DramatistDreamer

Something else that may cause at least a rueful smile. Colorado: Former State GOP leader said only Democrats committed voter fraud. Now he’s charged with voter fraud.

I whole-heartedly agree with this sentiment.

NYPD: MIDTOWN STABBING SUSPECT CAME FROM MARYLAND TO KILL BLACK PEOPLE London has always been one of my favorite cities and I've been on that bridge quite a few times. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-39355505

There are some parallels to the U.S. in this article, imo, specifically the "halo effect", where you have suburbs just outside of large, diverse cities that although these suburbs have very little contact with diverse groups, they still have anxiety about immigrants, Blacks, Latinos, other minority groups, etc., while the diverse cities themselves, exhibit greater tolerance of these groups. The NY suburbs outside of New York City, is one such example, particularly with their anti-Latino immigrant, Central American hysteria. How a Sleepy German Suburb Explains Europe’s Rising Far-Right Movements True, there's always another fool to be had out there.

Bye Felicia! Lahren gets the deuces, as far as I'm concerned.

Since the Catholic Church wields enormous influence in the Philippines, I doubt statements like these will have much effect on Duterte's popularity. From what I've read, it was his promises to crack down on crime that help him ascend to the presidency from mayor of a city. And in killing thousands of people and labeling them drug traffickers, after the fact, has convinced a large portion of society that he is fulfilling his biggest promise. If anything diminishes his political prospects down the road, it will be if something goes horribly awry with his self-proclaimed 'War on Drugs' or if his police kill the 'wrong' person(s) or if the carnage becomes too diffuse and too bloody for the people to continue to stomach. Duterte has definitely had his battles with the Catholic Church. He blames them for thwarting his efforts to institute family planning services and distribute birth control and sex education nationwide- the Philippines has the world's highest teenage pregnancy rates. It doesn't surprise me that Duterte would go back on such a promise as gay union, he knows there will be little to no repercussions in doing so.

Steering back to the subject on Gerrymandering, here's an interesting article on why fixing it also affects governing patterns, not just elections. Fixing Gerrymandering Doesn’t Just Make Elections More Fair

He's had a number of minor, niggling injuries (rib, shoulder, some knee soreness) but the Achilles and the Patella? Not that I'm aware of.

@Soapsuds Yeah, from Monfils' message, it was obvious that he couldn't play. He injured himself in IW. His Achilles and patella. Kirsten Flipkens claims that she has the same ailment that she says happened in IW. I think it's probably a combination of the way some tennis players move and the surface itself in IW.

I hated how this show ended, with shootings in front of a firing squad. I was still a child when this show ended, so I didn't put it together that all those teasers for the Bold & the Beautiful meant that Capitol would be displaced. I used to record the soaps for my Mom (I taught myself how to program the VCR) and although my Mother really only watched Y&R and ATWT, Capitol was in between the two shows so I often found it easier to record the three shows and I started watching Capitol so I had started to follow the show's storylines just as the series was winding down. I was shocked when that last episode aired. That last episode seemed so final that it finally became clear to me in the last minutes of the episode that the show was not coming back.

Social media trolls Conway over October tweet mocking Clinton's FBI investigation Chickens coming home to roost?

Someone on my social media feed said that they noticed that Monfils' Achilles seemed to be an issue in his last match in Indian Wells. Looks like she was correct.

Prevaricator-in-Chief should be scared. His house of lies has been built on a very shaky foundation and he might just bring down the U.S.' status as a functional democracy along with his web of lies.

What an absolute clusterf*ck!

So Comey has officially stated that the FBI is, in fact, investigating the allegations of Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and any possible ties to the Trump campaign. Hopefully, we'll see how thorough the investigation is and what it yields.

Lots of interesting thoughts from Agassi...on education, his dad, on Federer and Nadal, on Monfils and Kyrgios on Steffi not at all wanting to reminisce about tennis. Interesting read. Andre Agassi: ‘One day your entire way of life ends. It’s a kind of death’

For what it's worth, I wish headwriter Sally Sussman would revisit that time to examine how/why Sharon got off-track on the way to rebuilding her current character. The bi-polar narrative has never worked and has been written very poorly. SS needs to write a story where Sharon's mental instability resulted from the night a distraught Sharon ran out into traffic and got hit by a car after learning about Nick and Grace's affair. SS could easily write that Sharon got a bump on the head that had slowly grown into a benign mass on her brain, while essential harmless has affected the part(s) of her brain responsible for decision-making and emotions and that it must be removed before it begins to do actual physical harm. There is some risk of removing the now large size of the tumor but leaving it to grow is no longer an option. Since Sally has become the queen of the flashbacks, LOL, a storyline like this could provide a boat-load of flashbacks and a recap of Sharon and Nick's history for more recent viewers to learn about these characters by seeing, rather than just hearing or reading.

LOL.

One of them. I mean, using the words "deep throat" and sexy in the same sentence is pretty bad form.

Someone tweeted that all of Venus' losses this year have come at the hands of the eventual winner. This is probably of small comfort to her though. Every year at IW,someone makes a sexist comment. Here is this year's comment, if you can even decipher the crazy abbreviations. Edit: Welp, he deleted it. It was pretty bad and I'm guessing he was getting dragged for it.

@JuliajmsSome body language experts were interviewed on their thoughts and they pretty much said that Trump knows he is not the most powerful figure in that room, she is. From the first handshake, it was obvious that Merkel does not trust Trump, the way she closed her arms around her body, crossed her legs tightly-very much in protective and wary mode. By the end, Trump was slumped in a defeated position, surly and looking like petulant child who had been put in his place. The 'handshake snub' was a last-ditch attempt to assert some type of dominance over a powerful woman that he obviously doesn't know how to deal with but everyone pretty much thinks that this childish move makes him look even weaker compared to Merkel. The German media, politicos and general public are fuming over what they see as Trump's petulance and rudeness. Vladimir's instruction to Trump clearly got lost in translation as no one was supposed to catch on to what was happening and Merkel was clearly not intimidated. Recently, on Twitter, I read about a woman, a Trump voter, complaining about the possibility of her Meels-On-Wheels being eliminated. In the subtweets, a Latino man, responded that he didn't feel sorry for her at all, since she obviously thought it was fine to vote for someone who separates families. My first instinct is to harden against these people who are now complaining, similar to the response of this man. There is a lot of attention on these people who are now waking up to the damage that their votes have caused but is there equal focus on the people whose everyday lives are being upended by the micro-aggressions of Trump voters? A California waiter refused to serve 4 Latina women until he saw ‘proof of residency’