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Cesar Sayoc's fingerprint was on one of the packages sent to Rep. Maxine Waters, FBI Director Christopher Wray says https://t.co/58FRWRWbcx pic.twitter.com/iEkZ2EOd7r

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 26, 2018

FBI DIRECTOR WRAY shoots down "false flag" theories like the one Trump has been flirting with: "We can confirm that 13 IEDs were sent to various individuals across the country... these are not hoax devices." pic.twitter.com/0CPFeaBHUr

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 26, 2018

This woman was harassed by him and ignored after she complained, so I'm glad she's making it public.

Hey @Twitter remember when I reported the guy who was making threats towards me after my appearance on @FoxNews and you guys sent back a bs response about how you didn’t find it that serious. Well guess what it’s the guy who has been sending #bombs to high profile politicians!!!! pic.twitter.com/xBY8FMbqnq

— R O C H E L L E (@RochelleRitchie) October 26, 2018

The only problem with Kanopy is that it isn't available to every and all public libraries.  Hoopla Digital, which is probably available in more public libraries, is very limited in classic titles.

From the look of this, it's pretty clear that this suspect, Cesar Sayoc, was radicalized by Trump. https://t.co/rHbZR0j2aI

— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) October 26, 2018

It's about matchups, I think.  Thiem's game feeds almost directly to Kei's strengths.  So much so that it almost looked like Kei could anticipate where Thiem's shots were headed.  Also, Kei looked really confident out there today. 

If companies like Warner Brothers and whomever owns United Artists this week can't maintain these classic movies then they should all be on Hoopla and Kanopy and large public libraries like the New York Public Library where streaming platforms are large enough to accommodate a large streaming viewership.

If there are recordings from any medium, in this day and age, the technology is out there to preserve them.  It's time consuming, sure but it's not prohibitively expensive.  Send them to a University library, a large public library, a public streaming service.

Also, I'm convinced that a concerted public effort to push these companies to do so, is the only real way I see this happening.  If we don't agitate and get petitions and contact people, this likely won't happen and we can see titles fade and degrade, more and more, each year until we are unable to recover them.  That's likely happening with many episodes of our beloved soaps, every single year.

To go on a bit of a rant, soap fans have been putting their energies in the wrong direction.  Trying to get cancelled soaps back on their own networks is the wrong move.  And honestly, why would you subject a show's creative staff to that type of pressure, where they're likely to have bean counters breathing down their necks to water down the stories and put in the cheapest looking sets known to broadcast television??

Why not, instead, put your energies to preserving the gems of daytime dramatic television that are currently collecting dust, to prevent degradation and ensure future accessibility?  Why are we soap fans not at least trying to agitate for this? 

As a fan of ATWT, I realize that some of the best episodes are not on YouTube and I may never see these episodes ever again.  Even the ones currently on YouTube can get swept away at any time.  It bothers me as a soap fan.  Doesn't this bother anyone else?? 

The last I checked, there are even grants out there to help with film preservation for projects with merit.  A daytime television staple such as the daytime drama seems to merit such preservation efforts.

It's much like that person's tweet about film buffs needing to make the effort to see that the legacy of these films is not disregarded.  The same can be said of soap fans.  If these soaps were of no value than the likes of Sony/Bell, etc. would not be hoarding and carefully curating their collections.  P&G/PGP obviously believed that their shows had value, judging by the SoapClassics effort and I believe this is still the case even if they lack the motivation to make good on it.

^^ I'm not really sure at the moment.  I started to listen to the livestream and then clicked off when they went live to the White House.

Even before the arrest, news outlets have been discussing the common features of each envelope as if to suggest the same person but I'm not sure whether this is for all or some of the packages.

Lots of spelling errors on how the packages are addressed and the fact that they were sent through the USPS makes me wonder about the intellectual fitness of the suspect.

JUST IN: Sources confirm to @CBSNews that a suspect is in custody in connection with a series of 12 suspicious packages sent to critics of President Trump. https://t.co/KCKRtW143J pic.twitter.com/NlvKgxrLVH

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) October 26, 2018

NEW: A law enforcement source tells @CBSNews' Pat Milton that the package bomb suspect in custody is a 56-year-old male.

*Story is developing.* https://t.co/dMyZ5iikfp

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) October 26, 2018

What we know at this time regarding arrest in connection to mail bombs:

@BrowardSheriff's office moved in and made the arrest
Happened in or near Plantation, Florida
There was some sort of confrontation
A "loud explosion" was heard during the arrest pic.twitter.com/Oz3Wn4qszq

— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) October 26, 2018

The NYT wrote an obituary on James Karen, including a clip of George Clooney telling a funny anecdote at the AFI awards.

James Karen, Veteran Actor and ‘Pathmark Man,’ Dies at 94

I posted that Niecey Nash video on Tuesday.

https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/28724-the-politics-thread/?do=findComment&comment=1590367

Is its relatively short run (for a soap opera) the reason why Dark Shadows gets rerun so frequently?

