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Such a shame, especially as we have psycho Taylor, idiot Adrienne, douche Kyle and addict Kim....At least Lisa still has Brandy?

Yes, they absolutely can. The problem is that I doubt there were any police dogs on the scene because of how it looked, she was found submerged in the bathtub, her people found her, hallway video cameras would have confirmed that no one untoward entered the room and visually there wasn't any cocaine present. The police weren't looking for drugs, so they didn't find them. The other problem is that they would only find cocaine residue, and residue is not enough to say that Whitney had cocaine in the room, although combined with the toxicology screening a logical inference can be made. Ultimately, I don't see anyone going down for this because they've all protected each other in enabling Whitney and her drug and alcohol addiction. Just pathetic, what a disgusting way to die. I wouldn't be surprised if she went into atrial fibrillation and slipped under the water. Her body must have been a mess because of those drugs.

Flexiril and Benadryl didn't contribute to her death because of the percentages found in her blood and tissues. Those haven't been released yet but they're going to be too low to have been a contributing factor. Cocaine absolutely thickens arteries, it also causes heart spasms, palpitations and fluttering, all of which are dangerous. That they listed arteriosclerosis as a cause, that tells me that they suspect a heart attack. And it's only plain logic that someone removed cocaine from her room. She did it very shortly before her death, was in the room all day and there was no cocaine when the police arrived.

Here's my medical take on it, I think I'm very much in line with Harvey Levin of TMZ's opinion... Whitney's heart was already hit with heart disease thanks to her cocaine use, heart and arteries thickened from cocaine use so that was already somewhat vulnerable. Then you have all the other drugs, the weed, the prescriptions and any alcohol nudging her even closer. She takes a hit of cocaine, goes to relax in the bath, suffers a heart attack or simply has palpitations thanks to the cocaine, sinks below the water...Houston we have a problem. She's dead. Removing cocaine from the scene is a crime as it's interfering with a police investigation. Pat Houston and anyone else in that room had better be lawyered up. This thing ain't over.

How sad, yet again enabled to use like any other addict.

LOL I'm going to stream something now, just to fight Uncle Sam.

Actually it IS different. Very different. Gretchen and Slade repeatedly emphasize that Slade has not gone to jail for not paying child support while Brooks has. What Gretchen probably doesn't know because Slade certainly isn't going to volunteer it is the following information: In most American states if a parent has a job and owes child support they will 100% of the time be arrested. If a parent owes child support and does not have a job they will 100% never be arrested. Slade has not had a job since the second season of RHOC, he has lived off of his girlfriends, he's doing this with Gretchen currently. Slade knows that the moment he has a job he will be arrested and jailed until he can have his wages garnished or pay off his child support debts entirely. His unemployment is a strategy, he doesn't need to work as a mortgage broker, he could work at Wal-Mart or Starbucks or collect cans, but he won't do that because it will guarantee his arrest. Brooks was arrested, got caught up on his child support and has moved on. Slade has not paid his monthly child support obligations ($3500 a month for his terminally ill son whose brain tumour requires constant medical attention) for years and now owes $130,000 in child support. He recently sought to have his child support reduced, which it was, to the tune of $775 a month. He still, however, has not paid even this amount. He continues to live off of Gretchen and goes on trips to Miami with her. Everyone on the OC is repugnant, but let's be clear about Slade Smiley attempting to compare his situation to someone else. He has been a brazen deadbeat dad and if Dr DaytimeFan happened to cross him in a parking lot he would beat the sh*t out of Slade Smiley.

Absolutely, let's not pretend that Democrats haven't got down in the mud with the best of them. But let's not pretend that a character assassination of a triple amputee war hero is in any way comparable to a ballot switcheroo. Not. Comparable. In. Any. Way.

One could argue? Are you serious? They are oil and water issues. Unbelievably different. The only thing they have in common is they highlight how terrible American politics is and how little care is paid to issues that affect voters directly and who the best people are for the job.

When Lucille Bluth met Mitt Romney. Two peas in a pod. http://www.uproxx.co...ing-for/#page/1 And the full Tumblr account for Lucille and Mitt: http://lucilleandmitt.tumblr.com/

An absolute trainwreck.

