[MitzaLizalor]

I was so revolted. Checking the prices of locally available roses this afternoon and noting characteristics of the blooms available in case I were offered any of the down-market varieties which obviously I would reject out-of-hand:

Malachi 1:10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
KJV .. look up

Now I am not a prude and realise that heathens these days pride themselves on giving head. Head like this:

_http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/restaurant-closed-selling-human-flesh-3136136
A restaurant was shut down after it was found to be selling dishes made from HUMAN flesh. Cops arrested 11 people including the owner and recovered at least two fresh human heads when they swooped on the eatery in Anambra, Nigeria after a tip-off. The bloodied and disembodied heads were found wrapped in cellophane sheets - and police said roasted human head was even on the MENU. Two AK-47 guns, other weapons, dozens of rounds of ammunition and several mobile phones were also discovered. One local resident said: "We always saw weird people coming and going." A pastor, who was surprised to learn he had been served human flesh, complained to the police. “I ate at the restaurant and the bill was very high," he told Your Jewish News. "The workers told me that I ate human flesh; I was shocked."

Now that is not something I'd expect during February. After all, I am not a Romish heretic.

Spaniards on the other have have a "close relationship" with both Rome and Africa. The Hapsburgs exemplify such squelchings. Gobbling down mumbojumbo produced the monstrous Hapsburg dynasty where not only the jaw was blasted by God but also the proclivities of their pets. Take a look at this:

I suppose to the warped sensibilities of Spaniards and Austrians that is an invitation to pounce. Here is a Hapsburg female:

The similarity is self evident. At a local costume outlet in their codpiece, floozies & robot section I saw a Valentine display. There was a grotesque selection of altogether off-putting designs presented and I started to feel sick almost as soon as I entered. But Jesus calls us to challenge impurity even as Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar challenged the marauding African hordes way back in the 11th century. "Wanna sell heads?" he thought to himself, "bring it on!" And despite his anti-establishment disposition (the establishment being Papist goons as we know from history), the Moorish head obsession was repulsed by his hand. It reminds me of the stance of the Churchills in England, culminating in the Godly line introduced from America in Winston who repulsed the no less repugnant advances of Hitlerian Austro-Germany. I have no doubt that Adolph enjoyed the occasional head, bur can any Christian woman contemplate Churchill in so compromised a position? Of course not.

It starts with the codpiece, sold as a "novelty" item and available in the most dreadful colours during Februrary, so I have heard. But just like those roses jacked up in price to weed out the amateurs, so should every Christian be wary of the visitor bearing a fluorescent codpiece, tomorrow. It's a sure sign. They are working for SATAN and like me you should be revolted.

"Head" is not a verb in the Christian vocabulary.

[WilliamJenningsBryan]

The Hapsburgs were indeed a vile family, and their evil empire was spread through marriages (perhaps the codpieces had something to do with this) and other affiliations - often with the cathylicks. Oddly their "humble" beginnings started in what is now Switzerland, and it was the Swiss that were the first to throw them out by the beginning of the 16th Century. One William Tell (of the apple fame) was alleged to have started the revolt, although most historians claim he was merely a legend and didn't really exist. The legendary revolt is probably one reason why the Swiss to this day love their guns.

At the end of the Napoleonic wars the Hapsburgs wound up ruling most of what is now northern Italy. By 1848 the Milanese were sick of them and rumor has it they stopped smoking and playing the lottery to deny the Hapsburgs their taxes (much like today's Tea Party). Things quickly escalated (especially where you have a population that goes cold turkey on smoking) and one Field Marshall Radetzky was dispatched by the Hapsburgs to quell the revolt. The Austrians celebrated by commissioning Johann Strauss Sr. to write his famous Radetzky March, and to this very day the Vienna Philharmonic can be heard playing this silly march on their New Years concert to the clapping and stomping of the audience (carried every year on PBS in the US).

The Italians did finally throw out the Hapsburgs a few years later, no doubt inspired by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini's opera William Tell, of which only the overture is remembered today (it contains what many recognize as the "Lone Ranger" theme). All in all, not much was accomplished in all this - the Hapsburgs were cathylicks, the Italians were cathylicks, and they all were still burdened with the pope. The final end of the Hapsburgs and what was left of the Holy Roman Empire came with the end of World War I, but the pope is still around.

[MitzaLizalor]

Thank you for that information which helps to explain their unusual fashion sense. The combination of DK's, ½ a suit of armour and an excessively flamboyant robe is a bizarre choice for a portrait and I can only assume that all the inbreeding affected more than just their jawbones.

Whoever advised on that portrait must themselves have been in an more even advanced state of decay. Imagine the prancing display they'd cook up for a St Valentine's pageant

Could fashion ever get gayer than this?

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