Arkancide

Arkancide (pronounced ahr-kuhn-side)

A neologism coined to describe the remarkably high death-toll (by causes such as "suicide", "misadventure" and "accident") among those associated with Bill (b 1946; US President 1993-2001) and Hillary Clinton (b 1947).

2005-2006: A compound word Arkan(sas) + -cide.  The name of Arkansas, the US state, was applied first to the Arkansas River and derives from the Modern French Arcansas, the plural form of the transliteration of akansa, an Algonquian term for the Quapaw people (a Dhegiha Siouan-speaking people who settled in the area in the thirteenth century); Akansa is thought also the likely root of Kansas, another US state.  Aspects of the word Arkansas have long been debated.  Pronunciation had varied from the start and it wasn’t until 1881 the state legislature defined the official pronunciation being with the final "s" silent, following the French practice and in 2007, the politicians passed a resolution declaring the possessive form to be Arkansas's.  The suffix –cide is a word-forming element meaning "killer", from the French -cide, from the Latin -cida (cutter, killer, slayer), from -cidere, a combining form of caedere (to strike down, chop, beat, hew, fell, slay), from the Proto-Italic kaid-o-, from the root kae-id- (to strike).  The element also can represent "killing," from the French -cide, from the Latin -cidium (a cutting, a killing).

Bill Clinton built his political base in Arkansas, first as attorney-general, later as governor and in Arkansas, as subsequently in the White House, with each election of Bill, voters received a free copy of crooked Hillary.  Arkancide was coined to describe the phenomenon of the surprisingly high number of deaths (especially the many recorded officially as “accident” or ruled “suicide” even if the method “chosen” appeared, prima facie, to make self-inflicted injuries actually impossible) among those associated with Bill and crooked Hillary Clinton.  Depending on which conspiracy theorist does the body count, the numbers bounce around a bit and the more rigorous researchers do exclude from their lists those souls for whom the cause of death was, at least on the balance of probabilities, not suspicious, but every tally is in the dozens.  What all agree is the catalogue begins with Kevin Ives (1970-1987) & Don Henry (1971-1987) in 1987 and ends (thus far) with Jeffrey Epstein (1953-2019) in 2019 and it’s difficult to guess at the veracity of the connection between the Clintons and all these deaths.  Like any data set, much work will have to be done to determine the relationship between cause and effect to ensure correlation is not confused with causation.  It must be coincidental, many of the dead just really unlucky and statisticians who have run the numbers say the conspiracy theory is debunked, one notable factor the unusually large number of people who could in some way be linked with any US president.  Beginning in the 1990s, the slang terms for the phenomenon were "Clintonization" & "Clinton Body Count" but neither never caught on to the extent  of Arkancide, probably because the latter, being a little more removed, functions better as a euphemism.  Also, pre-dating even the arrival of the Clintons in Arkansas politics, was the sardonic phrase Arkansas Sudden Death Syndrome (ASDS), used to describe those whose death was said to be at the hands of the state's employees, this means of demise apparently unusually frequent in Arkansas.

The idea of a biopic documenting the allegedly murderous trail of death in the wake of Bill & Hillary was so obviously and attractively filmic that it must be only the fear of litigation that has prevented a project coming to fruition.  The satirical site Weekly World News did suggest Bill & Hill might be in the works, the casting for crooked Hillary an obvious choice but left unexplored was who to play her husband.  To depict Bill Clinton would demand a wider range than most actors possess so it would be tempting to look outside the profession and cast former film producer Harvey Weinstein (b 1952) but his commitments make that now impossible, though presumably he could play Jeffrey Epstein, on-location as it were.  Still, so irresistible is the lure of a tale like this that screenplays presumably lie in drawers, awaiting the circumstances (god forbid) which will permit the pitch.

The Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport

Originally named Adams Field, in 2012 the airport in Little Rock, Arkansas was renamed the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport although the earlier name continues to be used when referring to the runways and air movements.  In its October 2013 edition, Travel + Leisure magazine released the results of a survey which found travelers ranked the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport as the worst of the sixty-seven surveyed.  A survey commissioned by the airport contradicted this, finding that more than ninety percent of passengers were satisfied with their experience.  https://www.clintonairport.com/