DramatistDreamer

Is it a feeling of relief @Ms. Quartermaine ? I have to wait for Election Day but if only I had the option to vote early, I'd do it ASAP and take a hiatus from the political media for as long as I could hold out until the results started coming in on Election Day.

So who is being accurate here? One narrative claims that voting (and enthusiasm * wink wink* is down among AA) and this says early voting is actually up 10% over 2012. Why the disparity in narratives? Hm.

LOL @Soapsuds and I didn't even get to Nolé and this guru mess.

While discussing lower voter participation rates in early voting for Blacks, keep in mind. NAACP Sues North Carolina Over ‘Purges’ of Thousands of Black Voters HRC could still win without Florida or Ohio or N. Carolina. CBS This Morning just said that the African American vote is now tracking 'where it needs to be' in North Carolina (despite obvious voter suppression tactics). Numbers of Latino and college educated women voting early are up. And don't underestimate this group, who are more diverse than people may know. The Khizr Khan Voters

She played an absolute clueless ditz for a few episodes. She was cast as a receptionist who got confused easily, nothing meaty, very little dialogue.

This is probably the endorsement that Trump has been anticipating the most. The KKK’s official newspaper has endorsed Donald Trump for president

You guys know that not everyone has voted yet, right? Election day is next week. The polls are every bit as fickle as some purport the voters to be.

Speaking of very sad, I don't know whether this has been posted before but this is the updated complaint for the child rape charge that was filed in federal court against Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Amended Complaint Filed 9/30/2016

Yvonne Zima (Daisy, Y&R) was in an episode of StartUp, an original series now showing on Crackle, Sony's online streaming platform.

Interesting. Get Ready for Another Swing in the Polls, but Not Necessarily a Shift in the Race

There's an article in the NYT describing the methods that Trump used dubious methods for tax avoidance- methods that his tax attorneys even warned against him using but I doubt that will get much traction, at this point because the U.S. media is more interested in Anthony Weiner's d*ck pics and what comes out of that. John Heilman was on CBS This Morning and he expressed puzzlement over the apparent double standard. The FBI didn't announce the investigation of Trump's possible link to Russia (they decided that there was no evidence of direct links) until after the investigation had concluded but the FBI felt the need to announce the investigation into Clinton's e-mails before, during, and after it had concluded and now again-- which is unprecedented for the FBI, which has never talked about an investigation as it was taking place. Interesting. On another note, It's been noted that Huma Abedin is absent from the campaign trail since this Carlos Danger investigation has reared its 'head'. It's also been noted that HRC mentioned a 'staffer' in a PC but did not mention Abedin by name. Folks are speculating whether this separation between Abedin and HRC is temporary or for the forseeable future.

@quartermainefan, This gang has been around since the 1980s, it started in Los Angeles jails where large numbers of Salvadoran immigrants had migrated in the wake of the bloody civil war in El Salvador, which the U.S. was actively involved in, by the way (when I was in high school in the 90s, I was friendly with a guy who migrated as a young child from El Salvador, so I heard from him personally of the chaos of the war). The gangs were ostensibly for protection against the other gangs that already existed in the prisons in Los Angeles but contacts were established and strengthened over decades between the prison population and often newly released ex-convicts that discovered that they could use these links could help illegal money making enterprises flourish on the outside. Interestingly enough, El Salvador didn't have problems with gangs until Salvadoran deportees with gang links formed in U.S. prisons returned to the country, wreaking havoc, causing crimewaves and massive bloodshed, trying to forcibly recruit Salvadoran youngsters, harrassing young women, terrorizing Salvadoran families, etc. under threat of death. See, this is what happens, when a prison population is locked away and ignored and the central problems of lack of rehabilitation is not addressed! The gang flourished to other parts of the country as the population of gang members moved to other parts of the country while keeping ties to the gang. I've heard of this gang for at least over a decade. Where is everyone else? Why was no one else (including the self-righteous GOP) not paying any frickin' attention? This gang is one of the MAIN reasons for that flood of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the border that happened over the past few years!! They were fleeing gang violence from El Salvador and Honduras (where gang violence also migrated over the last decade, spreading out from El Salvador into Honduras). What gets lost in the endless rhetoric over border walls is that migration (legal and illegal) has actually slowed from Mexico-- it had intensified from other Central American countries such as El Salvador and Honduras, where people (mostly women and children) are fleeing violence! Does nobody pay attention?! These kids who are being killed (some of these cases are tied to kids who were missing for quite some time with no attention to their cases-- is it because these are non-white kids??) because these gangs have been allowed to flourish over decades and have fanned out from the West coast and are now on the East Coast. Like legal hardworking Central American immigrants have moved to the New York suburbs like L.I. (where they are willingly received to do migrant labor like construction and landscaping for miniscule pay with no concern for where/how they will live- hey as long as no apartment buildings are built to obscure the views of the nice 1-2 family red brick homes, right?) the gangs have also migrated, in kind. I think attention to these poor kids who were killed is being used as a political talking point, rather than addressing the urgency of what has been happening to Black and Brown kids who were being victimized by gang violence for years! The parents and the local churches and some community leader care but I'm dubious in regards to the politicians who act as if this is a brand new phenomenon. Well, it's not, folks! Hopefully better late than never, but I won't hold my breath. What's happening with Mara Salvatrucha or M-13, is what happens when a country like the U.S. inserts themselves into a conflict in another sovereign country with no real plan for the aftermath- politically, economically and social. This is why President Obama has been so halting in Syria. Perhaps he has read about all the chaos that can be created and spread gradually over decades?

