Z If Trump were captain of the RMS Titanic

Yahoo shared article about trump's CNN defamation lawsuit being thrown out. Someone with User name "Z" wrote:

 

IF trump were captain of the RMS Titanic…

There isn't any iceberg.
There was an iceberg but it's in a totally different ocean.
The iceberg is in this ocean but it will melt very soon.

There is an iceberg but we didn't hit the iceberg.

We hit the iceberg, but the damage was very minimal.

The iceberg is a Chinese iceberg.
This iceberg is fake.

Look, passengers need to ask nicely for the lifeboats if they want them.

We don't have any lifeboats, we're not lifeboat distributors.

We have lifeboats and they're supposed to be our lifeboats, not the passengers' lifeboats.

The lifeboats were left on shore by the last captain of this ship
To be captain I qualify as not smart, but genius, and a very stable genius at that!

This iceberg is a hoax.
The FBI planted the iceberg.
Never heard of that iceberg.
Nobody could have foreseen the iceberg.
Deep State trying to make me look bad.

It's a very nasty iceberg.
I was very busy.
It's not my fault.
I take no responsibility.
It was bravado, there's no iceberg.

There's no colliding, it's a witch hunt.
I never make mistakes.
Never met that iceberg before.
This iceberg is not my type.
This iceberg is highly overrated.

This iceberg has done significant harm to my reputation, I'm suing.
I'm a legitimate person, I never do wrong things.
This iceberg is weak and pathetic.
THEY create a lot of phony icebergs.

I didn’t know what an iceberg really was until i became captain.
This iceberg doesn’t frighten me.
This iceberg is harassing me now.

LOOK WHAT THIS ICEBERG IS DOING TO ME..

Bible & Book Banning

Comment by JJ:
They should make the bible mandatory reading. It's the best way to turn Christians into atheists.
Buy a Bible, but don’t read it, and you’ll be a Catholic.
Buy a Bible, read only what suits you and you’ll be an Evangelical.
Buy a Bible, read it fully, analyze it, reason it, and you will be an Atheist.

The comment was on a Yahoo news shared Letters to the Editor, Opinion, Florida Today, ragging on Ms. Julie Marshall, member of Moms for Liberty, and banning books. Comments either agree with the letter writer or slam her. Typical slurring Democrats, "libs," "lefties" as pedos, wanting 5-year-olds to read porno.

Some slurs on conservatives ~ the typical "trailer park" or "can't read" stuff. A lot pointing out Bible texts which would be inappropriate to read to children. Slurs on the Bible or just nicely worded putdowns. Round and round they go. Such hatred and anger from Republicans towards Democrats. Mostly mocking of GOP from others ~ might be Green, or Democrats, less hating, more laughing than hatring.

The most Irate, often ALL Caps comments from people saying there is no book banning, they can buy it and read it. Truth is that DeSantis and others in Florida, are indeed banning books from school libraries or trying to do so, causing school board vs. parents fights.

One asserted that there have been no books banned since Fanny Farmer. Odd that the American or National Association of Libraries publishes a list of banned books every year in September during banned books week. I think peeps confuse bans on books with a legal ban, removing all copies from shelves, not allowing it to be published at all.

Focus on the Family had a list of books they banned. My sister subscribed me to the mag. I used to read some of the articles. When they banned "The Color Purple," I told sis to stop subscribing me. She did anyway. I no longer read them, went straight to recycle bin along with KKK literature my ex put me on their mailing list.

From comments, I now have titles of a few books I want to read. I read part of a graphic book geared to ten year olds. That helped me understand why parents would not want it in elementary schools ~ okay, for older teens, methinks. A little too graphic for my tastes in children's books.

Yahoo Comment Rejection

 I often get told Yahoo is holding a comment for approval. Or asks if I am sure, it might offend members of the community. I reword, reword, reword, than finally give up and report the comment I was replying to. 

Today I tried several times to reply to comments on article about U.S.P.S. employee theft. 