Brilliant interview from 1988 on ITV's 'The Time, The Place'...the whole audience are Joan admirers and they ask her questions, fabulous. As usual Joan was far less guarded in her native London than how she was in America. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-oRZTo4gk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAUJQF35-cc

Is there any truth to rumours that Barbara Windsor is set to return at some point this year?

You know...as much as there's no story for Sheree I would miss not seeing her fake, broke ass on the show. There's something I like about her bullsh*t, perhaps that it's so obvious? It gives fodder to the sharper wives (ie: my love Phaedra). Phaedra is so fabulous, she just KILLS. Never does a comment of her's fall flat. Cynthia & Papa Smurf...he's a total bastard and I'm glad her family openly hates him. He clearly hates them, so there's no reason to fake it. Kim avoiding that party...well she knows she isn't really welcome considering how Cynthia and Nene are BFF, she'd have to deal with Kandi...most importantly, she brought her own wine to Cynthia and Papa Smurf's wedding, she probably didn't feel like lugging a bottle of Chardonnay to another one of their shindigs.

Exactly. The lies and the spin keep on coming because the truth isn't as easy as the lies. I heard a lot of easy answers from Pat, Gary and Bobbi Kristina, it would have been nice to hear the truth. I think so much of Whitney's life was being used by other people so she used them right back. Really, I think everyone, including Oprah Winfrey, should be ashamed of themselves.

That is a judgement that can't be made until the autopsy is complete. If Whitney's body just gave out no visit by anyone would have helped her. We already know she didn't drown, so being unattended didn't kill her. Pat walking down the hall slowly was one of the only parts of the interview that I didn't find odd or calculated at all, it made sense to me. Pat knew the writing was on the wall so far as Whitney was concerned so she knew her death was coming. My problem with the Houston family is that they are a family of enablers who stood by Whitney as she made extremely destructive decisions that affected herself and her child.

The Oprah interview was shady. Shady, shady, shady. Bobbi Kristina is a lost little girl. A child. And a foolish child. A foolish child who has been raised by enablers. Pat Houston pimped her candle company, Marion P Candles, mentioning the infomercial Whitney was going to film for the company, several times verbally, plus a close up of the candle during the program and a bit of B Roll of Whitney and Pat holding a candle. Gary Garland Houston, Pat's husband, was arrested for drug possession back in the day. Of course likes Bobby Brown. They're cut from the same cloth. Further, his singing was...bizarre. Breaking down right at the end of it...really? Finally, Oprah's behaviour as the credits rolled...she doesn't care at all about these people, "I've done all I can take!" she said. "Thank you for getting through all that" she said to Pat Houston. This was a business deal. Yet again, Whitney Houston was used by other people to further financial gain. She should be rolling in her grave.

I absolutely agree and I think that's my problem with Kandi. She's stealth with how she stirs up bullsh*t between the women. Sheree absolutely lied to Kim's face, but I feel the same way you do, Kandi was implying something about Kim, not that she's racist, but that, perhaps, she's a snob or wouldn't feel comfortable being around the poor? Kim's reaction, while melodramatic, I thought was genuine. Kim made a good point, she has worked as a nurse, nobody becomes a nurse if they don't have a part of them that feels compassion for other people. Kim worked in hospice care, the hardest job there is...even if she only worked that shift for a week, that's a week longer than most people ever do. Nursing is a selfless profession, nobody wipes someone else's behind just for the money. Kim also worked in the neonatal intensive care unit, another war zone, she would have sailed through that orphanage. Finally, look at how Kim is with her kids. Certainly, she's lazy and a sloth and a diva of epic proportions...but she also has a sense of humour and open communication with her daughters, she might be a bit more of a friend than a parent at times, but her kids are in their early teens, so it may be part of her strategy to remain 'in the loop' (in a serious way, not a desperate to be young way) with her daughters. Overall, Kim is a realist and I think she would have been a star at that orphanage and I think any suggestion to the otherwise is a needless shot at her character as a person. Phaedra is second only to Lisa of BH in terms of my Housewife faves. Love her! Feel a bit of sympathy for Vicki...only because she's a veteran fave, she's sort of insufferable, but looking down the barrel of the gun called "Your Daughter Might Have Cancer" is one I surely wouldn't want to face. Slade's an as$hole of epic proportions.

