Contessa on MSNBC covering the $100K money Foley gave to

[Skidmore]

GOP House leadership. She's asking about it as bribery. Now if this can be proved, like Abramoff's bribery, is it something that can prompt real charges, or is something like this considered business within the party that is just smelly but not illegal?

[leftofthedial]

1. no, no no!

the money was to ensure that we all know it was Clinton's penis's fault.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. Who the f is Contessa?

If you're going to use codenames, at least hint at who they really are.

[Cush]

3. Contessa Brewer

[kentuck]

4. Contessa Brewer..

Everybody knows Contessa. :)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. Alright, so that leads me to a follow up question

Who the f names their kid "Contessa"? :wtf:

Thanks though!! :-)

[skids]

7. I think Contessa is a fine name.

I'm so sick of everyone being named Jen, Anne, and Deb. It's sooooooo boring. And when they do pick a different name it always sounds like a stripper pseudonym. Contessa has a nice classical ring to it.

Not that I like this Contessa, but...

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

9. There are "normal" names that are vastly underused.

One need not name their child "Blanket" or "Apple" in order to stand out. Also, you have to remember the kid's going to be stuck with that name for life. It ain't your name, so you owe it to your child to come up with someone that stands out while not sounding like a freak.

[skids]

10. My take...

I won't bother to type it all back in:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/16/181432/06

(Oh, and for your reference, Contessa is in fact a "normal" name that has been around long before "Sunshine" and "Rainbow" FWIW.)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

12. Okay... but

There are plenty of underused unique names that are still very nice. Mine is one of them (Domenic). And yeah, I got razzed a little here and there, but it's nothing like it would've been if I were named "Zathura", "Frodo" or "Ra's Al Ghul". Every kid gets picked on to some degree - you just don't go out of your way to increase that degree before the kid's even said his/her first words.

The other part I take issue with - why in the world would anyone associate any given "Mike", or any other common name, with one figure or another? The names are way too common for such an automatic leap. That's the whole point - you don't meet someone named "Rob" and immediately think of them as being anything like Rob Lowe. George or Barney, (to use your examples) perhaps, but I don't know a boatload of people named George or Barney either, so I'm not so sure your examples even apply there.

[skids]

15. That they are common is the reason...

...because they are common names, the odds are much more likely that an infamous character will bear other similarities to your kid. If your kid is a militant jock, and named "Nate", and the kids in your class see "Weird Science" they'll say -- hey that's like that kid Nate too funny lol rofl yeah huh? Common names offer a selection, a menu of characatures to choose from to mock a hapless schoolkid.

(Though of course if your kid is a militant jock he's got bigger issues.)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

16. Again, every kid gets picked on to SOME degree.

Why increase that degree for your kid?

And those little jabs some kid might pick up from watching a random movie will pass rather quickly. The jabs you get from having a weird name last your whole life. Big difference.

[skids]

17. Mine lasted for about six years of my youth.

What I'm saying is that common names are more likely to cause this phenomina, not less likely as everyone assumes.

As for them lasting longer, well I guess you just have to learn that the people that think unusual names are funny just haven't grown up.

Present company included.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

18. I'm sorry to hear you haven't grown up. (nt)

[LostinVA]

21. This coming from a man named "Vash"...

:* :* :*

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

22. You know, I expect this sort of crap for everyone else, but not from you!!

:D :hug:

[LostinVA]

23. I always knew you were really

a Freeper troll!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

24. Shh! You're blowing my cover!!

:D

[LostinVA]

25. Sorry, dude, sorry!

[TahitiNut]

8. Sure. It develops a kid's character to be called "C*ntessa"

Maybe they named the boy "Fockworth"? :eyes:

I agree that given names ought to reflect a 'special' regard for the child. At the same time, a little bit of empathy goes a long way.

[Hav]

11. Meet the parents

"Gay Focker" ;)

[TahitiNut]

13. Yep. Like I say - it develops character.

:rofl:

[truebrit71]

5. That's actually the presenters real name..Contessa Vacuous...

...well okay, I made her surname up, but her first name is legit....

[WCGreen]

14. BTW, candidates who have raised a lot of money they won't

need for their own campaigns frequently donate large chunks of money to their caucus in order to be considered for leadership poistions...

[Skidmore]

19. But do they donate it to buy silence?

[WCGreen]

20. They spread it around to buy loyalty.....

Some may construe that to be silence....

Other will see it as buying their vote on issues that don't effect their district...

Still others would see it as buying a vote for a leadership position....