I once had a temp Casual Clerk job at post office distribution center. After watching a training film about theft of mail, I thought, gee they just showed me how to steal mail, if I were so inclined. Another person who commented said something similar. Yet I left out the part about showing me how to steal, and just added "Same." Being held for approval. 

Maybe Casual Clerk might offend? I did not mention theft in my last attempt to add to conversation.

Yeah, I know, I said I was going to stop commenting. Better if I just copy offensive or false info comments and write about them here. 

Just have nothing to do and all day to do it. Wish Windows had not removed my Solitaire games from taskbar. I hate the new and unimproved versions. I intend to get out a regular deck of cards and play offline as I used to do pre-computer days. 

Or do as I once did: play Scrabble Mary vs. Alyce.

Santos compared to Einstein?

 Santos will resign

https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-santos-i-will-resign-if-142000-people-ask-me-to-173326277.html

Oh my, this is hard. I so want to reply to Bear:

I see.. So you calling hs dropouts Einstein, Tarantino, Branson, Walt Disney, John D. Rockefeller, etc., as having no clue.. you funny clown..

Bear was replying to someone who mentioned Santos with no college education, high school dropout who earned a GED.

Did Einstein, Walt Disney, the others completely fabricate a resume to get elected to Congress?

William had the best reply:

Bear: So your putting Santos in the same league as the people you mentioned ? And who is the funny clown here?

George Santos COVID lie

Reported that George Santos said: "Unfortunately on the 9th of March I became symptomatic with what we all know now very well, COVID-19 a.k.a coronavirus, commonly known as the Chinese flu. On the 11th I ended up in the hospital. It was really bad, fever, body aches."

"So, I'm free, coronavirus free, so they're calling me a survivor, I don't know if I really survived anything. It's just flu."

He also claimed he had hallucinations. He is trying to sound like his hero DJT, except I think he called it "the China flu."

Comment by Dave: This man is a simply a symptom of a greater problem. If you want understand the problem, read the rest of the comments here with a focus on the replies.

So I did, The majority of the comments basically poking fun at Santos. I liked: next he will be claiming he kilt a bear when he was only three. Some likened him to Biden and Democrats. george534 wrote a long, no white space, comment that sounded like an alternate fact conspiracy theory to me. Then commented on his own comment:

It's why Trump held his covid meetings in high-security meeting rooms, the so-called "Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility" usually reserved for intelligence and military operations. This is the big secret the US is hiding about covid.

Okay if it is a big secret how come george534 knows so much about it? Was he in the "high-security meeting rooms?" Maybe George is George Santos and joined trump in the "Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility?"

Was that a room located at Mar-a-Lago, or other golf club facility? I do not recall trump doing much other travel, other than to hold rallies. Maybe the "big secret" was recorded on one of the documents he kept? 

Can always tell when a poster is a gaga MAWA. The article is political, it is not news, left leaning propaganda, and so on. Not a word about George Santos latest lie. 

The best comment was the one that said he should be removed from office. I agree, I do not want a man that is just blathering GOP lines voting on bills that will affect all U.S. citizens. We already have enough Liar -in-Chief loyalists in Congress keeping his lies alive. We do not need more. 

Cowboy is racist?

The comment explained why cowboy was racist. Back in the good old days, white people called black men boys. The cowhands who  herded cattle were black. Notice Clint Eastwood was called a cowhand, not a cowboy. LOL I now know that a cowhand is a cowboy or cowgirl.

Another poster said Cowboys originated in Mexico and brought the term here. That makes sense as I now know the term cowboy came from vaquero, a Spanish word for a person who managed cattle while on horseback. Irrelevant to the article. The Congressman referring to "wiping out the American cowboy," was not claiming ownership of the term.

Yet another poster said they saw a group of men on horseback herding cattle across the highway, only none of them spoke English. I wondered how he could hear all those men galloping by with the herd hooves beats speaking. Maybe they were implying there are no American cowpokes anymore? Or a slur against immigrants or illegals? 

