@rollergirl76: "Asia," according to the article. Perhaps an Asian prison, in a Brokedown Palace type situation? I consider myself fairly adventurous but I'd be hesitant to get a tattoo in a place that doesn't necessarily have a heavily regulated tattoo industry. It kinda makes me respect her more though.
@J.D.Regent: Yeah, she's a total badass. Good for her. I just wish her tattoo was a little better drawn. She needs to go to Kat von D and get that shit fixed.
i recently ran for a very small, unpaid, public office in my town (i got about 80,000 votes but lost by 2,500). i would catch shit all the time, from young progressives! about my tattoo, "you're running for office and you're not going to cover it?!" one guy told me that if he could vote for me (he wasn't an american citizen) he wouldn't because i didn't respect voters who may be uncomfortable with a tattooed woman. hu?
Hey, where's that crazy cat from the other day, who was insisting that the Obama non-citizenship case must be legitimate, because the Supreme Court was going to hear it?
Is it so much to hope for that, when a person is heinously wrong about something, they have the guts to just pop their head in, shrug, and say, "Well. Shows what I know!"
@arodriguez.romero speaks java: @rosasparks: @yellow_dog: Aw, man, I don't have a problem with people believing crazy things. I know I believed a bunch of crazy things in my dissipated and mis-spent youth. Believing crazy things is the privilege of consciousness!
I just wish more people would recognize that it's ballsier to admit that you're wrong about something than it is to stick to your beliefs no matter what.
I'm sorry, people talk about DC being conservative, but they're only conservative because they get to DC by getting elected by the rest of the country, and they want to avoid pissing off constituents. They wouldn't care if their constituents didn't care. Oh, and the media brings this crap up too, and contrary to popular opinion, the mainstream media is not a washington-based operation.
@vamusical: It's not just elected officials though. It's staffers, NGO workers, students, etc. The whole culture of the place (fashionwise) is like some unholy lovechild of Abercrombie and Talbot's.
@J.D.Regent: Staffers, definitely, and most students. But the pressure for the Hill to be conservative has to come from somewhere. Also, the Hill =/= all of Washington. I'm mostly just sick of people blaming everything on Washington and falsely thinking it's a sad, boring, dry place full of evil insiders.
I wouldn't waste too much more ink on the anti-Obama crazies since I think everything's been said, at least twice. But I was a little concerned a week or so ago so I looked at some of their idiocies. I was certain they were not in touch with reality when I easily found two different birth announcements in Honolulu papers from 1961 that were reported by a variety of sources. Apparently you could walk into any library in Hawaii and look it up on microfiche. But yeah, Megan, evidence does not disway the craziness!
@yellow_dog: I think it's hysterical. One part of their argument, that Obama was British rather than American because his father was a British citizen as a Kenyan of that era, would invalidate every presidential candidate as the whole country was founded by dutch and british immigrants. It's bizarre.
I'm not a tattoo person myself, but if Caroline Kennedy has one, so what? To each his/her own. I doubt it invalidates her ability to be a U.S. Senator.
@NefariousNewt: I'm with you. Personally, they're not for me and I don't really get the appeal, but having or not having a tattoo -- as far as I know -- has no effect on one's intellectual or decision-making capacity. Case closed.
Charlie Rangel's new ethics problems? Ha! He paid his son $80,000 for doing nothing? So what!? Not going to step down from his Chairmanship because, he says, "I don't think reporters should be in the position of removing Chairmen."
@rosasparks: @dianersb: What really bothers me is that he may very well win re-election. Is there a strong contender in the Democratic party to challenge him? I haven't heard of any. If there is, they better be bulletproof, to avoid handing the seat to the Republicans.
@NefariousNewt: Okay, I'm confused. You don't think that his constituent would elect a republican? Or, do you think that during the primary there will be no strong democrat to challenge him?
@dianersb: OK, allow me to clarify. I'm saying that given his seniority, if a Democrat runs against him, that Democrat better be strong, strong enough to defeat Rangel and any Republican challenger, because after the spanking the Republicans just got through taking in November, they will smell blood in the water. Mind you, it's possible Rangel's constituents won't elect a Republican, but can you count on that?
@dianersb: @nenasadije: Ugh as a tattooed lady, with a total of 8 on my body, I hear this shit a lot. But I figured if America could vote for a black man who admitted to snorting coke, tattoos would be okay. I guess I was wrong.
@dianersb: Honestly, Rangel will probably win. His constituents appear to like him, even with all of these scandals. I personally think Pelossi didn't want to look like she was caving to the Right by removing him from his post, but this dude needs to be taken down. At this point, we can have no scandals or liars on our team.
This broke too late to hit Crappy Hour, I think, but did you all hear that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was taken into custody by Feds over accusations that he was attempting to basically sell Obama's Senate seat?
@morninggloria: You've got to be kidding me... Rod Blagojevich, Illinois's pride and joy. It's people like you that give Chicago politicians a bad name, Rod!
