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lame pick.  She isn't seen as a liberal so she should have picked a liberal, not some anti-abortion democrat who is for TPP.   This just reinforces everything the Sanders bloc was saying. 

This was Trump's worst speech, I am really surprised how stiff he sounded.   In contrast Ivanka is like a perfect human.   Besides being beautiful, she has poise, good taste and able to talk in coherent sentences.   Trump's children are the pieces of the puzzle that just don't fit with the rest of the story:   They're borderline perfect, Ivanka and Don Jr both, so he must be doing something right somewhere. 

She looks great, time has been very good to KB and AS Jr both.  She claims she is out of acting, but he has been on the fringes of Z level stardom all these years.  I wonder if he has damaged his career here.   Scot Baio?   I just have to wonder if that was the last thing Garry Marshall saw and it pushed him over the edge,     I do find seeing these has beens fun.

That isn't quite the same.   Borrowing with the author's permission is allowed.  I don't think any speech is written without inspiration from somewhere, borrowing a thought or being inspired by something.   What the wife did was completely different in that she was basically giving whole parts of someone else's speech.  He seems to have just found a phrase catchy so he worked it in.

The son also rises.   Donald Jr is a natural and hair gel aside I think if he would run for mayor of NY he could win.  He gave the best speech so far, better than the politicians, and I think that comes from being a New Yorker  learning how to hustle in business.  I think he has a future in politics if he wants one.   He is like the less mannered JFK Jr who doesn't have the taste to see that that hair gel just has to go.

I love a good fun convention speech, but Christie's isn't it.   It doesn't matter what party, a good convention speech should be funny and rousing at times with varying inflections.  This has just been a monotone litany of accusations that was pretty boring.   My favorite convention speech I think is Reagan 1992 farewell where he said that when it comes to the smoke billowing out of the democratic convention to follow the advice of their nominee "don't inhale".  It was funny and well delivered.   This was just nothing. 

That's interesting, it probably was sabotage.  She isn't Donald Trump  and didn't deserve that.  

I feel sorry for Melania Trump.   They gave her this speech and have now made her look very bad.   Whoever approved that should be fired.  

I truly think he is running because he wrecked his career in Indiana and this is his ticket out.   Trump isn't really a christian whack job so this pick seems off, but I guess he feels he has to shore up the fundie base.   I really thought he would pick Newt. 

Supposedly they are devoting an entire night to Bill Clinton and how much they hate him and his scandals.   He should take it as a compliment.

Well, she did lie about stuff, claiming there was nothing classified whereas the FBI chief claims there were.    The republicans are desperate and who can blame them?    They got nowhere with Benghazi, their candidate is a mess...they gotta try something I guess.

My dream candidate is Michael Bloomberg but he can never win.   I just find him as someone who is very smart, very competent and usually very wise.  He told the city of NY that nobody needs extra big sized coke and sugar laden drinks and he was banning them so everybody wouldn't be obese thereby putting a strain on the city's medical staff.   Of course everybody was against that because it isn't the government's job to be your mom, but the truth is nobody needs extra big tub-sized cokes with 2000 calories.   I wish he could win, and I bet he does too.

For all we know he was trying to make the connection and use a charm offensive to make sure Hillary faced no prosecution no matter what.   That's the Clintons, to use any and all tricks at their disposal.   I don't blame him for trying, and I imagine she knew the meeting was happening.   It's not like she is some innocent naive do-gooder who is shocked at even the hint of wrongness.   She's the one with the server deleting emails, do you think she cares he took the AG aside to hint they would be grateful if everything went away.

Let's face it, they have been spending 25 years going from episode to episode hoping legal problems went away and they have been in lock step all the way.   How can anyone be mad at him for jeopardizing her legal case and not be mad at her for having a legal case in the first place?    Yes he approached the AG but she was the one with the Einstein idea to have secret emails on a secret server.   You don't hear him complaining she is ruining things.   This is just the way they operate.   If they didn't have secrets and angles they wouldn't be the Clintons.   In some way it seems like stuff like this is what gets them up in the morning.   You gotta love em.

Olivia DeHaviland turns 100 this week and in honor of her TCM is having a marathon, but the cream of the crop, the double feature to end all double Olivia double features is friday night

GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) – 9:15 p.m.
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938) – 1:15 a.m. Saturday

That's sad that the amount of hours left is bingeable in a day.  I can't even imagine TV without GoT now.   They should do spin offs:  young Jaime, Robert, Lyanna and Ned in the time of the mad king, another about the adventures of uncle Benjen north of the wall, one maybe about Drogo The Barbarian, and a Dallas type drama called Casterly Rock.   That would be a good show given an 80s soap  treatment.  

She is excellent.    Child actors tend to be not very good, but this little girl is one of the best things on the show.   The character is great too, and I love the memes that have popped up for her.

Where I get a little confused is with the Targaryons.   The Mad King (rhaygar?)  was Danearys's father.   But who is the one that was in love with Ned Stark's sister?  How did Robert Baratheon figure into all this if the sister was with the Targaryon?   And then, who was the Dorne woman who was married to the Targaryon that the mountain killed and raped under Tywin's orders?

