uh, my oldest friend is named tripp - it's a traditionally preppy name. what's with all the shock and horror, other than the grandson of caribou barbie and meth mom carries a name usually heard at the country club and debutante balls.
Choosing a name redolent of drug slang might be a poor choice given the recent arrest of the Johnston granny. Those Palins - a gift that keeps on giving.
My vote for Cao was my first vote for a Republican ever. I like him but the poor guy doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting reelected unless he switches parties or does something amazing in the next 2 years.
He made it as far as he did because of the strong backing of Republicans here who were eager to get anyone but Dolla Bill elected, combined with the support of progressives like me with a similar goal. This was buoyed by an extremely low turnout due to a pushed back election because of Hurricane Gustav. He also won on a shoestring margin due to the small part of the district that is located in the suburbs. Essentially, he had a lot of luck on his side.
The heavily Democratic city will not turn out for a Republican again regardless of what he accomplishes. Sad, but true.
@LauraNOLA: He came to my firm for a "meet and greet". He is NOT impressive. At all. I left that meeting knowing that I could not, in good conscience, vote for either candidate.
Immigrants contribute? I thought that immigration after, oh about 1950, led only to the stealing of jobs from the immigrants-- err, Americans, who already had them? Count me confused.
@sportz.star: um ya immigrants dont steal jobs from Americans. If you need someone to blame - blame corporations who have driven wages so low and who constantly skirt the law in order to employ illegal immigrants because Americans cannot live on such wages.
@BlowJoy: Oh, wow. "Baby Uncle Trigg" just totally weirded me out. I hadn't even thought of that! Can you imagine being virtually the same age as your aunt or uncle?
@mervbaby: You must be thinking of their cousin Stumble, so named after his mother fell on some ice and popped that baby out right there in the Abercrombie & Moose parking lot.
@TheVaginaWig: Welcome to my mother's family. At my grandmother's funeral, I was introduced to my mom's uncle Roger who is only 18 months older than she.
This Cao guy's decision to go into politics sounds just like Tim Kaine's. Missionary/volunteer in a poor, central American country, considered seminary then realized that whole celibacy thing would be a real buzz kill and entered politics so he can bang interns, etc.
@Political Party Girl: It's actually more like he's an ambulance chasing attorney barely scraping by and the local GOP needed a "minority" candidate so they handpicked this yahoo to run.
Sleeping in is what I do best. I don't actually know how to wake up before 11 AM. Wait! It's 10:40 right now? Well, look at me actually waking up before noon for once in my life. I deserve a cookie. Unemployment makes you a lazy piece of shit, let me tell you.
I like talking about recession spending. I have an anecdote to share. I am in the process of buying a car. (Mine was pronounced dead a couple weeks ago.) So I was thinking, man this will be easy. People are DYING to sell shit off their lots. But online I was only seeing some good interest rate deals, not really many cashback incentives.
But! I was looking at a car last night and I just kept saying no no no and they kept lowering the price AND offering cash incentives. And that was at a Nissan dealership!! which is, you know, sucking *less* wind than everyone else. And it was a little tiny car, not even an SUV or anything. I'm looking at a Ford this afternoon. :D
@Political Party Girl: @marviehead: @Yitzhak: thanks everyone, i wrote a reply but i think jezebel ate it. yeah I'm probably thinking the Nissan, because my old car was a Nissan. It had 13 years, 165,000 miles, 4 owners and nothing really went horribly wrong until the bitter end. RIP :( I've heard mostly good things about the newer Focuses, so I'm going to check it out, but then again it's still pretty new so it's harder to see what the long term problems will be.
I really can't get past a magazine paying $300,000 for pictures of this child. Or really, for pictures of any child. (Though I know movie star spawn exclusive pics run at 10x that fee.) Maybe I should see if any magazines will run photos of my kid. I'll start bidding at $9,999. I'll need it to make up for the pay cut I have to take since I'll only be working 3 days a week for the forseeable future.
@sarah.of.a.lesser.god (and the ovumlord of the rings): It's that hyper-yuppie name. They can't wait to put it on their covers. In truth, he'll look like a baby, and it'll tug at my heart to think of how perfect he is before he realizes what family he's landed in.
I can just imagine Bristol seeing "Bret Easton Ellis" on a book cover (website? bridge overpass?) and thinking to herself that it has a nice ring to it. That's what I hear with this Tripp Easton Mitchell business.
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In other news, I am supposed to be on vacation, but am gearing myself up to go into the office. Damn it.
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MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...!
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He made it as far as he did because of the strong backing of Republicans here who were eager to get anyone but Dolla Bill elected, combined with the support of progressives like me with a similar goal. This was buoyed by an extremely low turnout due to a pushed back election because of Hurricane Gustav. He also won on a shoestring margin due to the small part of the district that is located in the suburbs. Essentially, he had a lot of luck on his side.
The heavily Democratic city will not turn out for a Republican again regardless of what he accomplishes. Sad, but true.
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@BlowJoy: Oh, wow. "Baby Uncle Trigg" just totally weirded me out. I hadn't even thought of that! Can you imagine being virtually the same age as your aunt or uncle?
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But! I was looking at a car last night and I just kept saying no no no and they kept lowering the price AND offering cash incentives. And that was at a Nissan dealership!! which is, you know, sucking *less* wind than everyone else. And it was a little tiny car, not even an SUV or anything. I'm looking at a Ford this afternoon. :D
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But I'm still having a mad, passionate affair with both my Miata and my 3.
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It's 5:30 pm but still Crappy Hour because I just woke up from a jetlagged nap.
Moe and Megan, I feel your semi-unemployed pain.
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I'm just pissed off, personally.
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I can just imagine Bristol seeing "Bret Easton Ellis" on a book cover (website? bridge overpass?) and thinking to herself that it has a nice ring to it. That's what I hear with this Tripp Easton Mitchell business.