DramatistDreamer

Less than two weeks but no problem.

@Vee All you had to do was to link to my previous post from May 15. https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/43846-soap-stars-where-are-they-now/?do=findComment&comment=1567231

I didn't see this match. Was there really this much stuff going on? OMG Hippy guru and mob of squatters take over Boris Becker's Majorcan villa after the three-time Wimbledon champion 'abandoned' it following bankruptcy

Welp. This year's French is not starting out well for me, but the French has become my least watched tournament to begin with.

Yeah, I must have heard discussion about those scenes on the witness stand but can't remember seeing them up on You Tube. It's a shame. So much is posted, yet so much is still missing and often what is missing appears to be the conclusions to the most compelling story lines.

Many people might not know about this massacre but since I attended high school in the early 90s with a guy whose family fled during El Salvador's civil war, I am familiar with these brutal events that occurred during the Reagan administration. Survivors of Massacre Ask: ‘Why Did They Have to Kill Those Children?’ Although the Clinton administration declassified many of the records, people in El Salvador believe that declassifying more records may give more information about who in the Salvadoran military's chain of command might be responsible for this massacre. After all, under Reagan, the U.S. trained the Salvadoran military and often funded them. Like often is the case when military who commit heinous acts have ties to the U.S., the generals often get asylum in the U.S. as Gen. Garcia did in 1990. I'm glad that the Obama administration decided to deport Gen. Garcia back to El Salvador though because now he may actually have to answer for his crimes.

Am I imagining things or didn't the end of the Doug Cummings murder trial used to be up on You Tube? I mean Kim's trial.

Fortunately for me, it's been years since I last subscribed to cable so I've never actually seen an episode of Wallace's MSNBC show and it's been about eight years since I've seen a full episode of Morning Joe. I don't doubt that they've all been complicit in underplaying Trump's vileness, like most of the MSM. That clip stood out to me because in today's mainstream media landscape, it seems so rare.

Just saw a video where Nicole Wallace refused to read Trump tweets because he lies so much.

Bacsinszky's ranking is going to drop, a lot probably.

Tennis has had a bunch of scandals flying under the radar. Guillermo Coria's little brother Federico, just got nabbed in a TIU case, with Coria defending his little brother, who he claims feared for his life and that of his family. This is the second time an Argentinian player has run afoul of the TIU--- this week! In more light-hearted news, I thought @Faulknermight like this photo of Novak and Serena's baby girl.

Trafficking and exploitation of the marginalized has always been a part of the American fabric but at least other people in America are beginning to wake up to just how brutal this all is.

Reading these pieces about how children have been ripped away from their families at the border reminds me of the history courses I took where I read pre-Civil War accounts of slave children being ripped away from their families and sold off. People in the U.S. constantly talk about how that's all in the past and how America is not that kind of country anymore but I see the same brutal tactics being used nearly 200 years later.

I am only painfully aware of how America disregards the plight of certain children. I was reading a news article about a cold case from the early 1970s in Washington D.C. where a cluster of young Black girls and women were found murdered and how negligent many of the police were in the investigations into their killings. At the same time there were two cases of White girls who were killed that got the lionshare of media attention. I won't tell you which cases were solved and which remain unsolved to this day because I think you can guess that. In the case of "foreigners" unfortunately many people feel justified in mistreating them, even children.

Live images of Weinstein surrendering on CBS2 TV. What a scene. I think this is in regards to the criminal complaint of Lucia Evans.

Indeed she has. On a lighter note, I'm not sure whether this has been posted here before and unfortunately the audio and the video seem to have fallen out of synch (likely due to some degradation of the video over time) but this is another example how Tom & Margo smoldered in the 80s. I only wish the complete episode where this scene was taken from existed on You Tube.

Eighty is not what it used to be! I see some 80 year olds that are quite active. Just today, I saw a news story of a man in his 90s who plays ice hockey twice a week, in addition to playing golf once a week. Wasn't Cicely Tyson in her 80s when she won the Tony award for Trip to Bountiful? It depends on the person, I guess. My grandfather lived to nearly 100 years old and as a farmer, all through his 80s he still got up early and planted, tilled and tended!

Yeah, some of the things I'd heard about Morgan Freeman (like @Juliajms, I had forgotten many details) plus some of his statements (about race ironically), never sat right with me. I guess not knowing the full story, it got pushed to the back of my mind. His fans must be deeply disappointed (I mean, the man once played God!) but my sentiment still stands that this predatory behavior has to be called out, examined and excised and room must be made for people who don't practice this behavior, truly progressive people who promote true equality and the flourishing of talented people who respect their fellow human, in kind. The old exploitative system of 'casting couch' dynamics needs to be flushed down and out.

Speaking of things that many of us knew all along...

Only Trumpists and the rest of his fans ever believed that that summit would even happen. They won't admit that all that Nobel Prize talk was the height of idiocy. Trump hasn't achieved one gottdamned thing, other than environmental and human degradation for people in the U.S. And he's being praised for his abundance of failure. The silver lining is the U.S. averts yet another embarrassment on the worldwide stage because surely North Korea (with China advising) would've made a fool out of the Trump administration in Singapore.

So is this only happening in Communist countries or what? I bet Trump won't chastize the Chinese government like he did the Cubans. US consulate staffer in China has brain injury