In Which I Announce That I Am Returning Bill Maher's Money

I have been having a mini-flashback to the Don Imus 'nappy-headed hos' debacle of 2007.  The Imus comment was utterly gratuitous and not intended to illustrate any broader point, so Don Imus deserves even less latitude.  Let's reprise the Bold Words of Candidate Obama.

First, Imus had to go:

"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."

Well, Sarah Palin is not an ethinic group and Bill Maher is a donor, not a staffer, so Obama has a lot of wiggle room here.

In subsequent comments he explained that really, we are all to blame for hurting Sasha and Malia:

He said as a parent, it was a constant struggle to reinforce his two daughters’ sense of self-esteem.

“I think that all of us have become a little complicit in this kind of relaxed attitude toward some pretty offensive things,” Obama said. “And I hope this prompts some self-reflection on the part of all of us.”

We are all guilty!  Which means none of us are.  Michelle Malkin noted Obama's flexible attitude towards rappers; I apologized for coarsening the culture but I am embarrassed to admit that I did not step forward and take equal blame with Hollywood, record producers, and the clown posse that awarded an Oscar to "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp".  In fact, I had the temerity to suggest that Barack might want to pick up a clue from Tipper Gore and direct his ire at his friends in Hollywood and the record industry before indicting me.

But I am not shirking my responsibility today!  I am not sure how I could explain to Sasha and Malia that their father is taking money from Bill Maher, but I certainly don't want to have to explain why I am such a shamless opportunist and poser.

So before you ask, yes - I am returning any money Bill Maher gave this blog.  I am pretty sure that would be $0.00, but since we are all complicit, I think we should all show some accountability.  Glad to clear that up.

Over to you, Barack.  Sasha and Malia are waiting and wondering.

 

Comments

[narciso]

What Ron White or Bill Engvall weren't available,

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/03/10/alabama-democrats-arent-fundraising-with-bill-maher-theyre-just-using-his-name-and-comedy-tour/

[centralcal]

I love refunding $0.00! I'm in!

[Gmax]

I would hope the American voting public has the same attitude ( about shameless oportunists and posers) as TM. I am pretty sure that is what is showing through in the RAS polling.

[Publius from Idaho]

I am reminded of Bill C.'s comment on this very blog in January 11, 2011 when he said,
"If it were not for double standards, the left would have no standards at all".

[Danube of Thought]

Let us parse the statute under which Gloria Allread wants Rush prosecuted: it is a misdemeanor for a man, speaking of a woman, "falsely and maliciously imputing to her a want of chastity."

I know this is a bit old-fashioned (so is the statute, which is almost certainly unconstitutional), but hasn't an unmarried woman who admits to a need of $1,000 per year for contraceptives acknowledged a "want of chastity?"

[Clarice]

Pretty sharp DoT. Gene Volokh shows why in greater detail Allred is full of it.

As for TM, someone put something in his wheaties this weekend..He's on a roll..

[Jane (get off the couch - come save the country)]

I just had lunch with a conservative friend of mine who keeps very up to date and she had not heard of "critical race theory".

We have more work to do. (And not because it is more important than gas prices and the economy but because it explains so much in this administration.)

[matt]

"all of us have become a little complicit in this kind of relaxed attitude toward some pretty offensive things"

So I guess the president is admitting his relaxed attitude in Maher's and all of the others incredible nasty comments about Palin, Breitbart, Limbaugh and others....maybe he can give us all the finger just one more time while he's at it.

Can anyone e mail me any of the photos of him doing so?

[Clarice]

Take tomorrow's column and mail it to your friends , Jane.

[Gus]

If Bullshit could walk, it would be wearing Obama's shoes.

[Gmax]

Continetti makes the correct point in the Beacon today:

Since he lacks a significant and popular domestic achievement, the president seems to have concluded that the way to a second term is through the mobilization of key constituencies rather than a broad-based appeal to middle America. He combines these appeals with cheap gimmicks to generate publicity and deflect attention from the Republican primary. Now that his job is in trouble, the man who enthralled millions during the campaign of 2008 has been reduced to just another transactional political panderer. The gloss is off. Even the liberal Washington Post writer Dana Milbank says White House hiring practices make “a joke of the spirit of reform he promised.”