Since I am ending my addiction to Yahoo comments, I am going to post some of my copy/paste notes on this blog. After all that research seems a waste to just delete them. 

Comfort Zone

 I realized that commenting on Yahoo articles was an old comfort zone. I spend my twenties arguing with a bigoted, racist, my way or the highway man. Actually he would not let me take the highway. I told him I wanted a divorce soon after he arrived home from jail. 

Was it comfortable? Hell no. I do not know why it is called "comfort zone." It is what one is used to; if one is used to being abused during childhood, they unknowingly seek a partner that repeats that. Not that I was abused as a child. Nor was there arguments about racism. My parents argued a lot. Or at least my father was always yelling at my mother.

Ah, so maybe that was it? Fathers yelling at mothers = normal. I do not remember what they argued about or why he yelled so much. I do recall him saying he did not think women should be allowed to vote. Or maybe married women should vote the same way as their husbands.

Mom was Republican, Dad was Democrat. He felt her vote cancelled out his own. Or man should be head of household? 

Realizing that I was sort of reliving my young married life, is what made me realize I had to break the habit. 

Unable to sleep, I did scan Yahoo news headlines, after I played Wordie. I did not open the GOP Congress ones. I read comments on a few articles. No "political flags" in a school. Do teens really carry BLM, LGBT flags to school? I did not read most of the article about the student protest. One comment asked if a picture of MLK, Jr is considered political. 

I was tempted to copy a post about a politician who said the deep state is trying to do away with the American cowboy, and turn Monatanta into a state park. The comment was a long ramble. "My great grandparents were born here, I am an AMERICAN!" 46-year-old that implies that I am not a real U.S. of A. citizens because my father was not born here? 

Most of the comments were poking fun at the cowboy hat, that his father was a plumber and he a geologist; never owned a ranch with cattle;  the pickup truck replaced horses; that if the deep state was run by Democrats why did it elect Trump & himself. One person said the term cowboys was racist in origin. 

White nationalist

 White nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of nonwhites.

An irate MAWA demanded of a stranger: Do you know what a White Nationalist is? Have you ever met one? (Yahoo article comment section)

I jumped in: Yes, I do and yes I have. After J6 how could anyone not know what White Nationalist groups are? Even earlier was the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.  Gee, most every student and adult knows about the KKK and lynchings.

2003 someone wrote in a comment that she did not know the KKK still existed. I did. The local Klan wanted to hold a parade through Bangor, PA where I lived before hosting a picnic. The mayor refused to give them a permit to carry guns under their robes, so they cancelled the parade.

Around that same time a white pointed hood robed Klan Person stood on the sidewalk down the block from my apartment. Standing next to him was a child (or midget, who knows) dressed identically, handing out literature. One person was arrested; she spit on the man. Local news reported that people would take the literature drive around the block, throw it out, then come back for more. I was so enraged I did not walk down there, even though I needed something from the store they were standing by.

My ex-husband put me on a Klan mailing list. I read the booklets and came to understand how they use the Old Testament Bible to justify their superiority. Maybe they are unaware that it is the Hebrew Bible? 

My ex was denied membership in the Klan because our children (teens) refused to sign up with him. He and an ex brother-in-law were big time racists and bigots.

Sister's hubby admired Adolf Hitler. I learned so many derogatory names ~ ethnic slurs. More from him then from my ex. Sis' new guy, common law married, is also a racist & bigot. Since she adores Trump, I think she is likely into White Supremacy herself. I know she is bigoted towards Indians (as in Hindus.)

I was like one and done when I still dated. N-word? Bye, bye. Made that mistake once, never again. The Rahway prison guard a co-worker fixed me up for a double date; her husband's co-worker. I do not remember the husband's exact words, something about the # of smokers of Kool cigarettes could not be wrong. He talked about using violence against blacks as well.

