Do you see your L**T friends showing public displays of affections in public? Do you see parades of L**T's showing public displays of affections in public? Cite some examples, please. Your reply ignores the other points I made in my post. Do you believe that your L**T friends should face firing or be passed over for promotion or be kicked out of the military after displaying courage in battle? Do you agree with my HS counselor that I should not have pursued a college degree(s) because no one would ever hire me anyhow?
Do you agree that it is ok for the owner of a house to be arrested while unlocking his/her front door just because he/she is a person of color? You are silent on whether or not you can justify a person at home in his/her own bed being murdered by police as they conduct a botched non-announced warrant on the wrong persons at the wrong address?
Do you grant native Americans any justification in opposing their displacement from lands to which they lay claim just because Europeans 'discovered' a new source of land and riches and could wield superior fire power?
Your reply is silent on all these points which, to my mind, are more important than what you think of your L**T friends and what they think of you.

It appears that you are the only poster to address even one of the points I made in rebuttal of the OP's slate of objections. That seems to prove my point.

Enjoy your position while you can.

We are going to change things.

Caruso

So I did a quick check to see if you really get 4 v**es if you feel like it:

https://www.sos.ca.gov/e******ns/v**er-registration/v**e-mail/ provides for mail-in b****t to be mailed to every v**er (a v**er would be one who is registered to v**e).

https://www.ncsl.org/research/e******ns-and-campaigns/vopp-table-14-how-states-verify-v**ed-absentee.aspx Scroll down to California to see for yourself how this state verifies mail-in b****ts it receives. If your children are registered v**ers, they could use the b****ts mailed to them. However, if you, yourself v**ed 4 times, three of your b****ts would be rejected (and I believe you might be in a heap of legal trouble).

If you care to avail yourself of the information, it is clear that, if you received 4 b****ts, then your household is on record with 4 registered v**ers. If they are registered, then they are eligible to v**e. If you are alone, now, then where are the other three registered v**ers? Have they moved without notifying the authorities. Are they still in California? If so, I would expect that they are still qualified to v**e.

If you bother to review the information I have provided, then it is clear that California is sending b****ts to what it shows on record as registered v**ers. You, as a single v**er, cannot v**e more than one time without being discovered. V**e two or four times at your own peril. You will be discovered.

Why would you spread such misleading information? Why?

Caruso

So, what happens to those b****ts? What verification procedures are in place to insure that you cannot cast 4 v**es if you feel like it? You give us the first half of the situation, but leave out the most important second half.

Respond here if you care to do so. I will be off to check out the second half of this procedure for myself. I cannot believe that California or any other state would simply accept any b****t returned with out some procedure in place to check its validity.

Prove me wrong if you can.

Caruso

Your post was not directed at me, but, where I live, mail-in is virtually identical to absentee. The differences you try to support do not exist in my state. To v**e mail-in, I have first to request a mail-in b****t. It is not sent automatically to my address. I have to sign my b****t before returning. That signature is matched against the sample on record with the local e******ns board. If the signatures do not match, my b****t is rejected.

If you can name jurisdictions that automatically send b****ts to addresses (similar to junk mail) and accept and tabulate v**es without verifying them, please do so. Otherwise, I count your claim as just more unwarranted chatter. My basic understanding of this 'simple concept' is based upon my experience, not some nonsense sputtered by a 'president' who can find nothing better to do.

The rant from the White House against mail-in v****g is rooted in their belief that if every qualified v**er were to v**e in November, they will lose. Of course, everything they do or propose is based upon the Predator's gut feelings (he is so much smarter than the experts, don't you know). He has not bothered to do a study on who (including he, himself) v**es via mail, absentee or otherwise.

There are numerous states that have been v****g via mail (not absentee) for years. The Predator hasn't even noticed them, but he files suit against states that want to implement mail-in due to the p******c, a real issue which he has been woefully slow in acknowledging.

Caruso

NEWS FLASH: Mail in in my state is not 'where b****ts are sent to every address.' We here have to send in a request for the mail in b****t. Additionally, we have to sign our b****t, and include our SS# before we return it. The b****t is submitted to our local v****g authority for acceptance and tabulation. It is only counted if our signature on the b****t matches the one on file with the v****g authority.

