Did he die?

Cheap things you buy or use which save you money?

They make me feel like I am not good enough for him. He comes from a much more affluent background than I do and I am sometimes a fish out of water when we’re all together.

We just moved a few states away (back to his hometown) for his job. He moved in March and I followed at the end of the last school year. What makes it worse is I know no one here and it looks like I’m not going to be getting a full time teaching gig this fall, so no outlet there either.

Thoughts? Opinions? Should I just waste my time away on DL?

My first post. We cannot not have an active Epstein thread.

When I post one comment in a thread I end up seeing two, sometimes three of the exact same comment? This keeps happening on and off. Does anyone else have this problem?

And they are protesting.

This is juicy !

So I found a local store was offering the new Ipad Pro 11" for almost 300 dollars than everyone else. The downside it was 30 miles away. I checked the local Best Buy and they had it in stock. I checked their price match policy and they said any local store who as it in stock and online retailers. So off I went. (mind you the text on the web site was so cheerful "just ask any blue shirt to help you and we will be happy to price match!). SoI found my blue shirt (which was hard to do - there was literally no one around) and when I did he looked at me and said "oh I don't know, that store is not local" I laughed and said "it is 30 miles away" and he said "our cut off is 25 but let me ask my assistant manager." About 10 minutes go buy and up walks the AM. He says the same thing but adds "the best I can do is price match walmart which has it for 799." I told him I would drive 30 miles to save 90 bucks. Then he asks me if I have a BB credit card, I say no. He says he can match the price if I get a BB credit card. I told him I didn't want a BB credit card and his local denial was bullshit because there was a Best Buy literally right next to the store that had it for less. He reiterated his offer only if I got thier credit card so I left and bought it at the store 30 miles away. Should I call corporate on this bitch or just stew in my white people problems?

You can’t make this up. Fox was just reading this in-air and laughing.

Quinn.

What’s up with his legs? Does he have the manorexia?

Bond, Jane Bond. She takes great soda for a chaser after a scotch and rocks albino alligator boots.

The new "Lock her up." Because of course they'd go even lower.

Looks slick. Hoping for more homoeroticism.

I think it started with Happy Days and Fonzie.

Honest opinions:

It is beautiful here right now! I suggest a picnic on the sand near the beach in Venice Beach. The Chateau on Sunset, The Rainbow, Universal Studios. I don’t know I’m just trying to beat the NYC thread.

Wouldn't you agree?

Who wouldn't want to pay top ticket prices to see a performer way past her prime!

Continued Discussion

Can you remember anything from the age of 2? - or even earlier?

I'm amazed by how far back my memory goes. I remember moving house when I was 2. I even remember there were rolls of carpet in front of the front door the day we arrived there....and my mother saying "Oh, good - the carpet's arrived!"

I realised this a long time ago. I'd hear an oldie on the radio and they'd say "That was from 1966!" and I'd think - I remember that VERY clearly, yet I was only THREE!

Yet some people say they don't remember anything before 10...which seems odd.

I will carry on the tradition, and take the hit for my compatriots. Stiff upper lips!

Previous thread linked.

This ass won't eat itself.

Prior to recent years and his marriage to Hailey Baldwin?

How is your day going?

Her tweet:

How do I contact him for a date? Is he as hot in person as they say? anyone here had him?

Random thread.

I was just watching Morning Joe and heard Dumpass saying he was trying to get his deplorables to stop chanting because it sounded too much like Hitler's Send them Home Nuremberg rally.

....maybe I was hearing it wrong. Will search for a link.

LPSG has a video of him with his butt hanging out at convention.

Yes, I mean it, too!

I have several friends, whom I love dearly, but I am often reluctant to call them -- unless I have infinite time.

They are interesting/fun to talk with at dinner, but are tedious/laborious on the phone.

They will talk for over 40 minutes about their jobs, dogs, or travels. I want to put the phone down and go for a walk and come back in 30 minutes and say, "Yes, of course."

How do you deal with friends who talk too much on the phone?

[quote]'I'm the Luckiest Man Alive' "I cannot express enough how lucky I feel to have found my perfect match in this incredible girl"

Continue discussion here:

Have we ever had a thread about her? She's suppposedly a real bitch. Has anyone met her?

Hi all~ I live in northeastern Mass and everything here is just so expensive. I am 42- Cannot deal with renting anymore and I am looking to purchase a condo. (I have ZERO faith in the state of world, the future of my career- NOTHING. So I am living in the here and now- I have been pretty good about saving but not very good about my 401K I have about $115,000 saved and about $82,000 in my 401K. I want to take a loan of $30,000 on my 401K to pay closing costs and a little of the down payment At this point, I am just not into taking half of my savings as a down payment for a house. Is this a completely DUMB Move? I figure we are headed for another downturn and since I will lose 1/3 of my 401K anyway, I figure, fuck it.

If you're born on July 19, 1990 and die on July 19, 2019, is a there a term for the same-date event?

For the non subs or lost their CCs.

Continue.

Calling all prognosticators! All methods of divination are welcome. As we tiptoe into 2020, what is in store for the denizens of The Data Lounge?

It looks like our Rhoda's long-running cancer battler is near the end. Her husband has launched a gofundme campaign to help pay for 24/7 care.

Ivett Toth and Anita Ostlund gave her a run for her money last year but this year she's getting choreo from David Wilson. What are your bets on her music choices?

I was watching "Black Christmas" the other night and it struck me how handsome he was. Was he considered hot back in the '60s–'70s? I was reading his filmography and saw he was in several major Hollywood films in his youth (i.e. "Portrait in Black") before he wound up doing exploitation stuff, which I'd not known before. I think he was extremely sexy—great features, a booming voice, and a nice hairy chest. Any fans?

Next two weeks (or so) something staggering is gonna bust loose.

I do not know the specifics. Those are the words from my source.

Let's all continue posting videos and talking about our favorite gay YouTubers

Over the last 18 months, Grindr has faced a federal investigation, layoffs, mismanagement, and internal turmoil. Now the popular gay dating and hookup app is looking for a new owner.

(Buzzfeed has no paywall so just click through to read)

“Well, there’s a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it. I hear she was married to her brother. You’re asking me a question about it. I don’t know, but I’m sure that somebody would be looking at that.” – Donald Trump

There is no bottom to the well of shit that this man is.

Is he still acting? His last credit appears to be a Sharknado movie from 2017.

I feel sorry for the Sherpas. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't takes people up Aaron Schock's butt. It is the only way many of them can make a living and their families are fucked if they die because no more income coming in.

Bwahahahaha.

I can't believe these freaks got their own show.

Enjoy!

Now and furr-ever?

She revealed eight years ago that she had a long-term incestuous relationship with her father.

And now Mackenzie Phillips, 57, is opening up about the long-lasting impact the bombshell revelation has had on her family.

In excerpts from Phillips' new book, Hopeful Healing: Essays on Managing Recovery and Surviving Addiction, the actress reveals some of her family members still blame her for the abuse.

One relative even dis-invited her from a birthday party, as Phillips' explained: 'Another family member was angered that I might attend, and I was told she was just not willing to forgive me yet.

'She wouldn’t forgive me! For abuses perpetrated against me as a child, or for exposing those abuses perhaps,' she writes.

Phillips exposed the secret in 2009 in her first book High on Arrival, revealing that her father, singer John Phillips, raped her at age 19 while they were under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

In her book, she claims their first encounter was on the night before her wedding.

She said that he injected her with a dose of heroin and cocaine, known as a speedball.

The duo then began a consensual incestuous relationship which lasted around 10 years.

The relationship ended abruptly in 1989 when she fell pregnant and was not sure if the child belonged to her father or her husband.

John Philips paid for the abortion and Mackenzie claims she never let him touch her again.

Are you feeling it?

Meh.

Do you poach the chicken first or bake it?

I had a little dinner party tonight, just 8 of us. One couple I invited because they are new friends of some dear friends, so I told them to bring them along. They seem fun and are new to town. I had one rule: don’t bring anything.

Well, what does that bitch couple bring but a DESSERT!!! And I already had a trio of dessert souffles prepared. You know what they brought? Fucking cupcakes from a box mix!!!! I was livid — the other guests took one each to be polite, which then filled them up before my special dessert! Have you ever experienced such a thing?? How fucking RUDE!

They will NEVER be invited over again!

Whats your opinion of him?

For some reason I just loathe him. Wanna punch him in those bug eyes. Seems completely smug and smarmy. And lets not start talking about that ridiculous bearding he did at the Oscars

I'm watching this now on Amazon Prime, and holy shit it's terrible. You can see from the GIF what her costume looked like, and her character doesn't have any powers at all. She couldn't even jump over a damn gate.

It's clear to me there are two Americas: one where people wish to pursue and uphold the ideals put forth in our Constitution, and another that wishes to circumvent them.

Is it time to negotiate a peaceful separation? What say you, DataLoungers?

MANHOLE.

Manhole. Manhole Manhole Manhole MANHOLE!!!!!!

I'm going to say it all I want, because it's a free fucking country, and you can't stop me.

MAN HOLE! There, I said it. Again.

Or as Americans say "catnip"?

Do you have the fever?

Hot or not?

Can't eat , sleep or concentrate any more. Any time I read anything remotely negative about him, I am freaking out in rage and having fits. I want this obsession to be healthy. I am wasting my time doing nothing. What do I do ? Seek therapy ?

Let the discussion continue.

V Magazine

He claims hatefulness is part of gay culture: to silence it is to be homophobic.

Does Ouisa Kittredge have a part?

Attack of the hurricane gators. Who's in? July 12th.

...but thanks for the new Hyundai, suckerrrrs!!!

No two weeks. You just were outta there.

When, where, why?

I've applied to a certain company many times. It sends a reference form to whomever you add. So, I have asked my boss MANY times to please fill it out, and this new place would be a nice raise. He never does even though he says he will.

I am a great employee, really! I think he does not want to lose me and that is why he doesn't fill it out.

I also have come thisclose to getting hired by the new place a couple times, and I thing him not returning the form is a mark against me. I also doubt he'd even return a telephone reference.

I'm ready to fake an address and send the thing to myself!

Tips?

TIA!

I'm a writer who wants to take a class to learn some acting techniques. Sometimes I'm at a mic to read something I've written, and I'll need to do a recording of my book soon, but more than that, I think acting techniques are fascinating and I bet they'd free me up.

Any recommendations on NY classes, studios, or methods for people who don't intend to go out on auditions? So far I'm considering Linklater, HB Studio, Michael Howard, Barrow Group. I see Feldenkrais mentioned in some voice training courses.

Thanks for any class recommendations.

I get goosebumps watching the clips, particularly the snarling faces of many in the crowd. Reminds me exactly of old newsreels I've seen of the crowds at Hitler's rallies.

One can only wonder when other concentration camps will be up and operational--you know, for Muslims, Jews, LGB's, atheists, Hindus and other "enemies" of the state.

This country is devolving so quickly it's hard to keep up with it.

I searched! Don’t yell at me if another thread exists. I tried.

Anyway, there’s a making-of-the-last-season special on HBO right now and it is boring as hell. It’s so annoying.

The table read was a little bit interesting because you got some insight into the actors’ real personalities and relationships. Emilia Clarke seemed weirdly personally affected by the plot points. Kit too, but more sincerely so. It was funny to watch Sophie/Sansa laugh at him for being so emotional.

But that’s it. The rest of this soecial has been B roll of crew members doing things with props, but not doing much with them. I can only guess the point of this is to show how tedious making the show is. No wonder Dan B seems so depressive in his interviews.

She joins singer/actress Dannii Minogue and radio show hosts Jackie O and Dave Hughes on the judging panel. Hottie Osher Günsberg will host.

How do we think our beloved Long Island princess will fare on live TV? Will she be a mess? What accent will she use? How will she be expected to know (or guess) any of the Australian celebrities competing?

From VICE. But you knew that.

[quote]Tons of men are into trans girls, they just don't admit it.

[quote]The candidate lineups for the upcoming Democratic presidential debates in Detroit will be decided by a live, random draw Thursday night during a special edition of Anderson Cooper 360 at [bold]8 p.m. ET on CNN[/bold] and CNNgo.

Wolf Blitzer will be introducing and recapping each draw. Anderson Cooper will lead the conversation with political experts analyzing specific matchups and the strategies the candidates are likely to use. The national anthem will be sung. This is our life now.

Athens (AFP) - A strong 5.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Athens on Friday, knocking out phone connections, damaging buildings and causing power outages, as panicked residents rushed into the streets.

State TV ERT reported that at least two people were lightly hurt -- a pregnant tourist and a young boy -- and at least two abandoned buildings in the capital collapsed, while several more suffered damage.

"It was a very intense quake, we were terrified, everyone started coming out (of the building)," a young woman named Katerina told AFP outside the six-storey cosmetics store where she works.

The epicentre of the shallow quake was northwest of Athens, close to where a 5.9-magnitude quake in September 1999 left 143 people dead in and around the capital.

Friday's emergency was the second in just over a week for the new conservative administration of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who took office after a July 7 election.

In the city centre, the marble cupola cross of a historic 19th century church came loose and shattered onto the street below.

Another Athens church had its cupola cross snapped by the tremor, and a disused cargo conveyor belt at the port of Piraeus collapsed, TV footage showed.

The culture ministry said the pregnant tourist was visiting the National Archaeological Museum and was struck by another visitor rushing for the exit.

She was hospitalised as a precaution, the ministry said.

The boy was struck by a falling chimney, ERT said.

News channels broadcast images sent in by viewers which also showed parked cars in central Athens damaged by fallen masonry.

Cracks also appeared in some walls in Greece's 170-year-old parliament building.

"It was more like an explosion," another woman told ERT on the city's central Syntagma Square.

"We were all very afraid, so we'll stay here for a couple of hours."

Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on television that there were no reports of serious injuries, while a small number of other buildings had suffered minor damage.

Petsas added that phone networks had become "overcharged" by the sheer number of users calling to check up on friends and family.

SKAI TV said there were 20,000 calls per second, more than on New Year's Eve.

The fire department rescued dozens of people trapped in elevators in the capital, ERT said.

According to the Greek geodynamic institute, the quake had a 5.1-magnitude and its epicentre was near the town of Magoula, 23 kilometres (14 miles) northwest of Athens, and was followed by several aftershocks.

It struck at around 1100 GMT at a depth of 13 kilometres, it said.

State engineers were already checking buildings for structural damage, and two helicopters overflew the quake's epicentre, officials said.

Worried residents and office staff quickly gathered in outdoor areas but the government denied it had ordered an evacuation alert.

"People must remain calm," said Efthymios Lekkas, head of the state anti-quake protection agency.

"There is no reason for concern. The capital's buildings are built to withstand a much stronger earthquake," he told ERT. The US geological institute said Friday's quake had a magnitude of 5.3.

"For the time being we cannot be sure whether this was the main earthquake," seismologist Gerassimos Papadopoulos told ERT.

"There have been at least three (smaller) aftershocks already, which is a positive sign," he said, adding that the quake was felt as far as the Peloponnese peninsula.

"People in the capital must remain calm... they must be psychologically ready for more aftershocks," he said. ews media reported electricity outages but said internet connections were still operating.

In another natural disaster earlier this month, seven people died and at least 23 were injured -- most of them tourists -- as a fierce storm ripped through beachfronts in Halkidiki, one of Greece's top tourist areas on July 10.

Greece lies on major fault lines and is regularly hit by earthquakes, but they rarely cause casualties.

Joy Reid, Kevin Hart, Andrew Dice Clay... who else?

I hesitate to mention which religion for fear of attracting trolls. But while he was listing the reasons why we could NEVER date including my age and distance and calling me pretentious and judgemental, he said "and it's a deal breaker you aren't _____. My mom and I don't get along but I want to respect her and my culture. It's the least I can do."

And on top of all that, he kept saying "you'll find someone. I know you will." and flat out said he didn't believe me when I said I would be fine without dating him or being friends with him. He just KNEW I was lying, he said. It's okay, he understood. And he wasn't making a joke.

Seriously I thought we were just chatting on the internet and Skyping - I don't put too much stock in long distance relationships so I thought it was a bit of fun. He acted like he saved me from falling in love with him because he could never be in a relationship with someone that didn't match his mother's list of requirements.

I'm aggravated because he seems to think I'm sitting here alone in my room pining away for him. I'd like to call him a delusional twat but I don't want to hurt his (younger person) feelings. He has to be a functioning autistic or something.

What do you think is his best show?

[QUOTE]Biden (23%) holds an 8-point lead over Warren (15%). It’s a 3-point increase in Biden’s lead compared to the Economist/YouGov poll released last week. Bernie Sanders (13%) pulled ahead of Kamala Harris (10%), after previously trailing her. Buttigieg (7%) remains at 5th.

