Loved being part of Mitt's posse tonight. #CVfightnight pic.twitter.com/gBc89JFObV
— Ann Romney (@AnnDRomney) May 16, 2015
"apparel items"
bless you Mitt pic.twitter.com/RsFXbJb1ir
— Simon Maloy (@SimonMaloy) May 15, 2015
I remain convinced that the entire Internet is pranking me on Romney vs Holyfield fight. Pics even look Photoshopped. pic.twitter.com/wHZbQlsTVA
— Neil Irwin (@Neil_Irwin) May 16, 2015
“If those tacky Clintons want to attract a little tax-deductible funding at their family charity, why can’t they find a more tasteful way of soliciting?”
CNN notes that Romney demonstrated some skill at “ducking and dodging”, but they didn’t make the obvious political jokes.
Mnemosyne
We watched the Queen Latifah “Bessie” biopic on HBO instead. The acting was good, but the script was a little all over the place. Michael K. Williams (currently being billed at Michael Kenneth Williams) was especially good as her husband — they could easily have gone a stereotypical “violent husband” route but Williams made him very human and the film made it very clear that Bessie Smith absolutely had her faults.
redshirt
I’d fight Romney straight up, 12 rounds, his fortune versus mine.
redshirt
Also, WTF is going on here? Punk Ann Romney?
NotMax
Punch and Snooty show.
EconWatcher
Nothing from the Mittster could surprise me, but someone needs to sit Evander Holyfield down for a talk. Does he know who he’s consorting with?
scav
What a matched set! I swear her waist will have that weird diagonal twist of Barbie’s and the Mittster’s upgraded to the Kung-Fu grip.
Valdivia
I saw this last night and wanted to punch my screen. This woman gets under my skin, I had forgotten how much since 2012.
Ruckus
@NotMax:
The win. Everyone else can go home now.
Hal
Compassionate conservatism at it’s finest!
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/texas-republican-wants-women-carry-deceased-fetuses-full-term
Villago Delenda Est
The fawning of the media mushheads over this twit and his moll disgusts me no end.
SiubhanDuinne
@redshirt:
Needz moar tattooz.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Heh
Mnemosyne
@Hal:
Well, he’s not the one whose life could be at risk, so why should he give a shit? It’s not really a moral stand unless someone dies for it, and better some anonymous woman than himself, amirite?
Kay Eye
Best restorative action for all Texans with any brain at all is to head for Barn With Inn in Wellsburg, WV. Yes, I was there. Drove past the field where the Subaru lay in state. Saw roadkill. Settled in at a renovated horse stall. Two nights weren’t enough, but we had to leave. Whatever superlatives John Cole wrote about this place, they weren’t superlative enough. It is a destination spot for sure.
Except for the neighbor’s sign that said Ted Cruz For President. Texas – never as far away as you think.
David Koch
She looks like Poochie in the pic
David Koch
I LOVE YOU
WOMENFIGHT FANS!my favorite is how women across the country dressed up like binders for Halloween.
SiubhanDuinne
@Kay Eye:
It’s on my list for one of my driving vacations later this summer. Glad to read your unsolicited and uncompensated endorsement.
nellcote
why is that white woman throwing gang signs?
redshirt
@SiubhanDuinne: A tattoo tear for every Presidential failed run.
PurpleGirl
@Hal: The example I like for the complete idiocy of non-compassionate Rethuglicans is the ectopic pregnancy. Yes, the fetus can start growing in the fallopian tube but at some point it just can’t continue and when the tube bursts the woman will die of internal bleeding. That RC hospitals will deny the surgery to end an ectopic pregnancy amazes me and makes me wonder do they have no shame.
What the Rethuglicans seem unable to process and comprehend is that although pregnancy is a natural state, it can be a highly risky one too.
Tree With Water
Just plain folks blessed with a great sense of humor..
PurpleGirl
@nellcote: Because she is an idiot that doesn’t know that’s what she’s doing. Maybe she saw someone making those signs and thought ‘gee those look good, maybe I should copy them.’
SiubhanDuinne
@nellcote:
As soon as she tucks in her thumbs she’ll give Mitt a terrorist fist bump.
SiubhanDuinne
@redshirt:
That is beauty.
Bonnie
The last thing I ever wanted to see was Mitt Romney in boxing shorts. Did not watch.
redshirt
@SiubhanDuinne: I’d go body-body upper cut side punch.
PurpleGirl
@David Koch: I looked at the first page of photos. Some of them were hilarious.
Morzer
So did Mitt lay a glove on him?