When my date took me home, he said "I am not like him." I did not go out with him again, because he wanted to marry and have children. I found it embarrassing to tell I had my tubes tied years ago. I also did not want anymore children.

Did the he irate MAWA consider what ethnic the poster might be? Could be any color, nationalities and could be they had faced discrimination due to their ethnicity. 

6 New Mexico shootings

 Andrew Hay Reuters 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/suspect-arrested-shootings-mexico-officials-233508119.html

Police arrested suspects in shootings of 6 Democrat officials homes and/or office. 

"The attacks follow a rise in threats and intimidation against U.S. politicians, government officials and sometimes their families. Members of Congress from both major parties have experienced a rise in harassment since the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol."

Comments: 

John: The fact that the suspects identity has not been released leads me to believe it doesn’t fit the agenda.

Joe Avg. : this is simple communist propaganda..lol

s. Massive illegal

crossings....

I bet we'll sooner then later

find all those

weapons

Obama

allowed into the country

under his watch

that were sent to

Mexico

and

brought

back in.

Puckeater: Dem shoots at their own place then call and say we are being shot at...

aka memo: New Mexico has always had an element of armed right wing militia gong back to the Minute Men back in the '60s. We are also in the top ten for gun ownership per capita and top five for gun deaths among states. Albuquerque Metro comprises about half the population of the State's 2 million. Guns are the weapons of choice by citizens in resolving personal problems since before Billy the Kid. The majority of gun deaths come from suicide or domestic violence. That there is outliers, Lone Wolves, who would resort to gun violence for political purposes is rare but not surprising given the current political atmosphere in the US.

Jim: Where are all the puzzle solvers today?

El Libertarian de PR" Remember when the left cheered when there was a shooting at a baseball game in DC? Pepperidge farms remembers.

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The rest of the comments were typical mawa/others back and forth. I am on the next article, so not reading anymore of the comments.

Addition

 My commenting on Yahoo news articles had to end. I did okay for a while, staying logged out of Yahoo, just copying and pasting comments here, to reply.Yesterday I signed out of my account, coped and pasted a few comments here. Tried to read a paperback book while using leg massager, but print too small. I wonder if I should bother finishing it. I remember liking The Great Gatsby all those years ago, but so far wondering why. Someone gave me the copy. I have 4 books on Kindle that I will start reading later today.

I did watch two Prime movie videos yesterday. 

I had hope that at least one person would read one of my comments and say, "ya know, she is right, I never thought about it that way." My old expression: here comes that tsunami wave we all be running. Ha, I guess that should now be: here comes a mob looking to kill and hang, all Congress and staff be running and hiding. But as soon as mob threat is gone, we will immediately start spinning "peaceful protest," "antifa," "like tourists, walked in and walked out," nonsense. 

Every political article will have the same MAWA posting the same stuff: TDS, rent free in your head, lying liberal MSM, what about BLM, Antifa, Hillary, Obama, Joe, some other senator whose name escapes me who fudged his Vietnam war service. (One vet read me the riot act when I said something that that senator's lie was nothing compared to George Santos. I should have copied it. Said I was a Jane Fonda, X%^&*  Too late I thought I should have replied: Nah, just a grumpy old lady.) 

They have large cut/paste comments telling how great things were under Trump. I have my own cut/paste info I gathered, for things. Like when they talk about Massive election fraud, I counter with names of convicted minor election fraud. I am a bit biased; I lead with the guy who voted as his missing wife (I wonder why  she was missing,) because he wanted Trump to win. Followed by a Democrat, then a string of GOP voters, some elected officials. I end with Tina Peters and Richard Patton for balance.

