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Not surprising that after the French wanted to ban this family's business, the Americans overturned that ban.

I don't know if anyone read the article that I posted last year about some business/financial issues that Michael Avenatti had concerning a coffeehouse franchise that he had bought and a former business associate that had taken legal action against Avenatti but for me, that case was a big red flag. For that reason alone, I did not want him to even consider a run for public office, although I accepted his status as an antagonist to Trump, although all that time antagonizing Trump seems to have been ill spent and, in the end, has provided an opportunity for Trump and his spawn to mock Avenatti.

Yeah but those threats extend to offline as well. Whether they are online or not, some have still gotten doxxed and a few have even moved because it got so bad.

These parents get harassed all day everyday at some point.

I finished the third season of ODAAT on Netflix and is it just me, or does it seem like the show backloads its strongest episodes toward the middle to end of the season? A nice, subtle nod to Aretha Franklin in the Ghosts episode. ODAAT just gives you that classic sitcom feel that you just don't get anymore.

Speaking of dark money, this crook Sater is exhibit A.

Okay, this may be one of the first appearances by Rosa and she starts calling Meg a cheap tramp in Spanish from her earliest appearances on the show. @amybrickwallaceAt around minute 37:26 is Meg's fantasy, where even then, she's still being called a cheap tramp in Spanish by Rosa!

I'm actually not so sure I'd choose Apple. It's not as if Apple can't make up for lost time, they've done it before with iTunes but the marketplace moves even faster since those days. We don't know what the streaming landscape will morph into, perhaps there will be a saturation point and maybe it's closer than we think. More networks are launching their own streaming services with ad-supported programming and this may grow in popularity and coincide with people getting fed up with the mushrooming of paid services. It may just spread the market share, where no one company has any big slice of the streaming consumer market. It will be interesting to see.

By the way, Steven Spielberg was onstage at the AppleTV event so that might put his anti-Netflix rhetoric into a bit of context, LOL. We used to think of Steven Spielberg as a forerunner and an innovator, in many regards but he's totally following the reboot/revival trend with Amazing Stories.

With the advent of Apple's streaming service, I wonder how/if this will affect Netflix and other streaming services like Amazon and Hulu?

Oof.

Unfortunately, I don't remember. From what I've seen on YouTube, Rosa was still appearing in 1989 (and possibly 1990) when Bianca was living with Lucinda but there are so many episodes missing from YouTube that it often becomes inevitable that any character that is not a central character can fall through the cracks.

This is great! The only thing is that Rosa Flores didn't appear until 1986, not 1985. I'm going to see if I can find those additional scenes that I mentioned because they're pretty funny.

If anyone is following Thai elections, so far it looks as if the party of Thai's military has taken the lead.

More scenes with Antonia Rey as Rosa Flores from 4:23.

If you watch the first 7 minutes of the YT video I embedded, you'll find a hilarious sequence between John, Dusty and Rosa and then at minute 22:45, Meg faces the horror that Rosa is now living in Oakdale. It's the first time that Rosa calls Meg a low-rent tramp in Spanish.

This episode contains Rosa's arrival in Oakdale. You're welcome. One of my favorite things about Rosa, (besides how she and John traded barbs back and forth) was the fact that she'd always needle Meg Snyder and call her a cheap tramp in Spanish and Meg never even knew what she was saying! There was one scene where Meg was having one of her fantasies about being with Dusty and Rosa shows up as their maid and even in the fantasy, she's calling Meg a cheap tramp in Spanish.

Initially, Rosa worked in the kitchen on the ranch in New Mexico that Dusty ran away to after he graduated from high school, in order to get away from John and all the pressures he was facing in Oakdale concerning his future. Meg also found out where he was and followed him there. Eventually Meg was able to convince Dusty to return with her to Oakdale. When John was out of town, his housekeeper (who had been recommended by Shannon O'Hara after Shannon moved out of John's penthouse) got arrested for some thefts and Dusty contacted Rosa to see if she wanted to job that had been left vacant by the housekeeper's arrest. She worked for John but got fed up with John's rudeness and his lack of consideration. Meanwhile, Lucinda's temperamental cook threw a fit and when Lucinda discovered that the cook often lashed out after losing her temper, she fired her. Dusty suggested that Lucinda give Rosa a chance and Lucinda agreed. After that, she worked for Lucinda, which became even more comical once John and Lucinda got married and John ended up living at Lucinda's mansion.

It's especially sad that unlike New Zealand which took immediate action after their tragedy, the U.S. continues to do nothing, effectively not recognizing the devastation that is caused by these mass shootings. In this case, a year after the shootings, the tragedy continues, which is what many don't seem to comprehend. The devastation doesn't just stop once the tragedy is out of the news cycle. It continues.

R.I.P. to Antonia Rey, who portrayed one of my favorite minor characters, Rosa.

Oh, I agree...she's still beautiful. Perhaps her natural beauty is a bit too real for the remaining West Coast soaps.

There is a profile of her from a few years back on the popular Humans of New York blog/Facebook page. Unfortunately, I can't seem to embed the entry, probably because I'm not a member of Facebook but because the page is Public, I was able to read it. What she has to say is unsurprising but pretty interesting. https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735/1415486905192072/?type=3&theater

Ironically, it seems that Mary Kay Adams' career has generally stayed away from movies. Does anybody know why?

There were definitely times when Bob's shortness of temperament reared its head in situations. I know that John Dixon was often a provocateur who could get under anybody's skin but there were a few instances when he would voice a genuine concern with Bob (although, in typical John fashion, he used neither diplomacy nor tact) and Bob would just go off on John, sometimes unprovoked. Bob could be very haughty, as he displayed with new resident Casey Perretti, even when Casey's ideas were in earnest (and yes, on occasion, Casey could rub people the wrong way with his abrupt manner). Then there is the way that Bob talked down to Kim when he found out that she wanted to have a career shortly after Christopher was born. Everyone talked about Steve Andropoulous' regressive views on married women (w/kids) in the workplace but no one mentioned Bob's, even after both Kim and Lisa challenged Bob on his out of step views. FWIW, I think various writing regimes tried to show just how imperfect and flawed Bob could be (in many ways) but a lot of viewers often built up a hagiography in their own minds, based upon those warm and wonderful Thanksgiving toasts and Christmas carols but Bob was still the man who cheated on two of his wives.

I was in my mid-30s when it struck me. I think I must have a high threshold for misery because it was bad, but I wouldn't say I was in terrible pain. It was miserable but thankfully came and went in about a week, sort of like the chickenpox that afflicted me many years before. Age 50 is at least a handful of years away but I wonder whether it's worth it to get the vaccine since I've already had it?