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And this one has connections to Jared Kushner.

Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments

Wilbur Ross, Trump's Commerce Secretary, retained investments in a shipping company that has ties to Putin and the Kremlin.

He claims that he didn't lie during his confirmation process yet he had these holdings stowed away in an offshore account.

How very telling that after the global financial crisis, Ross led a consortium to bail out failing Cypriot banks-- which are very popular with Russian oligarchs, or rather their money.

Oh boy, the corruption is strong with this administration!

Commerce Secretary’s Offshore Ties to Putin ‘Cronies’

This article describes how Mueller likely is circumventing any possibility for a presidential pardon by bringing charges at the state level, not the federal level.

Robert Mueller’s Brilliant Strategy for Outmaneuvering Trump Pardons

Has anyone seen HRC's interview on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah? 

It's actually pretty informative, she talks about Russian meddling, that dossier and how her campaign took up the research after a Republican began it as well as as the fact that, at time of taping, Trump still hadn't called/spoken to either the mayor of NYC or the governor of NY about the terror attack.

Extended - November 1, 2017 - Hillary Clinton

Many people try to make fun of the WTA while forgetting how wildly unpredictable many of the ATP Tour events (minus the Slams) have been, especially the second half of the season.

Like almost have of last year's Top 30 has shut down their season because their bodies are too injured to keep playing.

Paris decided to go ahead and make their indoor hardcourts as slow as they possibly could. Even Nadal wanted no more of it. As bad as Singapore's slow courts.

Who the hell wants to play grinding tennis on a slow hard court where you have to slug it out, hitting like 30 shots for each point before someone can finally put the ball away??!  And all those grinding points played at the end of a long season, no less?

I just don't see how either the ATP or WTA can sustain their model when they make such stupid decisions like these?  A shot-clock between points is not the answer either. Speed the "fast" hardcourts the hell up!  

I cannot believe there was a time in my memory of when the Australian Open had the wonkiest courts that had a weird bounce and was somewhat slow and sticky.  Now they're among the fastest with the truest bounce.

WTH happened?

2 hours ago, adrnyc said:

 

Here ya go!  The scene starts around 29:55

 

 

That scene between Lisa and Lucinda beforehand (around 27:00) was pretty memorable too.

EXCLUSIVE: Special Counsel Robert Mueller has enough evidence to bring charges in Michael Flynn investigation https://t.co/8TD2rrfPiw pic.twitter.com/0WSRPX1Kd7

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 5, 2017

Read this declaration from Maureen O'Hara.

This was reported in 1945. What a woman 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/6cTFGgadNf

— James Rhodes (@JRhodesPianist) November 4, 2017

By the way, this "lecture" that Ivanka Trump presented in Japan was very sparsely attended. On the news, cameras caught the rows upon rows of empty seats. 

You know when there are so few people that everyone pushes to the front to make things look more full at the front? Yeah, that type of empty. 

Organizers tried to say that not everyone could get in but reporters who were there said that they saw no lines of people waiting to get in. At all.

Ivanka Trump: Sexual harassment 'can never be tolerated.'

Sure, Jan. pic.twitter.com/4ZvpBVHcWN

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 4, 2017

The GOP is likely trying to divert attention away from that godawful tax reform bill that they're trying to push through, hoping no one will look at it.

The House GOP Tax Reform bill is so bad, I've read that critics fear it will depress the numbers of those who pursue higher education, especially graduate studies as it threatens to eliminate the school loan payment credit. What do they care, as they clearly want a permanent underclass. As Trump once said he loves the poorly educated and it should be evident as to why-- the poorly educated don't command good wages or good salaried positions.  The corporations can continue to build wealth for their CEOs while barely paying their workers--Trump Inc. included.

LOL.

Trump humiliated in Hawaii by signs reading: "Welcome to Kenya" https://t.co/JVclawANhu

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) November 4, 2017

22 minutes ago, adrnyc said:

 

That brawl was the best!!! I remember a long shot of the entire set of Caroline's where you just see the entire place going mad - everyone is screaming and fighting with each other. Lucinda then turns to her companion at her table (Ambrose, I think?), yells "See, I told you this was going to be fun!" and throws her champagne glass against the wall. (or on the floor - something like that)

I howled with laughter when she did that! It was just so reckless.  I guess today's daytime soaps don't have that type of budget to create that type of scene. The camera work in those scenes was so key.

17 minutes ago, ChitHappens said:

 

Looks like we need Chris Hansen back on the payroll at NBC!   

And NBC/Access Hollywood needs to release all that audio and B-roll footage of Trump's awful remarks that they've been hiding.

Reading these accounts of how many women were complicit in leading other women into traps with Weinstein...after the 2016 election, this doesn't surprise me but I'm still disgusted and disappointed nonetheless.

As for HOC, I was ready for the series to be over for quite sometime, despite the fact that last season was the most compelling it had been in at least two seasons.

