Yes, Al Franken really IS good enough
The election was in early November. This is the middle of April. After weeks of hearsing and arguments, a three-judge panel in Minnesota has ruled unanimously that Al Franken defeated Norm Coleman fair and square and ought to be certified for the office and seated.
According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
“The overwhelming weight of the evidence indicates that the Nov. 4, 2008, election was conducted fairly, impartially and accurately,” the panel said in its unanimous decision.
The panel concluded that Franken, a DFLer, “received the highest number of votes legally cast” in the election. Franken emerged from the trial with a 312-vote lead, the court ruled, and “is therefore entitled to receive the certificate of election….”
“It is the kind of opinion that is unlikely to be disturbed on appeal by either the Minnesota Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court,” said Richard Hasen, an expert on election law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “The opinion considers the major arguments made by Coleman and rejects them in a detailed and measured way.”
Added University of Minnesota political scientist Lawrence Jacobs: “This is judicial speak for ‘nothing here,’ and it is most definitely aimed at the appeals process. It’s a signal that they are supremely unimpressed by the Coleman case.”
I’d say it’s time Minnesota got its constitutionally allotted second U.S. senator.
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Corporal
April 14th, 2009
5:26 pm
I spent a lot of time in Minnesota in my younger days.
Yah, they got dem a real senator by golly.
Embarrassing ………. but the people have spoken.
Corporal
April 14th, 2009
5:34 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvgMIerTXl4
Frederick Douglass
April 14th, 2009
5:39 pm
Good Grief! Reagan, a less than sterling actor, was propped up as a president, Bush the lesser, a drug store cowboy, was trotted out as a
leader for eight years, Franken’ll be alright.
aurum79
April 14th, 2009
5:40 pm
Humorist Franken in wise, witty, urbane and best of all, a good Minnesota liberal. He’ll make an outstanding senator. The laugh is on Coleman and his crabby cronies.
Mrs. Godzilla
April 14th, 2009
5:42 pm
If Norm Coleman wants a political career in Minnesota, he should exit stage right, quickly and gracefully.
I would suggest the GOP dump Steele and hire Coleman.
@@
April 14th, 2009
6:11 pm
No matter who wins, I’ll jump on this Minnesota resident’s bandwagon.
Battle of two egos
The Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken has long ceased being about representing Minnesota in the United States Senate. It has become a battle to satisfy the egos of these two individuals. The one good thing about the recount court battle is that many flaws in the mechanics of the voting process in Minnesota have seen the light of day. After the last appeal has been heard and a final decision made, both Coleman and Franken must keep in mind that neither will have received a mandate from the people of Minnesota.
MARK CARROLL — Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul
booger
April 14th, 2009
6:15 pm
To answer the question you posed….Yes, Al Franken is good enough to be a Democratic senator. In fact I cannot think of another person who better embodies the values of the democratic party.
jt
April 14th, 2009
6:16 pm
Al Franken is a perfect fit for the world’s most exclusive clown club.
Mr. Snarky
April 14th, 2009
6:17 pm
Al Franken, though he may have had some misses on the comedy front, is a funny, smart guy and will be a good senator, I believe.
Mrs. Godzilla
April 14th, 2009
6:33 pm
Can we look at how we vote NOW? Do we want more of this bull dookey for the mid-terms?
There is tons of stuff on how bad electronic voting is. WE THE PEOPLE, of whatever poltical flavor require a simple, effective and trustworthy method of voting. How hard can it be? We put a man on the moon for heavens sake.
I truly do believe Al Gore was elected. The loyal opposition will now believe the same about Norm Coleman. Can we have a calm discussion about the process of voting? Not voter fraud versus election fraud, but
sort of an electoral “paper or plastic”?
Paper ballot with a thumbprint? National Electoral Photo ID? Free?
Biometrics? Telepathy? Better Electronics?
Yes, we can fix this.
I Report/ You Whine
April 14th, 2009
6:33 pm
Due process.
Something you ACORNy’s have no respect for.
socialist power mongers
jon
April 14th, 2009
6:36 pm
He stole it fair and square. This is a state that doesn’t take its voting very serious. Remember they elected Jesse Ventura governor.
Obama won 54% of the vote in the frozen tundra.
