I agree with you about selective quoting in general but not in this case. I was only trying to point out how often you'd brought up 3 (bogus) reasons for being anti-Ventura: 1. Lawsuit would put widow in the poorhouse, 2. Fight story didn't help book sales, and 3. All royalties were going to charity so a monetary judgement would take money from dead servicemen's families.
"Sheltering in place" seems a pretty useful phrase for folks that have to deal with monsoons and scary shit like that. (My wife's family lives in one of the houses on stilts in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand where they get brutal rainstorms and, due to flooding, they have to use a boat to get from the house to the main road for a couple of months most years.)
I mentioned several things about Ventura, including him acting like a butt-hurt sissy, the classless nature of pursuing a widow--much less the widow of an American patriot, the book proceeds being paid to family members as reported in the article I posted, and the fact this was only a few paragraphs in a book that didn't even name him. The article you posted contradicted the article I posted on the issue of where the book proceeds were going. Big friggin deal. Whether all or a portion of the proceeds are going to two other families of fallen service members or just to the family of this particular service member, Ventura is still trying to take money from the family of a deceased service member. Kyles' wife and kids have lost decades of earned income with the death of their husband and father. Ventura is a world class douchebag. But my views on this are stated in this thread (and not just in the portions you selectively quoted).
We have houses essentially on stilts too. I passed a guy yesterday who was erecting a rock wall in front of his house. A little late in the game. Also, people act a fool whenever we have hurricane or tsunami threats. Hoarding. Price gouging. Gas lines.
