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Jeez, North in that photo, making vapid eyes and sucking to make cheek bones and a trout pout.

^ I was thinking that as well, but then it occurred to me that family photos right now might open a sluice for criticism and speculation about what and how much Kanye"s kids are aware of/being exposed to.

Well, given the seriousness of the current situation, the distraction will need to be big. Huge, even. Does Kim have anything huge that could possibly meet that need? Racking my brain ... :)

^ She also stands out as to all the Russian names in the news for the past couple years. They just trip off her tongue. Rach is aces in so many ways.

I admit that my slant is that I see her as an opportunist and a manipulator. Her insistence on being respected and revered for her loss is beyond unseemly. You raise valid points and I could agree if I had the slightest inkling that her incessant public grief is sincere (for lack of a better word) rather than yet another attempt to inflate her own importance while ramming herself down our throats, as if her loss is far superior to everyone else's. Ever. Because McCain!

She examined it in her second book called Gather In My Name. http://titsandsass.com/the-erasure-of-maya-angelou/

MM said today is her 48th day of grief and it's the same as counting how many days someone's been in sobriety. Oh FFS ... let's hope she got a 30-day chip. You just know that she longs to attend meetings where people clap for her after she raises her hand and says "My name is Meghan, and I'm an orphan. I've been grieving for ___ days." Ooh, 90 in 90, grrl, keep coming back!

It never fucking ends. I am beside myself.

The next governor's race in FL is 2022. ???

I posted awhile back, when it became known that Kanye decided to quit taking his meds, that it's very sad when a person's illness or disorder tells them that they don't have an illness. Thinking back on that, re-thinking that a bit ... decisions made when you're not in your right mind are one thing. But decisions made when you're on your meds and in your right mind shine a light on who you are. He enjoys making a spectacle of himself and his meds get in the way of doing that. A whole lotta years ago at an Al-Anon meeting a real nice old cowboy said to me "Sis, sometimes when a drunken horse thief sobers up, you're left with a horse thief."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/that-was-quite-something-kanye-west-steals-the-show-at-the-white-house/ar-BBOfcxA

My Stephanie Miller/Stephanie Ruhle self-induced confusion convinced me that I deserved a treat, so I re-watched Ruhle and Tur getting the first wave from Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, after the Royal Wedding. Those two! Letting on as if they were "punch drunk" from excitement and fatigue. Wink wink. Along with the first wave they also got Some Serious Side Eye from Harry, which I didn't notice the first 10 times I originally watched the clip. Steph is convinced that she favors Kate Middleton and I will gladly give her that. What I didn't see until today is how much Katy resembles Pippa! Anyway, they were having a blast, and Ruhle's giddy Wedding Wiggle rules! Especially because Kasie ! is dead to me now. Has anyone checked out Steph's career notes/accomplishments on Wiki (or elsewhere)? All the stuff she's done, the causes she works for, really/really shines a big honking light on the scam called KYV. Brzezinski talks it but Ruhle walks it. Pffftt. That's why I was over the moon when I thought she was the Stephanie who called Mika out. But still, good on Miller!

I'm currently slogging through the NY Times 14,000 word treatise on the Trump family financial shenanigans. Sheesh, this has been one tough news season/presidential administration. With all the homework it's like being back in high school - but the stakes are higher.

Her self-absorption knows no boundaries. Ditto for the current husband. The women in a girl's life teach her basic values through example and through osmosis. I shudder when parents think the tween-age birds-and-bees-talk begins the sexuality dialogue in a child's mind - - because that dialogue begins when toddlers start to notice how males and females (especially in their own homes) value each other (or not), respect each other (or not), are kind to each other (or not), support each other (or not), etc. Kim would be deliriously happy if someone had the power to wave a magic wand and declare that she could walk around totally naked anywhere and everywhere, all day, all night. Judging by the way she conducts herself, that is her heart's desire and it appears that she gives zero fucks about how her kids are interpreting and digesting her total lack of boundaries and personal modesty. She's teaching them that incessantly flaunting and taking photos of your own fun bags, ass cheeks, butt floss and hairless infant's vulva are desirable female traits to be acquired and admired. In a few years, Kim and her kids easily could make Candy and Tori Spelling just wannabes, pikers, amateurs in the lifelong dysfunction olympics. As the matriarch, Kris set and promoted the tone these feckless hags absorbed and are now modeling, from oldest to youngest. Kaitlyn is, by mutual agreement, MIA. Robert Kardashian had his faults but surely he is spinning in his grave. And Kris eats her young.

ME, TOO! I floved it so much that I read it a bunch of times and I was bummed !!! that I missed it. Then I felt all deflated after I googled Stephanie Miller "just to be sure" and realized what the deal was. For a couple minutes there, it was the best part of my week so far.

MJ's been on the air for 10 years and so has Rach. I bet she would love to phone it in 3-4 days a week from her bunker or her canoe (kayak?) in MA. I don't know how the rest of the MSNBC talent measures up seniority-wise, except for Andrea Mitchell who has been around for about 50 years. Truly, how do they keep getting away with it? Are they never gonna Be Best? They're not even trying!

I admire her and women like her who are true to themselves and make that choice. There is absolutely nothing wrong with exercising autonomy in what I think is the most personal decision a woman can make.

Me, too! But I wish she would get a chair/seat of the proper height so that she can quit hunching forward. MY back hurts when I watch her do that for too long. She is a smart, classy, funny, gorgeous gal who happens to be amply endowed. Sit tall! Stand tall! (While they're still above your waist.)