The mawas "get over it," "no Russian Collusion" "witch hunt" " kangaroo court" "6 years and no convictions" (actually, no J6 was not six years ago) Nancy, AOC, Hunter's laptop, Biden crime family (I guess they made that up due to people saying  "trump crime family") the border, the border, the border and fentanyl, fentanyl, fentanyl,  gas prices, inflation, the jab (that one especially irritates me, but I guess it is like me using GOP rather than Republicans, because it is faster to type) Brandon

Both sides with infantile, often sexually vulgar, name calling, "your mother's basement," kool aid, sheep, typos or indicators of low intelligence. A number will talk about "this forum." It is article comments, not a forum. Some (MAWAS usually) will demand proof of an opinion. Others demand links to prove the claims. Well Yahoo does not allow posting of links (though I have seen some) but I just fact check claims (and 97% of the MAWAS claims turn out to be false.)

It is an education I tell you. I have a few books on my 'to read' list suggested by peeps in comments. I did not know about that senator whose name escapes me or Biden's "plagiarism." I did not even know who Senator Jamie Raskin was and other senators mentioned in comments. Nor the senator whose name also escapes me that brought her dog to Congress. 

Yahoo Comments

 After going to my Yahoo e-mail to open links to pay Electric and Cable bills, deleting most of the other unread mail, I signed out. I have lost interest in my last Facebook game. Needing to sit for a while when I first wake up, I started reading articles Yahoo shares. I used to only check out Google News. I used to spend a lot of time on forums, and had several websites and blogs that did not earn me a penny, which is likely how I started playing FB games. 

One day I just had to log in to Yahoo to reply to an ugly comment. Then it became my new addiction. I miss going for walks, smoking, doing community jigsaw puzzles, being able to afford newspapers, doing their crossword puzzles (online crossword puzzles too easy due to hints) and have gotten rather lazy when it comes to doing housework. I used to cook and bake a lot more, also. Painful trigger fingers, makes me shy away from doing stuff requiring a lot of chopping or stirring. Plus hard to cook for one when used to cooking for 4 or 5 or 40.

My new routine was to go to Yahoo news after a short trip to Farmtown, Google News and doing Wordie puzzle. It would suddenly be 2 o'clock and I was still sitting glued to computer. Yikes, Mar, you did not shower, lunch overdue, yesterday's dishes still in sink, if you don't put a move on that body I will be forced to give you a ticket. I should really turn on some music and hit the "dance floor."  What a colossal waste of time. 

My mantle cell lymphoma could come back at any time. A race between that and perhaps a fatal heart attack. What am I thinking? I have to clean out my junk, not sit at computer all day long. Somedays I would get up to do the dishes, shower, then jump right back to an article I was reading comments on.

What is the point? No one is going to convince a gaga MAWA that Trump is the worst president of all time. The MAGA' s are never going to convince anyone that Q/T social propaganda and alternate facts are truth. War on Drugs started long before Joe Biden became president. Under Trump it was heroin being smuggled across the border. Under Bidn it is fentanyl. Blaming an administration for addiction problems is wrong. Prohibition against alcohol did not stop drinking.

If it is not one drug it will be another. Homegrown meth, stolen prescription meds, cough syrup with codeine, cocaine, whatever is trendy at any given time period. Reefer or pot has been around a good long time. Maybe even smoked in native's "peace pipes?" 

My commenting addiction? 

Biased Proud Boy Jury?

 More comments on Proud Boys trial jury selection.

Lee to Rich:

Pushing back against militant criminals isn't hate

Um, same Rich?

It probably is biased considering the amount of censorship and propaganda that's out there

Kyle:

Kind of like Trump claiming the election was being rigged against him till he won, then claiming the next wouod be rigged against him a year before any votes were cast.

AOC#1FAn

No republican could get a fair trial in DC

Sibelius2

Then maybe they should have chosen a different place to commit crimes.

Jim

If the jury is going to consist of decent Americans who love their country, then we need a change of venue to the Free State of Dumbazzistan.

Shawn

If only they could convince the American public that they are victims. Why not ask those people that lost family members on January 6th to be jurors.

ed

The whole trail for Jan 6Th is biased. January 6th was nothing more than a protest that went "trustpassing".

Why you mad? unless you had a whole jury of proud boys, yes, they will be biased. Because the majority of America knows they were in the wrong.... it's like trying to find a jury not biased towards hitler.