[Clarice]

here's a video of it, Matt.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DygBj4Zw6No

[Chubby]

can we forget his using the filthy term "teabagger" from his bully pulpit?

[Chubby]

((Dana Milbank says White House hiring practices make “a joke of the spirit of reform he promised))

poor Dana was hoodwinked into believing that his idea of of reform and Obama's idea of reform were the one and the same thing

[Gmax]

I am going to remind everyone of Mr Ballard's post of about a week or so ago, the sage of JOMland. He points out that over 11 million no longer call the Democrat party home, while the other fun fact is Zero won his fantasmigorical and awesomeness victory by an overwhelming 8 million votes. If I have the numbers wrong I am sure Sir Rick will correct but that is my distinct recollection.

In other words this strategy to sell below cost and make up for it on volume is deeply flawed.

[Sara]

Romney wins 9 delegates in Guam and another 9 delegates in the Northern Marianas Islands yesterday. It's Romney 447 delegates, Santorum 170 delegates, Gingrich 118 delegates, and Paul 67 delegates.

[hit and run]

Matt, I did this in July 2009, specific to the uprising in Iran:

[Threadkiller]

Jackie Mason will not be able to fill in for Lewis CK. Obama does not like "middle finger" type comedy. It lacks subtlety.

Incorrectly done:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8912395/Russian-newsreader-fired-after-Obama-middle-finger-insult.html

Correctly done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DygBj4Zw6No

[Frau Steingehirn]

Gmax, don't forget,however,that there are many new first-time voters fresh from being Howard-Zinned and MTVed.

[Sara]

Congress Passes Law To Create Anti-Free Speech Bubble Zones Around Members Of Congress

[Threadkiller]

I heart Hit & Run.

[Threadkiller]

I heart Clarice, too. Did I really take that long to construct my post?

[Ignatz]

I would like it noted that since I agreed to only link any remarkable or noteworthy bottoms [or tops, both partially clothed I might add] I might accidentally run into, this site has descended into a veritable fleshpot of TM posted gals squeezing their chests like a tube of toothpaste, discussions of t***s, c***s, etc and now Sara's over on the other thread describing

the concept of "sucking a bag of dicks" or on the a treatise of girls' tits vs women's breasts

and there was some description of some guy doing something to someone's mother that I'm too redfaced to repeat verbatim.

I'd like to submit for consideration that minus the moderation of a few shapely bottoms to quell and satiate man's infernal compulsions things have soon gotten completely out of hand and may only get worse.

[Clarice]

So long as you LUN them, you're good to go with me Ig.

[Janet]

The only safe thing to condemn is cigarettes. :(

[hit and run]

Oh, and hi everybody. I'm currently in No Media March,but since the family is all out,I have been given a reprieve.

No Media March is an effort to keep from letting the tv and the intertubes suck the life out of our family. It kinda does that to us. I certainly don't miss the tv,but miss you guys.

And don't tell mrs hit and run,but I've done a few posts on my blog when no one was looking. She doesn't need to know that.

Specific to the Obama-Imus point - remember Obama's speech after the Virginia Tech shootings? He referred to Imus's nappy headed ho's as "verbal violence" (and referred to Sasha and Malia to drive the point home) in a speech about an actual shooting where dozens of people were killed. He said there's all kinds of violence,like the violence of jobs being shipped overseas and the violence of kids not getting a good education. Comforting stuff for the grieving families and Tech community.

And in that speech he used his infamous quote of "brother's keeper" that he never gets right.

Anyway, I tackle some of that here: Is Obama His Brother's Keeper. Hint: now would be a really good time for Obama to ask America (regarding the Maher's of the world) "Am I my brother's keeper?" because it would align with how it was asked in Genesis.

Oh, and I hestitated to bring her up, but I fear Obama is not living up to the expectations of Christina Taylor Green he told us about in the apex of his Tucson speech.

[Gmax]

Frau

Did I mention the Independents? I might have overlooked that fact since was paying homage to our sage. Or the rise in Republicans numbers, or the enthusiasm gap that runs clearly to the Republicans as measured by the strong disapproval versus strong approval gap despite what the media tells you constantly...

