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Oooh, the stonework!

Jim Jordan, Freedom Caucus founder, US Rep from Ohio and one-time assistant coach at OSU. Penn State 2..0 is brewing. Story is slowly evolving; today we're at the point of he-witnessed-lewd-acts-in-the-shower and Squinty remains silent/indifferent. Evidently.

I know, right? What are we supposed to see? Is it zen, is it angst? Do they even know?

Been watching the show less because my schedule has changed so I rely on the posters here to get my fix. When the news broke today/tonight I recalled the "assistant wrestling coach" conversation here a few days ago and re-read the posts, hoping to determine the context. It's now clear to me that "that was then and this is now" so surely, no matter who is at the table, they will expand on/examine Jordan's "coaching career." I hope they don't go chickenshit and air a re-run.

My hell, Christine is so full of tics and twitches that I watched it twice. Has she always smiled with her nose? WTF?

Vik's mother AKA Dragon Lady has intimacy issues.

I can't figure out which of these clowns gripes my ass the most. MLM/Multi Level Marketing/the pyramid scheme has always been a huge thing in the Mormon world. It's deeply ingrained in the culture because the women can be stay-at-home moms and the men don't have to work in the real world with outsiders. Ewww. The most fervent members strive (!) to limit their contact with gentiles/non-believers, unless they're taking their money, so they create their own little bubble and have a built-in customer base with their fellow church members. When one MLM fails they move to the next one and there's always a next one. Over the years I've watched my niece's brother run from one scam to the next and although his family is always on the brink of financial disaster somehow they, like the Browns, always land on their feet but just barely. They have 4 kids and plan on having more and recently moved in with his parents yet don't see that as a lesson. Getting a real job with a steady paycheck is never a consideration. Before we were PC people like this were called gypsies and now we call them grifters. They (like the Browns) have closed their minds to any other way of making a living. Find (or create) a new and exclusive scam-my product or idea, preferably mail order, peddle it to the ward you grew up in, the ward your wife grew up in, your in-laws' wards, any wards you used to live in, and your current ward. It always starts out gangbusters and then fizzles when they eventually run out of customers/fellow Mormons. Knowing all of this I was pleasantly surprised when Janelle and Christine went the real estate route, until they realized that actual effort was required and that they wouldn't be compensated for the hours spent prepping and laying groundwork. The effort expended in building a business rarely generates income, the reward comes later. I think they expected that posting photos of homes and fielding offers by phone was pretty much the extent of it. Janelle and Meri played the role of reliable family income provider when both had "outside" jobs with the state for a few years so they're familiar with the concept of gainful employment but they just don't care enough to apply it to their current lives. Because hey, we get by and that's good enough. My hell, look at how many vehicles they own that don't run/aren't registered but litter the property. Those are straight up white trash ways. I sorta have to give kudos to Robyn because, even though it's not a success, her joory isn't MLM. Meri's LulaRoe is MLM and because she has no ethics and no shame she recruited her own kids. Strive technically isn't MLM but it is a scam. Licking my chops in anticipation of watching the cult-de-sac go phlooey!

I saw a peacock with his head turned back over his no-shoulder to look at his tail. Hundreds of peacocks. God help us, it's come to this, Mika's clothing is a Rorschach test.

Me too, because if I have a tortilla the filling practically figures itself out. I find the weight loss stories and tips posted here much more helpful than anything Janelle offers, aside from the occasional recipe (that salad dressing).

After ten years of watching these two, I just don't see the love story. I bet it's a roller coaster of mixed messages, bullying, bellowing, insecurity, vodka, icy silences, make-up sex and Ambien, all of which was launched by an imbalance of power and inappropriate boundaries. But, a rock band! And chickens!

Thank you, teddysmom, that was aces! I Shared that right quick. That's the morning I decided that Joey just maybe might could be domestic battery material. Was that the first hand-holding attempt? Fucking shit on her (with witnesses) and then berate and demean her defender and then (disregarding her known preference) reinforce your claim on her. On TV!

Given that Alexandria now has pretty much unlimited access to news outlets, I wish she hadn't given the time of day to Scoop The Opportunist. (I am aware that Alexandria has been too busy mounting a successful campaign to realize that she was just awkwardly co-opted by KYV). [sarcasm] Will Scoop promote this face-to-face tomorrow morning? [/sarcasm]

Roger that. It's incredibly sad when someone's illness/disorder tells them that they don't require medication.

IIRC it was during his first media blitz. He came to Rachel fairly late in that process and all the questions had already been asked. And although her questions had many layers they were brushed aside in their entirety. Neither the layers nor the main thrust of the question were more than superficially addressed. She tried to suss out the nuances of "I can't answer that" (did he lack the knowledge or ... ) and then it was "I know the answer but I can't say." Rachel seemed deflated and he was what passes for Avenatti being confused. (I think he hasn't been confused since, oh, maybe 5th grade). I thought he was a bit intimidated and compensating for that. It was like an awkward blind date, each doing a mental countdown toward "Is it over? Can I go home now?" Both seemed comfortable during the second date.

