Seth Rogen’s defence of Los Angeles as ‘lovely’ after a YouTube star branded it ‘a sh*thole’ following car break-ins has generated backlash as social media users branded the actor ‘privileged’.

Content creator Casey Neistat took to Twitter to reveal his frustration over having his vehicles broken into in LA, writing: ‘So our cars got robbed this morning because Los Angeles is a crime riddled 3rd world sh*thole of a city but tremendous appreciation and gratitude to the hardworking officers at the @LAPDWestLA who not only arrested the mother**ker but they got all of our stolen goods back [sic].’

Actor Seth, however, replied to Casey’s tweet to tell him he was ‘nuts’ to be negative about their shared hometown.

‘Dude I’ve lived here for over 20 years,’ he wrote. ‘You’re nuts haha. It’s lovely here. Don’t leave anything valuable in it. It’s called living in a big city.’

The Lion King star’s response then riled up some fans, who labelled him ‘privileged’ and ‘out of touch’.

‘Imagine being so rich and privileged you can afford not to be worried if your car gets broken into,’ commented one person, while another tweeted: ‘Must be nice to have this kind of privilege.’

‘Ah, yes, the millionaire is not bothered, so the rest of us don’t bother as well. Check your bubble, Seth,’ was another response.

As Casey and Seth engaged in a little back and forth, the 39-year-old actor revealed he’d had his car broken into ’15 or so times’ over the years, but he ‘never really felt violated’.

Revealing the reason for this was that he ‘lived in West Hollywood for 20 years and parked on the street’, Seth added: ‘Also it sucks your sh*t was stolen but LA is not some sh*thole city. As far as big cities go it has a lot going for it.’

Others praised the actor for his defence of LA, with one commenting: ‘Well done. That guy can feel however he does—but it’s how he expresses it that p*sses me off.

‘Say you feel violated. Don’t equate that to a city where 10mil ppl live & the ‘3rd world’ (a term wildly outdated itself) [sic].’

Acknowledging the heat his tweeting had given him, the Canadian performer then posted about his method for dealing with online criticism.

‘A lot of people come at me and talk sh*t on Twitter hoping I’ll engage with them publicly and give them attention, but instead I DM them and tell them to go f*ck themselves privately,’ he wrote.

‘It’s a lot more fun.’

The "NFL Today" analyst will join Gayle King and Tony Dokoupil on the CBS morning show.

In which film do you think Will Smith's object of lust was strongest?

He’s leaving out a special Scottish ingredient.

touched Another way to say that someone is not quite "right" in the head. Usually accompanied by a knowing look and a nod along with the hand lightly tapped to the forehead.

It had so much Oscar BUZZ and it was supposed to be the most popular movie of the year.

And then it just TANKED.

Most people forgot that it even premiered this year.

Poor Lin-Manuel.

Someone else start, I’ve got nothing.

Every town has a spot.

Mine is the 'Little Drummer Boy' version by Bing and David. I never get tired of listening it, especially the lyrics sung by David.

Peace on Earth can it be?

Years from now, perhaps we'll see?

See the day of glory

See the day, when men of good will

Live in peace, live in peace again

Peace on Earth

Can it be

It's time for a common front with political enemies — if they're willing to stand up against fascism, that is

During the presidential campaign five years ago, Clinton made the simple observation that a large percentage of Donald Trump's followers could be considered a "basket of deplorables" because of their racism, white supremacy, nativism, misogyny, religious hatred and other retrograde antisocial values and beliefs.

As I wrote here several weeks ago, "In many ways, Clinton was too kind. If anything, she underestimated how many Americans were in fact committed and enthusiastic human deplorables."

What if his best isn't good enough?

Do you have a set or random pieces? What's it made of and what's the design? If you have more than one set, which one are you planning to use for Thanksgiving?

The pandemic has brought a lot of previously undiagnosed mental illness to the surface as evidenced by the Qtards. I know doctors had said that a lot of people became very anxious and freaked out by the solitude created by the shut down stay at home orders. My guess is these are all people who rely on others for validation and stimulation. Doubtless they were not taught to entertain themselves with books and solitary pursuits. They were probably never very adaptable to change either.

Tops: How important is it to come inside the bottom?

Bottoms: How much pleasure (if any) do you derive from the experience?

Saturday night I let a top come inside me for the first time since my relationship ended. I can't say that it felt good but it was thrilling to hear him almost yell in delight.

Sex-phobic, caftan wearers: Hit me with your best shot. Yes, I'm on PrEP.

Before you know it DL, we’ll be back on the road to 270.

One expert described the variant, known as B.1.1.529, as "the worst one we've seen so far", and there is concern it has the potential to evade immunity.

It is the most heavily mutated variant so far and is now radically different to the form that emerged in Wuhan, China.

That means vaccines, which were designed using the original, may not be as effective.

And some of its mutations are known to increase the ability of coronaviruses to spread.

The crisp autumn air is filled with the growls of gasoline engines and I need soothing

She looks amazing. Free the nipple sexy lady!!!

Has anyone mentioned they think the plot isn't progressing enough?

Couldn’t live forever….

[QUOTE]"It's like trying to get laid by saying, 'You're ugly; you want to dance?' You're alienating a whole lot of people, particularly whites without a college degree which is most of them in a country that's still 70% white."

So this is a case that could go either way on here. So a model and her friend went out partying at a "warehouse" in EAST L.A. and went home with some men they just met that night. The model's lifeless body dumped at a hospital and friend brain dead on life support. The husband suspects murder, snuff porn, sex slaves etc since the girl in the coma tested positive for heroin and she "would never do that". There are people theorizing that these women went home with a man seen with"lots of camera equipment" and so that automatically =snuff. The men wore all black, wore baklavas, and had no plates on the car.

Not counting giving you love and companionship, I mean like catch mice or fend of burglars?

If so, then what?

If you think about it the virus kills mostly the obese and the elderly two groups many of you hate (If you are a part of either group you have felt the abuse)

If this did come from a lab was a datalounger in charge?

Here's a site with charges & mugshots of all the gay pornstars who've been arrested. Most of them look seriously rough when they're on their own resources.

me: six pairs of winter socks

I’m sick of everyone’s faux confidence

Lots of cool junk, touching all sorts of genres, Hollywood and Las Vegas.

I don't know half of these names but I'm sure some of you will!

He is pretty symptomatic.

She's on roll.

That’s gotta hurt.

So should we be prepping for President Rittenhouse and his cheif of staff The Donald?

Florida would be the pregnant freshman.

Fox News

"What message does it send to the middle class...that the president is going to take a few days off at a billionaire's compound in Nantucket?"

I was watching the show when she said this and didn't think it was anything to get upset about, but apparently others disagree.

She has to be up there.

Have you had them? Seems like a LOT of people in their 50s are getting them these days. If you got them, what was it due to? I know one guy who played a lot of sports as a kid, and he's gotten both hips replaced in his mid 50s. Also state at what age you got them.

He seems to have terrible luck. Apparently it was a brown recluse that bit him, not a black widow named Kate.

Thoughts and prayers!

What are some of the others I should watch before I have my gay card confiscated?

Can someone explain to me why Muslims are being treated with velvet gloves? Is it fear? Insanity caused by regressive leftist dogma? I just don’t fucking get it.

I'm sure there were some scummy motherfuckers involved in this one!

It seems the past few years Black Friday is no longer an event. No doorbusters, no lining up at midnight, no crowds rushing in, no big sales. Deals have been spread out the entire week instead of one day and all moved online. And the deals are no better than other events like Prime Day, Singles Day, 1-1-1 Day.

I used to buy tons on Black Friday. It was an activity tradition. Haven’t bought a single thing the past few years. Has Black Friday lost it’s chashay? How can it get it back? The announcement of Black Friday ad leaks used to be a big thing. Now it’s leaked with a whimper and no one cares.

Rise up Ben

Returns Tuesday 09/21

On your marks, get set, bake!

Still a Baddie

Damn this man has aged like a fine, fine wine. Earlier in Little Fires he ran around in sexy tighty whities, but I’m just as in awe of him in dad pajamas here, and he vacuums too! He and the wife are very beautiful together and that hint of grey in his hair is perfection. Little Pacey has grow up!

I'll start with Randy Spears.

I have two unanswered questions about Steel Magnolias that have been bugging me for 30 years that I cannot find an answer to!

First: Why does Annelle (Daryl Hannah) go back to being prim and religious in the third act of the movie, after spending the second act being sexy and free? Do we ever get an answer?

Second: In the first act - in Truvy's salon - why does Julia Roberts a) act like a bitch during her diabetic attack and b) reject the juice ("drink your juice, Shelby."). While I could quasi understand the being a bitch is anger at what she sees as her mother's hovering, and the rejection is anger that this is happening on her wedding day ("why me!? On this day!"), don't you think she'd recognize she's having an attack and just drink the damn juice willingly to get herself into a better place TO get married. It never made sense to me.

Rhoda (Mary Tyler Moore)

Elizabeth (Keeping Up Appearances)

Ethel Mertz (I Love Lucy)

Starting a thread for discussion of a variant that actually warrants discussion.

VIENNA (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters, many from far-right groups, marched through Vienna on Saturday after the Austrian government announced a nationwide lockdown beginning Monday to contain skyrocketing coronavirus infections.

Demonstrations against virus restrictions also took place in Switzerland, Croatia, Italy, Northern Ireland and the Netherlands on Saturday, a day after Dutch police opened fire on protesters and seven people were injured in rioting that erupted in Rotterdam. Protesters rallied against coronavirus restrictions and mandatory COVID-19 passes needed in many European countries to enter restaurants, Christmas markets or sports events, as well as mandatory vaccinations.

The Austrian lockdown will start Monday and comes as average daily deaths have tripled in recent weeks and hospitals in heavily hit states have warned that intensive care units are reaching capacity. The lockdown will last at least 10 days but could go up to 20, officials said. People will be able to leave their homes only for specific reasons, including buying groceries, going to the doctor or exercising.

The government also will make vaccinations mandatory starting Feb. 1. Not quite 66% of Austria’s 8.9 million people are fully vaccinated, one of the lowest rates in Western Europe.

Is anyone watching this? I really liked the first episode. It’s like a more horrific version of Lost, lots of flashbacks & mystery…and cannibalism! I really like Juliette Lewis in everything she’s in.

If they were totally honest with themselves, the majority of straight men would be getting pegged left and right.

And probably expand the dildo market by 95%.

What a bunch of chicken shits.

How does this get posted on the internet?

How do they even get a video camera/phone?

I love real shit like this, though. Can't beat it.

I love it!

Prince William blasted for ‘racist, out of touch’ comments on the African population

Prince William has come under fire for the comments he made regarding the population surge in Africa and its impact on the native wildlife of the land.

Royal commentator Omid Scobie made this claim on Twitter.

“In other news, Prince William has been called an 'imperialist colonizer' after blaming African population growth for wildlife loss."

Was it always dull? I hated the Noah and Luke storyline

Halle Berry found it “surprising” that she wasn’t overloaded with work offers after winning an Oscar.

The actress made history as the first Black woman to take the Best Actress Academy Award in 2002 for her role in Monster’s Ball and she admitted the “fundamental change” she anticipated in her working life didn’t happen.

“It was surprising,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “Because I thought they were going to just back up the truck and drop them off at my house, right?

“When you have a historic win like that, you think, ‘Oh, this is going to fundamentally change.’ It did fundamentally change me, but it didn’t change my place in the business overnight.

“I still had to go back to work. I still had to try to fight to make a way out of no way.”

Halle admitted she’s sometimes had to take on a film role just because it pays the bills, as the dream roles she’s looking for don’t always come along.

“It’s like, OK, that’s a film I can’t say I’m totally in love with, but this isn’t a hobby,” she explained. “It’s how I take care of my children. But I try to keep that sense of wonder and stay curious. Because being a Black woman, I haven’t always had parts that I absolutely love.”

And Halle illustrated her point by mentioning Catwoman, the superhero story which was widely panned and earned her a Razzie award.

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“It’s like, OK, that’s a film I can’t say I’m totally in love with, but this isn’t a hobby,” she explained. “It’s how I take care of my children. But I try to keep that sense of wonder and stay curious. Because being a Black woman, I haven’t always had parts that I absolutely love.”

And Halle illustrated her point by mentioning Catwoman, the superhero story which was widely panned and earned her a Razzie award.

She said of the blockbuster: “For me, it was one of the biggest paydays of my whole life, which, there’s nothing wrong with that…. I don’t want to feel like ‘Oh, I can only do award-worthy stuff.’ What is an award-worthy performance?”

Who started as a singer and eventually starred in movies?

I’m certainly not jealous as I’ve gotten older. When I was younger and unaware of what people have to go through to achieve something, I used to be jealous of friends. I also realized that people often exaggerate what they actually are and own.

You?

Ryan Phillippe's and Reese Witherspoon's son.

[quote]ryanphillippe Happy 18th birthday to our gorgeous, smart, talented, and caring son. You are a true light in this world and are so loved by all who know you. We are lucky to be your mom and dad. Love you, bub.(I’d say we did pretty good @reesewitherspoon)

I love this book and am wondering if anyone else has read it and what they thought about it.

It would make one helluva movie, so am wondering why they did one of The Goldfinch (which I did not finish) but not this sordid little tale.

Post their name and picture

Come out the closet, Shawn!

He just announced it on an Instagram Live (interrupted by his son Robby).

I don't knit but I kind of want to get one of these and learn how.

And Londoners queued up for hours to try it. This article has lots of pics, but one I saw yesterday (which I now can't find) had tweets from the customers. All of them loved it - especially the "American biscuits", which they had never had before ("looks like a scone, but tastes different"). I wonder how exotic Louisiana is to an Englishman? I've never actually had Popeyes in the US; how different is it from KFC? Better?

Typical Florida.

Pregnant woman intentionally hits motorcyclist, who follows her when she refuses to stop. She drives home and get the gun she has a concealed permit to carry. Surprise--motorcyclist also has concealed permit to carry. Bye, pregnant woman.

What a fun live performance from ca. 1965. He was good looking too.

I wonder if that’s the truth.

What was it like?

I find that state fascinating. Almost like it's not really part of America.

Is it a "Southern" state? What do the people actually do there? Are they nice?

The place actually looks quite beautiful.

But all I can think of is "Wrong Turn" and "The Hills Have Eyes."

Does it even have an airport?

I am in love with that mansion and the decor. I was watching the movie for Thanksgiving as it reminds me of my family, and was having so much fun looking at the backgrounds that I had to rewind a lot.

Regardless of what you think of the movie plot or the acting, the set design was superb.

(See link for lots of photos).

If anyone knows where to find any of the items shown, please post! I'd love to have the desk lamp that was in the downstairs study, for example, or the amazing giant (?) statuary lights flanking the doorway into the parlor with the clock.

He hasn't tweeted since June 12. You know he was dying to chime in on the Bad Art Friend controversy!

And the saga continues. Niall Hogran, Lewis Fataldi, and Fat Niko of Lard Channel and their massive mega fan, Greasy Gemma.

His name is Marco Pigossi. His Italian boyfriend posted a pic together with him.

Says Queen Would Not Be Woke Enough Today: “We Would Have To Have A Trans Person”

This is cause for alarm . It can spread like wildfire internationally. Evading vaccines.

Well, what can I say? I’ve been single for a few years and put myself out there again. This time I met a nice and witty guy on Tinder. We hit it off, which is rare these days for me, and had dinner at a nice little Italian place.

Everything went well until I found out he’s a gay conservative who considers himself a patriot. He also told me he’s hoping to help bring about the “red wave”. I can only image what that means.

My friends suggested I continue seeing him as I’ve been single for a few years now. I pushed back that if our values are totally different that it would never work. And it wouldn’t. I rather be alone than sacrifice my values and morals that are paramount to who I am.

I’m just really frustrated that everyone else in their 30s seems to be married or in a long-term relationship and I’m over here celibate for 4 years. Some friends think I’m being picky but is it so much to ask that someone has similar values to mine than the polar opposite?

Baby!

Is there a rule for proper etiquette for who gets the leftovers from a meal? I'd always assumed that the person who pays for the meal can take their leftovers home but tonight at dinner my date thought he was entitled to my leftovers. For a second I was a bit shocked by him grabbing my leftovers, especially since I'd told him I was looking forward to eating the leftovers for lunch tomorrow, but I told him no, I paid for dinner and my leftovers were mine. He then said that because I make more money than he does I should pay and he needed the leftovers. By that point I was pissed and told him no, my leftovers were mine and he still had his leftovers. Now I'm wondering if I was being rude.

Davin Strong/Davin Addison supa hawt former fitness model now pan sexual muscle bottom. What say ye?

When you look through apartment ads for NY many mention that the building has a doorman for "security" and "safety". It seems ridiculous. If someone is intent to burgle a couple of apartments or murder a resident, it's not like they are going to be deterred by a doorman. One person could distract the doorman and a couple of cohorts could walk in and do whatever the hell they want. And if I were a doorman, I sure as hell wouldn't be paid enough to put my life on the line if a couple of thugs want to steal some tenants jewellery.

40 years ago on Tuesday, November 17th, 1981 this make believe couple married on “General Hospital” in a 2 day event on ABC TV. A daytime TV record was set and the ratings were better here than for the REAL wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana earlier that same year in 1981! A disturbing fact is that in the storyline that introduced “Luke Spencer” to “General Hospital”, he raped Laura! Anthony Geary portrayed “Luke” and Genie Francis (real life wife of actor/director Jonathan Frakes) played “Laura.”

I know some of you watched.

Premieres October 25 on Bravo!

Captain Lee is sick and has a replacement captain.

Eddie and crazy ass Chef Rachel are back.

For the first time ever, two black deck crew members.

And lots of drama in St. Kitts!

Please vote.

"There is little research into non-offending MAPs, a group whose experiences offer valuable insights into the prevention of child abuse. Using data from interview-based research, A Long, Dark Shadow offers a crucial account of the lived experiences of this hidden population."

Naturally, the media reduces this to a pro-pedo trope. With pix of the author/ess as icing on the cake. A perfect moral panic recipe!

Cue the pile on.

Preferably guys who aren’t found in studio porn, like The Silent Real below:

Oh, DEAR!

There are no words...

The Beverly Hillbillies

Bewitched

Ozzie & Harriet

I didn’t set off for the original thread to become the de facto 2022 Oscar Nominations Conversation thread, just sharing the always interesting Feinberg speculation article to mull over. But since it did take off and do so with some extraordinary comments and conversations I wanted to keep it going since it’s winding down to its conclusion. Staying true to its origins, I’m posting this follow up article even though it’s going on a week old since a new one is unlikely to come out anytime soon before the other thread closes. Carry on with your great posts and predictions!

You see a very large and very excited penis emerging from a coffin-like box. It’s obviously dying to be touched. There’s a comfortable seat right next to the box.

Fraus and dykes can answer too.

wtf?!! This video popped up on my YouTube page. Sure to become a DL favorite.

Haven't seen a thread for the new season and nothing came up using search, so here goes...

The queens for Season 3 have been announced

According to this YouTuber, it’s Brooke. I didn’t know that Playboy publications published nude photos of 10-year-old Brooke in the ‘70s. That is so fucked up, why was Hefner eulogized as a feminist by so many celebs was beyond me. Pretty Baby was an exploitative child porn dressed up as art house film by French director who’s supposedly more sophisticated in these matters.

