DramatistDreamer

(*Psst, there's e-mail, Khan).

I'm hearing that the EU has granted the UK an extension until January 2020. I'll have to read about it later.

I was on and off with GL in the 90s (as I was with pretty much every soap at that time) but I remember the first time I tuned in and saw that Sherry Stringfield had left the role, feeling very disappointed. By then, I understood why actors left but it was a big loss for the character and the show. Now I wonder if the casting of Kiefer was to make Ross seem more youthful. The illicit aspect of the Blake/Ross pairing seemed to disappear with Kiefer and ver Dorn paired together and it seemed more like a garden variety love (past) love triangle with Holly. It's strange how many 'couples edits' are on YT for Blake and Ross with Kiefer and ver Dorn in the role when the scenes with Stringfield and ver Dorn were far more steamy and intriguing. I also think the writing did Kiefer no favors-- her Blake was often written to be constantly pining away for marriage and children with Ross. It was annoying. Dennehy gives me Glenn Close vibes, lol. I was always expecting her to say "I will not be ignored!" I think her Blake would've been more cut from the same cloth as Roger but I have a hard time seeing her as being any part of Holly, let alone her daughter.

Seeing snippets of this match (on breaks) between Halep and Andreescu and realizing how Bianca was, at first, thoroughly walloping Halep and how Simona has by degrees, proceeded to wear down Bianca in the second set and just clicking back on to see Andreescu on the floor getting medical treatment gives me the distinct impression that Bianca is the type of player who will be beset by injuries over the course of her career. She's only a teenager still and has already spent a significant amount of time on the DL. I don't expect that to improve as she gets older. I wouldn't be surprised if she ends up spending swaths of her career out injured in between the successful runs. So apparently, Simona decided she wanted "in" on the MTO attention too and decided to take one virtually at the same time. These girls.

Joe and Mika are being roundly criticized on Twitter, add those to the many who have avowed to just ignore these two hosts. Trump himself has insulted them repeatedly, so his fanatics hate them. Where do Joe and Mika go from here? Does anybody really care? To paraphrase @JaneAusten , who even watches Morning Joe anymore? It's been a good five or six years since I've bothered with that show. Everyone knows that Rachel Maddow gives MSNBC whatever ratings boost they've gotten these days. Morning Joe is trying to be relevant. Joe and Mika will fall off trending in a few hours. #LockHimUp has been steadily trending since last night and will likely continue to trend the rest of the day.

Thanks for trying, @DRW50 I appreciate this. It's so bizarre because she didn't appear in the 1970s, it's the late 90s so I figured those episodes would've been uploaded somewhere. Geez. I really wish bandstandmike was a ATWT fan too because he seems to have all of the 90s and between he and others on YT, Guiding Light seems covered from the '80s onward! Hey, if you don't laugh, you cry, at this point.

I'm not even sure why folks continue to respond to this trolling. I asked if anyone had a link to the episodes where Rossum appeared. I'm not asking for dates or biographies, I am literate, so I can read that all on the thousands of Wiki pages online. I wanted to SEE a clip or a full episode of her appearance on the show because I was curious and I'm seeing all this nonsense with song clips that have nothing to do with ATWT. I didn't respond to that madness because those posts are irrelevant and have nothing to do with the question I asked. I'm not taking the bait, so why are others? The more you respond, the longer you prolong this mess that's happening on this messageboard. She's putting the MESS in messageboard and some of you are falling for it.

Stop treating black people in this country (and elsewhere) as if we're a monolith because we're not. I have good, long-existing friendships with black people who live in the South (some in the "Bible Belt") and the midwest who are unquestioningly liberal. It's the same nonsense thinking that proposes the idea that the working class could only ever be white. There are no doubt some 'traditionalist' blacks and a few of those are avowedly conservative but you will also see more white conservatives in those same areas. Go onto social media and type Buttigieg's name in the search bar and compare the number people with AVIs that have white faces vs. black and see their comments about Buttigieg, you will find far more comments from those with AVIs with white faces making Bible quoting comments that are quite personal directed at Buttigieg. At this time, the Buttigieg campaign is having fundraisers being thrown by pharmaceutical companies (many of which are the subject of lawsuits for various reasons) but by all means lets blame blacks in the South as the reason he's not getting the traction some think he deserves.

Is this making the news in the U.S.? This seems to be making news abroad today.

With the WTA being staged in Shenzhen where war games and military maneuvers are being staged in response to the protests in Hong Kong, and now John Isner, MAGAt playing in KSA, no one can tell me that sport and politics don't intersect, because they clearly do and always have!

Honestly, Reva was a far more interesting character when she played the town vamp. I can't stand it when soaps take a character who was a vixen or a tramp (Reva was a combination of both) and then try to practically canonize her. I don't think it is uncharacteristic of Reva to mock or taunt someone who she considered a rival, because past behavior shows that Reva could often go very "low", right down in the mud. I think it was more insincere for the show to ever have tried to paint Reva as some type of heroine (to be honest, I think that's when a lot of people began to tire of the character). It's almost as ridiculous as when Y&R tried to make Phyllis Summers into a heroine.

I was going to post a stupid, incoherent response Bernie gave to a black male student about what he should do if stopped by the police but why bother? It made me upset and it's not worth posting anyway.

Eww, I'm just finding out about Reilly Opelka's father!

I'm not sure if this was ever addressed but from what I've been able to glean, Parliament voted "No" on the timetable issue because Johnson wanted to give them some ridiculously short period of time to read and scrutinize a 430+ page legal text in order to ratify it. The MPs didn't think this was enough time and that Johnson has been trying to rush the process. Not sure whether this has been posted.

This match actually happened.

A few hours ago, I posted about the sublime (the preaching during the service), unfortunately, it must follow that every instance of the sublime will inevitably follow with an instance of the ridiculous.

People with excess parking ticket fees have spent more time in prison.

Yeah, I'm among those 'backsliders' who no longer attends church, and I actually considered closing out the service because I felt sad but I'm glad I didn't close out the tab because it was really uplifting and I too feel like I needed to hear the message. It reminded me of very real examples of someone who really tried to strive to do the work for his community, over decades. I also got a kick out of knowing that all in that room couldn't ignore that message...at least not today.

For anyone who was actually paying attention to that rousing sermon delivered by Rep. Cummings' pastor, HRC won't be the focus. That pastor was PREACHING!!

According to N.J. laws, if the liquor license at one Trump club gets revoked, all the liquor licenses at every N.J. located Trump club will be revoked. Definitely bad for a club's business.

The U.S. is going to have to deal with the very real problem of voter suppression, one way or the other. It can't be continually avoided as trust in the election process continues to degrade.

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