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Finally got to reading the TF script, and I LOVED it!  While I'm not totally sure if the characters themselves are the right choices to have throughout a full season, the dark humor, improvisation to danger, and TV science goofiness (finding a chip in a door lock) was all quintessential Torme Sliders.  I think the premise, in that people on EP used Sliding with disastrous effects, is a great one.  Truly a novel way to connect back to, and potentially "run into" the original group again.  While I realize he provides a large part of the plot in this script, the only thing I'd change would be including Bennish long term on this ride.  Maybe this is blasphemous, but I never liked the character outside of being a rotten turd on the few worlds they visited.  I think he was established as villainous though I suppose he could be a "Dr. Smith" type of companion.  All in all, this was really a clever take on "rebooting the show" mainly because it's "small."  I fear that if Hollywood were to attempt it, they would immediately be busting their budget, which was never Torme's vision for this series.  In fact, your approach would succeed on a streaming service like Peacock because it wouldn't require insane budgets.

Ironically a military member who is at the White House tested positive, not sure how much time Trump spends with him.  My father greeted the news by saying that Trump probably already has a vaccine himself, ha ha ha.

Well there's no question Trump will downplay this pandemic right through November.  The death toll will always be far better than expected because he "closed the border."  That's B.S., but that's his plan.  What he cannot lie about are economic numbers, which I think he's going to have a far tougher time "spinning."  As I've said, as long as the highest rates of infection and death continue to be with nursing homes, prisons, immigrant plant workers, and African-Americans, he will be happy.  Those are not his voters.  Now, he's an utter moron, and fails to comprehend that when those people are infected around the country, that his blue collar white voters will also be infected.  The virus is not racist.  Nor that those in rural areas have far worse access to healthcare and will pay dearly for that. 

Trump has made a political career out of smashing norms and taking risks.  Granted, the risks are calculated.  He has threatened Iran, who we all know are not going to get into a shooting war with the United States.  He fosters hatred and division, with little pushes here and there, because he knows what he can get away with.  He knew impeachment wouldn't stop him, because Mitch McConnell is a whore.  This virus doesn't answer to him or anybody else.  It's a completely random variable, and taking risks with it is absolutely insane.  Yet here we are.  Trump is gambling that the infections will subside with the warm weather, and stay away until at least after the election.  Either that and/or there will be working vaccines which he can boast about.  Again, this might work out, but it might also EFFFF all of us badly in the end.  Trump doesn't care, because it's about him winning, nothing else.

Well the "Murray" model was totally re-adjusted, after seeing cell phone data of people being more mobile, since many states have relaxed.  However, the major hotspots are currently nursing homes, prisons, and meat processing plants.  There was no testing and little protection at these places, and we're just now seeing huge spreads in Iowa, Texas, NM, Nebraska, etc., etc.  They don't even know it's happening because they don't test.  One plant had 400 positive, no symptoms, showing how widespread it is.  We have placed zero public concern for conditions at those types of places before this pandemic, and now it's blown up in our faces.  Testing, contact tracing, and cleaning up those plants, nursing homes, and prisons is not happening.  New York and California are ahead the most on those, and they aren't ready.

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This is just too head spinning to follow anymore.  So last year, Reade said she chickened out, and didn't follow through with the US Senate.  Her issue was inappropriateness, and being retaliated against.  She's also said she reported it to several in Biden's office, and now she didn't.  Reade also said that AP story is false, on her Twitter, but SHE SAID IT!!!

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news … allegation

This apparently I missed weeks ago, but Reade said that all she did was jot down the complaint on a CLIPBOARD.  There's no record of this anywhere, certainly not at the University of Delaware.

Again, I do not feel that Ms. Reade's intent is malevolent here, but I just don't know what she WANTS out of this?  Biden is not going to budge, and all she has is her story, that she's told for many years.  With zero backup from anyone in the Biden office or the U.S. Senate, whether it happened or not, how can Joe Biden be found "guilty?"  She canceled the interview "over death threats."  Like plight said, something probably went on, and Tara complained and was retaliated against.  It's very difficult to try to make these accusations against a powerful person, and really, you have to have a concrete case.