Blue Lagoon, which while not as bad as Pretty Baby, was still riding on possibility of seeing nubile teenage Brooke’s naked body. It’s miraculous that Brooke grew up so well-adjusted after a career as child star and teenage model.

Her career as an adult never took off, I think beauty-wise she began to look more masculine in her early-mid-20s. The wide face, wide jawline, masculine brow ridge, etc…. I think the only thing that her mom did for her was invest her earnings so that she didn’t need to work in her 20s, and maybe that helped with not going off the rails like other abused/ exploited child stars.

Aaron Rodgers showed off his feets for all reporters to see. After rumors floated around the internet that Rodgers’ mysterious toe injury was a symptom of his COVID diagnosis, the Packers quarterback set the record straight — by literally pulling his bare foot out for everyone to see on a press conference.

Aaron Rodgers shows off his "fractured toe" during a Zoom press conference. See More.

Aaron Rodgers shows off his “fractured toe” during a Zoom press conference. The Baconator is only at Papa John’s.

Twitter

“I have a fractured toe,” Rodgers clarified, holding his foot up for everyone to see — regardless of whether they wanted to.

Wow!!!

Anyone familiar with the book, Fellow Travelers?

I love 1950s and 1960s b movie hunks, the more obscure the better. Exhibit 1: John Bromfield, who was firmly C list, and never passed up the opportunity to shimmy his substantial frame into tight swimming trunks. Here he is in a publicity shot with Tab Hunter—looking full on bottom boy—in the rear.

I'm the "cocksuckers" that are ruining the country. Damned cocksuckers.

Trouble in Happy Valley?

What is he like?

My god, no actress ever got further with less. But you have to hand it to the Widow Thalberg - she played her cards right, luring that innocent schmo between her flabby thighs and [italic]not letting go.[/italic]

Then he died.

What do YOU think was the secret of her success?

Who will succeed Brian Williams?

I vote for Phil Rucker and his tastefully decorated town house.

Is he a gay icon?

Kevin Smith turned it into a Joss Whedon chick-fighter thing instead of focusing on what fans really wanted to see, He-Man’s luscious pecs.

Or did it ever?

For me, I think the last truly great storyline was the Marlena/John/Susan/Kristen saga from 1996-1997. James E. Reilly was the king of payoffs at that time.

So overcome with grief, she can’t take a whole family Instagram shot at thanksgiving and the demanding public with have to suffice with her daughters dancing in the supermarket.

The warden threw a party in the county jail

The prison band was there, and they began to wail

The band was jumpin', and the joint began to swing

You should've heard them knocked out jailbirds sing

Previous thread below.

It's that time of year again soon when there is a touch of morbid speculation amongst the optimism and festivities of Christmas and New year.

I think among the strongest contenders are President Jimmy Carter, Barbara Walters, Bob Dole, Joanne Woodward.

Omfg they just dropped episode 7!!! Ahhhhhhhh! I can not stop smiling I am so happy! Our fav show to love or/and hate is BACK!

They shouldn’t have taken such a long break to begin with!

Episode 7 is GOOD, too. Watch. It’s getting spicy!

Do you think Bigfoot exists? Pacific Northwest?

Continued from the previous, now closed, thread.

Starting a thread for discussion of a transformer that actually warrants discussion.

Jonathan Larson was the man who gifted us with the musical RENT. This looks incredible, and Garfield is perfectly cast.

We are going to be able to watch the birth of Rent!!!

I'm in Florida. In offices they do. In stores the employees do. The customers not so much. At social gatherings not at all.

I wear mine all the time for solidarity with Los Angeles where I used to live.

Thought he was a cute fuckable cub then.....would still pounce on him today.

Ghoshbushersh.

Drunk driver.

I hope she gets a nom and wins!

I can't read "A Confederacy of Dunces" because I find the protagonist so foully repellent I want to find him and jam the book down his throat.

I have never been able to care, even a tiny little bit, about anything at all to do with gangsters or Vietnam, which makes most of Francis Ford Coppola's famous films unwatchable to me.

"Catch 22" - I maybe read the first three pages and thought, okay, I get it.

Pretty much all recent television shows. I tried Breaking Bad, Rome and Game of Thrones (I like epic fantasy, love ancient Roman history and the first was highly recommended by many of my friends) and couldn't watch more than the first couple of episodes before losing all interest. Oh, look, a penis. Oh, look, someone said the word "cunt". Ooh, shocking violence. Let me clutch my pearls a bit.

1:54 PM PT -- Young Dolph's attorney and friend Scott Hall tells us the rapper was in town for his annual Thanksgiving giveaway -- he'd been living in Atlanta most of the time. Hall says Dolph was scheduled to hand out a truckload of turkeys to folks in his old neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon. His plan was to head to the event right after the cookie store. Young Dolph has been shot and killed in his hometown ... TMZ has confirmed.

The rapper was gunned down Wednesday in Memphis, TN outside a local cookie store ... and there's already a massive police presence with people recording the aftermath. A video from the crime scene shows his car parked outside the shop while police investigate. FOX13 Memphis was first to report Dolph's death.

Barbara Stanwyck

Bette Davis

Jean Arthur

Loretta Young

Jane Wyman

Judy Garland

Donna Reed

Eve Arden

Lucille Ball

Strictly Come Dancing the UK equivalent of Dancing with the stars is to feature an all male pairing / Dancing partnership for the first time. A move that is being hailed as progress for equality and acceptance of same Sex relationships . John Whaite, a former winning contestant from a television cookery show will be partnered with a make professor dancer.

Strictly is one of the biggest television shows in the UK.

If the debtor defaulted, the bank then auctioned off these slaves, continuing to shatter slave families.

Jefferson did this to raise money to build Monticello

NO this is NOT an Onion Article - This is a MAJOR news headline on Fox News that VP Kamala Harris spent $500 on pots and pans

Harris took home a serving dish costing around $375, a frying pan around $160, as well as a multitude of other kitchenware items, including a porcelain egg dish and a copper cleaner

Fox News is reporting this story every hour on the hour as its TOP HEADLINE!

Teen crush for many young gaylings, back in the day.

Because of their pro-tranny stance...

Exclusive: The BBC is expected to quit Stonewall’s LGBTQ diversity programme.

LGBTQ staff at the BBC told me they are “super scared” by the implications of the decision, and they hope managers will change their minds…

The long thread on "Ordinary People" made me think of this TV movie, since they both affected me as a young man. But I haven't seen it since it was first shown. Has anyone else seen it more recently? I'm putting both films on my "to watch" list. DToMD only has a 6.9 rating on IMDB, so maybe it's not quite as good as I remember it. Jim Carrey was really excellent in it, wasn't he?

Hotter and Harder

Dump Trucks only

From the upcoming gay Netflix show "Heartstoppers".

He and his co-star Joe Locke look quite coupley in their pictures together (and there's a lot of those). Do you think they're an item?

Continue discussing DL's favorite newly single Canadian here

HELLO MY FRIENDS!! LONG TIME NO "SEE"! MAY THE LORD HAVE KEPT YOU ALL SAFE ..I AM PREPARING TO TRY ANOTHER CRUISE THIS YEAR. HOWARD, MY HUNG DWARF TOP AND "FIANCE" (HE IS BOTH LOL! - NOT TWO SEPARATE PEOPLE..) - - HAD A ROUGH YEAR WITH THE "WU FLU". WE LOST MY MOM, RUTH, AT THE AGE OF 96. SHE HAD WANDERED OUT OF THE NURSING HOME WEARING ONLY A NIGHTGOWN AND HER PURSE,, BUT WE FOUND HER AT THE TARGET PASSING OUT $20 BILLS TO ANYONE SHE DEEMED "DRESSED CORRECTLY FOR SHOPPING"... FORTUNATELY NOT MUCH $$$ WAS GIVEN OUT. THAT WAS THE FINAL STRAW FOR THE HEAD NURSE AND SO WE HAD TO BRING HER BACK HOME. HENCE THE CRUISE LOL. SHE IS DRIVING ME UP A WALL..AT LEAST PICKLES IS HAPPY...

LAST YEAR I WAS PUT ON A "VENTILATOR" ... ME AND DEAR HOWARD HAD GONE TO THE CRACKER BARREL DURING THE BIG "A.A." PROTESTS IN 2020,, AND ONE OF THE "RED HAT" FOLKS DIDN'T TAKE KINDLY TO MY OBAMA FACE MASK AT THE BUFFET--NOR WAS HE THE BIGGEST FAN OF MY RAINBOW "B.L.M." SHIRT-- DESPITE THE FACT I BOUGHT IT AT THE GAP... TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT, A MELEE BROKE OUT WHEN HOWARD LEAPED UP BEHIND HIM AND PUT HIM INTO A HEADLOCK, HIS LITTLE LEGS FURIOUSLY KICKING, CAUSING THE RED HATTER'S COVID SPITTLE TO PROJECT INTO MY SHOCKED FACE,, AND HIS HAT TO FLY OFF RIGHT INTO THE STEAM TRAY OF "BISCUIT GRAVY" WHERE IT SLOWLY BUT SURELY DISAPPEARED BENEATH THE SURFACE.TWO WEEKS LATER I WAS ON THE BEST DIET OF MY LIFE! LOST 25 LBS. A FEW WEEKS OF FLUIDS AND LUXURY OXYGEN--UNDER THE BEST MEDICAL ATTN.

FORTUNATELY I FULLY RECOVERED, AND HOWARD PROPOSED MARRIAGE TO ME WHEN I GOT BACK HOME!! I WHEEZED "YES, I DO!!!'!!! I FORGOT IF HE WAS KNEELING OR NOT., THE NUPTIALS ARE PLANNED FOR NEXT SPRING!! SINCE YOU ARE ALL MY FRIENDS YOU ARE INVITED TOO!!..,I RECONNECTED WITH SANTI FINALLY WHEN HE WAS SELLING SOMETHING OF MINE ON CRAIGSLIST,,AND FORGAVE THE THOUSANDS HE TOOK FROM ME WHEN HE "BROKE UP" AND LEFT. HE AGREED TO BE HOWARD'S "BEST MAN". AS THE TOP, IT SEEMED ONLY PROPER THAT HOWARD HAS THE "BEST MAN"...AND HOW ROMANTIC IT WILL BE TO HAVE MY FORMER TOP GIVE THE RING TO MY CURRENT TOP!! "SWOON"!! LOL I WILL HAVE PICKLES(MOM'S CAT) WALK DOWN THE AISLE WITH MY RING FOR HOWARD, TIED WITH A CUTE LITTLE RIBBON. SANTI EVEN GOT ME SOME CLOROX WIPES FOR MY HONEYMOON, FOR MY "ROMANTIC REGIONS". HE SAID IT WAS AS MUCH FOR HOWARD AS FOR ME.

ALMOST FORGOT! LOL! THE CRUISE LEAVES NEXT WEEK..YES IT IS ANOTHER DISNEY CRUISE.IT IS "COMPED" THIS TIME DUE TO SOME DISAPPOINTING CUSTOMER SERVICE WE HAD ON ONE IN 2018.

BLESS,BILL

Only 5 are gay, 1 is straight, and the trailer makes sure to let us know.

Lmaoooooo this looks like great trash that I will watch while laughing and cringing. I can’t wait!

He wants another Oscar!

THE epitome of male physical attractiveness

“I was number one on the call sheet, so….” Lawrence says with a laugh during a sit-down with Vanity Fair, on newsstands Nov. 30. “And I thought [the credits] should reflect that. Leo was very gracious about it. I think we had something called a ‘Laverne & Shirley’, which is this billing they invented where it’s an equal billing. But I guess maybe somewhere down the line, I kicked the stone further, like, ‘What if it wasn’t equal?’”

Though her name appears first in the film’s opening credits, the 31-year-old Oscar winner insists she’s fine with earning less than her co-star in this instance.

“Look, Leo brings in more box office than I do. I’m extremely fortunate and happy with my deal,” she says. Lawrence reportedly earned $25 million to DiCaprio’s $30 million payouts.

While she says she is happy with her deal for “Don’t Look Up”, Lawrence knows that’s not always the case for women when dealing with gender pay inequality.

“But in other situations, what I have seen — and I’m sure other women in the workforce have seen as well — is that it’s extremely uncomfortable to inquire about equal pay,” she says. “And if you do question something that appears unequal, you’re told it’s not gender disparity but they can’t tell you what exactly it is.”

While social media has been widely linked to anxiety and depression in teenagers, new evidence suggests that platforms such as TikTok and Instagram can leave middle-aged adults feeling sad, too.

Where was the biggest turning point? Post ww2 please.

Nicole pulls it off! I can genuinely picture her throwing a cup of coffee into that stewardess’s face!

Ooooh he gonna get his ass blasted

It could be fun for them to test to see what they are, where they’re from, if they’re male or female, are prone to genetic diseases, have hidden talents, or find other relatives. I was going to give this to a friend but then I thought of how some people might be sensitive to privacy and not want to register and give their DNA out. And she is a very private person, even though she’s somewhat famous. So is it a good gift or not?

The 38th season of the venerable game show is well underway.

Continue your discussion about each day's game here. What did you guess for Final? Did you get the Daily Double? Will Mayim ever get a fashion intervention? Talk about it all here.

Target has an insane deal (at least online) if you buy 2 books - you get one free-

I was like yeah right- but its actually legit!

Is there a reason I should like this? Just listened and am thinking...no.

I scheduled mine for Friday. I had to go to the convention center and wait in a long line for my vaccines but the booster shot I can get right down the street from me at my grocery store pharmacy which will be more convenient. Right now only Pfizer is available.

Have we ever done a bad tv movie thread? I don't recall ever seeing one. Lots of talk about Lucille Ball of late made me think of my choice for worst TV Movie I've ever seen:

STONE PILLOW

I have nothing pithy, we just didn't have a thread.

I'm Zelda, the winsome ingenue of "She'll Take Manhattan!"

I'm a sophomore at Columbia who's madly in love with my elderly Creative Writing professor until I meet an even older and more distinguished European art film director! Because old self-absorbed men are catnip to hot young things like me.

Of course, no 19-year-old in the real world is named "Zelda," but it sounds literary and kinda classy and Woody is 85. He hasn't actually spoken to a 19-year-old since 1989.

It's time for another VPL thread. This the place to post the latest and greatest examples. Sure helps with the Covid blues.

Omg I can’t wait!!!!

Anyone else notice DeFacto showing up in threads and bashing bottoms?

His go-to line: “Bottoms are sick/nasty”.

That’s funny, because I always thought he was a bottom.

What a self-hater.

Not necessarily for couple to hook up, but for gay couples to network, form friendships, maybe form area groups based on common interests etc. I suppose it could also be for guys/couples who want to have open relationships with other couples but I’m thinking more like a MeetUp type site for couples.

I’m surprised there aren’t any. And when you’re a couple, it gets harder to meet new friends.

Prime rib, medium rare with creamed horsie sauce, twice baked taters, fresh spinach made with garlic and a touch of olive oil, Caesar salad, crusty sourdough, my private stash of great red wine and a light, fluffy whipped cream cake with fresh fruit and champagne.

Now that's a dinner.

Lauren Boebert said: “Well, she doesn’t have a backpack. We should be fine.”

Boebert then called Ilhan Omar, “jihad squad.”

Cripes.

This movie is corny and didn't amount to a hill of beans but we like Patty Duke and we're willing to forgive her for this FLUFF.

The 3 activists have deleted their Twitter after being canceled.

He's going to stalk.

This seems like it will be a really refreshing, positive new look at this old footage. I really enjoyed this sneak peek of the new movie coming in 2021. Something to look forward to!

Doesn't Dump wear adult diapers?

Total dud. The podcast was riveting, the true unfolding of a therapist's manipulation of one man over nearly thirty years. But Rudd wasn't the right choice to play the psychiatrist. I binged all three released episodes tonight.

Anyone else?

I think the TOP is HOT.

What do my dl friends think?

I'm the Weapons of Mass Destruction

Y'all remember back in 2020, they said it is nothing but a fluke, which dampen early pandemic response. Now, it is obvious that it is a wrecking ball health-wise and money-wise. It was Delta, now it is Omnicron. Are we going to pretend the WHO did not fail its job?

Continue here.

DM has the story and pictures.

Christening of Lucas Tindall and August Brooksbank.

Name: Brandon Kyle Goodman

Age: 34

Hometown: New York City

Now lives: In a one-bedroom apartment in Hollywood with his husband, Matthew Raymond-Goodman, and their dog, Korey.

Claim to fame: Mr. Goodman is an actor and writer best known for “Big Mouth,” an adult animated sitcom on Netflix about preteens surviving puberty. He is the voice of Walter, a bisexual lovebug.

Mr. Goodman is also a Black and queer activist who hosts a weekly podcast, “Black Folx,” which features conversations about diverse Black voices. “Being a nonbinary gay Black person in Hollywood is an uphill battle” he said. “As a storyteller, I, too, want the chance to play with all the colors in the crayon box of humanity instead of being sidelined as a trope.

Big break: After graduating from the Tisch School of Arts at New York University in 2009, Mr. Goodman began writing a pilot about three queer friends in New York City in search of love called “Sweet Boys,” filled with poignant observations about modern romance drawn from his own journey.

His agent submitted it to “Big Mouth.” “They loved it and thought that it fit with their world,” he said. “I remember one of the creators of the show, Jennifer Flackett, saying the characters in my pilot reminded them of the ‘Big Mouth’ kids as grown-ups.”

Latest project: Mr. Goodman just finished playing Walter again, this time on “Human Resources,” a spinoff of “Big Mouth” set in a workplace. His co-stars include Randall Park, Keke Palmer and Aidy Bryant. “It’s a dream to be part of the ‘Big Mouth’ universe as a writer, and then to be trusted to join its legendary roster of comedic icons as a voice on the show is nothing short of an honor,” he said. “I’m still pinching myself.”

Next thing: Mr. Goodman is working on his first book, a collection of essays on Black queerness to be published next fall by Legacy Lit Books, a division of Hachette Books focused on BIPOC authors. “My hope is that, if you’re white, cis and het, you’ll have a really candid look into what it is to be Black and queer,” he said. “And if you’re Black and queer, or you’re living in the intersections, you’ll have language that articulates your experience because that’s what I missed growing up — language that articulated my experience.”

Going Live: Every week, Mr. Goodman goes live on Instagram to answer questions about queer sex. “I know that to the outside this all could look raunchy, but to me, it’s activism because sex positivity and talking about how much shame there is around sex is super-important, and I wanted to create a safe space to do that,” he said.

Bi guys are the best

Here's a DL classic from the archives:

Every year I send out dozens of Christmas cards to my family and my so-called "friends" and maybe I'll receive 3 or 4 total in return IN A GOOD YEAR.

Well I'm sick of it. This year I've sent out all my cards as certified mail with return receipt requested. If don't receive a card from someone to whom I sent one, I'm going to confront that person and ask why he or she couldn't be bothered to send me a card. And if that person claims he or she never got it or that it got lost in the mail, I'll have the return receipt with me as proof that he did in fact receive me card, but just chose to ignore it because he's lazy and a liar.

I’m that there is no sadder creature in the Zodiac than an aging Leo woman. Old Narcissists that are still trying to sell themselves as the hottest new thing on the block, even while the skin is crêpe’y and the tits are sagging.

The musical event of the holiday season!

