DramatistDreamer

Okay, quite awhile ago, I mentioned the possibility of posting clips of some of my favorite pieces of BGM from ATWT. 

The online editing software that you don't have to download to use leaves a lot to be desired, nevertheless, I am posting my favorite piece of BGM. 

This one is my favorite and probably the most memorable one because ever since I heard it as a child, I've never forgotten it.  So when I heard it again a few years ago, for the first time in decades, I wasn't surprised at how I clearly I could recall it.  The only surprise was that there was a longer version than the one I remembered.

Again, the software is pretty limited, so apologies.

via ytCropper

3 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

I've always thought he sucked...serve only....but could he be injured again? And why did Grigor withdraw from the Masters tourney?

 

And lawd the courts at this weeks Masters tourney are so fast.....saw Thiem's match and the speed is way too fast...no wonder Thiem never does well and Roger wins it a lot and always plays it.....seemed even faster than a grass court tourney......

TBH, a faster surface at the end of the season is kinder than a slow grinding court.  Yeah, the flip side is that guys like Rafa and Thiem who do well on slower surfaces are usually at a distinct disadvantage but most of the year the hard courts tend to be slow, which is a disadvantage to anyone who prefers a faster hard court.  

Cilic lost to Nicolas Jarry of Argentina.  I didn't see the match so I can't figure out what happened.  Cilic can sometimes be perplexing.  He has a big serve but it can sometimes go off and become wildly inconsistent.  Also, he's subject to nerves and plain old unsteady play when you least expect it. He seemed to be like, a game away from taking the match when I checked the score--the next time I checked, he had lost, LOL.

What a ridiculous time we are living in.

I’m having lunch with Michael Avenatti @MichaelAvenatti at the Vanity Fair Summit and he’s proposing a three-round mixed-martial arts fight with Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr for charity. No joke.

— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) October 9, 2018

Okay, a reminder that Haley has done more than I recalled..,and none of it good. In my defense though, who can keep up with the events of this WH?

Nikki Haley pulled the United States out of the U.N. Human Rights Council and stood by as brown babies that look just like hers were taken from their parents and locked in cages.

She is a cynical person who has done great damage to our nation.

She is a disgrace.

— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) October 9, 2018

21 minutes ago, Khan said:

Well, at least we're not talking about B**** K******** anymore!

This is the Trump administration we're talking about. I'm pretty sure another sex scandal is just around the corner.

7 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

I'm not so sure about that "not under investigation" part though.

Yeah, looks like the ethics watchdog consortium CREW requested an investigation into ethics violations just yesterday. The timing of this resignation is interesting, to say the least.

13 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

People need to calm down with the death threats.  I guess that's just the internet, it's easy for some people to go there, but it's crazy and it should get people banned, imo.

The masters of the internet universe have no intention of ever policing themselves, or even holding themselves accountable. 

Like I mentioned yesterday, Yahoo!  was a festering cauldron of vitriolic bile towards minorities, Twitter tolerates Trump's almost daily rants, Facebook is a screed of gun selling marketplaces and hatred/intolerance and Google+ is both irrelevant and insecure.

Facebook, Yahoo! and Google+ all have the distinction of having huge security breaches whose details would leave you breathless!  

Actually most of the internet has an amazing lack of security and is likely putting all of our our security at risk for clicks.

People get doxed all the time and there's never been any effort to even curb that behavior.  Death threats are thrown around daily on social media with rarely any consequences.

As for Nikki Haley...I don't see why anyone should get their nose out of joint over her resignation.  She made no impact during her time at the U.N. and this is just another day at the WH in terms of the revolving door of resignations that have taken place since day one of the Trump WH.

4 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I thought she was their big hope. Is something coming in our joke of a foreign policy that would destroy her future political career, so she's leaving before it happens?

When these GOPers enrich themselves to their content, they begin to look for ways to flee the sinking ship, I guess.

7 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

So has Nikki Haley resigned?

This may answer that question.

Last year, Nikki Haley accepted basketball tickets worth a Toyota Corolla. She accepted flights on private luxury jets that may have been worth far more, but she undervalued them and it’s not entirely clear if individuals or their companies bore the costs. https://t.co/7mYGKOMdej

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) October 9, 2018

Oops, I meant this:

BREAKING: Nikki Haley has resigned as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations - source pic.twitter.com/eGKQwggeOO

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 9, 2018

So has Nikki Haley resigned?

The Australian Open would've done better to focus on a decently humane heat policy.  I'm tired of seeing players staggering around on court.

Not that I usually pay attention to him, but what's going on with Milos Raonic this season?

#MeToo is sweeping India now.

#MeToo | "The Editors Guild of India has noted with concern and dismay the incidence of alleged sexual harassment and assault on women journalists by their male colleagues." https://t.co/iCA2edUSha

— The Hindu (@the_hindu) October 9, 2018

Not Hollywood but Bollywood.

"If I wanted publicity, I would have gone ahead with the song and later performed it for stage shows. But I chose to walk away,” #TanushreeDutta https://t.co/5fvCuFE4TA

— The Hindu (@the_hindu) October 9, 2018

#MeToo | Writer-Producer #VintaNanda has alleged that #AlokNath sexually assaulted her on more than one occasion https://t.co/Nl0TqtIz0E

— The Hindu (@the_hindu) October 9, 2018

Who elects these people?

Meet Eric Barber. A City Coucilman in West Virginia. He made the following Facebook post celebrating Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation.

