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I don't think it's going to go that far. I think it's just more breakup drama that always fades out. I just wish they'd let Nicola and Jimmy have a new story for once and let Bernice stop being so pathetic all the time. I did like the increased character interaction in this past few episodes, like Joanie and Zak with Aaron and Robert, Pollard with Robert, etc. And the scenes with Ronnie and Lawrence were touching. The only part that annoyed me was Lawrence berating David. I still haven't forgotten what Lawrence and his family did to Alicia and the Metcalfes, even if the show wants me to.

They aren't actually doing anything, although she kissed him while she was drunk and he was passed out. I do think the whole thing is silly and the actors deserve better, although I'll admit I laughed at various points, like when Nicola started tossing the toilet paper rolls.

@Vee I thought you might enjoy this as much as I did. Bitter GOP operatives go for Zucker's throat. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/jeff-zucker-harvard-heckled-cnn-trump-coverage-232090

@I Am A Swede I thought of you when I saw this on Youtube. It's a Swedish vocal version of the theme. Rare.

I hope you're doing well too. I always mean to post more Jane stuff when I find it but the board is such a mess now.

I don't know if Elizabeth Warren is genuinely supporting Romney and Scott Brown (as she knows the alternatives are terrifying) or if she's trolling and knows her warm words are more likely to make Trump not pick them, thus further proving her point about what an extremist he is. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/elizabeth-warren-scott-brown-veterans-affairs-secretary-support-232072

What a shocker - a large number of Republicans who wanted an Obamacare repeal before the election have now changed their minds. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-obamacare-repeal-poll I can't stand people like this. These are the people who vote to hurt millions of Americans every 2 years or 4 years and still expect a free lunch. They can kiss my ass.

It's a good interview - it's obvious he has a lot of very fond memories of AMC.

It's actually not true, but it doesn't really matter, as the people he's appointed to positions that will affect lgbt people the most are anti-gay (and racist and sexist and xenophobic, etc.). But the tweet is so broad that it means people are more likely to dismiss it.

I think he was as I could swear one of the soap magazines from back then said issues over the direction of the character or the show with him was a reason she was written out. I'm not 100% though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbFfOe-S1gY

Jaime Lyn Bauer as always all over the map from surprisingly decent to hilariously bad in one scene... Speaking of hilariously bad - Austin Peck. And I'd forgotten how much unintended sexual chemistry he and Bryan Datillo used to have. For years I kept wondering if they would have a closet gay story for Lucas. I would have bought it (more than I did Will most of the time).

I think many on the right who oppose big business are more confined to Breitbart, which has a lot of sway but doesn't seem to have as much as one might have thought with all these Koch and business-friendly appointments (I guess the reports of the power Rebekah Mercer has over Trump may be true in that respect). Those who were upset about Hillary's speeches were more of those on the left who love to have purity contests. Those on the right would likely be more upset about Mnuchin being Jewish (if he is). There's hypocrisy all around - attacks on Clinton for business as usual and Washington elites, yet crickets when Trump chose Elaine Chao (perhaps the ultimate Washington insider, and she even *gasp* kept her maiden name). Trump having a fancy meal with Romney (although I still don't believe he'll actually pick him), expensive food and wine galore. Remember when Obama couldn't even go on vacation to Hawaii without being attacked by the press as anti-American? I wonder if those coal country voters know anything at all about Chao or incoming Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and their record on mines. Anything at all.

I keep forgetting Ann was still on the show by this point. I'd never seen any of the big Jeff/Trisha/Trucker stuff so it's nice to get to watch some. It's stunningly filmed, although so overly melodramatic...

I always enjoy seeing the Kate/Ava relationship. It was such an old Agnes Nixon chestnut but it worked every time on every soap she was involved in.

There's always a catch. But that isn't what gets the easiest press attention.

I think you have people in power who truly hate and resent most of the country and want to punish them, which means taking away most of their jobs while simultaneously doing nothing to help people who no longer have jobs. This is someone like Kevin McCarthy, the rocket scientist who lost out on the Speaker Of the House gig because he bragged about how much Benghazi helped Republicans. He said yesterday that he doesn't want to pass any alternative to Obamacare - he just wants to repeal it. So you essentially kick millions in the teeth with nothing else to help them. Then you have people like Paul Ryan, people I truly believe want to help, but whose idea of helping is a heinous, terrifying worldview that amounts to crushing us all under the bootheel of Ayn Rand because only when everything is taken from us can we truly be happy. He genuinely thinks this is what we all need and must learn to accept. I don't see anyone in power who actually wants to help and is not dangerously unhinged.

I don't root against him, especially when the "saves" are honest and not sleight of hand like all his claims about keeping Ford around. I mostly just wish it wasn't so hollow, given his history of how workers are treated, and that he supports policies that are very anti-worker. A lot of these jobs are leaving and won't be back. Effort needs to be made to find new jobs that can take their place. No one really wants to do that. And Democrats by and large still often seem too focused on the feel-good fantasy of globalization to understand the anger and fear - the fear that got Trump the win. I read a bit of a speech John Kerry gave and he clearly just seems frustrated about backlash against free trade. I don't think he, or Hillary, among others, ever got it. I don't know if Obama did either. I feel like the biggest and very possibly the last opportunity to redefine the economy in this country in a way that would be progressive and supportive of the common man (or woman) was in Obama's first year in office. Democrats blinked, thanks to right wing and media hysteria, and it was gone.

Other than 2008 Indiana is generally always red.

Watching some of these old clips that are back up on Youtube from around the time of the possession, I'm reminded that what seemed to make this period work as well as it did was the sincerity behind it, even if effects, performances, etc. may have been cheesy. It's something that faded by the end of JER 1.0 and was all but gone for the second run. This Jaime and Sami scene is a good example.

This is nuts. It reminds me of the whole Nancy and Ronnie astrologer stuff, only on an even larger scale. http://www.snopes.com/2016/11/29/south-korean-president-offers-to-resign-amid-cult-controversy/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-korea-choi-soon-sil-i-committed-a-sin-that-deserves-death/

Mary Fallin, another interchangeable bigot who believes you can pray away your state's woes, is likely to be named Secretary of the Interior. Here's an article on the earthquakes caused in Oklahoma by her fracking policies. http://www.npr.org/2016/11/28/503632437/texas-oklahoma-divided-over-how-to-handle-earthquakes-linked-to-oil-drilling

An article on the BFI trying to preserve decaying material while they can. This is what annoys me about the soap material held at places like UCLA - is any of this being done? http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38131911

The oddest part is the character who seemingly would have worked best in the newer format (Joe, given his longtime ties to Home Farm and business) never really worked that well. Maybe because Joe wasn't the same in his last years. It still makes no sense to me just how much the show butchered so many Sugdens and people close to them. They're lucky to have even survived such a destructive mentality - if not for so many '90s characters being so compelling I don't think it would havel asted the decade. The episodes where Dolly realizes what scum the Tates are sort of gives the biggest blueprint of what the show would become.