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But what's with Mika cry tweeting to Elise to get vaccinated WHEN SHE SAID THAT SHE AND HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN VACCINATED and that the course of their illness was less severe as a result.

Apologies for dipping a toe down a rabbit hole while at the same time trying to stay on topic. And it involves Ivermectin (the drug used to deworm animals) and that magical elixir which I now consider to be a health drink - coffee and how they are related. Miraculously, I still have a friend who has exactly opposite political views from me and therefore gets her news about Covid-19 from friends who scour social media for alternate treatments and are also anti -vaccine. Last week she forwarded an article from a small newspaper that claimed a conspiracy to not administer Ivermectin due to the pharma-industrial complex. The article was pushing a book (not a paper in a peer reviewed publication mind you) by someone with M.D. as part of his name but a name so weird that I had to look into his credentials. Well, the name he is using is a pseudonym for a real physician who has no background in virology, infectious diseases, or statistics. He has 12 judgements against him and has had his hospital privileges revoked at one time, has been sued for malpractice amongst other charges so it is little surprise that he is trying to sell books to the uninformed. As for the connection to coffee? He wrote another book about the miracle of coffee, that it not only extends life but makes one look younger. Even though it is probably junk science I like it! I know it is probably not based in fact but I will happily drink my cup of Joe. Full disclosure: there had been some experimental evidence that large amounts of Ivermectin killed the Covid virus INVITRO not invivo. The dosage of Ivermectin to kill nematodes in humans is approximately 1000 times less than what would be needed to treat Covid. The safety for that large dosage in humans has not been established and, that is why people who are buying it from farm stores are poisoning themselves.

You left out the part about using religion as a reason (excuse) to not have much physical contact before marriage. It would explain the photo at the restaurant with his arms crossed while she clung on.

Regarding the wrapped hamburgers and hotdogs. It's BS to think that someone as lazy and lackadaisical as Buddy would go to the effort to cook them and wrap them. I think it is all producer hijinks. They might have even set it up for Buddy to be late to the BBQ and made a back-up plan by arranging for the "main course" in case the guests became impatient. There had to be something to put on video after all the expense they incur for this stellar bit of fantasy.

sagittarius sue, are you from Minneapolis? I have been listening to one of your radio stations for years - back to Ian Punnett days. I have been looking for a site similar to this one for discussing that station and the personalities. Over to SmallTalk?

On a big news day who is absent? I know it is a Friday and all but one would think that it would be a day to be in front of the cameras. For cryin' out loud, Brian Williams can get on the air for commentary in a few minutes notice when news breaks.

I think he is angry with her continuously trying to create situations to trap him into a romantic relationship. and the only way he has some control is to be passive aggressive. Easier to agree to do something and then either forget, or be half-assed about it. He wins, she loses. I agree that when he has brought girlfriends to meet Whitney she has tried to ruin the relationship - all the way back to Heather. I think that she has had designs on him from the very beginning. Who can forget the time she and Buddy took the cat to the park in the stroller? She mentioned way back then something about taking their"child" for an outing or some such thing. The relationships with other guys, whether real or fake were probably to make Buddy jealous in her pre-adolescent mind.

Perhaps Princess Erin is positioning herself and famiy to move in with G&K at some point and, by extension, inherit the house. She could be the caregiver to her aging parents and Chad could do maintenance. Not tomorrow, but as the Paine children grow and they no longer can fit in their little cottage.

Couldn't agree more that a good host provides the food and makes their guest feel comfortable. But, look who we are talking about. Out of a need for actually getting something to eat I would probably take some food to one of her "dinner parties". Heather never got the main course and had to leave. Twit was so busy making fun of her Mother's hosting that she learned absolutely nothing. She is one sad, disturbed individual.

Oakville I wonder if you are in a time zone other than EST? I suspect they edited her flub of Horses since she corrected it from what she initially said which definitely was "Houses". I know sometimes I watch the third hour to rewatch something I observed during the first only to find that it has been edited out.

No Joe. And right of the jump she's talking about yesterday's show and the CDC message about Ivermectin..."you are not a HOUSE, you are not a cow". She did correct herself and I will feel guilty for pointing this out if she is diagnosed with early onset dementia. However, I think it is relationship based. During the break-up of my marriage I was more than addled.

Monday's show started off as being rather benign. Meeks had a colorful top and they seemed to be in a good space. When vaccination and Covid became the topic. Meeks became agitated, made big white eyes and interrupted Joe who then audibly sighed and looked very annoyed. Katty Kay did a good job hostng Way Too Early and providing commentary on Morning Joe. I wonder if she would take the job if it were offered.

Very late to the party. I had DVR'ed Season 4 and just got around to bingeing it this afternoon while awaiting Hurricane Henri. Jackie Earl Haley (as he was billed at the time) was a tragic character in Breaking Away. I still love this movie. Dennis Quaid was one of the stars. I wonder if Kate Winslet patterned her Mare character after Cassie. Both are real looking women, who doggedly solve murders, they are well respected, and wear flannel shirts. Speaking of Cassie and John. I had to dig a little to confirm that it was indeed Alastair MacKenzie who played the role of John. It took a few scenes for me to recognize him, he certainly has aged well, is even more attractive than he was when he played the new Laird of Glenbogle,one of my all time favorite British tv series, Monarch of the Glen. He was the star of the show and left to pursue movie roles One of the other stars was Julian Fellowes who wrote the screenplay for Gosford Park between takes of Monarch.