So the conclusion, or in reality, opinion, that Cathy Young was left with in that article I posted was similar to mine.  In the case of Dr. Christine Ford, it's likely that she was briefly jumped on by a wasted Brett Kavanaugh, but that was the limit of it, and his 4 decade life since has been exemplary, politics aside.  He was likely so hammered he has no memory of the night in question.  Once her primary witness refused to back her in public, that should have been the end of it.  They never should have brought her into testify.  In the case of Ms. Reade, who sadly had to survive domestic abuse, Young's view was that the assault, largely in the open, did not happen.  She felt that since Biden had no pattern of this kind of behavior at the time, in addition to high scrutiny for sexual harassment going around Congress, it simply wasn't likely.  In addition, Reade's own words, her mother's call, etc, seemed to show anger with the Biden staff and not the Senator.  It's possible she created this memory in her mind, as a result of the actual abuse she received, but I'm not a psychiatrist.

I would use the Corey Feldman example of how these things can happen.  Scott Schwartz, fellow child actor from The Toy and A Christmas Story, recently did an interview where he tears into Feldman.  He says these child pedo parties never occurred the way Corey claims, and that Charlie Sheen never molested Corey Haim.  In fact, the one who did was a low-life who Feldman kept in his company for decades despite KNOWING what this guy did to Haim.  Similar to how Feldman defends Michael Jackson.  Anyway, Schwartz went on to say that Sheen stole a porn star away from Feldman, which made him forever irate with him.  At some point, the same low-life who molested Haim sold a story to the tabloids about Sheen, with Feldman backing him up.  It's all a lie, and Haim was dead and couldn't refute it though his family did so.  Schwartz said Corey LOVES playing the victim.

What does that have to do with this?  Only that people make exaggerated and false accusations about famous people all the time.  It gains them fame themselves and definitely attention.  Particularly if it's an event that is so long ago, it's literally impossible to find out the truth.  Supposedly the Biden campaign is rifling through his old Senate documents as we speak, with the far left accusing them of covering up whatever they find.  My guess is they won't find anything, just like the other agencies Reade supposedly reported it to found nothing.  MSNBC covered this last night, which caused many liberals to react angrily against MSNBC!  I say no, just wait, let them all cover it now, and get it over with, because IMO there's no story there.

I would expect VP Biden tomorrow morning to express sympathy for whatever pain Ms. Reade is going through, and who knows, he might even invite her to speak to him.  He might apologize for having potentially said something crass to her back then or the like.  In no way is he going to shockingly admit to it.  I myself am still trying to understand Reade's end game here?  I mean, what does she want from Biden?  An apology?  His dropping out?  Neither of those are going to happen.  Clearly she pissed that horse rescue lady off, and her reaction to her on Twitter was pretty bad.  I go back to the Feldman story, I just think Tara Reade has cultivated this thing where she plays the victim.  She did it to the horse woman, and is doing it again.

PS: Young's last comment was that "Believe the Woman" is simply not reasonable nor sustainable, and throws due process out the window.

PS PS: Donald Trump, of all people, said Biden should respond, and that "I know all about false accusations, it could be false."

Interesting, didn't know/remember Tracy making that statement.  I'm sure he's including The Guardian because he wrote it, but I'd be fine with that.  As I said, you retain all of his original mysteries by around that point. 

Depends on what medium they're going for.  Peacock service needs content, though one would assume the budget wouldn't be great on there, though Sliders proved over and over again that wasn't a showstopper.  I'm not really sure what Jerry's concept is to say that he might get pushed out.  Terrible example, but look at Saved By the Bell, Mario and Elizabeth are producers and starring, with an all-new teen cast.  Sliders could do the same, especially given that besides Jerry, the other three original stars are somewhat "retired."

TF, I'm not sure about your "theory" on the escape clause, ha ha, because Ohio finally had their primary, and it was mail in only.  NJ has mailed ballots out without asking, for instance.  I truly don't understand the NY decision, and don't agree with it, especially since it was going to be mail in only.  Very bizarre.  If more states canceled theirs, there would be an uproar.

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ireactions, here's a LONG, and I mean LONG winded article I suggest reading.  It's an opinion piece for sure, but this writer attempts to figure out who has the more plausible assault claim, Reade or Christine Ford.  I was able to get through the whole thing, and ironically, her conclusions are basically in line with my feelings on both women's accusations.

As for "Sleepy Joe," the problem is that when Biden tries to speak on issues he's just not that great with, he fumbles.  It's not dementia, it's called trying to do an oral presentation on a book you were too lazy to read!  He's not Bernie or Warren, they are policy wonks.  But he's also not going to advise people to stick a UV light up their ass either.