This goof-ball will represent the state well.
jon
April 14th, 2009
6:38 pm
Mrs. Godzilla,
On a rare occasion, we agree. But the libs can’t stand voter ID measures. Wonder why????????
Daedalus
April 14th, 2009
6:41 pm
Al Gore and Lieberman contest the 2000 Florida vote count and roundly criticized by right-wingnuts for using lawyers to try take away the voter’s choice. Remember the “Sore Loserman” bumper stickers?
Fast forward to Minnesota in 2009, and Republicans are litigating to overturn the voter’s choice because they don’t like the outcome.
I always thought that the GOP’s position in the Florida 2000 election and resulting Bush v Gore Supreme Court decision was never based on principle and was always about politics. Norm Coleman’s litigation in 2009 has proved that to be true.
As for mandates, Bush won the 2000 election by the slimmest of electoral college margins and lost the popular vote — and the GOP claimed a mandate for their extreme right-wing neo-con ideology. If Coleman had won by less than 1%, you right-wingnuts would be screaming that he has a mandate…which sounds kind of gay for a Republican.
TUESDAY VANDY GIRL
April 14th, 2009
6:44 pm
I enjoyed little house on the prairie re-runs on TBS when i was little, now I kind of wish a pox had swept thru walnut grove and decimated it, when you look at how ultra left wing their descendents have gone.
I’m a 20 year old white female, and I don’t understand the (ill)logic that pervades this discussion board…because I hate mccain and his befriending of the enemy ( And yes, liberals are the enemy), I should have vote for the enemy instead? Because more than half of americans are horrible people who want to use government take money from those who earned it, to give to themselves, I should join in and do it too? or at least applaud it as the future? If you ruin free market capitalism here, we will just have to leave and go somewhere else and make it a super power while you become a large welfare nation
Taxpayer
April 14th, 2009
6:45 pm
Majority rules. When will the whining baby Republicans accept that basic fact and stop the court battles. They should be thinking of the people. Franken won. Now, if Coleman continues, he’s just a sore loser that cares nothing about the people. Isn’t that what the Republican party said about Al Gore. So, are they going to continue to demonstrate their hypocrisy for all to gawk at by pushing this matter further.
Eddy
April 14th, 2009
6:47 pm
Minnesota deserves Franken…goofball state now has a legitimate goofball to represent them…you bet’cha!!! Don’cha know!!
Taxpayer
April 14th, 2009
6:51 pm
Vandy Girl,
You do realize that you are not chained to the US, don’t you. One of your basic freedoms is the ability to stay or leave. If you stay, however, there are responsibilities that you must meet. One is to pay your share of the taxes, just like the rest of us.
Have you considered starting a website of your own and trying to drum up enough interested people so you all can pool your resources and buy your own island, for example. You could start from scratch and even report back to we the people and tell us all about your little Utopia. What do you say.
@@
April 14th, 2009
6:54 pm
There are many (democrats) that said Hillary won the popular vote, while Obama got the nomination thru super delegate support.
TUESDAY VANDY GIRL
April 14th, 2009
7:00 pm
Taxpayer…I do realize I am not chained here, that is why I said we may have to leave ..my share of the taxes is exactly that..my share…It should be no more or less than anyone elses share, regardless of how much or little i make..the rich use less services than the poor, on average, yet the poor pay almost nothing in taxes…freeloading is what they do best i guess.
My choice at the moment would be Switzerland, they seem to be fighting the good fight for free market capitalism..sadly, against out own gestapo..i mean IRS
jon
April 14th, 2009
7:09 pm
Daedalus @6:41
Totally different circumstances. But I understand that you Bush haters get your “history” from MoveOn.org. Bush had a clear victory in Florida. Gore wanted to cherry-pick districts to recount. The Florida Supreme Court, being overwhelming Democratic partisans, went along with that foolishness. The US Supremes shot them down.
danjonglee
April 14th, 2009
7:09 pm
The State Dept. needs to monitor Minnesota for right wingnuts after Franken gets selected.
Corporal
April 14th, 2009
7:10 pm
To Frederick Douglas:
At least Reagan and Bush were both were Governors first.