[Gmax]

Spartans own the Badgers, again, three times in the same season.

[Clarice]

Very good, hit

[Janet]

Wonderful post, hit.

[Jane (get off the couch - come save the country)]

Clarice,

I thought we had to wait until next Sunday. I'm psyched. I will take my IPAD to bed.

Hit you have a glitch in your records. You were 2 days off on Mr. Clarice. (And I took the hit- heh)

[Rick Ballard]

MEGO Arithmetic

2008 Popular Vote Total - 131,257,328

Ras Partisan ID - Nov. 2008

33.80% - R 44,364,977
41.40% - D 54,340,534
24.70% - I 32,551,817

Ras Partisan ID - Feb. 2012 [applied against 2008 turnout]

36.00% - R 47,121,381
32.40% - D 42,658,632
31.60% - I 41,477,316

Difference

R - 2,756,404
D - (11,681,902)
I - 8,925,498

Frau is correct that the VAP (Voting Age Population) has increased. It's up by about 16 million entrants less about 10 million who have exited this vale of tears. The sentiments of the new potential voters would, however, be captured by Rasmussen's polling.

[Jack is Back!]

Sandra Fluke Gets Results!

Man shot at gas station over the price of condoms.

Pelosi going to Detroit to hold hearings.

[Ignatz]

--So long as you LUN them, you're good to go with me Ig.--

clarice,
I was just pointing out [jokingly] that things that I can't or won't even repeat in writing, pass without comment right after I quit posting what to me are considerably less offensive things.
"I know it when I see it" seems to have an almost infinite flexibility of interpretation.

[Captain Hate]

He referred to Imus's nappy headed ho's as "verbal violence" (and referred to Sasha and Malia to drive the point home) in a speech about an actual shooting where dozens of people were killed.

"Verbal violence" by making an awkward joke that drama queen C Vivian Stringer, who has never won a championship, decided to use to deflect attention away from her team's inability to beat Tennessee. In doing so she received more attention than the champions. Whatever happened to maintaining a dignified silence and letting people arrive at their own conclusions? This should've been a non-issue and it was perverse to be used in relation to the Virginia Tech shootings.

[hit and run]

Jane:
Hit you have a glitch in your records. You were 2 days off on Mr. Clarice.

I've thought it over, and I think Clarice is wrong.

[Threadkiller]

I fine line to walk it would seem
To make comments and not get reamed
I learned my lesson
In a previous session
On "wake" threads don't say Mark Latrine.

[Cecil Turner]

Brilliant, TM.

I'd like to submit for consideration that minus the moderation of a few shapely bottoms to quell and satiate man's infernal compulsions things have soon gotten completely out of hand and may only get worse.

And the phenomenon is not restricted to the callipygian . . . or at least a similar mammarian effect has been noted:

. . . but when I see the bare chest of a woman, my worries and my problems are all gone . . .

(Not that I'm agitating for more photos.)

[Threadkiller]

A fine line...

[Threadkiller]

Cecil, this has been eating away at me. Was my CH-53 joke not funny?

I can handle the truth.

[Captain Hate]

I'm still not sure why you don't like Levin, TK (and apology if you've explained it before). Janet finds his delivery off-putting, which I can understand; but that doesn't strike me as something that would bother you.

[hit and run]

Captain:
This should've been a non-issue and it was perverse to be used in relation to the Virginia Tech shootings.

I completely agree. There were two moments in 2007 when Obama lost me (he never had me,but I thought him rather benign up until these two moments).

The VaTech speech was one.

And then there was his speech at AIPAC where he said, "The biggest enemy I think we have in this whole process ... it's not just terrorists, it's not just Hezbollah, it's not just Hamas -- it's also cynicism".

Interestingly enough -- here's an old blog post I wrote at AT that linked the two together.

Oh,and this was interesting the day after that was posted:

Apparently AT is getting lots of hate mail on H & R's Obama piece. LOL

Posted by: clarice | April 19, 2007 at 03:32 PM

I Blame Obama.