Apparently this has been a thing for years now judging by a Google search, but I'm here now and wasn't then, so it's new for me, coming from America.

All jeans and trousers seem to have Spandex in them. And they're all form fitting. So if you have nice legs and a great ass, you look great and sexy and REALLY fuckable, but if you have a fat ass or chubby legs, you look like an overstuffed cream puff that's in danger of exploding if you bend over to pick up a dropped spice bag. They look like they are PAINTED on most people (picture reference below, this is typical on university campuses). I feel especially sorry for the fat girls who have enormous asses and legs, because you know those bitches suffer getting those things on every morning. Why do clothes makers even bother making fitted clothing in sizes above 1X?

Apparently I need to go jeans shopping immediately, with my American regular fit jeans.

Rep. Ilhan Omar gets a massive welcome home greeting at the MSP airport, from her home state.

"When I said I was the President's nightmare, well you're watching it now."

Tee hee.

An unfortunate trend with no end in sight!

Billy Joel revealed in the upcoming issue of Rolling Stone that he wasn’t a fan of Michael Jackson’s 1985 charity hit, ‘We Are The World’, even though the all-star track features Joel singing along with Bruce Springsteen, Lionel Richie, Tina Turner and others. “I remember most of us who were there didn’t like the song, but nobody would say so,” Joel admitted. “I think Cyndi Lauper leaned over to me and said, ‘It sounds like a Pepsi commercial.’ And I didn’t disagree.” Joel added that just as Jacko was “constantly applying makeup.”

[quote][italic]The Bad Mother[/italic]

[quote]Celeste is blindsided by Mary Louise; Bonnie contemplates a solution to her mother's suffering and her own ongoing guilt; Ed entertains an unusual proposition; The Monterey Five feel the pressure of increased scrutiny of Perry's death.

9 pm ET on HBO. Render unto Arnold the things that are Arnold's, and unto Vallée the things that are Vallée's. Or something.

We were talking about the new Halloween and H2O. Someone said they turned Jamie into Linda Hamilton but I thought she was Carol from WD with a more expensive wig. The best part for me in the new Halloween was when Judy Greer was pretending to be the typical scared girl in a horror film.

This week's high rated horror film I'm going check is The Cleaning Lady. Yes I know critics are often wrong about horror films and sometimes one they hate are good ones. I truly hated Hagazussa one I watched last week.

[quote]“Blessed be the fight”

First three episodes to be released on June 5 on Hulu, with new episodes dropping every subsequent Wednesday.

Sets where everybody hated/hates the show and each other.

Charmed is my favourite example of this: Shannen Doherty dated, and broke up with, Julian McMahon while Filming the first three seasons, Alyssa Milano and Shannen hated each other, Holly Marie Combs hated the show from season 4 onwards for dumping Shannen, Rose McGowan was promised she would only have to do one year and cried every time the show was renewed for another, the writing and plots got so bad the show brought in Kaley Cuoco of all people for the final season that was only given because of severe budget cuts.

Please continue to share with us the writings you read this year.

Let’s discuss the gays on the UK’s best soap.

He’s so beautiful.

Here's the link to the last thread:

This thread will be discussing DOOL from 7-12-19 to ????

Eric is the reigning King OF DOOL with 62 episodes so far this year (Sarah is the reigning Queen with 61 episodes).

Rex the reigning Prince OF DOOL (who is rumored to be departing soon) has 54 episodes so far this year (Hope is the reigning Princess with 60).

Who among the next 10 ranked male DOOL actors should be the new King OF DOOL? The poll's runner up will be considered the new Prince of DOOL.

Here’s another thread dedicated to the best butt in baseball. First, I’m linking all the existing pictures from the first thread. Anthony recker ass butt

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Best dogs ever

I’m buying my first home and am nervous about prospect of being Responsible for replacing the HVAC, a/c, furnace. I am less nervous about kitchen Appliances. Anyone have experience with home warranties?

“Queer Eye” is streaming now!

I’ve watched the first two episodes and it’s surprisingly sweet and moving. Karamo (from The Real World) and Antoni the food guy are hot! The fashion guy seems to live for rolled-up sleeves.

The Indian guy in the second episode cleaned up pretty well but the exuberance of their first subject was infectious and endearing.

Let’s dish!

Sizzle

This show looks like it could be the hottest mess of all! Premieres June 3 on TLC.

At least in the US, these people could lead normal lives.

If they move to another country, it will be hell!

The Qatari guy IS hot, though.

Since the last thread was nuked.. starting a new one on our hunky instahoe Doctor

Mary Tyler Moore?

She was actually very funny.

I never thought of any of the Charlie's Angels as able to be amusing, let alone funny. It's too bad she never got any offers to do funny stuff, she could've had a second career.

Don't fret none, it's just 'tween us

Carry on.

Child molester Jeffrey Epstein's $56 million townhouse at 9 East 71st Street.

This week's stunning bumper glossy edition includes The Twyborn Affair special sealed section of Patrick White in Jodphurs and little else, what really went on in those Masonic Temples, and WHO did or did not get the death penalty for the homosexual panic Narrandera to Sydney train murder of 1954?? Crossword page 136.

Hans is here with me. Envious, fellow Disney gays?

The Lucy thread about 'Yours, Mine and Ours' inspired me to re-watch this 1969 classic.

Of course, we're all captivated as DL Legend Suzanne Pleshette falls for sexy scamp Ian McShane, but there are so many other fun characters in this 50-year old movie.

Why isn't Hilarie Thompson a DL Fave yet? She was in EVERYTHING from 1969 to 1977 or so.

Peggy Cass! Norman Fell!

JOAN COLLINS!!!

Is there a more perfect movie???

BTW, I first saw this in 1984 and was stunned to hear Donovan singing "Lord Of The Reedy River" in this. Previously, I had only heard the song as covered by Kate Bush in 1981.

I'll tell you.. the fool looks crazy and drives a submarine.

Lesbian? Transwoman? Bi? Non-binary?

And did she have bottom surgery yet?

The new bi poster dude

Guys are popping them like jelly beans

Sorry, he’s not that cute, he looks like he smells bad, and he seems fake and annoying and there have been some to say he’s kind of racist/ignorant.

Why is he the face of the show? Cause he’s the “young” one? I would take any of the other 4 over him as far as friendship.

He also comes off like he judges the people on the show.

Which actors have had actual sex for a movie role?

The inevitable happened, but people still want to talk about this gay relationship so let's try again.

Ben was self destructing in last night's episode, picking fights to distract himself from the painful anniversary of Paul's death.

Can we talk about Armie & Liz here without it turning into a paid thread? Let's give it a try, shall we? Feel free to discuss anything related to Armie and Liz. If you don't want to discuss them or read comments about them, just leave. Simple as that.

“Instagram model” Hiwa Busally

Anything goes.

He's driving me crazy. He tries to chew my cords and ran across the keyboard and changed my settings on my computer. I have to keep moving my glass because he tries to drink from it and right now I'm typing as he's partially draped across my keyboard.

Other than that he's really cute. Tries to suck on my earlobes and nuzzles under my chin.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi chided progressives in a closed-door meeting Wednesday, calling on them to address their intraparty grievances privately rather than blasting their centrist colleagues on Twitter.

Pelosi’s comments, which were described as stern, came during the first full caucus meeting since a major blowup over emergency border funding last month between progressive and moderate lawmakers as well as a recent spat with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her freshman allies.

"So, again, you got a complaint? You come and talk to me about it," Pelosi told Democrats, according to a source in the room. "But do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just OK."

Democrats in the room said they interpreted that remark, in part, as a shot at Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin and co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, who called moderate Democrats members of the “Child Abuse Caucus” in a tweet over their support for the Senate’s version of the emergency humanitarian package.

But a Pelosi spokesman said the speaker’s comments were about the use of Twitter in general and not targeted at any individual member.

Pocan, who was not in the meeting, said Pelosi personally phoned him later Wednesday afternoon to apologize that it had been seen that way.

“She didn’t even know about my tweet, and she wasn’t referring to it,” Pocan said. "She’s not a shy individual. If she wants to tell you something, she’ll tell you. She actually called to say just the opposite."

Speaking behind closed-doors Wednesday morning, Pelosi also gave an emphatic defense of the moderates in the caucus, according to multiple sources, telling the room that they’re critical to holding the House majority. Pelosi told Democrats not to make the Blue Dog Coalition their targets, but criticize her publicly if they need to go after someone.

“I’m here to help the children when it’s easy and when it’s hard. Some of you are here to make a beautiful pâté but we’re making sausage most of the time,” Pelosi told the caucus.

The California Democrat added that when her members target her, it helps fundraising, eliciting a big laugh inside the room.

“We are a family, and every family has its moments,” the speaker said.

Pelosi also indirectly criticized Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, according to Democrats in the room, as she told members to tell their staffers to “think twice” before they tweet.

Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, went after Pelosi in a series of tweets over the weekend, criticizing everything from her comments on the squad to her stance against impeachment. Chakrabarti also tweeted scathing criticism of the Blue Dogs, calling them the "New Southern Democrats."

"They certainly seem hell bent to do black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did in the 40s," Chakrabarti wrote on Twitter before deleting the post.

Her remarks also come after Pelosi dismissed Ocasio-Cortez and the other members of the progressive “squad” in an interview with The New York Times over the weekend.

Pelosi questioned the group's actual influence, given that its members were the only four Democrats who opposed the House’s original humanitarian package. Ocasio-Cortez and the other progressives — Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts — quickly fired back, criticizing Pelosi’s remarks in a series of tweets.

Ocasio-Cortez didn’t address Pelosi’s speech as she left the caucus meeting, instead talking about the annual defense authorization bill that will be on the House floor this week.

But Omar defended her allies, saying she and other Democrats can vote however they want.

“I hope that leadership understands their role and understands what our role is,” Omar said.

“Chris Pratt wore a shirt that repped the "Don't Tread On Me" flag, which has now been labeled by some as "racist" and something white supremacists use ... but that's not entirely accurate.

Here's the deal ... Chris was out in L.A. with his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, earlier this week ... and he was wearing a navy t-shirt with the American flag on it and a rattlesnake superimposed, sitting atop the phrase "Don't Tread On Me." It's a mash-up of Old Glory and the Gadsden flag.

Chris has been criticized over the past few days for repping the flag and the slogan -- originally created during the Revolutionary War as a message from the American colonies to England. It has since been adopted by the Tea Party and other far-right political groups.

The Gadsden flag has also been used by some white supremacists in recent years -- most notably in 2014 when the bodies of 2 dead police officers were draped with the Gadsden flag that also bore swastikas. It's also been seen in the same company as confederate and Nazi flags.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled in 2016 that the flag alone could be viewed as racial harassment in the workplace, depending on the context. While it noted the flag doesn't have racist origins, today it can be "sometimes interpreted to convey racially-tinged messages in some contexts." The agency called for further investigation.

The reason why Chris Pratt is being called out might have to do with a Yahoo UK article that flat-out called his wardrobe a "white supremacist" shirt ... making the leap many other outlets wouldn't.

Our take ... Chris wearing the shirt doesn't mean he supports white supremacy or anything else hateful or extreme, for that matter. He is, however, known as a conservative guy, and that's all there is to it. “

It looks like the film version of 'Wicked' is getting delayed again and in its December 2019 place is going to be a big screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cats' directed by Tom Hooper and starring Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift (blech!), James Corden, and Ian McKellan.

Thoughts?

Just curious

Hunky and talented actor from Mexico starring in the bio-series about Luis Miguel now on Netflix. The series is in Spanish but there are English subtitles available. Well worth watching.

What else does DL know about this very impressive young actor?

As if Chicago doesn't have enough problems with murders, violence, flash mobs, declining population, pollution, now they have alligators.

[quote]Chicago officials confirmed an alligator is living in Humboldt Park Lagoon after several people reported seeing the animal there Tuesday morning and others shared photos of it.

[quote]Police had “independently confirmed the alligator is in the lagoon and state reptile specialists" said it was 4 to 5 feet long, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a tweet. The animal was expected to be trapped Tuesday night “and relocated to a zoo for veterinary evaluation.”

Humboldt Park was once a thriving Italian neighborhood, that collapsed in the 70s. The park, while beautiful, is notorious for being a hotbed of crime, drugs and prostitution. It borders the "hipster" neighborhoods of Wicker Park, Bucktown and less hip Logan Square.

As far back as 1902 alligators have been found in Chicago

Truly no new ideas in Hollywood.

“Valerie had really been down in the dumps after packing the pounds back on over the course of the last 12 months,” a pal told The National ENQUIRER. “But her hubby managed to turn that frown upside down when he told her he didn’t care.

Valerie's probelms started in 2012, the 5-foot-2 star’s weight crept up when she began cooking up a storm — and sampling the results — for her cookbook, “One Dish at a Time.”

“Valerie’s Home Cooking,” has wreaked havoc on her weight plans. “In the past, Valerie always felt a lot of pressure to remain model thin,” the source said. “Now, Valerie’s fat — and happy about it!”

The internal affairs trio at AC-12 are back for Season 5! Or Series 5 as it is called in the UK!

I am the teenage daughter the detective protagonist is raising alone.

I just want to have some fun out with my friends tonight... I PROMISE to be safe!

Can it be? I've heard so much about it's legendary status and how it was lost to the ages in some foul mass deletion many moons ago.

Say it's true?

Black people in general but black girls seem to get it the worst. Not even black guys want them at times and instead want a more “foreign” looking woman. Rappers like ASAP Rocky and Kodak black even claimed they’re not attracted to black women despite being black. It’s really weird. In media they just aren’t pushed as desirable.

This man looks like he was sculpted from the gawds!!!! Please tell me y'all got tea on him, i won't even be mad if he says he's straight

The most beautiful blue eyes ever. Does anyone remember him? What is he doing now? 6'4", never married, no kids, in his 40s now.

Absolutely stunning.

Vent that spleen, bitches!

Link to prior thread below:

Wonder how long it will last?

“Vanessa Dillon, 41, is a bisexual woman marrying Bob Bissonnette, 36, a bisexual man. Each has dated people of more than one gender in the past. Not adhering to monogamy, they might continue to do so after they are married. But at their wedding, to outsiders they appear straight.

“If I was marrying a woman, it would be obvious to everyone that I am queer,” said Ms. Dillon of Brisbane, Australia. “But because I’m holding hands with a man instead of a woman, everyone assumes I’m hetero. People think if you settle down with a bloke, you are all of a sudden straight again.”

So at their wedding, which is scheduled to take place Sept. 29 at a bandstand in a public park in Brisbane, Ms. Dillon and Mr. Bissonnette, both data analysts, are making plans with this in mind.

Their officiant is a friend who mostly performs queer weddings. The table for drinks will be covered in the rainbow gay pride flag. The bisexual pride flag, with its pink, purple and blue stripes, will drape the table with the registry. All the decorations — she is hand-making their wedding flowers out of paper — will be in those colors. Both of them are wearing custom Converse sneakers with rainbows over them, along with their wedding date, and he’ll also wear a purple bow tie.

Bisexuality is an identity that gets erased with frequency,” said Maddie Eisenhart, the chief revenue officer of A Practical Wedding, a website that offers advice to couples, including those who are in the L.G.B.T.Q. community. “Five or six years ago it was taboo to talk about being a bisexual within the context of marriage,” Ms. Eisenhart said. “Now people are talking about how to make their identity known even more.”

The old one is almost full, and we need more space to talk about those important matters of life.

Charm! Character!

Open concept living!

White subway tile!

and of course, the royal dutchess of real estate: Adrian Leeds!

Do you drain all the water/oil or leave some in?

The type of mayo?

The brand of tuna?

I can never get it right.

The smoldering hotness continues.

t is difficult for Miles to pinpoint the moment his muscle dysmorphia started. It was just always there, a background hum. “As far back as I can remember, I wanted a better-looking body,” says the 35-year-old US soldier, now stationed in Mons, Belgium. When he was 13, Miles spent a summer cutting grass to save up for a secondhand Soloflex exercise machine. The machine cost $1,000 (£800), but as Miles was too young to join a gym, it was worth the expense. With the help of the Soloflex, Miles started weight training and never looked back.

When he returned from a posting to Afghanistan at 24, things spiralled. He began obsessively working out and regimenting his meals. “I went all in ... it was full, hardcore dedication to the lifestyle.” Miles set his watch to beep every three hours, to remind him to eat. If it beeped when he was driving, he would pull over. Slowly, he whittled his body into shape. His muscles became striated, every fibre visible. Not big enough. At 95kg (210lbs) and 1.8 metres (6ft 2in), Miles wanted to be more muscular; leaner. He lost 22kg and started competing in amateur bodybuilding competitions. There was virtually no fat on him. “You pinch your skin and it just stays pinched.” His girlfriend left him. “She began to realise that my body dysmorphia was like dating another person.” The pursuit of muscularity took over his life. “I just thought, I am so lean, and shredded, and veiny, and masculine – I don’t ever want to go back to how I was before.”

