PG Wodehouse is an acknowledged genius. Every book of his is a delight to read. The subtle injections of humor that fill his books, the outrageous characters which make you laugh at their every word and every action, the scent of romance that is an integral part of his stories – all add up to give the reader a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience . Indeed, every work of his makes you lose yourself, forget all your worries, and immerse yourself in the sheer joy of reading Wodehouse.

'Right Ho, Jeeves' (also published as 'Brinkley Manor') is one novel of Wodehouse that is particularly magical. Like the other Jeeves stories, this one, too, relies heavily on Bertie Wooster's less than sharp-witted nature and Jeeves' genius for much of its humor. 'Right Ho, Jeeves' is special because it is a novel in which Bertie is farthest from sharp wit, and Jeeves' brain power is at its best.

The plot is, like most Wodehouse plots, centered on contrived romantic complications. The story is set in Brinkley Manor, where Bertie's Aunt Dahlia is holidaying with her daughter Angela, her friend Madeline, and Tuppy Glossop, the man to whom her daughter is engaged. Bertie's friend Gussie Fink-Nottle has a crush on Madeline. Bertie is invited to Brinkley Manor, where he realizes that he is faced with the fearful prospect of delivering a speech at a local school. To avoid the ordeal, Bertie invites Gussie to Brinkley Manor, tempting him with hopes of winning over Madeline. Bertie's actual intention is, of course, to make Gussie deliver the speech at the school in lieu of him.

Complications arise when Bertie, through his attempts to help Gussie's love, somehow gives Madeline the impression that he is in love with her. To Bertie's relief, though, she makes it clear that she cannot marry him, as she is in love with another person, who Bertie strongly believes is Gussie. Gussie, however, is too timid to propose to Madeline.

A comic situation begins to be formed when Gussie is encouraged by Bertie to get drunk to shed his apprehensions. Gussie, unfortunately, ends up drinking more than what would be considered normal, and goes to the local school to deliver his speech in a heavily inebriated state. Gussie delivers a riotously hilarious speech, slamming Bertie in an unabashed way, and even taking digs at the school's headmaster. The speech is loved by the students, but not so much by Bertie and the school's authorities. To make things worse, Gussie proposes to Angela, and Angela accepts him, just to anger Tuppy.

When bad comes to worse in a Wodehouse novel, the savior has to be Jeeves. He sets things right in his typical style, sending Bertie on a long bicycle trip which Bertie later finds out to be futile, and while he is gone, using clever subterfuge to set every single thing right. Gussie and Madeline come together, Angela and Tuppy come together, and Aunt Dalhia is happy. Of course, all this happens at the expense of Bertie's honor, which is crashed to pieces by Jeeves in executing his plan.

The scene where Gussie distributes prizes is one of the funniest pieces of writing one can ever come across. One can read it over and over again, and his lips would twitch into a smile – at the least – every single time. The entire novel, in fact, is a laugh riot, with Wodehouse's most famous characters at their shining best. If anytime, you want to brighten your day up with some humor, this is the book you should get your hands on.

Nineteenth century Braidwood, Illinois was a wild and rowdy place. The town was built on top of coal, and it attracted hardy miners from the east. Braidwood sprouted like a mushroom after rain, practically overnight. James Braidwood sank the first coal shaft in 1872, and within a year over two thousand people had moved to Braidwood. Miners were a rough and tumble crowd: most of the early city inhabitants were of Irish stock, but there were also poor people from practically all the countries of Europe. Considering that the population of Braidwood consisted of immigrants from many countries, it is not surprising to see that there were conflicts about religion and politics; and these conflicts sometimes erupted violently. In April 1876 a closely contested election was held for officers for the town of Braidwood.

Just before the polls closed, fights broke out near the Braidwood Illinois healthcare facility and Braidwood hospital, resulting in a general melee. Marshall Simms searched the crowd and then arrested Pat Creeley, a ringleader of the rebellion. Creeley did not resist the arresting officers, but the crowd tried to wrestle Simms to the ground. The Marshall drew his gun, with the intention of using it as a club. The crowd then attempted to grab the gun away from him. Simms retreated, leaving Creeley with the crowd. By this time the general melee increased, and a number of innocent bystanders were assaulted and beaten. The quickness of the attacks gave a sense of victory to the rioters. The violence then calmed down; however not for long. There was a spirit of violence and rioting abroad, which resulted in an attack upon the polls. The mob again triumphed, thus stealing the entire records of the election. One poll counter for the Republican party who had tried to save the ballot count list he had made was beaten senseless by the unmerciful mob. And, there were no further arrests.