I met him once, and he was just as sleazy as I'd always imagined he would be.
@morninggloria: Blago has reached new levels of idiocy. I honestly didn't think it was possible. Also, Illinois: would it be possible to elect an uncorrupted governor? Maybe? Bonus points if the next one actually LIVES in the state capital instead of FLYING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN CHICAGO AND SPRINGFIELD.
@bulkington: How could he not be sleazy? One, it's Illinois...two, look at his hair! Livign in NW Indiana is interesting, we get all of the Chicago news but we aren't under the government there. (Kind of sucks too; I have no idea what's going on in my own state.)
@Red-headed bookworm: However, you have to deal with MY MAN MITCH as your governor... and anyone who always makes sure to tell me his/her gender in a campaign slogan sort of rubs me the wrong way, stabbily so.
Plus, Indiana is much more conservative. I know that when I moved from South Bend to Chicago, it was like a breath of fresh (but heavily taxed) air.
Am I blind? (Answer: just ordered contacts in a -7.5, so yes.) I can't see it! Is it by her elbow? Her wrist? Her pit? Is it really a butterfly? WHY DID I DRINK SO MUCH VODKA AND CRYSTAL LIGHT LAST NIGHT?
@Samanthrax: It's called "keepin' it real classy." For real, tho, that cherry limeade crystal light and vodka with a healthy squirt of lime just DOES it for me.
@arodriguez.romero speaks java: Bless you. They mocked me gently in the waiting area when I was sans contacts. I couldn't see the receptionist moving toward me to bring me into the exam room and I had to feel for my chair.
@yellow_dog: Me wanty! I love vanilla vodka and pink lemonade with key limes. My friend made it for my birthday a few years ago...tastes just like keylime cheesecake.
I'll be glad to see another tattooed woman in DC. Whenever a new friend/co-worker, etc., spies my tattoo, they seem so shocked, which is so weird to me. Nearly all my family and friends I had before moving to DC have tattoos. Here in DC, at least in my mostly white, middle-class social circle -- notsomuch.
@RosePetalPlace: you know it's odd because until I moved to America my sister was the person with the most tattoos that I knew and she only has three and they're all pretty small but it seems as though every American I meet has many of them. Then again I am in New York.
A butterfly tattoo? Eh. I was hoping for a "Born to Lose" skull tattoo with, like, flames shooting out of it. I would in all seriousness vote for her based solely on that. Oh well, at least it's not a poorly translated Chinese character.
@dianersb: Actually, I just see a tiny amorphous blob. I had to read the story to get that it's supposed to be a butterfly. That's tattoo malpractice right there.
@braak: Two and a half hours later, as dentist-slash-lawyer Orly Taitz harangued reporters for not investigating whether Obama's mother was actually dead, that hope had been obliterated. It was crushed by a torrent of half-baked legal theories, vague platitudes about the Constitution and sinister "facts" assembled by a collection of true believers so extreme that even Michelle Malkin wants nothing to do with them.
That's why it won't happen. When folks decide they are right and no amount of contrary evidence can sway them, you will get no mea culpa. The SCOTUS was bought off by the Obama Administration.
@Your Screenplay Sucks: Yeah, seriously. Although she's probably had it forever, so fading and blobbing are to be expected. Especially on a tattoo that small.
@my cousin is an ape: Yep, me too. In my head she really loved Black Beauty as a child, and her rebellious teenage self decided to commemorate that love with a squinty, head to the left running pony tattoo.
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Is it so much to hope for that, when a person is heinously wrong about something, they have the guts to just pop their head in, shrug, and say, "Well. Shows what I know!"
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Where are they now? Enquiring minds want to know.
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I just wish more people would recognize that it's ballsier to admit that you're wrong about something than it is to stick to your beliefs no matter what.
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Especially about JD Regent.
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I've grown up in Northern VA, as did both of my parents. We know plenty of happy sunny fun people if you want to meet them!
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No, but the voters can.
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Kick his ass to the curb, I say...
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But that does make sense, although I guess it all hinges on what goes down between now and the primary election.
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Catch it! Corruption Fever! Illinois!
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I met him once, and he was just as sleazy as I'd always imagined he would be.
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*takes deep breath* I'm calm. I'm calm.
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Plus, Indiana is much more conservative. I know that when I moved from South Bend to Chicago, it was like a breath of fresh (but heavily taxed) air.
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Seriously, tho, please someone tell me.
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Ah, youth.
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That's why it won't happen. When folks decide they are right and no amount of contrary evidence can sway them, you will get no mea culpa. The SCOTUS was bought off by the Obama Administration.
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There are SO many other things to worry about in the world than whether or not she has a random, strangely blurry ____ on her arm. I mean, REALLY.
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Also, I agree. Tattoos? Not a big deal people. We have bigger things.
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Everyone else brags about who they knew; poor Irish Catholics brag about who they were servants for.
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