Your mad queen comment makes me wonder if when all is said and done if it isn't Jaime who finally redeems himself by being forced to kill Cersei. 

Beyond epic finale.    So many accounts got settled tonight and a couple of new ones got opened.   The Jon Snow stuff I have questions about because some of these old names get confusing about who was who, but I guess that can be googled.     Jon's story was the biggest event of the night I think due to the story implications but the whole business at King's Landing was huge--beyond huge--and way overdue.   I did feel sorry for Tommen though.   Cersei is rotten but I was on her side as she did what she did.    As they sing in Chicago  "They had it coming"

I didn't understand the business with Grand Meister Pycell and why they did that.  It seemed so out of nowhere. 

I can sort of understand the desire to vote leave.   You don't have total control of your money, you don't have total control of immigration, you are financially married to Greece, Spain and other countries that aren't so healthy.   You turn on the news and see the craziness in France and Belgium..it's not a great picture and it gives ammo to right wing nazi race baiters.   On the other hand, if they lose Scotland, watch the pound fall to the point goods are too expensive, watch trade deals go south and so on then they will be sorry.   The EU was a good idea in theory but it forces every country to be on the hook for every other country.  

I have to say, you give off the impression that you don't want to like the show and have gathered every nit you can find to begin picking.    I am not even clear as to whether you even watch it.   Here it is the biggest episode ever with the biggest battle ever seen, a show that is getting universal praise for the movie quality aspect of it all...and what stood out for you is not that the Starks have taken back Winterfell, not that Ramsey at long last is dead, not the cool battle scenes with Jon Snow, not any of that.    For you am I wrong in saying the standout moment was Danyreas meeting a character the majority of the TV audience probably couldn't even name? 

Sorry, reading your posts I don't see any of them make sense.   First, Tyrion didn't mock Bran, he actually gave him a saddle and peptalk to get him moving.  Next, he didn't kill his love Shay in cold blood, he killed her most hot bloodedly in a rage when he saw her in his father's bed.   He was still in love with her when he told his father if Tywin referred to her as a whore he would kill him.   Tywin did, and in a moment Tyrion couldn't take any more and killed him.  None of this was cold blooded.     I am not sure what compelling drama you see ripe for viewing between Tyrion, a star of the show, Theon the guy he shared one scene with five years ago, and a character probably nine out of ten people know as "Theon's sister".    There was no compelling drama to be had there, they just threw in the scene to bring characters together.     They had nothing to talk about and share no topics in common save Sansa. 

It's awful and MSNBC is the worst offender.   I had it on in the background today and first it was that guy Trump fired gave comments.    Then they spent hours repeating it again and again as if it was breaking news.  They've been doing this for a year and the only way that channel will knock Trump off its schedule is if there is a massacre, and then they will try and find a way to bring it back to him anyway.    Muhammad Ali I guess removed Trump for a couple of days. 

I would have to say the shot of the cavalry racing toward Jon is the best shot or image the show has ever done.   That, the wall of shields, the pile of dead bodies...the show always gives its best stuff to Jon.   Last year the battle up north was another highlight. 

Epic episode.   My favorite shot was Jon standing there as all the cavalry are racing to toward him and we see things from his point of view.   This was the best battle episode yet I think, and it had a very Two Towers feel to it in parts.   The shot of Sansa and Littlefinger at the end was totally Gandalf and Eomer, with Jon being Aragorn.   A very satisfying end to Bolton--finally--and hopefully the sadistic portion of our program is finally at an end.  Also happy Littlefinger didn't betray Sansa,  I am sure he will have an angle, perhaps being her husband, but for the moment he saved the day.   Poor Rickon, we barely knew him and I wish the show explained why that house hosting him and Osha sold him out.   All those people following the Boltons have a lot of explaining to do considering their evil reign.   Jon should put them all to death--and the dogs too. 

The dragon stuff was cool also.   Theon and his sister arriving like magic was a little abrupt and plotty but at least they got through that quickly.  

He certainly is handsome enough.   Perhaps he is a little young but I think Christopher Reeve was younger when he got the part.  Reeve projected a little older I think, perhaps because of the way he had an older man's haircut and wardrobe in the films.   We shall see what they do with the part in this.   Brandon Routh looked more like Superboy than Superman, but I think he would be perfect for the part now.  Henry Cavill proves Superman is not just a pretty face.  I thought they might get Tom Welling back for this but I guess for some reason they decided Krpton has passed him by or something.  It's too bad they don't tie the movies into the TV shows, because after stinking up two movies, Henry Cavill could have done a few episodes as penance.    Of course, no one on the tv shows mopes around so he would stand out like a sore thumb if he did the movie shtick.

If they give him the right costume (with the shorts and the bright blue) and they put that curl on the front of his hair, he could like like Superman.   He seems a little dark and swarthy for the role, but Dean Cain was way more ethnic than this guy.   I know he was in Road To Perdition as a child, so maybe that means he can act.

I had a conversation with a libertarian about guns the other day and they have such a weird way of seeing things.   In his view, guns are needed for the day the government comes calling, and that the only thing that stops a government from becoming a dictatorship is a fear of the people.   I said they won't fear your guns, and he went into the first thing the nazis did was make sure they were the only ones who had guns.   It's such an odd worldview.