A joke

A defendant was on trial for murder. There was strong evidence indicating guilt, but there was no corpse. In the defense’s closing statement the lawyer, knowing that his client would probably be convicted, resorted to a trick.

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I have a surprise for you all,” the lawyer said as he looked at his watch. “Within one minute, the person presumed dead in this case will walk into this courtroom.” He looked toward the courtroom door. The jurors, somewhat stunned, all looked on eagerly. A minute passed. Nothing happened.

Finally the lawyer said, “Actually, I made up the previous statement. But you all looked on with anticipation. I therefore put to you that you have a reasonable doubt in this case as to whether anyone was killed and insist that you return a verdict of not guilty.”

The jury, clearly confused, retired to deliberate. A few minutes later, the jury returned and pronounced a verdict of guilty.

“But how?” inquired the lawyer. “You must have had some doubt; I saw all of you stare at the door.”

The jury foreman replied: “Oh, we did look, but your client didn’t.”

Bitter about a bunch of nothing

Although Oboma seems to have a lead over Clinton in the primaries, and is gaining her in the super delegates votes, the race for the democratic nominee seems far form over. At an April 6 fundraiser in San Francisco, Oboma made some comments that his, yet again, at the center of attention and controversy. Please note that this was a private fundraiser and was not open to the press.

“You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them…And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not,” he reportedly said.
“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Obama’s comments are posted curtsey of Mayhill Fowler on Huffingtonpost.com.

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Claudia’s thoughts:

Is this for real? At first sight it seems like Mayhill has a pre-existing agenda.
To say that people “cling to religion and guns” can be taken as insulting, patronizing, shallow and bigoted. One would think with all his education that he should speak more eloquently than that. But in a day and age where “keeping it real”  and “bling” ( I hate that word!) is said mundanely by news anchors on the nightly news, it seems that being politically correct has gone out of the window.

Other than that, what is wrong with what he said? His statement does ring true for many people. Many are now calling Obama an elitist. Being schooling in a private prep school in Hawaii, Columbia and then Harvard, Oboma works hard  to appear to be a man of the people. He didn’t get nearly the money Hillary did for her book and the royalties are trickling in at a few hundred thousand per year. His wife’s house is only worth $1.6 million .He does not have near the wealth of the Clintons or McCains, so it would appear that he is closer to the people.

Only in America can it be that the guy who worked his butt off to go from poverty to success is labeled the “elitist,” Is Obama wrong?

No, he is 100% right. I spent 4 years in a rural area as a teenager due to may parents being in the Military. The base bought a lot of jobs and upward mobility. However, those who weren’t taking advantage of the opportunities that the base provided found no progression in their lives and no improvement of the quality of their life. Most of the youth, upon graduating high school ether did nothing with themselves, or left the town in search of a better life. When your opportunities are limited due to economic downturns, or your own lack of ambition, it’s natural to be resentful and fall back on what makes you feel comfortable. In contrast, people in small towns are not inherently racist, gun lugging, bible beating, obtuse people. Additionally for Oboma to  say that people “cling to religion and guns” was a very wrong move on his part.

Overall I took his statement as a way of relating and offering empathy. I believe that Oboma was simply speaking (his perception of) how rural Americans see the world and empathizing with why they see the world the way they do. You can’t fix what you don’t acknowledge. He identified ( his perception of) the causes of problems instead of just blaming people for their symptoms, and hopefully he can focus on finding real solutions for them.

While I do believe that there is some truth in his statement, I do believe that he could have phrased it better.
So much for being an eloquent speaker.

On ABC news this evening….

This is appropiarewly classified as a “what were they thinking?’ post.

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Married men beware!

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Madam Palfrey makes the news again.

In the news today…so called D.C Madam is at it again.

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When You Are Attracted to Your Estranged Dad/Daughter

As seen on 60 minutes

Reporter: Peter Overton

Producer: Julia Timms

Producer: Hugh Nailon

A brother and sister - a father and daughter.

Now they’re about to reveal their deepest secret, one they’ve always tried to hide.

Their forbidden love. The psychologists call it “Genetic Sexual Attraction”.

When blood relatives fall for each other and sometimes do the unthinkable. And it’s not a rare phenomenon, the experts say we’d be surprised at how prevalent it actually is.

Nevertheless, in this country it’s illegal.

And many would say, immoral.

Not so, the two couples in this story told Peter Overton.

They claim they’re just ordinary folk, normal happy families.

Full transcript

PETER OVERTON: On the surface, they appear to be the picture-perfect family.

PHOTOGRAPHER: Beautiful, good.