By the next year, 1877, things took a turn for the worse as the entire nation was in the throes of a depression. Jobs were scarce everywhere, and workers with good-paying jobs like Braidwood healthcare workers had to accept pay cuts to keep what they could. Trains stopped, shops closed, machinery fell idle. In the coalfields the demand for coal fell radically as factories cut back production or failed altogether. In April of 1877 the coal companies demanded that their miners take a pay cut. The winter pay rate went from 90 to 65 cents per ton mined; and the summer rate went from 85 to 70 cents per ton. The miners retaliated by going on strike. The mining companies brought in outside strikebreakers including "black legs" – train carloads full of blacks from the impoverished rural South – who were hired on a daily basis. By the end of July 1877 a crisis boiled over, when the striking miners formed groups to maim or kill all of the strikebreakers in town, especially the black legs. The county officials and police, feeling overwhelmed, called for help from the governor. Governor Cullom responded by sending 1,300 soldiers to the riot scene to restore civil order (two hundred of the force eventually invested and occupied the city for weeks).

Most people think they will always be safe and never have to worry about riots, looting or civil unrest. However, most people also figured that the US would always be solvent, as opposed to becoming the biggest debtor nation in the history of the world. With the greatest number of people ever now receiving government assistance, what will happen when the government can no longer cut those checks.

Equally as bad, what will happen when the checks people receive lose their purchasing power due to hyperinflation? We are living in times unlike any other in history, where generations of Americans have grown up totally financially dependent upon the government, and the government is broke. History has taught us that when people lose hope, they take to the streets, and desperate people do desperate things.

Now Is The Time To Plan Home Defense

It takes very little planning now to enact some steps that can literally save your life if/when riots and looting strike your area. Contrary to popular opinion, you don’t necessarily needs guns to protect yourself, your home and your loved ones from rioters or looters. Not if you are smart. The key is to “harden your house” to make is a less attractive target and also a more difficult place to loot. You won’t have to brandish a firearm if looters never choose your house. The time to take these steps is now, when there is no emergency.

The first thing to do is to employ passive measures to make your house less of a target. Just as the overwhelming majority of home invasions happen through the front door, your front door communicates a lot to would-be looters. If your outer door is the kind with decorative steel instead of a large pane of glass, it looks much less inviting. So your first step of “house hardening” should be to look at replacing your front door. In addition, the installation of “The Door Club” is a $40 investment that will make your door nearly impossible to kick in, and it will take less than an hour to install. This way, when you are home and the door club is in place, anyone wanting to come in your front door will be stopped, or at the very least delayed greatly, even if they have a battering ram that the police use.

Safety Is Beautiful

Once your front door is secured, both by looking secure with a steel outer door, and by being very secure with a Door Club, turn your attention to your front windows. It is NOT necessary to install burglar bars, which most people find less than attractive. A great way to keep people from coming in your windows is by planting rose bushes! Anyone who has picked roses knows from painful experience that a bush full of sharp thorns is NOT an obstacle that you will take lightly. Planting rose bushes is a very modest investment – they can be purchased for under ten dollars each and they grow and grow. Anyone starting to go through your roses to get to your window will soon stop.

A More Fiendish Deterrent

While you are waiting for your roses to grow, or if there is an emergency before you have time to plant them, boards like 2 x 4’s with nails sticking up will do the same thing. They can be either fastened to the window sill to let those approaching know what they are in for, or they can be placed on the ground under the windows with a half-inch of dirt concealing them, so that looters will discover them the hard way.

Your Final Line of Defense

If you have followed the steps above, your home is hardened and is much less likely to be burglarized or looted. However, there is always the chance that an unwelcome guest could get inside and threaten the safety of you and your family. If you don’t have a firearm and some training, there is a simple non-lethal way to protect yourself. Mace or pepper spray is a great way to persuade someone to leave you alone. If you are going to be using it indoors, consider a gel type instead of a spray type, so that the entire room is not fogged with the noxious spray.

Another option is a $4 can of wasp spray. Wasp spray will shoot a stream 20 feet or more, which is a better distance to engage any enemy than up close. If you had several cans, it could possibly be employed from an upstairs window against a small group of troublemakers outside your house. As with lethal force, you must think long and hard about under what circumstances you would employ these weapons, as well as considering any legal ramifications. Attacking someone, even in self-defense, is a serious matter.

