She just "Is"

One of my favourite preachers, Charles Stanley, said, "The thing about God is that God is God."  Absolutely.  Watching the jubilee celebrations this weekend, I was reminded of this maxim.  The Queen is The Queen.  When anyone talks about "The Queen" anywhere in the world, we all know to which Queen they refer:  Elizabeth II.  One does not have to add, "The Queen of.........."  She just "Is".  Similarly with The Pope.  These three are all "absolutes".  They are incomparable. 

Every now and then, when I flip to CNN -- one of the most insular and isolationist networks on the ether (pretty much the equivalent of US foreign policy) -- I marvel at how unaware Americans are about anyone else in the world.  It's all about the US and Obama and Romney and Gingrich and this and that and what senator said this and what congressman said that and on and on and on and on and on................It's astounding how "only-about-us-all-the-time" the US remains.  Remember the tragedy when that young man was beheaded on a greyhound bus near Winnipeg by a lunatic?  You would have thought the American networks would have picked that one up, but, no.  I think they covered Michelle Obama's wardrobe instead.  (By the way, I think she dresses abominably -- always a stripe on a check or a plaid, a jacket from out-of-nowhere, finished with a crinoline under a flared skirt thrown in for bad measure, topped with bizarre jewellery..........but I digress.)   


As I said, I remain an ardent monarchist and so proud to be Canadian.