In other words this guy is disgusting.

RESIGN NOW! pic.twitter.com/vbtTDFJ66h

— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) October 8, 2018

1 minute ago, Faulkner said:

Why has Ashley Judd receded so much? She seemed like a respectable face early on.

Maybe she didn't like the vibe of where things were going.  Or maybe she didn't want to be just another Hollywood actress becoming the public face, rather than amplifying someone who has been doing the work for nearly a decade before.

Again, #MeToo was never conceived of being an activist vehicle for Hollywood actresses.  Judd likely knows this.

I definitely know that Milano is not squeaky-clean.  She's simply not as messy as Argento and McGowan.  Sometimes that has to be enough.

I'm not even sure who gets to decide who is the public face of the #MeToo movement.  Male journalists?  The Hollywood Foreign Press?  Who?

#MeToo was never conceived to encompass just Hollywood actresses or entertainers.  It is supposed to be for victims of sexual violence from all walks of life.  It was conceived as an organization that is supposed to advocate on behalf of those who have been victimized and silenced and marginalized.

Why does the public face even need to be an actress?

48 minutes ago, Khan said:

What's wrong with Yahoo!?

What isn't wrong with Yahoo!? is more the question.

Yahoo! is/was (it's been acquired by AOL and is now officially known as OATH) a prime example of a company that abandoned its ethics and standards to protect privacy, in favor of runaway expansion.

Despite numerous complaints about active trolls targeting the comments section spewing vitriolic bile that was racist, sexist, homophobic and cheered rape culture, Yahoo! only began to address these problems once they decided to try to put the platform up for sale.

Also, they twice hid major security breaches as a result of hacking, only revealing the worst breach, like...two years later??!

Those were some of their worst failures as a company and I'm sure there are more.

As much as I detest Yahoo! this seems fairly noteworthy.

Manchin faces firestorm at home following Kavanaugh vote https://t.co/5BuSKOmt8k pic.twitter.com/huk26tmbTQ

— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) October 8, 2018

17 minutes ago, Khan said:

 

True.  OTOH, every movement needs a "face," someone who is in the public eye on a regular basis, or else the movement stalls.

 

I'm not saying I agree with that line of thinking.  I'm just offering why you end up with people like McGowan and Argento as the de facto leaders.

Then they should've stuck with Alyssa Milano and called it a day.

The problems with the image of #MeToo movement is what happens when you choose actresses who have unfortunate personal and career histories, rather than a woman who had been steadily doing the work to build the movement simply because she is black and doesn't look like a cover girl.

DelPo's U.S. Open performance was indeed disappointing.  That surface was made for Nolé but still, it was a major final.

It's the end of the season and pretty much everyone that has been doing decently during the season is playing crappy, if they're playing at all. 

As talented and sturdy as Basilashvili is as a player, he has not been playing high-level tennis all season so it makes sense that he'd have more left in the "tank" than DelPo at this point, cold or no cold.

Also, if I were DelPo, at this point, I wouldn't expend to much energy until London.  Do just enough to keep my game fine tuned, recover and save all my energy for the WTF, that's when it truly counts anyway.

Haddad would be better off to focus on the fact that Bolsanaro has absolutely no coherent strategy for the Brazilian economy.  Brazil is still very much attached to the protection of the worker and Bolsanaro is nowhere near anything resembling a pro-worker platform. 

Haddad would be better off making this the focus since clearly many white Brazilians feel they can overlook Bolsanaro's racism and misogyny.  

Ask Brazilians if they want to elect someone who has no coherent economic plan and connect that to the spread of further inequality, which leads to more crime, more kidnappings and less personal security.

Lula, even with all his problems and the WP corruption, polled extremely high for another presidential run before he was disqualified from the race.  Why was Lula polling so high?  Because people were employed and crime was down when he was president.

The irony is that while many men facilitated rampant corruption, only a woman has paid the price. Dilma Rousseff made the mistake of overstating the figures to make one sector look as if it had more money than it actually did, essentially "robbing Peter to pay Paul" but the men around her were robbing everyone to pay themselves.  She was impeached, they are still in government.  Rousseff made the critical error of being a woman and being highly unpopular.  When you are a woman, if you are not exceptional, you will pay the price. 

And if you make a mistake on the level of Rousseff, you will be impeached, without question.

35 minutes ago, JaneAusten said:

Pray for sanity in Brazil over the next 3 weeks. They are close to electing their own version of Duerte. It’s time we ask again the reasons for the pushbacks against liberal democracies all over the world. Corruption is the main source yet those getting elected are even more corrupt and their lawlessness on display without a care in the world. Bolsonaro now has the support of the establishment media in Brazil as he had brought in an economics advisor from the US from the Univ of Chicago to push Neoliberal economic policies.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45780176

Bolsanaro is a mix of Trump and Duterte as he is pretty racist as well.

I just hope Brazil won't revert to the days when police openly killed homeless children in the streets.

1 hour ago, Toups said:

 And other PS, thanks to everyone who posts links to news, or news from Twitter - this thread is my go to place for finding what's happening politically. 

You're welcome, Toups. Glad that you can sift through the thread and find useful information and news items of interest. 

It is a go-to spot!

DelPo was sick.  He was shivering, blowing his nose repeatedly and looked to laboring heavily to breathe, which was mostly through his mouth.

That said, Basilashvili can be a tough competitor because he doesn't beat himself, it takes work to beat him.  Definitely not someone you'd want to have to compete against if you're not 100%.