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11526. robertjayb - 1/11/2015 6:51:31 PM Anita Ekberg,
the Swedish-born actress best remembered for her overflowing decolletage (oh, yes!), sultry ice-blond looks and her sensual dip in the Trevi Fountain in Federico Fellini's 1960 masterpiece of hedonistic Rome, “La Dolce Vita,” died Jan. 11 in Rome. 11527. judithathome - 1/12/2015 12:04:32 AM Wow...as per CNN: one of the attackers of Charlie Hebdo had a "spiritual leader" working as nurse intern at a hospital where some of the people injured in the attack were taken....couldn't write this stuff in a screenplay and be believed! 11528. judithathome - 4/17/2015 9:43:05 PM Robert Bates, the Tulsa shooter, spoke out for himself this morning on the Today Show...at the end, Matt Laurer asked him about his training records...Mr. Bates, in the old "saying a bit more than we asked for" routine...said: "I have a paper from a Deputy Crittenden, now in jail for first degree murder, that says I did a good job."
I nearly fell off my chair...his lawyer was sitting right there with him. I assume he had told him that this fact might come up if he used the man's name...but the lawyer looked a little strained when it popped out of his client's mouth and sat there in the room...like the "other woman's love child" showing up at your wife's family reunion.
Maybe more like a case of "Here is my foot and here is my gun...foot, meet gun."
The more I hear of that interview...the more I think that man shouldn't have been allowed out of the home, much less on an undercover sting and armed to the teeth.
11529. judithathome - 4/17/2015 9:44:13 PM Has it REALLY been three months since the last post in this thread??? 11530. judithathome - 4/25/2015 8:31:23 PM I'm guessing not many here watched the Bruce Jenner interview?
Most surprising thing in it was his admission that he is a conservative Republican and when asked what he thought Mitch McConnell or John Boehner would say to him...he actually said he thought they would wish him well and that they would support him.
BIGGEST shocker of the entire two hour interview! 11531. Ms. No - 4/26/2015 4:06:33 AM Ha! Well, they might personally wish him well, but I doubt they'd do so publicly.
I didn't watch the interview --- I didn't believe his transition was anything other than tabloid speculation until just recently.
11532. iiibbb - 4/26/2015 12:31:12 PM The biggest shocker of the interview is that anyone watched the interview. 11533. judithathome - 4/26/2015 9:56:15 PM Well, I did...and he came off as very sympathetic...and I believe he's lived with this all his life and I truly feel for him. 11534. Ms. No - 4/26/2015 11:09:34 PM Yeah, I do too. I wonder if it was more or less comfortable to live in a house full of anatomic females. 11535. iiibbb - 4/27/2015 4:00:43 PM I'm not a fan of this kind of interview not because I'm anti-transgender--- I just don't think the press is sophisticated enough to present the issue.
One can only assume that independent of the dysphoria, Jenner's comfort with them is tied to whether there is love and acceptance.
I recognize in myself a certain degree of dysphoria -- I've never felt 100% comfortable in my own skin, but I don't think it's a gender thing specifically. Nobody really knows --- too hard to explain; for me it's manageable as it is and I just live with it.
I can understand the palpable need for change. 11536. judithathome - 4/27/2015 7:04:38 PM Well, Sawyer did a good job with that interview...not sure I'd trust FOX news with something like this but...
Naturally his ghoulish stepdaughter Kim (at the urging of her publicity hungry husband) appeared on the Today show this morning to talk about how it has changed HER life...the Armenian genocide wasn't even on anyone's radar until Kim and Kanye decided to go "honor it" last week.
Sorry, their hearts might have been in the right place but those two people can't do anything without sucking out the last little drop of "look at ME and look how this affects ME".
Of course, it DOES have an effect on the family but if he had wanted everyone in the family talking about it, he'd have had them on Diane's show...he had his children on...not his step-children. 11537. judithathome - 4/27/2015 7:07:52 PM 3i3b, I think everyone feels uncomfortable in the skin at times...if it means anything, you come across as a very smart and "feeling" person. You express your emotions well, in other words. 11538. iiibbb - 4/27/2015 7:23:19 PM What I feel is and isn't a gender thing.
If I had felt compelled to act on the feelings I had, at the time in my life it would've made sense, I'm pretty sure I would have just traded some problems for others and my life wouldn't have been all that much better.
I'm too holistic of a thinker to filter the world through my gender --- to many irons in the firer --- and I'm not saying that those that transition aren't holistic thinkers. I'm sure they're doing what's right for them.
The cost to me is there's always this part of me that's not accessible to anyone.
I'm not unhappy. It's just this thing that's there. 11539. iiibbb - 4/27/2015 7:23:41 PM But I relate. 11540. judithathome - 5/4/2015 7:27:28 PM Terror Attack In Garland, Texas
After the killings in Paris last year, the idiots in Garland schedule an art show featuring cartoons about Mohammad? What sort of fools DO that??? 11541. judithathome - 5/4/2015 7:28:56 PM Evidently, THIS sort of fool:
Pamela Geller 11542. iiibbb - 5/4/2015 7:42:19 PM Got to be careful about blaming victims... same argument raised against women who are raped or blacks who are noncompliant with police officers. Too easy to say "if they didn't ___________....."
... even if said victims might have been asshats. 11543. judithathome - 5/4/2015 8:09:59 PM Blaming victims? Are we talking about the same story?
Are you saying sponsoring that art show was a GOOD idea? 11544. iiibbb - 5/4/2015 9:53:52 PM Is a woman walking home at night a good idea?
No matter how ass-hattish... nobody deserves to die for drawing an insulting cartoon of a religious symbol. 11545. iiibbb - 5/4/2015 9:55:37 PM Are you part of the "he shouldn't have run from police" camp regarding Freddie Gray?
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