There are many other ways to keep yourself, your family and your home safe during times of civil unrest or disasters, whether natural or manmade. For the specific plans about being prepared, you can go to a ‘nuts and bolts’ regular guy Prepper YouTube channel at

http://www.youtube.com/survive2day.

One of the most interesting facts about living in Crown Heights a small Brooklyn neighborhood, is how a large population of largely Caribbean and African descent and a large minority of Hasidic Jews could live in the same neighborhood, almost side by side and not interact. The tensions over the years have been well known. It was not until August of 1991 that the true tension came to light and would become known as the "Crown Heights Riots."

As a well-known rabbi was being escorted across town in a motorcade, one of the cars in the motorcade accidentally stuck and killed a Guyanese immigrant child and his cousin. Although accounts differ, what is known is that the Jewish driver of the car that struck the children was attacked by a group of black men prior to the ambulances arriving. A Jewish volunteer ambulance arrived first and took the driver to a Jewish hospital and shortly thereafter another ambulance arrived to take the children to a hospital. One of the children died shortly after getting to the hospital. The black community was unsettled that the driver of the vehicle was taken from the scene before the children and stated it was racially motivated.

After the accident, violence erupted. An Australian Orthodox Jew, who was walking in the Crown Heights neighborhood, was attacked and killed by a group of black men. This ultimately started riots and violence revolving around the racial and cultural tensions between the Hasidic Jewish community and the African and Caribbean American communities.

The riots, which included three days of violence, looting, damages to many Jewish homes, ultimately resulted in politicians and local leaders needing to work harder towards racial reconciliation in the neighborhood. The Crown Heights Riot had a major impact on New York City Mayor election in 1993. Mayor David Dinkins was criticize of his handling of the Crown Heights riots stating he did not deploy enough police and act quick enough. He ultimately lost a lot of supporter during the 1993 race, which led to his defeat by Rudolph Giuliani.

In 1857, it was chaotic times in New York City as the city’s two adverse police forces battled over the right to arrest people, and to accept graft from anyone willing and able to pay them.

In 1853, under Democratic Mayor Harper, the first uniformed police force in New York City was created. Their uniform consisted of a blue coat with brass buttons, a blue cap and gray pants. Led by Police Chief George G. Matsell, the police were generally more crooked than the crooks, taking bribes not to arrest people, and sometimes taking bribes to arrest people. The citizens of New York City complained that their police force, called the Municipal Police, was “the worse in the world.”

Fernando Wood was a millionaire in the real estate business by the age of thirty-seven. Buying votes through his wealth, on January 1, 1855, Wood became Mayor of New York City. Wood immediately inserted himself as head of the police graft-gravy-train, charging new police captains $200 a year for a promotion to their $1000-a-year job. Of course, to make up the shortfall, the police captains received $40 a year from each patrolman under their command. The policemen, in turn, shook down honest citizens and protected dishonest citizens, so everyone on the public law enforcement dole was quite happy to keep things just the way they were.

The New York State Legislature would have none of this. In 1857, they passed an act creating a new Metropolitan Police Force, with Fredrick Talmage named as Superintendent of the force. The legislature also ordered Wood to immediately disband his 1100 member Municipal Police Force. Wood refused, saying the creation of the new police force was unconstitutional. Thus the court battle began over which police force would be the one to patrol New York City. The Supreme Court soon voted the creation of the new police force was indeed constitutional. Yet Wood, with the backing of Police Chief Matsell, steadfastly refused to cooperate. 800 men, all aligned with the Democratic Party, stayed with Wood and Matsell. But 300 men, under respected Police Captain George W. Walling, defected and comprised the new Metropolitan Police Force, which was backed by the Republican Party.

On June 16, 1857, the issue came to a head. The street commissioner Joseph Taylor had died, and Wood, for the sum of $50,000, appointed Charles Devlin as the new street commissioner. On the same day, Republican Governor John A. King appointed Daniel Conover to the same position. As Conover entered City Hall to assume his new post, Wood had his Municipal Police throw Conover out of the building. Conover immediately went to a Republican judge, who swore out two warrants for Wood’s arrest; one for assault and one for inciting to riot. Captain Walling strode to City Hall to arrest Wood on the assault charge, but he was met by a contingent of 500 Municipals. He was allowed to enter the building and Wood’s office. But when Captain Walling told Wood he was under arrest for assault, Wood refused to recognize the legality of the arrest warrant.

