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From what I read, she had problems printing to the State Department printer. I think we've probably all experienced a printer that is a pain in the ass at some point, either at work or home. That is the most believable part of this whole saga for me.

It was online. It was just such a bizarre conversation. I countered with the fact that the man proudly says he does not go to Confession and ask Christ's forgiveness for his sins because he "doesn't do anything wrong." She said that, unless I've personally spoken to him about it, I can't possibly know his relationship with Jesus. Then, she proceeded to tear down Hillary claiming that, unlike Trump, Hillary has no relationship with Jesus. And the worst part is, I really and truly don't think that she even got that she was contradicting herself there. It was perfectly reasonable for her to say I needed to personally witness Trump's relationship with Jesus to speak about it while also weighing in on Hillary's relationship with Jesus without having personally witnessed it for herself. It reminded me of a Trump supporter being interviewed outside one of his rallies on The Daily Show. She said that the only way we could really confirm that President Obama was born in the US was if there was someone there who witnessed it and remembers. When the response was "well, his mother was there," the supporter said "no, she isn't unbiased." So he turned it around on her and said "how do we know Trump was born in the US?" And when it got to the point of "well who witnessed it?" and he said "but we can't trust his mother to be an unbiased witness, right?" she seemed genuinely confused as to why he would say that. It's a bizarre thing to witness.

I actually had a woman tell me last week that Trump's past doesn't matter, because "he's a become a new creation in Christ." I can't even. I just can't even.

I keep going to 538 to check the number and reassure myself. Looking at the electoral map like that, and, especially checking that "snake" graphic towards the bottom reassures me. For Hillary to lose, pretty much every single swing state has to go wrong for her (or she'd somehow have to lose a traditionally Dem state). It's not impossible, of course, but that's a huge hurdle for Trump to overcome. Combined with the stories I've heard about registrations for minority and female voters being up in some swing states, it really helps make me feel reassured. As much as I was annoyed when this started yesterday, I just keep reminding myself that the only people who are really going to jump right to the "OMG, she's corrupt!" angle were likely already either voting for Trump or someone else (like Stein or Johnson). I think that, in general, people who were still undecided are likely to continue paying attention as the full story unfolds, and they'll see it's nothing. If they were easily pushed to being against her because of this, they'd already be against her because of the pre-existing email "scandal." This release was tailor made to cater to the Trump supporters. It may energize some of his supporters to vote, but they were likely doing it already. I don't think he has many supporters who were taking a pass on voting, especially in swing states. I've been referring to NC as my sleeper pick for Hillary for months. People seem to think it's either a toss up or leaning Trump. But, I think that they're going to have a more energized and motivated democratic voting base there this time. They want McCrory out of there, so I'm thinking there will be a higher Dem voter turnout than usual in NC. That can only benefit Hillary. If I was working for Hillary's campaign, I'd have a clip of Trump saying that, followed by a clip of him saying "that wouldn't have been true, but I would say it anyway," from the video of that speech in Australia that surfaced yesterday, and I'd be putting that out there. Of course, I'd be using the hell out of that line in all sorts of ads if I was them. It's his campaign in a nutshell. I could easily see them doing something with that one quote similar to an ad that's currently running in Illinois against the Rauner led state GOP. It shows clips of various terrible things Trump has said and done, and each one is followed by a clip of Rauner saying "I support the party's nominee." So do something like that with Trump. Put together clips of his various lies, and follow each one with "that wouldn't have been true, but I would say it anyway."

I thought that was going to be the twist with the first surrogacy - that Nicole would have one night with Zende before the insemination, because she decided she wanted to lose her virginity before getting pregnant, or out of some desperate attempt to keep Zende. Then we'd end up with a baby that turns out to be a Nicole/Zende baby instead of Nicole/Rick. But, instead, they went the boring route with that pregnancy. If they just do the exact same thing again - Nicole goes through with it against Zende's advice, he ends up with Sasha again, Nicole carries the baby and happily hands him/her over to Raya, with no emotional repercussions, and then Zende comes running back, what is the damn point? We just saw this shit, show.

I'm really surprised they're going the Sasha/Zende route again. I thought, for sure, we were going to get Sasha stepping in to carry the baby instead of Nicole. Then, at some point, she'd get back together with Thomas, and he'd lose Douglas, who, surprise!, is really Ridge's son after all. The new Raya baby is born, but Thomas and Sasha both feel connected to the baby and don't want to give him/her up, and custody battle ensues, once again pitting one of Brooke's kids against one of St. Taylor's kids. Why even give us a taste of the far preferable Sasha/Thomas if we were just going to go back to dull Sasha/Zende and offensive Thomas/Caroline? Why, show? Why?

I just want John Oliver to do his Carlos Danger dance.

Thank you, I was going to respond exactly the same thing. This isn't the same as gun control. The NRA is intentionally misleading people about common sense gun laws and getting them all riled up that "Obama's coming for your guns!!" The abortion thing is one hundred percent accurate. Multiple GOP politicians have made it clear that they intend to see Roe v. Wade overturned. Trump has said he'll appoint SC justices who will do just that. I was just saying tonight that we have three men in various sex-related scandals, and, somehow, it's all the one woman in the room's fault. Bill's affairs? Hillary's fault. Trump is accused of sexual assault by a dozen or so women (and at least one child)? Hillary put them up to it. And now, somehow, she's going to have to share, with Huma, the heat for Wiener being a big old criminal pervert. Sadly, this is not remotely surprising. This is how we roll in this country. I pray that, on 11/8, we see proof that there are more of us who don't roll like that. Allowing the actual sexual assault perp to ascend to the White House because we're too busy stoning a woman for a few men's sexual behavior will lead us right to destruction on so many levels.