GRUMPY

Political bias has taken over our courts and our Justice Dept. and Justice System. Any investigation that has to do with Trump will get a guilty verdict based on political bias and hatred for Trump.

#1 American

That is why no one from the National Socialist Democrat Party can be called a “ patriot”

Aaron

You can thank our biased media for that.

DAVID

anyone with ties to the republican party will never get a fair trial in washington dc.

Forrest Trump

This is what happens when the "nuts", get the keys to the "nut house"......

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Easy to pick out the gagaMAWAs in commens.

I did not see anyone questioning why no Trump Q/T social GOP showed up for jury duty.

I 'rescued' myself from one jury because it was to decide on giving the guilty party death penalty. Until our justice system does not make mistakes and send An Innocent Man to jail, I oppose the death penalty.

That feed us their drivel?

Yahoo article about Proud Boys upcoming trail and jury selection Rich wrote: 

Reading the comments on here I've found that I have alot in common with people on here - just like most on here that have learned to hate the Proud boys by watching woke propaganda and censored news lie CNN, I've learned to hate Antifa as fascists watching Fox news. Its time we unite as only americans can and stop the rich elites that feed us their drivel

I OBJECT YOU HONOR!

I am anti fascist. I guess small groups of local teens that go out to protest fascist alt right groups, do not think to invite this old lady to join them.

Is Rich saying "antifa" is watching FOX News? Or that he is also an anti fascist who watches FOX so learned to hate, um, I dunno what Rich is saying.

I can not say I hate Proud Boys. I am appalled what they did on Jan. 6, 2021. I can say I probably would not make an impartial jury member.

The first time I watched CNN was on J6. I was oblivious when daughter texted me. I quickly turned on TV surfing news channels. CNN was best ~ showing violence as ti was unfolding. No biased censoring there. Online can watch hundreds more videos from J6 from various sources.

Drivel?

SoThis Is Christmas

 Texas Governor Abbott bussed asylum seekers to D.C. dumping them in frigid temperatures outside V.P. Kamela Harris' residence. 

Yahoo held everyone of my comments for approval. MAWAs out in full force making ugly, rude comments about President Biden and our V.P.

I can not mention "give us your tired, your hungry, your poor." One comment I questioned if there are no Christian churches in Texas.Then I tried Christian houses of worship. Yahoo tells me they hold comments for approval; do not take it personally.

Well damn it, I do take it personally. They can say any nasty ole thing they want about Biden, and others who comment, yet I am not allowed to say most anything. I felt like posting a cuss laden post, starting with Duck You Yahoo. It is too sad, that the ugliest comments were getting 131+ likes. 

The clairvoyant effectively indoctrinated masses of citizens. So much false info, misspelled words, slurs, personal attacks. 

I was enjoying doing a jigsaw puzzle when an overwhelming urge to smoke came upon me. I guess back before COVID when smoking was a daily habit, when I got stuck doing puzzles, I would go outside and have a smoke. Years earlier, when I lived in places where I could smoke indoors, I would light up, to help me think while writing. 

I read a how to quit smoking book and it claims that a cigarette does not actually help us to think better. Nor does it calm us down. I do not know. I think breathing in and out while smoking is as relaxing as meditative breathing. 

"We are a Christian nation," barf. Maybe no MAWAs are Christians, but GOP sure favors them over secular citizens. 

How Jesus Became A White Man

 https://www.yahoo.com/news/long-history-jesus-came-resemble-121923976.html

The Long History of How Jesus Came To Resemble a White European

My post title a bit different that the article. Their title and article a bit too long. I did not finish reading. No images. I would follow links that did not take me to images, just the artists' names, so lost interest.

Comments on article, predictable. Why do people bother? Non-Christians will not be convinced Jesus existed; Christians long "you will go to hell" comments. Middle Eastern people were dark skinned: not they were not, they were WHITE. Mary was born in Palestine. No the was not.