Yet by 33, single again – the dysmorphia had claimed yet another relationship – it had all become too much and he was in a dark place. “I did not enjoy life in any way, shape or form.” All day long, he would starve himself, struggle through punishing workouts, go home and binge-eat before throwing it all up. One evening, waiting in line at the burger chain In-N-Out for more food to purge, Miles finally decided enough was enough. “I woke up so happy the next day, knowing it was over.”

‘In the In the 70s, we saw very slim, almost androgynous men, like Mick Jagger, and David Bowie ... to be muscular was to be defined as to be militaristic.’ ‘In the In the 70s, we saw very slim, almost androgynous men, like Mick Jagger, and David Bowie ... to be muscular was to be defined as to be militaristic.’ Photograph: Peter Mazel/Sunshine/Rex/Shutterstock A subset of body dysmorphic disorder, individuals with muscle dysmorphia feel they need to become bigger or more muscular, regardless of their size. Sometimes referred to as “bigorexia”, it typically affects men. About 30% of people with muscle dysmorphia will also have a medically diagnosable eating disorder – although as you need to be in calorie deficit to be diagnosed with an eating disorder, many men with the condition won’t meet the clinical threshold, despite following extremely restrictive diets. Because men with muscle dysmorphia rarely seek treatment, estimating its prevalence in the general population is hard, but it is believed that about 10-12% of professional male weightlifters meet the criteria.

And muscle dysmorphia may be on the rise. A study published in June found that 22% of men aged 18-24 reported muscularity-oriented disordered eating. “The drive for a bigger, more muscular body is becoming very prevalent,” says the lead researcher Dr Jason Nagata of the University of California, San Francisco. Not everyone who benches 180kg has muscle dysmorphia. It is when working out takes over your life, occluding all else – work, family, friends – that you have a problem. “Their entire day is spent at the gym trying to bulk up,” says Nagata. “They may also be taking illicit supplements like steroids.”

Play Video 7:51 Steroids, syringes and stigma: the quest for the perfect male six-pack - video What drives a generation of young men to slavishly pursue this physical ideal? “Over the past decades, the idealised male body image has got bigger and bulkier,” says Nagata.

It's an honor just to be nominated

I'll start, Ken Russell's The Boyfriend

I'm assuming Brandon is inactive or retired, so it should be an easy debate.

I think the comedy in this movie still holds up today.

Continued Discussion

Continue the discussion of Ryan Murphy’s show about vogueing and Trans and Trump

[QUOTE]Biden has a large lead among black voters, who will play a crucial role in the primary. 41% said they support Biden, while 15% chose Sanders. Harris followed, at 12% among the group, while Booker garnered 4% support from black voters polled in the state.

OK so "Three's Company" was a remake of "Man About The House," and on that show, the characters that corrsepond to Helen and Stanley Roper were named "George and Mildred."

And the oft repeated joke was that the name was abbreviated, G. Roper (Groper -> Get it). So when they Americanized the show they changed it to Helen and Stanley, which is stupid. Why not just use the first name since they used the actual last name?

And even more stupid was in "Man About The House," the character named Chrissy corresponds to the "Three's Company" Janet.

The character of Chrissy in "Three's Company" corresponds to Jo, in "Man About The House."

Larry was the best friend in both "Three's Company" and "Man About The House."

I can see why they changed the lead male of Robin in "Man About The House," to Jack in "Three's Company," because Robin is thought of more a girl's name in America.

I know the other thread Chalamet and Friends Part 53 is only halfway through but I couldn't post there anymore because of this subscriber only shit. So I thought I'd try starting the next thread to continue on.

[quote]Sources tell Observer that Guadagnino is in talks with the network on a new one-hour, eight-episode show tentatively titled [italic]We Are Who We Are[/italic]. The 47-year-old filmmaker is directing the first two episodes as well as the season finale, and is writing the project with Paolo Giordano and Francesca Manieri. Lorenzo Meili and Riccardo Neri will executive produce.

[quote]The series is expected to start filming in late May with production set to run through October.

1969. Still kind of mind blowing.

OMG! This dude is so hot!

She did such a fantastic job on the 10+ versions of her show’s theme song. It seems like the natural evolution after hearing Fergie’s version!

What do you think?

(CNN)Manuel Gámez clutches the hand of his only child, her dark eyes partly open and her motionless body blanketed by intravenous lines and a breathing tube.

His 13-year-old daughter, Heydi Gámez García, lies in a raised bed in a Queens, New York, pediatric hospital room. A pair of stuffed animals sit by her side. Gámez hadn't seen Heydi since he sent her away with a hug and kiss from their violent hometown in Honduras four years ago. He says he feared for her safety after her grandfather was gunned down by MS-13 gang members. Since then he's tried repeatedly to join her in the US, only to be rebuffed by immigration authorities. But this is not the reunion he and his family imagined.

Heydi, who had been despondent about being separated from her father, attempted to hang herself earlier this month in the suburban Long Island home of one of her aunts. Doctors say she is brain dead and won't recover.

The alleged victim texted his girlfriend ... Spacey, "grabbed my dick like 8 times", "pulled my zipper down", and "reached down my pants." The man ends the convo by writing, "Kevin Spacey is gay

“Andy Cohen treated me like a dog. He was, like, one of the worst bosses I ever had,” Kathy told People when asked about him. “And also, you know, the guy…he decides the entire slate at Bravo, and yet he gave himself a talk show [Watch What Happens Live] that magically gets renewed every year! So you know, I had a talk show at Bravo for two years that got canceled. And I thought yea..it’s sort of competition for Andy.”

Kathy concluded her statement with, “He has not been very kind.”

Is Kevin in the clear?

Tell us one of your regrets.

I'll start, not moving to LA after college.

Remember Red Dragon Cheese? And the people who said the thread was in the useless archive but it never was?

Remember the infestation of Entertainment Weekly-reading soccer moms?

Remember John Kilmer-Purcell using this site to publicize his book? Remember Kirker of the no discernible job but leisurely lifestyle?

Remember "Once Around the Garden" vs. "Autumn Harvest"?

Remember what happened to the cake frosting? Remember?

Especially since young boys and girls (gay and straight) are practicing it and just not having as much sex or if not waiting to marry/get serious with someone.

Fuck that potato-faced queen.

Danny Thomas

It’s starting NOW. Watch it! I doubt it will be as good as the foreign versions though.

I was all set to put the new Catherine Deneuve movie on my "must see" list until I read this article by a DL drama queen.

[quote]a reunion that turns to confrontation: Truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed. Faces will be slapped.

It sounds like a common soap opera! Oh, Catherine, you're too good for this!

Continuing the thread for our favourite neighbourhood SpiderMan.

I read a review today that said FFH wasn't great and was overly formulaic. Yet the Rotten Tomatoes rating was pretty decent. Cant wait to see it regardless.

I've been on a few dates with a guy whose mouth seemingly had two settings: closed, or opened wide enough that he could catch a baseball in it, and with his tongue sticking out. I've tired to coach him but it's like he's never known it any other way. He actually thinks it hot.

What types have you encountered? Which are the worst? Is this a dealbreaker for you?

Of the LGBTIQ community. Please memorize them.

[Quote]Netflix, the streaming juggernaut that has upended the entertainment industry, showed signs of vulnerability Wednesday when it reported that it had lost 126,000 paid subscribers in the United States during the second quarter. It was the first time the company had shed domestic streaming customers since it started its digital service 12 years ago and its shares fell sharply.

[Quote]The number of those subscribers dropped during a time when the price for Netflix went up. In January, the company announced that it was raising its rates by anywhere from 13 to 18 percent, depending on the subscription plan, with the increases hitting existing subscribers in March.

What say you?

This 6'5 slab of muscle has Momma drenched! 💪🏽

It just occurred to me that this might actually be true. Is it? Do tell...

Some younger gays may know the slang "chickenhawks" for mature guys who chase after twinks. But how many know we used to refer to twinks as "chicken"?

What gay slang has disappeared in your lifetime?

Tom Hiddleston was a guest on Nick Grimshaw’s BBC radio show in 2016. After a musical interlude of “Hold Up”, by Beyoncé, Grimshaw asked Tom if he wanted to dedicate this song to anyone. Tom dedicated it to his “friend” Larry from Ealing on his birthday. Spellman’s birthday is May sixth which is the same date of the interview.

So I’ve noticed an uptick in EST posts lately. For those of you who are basically Trojan Warriors and call them on the carpet for it every time, have you ever thought they do it just to see if they can get you worked up?

For real, they’re posting because they want the attention. Next time someone asks if their partner’s 27 inch dick should fit in their asses whilst they have the best sex ever on the surface of Mars...DO NOT REPLY.

Thank you for attending my TEDTalk

The last thread filled up. Continue the discussion here.

This ground breaking British film starring Dirk Bogarde still packs a punch.

What are some porn videos/porn performers that are more sad than hot? Case in point Rocco Steele and Dirk Caber starring in Old Poz White Guys Barebacking Young Black Dudes.

Continue the discussion of these larger than life characters, whom we both feel sorry for and pay for via taxes.

Reunion time!

I have more questions than answers:

Is this new or did I miss its debut? Is there frontal male nudity? Rasputin's? Why is it labelled "Provocative"? Who are Robert Jack, Susanna Herbert, and Ben Cartwright?

I've never seen a more beautiful man than Alain Delon in his prime. Jared Leto looks like a mutant by comparison.

He's know for being the stupidest out of his siblings so is there little wonder he is such a fuck up?

[quote]Police said the woman is 32 years old and was part of a group that came from Rio de Janeiro for the event. The companions informed the PM that she suffers from mental disorders. The priest (Padre Marcelo Rossi, a popular priest in Brazil) was not injured and returned to the stage to finish the mass. He said he wouldn't press charges.

I can't stop watching this clip.

I got this info from a highly regarded producer of political docs. He's gay as a goose & will never come out.

Were the mai tais really all that?

Gay or Straight? He certainly seems gay as a goose, but he is also very uptight, white and privileged, even though his mother did not have blue blood.

Anyone ever hook up with him or know of someone?

90 Day Fiancee Happily Ever After new season begins Sunday, April 28.

Seriously. Why does this untalented, charisma free, phony blob have a late night show?

I’m going to say Libra men. Charming but Cheaters, Liars and will use anyone to get what they want which is usually sex. Examples: John Mayer, Will Smith, Eminem, Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Simon Cowell... so basically they’re all secretly bisexual like Geminis.

Good list this time around!

Let’s make a playlist. I’ll start...

“After ponying up almost $9,000 as part of a plea agreement for felony welfare fraud last April, Dolezal appears to be recouping some of that money with an extensive 230-item online store hosted on Zazzle dot com. The selection looks like the offerings at a sidewalk tag sale in a universe where everything has Rachel Dolezal’s face on it. Items include, but are not limited to, golf balls with her face on them, Christmas ornaments with her face on them, mugs with her face on them, and a $122 Nike backpack, also featuring her face. Other products, including USB drives, decorated thermoses, skate decks, and $84 body pillows, are printed with her original artworks, such as the painting “Afro Picks & Combs.”

“Those who venture beyond her Zazzle site to the store on her personal website will be rewarded with such treasures as a miniature sculpture of an electric chair for $2,000 and a hand-sewn custom Melanin Spectrum Doll™, which comes in five different shades, to reflect the rich, beautiful tapestry of humanity in all of its five different shades.”

Carry on

Who knew she was batshit crazy?

We used to have a thread(s) where people would talk about the worst weddings they've been to, seen, heard about etc. They were so amusing. It's been years since I saw one and since then, same-sex marriage is legal as well. So I'd invite everyone here to share their best tales of their worst weddings- gay or straight.

Thankfully, I go to so few weddings, I can only really kvetch about the one where the kids meals looked better than the adult meals- overcooked steak and flavorless lobster. (Was a New England wedding.)

you like video call. inbox me. age me 40 year

We deserve it.

Hot on the heels of his Hugo Boss bulge pic, we have this.

Apparently he was a former teen sensation.

My favorites are: 1. Ethel’s Birthday (Hostess Pants) 2. First Stop (Trip to CA-Cheese Sandwich Motel) 3. Madame X

If not for the storm Barry, it would have been here sooner.

Lord, don't let my A/C break down.

Chloe Sevigny, Kid Cudi and Alice Braga also join the cast.

[quote] The “Call Me by Your Name” director is set to start shooting this month on the eight-part HBO-Sky original, which centers on a group of American teenagers living on a U.S. military base in Italy.

[quote] In May, Guadagnino told Variety that the lead characters are two 14-year-olds, a boy and a girl named Fraser Wilson and Caitlin Harper. The two become close amid their posse of teenage friends, who think they’re a couple. But Fraser is experiencing confusing feelings about his identity and develops an innocent romantic connection with an older soldier.

With Grazer (who played young Timothee Chalamet in "Beautiful Boy") in the lead this seems even more like a CMBYN redux than before.

I don't know what else to say about them.

Is she the most smug FRAU who ever frau'ed?

Ree really thinks that her life is perfect, doesn't she?

Tired of Beyonce

Do you believe this woman's account of the events?

Discuss.

I think it damages skin and only benefits a small number of people with very resilient skin.

Ohio State has concluded that a team doctor sexually abused at least 177 men, including many varsity athletes, while working for the university in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. The university also found that college officials knew about the actions for years and did not act to stop them.

In a 182-page report issued Friday, Ohio State said the doctor, Richard H. Strauss, who committed suicide in 2005, had groped students, required them to strip, and asked intimate questions about sexual practices under the guise of providing medical treatment.

[bold]Strauss was team physician for several sports, including men’s swimming, wrestling, gymnastics, fencing and lacrosse[/bold]

Guess he only liked white meat.

Season will be set in Summer 1985 and will feature new cast members Cary Elwes, Jake Busey, and Maya Hawke.

He claims he's going to come out.

Real or troll?

Funny how homophobes and self-loathers attack stars who come out as gay by saying "Why do we need to hear this?" but don't have a problem with guys who come out as "not gay"

Maybe he and Aaron Rodgers can start a club for not gay athletes!

It’s official

I know I’m not the only one this happens to, and it’s occurred over many years in different cities: I’d say over half the contractors I contact to come give estimates on a project, or follow up on that estimate, flake out and never get back to me. I’m pretty upfront that I am serious about having the work done, so why would they leave money on the table like that?

Does it just come with the territory? Or are they really that lazy? Can’t tell you how much time I’ve wasted on this.

For those who said he is not hot in the Stranger Things Season 3 Thread, what do you think of him now? He's even hotter to me now. Australian gay men especially, leave a comment. I'm also an Australian gay male.

They are openly thirsting💦

HBO’s Limited Series Based On The Chernobyl Incident Will Premiere In May. 'Chernobyl' dramatizes one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history.

‘Chernobyl’ Is As “Close To Reality” As Possible Within Five Hours

This is from “Rosedale Documentary” set in 1978 (some day 1976) and it’s so DISGUSTING to see how the white kids treated these black kids just riding their bikes to get to McDonalds etc.

I’m disgusted.

And then people wonder why some black people are defensive and angry. This wasn’t that long ago, many of these adults experienced this BULLSHIT.

I am told its going to be a brand and groundbreaking speech.

Watch it in the link

The ongoing story of the most dramatic small village in history.

They have been travelling around Italy for a romantic holiday.

And Alexandra Daddario and Emma Watson's ex-boyfriend Brendan Wallace stopped off in Rome, where they enjoyed dinner at Pierluigi's restaurant on Sunday.

The actress, 33, and the businessman, 35, couldn't take their hands off each other as they strolled through the city's streets before taking a selfie at the iconic Trevi Fountain.

I can see this raking in the technical Oscars next year, that’s how amazing the CGI and visuals are in this film. Some of the shots and scenery are breathtaking, and the animals are made to look very real! This is the best CGI I have ever seen! The film also can be quite atmospheric, which I like. Also, JAMES EARL JONES. The nostalgia of hearing him!!! Ahhhh.

However, the film lacks any true emotion! It remakes the original almost scene for scene, but lacks the emotion the original had as well as the power and fun. This one feels “too quiet” at times, and making the animals look 100% real means there is little room to add emotions to their faces, so, you hear them speaking but don’t see too much expression on their faces.

A lot of the voice acting is fantastic, all minus whoever voices child Simba and Beyonce. My goodness, I never thought someone could be SO BAD at just lending their voice. Whoever voiced child Simba sounded nothing like what he looked. Maybe I am just too used to Jonathan Taylor Thomas voice, but this person wasn’t as good.

