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McCain earned back some of my respect tonight. And kudos to Collins and Murkowski for having more balls than the rest of the GOP men put together. I did LOVE how McCain strolled up to Turtle, just held out his hands, and did his decisive, quiet NO. The look on Turtle's face was EPIC! Also loved Schumer showing class and waving off the applause. The video of this is just gold.

I know it's a soap, and it was even made fun of during the time Sonny Sprocket had control over Mason, but...I always found it kind of oogy that Mason's half brother was married to Mason's half sister, even if Kelly and Jeffrey shared no blood relationship! But then, as I said, soaps. And Days had the same dynamic going on when John thought he was Roman and was involved with Isabella, half sister to Bo, and Roman also being a half brother to Bo. (But I loved RoJohn/Isabella, so I overlooked that then. LOL! I admit my hypocrisy!)

This whole "debate" deal is smoke and mirrors. Does anyone believe McConnell will allow the Democrats to get involved? This will come down to the same players, trying to ram a bill through so Baby Oompa Loompa gets a win. And so what if millions of poor/disabled/elderly/war veteran Americans die to do it?

In other news, water is wet.

McCain is a hypocrite. I won't wish death but he can go to hell. He has awesome health insurance. He KNOWS how valuable it is, but he still votes yes to encourage chatting up taking insurance away from his fellow Americans - and many of them veterans, as he is. Trump now hails him as a hero. Tells me all I need to know. And to add to my disgust, the little mic slip discussion with Sen. Collins and another Democratic senator knowing Trump is unfit to lead - and yet doing NOTHING about it - is just appalling.

Trump floats the possibility of replacing Jeff Sessions with Rudy Giuliani Ghouliani! Me, I say let him try. The fallout would be vastly entertaining.

Can't say. But I'm not so sure. I mean, she was still to be a part of the story, but as interloper to Mason/Tori as originally envisioned, until TPTB took note of the chemistry between NLG/LD. I recall reading somewhere that Julia was eventually supposed to be paired with Robert Thaler's Pearl. I liked the guy, he was offbeat. But it seems like all of Julia's dalliances pre-Mason seemed firmly B-level, sidekick level. I think her pairing with Mason definitely helped her to break into the "big leagues", so to speak.

Ah, I LOVED the Mason/Julia Baby Contract and the sloooooooow burn with Mason and Julia. Soaps have no idea how to do that anymore. People fall in "love" now in the span of a day.

Looks like the story was removed. But, as consolation, here. The Alt-Right shows their utter "decency" at proclaiming McCain's brain cancer as punishment for going against Trump. Scumbags.

Orange Foolius got one thing right: He could murder someone on 5th Avenue in NYC and his brain-dead cult would excuse his criminal ass.

Why?

If you get the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel [separate from the regular channel] and have insomnia or a DVR, there is an episode airing at 3:00 a.m. ET called "Blue and Broken Harted" from 1982 - meaning, before Santa Barbara - that lists both Nicolas Coster and Louise Sorel as part of the guest cast. Cool!

And spiteful Orange Turd begins the ACA sabotage.

Jeff Sessions, evil Keebler Elf, is the next caught in the Russian net!

Does this sound like an innocent man to you?

Too bad this impeachment article will go nowhere. But I applaud anyone who has the spine to introduce it!

And Iowa...seems to consistently vote red! I just want to shake these people and scream at them to wake the hell up!

Not to be mean, but I'm old enough to at least remember the original Battle of the Network Stars, and I seem to recall, even with my then 8-or-so-year-old filter, that most, if not all, of the celebrities who competed were in current network shows. So I wonder why it was changed to now-seemingly "old timers"?

You're not wrong, but someone has to take the high road sometime...

So, former Trump aide Paul Manafort has officially registered as a foreign agent.

Nice try, making it sound like the whole thing is a fraud. This is one event. I'll even link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/06/26/three-cnn-employees-resign-over-retracted-story-on-russia-ties/?tid=pm_opinions_pop&utm_term=.f5d15632aed2 But in fairness, these three SHOULD LOSE their jobs for this. But this does not negate the rest of the investigation. In any case, I'm not sure why I'm bothering. Maybe hoping for some light to come through. But forget it. I'll re-initialize the filter for the sake of thread harmony.

Robert F. Kennedy's grandson, Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III, gives a wonderful speech against Trumpcare.

What Khan said. And I'll add #dumbasses for good measure.

She is well known even to this day as despicable defense attorney/later judge Danielle Melnick on the Law & Order franchise.

I'm admittedly biased since I am/was a ride or die Mason/Julia fan, but I'm glad the show never hooked Cruz/Julia up. A platonic friendship was refreshing. AW also did it with Cass/Felicia. There was too few of such relationships. Besides, had Julia/Cruz hooked up, Julia would be tossed like yesterday's trash in a blink had Marcy Walker wanted to come back. As a Julia fan, I think she deserved better than that. Not to mention destroy Julia's other friendship with Eden in the process. (Heck, Samantha had Eden as her middle name with Eden's "death" back around the time Samantha was born.) But the Kelly angle would have been soapy, especially since the show played up a rivalry between Eden/Kelly once CG came on as far as Robert went. I think that dynamic could have really revved up had Cruz been in the mix. Still, in the end, I think Kelly would be sacrificed, too, with the above "Eden returns" scenario as no way would the show not reunite their flagship pairing. So maybe the whole thing played out as best as it could. Frankly, as it was, Cruz/Kelly was a disaster and should have never been attempted with a freshly-recast Kelly (and a miscast, at that) in Eileen Davidson.