Maybe because I watched and enjoyed the original British series, I always saw it as having a limited run--I didn't expect it to last as long as it has.

14 minutes ago, Mitch said:

Yea, everyone was right..it is 1985,,I was making myself older as I remember watching this in college. 

 

The dead body was tied to Shannon being a jewel thief but Marland tied that up...(werent there thugs holding Kim hostage in the Hughes living room) She found the body in "the woods behind her house" Chris and Nancy were in Oakdale during the Costume Ball which was Lisa opening the Yacht Club..I remember her coming in on a boat dressed like Marie Anteniette and Chris and Nancy and George and Martha Washington and being judges of the costumes...a fun goofy bunch of episodes and I wish Marland had kept some of that slightly campy soap fun..

Yeah, that July 1985 episode shows Kim and Nancy talking about the dead body that Kim discovered with Frank Andropolous.

I wish someone anywhere could post that Costume Ball because I'd love to see it again. I think I only got to see it once when I was a kid. As it is, there was only once brief snippet that was later put in a flashback that got posted on YT. (I swear Guiding Light fans posted every single costume ball or big event that GL had over the last 30 years of that show!)

I've heard a few people actually complain that Shannon's character was too campy but there is a great episode in 1986 where half of the patrons at Caroline's get hauled down to the police station after a brawl breaks out at the restaurant. A brawl secretly instigated by Barbara and Lucinda.

It was hilarious, at least to me.

Also speaking of 1985, Julianne Moore started in April 1985.  She was very recent on the show around the time of Bob and Kim's wedding in '85.

I don't want to link to a competing blog but I just looked it up and Bob and Kim got married about two weeks after JM's Frannie arrived in April 1985.

43 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

I've more or less unfriended them all, even in real life. Unfortunately, my husband has not done the same.  I'm breaking bread with a Republican for the first time in about 6 months tomorrow. Let's just say I'll be hitting the mimosas hard because this guy is a real tool, although not a Trumper.

 

We saw just the other day why communicating via twitter is so dangerous. What if someone hacks his account instead of deleting it? They could claim we're attacking North Korea or who knows what disaster could occur.

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/358756-guilty-verdict-handed-down-in-murder-of-iowa-gender-fluid-teen

 

How sad is it that I thought Sessions had sent someone to help the defense, when I read this? In reality he sent a hate crimes expert. I can hardly believe he did the right thing.

It's unlikely that the DOJ will file hate charges since Iowa has ruled this with a murder charge and a jury found the first defendant guilty. Sessions likely already knew this would happen since there are no hate crimes statutes in Iowa.

This looks like a superficial show of law and order on the part of the DOJ.

I guess then that Chris and Nancy had not yet moved there when those costume ball episodes aired then but Bob was talking about it?

I think this was the time that Kim saw the dead body in the park around the time that Shannon first showed up in Oakdale?  That was 1985.  

Kim's stalker storyline began in earnest early 1986, right?

I think I'm clear but a nice timeline would help, LOL. 

LMAO.

Krajinovic ended the WTF bids of both Sam Querrey and John Isner in Paris.

— Jason (@Hurleytennis) November 4, 2017

Did it ever cross anyone's minds that these hackers could have/would have edited these leaked documents to suit their purposes?

Boom. AP reports that the Russia-linked hacker Guccifer 2.0 edited leaked documents. https://t.co/jUWTrswjbf pic.twitter.com/B6832NoDc2

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) November 3, 2017

Donna Brazile is putting about a book and Politico published an excerpt for that post.

I wonder what Faustian bargain made that timely piece happen?

So. much. winning.

POLL: Americans oppose Pres. Trump's emerging tax plan by broad 17-point margin; 60% say it favors the wealthy. https://t.co/ay2urasKAi pic.twitter.com/Dqw3Q2JBR1

— ABC News (@ABC) November 3, 2017

I swear this thread should be renamed "To Catch A Predator".  

One Arab-American women journalist likened this to The Arab Spring but with Creeps.

Speaking of Marland's writing tenure, I came across this interview in the NYTimes and found it quite interesting.

One particularly informative nugget: At least twice a week, he wrote his own breakdown and he edited every script for consistency's sake.

THEY SPIN THE TALES FOR SOAP OPERAS

Also, apparently he was a chain smoker.

Fascinating that he really only wanted to stay a year or two because he wanted to launch a new soap.

Nancy and Chris moved to a converted apartment over the garage.

Psychiatrists: President Trump 'is a danger to the public, and the international community.' pic.twitter.com/NhVU4ge6hi

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) November 3, 2017

LOL.

pic.twitter.com/ZR0EaIm9fV

— Mitch Mitchell (@SonofaMitchToo) November 3, 2017

I kind of wonder what ATWT would've been like had they hired SBH after Marland passed.

She would've had a fairly good grasp of quite a few of the core characters and I think she would've familiarized herself well enough to write good stories for the rest.