Harry Connick Jr. as Daddy Warbucks

Nicole Scherzinger, Tituss Burgess, Jane Krakowski, Celina Smith as Annie, and Taraji P. Henson as Ms. Hannigan.

Live December 2 on NBC.

Eyes up here!

The Call The Midwife thread has been M'd, so making this new thread to continue discussion of Midwife Season 10 and all the other current shows people were discussing.

I know he isn't on Grantchester now, but here's a little ginger poundcake anyway.

Isaac Ramirez.

Who of the up & coming celeb offspring will be the worst and most annoying?

Nothing more then youth, I'd imagine.

Hudson has been in many, many movies and tv shows forever, from Roadhouse to Desperate Housewives. When he was young, he was very handsome. I met him once. Despite being a macho dude on screen, he gave off a gay vibe. Very gay. Never married. Claims he is close to his nephews. Anyone else ever run into him?

Wow. Not gonna lie. This looks really good. They had chaotic energy in 1993 and they definitely do now too.

I like how NY was the cast who started reality TV and this is the first cast who walked in knowing what reality TV was.

Tami is gonna annoy me.

Pop stars Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello announced last week that they are ending their two-year relationship, sending a meteorite crashing through the LGBTQ universe — or at least gay Twitter.

Mendes identifies as straight, but rumors have swirled about his sexuality for years. The topic is one of long-standing fascination within the queer community, and his breakup did little to quell gossipers and defenders alike.

Hundreds of users posted memes on social media in the past week, many of them joking about how gay men will be flocking to the heartthrob's home now that he’s single. Google searches for “Shawn Mendes gay” hit a three-year peak last week as news of the couple’s split broke, dwarfing searches for Transgender Awareness Week, which landed at the same time.

“The gays rejoice,” a user wrote on Twitter.

But others said the rumors and the jokes were “gross.”

“are some of the shawn mendes gay jokes funny? yes. do they also remind me of that unspeakably awful, gut-punch feeling i’d get when i was closeted and someone TOLD me i was gay because i let the mask slip and acted feminine for one whole second? also yes,” gay social media influencer Matt Bernstein wrote on Twitter, garnering over 6,000 likes.

Mendes has not addressed the latest hearsay and did not reply to a request for comment. He has previously said the gossip is “frustrating.”

“You want to say, ‘I’m not gay but it’d be fine if I was gay — but also there’s nothing wrong with being gay but I’m not.’ You don’t really know how to respond to the situation,” he said in an interview on Dax Shepard’s podcast, “Armchair Expert,” last year.

Mendes is not the only celebrity who has been subjected to the rumor mill. Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise, Hillary Clinton and Hugh Jackman — all self-identified heterosexuals — are just some of the public figures who have had their turns.

I can’t wait to watch this! Ahhhhh! I love these ladies!!!! I always felt like I had a connection to Carrie. I get her.

Many fine films have been made about space and other made-up sciency bullshit.

Share your bleep bloop gems.

Lets all discuss the reviews of this much awaited movie starring our beloved entertainer and mother monster of millions, Lady Gaga.

The movie is currently being screened for the first time, in LA.

I'm Victoria Principal's closet which only items are about 10 of the same yellow t-shirts advertising her brother's motorcycle show.

My first date with my local friend was exhilarating and totally wonderful. We went to the lakefront and had dinner. He is seven years my senior— but honestly he looks younger than me. By far the most handsome man I’ve ever dated, and the first one that wasn’t some online nonsense. We hope to go on a date mid-next week. We also had a wonderful time making out for an hour in his car after our dinner.

I genuinely am developing deep feelings for him and want to give him some kind of sentimental trinket for the hopeful start of our relationship. No, we’re not wanting to hop in bed right away— we genuinely enjoy each other’s company and complement each other so well. Any suggestions? Preferably something on Amazon or target, so I won’t have to go anywhere. Nothing silly, but some kind of pre-promise ring or bracelet. I’ve been looking for leather bracelets but nothing so far that screams ‘us’. And can’t get a single real red rose off Amazon unfortunately.

Why isn't this more widely acknowledged?

It's a superior film in every way.

I have a strong sexual appetite but I have t been able to indulge as much as I want over the past two years dealing with illness and COVID. Covid is still a thing so I’ve been selective about my partners even though I’ve mostly stuck to porn and my toys to get me through. Still, it’s been a few months, and one quick jaunt through Grindr shows there are many attractive men with very attractive penises and it’s getting tougher to hold back the hungry slut I am. I hate it because when it gets to be overwhelming I tend to do very reckless things sexually (ie skipping work to fuck three different men in one day). Anybody else single but super horny?

Latest Updates:

-Darrell Brooks' bail has been set at $5 million. -a sixth victim has died, an eight year old boy. - Brooks' arrest was caught on a doorbell camera. He lied his way into a stranger's house near the parade route by pretending to be homeless A neighborhood recognized his SUV and called 911:

Starting September 6th even vaccinated US citizens will have to quarantine for 10 days.

I was planning a trip there in December and now don’t know what the fuck to do.

Prices are good so want to do a quick trip down there, please share hotel feedback, TIA

Under new plans, a 'discovery trail' will lead visitors through 14 themed chapels. New plans detail confessional boxes, altars and classical sculptures will be scrapped for trendy art murals, with sound and lighting effects creating 'emotional spaces.' The final chapel will be dedicated to the environment. Trendy art murals will cover walls, with sound and lighting used for 'emotion' Scripture will be beamed onto walls in foreign languages, including Mandarin

Wasn’t this always obvious?

She’s just like us!!!

I just watched a video with noted bodybuilder Chris Bumstead and, maybe it's wishful thinking, but does he ping for anybody else? I usually don't fall for the typical gaydar thing of wanting hot guys to be gay, but you look at him and he's, well, quite the specimen. But then he opens his mouth and the look in his eyes...I don't know. He might be one of the girls.

Here's a video with his "wife" where they're doing a Q&A: the first question is who has the biggest ass. Immediately after asking he side eyes the other guy on the couch. Juuuuust sayin'.

*BREAKING NEWS*

Greg’s ghost has been HAUNTING Cape Cod. He breaks into people’s kitchens and cooks strange COD dishes. Prunes, RAGU & FECES left everywhere. Bechamel cake in ovens. Greg’s ghost hole leaks noxious substances.

The CAPE COD residents have asked the POPE to perform an EXORCISM to get GREG evil spirit out. The POPE will use HOLY WATER and a FISHING ROD to banish GREG EVIL SPIRIT back to HELL. THE POPE is at great personal risk because GREG’S EVIL ANUS ODOR is that strong. GREG STENCH said to be worse than Donald Trump breath!!!!

GREG WAS KNOWN TO HAVE PERFORM SATANIC RITUALS WITH A COD, RAGU, PRUNES, BECHAMEL AND A LOCK OF ALOK BUTT HAIRS

Trump's daughter-in-law also went full War on Halloween during an appearance on Fox.

Lara Trump, who joined the conservative network as a paid contributor in March, conveniently didn’t mention the coronavirus pandemic as she recalled how in 2020 “they didn’t even want us to get together, so I guess we’re lucky they’re letting us have Thanksgiving this year.”

“But at really the core of this, they want to divide Americans up, they don’t want us to have any common ground, they don’t want us to have any shared traditions like Thanksgiving,” she claimed.

Madonna appears to be raising a budding fashion icon.

Over the weekend the "Vogue" singer posted footage of 15-year-old son David Banda dressed in a long, flowing white silk dress paired with white sneakers and oversized black sunglasses. The teen looks runway-ready as he walks through his home while Snap!'s famed 1990 song "The Power" plays. At one point, David praises the look, remarking, "It's so freeing."

"Confidence is Everything," the international superstar, 62, captioned the post, which fetched rave reviews from the likes of Kelly Ripa and Debi Mazar, who quipped, "OMG I love him. Look out Naomi."

The dress appears to be created by designer and artist Mae Couture, whom Madonna tagged in the photo. Mae also posted the video to her account, along with the caption "FLY BANDA." The dress resembles other items for sale on the designer's website, including hand-painted silk unisex boxer shorts.

In the past, Madonna has spoken about the special bond she shares with son David. In a 2018 interview with Vogue Italia, the mother of six shared that she thinks David is more like herself than any of her other children, The Sunday Times reported.

"What he has more than anything is focus and determination. I'm pretty sure he got that from me. He's the one I have the most in common with. I feel like he gets me; he has more of my DNA than any of my children so far," said Madonna.

Madonna is also mother to lookalike daughter Lourdes Leon, 24, whom she shares with ex Carlos Leon. She also has son Rocco Ritchie, 20, with ex-husband Guy Ritchie. Rounding out Madonna's brood is 15-year-old daughter Mercy James, and 8-year-old twins Stella and Estere. David Banda, Mercy James and the twins were all adopted from Malawi.

The dl crowd did not like my Young Barebacking And Breeding video so I'm trying again. A good looking ,slim top Latino fucking a bottom .

This top is GL.

Aside from the crap decor, WTF is going on with these property fraus?

'Amy' has the neck and jaw strain of a xenomorph seeking to break free from its larval casing, while 'Heren' (?) has enough vocal fry to frizzle an egg.

Does New York naturally create wound-up bizarre critters like these, or are they drawn there?

Since the other thread is locked to subscribers so the poors can't post.

Gay right?

Chucky’s back for a whole new generation, the Tik Tok generation, and it looks fire AF. Gone is Mark Hamill and the AI Alexa Chucky robot. Chucky is back to being just a doll and voiced by the original actor. The new Chucky will be a revenge tale a la Carrie.

The reboot stars Brad Dourif (the iconic doll himself), Jennifer Tilly (Tiffany), Fiona Dourif (Nica), Alex Vincent (Andy Barclay), Justin Whalin (Andy Barclay), Catherine Hicks (Karen Barclay), Christine Elise (Kyle), and Devon Sawa.

Devon Sawa moves his son Jake to a new town where he has trouble making friends and is bullied. We see high-schooler Jake picking up the Good Guy doll at a yard sale and taking it home. He soon discovers how powerful Chucky is and uses him as a weapon that he unleashes on his school bullies. As his classmates die one by one, will the detective make the connection that Jake is behind the killings?

[quote] Skarsgard doesn't set off my gaydar at all. Something is definitely amiss with him...I can't really put my finger on it but he doesn't feel like family or like he's batting for the other team. Some kind of asexual or trauma going on behind the striking looks.

Which lady began as a singer before becoming a movie star is the greatest?

Kim Cattrall became a headache for the network to deal with.

Cattrall, now 65, was reportedly after more money and the network was set against it, reluctant to put her on equal footing with Parker, who came to the series as a B-list actress and had an executive producer credit.

Sex and the City producer John Melfi summed it up as a “generational” difference between Cattrall and Parker, pointing to a quote that Cattrall had given to the press that essentially called her co-stars just colleagues, saying there was no further need to socialize with them outside of work.

Former HBO chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht, “What happened was it became Mean Girls and whatever Kim did or didn’t do, the result was she was ostracized,” Albrecht is quoted as saying. “I’m not saying it wasn’t justified, but it gets tricky when you have an actor who is also a producer. As an executive producer, SJ should have figured out how to not let that happen. But as an actress, she ended up letting it happen.”

“I became the de facto executive in charge of Kim, although I had a lot of help from [HBO executive Carolyn Strauss] and a couple times even from [HBO executive Jeff Bewkes],” he added. “We were all really good at managing it and keeping it under wraps for a long time.”

Albrecht said it made sense that Parker was the highest paid on the show—after all, she was the star—but it was Cattrall “who everybody was talking about, because Samantha was the most outrageous character.”

“Whether there was jealousy toward Kim about that, or Kim wasn’t handling it well, depends on who you listen to,” he said.

“Then Kim wanted more, and I think she got more than the other girls. Kim’s popularity gave us reason to think that there might be a couple of different levels of payment, and we discussed a producing deal with her... There are plenty of ways to show people you value the relationship and their services. It doesn’t always have to be direct compensation for a specific role.”

Bewkes offered an anecdote about how Cattrall once turned up to his office with her then-husband Mark Levinson in tow, armed with a long list of complaints. “She starts telling an impassioned tale of inconsiderate treatment,” Bewkes recalled.

“There was chapter and verse of other indignities, including she’s not getting paid what she was promised, or maybe what Sarah Jessica was getting, something about money.”

Ranking high on Cattrall’s list of grievances to Bewkes was that she had to film a nude scene with an actual New York City fireman, rather than an actor who was playing a fireman. Her complaint most likely was about Season 3’s premiere episode “When There’s Smoke,” where Samantha is seen eyeing a nude fireman.

Bewkes promised to look into her complaints, which seemed to appease Cattrall, and she left his office with her husband. He then called up HBO executive Mike Lombardo to relay what just happened.

“I got Lombardo on the phone, told him the whole thing including how worked up she was about the naked fireman, and did he know this was a problem for her,” Bewkes said in the book. “Mike says, ‘Well, it was her idea, the nude scene, having a real fireman, and it was a great scene for her, by the way, a big hit. And you’re telling me the husband was sitting there? Of course he didn’t like it, because the fireman was buff.’”

“So she came in to make a show in front of her husband that she didn’t like the nude scene with the fireman? The whole thing was a performance,” Bewkes recalled asking Lombardo. “She’s an actor, she wanted the husband to see that, but mainly it’s about the money.”

Obviously one of those ladies broke up the Beatles. So who was it?

Yoko Ono or Linda Eastman McCartney?

Please tell us

Then he was a younger actor look for representation, and he got the agent from a big agency to show up, the actor sat the agent in the front row, and because the play kind of left it open for the actor, he took his quite large dick out in a seduction scene with another guy. The other actor was completely shocked, not having been warned in advance what was up.

That young actor got the agent to sign him. Now, about 12 or 13 years later, that actor is now on a hit TV show. The director of the play told me that.

I happened to be in attendance the night the actor took his dick out. It really was the best looking cock I've ever seen.

Carrie Underwood was caught shooting daggers at Luke Bryan at the 2021 CMA Awards on Wednesday after he cracked a joke about Aaron Rodgers’ misleading vaccine comments.

Bryan, 45, opened the show by assuring viewers that the CMAs were “following all the health protocols to keep everyone safe” amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It is so great to be here with all my fellow artists — tested and together. Or immunized? Who is it? Just playing,” Bryan quipped, referencing Rodgers, 37, describing himself as “immunized” before ultimately conceding that he was unvaccinated against the virus.

The cameras then cut to Underwood, 38, and showed her sitting in the audience giving Bryan the side-eye to end all side-eyes.

The “Before He Cheats” singer has seemingly been on Team Rodgers amid the controversy, as she “liked” her husband Mike Fisher’s recent Instagram post supporting the Green Bay Packers quarterback.

“I stand with @aaronrodgers12,” the retired NHL player, 41, wrote on Saturday. “I believe in the freedom to choose what we put in our bodies and the freedom of conscience.”

He went on to claim, “Science clearly shows the vaccinated spread covid at basically the same rate as the unvaccinated. The @nhl @nfl and other leagues are ignoring the science and choosing to coerce and punish unvaccinated players with these restrictions.”

The CDC has said that “a growing body of evidence” suggests vaccines greatly reduce the risk of transmitting the novel coronavirus.

Fisher ended his post by urging his followers to “fight for [their] medical freedom” and “stand up now before it’s too late.”

Underwood, who married the Canadian athlete in July 2010 and shares two sons with him, previously came under fire for “liking” a tweet condemning the “abusive” mask mandate in Nashville schools.

What do you guys think of his voice?

The first 3 episodes have been posted. I'm watching episode one now and my hopes are high, but so far it has a surprisingly heavy-handed "men are bad vibe."

This is supposed to be the next big show. I'd love to know what people who've read the books on which it's based think.

Producers on Rust, including Alec Baldwin, have come under fire over reports of chaotic working conditions in the wake of Halyna Hutchins's death. The Hollywood Reporter obtained a draft of the production budget which sheds light on where money was allocated on the independent Western movie.

Baldwin was set to earn $150,000 as lead actor and $100,000 as producer, according to the new report. Hutchins, an up-and-coming cinematographer, would have earned $48,945, while armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, one of two people at the center of the investigation, was set to be paid $7,913. Producers budgeted $7,469 for "armorer crew," $17,500 for the rental of weapons and $5,000 for rounds. Dave Halls, first assistant director who handed the prop gun to Baldwin, was to earn $52,830. While the draft confirms the low-budget nature of the film, which was slated to cost $7,279,305, experts tell THR the numbers are not unusual.

Producers budgeted $650,000 to pay themselves and there were six in total including Baldwin. A source close to the production tells THR "that the producers deferred their fees and had not yet collected them at the time the production shut down, but offered no substantiation."

According to the report, $350,000 was earmarked as a contingency in case anything went wrong — but those involved may need more than that if Hutchins's husband sues for wrongful death.

Hutchins was killed on Oct. 21 when Baldwin accidentally fired a prop gun containing a live round during rehearsal. Matthew Hutchins, the late husband of the filmmaker, hired a law firm that specializes in personal injury and wrongful-death suits, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Lawyers for Gutierrez-Reed, who was responsible for all guns on set, are doubling down their theory "sabotage" could have played a role in the fatal shooting.

"Hannah Gutierrez Reed would like to add a few points to the continuing narrative on the tragic events surrounding the shooting on the Rust set. First, Hannah was incredibly safety conscious and took her job very seriously from the moment she started on October 4th," attorney Jason Bowles tells Yahoo Entertainment in a statement. "She did firearms training for the actors as well as Mr. Baldwin, she fought for more training days and she regularly emphasized to never point a firearm at a person.

"Never in a million years did Hannah think that live rounds could have been in the 'dummy' round box. Who put those in there and why is the central question. Hannah kept guns locked up, including throughout lunch on the day in question, and she instructed her department to watch the cart containing the guns when she was pulled away for her other duties or on a lunch break," the statement continues. "Hannah did everything in her power to ensure a safe set. She inspected the rounds that she loaded into the firearms that day. She always inspected the rounds. She did again right before handing the firearm to Mr. Halls, by spinning the cylinder and showing him all of the rounds and then handing him the firearm. No one could have anticipated or thought that someone would introduce live rounds into this set."

Six members of the camera crew walked off set earlier on Oct. 21 over safety and financial issues. Rust costume designer Terese Magpale Davis blasted them in a Facebook post, calling them "jerks." Baldwin shared the lengthy message on his social media page.

"I'm so sick of this narrative," Davis wrote. "I worked on this movie. The story being spun of us being overworked and surrounded by unsafe, chaotic conditions are bulls***."

For me, it's my mom.

I miss her dearly. Lost her about six years ago, but I still think about her all the time.

How about you?

At 124.

I always knew she was a brain dead faux religious cunt.

I’m a single gay man with very few friends in my area due to everyone moving away.

However, the friends I do have left here always do holiday events as a family or events as a couple or with other couples. If I suggest we do something together like a short day vacation or go see Christmas lights and sip hot cocoa, I get shot down with “that’s more of a couples thing” or “that’s more of a family event.”

I understand that people want to do things as a couple and want to spend time with their family, but I also understand I am single, have very few friends at it is, and the family I do have left are in a nursing home.

So if I want to take a holiday vacation or do something holiday related, I end up having to do it totally alone. And that gets old.

Hell, it would be nice if someone invited me to their Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner.

Anyone you remember who got fired from their hit series?

Who stands out as a bottom who knows how to take a cock and can’t get enough?