Captain Walling grabbed Wood’s arm to lead him out of the building, but he was immediately swarmed by twenty Municipals and thrown out of City Hall himself. Captain Walling repeatedly tried to go back up the steps of City Hall, but he was beaten back every time.

Suddenly, a contingent of 100 Metropolitan Police, wearing their new uniforms of frock coats and plug hats, arrived to serve the second arrest warrant on Wood. Instead of wearing the gold badges of the Municipals, the Mets wore copper badges, which gave birth to the term “coppers,” then “cops.” The Metropolitan Police were described by essayist G.T. Strong as, “a miscellaneous assortment of suckers, soaplocks, Irishmen and Plug-Uglies (an Irish Street Gang).”

Thus began a horrendous half-hour battle between the two New York City Police Departments. The Mets were vastly outnumber by the Municipals, and when the fight was over, some Mets were lucky enough to be able to flee unharmed. Still, 53 Mets were injured, 12 were hurt seriously and one was crippled for life.

While the fighting was intensifying, Captain Walling rushed over the office of Sheriff J.J.V. Westervelt, and implored the sheriff to arrest Mayor Wood. After consulting with a state attorney, Captain Walling, Sheriff Westervelt, and the state attorney marched to City Hall and pushed their way into Wood’s office. When the three men informed Wood he was indeed under arrest, he shouted at them, “I will never let you arrest me!”

At the same time, a beaten contingent of Mets spotted the Seventh Regiment of the National Guard boarding a boat for Boston. The Mets convinced the National Guard that they were needed to police a state matter. Recognizing the severity of the situation, Major General Charles Sandford marched his men to City Hall. As his troops stood guard, Sandford strode up the steps of City Hall and into Wood’s office, where he announced to Wood that he was under arrest. Wood looked out the window and spotted the National Guard. Realizing his men were no match for the military troops, Wood finally submitted to the arrest.

Yet, this was only the beginning of a long strife. For the rest of the summer, the two police forces constantly conflicted. When a Met cop arrested a crook, a Municipal would step in and set the man free. And visa versa. On numerous occasions, contingents of policemen would raid the other’s station house and free all the prisoners. In the meantime, the criminals of New York City were having a fine time indeed. While the two police forces battled each other all hours of the day and night, honest citizens were robbed while they walked the streets. Murders were committed with impunity. And still, all the two police forces were interested in was fighting each other.

This total indifference by the two New York City police departments led to a two-day riot on July 4th and 5th, of 1857, when the Bowery Boys and the Dead Rabbits street gangs squared off with fists, knives, stones and pistols. As many as 1000 gang members were involved. Hundreds were injured and several gang members killed. The riots also led to the indiscriminate looting of stores, in the Five Points and Bowery areas, and as far north as 14th Street.

Finally, in the fall of 1857, the Court of Appeals upheld the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Metropolitan Police was the only legitimate police force in town. The Municipals were disbanded, and although Mayor Wood had been arrested, he was released on bond and never tried.

The Mets, who were injured in the June 16th fight, sued Mayor Wood for personal damages. They were awarded $250 apiece by the courts, but Mayor Wood refused to pay a single dime. Finally, the city of New York was forced to pay the damages from the city treasury, including the injured Mets’ legal costs.

Wood was defeated in the 1858 Mayoral race by Daniel F. Tiemann. Yet, in 1862, the rotten Wood was somehow re-elected mayor of New York City until 1862. After the Civil Ward started, Wood floated a trail balloon, whereby New York City would secede itself from the state of New York, which was run by Republicans, and become a free city. Wood’s proposal was shot down, and New York Tribune’s Horace Greeley, wrote in an editorial, “Fernando Wood evidently wants to be a traitor. It is lack of courage only that makes him content with being a blackguard.”

In 1867, Wood found his true calling, in the United States House of Representatives, where he served, not too admirably, until his death on February 14, 1881.

Year later, statesman and author John Bigelow, who knew Wood well, said that Wood was, “The most corrupt man who ever sat in the mayor’s chair (of New York City).”

A young Malaysian student nursing a broken jaw, inflicted upon him during the August 2011 riots across Britain, expressed sorrow for those who robbed him during their pretext of coming to his aid. His compassion toward their actions made headlines around the world. The Prime Minister of Britain made it clear that he had no such thoughts of compassion toward the crimes committed by the rioters. His angry political reaction also made world headlines. The question arises as to why this violent rioting with its various degrees of compassion had occurred in the first place? A scientific answer can be considered to exist related to a newly emerging medical chemistry.