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So, after a nasty back and forth on Twitter between Tara Reade (now McCable), writer Joan Walsh, and Lynn Hummer, the founder of a California horse rescue, The Medium dug into it.  Mrs. Hummer has extensive evidence to back up her claims that "Tara Reade stole from me. She lied to me. She stole from my organization. She manipulated me and she duped me. I want that to be shared because it’s important information. And I have documentation, images and emails to prove it."

The accusation here is that Tara was deceitful in actions pertaining to his horse rescue.  Her reaction was almost Trump-like, threatening to sue Hummer as well as Joan Walsh.  I hate to just dismiss someone based on what they have done recently, but the reality is she never spoke ill about Joe Biden for 2.5 decades.  Quite the opposite, she bragged about working for him.  All we have is her accusation, what vague details her brother and another friend remember, and the mother supposedly phoning into Larry King.  Reade claimed to have reported the harassment to 4 different agencies at the time, but none of them have a record of it.  No one in Biden's office backs her story up. 

Again, is it not possible that she was fired, became angry about that, and told her mother a story to cover for being canned?  Perhaps not, but even the mother's questioning on CNN was strange.  She cited it as a "problem," but did not seem to come close to intimating an assault occurred that might require police involvement.  The mother asks Larry, "My daughter has just left there after working for a prominent senator, and could not get through with her problems at all, and the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him."  That makes no sense.  You're only recourse is the press?  But you have respect for him, AFTER he allegedly assaults you? 

It brings me back to the Kavanaugh/Ford allegations.  That was even longer back in time, and while it's probable that Kavanaugh went a bit too far while drunk, Dr. Ford simply couldn't recall details, and even the "assault" itself really only came to light for her through hypnosis, which is about as scientific as having your palm read.  At the same time, these incidents are traumatizing, and the victims often do not want to bring them to light, simply because they often wish to forget them.  Perahps Ms. Reade has a Stockholm Syndrome at work, but I mean, she only worked for Biden for a few months, yet as I said, continued to praise him, and even now doesn't seem to particularly wish to vilify him.  It's just very strange, but like Dr. Ford, the special interests get their claws in, and it's simply 2,000 times worse for the alleged victim.

Well at the same time, Sarah Michelle Gellar premiered as Buffy Summers and largely destroyed most female lead stereotypes.  The staff Sliders had for season 3 were atrocious, but that was Fox.

More proof Trump's policy as late as the end of the February was to hide the truth about the dangers from the outbreak.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/health-chi … 1587570514

First of all, the Chinese government deserve a LOT of blame.  They are secretive and deceitful and they have preyed upon weak 3rd world nations to advance their agenda.  They have earned the distrust.  Trump is a joke on this subject, because his tariff war has done nothing to address this.  His running out of the Trans Pacific Partnership (which many liberals like Bernie agreed with doing) greatly weakened our position.  The TPP was designed to give other nations in Asia a leg up on China, and keep them in check, but Trump is a moron.

Secondly, once again, it's unfortunate that people will blame all of China, but there is a significant part of the culture which is archaic and a threat to the natural world, and has been for decades.  The wet markets are disgusting and frankly, must be banned.  The government won't do it.  Chinese "traditional medicine," about as valid in my book as voodoo, has guaranteed the extinction of the elephant and rhino and many other species.  Shark fin soup is not far before.  If China wishes to join the world community in the 21st century, they need to step up.  Fat chance.   That being said, factory farming here in the USA is about as reprehensible just not as dangerous virus wise.  I know not saying much.

In terms of Informant, he's simply not someone you can discuss politics with any sort of rationality.  I used to have WARS with him on the old boards regarding the 2000/2004 elections.  Facts didn't seem matter, and he would offer up his religious beliefs as an argument.  Which is fine, but I never understood why he was watching science fiction?  I mean, he would literally bash Supernatural episodes because they described Biblical figures inaccurately, which I always laughed at, considering both pieces of work are fiction, ha ha. 

Anyway, of course he's full on Trump, he is and was a giant hypocrite.  Sorry, but you can't be a devout Christian and look the other way at the kind of charlatan Trump is.  There's literally dozens of examples in the "Good Book" warning against the behavior and type of person which Trump is.  He was a nice guy, and I enjoyed his views on almost anything but politics.

Well the reality is that most of the complainers, and there are not that many of them, will get their wish before long.  Florida is already opening stuff up, then Texas.  More will follow, although Japan is dealing with a huge Tokyo flareup following relaxation of rules there.  Mask-wise even in NYC they're only mandating in certain places.  Like a restaurant can deny you service if you're barefoot or shirtless.  Anyway, none of these "protesters" are really all that interested in restoring their livelihoods as much as they feel empowered by the dufus who rallied them there.