As for Beyonce, she was awful all around and her voice doesn’t go with young lioness Nala. Her look and Beyoncé’s voice do not match. Her voice should be small and thin, not rich and low and “mom” like. Don’t get me started on the awful line “Lions, ATTACK!” Declared by her during the final battle. I cringed so hard.

The final battle felt rushed and was weak. It could have been epic, but it wasn’t. Sadly.

Dallas Steele = Jim Walker, a former news broadcaster

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Genoa City welcomes the new Phyllis, who is the old Phyllis.

Anyone recognize him. I thought it was Austin Wolf but the tattoo is different.

Cute as a button

I see that Dallas Steele is now filming for funsizeboys.com...he has a scene with Austin. Austin is 5'2", 98 lbs., 26" waist, no age given, but looks 14. I don't care how you try to spin it, but this looks like child pornography. I'm not posting a link to the site as I felt unclean and slimy just looking at the home page. In fact, I'm now worried that the FBI will be knocking down my door for having viewed what could be the illegal trafficking of minors. I can't clear my browser history fast enough. The evangelical right loves to paint gays as child predators, this plays right into their hands. This is a complete embarrassment for our community, and he should be ashamed. Nay, he should dig a deep hole, get in, and pull the dirt in on top of him. As a performer, you have the option of choosing your projects. Is Dallas so desperate for work, or attention, that this is what he is stooping to? He started with Colt, yet is now scraping the very bottom of the porn barrel. He needs to retire before he ends up doing a live show with a donkey in the back alley of a Central American banana republic. Performers with class know when their shelf life is approaching, and retire on a high note. Dallas is well past his sell by date, and hopefully this puts the final nail into the coffin of his "career". I find it ironic that if he were still in journalism, this video would be ripe for investigation.

Does Bradford indulge him?

Any of Dallas posters know any of these pieces of shit?

This is how they think.

Is it the best movie ever? Yes. Angela Lansbury deserved the Best Actress Oscar, not Hanoi Jane. And whoever cut the film to minimize Roddy McDowall’s small but integral part should be shot.

No movie is better than this. No movie ever will be. It’s just not physically possible. So roll over, [italic]Citizen Kane[/italic] and tell [italic]Vertigo[/italic] the news.

DL's "Q" function never works properly for me.

I need to go bake some bread.

All of these live action remakes fucking suck.

What time will they be announced ?

Article suggests it's our fault for using hook-up apps

Who are they?

I just watched this on Netflix. I was SHOCKED at how great the production values were. This was TV miniseries from the fucking 1980s and they spent MONEY. Beautiful, on-location shots in India.

The acting was amazingly great. Judy Parfitt played the biggest fucking cunt ever committed to screen.

I was also really surprised by all the gay subject matter.

It has apparently been remastered so it looked like a film on my iPad.

I WHOLLY recommend it to all of you.

Anyone else watch? This show may never have gotten the acclaim and awards it deserved, but as Frankie Heck wisely said: "For all the things we didn't have, we sure did have a lot"

Wonderful stuff.

Is he transitioning?

On her TV Show "Shirley Temple's Storybook," when a stagehand said "shit" during a "Mother Goose" rehearsal, Temple had him fired, telling the stunned cast it was a children's show–although no children were present during the rehearsal, and that profanity has no place on a children's show

For having sex at such young age

Is there a specific thing that gets you hot, maybe not approaching the level of fetish but just a turn on.

What would you recommend to a new up and coming star about how to navigate the industry and make it through?

Last year I bought a 1960s Cartier Tank watch for $50.

I went to meet a guy who had some old fountain pens for sale. I bought all the pens he had, which were in a shoe box.

When I got home I saw a small ring box at the bottom of the box and when I opened it there was a 1960s solid gold Cartier Tank watch inside.

I now have have a lovely vintage Cartier, something I could never afford to buy because they cost thousands.

What actually gives someone “star quality”. Many try and many fail to become an actor/singer but a few get lucky. What makes people (who obviously weren’t born rich) break the mold? It’s actually quite interesting to me that some people just make it (trying just as hard or maybe even less) and others fail.

Sex is really not necessary in a relationship. I am so lucky . My husband is the best .

I’m almost positive this one is gay, between referencing gay slang, ballet training and that Rihanna lip sync...

Anyway

“Despite Tom Holland definitively saying he and his “Spider-Man: Homecoming” co-star, Zendaya, aren’t dating, fans were shocked to see the 23-year-old actor step out with a mystery woman, whom Page Six has identified as Olivia Bolton, at British Summer Time in London’s Hyde Park this week. The pair put on a cozy display, which immediately sparked rumors that they’re a couple.

Holland and Bolton only fueled the rumors further with their matching all-black outfits and similar necklaces.”

Not actors whose careers “went down the shitter,” in DL parlance, but actors who showed real talent at the beginning of their careers but never equaled the quality of those early performances.

I thought Bette Midler was spectacular in The Rose. A great dramatic performance of a doomed, drug-addicted Janis Joplin-type singer.

But nothing she has done in film since could come close. Instead, she ended up over-acting in a slew of middling-to-awful comedies.

And the dramas weren’t much better.

For the Boys was about Martha Raye as much as The Rose was about Joplin, but her performance was too broad too engender empathy, and little of the freshness from her first film remained.

By the time she ended up in the role of another doomed celebrity, Jacqueline Susann, she had reduced herself to a small bag of tricks that played better in mediocre comedies or stupid sitcoms - and certainly better on the stage, as she seemed to be aiming at the back row in every frame.

Little of the looseness or naturalism from The Rose ever extended beyond that film, and I wonder what kid of filmography she would’ve had if she’d pushed into more challenging roles.

Are You the One? is about to make history when it returns to MTV.

The long-running dating program, which will premiere on June 26, is the first series in the United States to feature a sexually fluid cast. The show's signature format -- singles heading off to paradise in hopes of discovering their "perfect match" and splitting a $1 million prize if they find each other over the course of 10 weeks -- remains. But there's one difference from previous installments: All the participants this season identify as sexually fluid, meaning there are no gender limitations when it comes to their PM. Finding love is fair game -- so come one, come all.

brains, body and face!

Please bring back men in crop tops and short shorts!!!!

I dare one of you bitches to criticize my title.

Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other freshman congresswomen are calling attention to a toxic legacy of racism within the Democratic party.

Let's continue to discuss the European Royals.

Here is the link to Part 2.

Please continue discussion here.

How did he get it? He was married up until his death. Was he running around on her?

And I’m not talking about 7’s who think they’re 10’s. I mean people who are 10’s and knows it. I’ve seen that make or break if a person was interested or not.

They're joking, right?

Did you know these six celebrities from Ur were actually trans? Number four will SHOCK you!!!

I heard it from my friend today. I am not so sure . Is it true ?

Exhausted. Will call a sick leave tmr...

Armie Hammer, Henry Cavill, Brandon and someone, British Royal Family.. these threads seem to bring out a peculiar type of people. They are deluded beyond help, sincerely believing that every romance/marriage must be a sham and a PR-stunt.

I even read someone stating that Armie Hammer is secretly in love with his Call Me.. co-str. Nuts!

Your comments are appreciated.

Figured I’d start a new one! Post gossip, pics, BBD club members, etc.

I am a female who suffers from PTSD. I I am not a veteran. However, I have been diagnosed. I have horrific nightmares almost every night, and when I nap. So I refuse to sleep at this point. The insomnia is basically self-induced due to the horrific nightmares. I’m looking for a good medication to help me with these nightmares. My doctor has mentioned Wellbutrin to me before and I had been on it Years ago, and I remember my dreams being very vivid. My fear of going on this medication is that my dreams will get worse because of the vividness of them. Can anyone help me with this?

Beautiful, but boring, G4P performers?

I remember the old days of Johan Paulik and Lucas...gods among men.

Finally!

[quote]More than three years after New Line's failed attempt to turn the graphic novel into a feature film, Netflix has signed what sources describe as a massive financial deal with Warner Bros. Television to adapt the best-seller into a live-action TV series. Sources familiar with the deal note that it is the most expensive TV series that DC Entertainment has ever done.

[quote]Allan Heinberg (Wonder Woman, ABC's The Catch, Grey's Anatomy) is set to write and serve as showrunner on the straight-to-series drama. Gaiman, who created the ongoing monthly comic, will exec produce alongside David Goyer.

People always talk about how wonderful summer is, but what the hell is so great about non-stop oppressive heat and humidity? I am also sick of the sun not going down until 9pm and it getting bright again at 4am. It is so annoying (and yes, I have blackout curtains) and it makes it hard to sleep.

It's funny - when I was a kid and in my early 20's, I loved summer. Now in my late 30's, I despise it.

Continuation.

Starring Patrick Stewart, Michelle Hurd, Santiago Cabrera, Evan Evagora, Alison Pill, Harry Treadaway, and Isa Briones. Stewart exec produces along with Alex Kurtzman, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon is also on board as an executive producer and writer.

[quote]The series is set 18 years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), and is affected by the destruction of Romulus in the film Star Trek (2009).

Ten episodes coming to CBS All Access later this year.

Since the ‘Lorrie Morgan is a Slut Cunt’ and ‘Keith Whitley was a Gloryhole Gurl’ threads are so popular I thought we’d start a General Country Music gossip thread. Spill the hillbilly secrets...

There is a psychic parlor near my apartment. It’s been there for at least 15 years, and I have never seen a customer inside. It’s right next to a freeway exit where there is no parking whatsoever. The facade has never changed, and the “open” sign is on and off sporadically.

It’s for money laundering, right?

Just in case Trump can’t run because of physical health, mental health, impeachment hearings or just doing something so outrageous that even supporters can’t support him. I know, I know, slim chance on the last one.

Do the Republicans have a secret someone they can stick in at the last moment to give them a chance? I can’t see it being Pence. Maybe Mitt Romney? Or are they too scared of Trump to even think about it.

I think it goes without saying that he's family.

Ali and Ryan surely must hit the sheets after Michelle leaves Weatherfield.

Rico Lopez Gomez

Big debate on the internets.

Is it his lack of true talent ?

I need to know their story. I can’t

Who are some actors from the past who were once popular or did a few big movies who have now just seemingly vanished?

We’re doomed.

Post something with some singing in it.

He looks like a Navajo drag queen.

Preferable those, unlike Michael Jackson (pic linked below), who didn’t alter their coloring. Please link pics to illustrate.

I used to be so infatuated with this young straight beauty. He’s a model that moved to NYC and has overall done well for himself. Roommate to DL Icon Nick Sandell, I always wonder if these boys low key are gay for pay...

I doubt they’re making enough to live the life they do off modeling. I know they do personal training also, but they haven’t been that active lately and are always traveling, on sunny beaches lounging.

Do you think these young beauties use their “assets” and have sugar mommas and daddies?

Some of the most homely looking people I ever see end up having more than 2 kids. I just don't understand what compels ugliness to be attracted to ugliness and then breed more ugliness?

Fred Rogers celebrated as ‘bisexual icon’ after his comments on sexual attraction resurface

Lookin' good!

I didn’t know they could do this!

Be honest.

Who has done it?

What company(ies) did you use?

How much did it cost?

Moving from Midwest to West Coast and need help/suggestions!!!

It's a guy I've been friends with benefits with for awhile.

I met him on Scruff some weeks back and he's just my type. A beefy ginger with a beard and scruff and a thick ass.

Anyhow, I love rimming his ass so I had him sit on my face. Then as I was really really going to town on his hole, he sat all the way down on my face, riding my face in a way that I couldn't breathe! I tried moving him off of me but he just kept on there for almost a good minute.

Finally, I was able to position him off me so that I could get a gasp of air.

When I told him that I couldn't breathe, he just gave a sheepish Oh Sorry.

Red flag?

Why?

Now only "subscribers" can post on the soap/GH thread.

I don't understand why, it's not a thread that attracts nastiness or the crazies. The worst that is said is that they dress Genie like a homeless woman and The Staff replacement isn't cutting it.

Pour quoi, DL?

The Dutch Boy haircuts ... the goodwife middle-aged dresses on the kids ... the ghostly mother.

Is this worse than Rick Santorum's Fundy Addams Family?

What do you guys seek most in from submissive bottoms?

What do you think?

Starting to look at places to retire. Have never cared for Florida but have heard nice things about Clearwater. Anyone live or retire there?

[quote]The Brady Bunch's Susan Olsen dropped by to celebrate Dame Olivia's 103 Birthday. What a great day.

[quote]Happy Birthday [bold]living ledgon[/bold] Dame Olivia de Havilland.

You rarely hear about her. A good FLOTUS? Fair? Bad?

Due to panic in the financial and commodities markets as a result of recent international turmoil, eBay has obtained the the following titles of nobility, rank, or prestige, for offer at reduced price. Please indicate your preference so that we may gage interest. Thank you.

Post your 🐻 pics here.

Which celebrity couple will be the next to announce that they're divorcing? Place your bets here!

In a less pretentious world where "theater" is still spelled "-er" instead of "-re" and where those of us who don't subscribe can still drone on endlessly about Follies, which old woman should be Gypsy, and whoever Charlie Stemp is.

Continue talking about all the queers from Old Hollywood!

by Jean Louis

He was a flash in the pan, hinted he might be bisexual and then he had that kid. Is he back in Oz with the girlfriend and kid?

Brenton on the right:

It's about time! So offensive.

Anyone going to check this out? I was surprised that it's a CW show. And the only actor I recognize is Casey Deidrick from Teen Wolf.

Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston seem like the classic examples of this. What causes this to happen? I know the voice changes with age, but what impedes them from being able to sing well anymore? Is it bad technique? Vocal nodules? Are they just not trying anymore?

What about the rest of you?

Yeah, I didn't think so.

he's flexing and waiting

Starting with a line-up

Then again, everyone in the GOP seems to want to have it both ways these days.....

Can he become famous, or is he too squinty-eyed?

Gay men love and fetishize straight married men on the downlow, is it the same on the other side? And is it easy to "convert" a married woman in general? Just curious about what is it like.

Horror Stories comes through again. This is chilling.

Planes and boats don’t count - only land crossings. Bridges and tunnels do count.

Well?

Letting Fluffy and Fido go is hard.....

Daniel Rodríguez was voted Mister Spain this last weekend. The young man has just come out, the first in the history of the competition.

Daniel Rodriguez is 23 years old and comes from Tenerife aux Canaries. The young man loves sports, especially running. This passion led him to become a chiropractor in the sports milieu.

(...)

Yes, amazing muscle asses are nice. But let's celebrate the more shapely, voluptuous fellows...with asses that actually jiggle when you hit it.

The ones that actually eat carbs and have some meat on those bones!

Patrick Leblanc and Vassia

Lindsey's office couch in Washington, D.C. is light yellow with uniform brown leaf prints. The texture looks quite soft. The pillows make it look so inviting and comfortable. Some famous and important people have experienced it.

What are your thoughts about this couch?

What do you think of him NOW? His pecs and body overall?

He has had an interesting (weird) life since sprinting. He’s been on the Finnish version of Dancing with the Stars (Tanssi Entisen Kuuluisan Kanssa), been arrested for keeping banned performance-enhancing substances in his home; declared bankruptcy; did publicity for a fitness program for everyday people; has been or will soon be on the Finnish version of Celebrity Big Brother (or something like that); and is apparently engaged (to a woman).

Make sure the Ford Brothers are around to help guide you through the seedier side of Llanview....

Unless one of them is cruising the alley behind Rodi's again.

Jul 18th 2019

The FBI believed then-candidate Donald Trump was closely involved in a scheme to hide hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who claimed an affair with Trump, court documents from the closed campaign finance case against former Trump-fixer Michael Cohen show.

The documents, released Thursday, describe a "series of calls, text messages, and emails" between Cohen, Trump, Trump campaign aide Hope Hicks, Keith Davidson — an attorney for the woman, porn star Stormy Daniels — and David Pecker, an executive of the company that published the National Enquirer. "I have learned that in the days following the Access Hollywood video, Cohen exchanged a series of calls, text messages and emails with Keith Davidson, who was then Clifford's attorney, David Pecker and Dylan Howard of American Media, Inc. ("AMI"), the publisher of the National Enquirer, Trump, and Hope Hicks, who was then press secretary for Trump's presidential campaign," an FBI agent investigating the matter wrote in the released documents. "Based on the timing of these calls, and the content of the text messages and emails, I believe that at least some of these communications concerned the need to prevent Clifford from going public, particularly in the wake of the Access Hollywood story," the agent added.

Daniels' legal name is Stephanie Clifford.

