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Yes Trump was his usual horrid self. And in addition, he refused to take a stand against racist white groups, refused to say if he'd accept the election results, and told everyone don't bother voting by mail because it would fail. Meanwhile, Biden held his own and did well. But the news media is saying the debate was a disaster and giving headlines that make it sound like both men were equally vile.

These are the headlines that annoy me right now. Calling "the debate" a disgrace, instead of calling Trump a disgrace. When you play the videos within these tweets, the commentator blames Trump ... but nevertheless the headline is still that "the debate" was the problem, which would give anyone reading headlines the impression that Biden was equally at fault.

Info about "Long COVID" https://www.itv.com/news/2020-08-12/long-covid-what-is-it-what-are-the-symptoms-and-what-help-is-there-for-sufferers

A while back, it had been announced that "This Is Us" Season 5 would debut Nov. 10, 2020. This has been changed. UPDATE: It's now been moved to an earlier date! Season Five of "This Is Us" will have a two-hour premiere on Tues. Oct. 27, 2020. https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/this-is-us-season-5-premiere-date-moved-1234781442/

Interesting. I'd never before seen the last name of the third Laura character (the mystery blonde). Also I never knew who the actress was. fyi, Lisa Fanjoy is also known as Lisa Williams. Lisa worked on DAYS as the body double for actress Eileen Davidson -- whenever Eileen played more than one character in the 1990s (Kristen Blake DiMera, Susan Banks Crumb, Sister Mary Moira Banks, Thomas Banks, and Penelope Kent). And again when Eileen returned to DAYS 2012-2018 (Kristen and Susan). Lisa has also worked on DAYS as the body double for actress Stacy Haiduk for the characters of Kristen Blake Dimera and Susan Banks. She has also been on DAYS as a body double for Deidre Hall for the characters of Marlena Evans-Black and Hattie Adams. Eileen Davidson has instagrammed about her as a BFF from all the years she played her body double, and Eileen refers to her as Lisa Fanjoy. Jason47 refers to her as however she appeared in the DAYS credits (usually Lisa Williams). I never knew she played the 1982 mystery Laura on GH who had a resemblance to Laura Vining Webber Baldwin Spencer (now Collins). Above info edited for clarity. EDIT to add: Lisa Williams Fanjoy also played Brady Pub waitress "Lisa" on DAYS.

Tristan said in a couple of his cameo vids that the Holly story was being dropped because Emma Samms has Long COVID. So they are going on to other stories which he'll be featured in. And he doesn't think they'll restart the Holly storyline until next year sometime, when (hopefully) Emma is better. https://www.cameo.com/tristanrogers?_branch_match_id=838084196847861376 For anyone who missed it, Emma Samms August 17th article, on "Long COVID" https://people.com/tv/dynasty-emma-samms-talks-long-covid-symptoms/ On the other hand, Emma did tweet this, on the day GH showed Holly on a camera somewhere alive. (presumably this was filmed remotely via video chat or something?) If Tristan is correct, then maybe that's all we'll see of Holly for now?

(I posted this to the politics thread, too)

American Heart Association about heart damage from COVID-19 https://www.heart.org/en/news/2020/09/03/what-covid-19-is-doing-to-the-heart-even-after-recovery

^ trending that way because of this: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/17/914127266/trump-announces-patriotic-education-commission-a-largely-political-move https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/trump-downplays-legacy-of-slavery-in-appeal-to-white-voters/ Trump said that teaching about systematic racism in schools is a form of "child abuse". He said that the Pulitzer Prize winning "1619 Project" series in the NY Times is "poison".

(in reference to COVID-19 precautions) “You know, putting a national lock down, stay at home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history,” Attorney General Barr said, as a round of applause came from the crowd at Hillsdale College. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/16/politics/barr-justice-department-speech/index.html