[Threadkiller]

I have enjoyed Levin for years,CH. I trash him for one thing only. He used to be on a tirade about giving citizenship to anchor babies. He argued, very convincingly, that it is a matter of having sole allegiance to the United States. Being born here is not enough, you can not have any dual allegiance. Period.

When you try to make a similar argument about Obama, he resorts to insults.

When you make exactly the same argument about Rubio, he shuts down the youtube of his discussion of anchor babies.

[Gmax]

Well besides the fact that 18-22 year old are the least likely to register and the least likely to follow thru and vote of any cohort, the swing from + 10 D to plus 4.5 R is even more than the 11 M Zero induced runoff, he has chased a lot of Indys into the R camp.

[Captain Hate]

Thanks for linking that, hit. In addition to pointing out so many of the things that drive me up the wall about BOzo voting "present" on things after deliberating on them for an excessive amount of time; it also reminds me that there was a time when Jason Whitlock wasn't an idiot.

[Jane (get off the couch - come save the country)]

I've thought it over, and I think Clarice is wrong

Indeed!

[Sara]

Is it just me, or is this a strange way to write about a rescue/revival attempt for this skier who died of head injuries due to a crash during the World Cup Finals?

Staff members and medical assistants try to reanimate Canada`s Nick Zoricic who has crashed hardly after the finish jump during the skicross world cup finals, Saturday March 10, 2012 in Grindelwald, Switzerland .

I'm not sure what "crashed hardly" means either.

[Captain Hate]

Thanks for the feedback, TK. I'm surprised that Mark would be inconsistent on that because he hasn't struck me that way on other issues (and by saying that I'm not saying that I don't believe you). And I understand your reaction.

[Gmax]

Two real inconvenient truths, first the findings of the study and two I had to go to the British media to find out about it! Why a cynic would say its like they perceive this as being not helpful for a grievance monger campaign:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1390205/Whites-suffer-racism-blacks-Study-shows-white-people-believe-discriminated-against.html

[Chubby]

TK

isn't an anchor baby a baby that does not have a citizen parent? Obama's mother was a U.S. citizen. So I don't get the parallel between Obama and anchor babies.

[Gmax]

Now where would whites get those ideas? I mean with Holder doing his George Wallace impression "AA today, AA tomorrow, AA forever".

[Danube of Thought]

Please read Title 8 U.S. Code Section 1401 regarding citizenship. You will note that the word "allegiance" does not appear.

[Gmax]

Instapundit cuts through the fog of disinformation as he comments on the RAS poll showing both top Republicans outpolling Zero.

And yet the perception is that last week was bad for Republicans and good for the Dems because the Dems succeeded in painting the GOP as a bunch of ugly social-cons. What gives?

[Clarice]

I believe Rubio's parent were lawful residents, refugees from Cuba--Also not an anchor baby.An anchor baby is someone whose mom flies or swims in, gives birth and goes home or remains here illegally.

[Gmax]

Chubby

As Jim Croce told us once, you dont tug on Superman's cape, you dont spit into the wind, you pull the mask off the ol' lone ranger and you dont mess around with Jim...

[Gmax]

Left out a third "dont" but I think the gist is there...

[Jane (get off the couch - come save the country)]

Ya know, I bet if he was being candid, Holder would say he thinks white people should be slaves to blacks -for. reparations. None of that crowd believes in equality under the law or anything else.

[Gmax]

Dont look now but DOOK is losing to FSU. Oh my.

[Jack is Back!]

Duh!

[centralcal]

Okay, this link is just for Ignatz (all in good humor). Oh, hell, actually it is funny. These morons just don't see how utterly nutso they are.

BUST (as in bare boobs) UP BANK OF AMERICA.

Hysterical and pathetic.

[Clarice]

GMax's link is why the CRT issue is so devastating to Obama if played right; why Holder's miscreant behavior in office on race must be made more widely known.

[Gmax]

White man's greed drive a world in need. Where have we heard that before?

[Danube of Thought]

Note that each of the following is a citizen;

"(e) a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year at any time prior to the birth of such person;

"(f) a person of unknown parentage found in the United States while under the age of five years, until shown, prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to have been born in the United States;

"(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years:..."

