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The look on Mamie's face = PRICELESS. LMAO.

IDK how old he is, but I would not be surprised to learn he is in the grips of senility.

Frankly, I wouldn't care if Bernie were a HUNDRED and seventy-eight. But I do care that his constant attempts at upsetting the Democratic Party only drag us further into our current morass. The first time he ran, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Now, I just think he cares only about the spotlight (and to hell with the direction of this country).

I have to hand it to the UK and elsewhere, though. At least they put some effort (and money) into their promos, which is more than I could say for the U.S. soaps of today.

Seriously? Toups, there's, like, four different versions of ASIB, and they all end the same way, lol.

Mama Khan -- again, a Trump supporter/Obama and Hillary basher -- filed her taxes several weeks ago. She doesn't owe anything this year -- which is good, since she's still paying her tax bill from last year. However, even with the increased standard deduction, she got bupkis from the federal, and only $80 from the state.

As Bob Dylan says, "It ain't me, babe," it's my mom, lol. Thanks for the concern, though. I appreciate it.

Same here. Whenever my mom mentions Trump, or the GOP, I sit quietly and wait for an opportunity to change the subject, or else MY blood pressure will shoot to the roof, lol. The "facts" she quotes are almost always biased, and they're almost always wrong, too. But how do you argue with someone -- especially when that someone is your mother, and they're convinced they're right? I've tried citing actual sources, but she just dismisses it as (you guessed it) "fake news" and accuses me of being as arrogant and ignorant as my right-wing, pro-life, anti-vaxxer ex-sis in law. And when I've told her why she shouldn't trust YT and FNC to be accurate, her response is, "Why would they make up stuff when they have the proof RIGHT THERE?". I tell you, you just can't win.

Whew, I'm so glad to know I ain't the only one, lol. Over the past couple years, Mama Khan has become a full-on Trump supporter and Hillary and Obama hater, mostly because she is gullible (sorry, Mom, but I gotta call it as I see it) and believes everything she sees on Fox News and YT videos. She even has suggested that Trump has been anointed by God to be president. And in that time, her entire IRA account, which she had inherited from my father (and which I was to be 100% the beneficiary of upon HER death), has been wiped out due to poor management on our adviser's part and several energy companies going bankrupt; her older son, and my brother (another Trump supporter), has experienced both a misdemeanor charge for domestic battery and a divorce, both of which Mama Khan had to pay through the proverbial nose for; mineral rights we had inherited from my maternal grandparents and had to sell for emergency cash left her with an exorbitant tax bill; a plan to refinance our house and pay off credit card debt has resulted only in exacerbating her financial problems (a higher monthly mortgage payment, reopening most or all of the credit cards that had been paid off, a [!@#$%^&*]-tastic credit score which makes borrowing more money impossible, etc.); and now, after twenty-six years of taking Glipizide and Metformin to control her Type-II Diabetes, our family physician has had to put her on daily insulin injections because the pills alone can no longer regulate her glucose levels. Coincidence?

Actually, I've pictured something more along the lines of what happened to Cecil Colby on DYNASTY, with Donald as Cecil and Melania as Alexis.

What did Bubbles say/do this time?

Frankly, there were times when Claire Labine's vision for GH didn't mesh with how GH had come to be defined in decades past. However, two things worked in her favor: the fact that she had a sympathetic EP, and the fact that GH was doing so abysmally before her arrival. Labine was a much grittier and more down-to-earth HW than Agnes Nixon, say, or Bill Bell. RH worked so well, at least in the beginning, because it was set in a real place, and featured more realistic characters than ones on other soaps. I don't believe her approach worked as well on shows that were set in fictional towns, featured more broadly drawn characters, or required more melodramatic stories. I think Paul Rauch had a hard time with any HW who couldn't mesh with his larger-than-life visions for his shows. It's like what Harding Lemay said: you had to bully him to get what you wanted.

Meg Ryan is like Genie Francis. She wants to be Taken Seriously, to show she can do more than what the public loves her for. The only problem is, her goals exceed her range as an actress. They always have. Add to that the feeling that she was becoming overexposed even as a romcom star -- audiences weren't sick of romcoms; they were sick of romcoms starring Meg Ryan -- and you have a reasonable explanation for why MR is where she is now.

Several years ago, I heard a rumor that Claire Labine had planned to bring back Trudy, possibly as a homeless woman, before she was fired.

Same here, MontyB. Thanks so much!

Steve and Ann's confrontation reminded me so much of Kelly and Nola's on GL. Still, even if I know David O'Brien (and everyone else) gave their best, Geraldine Court, IMO, acted damned circles around them. And that, ladies and gents, always has been one of my major issues with TD. With the exception of Kathryn Harrold, Armand Assante, and later Alec Baldwin and Kathleen Turner, the acting level on this show just plain stinks.

What I like about Sherrod Brown (besides his handsome face) is his levelheaded approach to issues such as health care.

IDK which I hated more: that storyline, or Erica's haircut.

The next day, however, everybody at 227 was thrilled when he showed up and gave Brenda Regina an apology.

Bam. https://www.npr.org/2019/02/13/694565971/manafort-intentionally-lied-to-special-counsel-judge-says?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20190213&fbclid=IwAR1SPqqGL0CRbC6Rd19yTEiiLYcacEiHww6e1MCznDupqHhDMFhOOVTHIm8

The last two times they brought back Liz Foster, she was on her deathbed (although, I guess the second time took) and desperate to tell Jill the truth about her origins. The literal definition of deja vu.

Same. As Patrick Mulcahey admits, the writers had no real game plan for Carly in the beginning. It's only because of SB that Carly became a breakout character. She set the template for that character for the others to follow.

Of course, Ryan Adams himself denies the claims. But I always thought there was something wrong with that guy.

Let's put it this way: I don't believe Doug Marland ever intended for Quint to be tied to Chamberlains like that. It's strange that JvD gave a better on-air tribute to Charita Bauer's memory than the rest of the show a year later. About the only thing to come out of Bert's death and funeral, I think, was Rick's decision to quit taking pills, although it might've been better had he decided to go to rehab soon thereafter.

Yeah, what IS with that horn? What was it supposed to signify? Because, it certainly would not compel me to think GL was a soap filled to bursting with dramatic tension and high stakes drama. The editing makes you think OLTL's Brody is getting a b.j. in the shower.