*ducks head and scurries out*
Karen in GA
Open thread? As of an hour ago, Phoebe, the World’s Most Affectionate Cat, has a pacemaker. Her surgery went well. I’ll hear more from them tomorrow; for now, I’m finally going to sleep.
redshirt
This whole thing legit makes me gag and I don’t care if it’s for charity.
PurpleGirl
@Karen in GA: Yes, you need to get some sleep now. Good to hear that the surgery went well. Hope Phoebe lives a long life.
Canadian shield
No temple garments?
PurpleGirl
@Hal: It also strikes me that a Jewish friend explained to me that even an Orthodox Jewish women who asked her Rebbi for advice would be told to end the pregnancy. It would be more damaging to the community and her family to lose her than to lose a possible child. If she becomes healthy enough, she could still have more children but if her life ends, that ends the chances for so much more in the future.
(Jewish BJers can correct me if I’m remembering wrong.)
Aleta
@Karen in GA: Go Phoebe, rest well.
Ruckus
Has anyone watched the Netflix original, Grace and Frankie?
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@PurpleGirl:
As I understand it, even the most conservative Muslim imams say the same thing — if it’s a choice between the life of the mother and that of the fetus, the mother’s life should be saved. It’s the Roman Catholic Church that decided that the sexual revolution must be fought by allowing women whose pregnancies go wrong to die, and they’ve won some Protestants to their side.
Aleta
@Ruckus: Yeah, I’ve been watching it. 1st half of 1st episode was a little dull, but as soon as Tomlin and Fonda went off alone together, it got super funny. It shows how skilled they are, and they seem to be improvising quite a bit. Lots of little bits and good jokes. Sheen and Sam Waterston excellent too.
Yatsuno
@PurpleGirl: By Jewish law the baby is not considered born until it draws first breath. Until that point anything that happens is considered nothing more than the decision of the mother. You will find Jewish pro-lifers, but they have been strongly influenced by their Christian brethren.
Ruckus
@Aleta:
Thanks!
Watched the trailer and it seemed like it could go either way. The premise/plot sounds different, that’s for sure. And I could use a few laughs about now.
Morzer
@Yatsuno:
It’s an insufficiently discussed fact that the Bible never mentions abortion. Not one, single, solitary, literally unique, hapax legomenonical use of the word or depiction of the phenomenon.
Ruckus
@Yatsuno:
Maybe we should start calling them evangelical rather than christian. They hold few if any values that I was taught about being christian. There are a few people that want to call themselves christian and yet that term has come to mean nothing like the name implies. The people we are discussing have stolen the description and if you really are religious, desecrated it.
Ruckus
@Aleta:
OK that is funny. This is real comedy. Because it has tragedy mixed in with hilarity. Hope it stays as good.
TG Chicago
On one hand, he’s doing it for charity. Hard to hate on that.
On the other hand, if he wanted to benefit a charity, he has plenty of other ways to do it. He didn’t do a boxing match to fund his 2012 run. Plus he’s richer than Jesus. (irony intended)
And he must be doing this for a personal reason. Maybe to make him more “personable” so he can get a permanent spot on the Meet the Press panel? No way he’s doing this to help another presidential run.
All that said, I mostly stick with my first hand. It’s for charity. Give him a break.
David Koch
@TG Chicago: He did it to get attention.
not too long ago Deadspin did a study and found these kind of “fundraisers” (ie celebrity golf tournaments, celebrity softball, celebrity balls, whatever) end up losing money. Why the other night Jon Stewart noted how the ritzy WH correspondence dinner raises a meeker 80k, which comes out to paltry 4 bucks per attendee.
make no mistake, he’s hoping the party wakes up to the inevitable catastrophe and begs him to re-enter. Even Coulter was on tee vee this week calling on him to come back.
Brachiator
@Morzer: Yep. I got into this nice with some anti-abortion folks who had set up outside a mall, complete with photos of fetuses. No mention of abortion and no prohibition. When they claimed that ancient culture did not know about abortion, I pointed out that later Jewish commentary when contraception and abortion was known also did not prohibit abortion.
Aleta
@Ruckus: It”s got a range of emotion I guess–haven’t quite thought about it, hard to put into words, but it stays interesting and there’s a lot of fluctuation in material while being consistently funny. Interested to hear your thoughts if you’re up for it. Very skilled work, to me, overall.