The mathematical association between evolving human emotion and an infinite reality can only be scientifically investigated through the use of fractal geometrical logic. During the First Kingdom of Egypt, pictures were made depicting such geometrical logic being used to link compassion to an imaginary infinite hereafter. Egyptian hieroglyphs record that in the Second Kingdom, following the collapse of the First Kingdom through a prolonged drought, the concepts of compassion, mercy and justice were fused into political law. Philosophers from ancient Greece, including Pythagoras, traveled to Egypt to study this geometry of political ethics. That knowledge formed the basis of the science developed by the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy, which was called the Science for Ethical Ends.

When a Roman Christain mob burned the Great Library of Alexandria in the 5th Century and murdered its custodian, the mathematician Hypatia, St Augustine proclaimed her use of Platonic fractal logic to be a pagan heresy and the mathematics was condemmend as the work of the Devil. Western science became so contaminated with this nonsense that 20th Century science became based upon the Einsteinian world-view, in which an incorrect understanding of the second law of thermodynamics became the premier law governing all of the sciences. This meant that it became impossible to associate human evolution to infinite fractal logic, although scientists agreed that such logic did indeed extend to infinity.

The 21st Century development of Platonic-Fullerene chemistry has demonstrated that the living process is indeed a fractal logic phenomenon, which challenges the now obsolete understanding of the second law of thermodynamics. Global economic rationalism, based upon the second law mentality, contains no sustainable ethics at all, no matter how much it is praised by entropic aestheticism. The current global economic turmoil, acting against naturally evolving compassion, is now definable within the functioning of the Molecule of Emotion discovered by Dr Candace Pert in 1972. It is simply the acceleration of the ugly unethical universal chaos as is precisely defined by the outdated understanding of the second law of thermodynamics.

The solution to this social scientific insanity is about knowledge of how the workings of entropic chemistry are balanced by the functioning of Platonic-Fullerene chemistry. Entropic quantum mechanics co-exists with the fractal logic of quantum biology. Obviously, this will need assistance from people with economic genius who are interested in helping to create the wealth belonging to the technologies associated with a sustainable human compassionate reality. As the unnatural global debt crisis continues to damage both the material and Platonic spiritual (holographic) environments, so the entropic nightmare that we live in, will increase in creating further needless chaos and destruction. That is simply the stated prime directive of the unbalanced entropic world-view ethos.

Aristotle concieved of an ethical medical science to guide ennobling government so that civilization would not become extinct. As Platonic-Fullerene chemisty is developed as a medical science, the ennobling wisdom innate within the ancient Atomistic science for ethical ends, can beharnessed as a more sustainable guideline for a new ethical global economic rationalism.

© Professor Robert Pope.

As an Australian looking on to the racial unrest that has plagued the United States for centuries the white supremacy movement is just another abomination. Whether it’s the culture or other things those who are upset with non-whites should look at their own backgrounds. Like in this country no whites owned America before Europeans arrived and many native Indians were slaughtered so they could in effect ‘steal’ their country.

In reality no one owns anything in the eyes of God. We are all temporary citizens who have been placed in certain places where we live. No matter the colour of our skin we are exactly the same inside. What makes us appear different is the horror that whites have inflicted against the different native cultures in their ongoing war against them.

While my colour is white (from an English/Scottish background) it allows me to speak with disgust against the hatred that many have for coloured folk. What is it about them that makes those who pretend to be civilised act in such a horrendous way?

Indigenous Australians are also survivors of persecution and murder. They have been pushed aside in the rush for European settlers to settle the country. After the initial onslaught many have taken a fresh look at what represent and that was seen as a threat.

To begin with their arrival on this land was some 65,000 years ago, according to the latest finds. They cherished and nurtured it and made a living from what white people considered a hostile landscape. They developed a culture that is now featured on the world stage and many are paying thousands for the art-work and other products.

Like the American natives and African-Americans, they were used as slaves, paid little or nothing for their efforts, and mostly despised when they tried to rise up above their lowly status. Isn’t this what the race riots in the USA are about today? Don’t they represent competition which the jealous ‘better class’ can’t stand?

The white psyche appears to retaliate against anything and anyone who stands in their way of power. Perhaps this is why there is such a back-lash against Barack Obama, who in the opinion of many Australians, was one of the finest presidents of recent times. The slander and videos against him is typical of those who consider themselves ‘better’.

The people making trouble in the city of Charlottesville and elsewhere need a wake-up call. Put away your hate and look on those who have helped to build your country with love and respect. That way a civil war might be avoided.