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The DNC learned nothing from this election. Marceline is right. Many Bernie supporters are not Democrats. That includes me. I'm a former moderate Republican (there is no such thing anymore) who is registered in WV as "No Party Affiliation" because there is actually a fringe party called the Independant Party. At least there was when I first went to register to vote when we moved here 22 years ago. I dislike both parties and think both are corrupt. The Democratic Party is no more the Party of FDR or Kennedy than the GOP is still the Party of Lincoln. I've never been more proud to cast my vote than when I voted for Barak Obama, first in the primary vs. Hillary Clinton, and then both his Presidential Campaigns. I will always be grateful for his leadership and dignity but I opposed the TPP, The Iran Deal and more than a few of his foreign policies. Bernie supporters want to shift the Democratic Party, much the same way The Koch Bros and the Tea Party shifted the GOP. I don't believe a third party will ever emerge, much less prevail. The Democratic Party remains the best hope to defeat the evil empire, but if they continue to do the same things that brought them down, they will not achieve different results. Putting yet another establishment insider in charge of the most Herculean rebuild the party has faced in my lifetime is more of the same ol' samo. It's very discouraging.

Damn! I can't argue against your logic. Except to say, this xenophobic, white supremacist bullshit is suddenly normalized anyway. At least if it's forced into mainstream news programming, responsible broadcasters have the opportunity to confront it and oppose it directly.

I think it's a mistake to relegate those people to off mainstream media. One of the most alarming aspects of this election cycle, for me, was that there are enough wicked people in this world to elect that orange smear in America's underpants. This killed the part of my soul that once believed fundamentally decent people could just disagree on policy. I was naive. Embarrassingly so. I guess it was easy to ignore that the majority of people in my home state and my adopted state held such reprehensible ideas because their spokespeople have been positioned as "fringe" by mainstream news sources. They are not fringe. They form the core of the GOP now. They need to be revealed. Exposed at every opportunity. Pat Robertson claiming that opposition to Trump is the same as opposition to God needs to be heard by everyone. Not just the people who agree. I never want to make the mistake of underestimating them again. Keep them where I can see them.

Does Murdoch still own WSJ? I looked and he's not listed as current owner.

Hillary Clinton endured an 11-hour Benghazi hearing. Chaffetz left his town hall 40 minutes early. #ChaffetzTownHall

I am losing my damn mind. Every day there is a new godawful chapter in this great American tragedy. I live in one of the poorest states in the country. We rank near last in everything but lead the nation in heroin overdoses and opioid abuse. One of my Senators Shelley Moore Capito just got her bill passed today that allows mining companies to dump debris into our streams. Among other contaminants, arsenic. She's also supporting Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education. There isn't a single city/town in the state with a population > 50,000 and our population continues to shrink. Repealing ACA will leave thousands of out of work miners devoid of their benefits for black lung disease. The state voted for the orange smear in America's underpants 4-1.

I really have barely watched this show, but my husband and my daughter have gotten into it on Netflix and are just about caught up, so we watched last night. One of the reasons I just can't really get into it is because I do not like Meredith, and I'm not all that crazy about Derrick, but this death was very well done IMO. It was really horrible watching and knowing Derrick was fully aware of the mistakes being made and that death was inevitable. That would be terrible!

I see love, or at least a genuine deep and abiding affection, but I never saw sexual attraction I guess. I think Jaime respects and trusts Brienne in a way that he's never respected a woman before. I mean she's the antithesis of what he considers women to be. She's the polar opposite of Cersei. I think he is intrigued and puzzled by her. I'm not sure what Brienne feels for Jaime. She might be attracted to him, but I don't think she's ever allowed herself to want a man or feel sexual desire for a man, because she thinks she's unappealing and that was just something that wasn't going to be a part of her life. This is just another one of the many relationships on this show that can't be pigeonholed into some soapy standard. It's both more complex and in a way more simple all at once. I loved the scene where he walked in on Brienne in the bath. I think he was attracted to her in a way there, and it surprised him. There was something more intimate about that sharing of a bath than in the sex scenes on this show.

