Carlton Supporters Club

Funny thing... My 19 year old daughter who I didn't think had a great knowledge (or even any interest) of US politics walked past the television the other day as the New Hampshire results came through....and said "Sanders, Yes!"

It's not just the American kids who are taking notice of the old bloke.

Shamefully, the Republicans are saying they won't allow Obama to fill the vacant position.

If Trump or Cruz can get in and stack the Supreme Court, the US will be radically changed in a way that might take decades to reverse.

Funny conspiracy theories being floated now suggesting Obama assassinated Justice Scalia.

A right-wing broadcaster and wingnut, Alex Jones, has told everyone that he can feel it in his gut that this is what happened. No evidence required.

The "smoking gun" facts are that Scalia had no Secret Service protection, a pillow was found on top of his head, a death certificate was issued over the phone without any doctor sighting the body, and there has been no autopsy with the body being embalmed soon afterwards.  The conspiracists have little time for mundane explanations, such as Scalia declining protection given how remote the ranch was, the fact that issuing death certificates without inspecting the body is quite normal in that area because many locations are so remote that it's impractical to require doctors to go to the body, the fact that the doctor issuing the certificate conferred with Scalia's doctor who described his health problems, and the fact that it was the family's call as to whether autopsy would be held.  The pillow point is a bit of a wet squib given that some have the habit of putting a pillow over their heads to block out light and sound and a highly-paid assassin is unlikely to forget to remove a pillow used to suffocate the target.

It's funny to see right-wing wingnuts regarding a family's decision to refuse an autopsy as troubling,  They are all for individual rights and against the oppressive Federal government and yet they don't like th fact that the Government didn't override the family's decision.  Bizarre indeed.

In more than a thousand emails to Women on Web, a Canada-based group that provides advice and medication for women wanting an abortion in countries where it is banned, the women beg for the pills that are banned by law in their respective countries of Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru or El Salvador.

Laws against abortion vary by country in Latin America. Some, like El Salvador, outlaw abortion in all cases, including rape and incest. Others, such as Colombia, allow for abortions when a fetus displays signs of a severe deformity -- a narrow exception that abortion rights advocates argue should apply to microcephaly.

Across the region, Zika has thrown predominantly Catholic, socially conservative countries into a sudden and fierce debate over abortion. In some countries, arguments are raging at the highest levels of the judicial system. The mysterious disease could end up dramatically altering women's rights in the western hemisphere.

In the meantime, however, women are writing to Women on Web, asking for pills.

A Huffinton Post article debunks the theory that larvicide caused the birth defects in Brazil, including a counter to the argument that other nations affected by the Zika virus hadn't experienced an increase in the incidence of microcephaly: http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/zika-monsanto-pyriproxyfen-microcephaly_us_56c2712de4b0b40245c79f7c?section=australia.

Now we have Womens Rights group using Zika as cover to argue the right to abortion

You're on fire today, first Roughead's cancer scars and now "feminist's" rights.

Roughead's cancer scars, wtf are you talking about?

I've heard rumors Roughheads massive chin arrives at venues by forklift 5 minutes before the rest of him does!

Nice try.