PETER OVERTON: But for years John and Jenny Deaves have been hiding a dark secret and for the first time tonight they’re prepared to reveal it to the world. Let’s begin by explaining your relationship.

JENNIFER DEAVES: John is my father and he’s also my partner. We don’t see each other as ‘father and daughter’. I don’t see John as my father, even though he is my biological father.

PETER OVERTON: That’s right. John and Jenny are biological father and daughter. He’s 61, she’s 39. Yet they live together as a couple in every sense of the word.

JENNY DEAVES: We’re normal intellectual adults who have had careers, have had a normal life like everybody else but fallen in love with each other when we are biologically related, when we’ve discovered each other later in life.

JOHN DEAVES: I class myself as a man who has met a woman and we got romantically involved.

PETER OVERTON: Incredibly, their story is not as rare as you might think. In fact, as you’ll see, it’s a remarkably common phenomenon around the world.

NICK CAMERON: It didn’t feel as if there was anything actually wrong with what we were doing. But it was very confusing and looking back at things even now and it still confuses me why, why there’s this sort of intense need to be that close. I don’t really understand that at all, to be honest.

PETER OVERTON: Jenny’s story began when her parents split up. She was just a year old. She went on to marry and have two kids of her own and had little contact with her dad for almost three decades. But eight years ago, she decided to track John down. And why did you go looking for your father?

JENNY DEAVES: I had children. And I felt as though he needed to be part of their lives as their grandfather.

PETER OVERTON: What was the meeting like with John, your father?

JENNY DEAVES: It was like meeting a man. It was just like, although I knew that he was my father, it was like, when I met him I met John, I met a man, I met another adult.

PETER OVERTON: At the age of 31, Jenny was meeting her dad for only the third time in her life. Despite being fully aware of their blood ties an attraction grew between them.

JENNY DEAVES: After I’d been there quite a few days I started to notice my feelings were changing and that that I was seeing him as a man, as a person, as somebody who was loving, caring, who, like, yeah I was looking at him and sort of going “Oh, he’s not too bad.”

PETER OVERTON: He’s not too bad in what sense?

JENNY DEAVES: As in man-woman sense. Like you might look at a man across the bar at a nightclub.

PETER OVERTON: And John how were you?

JOHN DEAVES: Much the same. I met Jennifer and I realised she was a beautiful, desirable woman.

PETER OVERTON: Within a couple of weeks the unthinkable happened - father and daughter slept together. What was your physical relationship like?

JENNY DEAVES: Very loving as I, I don’t know, um … sexual relationship with any other man. It it’s a normal, loving…

JOHN DEAVES: I resent that.

JENNY DEAVES: … without going into any gloriful bedroom detail, it’s a normal, sexual, loving couple relationship.

PETER OVERTON: John?

JOHN DEAVES: Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.

PETER OVERTON: John, you didn’t think it was wrong, let alone illegal, to be in a sexual relationship with your daughter?

JOHN DEAVES: Initially, yes. But emotions take over as people no doubt realise. There are times during your life where emotions do rule the heart, rules the head. I knew it was illegal, of course I knew it was illegal but you know, so what.

PETER OVERTON: Knowing it was wrong in so many ways John and Jenny walked away from their respective partners and set up home together in South Australia. They brought up Jenny’s two children Samantha and Alex as their own. But then they would break the greatest taboo of all - Jenny fell pregnant with their baby. 9-month-old Celeste seems blissfully happy and perfectly healthy. Despite the odds. Children born to close-relative couplings are six times more likely to die at birth, did you consider that?

JOHN DEAVES: The way I look at it, it’s just like if I was married to Jennifer and she was not my biological daughter and we had a child. It’s exactly the same thing. The child is not deformed. It had no mental difficulties. Quite normal, healthy child.

PETER OVERTON: When we break it down - father to Jenny in a relationship with Jenny, your daughter. Your granddaughter?

JOHN DEAVES: Yeah, that’s right.

PETER OVERTON: That’s not a typical, normal suburban Australian life?

JOHN DEAVES: Oh no, of course not. To us, we’re just a normal, happy family like any man would be with his wife and children.

SAMANTHA DEAVES: I suppose as I’ve grown older…

PETER OVERTON: 14-year-old Samantha and 9-year-old Alex don’t know life any other way. What do you know about your mum’s situation with John?

SAMANTHA DEAVES: I know they are father and daughter. I’ve known from pretty much day one when I could understand it all. In the beginning when it all started I was fairly young, so it wasn’t a real big thing to me. As I’ve grown older, I don’t think of it any differently. I still think of it as ‘mum and dad’, that’s it.

