The Will Rhodes Portmanteau

Hillary Clinton won W VA - not that is was any surprise, not that anything about her dwindling campaign is a surprise. She won a state that a friend of mine calls bigoted.

He also tells the story of retiree Victoria Switzer, who was working the phone bank one night:

One caller, Switzer remembers, said he couldn’t possibly vote for Obama and concluded: “Hang that darky from a tree!”

Is she wrong? It seems not, not that CNN will come out and say it - after all they need to be as PC as possible in this day and age. (more…)

We all know that W Virginia is going to the polls tomorrow to anoint Hillary Clinton. It’s a given that she is going to win.

What was perturbing me was why wasn’t Obama out trying to get any vote for himself? Why would he just walk away from this State without a fight - not a bit of campaigning barring the odd TV advert. I was shocked - I would have thought that he would have gone for the jugular and organised a rampart defence or an all out attack!

Then I remembered I was English and he is fighting very similar to how the British beat all-comers when turning the world pink. (more…)

You have to understand that Rush Limbaugh got a proverbial smack in the face when he ‘ordered’ republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton - they did, and she still didn’t come out a real victor.

So what is he up to now with his Operation Chaos?

Exactly the same as he was before - blustering to those republicans that actually listen to him and his idiotic views. Does he really believe he has that much influence on the political scene? It seems, in his world, that he does.

What Limbaugh is now saying is that the Democratic super-delegates should all back Obama - the pseudo-reverse psychology in that is obvious. But Limbaugh won’t admit to it - he will say to his audience that he and he alone made the super-delegates go for Obama and that he will be seen as a hero to his listeners. (more…)

I have enough with one wife - I have no idea what a man can do with 21 of them, I think he must be a fitness freak of some kind!

By his own account, Nielsen has 21 wives — and 36 children.

His oldest wife is 13 years older than he is, and his youngest wife is 43 years younger — she’s just 24.

His oldest child is 21 years old, and his youngest is a 6-month-old baby.

That’s one of the longer, single-family genealogies uncovered in a CNN review of the “Bishop’s List” — a series of documents listing the age, marital status, children and address of the members of the Yearning for Zion polygamist ranch in Eldorado, Texas.

The ranch is owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon offshoot that practices polygamy.

Even today - in a very violent world, we see female violence as something that is quite abnormal, but should we?

Do we blame the rise of this violence simply on the lack of good female role-models, or the massive expanse of feminism throughout the last three decades. Women claiming the equality to men and taking it too far? Acting out like men after they have been fuelled up on drugs and alcohol - this violence is still rare, but is it a matter of aping their male counterparts?

The peer group always plays a large part in it, says consultant clinical psychologist Elie Godsi, author of Violence and Society: Making Sense of Madness and Badness.

“There’s a lot more of a ‘ladette’ culture where young women are aping and mimicking the traditional behaviour young men engage in.

“So there’s a small element of that, although I wouldn’t put too much [importance] on it.”

Many young people feel alienated from their family and community, he says, so the peer group plays a big part in gang culture, causing behaviour that the individual on her own would not contemplate.

Is this the case? Just a matter of making people feel more welcome in the community and family and things will go from bad to good?

From the comments left on this story:

“Women are defined in terms of relationships.. and men are defined in terms of achievements” is possibly the most depressing thing I’ve read in a long time. If that’s really true in Britain today, no wonder young women want to punch someone.

Lizzie, London

Is Lizzie correct?

Whenever I read about the nut-cults, you know those religious cults where someone claims to be the messiah or God even - the leaders of these cults always want to get it on with virgins!

There is no turning the other cheek, praising peace and forgiveness, love of our fellow man - just a monologue of wanting to deflower the women in the flock.

Michael “said God told him that he was supposed to sleep with seven virgins,” recalled Sayer, 36. Two were to be Sayer’s daughters, then 14 and 15.

“I just told him no. … I’m not in agreement. I don’t see it’s right,” Sayer said.

And I have to ask all those who do believe in God, myself included - why would God say to someone - “Go sleep with those virgins.” Seven of them at that? Is this a US constitutional matter of being able to worship whoever you wish?

And a final question(s) - why do they all live in compounds far away from any roving eye? If this man was the messiah - wouldn’t he and his followers be out preaching the new word of God rather than trying to bed virile females?

It seems to me that it is all to do with sex. But I could be wrong.

You would think that this was an easy one - the answer is when you don’t have it. But is that the case?

A new law - well part of a greater law is coming up for enactment in the UK Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill - that’s how you get contentious laws passed in the UK, add them to something that isn’t related. But that is by the by.

This law deals with what you can do in your own bedroom - or, indeed, look at or watch. If you are a person(s) who are into something a lot different than the recognised ‘normality’ in the act of sex - you can be prosecuted and sent to prison. Let me give you a definition:

An act which threatens or appears to threaten a person’s life
An act which results in or appears to result in serious injury to a person’s anus, breasts or genitals

What this law addresses is BDSM or sadomasochism. (more…)

When I get into a discussion with people on the net it does get me thinking. That thinking can go from something I saw many years ago to just a day or so ago - because it springs into my mind for some or no apparent reason.

One of the reasons I write, I suppose. From jumbled essence of nothing to the written word.

But a discussion that has been ongoing on this blog - in the Guns post got me to thinking why are the Americans so scared of the world around them? Is it because of indoctrination that the whole world is against them or is it something else - that, in turn, led me to thinking about September 11th - was that the real catalyst that set this paranoia off?

I remember the day surprisingly well. The surprise is that I normally take a day like that and place in the back of my mind and usually don’t visit again - unless provoked into thinking about it. (more…)

TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday proclaimed Iran the “most powerful nation” on earth as the country’s air force showed off its prowess at a time of mounting tension with the West. “Iran is the most powerful and independent nation in the world,” Ahmadinejad told a military parade outside Tehran marking the Islamic Republic’s annual Army Day, reaffirming one of his favored slogans. Ahmadinejad said all the branches of the armed forces would react forcefully in response to any attack against Iran’s soil and boasted that no one would dare to launch a strike on the country.

Yep - he really is a nut-case!

Interesting theory, no?

OK, maybe not a smackhead - but was his drug use only of the prescription kind? It is called into question by a former British foreign secretary, David Owen.

And there were other health troubles. During the Bay of Pigs fiasco Owen writes that Kennedy had:

Constant and acute diarrhoea and a recurrence of his urinary tract infection.

Central to Owen’s account is the idea that the administration of drugs to Kennedy for these various ailments was out of control.

So was he taking or, for want of better wording, administered something other than what he should have been for his condition? Owen carries on:

Owen shows that is quite likely that Dr Feelgood, specially flown to Vienna, injected Kennedy with intravenous amphetamine just before he met Khrushchev.

Big call for Mr Owen to say, don’t ya think? Imagine the shakes with the thumb over the button!

The drug abuse of John F Kennedy