Merry Christmas, if you’re into that sort of thing!

Dormousing – I had LASIK in 1999. At the time, I was basically legally blind without glasses/contacts (around 20/800 vision, if I remember correctly). I also had some astigmatism.

They corrected my left eye to 20/20 And my right eye to 20/10. The doctor used to have me come in and talk to patients who were nervous since they thought their eyesight was too bad for it to be successful (I had had the worst vision of any of his patients at the time – I was his biggest success story). It was the best money I’ve ever spent on myself (and in 1999, it was quite an expensive procedure). I would do it again in a heartbeat. Since I am now officially an “old” and have worked in jobs involving primarily looking at a computer screen for 8-12 hours a day for 30+ years, I have to wear reading glasses. But that is considerably better than the Coke bottle lenses of my past.

Something to grind gears, big time:

Mark Wahlberg paid $1.5M for film reshoot that earned Michelle Williams $1,000

Of particular note:

Williams and Wahlberg are represented by the same agency

Disney put brownface on white background actors during filming for the live action Aladdin remake
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/42601893/aladdin-disney-defends-making-up-white-actors-to-blend-in-during-crowd-scenes

As far as North Korea goes foreign media, including South Korean media, is apparently increasingly penetrating the country. DVDs and thumb drives of things like South Korean soap operas and foreign documentaries are smuggled in and traded. Of course being caught with such material is highly dangerous, with a potential death sentence if you’re convicted.

One of the more interesting North Korea stories is that a pair of North Korean figure skaters trained in Sainte-Julie, Quebec of all places, with Canadian figure skating coach Bruno Marcotte.

In more unpleasant news famed French actress Catherine Deneuve, along with 100 other French women writers, performers, and academics, has denounced the MeToo movement for interfering with men being able to chat up women. This isn’t the first time Deneuve has minimised sexual assault, having said in March that calling Roman Polanski’s sexual assault of a drugged 13 year old in 1977 rape was “excessive.”

Noooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!

Roseanne Confirms What We Knew All Along
Aimée Lutkin

Roseanne Barr promised the new Roseanne reboot would not be about Donald Trump. She did not promise that the Conners wouldn’t be Trump supporters, so now they are. Of course. . . .

“In The Rosanne Show, I’ve always tried to have it be a true reflection of the society we live in. I feel like half the people voted for Trump* and half didn’t, so it’s just realistic,” she said.

*Roseanne, you can feel that way all you want, but it’s not true.

ETA: Yeah, Dan’s alive. Still. Or maybe again. Don’t know.

https://jezebel.com/roseanne-confirms-what-we-knew-all-along-1821906265

I have my suspicions that ABC doesn’t have high hopes for the revived Roseanne. After all they’re debuting it at the end of March, and you’d think the revival of what was a hit in its day would be more appropriate for the start of the 2018-2019 season. 9 episodes have been ordered, but it will be interesting to see if they all make it to air, and if there will be more episodes if they do.

Can it be? Was there actually a person in the Trump campaign who loved their country? Could be. If so, Katie smiles on you for your act of courage, Republican person.

Source inside Trump campaign reported concerns to FBI, new transcript suggests
Senator Feinstein releases testimony from Fusion GPS boss Glenn Simpson
Fusion GPS compiled explosive dossier on Trump campaign and Russians

A source within the Trump campaign reported concerns to the FBI, according to the man behind a controversial dossier on Donald Trump, a new transcript suggests.

Senator Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday unilaterally released the transcript of a congressional interview with Glenn Simpson, whose research firm, Fusion GPS, was behind the dossier on alleged contacts between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government.

The dossier – compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele – makes an allegation that there was a “conspiracy of cooperation” between Russian agents and the Trump campaign, and the president has frequently scorned it since its publication last January. . . .

In a statement, [Chuck] Grassley’s office [Grassley is a Republican] excoriated Feinstein for the release, saying she had not consulted with him. Her decision “undermines the integrity” of the investigation, he said, and “jeopardizes its ability to secure candid voluntary testimony”, including from the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

The Trump era really does seem to be exposing everyone’s true colors. For the good and the bad. Alyssa Milano has really been going after Trump and speaking out against rape culture. I had no idea she was one the SJW cabal.

This is the first time I’ve heard about the Roseanne reboot, but considering that Barr proudly owns a Nazi armband and has done entire “Comedy” bits about how much she wants to gas the Jews, I’m not surprised it’s been either ignored or buried. Sounds about as watchable as a bleeding eyeball in a leaking anus.

Anyway, other responses.

1. Reminder that Mark Wahlberg is also a racist attempted murderer who’s attacked a dozen or so people for the “Crime” of being black or Asian. He’s a massive scumbag, saying he couldn’t act his way out of a wet paper bag is being too kind, and the sheer fact that he has any job is the dictionary definition of white male privilege. … I’m not a fan, can you tell?

2. Hey, Skiriki! Bloody hell, and I thought my health’d tanked this year; I’m so glad you’re okay. o.O;

@WWTH:

The Trump era really does seem to be exposing everyone’s true colors. For the good and the bad.

So did the World War II era. Have you ever read this? It’s fascinating.

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Maybe it’s a once-a-generation thing. When the last people die of old age who remembered the last time, it happens again …

Hello.

Ah, there has been an answer about the manifest Kat is speaking about (with another manifest). I tried to put the link in antoher message, but i think it stucks in moderation. You may get it in sometimes, i guess.

Have a nice day.