ALEX DEAVES: You don’t wake up every morning and think, “Well, that’s my grandad AND dad.” It’s not. You don’t really do that.

PETER OVERTON: Looking at this website, it has a lot of traffic.

JOE SOLL: It has a lot of traffic because there’s a lot of people who are involved in these kinds of relationships and, um, it’s understandable.

PETER OVERTON: New York psychotherapist Joe Soll says John and Jenny are examples of a recognised phenomenon called ‘Genetic Sexual Attraction’ or GSA.

JOE SOLL: It is an attraction that develops between people who, generally speaking, have not been raised together and don’t have a taboo. They just want a hug, they want to get close and if they don’t have the taboo and they’re not careful it can turn into sex.

PETER OVERTON: And how often does it progress to a sexual relationship?

JOE SOLL: It’s too common. I can’t give you a number but it’s too common.

PETER OVERTON: Too common? You are saying it’s more widespread than society realises?

JOE SOLL: I think that people don’t have a clue as to how often it happens.

PETER OVERTON: Joe Soll says while attractions like Jenny and John’s do happen, they don’t have to progress to the next level.

JOE SOLL: I don’t doubt that they have the attraction, but it pisses me off that the man didn’t know how to not do that. He’s an adult. He should know better than to than to mess around with his daughter, he knows she’s his daughter.

PETER OVERTON: And it’s not always father and daughter. Danielle Heaney and Nick Cameron from Fife in Scotland are clearly a couple very much in love. They’re also half brother and sister. Had you ever experienced that intensity of feeling for another woman?

NICK CAMERON: I’ve never experienced that intensity, feeling that absolute need to be together, actually, I suppose you could describe it as. It’s almost, basically, like a pair of teenagers sort of meeting up, falling in love, effectively. It’s the same thing, but the intensity of it is so much more it’s unreal.

PETER OVERTON: Danielle and Nick have the same mum but grew up as strangers after Nick was placed in foster care. They only met as adults two years ago. What was the first kiss like for you, Danielle?

DANIELLE HEANEY: I think we were both wanting to kiss each other, but we were both hanging back as well, and when we eventually kissed I thought, “Oh, at last.”

PETER OVERTON: Nick, recall the moment when you first laid eyes on Danielle?

NICK CAMERON: Yeah, I mean it was literally, sort of looking and thinking, “Wow, she’s really attractive.” And then I thought, “Wait a minute, “this is your sister you’re talking about here. “Le-lets just not go there.”

PETER OVERTON: The pair desperately tried to keep their relationship secret. For one, they knew it was taboo, for another, Danielle was married. But one afternoon, Danielle and Nick’s mum discovered them having sex.

NICK CAMERON: She walked in on us in Danielle’s flat, on the couch, effectively, and called us a pair of scumbags and walked out. And she ended up calling the police, effectively, so it wasn’t a too clever a time.

PETER OVERTON: Your mum dobbed you in?

NICK CAMERON: Yeah.

PETER OVERTON: They were shunned by their families and charged with incest. Now on probation, they’re free to live together, but if they ever have sex again they’ll end up behind bars.

NICK CAMERON: If we break that order then it would be a prison sentence. And the maximum prison sentence for incest is actually life imprisonment in Scotland.

PETER OVERTON: It’s a big thing to have hanging over your heads.

NICK CAMERON: It’s huge, especially when we love each other as much as we do but the law’s the law. I mean, in my eyes it’s too black and white, it doesn’t take all the sort of science into consideration, it just says, “Well this is how things are end of story.” And to me there is no such thing as black and white, there are a million shades of grey in the middle.

PETER OVERTON: Australian authorities charged John and Jenny with incest after they, too, were dobbed in by relatives. They’re on a 3-year good behaviour bond and for them, as well, sex is out. John, the courts want you to stop having a physical relationship.

JOHN DEAVES: Yes.

PETER OVERTON: Can you do that and keep the relationship together?

JENNY DEAVES: Yes.

JOHN DEAVES: Yes.

JENNY DEAVES: To say that I’m not going to have sex with John doesn’t mean I have to stop loving John or caring for John. The important thing I think that people should remember is that John and I are in this relationship as consenting adults, that we are not harming each other.

JOHN DEAVES: Or anyone else.

PETER OVERTON: John and Jenny insist there are no victims in their relationship. But therapist Joe Soll believes their children, Alex and Samantha and especially Celeste will be psychologically scarred by their upbringing.

JOE SOLL: I can’t even wrap my head around it. Her father and mother are father and daughter? What’s that going to be like? What’s that going to teach her about the world? What’s she gonna think about herself? About how she was created. How could any child of a union like that not be a victim? How are they going to grow up and not have it torture them?