However, I had better watch my tongue. The way you liberals are degrading we may be looking at the next President of the United States. At least he can be himself on Saturday Night Live ………..
Mrs. Godzilla
April 14th, 2009
7:12 pm
Jon,
Ya’ know I CAN stand voter ID. However, it is relatively easy to fake a picture ID. I will support voter ID when it is both photo and biometric.
Now, what do you think is the safest way for Americans to vote?
I Report/ You Whine
April 14th, 2009
7:15 pm
al Qaeda is off the hook, the Department of Homeland Security has a new enemy to scheme on-
HOMELAND SECURITY WARNS OF ‘RIGHT WING RADICALS’…
Where is the whining from the left now about the “invasion of privacy” and our Constitutional rights?
Hmmmmm?
Unable to distinguish the real thing, toadies?
Bud Wiser
April 14th, 2009
7:20 pm
He was an idiot and a fool on SNL.
Maybe not so strangely enough, he will fit right in with the circus in Washington, because he is of the party of idiots and fools.
Dopes With Chains
Taxpayer
April 14th, 2009
7:21 pm
Vandy Girl,
I do hope you write and maybe post a few views of the Swiss countryside. By the way, look up Phil Gramm while you are there and tell him that we wish he were here. We have a little unsettled business regarding some of his POS legislation that turned loose the derivatives crooks on we the people.
@@
April 14th, 2009
7:23 pm
Well this is gonna suk for Obama’s Afghan/Paki War.
The legislative and executive branches of the Pakistani government on Monday approved a Feb. 17 peace agreement between the provincial government in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and a Taliban rebel group based in NWFP’s Swat district.
Allowing a special political and legal dispensation in a given part of its territory essentially amounts to recognizing the autonomy of the region in question. It should be noted that the Pakistani state has, since its inception, fiercely resisted the minority provinces’ demands for autonomy.
In fact, the negotiations between the Taliban in Pakistan’s Swat region and Islamabad set a bad precedent, undermining any U.S. efforts to reach out to pragmatic Taliban in Afghanistan. Seeing the success of their counterparts in Swat, the Afghan Taliban are likely to insist that they will negotiate with their fellow Afghans only after Western forces leave the country. This means that Western forces are looking at a long conflict — one in which the jihadists, and not the United States and NATO, will have the advantage called Pakistan.
Corporal
April 14th, 2009
7:27 pm
I Report/ You Whine:
Our founding fathers were “right wing radicals”. Good company I would say.
HEADLINE: Pentagon looks to move battle against pirates ashore …
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/14/obama.pirates/index.html
“From the Halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Somalia ….”
Hey, that doesn’t rhyme …
Proud American
April 14th, 2009
7:29 pm
Congratulations Senator Al Franken.
Franken’s a good and brilliant person. He loves his state. He’ll serve Minnesota well.
lwwmm7
April 14th, 2009
7:31 pm
This whole “Right Wing Radical” smokescreen is a lead-in to more gun control overtures. When will we admit that criminals will never register their guns, and only law-abiding owners will be targeted by the confiscation crowd? It’s a mean world out there beyond your walls, and no amount of wishing can change that. Let’s use our existing laws and target the wrong-doers.
Frederick Douglass
April 14th, 2009
7:32 pm
Corporal, Sonny Perdue is a governor, Sarah Palin’s a governor, George Wallace and Lester Maddox were governors. What’s this preoccupation of
the Right with someone being a governor? My point is, if you rolled all
of the aforementioned “governors” together, you might get a good junior
senator out of them. Being a former governor was totally wasted on Dubya in particular.
Corporal
April 14th, 2009
7:35 pm
To My Conservative Friends:
Has anyone seen anything in the news about the DHS designating the American Legion a “hate group” for its pro-enforcement stance on immigration law?
If so, this is getting out of control. Talk about the Gestapo …..
lwwmm7
April 14th, 2009
7:37 pm
At least Franken is honest about being George Soro’s lap dog. Even with George’s money, Air America still flopped. O’Reilly is still #1 in prime time and truly takes on both parties. So if the majority rules, as in previous posts, we still live in a sensible world, huh?
