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This administration is girding for a fight with environmental groups. E.P.A. Announces Repeal of Major Obama-Era Carbon Emissions Rule

Not a bad episode, all in all. I hope to see more episodes from 1985. It'd be nice if someone could dig up and post the Costume Ball from that year, I think that was July 1985 though. I can't help it- anytime I see Lee Bryant, that slapping scene in Airplane immediately springs to mind but she was good here- much better than she was when she returned about a year later and they tried to pretend like she could sing. The Lyla character had changed somewhat and Lee's interpretation at that point didn't seem to fit but here, especially refereeing between Bob and John and trying to maintain calm at Memorial seemed to be in keeping with her interpretation of the character. Lyla's interactions with Shannon were, um, interesting. I guess Lyla was still holding out hope for a reconciliation with John, that whole tiff between Lyla and Shannon over Frank seemed odd and forced, but I guess it was meant to illustrate how little Lyla regarded Shannon back then. LOL @ Lily with her overwrought acting with Dusty. I could imagine though, had Brian Bloom decided to stay, that at some point Lily would have taken up with Dusty again after making up, then breaking up with Holden. Speaking of wondering whether couples would last based on an actor staying, I wonder whether Stuart and Marcy would've been a longterm possibility had Tomei stayed on. They're not bad here and Tomei was the type of bubbly 80s style ingenue that soaps seemed to go for back then. (And hey, when characters actually used to eat real food, not just pretend to eat and drink!) Looking at Kevin Gibson character and how cocky and bullheaded he seemed to be in this episode, I can't help but wonder whether he was the early prototype for the Kirk Anderson character. Early Kirk wouldn't have cared either whether there was a fraught hospital scene or anybody's feelings, if he needed to get a piece of business done. Per usual, Bob and John were good at antagonizing one another. That room with an emerging Dusty from his comatose state was very chaotic but at least there was a sense of urgency and it wasn't boring. I enjoyed that episode.

Marland probably figured that it wouldn't be sustainable to have the Craig character forever be the guy that messed up our of fear while aiming to do "good". Barbara was sort of transitioned into that role, after her scheming period ended in the late 80s. I would've preferred either 80s Craig to the ridiculous one that existed in the early '00s, that was just a venal creature who lacked any nuance. Looking forward to watching this episode from '85 though-- I take it this had never been posted before on You Tube? Wasn't Susan Bedsow-Horgan part of the OLTL 2.0? She's been doing solid work in the soap trenches for decades. I guess she's basically retired now? Today's soaps could use her services, TBH.

How Facebook ads helped elect Trump

Also, the Trump administration has hired about 1/2 the people for government positions that the previous two administrations have hired. Not to mention that the most experienced bureaucrats are choosing early retirement and flat out leaving, rather than stay undo decades of work.

LOL. @Hunk Chandler Massey needs to connect that that Thiem Twitter fan who insists on calling him "Domino Sugar".

Dear Lord, make it so! I know it's a reach but I don't care.

Likely, it's still a mess but much like the deficit, it is something the GOP doesn't care all that much to talk about. Even when asked about this latest story, a few tried to center their argument, saying the IRS specifically targets groups that express a POV, (implying liberal as well as conservative) as if that was what they meant to say all along. Yeah...right.

Four years later, the IRS tea party scandal looks very different. It may not even be a scandal. This gives credence to the sentiment that I had years ago when this 'scandal' broke- that the I.R.S. was likely a woefully understaffed and highly inefficient institution and had been so for at least a decade leading up to 2013.

Has anyone read this? Someone said the report that was previously released by Buzzfeed had a lot more redactions than this. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984/Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.pdf

No offense, but Ellen Dolan was my least favorite Margo. I always felt her better role was as Maureen Bauer on Guiding Light. Maybe the writing had something to do with it. One thing that both MC and HBS had was white-hot sensual/sexual chemistry with their Toms. We know that MC and JD carried their partnership into real life, and HBS and GM (despite talk of Marx's sexuality) could really put on a display of intense physical chemistry. You Tube doesn't do them justice because You Tube doesn't have most of the episodes that illustrate what I'm talking about. ED was convincing as a cop (most of the time) but I never got a passion between her Margo and Scott Holmes' Tom. There were sweet moments but I got far more heat watching Lucinda and John or Bob and Kim than I ever did from their Tom and Margo. Maybe because Margo had been portrayed as a victim multiple times by the time ED had truly started to make the role her own. I don't know, maybe it's just me. Even though Ellen Parker's Maureen was the one I was most familiar with and I enjoyed her and thought she deserved her Emmy win, when I saw episodes of Ellen Dolan on You Tube, I understood what others meant when talked about how good Dolan was as Maureen. I didn't see her that way as Margo.

Cognitive dissonance. Some people are so committed to this. I liken this to the raging homophobes who are then caught 'tapping' signals in the men's bathroom stall.

At least the odds of us all choking on methane gas has been reduced again with this ruling.

Looks like a 'quiet' attempt to dip into a more "centrist" strategy by the Our Revolution folks. Bernie and his cohort are certainly not above being calculating, despite what the purity ponies claim. He's a politician who has been in office for decades, likely backed by a cohort of other politicians and no matter how well their intentions all are, they function as politicians. Every day, it's a burning trash fire with Trump Inc. So much so that it's now become an entire garbage dump. How Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., Avoided a Criminal Indictment Tillerson tries to talk around this but he still has yet to deny that he said it.

First, how does the ITF accept this bogus excuse and Second, how does is a scrub like Evans able to afford a cocaine habit?

The Political Land Mine in the Republican Tax Plan Looks like there could be a possibility of more infighting in the GOP. "GOP lawmakers from blue states are protesting the elimination of a popular deduction that could force many middle-class families to pay more—and sink President Trump’s bill in the House."

On a day like today, I could really use that type of ATWT to escape into.

So Congress missed the deadline to renew the Children's Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) and now it's set to expire. By hook or by crook, these people are trying to cut health insurance for whoever they can. Despicable.

True. They would be very real and noticeable losses if the show ever got a reboot. Speaking of sequels, I just read that there is a possibility of a Coming To America sequel (speaking of dearly departed actresses, Madge Sinclair would be deeply missed from that sequel!) and I always remember Rosetta Lenoire had a small but poignant role in that film, a very sweet scene between Lenoire and Eddie Murphy. What an accomplished actress she was!

In the EW article wasn't Jo Marie Payton asked what she'd like to see from a reunion/reboot? I thought she mentioned that she'd like to ask something like "Where is Judy?" and then have Judy walk down the stairs. I know it was presented in a humorous way but I think she was being genuine. Or at least I chose to see it that way. There's no way that FM could do the type of show that it evolved into in its original run, with times being what they are, even the youngest cast members being mature now, with other shows like Black-ish capturing the public's attention, FM would have to present a reboot that is somewhat grounded in the times. Carl Winslow is likely by now, retired from the Police Department but, a Black family living in Chicago? There's no way the issue of police violence against Black communities could escape notice. If FM were ever to return, it would have to be a different show. Hopefully better.

That people elected this man, it's indefensible, honestly.

In the meantime, many people will suffer. One example- Just weeks after the Trump administration struck down an Obama-era regulation that had given nursing home patients the right to sue in cases of abuse, another patient has died from that Florida nursing home disaster in the days following Hurricane Irma (the one where many patients died of heatstroke and heat related illnesses after being left in the heat without AC). Obama rules would have allowed surviving patients and families of the deceased to sue. Now under Trump, not so much. Very sad.