DramatistDreamer

Ugh, I forgot about that one. Fortunately, it seems that most women politicians tend to leave the petty behind, so I don't expect Sharice Davids to be carrying a grudge for twenty years like the GOP men who have gone after HRC year after year for decades. Like I said, governing is different from campaigning and both Davids and Ocasio-Cortez are just starting their governing careers.

AOC has made some early missteps (more like, verbal faux pas) but I said before and I say again, I intend to reserve judgement because when the work of actual governing begins, people often turn out to be more pragmatic than they may appear as candidates. When HRC ran for the Senate, people made all types of judgements of who they thought she would be and I see some similarities, tbh in how Republicans viewed her. In the end, HRC was quite pragmatic in her governing style, seeking to help decent legislation along that actually had a hope of passage. Much to the NY state legislative opposition, she was not some raging harpy looking to burn everything down. I'm going to go on ahead and guess that perhaps, just maybe AOC may want to pass an actual piece of legislation, rather than dig in her heels and not have anything meaningful to show for it legislatively, a la Bernie Sanders.

There are a bunch of withdrawals this week, for some reason. It seems as if the draw in some tournaments were put out too late for many players and some are opting out, citing various reasons. Points seem to be the least of this ATP Cup's problems. The fact that they are trying to stage on event in three separate cities, likely displacing WTA events is a big concern. The points seem to be an attempt to lure more players to this event, especially seeing as one complaint that had arisen over the years was tournaments (e.g. Davis Cup) that had stopped awarding points. Who even knows if this will work? The clusterf*ck to the already scrambled schedule, as well as how it affects a whole other tour (WTA) has to be a concern.

Congratulations to Susan Zirinsky. It still remains, though, that a highly qualified woman only seems to get serious consideration for a top-level job after men have thoroughly messed up. True progress would be, not having to go through that additional layer of chaotic mess.

I'm too tired to think about the ramifications of all this other than to know that the first word that comes to mind is clusterf*ck.

And here I thought the Apocalypse Now music they used in a dinner scene was distracting but that horror movie music was next level, LOL. I do wish we had more episodes from 1985 uploaded though.

Hey Kei! Hope he can stay healthy this season, at least for most of the season... a big ask, I know.

I read the newspaper(s) so much faster because I avoid the types of articles that he speaks of.

When the man that Zhou had accused of grabbing her and focibly kissing, groping her threatened to sue her for emotional distress and reputational harm, Ms. Zhou countered with a lawsuit of her own, for damage to her dignity. Her words "Let's get ready to fight". It's no wonder that she's become a hero in China's emerging #MeToo movement. She’s on a #MeToo Mission in China, Battling Censors and Lawsuits

This is one of the reasons, I roll my eyes when people excoriate liberal Hollywood and media. The people who are truly in the upper echelons of these industries are rarely liberal, they are usually conservative, at best and right-wingers, at worst. Norman Lear may be an unabashed liberal but Lear is certainly not in charge of the television industry. Whereas Rupert Murdoch has enormous clout in the media industry, both TV and print. We don't have to guess which political persuasion he belongs to.

I doubt that anyone will ever have that ability to get through to Trump, it's coming on two years and he still fails to grasp even the basic concepts associated with his office. He will NEVER get it. Anyone who relies on the services of federal employees. (*Gotta fly? Want a measure of air safety while you're doing it? Need social services? What about tax refunds/IRS?*). Pretty much, God save us all from this terrorist in the White House.

If you mean that he's running it down into financial ruin the way he did with his six bankruptcies, then yeah, he's pretty much running the country like he ran his businesses. The difference is there is no Fred Trump to bail him or the U.S. out.

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.