The unsealed documents say that Hicks called Cohen on the night of Oct. 8, 2016 at 7:20 p.m — the first time she had called him in weeks — and that Trump joined the call seconds later. The conversation lasted four minutes. Hicks and Cohen spoke privately after Trump left the call and, after that, Cohen called Pecker. Moments after that conversation ended, Cohen received a phone call from Dylan Howard, the chief content officer of American Media. After that call, Cohen rang Hicks back, ended that call, and then took a call from Pecker. At 8:03 p.m., according to the unsealed court documents, Cohen called Trump. They spoke for eight minutes.

The FBI agent wrote in the document that the information was learned from a review of telephone records and under warrants to obtain Cohen's emails.

I was thinking how I managed to cheat death 3 times in my life. The first was when I had a near heart attack with a 99.9% blockage in my left anterior descending artery ( the widow maker). Weird thing is, I often went for treadmill stress tests and nothing showed up. For 5 months, I had occasional chest pain but chalked it up to high blood pressure and disbelief I passed those stress tests with flying colors. My partner finally rushed me to the ER on a day I was setting off to take a long flight to Alaska. I ended up getting a heart stent but the docs couldn't get the guide wire through on the first two attempts. The open heart surg team was called in to get me ready. The third time was charm and the doctor got it through. Now I am am doing great. The second time, I had developed a bleeding ulcer from years of using Extra Strength aspirin for sinus headaches. WIth the blood thinner, I was bleeding to death where I could no longer stand up without passing out. If my partner wasn't here, I would have died on the living room floor. The third was when I nearly drowned in Hawaii, snorkeling. The riptide pulled me out so far, I couldn't swim back. One of my flippers fell off and wasn't wearing a life jacket. I called for help and two women, swam out to pull me in while the men watched from the shore. They finally came out to bring me in when I was closer to the beach. Don't know why I am still here but God ain't done with me yet.

Almost half of white Americans say the USA becoming a majority nonwhite nation would "weaken American customs and values," a new Pew Research Center survey says.

Any county that has the word "and" in it. (Trinidad & Tobago)

Any country that is a person's name or first and last name or two names (Tchad, Ann Gola, Sue Dan)

Any country that is a description, (Central African Republic)

Any directional country (East Timor)

I'll be traveling to Philly, NYC, and Boston, and was just looking for a bit of fun.

Most of those strippers are escorts on the side and don't have much else to do anyway.

The only one I've heard of for sure is Adonis Lounge. Is the one in Philly or NYC better?

Thanks Bitches!

Griffin revealed she hasn’t reached out to her former friend since the death of his mother last month.

I've been scheduled for a Colonoscopy. The paper work says someone should be there to take me home. None of my friends is available. After the procedure, if I tell the nurse no can pick me up, any problem walking out the door?

I recently did a poll asking wether twinks were inferior to men, and 43.6 % surprisingly voted yes. I would like to know why. So if you voted yes, or believe that twinks are inferior, please tell me why.

Chuck Schumer: "The only way Pres. Trump will stop is when Republicans on the other side have the honor, the decency, the courage to tell him to stop, and all we hear is silence and diversions from Leader McConnell ... This is a moment. There's no John McCain anymore."

(Everyone is attaching the clip below which shows McCain correcting a woman at one of his campaign stops who called Obama an "Arab.")

And Trump is claiming he didn't join in and wasn't in favor of it, but you know, somehow forgot to tell them to stop because they were really into it.

Am I really?

Is she the new Susan Dey?

Is just keeping cum as a pet.

Starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, James McAvoy, Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Ian Gelder, Clarke Peters, Georgina Campbell, Ariyon Bakare. Based on the fantasy novels by Philip Pullman, adapted by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), first two episodes directed by Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech).

[quote]Dafne Keen (“Logan”) plays Lyra, the precocious girl at the center of the story, whose adventures with a truth-telling device called the alethiometer bring her into contact with her mysterious Uncle Asriel (McAvoy), a terrifying woman named Mrs. Coulter (Wilson) and a strange phenomenon called Dust. On her journey from Oxford to London and beyond, Lyra meets charismatic aeronaut and adventurer Lee Scoresby (Miranda).

Eight episodes. Principal photography on the show has begun in Cardiff. New Line Cinema’s first foray into British television.

The freeper trolls here should love him!

So much peroxide.

Starting early, but it should be interesting to watch the polling change. Top five only for each post. Numbers from RCP.

7/18/19, [Candidate] vs Trump:

Biden +8.5

O'Rourke +6.6

Sanders +4.8

Booker: +3.0

Warren +2.5

(Gillibrand's polls on RCP are actually pretty strong against Trump, but they're all from PPP and there hasn't been an update since January)

God, this song is fucking amazing. I was walking by a Victoria’s Secret and you could hear this song playing from outside and I got hyped. Such a good song with AMAZING energy and the vocals are gorgeous. Not one note is wrong in this song.

This is their only #1, as well as the first of two songs to Chart globally, the second being “Boogie Wonderland” (although that one peaked at #6).

This song is just so damn good and sounds amazing still, mainly because the lyrics aren’t dated and the vocals are amazing.

I had a little dinner party tonight, à la Donner, just 8 of us. One couple I invited because they joined along the trail and I suspected the wife, Cheryl, was hoarding a parcel of rancid bear fat in her bloomers. They seem fun and are new to Truckee Lake. I had one rule: don’t bring anything.

Well, what does that bitch couple bring but a DESSERT!!! And I already had a quartet of glacéed Antonio, Dolan, Graves, and Murphy prepared. You know what they brought? Fucking oxhide snowshoe straps boiled into a fucking disgusting aspic!!!! The same shit I've been eating since November!!! I was livid — the other guests took a little to be polite, which then filled them up before my special dessert! Have you ever experienced such a thing?? How fucking RUDE!

They will NEVER be invited over again!

part 2

The end is near...

"So don’t treat this like a base election. Democrats are already guaranteed a nominee that will excite their base and drive a big turnout. His name is Donald Trump. Getting activists “excited” by bold policy positions is a waste of time. You could get every Democrat in California so excited that they all voted twice and it would make not the slightest difference to the outcome of the election. All that matters is getting voters in Michigan who have become uncomfortable and disenchanted with Donald Trump to vote for you once.

Never Trumper hopes and dreams: I'll vote for almost any Democrat, but lurching left won't beat Trump

The people you really have to motivate aren’t the Democratic base, they’re the people in the middle who have been unsettled by Trump’s presidency. They can see what Trump is and will happily vote for a reasonable alternative. But if Democrats offer what appears to them as a choice between death by hanging and death by firing squad, a lot of them will just give up and not vote at all."

Scary times...

No words

After all the rain. It's a pleasant summer evening after the hideous heat wave. Yesterday was in the high 90s, and my weather app warned me:

Air Quality: POOR. Possibly Dangerous For Sensitive Individuals.

I immediately thought of DL. Everyone okay?

Only if you had to choose:

My boss I am fat cunt but I was able to quit my job today. I can’t wait to be done with her.

She is probably hiding.

Pelosi landed a solid burn on freshmen Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley “All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” Pelosi was quoted by Maureen Dowd. “But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”

Well 𝗢𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗼-𝗖𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘇 took it pretty personally.

Her first tweet was loaded with snark as she implied that Pelosi is out of touch with the public. “That public ‘whatever’ is called public sentiment,” she wrote. She also said that the power of that sentiment is how “we actually” achieve change. That “actually” is another obvious dig. She’s saying that the old, establishment Democrats don’t know what the Democrat base wants, and haven’t done anything worthwhile anyway.

“I don’t believe it was a good idea for Dems to blindly trust the Trump admin when so many kids have died in their custody,” she said, obliquely laying the deaths of children at Pelosi’s doorstep. She then more explicitly said that “people’s lives are getting bargained” by Democrats like Pelosi in their attempts to work with Republicans.

A few hours later, Ocasio-Cortez went in on Pelosi again. In that tweet, she explicitly defended herself for her Twitter-focused activism and political base. Perhaps in the intervening time the responses by her followers compelled her to defend them. And she went after the whole party while she was at it. “I haven’t dialed for dollars *once* this year, & have more time to do my actual job. Yet we’d rather campaign like it’s 2008,” she said.

On Sunday, ABC’s Martha Raddatz asked Rep. 𝗧𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗯 about it, and she, too, spared no kind words or caveats as she likewise bashed the Speaker in response.

Raddatz quoted Pelosi’s comments, prompting Tlaib to offer a response.

“ But many of us have been missing in the halls of Congress. More people like us, people of color have been missing in the chamber Tlaib replied, immediately framing it as an us vs. them along racial lines, with Pelosi being the “them.”

“And I’ll tell you right now, we’re not going to stand by and sit idly by and allow brown and dark-skinned children to be ripped away from their parents to be dehumanized,” she added, obviously suggesting that Pelosi doesn’t care about the children as much as she should, because of their race or ethnicity.

Honor the fact we are there, that 650,000 people are represented by each and every single one of us, that there is some sort of, I think in many ways, something special about having a refugee, having a woman that, you know, has experienced alone what incarceration has done to her family, right,” said Tlaib. “All of us have these experiences that I think have been missing in the halls of Congress.”

Again, by saying it has been missing, it’s a very straightforward attack the party establishment as being old and white and not representative of or invested in the lives of people or communities of color.

“Honor that, respect that, put us at the table,” said Tlaib. “Let’s come up with a solution together.”

She took an aside to defend again her no vote, over which Raddatz had earlier challenged her, and then went back to bashing Pelosi.

“Uplift the women, especially the women of color, within your caucus that are out there because I’ll tell you more people like us, more people like me that come out to vote, we win, all of us win,” she began, as Raddatz cut in to tell her they were out of time.

“It is very disappointing that the Speaker would ever try to diminish our voices in so many ways,” Tlaib got in before they had to end the interview and toss to the break.

Michigan Congressman and former Republican 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗵 said that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi should have kept her mouth shut about impeaching President Donald Trump if she wasn’t prepared to begin the process.

On Sunday morning;s edition of CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper, host and anchor Jake Tapper asked Amash if Pelosi is bungling the impeachment issue.

What are some things over which you are “not a fan”?

1. I’ll start. Genocide. I’m just not a fan.

2. Nazi occupied Europe. I don’t know why. It just seems wrong.

3. Unclear, verbose language

Interested?

I'm appalled.

“Our country is in a crisis," Burgess said in an exclusive statement to Billboard. "This man in power has put much of the US under a sleeping spell that is slowly transforming into apathy from the rest of us. This song is a call to wake up and realize that this state we’re in can be changed and must be changed, as we the people are the hope and future of America.”

Thank CHRIST I'm not a woman.

Well?

Aren't you sick of winning?

"We don't need to bleed."

I'M SO FUCKING EXCITED I FEEL LIKE I'M 21 AGAIN

are you excited?

FIVE! YEARS!

Can you! Believe it?

Reminds me of a story, a long, long story.

*overture plays*

more naked hard cocks needed!

Continue discussing the beautiful Miles Heizer as him and his beautiful bf Connor Jessup inch out of the closet

What reason did he give for leaving GH?

So many of their films were terrible but somehow when I saw the Cannon logo I wanted to see the latest release from Cannon.

My favourite remains Salsa: The Motion Picture!

What's your favourite Cannon movie?

He's 'performing' all summer in PTown. Can someone please get some more juice from our boy?

The Morning Party, dancing shoulder to shoulder around a pool with hundreds of the most beautiful men in the world, The Pavillion , it was a gay man's utopia. No longer exists, please share your stories!

They won’t be prosecuting Donald Trump.

How creepy

Rack 'Em Up

Since I haven't been given any screen time in, well, forever, these days I've been reduced to hustling for my supper. Thank god I really know how to handle a stick! (at least that's what HE said...wink-wink!)

EKOS Poll:

FORD-LED PCs HURTING SCHEER IN ONTARIO

[June 17, 2019] The political landscape is now clearly shifting in favour of the Liberals and to the detriment of the Conservatives. The Scheer-led Conservatives have seen their 11-point lead from just a month ago shrink to a narrow 2.7-point lead as of last night.

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THREE-DAY ROLL UP

CONSERVATIVE (33.6)

LIBERAL (30.9)

GREEN (13.6)

NDP (11.9)

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SIX DAY ROLL-UP

CONSERVATIVE (34.2)

LIBERAL (30.1)

GREEN (13.2)

NDP (12.0)

What do we think?

How did this commercial ever make it past the censors?

It's pretty vile.

(CNN) An Ohio jury has ordered Oberlin College to pay $11 million to a bakery which said it was libeled and wrongfully accused of racially profiling students.

The case stems from the November 2016 arrests of three black Oberlin students at Gibson's Bakery and market near the college's campus in Oberlin, Ohio.

One student, Jonathan Aladin, was accused of attempted robbery for allegedly trying to "steal wine or otherwise illegally obtain wine" from the bakery, according to a defamation lawsuit. He would eventually confess in a written statement to buying alcohol illegally.

Two other suspects, Cecelia Whettston and Endia J. Lawrence, were arrested and accused of misdemeanor assault, court documents state.

After that, Oberlin staff members tried to discredit the family-owned bakery, the lawsuit says.

Oberlin College staff -- including deans and professors -- and students engaged in demonstrations in front of Gibson's Bakery following the arrests of the three students, the lawsuit stated.

The suit also said Oberlin Vice President and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo and other college staff members "handed out hundreds of copies" of a flier to the community and the media stating that Gibson's Bakery and its owners racially profiled and discriminated against the three students. (cont.)

Just posted on YT.

Discuss.

That’s so sad. :(

Ansel could rest his chin on top of the head of the next tallest Jet.

[QUOTE]The study claims the increase in the rodent population wasn’t linked to environmental factors but correlates with local governments banning certain pest control methods. It also cited the spike in cities' homeless populations and accompanied filthy conditions.

What the hell happened?

Continue talking about this ambiguously gay duo!

Ryan Seacrest and Shayna Taylor "broke-up" after three years. He's now with Larissa Schot, twenty years his junior. What are the financial arrangements for being a beard?

We have one thread about Australian gossip, so why not about Canadian. Lets talk about major and minor celebs here. Who is gay, who is closeted?

As a twink myself, I sort of feel that we’re inferior. Expected to be submissive, sort of like the women in a male/female relationship. Do you think twinks should be inferior to men? I’m still trying to figure out the role I must take on.

I need a free flight change. How do I solicit sympathy or respect to get my favored outcome? I’m thinking a British accent or Downs and a story about seeing my teddy bear.

What's the difference?

I'd aver that a tramp is a cheap young lady who sleeps around, while a hussy is an older woman that goes after married women's husbands.

But I suspect DLers will have opinions on both tramps and hussies.

Fun with animals!

Since the first thread maxed out. So bring on more talk about gay porn theaters!

He got all of 21 months.

Gay or Mormon?

Who's had him?

You know what they say, bowties save lives :)

Have you indulged in these nasal delicacies?

And I like it. None of the manic "on" persona. He's a quite talented artist.

I from Iowa. My family is be very concerned about Hillary and her emails. Why she not be in jail for all her pizza crimes?

What do you say?

.....but forget to tell anyone it's just a drill.

OOPSIE DAISY!

Well?

Let's hope.

I have been dating a man for about nine months now. He invited me to come on vacation with him this week with a few other couples. We’re staying in one of those really big cabins in Tennessee and there are a total of five couples (two gay, three straight). He and I have a bedroom to ourselves, but last night I noticed some loud sex noises coming from two of the couples.

When I commented that they weren’t bashful, he told me that they do this every year on their “friendcation.” They have a competition to see which couple can have the most sex in a week, some of them do it kind of loud so they prove their standings. He was sure to follow it up by telling me we didn’t have to participate if I wasn’t comfortable, which made me feel a little better.

Is this normal? I’ve never heard of it, but maybe I’m just really vanilla.

More disturbing is some people in the line tell the woman to "Leave"

A spokesperson for the gas station told CBS the “employee has been suspended while the investigation is conducted. We are aware of the situation and take matters seriously.” Really they didn't give him a raise? Just a lousy suspension?

The original thread died because it is now subscription only, but this cute couple deserve their own thread.

So do we still hate her?

Trans weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has secured two gold medals the Pacific Games in Samoa.

Hubbard took the gold in the over-89kg competition which took place on Saturday (13 July).

The New Zealander bested competition favorites, Samoa’s Feagaiga Stowers and Iuniana Sipaia.

This is a remarkable comeback for the athlete who suffered a potentially career-ending elbow injury at last year’s Commonwealth Games.

She is currently working to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

Hubbard, 41, won the overall title by lifting 268kg, with Stowers lifting 261kg, and Sipaia lifting 255kg.

However, Sipaia managed to secure a gold medal for discipline after Hubbard failed at a clean and jerk lift, Inside the Games reports.

There was a cheer from the crowd when Hubbard was unable to make the lift. In response, she blew kisses at the crowd before leaving the competition platform.

