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General News    H4'ed 10/29/11

U.k. Gives Women Equality In Royal Succession For First Time In 300 Years

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Prince William and Kate Middleton's first child is a girl, she will be queen, thanks to historic changes adopted this week by the 16 nations in the Commonwealth Realm that recognize the Queen of England as monarch. Scrapping a 300-year-old law, the nations unanimously agreed to give women equal preference to succeed the throne for the first time, and also threw out old rules that barred the monarch from marrying a Catholic.

Meanwhile, in America GOP and Tea Baggers want to drown government in a bathtub and shove it in women's uteri to govern from there.
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