Man, I flove the term Resistance. When I hear it I wonder what time we're meeting up at Rick's Cafe to sing La Marseillaise.

I was flipping channels more than usual but I think it was an MJ talking head who likened it to the baker and the gay wedding cake scenario. The right to refuse service, plain and simple.

True. Felonies are rated by severity. Noah's felony caused "great bodily harm," and appears to fall within the undesirable felony category in Cali. But surely the writers researched that. It's puzzling.

"Cycling is my pash uhn." Janice is a hoot, and such an Eeyore. Like Janelle. "Hey, hey. Janice. Look." That's how they get Janelle's attention too.

Perhaps the writers are portraying Allison as overestimating her abilities again; she was gung ho about and then dropped out of medical school. It appeared to me tonight that she did everything wrong, given that she has trained and advanced to the point of doing one-on-one client care. She is not the average person anymore; mental health professionals know that Herculean expectations come with the territory. My daughter is a psych nurse, currently in a hospital's behavioral health unit and previously at the mental health department, and she experienced two similar incidents (minus being choked/assaulted). Once she used the panic button successfully and the other time she was not in reach of the button and she did (and didn't do) what I described in my other post. A co-worker noticed that her In Session light stayed on and her door remained closed past the time when she should have been greeting her next patient and they quickly and smoothly entered her office using a key. (They didn't call first because a ringing phone, answered or not, might cause what they suspected was an incident to escalate). This is what colored my opinion regarding Allison's behavior and I will just leave it at that. (Mom said "Fuck that button under the desk, I want one around your neck.")

Stay seated or get seated, be small, don't be perceived as challenging him. Give him the satisfaction of feeling dominant. Let him talk. Don't deflect, deny, interrupt or make excuses. Put your hand to your heart a couple times when you speak (universal gesture of honesty and sympathy) and especially while apologizing. Do Not Say "I know how you feel" or "I know what you're going through." She greeted him when she was seated and then stood to reach a clipboard on a shelf and that's when he locked the door; she should have sat down again immediately. She knew his history, she wasn't flying blind. (Surely the desk has a panic button, but we needed New Lover riding to the rescue). He was pleading with her to recognize that her advice was destroying his family. She triggered the escalation when she responded to his plea by saying "I know what this must be like for you" and then she interrupted his response to that! She irritated him to the point that he yelled "Stop talking" and grabbed her by the throat. Allison has experience with being an object of attention (wanted and unwanted), her child died, she's a nurse who attended medical school, she was a drug runner, now she is a therapist-in-training and yet she called on none of that. Shitty writing gives us a wide-eyed naif in constant need of rescue. The scene was so unrealistic that it took me out of the story (not that I'm all in the way in, given last season). Ben sharing his thoughts in the PTSD portion of the coffee shop conversation, that was excellent. It was informative and it felt authentic. When Allison asked him why he came back to her office he said he recognized Angry Husband's body language during their brief encounter as extreme PTSD. I saw him do that in the doorway scene, notice that dude was keeping his back to the wall and, yep, rolling his fingertips. His noticing that was small, like good acting often is. Minus the anger management issues, he would be a good catch.

Allison's portrayal in the confrontation scene rang false. The writers are telling us that she is forward-looking and has embarked on a career path where her experiences and talents will be put to good use. Surely all employees and volunteers have been trained on how to respond and how to defuse, neither of which she did correctly. She doesn't belong in that office If she is so far gone because of her own baggage that she can't react properly during a crisis. Then, after New Lover Boy saved her, she didn't snap out of it and call Security until he told her to. Nope, and nope. First you assess and then you summon help at your soonest opportunity. If others are present you don't say "Someone call 911," you point to someone and say "You, call 911." She froze and she failed, FFS.

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In Greek mythology Narcissus saw his own reflection in a pool of water and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image. Narcissus/narcissist/Kim. Kanye (or any man, or child) can never rise higher than second place in her heart.

But her skin stretched and also increased in area to accommodate that monstrosity. Surely she would have a lot of loose, excess skin if she attempted to return to something similar to her original contours. My main thing is how do they wipe those asses? I did lots of peri care (bum cleaning) as a CNA and sometimes it was very difficult to get the job done when I had to get past a lot of territory to be where I needed to be. A lot of stuff gets hidden when a woman's natural creases and folds are always being strongly compressed and then Surprise! A nurse told me that she comes across so many "peanuts" in people's unders that it barely registers anymore. We all have the occasional loose stool or diarrhea and that's no picnic to clean up after even with our normal butts. The Ks must use bidets but what does that imply if they have to "go" when they're not at home? Do bidets have settings like the nozzle on my water hose? Mist, Cone, Shower, Jet?

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