Meanwhile, Matt Drudge made news by calling out Trump's blatant lie, that their growing criticism of Trump's aversion to the truth has cost them visitors over the past year. Instead, Drudge stated they've never had more. 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/18/media/ma … index.html

You hit about 20 nails on the head at once!  The virus is now spreading quite badly in rural America, which is older, and has limited healthcase access and bad hospitals.  Limiting mail in voting will likely hurt Trump's chances, oh well.

First, Trump already CAVED to the Northeast Governors and was forced to admit they call the shots.  Second, Biden's refusal to take any sort of position that would weigh him down is exactly what's propelled him to this point.  That said, he's come right out in support of several liberal policies from Warren and Sanders, which in the face of a 2nd Great Depression, will be quite advantageous.

Lastly, Trump is running out of organizations to blame.  Now it's the WHO, who he has halted money to, despite the prospect of 2nd and 3rd virus waves being more likely without worldwide action.  This is what he said about that group in late February....

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In other news, Andrew Cuomo has formed an I-95 corridor Governor group (PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI) to determine economic/social distance efforts in what seems like opposition to Trump's, which features his economic team, the Jared/Ivanka, and NO public health officials.

You're not talking about an industry that has given a crap about food safety much in the past.  Their treatment of the livestock is bad enough, cannot expect much better for the employees, many of which are immigrants.  Anytime within a corporate hierarchy, similar to what went on in China, people in the middle grow fearful of repercussions so they don't report these things.  I'm in the middle of the storm, and some supermarket chains like Shop-Rite are publicly reporting when a store's employee is sick, and there's a cleaning.  Others like Stop N Shop say nothing.  Some have built up plexiglass barricades for cashiers and provided masks and gloves, others have done nothing.  It's the wild west out there, but my point was more that because our culture has moved to centralized, megafactories for everything from food to N95 masks, we are at grave risk for massive shortages when those centralized factories go down.

Well his vote like mine won't mean squat, as we live in blue states, but equating 4 years of Joe Biden, which at worst would be "Obama Lite" and another 4 years of Trump, is just not valid.  Not just from a conservative/progressive point of view, but primarily one guy has spent 3.5 lying to the public about well, everything, and one would not.  Biden's position on climate change is instantly a course correction from Orange.

You can't even get close to passing 1/1,000th of Bernie's gift list without control of Congress.  The GOP is against every single thing Bernie stands for, and with him on the top of the ticket, the Democrats lose Congress.  That is what freaked the party rank and file out the most.  Republicans spent a decade plus winning state elections, that gave them favorable gerrymandered districts, and locked in the House majority.  You have to win before you can try to push an agenda.

Sorry, I do not.  I don't recall those being on the DVD's.

What happened in Wisconsin today was a prelude to November.  Tons of even blue states cannot handle an all-mail in ballot election in November.  Republicans have stacked the courts.  They will prevent changes to election laws to combat this virus and allow people to vote safely.  You can't even protest because they'll fine you for not social distancing.

I think the fear for quite some time was that the public would hoard and panic buy masks worse than they would otherwise, taking them from the front line healthcare, first responder, grocery, warehouse, restaurant, and cleaning workers who need them far more.  You have Amazon and supermarket workers walking out still due to lack of protection.  The last thing we need is for every dope who wants masks to go shopping to flood the market for them. 

The real question, in say a month or so, is will they tell everyone to continue wearing masks through the rest of the year to prevent future waves of the virus until the vaccines come?

TF, I've probably gone to the Boston Globe too many times, so it stopped me from reading.  Anyway, wow, that's an amazing designated survivor scenario no doubt!  Idk if anybody saw an old TV (HBO) movie called, By Dawn's Early Light?  Starred James Earl Jones, Rebecca De Mornay, Martin Landau, and Darren McGavin, was really good.

As for Biden and his "stamina," he might not need any.  The Democratic Convention is now in August, if that happens.  He might be stuck in his house either way all summer.  I certainly haven't claimed Trump won't win, quite the opposite.  They could bring back Obama (if possible), and there's a multitude of factors in favor of Trump.  Voter suppression, Russian interference, and a massive fundraising war chest his campaign is sitting on. 