Mars maybe? LOL. Effective. Whatever agency is performing strategy and story for these ads, is doing such a great job! They haven't missed a beat.

Can we also expel these Oregon militia and those of their ilk who break the law and believe they are in the right? (oops did I say 'right'?). And can we please acknowledge that there are Timothy McVeighs, not just 'Islamic terrorists' lurking in this country? There's been little to no coverage of the Kansas terrorists, whose plans were every bit as malicious as others who profess their belief in Islam... why is that? As for education level, we know that the majority of Trump's followers are either Whites who are over 60 and those who are younger have a High School diploma or less. Those who are college educated are in the minority of Trump followers and they have been polled to be quite intolerant. 'Don't mind gays or minorities' is far from comforting to so-called minorities (who, like or not, America...will soon be the majority) or gays. It's like saying the slavemasters didn't mind raping their slaves. It has nothing to do with the course of equal rights or fair justice. Frankly, it doesn't mean a hill of beans to this minority. Yes, I am judging Trump supporters because it speaks to who they are in their heart of hearts. Trump's father Fred was aligned with the KKK (he was found to be at least one of their rallies where mayhem broke loose, where he was arrested; also Fred Trump was known to do business with Klansmen). Trump himself has made statements that have shown him to be a racist, sexist, xenophobe and there's no denying it. So to me, Trump supporters have no problem supporting a man who not only has a racist, sexist, xenophobic worldview, they are willing to overlook the fact that he has swindled people and is in thousands of litigation cases- one of them an upcoming rape trial. So yeah, me and a Trump supporter would never be friends. I would probably have to 'tolerate' them as well.

Yet, the e-mails...always the e-mails!! Also CNN fires Donna Brazile but Corey Lewandowski is still there. Double standards, much?

Clear stats of the concerted effort by the GOP to suppress voting by Blacks.

Hm, this may be getting some traction. Trump companies destroyed emails and other documents judges ordered him to turn over: report

This hurt my heart- it is a tough read in some segments, yet it goes to show that no matter how tough times are, the overwhelming majority of Black people will never vote for a Trump. He brings to mind images of slavemasters and KKK inflicting terror. And hey, despite Republicans best efforts to suppress the Black vote, the GOP won't be able to suppress all of our votes. Black Voters, Aghast at Trump, Find a Place of Food and Comfort

I watched the (non-cable) news last night and a few headlines this morning and yes, the mood does appear to be that Comey went about this latest pursuit the wrong way. There is a sense though, that he made a promise to the House (aka Republicans) during the hearings that he would update them with any new developments regarding these e-mails so he felt compelled to update them with any "new" development, even though there is a sense that these e-mails will most likely be duplicates with nothing new to offer. Earlier, CBS This Morning claimed that surveys indicate that the overwhelming majority of people say that this newest event does not change their vote and that, in fact, 20 million people have already cast their votes.

I despised Howarth in the role.

So Trump has been/is involved in 3500 lawsuits!! Exclusive: Trump's 3,500 lawsuits unprecedented for a presidential nominee

Interesting tweet but we pretty much all knew about this. https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/792154084698689537 Why doesn't the embed feature work reliably anymore??

Yup, and the DOJ is making it clear that the FBI's (aka Comey) release of the memo would be inconsistent with the policies of the DOJ. Meanwhile Trump has a court date for a rape case brought by a plaintiff who was 13 years old at the time. Somehow Hillary's e-mails are important but apparently this is not. Looks like many in the criminal justice community are taken aback by Comey's series of actions as well. Comey's disclosure shocks former prosecutors

Yeah, I'm well aware of the relationship between Huma and Hillary but I was just thinking aloud. If she didn't shift Huma out of the campaign when people were excoriating the campaign over Huma having one foot working for a private firm while on the campaign last year, HRC certainly won't move her now but Huma also needs to clean up her act. I'm hoping that once the divorce is final, that will provide a good batch of disinfectant.

Trump got past an entire field of Republican candidates that numbered in the double digits, so what does this say about the GOP? As for the Clintons, HRC, in particular, she needs to do some housekeeping and she may have to suggest that Huma stick to the private sector- some of the Clinton's associates are so very messy and it is a huge contrast to "No drama Obama" and this current administration that has remained scandal free, despite the best efforts of the Republicans. This is not going to change my vote because I believe that Trump is a reprobate but I need HRC to clean up her act and I hope she doesn't take some of these people with her into a possible HRC administration-- tidy up.