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I don't really care about the fact that a Republican decided to pal around with white supremacists. Honestly I'm more surprised that there are some who don't. But Lawd I'm tired of people like Scalise lying about it when he gets caught. He claimed he didn't know anything about the group which is utter bullshit. The idea that someone accepts a speaking engagement and doesn't do at least a modicum of research about it - just so they can write appropriate remarks - is ludicrous. Republicans are so used to their base accepting any ridiculous lie that they think nothing of trying to peddle the same lies to the rest of the population.

Ugh. Rick Scott. He's one of the worst. You have my sympathies. My governor (Kasich) may be a right-wing tool but he's a right wing tool who wants to run for President someday so he occasionally does something decent. (About five decent things at my last count but I haven't updated the list in a long time.) Scott is just a morally bankrupt profiteer. He'd kick puppies and step on baby chicks if he thought it would make a profit.

Enjoy it. I'd like one election where Ohio didn't become the be all and end all of swing states. 2016 is going to be hell. Especially when our lowlife governor throws his hat into the ring for the White House.

It's scary to think how much time, energy and money has been spent on protecting this psychopath. Scarier still to see how well it worked.

I wonder what the exact strategy is. It's too late to blackmail them into silence. Is he going to try them in the court of public opinion? That exposes him way more than them. Is he finally considering that he may have to defend himself in court?

This was a nice episode. A really good mix of warmth, whimsy and menace. I really identified with the idea of nested dreams because I once had a couple bad nights of them when I started a medication years and years ago. Nothing [!@#$%^&*] with your sanity faster. I usually roll my eyes at appearances of "real life" Santa Claus on shows because I'm basically dead inside but I liked this snappy, sarcastic, "got sh!t to do" Santa. Loved the Doctor's glee at getting to drive the sleigh. After a season of a far darker and more cynical Doctor, that was a "looveleh* thing to see. (That's my version of the way Clara says "lovely." Which IMO is second only to the way she says "Shoot oohp!") When Clara hears the sound that the TARDIS makes and says, "I never realized how much I love that sound." I was feeling the same way. I also love that lilting woodwind tune that plays in Christmas episodes during happy family scenes and reunions. I'm sure there's an official Doctor Who name for it but if so, I don't know it. It played in the background when Clara was dreaming about Danny waking her up in the morning. I could've really grown to like Clara and Danny as a couple if I'd gotten to see it happen in real time but I didn't so *shrug*. So Clara's sticking around. Meh. Whatever.

I apologize for any shady thing I ever said about Yaya. She's really got Whitney's mannerisms down.

Michael Grimm, the charming fellow who threatened to throw a reporter off a balcony then break him in half "like a boy" for asking about allegations of financial impropriety is pleading guilty to...oh look, financial impropriety! Specifically tax evasion. I'm not naive enough to think he'll get jail time but it's nice to see this rageaholic brought to heel a little bit.

I was just thinking that it had been a while since we saw a new victim. I was hoping that maybe we were at the end.

Oh man. That's pretty much shoving his foot all the way up Bill's ass. He loves being Doctor Cosby. I have to admit that as much as some people hate "losing" Cliff Huxtable, for me it's more painful to lose Fat Albert Cosby. That show was the first time I saw my skin in cartoons. But I'm sure that Simon is just a "slut" who is angry that his career didn't take off just like all of Cosby's other accusers.

At the risk of coming off like Captain Ozarks, I believe that we are soon going to start to see people making fake claims, assuming we haven't already. This is big enough now that unscrupulous people will start to pile on. Just to be clear, I believe that Bill Cosby is a serial rapist and psychopath but I think it's inevitable that other psychopaths will try to take advantage. It's like people showing up at a bus or plane crash and pretending to be one of the victims.

Anne Coulter and Bill Cosby are pretty much the same: psychopathic, narcissistic hypocrites who somehow feel qualified to tell other people how to live. They are living proof that mental illness doesn't discriminate. Anybody looking to either of these people for social commentary is a fool. I once believed that too. Now I take people at face value.

Damn. I really wanted to visit before all the American money turned it into Hawaii.

Any thoughts on normalizing relations with Cuba? Personally, I'm glad to put an end to the outdated embargo but this isn't one of my hot button issues so I'm interested to see how others react.

Now every woman he ever hit on is going to be looking at that experience through a different lens. Even if one doesn't believe he's a rapist, he's clearly a slut who [!@#$%^&*] all over his marriage.

Agreed with the bolded. I'm not trying to be an apologist for Camille. I just think we don't have any real information on her perspective. She's still kind of a blank slate. My comment wasn't meant as a challenge. I'm sorry if it came off that way.

Sorry for the double post

I have a pretty unhealthy family life (my brother's schizophrenic among other issues) where there's been a lot of work to try and get healthier so I have a different perspective. When you're raised surrounded by sickness and secrets, you tend to deal with it with more sickness and secrets. It takes time and work to unlearn that stuff. One of Cosby's daughters is a drug addict correct? That would be a perfectly reasonable coping mechanism to growing up in the house with the level of duplicity and sickness that would come from the kind of situation we're seeing unfold. As for Camille, we don't know enough about her to know why she's doing anything. She could be an addict herself. She could have experience with sexual abuse in her own family of origin which led her to a guy like Cosby. He could have threatened or abused her in the past and maybe she was just grateful when his attention was elsewhere. She could be an accomplice with a whole twisted secret life of her own where she makes crush vids and plays the banjo. We just don't know. I used to assist with a workshop for people dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma, etc... and I learned damn fast that you can never assume just how sick another person or family is or what people are capable of doing to survive living with that day in and day out. I heard stories about what people did to each other that I never could've conceived of. One participant was a battered wife whose husband was a prominent member of the clergy. He'd preach about love and family to his congregation then push her down the stairs when she was pregnant. What that did to her concept of love, God and family was a horror to witness.

I doubt that. A PR firm would've crafted far better statements and they wouldn't have made them so similar. A good firm would've had the family as a whole release a statement. There would've been a lot of talk about "innocent until proven guilty" and the Cosbys' charity work, maybe throw in a mention of Ennis' death to tug at heartstrings. A good firm also would've kept him from making that comment about the black media. The problem with PR firms - especially ones that deal in crisis management - is that they demand that you be completely honest and upfront with them and that doesn't seem like something this family wants to or is capable of doing.

Very cult-like.

I really wish we could get some fresh blood in the run for president. The idea of a Clinton vs. Bush race just makes me tired and I say that as a Hilary supporter. Unfortunately, it costs so much to run for office that only a handful of people can do it and they all seem to be related.

That's not the case I'd want to take to criminal court. At this point, I think the civil suit is a better way to go. With so many victims and so many different statutes of limitation, the class action suit seems more manageable. Of course the apologists will just claim that the women are looking for a pay day but I think it's pretty obvious those people are traveling light in the ethics and sense department. As for Camille's statement, there's obviously so many layers of crazy in that house and relationship that I'm not even trying to deal with her.

I've suspected for years that Cosby has been suffering from intermittent dementia. I can't recall any interview with him in the last five years or so where he hasn't seemed mildly to severely impaired and that piece is no exception. In the past I've been embarrassed for him. Now I'll just chalk it up to karma.

No words. Upbeat Cosby expects ‘black media’ to stay neutral