I keep thinking I want to try the cauliflower deal and zucchini (?) pasta. I need to be brave and just dive in because this cold turkey no potatoes/no rice/no pasta has been haaard. But you will take my bread from my cold, dead hands! People who post here are so smart about food. I've saved lots of pages/tips. The last 15 pounds of my goal needs to be gone!

Beautiful homes that cleaned up/staged right nice. The birthing tub is spiffy again. And, wow, they spent a bundle on the landscaping/hardscaping.

It was the second episode after Beth died, don't know how long afterward in real time, but it wasn't very long. Beth died, then Tyreese the next ep and then it was this ep. Everyone was afoot, making that tortuous walk to DC, going through random vehicles along the way. Maggie opened a car trunk because she heard something - and found a (young) woman with long blonde hair, bound and gagged, turned, and looking right at her/Maggie. The plague came upon people in all kinds of everyday situations, and for this poor soul that was her situation. Maggie was deeply grieving Beth and she lost it and slammed the trunk closed and then couldn't get it open again. Glenn worked at it and got it open and ended her earthly torment. They left her in the trunk but left the lid up. No comments from anyone, IIRC. Sometimes words are useless. (There's a sad/not grisly screen shot in the episode called Them recap at Nerdophiles.)

A small community of non-partisan, highly competent, nationally/internationally respected computer scientists monitors the internet. They suspected that the Russians hacked the Dems AND the Republicans; they went into this hoping to protect the Repubs and expecting to inform them re when/how they were hacked. People use the alphabet to navigate the internet; servers and computers use numbers/IP addresses. All of the numbers are found in the Domain Name System/DNS, which is like a ginormous phone book. Every time a computer reaches out to another one (to send email, visit a web site, whatever) the initiating computer looks up the phone number/DNS of the target computer, calls the listed number and gets a response (or not). The "call and response" of these transactions, of computers finding each other, successful or not, is stored in DNS logs. This small community of computer scientists has access to those logs (when they exist, I think there are ways to wipe/erase). The scientists searched DNS data from Repub candidates, looking for electronic footprints like those seen in the Dem hacking. No similar footprints were found but there was one very odd Trump Organization domain. Many/most Trump Org domains were/are set up to blast thousands of mass-marketing emails relating to Trump properties/businesses or to his campaign. Tons of outgoing traffic! This one very odd Trump domain sat there generating nothing while all of its incoming calls were from a very, very small group of companies, such as (the Russian) Alfa Bank. Alfa called often, many times per day, sometimes dozens of times per day; over 2000 calls from Alfa to this one Trump domain were logged during May - October. The intensity/frequency of Alfa's computer traffic correlates with many events during the campaign. The only other company with similar computer traffic to this Trump Org domain was Spectrum Health, which is associated with the DeVos family. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, right? Her husband is chairman of the board at Spectrum. Her brother, Eric Prince of Blackwater fame? Mueller is looking into Eric's meeting with a Russian gov't official he "bumped into" in a bar one night in The Seychelles, an island off the coast of Africa. That family. After they analyzed everything they found, the scientists concluded that "this was a covert communication channel." (You know, like the "private communication channel" Jared wanted with Russia after the election and before the inauguration but was told he couldn't have.) The scientists (who, bless their hearts, didn't recognize the name Betsy DeVos) gave their findings to NY Times reporter Eric Lichtbleu three months before the election. The scientists' attorney notified the FBI about the coming story and the feds told/asked the Times to sit on it; it was "urgent" to sit on it. Which the Times did, for a few weeks. What it eventually ran later was watered down beyond recognition, and unconvincing. Slate ran a stronger story the same day, using another of the scientists as its source. The Slate story revealed that the hinky domain vanished two days after reps at Alfa Bank were briefed about the computer traffic. Alfa continued to "call" the Trump domain for four days following the vanishing, obviously never getting a response. Then, ten minutes after Alfa's final call to the odd domain number, the DNS phone book directed the inquiring Alfa server to another Trump domain/number that had been reconfigured to go to the same Trump server as before. The kicker is that the Trump domain vanished after Alfa's reps were notified about the computer traffic - but before that was brought to Trump's attention. Ergo, Alfa tipped Trump to the heat, he tipped Alfa to his new domain number, and business as usual. Last night Rach said some of that and Filkins said some of that (referencing his New Yorker article), and some of that I knew. I'm stoked because tech-y stuff usually makes my eyes glaze over. I floved it when, after Filkins wrapped up his segment which followed hers, Rach said, "If Mueller didn't have this information before, he has it now." It calms me to imagine that Mueller is on the same page with Manson prosecutor Vince Bugliosi re circumstantial evidence: “I think that counsels’ problem is that they misconceive what circumstantial evidence is all about. Circumstantial evidence is not, as they claim, like a chain. You could have a chain spanning the Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to Bordeaux, France, consisting of millions of links, and with one weak link that chain is broken." “Circumstantial evidence, to the contrary, is like a rope. And each fact is a strand of that rope. And as the prosecution piles one fact upon another we add strands and we add strength to that rope. If one strand breaks – and I’m not conceding for one moment that any strand has broken in this case – but if one strand does break, the rope is not broken. The strength of the rope is barely diminished. Why? Because there are so many other strands of almost steel-like strength that the rope is still more than strong enough to bind these two defendants to justice. That’s what circumstantial evidence is all about.”

Season 5, episode 10. (A couple episodes after the Beth/hospital arc ended).

For me, the most freaky, horrific thing was the (long ago) female kidnapping/rape victim walker, bound and gagged in the trunk of a car. That brought me up short.

True. But a new account would debut with zero followers. His head/his ego would explode.