Meanwhile, her opponent's fraud and rape trials are both still set to open before the end of 2016...

I'm sure Trump's "cause" would be that he "mishandled" this investigation and "compromised national security," or some such shit. It might not be successful, but I'm betting Comey would rather not go through the hassle of the incoming POTUS being out for his job, especially when that incoming POTUS is known to be a petty, vindictive piece of shit who never lets a perceived slight go unanswered.

Absolutely. There is really nothing there, but he managed to make it sound like there is. Supposedly, he's said that the investigation is not into Wikileaks and is not related to the Clinton Foundation. So, really, what investigation could possibly turn up emails related to Hillary's server case? This is going to end up being complete and utter bullshit.

Just want to add that it's worth pointing out that Comey's release doesn't even say that the emails they've discovered are hers. Just that they've discovered some emails that may be related to the case, they don't know if they're significant, they don't know if they're classified, and they don't know how long it will take to assess them.

The FBI Director is appointed by the POTUS. I believe he can be removed by either the POTUS or Congress.

We can't tap out before we get Podesta's grandmother's recipe for her special Thanksgiving cranberries! (2016 is really getting on my nerves.)

Poor dim Nicole is going to be saying exactly that to Zende next week. "But she said no pressure!"

I don't think I could handle the level of irony if the unrelated investigation was into Assange hacking the system on Russia's behalf. So we'd all be expected to be more indignant over whatever non-starter is likely in these emails than we are over the fact that they were discovered because the FBI had to investigate her opponent's coordinating with the Russian government to manipulate our electoral process.

I swear, it wasn't long ago that I loved Ridge (when he was with Caroline). But now? Now I want a montage playing at least once a week that shows all the L's he's taken recently, climaxing in Brooke's "Ridge, leave...just get out, please. We don't want you here at our wedding." That was perfection. Nicole...honey...no. Maya playing the adorable baby card on her to push her back over into her personal incubator was manipulative as hell.

Oh, FFS, Comey just dropped some vague letter saying that in an unrelated investigation, he found some emails that may be related to Hillary's case. He's investigating and cannot say how long the investigation will last or whether the emails will end up being significant. Is someone covering his bases in case Cheetos actually takes power (since he's made it clear that Comey is on the chopping block if he does)? I'd love to know what this unrelated investigation is. And I'd bet he knows damn well already whether they're significant or not (I'm guessing not), but he's appeasing Chaffetz, Gowdy & Co by dumping this out there 10 days before the election.

When her phone rang and she said it was Maya's ring tone, I just laughed, because, of course, Maya can spidey-sense that there was a danger of someone else's sperm getting near her baby maker.

When I was checking out the information for our local early voting place before I went, it said right on there that they can't. I saw something yesterday from 2012 that said they could for early voting, so I wonder if something has changed in the past 4 years. I just checked. SB0172 was passed in IL and became effective 6/1/15. So there may still be information floating around out there that still reflects the now outdated information.

I just don't see how his supporters think he's going to do a damn thing for them. He has a very well established history of not doing anything for anyone other than himself. It's kind of bizarre that they can simultaneously admire him for that characteristic while still thinking he's going to do what's best for them if he takes office. I have an uncle who is completely and totally in the bag for Trump. We're talking up at 3 AM posting pro-Trump/anti-Hillary memes on Facebook, repeating all the catchphrases like they're Gospel, and devoting large portions of his day to Breitbart and EndTheFed reading level of committed. But, here's the thing - this uncle has leeched off the system (and some family members) pretty much his entire adult life. Most of his means of support would decrease or dry up completely if Trump had his way. But here he is, ranting and raving about "those damn liberals living off the rest of us," and how Trump is going to put an end to that. I so badly want to say "do you really think he'll put an end to it for everyone but you?" But, I think the thing with Trump is that he's managed to tap into whatever inner prejudices people have felt they had to hide all these years, and now, the rest of it doesn't matter, because he's told them "you're right" about those. For my uncle, it seems to be homophobia and racism, as it is for a portion of his support base. For others, I think it's this building feeling some have had that there are people out there "getting away with" living some high life off their tax dollars. So it really just does not matter if you point them to one hundred different sources that show that the things he says are lies or that the few policy items he's managed to discuss are not feasible. He's told them "you're right about that." That is incredibly powerful to some people.

I think that, to her detractors, ambition is only bad in women. That reminds me of Pence's bizarre insistence on calling Hillary and Tim "career politicians" as some kind of slur during the VP debate. 1) Yeah, so they know how the system works and how to work in the system. 2) Is the man who has been running for office for nearly three decades slamming someone else for being a "career politician"? I really wanted Kaine to ask him "how have you managed to maintain your amateur status for almost thirty years, Governor Pence?" I get that there can be somewhat of a negative connotation about people who just park themselves in Congress and never leave (especially when they never do a damn thing there), but it's so weird to watch someone who has a similar career history to his opponent slamming that opponent for it, and it's ridiculous to pretend that both Hillary and Tim haven't done a lot of work to help people over the years.

I live in Aurora, but the corner of it that's wedged in between Naperville and the rural area of Oswego. So my little corner is kind of blue, but the area surrounding us is decidedly red. That just made me think of the story last year about Putin having a hockey game for his birthday. I believe he played with some players from one of the professional teams in Russia, and, naturally, his team won. Of course, he scored the most goals.

If that doesn't just perfectly encapsulate this damn election period, I don't know what does. Trump wants to watch the world burn (because he's presumably figured out a way to monetize it), but, hold the presses, Hillary says she carries hot sauce in her purse!

I'm definitely reporting them. I just need to figure out where to report it. That's my project for tomorrow - find out where to report them and get it done.