I had to keep stopping to fact check. I learned Mary was born in Herodian Kingdom of Judea. Um, where was that? Oh, could be Israel, Jordan, Jerusalem, Palestine. Turkey? I wonder. Countries along the Red Sea? 

Mary was 13. Was not. Where does it say that. The Bible. (No, her age is not mentioned in the Bible.) Raped. Pediophile. Life expectancy was 49; common for girls to marry at 12. 

One bright fella wished we could find the body of Jesus, run DNA test to see who his real father was. That guy believed the Biblical account, yet did not know that Jesus' grave was empty, his body rose up into heaven? 

Best comment by m

Why are we talking about this. Everyone knows he doesn’t exist. You travel to all the kids houses in one night. Oh shoot that’s the other guy this one had endless bread and turned water into wine. I get made up figures confused. Which one does the hidden eggs?

MAWA

 I used to believe MAGA was actually Make America White Again. Now I think it is Make America Worse Again. Save America? Destroy America is more apt. We do need to be saved from him, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Q publicans, Christians who should not be involved with earthly affairs.

Insomnia, I went back to an article I read comments on last night. I wanted to comment on the love note to #45, "he is right ~ they do rape, increase crime, bring in drugs" lots of hearts, praying hands, blessings, and a U.S. of A. flag flapping in the wind. 

I did not find that comment, even though I went to "show oldest first." I did reply to some asine comments. Even to a T-hater who said "okay boomer" to Fred who ranted about liberals have DESTROYED the country. I mentioned to "okay boomer" that this old lady boomer knows that it is the GOP who are trying to destroy liberty for women and that Democrats want liberty for all citizens

I wanted to ask the lady why she is waving a flag, if she is such a good Christian; Jesus said you can not serve two masters. (I assume it was a she.) Do they realize that there are Christians worldwide? So the person is gonna hate thy Christian neighbor? Lots of Mexican Christians. Mexican/Americans also. 

She might do well reading her Bible, than listening to that man. Especially Matthew 23/24, and Luke "he will say I never knew you."

Knife threat

 A 38 year old man was arrested after he walking into a polling place in West Bend, Wisconsin, with a knife, demanding they stop the voting. No one was hurt, voting was stopped for 30 minutes. Library staff, poll workers and citizens hid in a closed voting room location until police cleared the location for more possible violence. 

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"Austin Gene Combs confessed to shooting Anthony Lee King “several times with a revolver” while the 43-year-old victim and his wife were doing yardwork..." Okeana, Ohio. 

Austin killed King because he thought King was a Democrat. 

Comments about political violence:

John wrote

It started with Gingrich as he demonized Democrats by referring to them as the "enemy" instead of opponent. Trump made it worse and now we have this...welcome to GOP's America.

Casey replied:

No, it started with Medal of Freedom "winner" Rush Limbaugh becoming popular and creating syncophants and imitators on right wing "news" radio in the early 90's. Before that there was division but at least a moderate amount of respect to those with diverging opinions. Now it's just unbelievable how unstable this whole right wing has become towards their fellow Americans. Sorry not sorry, but patriotism is more than just how many flags you can stick on your pickup truck, and there is more to the Constitution than just the 2nd Amendment.

Zelda's 'two cents'

Yes, Rupert Murdoch has contributed to the destruction of journalism in multiple English-speaking countries, including the U.S.

Happy in his ignorance, Cas

Cas: 
 Yes, i heard this on conservative talk radio. think for yourself instead of repeating whatever u hear.

I am not sure who Cas was replying to. Just in the middle of debate about slow election returns. One person said to be patient, we have been voting for 200 years. We get projected winners soon after polls close. Might have to stay up past ones bedtime to see how Alaska and Hawaii citizens voted. 

Oh, but, Cas, you must be extremely happy. He heard something then admonishes others to think, not repeat what he heard. Oh, man, laughing at his idiocy. 

