Comments for Greg Laden's Blog https://gregladen.com/blog Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 Comment on Two Things … about the election and our strategies. by Lionel A https://gregladen.com/blog/2024/11/13/two-things-about-the-election-and-our-strategies/#comment-1025769 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:23:00 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=35564#comment-1025769 Has democracy in the USA died?

Another Trump presidency is the last thing the world needs right now.

href=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/trump-viktor-orban-electoral-autocracy”>‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán”

]]> Comment on Recent Political Threats and Violence in America: a partial listing by Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2024/09/17/recent-political-threats-and-violence-in-america-a-partial-listing/#comment-1019751 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 12:29:00 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=35526#comment-1019751 Will add: Nancy and Paul Pelosi and Mike Pence

]]> Comment on This is How Trump Ends by Richard Chapman https://gregladen.com/blog/2023/12/23/this-is-how-trump-ends/#comment-1015625 Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:43:12 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=35404#comment-1015625 Six months later: Ah, but no. Apparently SCOTUS is either too afraid of Trump or they are too stupid to understand the danger they are in if Trump is elected.

]]> Comment on The Truth About The Brown Recluse Spider by Map https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/16/truth-brown-recluse-spider/#comment-1015015 Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:40:47 +0000 http://gregladen.com/blog/?p=9357#comment-1015015 This site is doing a disservice…the Brown Recluse Spider is NOW FOUND in California..this info given is not safe and should be taken down or revised….!!!!!!!!

]]> Comment on My Bear And Man Thing by joe laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2024/05/25/my-bear-and-man-thing/#comment-1014493 Sun, 26 May 2024 22:30:06 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=35465#comment-1014493 Nice.

]]> Comment on The Kate Middleton Controversy Explained by Roy Hammond https://gregladen.com/blog/2024/03/17/the-kate-middleton-controversy-explained/#comment-1014345 Wed, 22 May 2024 13:55:42 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=35449#comment-1014345 Partially true….only Prince Harry (with the Hollywood wife) has a contract, and it’s mostly questionable if the contract continues. They can’t seem to package anything that the public wants to watch. Rest of family has zero interest, and prefer the dull lifestyle.

]]> Comment on Is Curious George an Ape or a Monkey? by Kathy G https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/04/13/is-curious-george-an-ape-or-a-monkey/#comment-1013683 Wed, 08 May 2024 20:58:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=19543#comment-1013683 Most, Not All monkeys have a tail. Monkeys are much smaller in size than apes, of which there are Only 5 species, gorilla, orangutan, chimps, bononbos, & gibbons who are referred to as Lesser Apes, only because they’re smaller size than the other four. A few things to differentiate apes from monkeys – No tails, larger size – body & brain, and opposable thumbs.

]]> Comment on Grave New World by Dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2024/02/25/grave-new-world/#comment-1011738 Sun, 31 Mar 2024 20:25:34 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=35439#comment-1011738 The major reason RickA is concerned about voting has been clear in many of his prior posts: early access to voting and easy access to voting lets too many minorities, elderly, and poor, vote. He was, and probably still is, a big fan of the far right moves in the south to remove polling places, forbid organizations to offer rides to polling places, and more, since those moves remove the people he views as “less” from the voting pool.

As seen with discussions about climate change, rights, or anything else that opens the playing field to non-white wealthy men, he’s not an honest person: if it helps the wrong people [wrong in his eyes] it is a danger, facts and evidence to the contrary be damned.

]]> Comment on Grave New World by RickA https://gregladen.com/blog/2024/02/25/grave-new-world/#comment-1009680 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:23:29 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=35439#comment-1009680 In reply to RickA.

dean:

When the machines refused to count their vote, some precincts put the ballot in a bottom drawer to be counted manually. Other precincts told people they had to go to another precinct and vote again. I wonder how many just gave up?

If that happened to thousands of democrats, and the democrat lost the election – I can assure you that the democrats would sue and complain vociferously that they were cheated. It is no surprise that the republicans felt cheated.

It was totally unfair and I am surprised you don’t agree with that. Put the shoe on the other foot and tell me you would be happy with what happened. How many precincts would you wander to, being rejected at each one, before you gave up?

]]> Comment on Grave New World by RickA https://gregladen.com/blog/2024/02/25/grave-new-world/#comment-1009679 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 19:17:52 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=35439#comment-1009679 In reply to RickA.

Lionel A:

You could have some trouble in many of the states (if you live in America). Many states have a signature verification requirement for mail in voting. Whether it makes sense or not is another question – but that is the law (in Minnesota for example). You would have to take it up with your local government.

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