I Report/ You Whine
April 14th, 2009
7:37 pm
lwwmm7- The libs aren’t that smart. They scanned the world for enemies, figured out that George Bush wasn’t bullshi##$ and being the spineless kowards that they really are, invented a safe enemy that they could make “war” on.
Liberals are truly gutless vermin.
jon
April 14th, 2009
7:37 pm
Mrs. G.
Picture ID should do it. You can’t stop all the fraud but if someone doesn’t have enough interest in citizenship to obtain an ID card, they have no business voting.
I figure for the 2012 prez election the Dems will want to have another American Idol competition. We can just text our votes for Obama.
Corporal
April 14th, 2009
7:38 pm
Frederick Douglass:
Well sir, you are certainly entitled to your opinion.
For myself, I spent a lot of time in my career around U.S. Senators. Most of them (but not all) are elitist twits who want nothing more than to stay in office for the power it gives them ……….. that’s why I am for term limits.
Thanks for your input.
Bud Wiser
April 14th, 2009
7:38 pm
Vandy Girl, pay no attention to one of our village idiots. It is the best that those kind can come up with is to go after posters they do not like. What you will come to see here is a variety of bile and hatred from those has-benns-that-never-were types that love to try to get under the skins of everyone they envy, whether by their intelligence or outlook on life.
The takers in our society are having their fun now because their little puppet won the election, so let them crow. Elections are cyclical, and power comes and goes; you are young enough to wait your turn, because if you believe in it then yes, it will come.>/strong?
The dopes with chains crowd will be subdued again eventually, because like water, America always seeks to stay upon a very level plane. Disturbances or rocking in one direction or another all eventually correct themselves. We are witnessing a wretched failure right now of what happens when the right flops, fails and falters. We are also witnessing the beginning of the end of the left, only they are too stupid and/or stubborn to recognize it. Overkill in any direction is always self correcting, and this ignorance too shall pass.
Thus sayeth the Bud.
ray
April 14th, 2009
7:39 pm
‘w’ will effitup so bad the dems will be able to run a comedian and win.
I Report/ You Whine
April 14th, 2009
7:39 pm
Corp- It’s like all we’ve been talking about today, dude.
Bud Wiser
April 14th, 2009
7:39 pm
(apologies for my typos)
DB, Gwinnettian
April 14th, 2009
7:41 pm
It has become a battle to satisfy the egos of these two individuals.
No it hasn’t. It’s become nothing more or less, at this point, than a battle to see how long Coleman can draw this out to prevent the Democrats from having a 59th Senator.
I see little downside for Coleman at this point, so I assume he’ll take it to the US Supreme Court if doing so means he buys a few more weeks.
AmVet
April 14th, 2009
7:41 pm
Another one bites the dust.
And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust.
Hey, I’m gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust.
Way to go Minnesota!
We too are laughing at the sore losers! And I do mean LOSERS!
Man, this just keeps getting better and better and better and better and…
lwwmm7
April 14th, 2009
7:47 pm
We better keep an eye on those Boy Scouts, too. Talk about a radical, brain-washing bunch of wackos. Be honest, helpful, and truthful? Learn self-reliance and first aid? For what? Little devils must be planning to destroy us from within and take over. Learning knot-tying so they can surprise us in our beds, huh? I see through their little plan, and I vow to fight this menace with utmost vigor.
fearless fosdick
April 14th, 2009
7:47 pm
I kinda Like Al. In fact residing in a prominent place of my bookcase is a copy of “Rush is a big fat idiot.” Bud Wiser, you may think Franken was an idiot and fool on SNL, but how then do you explain the THREE emmy awards he won? And I don’t believe idiots graduate Cum Laude from Harvard…Eh, Bud Wiser?