Hubbard had been the favorite to win gold at last year’s Commonwealth Games which took place in Australia’s Gold Coast.

However, she was forced to pull out of the competition after suffering a serious elbow injury while attempting a lift.

It was later confirmed that she had ruptured a ligament in her arm which required surgery. There had been speculation that Hubbard would retire from weightlifting following the injury.

She is now working making the qualification criteria for next year’s Olympic Games. This will involve competing in six international events in under 18 months.

Hubbard has faced backlash over her rights to compete in female competitions in the past.

She had competed in male in weightlifting events before transitioning to female in her mid-30s.

A number of female athletes have come out in opposition to Hubbard being able to compete in women’s sports at an elite level.

This follows a 2016 ruling by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) which allowed athletes who are transitioning from male to female to participate without restriction.

IOC rules state that those transitioning must maintain their testosterone levels below a certain level for at least 12 months.

The IOC ruled that Hubbard met this criteria and was able to compete in women’s events. Olympic chiefs have come forward in defense of Hubbard’s right to compete in the past.

Walford's favorite gay.

Tom Hooper is attached to direct and produce a feature adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s musical “Cats” that is quickly coming together at Universal Pictures and Working Title, an individual familiar with the situation has told TheWrap.

Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce for Working Title along with Debra Hayward and Hooper. Cameron Mackintosh, who produced the original “Cats” musical, is also expected to produce the feature adaptation, just as he did with Universal and Working Title’s “Les Miserables.”

“Cats” is based on T.S. Eliot’s poetry collection “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.” First performed in the West End in 1981, the musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles who must decide which one of them will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.

Hooper has been linked to a “Cats” movie for months, first by The Sun, and then by the Daily Mail. According to their sources, the director is in the midst of deciding how to approach the adaptation — be it with actors, CG-characters or a combination of the two, a la Jon Favreau‘s “The Jungle Book.”

And you bitches thought I was getting shit-canned. HA!

NOW who has the last laugh?

We have one at work. When it’s not going down because there is a leak in one or more of the 15,000 joints, it’s going down because it can’t cope with the heat. It also flooded the whole office with a foot of water.

Suckers.

At least Tommy got Glen Powell's shirt off.

Very excited to see Ewan Mc Gregor play brothers! Saw the trailer today.

[QUOTE]The former Massachusetts busboy who accused Kevin Spacey of sexual assault has abruptly dropped his lawsuit against the actor, his lawyer said Friday.

So there are two guy's I know in my area, who were married to women. One for over 20 years, the other for nearly 10 years. Both raised Catholic. They've both partially been out as gay for less than 10 years. Anyway, both of them still talk about their ex wives pretty regularly. I don't care to listen to them etc, but, one still wears his wedding ring, and the other has kids and still confides in his ex wife, but then tells me how she breaks his trust and is cruel. I've told them both that they need to stop communicating with their ex wives anymore than necessary, especially because they are the ones who make out like they still love them, but also hate them. It's weird.

Sometimes I think they are bisexual because one time I asked how they both were able to have sex for so long with their ex wives, and both of them said it was easy. Are they lying? Also, these two guys were sexual with each other in the past when one of them was still married, and since then they both hate each other. Neither will tell their side of the story when I've asked. Which is also weird. Any of you have similar stories or experiences? Also, this isn't a trolling post. This is real, and this isn't to shit stir anything.

Say your goodbyes to Thomas.

A new study scanned 22,484 pornography sites and found them riddled with trackers from major technology companies.

‘Top Gun 2’: Jerry Bruckheimer Generates Excitement With Tom Cruise Tweet

January 27, 2016 | 03:13PM PT, Alyssa Sage

Jerry Bruckheimer amped up the excitement for the production of “Top Gun 2” Tuesday when he tweeted a photo with Tom Cruise.

“Just got back from a weekend in New Orleans to see my old friend @TomCruise and discuss a little Top Gun 2,” the producer‘s tweet read.

Bruckheimer produced “Top Gun,” the Oscar-winning 1986 action drama that starred Cruise as young Navy pilot Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell.

Development of “Top Gun 2” was confirmed last year by Skydance CEO David Ellison, who also shared some details about the plot.

“It is very much a world we live in today where it’s drone technology and fifth generation fighters… It’s really exploring the end of an era of dogfighting and fighter pilots and what that culture is today,” said Ellison at a “Terminator Genisys” press junket last June. The exec also hinted that Cruise would be returning to reprise his role as Maverick. “There is an amazing role for Maverick in the movie, and there is no ‘Top Gun’ without Maverick, and it is going to be Maverick playing Maverick,” Ellison said.

Val Kilmer, who played Lt. Tom “Iceman” Kazanski in the original, announced on Facebook in November that he was offered a role in the sequel as well, adding, “not often you get to say ‘yes’ without reading the script.”

You too Boris. Let's hear from you too.

Just had some hot white trailer trash sex this entire weekend. He was a longhaired thin’ish twink’ish trailer trash type. Dirty blond hair. Wet and wild. Did did just about everything you’ve ever fantasized about from blowjob, deep long wet kissing, fucking to cumswaping. Dam!!! When he fucked me he was absolutely serious about it. Long hard sweaty strokes for what lasted like hours (though only about 20 minutes). When he came, I felt it!

jealous?

WTF is wrong with him?

You may not be able to pronounce his name.. but he's hot! And gay!

Aren't you glad we don't have gutted deer carcasses hanging in grocery stores anymore?

I met someone recently who it turns out used to frequent Datalounge 15 years ago. He said the most notorious poster then was someone named David Ehrenstein, who had something to do with journalism. Who was he, and why was he so notorious?

Specifically macchu picchu? My partner has been itching for this trip for awhile and we might finally do it.

What was it like? Recommendations?

Whatever the genre.

Just saw a play today at Williamstown called Selling Kabul (just OK) about an Afghani man who had been an interpreter for the Americans and now in hiding from the Taliban.

I remember seeing an Off Broadway play in NYC within the last decade or so with a similar that dealt with both the interpreters and their U.S. military contacts. It was much better but I can't recall the title. Been trying multiple Google searches but not successful.

TIA.

Whatever happened to this homo? Is he acting in anything these days?

About Judy Garland? I know one of you bitches has it.

What's the name of the blond piece of ass in this video? I remember he was semi-famous for a while...

Another 600 posts for Chambo fans to discuss Chandler Massey and his pecs/implants. Recently, Chambo revealed he's had body issues for a few years, but don't worry, his NuPecs and NuAbs are fine now! Currently, Chambo plays gay Will Horton on Days, who's DYING from a Brain Tumor any day now! But he's got to have his gay wedding before he dies! Priority! So can Will survive to show off his NuPecs and NuAbs in shirtless scenes this summer?!

I can't really tell.

Anyone else watching this campy ass show about beauty pageants?

"No one over 31"

He's homely, short, and is a sex worker. But he has standards!

"Just saw the "vote no" message in the sky, looming over Sydney. Thank you for raising money and hiring on a plane to write your lack of support amongst the clouds. I hope your hate and lack of understanding fades, just like those words will. Too many of my friends have been kicked out of their homes, kept in the closet, beat up, killed, ridiculed by church and state, institutionalized... and you are scared that if we vote YES, you won't be able to show your hate for Us. Fuck that. We've been scared shitless our whole lives thanks to all the stigmas that surround Us, stigmas that were set in place by the same kind of people who flew that plane over Sydney. We've fought, we've come out bravely even in our fear, and you wrote a message in the sky because you're scared. Equality takes courage, it worries me that too many people in this world lack the balls to stand up for what is right.#fuckhate"

Apricot juice with champagne and Amaretto. Tasty but the roof of my mouth is tingling after the first sips. Do I need an Epipen?

DL's second-fave Rethug-hunk called Hair Furor's rally "Chilling"

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GOP lawmaker: Chant at Trump rally 'would send chills down the spines of our Founding Fathers'

I know we don't like Friedman around here, but he makes a compelling case. Donny Deutsch said this on Colbert too.

It seems Jussie is forever written off Empire, would it not be a great idea to have him land on his feet on POSE? He still can act and he still can sing and dance. It would be a controversial move, but maybe a good thing for both Jussie and the show. He still has his support in the LGBT and Black communities. Not as far fetched as it seems perhaps. I would still watch, anyone else?

It will be set in 1950s Kansas City for some reason.

He's training for a natural bodybuilding competition and he's straight, as far as I know. How can I get him to flex and show me his muscles without seeming like a lecherous troll?

I already tried the "Do you still have visible abs?" line when we were talking about his bodybuilding competition, and he said yes, but he didn't lift his shirt to show them to me.

(Thread image is an approximation of trainer).

New theme for ninth season announced.

This will be the first season Evan Peters sits out.

Emma Roberts will play the lead. Supposedly the show will make reference to many 80s slasher films.

This is juicy. I miss Barbara Walter's ole scandal interviews.

Why'd Cindy Birdsong not participate in the tour either?

the daughter sure was uggggggg...leeee

Guess the 15 year just could resist

Kennedy’s death was perhaps the last great celebrity story of its era, triggering a flood of covers on magazines from Newsweek to Time to People, as well as a slew of commemorative magazines, full of tributes to a man positioned as an American prince. The August 2, 1999 cover of People said it all: “CHARMED LIFE, TRAGIC DEATH.” It was the end of an era, but not in the way that the money-minting, blockbuster popular People realized. It was a high water mark for celebrity magazines’ place in the world, and for an entire model of celebrity.

A highly specific set of circumstances, both cultural and chronological, combined to make JFK Jr as famous as he was, but it’s impossible to separate his anointed place in American culture from the media that so loved him, especially magazines. The internet has completely transformed the way we consume information, so it’s easy to forget the power of general-interest magazines, like Time and Life, during the midcentury—and the Kennedy family looked very, very good in those pages. First, there was his childhood as “John John,” the adorable toddler of a young, photogenic president; his place in the national consciousness was cemented by the famous shot of Kennedy saluting his father’s casket. The image would follow him for the rest of his life, even as he repeatedly reminded everyone who asked him that he had no memory of the moment, because he was three years old.

Next month marks the 22nd anniversary of Princess Diana's death, but her spirit lives on in her sons, William and Harry, and, if you believe in reincarnation, she also lives on in a four-year-old named Billy. Billy, who is the son of Australian singer David Campbell, thinks that he used to be the famous royal.

David wrote about his son in Stellar Magazine, calling the story the "weirdest" thing he's ever written. In it, he details how at the age of two, Billy saw a photo of Diana and said, "Look, it's me when I was a princess." Even though Billy was never told about Di's life, he later told his family about his brother, John. Billy doesn't have a brother by that name, but Diana did, though he died before she was born.

Billy also started to refer to his two "boys," and when asked about who he meant, the then three-year-old boy said his "sons."

Stranger still, Billy told his dad's Scottish friend that he used to go to a castle in Scotland, describing it as being called Balmoral and having "unicorns on it." Balmoral is the royal family's Scottish getaway and, since the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland, it does indeed have unicorns on the walls, but there is no way for Billy to have known that.

Most chilling of all came recently, when Billy discussed Diana's passing. After seeing another photo of her he stated, "There's me as a princess. Then one day the sirens came and I wasn't a princess anymore." That seems to reference August 31, 1997, the day Diana was killed in a car crash in Paris.

Accused or raping Esther Williams in "Unguarded Moment"

I saw it on TV a few nights ago and I thought it was pretty good. A bit "Hollywood" - maybe if it had been British made (when they're good at these things...) but all round it was a good "story", well told.

How does this bitch get away with it? Fake funbags are a dime a dozen. She must have really great.....kneepads.

Walked around on stage and elsewhere with huge, flopping hard-on dicks! You could touch for a tip.

Actually, I was impressed with the entire gay club. 4 stories tall, with 12 different rooms with different music (80s, techno, ranchera, etc.) Beautiful men everywhere. Not just in the club, but all over Bogota.

And gay men everywhere. Bogota has to be one of the underrated gayest cities in the world.

He’s so beautiful and youthful too. Pity about the tattoos.

I think it's pretentious when people use this style to write dates: 7.18.19

I have experienced UFO activity all of my life. I have seen them alone, with friends, and family. People who have never seen them, after a few months around me will have sightings with me. Twice I saw them so close I could make out detail.

Ring any bells?

A totally hot pig bottom/versatile slut with an ass that won't quit. Fisting, spitroasting, BDSM--you name it, he's done it. He was a bit twinkish when he started off in porn but built his body up and became a hot, hairy daddy later in his career. He was also a regular on American Bandstand in the mid '80s.

Any more stories about him?

Just happened, all Rethugs and about half of Democrats voted to table (debt) a motion to impeach Trump.

So much for that.

Too bad about the losing control at work and getting fired.

GFMs are the answer to everything now?

[quote]Life is a journey full of surprises, joys and sadness. Mine has been no exception. Losing my parents at a young age and overcoming many obstacles wasn’t easy and still isn’t easy. My joys? My two sons Braedon, 11 and Carter, 4. They’re the reason I get up each and every day, the reason I never give up and the reason I always have a positive outlook. Recently, my family was broken up as my wife Ashley moved out. During all of the drama and stress, I wasn’t myself and lost my cool at work and was let go.

[quote]So I found myself a dad, a single dad, with no job and no family to turn to for help. I began doubting myself and my abilities but never let them overcome me as I cannot let that happen. I have two small boys to support and love. I am actively looking for full time work and know this patch of life will one day be over and life will be back to normal because my boys are my whole world. I ask for any help through this difficult time, not as a man, but as a father. I have been very humbled during this time and will continue to humble myself for the sake of my children. I am so thankful in advance for any kind words or support.

Over the past year or so it seems like about a dozen friends and acquaintances, gay and straight, have gone down to CDMX on vacation and come back raving about it. Basic takeaway is:

* It's no longer even remotely dangerous. There are still bad areas, but the parts of town you'll be in are as safe as any major American city and there are police everywhere.

* The food is amazing and there's a big foodie sceene

* The weather is close to perfect--almost always in the low to mid 70s, only rains in summer and then just for a few hours, cools off at night

* Lots of great museums and things to see.

* Ubers everywhere and very inexpensive

* Very open and accepting gay scene--marriage is legal and all that

* Still relatively inexpensive

* Not overrun by American tourists

Just passing it on. We have planned a trip for October, will fill you in when we get back.

Any DLers been recently or even live there?

Up through the 1990s the GOP was competitive in California. Then Prop 186 a 1994 ballot initiative to establish a state-run citizenship screening system and prohibit illegal immigrants from using non-emergency health care, public education, and other services was put forward and Republican Governor Pete Wilson became the most prominent supporter and face of the initiative.

It passed, but was ultimately overturned by the courts.

The lasting effect however was to permanently turn a generation of voters against the GOP, which now doesn't hold a single statewide office.

Trump and the current crop of Republican's behavior threatens a similar dynamic at the national level.

"Next year, the entire under-18 population will be majority non-white, according to Brookings demographer William Frey. In less than a decade, the under-30 population will be majority non-white."

The situation in the DRC is perfect storm for an epidemic: civil unrest, weak or non-existent medical infrastructure, dense, mobile population, lack of resources at all levels and a low information environment prone to rumour and lack of trust in government.

Joel McHale's Hair Transplant

Because he is a changed man now and championing for liberal causes for years.

I mean, Joy Reid didnt lose anything

I'm about to go away for a few weeks and I'm trying to find some good gay themed novels to read. Someone sent me this link and there were some books on there that I haven't read, but I'm still looking for others. Any suggestions not on this list?

Hmmmmm. He “accidentally” hit her, huh?

DL sleuths, what say you?

No matter how many times I have watched this movie, I will never quite understand the relationship between the mother (Erica) and daughter (Nina). It seemed kind of incestuous at times. Like when Erica manipulates Nina into eating the cake. She sticks a finger full of frosting in Nina's mouth and seems to really enjoy it. That isn't normal at all. Or when she insists on putting Nina to bed and watching her sleep. When Nina goes out with her friend, Erica waits up to confront Nina like a jealous lover. What was Aronofsky going for here?

Oh and Mila was much better than Natalie. Wonder why she didn't get more credit.

I'm a woman in my early 30's and still have that pipedream of moving to NYC someday, but with each passing year, I ask myself if I should just forget about it. Is it too far away from my family. However, I’m realising that I am not a person with regrets and I have therefore started to appreciate that in a years time I should totally move to NY. Now, I would enjoy this a lot more if I had someone else to go on this adventure with and I figured that there has to be someone else out there who is looking to move to NY in a years time. I have a youthful spirit and I try to live my best life every day. I get on with most people. I’m driven and with ambition. I have lived in multiple countries over the span of a decade, all on my own, but this time I want to share the experience with someone else. A potential female friend would be the dream. None of my friends share the same idea so if anyone out there are planning to do the same reach out :)

Is it just me, or has the old “Search” function disappeared? I even pay the fee!