Andrew wants a Skew code (bar code) issued to every voter, scan, move on. Simple, except for peeps in a hospital bed, or the military person overseas. Does the U.S. send machines to all those remote locations, hire poll workers to man the machines? Oh, excuse me a moment, Captain, I need to go vote, hold the fort until I get back.

I got bumped from article comments I was reading. I tried using the back arrow, but it went to Yahoo news page and I do not know which article I was reading. I was enjoying the sparring.

Ignorance is Bliss

 You must be very happy. 

I loved that reply to a comment. I got signed out of Yahoo. Relapsed, and replied to a lot of comments earlier. I truly want to use that posters words to reply to:

LauraJ

no reason to allow for mail in votes, just because you dont feel like going to a booth. Lots of others tried to educate her. I would add: Write that down, date it, and read it again when you are in the hospital, having a baby, recovering from bad car accident, gall bladder surgery. Or when it is your mother, father, sister, brother, grandparent. When you are 74, or 82, or 95. And it is do not, or don't.

Caren wrote Lotto drawing can tell us exactly where the tickets were sold within hours and there are hundreds of millions of those sold weekly. But we wait days or weeks for people to count votes with machines.

Do those machines tell the name of the person who bought the tickets? Their proof of age (will need to be 18+ to cash in, I believe,) their SS# (for tax purposes,) their address?  

People who buy lottery tickets are not casting votes for multiple candidates in various districts, states, nor voting yes or no on referendum issues. Would a small rural town have enough funds to buy a super computer and program to make all those calculations?  

Nice in theory, impractical to implement. Not to mention candidates that cry: foul! Machine manipulation. Shortage of poll workers to feed the ballots into machines. Failure of some districts to report the voting totals for their district. Some big cities have more ballots to feed in the machine.

Voters here put their own ballots in the machines. I doubt the calculating began until after polling place was closed. Small town with say, 500 or a thousand voters, will finish a lot faster than a city with 1/2 a million voters.

Stan has a lot to say:

There is no way the state should say otherwise. I have seen poll workers sitting around drinking coffee and doing nothing while the people vote. People pointed out, to his comment, there is not reason poll workers could not start feeding mail in ballots in the morning, stating some states have a law forbidding that.

I have never seen poll workers sitting around drinking coffee during a presidential election. Mid terms, I would look around wondering where all the voters were, so few compared to presidential election. What I have seen is long lines, waiting upon workers to check for their name on rooster, have them sign it, handing out stickers after they cast their ballot into the machine. I have never seen any with food and drink at the check in or check out tables. They do take lunch elsewhere, bathroom breaks. I wonder if Stan ever worked a 15 hour day for low pay, and did not have coffee or coke or bottled water.

KathleenG

 The article KathleenG commented on 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-carolina-woman-forced-carry-191000869.html

Secret wrote:

There is zero guarantee that a pregnancy will be perfect. Best to not chose to breed or to get sterilized if you believe in abortion.

Lord help us. What if a couple wanted to have a child? Why do you pass judgement and believe you have a right to force a woman to bear a dead fetus? 

B-Doggie

There's one thing people need to get straight. It should not be misconstrued to be "Reproductive rights" Beyond a shadow of a doubt it's rights to "End life" Don't be confused by the terminology.

Who said anything about reproductive rights? It is about liberty guaranteed to all citizens. Perhaps you need to lobby to stop ending life by treating cancer? Likely a he, and I will shut up to be kind.

Tony

Eph preggers s1uts, it's their fault.

Huh? The couple were married wanting the baby. No idea what Eph is ~ google search did not help, used as slang did not make sense. He continues with more few words comments. Must want to get noticed.

Tony Stew peed krak never shouda spread her legs. (reported as inappropriate language)

Peter

That is one very brave lady who is also blessed with a very supportive husband. My wife and I lost our first child and our families blamed us for denying them a grandchild they were "owed." I wish this young couple all the best.

Phillip

Coat hangers are cheap. Done with that article comments.