Taxpayer
April 14th, 2009
7:54 pm
I was a Boy Scout and even though it has been many years now, I still remember my survival training. I’ve yet to find a snipe that could out-do me and they are by far the most elusive of all creatures, well, except when one is trying to get a definitive answer from a Republican that is backed up with verifiable data. But, that’s another story.
lwwmm7
April 14th, 2009
7:55 pm
Excellent title for a book by a humanistic, intelligent and caring human being. Where’s the tolerance, the love, the acceptance and, like, all that stuff? Oh, I forgot. Persons you don’t happen to agree with are either stupid or undeserving of an audience.
jon
April 14th, 2009
7:56 pm
George W. Bush received an MBA from Harvard, and the libs say he is an idiot, so possibly Harvard graduates idiots Cum Laude, too.
jewcowboy
April 14th, 2009
8:01 pm
Corporal@7:38,
Would that explain Norm Coleman?
lwwmm7
April 14th, 2009
8:01 pm
Imagine my surprise when I learned that a snipe is really a bird? Never caught one in the croker sack, but we did find a snake one time and put it in the bag for the scoutmaster. He didn’t think it was all that funny, and we all got to do a 3-mile walk back to town from the little lake we were camping by.
Midori
April 14th, 2009
8:02 pm
I do and always have adored Al Franken.
He will make a wonderful senator.
Thumbs up to Minnesota.
Taxpayer
April 14th, 2009
8:06 pm
Vandy Girl,
I dug out this link for you in case you want to learn a little about how Switzerland’s health care system stacks up to the US system. You’ll need to register (it’s free) to download the full report. It’s worth the read if you are into that sort of stuff, I mean, learning, that is. You might also find this one worth the read. I do enjoy reading and I hope that you do as well. I find that it makes for more stimulating conversation.
AmVet
April 14th, 2009
8:06 pm
Fos, his books are both informative and hilarious. A combination the neo-conned do not like in the least.
jon, I’m guessing United States Senator Franken got their on merit, not becuase of his daddy and granddaddy’s connections.
And based on W’s performance in the White House, I’d say the argument about him being an idiot is over…
Taxpayer
April 14th, 2009
8:08 pm
A snipe hunt is a “wild goose chase”.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 14th, 2009
8:13 pm
his books are both informative and hilarious. A combination the neo-conned do not like in the least.
And his radio show was terrific. It really, really upsets some folks to realize (I think–they’ll never admit it) that Air America has spawned both a cable TV star and a US Senator.
But, it’s a “failure.” Uh huh.
DB, Gwinnettian
April 14th, 2009
8:14 pm
Where’s the tolerance, the love, the acceptance and, like, all that stuff?
I don’t know where you got the notion that principled progressives are especially tolerant of stupidity and willful ignorance.
Later, all.
lwwmm7
April 14th, 2009
8:14 pm
We need to bring back The Great Speckled Bird. Now there was a good read.
jon
April 14th, 2009
8:17 pm
Yea Amvet. The profs at Harvard just fix the grades if you have connections. Not many students come through there with connections. The history of the world according to MoveOn.org.
George W. Bush did an excellent job as President, as real history will show.
Frederick Douglass
April 14th, 2009
8:19 pm
fearless fosdick:
It’s sad, but the worst thing Franken could be, is a Cum Laude graduate from Harvard, those types get ripped to shreds by people that can’t
string together a few coherent sentences. However; if Franken were a
closeted drunk, propped up by his family’s wealth and influence—–
well that’d be something to respect, and maybe celebrate with a beer.
.
lwwmm7
April 14th, 2009
8:20 pm
Like I keep saying, free speech and understanding are only for those we agree with. I make it a point to read articles and books by folks I might not happen to agree with. Puts a different light on things and yes, I can change my mind about things when I understand them more fully. Nobody is always right, and nobody is always wrong. Nobody. Have a good night, everybody.
fearless fosdick
April 14th, 2009
8:23 pm
Frederick ..I’ll drink to that!
AmVet
April 14th, 2009
8:25 pm
jon, I can’t say if the Yale profs upped the then drunk and smackhead Curious George from D’s and F’s to his 77average, to save the family embarrassment, but I’m gathering you do understand the difference between graduating WAY down the list with graduating cum laude, right?
And if you truly believe GWB “did an excellent job as President”, I’m guessing you think Herbert Hoover did as well…
lwwmm7
April 14th, 2009
8:25 pm
p.s. A principled progressive sounds a lot like effete snob to me. See ya tomorrow.
Frederick Douglass
April 14th, 2009
8:31 pm
I’m just an addled old black guy, but it seems to me that if a fella did a bang up job at something, folks wouldn’t have to wait fifty years to realize he’d done a good job. Wake up and smell the dry roast, George
W. Bush was horrible, and will be even more horrible when viewed over
time.
