DramatistDreamer

Yesterday, it was a dance video, tomorrow it will be something else. The media aids and abets the lack of serious political discussion about some very real problems. I love how they got all over Obama's a*ss over the broken campaign promise of not closing Guantanamo Bay, even though most of the prisoners had their individual cases reviewed one by one and those who were deemed eligible for release were placed in other countries that were willing to accept them--in the end, all but a small group of prisoners deemed too dangerous to be released, vacated Guantanamo. But the media was all over it until the end of his presidency (which is fine, since it was a stated campaign promise). Yet with Trump, the media has already decided to ignore that he has broken a number of his campaign promises (even though they were clear lies, he should still be held accountable for broken campaign promises) and frame the wall funding as a "showdown" between him and the new Congress, or is that the House Democrats? Most of the media is nothing but a disservice to the U.S. public at this time.

Does anyone have a link where I can watch this? I don't subscribe to cable anymore so I don't get Lifetime. If anyone knows of a solid, virus-free link PM me. I did see there were like half a million tweets about the series though. I don't own any R. Kelly music but somewhere I still have Aaliyah's debut album, which I can't seem to part with. The next time I come across that CD, I have to remember to scrub out R. Kelly's blurry image (where he hovers in the background, from what I remember) with very thick black magic marker. On that debut CD, her cover of At Your Best sends me and breaks my heart all at once. Even more so when I really stop and consider the lyrics and what must have been going on in her life at the time she sang them. The fact that she was just one of multitudes of young Black women who were exploited by this creature...

I agree with this. In fact, in the fan-fiction of a ATWT revival that I had concocted in my mind, lol Shannon and Duncan would, many years later would marry and Shannon would have them sail around the world on their honeymoon but not before inviting Jessica and Bonnie (and possibly Lisa) to join them on their honeymoon. The honeymoon cruise wouldn't be shown, just the people of Oakdale gossiping about how perfectly bizarre and in character it was for Shannon to invite her husband's ex and her new stepdaughter on her honeymoon. I really liked those moments when they wrote Shannon, the "Bad boss B*tch" oozed out and shaded her otherwise quirky, trippy-light-fantastic demeanor. It was akin to seeing Rose Nylund go from saccharine to bitchy in two seconds flat.

Interestingly enough, I did like how Lilith interacted with characters like Hank Elliott (she seemed like a benevolent menace) and Tonio Reyes (where you weren't sure whether she planned to kill Tonio after their lovemaking and her reasons were really intriguing-- a weird solidarity with Meg as the aggrieved wife of a philandering, faithless husband). And the scene where Josh Snyder beat the living hell out of Tonio and left him on Lilith's doorstep and Lilith practically stands around waiting for Tonio to die as Duncan barks at her to call 911-- the look in Lilith's eyes was everything. One thing I did appreciate about how Marland dealt with his villains is that he rarely tried to reform them, he knew that the likes of Marsha Talbot, Doug Cummings and Tad Channing were not sustainable as long term characters-- he wrote them as the menace to society that they were and had them meet their rightful demise. Not like today's soaps that try to keep, reform and make a hero out of a character that killed like, two or three people.

ZTE was once declared a national security threat to the United States.

I have to admit that seeing a picture like this with what looks like an actual diverse group of Congress-people has me a bit verklempt, the good kind of verklempt, of course.

One of Trump's campaign pledges (other than build the wall and have Mexico pay for it) was that he'd eliminate the National Debt. As of today, with a year left on his term, he has added 2Trillion dollars to the National Debt.

And Bernie doesn't listen because he insists he's right in all aspects, especially since his base also encourages him to believe that he is right in all aspects. In that way (as well as other aspects), they're very similar to Trump and his base.

Senator Sanders just cannot help himself. He's doing himself no favors in his half-hearted attempts at pandering. If you're going to pander, at least don't do it so clumsily, Bernie.

No offense to Michael Swan but Duncan McKechnie was a highly aggravating character and it didn't help that he had the most convoluted storylines of anyone on the show (sadly, in the last 15 years of the show, convoluted stories became a constant on the show.). Over the last month, I watched a slew of episodes from 1988 (which I completed over the weekend) and found myself annoyed by his constant reliance on Jessica to do his bidding with the Lilith mess. It's funny because I think we were supposed to be exasperated on Roy's impatience and intolerance of Duncan's intercessions in Jessica and Roy's relationship, but looking back on these episodes all these years later has me convinced that Roy was right to be upset with Duncan and with Jessica, to a certain extent. Duncan was totally out of pocket to send Jessica all the way to Egypt, with the spectre of James Stenbeck lurking, to do what was essentially personal business. And Duncan always had another one of these types of crises just around the corner for the dumbest reasons (buried treasure??). He created a whole entire crisis for Beatrice just because he didn't want her to know that she was his daughter and not his sister. Then there were the endless McKechnie curses, which he would never listen to reason about how to resolve things. He trusted all the wrong people even when he was warned it was a bad idea (Hensley Taggart, e.g.) It was aggravating. Duncan was a crazymaker and a uber-complicated mess! @victoria foxton Those moments when Shannon went "Philly" on Babs were some of the most interesting parts of her character. There was a scene, also at the Mona Lisa, where Margo and Barbara get into a confrontation over Craig returning Barbara's investment in his company (due to lack of trust issues--Barbara's staged affair with Tom and Barbara being the other woman during Sierra and Tonio's marriage) and Shannon steps in and basically offers to handle Barbara for Margo. Just Margaret Reed's menacing posture in the ladies "powder room" was so amusing and entertaining. I wish we had gotten more of that Shannon. Instead of the Shannon who constantly ran around trying to fix Duncan's mess because he couldn't bother to tell the truth. Also, Duncan and Jessica worked briefly basically because they used her family (and Lisa to a certain extent) for angst in that relationship. Also, the only way that relationship could work is because Jessica abandoned all the principles of being a no-nonsense woman, which is why the relationship couldn't last and had a relatively short run. It was interesting for the issues it dramatized on the show but not sustainable because Jess was too intelligent to put up with Duncan's crazy-making lifestyle.