[Chubby]

oooopsie

I was sure that in the past I had heard Obama say "tea bagger", but going back, all I could find was a video of him talking about protestors waving tea bags around ...

so I must have misremembered him saying it and my post upthread was wrong

[Threadkiller]

So as not to get thrown onto Alice's brand new narcisolator, I will refrain from discussing definitions we have beat to death.

Mark Levin based HIS compelling argument on allegiance. "Sole allegiance" to be exact. Rubio's parents passed on to Marco dual allegiance. Obama's daddy passed on to Bozo dual allegiance.

Mark is not consistent.

[Ignatz]

--Okay, this link is just for Ignatz (all in good humor). Oh, hell, actually it is funny. These morons just don't see how utterly nutso they are.--

I hope you can forgive me CC but after I got a look at those first two I bailed before the video loaded.
I just ate lunch and would like to retain it.

[Gmax]

Media Benjamin naked gets zero hits, book it.

[Ignatz]

CH,
Left a comment for you over on the Louis C.K. thread re sciatica.
Might be useful.

[centralcal]

Oh, Iggy it really is funny. Only one actually shows her booblets - the other two mercifully did not, so your lunch is safe.

After the clown show and they exit the bank comes the real humor. Suddenwy, we are so so afwaid of being awested and oh we whine and we snivel and we whine some more. But, arrested they were.

[Ignatz]

Chubby,
Johnathon Alter quoted Barry calling the tea party tea baggers in that book he wrote a year or two ago.
Have a look.

[Ignatz]

I'll give it a try cc.
I hope my shoes reamain clean.

[Jack is Back!]

A question on taste for the free speech advocates here and especially those who have tut-tutted Rush's remarks about Fluke: Are those Pink Code ladies considered "slutty" for exposing themselves in public? I have known the police to charge men urinating in alley ways or along the side of a road with indcecent exposure which here in Florida puts you on sexual offender registry.

Is this another double standard? Or is it just not worth the bother since the left would never accept that anything they do can be catergorized as lewd, sexually explicit or worthy of deragatory charicterization?

[hit and run]

TK (I heart you too):
refrain from discussing definitions we have beat to death.

Leave No Dead Horse Unflogged is the unoffical motto of JOM per Dear Leader.

[MarkO]

GMAX, I don't mind looking, it's the listening to Dickie V that could be worse than a loss.

FSU is a good team. Duke is a mystery.

[Ignatz]

OK that was pretty funny cc.
At times it's hard to believe women like that and the lovely ladies here or that we're married to are of the same species.
BTW don't know if you saw but the very first comment was "hope it wasn't right after lunch". :)

[maryrose]

Thank you Gmax and RB . You have made my day!

[Gmax]

Whadda ya think, is John from Powerline right in pointing out that the law of unintended consequences biting zero in the tush? Here:

The Democrats thought they had a great distraction from the economic issues that bedevil most Americans in the form of 30-year-old activist Sandra Fluke. Rush Limbaugh foolishly (as he later acknowledged) called her a “slut” and a “prostitute” in the course of ridiculing, entirely properly, her very silly claim that the federal government should force all employers to pay for their female employees’ contraception–I never did figure out whether the plan extended to buying male employees condoms and vasectomies–regardless of whether either the employers or employees prefer such benefits to cash compensation. Ms. Fluke’s theory, really, was so stupid as to be a ripe target for ridicule.

The Democrats went crazy in the aftermath of Rush’s error, posturing themselves as the upholders of civility. Barack Obama got into the act, calling Ms. Fluke to congratulate her on her demand for free goods and services, and to ask how her delicate psyche was a holding up. Obama later explained that he did it for his daughters, Sasha and Malia, whom he would never want to hear coarse language.

Well. There was a basic problem with the Democrats’ strategy; namely, that pretty much everyone knows that when a Democrat talks about a Republican woman, “slut” or “prostitute” would be considered a compliment. So it was no surprise when conservatives pointed out that Bill Maher, who contributed $1 million to Obama’s re-election campaign, has called Sarah Palin a “c***” and a “dumb t***,” along with other, sometimes worse, epithets. When asked about Maher’s disgusting attacks, President’s Obama’s press secretary explained that Obama is not a speech policeman. So evidently Sasha and Malia will have to hear some crude talk after all–from Democrats, anyway.