Guilty. I knew something was off, but I really didn't remember the original so it flew right by me. And i actually didnt recognize him as the guy from Orphan Black either. Honestly, as someone pointed out already, I do sometimes have a hard time keeping up with so many characters with similar names and so many ties to different families/stories and there are so many dirty guys with facial hair they aren't very distinctive.

Interview with Michiell Huisman (recast Daario Naharis). Who also is starring in one of my other favorites Orphan Black. Some minor spoilers http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/22/game-of-thrones-new-hunk-michiel-huisman-on-the-revamped-daario-naharis.html#url=/articles/2014/04/22/game-of-thrones-new-hunk-michiel-huisman-on-the-revamped-daario-naharis.html

I agree. The original script from the Jaime/Cersei scenes has supposedly be uncovered, and it shows it was originally much different and more detailed than what aired. http://fansided.com/2014/04/24/game-thrones-season-4-script-controversial-jaime-cersei-scene/#!FM2kW

I realize that. What always bothers me about these discussions regarding rape (not rape) is the implication that somehow rape is the worst thing anyone can do. That Jaime wasn't a rapist, and that somehow placed him higher on the scale of morality than the other male characters. Rape is horrible. But it's not the worst thing anyone can do IMO. The Wilding didn't rape the child or his mother. He just forced the child to watch his parents being slaughtered and told him he was going to eat them.

Jaime's the one who tried to murder a child by pushing him out of a window. He was never a good and noble fellow.

This. The scenes were very dramatic and evoked all kinds of emotions that get so jumbled up together I can't possibly explain them in mere words. I didn't get all bogged down in deciding whether or not it was rape. It was just another in a long string of complicated interactions in their history that doesn't conform to some label IMO.

Thank you for sharing that.

It was a bit long for me to watch in it's entirety at this time, but he is delightful!

I'm enjoying this season immensely. I didn't read the books, but I've had the experience in the past of a book I loved being bastardized in film, so I feel your pain. However, hearing the complaints just makes me glad I didn't read the books. I'm thoroughly enjoying the stories unencumbered by the distraction of trying to analyze its authenticity. Joffrey's death was fantastic. His behavior leading up to that was so atrocious. All the giggling and smug derision. The tension during the celebration made me tingle. Sansa's face as the "entertainment" reenacted her father's beheading was riveting. I couldn't take my eyes off of her. I was momentarily giddy over the gruesomeness of Joffrey's suffering. I know I will miss him, but I'm really very interested in this "whodunnit" and why. I am not going to miss Shae. She became clingy. The exact opposite of how she was introduced. She lost her power. I don't get the purpose of Theon, but I'm intrigued about whether or not he will somehow come out of this and how. So far the Stannis piece has not captured my interest.

I think there is a balance. Dany is a liberator but she also has to be a powerful and "commanding" leader to achieve her goals. Those are cross purposes and that is where her conflict arises.

‘Game of Thrones’ Draws HBO’s Largest Audience Since ‘Sopranos’ Finale http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/game-of-thrones-draws-hbos-largest-audience-since-sopranos-finale-1201153525/#

I did. I actually thought it was better than usual. I've grown weary of the show because it seems like it's become even more exploitative than ever. But this particular episode did a really good job of showing how child pornography is not a victimless crime, in no small part due to the wonderful performance by the young woman who played "Lacy". I remember her from OLTL. She was very good.

I cannot wait for 4/6. That is all.

Priceless.

I looked for this on netflix and couldn't find it. My son wanted to watch it but doesn't have HBO. could you link? Please.

http://time.com/#30199/game-of-thrones-trailer-devil-inside/ New Game of Thrones Trailer Dials Up the Incest Factor Critics and celebrities got to see the first episode of season four of Game of Thrones Tuesday night at the New York City premiere. For those of us who weren’t so lucky, did we really need yet another Game of Thrones trailer to whet our appetites? Yes, we did.