hey Jo,

perhaps this could also be made into a sticky on both social chat and the Feedback.

And then we can direct the political threads over there?

I hope nobody will get angry at me for saying this....I really care about a lot of the folks here and have become friends with a lot of you guys...
and I avoid the political stuff....

In private, I have discussed how uncomfortable to even joke around here in the past few weeks simply because I just feel like the "ambience" has changed a bit...

don't get me wrong, I am passionate about my political views and such....and I am totally for freedom of speech. I just think that there are forums to discuss those stuff in...

religion and politics are very personal issues and I can see and understand views from all sides...but when it gets heated, there IS a group of us that feel very uncomfortable....and for this being a place to kind of relax and take our minds away from the everyday pains and stress in life, it was becoming a bit of an intimidating factor for me to even joke and being non sequitur in threads that are harmless and fun...

I hope I hadn't offended anyone with this, I've been wanting to say this for a long time....but didn't wanted to hurt anyone cause I do care so much about a lot of you wonderful people...

and I think it is GREAT that we all are passionate about our country...it's just that we all have different ideas on how it should be taken cared of...we all are on the SAME side whenever I read the posts...we are all wanting the same things...just can't agree on who should run it....

OK, that's about as political I'll get and want to get and I am nobody...LOL just wanted to throw out my two cents....

I hope you will still be my friend....