Myiq2xu
This post should be titled “Two-Minute Hate”
Ruckus
@Aleta:
Have only watched the first episode but I like it. There are of course some points that I could take it to task for, like it’s one more show about rich peoples problems. Any of the 3 houses they have is far, far nicer than the ones I’ve owned, lived in or visited. OK that’s not true, I took some workers to a house in a gated community once. Was told that the houses were a minimum of about 4 million each with some up in the 8 mil range. Now it looks like a nice place but all the houses had different signs in the yards about armed security and you had to pass armed guards and they took and photocopied your DL before they’d let you in and then only if you were on the list that the homeowners had provided. I’ve been on military bases with less security.
But I digress.
There is real chemistry among the cast, the writing is pretty good, but most of all as you said, Fonda and Tomlin either improvise pretty damn well or at the very least can riff off each other in fine fashion. And it’s a show about people my age, that you don’t see often.
David Koch
@Myiq2xu: Not has hateful as Mitt attacking your hero
David Koch
@David Koch: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/240977-romney-clinton-playing-politics-with-baltimore
Aleta
@Ruckus: Same as with the houses, they had to throw in the expensive fashion and the successful professionals por nish formula. As though the creators felt the need to ring the Sx in the City bell to keep an audience hooked. House of Cards even more so.
Aleta
@David Koch: I’d forgotten how insightful Romney can be. Wish he would hold forth on what those “terrible tragedies” are.
Aleta
@David Koch: Or at least rewarded with Ambassador to France ?
ThresherK
Ann Romney in this getup?
I want to book her under The Wannabe Act, a “law that picks up over privileged, rich white kids, who are trying to act like oppressed black kids”.
Cervantes
@David Koch:
Not. sure how that works: roughly three thousand people attend.
Cervantes
@nellcote:
“Two thumbs up” is a gang sign?
ThresherK
@Cervantes: Maybe it’s Oscar(TM)*-level goodie bags.
Seriously, the charity raising is for journo scholarships. I’d love to know who is getting the money, because the sick perv in me still holds the fantasy that one of those scholarships will be going to the guy or gal who finally takes these jagoffs down. It’s flying in the face of How to Get Ahead in Journalism, to be sure. But a man needs a dream.
Not to be left out: There’s a line between money-raising for a real need, like a food pantry, those mosquito nets the NBA is funding in Africa, or a traveling free dental clinic, v. some artsy-thing that middle class folks such as I enjoy, like a historical theater in some old mill city saved from the wrecking ball.
(*And don’t you fergit it!)
Patricia Kayden
@Cervantes: When Negroes do it, yes.
debbie
What better to complement her get-up than a couple large diamonds?
gogol's wife
it has to be photoshop please tell me it’s photoshop both of those pictures please tell me they’re photoshop
evodevo
@Brachiator: the next time you get into a discussion with such folk, and they say that abortion was unknown in Biblical times, refer them to THIS passage in the Old Testament: Numbers 5: 21, 27-28…. it basically describes a drug-induced abortion (“water that causeth the curse”), at the behest of the high priest, sort of an ordeal by abortifacient, to determine whether she is pregnant by an adulterous relationship. Explain THAT one Fundies !
Cervantes
@Patricia Kayden:
!
Cervantes
@ThresherK:
Here’s information about this year’s scholarship award-winners.
Bystander
I wanted to quote from the WH press release in which Obama and Michelle join in the commemoration of International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, but I still can’t seem to cut and paste on the iPad here.
I’m mostly interested in when anybody thinks Rand and Ted and Lindsay and Jeb! will join the POTUS.
LanceThruster
“Who let the dorks out?”
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Cervantes:
Patricia may be partly thinking of the kerfuffle when the mayor of Minneapolis was accused of “flashing gang signs” when she and an African-American community organizer were photographed pointing at each other:
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/minneapolis-mayor-calls-out-police-who-accused-her-allegedly-flashing-gang-signs
Citizen_X
Re that second picture: who the hell is making Mitt Romney action figures?
Zinsky
I pray this fight is for real and Holyfield beats Romney into brain damage. We can only hope….
Zinsky
@Zinsky: “…beats Romney into brain damage….” – but I repeat myself…
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@David Koch
Amazing how Mittens is vastly head and shoulders about the current GoP clown car.
buskertype
@redshirt:
I definitely read that as “Anne Romney as a blah person.”
TG Chicago
@David Koch: I agree that he did it (partly) to get attention, but to what end?
Also, I guess it’s a charity his son is affiliated with, so that’s clearly part of it. Anyway, it will indeed be interesting to see how much NET money they actually make to help blind people. If it helps even one person, it’s hard for me to criticize.