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…)

Tell me about it - but who do you blame? The government? You could, but they don’t want to get involved - where I would go is my old favourite K.I.S.S.

If you do keep it simple when you think about these things you know where the problem lies - with the telecommunications companies in Canada. Basically put - there is no competition so they can do as they wish, and that is something they do do very well.

Toronto is fine - it has just about everything that any company could give, but Canada isn’t just Toronto, though they would think that it is.

In the UK they are bursting at the seams with 25Mb Broadband (and that is getting faster with 99% of the country covered) - so many here in Canada are still on 56k dial up and being charged the same as that 25Mb, why?

Open the airwaves and phone lines to real competition!

Half his car should have been taxed? WTF!?

Explanation of what car tax is - it’s called the road fund license and you need to renew this each year or you are in for a heavy fine or losing your car. The costs vary you will have to read this link.

A man has sawn his car in half with an angle-grinder in protest at it being clamped outside his home.

Ian Taylor, from Tredworth, Glos, said the untaxed Ford Fiesta was parked on his drive with only part of a rear wheel poking out on to the pavement.

The 40-year-old builder said the vehicle was going to be scrapped anyway, but he wanted to make a point.

A spokesman for NCP Services said half of the car was parked on the road and should therefore have been taxed.

BBC Story

I absolutely LOVE history.

History is something we can look back on and try, at least, to learn something. But, as we have seen so many times, we don’t. I have no idea why - must be that human thing in us - and why we need an alien invasion of Earth - no, I’m serious!

Only then would we as a species come together as one and fight off the highly advanced aliens.

Well I can dream!

It seems that once again - through the oil bonanza - the Cold war is making a comeback.

It will be 25 years of he said/she said and a massive build-up of troops and arms with the civilian population stuck in the middle with you.

Ah - the good old days!

Ex PM’s should be just that, ex PM’s.

Stay away Tony - you had your turn so now leave it up to Gordon to make a total twallop of himself, he is doing a fine job.

Tony Blair is giving advice to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and has told him how to win the next election, Cherie Blair has said.

Her disclosure is made in an interview with the Times newspaper to coincide with its serialisation of her autobiography, Speaking for Myself.

In one extract from the book, she reveals how her husband suffered a crisis of confidence over the Iraq war.

But she writes he decided to stay on as PM to fight for his domestic legacy.

Americans don’t like Timmy’s - I have no idea why because it is fabulous!

But even Tim Hortons comes under scrutiny - but why for the love of God should it be for firing an employee giving a kid a Timbit?

Nicole Lilliman, 27, said she was fired Wednesday for giving one of the 16-cent treats to a regular customer with a small child.

Thankfully she was rehired, with an apology.

Timbit’s are cool by the way!

(This is from a guy who is biased - I LOVE Timmy’s!!)

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.

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.

That isn’t an open question to just anybody who reads this blog - it is a serious question about you.

Does this fit with you?

The Internet is setting a new standard for celebrity. Fame is no longer about getting “15 minutes”; it’s about becoming famous to 15 people.

So you could be famous just for being you - brings a new meaning to what fame really is, eh?

PS - there isn’t any cash involved, though - unless you get paid that is.

Certainly not what has happened in the political arena in London. The mayor, most definitely was a good win, and probably a good thing for London.

What isn’t good is the rise of the far-right. England isn’t a country of the far-right - it never was nor, hopefully, ever will be.

For the past 10 years there have been predictions that the British National Party (BNP) could achieve a major electoral breakthrough - but at the end of each election the picture has been mixed and open to interpretation.

The BNP and its supporters are cheering the success of Richard Barnbrook’s election to the Greater London Assembly, but it was a tight race - and tighter than a lot of people had feared.

But these races, as tight as they are, are indicative of what could be happening more and more - but where do the BNP get their support?

It is mostly those who feel disenfranchised by those who are in government - this being Labour now and could be the conservatives next. The conservatives are right of centre and there does seem to be an overall swing in that direction in England. So what do we all expect of England? Will she go down a road that leads not to better working conditions and jobs for those who are lacking the basic skills, jobs which have been eroded so much over the last 25 years? Factory jobs where people could earn a weekly wage and be happy with what they did.

If the BNP can make inroads into the middle-classes the problem will be much more significant - as yet they haven’t. But until the government begins to recognise that the ‘lowest of the low’ have just as many problems as their voting constituent there will be a rise of both right and left extremes.

The British government has to get back to being a government and stop trying to micromanage peoples lives. Even a protest can go completely wrong - and this may happen if the government and opposition forgets who the British people are.

England expects more from the government - and that expectation is being missed.