The Hulu mini-series starring Michael Keaton is excellent. It is an expose' on the opioid crisis, and how Perdue Pharma, and the Sacklers targeted rural poor and build a fortune on a drug they lied about and promoted shamelessly. I love Michael Keaton, he's brilliant. This is some really good shit. Show how it all started. It will piss you off. Is anyone watching it?

BRUSSELS — Austria went into a major lockdown Monday to try to break the strong fourth wave of COVID-19 spreading across Europe, while the German health minister, Jens Spahn, warned that by the end of this winter “just about everyone in Germany will probably be either vaccinated, recovered or dead.”

“Immunity will be reached,” Spahn said at a Berlin news conference. “The question is whether it’s via vaccination or infection, and we explicitly recommend the path via vaccination.”

European governments are toughening their measures against COVID-19 in the face of soaring infection rates — more than 2 million new cases each week, the most since the pandemic began — and popular resistance, with violent protests over the weekend in numerous countries.

Tens of thousands of people protested official crackdowns and vaccine requirements in Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland and Croatia, with scattered violence and police use of tear gas and water cannons. Some protesters were organized by far-right parties, but many were simply fed up with almost two years of intermittent state controls over their lives in the name of public health.

Ahmed Aboutaleb, mayor of Rotterdam, Netherlands, where some of the worst protests erupted, called them an “orgy of violence” and said football hooligans were believed to have been involved.

Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, defended the right to demonstrate. “But what I will never accept is that idiots use sheer violence against the people who work for you and me every day to keep this country safe under the guise of: ‘We are dissatisfied.' "

Europe is once again the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, accounting for more than half the world’s reported COVID-19 deaths this month, according to the World Health Organization. The four countries with the world’s highest rates of reported new cases in the past week are Austria and three that border it, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic; 27 of the top 29 are in Europe.

With vaccination rates lagging and winter approaching, more governments are ringing alarm bells.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told her Christian Democratic Party on Monday that the situation is “highly dramatic” and that the latest surge is worse than anything Germany had suffered so far.

In what may be her last month as chancellor, as a new government is being formed, she warned that hospitals would soon be overwhelmed unless the fourth wave of the virus is broken and called on Germany’s 16 states to enforce even tighter restrictions to block the spread.

Germany, like many European countries, is at the same time pressing for citizens to get booster shots. But it faces a dwindling supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which was partly developed in the country.

While the European Medicines Agency is poised to approve the vaccine for use on children ages 5 to 11 this week, first doses for children are not scheduled to be delivered to European Union countries until Dec. 20, Spahn said.

On Thursday, 553,000 vaccines were administered in Germany in one day, a daily total not seen since early August. Three-quarters of those shots were boosters, according to the health ministry.

Neighboring Austria on Monday began its fourth lockdown, one of the few in Western Europe since vaccines became widely available. Most stores, restaurants, sporting venues and cultural institutions shut, leaving the streets cold and quiet in the weeks before Christmas.

The lockdown, which only allows people to leave home to go to work or to procure groceries or medicines, will last at least 10 days and as many as 20 and comes after months of struggling attempts to halt the contagion through widespread testing and partial restrictions.

I was the OP from this older thread and just watched Suchet’s adaptation of Five Little Pigs. I confirmed that it is the best adaptation of Agatha Christie (arguably) best book. The changes to homosexuality make more sense than the original and has some great acting and, ultimately, a sad and ruthless killer.

So, continuing, what is your favorite one? Murder in The Orient Express had a gigantic thread but i also enjoyed the Sarah Phelps recent , dark, version of And There There was None (though, strangely, she doesn’t appear to like Christie very much)

The husbear and I couldn't believe our eyes. The shelves looked like we were shopping in Montenegro in high summer or something.

The frozen food section had large gaps, other areas had merchandise arranged to try to disguise there was nothing behind them, very little toilet paper and other paper products, no bottled water, etc.

It can only get worse when the snow comes. Are you starting to prepare for further shortages? How are you preparing?

Always have. They’re evil dogs. The end.

Once again, the thread has been paywalled.

Is Sam ready for a new (and ridiculous) bearding after his long 'only boys on tour' hiatus?

He's apparently gone too long without a public 'girlfriend' . For years, he has used his Outlander co-star Caitriona Balfe as a cover but now, she's married and has just had a baby.

Only the Society of Helen Keller could think that he is 'straight'.

MR. CONGENIALITY — The spotlight on Mayor Pete comes as a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows Buttigieg with the highest name ID (83%) of any member of the Biden administration (aside from Biden and Harris, of course) and a higher net favorability rating (+10) than not only every other Cabinet member, but both Biden (-6) and Harris (-12) as well. The next highest net favorability rating in the cabinet belonged to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (+8).

Last thread got locked.

It's for a friends get together.

Wish me luck!

I found a strange pictorial about Vivian Vance, Bill Frawley, and her real husband Phil Ober. It was published around 1957 -- at the end of I Love Lucy -- and talks about how she worked to keep "both" her marriages happy. It also paints her and Bill as friendly outside of work, with him regularly stopping by the Obers' house to socialize. And apparently Bill and Phil were friends, too.

I'd never seen this piece before. Did rumors about the animosity between Vance and Frawley leak or something? I thought she hated him. Was the studio behind this? Theories?

Do you find it enjoyable in the same way you might enjoy reading a novel or short story?

Or does reading a piece of literature meant for performance feel too removed for you?

I'm loving this new series.

Especially because it's starring two of my favorite Canadian twinks, Keenan Tracey and Daniel Doheny.

Plus, this show is surprisingly funny.

Is anyone else watching?

The MyPillow CEO has not filed that lawsuit with the Supreme Court to "pull down" the 2020 election, but he's heavily promoting his pillows and sheets.

Despite months of promising to file an explosive lawsuit that would “pull down” the 2020 presidential election results and reinstate Donald Trump to the White House, pillow-monger Mike Lindell has instead turned his election-fraud-athon into a four-day sales promotion.

“I want to show you guys some Black Friday specials that we’re doing with MyPillow,” Lindell said Friday morning, rattling off sales for pillows and sheets. “That’s the lowest price in history.”

I don't think I'd want to live with a bunch of homophobes.

Surely this witty soul is a Lounger.

[quote]The Stentorians of Los Angeles City, a group representing African American firefighters, said Wednesday that the LAFD member responded to receiving the non-compliance letter by dropping his pants and wiping his buttocks with the letter, leaving fecal matter on the document. He then dropped the letter on the ground.

[quote]The Stentorians described the act as a “terminable” offense. Their statement included a photo of a man holding what appeared to be a discolored document.

These anti-vax people are toddlers.

No, not the Onion. Someone serious like NYT, WaPo, WSJ - together? The White House press corps?

Is Lindsey Graham the best looking senator so far?

How DO the crumbs get all the way down under the couch cushions?

Sad they look so much like their parents and what is their accent?

This is perhaps one of my favorite scenes in The Wizard Of Oz

It should be playing in a continuous loop at The Metropolitan Museum in New York in the Americana wing.

Keep going here since the other thread has locked up.

The company had already begun testing higher prices at several hundred of its nearly 8,000 locations in a section of the store called “Dollar Tree Plus” with items that can go for as much as $5. Items that can go for $1.25 to $1.50 will soon be found in the mix at some locations amid the typical assortment of $1 products.

Will there ever be a more beloved hooker with a heart of gold than Julia Roberts?

Execept:

De Oliveira said the variant contains around 50 mutations in total. The receptor binding domain, the part of the virus that first makes contact with cells, has 10 mutations, far greater than just two for the delta Covid variant, which spread rapidly earlier this year to become the dominant strain worldwide.

This varriant is more likely to be resistance to vaccines, at least for some. This is the reason why everyone is freaking out.

This is the thread in which all of those who are having Thanksgiving alone gather to talk to each other and explain how we’re getting through the holiday.

Myself, I’m going to order in a Thanksgiving meal and watch three movies that I’ve been meaning to see for a long time but never got around to. Will probably talk on the phone to a few friends. And, of course, give the cat an extra can of tuna.

Once again the kids are showing us all how to do life better. According to a recent New York Times story, thirtysomething managers are being intimidated by their demanding twentysomething employees. Or, in the language of our generationally-obsessed culture, Gen Z isn't taking any Millennial crap at work.

As a Gen X'er, I say it's about time.

Amy Schneider just beat a 5 day winner!

Any genetic surprises? And is the health information they give you helpful? I'm a little wary about the privacy aspects but I think it might be fun.

surprised nobody in Duran Duran turned out to be gay

Has she put a couple of pounds back on?

I've been invited to spend Thanksgiving with friends and I'm bringing a bottle of wine for the host. Does the host keep the wine or share it with guests?

Bros just being (and loving) bros.

First up: Drunk Brit soldiers.

Go off

I can’t believe that Nola is gone. Quinton just died in September yet Mrs Renfield is still alive at 100.

Here's mine...

I love the ol' gal!

I wanted Barry to be my first

Turkey is overrated?

Peter Navarro says he repeatedly told "the boss" to fire Fauci, but chief of staff Mulvaney saved him. Navarro says he told Mulvaney, “This is like Churchill with Hitler --strangle that Fauci baby in his crib.”

Peter Navarro is a slimy piece of shit as he shows off his bravado to the other slimy piece of shit Steve Bannon.

Her mother said she doesn't know her grandchildren and That Meg hasn't spoken to her since early 1990, after she was confronted about Dennis Quaid's love for blow. Even after the marriage came to an end Meg still refused any contact.

I suspect her relationship with her parents was already very shitty long before she met Quaid and even before she became an actress, This was just probably the last straw,are any of you in the same situation as her?

What sort of fresh fuckery is this?

More Hollywood silliness.

What would it look like? Which favorite Celebrities would be waving to the crowds ?

They're in the courtroom now.

Dusty will always have plenty of

these fools to use in videos won't he?

Thoughts?

Favorites?

Link to Part I

I wonder which member of the royal family it was who felt slighted because she said they were the most member of the royal family? The book are a transcript of her audio recorded diaries from 1989 onwards.

Have any dataloungers bought or read her new book? I'm tempted to apparently it is delicious!!

I bet she is a treasure trove of juicy gossip!!

Tell us about it.

Did you know you were delusional? Did other people know? What were the nature of the delusions? Did they subside spontaneously, or did you have to get on meds? Were they induced by drugs/alcohol, or by mental illness?

I can’t get over the dark circles under her eyes.

Is there a song that takes you back to a time and place every time you hear it?

Every time I hear this song I remember giving head to a hot leather guy at Touche in the mid 90s.

Dare you not to LOL

ALT.

It’s a horrible horrible name and it doesn’t mean anything. Why is it so popular?

She looks similar to this stupid cunt.

Check the Daily Mail's photo caption. The glamour!

Prisoner Cell Block H was never like this.

Tracey Ullman is a bit of a comedy survivor. She's had hit shows every decade since the 1980s (although "hit" is sometimes generous), and her ability to disappear into characters is unsurpassed even by the more visible mimics, such as Kate McKinnon.

Witness her video below, where her character of Ruby Romaine - a gin-soaked, chain-smoking flooze of a North Hollywood makeup artist - tells a filthy story about old Hollywood and J. Eddie Hoover.

So what do gays think of her? Is she underrated, overrated, or just right?

I'm a bit late to the party(he's retired), but what's his story? Any dirt? G4P?

he is real and hawt!

Serious thread. Finances, love, family, security, happiness. Let it rip.

Which film doesn't always enter into the conversation when people talk about the greatest comedies of all time?

They did a pretty good job showing the all-encompassing dominance of Jagged Little Pill the summer or 1995

Hunter Thompson. Miles Davis.

Chloe Zhao really held the film back. I’m wondering who allowed her to Direct and Write the screenplay for this. The film does have some beautiful shots, colors, and it has incredible acting, but Zhao put the dialogue and love story forefront, the action was secondary.

I wanna give a shout-out to all the actors, who give too performances, but mostly to Angelina Jolie. There is a scene where Don Lee’s character is murdered and her breakdown was moving. The sounds of her crying were so real and sad. I was moved. Also, Richard Madden killed this. He also has a scene toward the end where he breaks down in tears, and he is incredible, with a red face, looking like he was almost in pain, as tears ran down his cheeks. Lovely performances. Also, I think this is the best he ever looked. He looks STRIKING in the movie. And I’m one of the people on here always saying he’s not that attractive, but in this, he looked a 10.

Gemma Chan is beautiful! She is striking throughout the film, but she was not a captivating lead. She does fine, but she just isn’t an interesting actress. She’s bland. Everyone else was better than her in ever scene. She just blended in more than anything, while she is the lead.

Salma Hayek, like Jolie, elevates her scenes with her performance.

The film actually starts off great, with a quick pace that works. By the middle of the film, it slows down drastically, with a good 30-40 minutes of just speaking scenes and flashbacks showing the love story between Ikaris (Richard Madden) and Sersi (Gemma Chan), and they are broken up in modern day and she is dating human Dane (Kit Harrington).

We see that the Eternals are sent to earth to kill the Deviants, creatures who kill humans and wipe out the earth. They are led by Ajak (Salma Hayek) and are there to kill deviants only, they can not interfere with human interactions. They kill all the deviants but are made to stay on earth for 7000 years. After Sersi, Ikaris and Sprite are attacked by a Deviant in modern day (after having killed them all 7000 years prior) they go to find Ajak (Salma Hayek), and find her murdered. The power that makes Ajak the leader is now transferred to Sersi, who takes over as leader, despite being the “weakest” and most soft. After this, they decide to travel around to find the rest of the team. That is when things get slow, with tons of speaking and flashbacks. I personally don’t mind that, but I know many young people won’t like it. The biggest highlight during these scenes is Kumail Nanjiani, and his assistant, who are used for comic relief.

I will leave it at that, if you have any questions, ask.

It’s a good movie with some beautiful shots and cinematography, but too slow, the action scenes mostly tame, and the love story the center of everything.

I haven't heard anything about it in a long time. I get the feeling that they will just keep her locked up and the public will forget thereby avoiding any questions about Epstein's pals.

abortion is not allowed, the woman is planning to get the operation done out of state. She also planned to keep it a secret from her husband. Shall I report her to get the $10,000 bounty as revenge?

Built in 1914, it seems to have survived several earthquakes.

Valerie Bertinelli has faced one internet troll too many.

The actress took to Instagram with a powerful response to a follower who commented on her weight. "If I could lose the weight and keep it off I would, but since I haven't been successful with that my whole entire life, at 61, I'm still dealing with it." "Where's the compassion?" she added. "Not f---ing helpful."

Gen Z needs their asses drafted. Pussies.

I’m surprised this hasn’t been posted yet?

Here, read this.

Julia Roberts is paid as much as Jennifer Lawrence. 25 fucking million dollars. That's five million more than next one on the list, Sandra Bullock,

Eat shit and die.

I want to live on his hot to trot yacht. He is smart, rich, and one of the kindest men in town.

This is so cool. The pictures in the article are great.

This happening NOW. People are gathering in Dallas waiting for JFK, Jr to appear. SERIOUSLY

click on link

Have you ever been there?

They’re both, in a sense, “box office poison”, yet here on DL it’s as if they’re in their heydays. Ryan doesn’t act in any major projects and seems to live off Reese Witherspoon while banging multiple women half his age. Damon has a dad bod and lately seems to be only in flops.

What is that hips dance called where you move your hips back and forth to the left and right at the same time that you move your hands in opposite directions?

When did this become a rule? lol

Congratulate me! I've decided to change my pronouns so now everyone has to know and if you don't like it, tough.

Captions DL

It's that time of year, Turkey, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy but what about the sides? Every year I go to or make a dinner, I have notice people rarely touch the other things. If they do it's out of courtesy for the host. Then there is always that one guy that brought his favorite side no one likes. Yet it seem we are forced to make side dishes from the 50's that Grandma made and no one wants to touch because it's still expected. So it got me thinking what sides do you hate?

I will start:

Creamed Spinach Pearl Onions and Peas Yams - Yes I have tried every possible way they can be made, still hate them.

Will it be the new White Lotus? A group of wealthy, privileged and most likely awful people gather at an exclusive resort for wellness and healing, but all isn’t what it seems to be, especially being lead by the deceptive Masha played by Kidman with such an awful accent it can only be a plot device. It starts Wednesday August 18 with 8 episodes weekly.

Yum!

Why isn't there a thread covering it?

How many years does she have left before she needs to run for re-election? Do her constituents actually like her?

"It may be it's highly transmissible, but so far the cases we are seeing are extremely mild," Angelique Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, told The Guardian on Friday. "Maybe two weeks from now I will have a different opinion, but this is what we are seeing."

It’s been over a year since we’ve last seen a group of Americans from different walks of life form a beachside society and vote each other off in the pursuit of a million dollars. Now Survivor is finally back for season 41, in what feels like a different world than when we last left things. But what hasn’t changed is the concept of the veteran reality series, now in its third decade on the air, including a group of soon-to-be-starving contestants that are already hungry to play.

Sacramento - if you've ever lived there, you know the house.

I just got done watching this, released this week on Blu-ray. I'd never seen it before and decided to pick it up, and what a hoot. The late-'80s mall atmosphere is laid on thick, with big hair, shoulder pads, escalator murders, neon lights, Orange Julius, AND Morgan Fairchild hamming it up (and getting thrown over a balcony and impaled!). Adding to the '80s charm is soap opera hottie Rob Estes as the secondary male lead, and a young, rather cute Pauly Shore playing a goofy ice cream vendor. The acting is uniformly bad, and the special effects are low-rent, but it was considerably more fun than I expected to be. They filmed it at the Sherman Oaks Galleria, which appeared in a number of other films from this era. Does anyone remember this movie? It was (shockingly) not released directly to video, but actually got a theatrical release.

What the fuck is wrong with these people? I’m friends with a woman I know from high school on Facebook and she’s always posting about the constant misery in her life and including selfies. She even posts pictures where’s she crying while discussing medical problems or her boyfriends suicide. It seems like peak narcissism. It’s like a train wreck and of course it’s hilarious to watch but I also wonder what’s wrong with her.

She was sort of an "it" girl for a minute in the early 2010s, but it's pretty much been crickets since her debut album was released in 2013. I remember there was a bit of drama when her record came out because she had recently been arrested along with her boyfriend for drug possession—that obviously wasn't great publicity, but I thought the album was pretty good. It had a unique retro pop/indie rock sound and it was different from what her peers were putting out at the time.

I know she's been in a few movies here and there, but her career has pretty much stalled for almost a decade now. She put out a single track in 2019 that I thought was quite good, but that's it. I kind of miss her.

Because I am really too lazy to fill my tires with air, wash my windshield and fill my own gas. I'd pay more for someone to do it.

Maybe it will change your’ stop.

Sounds like it might be funny.

[bold]'Howlingly inept and abysmal': House Of Gucci is globally PANNED by critics... with the Gaga-fronted epic slammed for 'bloated' runtime, 'knuckle-chewing awfulness' and branded 'a sleep aid'[/bold]

and the pics are great.

I kinda feel sorry for the wife, just imagine the stress she has to deal with at home!

Muriel, you fat whore, you delete the previous thread. So here we go.

Prosecutors can regularly be zealous, sociopathic, and unethical. There are many cases of district attorneys piling on charges towards poor and unconnected individuals for minor non violent infractions and going for insanely long sentencing . Or pushing cases built on dubious evidence.This is a bit more common in red states ( Texas and the South seem to produce a lot of harsh and undue sentences) but happens in blue states as well. I just find it striking how our culture lionizes prosecutors as noble while it's common for people to joke about how vile and immoral defense attorneys are.

