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The Filipino goverment made the transcript of the phone call public, from what I understand.

The Working Families Party has become a force to be reckoned with in the Northeast over the past decade, so I can see this happening, even in L.I. Trump continues his gaffes and moments to flop oversees, I see. Speaking of flops, I have also been reading about the fallout from the Trump budget (that Trump promptly escaped from by being oversees) and the fact that no one actually likes this turkey. Most Congressional GOP members' responses have ranged from the non-committal or terse and a few down-right hostile. Paul Ryan promptly said that he and Congress plan to do what they've done through other administrations, which is work on their own version. (sound familiar? Many GOP Senators said something similar about the atrocious AHCA bill that the House passed after many admitted it was DOA in the Senate). One of the most common complaints is that the budget plan simply makes no sense- it seems to be cost neutral to the point of functioning as a place marker but assumes that all this growth will occur over a multi-year time span. In other words, it declares growth in various areas but doesn't identify what the costs will pay, how some of these things will be 'paid for'. This budget plan not making it through seems as if it will also affect the tax plan, which also seems to be a 'No-Go' .Tax cuts for the rich by adding taxes to imports seems unsustainable as the costs will most likely be passed onto the consumer, the brunt of which will be paid by the people who can least afford these extra costs. The only support this has is from companies that do a whole lot of exporting- and for them, it is built solely on a hope that their income taxes might be reduced as a result. This is not even a definite, it is a hope! Kind of like how many of the Trump voters hoped he would be competent with fiscal policy. Guess what folks? He really doesn't have one! What little he has, is mostly bad.

To remove Hannity, it's probably going to boil down to money as it did in the case of O'Reilly. People boycotting companies that advertise on Hannity's show. I was kidding about growing a conscience since I know very well that no one at that company has one. Meanwhile, before Trump met with the Pope, apparently someone told Bannon "You don't gotta go home but you gotta get the hell outta here!" Or something of that nature.

I'm not sure how many would've foresaw anyone not in the group of usual suspects winning anything of big importance this year. Nick was having wins over big players this year, but he also got cited for quite a few issues this year. His year has been unpredictable, so I don't know how anyone could assume anything right now, lol.

I guess folks have Nick fever today. Simon Cambers posted out an article on the ESPN website that I just read. Nick Kyrgios' tactics taking him to the next level

Either someone at FXNC grew a conscience or they realized they couldn't risk more derision from the public.

In case he didn't get the message with the hand swat in Israel.

Who is Thomas Paire? Is he Benoit's brother? They won their doubles match today, apparently.

The costs to a tennis player will ensure that many of the hungriest (and perhaps some of the most promising) athletes will go to more accessible sports. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why except for a few players, American men have been languishing in the rankings for pretty much a generation. Lord.

Dems demand answers on report that admin tried to trade ObamaCare payments These is seen (with good reason) as an underhanded tactic to gut the ACA. HHS denies that this has taken place. With so many lies uttered by Trump, are those in his administration any less deceptive? Can they be believed? I'm skeptical of their protestations to this accusation. Also, the Kushners are slumlords apparently. Anyone surprised? The Beleaguered Tenants of ‘Kushnerville’

And even Clarence Thomas agreed that it was skewed toward the highly partisan (and let's face it, racist) That's when you know it must have been egregious!

Me too. You're welcome

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We knew this was bound to happen but last week Sharapova's people announce that she will play Qualifying for Wimbledon and lookie-lookie... ESPN Adds First-Ever Televised Wimbledon Qualifying

Oops.

I only got a chance to watch the pilot as well which moved a bit slowly, at times. Most pilot episodes tend to be somewhat clunky, IMO. CBS is so conservative that they save their more risqué shows for online. I'm not even talking about HBO-type risqué, I'm talking about Scandal or ABC Thursday night lineup is what counts as risqué for CBS these days.

Looking at Agim's Twitter feed, led me to Scott Bryce's feed. Bryce mentioned that Steamboat's international distribution rights expired. I only heard about this soap parody as it was being yanked off You Tube (I guess I know why now) but the two webisodes I saw seemed pretty funny. Maybe I'll try to watch the rest. Is anyone watching the The Good Fight? When reading about the series some time ago, I noticed that Bryce seems to be a recurring character on it. I heard it's good but I don't subscribe to CBS All Access.

Meanwhile ICYMI, 'Angry' Netanyahu orders ministers to attend Trump reception

Presented without comment. ‘He’s been neutered’: Trump supporters melt down after president calls Islam ‘one of world’s great faiths’ Okay, I can't resist--Teehee!

Denise Darcy would've been a fun character to revive in the latter years of the show. It's likely she would've been out of prison by then. Imagine if Denise returns to Oakdale with yet another ax to grind against Barbara who busted Denise's prison hustle. Then finds out that Hal died and he and Barbara didn't even stay together. Denise might have had an even bigger grudge against Barbara, thinking in her imagination that had Barbara never intervened, she might have had a chance to reconcile with Hal somehow. Of course, that would be delusional on Denise's part but with Denise sitting in prison stewing over lost love, lost opportunities and Barbara ratting her out to the higher ups at the penitentiary, reason would probably be the last thing on Denise's mind when it comes to Barbara. Forget Iris Dumbrowski, I would've much rather have watched Denise try to get at Barbara Ryan. Watching an episode from '86 when Lucinda offers Holden his stablemaster job back (after things fall apart for him and Tad Channing) and Holden promptly tells Lucinda that she can take her job, her $25 dollars raise and air-conditioned room in the servants' quarters and shove them. The look that Lucinda gives him as she chides him for speaking to her that way. Actually the entire scene, there was heat. Lucinda started out inspecting Holden's busted lip and the look she gave him was as if to say "...don't know why I've never had you..." Lucinda had quite the sex drive back then!

Somehow it keeps escaping me that Rick was Kim's nephew as well. I didn't get to see them interact much at all when the character was last in Oakdale or maybe they did but those episodes might not have been posted on You Tube?? But yeah, having Rick would've filled out the Ryan family a bit more. I remember that Rick seemed to have a 'thing' for Emily when he was last in Oakdale. Not to mention there may have been some conflicts with Paul that may have been interesting to see. Rick may not have had a lengthy history but he interacted with enough characters last time around that he would've made a viable character. Too bad. Missed opportunity (one of many) for ATWT in that last decade.

I don't know whether you saw this article but I thought of @Vee whilst reading it. How ‘Twin Peaks’ Got Lost, and Found Its Way Back

I thought that the FO was wide open for the Women and I still feel this way. You can't discount Rafa on clay but I don't see frontrunner on the Men's side either.

Andre and Boris have history and it is loaded with beef, so it's going to be interesting to see those Nolé- related tweets from Boris from now on. If anything, and I said this ages ago, Boris should've tried to work with Sascha Zverev. Oh well, doesn't look like that will be necessary.

How do you feel about Novak working with Agassi?