles was thinking of Elizabeth I - who some say was a man.

@4: "some say"? Who are these "some"? I've been alive for 64 years and have never heard anyone say Elizabeth was a man. Henry VIII desperately wanted a son, so he'd have been over the moon if his second child had been a boy. No one in Tudor England pretended boys were girls, when boys were what kings and family patriarchs wanted.

Snohomish provided the first Darwin Award winner of the season's first weather disaster.

"Winner, winner, winner! Ding, ding, ding. Aooogah, Aoogah, Aoogah,!"

Nice job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards

"This primitive business of worshiping trees was eventually Christianized, and entered British and American culture in the 19th century by way of Prince Albert, the German prince who married Queen Elizebeth."

Uhhh Albert married Queen Victoria. And technically German-born Queen Charlotte brought them to court in the 18th century, but I digress.

Hwy 2 is closed for a lot longer than 5 days:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/highway-2-will-be-closed-for-months-wa-gov-ferguson-says/

Looks like the ski season at Stevens Pass might not happen this year.

@2: I kid you not, in my high school in the early 70s in Santa Fe, NM we had an mandatory assembly where a famed Zozobra fire dancer Jacques Cartier (not the famous explorer, obviously) gave an in depth talk presenting the case for it.
https://sflivingtreasures.org/index.php/treasures/201-cartier-jacques-.html

See also:
https://www.historyextra.com/period/elizabethan/bisley-boy-was-elizabeth-i-a-man/

as long as
our Jet Setters
can still gel Aloft
and Away we Should
all be Grateful to even be
Alive and still full of Complaints

after all
We are Here
to Serve Them
& Not, as some seem
to want to Believe, for Them
to Worry About Our sorry Plight

and, when they choose to
Outlaw our Complaining,
with Good Reason! will
You go Quietly into
that Good Nite?

@12~that's what
Totaled your
Psyche?

well
That
explains
a lotta things

so Sorry
for your Loss.

@12: The crowds have gotten too large in recent years for a lot of folks I know to go anymore, but no, it's never been like that at all. Audience? It's outside.

@15 my heart bleeds for your persecution complex

@17: It's certainly plausible one could hear 'Chinga tu madre, gringo ese' in the crowd, and at Fiesta on the Plaza if that's what you meant.

@ Bi-Pedo...
Cool story, brah...

@23: So tell us what happened then. It's a big crowd. Lots of hooting and hollering, cheering and revelry in anticipation of the burning and beyond, but what instigated the anti-white hate you describe? What was said? Was aimed at you specifically? To keep us from filling in the blanks with our imagination, what happened?

@23: I believe you about being in Santa Fe, but I don't believe your characterization of its peoples.

@27: Yes, since the sixties.
@29: I go back as much as I can to visit my mother and go to the opera. So sorry you feel that way about The City Different.

@bladesattractor

perhaps
they could
See/Feel your 'Vibe'
and just responded Organically

in Any case
remind me to stay
as Far Away as possible
from you in any crowd where
more than one person is gathered

Queen Victoria property referenced now. Thank you Charles.

We appreciate Slog staff who correct their very occasional errors.

@32 - Yes several times, in fact, not to name drop, but my parents were friends with Will Shuster. You bet I attended. I've never attended Burning Man though.

"Try getting shot once
and stabbed 11 times, spanning 3
different attacks, by "PoC", totally unprovoked."

yeah.
who on
Earth could
even Imagine
someone calling
themselves 'knife'

whose comments're
repulsively Aggressive

a real Toe-to-Toer

EVER Provoking
Anything!

color me
Unpersuaded

your
Hole is
Calling. it
wants you Back.

@22 I can't imagine why a black person would stab you.

...just kidding. We've all read your comments on here. There are SO many good reasons.

@39 The entire point of that trial and story is that a bunch of white cops let a young black man die of a gun wound because they're a bunch of scared babies. It has nothing to do with antifa anything. CHOP had nothing to do with Antifa either. You literally don't understand what that word means and you constantly look like a fucking idiot every time you post anything about it.

I'm surprised you aren't celebrating the black kid dying based on every other racist ass post you've ever made on here.

@9 its not just Hwy 2 and Stevens. Highway 410 is wrecked as well and getting to Crystal is going to be a nightmare. I've had a few friends tell me they have already deferred their pass to next season. If you want to ski this year you are going to have to super patient or go outside the state. It's a real bummer for the seasonal workers who depend on that income. The super ironic part is we are about to get slammed with snow so they all would be able to open up soon.

Thanks Charles for engaging / correcting a simple mistake (the kids could learn a lot from you).

@45 if you've been stabbed three separate times, perhaps is time to look in the mirror and figure out why you keep finding yourself in those situations. Methinks you're not the innocent angel you're making yourself out to be.

@38

hoping/
wishing for
Me to get shot
and stabbed the
Whole Nine Yards

like You
claim to've
gotten, "but only
one-Half as much!"

somehow
Fails to Convince
one of your peace-
loving ways, shankky

yet
Another
Schlogg AM
hijacked. well done

Christmas is “the one time of the year” Leavenworth “gets a good blast” of tourist dollars? Someone needs to tell Charles about Oktoberfest. And summertime.

Knife dear, you remind me so much of previous members of Our Slog Family who eventually "flamed out" (as the kids say)

@57

perhaps it's
your 'invincibility'
that makes you such
an 'attractive' target, shankky

it couldn't
Possibly Be
your Hubris
cum Arrogance

big guy.

its
All
yours

@Knife, I appreciate your battling leftist insanity but why ruminate on yesteryear tragedies for mining outrage?

wow.
when even
the reich-whingers've
had More than Their Fill

@67: Ok, you made your case. You don't need to keep making it. Choose another topic, add a little variety, don't be so dogmatic. I sound off on issues but then try to move on (hard if I'm in a 1:1 with barth, I admit). You don't need to "flood the zone" here. I'm embarrassed for you, that's not good, right?

it's
'Good'
IF one is
Trying to
Destroy tS.

that's his goal.

I 'suspect'
there's a little
POC in this pos:
the Self-loathing's
Driving him Whack.

@70~ back in the Day,

the
Wood-
pile must
have Beckoned!

@72: The comment section is not a place for you to viscously mock to your heart's content. That's very disrespectful to others here, including your fellow right-of-center friends here like me, as we want the comment section to be a robust exchange of thoughts - not a one-sided diatribe no matter how important you may think it may be.

Don't you want to come across as someone worthy of respect?

@78: Showing respect is not contingent on others doing the same.

@80: Good manners doesn't require reciprocation.

Good on YOU
KkKoolie, standing
up to the Big Meanie!

wow.
when even
the reich-whingers've
had More than Their Fill.

Bravo.

but
like 'they'
Say, you can't
keep a nasty Jerk
down, for Long: he's

Back
and he's
Black. as Fuck.

@83: Thx! No matter what the political disposition someone has, one has to play nicely.

@85 ~ da nada!
I shall Endeavor
to remember it!

@s 3,
12, 13, 17, 19,
20, 22, 23, 26, 28, 29
32, 34, 36, 38, 39, 44, 45, 48, 49
50, 53, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 67
71, 72, 74, 75, 77, 78, and, Finally, & thank Gawd

for thy Smallest
of Blessings,
@80

reported for:

Ubiquity
skullduggery
douchebaggery
nastiness exceeding
normal boundaries & an
underlying obscenity of latent

chauvinism, Nazism,
xenophobia & out-
right, far-right
fucked up
Fascism.

oh, Wait --

@43: Ouch. No Crystal Mountain magic this year? Bummer. I hope you guys get to enjoy some of the coming snow, somehow...