It is part of the gay bible. If you dont watch, we will know and revoke your gay card! You bitches better show up.

James is on fire in this interview with Brendan O'Neill.

he's been a top and a bottom, but is clearly a better bottom, he started out at Chaosmen, has floated around a lot subsequently. I find it refreshing to see such a happy enthusiastic bottom whore who's gay!

He’s hoping this becomes a hit, and according to him, the numbers are great.

8 PM Eastern (and probably Pacific).

It's kind of expensive. Is it worth it? Does it make you keep your hair? What age should you start it?

He was such a hottie.

I saw a post about Angela Lansbury turning 96 today and that got me to thinking about the impressive number of actresses who were born in 1934 or earlier / are 87 or beyond. Without even thinking too hard, here's who I came up with:

Vera Miles – 92 Tippi Hedren - soon to be 92 Kim Novak - 88 Eva Marie Saint - 97 Sophia Loren - 87 Brigitte Bardot - 87 Joan Collins - 88 Julie Newmar - 88 Monica Vitti - 89 Angie Dickinson - 90 Rita Moreno - 90 in December Piper Laurie - 89 Mamie Van Doren - 90 Mitzi Gaynor - 90 Arlene Dahl - 96 Terry Moore - 92 Gina Lollobrigida - 94

A lot of these women have not been seen in quite some time, and are likely not in great health, but that's not the point: they are alive. Is it good genes, a healthy lifestyle (avoiding sun, tobacco, alcohol), staying active, premium healthcare?

What other actresses are among the living in that age range? Born before 1935?

Best friend of Jodie.

Bit part in “Hone for the Holidays.”

Said to have died of heart disease at age 48.

What’s the story?

Amy smaller than ever! Tammy bigger than a house!

And he was dumb, too. Like mentally deficient.

Was he in special ed?

Do they know it Christmas time in Africa?

Alpha

I think it's safe to say "yes".

😂🤣😂🤣

What's a BBL?

Any good recommendations for modern poetry?

Nice tribute. Then someone asks about Into the Woods. She says the negotiations broke down.

The post: Yes, I did the first workshop and the pre Broadway workshop. Our negotiations broke down. I never should have let that happen. One of my deepest regrets. I'll never forget the day during rehearsals he took me in a rehearsal studio and said I wrote this for you. He then played "Stay With Me" and I wept. I will never forget...that and so many other precious moments of encounters I was blessed to have with him

She says that about Carrie too. She was offered it before Barbara Cook but "they couldn't come to terms."

What did she want that they wouldn't give her? She let two great roles get away even though Carrie came back to her.

A female who doesn't have any female friends.

What are some other examples?

Have you ever done it. Tried it for the first time tonight and I think it went well, aside from dying in a grease fire.

not a fan of this dumb criminal but I must admit this was a nice thing to take part in

The streaming service will begin airing Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts on Saturday, Jan. 1, TVLine has learned. The retrospective special will reunite franchise stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint… and also will feature Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Jason Isaacs, Imelda Staunton, Tom Felton, Oliver Phelps, James Phelps, Mark Williams, Alfred Enoch, Bonnie Wright, Evanna Lynch, Ian Hart and more.

Why or why not?

Things that make me scream, if only inside my head:

—When someone writes something, and then follows it with "That's it. That's the post." (Do people feel witty when they write that? Why not just make the point without tacking on a lame Zoomer tagline?)

—When someone responds with ^^THIS! (You agree with a comment. Can you say you agree with it? Better yet, can you add a thought that advances the sentiment? Why "THIS!"?)

—This one transcends social media, but: "I don't disagree." (No one can agree anymore. The closest anyone can come is not to disagree.)

This is Orwellian. It's Newspeak. It represents Orwell's idea of dumbing down the public by limiting vocabulary and thereby limiting the ranges of people's thoughts and feelings. People don't engage in discussions anymore; they argue for the sake of winning and not learning, or else they say "THIS!" And yes, I realize no one cares. People today are happy to become dumber and more limited in every way. I'm aware. I still hate it.

Your turn. What social media tropes bother you?

Any senior DL'ers recall seeing this special when they were young gay'uns?

The script from William Monahan (The Departed) is based on the novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by John Banville, with Oscar winner Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) aboard to direct.

In Marlowe, when private detective Philip Marlowe (Neeson) is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, it looks an open and shut case, but Marlowe soon finds himself in the underbelly of Hollywood’s film industry and unwittingly drawn into the crossfire of a legendary Hollywood actress and her subversive, ambitious daughter.

Kruger will play Clare Cavendish, the femme-fatale instigator of the plot, who inherits her irresistible charm from her notorious mother, Dorothy Cavendish, played by Oscar winner Jessica Lange.

Hart is set to play detective Joe Green, whilst Colm Meaney plays Bernie Ohls, the DA’s investigator and Chandler’s other recurring character from the original stories. Danny Huston will play the colourful country club manager, Floyd Hanson. Akinnuoye will play Cedric, the right-hand to sharply-dressed gangster Lou Hendricks, played by Cumming.

Pic is being produced by Alan Moloney, Gary Levinsohn, Philip Kim, Patrick Hibler, Mark Fasano and Billy Hines. The film is being executive produced by Elisabeth Costa de Beauregard, Patrick Muldoon, Jeff Rice, Steven Sims, Harris Tulchin, Tobias Weymar, Christopher Hines and Celine Haddad.

In about 90 minutes.

Told people at work yesterday and several told me not to do it as it is "poison."

Poison? I already got the shots back in March & April earlier this year and no side effects aside from a sore arm after the first.

"No, no, no...you don't understand. The booster is where they really get you. Well it was nice knowing you."

So what happens Monday when I return to work perfectly fine like the last two times?

According to Wikipedia, under "List of association footballers who died while playing", in 2001-2020 there was an average of 4.2 deaths per year attributed to SCD or SUD, the vast majority being SCD. In contrast, in 2021, according to our list, there were 21 cases of SCD/SUD among FIFA players. In other words, instead of 4 SCD/SUD deaths per year (according to Wikipedia data), or 5 cases per year (calculated according to the BMJ) during 2001-2020, 21 players have died so far this year.

That is, about 5 times more than the annual average

This bitch was EVERYTHING. The pipes, the wig, the song, the hand gestures.

*cums*

What do you think is the greatest opera of all time? I tried to make a poll, but there is only space for ten options.

My vote is Madame Butterfly, but it was the first opera I ever saw, so I am biased.

...have gay face???

I took a cooking class and I thought the chef was a hottie. I saw him in his t shirt before he put on the white coat and felt lust in my heart. He did not really flirt back but seemed receptive with smiles etc.

When he left the room for a minute one of other students who knew him told me that he was straight and very married.

After the class I apologized and he said that one should never apologize for being complimentary and kind. I think he meant it.

I wish everyone felt this way.

I know we have folks from all over, but I'm pretty sure most of us are in the US. Let's turn each other onto British TV comedies that don't get a lot of attention (whether on here) or in the broader culture. This is not the thread for Britcoms with huge gay followings like AbFab. (I LOOOOVE AbFab, but it's far from obscure -- especially around these parts.)

Nor is it for the spot for British TV comedies that have become big global hits like Fleabag or classic Britcoms that will air into perpetuity on your local PBS station like Are You Being Served or Keeping Up Appearances.

They don't have to be new or cutting edge or anything. Older, comfort food Britcoms are fine too.

I'll start. I found this new(ish) show The Other One very funny. In the US you can watch it on Acorn (or, I suppose, use a VPN and watch it on BBC's online services...)

Last thread got murieled again.

What are the Pros/Cons of living in West Hollywood?

Couldn't you do this yourself at home, for a lot less money?

Here is a new game. Describe a country without saying its name. I'll go first.

Small European island nation, populated by dumb twats.

Just dropped ... his Covid-Lockdown show. He did it all in his room over the last year.

And he spends a fair amount of time in his underwear. Showing package and VPL. In case you're interested.

I've had a crush on him since I first saw him. He's VERY talented. The show is very well done, and intermittently very funny, but all of it is showing a lot of talent. And I'm sorry, but I find him hot.

Multiple sources tell the Toronto Sun that Steve Burton is no longer a part of the show. The reason? You can guess.

“I’m shocked the news about Steve isn’t out yet,” says one insider.

We’re also hearing that fans shouldn’t be surprised if more actors leave the series.

White or black, young or old(er), hip hop or rock, white collar and blue. Skaters and gangsters. Cities and the burbs. ALL guys today dress like this. I’ve never seen such a thing before.

Does anyone else find this show tired? Joy Behar needs to be put out to pasture. Her response to the Robin Hood story was appalling

Esme Prince

All we know about her is that she's adopted and oozes evil from every pore. Who is she really and what's her game?

It's been a real dud, and Marvel has been scrambling to re-coup their losses with it.

It used to be Swaziland, which is also a good name. But not GREAT like ESWATINI.

You can’t build a physique like this naturally, can you?

Hubba hubba

Loved him as Peter Allen and in Miss Fishers Mysteries, although the latter is slow going.

I think that he is kind of foxy. YMMV

DL, you are wise and experienced. Please continue to share your collective knowledge of actress Kate Jackson with me.

found out about 2 1/2 hours ago. Glad I socked away a ton in my savings.

John Lennon, Harry Nillson, and Alice Cooper celebrated Thanksgiving at a concert at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.

Josie Torah’s sex change took real well! I know y’all’s will disagree with me for the sake of disagreeing though

The Hollywood Reporter corrals and lays out first predictions of who and what films might be in the key categories for next year. Thoughts? Agreements? Counterpoints?

Isaias Paez

How old were you? Who was it? How well did you know him? How was the sex?

Australia has introduced a new controversial bill aimed at protecting religious people from "cancel culture".

Among other things, it would allow Catholic schools the right to fire teachers or expel gay students in the name of "religious ethos".

What’s her problem exactly? Could it be meth? Heroin?

all of the rep's desks were facing each other and within ear-shot, and when we would have to find a Wang Operator, we would call our clients to ask if their Wang skills were still current, and then when we put the phone down we would shriek with laughter and triumphantly announce that our Wang order was filled. It was hard to find a temp that was proficient with their Wang.

Anti vax are doubling down and blaming the vaccinated for this NU variant. We are so fucked .

She doesn’t eat cereal. She is AMAZING when she eats cereal.

Her dress isn’t nice. She’s THE BEST PRINCESS EVER! (in a denim jumper….)

She shits and practically gets a standing ovation.

Everyone danced in a circle with her in the middle.

Among the accusations: Ioan doesn't like fatties.

I hadn't heard of Lularoe a week ago, but after watching the Vice video on youtube I went down the rabbit hole watching hours of videos on MLM scams like Mary Kay and Herbalife.

Did you ever work for an MLM?

Six designers down. Ten remaining.

And did you know that Bones' last name is Jones?

Bones Jones.

I have offered to pay for gas. I don't live in the country. If my so called friends can drive hours to be with other friends and not drive 20 minutes to be with me, then I guess I am not a friend. I'm ok if someone no longer wants to be my friend. Just have the damned balls to be a grown up and tell me. Don't say you'll make plans with me and then don't. Adult honesty is all that I ask for. Like i said, i have tried every means I know how: I call, I text, I email, I write, I try to host parties, I offer to buy lunch, I say that I will drive so they don't have to. I have done single invites, couple invites, and group invites. It is obvious to me that those I once considered friends are no more. They just aren't adult enough to admit that it's time we part ways. Well, I will be the adult and do it for them. I'm done trying. True friendship shouldn't be this much work or cause this much heartbreak.

[QUOTE]At long last, Waylon Smithers is finding love. In Sunday’s episode titled "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire," Sparks will fly between Waylon and his new romantic interest: a famous fashion designer voiced by actor Victor Garber.

An unprecedented survey in Latin America found that two percent of the Brazilian population are transgender or non-binary. The study was developed by the Medical School of Botucatu of the São Paulo State University (UNESP). Six thousand people were heard in 129 municipalities across all regions of the country. In absolute terms, this number totals 3 million individuals.

Results point towards the urgency of health care policies directed at this public, the researchers reported. “A person who was born a woman but identifies with the male gender—a trans man—needs to see a gynecologist,” said Professor Maria Cristina Pereira Lima, from the Medical School of Botucatu. Professor Lima penned the article and points out that trans people’s life expectancy across the world is lower.

“We need to train gynecologists, doctors, nurses, physical therapists, and all other health agents to be able to meet the needs of these people. If we don’t do that, this man will shun health services as he feels antagonized, and that’s a huge boost on mortality,” she stated.

The figures show that people who identify as transgender account for 0.69 percent, and non-binary 1.19 percent. The term transgender describes “people who identify with a gender not complying with, or different from, the gender assigned to them at birth,” UNESP explained. “Non-binary” refers to individuals who state that their gender falls outside masculine and feminine identities, or somewhere between the two.

According to Maria Cristina, the proportion found is similar to that in other countries carrying out population studies in this connection, like the US and the UK. The survey resorted to international parameters to reach the amount of 6 thousand people that should be interviewed. “We used the sampling resources with which pollster Datafolha works, to make it really representative of the country’s population,” the researcher reported.

Data analysis showed that the number of transgender and non-binary individuals was in accordance with the proportion of the population in each region of the country. The socio-demographic figures also showed there is no significant difference between the data collected in the capitals and country towns. “We did not expect the proportion to be the same. This means we have to develop actions to train health agents everywhere across the country,” she stressed.

Further action Maria Cristina noted, however, that, even though the study was conducted as medical research, the data are important to a number of scientific fields. “Other studies, with an anthropological or sociological approach, are required if we want to deepen our understanding on how to build a more inclusive society, cherishing the potential and people regardless of whether they are trans- or cisgender.”

Mobs of looters hit another Nordstrom

You bitches gonna subscribe?

A Social Experiment.

What'd you wanna look like Barbie for?

Dear Lord, it's easy

Roasting, roasting, roast indeed

Mahogany...

Titties that live on and on and on and on

When will the insanity end?

Bryan Adams has tested positive for Covid-19, the Canadian rock star wrote on Instagram Thursday.

“Here I am, just arrived in Milano, and I’ve tested positive for the second time in a month for Covid. So it’s off to the hospital for me. Thanks for all your support,” he said next to pictures of him at the Milan Malpensa airport and in an ambulance. His condition is unknown.

Adams also tested positive Oct. 30 when he had to pull out from his scheduled appearance at Tina Turner’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony where he was to perform a medley of songs including “It’s Only Love,” which is a duet between Adams and Turner from his 1984 album.

A rep for Adams at the time said that the musician is fully vaccinated and showed no symptoms.

It is unclear whether the latest positive test is a result of so-called shedding of the coronavirus, which results in those affected continuing to test positive for a long time beyond the period when they are contagious.

Adams, who is also a photographer, is in Italy to promote Pirelli’s 2022 calendar, for which he shot fellow musicians Cher, Grimes, Jennifer Hudson, Normani, Rita Ora, Bohan Phoenix, Iggy Pop, St. Vincent, Kali Uchis, and Saweetie.

Adams was scheduled to appear at in-person press events Sunday and Monday. It is unclear whether he would be able to attend.

Tonight, I'm watching DL fav Reba in her Lifetime original Christmas movie Reba McEntire's Christmas In Tune.

San Francisco’s ‘woke’ District Attorney Chesa Boudin has finally charged a ‘prolific’ female shoplifter, 41, who stole $40,000 in merchandise from the same Target in 120 incidents over a one-year period.

Aziza Graves was arrested Tuesday for her alleged shoplifting spree about two weeks after voters forced Boudin into a recall election, with a petition yielding 83,000 signatures - far above the 51,000 required by the city.

The push to hold Graves responsible only came after Target demanded that Boudin launch an investigation, which revealed that the store, at the Stonestown Galleria shopping mall, was hit by the same person more than 100 times between October 2020 and November 2021.

It is unclear how much Graves stole in each incident, though she is only being charged with a felony in eight cases, along with 120 misdemeanor counts of petty theft. This is because, in San Francisco, charges of property theft less than $950 in value was downgraded from a felony to a misdemeanor in 2014.

Graves carried out her scheme by using self-checkout kiosks to appear as though she were paying for her merchandise. She would scam the machine by scanning the items, but only submitting cash payments of $1, or sometimes even one cent.

She would then waltz out of the store without completing the rest of her transactions, officials said. Boudin said that Graves stole home goods like laundry detergent that are frequently stolen and resold for profit just a short walk from the looted store.

“I am proud of our office’s leadership, meticulous investigation, and cross-agency coordination with the San Francisco Police Department,” Boudin said in a statement sent to the Daily Mail. “We are committed to stopping those who participate in organized retail theft, including by dismantling the fencing networks that make this type of crime profitable.”

The Taliban have started painting over murals depicting western symbols throughout Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan. Murals in Kabul depicted an Iranian flag showing people drowning with text reading ‘We can’t breathe’ in Persian next to a picture of George Floyd

The murals depicted everything from George Floyd to the signing of the U.S.-Taliban agreement, the drowning of Afghan refugees and the murder of Dr. Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese aid worker who was widely respected in the nation for his humanitarian work in Afghanistan.

Nakamura was killed in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan in 2019.

Omaid H. Sharifi-امید حفیظه شریفی @OmaidSharifi And it begun. The Taliban have started painting over our murals. They started with the historic one that marked the signing of #DohaDeal. #BaradarKhalilzadMural is no more. Instead, the black and white message says don’t trust the enemy’s propaganda, quoting Mullah Haibatullah.

Beloved Kristen Chenoweth was announced this morning as one of the performers at today's Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.....BUT SHE NEVER APPEARED.

Does anyone know why she did not appear? Her fans are mad at NBC thinking she was excluded by NBC - but others feel it's something more concerning!!

Melodrama, high fashion, elegant decadence, unrepresentative lifestyles -- royal movies reunite many of the elements that series like Gossip Girl are loathed for. The fact that these shiny products are based on real-life people of influence gives them the appearance of being historically compelling, but let's be honest: Diana's life, for example, had no impact whatsoever on the fate of nations, not even the British nation, for all of the extraordinary interest it ignites. These films and series arouse interest merely because of the spicy gossip they expose and the opportunity they give us to stare at gaudy dresses for hours without feeling we're being shallow -- which are exactly the same pleasures that series about decadent rich youths provide, but in a more raw and honest way. Just as no one learns anything about how money shapes the thinking and behavior of young people born into New York's elite in these series, nobody comes out from watching The Crown or Spencer with a clearer idea of how the British monarchy, for example, wields power and manages to make other power centers rally to its defense in a country where it's supposed to only have symbolic presence. Thinking about reality is not the aim of this type of work - the aim is to provide a moment of escapism to the embattled middle class that makes up most of its audience. Royal-themes products are just the high end of a rather low brow genre.

MAKES ME WANT TO GOUGE MY FUCKING EYES OUT!!

All prices across the board will go up 25 cents, So every item will be $1.25

How will the increase in prices affect you>

Now this is how you do couples stationery, whores. Class, nothing but class.

A gay couple were attacked by a group of men in balaclavas while walking down the street holding hands.

Ryan Winnard, 21 and his boyfriend Max Green, 18 were walking on Coronation Road in Radcliffe, Bury on Tuesday evening when they were assaulted.