So you can punish him by humiliating him in front of his friends?

As with all things Twitney I am confused. Her photoshopped and filtered headshots make her look so far different from reality. Her photos of her upper torso belie the spillage I've seen in candid photos as well as on the show. For the longest time I thought she had a small cup size and that was when she was at her heaviest. I think she may be photo editing the images above the waist that she posts.

Just to clarify, the site I was mentioning has 37 languages from which to choose including Hindi, Arabic, Hawaiian. Esperanto, Navajo, Klingon and High Valyrian AND one can select what base language to use. So, if the tutor is learning Gaelic Scottish for example he could indicate that he is an English speaking person. Don't laugh, some people do this. One of the positive as well as negative things about the site is that it has gamified language learning. There are points, leagues, and rewards. If someone wants to maintain their status they could very well use their native language to earn points to stay in a league which was hard won. And I don't know what prompts a native French speaker to voluntarily drop in to make a comment but there are numerous times when a sentence has started with "as a native french born speaker this would never be said or written..." Whitney always looks for the easiest way to do anything so it is within the realm of possibility that this game-based way of learning French would appeal to her. Although almost everyone in France speaks English I can totally relate to wanting to learn the language of a country which someone has visited and has an affinity. It's no secret that Twit loves France - even tries to dress as a (fake) Parisien e.g. black beret. For me, it is an inexpensive way of mind-travel. As I struggle through a lesson it strengthens the link between me and the other country and reinforces the hope/ intention to travel there again. As a native speaker of English, here is an example of a sentence I have never seen before in English: "I must absolutely pass this interview."

Since I have been trying to study French on line for a while now I have started to think how she could have met this guy who is either a fellow student or a tutor. I haven't heard his accent so I can't weigh in on which he is. If he is a native french speaker it would have been simple to meet him in Paris since one site offers immersion learning in France where one has the choice of staying with the tutor, or at a host family's home. Part of the experience is visiting places of interest while practicing the language. That would have been an easy way to create a story line as well as for providing plenty of photo ops. One of the on-line learning sites I have been using not only has a message board to discuss grammar but people can comment on a particular lesson with other's weighing in. There is a spot for one's photo and I will keep an eye out for her. He might be a fellow student of the French language, or, as some people who are familiar with the language often do, drop in to clarify an issue. The more I think about it, going to live in a tutor's house in Paris would be the ideal way of conjuring up a fake romantic relationship without sleuths being able to suss the reality.

Kemper, that was very nice of you to be empathetic to whatever Mika may be experiencing and causing her problems. If you add to it that Joe might be withdrawing affection or attention it would certainly add to her anxiety. This morning she made a statement about someone else and I couldn't help but think that maybe she had received the feedback herself after yesterday's performance since they didn't seem like her own words. (Sorry I don't have the exact quote but it was along the lines of the necessity for being able to modulate one's emotions.)

And now...wait a minute...we're going to veer away from the news of the day to focus on KYV. Fifty women over fifty FFS. Just after talking about the danger the girls are in now in Afghanistan, their diminishing chances for education and freedom. Who produces this show? Why would anyone think that would be an appropriate segue.

No Joe this morning. "He's travelling". Meeks is almost hysterical this morning while cry-reading. At one point before she asked one of the guests his opinion she stated what he was planning to say. Not what she thought he might be saying, but what his opinion was. Remind me, did she ever study journalism?

When Joe references Mika being in the South of France I am 95% certain that she is no farther away than her living room. I know most of you are aware of that. However, in a case of life imitating art, if she recently went to Poland to celebrate her brother's appointment as ambassador...this time she might really be in the SOF. 😁

I've always wondered if that was the reason he has been absent on a Monday morning following a large sports event.

Obama has recently either cancelled or downsized his party due to the Delta variant of Covid. I am a little relieved since I was worried that Harry and Meghan might have been invited as Oprah's plus two. Meeks made another whopper of a word substitution this morning, I was in heavy traffic so I wasn't able to commit it to memory. I did have a fleeting thought that if she has early onset dementia I will feel guilty about pointing out her numerous errors. Although the loud paper shuffling can only be characterized as being extremely rude.

that might be, I am leaning toward Mika and Joe having interpersonal problems. When he came back last week they didn't seem very warm toward each other. He usually seems annoyed when she tries to shut down the sports conversation. Today, as she was reading the teleprompter she would say, "oh my God" as she read things about Covid. Perhaps he is getting tired of her lack of professionalism. (When my husband moved out and I didn't know if he would be back I preferred to not advertise the fact and carried on as if everything was normal.) Today Mika did mention Joe's opinion of something and since it wasn't really germane to the discussion I thought she might be doing the same thing. As if they had just been chatting about something and she had to share it.

Only one half hour in and I am already commenting on her. Did she really say "manility leader" when referring to Kevin McCarthy? With all the noticeable editorialising and reactions while others were speaking I wonder if they usually mute her microphone when Joe is there.