@Soapsuds I saw it last night on social media.  Some are claiming that it is already starting to grow back.  I hope so, for his sake.

Thank God His hair has grown back a little bit! #GrigorDimitrov pic.twitter.com/eY1eW2E90a

— tennislove (@tennislove19891) October 24, 2018

You're welcome @~bl~.

To those who might still be fuzzy, here's a screenshot with a scene from The Golden Girls where he played Raymond, the boyfriend who couldn't get alone time with Dorothy because Sophia was always tagging along.

Actor James Karen dies at 94 https://t.co/Rjuw41aO7G pic.twitter.com/ft5uHusfKC

— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) October 24, 2018

Are people going to act as if this is the worst it's ever been?  This country has reports of children being bombed in churches during the 1960s.  Back then, I wonder whether people could've ever conceived of a Barack Obama.  

Meanwhile, I'm sparing a thought for the people who have to deliver the mail.  Having a job with the Post Office used to be considered a good job with steady benefits but with all we have seen in the last decade or so, with how the USPS is languishing and then there is the inherent dangers of possible explosives being sent in the mail, those post office jobs don't look so great, after all.

I feel for the people who must deliver the mail.  Surely, they're not being paid nearly enough to have to deal with this sort of thing.

BREAKING: FBI official confirms some package bombs targeting Trump critics were sent through US mail.

— The Associated Press (@AP) October 25, 2018

I really hope he's not still a "thing" in the next year.  

So, um, @MichaelAvenatti tells @mollyesque & @aabramson that the 2020 Democratic nominee "better be a white male."

“When you have a white male making the arguments, they carry more weight,” he says, adding that he wishes they didn't.

H/t @billscher https://t.co/wh2R9PpuMR

— Graham Vyse (@GrahamVyse) October 25, 2018

29 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

 

They probably know that if they stick with Trump they will get sweeteners to help bail them out, even if the public gets screwed over. 

 

I keep reading that what we're doing to China is a big reason for our slump, because they're slumping. Yet no one in the White House (no one with any voice anyway) saw this coming, or cared. They don't care about anything but themselves and their nihilism and bigotry.

The markets are not about the ordinary person but about shareholders.  Remember that distinction between Wall Street and Main Street?  This is about Wall Street and Wall Street does not like volatility and from everything I've read over the years, neither do they like a Bear market, which is what this is threatening to become (if it isn't already there).

Financial pain will eventually trickle down to the masses when things get bad enough (or if it's in an industry that affects consumers like the housing market) but the gains on Wall Street are rarely felt by the masses, and these  subsequent shake ups are acutely felt by Wall Street, and K Street, by extension.

Also, I'm watching to see how long the financial markets continue their downward slide.  The S&P 500 has already lost all the gains it made in 2018.  I wonder how much sustained support and complicity Trump Inc. can expect if they continue to tank financial markets?  Especially through Election Day?

Also, aren't Tsitsipas and Medvedev's families friendly with each other?  Tsitsipas' mother is Russian. 

In fact, from what I remember, both players' mothers completely blew off the incident, claiming that both guys actually get along well off-court.

People who are dismissively calling these "hoax bombs" are missing the entire point.  Whether the devices cause carnage or not, the intent is to terrorize people and upend their lives, which is why the media needs to grow a backbone and call it what it is...domestic terrorism.

At this time of political chaos, let's not forget about the everyday corruption that still occurs on a daily basis.

In 2016, when Donald Trump was fighting back calls for him to release his tax returns, a Beverly Hills tax lawyer wrote an op-ed bolstering his claim that he shouldn't release his returns while under audit.

In 2018, Trump made him commissioner of the IRS https://t.co/X8yMhPL0BY

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) October 24, 2018

James Karen had such an impressive body of work (his final project is still in production), I'm pretty sure everyone on this board knows him from somewhere. I remember him from an episode of The Golden Girls and who can forget his turn as the racist man who George saves on The Jeffersons??

His time on ATWT was before I was born but it sure would be nice is there was a clip out there somewhere that could be uploaded to YouTube by someone.  CBS, remarkably produced a bunch of pristine clips of classic ATWT before the show was cancelled and I see some rare episodes from the 60s up there, so I hope one of him on this show can be found...somehow.

As a child, growing up in the NYC tri-state area, I also remember him as Mr. Pathmark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcIrNPcknpk

Don't these YouTube videos embed anymore?

OMG.

Russia probably demanded that Trump use an unsecured line, better for them to listen in. The Chinese were not going to let a good unsecured line go to waste.

Speaking of Borna, this is a nice thing for him to do.

Hey @Nowicki_tennis
I will leave you 2 tickets for friday.. just tell me to whose name. they will wait for you on the will call, don't forget your ID ✌ https://t.co/tXstmNQ24M

— borna coric (@borna_coric) October 24, 2018