The couple say they were subjected to vile homophobic slurs as they held hands.

My 87-year-old mother died a peaceful death last summer. She was a very practical person, she didn’t like clutter and was very into the clean surface spaces ideal. So we’re not having to deal with dolls, or any other tchotchke collections, thank goodness. We sold the house and now I'm going through her stuff and, other than photos/videos/media, what keepsake should I hold on to. Or for those who went through this process, what are you sorry you didn't keep? TIA.

This popular song from the musical Carousel has been recorded by many artists. IMO the recording made by Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae from the Broadway run is still the best.

MacRae is perfection. Shirley Jones is close to it. Other artists' recordings sound pitiful in comparison, even Barbra's.

Why is this song so difficult to sing well?

I’ll start: “I still want and/or love you.”

He looks like a dpressive.

She could actually play him in a biopic.

Where is Fadi???

Friday, November 5 at 3 p.m. ET

Her first interview in 10 years

Let's start YET ANOTHER new thread about Helix Studios, the studio we love to hate. How about a poll?

... according to Sherwood Schwartz.

[quote]Schwartz said that Davis never married. And while he knew her, she never had a relationship either, which, for the decade, was odd. So her choice to remain single caused rumors to spread. The producer revealed that he spoke with Davis about her personal life on one occasion, and the actress illuded that a bad relationship made her swear off men for good. And in turn, she never had the chance to start a family of her own.

[quote]“She was never married and everybody suspected that she was gay. [Ann] and I actually talked about it and she said, ‘No, I have lots of issues, but that’s not one of them,’” Lloyd continued. “She told me she once had a relationship, I think with a married guy or something, and it ended badly. I don’t know that she ever had anything else after that. But that’s almost apocryphal.”

Mmm. Ann B. was deeply religious. I suspect she was stuck in the closet somewhere back in Narnia. Poor Alice!

No words...

November 2021:

[quote]The board, which controls treatment standards for people already convicted of sex crimes, voted 10-6 Friday on a controversial proposal to replace “sex offender” with “adults who commit sexual offenses.” Board members weren’t in lockstep on the issue and voted even more narrowly — 8-7, earlier this year — to consider the language change in the first place.

[quote]The board’s Friday decision is now subject to a 20-day public comment period before final ratification by the board, a spokeswoman said.

[quote]The argument for new language is based around an increasingly popular theory of “person-first” terminology. Labeling someone a “sex offender,” supporters of this change say, can impede rehabilitation efforts by creating the permanent perception that the person in question is a danger to public safety.

[quote]That’s precisely the point, said opponents of this change.

[quote]The language change doesn’t affect the state’s Sex Offender Registry either in name or in policy. What happened Friday is a symbolic shift, more than anything.

[quote]But, SOMB Chair Kimberly Kline told reporters this week, it’s the kind of change that could affect actual behavior.

[quote]“If we’re talking about how someone speaks about themself, … that can increase risk,” she said. “Ultimately it is victim-centered if we’re reducing risk.”

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[quote]Supports of the change in terminology argue it will reduce recidivism. Opponents say it will only reduce accountability, noting victims and survivors live with their label for life.

[quote]Last year, lawmakers considered a bill that would have, among other things, eliminated the term “sexually violent predator” from statutes but they ended up pulling it.

[quote]a task force charged with sentencing reform is considering asking the legislature to change terms like “defendant,” “convict,” and “felon” to “justice-involved people.”

A DL holiday tradition!

Where's Sarah?

Gorgeous!

Since it appears Miles and Connor are taking a break, Miles should have his own thread.

In this really good interview Dowd mentions a well-established guest star on The Handmaid’s Tale as being “difficult” but doesn’t name her.

It’s Marisa Tomei, right? She’s got an awful reputation.

Remember when comedian Dave Chappelle swore he learned his lesson and would never make fun of trans people again? Well, he lied. What do you expect from a TERF? He said his promise to stop punching down at the LGBTQQ2ASSPOZ+ community only counts when the show isn't being recorded.

What short memory Mr. Dave has. He promised to stop punching down on the LGBTQQ2ASSPOZ+ community, saying he would stop making jokes about transgender people at the end of a comedy special full of transphobic jokes, during a performance at Madison Square Garden.

And then proceeded to use an anti-gay slur and make jokes about his relationship with the trans community and pronouns.

Related: Caitlyn Jenner defends Dave Chappelle as “100% right”: “We must never yield”

In The Closer, Chapelle announced he is a transgender exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) before launching into a derogatory diatribe about transgender women’s genitals.

The co-CEO of the company, Ted Sarandos, refused to remove the special and claimed at the time that it does not cross any lines and that Chapelle is simply too popular to remove. Sarandos has since expressed regret for the way he handled the situation.

Chappelle has made it a point to talk about the backlash to his special, claiming he has been “canceled” while continuing to perform around the country to sold-out crowds.

“I’m telling you: It’s done. I’m done talking about it,” Chappelle said at the end of The Closer, saying he wouldn’t make jokes about LGBTQQ2ASSPOZ+ people until “we can laugh together.”

But at Madison Square Garden, the comedian noted that audience members were required to lock their phones into bags before the show began to prevent recording – and hedged his promise.

He said the promise only counted if the show wasn’t being recorded.

“Week four of being canceled,” he sighed before talking about a racist neighbor who had shown up at his door. His wife gave him a gun to protect himself and he joked that “faggot” would be the last word the man said to him.

And if he was sent to prison for killing him, he added, he would simply identify as a woman so jail wouldn’t be as difficult.

He said that he had offered to pay for therapy or rehab for his neighbor but didn’t want the news getting out so that transgender people didn’t show up on his doorstep asking for his help to pay for surgeries.

He also continued gloating that being canceled was good for business. The right and anti-transgender activists have turned the comedian into a cause célèbre.

Last month, a city council member in Virginia who faced criticism for wearing blackface compared himself to Chappelle, saying that, like the transphobic comedian, he doesn’t “go around walking on eggshells, worried about hurting someone’s feelings.”

Earlier this week, two transgender Netflix employees dropped a complaint they filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regarding how the company treated them in the midst of the controversy. Along with dropping the complaint, one of those employees, Terra Field, also announced her resignation from the company.

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“I said what I said, and boy, I heard what you said,” Chappelle told the audience in a recent live performance he posted. “My God, how could I not. You said you want a safe working environment at Netflix. Well, it seems like I am the only one that can’t go to the office anymore.”

Madison Square Garden has 20,000 seats and Chappelle made over $24 million dollars for The Closer. Netflix would not confirm that it had even paid the two former employees a severance package.

Continuing discussion of John and Paul's relationship

He gave such a beautiful, real performance as Richard Williams, father of Venus and Serena Williams. I typically am not a fan, but he escaped himself in this one, for the first time ever, and nailed his performance. Watch the film and then watch interviews with Richard, he nailed it.

His performance isn’t the only great one in this, however. Aunjanue Ellis gives a wonderful performance as Oracene Williams, the mother. She was tremendous throughout, and gives an amazing Supporting Performance.

The ending, which beautifully recreated the the famous Oakland’s Bank of the West Classic tournament against Arantxa Sanchez Vicario where Williams lost after having a massive lead, moved me to tears. After the match Williams is consoled by her parents, and then while leaving is met with a huge crowd of fans cheering for the underdog.

The film is resilient, and shows a rare depiction of a Black Father who pushes his children for greatness and is very involved in their lives and is willing to do anything to help them succeed and not be stereotypes. I also love that the film focuses on Venus, as she is the sister who paved the way, Serena followed. Venus is constantly overlooked for her sister, who is considered much greater (and is paid much more).

It is on HBOMax, give it a watch.

LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 15, 2021 — Bo Sinn will make his bottoming debut next week in a scene titled Top To Bottom: Bo Sinn, and it’s just as hot as you’d imagine.

“Many people have been anticipating his bottoming debut for years, and now, the day has come: Bo Sinn finally gave up the goods for the first time ever”, said MEN.com production director Ryan Cash. “Get ready for an awesome scene!”

In Top To Bottom: Bo Sinn, the hung Canadian is rushed to the hospital and put in a scanner to discover the cause of his symptoms, but as Bo’s hospital gown rides up, the doctor can immediately see what the issue is: a big set of anal beads up in his ass. The doctor gently removes the beads, then fingers the patient’s hole before fucking him. Bo may be bottoming, but he reminds the doctor who’s the boss as he demands to get fucked harder.

The only question left…Who will top Bo Sinn for the very first time?

Colto and Tyler Posey will finally have work again!!!

After the movie a reboot of the series titled “Wolf Pack” will be on our way.

All six seasons of the series are coming to Paramount+ this December.

Buck never would have posted this video

Dear @ellentroxclair, if it’s appropriate for Santa to have a wife, it is appropriate for him to have a husband. The fact that you find anything sexual about this speaks volumes about YOU. Why must YOU sexualize EVERYTHING everywhere all the time? Maybe it is YOU who should not be permitted to be around children.

I guess he already had one.

Funny Robert Donat is probably in the least remembered film and performance.

Robert Donat – Goodbye, Mr. Chips as Mr Chipsdouble

Clark Gable – Gone With the Wind as Rhett Butler

Laurence Olivier – Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff

Mickey Rooney – Babes in Arms as Mickey Moran

James Stewart – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Jefferson "Jeff" Smith

Shteven Shpielberg Wesh Shide Shtory

Anshel Elgort

Rashel Shegler

The original thread was closed. I think it deserves to be a DL tradition.

What was the last tv show you watched?

Frau cunt ran a homeless shelter/ support service in NYC, but pilfered over $2 million for herself and hired/ overpaid her relatives as staff. Bitch went on shopping sprees buying designer goods, cars, trips, housing among other things. Her non-profit is just one of the 15% of NYC non-profits providing homeless services that are/ were under investigation for fraud.

DL’ers, what should happen to this woman? Apparently her lawyer says that SHE didn’t plead guilty, only her non-profit did so. I think aside from paying back the loot that she’d stolen from homeless population she pretended to serve, she should be made to live at one of those shelters for a year.

She's NOT wrong.

If you're a Manhattan drinker, do you prefer rye or bourbon?

What brand?

The U.K. added six African countries to its travel quarantine list on Thursday after a new, potentially more-transmissible variant of Covid-19 was identified there. The BBC said the countries are South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini.

Twenty-two positive cases of the variant, which is being called B.1.1.529, have been recorded in South Africa, according to multiple reports. Some 59 cases have been detected worldwide, and only in South Africa, Hong Kong and Botswana. But some experts are concerned.

“This variant did surprise us,” Tulio de Oliveira, director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research and Innovation Sequencing Platform told the New York Times. “It has a big jump in evolution, many more mutations than we expected, especially after a very severe third wave of Delta [variant].”

The World Health Organization has called a special meeting for Friday to the discuss the new variant and what it might mean for Covid treatment and vaccines.

“We don’t know very much about this yet,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead on Covid, said in a livestreamed Q&A on social media. “What we do know is that this variant has a large number of mutations. And the concern is that when you have so many mutations, it can have an impact on how the virus behaves.”

The new variant has more than 30 mutations in the spike protein alone, which raises fears of increased transmissibility, according to a South African researcher cited by the Times. The new variant has 10 mutations alone on the ACE2 receptor, which helps the virus to enter cells. That’s five times more mutations on that structure than the Delta variant exhibits, according to the researcher.

In Botswana, the health ministry confirmed four cases of B.1.1.529 were found fully vaccinated patients. The single case in Hong Kong was carried there by a traveler from South Africa, according to multiple reports.

South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases said in a statement today that “detected cases and percent testing positive are both increasing quickly, particularly in Gauteng, North West and Limpopo [provinces]. Seventy-one percent of new cases today are from Gauteng, which accounts for about 25% of the country’s population, said the statement. In Gauteng case rates are rising rapidly, and test positivity is 31.7%. For comparison, in California it’s under 2%.

“Although the data are limited, our experts are working overtime with all the established surveillance systems to understand the new variant and what the potential implications could be. Developments are occurring at a rapid pace and the public has our assurance that we will keep them up to date,” said Professor Adrian Puren, acting executive director of NICD.

It’s in Hudson, NY and is being put on by some queens who run one of the dumbest shops in town. Other friends I like will be there, but the gaggle of tired old queens running the show are bickering snobs of the lowest order. I loathe them! I want what I bring to the “potluck” to subtly insult them by showing them I don’t care what they think. I was thinking a blasé tray of deviled eggs?

J’ADORE meatloaf, but my sainted Southern mother has gone to glory without giving me her recipe.

I remember she put ketchup, mustard, an egg, a little uncooked oatmeal, salt and pepper, and I don’t know what else in the ground beef.

It was delightfully meaty and made superior sandwiches.

None of my attempts have turned out!

Well?

The Duchess of Sussex's estranged father, Thomas Markle, criticized her appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."

During Meghan Markle's appearance on the daytime talk show on Thursday, she discussed her new life in California with Prince Harry and her children's book, "The Bench."

She also took part in a number of pranks in a recorded segment of the show. DeGeneres gave Markle orders through an earpiece, including to eat "like a chipmunk" and to say she had healing powers.

"It's no way to behave. The whole thing was kind of embarrassing. It was certainly embarrassing for the royal family," Thomas Markle told The Sunday Mirror. "It's embarrassing for her as well. I suspect it embarrassed everyone in the UK, too.

"She's putting herself out there as a duchess but I've never seen a duchess behave this way, doing stupid stunts," he added.

During the interview, Markle recalled the car she used to get to her acting auditions, a Ford Explorer, and said she had to climb in through the trunk because the key had stopped working on the driver's car door.

"The Ford Explorer she had in her early 20s that she mentioned was a good running vehicle. I don't remember any time she had to crawl out of the back of it to get out, like she said," Thomas Markle told The Sunday Mirror.

"The doors worked fine on that vehicle until the day she got rid of it," he added.

Representatives for the Duchess of Sussex did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Starred opposite the very recently deceased Michael Tylo

They even had surgery to look more Korean.

Naturally, Twitter is outraged.

Which diva is lauded but really just screams the highest?

On March 15, four police cruisers pulled up to a modest brick house in the sleepy town of Cantonment, Florida, to arrest two accused hackers. The cops fanned out swat team-style around the home, stationing themselves at the front, back, and side doors. They pounded on windows and demanded the alleged cybercrooks show their faces, according to witnesses and court documents.

Out came an unlikely pair: Laura Carroll, a petite 50-year-old elementary school vice principal and her 17-year-old daughter, Emily Grover, a popular local tennis star and “A” student at nearby Tate High School.

Police cuffed the women and, at one point, Carroll begged them to let her put on a bra before hauling her away to jail, she said. The teen was taken to a juvenile detention center.

Eight months later, they both face 16 years in prison—a punishment harsher than what some high-level ransomware attackers and corporate data thieves receive. But the pair stands accused of a more bizarre crime: hacking into a school computer system to rig a homecoming election in Grover’s favor.

In an interview, the women tell me they’ve become town pariahs who rarely leave the house and are desperately trying to repair their reputation — and they have no plans to back down. “We’re not pleading guilty to something we didn’t do,” Carroll said. “If there was any crime committed, the punishment doesn’t fit.”

“For us, the most important thing is to clear our name, and to let the whole honest story come out,” she said.

Last month, a new homecoming queen was named at Tate High School. Like Grover, the young woman, Darby Phillips, had blonde hair and a smile as she clutched a bouquet of red roses during the ceremony. Something was missing, though.

Tradition has it, last year’s homecoming queen returns to pass off the crown to the new winner. But this year, the custom was scrapped for one big reason, Grover said. “They didn’t ask me back.”

The Diary of Anne Frank it ain't.

Give Collins credit, she has a nice turn of phrase.

Some amusing excerpts:

I remember when Suzanna was flavour of the month, dating everyone from Elvis Presley to George Best, and a very, very, pretty girl. Now she’s just not.

John Bowes-Lyon, who is sitting next to me and is some distant cousin to David, totally agrees. ‘My dear, he is a terrible snob,’ says Bosie. ‘He often doesn’t speak to people and he’s also a crashing bore.’ That’s for sure.

Watched the American Film Institute tribute to Martin Scorsese, which had a considerable lack of glamorous stars, with the exception of Sharon Stone who seemed, as usual, terribly pleased with herself.

Princess Margaret looks regally around, cigarette in place, holding a large Scotch. She’s basically saying to everybody, ‘Come and worship at my shrine.’ But it’s 1997, folks, and nobody ain’t worshipping at any old royal shrine.

--- Forgive the link to the Maul, given the current hysteria. Still, this kind of amusement is what you compromise for.

What is going on in that house?

I would wish for a complete collapse of the cryptocurrencies so that a LOT of douchebros lose everything.

He could sing, he was cute enough, he had a top 40 hit.

Charlie Puth is enjoying a day out with his mom Debra!

The 29-year-old singer and songwriter was all smiles as he and his mom arrived at a restaurant for lunch on Saturday afternoon (May 1) in Santa Barbara, Calif.

PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Charlie Puth

Charlie looked cool in a cheetah-print jacket over a T-shirt paired with tan pants for his day out with his mom.

The following day, Charlie rolled up his T-shirt to show off his toned arms while pumping gas at a gas station.

It was recently announced that Charlie is up for four awards at the upcoming 2021 Billboard Music Awards! You can check out his nominations here.

If you missed it, Charlie Puth recently showed off his fit physique after a workout!

I'm starting this new thread as it was suggested the title of the old thread was out-dated. The link is from r263's post in the old thread.

Lots of talk about an imminint invasion of Ukraine. Putin thinks Biden and the EU are weak.

Sweet potato pie is THE desert of the South regardless of race. However, I have noticed that nonSouthern whites seem oblivious to it and how incredibly delicious it is. They continue to consume pumpkin pie, despite it being such a pale, unsavory standin for the much sweeter, flavorful sweet potato pie. However, black northerners rightly prefer sweet potato pie.

Before the SHADE of all!

Idea from Ann B. Davis thread.

I'm the sick mother who requires round the clock care.

I have been sobbing for a half hour over this. So beautiful and romantic.

It’s coming. I don’t think we’ll ever lockdown again, so just more stringent mask and vaccine mandates.

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BREAKING NEWS

A new variant of the coronavirus, whose mutations display a “jump in evolution,” is driving a spike in Covid infections in South Africa. Thursday, November 25, 2021 5:23 PM EST

So far, 22 positive cases have been identified in South Africa, according to the country’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases. The variant is displaying mutations that might resist neutralization, and scientists are still unclear how effective existing vaccines will be against it.

Canadian KRAFT Peanut Butter wants to remind everyone about the importance of pronouns so they have launched a book to teach young children how important it is to use people's preferred pronouns, and how important it is for parents to talk to children about gender identity and pronouns at a young age, preferably starting in the womb!

And it DOES NOT DISAPPOINT! Wow. It got very uncomfortable. The final 10 minutes are tense. You can see this cast truly never liked each other outside of a few, complete opposite of the NY cast.

Their unresolved drama from 28 years ago comes back once they’re back together.

Wow. Such a good episode. But David is a mess, although a part of me agrees with him. He just can’t seem to go about it the right way ever.

His bank account was apparently wiped out. He says he lost 70,000. He does have "an" Onlyfans so perhaps he can recoup that.