[Gmax]

Plumlee fouls out and FSU goes up 3 with 1 minute left...

[Gmax]

FSU up 3 with only 11 seconds. DOOK got the ball though...

[Danube of Thought]

What does Levin say about 8 US Code Section 1401? Why did the congress make no mention of allegiance in enacting it?

[Chubby]

Ignatz, thanks for that link.

[Gmax]

FSU to inbound up 3 with 3.5 seconds left. Somehow I dont think UNC is going to struggle like this in the final...

OVER.

[Threadkiller]

Ok hit, because you asked.

http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec8.html

Powers of Congress.

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

If congress was only given the power to create "rule of Naturalization", persons made citizens under the USC are, at best, naturalized citizens of the United States.

That makes sense.

[hit and run]

GMax:
Whadda ya think, is John from Powerline right in pointing out that the law of unintended consequences biting zero in the tush?

Yup. From your quote:

President’s Obama’s press secretary explained that Obama is not a speech policeman. So evidently Sasha and Malia will have to hear some crude talk after all–from Democrats, anyway.

Obama is Cain. He's asking the nation, "Am I my (liberal) brothers' keeper?" after he killed civility over the past three plus years.

[Gmax]

Why is it, that it always seem to be that the guy who accused the policeman of acting stupidly, is in fact the one acting stupidly?

[MarkO]

There aren't enough miracles for Duke this year. They seem to need one every game.

[Gmax]

Hit I thought you gave up the internet for lent or something?

[Ignatz]

--Why is it, that it always seem to be that the guy who accused the policeman of acting stupidly, is in fact the one acting stupidly?--

A man on a horse told me it might be because Barry's not that smart and he's a lair.

[hit and run]

Gmax:
Hit I thought you gave up the internet for lent or something?

My 3:31 explains the current reprieve.

[Clarice]

Joh's right--Now to check Iggy's post.

[Captain Hate]

Media Benjamin naked gets zero hit

Medea Benjamin naked would be like looking at Medusa only causing permanent ED.

Iggy, I saw what you posted; I can't remember if I had one or not a year and a half ago. Maybe I'll ask my doctor; even though I'm in Kaiser you get to choose your own doctor (unfortunately the ones I've had have all gone on to greener pastures although they get replaced by other good ones).

[Danube of Thought]

Hard to call them naturalized when Section 1401 says "The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth." if the congress wanted to declare the naturalized citizens, it knew how to do so, and elsewhere has legislated extensively on naturalization.

And as we know from as far back as Calvin's case (1608), a citizen at birth is a natural born citizen.

[AliceH]

So as not to get thrown onto Alice's brand new narcisolator

TK, I can't see that you are at any risk. I promise I'll only use my new power for good.

[boris]

Those who on occasion complain about TK going on should take note of DoT poking the beehive with a stick ...

[Rocco]

Professor Obamas' required reading at the University of Chicago Law School

Open up your hearts and your minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell.

Current Issues of Racism and the Law

[Threadkiller]

Congress cannot declare them anything more than naturalized. Your quote is still true, as an act of naturalization, so they need not say more.

If saying more is better, though, congress should have gone the extra step to declare 14th amendment citizens as "natural born citizens". They "knew how to do so", so their omission must have been purposeful.

[Ignatz]

OK, I'm trying desperately not to do anything productive today and this thread seems to be all over the place so (I'm assuming these pics aren't offensive) I ask for opinions on which one of these three very different brunettes is better looking. Two pics of each one.
No figuring age, body, airheadedness or politics into the equation.

[Jack is Back!]

Rocco's 6:26

He calls himself a Prof. on the fist page but just Barack Obama after. Was he ever a Professor (which I take to be an earned honor and position)?

I notice he has a number of conservative positions represented including Bork. The gun may not be smoking as much as we would hope.

[Threadkiller]

Door #3.

[Clarice]

Sophia Loren gets my vote.The lat one is also very beautiful and reminds me of your lovely wife.