Mrs. Godzilla
April 14th, 2009
8:32 pm
On behalf of all us 200 ton,commie, pinko, lib, socialists, facists, with wretched lonely lives who are effete snobs we resemble that remark.
I’m sure I forget something.
The world sents us
April 14th, 2009
8:36 pm
U.S. Population: 306,217,692
Switzerland’s Population: 7.5 million
Healthcare in Switzerland — Although ranked one of the best in the world, the Swedish health care system has weaknesses related to care provision and coordination. Hospitals provide a disproportionate share of primary care, exacerbated by a shortage of primary care providers and short working hours for physicians. The decentralized system creates varying levels of efficiency, quality, and patient safety across the counties. Coordinating care between the municipal and county level is also difficult. Finally, the financing system is quickly becoming less sustainable. The income tax base may not grow quickly enough to support the aging population, and the flat cost-protection ceilings may need to be reassessed according to income or realigned with the real value of services.
There’s a three-month waiting period for elective surgeries such as cataract and hip replacement.
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The world sents us
April 14th, 2009
8:50 pm
Switzerland’s Family Life
People marry relatively late; they concentrate on their training and career before they start a family. Swiss women are among the oldest in Europe at the birth of their first child.
The majority of couples have only 1 or 2 children. In 2004 the average number of children per woman was 1.42, less than the EU average of 1.5. The world average is 2.65.
Surveys have shown that parents put financial difficulties as the main reason for restricting family size. Large flats are expensive, and there is a shortage of affordable child care.
Switzerland’s Living Space
Living space per person is generous: the 2000 census showed the average figure to be 44 m2 (474 sq. ft.).
Families with children prefer to live outside the big cities, if possible buying their own homes. However, the proportion of owner-occupiers remains the lowest in Europe, although the number rose in the decade 1990-2000. Two thirds of people in Switzerland do not own their home, although the proportion varies considerably from one canton to another.
Switzerland Home & Work
Women complain of the difficulty of combining motherhood with a career, and as a result, many give up work. Women still tend to look after the house and children while the man is normally the main breadwinner.
According to researchers conducting a study into family models for the National Science Foundation, in 2000 the father was the only breadwinner in one third of families, and in half of all families the father had a full time job while the mother had a part time one. In only just over one per cent did the partners divide breadwinning, housework and childcare equally between them.
Another problem facing women at work is the lack of child care facilities. Places in municipal crèches at prices which mothers/parents can afford are in short supply, and the prices at private crèches are beyond the reach of many people. However, employers have recently made moves towards becoming more family-friendly, since they realize they need to attract women into the workforce.
The Swiss school day does not take working mothers into account. School hours are not harmonised, so children in the same family may have staggered starting and ending times. Swiss schools also have up to two hours off at lunch time for the children to go home to eat, although it is usually now possible for a midday meal to be arranged for schoolchildren.
getalife
April 14th, 2009
8:53 pm
C-Span will be more entertaining.
Fox News has hit a new low (if that is possible) by promoting the tea parties.
jon
April 14th, 2009
8:58 pm
AmVet,
George W. Bush has degrees from Yale and Harvard. If he did that as a drunk smack-head then you have to admire him.
How about you?
Corporal
April 14th, 2009
9:00 pm
To jewcowboy:
Like I said. I’m for term limits ….. Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal …… term limits !!!
OFF TOPIC:
“Here’s Bo! Obamas show pooch with ’star quality’ …”
I am so happy for those girls. Everyone needs a good dog ……..
I Report/ You Whine
April 14th, 2009
9:01 pm
Welcome back, getathejoke, you unrepentant socialist.
Hey, at least you didn’t call it “tea bagging,” thus joining the sloven filthy minded dimwits among you.
It’s a start.
jon
April 14th, 2009
9:04 pm
The president has very little to do with the twists and turns of the economy. Roosevelt had 8+ years and he couldn’t get the country out of a depression.
AmVet
April 14th, 2009
9:05 pm
No, jon, I don’t have to admire him.
His dad was OK, but W?