The album description translated from an Italian website:

[quote] This is the most personal work of Tori Amos: a profound album that has its roots in his first compositions. Written between March and the summer of this year in Cornwall surrounded by family, Ocean to Ocean is a universal story that is the path of when you touch the bottom and then renew yourself.For a record written in an intimate setting, the rich stylistic variation amazes , from tango to romanticism, and the expansive force of the songs that flow like a series of love letters to nearby people both present and absent. A sense of displacement, both geographical and emotional, is present in the title track, the drama of which takes place on the coasts of the United Kingdom and the United States: a song of union and love, about clinging to each other in difficult times such as those caused by the loss of a loved one (his mother) and the pandemic.

Today is your lucky day

A “straight” carer stabbed a man 12 times, just after they had sex, and then fled down the street, naked and covered in blood. A UK Court called out the man’s homophobia and sentenced him to three years imprisonment.

Warning: This story has details of violent, homophobic assault and might be distressing to some readers. For 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife on 1800 184 527 or webchat.

“I’m not fucking gay”, is what Stephen Taylor, a 24-year-old from Liverpool screamed at his victim while stabbing him 12 times with a knife, apparently as a reaction to being rejected when he asked the victim to perform a sex act.

The night of the homophobic attack had started innocently enough when the victim met his attacker for the first time at drinks at a friend’s house in June 2020.

Taylor, who introduced himself at the time as “Tyson”, said he worked at a nursing home. It was established during the evening that Taylor was “straight” and the victim mentioned to Taylor that he was gay.

The victim got a taxi home at the end of the night but was messaged by Taylor on Snapchat to say that he had left his phone charger behind. The victim then paid for a taxi to get Taylor and the phone charger to his apartment, after which Taylor went inside the victim’s home for a drink. ‘You’re Straight, I’m Gay’

Prosecutor Neil Bisarya, told the court that after drinking gin with the victim for a while, Taylor suddenly “leant over and grabbed his penis”. The victim protested, saying “bloody hell Tyson, what you doing?”, to which Taylor responded, “Don’t you want a bit of fun?”.

The victim replied with “you’re straight, I’m gay” and they laughed it off . But moments later Taylor kissed the victim, which was reciprocated.

The victim testified that he allowed Taylor to perform oral sex on him before they went upstairs to continue their hook-up. The encounter came to a halt when the victim refused to participate in a type of sex act that Taylor wanted, saying it “was not his thing”.

Things got quite hectic however when the pair ended up back downstairs to continue drinking. Taylor then requested the victim for a reciprocal blow job, which the victim declined. Enraged at the refusal, Taylor viciously twisted the victim’s penis and stabbing him 12 times. Homophobic Rage

“Mr Taylor was shouting, saying ‘I’m not fucking gay.’ Mr Taylor was in a rage,” the prosecutors said. “He was calling him a ‘fucking faggot’.”

“Let me call an ambulance, you don’t need to do this”, the victim pleaded with Taylor. But Taylor ignored him and shouted “homophobic” remarks at him, the prosecutor told the court.

The victim tried to flee naked from his apartment, only to be “rugby tackled” in the hallway by Taylor, also naked and covered in blood. The pair scuffled briefly and took a tumble down some stairs, before Taylor fled the scene and the victim called the police.

Taylor was picked up a short time later after the police responded to reports of a naked man running down the street. “I didn’t do it,” Taylor kept telling the police whilst being arrested for public indecency.

What do you think she was arrested for? Those eyebrows?

Amateur. What a schlong!

Bow before us, cises.

Meds and therapy aside.

I mean, how do you find ways to get out of bed, do things around the house, exercise, talk to friends, take care of yourself, etc?

I get into periods where I spend the whole day in bed, and it only makes my depression worse. If I could only find a way to take the first step and do something productive, I think things would change. But ... too often, that first step feels impossible.

While others bitch about feeling shunted off to the sidelines, Harry takes action and moves forward.

Is it worth checking out?

(Reuters) - The European Union might halt air travel from places where a new coronavirus variant detected in South Africa had spread, the bloc's executive said ahead of a meeting later on Friday of the 27 member states' envoys to decide the matter.

Global authorities reacted with alarm on Friday to the new variant, with the EU and Britain among those tightening border controls as scientists sought to find out if the mutation was vaccine-resistant.

"The Commission will propose, in close coordination with Member States, to activate the emergency brake to stop air travel from the southern African region due to the variant of concern B.1.1.529," said the executive's head, Ursula von der Leyen.

A spokesman for the Brussels-based European Commission added that such a ban might be extended to other places where the variant has already been detected. These include Hong Kong and Israel.

"We need to act very fast, we need to be vigilant and we need to take all measures that are appropriate at this stage to prevent this virus from entering in Europe," said the spokesman.

"It's good that the member states are acting rapidly ... We want to have fast and coordinated and consistent measures in place because we want to avoid that there are loopholes through which the variant finds its way to Europe."

Britain banned flights from southern African countries after scientists said the new variant had a "very unusual constellation" of mutations, which were concerning because they could evade immune response and be more transmissible.

First identified this week, the new variant spooked financial markets and stocks as it is seen as a risk to global economic recovery from two years of the pandemic.

How shocking.

The prettiest, naughtiest, most brainless slut in English football. The lads luv ‘er!

Jack’s on the bench for tonight’s World Cup qualifying game against Albania, but ready to put that magnificent arse into action if need arises. It’s coming home!

I’m the garish pillows decorating the couch, “JOY” written in sequins on one and an LED Christmas tree pillow (mind the battery pack tucked in the zipper if you lay down on it), which she believes are “so stinkin’ cute!”

I heard this for the first time, it was November 1999, a true legend had debuted and I have been fan since then.

Which is your favorite version of this tale of the secrets and scandals of a small New England town?

Discuss.

Sounds to me like girlfriend is engaged in some wishful thinking.

There's a bejeweled green cape I have my heart set on.

The terrifying Netflix show also deals in violent ends – with demonic smackdowns by CGI brutes – but it’s so much more than Squid Game. This is truly exceptional drama that will be spoken about for decades

Thank goodness! I was worried that he would be alone with his dogs forever. Anyone have any details? I think he's smart to keep the guy under wraps.

Blondie have dropped holiday song “Yuletide Throwdown.” Cowritten and performed with Fab 5 Freddy, it was originally released in 1981 as a free holiday flexi-disc by U.K. magazine Flexipop and Blondie subsequently released the track in February 1982.

What do you think? I’m a big Blondie fan and thought I had heard this before but I guess I hadn’t. It’s basically just a remix of “Rapture” with more rapping. I think the original version is more fun than the new one.

This Thanksgiving, the knives are out for Kamala Harris. This week, she became the first woman to serve as acting president, when power briefly transferred to her while Joe Biden was under anesthesia. Nevertheless, rumors are swirling that Biden won’t seek re-election (he and his team vehemently insist he will), and there’s growing concern that Harris—who has had more than her fair share of gaffes and missteps—lacks the political instincts to lead Democrats into the promised land.

Biden’s selection of Harris to be his running mate in 2020 made some political sense. She helped unite the party and balance the ticket. Indeed, they won. But in late 2021, Biden’s needs have shifted. The Virginia gubernatorial election, coupled with subsequent polling, suggests that many suburbanites are turning against a Democratic Party they perceive to be too progressive. At the same time, Biden faces serious challenges, including rising inflation, a border crisis, supply chain troubles, violent crime rates, and more.

The things he has tried to get help from Harris on, starting with immigration, have not panned out. In general, Harris’s performance has only contributed to the sense that this is an administration that isn’t quite ready for primetime. If Harris is the bridge to the future, that bridge isn’t holding its weight.

Kamala’s Marxist Tweet Was an Awfully Weird Closing Message

But is the criticism fair? During a recent discussion for Bloggingheads.TV, my friend Bill Scher, a liberal columnist for Washington Monthly and Real Clear Politics, reminded me that being vice president is a tough gig. As John Nance Garner famously quipped, the job isn’t worth a “warm bucket of spit.” You don’t want to overshadow the president, and you can’t really differ with him, so it’s almost, by definition impossible to look like a strong leader. You go to funerals. You get handed thankless projects. This is why, although veeps often ascend to the presidency (think LBJ or Gerald Ford), they generally aren’t elected to immediately succeed their boss.

The most recent exception was George H.W. Bush, who basically just won Ronald Reagan’s third term. But is he a helpful model? Sitting at a less than 40 percent approval rating (and Harris’s is lower than that), Biden doesn’t look to be in the same league as the Gipper. But if somehow things turn around the way they did for Reagan after coming through a recession and having a rough midterm election in 1982, Harris might be in a good position to try and replicate Bush’s feat in 2028.

But even in the highly unlikely event history were to repeat itself, it’s worth noting that Bush still had to fight for the Republican nomination in a fairly crowded 1988 primary, still had to overcome the “wimp” factor the media labeled him with, and still had to run an aggressively negative campaign against a less-than-charismatic Democratic opponent, all in order to defy history.

But that’s not Harris’s only challenge. Scher points out that there are basically two models for veeps. The first is an old D.C. hand who provides “insider” cred and experience to the ticket. The second is the inverse situation, where the president is the insider and the running mate balances the ticket by virtue of some other qualities, such as age, identity, or charisma.

In recent history, the former model has been much more common. Walter Mondale, Al Gore, George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Biden himself, and Mike Pence all had more D.C. experience than their respective principals.

This model also seems to be the better model, in terms of boosting the image of the vice president. In this scenario, the veep generally has built up lots of friends and contacts in the media and the bureaucracy. When the president slips up, other elites can fantasize about how much more competent and sane things would be if (fill in the blank) was running the show.

What explains this?

I don’t see it all the time, but occasionally I will see a gorgeous, trim, in shape man with an obese schlub and it boggles my mind. How do fatties hoodwink attractive men like this? What do hotties see in these walrus-like creatures?

How can the hotties not know they can do better? I truly fail to understand.

Painkillers you say?

From the "Will you be investing in the Matt Damon crypto company?" thread.

He is targeting five swing states that are pivotal to his hopes of winning back the White House.

As Donald Trump builds out a presidential-campaign-in-waiting, his team is focusing on an electoral strategy that relies on recapturing the five states that flipped to Joe Biden in 2020.

The five states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — delivered a total of 73 electoral votes in 2020, enough to produce a decisive Electoral College victory for Biden. Since then, Trump has held four rallies, endorsed dozens of candidates and played a key role in shaping contests that could put his allies in top offices in those states in 2024.

She has assets? More than one?

Things are getting messy.

“Messyness” co-host Tori Spelling was spotted seething outside an attorney’s office Monday while carrying a notepad that showed a discussion about “custody,” “support” and “assets” was on the agenda.

The handwritten 3 p.m. reminder all but pointed to an impending divorce, though Spelling, 48, and her husband of 15 years, Dean McDermott, have been fending off rumors of marital strife for months.

In the paparazzi photos taken in Los Angeles, Spelling was seen angrily shouting into her cellphone.

At one point, Spelling was seen hunching over to make aggressive hand gestures as she firmly grasped her yellow legal notepad.

Close-up shots of the actress’ notes reveal why she may have been so upset: An outline showed she listed “Pig pen – get quote,” “AAA Jump Start Van” and finally “3pm Lawyer – assets – support – custody.”

According to photographers, the former “BH90210” star spent about an hour inside her lawyer’s office and left with McDermott, 54, “nowhere in sight.”

After her heated telephone call outside the office, she was seen getting into a large, gray Suburban by herself.

Reps for Spelling did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.

The couple have been married since May 2006 and share five children: Liam, 14, Stella, 13, Hattie, 10, Finn, 9, and Beau, 4.

Like the San Francisco Gays? Or the Houston Homosexualists?

With Being the Ricardos (set during a tumultuous week of film an episode of I Love Lucy) about to be released, how about a film set behind the scenes of making Bewitched. Let's cast it.

Elizabeth Montgomery: Jennifer Lawrence Dick York: Jake Gyllenhaal Agnes Moorhead: Sharon Stone William Asher: Woody Harrelson

she was talking VERY fast and babbling. Most interesting thing she said IMO was "Ellen was standing up for the right to be respected 100% for how you were born. I was saying I deserve to be respected and so does everybody else 100% to choose what I want to choose in this life. "

I was only a kid in the 90s when she first got famous but is she always like this ? I think she means well but she seems a little nutty

The one who posts the best deal gets a special treat

Based on the quality of their performances. I obviously couldn’t include everyone.

He was having a moment there for awhile!

Let me start by saying that I strongly believe that NONE of this would have happened if therewere strict gun controls in place, which have resulted in the ultimate death of two people - that is a terrible tragedy regardless of the sort of people that Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber were.

Still, things don't seem to be so cut-and-dry. So, let's discuss this and how the media represented the case from the beginning.

In one episode, Rose says she refuses to take sleeping pills because she hates pills. In another, she is a drug addict and goes to rehab for a month! I AM UPSET

I just stumbled across Justin's visit to the Graham Norton show in 2016 to promote the hit movie Trolls. He sure seemed comfortable exchanging double entendre quips with Mr Norton. Not to mention appearing to have just inhaled the full strength aroma of a plate of freshly baked cookies. And Anna Kendrick, btw, is sure conscious of her appearance at every moment.

LOL...why they name it after a soda pop?

What other stupid names of geological things are there?

What are the absolute must-have basics for TG dinner?

Turkey, obviously.

And I'm guessing stuffing and gravy, as well.

But what else is "traditional," and what are some nice sides to serve with the turkey?

I just want to do something relatively simple and traditional.

I'm making everything myself, but I'm buying the pumpkin pie.

Home for the holidays. While we’ve heard whispers of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle attending the royal family’s Christmas dinner, it sounds like a trip across the pond isn’t currently in the cards for the Sussexes. A new report claims that the California-based couple are “not coming” to the U.K. for Christmas with the Queen.

This year will mark the 95-year-old monarch’s first Christmas since her husband Prince Philip’s death in April 2021. Following his death, there have been numerous reports about the Queen’s health issues, leading many to wonder if Prince Harry, 37, and Meghan, 40, would make the trip out with their children—2-year-old Archie and 5-month-old Lilibet—to see the aging royal this holiday season. According to a source who spoke to Page Six on November 17, 2021, an “invitation” was already sent out to the Sussexes, but royal staffers aren’t holding their breath when it comes to getting an RSVP from the couple.

“There’s a lot that goes into the logistics and the planning of the family Christmas, so of course, staff know that Harry and Meghan are not coming,” one source told the site. “If they were, they would have communicated it to their family by now.” The insider went on to note, “But this is Her Majesty’s first Christmas without her husband, so one would have hoped they would want to be with her.”

So, why aren’t Meghan and Harry attending? Well, according to Page Six’s source, the couple are wary about the media backlash that they may face once they return to the U.K. “I think everyone understands there will be a frenzy when they both come back to the UK, but they need to rip the [Band-Aid] off and get on with it,” the insider said.

Meghan and Harry have not spent Christmas with the royal family since 2018. The couple opted to break royal tradition in 2019 by spending the winter holidays with their son Archie in Canada. Then, in 2020, the Sussexes were unable to visit the royal family for Christmas a second time due to travel restrictions that prevented them from visiting the U.K. from California, which is where they relocated following their royal exit earlier that year. Needless to say, it’s been quite a while since the Duke and Duchess have celebrated Christmas with the rest of the royal family—and it looks like this will continue to be the case this holiday season.

After the Congressional Medal of Honor, will she nominate him for sainthood?

Rather excellent methinks. Respect.

Continuing coverage of the people of CNN....

CNN must be reading these threads, as they have fulfilled my request of non stop Joey Jackson. He has been on at all hours of the day, when does he sleep? Do they give him cocaine or something?

I also enjoy hot daddy Boris Sanchez on the weekends, yassssss🔥

I am in CLT for the first time… what a dump! It feels very outdated.

Thanks to this site I learned about Frayed, Kath and Kim and recently discovered Rake.

They all have a nudge/wink quality that US tv lacks.

Have any of your favorite Aussie shows we might not know about?

This is for fans of Dorothy Z.

German Chancellors (and other high-ranking state officials) leaving office are traditionally saluted with a military band performace in a farewell ceremony called "Großer Zapfenstreich" , and are allowed to pick 3 songs for the band to play.

Angela Merkel's first choice will be a Nina Hagen song, "Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen". Her second choice is "Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen" by singer-actress-diva Hildegard Knef, then the hymn "Großer Gott wir loben dich" will finish things on a more conservative note.

I'm a big time old Hollywood fan and I've just recently discovered Constance - I don't care she was a republicunt, I think she was absolutely divine. It's a shame she didn't really gave a damn about the roles she accepted - I guess that explains why she's quite forgotten. In contrast, I didn't watch a lot of movies with her sister Joan, but IMHO she's just awful, I cringed all throughout Scarlet Street... I read somewhere Connie was a teetotaler, with her father and other sister being serious alcoholics - was that her secret for looking so good for her age in the linked video? and dying of cancer at that... About being married to HOT Gilbert Roland - “Gilbert Roland was a wonderful husband. In one room of the house.”

Plz DISCUSS!

Does anyone else fucking hate Christmas ornaments that are of TV characters? Or food items? How tacky and trashy.

Hi All, It's the GG. I was cooking yesterday for my partner's family and it turned out bafflingly badly. I recently purchased a new oven and I'm unused to the cooking times. I had done a couple "trial runs" which went smoothly.

However, yesterday, my apple pie burnt to a crisp -- a brown, dusty crisp. My turkey was dry and my foie gras stuffing, a last minute addition, was so gamey and mealy that NOBODY ATE IT. I am truly mortified because my partner had been talking me up to his parents, who used to run a world-class Inn, as a top-tier home cook.

I had to leave the table mid-meal to lie down and cry a bit. A friend came in and checked on me and talked me back to the table, but it was just terrible, and I felt that no amount of apologizing could compensate for my lackluster meal. My new "in laws" were tight-lipped and polite, but many of my dishes went more or less untouched.

This morning, my partner isn't speaking to me. I am very upset.

A man in Liverpool, England, has been sentenced to three years after he stabbed another man 12 times while shouting “I’m not f****** gay” after the two had sex.

(CNN)British and French leaders have ramped up a war of words over dangerous crossings of the English Channel after at least 27 people died making the sea journey Wednesday, bringing to a head simmering tensions in the migration crisis.

Ministers from both sides of the Channel on Thursday laid blame with their counterparts after dozens of people -- including a young girl -- drowned in bitterly cold waters off the French coast when their inflatable vessel bound for Britain sank. It is one of the largest losses of life in the English Channel in recent years.

Iraqi Kurds appear to be among the victims, the Prime Minister of the Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq said Thursday. Authorities are working to establish their identities, Masrour Barzani posted on Twitter, adding that "our thoughts are with their families." French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson both expressed horror at the tragedy, with Macron saying his country would not let the Channel become a graveyard. The leaders agreed to step up joint efforts to prevent the migrant crossings -- which have increased dramatically this year -- but also accused each other of not doing enough.

In a phone call on Wednesday night, Macron went further and urged Johnson to stop politicizing the migrant crisis for domestic political gain, according to a French readout of their conversation.

On Thursday morning, the finger-pointing continued among junior politicians.

It is all just varying shades of brown (turkey, stuffing, yams, pumpkin/sweet potato pie, pecan pie....) and makes me ill just thinking about it.

I've been fortunate that my job has kept me working on Turkey Day for the past several years so I have an excuse not to have to get together with the family and be subjected to these vile foods.

I do quite like the cranberry sauce though but don't need a holiday to eat it.

What is the worst?