Scott Bryce would have NEVER! In fact, TIIC probably would've had to fire him instead. I'm eternally glad that I missed that entire storyline and it's one I never intend to visit. I just got finished watching The Road Red on Netflix (which originally aired on Sundance TV) with Jason Momoa and Tamara Tunie and Tunie is so very good...consistently great, in this series, which makes it all the more inexcusable that her character Jessica Griffin was so underutilized, especially the last several years of her run on ATWT.

Well, tbh, Sloane didn't win one match during the Aussie summer last year either and she had a coach then. Also, the same coach that she had during the WTA Finals in Singapore is with her this week.

A few years ago, someone told me that the comedy of Louis C.K. was enlightened and brilliant and I just shrugged inside. I never bothered to check out his comedy, never watched his show and I still barely know who he is. I'm fine with not having ever listened to his comedy. Given the way, she stalked Anita Hill, even going so far as to inundate Hill's voicemail/answering machine with coercive messages, this doesn't surprise me, in the least.

^^Can't say that I'm surprised. I couldn't be the only one that noticed some non-verbal cues, for one, Bernie swatting his wife's hand away so disrespectfully. That really stuck out to me and left a bad taste in my mouth. It wouldn't surprise me if a spirit of chauvinism and sexism went from the top down to all parts of the campaign, if one leads by example in such a manner. Speaking of people who shouldn't be leading- This seems particularly unwise.

I guess they can use all that leftover soy to try to build that wall.

This article discusses the reasons why Jerry Lewis' unfinished and "lost" Holocaust film is likely to remain in limbo. At least, for the foreseeable future. ‘The Day the Clown Cried’: Why Jerry Lewis’s Lost Holocaust Film Is Still Lost

A new low by MbS and KSA in the war in Yemen.

^^Anyone who read that NYT article I posted days ago would see that the GOP has already been implementing the reversal of specific environmental policies on a state by state basis, which not only affects that particular state but the surrounding/neighboring states by environmental "drift" or runoff by air or in the runoff that occurs in rivers and streams. The effects have already been devastating for the people who live and work in those areas where toxins are being released into the air and water. This simply cements what they've already been doing since Trump got in office. The one saving grace may be that many of those energy companies already spent the money necessary to comply with the Obama-era rules and appear to have little intention of regressing to old systems.

This is little Olympia Ohanian watching yesterday's match between her mommy and auntie in Abu Dhabi. Serena joked that she was applauding Venus. Adorable.

The WGA Strike of 1988 began in March, the Laura storyline was wrapped up by May. It needed to end at that point but it seemed as if most of the Hughes, except Tom and Margo, were less visible until Nancy and Mac's wedding in the Fall. Margo's scenes in Greece seemed very repetitive, heavy laden-with flashbacks and that same "If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful" song playing ad nauseum. The downside of having less Hughes was that it seemed like a Snyders overload. Caleb came right on the heels of Dusty's exit (I mean, like, the very same episode that Dusty left, Caleb walks on after). Lily had no breathing room before she was a Babe in Boyland. And it was ridiculous the way, Spence, Beau and Lily's daddy Rod were fussing over Lily's every move. It was overkill! Perhaps it might be because there were episodes missing on You Tube, it gave the impression of wildly uneven storytelling but so much of the episodes seemed like filler, riddled with all those flashbacks. The episodes with some of the most fun scenes between Kirk and Iva seem to be missing from You Tube unfortunately. It's also too bad that many of the juicier episodes having to do with Emily and Tonio facing a reckoning for their affair and the fallout down the line between Craig and Emily (there is one episode posted where Craig and Emily have a confrontation and end their fling after Craig finds out) are not on You Tube. I thought the affair and the shifting business alliances between Holden, Emily, Tonio and Craig were probably the most compelling, least repetitive/reductive material presented during the WGA strike and some of the most exciting scenes/episodes are missing. The WGA strike ended by August. Early September got more interesting with Margo delivering Adam in time for Tom to witness the whole truth and by the end of September, the tone of the episodes seemed to shift. The relief came when Lilith emerged in early October and then Mac and Nancy's wedding. We still saw the Snyders but at least, the obsession over Lily's virtue faded. The cast was mostly back on canvas (not in fake Greece or fake Edinburgh, Germany, England or whatever other fake European cities served as destinations) and the storytelling no longer seemed to carry a disjointed quality.

The environment is in such a perilous state since these Obama-era rollbacks by the Trump W.H. began. It is having a truly toxic effect on the people living in the states highlighted in this long-read article. Even the people in nearby states are at risk. In the case of the agricultural valley in California, the threats are also real for anyone who eats produce grown in this region. So basically everyone in the U.S.