While I think Biden will be fine in debates against a guy who does nothing but lie, I would agree that he's in trouble on social media and whatnot.  But then again, any Democrat was going to be.  Trump's campaign and the Russian intelligence hackers are well prepped for this election.  Trump's handling of the crisis has not been polling very well.  Messaging from the White House is schizophrenic at best, with constant in fighting.  He's offered zero empathy for the victims, nurses, doctors, and unemployed.  A bunch of checks and business loans (if you can figure out how to get them) won't counter the disgust or trepidation people feel for his capacity to lead in a crisis.

PS: Here's the reality, Trump campaign does not want you to vote.

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Well boys, my concern is do we HAVE a full election in November?  Dems are screaming for the government to start doing something about mail in voting nationwide.  If states have huge shortages in polling places, workers, etc., you depress the vote and Trump wins.

You shouldn't need inspiration.  Confidence the candidate can perform the duties of the office.  Trust the candidate will actually do what he or she says.  People got spoiled with Obama's hope and change.  I have to be honest, I was leery of him early on.  He won me over not when he espoused liberal edicts or propaganda, but when he promoted his sensibility and pragmatism.  His one out was that he didn't support the Iraq War, that gained a lot of support, but for me he kept on hitting the point that he was here to govern, to get things done.  If need be, he would compromise.  He won over a lot of people that way, and once the stock market fell apart, he won over the rest of the doubters because he was seen as someone with the capacity to lead.  Hillary tried the inspiration route twice, and failed, twice. 

This time around, when the incumbent is a daily nuclear explosion of stupidity, ego, deceit, and cowardice, sorry but ANYBODY with a pulse is an improvement on day one.  Again, I've always like Joe Biden.  Is he the best for the job out there compared to other Dem candidates?  Maybe not, but he'll be the nominee.  Whatever faults he's got, the alternative is a childish loon who refused to head warnings of a pandemic, because they didn't agree with his bloated "gut."  There comes a time when civic responsibility to the Constitution first, and the protection of the nation second, are at grave risk.  Trump has taken a crap over the former, and these days, the latter is in serious jeopardy on his watch as well.  That should be enough inspiration alone for an exit plan in November.

Look I got into it on another forum on this accusation with Biden.  The left screwed this up badly with Dr. Christine Ford and Brett Kavanaugh.  Ford was credible, but she had zero corroboration, in fact her potential witnesses went the other way.  They kept pushing and pushing and pushing this.  Did young drunk Brett do it?  Yeah probably, but that was 35 years ago or whatever, and the backlash cost Democrats the Senate in 2018.  In other words, going down that rabbit hole bit them badly. 

It was 1993, and she supposedly told her immediate family.  I think the brother backs her story, but unless someone from the campaign does, where is this going?  Biden denied it.  Do I think Biden did this?  Ehhh, I'd say 50/50 but beyond that, unless you're going to file charges on him, which after this many years I don't think you can, again, what is the point? 

The Russia stuff I think was overblown and irrelevant.  Ms. Reade explained that she's basically socialist and commended Putin, but then quickly realized he was no socialist just a thug so she denounced him, unlike our President.  There was so a pro-Biden twitter account trying to say Ms. Reade was some nutcase on an old Dr. Phil episode but that was debunked. 

The Bernie-sphere, who as we know, claim everything from Mother Nature to Klingons to God Himself (despite their mass atheism) are conspiring at all times to prevent Sen. Sanders from being President.  This Biden accusation is going viral in that sphere, where they have accused Times Up of hiding this.  Well, what they told Ms. Reade was that this involved a candidate, and since this was not apparently a criminal matter, their involvement would be perceived as electioneering.  So they declined to help her.  That was a year ago.  Well she gave up when it seemed Biden wasn't going to win, but then was right back on it when he was resurrected. 

I am left again with a question of not so much Ms. Reade's motive, but her end game?  What does she want?  Biden to admit it?  Not happening.  She can get on 10 news programs tomorrow, he's not admitting it.  There is only one end game, she wishes to derail his candidacy.  Look that's her choice, it's a free country, but is handing the election to Trump worth some personal vindication?

PS: To answer you directly outside my rant there.... It's pointless to even compare accusations with Trump's because the American voter has already clearly decided they do not care about these accusations.  Shameful as that is.  When you're trying to unseat a walking, talking King of immorality, I guess you can't be picky can you?  Biden as I said, will never agree to an investigation, nor can there be.  He's not a sworn elected official now.  There's no government review that can happen.  1993 was outside any statue of limitations.

I doubt a live action movie is what Don Bluth had in mind.