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Honestly I thought he'd already dropped out. I don't even want to know why the purity types are trying to primary Rep Beatty.

An interesting special on climate change...from 1976.

A good piece on who the GOP truly are. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/23/three-years-after-trumps-win-many-republicans-still-feel-like-they-are-losing-side-america/

Why am I not surprised that fat drunk is the one pushing it. He's from Florida and like someone in the replies said, this is very Florida 2000.

There's certainly still time for someone back in the pack to surprise us. My concerns about Warren, Sanders and Biden aren't new - I've said them for months, and they probably aren't going to go away. Whoever gets the nomination will have my vote, and if possible, my money, and I hope that whoever gets the nomination wins, but I just can't shake my unhappiness about the state of the race. After 2004 and 2016, I'm past the point where I'm able to tell myself things will be fine - I'm in a place where I just muddle through. I'm not implying you are somehow telling yourself things will be fine, in case my comments come across that way, I'm just talking about myself. If my comments are causing you pain then I will try to phrase them in a way that won't - or you can put me on ignore (not that you need my permission to be put on ignore, obviously) and I will understand. I agree Taylor's testimony was powerful in its own right, and isn't tainted by Trump's usual tweet rage, so people who aren't distracted will hone in on the real facts. I disagree about the media focus, which does hit people who are more easily distracted, but in the end I guess what the media says doesn't matter either way. Battle lines are hardened about impeachment, and it's just a waiting game until November 2020.

I don't have much belief in them alone, but there's been lots of wariness of the field for a while now, especially since clearer and stronger choices to combine establishment and a new future, like Kamala Harris (or to a degree Cory Booker or Julian Castro - or even Pete Buttigieg) haven't really broken through. You have two people who are distrusted or untested for many in the party and one person who seems to be falling apart in slow motion. It reminds me of how wary many in the Democratic establishment were of the state of the field in 2003, which is when Wesley Clark was parachuted in to save the day. I don't think the fantasies about Hillary, Michelle Obama, Holder, etc. are true, but I can believe there's a lot of unhappiness about the state of the primary. It's just you can't parachute a 'dream' candidate in the way you could have in the past - they'd be chewed up and spat out.

Pathetic. As a few of the tweets mentioned, I'm getting 2003 vibes, which is not great.

Speaking of Brexit coverage, this is a pretty good article on the complicity of the British press in essentially being mouthpieces for Boris Johnson. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/british-journalists-have-become-part-of-johnsons-fake-news-machine/

It got coverage, but I've seen more about Trump saying he's been lynched and whether he should use that term and whether Democrats are hypocrites because a few of them used that term when Clinton was impeached, and so on. Trump distracted the press and they fell for it, as usual.

If a Democrat were in the White House, Taylor's testimony would be blaring news everywhere. Instead it has mostly been greeted with a shrug. The numbness toward Trump's corruption will be what gets him out of this. Sad. As for Brexit, there are a lot of MPs who go along with the "people are tired of waiting, just get this done" mentality. A Labour MP went on TV saying he was going to vote for the bill even though he hadn't even read it.

There's a story on TMZ claiming that authorities are hoping she will plead because if she is found guilty and gets a light sentence they will look bad. I wonder if that's true or if someone put that out for spin purposes.

You're right. It's her. I thought she looked a little familiar. Guess she must have done this before she was hired by ATWT.

Edith Prickley being producer of the later years would make sense. "Nobody wants to see those old fogies!" "We need more of those vavavoom brothers. I'll give 'em some Irish Spring!" "We need a British bitch. Everybody loves those British bitches. And some dopey orphan kid who doesn't have a real name. Nobody wants real names now. ET...TJ...JR...hell yeah, I got it! TR!" "We need a serial killer! I hate - I mean, everybody hates all those dumb young bimbos. Kill 'em all!" I wonder if Sherry knew material like this was in the pipeline. I guess she couldn't have, but she must have seen how much the writing had degraded. It's sad to see Liza this way. I guess at least she got to have a happy ending, and wasn't turned psycho or killed off.

I've seen some talk that this shouldn't have been close, and Trudeau made it close, but the way so many countries are splintering, I'm not sure I agree. Speaking of that, it looks like there's a push from some in Alberta to try to secede from Canada. I have to wonder who is backing that... I looked at some of the tweets about Bernie defending Tulsi, and many were incensed that he had waited several days to speak up. She truly does have a cult surrounding her (nothing new for her...). No lessons have been learned from 2016. She and Bernie seem more likely to help Trump than they already did in 2016.

It's similar to the last Edge opening in just feeling very wrong for the show, although I think I'd like it more if they had more of the veteran characters and not such a McCleary overload. They seemed to do a hatchet job on Liza. The guest turn toward the end of the episode was a real surprise. Jacqueline Schultz's hair would put your eye out.

I don't think this one was up before, was it?

You can't take your eyes off her. I'm surprised Rauch let her get away - then again she isn't a blonde. Is it me or is there a big difference in tone between the late '87 and early '89 videos? It was a little hard to watch the 1993 episode because I kept thinking of all the wasted potential with Angela, with breaking up Rachel and Kevin and firing the wonderful Kirk Geiger, but I appreciated getting to see more of Carol Swift. Her scene with Nora was very powerful. (Nora's meltdown at the end didn't quite work for me but I got the idea) And I always enjoy seeing more of Christopher Cousins and Karen Witter. They had such a spark and their performances were always strong.

Thanks for finding that. I think I have some of those somewhere. I had no idea they were based on ideas for the show. I didn't care for the last episodes at all; I wish we'd gotten another season for a fresh start.

That's wonderful. I'm sure that made Shelly feel good right now.

I think they might one more time, but after that I don't think they would.

If the EU doesn't agree to another extension, then the UK crashes out on October 31 with no deal. If they agree to another extension, then I think Parliament will vote on the deal in a few months. The idea is generally that if the vote is held now Johnson's plan will pass. I was reading about an MP who is being called "their" Lindsey Graham (only she is in Labour, not even a Tory) as she has overnight become an ardent Brexit supporter, even more than many Tories. And people are speculating it's because she recently joined a think tank with many hardline Tories. I guess our countries still have such self-serving corruption, allegedly, in common.

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