Ron Ecker

Arrested for what? I haven't seen anything in the news about BLM arrests. All I found tonight was a report about protesters vandalizing statutes in Portland as part of an "Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage" in advance of Columbus Day. It says nothing about BLM.

Are Trump's "observers" there?

From White House press conference: Reporter: Mr. President, did you know that the cells used in your treatment came from an aborted fetus? Trump: That's a nasty question. I know nothing about that. I never met him. I don't know who he was. You are a horrible reporter. Next question. You, the woman in back with the ugly face.

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I forgot to mention that Swaggart also cited Trump's support for Israel in calling him perhaps the greatest president ever, though that's less important than the abortion issue. Aside from the obvious biblical reasons, supporting Israel can be said to dove-tail with Trump's "anti-Muslim blather" in that most of the Muslims countries are anti-Israel and thus enemies of all Christians who look forward to the New Jerusalem.

What's objectionable about it is that it sets that one issue over every other issue foreign and domestic that we need to be concerned about with something like Trump in the White House. And not that it matters, but it's kind of ironic that if Stormy Daniels, for example, had told TIny (Stormy's name for Trump after he called her Horse Face) "I'm pregnant and it's yours," Trump would have paid for an abortion faster than a dog can trot.

The so-called Christian support for Trump boils down to one central issue which has nothing to do with his complete lack of character and morality, and which the linked article doesn't even mention. That issue is abortion, and getting the right judges in place is therefore all that matters. I heard this expressed in the most disgusting terms imaginable just this morning by one of the most famous Christians on Earth. In his internationally televised Sunday morning service, Jimmy Swaggart said "I thank God for our president, he is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, president in the history of our country." Then he made it clear why he says that in one sentence: "How anyone can vote for someone who supports abortion I don't know." Any questions?

I don't remember the Gallagher Brothers, but I remember Haystacks Calhoun. Oh, and I remember Saul Weingeroff, the dapper cane-carrying manager of a tag team. I forget the team's name, but Saul refused to let them wrestle in a bout involving Haystacks because he said "I don't want my boys to catch fleas." Later on (I guess after he retired from the wrestling scene, I don't remember) I saw him fight in a boxing match in my hometown of Palatka. His opponent was Johnny Theobold, an ex-minor league baseball player (he had played for Palatka, so was kind of a local hero) who was a truck driver in Palatka for Coca-Cola. (Johnny trained for the fight by running, with breaks to smoke cigarettes.) In the fight Johnny was out on his feet until the referee disqualified Saul for a low blow. Saul pleaded with the ref, saying, "No! If I lose this fight I'm all washed up!"

I remember reading a book in the early 1950s (I've tried to remember the title of it) that argued that flying saucers were piloted by insects. Which could be true, since a British astrophysicist testified in the Arkansas Creationism Trial (McLean v. Arkansas) in 1982 that insects could be more intelligent than humans but "they're not letting on." Another notable witness at the trial was Dr. Norman Geisler of Dallas Theological Seminary, who testified that UFOs are "Satanic manifestations for the purposes of deception." When asked how he knew that UFOs exist, he said that he read it in Reader's Digest.

He survived cancer but couldn't survive Trump.

I hate fishing. It's boring and a waste of time. As for you fishing for Striped Bass, I'll pull for the bass.

I see. And Trump knows nothing about this but you do? Or is Trump, who loves to attack and insult people, choosing to remain silent on Joe's child molesting because deep down Trump has a forgiving heart of gold? So instead he just talks about things like Biden will raise our taxes?

Why would you hate Biden? He can be criticized for a lot of things, but is Biden a hateful human being? The kind of hatred aimed at Donald Trump has to be earned, and Trump has earned it well. He works at hateful day and night.

And that was before this pandemic.

The doctors can't be blamed. Unless I'm mistaken, Conley and all the others are military. Trump is their commander in chief and they have to follow his orders about what to say, which you can rest assured means lying.

I wouldn't give Chris Christie very good odds. Especially if he got stuck in traffic.

Obviously his only health care plan was to help spread the virus, catch it himself, and go to the hospital. He looks so pale. If the hospital doctors won't let him have his orange makeup or tanning equipment, he should ask them if they could inject him with some Agent Orange.

I think it's more like drugs are addicted to him. Hydroxychloroquine, for example, has a well-known craving for him. Even bleach has tried to get in on the action.

I learned a great new term today. "Covidiots."

After all of Trump's pack-'em-in rallies, his contempt for CDC guidelines, etc., here's a great statement from another forum that says it all for me: "If his getting sick saves at least one more person from dying, it is worth it."

I'm older than Trump and have been worried about surviving if I get infected. So you're telling me there's a chance.

On CNN they are saying Trump's chance of recovery is 90 percent. I have been under the apparently mistaken impression that for someone his age with underlying conditions (like me) covid infection is almost like a death sentence. Wondering where they get the 90 percent, I've done a web search for the rate of death of infected senior citizens, and I can't find any percentage rate. I wish I knew their source.

At one point while he was talking he reached inside his coat like he was scratching the top of his shoulder. I thought that was odd. But maybe he was trying to refute a Trump claim that he can't talk and scratch at the same time.

Yes, I distinctly heard Biden say "Will you shut up, man?" to the person on his wire. (Reminiscent of Dubya telling his wire person, "Let me finish.")

I thought he answered it. When asked if he paid $750, he said that he paid "millions." In fact Wallace repeated his answer. "You paid millions?"