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LOL Damn it Obama.. umm I

tmccarthy0 — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:18:15 +0000

LOL Damn it Obama.. umm I mean Hillary, how could you make her do this?

This is the greatest day so far at the Clusterfuck Convention. If I could just stop laughing out loud at this.. But no I cannot.

C'mon, TMac, you know how

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:28:06 +0000

In reply to Wait, I never could have

C'mon, TMac, you know how politics gets dished out better than that. Of course Chelsea and Ivanka set her up after Don embarrassed Ivanka's husband with all that anti-semitic crap and squashing Jared's attempt to explain it away. Surely some leftover bitterness how Ivana got pushed aside for trophy wives #2 & #3. And here's Melania going into her first serious speech - and someone conveniently drops a pre-written one right in her lap, Cliff Notes the night before term paper due.... Bet Chels and Ivanka were sniggering behind the curtain or at least via WhatsApp as she selivered it.. Vengeance is a dish best served... with heaping amounts of brutal irony. Welcome to Mega-Melania, a country somewhere east of here...

Though it seems maybe Melania

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:11:42 +0000

In reply to She is a model - models

Though it seems maybe Melania's gift for self-embellishment is a quality she shares with The Donald. "Success" in America comes so easily - if you just say it does.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/melania-trump-speech-plag...

Wait, I never could have

tmccarthy0 — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:59:43 +0000

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Wait, I never could have predicted that Melania's speech about herself and her husband would be plagiarized from Michelle Obama's 2008 speech. I do believe that Melania did that one on her own, no speech writer would life passages from another speech.

So day one of the Trumpian Comedy Show is ever better than I could have expected.

I also find this strange as I

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 05:23:40 +0000

In reply to She is a model - models

I also find this strange as I associate the Yugoslavian art scene with movies like Dusan Makavajev's dark "Sweet Movie" or Kustarice's Time of the Gypsies and Underground or the breakup movies like Pretty Village, Pretty Flame and Vokovar Post. Visiting Mostar and Sarajevo, digging slugs out of the walls, staying in a flat in Dubrovnik with a mortar hole through the roof, I think concern about a Yugoslavian posing nude or more accurately "provocatively" is obscene in itself. Best I guess would be if she'd had her legs blown off being serious about nationalism like everyone else in the Balkans.

Women are supposed to be sexy and seductive but not too - it's that narrow band of acceptable behavior that can have decades of consequence on their career. Too much tit showing? A hussy. Not enough? A dour prude. In thw middle of a speech to the UN, a woman must pay attention to her hair, her makeup, her tone of voice. Men just have to make sure their rumpled suit jacket doesnt have a large hole in it, a pretty low bar.

She is a model - models

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:48:51 +0000

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She is a model - models typically model provocative poses, clothing, lifestyle, including nudity. It is hard to be a serious successful actress without at least once exposing your breasts plus doing sex scenes. It's part of the industry. Proctologists deal with assholes all day long - for politics, does that preclude them or prepare them? Why are we even discussing this? Check watch, 2016. Besides, when I first visited Slovenia 30 years ago their stores had shelves full of 1 item over and over. It was depressing - all the students wanted to escape to Italy. Instead the splitup came and Slovenia slipped out peacefully. Melania got her peace dividend and made a success of herself, like countless other models in Milan and elsewhere. I like Kate Moss, Elle McPherson, some of the more punkish models who helped turned the catwalk avant garde under Gaultier and Galliano.

Who knows why anyone is with

ocean-kat — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 04:26:35 +0000

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Who knows why anyone is with anyone. Many of the men I know are with women I wouldn't marry or build a life with. Nice enough women but not for me. I have women friends I respect and admire, some I could see myself in a relationship with, and I see them with men that imo are unworthy of them. I can't count the number of times I asked myself, "why is she with that loser?"Could be my friends don't understand why I was with the women I spent time with. or why they were with me. I could never understand why my sister married the man she did. Now that he has alzheimer's and she must watch over him and care for him in the most intimate ways I can only conclude that she loves him, for some reason I can't comprehend. Since I can't figure out why my friends are in relationships I don't even try to figure out why people I don't know are together.

Thanks Doc, I've been

tmccarthy0 — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 03:04:10 +0000

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Thanks Doc, I've been watching and I just think this convention was so much better in its original German. I think George Zimmerman is up next! He's going to talk about Making America Great Agin' with Gunz! Woot.

The first time I went to a

CVille Dem — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 01:37:56 +0000

In reply to What is the big deal about a

The first time I went to a nude beach was when I vacationed in Slovenija, along the Adrianic. I was floating along on a blow-up boat, and a guy came along on a wind-surfer, totally naked. On the beach, families were also nude. I took my clothes off too. The water was wonderful until I stepped on a sea urchin. I had heard that they were full of poison and so I was in panic mode when I limped out of the water. While I waited for help I pulled the quills out of my foot and was surprised to realize that I didn't feel any more pain.

I will respond to your post with two completely unrelated issues:

1. Nakedness is natural, and almost everyone except Americans recognize this. Posing in a "come f*ck me pose while naked on a fur is different, and even my relatives in Slovenija recognize.

2. My fear of the sea urchin is kind of like the general theme of the RNC. Fear, fear, fear. I discovered that my fear was misplaced. Some people seem to prefer fear to reality.

BTW, this is before Melania's speech: I don't think she is dumb. I don't think she is dumb at all. I just think she prefers to be ultra rich. How could any woman want to be with this buffoon otherwise?

She just did her job, happens

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 01:14:01 +0000

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She just did her job, happens to be cute which is required for that job. Obviously smart enough to survive in her field, including speaking English which many foreigners never handle. Landed a rich fish? Good for her - someone has to be wealthy, even Susan Serandon. Says little about who they are, and who they love or wed is far from indicatve. Hopefully I've written enough to bore and we can gi back to real stuff uf there really is in a convention.