Complete that sentence for celebrities in the performing arts.

For example: Bette Midler is the poor man's Barbra Streisand.

I definitely felt that way when I was growing up in the late 70s and early 80s, and to some extent I still think it is true (even though I much prefer Midler as a comedian and performer to Streisand, if not as a voice).

There’s woman who calls herself “Chantal” working at Diesel...and I’m pretty sure she’s Fiona Apple.

First of all was he some sort of icon?

I watched "What's My Line," and Arlene comes out and says they have a "secret mystery panelist" so she can't introduce the person next to here, but does introduce Arlene. Arlene comes out and says she doesn't know who it is, but introduced Elmer Fudd, I mean Bennett.

Bennet says he doesn't know who the panelist is and introduces John Daly, who reveals it to be Jerry Lewis. And the crowd goes wild.

Jerry sucks at the game, but they have a lady who sells reducing pills, and the lady is fat.

So Arlene, Dorothy and Bennett, narrow it down to something you "eat." Then Jerry out of turns blurts out, "if she's selling it, it must be reducing pills." Which it is. And then after getting it, embarrassing her, he says, "Hey John I have another question for her, how come she doesn't use her product."

The lady says, "I'll have you know Mr Lewis, I've lost 40 pounds using these pills and plan to lose another 50."

And Jerry says, "You'd be better off gaining the 50 pounds, that way you could play tackle on the Giants."

Saved by Amazon after SyFy's cancellation. Which means Steven Strait got a beard and will be presenting hole in every other scene. Hopefully.

[quote]Season 4 is based on Cibola Burn - Book 4 in The Expanse novels. By using the Ring Gate, humanity now has access to thousands of Earth-like planets — and Ilus is the first one to be explored. Much of the conflict in the first three seasons has been between the warring nations of Earth, Mars and the Belt; in Season 4, the existence of habitable planets on the other side of the Ring Gate creates a land rush. However, these early explorers don’t understand these new worlds and are not prepared for the dangers that await them.

As a gayling, I grew up close enough to NYC to get their tv channels. I saw all the commercials for Broadway musicals. From about third grade until I graduated high school, I was *the* expert authority on Broadway musicals. I didn't know squat about cooking, china, decor, clothing or Joan Crawford movies. But I could tell you every Broadway show that Julie Andrews had done. I could sing every song that was on a cast album (I knew Evita better than Patti LuPone). I knew who the current Annie was. And I could tell you that 42nd Street was in its second smash year.

What type of gayling were you?

Posted in another thread. Purports to show a haunting.

Mine:

Domenico Cresti, [italic] The Bathers at San Niccolò [/italic]

A fishy friend wants to please her man with a summer taste treat.

37 counts

I love a fiery bush.

Just because.

I don't mean heaven or an afterlife, they don't exist, but from the POV of a coroner. What do they do to the body to determine cause of death? Why do they sometimes opt not to do an autopsy?

I'm watching her in [b]The Mortal Storm[/b] on TCM and she is just terrible. I mean, you root for the Nazis to shoot better in the last reel. I can't remember any role, even [b]Back Street[/b] or [b]The Shop Around the Corner[/b], where she isn't dull, boring, or just plain shit.

She is the Blythe Danner of the 1930s and 1940s.

Continúa tu discusión sobre la señorita Shawn Mendes, totalmente heterosexual y no del todo gay, aquí.

Investigators looking into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have discovered a “mysterious 200lb load” added to the flight list after take-off, according to an engineer whose wife and two children were on board.

Ghyslain Wattrelos said the cargo was revealed in a report on the passengers and baggage by French investigators.

Mr Wattrelos, who believes the flight was deliberately downed, told Le Parisien newspaper: “It was also learned that a mysterious load of 89 kilos was added to the flight list after take-off. A container was also overloaded, without anyone knowing why. It may be incompetence or manipulation. Everything is possible. This will be part of the questions for the Malaysians.”

MH370 became one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries when it vanished with 239 people on board en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.

French investigators who examined flight data at Boeing’s headquarters in Seattle believe that the pilot was in control of the airliner “right up to the end”.

Mr Wattrelos said the investigators told him the data “lends weight” to the theory that the pilot crashed into the sea in a murder-suicide, although they stressed that there was no proof. The investigators expect it to take up to a year to examine the data fully.

However, some experts believe a hijack by a stowaway is a possibility and the mysterious load could lend credence to the theory. Tim Termini, an aviation security specialist, told Channel 5 earlier this month: “It’s highly likely that a hijack took place and again, there’s four options for the hijack.

"One is the hijack of the aircraft through a crew member. The second is a hijack coming from a passenger. A third option, which is a fairly unusual one, would be a stowaway. And then of course the fourth option is an electrical takeover of the aircraft from a ground-based station.”

Mr Wattrelos, 54, who has led a campaign to find out what happened to the flight, acknowledged that “there is a risk that I may never learn the full truth.”

Deplorables in the crowd go wild:

ONLY 23 years old.

I guess I’m just a slut. There have been times when I’ve slept with my accountant, lawyer, and real estate agent. I never thought much about until someone recently “let it be known” that they think it makes me whorish. Yes, I suppose I am a bit of a whore, but I’ve embraced it.

But am I the only one who’s done this?

It's been extolled by the likes of Kate Hudson and numerous other celebrities; is it actually magic in a jar, or is it all just marketing hype? It has literally six ingredients, the primary one being olive oil, followed by a mixture of honey byproducts produced by bees. It's a bit expensive, but apparently the jars last a long time. Does it do anything?

Could this be Trumpian coded language that means homosexual? Why is he referring to Pete like you'd refer to a stunning horse/car?

[quote]I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about. - Andy Warhol

Please get Morehouse’s attention. Myself and other students have suffered too long!!

Australian professional rugby league footballer

With a few tweets and dog whistles, Trump has seized the narrative. The DP is checkmated. What can be done to win?

As requested - continuation of the 2018 thread

[quote]There's no time like the present. Or the past. Or the future.

The final season premieres on FX June 24.

Move over Cruiseship Grandpa! There’s a new killer Grandpa in town!

Versus how much they don't get?

After all, they have to wine and dine their dates before even getting near sex.

Could someone tell me what the best anal bleaching cream is that doesn't require going to the dermatologist to get prescription strength hydroquinone?

Thanks!

How well do you know your ass?

Remember? The one fined £1,000 for shooting porn on the London Tube. His current oeuvre includes cum-dumpstering bukkake with random dicks of all ages on offer in the dunes of the Canaries.

Is he really this stupid, or is he putting on a character with this language:

"Welcome to GranCan50 - the names saids it all - we fuck over 50 people Live for you to see Me Josh and Robin head of to the sand dunes

If you get off on young british lads letting strangers fuck them as use them as a dirty fucking cum dump whitest there mates are egging them on! Then u will love this - Taking Raw Fick In Real Life outdoor orgy… loads of Fit guys!!

and after getting done bareback then More cruising after when two BIG picked lads both make me open my mouth and poke out my tongue so they can both stick there loads in my mouth and make me take it….Wicked faecals!!!!"

(all sic - as written)

Gasp! The trust fund millennials and the older, fatter millionaire CEO are not seeing eye to eye!

I also love The Daily Beast's subhead where they attempt to make the situation sound dire and racist with careful wording:

[quote]Leaning on editors to be nice to advertisers. Asking for sites to quadruple their traffic—with no new resources. Relocating to roach-filled offices. Publicly remarking about ethnic stereotypes.

GASP!

In fact the whole article is an example of this. Wonder if the author was a former Gawker employee.

I'd post the link, but DL keeps returning "Bad URL" which means either the Daily Beast has been newly blocked or some bad coding is causing it to be rejected.

The headline on the site is "Gizmodo Media Staff Enraged at New CEO’s ‘Insane’ Direction"

Seriously.

I'm obsessed with her music and her videos.

I love shopping at Target. I'm a cheap assed ho. I do not buy their clothing. I'm there, like, everyday! I am really getting fucked up in the head too. The cashier told me "the receipt is in the bag" and my response was "you too". OMG! lol.

The new season starts today (5/28). I've missed Deran and Adrian and their developing relationship. Last we saw, Deran was house hunting, looking for a place for them to live together. Problem is that Adrian had just gotten busted with drugs hidden in his surfing equipment. I am hoping that everything works out for these two crazy kids.

Not looking forward to seeing Mia, J's skanky assassin girlfriend. They keep hooking him up with crazy chicks, like that teacher, that drugged out teenager Nicky and now this one. Ugh.

No link yet.

An Illinois woman stabbed her boyfriend's genitals last month because he tried to break up with her, police said Wednesday. The incident happened in Decatur, about 80 miles south of Peoria, on June 24, according to police. The 43-year-old boyfriend told police he had tried to break up with his 30-year-old girlfriend and she apparently refused. The woman grabbed the man in a "bear hug," from which he broke free, said Decatur Police Officer Tim Wittmer. She then grabbed her boyfriend's genitals and began to "pull and tug at these body parts to the point that it was painful," Wittmer added. The boyfriend felt a "very sharp pain" and "observed a large laceration on his scrotum area," Wittmer said. He added that the wound was "five to six (inches) in length" and "half-an-inch deep."

The woman was arrested Sunday on a preliminary charge of aggravated domestic battery, the Herald & Review reported. Her identity was not released.

FLORIDA WOMAN SQUEEZED BOYFRIEND'S GENITALS 'UNTIL THEY BLED': COPS

[quote]Kentucky Democrat Amy McGrath, a former fighter pilot who rose to national prominence last year in her failed campaign for Congress against Republican Andy Barr, is turning her sights on a new target: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

[quote]McGrath's candidacy marks a significant recruiting coup for Democrats. She emerged as an unlikely fundraising juggernaut in her congressional race, bringing in millions of dollars after her campaign released a biographical video that went viral, and becoming a Democratic celebrity in the process.

[quote]In the race against McConnell, McGrath appears poised to run as a moderate seeking to break the partisan gridlock in Washington. In an interview Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," McGrath said she had watched the Democratic presidential debate and was concerned that many candidates were positioning themselves too far to the left.

“You have a system that is known for its ability to detect very small quantities of smoke,” Mr. Corbett said. “Yet the whole outcome of it is this clumsy human response. You can spend a lot to detect a fire, but it all goes down the drain when you don’t move on it.”

Actor James Stacy, star of 1960s Western 'Lancer,' dies

Actor James Stacy, best known for portraying the title role in the late 1960s Western TV series “Lancer,” has died in Ventura. He was 79 years old.

The actor died Sept. 9 from an allergic reaction to medication, Variety reported.

Born Maurice W. Elias in Los Angeles, Stacy worked steadily in television during the 1960s. His career was interrupted by a serious motorcycle accident that resulted in the loss of his left arm and left leg. He also encountered a variety of legal problems.

August 15, 1958 was a wonderful day.

François-Henri Pinault, the owner of Gucci promised €100m million. The Arnault family of Louis Vuitton promised €200 million. And hundreds of millions more were promised by other rich French.

But so far not one Euro has come from any of them.

“It would be a rather curious thing to do if this is about taking back control for Parliament to actually shut it down,”

Probably a lot of people killed were murdered by others and then dumped near the site so that it wouldn't be discovered that they were murdered and it was assumed they was like everyday victims.

He's right pretty much always so what do you all think?

He says in WWII that happened all the time, some guy got sick of his wife and shot her then said Nazis did it.

I’m a straight(-ish) woman in a relationship with a bisexual man. (We’re both in our early 30s.) He told me, soon after we got intimate, that he’s had sex with men for most of his adult life, though he’s only ever dated women. We got more serious, and we’re now exclusive and a year into our relationship. He’s always said he’s willing to be a one-person guy but would like to open things up when I feel ready, because he does have a high sex drive and desires that go in a lot of different directions. I now feel ready for this, but I’m struggling a bit with the limitations that I want to put on the situation. I really only feel OK with him seeing other men for sex, not women, and I’m not comfortable with him being the receptive partner with other men. This is mainly because of higher risk of STIs, though he’s said he would go on PrEP, but I also am just not comfortable with the idea of him putting himself in a vulnerable position with another man. (He said he’s done both positions in the past.) Are these reasonable boundaries to have, or am I overstepping? The discussions are just beginning, and I haven’t told him how I feel yet.

—Rules of Engagement

Dear Rules of Engagement,

I’ve noticed in my limited research on polyamorous people that veto rules are rather unchic. That is, most people I’ve talked to and read about within that community aren’t OK with their primary partners dictating the terms of any of their other partnerships (including whom those partnerships are with). It’s a lovely philosophy, the idea that the bond of love needs no rules, as well as a potential working example of the cliché that goes, “If you love something, set it free; if it comes back, it’s yours.” But I am sure it’s not without its drama. Personally, I can’t imagine an open scenario that isn’t informed by my partner’s wishes. (Granted, I am not poly, just slutty.)

So, speaking on principle, I don’t see anything wrong with you setting stipulations that will help make your partner’s dalliances more palatable for you. Practically speaking is another matter. I think, in general, you have to understand that his brain off sex and on sex are two very different entities. You can tell him you’d prefer that he didn’t bottom, but don’t be surprised if he ends up doing so because his dick was hard, the other dick looked like it needed a friend, and one thing led to another and his butt inhaled it. It’s really hard to referee each play remotely, though I think a general expectation of sexual safety (however you define that: condoms, PrEP, no fluid bonding, etc.) is crucial. I think you’ll have more success in drawing partner-gender boundaries, since coordinating is generally done before sex brain really sets in. This isn’t to say you shouldn’t set boundaries and your boyfriend shouldn’t follow them—I just think that particular one may be difficult to enforce.

To your STI concerns, yes, receptive partners typically are at higher risk, but you don’t have to bottom to be receptive. (If he’s giving head, he’s receptive, and if he’s like the vast majority of the population, he’s not using condoms when he does that.) Some STIs are highly contagious regardless of the position; I feel sometimes like a stiff breeze is all I need to contract gonorrhea. HPV is like glitter. I don’t mean to freak you out. I only want to point out that in light of this sea of threatening microbes we’ve found ourselves floating in, these positioning concerns often amount to splitting hairs. As to whether bottoming makes someone more vulnerable, it really depends on how you do it and whether you have predilections for vulnerability in the first place. Putting your dick in the mouth of a stranger who could bite it off without a hell of a lot of effort and of whose history you know nothing? Pretty damn vulnerable.

As for the rest, it’s going to play out the way it’s going to play out. In my own experience with open arrangements, another very effective guideline I have noticed is: “Don’t ask, don’t tell.”

Song of the Year

I don't

Heavy radio advertising. Rent your car or you can rent from them. Has anyone used the service?

Well? Plus age you are now and the age you came out would be nice. Ok go!!!!

I’m kind of obsessed with him (and his best friend Rogan). Hot ass British reality TV stars.

Joss has the most beautiful body. Just wow.

Well, well, well

Well?

There's a lot of fun for everyone

"...the biggest motive for FaceApp to collect your information is most likely ad targeting, and the motive to make a scary face-aging filter is likely just to jack up downloads so that more people are dumping info into the data set. There is really no reason to believe that the Russian government is doing something scary with pictures of your face."

Who watched and what'd you think? I think I could get used to looking at a shirtless Lincoln Younes... yum

Anyone going? Just bought my tickets. Could be interesting

And it’s so good! Even better than I remembered! Ike was a fucking MONSTER! And Laurence Fishburne was INCREDIBLE as him. A much deserved Oscar Nomination.

Even moreso, Angela Bassett shined in every freaking scene she was in. She NEVER missed one step. She devoured every scene and was incredible. I remember my mom and stepdad wanting her to win the Oscar that year and being so upset she lost. They felt this was the performance that should have the title for “First Black Actress” to win Lead at the Oscars.

The movie is heartbreaking at moments and hard to watch. The way Ike would beat on her is scary! The scene where he beats then rapes her always stuck in my mind.

But my favorite is when she had enough and fights back. Good.

LOVE Tina Turner!!!

Did you like it?

How'm I doin'?

I am starting a new thread to follow these anal retentive Instagays!

Frankly I'm not buying this. I'm far more inclined to believe that he is using this whole thing very strategically to amp up racial resentment and boost the white vote.

My fear is that he will be successful. It has been well documented that there are large numbers of the "white working class" that through apathy or other reasons haven't voted in the past. And they exist in large numbers. If he can rile them up enough to vote for him, he can compensate for the numbers turned off by him.

Of course, at the cost of making the nation more tribal, more racially divided, more uncivil and much, much harder to govern.

By what the hell does he care? He gets four more years to feed the bottomless pit of narcissistic, sociopathic neediness.