SAMANTHA DEAVES: Society can think what they want. I’m living it and I’m happy. I am going to go out and I’m going to have a normal relationship when I’m older. And that’s how I want it to be.

PETER OVERTON: In the UK, Danielle and Nick’s relationship is out in the open after their highly-public court case. So you’re out and you’re saying “I’m proud about this”?

DANIELLE HEANEY: Yeah, because I don’t think we’ve got anything to be ashamed of. It’s the most natural thing in the world to fall in love with an absolutely gorgeous man. And I have.

PETER OVERTON: But in Mount Gambier few people know the truth about the Deaves family. Jenny and John only hope that now they’ve revealed their secret, people will accept their relationship.

JENNY DEAVES: We are not going out there to hurt anybody, to murder anybody, to blackmail anybody, to do anything to anybody else. We are just asking for a little bit of respect and understanding and to be left to live our life like we are, like we do not go and walk in and impose on anybody else’s life,

PETER OVERTON: If we crystal balled and I came back in five years?

JENNY DEAVES: I’d love you to come back in five years.

JOHN DEAVES: What do you reckon I’d find?

JENNY DEAVES: You’d find a loving, happy family that you see today.

JOHN DEAVES: Exactly what you see to today.

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It’s now official….

Men’s sex drive is what causes financial messes.

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Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated,

everything seems to speak to me of my passion,

everything invites me to cherish it.” Anne de Lenclos

Signs that your girlfriend is bisexual

Scoring yourself a lady friend who also enjoys women can be an exciting journey — so long as you are both prepared to embark on it. Bisexuality obviously has its perks for some, and all the extra adventures can enhance your sex life. But she doesn’t have to be truly bisexual (in the most proper sense of the word) for the erotic feminine-loving side of her to emerge (with you present).

There are two versions of women who get it on with other women: the bisexual woman and the bi-curious woman. While bi-curious women are playful and ready to experiment with their sexuality just for fun, bisexual women may or may not be willing to ask you to join in on their girl-on-girl escapades.

Here’s how to tell if your girl is bisexual and whether or not she’s keen to play.

BEING BISEXUAL:

Being bisexual is not something to be made light of. It can be extremely confusing and heartbreaking, and it might be difficult to deal with emotionally. A bisexual woman is not there for your erotic entertainment, so if you want to spend your time with a bisexual woman, get that out of your head — this is not what this relationship is about. If your girlfriend comes out of the closet, treat it the same as if she told you she’s a lesbian: with kindness and care. If she decides that she would like to experiment with you and others, good for you both. If not, don’t push it.

She openly appreciates women

Women who love other women and can appreciate their finer qualities are gems — they are generally not threatened by the beauty of another, and can join you in admiring them. Everyone loves pretty things, and women overall tend to be very pretty things. This is certainly not a definitive clue, but if she is able to appreciate the sex appeal of a woman, then it means her mind is open to observing such things… and maybe, just maybe, it’s also open to more.

She refers to past experiences

If she gets with girls — or has done so in the past — it is likely enough that it will get bought up at some point. With all the woman-smooching that’s been going on in the last 10 or so years (apparently everyone is doing it or has done it), it is highly likely that she has done it at some stage. Whether she liked it or not, and wants to repeat the experience, however, is another story. You will need to probe for more information.

She’s into girl-on-girl porn

Her loving lesbian porn is a dead giveaway. This will tell you a lot more than any other clue. If she can actually watch and enjoy a woman being pleasured by another woman, then it is highly likely that she wouldn’t mind a bit of that action herself.

She’s overly affectionate with certain friends

This can be a good clue, but don’t let your imagination run too rampant — it probably isn’t the girl you wish it was, and making up huge fantasies about your girl and her friends is likely to land you in trouble. Hinting will probably get you in trouble if you’re wrong, so keep it to yourself until you can see what is clearly going on.

LOVIN’ THE LADIES…

The easiest way to find out what she likes is to ask her. Amazing, I know, but true. She will probably not have a problem telling you about her experiences, desires and fantasies involving other women. She will be aware that it is one of man’s most sought-after experiences, and because of that, she’ll probably be quite willing to share.

The kind of conversation starter you could try is, “When was the first time you kissed a girl?” This assumes she has, and will no doubt make her giggle as she relates the story — or, it enables you to ask if she would like to (hypothetically, of course). Keep it light, keep it sexy, and maybe you’ll get what you want. Be respectful, be kind, and whatever you do, don’t push your luck — it has a way of backfiring…