I'm torn between the vomit inducing green bean casserole with those nasty fried onions on top or the pecan pie which just looks disgusting and it is so sweet it makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it.

What say you?

Oh and don't get me started on TURDUCKEN!

Never ever would I eat anything with the word "TURD" in it!

I didn't get the buried mumbled vocals of REM when I first heard them, but now like their early albums much more than their later ones

Were you ever into REM or have a favorite album?

5, 10, 15, 20, 25…

I realize this is old news - did a search and couldn't find a thread - but it is new to me.

I always assumed that Toback and Downey were close simply because Toback cast him three times. Evidently Toback has nothing but contempt for him:

“I hate to say something like this, but my hatred is not strong enough to stop me from saying it. I discovered and invented him. He was a reject when I met him. A junkie reject. And I found something appealing in him - kind of cute and unassuming and devious and perverse. And I gave him the lead in “The Pick-up Artist” which was a huge film. He had had a bit part in “Back To School” and a bit part in “Tuff Turf” …but basically, Robert Downey was going nowhere fast.”

When will justice be served?

What are you doing this year?

Fat whores, tell me about the restaurants that have great deals for holiday gift cards. Like, buy a card for $25 and get an additional $5 card for yourself. That sort of thing.

Only Top Shelf Cakes

OMG WE DID IT DATALOUNGE!

Well?

Hey DL, I'm an eldergay but sadly very innocent of these things and I have a few questions.

Can you only subscribe to an OnlyFans membership through Twitter? Or is it through Instagram? I think I had to join Twitter but now I've forgotten . Or is there another way in?

If you want to opt out of following someone, do you just stop signing in to their account when asked to renew (this seems to happen weekly to me)? Or are you forever paying into it until you make some official move to get out?

The account I was following suddenly seems to have disappeared. Is this a common occurrence? As I said above, I was following it on Instagram but now I'm getting a notice the account doesn't exist.

And, finally, is it true that OnlyFans will not be allowed any sexual content soon?

TIA for any guidance, guys!

I guess the OnlyFans with just solo material flopped, huh?

Also, his fianceé dumped him a little while back - did that send him into a new drug tailspin? She took the kid!

How long with "Collin" make it in gay porn this time?

Does anyone know what happened to him since this segment?

Not Boston. CAMBRIDGE. Elite intellectual paradise? Preppy haven? Liberal oasis? Dull as dust? DISH IT.

and wearing clothes that no man ever, never wore, except Billy Porter! And he's telling Christiane Amanpour all about it, hunty!

Wonder what went wrong?

Now he's buying into this GQP bullshit?

No drawers

Chill

SEOUL/AUSTIN, Texas, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said on Wednesday it had picked Taylor, Texas as the location for a new $17 billion plant to make advanced chips for functions such as mobile, 5G, high-performance computing and artificial intelligence.

The plant would create 2,000 high-tech jobs with construction to begin in the first half of next year, and production due to start in the second half of 2024, the South Korean tech giant said. It would also create at least 6,500 construction jobs, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said.

It looks good!! In fact I think I even head Victor say, "my mother is fucking with me."

Form the trailer it looks like Michael Cimino and George Sear get pretty physical... and my girl Bebe Woods has a crisis. I love her. Felix has a crisis, damn! There's a lot in this trailer, but my favorite scenes involve Benji with no shirt on, in his bedroom...with Victor... BTW: Yes, I'm not at all embarrassed by my continuing lust for George Sear, but Mason Gooding is hot. Seriously. In fact I saw a couple of new faces in the trailer, also hot. I actually think Season 2 will be better.

[quote] and then it claimed to be Xerxes, and then Jesus got involved, and then the alien turned out to be a reptile with a posse of gargoyles.

... or "The Golden Girls"?

After it was confirmed that And Just Like That would not feature Samantha Jones, the rumour mill went into overdrive as fans theorised about how the show's creators would explain her absence.

While some fans were concerned her character could be killed off (please, no), it looks like the show has a suitable alternative in mind – and if rumours are to be believed, they're leaving the door open for Samantha to return…

A source from the show reportedly told The Daily Mail, “We couldn't have Samantha roaming around New York City and not have the other women (Charlotte and Miranda) not interacting with her. It just wouldn't have made sense.”

They added that, “Sending her to Los Angeles wasn't an option as we'd done that in the first movie, so having her character based in London really was the perfect way to keep her alive and explain her absence.”

and the parents had dyslexia?

BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — All three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice.

The convictions for Greg McMichael, son Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan came after jurors deliberated for about 10 hours. The men face minimum sentences of life in prison. It is up to the judge to decide whether that comes with or without the possibility of parole.

The McMichaels grabbed guns and jumped in a pickup truck to pursue the 25-year-old Black man after seeing him running in their neighborhood outside the Georgia port city of Brunswick in February 2020. Bryan joined the pursuit in his own pickup and recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael fatally shooting Arbery.

Arbery’s killing after the graphic video leaked online two months later. Though prosecutors did not argue that racism motivated the killing, federal authorities have charged them with hate crimes, alleging that they chased and killed Arbery because he was Black. That case is scheduled to go to trial in February.

The jury sent a note to Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley soon after returning to court Wednesday morning asking to view two versions of the shooting video — the original and one that investigators enhanced to reduce shadows — three times apiece.

Jurors returned to the courtroom to see the videos and listen again the 911 call one of the defendants made from the bed of a pickup truck about 30 seconds before the shooting.

The disproportionately white jury received the case around midday Tuesday and spent about six hours deliberating before adjourning without a verdict.

The McMichaels told police they suspected Arbery was a fleeing burglar when they armed themselves and jumped in a pickup truck to chase him. Bryan joined the pursuit when they passed his house and recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael blasting Arbery at close range with a shotgun as Arbery threw punches and grabbed for the weapon.

On the 911 call the jury reviewed, Greg McMichael tells an operator: “I’m out here in Satilla Shores. There's a Black male running down the street.”

He then starts shouting, apparently as Arbery is running toward the McMichael's idling truck with Bryan's truck coming up behind him: “Stop right there! Damn it, stop! Travis!” Gunshots can be heard a few second later.

The graphic video death leaked online two months later, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the case, quickly arresting the three men. Each of them is charged with murder and other crimes.

Defense attorneys contend the McMichaels were attempting a legal citizen’s arrest when they set off after Arbery, seeking to detain and question him as a suspected burglar after he was seen running from a nearby home under construction.

Travis McMichael testified that he shot Arbery in self-defense, saying the running man turned and attacked with his fists while running past the idling truck where Travis McMichael stood with his shotgun.

Prosecutors said there was no evidence Arbery had committed crimes in the defendants’ neighborhood. He had enrolled at a technical college and was preparing at the time to study to become an electrician like his uncles.

Parcel was half sealed. Barely any filling inside. Box looks like it's probably been dropped on the ground at some point. Would I be a Karen if I returned it because of this?

I am trying to figure this out..

Is this correct? In order from left to right

Gravy, XX, Potato, Pumpkin Pie, Corn and XX

What are the two XX characters?

So excited! Going to watch this today to kick off my holiday movie viewing activity. I’m in love with Cary Elwes. What are your favorite holiday must-see movies?

Well this seems like an interesting turn of events. What say you, DLers?

I'm surprised the story's taken this turn. I'm curious what kind of concessions she got to come back.

Currently, more than 30 states have provisions on the books that restrict boycotting Israeli products. States are trading their citizens’ First Amendment rights for what looks like unconditional support for a foreign government.

These types of laws are not restricted to states in which fundamentalist Christians hold sway. In 2016, California passed a law requiring large contractors working with a state agency to certify that they will not discriminate against Israel, and Andrew Cuomo, as governor of New York, signed an executive order that compels state entities to divest money and assets from a list of organizations regarded by the state as participating in the boycott. Senator Chuck Schumer of New York proposed national anti-boycott legislation.

If these anti-boycott laws are allowed to stand, get ready for a slew of copycat legislation. Texas passed two laws that went into effect on Sept. 1 — one prohibiting state agencies from conducting business with contractors that boycott fossil fuels and another preventing agencies from contracting with businesses that boycott firearm companies or trade associations.

[QUOTE]Men’s bodies are on display more than ever. An analysis of 1,000 male body Instagram posts showed that boys get positive reinforcement for posting muscular content through likes and follows, while girls primarily showed their faces.

Free Leslie! It's time.

In her 24th appeal before the parole board, Van Houten was found fit for release, kicking off a three-month review process in which the parole board's legal division will examine the case. It will then be sent to the office of the governor, who will have 30 days to make a decision.

I'm watching it now. It's hilarious. Why did it get such bad reviews? Just because Woody Allen is a sex pest are we not allowed to find him funny?

Elaine May is so funny in it. It's not a great work of art, but it's making me laugh out loud.

What do we think?

Let's listem!

I’m addicted to him. He’s so fucking hot.

Wow, gross….

But more importantly, do you find him hot or not?

Make up the name of a movie that is so interesting that you would watch the movie based on the title alone.

Leaving Bob Hope’s office, Brendad was elated. Her dreams of immense, immediate stardom were slowly coming true. No, a USO tour wouldn’t get her that Oscar(s) with her name on it—could it?—but at least she’d now be giving handjobs to someone famous. Surely, that type of sacrifice to the arts would lead to a major motion picture.

But first, she had to do something about the comedian cum leaking from between her legs.

Hope’s secretary gave Brenda the eye, making Brenda acutely aware of how disheveled her usually glorious coif was.

“Windy today,” offered Brenda.

“Yes, I thought I heard blowing.”

Brenda slammed the palms of her hand onto the secretary’s desk with an intensity that startled both of them.

“Listen, you mousey little frump,” hissed Brenda in a voice loud enough to convey her new power, but not loud enough for the man who gave it to her to hear. “See, I’m going to be a big star. And big stars don’t cotton to the comments of nobodies with White-Out all over their cheap little cardigans. It’s darling. Where’d you find it? Sears?”

“No, I found it the same place you get your roles. On the floor.”

Check out this hot gay!

He complains that he can’t find a boyfriend, which seems ludicrous. Look at him!

🔥

(Rachel Griffiths too.)

This scene alone is worth it. Toni's shear depression at the beginning, her awkwardness as the song starts, her hesitancy about doing it then her getting into it and enjoying it and then her hysterical squeals when they win.

She's fantastic.

Cont.

A Florida man has been charged with 1,200 counts of sexual assault and incest involving a minor.

Continued from Part 2

Oddly, in my two long term relationships, I was never completely open sexually.

I seemed to do lots more sexual exploring between relationships than in them. I’d try almost anything once.

My first long term relationship didn’t want to do anything anal, so that side of me stayed dormant for those 3 years. The latter relationship lasted 6 years but the last two year were basically mutual masturbation.

This is how the GOP works to control the conversation.

It makes up some controversy and the Dems then have to deny it—but the original accusation always lingers in the mind.

You’re teaching CRT! It’s not CRT.

You working to defund the police! No, we want socialist services as part of the police budget

You want to release criminals! No, we don’t want to keep people who can’t afford bail in prison

I've notice alot of women at work in their late 40's and early 50's use the phrase "cool beans," which has never ceased to annoy me. I hated hearing it in my teens, and I'm shocked it's still used now that I'm pushing 40.

At the same time, I tend to use "awesome" and "cool" a lot, which were the go-to slang words when I was a kid. Meanwhile, I've never felt compelled to use "bae," "skeet," "DL," or any other slang word from the past 20 years.

I've been following this guy for quite some time. I like him. He's a strong Democrat, Retired US Army (curses like a sailor though), Former WV State Senator. National spokesperson for @NoDemLeftBehind. Didn't know he briefly campaigned for president in 2019.

He's got great comments on Twitter, but I wonder if he is respected among mainstream Democrats? Or is he considered a loon, a fringe character? l could see why, if they do regard him that way. He never appears on any shows like on MSNBC. Is he just a working class Democrat, or a populist?

Also, three kids but not currently married.

I make this every year because my grandmother loves it. Honestly, I think because there's wine in it.

CRANBERRY WINE JELLO SALAD

1 large (6 oz.) pkg. or 2 pkg. (3 oz. each) raspberry jello (or any flavor)

1 1/4 cups boiling water

1 (1 lb) can whole cranberry sauce

1 (1 lb) can crushed pineapple, undrained

1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

3/4 cup port wine

FOR THE TOPPING:

1 (8 oz) pkg. cream cheese, softened

1 cup sour cream

Dissolve jello in boiling water.

Stir cranberry sauce in thoroughly. Add pineapple, nuts and wine. Pour into a 13x9-inch glass dish and chill for 24 hours.

WHEN READY TO SERVE:

Stir cream cheese until soft, add sour cream and beat well. Spread on top of Jello. Servings: 6

What's your specialty?

This opinion piece is from Jason Godfrey who is the president of the Tampa Bay Log Cabin Republicans.

The game has changed for LGBT Republicans.

A year ago, I had no idea what Log Cabin Republicans was or who it represented. Despite the fact that I am a gay conservative, as far as I was aware, the only nation-wide organization representing people like me was the Republican Party itself. And let’s face it … for years, the GOP wasn’t the most inclusive to LGBT conservatives.

That all changed in the 2020 election, when I got involved with the Log Cabin Republicans, which I soon learned is the nation’s largest organization representing LGBT conservatives and their allies. Since that time, I have witnessed firsthand that the Republican Party has never been more welcoming of LGBT conservatives than it is today. Countless people like me across the country are getting involved in the Party and its future.

As the president of the Tampa Bay chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, I see it every day.

If you’re a gay conservative, let me reassure you that you are not alone, and that the game has changed for LGBT conservatives. President Donald Trump took unprecedented steps towards welcoming our community and including us as proud members of the Republican Party.

He was the first president in U.S. history to take the oath of office as a supporter of gay marriage as the law of the land; he openly recognized his LGBT supporters. He appointed the first openly gay man to a Cabinet-level position and launched a campaign at the U.N. to decriminalize homosexuality around the world.

Many members of our chapter credit President Trump with giving them the courage to stand up as proud Republicans despite the enormous pressure from the rest of the LGBT community to stay silent. Gay conservatives are now more vocal and more active, and have become a visible presence on the national stage.

First Lady Melania Trump emerged as a champion for LGBT conservatives as well. Her work to end bullying, an issue the LGBT community is all too familiar with, is admirable. In the final weeks of the 2020 election, she released a video thanking Log Cabin Republicans for our support and reminding us that we are welcome members of the GOP.

This kind of courage and inclusion in the face of overwhelming opposition from the media and the left has inspired many in the gay community who do not subscribe to the ideology or policies of the Democratic Party to finally get outspoken and get involved. The GOP for its part has emerged as a welcome partner. No longer are we a coalition of voters to be quietly shunned.

This new unity couldn’t come at a more critical time. The left-wing agenda of the Biden administration is shaking America to its core and jeopardizing our country’s future. It is more important than ever that we come together as conservative like-minded individuals, regardless of our sexual orientation, to elect more conservative Republicans to Congress and fight back.

[quote] During the screening, using basically my real profile as an Iraq veteran as background, they're asking me questions about my weapon system, my secondary, meaning my handgun, how I was prepared to use it. What I would do in different tactical scenarios. They specifically asked, and I made recordings because these people are idiots, they were explicitly asking would you kill someone from Antifa or Black Lives Matter. This wasn't an anomaly."

PROOF that Biden is a piece of shit!!!! The election was STOLEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't add all of them in the poll since they are more than 10, so I added the most prominent ones there and the rest are below:

Ruth Negga - Loving

Cynthia Erivo - Harriet

Andrea Day - The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Viola Davis - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

[QUOTE]The Korean show follows Seong Gi-Hun as he and hundreds of other desperate contestants compete in violent children’s games for $38 million. Only one person can win the prize, and those who lose will pay with their lives.

The vulture bees often enter a carcass via the eyes, similar to maggots, and efficiently consume a carcass. A large lizard was reduced to a skeleton over two days, while the bees took just eight hours to remove all feathers and flesh from the head of a dead passerine. They reduced two frogs to skeletons in six hours. Because they fed on carrion rather than collecting pollen, this species had a distinctive hind leg, with a drastically reduced pollen basket compared to "vegetarian" bees.

Yay or nay?

It’s a good look.

UK friends, tell us about Norton Fitzwarren and what lovely neighbors live there. Would Jimmmmaaayyy have fit in there?

You are literally genocidal if you get together and have a meal with your family, because INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

It’s almost like they actually WANT “Pussygrabber: the Sequel.” The wokesters are to our party what the QAnon is to the republicans.

Keep posting here.

I have something to tell ya on my IG.

I'm just glad Michael Sheen finally got rid of that beard!

Continue.

Pete Buttigieg needed some money for infrastructure.

It was January of 2019, just weeks before he would announce his presidential exploratory committee at a hotel in Washington, DC. And like a lot of leaders of Midwestern cities, beset by climate change and inadequate infrastructure funding, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was facing down another year of trying to fill approximately 22,000 potholes. Domino's pizza had a solution: A nationwide public relations contest that awarded money to one city in each state whose roads needed fixing. Residents of South Bend voted overwhelmingly in the contest for their city, winning a $5,000 grant that amounted to five percent of its $90,000 pothole-fixing budget.

Fast forward two short years later and President Joe Biden's Transportation secretary will soon find himself flush with approximately $210 billion over five years in discretionary grants. For the next few years, he'll be tasked with doling out those funds to largely popular projects in red and blue states across the country, including megaprojects like the Brent Spence Bridge connecting Kentucky and Ohio, a key reason why Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell voted for the bill. And of course, the money will mend the very same potholes he contended with as a mayor.

"The good news is that this is going to be the largest investment in roadways that we have seen, I think, since the interstate era," Polly Trottenberg, Buttigieg's top deputy at DOT, told Insider last week. "For state and local DOTs, that's one of the ways they're going to put that money to work right away on basic roadway repair and maintenance."

Biden will sign the bill into law on Monday, and with it come a number of new competitive grant programs that will make Buttigieg the most powerful Transportation secretary ever, said Jeff Davis, a senior fellow at the Eno Center for Transportation, an independent charitable foundation.

That's because Buttigieg will effectively be controlling the purse strings of an amount of money that is "at least five or six times more than has existed under a previous secretary," Davis added. In the recent past, such spending programs were more skewed to formula-based funding; now, Buttigieg's DOT will get to pick and choose which projects to back.

Buttigieg runs a federal agency established during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration in 1966—a little more than a decade after President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched the Interstate system. The most recent analogue of a DOT secretary managing such a windfall is Ray LaHood, who oversaw approximately $48 billion for infrastructure projects around the country while serving in the Obama Cabinet following the Great Recession . DOT's annual budget under Buttigieg will increase from $90 billion to $140 billion, and DOT officials acknowledge they will have to staff up to match the moment.

Buttigieg's rise from Midwestern mayor whose city benefitted from $5,000 he didn't ask for to fill potholes to presiding over administering hundreds of billions of dollars in a historic infrastructure package illustrates his dramatic political arc. He's now one of Biden's go-to Cabinet members on messaging, calling the legislation paired with the still-pending human infrastructure bill "the Big Deal."

"Secretary Pete may not have gotten his top choice but he's made the most of it," said former Obama White House spokesman Ben LaBolt, nodding to Buttigieg's hope for a foreign policy gig in the Cabinet such as Ambassador to the United Nations. "He's been out front on what may be the signature issue of the administration."

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