BRITISH INVASION

I certainly don't want to alarm anyone unnecessarily, nor am I a prophet of doom.  But I am starting to have grave concerns for our great country.  There are some serious issues going on in our nation and no one seems to want to be aware of it.  Keeping our heads in the sand like a flock (is it a flock?  Gaggle?  Murder?) of ostriches is going to bring calamity on our nation!  We can't keep pretend it isn't happening....we need to wake up and take our country back!

I, of course, am talking about the plot by the British government to regain "the Colonies".  I know I am probably hypersensitive to the issue because we studied the Revolution this year.  A war WE WON.  After being reminded of the way our patriots overcame every odd and hardship to come back and chase those Redcoats out of our country, I find it despicable that we are turning a blind eye to their subtle infiltration!

Obviously, it started with the dreaded roundabouts!  A roundabout is a traffic device that is designed to confuse drivers and pedestrians.  It sends them on a journey to nowhere.  Round and round and round an round, until by some miracle, the drivers are able to exit...usually in the wrong place, causing them to have to re-enter the traffic circle and pray they can get out at the right spot!  If you are not familiar with how the British are using these traffic circuses to overthrow us, you can read about it here and here!  The hope of the English is that eventually we will have so many roundabouts that the majority of the American subjects citizens will be stuck on them, thereby making a British Invasion a piece of cake.

I have been aware of the Roundabout Plot since January 2010, but the latest covert action by England took me a little by surprise.  I feel it is my duty as an AMERICAN to make my readers sit up and be on guard!

Last night, I watched the Academy Awards.  I used to throw very elaborate Academy Award parties, yet I haven't watched the ceremony in years.  After you have kids, the only movies one goes and sees are not the ones that are nominated (Toy Story 3 excepted).  This year, however, I actually saw some of the movies and wanted to see how they fared at the event.

I was appalled.  We  had a remake of an American classic up for nomination this year.  True Grit was a fabulous movie!  I admit, I was skeptical at first.  I mean, how could anyone replace John Wayne in his Oscar winning portrayal of Rooster Cogburn??  But, Matt Damon (NO nomination), Hailee Steinfeld (LOST her category) and the exceptional Jeff Bridges (LOST his category) were so good that you never even made a comparison between the two Grits!  The movie was beautiful to look at and the acting was superb and it told an AMERICAN tale about the guts and determination of Americans in the American West!!  Did it win?  NO!  Know what did?

yeah....the king's speech.  Whoopie.

This was so wrong on so many levels, I hardly know where to start!

But let's start with the fact that the award was given by the American organization, The Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. Let us also not lose sight that The King's Speech is about a BRITISH monarch!  And not just ANY British monarch, but one we never really knew about, or cared about.

King George VI, whom you probably never heard of before this piece of propaganda, was....nobody.  Really.  His brother, King Edward VIII is much more well known.  He abdicated his throne in order to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson.  He had to abdicate, because at that time, monarchs could not marry divorcees.....something they seem to have forgotten as they look to their next king, by the way.  So, Edward's brother had to ascend the throne, having never been prepared for it.  People!  This is one of the reasons we don't have a monarchy!  Who wants someone completely unprepared for the highest governmental office to actually take that office?  Not the Americans!  Well, okay....it has happened here...but usually we only have to endure idiocy for 4-8 years.  My point is....why did Americans go ga-ga over a film about a nobody in a country we revolted against and a political system we abhor?? I have a friend from Texas...TEXAS!!...who took a group of women to see this movie!  Texas thinks it is its own nation!  What was my friend, Squirrel, doing at that movie?!!! It's unAmerican, I tell you!

If we HAD to recognize a British king, wouldn't Edward have been the better choice?  After all, he married an AMERICAN woman!  He stood up, like an American, to his own government and abdicated his throne for love.  Though, he had his problems, too....friendly with Hitler, living in France, etc.  But even those problems make better film fodder than his brother's....stutter.  Really.

One of the other issues I have with the British Invasion at the Academy Awards was when the producers of The King's Speech came on stage.  They gave their acceptance speeches (with sly and smug smiles).  Do you know who they thanked?  The "Best of the British" crew!  Their screenwriter thanked the Queen!  ON AMERICAN TV!!  And we clapped.  Ugh!

But perhaps the most disturbing situation of this inconspicuous attack is how and why we accepted this film so easily.  Because we are hussies.  It is true!  If anyone other than the adorable Mr. Darcy (Colin Firth) had played such a bland and boring political "leader", we would have seen right through the guise!  But we were blinded by our Austenian delight!  The British may be boring....but they have American women's number all right!  Have you SEEN the real George??  Only Mr. Darcy could make you forget that face and embrace that man.

In the end...not only did we let the wolf in the fold, but we were dazzled by him!!

Take note American brothers and sisters!  They are out to reclaim "the Colonies"!  First they are going to confuse us on the roundabouts, and then they are going to distract us with Mr. Darcy!!  Wake up!  The British are coming!  The British are coming!

And don't even get me started on Christian Bale!