In the USA, National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept 15 - Oct 15. http://www.hispanicheritagemonth.gov/about/ https://www.nps.gov/subjects/npscelebrates/hispanic-heritage-month.htm Joe Biden gave a speech Sept 15 at an event in Kissimmee, Florida, to kick off Hispanic Heritage month. Kissimmee is where many Puerto Ricans settled after Hurricane Maria. He said he supports statehood for Puerto Rico. He made campaign stops in a few other Florida cities, also. Biden sat down for an interview with Jose Diaz-Balart of Telemundo, his first one-on-one session with a national Spanish-language network since clinching the nomination. Biden unveiled a plan to create a federal working group for Puerto Rico to help with recovery efforts and economic advancement. Full report on his Kissimmee speech: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/2020-election/os-ne-2020-kissimmee-hispanics-biden-20200915-c5f43f62pbhpnoyoy6wkj7g2iu-story.html More on Biden's other Florida campaign stops: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-latinos-veterans-florida/2020/09/15/6e466eea-f78b-11ea-a275-1a2c2d36e1f1_story.html?arc404=true ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- On a side note, for the speech in Kissimmee .... Before Biden spoke, the following people came to the podium to speak: Osceola County commissioner Viviana Janer. Congressman Darren Soto. Ricky Martin. Eva Longoria. Then singer Luis Fonsi spoke. Luis Fonsi ended his remarks by introducing Biden. Biden came out on stage and started his speech by playing Luis Fonsi's song "Despacito" on his phone. There have been comments on social media saying Biden picked the song at random. But no it's not random. He picked a hit song by Fonsi, the singer who introduced him. There have been comments on social media and on the news, deriding Biden for playing a song whose lyrics are sexual. But he didn't play the whole song! He played exactly 15 seconds and that's all. (You can time it from the video). The full video of the introductory speakers plus Biden's speech is here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?475778-1/joe-biden-speaks-hispanic-heritage-month-event-kissimmee-florida Trump then twice retweeted a doctored video of Biden playing a song on his phone. In the fake video, the song playing on the phone was "F*ck the Police" by N.W.A. Twitter has now labeled the doctored video shared by @realDonaldTrump as "manipulated media". However the whole doctored video shows and the "manipulated media" label is only on the tweet frame, The song on the phone is so unimportant, we have tons of more important crises in the world to focus on! Just mentioning it because of Trump's embrace of lies to get people to believe Biden hates police.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/nurse-questions-medical-care-operations-detainees-immigration-jail-georgia-n1240110

When Greenwald and Poitras helped Snowdon, I thought they did great. But I began to think of Greenwald as trash with his continual refusal to believe that Russia is interfering with American elections. Sure there are many different entities interfering with American elections. But it's folly to deny that Russia is one of those entities.

I agree!

I about fell off my chair when I read the recap. Here is what is says in the SOC recap Tues Sept 8 CDN (Wed Sept 9 US):

What Fox News said happened ^ Fox news spinning the story that the salon owner told. More about what happened: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Speaker-Pelosi-calls-salon-visit-a-set-up-15538247.php House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to apologize Wednesday for her controversial visit to a San Francisco hair salon, calling it “a setup” and suggesting that she had been tricked by the business owner. Pelosi said she took responsibility for falling for the “setup” to have her hair done inside at a San Francisco salon on Monday, which is prohibited by the city’s regulations. The San Francisco Democrat said if anyone was owed an apology, it was her by the salon. “I think that this salon owes me an apology, for setting me up,” she said at an event about school reopenings in San Francisco’s Noe Valley. Pelosi’s visit to a San Francisco salon on Monday set off a firestorm when Fox News published security footage of it Tuesday. Her visit was one day before salons were allowed to begin opening, but only outdoors. San Francisco is nearly the only Bay Area jurisdiction still not allowing salons to reopen indoor services. “I take responsibility for trusting the word of the neighborhood salon that I’ve been to over the years many times and when they said, ‘We’re able to accommodate people one person at a time,’ I trusted that,” the speaker said during a combative exchange with reporters in the empty school yard of Mission Education Center Elementary School. Pelosi’s response acknowledged she was not aware of local rules prohibiting such indoor treatments. She wasn’t asked why she didn’t know the city’s rules. Pelosi splits her time between her home in San Francisco and her work in Washington, D.C. In her conversation with Fox News published Tuesday, the owner of the business, eSalon, criticized the speaker’s visit as the city keeps her doors shut amid the pandemic. She claimed that she was unable to prevent it, as an independent stylist who rents a chair in her establishment was the one who hosted Pelosi. The owner, Erica Kious, told Fox News that she got a text the day before saying the speaker would be coming in. Pelosi’s spokesman said in a statement Tuesday that the speaker’s office had reached out to the salon and was told it was allowed to have one customer inside at a time. The speaker had been having her regular stylist do her hair at her home, but that person wasn’t available, her spokesman said. Instead, she arranged to have her hair styled at eSalon after being told it was OK. the short clip released by Fox shows the speaker, with wet hair and wearing a robe, walking through the salon with a mask around her neck. When asked Wednesday, why she wasn’t wearing a mask at the salon, the speaker said she had just had her hair washed. “I don’t wear a mask when I’m washing my hair. Do you wear a mask when you’re washing your hair? I always wear a mask,” she said, adding the short clip that was released was when she had just left the shampoo chair. And UPDATE on what *really* happened: