tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post5238729843314855120..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: More Insomnia and Insomniac MusingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-20777211982227955992010-10-16T20:58:10.712-04:002010-10-16T20:58:10.712-04:00Their relationship to the English monarchy was a m...Their relationship to the English monarchy was a major contributing factor to the early English Reformation, JCF. Joanna of Castile, mother of the Emperor Charles V (top row of family tree), was sister to Catherine of Aragon. Charles held the pope captive at the time that Henry VIII wanted an annulment - therefore no annulment. <br /><br />Oddly there was a return to an English connection at the bottom of the tree, perhaps in a too little too late attempt to introduce new blood. Carlos/Charles II's first wife was a granddaughter of Charles I of England and a daughter of Louis XIV's more-or-less gay brother).<br /><br />Not too much new blood, come to think of it - Louis XIV's mother was Charles's aunt and, like her brother, Philip IV, the child of two uncle/niece-begotten parents.<br /><br />So Louis XIV, like Cleopatra, shows that incest sometimes work?Lapinbizarrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07686990585795363001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-81061630285553339632010-10-16T20:04:55.777-04:002010-10-16T20:04:55.777-04:00I did an independent study in the early '80s a...I did an independent study in the early '80s and read John Nada's "Carlos the Bewitched." Yes, his line was inbred and his "wife" was also his cousin. If they had actually managed to conceive a child, I hate to think what would have resulted.susan s.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03679099677585214433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-63882858158605184632010-10-16T15:12:29.427-04:002010-10-16T15:12:29.427-04:00And could you imagine a LESS "Spanish"-l...And could you imagine a LESS "Spanish"-looking, um, <i>Spaniard?</i><br /><br />Really love the history lesson, Lapin. This of course, was the divinely-ordained lineage/monarchy, about the same time that the Pope(s) were excommunicating that sinful English one! O_oJCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-7259337095408004212010-10-16T00:20:22.838-04:002010-10-16T00:20:22.838-04:00Well, you did say you were spending almost every f...Well, you did say you were spending almost every friday at the Dr.'s. So since it's friday, I figured you had been there!susan s.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03679099677585214433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-19810576419486029502010-10-16T00:05:44.069-04:002010-10-16T00:05:44.069-04:00Thanks for asking.Thanks for asking.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-69048209483357903502010-10-16T00:05:23.194-04:002010-10-16T00:05:23.194-04:00Which trip to the doctor? I'm taking so many ...Which trip to the doctor? I'm taking so many these days.<br /><br />Actually, not bad. I may be getting the asthma under control.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-55736130483686089482010-10-15T22:52:06.968-04:002010-10-15T22:52:06.968-04:00I hope your trip to the Dr. wasn't too bad, to...I hope your trip to the Dr. wasn't too bad, today.susan s.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03679099677585214433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-18090576225496589432010-10-15T20:16:02.037-04:002010-10-15T20:16:02.037-04:00In this day and age, and in the current political ...In this day and age, and in the current political climate, nothing would surprise me.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-3011967260521324292010-10-15T18:39:18.385-04:002010-10-15T18:39:18.385-04:00Doubt, even in darkest Appalachia, that we'll ...Doubt, even in darkest Appalachia, that we'll find a candidate whose parents were uncle and niece and <b>both</b> of whose paternal grandparents were offsprings of uncle/niece matings. Fair boggles the mind.Lapinbizarrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07686990585795363001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-50494764764152678382010-10-15T07:32:56.061-04:002010-10-15T07:32:56.061-04:00Indeed, I chose this painting precisely because it...Indeed, I chose this painting precisely because it is so un-religious, but very much reflects the almost childish taste for spectacle of Spain's last Hapsburg monarch, thoroughly disease-ridden and mentally defective inbred Carlos II.<br />From the way things are going, I think we can expect our own American version of "Carlos the Bewitched" soon enough.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-46411508201304759712010-10-14T17:50:54.506-04:002010-10-14T17:50:54.506-04:00A mesmerizing painting and, wheeling angels aside ...A mesmerizing painting and, wheeling angels aside - needed something to perk up all that ceiling space, I guess - a fascinating piece of realism. JCF is dead right to file it under non-religious.<br /><br />Carlos II of Spain, the end product of two centuries of intense interbreeding within the Habsburg family, a process which included three instances of uncle/niece marriage (all, of course, with dispensations from the Holy See), last among them his mother and father. The spread and subsequent compression of his <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Carlos_segundo80.png" rel="nofollow">family tree</a> is astonishing.Lapinbizarrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07686990585795363001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-23395179841609617502010-10-14T17:30:22.123-04:002010-10-14T17:30:22.123-04:00Liked the painting. Had to decide whether to dl it...Liked the painting. Had to decide whether to dl it to my "Religious" or "Non-religious" art folders. Despite the (Real) presence of Christ there in the monstrance, I put it in non-religious!JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-73517473904953181012010-10-14T17:27:32.455-04:002010-10-14T17:27:32.455-04:00{{{Doug}}}
I hope our new Chinese overlords will ...{{{Doug}}}<br /><br />I hope our new Chinese overlords will be benevolent. [If the choice is them or the Tea Party, at least we know they <i>couldn't</i> be worse!]JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-28833746759827792882010-10-14T13:00:36.871-04:002010-10-14T13:00:36.871-04:00Thanks Ciss and Grandmere.
I'm spending just ...Thanks Ciss and Grandmere.<br /><br />I'm spending just about every Friday these days with doctors, so we'll eventually get to the bottom of it.<br /><br />Now, it's off to a very full schedule for the next few days.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-45415641728143445742010-10-14T11:21:26.413-04:002010-10-14T11:21:26.413-04:00Pardon the bad morning anguish.
Pardon extended. ...<i>Pardon the bad morning anguish.</i><br /><br />Pardon extended. <br /><br />I've never had a problem with asthma, nor has anyone close to me suffered from the illness, but from reports of those who have, it's a bitch, as is insomnia.<br /><br />For what it's worth, and I had a pretty good night's sleep, I agree with your post. I don't wanna be an empire! We have already overreached, and we will suffer the consequences.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-78173205393195035712010-10-14T11:11:42.812-04:002010-10-14T11:11:42.812-04:00Asthma can be a nasty nigh time visitor, I know. ...Asthma can be a nasty nigh time visitor, I know. Hope you're better soon. Is it the fall (and all that goes with it.) that triggers your asthma? Hope the doctors can get to the bottom of it soon.<br /><br />I'm worried about our country too. The extremists seem to be winning and that is NOT a good sign in my opinion. We seem to be back in that pre-WWII mode of isolationism with the world around us, and total non-caring (And anger!) for immigrants and poor who have lost jobs which hearkens back to the late 1800s. We haven't seemed to have grown in compassion at all only in greed...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01203286781888444548noreply@blogger.com