YES. Absolutely. I miss the days when the rich in Washington owned the fact that they were glamorous and had money and happily flaunted it. Nancy Reagan was the best at it. Love or hate the Reagans, but Nancy always looked fabulous and was a good image of the US for the rest of the world. Michelle Obama does a beautiful job, she is inherently classy and dresses perfectly and is authentic, she isn't pretending to stoop like Mrs Romney or the Bush's did.

How will Joan Collins cope with an obese president in the White House? First off, fat presidents don't get elected in our modern media age, secondly, Joan will simply do what she always does: live in Los Angeles for 3 months out of the year and then high tail it back to London and St. Tropez for the rest of the time. Joan is above politics, she glides. When it comes to Obamacare, the problem remains that it's about insurance. Again, the insurance lobby wins and the American citizen gets screwed in a big way. What Americans need to realise is that Obamacare is not universal health care, it's simply a degree of universal insurance. There are still people who receive, far, far, superior treatment and people who receive blatantly disgusting medical treatment, regardless of their insurance cover. Universal healthcare like in Australia, Canada, UK, Japan, Singapore, Germany, France ETC ETC ETC is just that: universal. It's paid through tax revenue. The only insurance people have is for extended costs like wheelchair rentals, bathroom fittings and some prescription drugs. Obamacare is a poor substitute for real, meaningful, proactive healthcare that puts patients first. Sadly, it is the only option that has ever been credibly put forward by a sitting US president in the last 35 years. No Republican can claim that their party gives a flying damn about medical care in the USA because Ford, Reagan and both of the Bush presidents never touched healthcare. And every American should be angry about that. Health care is NOT a political issue. It is a human rights issue.

And that's if you can afford to pay insurance. Let's talk about the working poor. The people who hold down an honest job, pay their taxes and can't make it financially. They are on the lower end of the socio economic scale, they are also the people most likely to get seriously ill due to the fact that they eat poorly, are less educated about their health, don't have the time to exercise, are stressed to the max because they can't keep up with their bills and have less access to preventative health care. These are the very people who universal healthcare is designed to help. The very people who can't afford to go it alone. The very people who need a safety net to catch them. These are the very people who often constitute the base that votes in Tea Party and Republican Party candidates. The very same candidates who vote against and rail against universal healthcare, the very program that would benefit the very people who vote them into office. And then we can discuss prescription medication, another route to bankruptcy for even middle class Americans. Medication is outrageously expensive in America because the legislature is bought and paid for by the pharmaceutical companies. I'm not anti-pharmaceutical, make no mistake. They save lives and work, I use them every single day in my practice. However, nobody will ever convince me that it is ethical to extend patents on medications that in Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, Singapore, France ETC ETC ETC are generic, very low cost and identical in effectiveness. Americans need to wake up and realize that they are being used and abused by corporations and government agents that do not give one iota of care about them. Compassion is the only cure, for some it is a harsh medicine, but I assure you, it is effective and the patient requires it.

David Brooks is right. It's really interesting how the Republican party has morphed, in a relatively short period of time, in comparison to other conservative parties around the world, from the classic conservatism that was focused mostly on fiscal policy and keeping small government, to an evangelical vehicle that no longer speaks to many of the people who used to identify with the party. Love them or hate them , Nixon, Ford and Reagan wouldn't fit into the Republican party that exists now and America is all the poorer for it.

LOL. Exactly. It's beyond logical reasoning. I love how police officers and fire fighters are never accused of being a socialist tool for controlling the masses, yet doctors and nurses and medical imaging departments, socialists if they're happy to help everyone. Fortunately, I live outside the reach of the Republican party these days.

You don't even need to innovate a new system. Canada, Germany, UK, Australia, Singapore, Japan, France ETC ETC ETC all have universal free healthcare. The United States of America is the *only* developed Western country that does not have it. It's all about the money that insurance companies make in America, they lobby the hell out of every member of Congress and Senate, lobby the doctors and nurses, lobby with the pharmaceutical companies etc. Anyone who thinks it's about quality of care is delusional. It's about the money.

Joe Arpaio really needs to go away. The man has violated civil rights, I don't care that they're criminals, he dehumanizes people. He's what's wrong with the American Justice System. That he has the gall to get involved in this birth certificate nonsense, which is what it is, nonsense, is ridiculous to a degree I can't even describe.