Everything posted by quartermainefan
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Dynasty Discussion Thread
daytimefan, I think you might be out of date with the Collins contract status.
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What Are You Listening To?
I have this song on my iPod. As a bit of trivia, this song is considered the first Disco song to go #1. I love early disco when it was fun and silly. Later disco became more about the thump thump thump of the beat.
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The Tennis Thread
None of these guys! Rafael Nadal is the king of tennis. These wannabes and has beens are just there to serve his career and provide victims that he can crush.
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What Are You Listening To?
Ozzie and Harriet Nelson's son David tuesday and through youtube links I was reminded of this brilliant song from the underappreciated Rick Nelson (or "Ricky" if one insists)
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Dynasty Discussion Thread
wow, the idea of a Dynasty movie set in the early 60s sounds great to me. It would be like a lurid Douglas Sirk drama, a Written On The Wind with Alexis decked out like Jackie Kennedy on fashion steroids I assume.
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Dynasty Discussion Thread
who would play Blake? Jon Hamm (is that his name? ) he has the perfect hair for the role.
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Dynasty Discussion Thread
I may faint if this happens! Just thinking about it is too much already oh wow, 30 years
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The Politics Thread
This guy is such a dick. He is a malignancy on America just for foisting Sarah Palin on us. It was only a few years ago he was for repealing DADT, but as the Tea Party showed disdain for his bullshit Mavericky ways (which he never was), he has knelt and genuflected at the fundie altar of shmuckitude. And I like how he threw in their the whole "small town" bit, trying to once again say real Americans come from small towns, while big cities produce these faux-Americans. I guess that is why he and his rethuglican brethren have blocked the passing of the bill to get the 9/11 first responders medical aid: they came from New York and therefore are not real Americans.
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What Are You Listening To?
I stumbled upon this and was shocked that tv icon "Ginger" was so talented
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Glee: Discusion Thread
I have to give Glee a lot of credit. This would have been unimaginable just a few years ago, and it's so old fashioned and clearly not all at the same time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-_5RBPrK2o&feature=player_embedded I don't care for the guy singing the female role, because he sounds too much like a woman to me, but I think there is a general aversion to bass and baritone anyway these days with everyone trying to sound like a woman with a falsetto (yes Justin Timberlake, I mean you)
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The Politics Thread
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The Politics Thread
Nothing in any available data backs up a single thing you've said. All that has happened since the advent of Reaganomics is a consolidation of wealth, and the rich getting richer with a smaller and smaller percentage of the population hording a greater percentage of the wealth. There is no investment in the economy with the newfound tax-free dollars. And if you are like me, and see Reagan as the god of all things Republican, you would listen to David Stockman--the father of Reaganomics:
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The Politics Thread
You know, many economists said Obama didn't go far enough with pumping money into the economy. I do know he wants to let the temporary Bush tax cuts expire for everyone making 250,000 and above while continuing the break for the other 95% of the country, and republicans have taken the position that if the top tier do not get the breaks, no one will. This despite of record profits for the corporations and a greater amassing of wealth by the top percentile than at any time since the Depression. And we know how that worked out. His health care bill sucks, but he was not able to get what he wanted because republicans cried socialism and he caved. You do know that the Bill Clinton you speak fondly of is the same Bill Clinton you undoubtedly wanted impeached, right? People who miss Bush are idiots. They miss perpetual war and Dick Cheney allowing oil companies to dictate policy? They miss the Atty General using his office to indict democratic candidates who dared oppose republicans? They miss cynical and phony Orange Alerts? Well, no one ever went broke underestimating the American People. What do they miss exactly?
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The Politics Thread
Oh, so you admit to unfairly and wrongly bashing the Democratic president then? So then, you made a poor vote when you declined to vote for Al Gore and instead opted for some dunce who bankrupted the country with his wars of revenge and choice?
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The Politics Thread
But but...I thought not listening to the will of the American people was the sign one was a great Decider!
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The Politics Thread
Well, no one refudiates that. People refudiated the notion that this qualified as a foreign policy credential. Maybe I am wrong and we should ask our North Korean allies if they think she is to to snuff.
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The Politics Thread
Tom Delay was found guilty and faces potentially life in prison. I guess it was those renowned liberal Texas judges and juries that had it in for him. http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/24/us.delay.verdict/?hpt=T1 Maybe FOX can have him offer some fair and balanced political wisdom from behind bars.
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The Politics Thread
I don't see how the Union can succeed without a uniform monetary policy, and if a country gives up its right to decide its own monetary policy, is it even a country, or just now a vassal of some sort?
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What Are You Listening To?
I love 70s music. So much of it was upbeat and fun.
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What Are You Listening To?
I haven't heard this song in 20 years..excuse the title RIP Dean If this is deemed offensive, please delete.
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Another World Discussion Thread
I used to be friendly with Paul. He is a very nice guy, saintly almost with the most even temperament you could find. It is impossible to make him angry and if you do he will seethe for a split second, focus, and then realize it is poor form to yell and return to being the always agreeable diplomat that he is and try to reach consensus. Last I heard he lives now somewhere south of NY (one of those states not sure which). He ran into a lot of bad choices in the mid 90s and his own personal demons stuck with him well into the 00s. Last I heard he is ok now, married and I believe has kids. He was never bitter about not being the soap star anymore and knew you had to be 25 or get lost for the most part. He stuck around NY into the 00s with a theater troupe doing workshops and plays and acting lessons.
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Edge of Night (EON) (No spoilers please)
well for people who are really interested, Larkin Malloy teaches acting every Wed Night on west 43rd street just off 8th avenue.
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Edge of Night (EON) (No spoilers please)
I have been in the Player's Club, and it is a great building. I loved Lois Kibbee. She was so perfect on this show and OLTL.
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What Are You Listening To?
I hope this is the right thread for this. I watched this live when it aired 15 years ago (a great show) and recently saw it again for the first time in years.
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Dynasty Discussion Thread
I love the sequence when Blake got his memory back, it is a literal example of melodrama: drama set to music. Starting about 2:45 this clip just lets music do the narrating. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_nCs_VAzhw&feature=related