DRW50

@Bright Eyes you never really reply to PMs, if memory serves, so I didn't want to send one, but if you want to see any '70s episodes let me know and I can send some privately.

Some old (and pretty awful) comments from another high-profile Hillary hater. To be fair these were from 15 years ago, but still - yikes. https://www.thewrap.com/young-turks-cenk-uygur-blog-breasts-women-flawed/

This always leaves me with uneasy feelings - I read an article a few months ago about some country where they now only have a handful of people with Down's because of selective abortions and genetic testings. I worry this opens the door to more and more of abortions based on other matters, like if they think their child might be gay. But it's not fair for the state to put this on the woman - not only does she not have a say in her own body (and this will also increase back-alley abortions), but is the state going to do anything to help her with the great expense of raising a child with Down's? Or the emotional support? How can you do something like this when you're cutting funding left and right? Has Ohio even expanded Medicaid? I agree, although after the mess that Canada and Germany (especially Germany) made of their open borders policy, I wonder if it's ever going to go according to plan. This is one of those cases where that magical, mysterious unicorn known as a moderate Republican would actually help on immigration, as they could thread the needle in a way a Democrat can't, but that won't happen.

This frightens me so much, mostly because of what would likely be done to the kids: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/us/trump-immigrant-families-separate.html I understand that immigration is a serious issue and you can't just let people in, but working this hard to basically tell vulnerable people that they should just go home and die - it sets such an awful precedent for us and for what is to come. It goes against what this country is supposed to be.

Jeana is doing a series with People about her facelift. http://people.com/tv/real-housewives-jeana-keough-facelift-exclusive-before-after-photos/

Another piece on the allegations against Gary Goddard. I found this difficult to read. I have a feeling he is going to get through this stuff unscathed so it was very brave of these men to come forward, especially since you can tell while reading it just how many years it's haunted them and likely helped lead to one of their deaths. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-goddard-accusers-20171220-story.html

Vanity Fair talks about Weinstein's bullying and games with AMFAR, which caused all kinds of upheaval with the board. I had forgotten Liz Taylor co-founded AMFAR. I wonder if she ever had any runins with him or if by the time he came around she was already out of the game. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/harvey-weinstein-nightmare-finding-neverland-amfar-money

Gravitas is not a word I would use to describe Savannah Guthrie. I think that Charlie Rose did a lot to help build up CBS This Morning to be relatively competitive (albeit still a fairly distant third), so I don't think he was never 'unneeded' for their ratings, but I do think that Lauer was a drag on Today for a long time.

Looks like the certification of the VA delegates race today magically found a vote to help the Republican, which means they are now tied, and will have to flip a coin. Republicans always win, any way they can. How very convenient. Anyway, this is a pretty good article: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/19/16786006/looting-of-america

Another reminder of just how many of the privileged few tend to fail upwards. Margaret Spellings is included as a voice of wisdom in this article on the struggles universities are facing with the public. No mention of her anti-gay crusade against PBS or her general foolishness while Secretary of Education. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/19/college-university-backlash-elitism-296898

I had a feeling Meryl Streep pushing herself in the public eye so much this past year would cause backlash, not helped by her saying she had no idea about Weinstein, but targeting her this way is just counterprodcutive and makes me worry about where this will go. Anyway, words from someone who really may not want to be speaking much on this topic: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5192439/Sir-Ian-Women-partly-blame-showbiz-sex-scandal.html

I think they are fine with most of these children dying - they see them as lessers who are never going to amount to anything anyway. I have a feeling some of the more deluded members of Congress also think most of them aren't white. Most of the people who will suffer won't blame Republicans anyway, so it's a win-win for the Ayn Rand and holy roller combo. This will jack up medical costs even higher for the country as a whole, but this just gives them another opportunity to destroy health care and the social safety net even more and to kill even more people. Another win for them. That was the bad joke of so many people falling for the idea that Obama couldn't wait to "kill Grandma" - it's the GOP who very proudly kill people, year in and year out.

I can't be surprised. She always stunk of grifter-dom - likely the reason she didn't do nearly as well as she should have in an election with two very unpopular candidates. I was disgusted with her recount and with how many people were dumb enough to pay up.

I read some of the Guardian comments for the article and so many of them just seemed to go on at length about how terrible Obama was and belittling his supporters. Even now many on the left seem much more energized talking about how awful Obama (or Hillary) was than talking about Trump.

If there's any consistency to early '80s AW it's that the show is simultaneously boring as hell and weird as hell. I'm aware the full episodes are out there, I just don't have any great rush to see it, but what in the world was this obscene caller stuff supposed to be, and was I meant to laugh? Poor Gail Brown. The comfort level with Kit and a half-naked Joey and Sandy is...very high. Between that and my always thinking they could have easily whipped up a bisexual past for Sandy in his trick-turning days, I imagine I'm reading far more into this scene than I'm meant to.

I have to admit I wonder if part of the bill design was an FU to those voters, as many are liberal.

@Vee @SFK @MissLlanviewPA

Poverty in America. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/15/america-extreme-poverty-un-special-rapporteur

Rosie was on Andy Cohen's show last month and the after show has, starting around 6 minutes, some...odd claims about what was going on backstage at The View. Joy is also a guest and she squirms and squirms before deflecting afterward.

I think people will have to find out at some point, although whether that leads to her exit, I don't know. I wish they hadn't done it, but this is probably the time where I feel like they most managed to show that she really was on edge and that Emma pushed her into it, rather than it being premeditated. They probably should have just had her confess rather than keeping it a secret for story purposes.

There's a huge difference between this and the Tom King murder story, so I don't know if it would be seen the same way by viewers. Natalie isn't leaving as of yet, she signed another contract.