As when v****g in person, once your mail-in b****t is recorded, you are checked off the list and cannot v**e a second time by any means. The opportunity for fraud, whether v****g in person or by mail is very low.

I think you should do a bit of studying, yourself. It sounds to me as if you get your information from the Predator, and we all know he does not study and doesn't read.

Caruso

Trump cannot read more than a sentence at a time, if that. That's why he and his 'Republic' supporters are at such a disadvantage. If you are a Trump supporter, it is likely that you suffer from the same non-reading affliction. I feel for you.

Caruso

No one is shoving their “gayness” down your throat unless you feel that you or others have the right to fire a person because he/she is gay, to discriminate against a person simply because he/she identifies as being gay, or if you advocate for firing experienced and loyal combat veterans because they identify as being gay (did your ‘straightness’ serve and see combat in defense of our country?).

You don’t state your race, but persons of color (to whom I guess the second point on your ‘tablet’ refers) only want to be free from discrimination. They would prefer not to be murdered for the crime of being present in their own residence, to have cops called when in the process of unlocking the front door to the home that they own, to be denied employment or advancement, to be chased down while jogging and murdered (“just another ‘N’ said the murderer), to not be asphyxiated by a policeman, and on and on.

As for politics, this country thrives on honest political discussion. It is not condemnation when members of one party criticize the other, so thin your skin.

I do not care where you were born, but if your ancestors held mine in s***ery after bringing them here in chains from their home country, then I will blame them. If you or your ancestors supported George Wallace as he proclaimed that segregation should prevail forever, if you or your ancestors support(ed) the law enforcement officers who cracked John Lewis’ skull as he walked non-violently across the Edmund Pettis Bridge, then I do blame you and your ancestors, and if your ancestors had a part in naming that bridge, I hold them accountable. Fear not, Pettis’ sorry life’s history will never be erased, but he should not be honored by having that bridge named after him. We will right that wrong.

. . . and if you and your apparent ilk never cared where I and my ancestors were born, why such an uproar over Obama’s birth certificate or, now, apparently, the birthplace of Kamala Harris’ parents.

I never cared that you worked hard and were promoted, but I will not accept that, being equally qualified, I was turned away from employment many times because I didn’t look like you. As a straight ‘A’ student in a predominantly white high school, I did not accept advice from my white counselor that I should not bother to attend college, as, I would likely not graduate, but, even if I did, no one would hire me, anyway. To how many other students of color did that evil man give the same advice? If you agree with his advice, then I say loudly that I and those other students of color did experience discrimination, whether you cared or not, whether you were promoted or not.

If your beliefs include the belief that ‘eminent domain’ gave your ancestors the right to run my ancestors off our land, to purchase land, move my ancestors to that alternate location, then push them away from that location as well, then I state that your belief in that instance is, indeed, wrong.

I and my ancestors all showed plenty of patience, and, as you claim for yours, our patience has, indeed, run out. Enjoy your dominance while you can. We will soon outnumber you in society and at the b****t box. Fear not, things will change.

Caruso

When you take your winning lottery ticket in for redemption, do you face long lines? I have never won more than a few dollars (and I rarely play the lottery), but on those few occasions, I was not even asked for ID, never had to compare my signature to one that was on file (because lottery vendors do not keep signatures), they just handed me the money. Do you think my local 7-11 would mail me a check for $4.00 if I mailed in my winning ticket? Do you worry about the possibility that someone will print up millions of fraudulent lottery tickets. Was there ever a history of lottery ticket literacy tests? Do you have to drive across town to find the only purchasing source of lottery tickets?

You are comparing apples to oranges. The point is that mail-in v****g exists successfully in many U.S. states, and its relative cousin, the absentee b****t exists in all states with little evidence of fraud. Even Trump's commission established to bolster his claim of fraud found little and his commission was disbanded.

On the flip side, one can find many instances where polling places are closed to inconvenience v**ers (usually in communities of color), mainly to suppress the v**e. Google is your friend, do a search on closing polling places to see how thousands of v**ers have been forced to wait in long lines because, instead of 5 or 10 polling places, only one was offered.

