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David Chisum (ex-Miles, OLTL) was on Supernatural tonight as the President who makes a deal with Satan... Sadly I don't think he took his clothes off.

They take it as being attempts to regulate businesses. The religious right generally doesn't have as much of an issue against climate change, but they're suckered into silence. The guy sounds like a real mess.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-original-operatives-frozen-out-232383

He wasn't. The material was pre-Lemay.

Fox News is likely on the wane. More and more media is going to come from places like Breitbart, fake news, etc. The network was confused and ineffective for much of this election cycle.

True. I guess what startled me was the whole narrative of a woman being a prick tease and so on - very base anti-female tropes I would have thought more-liberal-than-thou Berniebots would have balked at. I guess not.

I just read this article from a few days ago, various writeups that would have gone out if Hillary had won. Most of them were even-handed, but the bitterness and misogyny from the woman who supported Bernie is startling. http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-wins-election-alternate-universe-524623

Nadia's Theme pops up in this utterly hilarious ad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pvNT6gEsVA

and how Thrones can give people hope in a post-Trump, post-truth era. Anyway, I wish Finn a lot of luck and he seems like a great guy.

Meet your new EPA head. I feel sorry for people in Oklahoma who have had to deal with these officials. http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/oklahoma-ag-pruitt-epa-chief-232319

Sounds familiar with this administration. I'd really like to believe someone is going to help these groups but I am starting to feel like most of these departments (this and HUD with grifter Ben Carson) are just going to become money-making schemes for the people running them. I guess I'd prefer that to someone declaring war (as I'm afraid Jeff Sessions will do), but what a choice to make.

I just hope she treats them better than she and her husband treated their wrestlers.

I hope it leads to good things. We certainly need them. I see that he's talking again about running for POTUS. He's likely always going to regret that. To be honest I do think he would have beaten Trump, but that's easy to say...

Thanks. I hope some of that shows up someday. I've seen the photos of her as Emma but I don't think it does the material justice.

I think part of it was the taboo/sensational nature and the other part was because it's a real issue rarely tackled, and one that provides a lot of drama as well as insight. He'd been trying to do the story over and over - I think the Lily story on Loving was the first - but something always seemed to get in the way. It seemed like the Angel story was the one where he got to do the full plot.

Did you see Beverlee McKinsey as Emma?

What was the overlap with van Vleet and Charita? I remember them both at Hilary's funeral but that's it.

Many European countries had a policy of what amounted to letting in a lot of people from predominantly Muslim countries but essentially keeping them segregated. Some said that people should be "forced" to follow new customs, to learn the native tongue, this and that, but that doesn't really work either. What would work is a policy that allows for and encourages integration and yet respects the culture of the immigrant. Some say, "Respecting the culture means you encourage bigotry and treating women like property" and so on, but that doesn't have to be the case. That's just a stereotype because it's easier to scapegoat millions of people. Many of these people are leaving their country because they want and need a new life. If they are allowed the opportunity then they may want to be more like their new world. They are instead essentially kept at arm's length and reminded that they're strangers. The US used to be better at assimilating new cultures (although I realize they had far less mass immigration than France, Germany, Netherlands, etc. in recent years), but with the fearmongering, polarization, and open bigotry and violence against not just immigrants, but people who have been here all their lives and just happen to have a skin color that is deemed unacceptable, that is less and less likely to be the case. I really want to believe that the best of American ideals and freedoms will survive even in these coming years. This Taiwan stuff gets more and more strange. We live in an odd world when Bob Dole, a man who essentially was relegated to Viagara ads after 1996, has more influence on our international policies than the State Department. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/bob-dole-donald-trump-taiwan-232266

It's still amazing to me, especially since 1985 was when soaps were still supposed to be more family-oriented and less contemptuous. It really shows how far off the rails GL was in these years. Watching ATWT and then GL an hour later must have felt like whiplash.

I wonder why he said that. I guess it must have been some "selling out" thing?

RIP Peter Vaughan, Master Aemon Targaryen. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38225796

The idea is likely to appeal to middle-class voters, but what it really does is leave those who are affected by the ban feeling dejected and angry, while leaving those who ardently support the ban wanting more and more. It's outdated pandering for a modern world where there is less and less of a "middle." And the segregation of Muslims in Europe is one of the reasons this has built up so much - these types of policies won't make that any better.

Not that I know of.

Yeah it was Dumont I was thinking of, as there were a few interviews hyping him at the time.

Thanks. It's always hard for me to guess what was going on with some of this later material. Some of it like Althea going through a glass door or Matt raping Maggie or whatever happens, I'm not sure I'm looking forward to seeing if I ever actually do...