We’ve lost one of the great minds of our time. If she was a man, I’m sure the Queen would have knighted her in her own good name. I’m talking about the noble and gifted Margaret Thatcher. Say what you want about her, but whatever you say is, uh, just your opinion.
Now I can’t help but to have a deep respect for anybody that holds office, nevertheless gets voted in by a democratic society. Of course there’s always exceptions. [Cough cough] George W. Bush, cough [Kim Jong Un]. Well, he calls himself the Supreme Leader, even though he leads a country also known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Could I get a Supreme Leader, super-sized to go, please? Hold the mustard.
If anyone should be named under the definition of ‘perseverance’, it would be Margaret Thatcher. During her time as Prime Minister of Britain, she had to deal with the Cold War, the Falklands War, AND The Sex Pistols. Alright, that last one wasn’t so bad, and she probably took it all in good taste. She probably even bought all their records for her living room.
She got the name ‘The Iron Lady” from a Soviet journalist. Coming from someone behind the Iron Curtain, that’s quite a compliment. It was her strong opposition to the Soviet Union and socialism that brought upon her this nickname, which is ironic now that she’s being called a socialist days after her death.
Some crude individuals in the UK are actually celebrating her passing, having voted “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” to the second spot on BBC’s top music charts. Maybe it’s a sign that the Wicked Witch of the West still lives on beyond the grave, amid chants of despair or celebration, flying high through the night, laughing on her silver broomstick all the way back to her golden grave.
I can’t help but to wonder if this world will ever be completely sane. It’s times like these when you hear awful news and expect a grim reaction from the folks who lived during her time, but it never comes.
Instead, we hear the heinous cries of the werewolves as they offer themselves an easy excuse to drop their chains and let the rabid animals out, the ones looking for blood. And during this time we get a sudden glimpse of exactly who the Iron Lady was fighting against; the unreasonable, the irrational, the untamed.
RIP Margaret Thatcher (1925 – 2013)
“I ain’t got no time for your Soviet Union.”
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