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RIP Rosie Ruiz, the Boston Marathon "winner". https://runningmagazine.ca/sections/runs-races/rosie-ruiz-most-infamous-boston-marathon-cheater-dead-at-66/ (story starts around 25 minutes) (Phil Carey is at the start of this video, by the way)

I also get the feeling some of the main actors pushing this only wanted to play themselves.

They seem to have taken the photos away.

It just seems so random and slipshod to me. It won't affect these rich donors, who likely have high security, but I'm more concerned about the trickle down effects.

I've seen a number of people, like Yashar Ali, pushing back against Castro's actions. Likely because of where it will lead.

I think there was real story to be told with Betsy on her own, so I can see why they kept her there. Maybe they could have recast Steve briefly and had him freed from prison and leave for a new life with Betsy (when Frost chose to leave). I think by that time Runyeon was on Santa Barbara.

I never really saw this incredible Frank and Meg chemistry myself. I just remember a lot of him shouting and her looking confused and frightened by everything.

Tamra's and Kelly's are especially embarrassing. Tamra's is something she would have made fun of Alexis for.

Scott Bryce. I didn't think she was that bad with William Fichtner either.

Not sure of advising people to subscribe to the Washington Post or LA Times. Bezos is not trustworthy and doesn't someone questionable own the LA Times now?

Geez. Her eyes are so sad

Assailing hate but not guns is just clunky and does absolutely nothing to sell the story. They shouldn't have run the story as front page news in the first place. It's nothing new or worth reading about. There was also upset over their op-ed encouraging Nazis to police themselves. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/04/opinion/mass-shootings-domestic-terrorism.html

I think that the farmers who supported Trump have given many of the rest a bad image. I imagine most farmers don't vote, as most people don't vote. Many of the farmers who did vote for Trump are probably rich and corporate and preying on their lessers. Many of those who need help, I'm sure some did vote for Trump, but many are probably just trying to make it through each day without putting a gun in their mouth. Those who did support Trump have given something of a free pass for the Democrats who have been itching to write off the "flyover country" coalition to begin with. Most of those voters are probably gone and not coming back, so, in an ideal world, the next Democrat who is elected won't get in based on their support and will feel more free to make more clearcut decisions instead of the usual "you can't do this because you need to win Iowa" stuff we get every 4 years.

They've had decades to get their lives together and transition into something else, as the '80s were the era that decimated so many farmers, but it never really happened. At this point I don't think it was ever going to happen and I don't think TPP would have made it happen either. The system has locked out real change. Shrugging is one perspective, or the other would be for somebody in power to finally start accepting the reality that so many generations of politicians created and start making tough decisions about our agricultural industry. It's easy for me to say that, as I'm not a farmer or a politician, but something should have been done a long time ago.

I think most of these farmers were screwed no matter what. The big corporations have been pushing to buy them out for years. They were being left behind, as the world has also been leaving America behind for decades. The real question is when the government will finally start being honest and working toward absorbing and these changes beyond what they're doing now - payouts that are just lip service and do nothing to stop more and more farmers from giving up. Between our failures in free trade and the death of the farming industry, America will have to accept "socialism" sooner rather than later, whether they like it or not. I just worry about what version of "socialism" we're going to get. At the moment, the most likely version is a theocracy powered by the suffering and death of everyone who doesn't look exactly like your average white male Republican.

I think one of the problems with the agreement was what came before it. Decades have been spent on agreements that were supposed to help, supposed to be fine with only a few improvements, yet these agreements ultimately benefited mostly just the rich and continued the pattern of a long exodus of jobs and brains out of the country. Both parties were happy to just give slick, empty answers about the wonders of NAFTA, CAFTA, etc. and were fine with writing off anyone who complained as being anti-globalist, small-minded, naive, etc. After the results of agreements that were supposed to be on the best terms and were supposed to make us competitive, there was zero reason for many people to put their faith into TPP. The party seemed completely flatfooted at criticism to TPP and how to respond to it. The party is generally flatfooted at addressing the idea that many voters don't believe in globalism for all, globalism is our future and our best friend. Many will say oh these people are xenophobes, they're bigots, they hate the world, they are all going to choke and die, and so on, but they are one of the reasons Hillary lost, and likely the reason Trump will win again in two years, unless anything is done to figure out how to address these concerns. It's not so much about being ignored by conservatives as much as them not caring. As far as they're concerned, these guys are killing the right people. Blacks, Jews, Latinos, gays. They want all of these groups to die, and to die screaming.

I don't think that would have worked either, as these trade deals never have in the long-term. There is a steady exodus away from the US being seen as a place to manufacture or sell anything, and unlike many other countries, those up high in business and government felt little incentive over the decades to keep any kind of infrastructure or systems that would keep America regenerating. They were happy to strip us bare. Trump is just accelerating the path, driving us right off the cliff. And even as China itself has faltered in the last few years, that is just making people see the whole thing as us vs them, not caring that us and them are just going off the same cliff at different speeds. This is likely down to Seoul saying that the US is resuming their war games. We were never going to have any "peace" with North Korea. Trump got a photo op out of it and that was all he wanted. The saddest part is the shootings have actually helped Trump. They've distracted from how much of his foreign policy and economic decisions have become laid in ruins. As each day passes I'm more sure he's going to win reelection.

We were playing a losing game with China anyway, as they were never going to want to really deal with us and spent most of Obama's last years in office undercutting or trying to degrade him. Taking some kind of action wasn't a bad idea. Unfortunately Trump has handled it terribly, as always.

Yet another who loves to espouse anti-gay and anti-trans viewpoints while leaving the house looking like she lives under a Glamour Shots.

He passed away in October 2017 (Warren Burton).

It's that time again with our "liberal" media friends. Mad TV put it best:

I notice he made sure to mention he got treatment in Kentucky this time. Another Texas Republican heads for the exits. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/texas-republican-congressman-to-retire-marking-the-10th-gop-representative-to-step-away-2019-08-05?mod=currencies

Nathan Fillion's shows seem to always have drama and unpleasantness.

Another mass shooting, this one outside a bar in Dayton. https://www.vox.com/2019/8/4/20753630/dayton-ohio-mass-shooting-oregon-district-gunman-what-we-know PBS Newshour recently went to Dayton.