Presently, we are suffering through this p******c, and there are valid health reasons to make mail-in v****g available, yet we see the Predator via his appointment of an unqualified postmaster general working to dismantle the postal service, ripping out mail boxes, firing qualified, experienced postal service employees, tearing out automatic sorting machines, and sending letters warning v**ers not to use the US mail to submit their mail-in b****ts, while the Predator, for his own convenience, elects to v**e by mail.

You do realize that mail-in b****ts contain the name of the v**er (or, perhaps, in some states, the name must be provided by the v**er when he/she fills out the b****t). In any case, the v**er also has to sign the b****t before it can be counted. That signature is, indeed, matched to a sample specimen on file with the local v****g authorities. It has to match or the b****t is thrown out. There is little opportunity for the Predator's 400 lb guy sitting on his bed to duplicate and send out millions of b****ts to ineligible v**ers. Moreover, there is little evidence that mail-in b****ts favor one political party over the other, just another of the Predator's unfounded fears.

Trump's only reason for his opposition to mail-in b****ts is his fear that he will not be re-elected if all eligible v**ers have an unfettered opportunity to cast a b****t.

I can sympathize with the Predator's fears, for he is surely going to lose, his aggressive effort to suppress the v**e notwithstanding.

Caruso

So, you are saying that Obama was not black, right.
I get it.

Caruso

I am a product of a mixed marriage. My mother was white, my father, what we call black. His heritage included African American and Native American. When I fill out forms (in doctors' offices, on government forms, etc.), rarely is there a box that I can check to accurately describe who I am. That's not my fault. My birth certificate says I am black because, in those days, if there was knowledge (by the "authorities") that there was any person of color in ones ancestry, you were black, period.

Harris is who she is, born where she was born, an American citizen, a Senator. Elect or v**e against her for her platform. Skip the r****m. Those of us who have suffered have had enough.

Caruso

So, list the things she said and give us reference to time and date, show us the videos (clearly, you would not be referencing her hobbling of Barr during Senate hearings where he was at a loss for words to answer a simple questions).

"Heels Up Harris", really?

If her heels were up, it occurred during natural relations with her husband, to which she was not required to pay hush funds, funds which came from his campaign illegally, funds, payment for which, he sent his cover guy to prison. Your protests ring hollow.

Predator supporters are going to have a tough time during the next 90 or so days. Compared to the Predator, there is little about which to criticize the Democratic ticket.

Good luck.

See you in November.

Caruso

Where, when, and a link to the story, please.

Caruso

Why does he oppose an issue that the majority of Americans, given the p******c, support? Mail-in v****g is ok in 'Republic' states, not in states where Democrats are in power. Mail-in v****g is ok for him, just not for Democrats. Moreover, why does he appoint a lackey to run the USPS, and why is he pulling up mailboxes, removing mail-handling machines, and firing career USPS workers?

This is not f**e news. These are facts.

Make excuses for his dreadful administration while you can. We will correct this, no matter his attempts to obstruct and suppress the v**e come November.

Caruso

Ah, thank you for pointing this out! I have been slugging through these posts, many of which are ridiculous. Most posters do not realize that the USPS is not a business, and most are unaware of the draconian benefit funding requirements imposed upon the USPS mainly to hobble it financially, then claim that it operates at a loss.

Now, we have a self-centered Predator in the White House who would like to do away with the USPS entirely. As usual, his approach does not take into account the many tangential results of his short-cited, self-centered, poorly crafted actions.

It will not work.

Liberty and justice, at some point, will prevail.

Caruso

No, but when I want to discuss photography on this forum, I go to those sections defined as photography based sections. You have to select 'All Sections' to get to the 'Attic' which is provided as a section where most anything goes.

If you want to restrict your exposure to photographic discussion only, then, do yourself a favor, and go to those sections.

Of course, you and your ilk already know this, you just don't like it when the Predator, through his own stupidity, steps in a pile so deep that it cannot be cleaned off his shoes. You v**ed for him, and you will v**e for him again, but this time, he will not be re-elected. Enjoy defending your position while you can. His time is short.

Caruso