The board for self-confessed Actressexuals, gays obsessed with actresses. You can't find a more interesting place to discuss movies and legends than this. Where else can you get into a feud over Meryl Streep's filmography?

Let's talk the hottest - and bitchest- members too. Is Erik really that old? Why is Dirk a bitter queen? Is McTeague closeted?

Is Beto going broke?

According to a report from the Daily Beast, the Beto O’Rourke campaign had a brutal second quarter of fundraising — posting a meager $3.6 million. To put that figure in perspective, the first 18 days of the campaign resulted in a haul nearly triple that — $9.3 million.

In a statement published by the Beast, O’Rourke campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon didn’t even seem to try to sugarcoat the dismal figures.

“We always need more [money], but we have enough to execute our strategy —- for now,” O’Malley Dillon said in the statement.

The O’Rourke campaign got off to a rocky start earlier this year with the candidate coming under for saying he was “born” to run for president in a splashy rollout feature published by Vanity Fair. Since then, the former congressman from Texas — who lost narrowly to Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018 — has been struggling to gain momentum in the polls, with most showing him hovering near the two percent mark.

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In related news Marianne Williamson Polling Ahead Of Beto O’ Rourke, Corey Booker, And Kirsten Gillibrand In New Hampshire

The poll, released Monday from Saint Anselm College, shows that failed senate candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke’s support has vanished even though he began his campaign with media adoration. Since then, O’Rourke has apologized for various so-called transgressions, such as a joke about his marriage and his “white privilege.” Now he’s announcing that he and his wife are both descendants of slave owners as if that would help his campaign. So, it should come as no surprise that O’Rourke didn’t even register on the school’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics poll. He also had the second lowest approval rating (29.8%) despite having one of the highest name recognition scores (90.9%).

Following her odd-but-meme-worthy debate performance, self-help guru Marianne Williamson is now polling ahead of O’Rourke and other well-known candidates.

"...most machines used in factories and warehouses today are huge, static, and unintelligent things: designed to stay in one place and perform repetitive tasks. The robots of tomorrow, by comparison, will be agile and dynamic; capable of working alongside humans and reacting to changing environments and behavior. Incidentally, that’s why Boston Dynamics is so fond of pushing and shoving its robots in videos. There’s nothing like a swift kick to the ribs to prove that a robot can cope with physical uncertainty."

That opening scene was POWERFUL. The acting from Billy Porter superb once again.

Has anyone here ever been there? How was it?

It looks like a fun time, especially if you get to stay at Atlantis.

When is the best time to go?

JonBenet's brother.

Boy, is he creepy.

Their unique creativity.

Not.

A hot Alpha male

I've had more failures than successes. Most people see only the visible successes.

Did you feel like you weren't even a person? What did you do about it?

There's a humorous thread right now about the Datalounge Eldergay Institute offering classes.....but the replies got me thinking.

Did you have a mentor that helped you along the way? Did they share their thoughts about the world at large, or the gay world in particular? Did they teach you about clothes, art, music, films.....etc.?

Tell us about them!

Which posters or magazine clippings did you have plastered on your walls as a teen? I had a Tigerbeat picture of the beautiful Joey Lawrence in my closet. Ironic that it was in the closet.

Sooooooooooooooo hot in "Love Has Many Faces" as the immoral gigolo wearing the skimpiest trunks and the tightest white pants (almost always at least shirtless).

He never married until he was in his eighties. Is he family?

Gorgeous Hollywood leading man, died at age 45 of a massive heart attack. Married twice, each for one year only, his last marriage being to his female assistant. Raquel Welch said she once tried to seduce him, but believed he was gay. God, he was beautiful!

Here you go

Cute and pocket-sized. Head is kinda big though

Have you seen it?

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The director of Iowa's social services agency was a huge fan of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, and he frequently let his subordinates know it.

Emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Iowa Department of Human Services Director Jerry Foxhoven routinely sent messages to employees lauding Shakur's music and lyrics even after at least one complained to lawmakers. Then last month, he sent another such email to all 4,300 agency employees. He was abruptly ousted from his job the next work day.

Foxhoven, 66, told employees that he had been a huge fan of the hip-hop artist for years. He hosted weekly "Tupac Fridays" to play his music in the office. He traded lyrics with employees and he marked his own 65th birthday with Shakur-themed cookies, including ones decorated with the words "Thug life."

The agency released 350 pages of emails with the words "Tupac" or "2Pac" sent to and from Foxhoven during his two-year tenure in response to an AP request. They show that Foxhoven marked the anniversary of Shakur's death, shared one of his lyrics about love on Valentine's Day and used the rapper's image to try to improve the agency's culture. He told colleagues he was inspired by lyrics that included: "It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes."

While some employees praised Foxhoven for using Shakur to inject levity and inspiration into a stressful workplace, at least one complained to lawmakers about it last year, according to the emails provided under the open records law. And when Gov. Kim Reynolds told Foxhoven to resign on June 17, it was his first work day after he sent an agency-wide email telling employees to mark Shakur's birthday over the weekend by listening to one of his songs.

The timing of Foxhoven's mass email, which featured a large image of the rapper smiling, and his resignation has fueled speculation among employees that the two events are linked. But like the question of who fatally shot Shakur in Las Vegas in 1996, the reason for Foxhoven's forced departure remains a mystery.

A spokesman for the governor wouldn't confirm or deny that Foxhoven's email figured into her surprise request for his resignation.

"As the governor has said, a lot of factors contributed to the resignation of Jerry Foxhoven and now Gov. Reynolds is looking forward to taking DHS in a new direction," said spokesman Pat Garrett.

The governor's office has refused to elaborate on those factors, despite an Iowa law that requires state agencies to release the "documented reasons and rationale" when employees resign instead of being terminated.

Foxhoven's ouster came amid multiple controversies involving the agency, which has a nearly $7 billion annual budget. They included difficult contract negotiations with managed care companies that run the Medicaid program, a trial detailing alleged mistreatment of boys at a state juvenile home, and an uptick in deaths at a center for the disabled. Still, Foxhoven's job had not appeared to be in danger.

Reynolds had appointed Foxhoven, a longtime Drake University law professor, to run the agency in 2017 amid concerns about its handling of cases of children who died from abuse and neglect.

Foxhoven said in a text message that he believed Reynolds had made the decision to "go in a different direction" before he sent the June 14 email. He said he wasn't given a reason for the resignation request but that he doubted Shakur was a factor.

The email included what Foxhoven called an inspirational quote from the artist: "Pay no mind to those who talk behind your back, it simply means that you are 2 steps ahead." Foxhoven noted that, in addition to Shakur's birthday, he was celebrating his two-year anniversary as director and he thanked the staff for their work.

Foxhoven said he sent the message, which was similar to an email he sent the prior year to mark the day, to break down racist stereotypes about rap music.

Several employees reacted positively with notes to Foxhoven.

If so how far in advance did he pull ahead in the polls.

Well?

(Note to Australians: the “Southern Ocean” is not a real ocean.)

and he's quoting Joan Crawford in one of his answers.

Why doesn't The View have him on anymore?

Too bad Scaramucci didn't last longer, that would have been a nice little gig for Mario to impersonate him.

Mentioned on other threads today, but here's a direct link:

2-minute video from MSNBC:

I have a friend who constantly asks the wrong question of people and offends them. Really personal stuff that is very intrusive to ask. I'm always on edge when he is around new people. It is like what will he say now? He's usually completely baffled that he said the wrong thing.

That forehead.

Sings the Marlboro song...

Beth Howland, who made high anxiety an art form as the ditsy, accident-prone waitress Vera Louise Gorman on the 1970s and ’80s sitcom “Alice,” died on Dec. 31, 2015, in Santa Monica, Calif., her husband said on Tuesday. He had refrained from announcing her death earlier in keeping with her wishes. She was 74.

The cause was lung cancer, her husband, the actor Charles Kimbrough, said, adding that she had not wanted a funeral or a memorial service.

“It was the Boston side of her personality coming out,” Mr. Kimbrough said. “She didn’t want to make a fuss.”

Ms. Howland was a modestly successful television actress, with a handful of Broadway credits on her résumé, when Alan Shayne, the president of Warner Bros. Television, began casting roles for “Alice.” The CBS series, based on the 1974 Martin Scorsese film “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” required three waitresses for Mel’s Diner, the locus of the action, one of them the high-strung Vera, played in the film by Valerie Curtin.

Mr. Shayne had seen Ms. Howland on Broadway in the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company,” where, as a nervous prospective bride named Amy, she sang a lightning-fast patter song, “Getting Married Today.”

“Vera was written as a taut wire, ready to go to pieces at any minute,” he wrote in “Double Life: A Love Story From Broadway to Hollywood” (2011), a memoir written with Norman Sunshine. He recalled Ms. Howland, in the musical, “going to pieces in front of the audience’s eyes.”

Ms. Howland won the role, and for nine seasons, from 1976 to 1985, she kept television audiences amused with her wide-eyed, jumpy performances. Asked to describe her character, she told Knight Newspapers in 1979: “Insecure and vulnerable. Probably works the hardest of anybody in the diner. Very gullible, very innocent.”

Elizabeth Howland was born on May 28, 1941, in Boston. She studied dance at the Hazel Boone Studio and, after graduating from high school at 16, headed to New York, where she landed a replacement role as Lady Beth in “Once Upon a Mattress” and a role as a dancer in “Bye Bye Birdie.” She also appeared, alongside Valerie Harper and Donna Douglas, the future Elly May Clampett on “The Beverly Hillbillies,” as a dancer in the 1959 film “Li’l Abner.”

At 19 she married Michael J. Pollard, one of the lead actors in “Bye Bye Birdie.” The marriage ended in divorce. In addition to her husband, who played the anchorman Jim Dial on the television series “Murphy Brown,” she is survived by a daughter from her first marriage, Holly Howland.

Small parts on Broadway and in the Off Broadway hit “Your Own Thing,” a musical version of “Twelfth Night,” led to her breakthrough role in “Company” and her tour-de-force rendition of “Getting Married Today.”

“It was a perfect song for me,” she told The Los Angeles Times in 2004. “I’m not a singer, and it has maybe four notes.”

She performed it again when most of the original cast reassembled in 1993 for concert performances at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, Calif., and the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center.

After being cast as the wife of a character played by Bert Convy on an episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” she moved to Los Angeles to work in television. She appeared on “Love, American Style,” “Cannon,” “The Rookies” and other shows before taking the role of Vera on “Alice.”

Unlike many actors, Ms. Howland had never worked as a waitress. “But I just kept sitting around coffee shops and watching how it’s done, and now I can carry four dinners,” she told Knight Newspapers.

One of Vera’s most memorable moments on the show occurred a scant few seconds after the beginning of the first episode. A customer’s cheery “Hi, Vera,” caused her to throw a boxful of drinking straws into the air. The freak-out became part of the show’s opening credit sequence.

For nine years, Vera remained overwrought, but changes did occur. Toward the end of the series, she married a police officer, Elliot Novak, played by Charles Levin. In the final episode, she announced that she was pregnant.

A Republican Alabama official seeking to unseat Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) in the 2020 election complained that “homosexual activities” have supplanted “good TV shows” of the 1950s and 1960s.

“There are no more good TV shows on like ‘Gunsmoke,’ ‘Bonanza,’ ‘The Virginian,’ ‘Andy Griffith,’ ‘I Love Lucy.’ We don’t have those shows anymore. We’re too interested in homosexual activities,” Senate candidate John Merrill, Alabama’s current secretary of state, said at a Saturday campaign event.

Instead, Merrill said, Americans are “too interested” in seeing “how people are trying to date on TV” and “having wife-swapping on TV.”

Local news site Yellowhammer first reported the comments, which Merrill later confirmed to AL.com.

“The foundational principles which we have grown up as a nation are no more,” Merrill told AL.com. He repeated his view that people are too willing to watch “the wife swap TV shows and the shows that are not morally uplifting” and not based on “biblical foundations.”

“That’s the problem,” Merrill said. He declined to elaborate on what he meant by “homosexual activities,” AL.com reported. Merrill is one of several GOP candidates seeking the party’s nomination in the race against Jones, who won a 2017 special election against Republican candidate Roy Moore. Moore narrowly lost in the deep red state after he was accused by several women of sexually harassing or assaulting them when they were young women and he was in his 30s.

Despite Jones’ historic victory ― he’s the first Democrat to represent Alabama in the Senate since 1992 ― there remain questions about whether he can win a full term against a less controversial GOP opponent.

Moore, however, is running again.

Actors and actresses who have achieved the legendary status with little talent

Marilyn Monroe

Audrey Hepburns

James Dean

In 1957, Cloris Leachman joined the cast as Ruth but eventually her feuds with co-stars, her unwillingness to sign a contract, and other troubles forced show producer Jack Wrather to fire her at the close of the season's filming.

HH is so raunchy and sleazy, but it's also kind of hot. I'm convinced the main black guy (Rogan Hardy?) and a lot of his co-stars are HIV+ drug addicts...does anyone know any of them in real life? Are their scenes really filmed in Harlem?

Yes I am

Never married. Who's had him?

Are they going on in your area?

Both were popular character actors. Main gained pop fame as "Ma Kettle" in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" films. Byington in the early sitcom "December Bride".

Byington was privately a lesbian. As is recently coming to light to the public, lesbianism was extremely common during the silver screen years of Hollywood. Interviewed by Boze Hadleigh for his book on Hollywood Lesbians, Byington's lesbian lover, actress Marjorie Main, with whom she had openly lived in Los Angeles, declared that "...it's true that Spring had no use for men", despite Byington's marriage(s) and children. Byington was also linked in an affair with actress/writer Maude Adams.

What y'all bitches think of this?

Bitch is hardcore

This was for Life Magazine's "Female Power" Issue in 1980s - The editors of Life Magazine said the five most powerful women in film (in the 1980s) were

Sally Field, Goldie Hawn, Jane Fonda, Barbra Streisand and....

In a contest between Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep and Glenn Close - Lange was chosen

Why?

New York businesswoman Scherie Murray is the latest Republican to announce their intentions to run against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her congressional seat in 2020.

Murray, who was born in Jamaica before moving to the U.S. when she was 9 years old, said Ocasio-Cortez was more "worried about being famous" than serving the people of New York. She has urged "It's time to rid NYC of AOC!" on her official campaign website.

Murray continued to attack Ocasio-Cortez as someone "fighting for the limelight" in a campaign launch video entitled "Bridges."

He’s a super hot 23 year old muscle bottom slut. Inspired by porn star Ace Era.

Well?

So I'm recovering from surgery and while laying in bed decided to look at YouTube footage of pride parades from just about every major city in the world, including the US.

Can you make a guess as to which city had the most vibrant and spirited parade? It also boasted, by far, the best looking crowd.

I'll wait to see if I get at least 20 guesses then I'll respond with the answer.

Chris Watts, the Colorado man who murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters, claims in a chilling jailhouse letter to his mother that he’s a changed man who has a newfound relationship with God.

His mother, Cindy Watts, is interviewed in a new HLN special: Killer Dad: Chris Watts Speaks. During the show, she reads the letter she received from her son.

“I’m still a Dad! I’m still a son! No matter what,” Watts wrote. “Now, I can add servant of God to that mix! He has shown me peace, peace, love and forgiveness, and that’s how I live every day.”

It’s a stunning declaration for Watts, 33, who is is serving multiple life sentences for an unspeakable crime. In November, he pleaded guilty to the August 13, 2018, murders of his pregnant wife, Shanann, 34, and the couple’s two young daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, the latter of whom would have turned four next Wednesday.

He later buried Shanann in at a remote oil field where he put his two daughters in large oil tanks. Their bodies were found three days later.

The murders came after Watts began an affair with coworker Nichol Kessinger, who told police that he had told her that he was separated from his wife.

The HLN special details how Watts and Kessinger traded photos, which Watts hid from his family using an app on his phone that looks like a calculator until a secret passcode is entered. Those photos included ones from a secret trip the pair took to the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.

In a Feb. 18 interview from inside prison, Watts gave chilling details of the murders to authorities from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

He said his wife Shanann “may have been” praying as he strangled her to death inside their bedroom. He said he then drove his wife’s body to his job site, where he buried it in a shallow grave as his daughters waited in the car. Then he smothered both girls.

During the confession, he said that whenever he closes his eyes, he hears his oldest daughter’s final words begging him not to kill her.

“Daddy, no!,” Bella Watts, 4, screamed as her father moved in to smother her with the same blanket he’d used to kill her sister Celeste, 3, moments before.

“I hear it every day, when Bella was talking to me,” Watts told police. “When she said, ‘Daddy, no!'”

Has anybody made any of these and can recommend?