I think it’s supposed to be a puma!

j.a..m. wouldn’t hang out here if he/she weren’t at least open to hearing (and considering?) opposing ideas, at least that’s my take. If the reason is actually to sway opinion or just be annoying, that seems like a stupid and/or crazy waste of his/her time. But whatever floats yer boat…

j.a.m. hasn’t actually broken the rules, and he’s allowed a different opinion.

There are occasions when there have been personal attacks towards other commenters, but on those occasions other commenters have been just as insulting towards him. So, it would be unfair to ban him and not ban them too.

Many of us, including me, are guilty of biting back when we could just ignore him. At the same time, it’s hard to ignore things that are wrong rather than differences of opinion.

I do keep an eye on the issue. j.a.m. has had warnings, and has apologized on each occasion.

People have been banned in the past and I will do it again if/when I think a line has been crossed.

Can’t we just politely ask this j.a.m person to stay away? The occasional sensible remark is outweighed enormously by this sort of thing.
I am not you, Heather, but if I were, I would take away the welcome mat.

Couldn’t help yourself could you.

Anybody who knows anything at all about Clinton knows that he was either (a) hitting on her, or (b) obstructing the administration of justice, or (c) both.

Ha ha, yeah he does. In fact he strikes the pose of Wal scoring a try perfectly.

I made a mistake above too because I was tired when I was writing. It was two NZers who got cards. The first was completely unjustified. He was carded for collapsing the maul when he was holding the ball. There were comments on Twitter about this being the same ref who has cost the All Blacks a world cup in the past through such decisions.

I remember when Bill Clinton made the stupid move of meeting Loretta Lynch on her airplane. When asked what they talked about, he said golf and grandchildren. People who knew Clinton found that completely plausible as he was known to go on about his granddaughter at length. Trump simply couldn’t believe that you could talk about grandchildren at length. He would muse publicly about it, and he couldn’t think of anything beyond about 30 seconds, then you’re done. He thought the same about golf, unless you had just met one of the greats, but he still thought there’s no way a “golf and grandchildren” conversation could last more than two minutes at the most. That told me a lot about him, and how completely self-centred he is.

Thanks for your support. 🙂