Not in a hundred lifetimes…
Frederick Douglass
April 14th, 2009
9:06 pm
Due to the tough financial climate, Princeton and Brown universities are having fire sales on degrees, maybe Bush can pick up a couple
more.
Taxpayer
April 14th, 2009
9:15 pm
Teabagging – filthy
Urinal – just good clean fun
Save it for the choirboys.
AmVet
April 14th, 2009
9:16 pm
Tea bagging?
If the cons had a revolution and nobody came would there still be a splash?
Corporal
April 14th, 2009
9:19 pm
Ah, the wonderful world of Islam ………….
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — Taliban gunmen executed a young couple for trying to elope in rural Afghanistan, a local police chief told CNN Tuesday.
Mrs. Godzilla
April 14th, 2009
9:23 pm
Ah the wonderful world of sunday school teachers….
California Sunday School Teacher Charged With Murder, Rape, Kidnapping of Sandra Cantu, 8 FOXNews.com
Corporal
April 14th, 2009
9:25 pm
Taliban “policy” vs. individual crime.
Mrs. Godzilla
April 14th, 2009
9:25 pm
Ah another wonderful world…..
FALLBROOK, Calif. — An investigation began Monday into the death of a Camp Pendleton Marine who beat his wife in the head at their Fallbrook home, then killed himself, thinking she was dead, the San Diego sheriff’s department said.
10 news.com San Diego
Midori
April 14th, 2009
9:26 pm
Funny video clip discussing “teabagging”
David Shuster: GOP “Going Nuts” For Teabagging, But They Need “A Dick Armey”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/david-shuster-nationwide_n_186815.html
Corporal
April 14th, 2009
9:32 pm
Taliban “policy” vs. individual Marine crime.
RW-(the original)
April 14th, 2009
9:32 pm
they’ll never admit it) that Air America has spawned both a cable TV star and a US Senator.
What time slot did Tila Tequila have on Air America?
I Report/ You Whine
April 14th, 2009
9:32 pm
A Urinal is a depository of waste and a play on words, perfect almost.
Tea bagging is a sex act, try as I may, it’s nearly impossible to link the two together.
But then I think, the liberals let their little puny minds buzz for it’s usual pointless cycle, out popped something totally irrelevant on par with their minimal thought process and it all makes perfect sense.
Midori
April 14th, 2009
9:34 pm
that’s right up your alley, isn’t it Andy?
Lipton or Earl Grey?
Frederick Douglass
April 14th, 2009
9:35 pm
Speaking of hot news items, the last racist on the face of the earth is slated to be executed here in Georgia soon. Race cards can be turned in
at gate G Turner Field before Wednesday’s Braves/Marlins game.
Corporal
April 14th, 2009
9:35 pm
Taliban “policy” vs. pedophile slaying ………
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/14/california.slain.girl/index.html
TnGelding
April 14th, 2009
9:42 pm
Franken certainly has the intelligence and wit to be an excellent U.S. Senator. I hate to admit it, but I thought Coleman represented his state very well. Much better than I thought he was capable.
jon
April 14th, 2009
8:58 pm
But did he actually earn them? History would indicate he didn’t. In his day they paid other students to sit in class for them.
jewcowboy
April 14th, 2009
9:48 pm
Corporal,
But what about the will of the people? If a district is happy with their representative in government, why deprive them of the candidate of their choice?
I don’t like term limits, but I truly beleive there should be a cap on spending to level the playing field. I mean what did the 2008 election tally for both Presidential candidates, something over $1 billion?
I Report/ You Whine
April 14th, 2009
9:49 pm
Hey, congratulations everybody!!
We found a blog topic that i r o diM can follow along with!
And here I didn’t think it was possible.
Bookman, teabagging entry?
Ntb
April 14th, 2009
9:58 pm
libs would know about teabagging since it’s associated with bondage.
jewcowboy
April 14th, 2009
10:01 pm
Ntb,
So republicans only know about toe tapping in the restroom and pages?
Taxpayer
April 14th, 2009
10:02 pm
Good one, Midori.
As for the “faux hurt” ones, aka, the BECKerheads, out there in blogger land,
anyone that bothers to do the research can readily determine for themselves that teabagging is slang, i.e., a contrived word with no formally accepted definition. Also, the word has recently appeared in numerous videos and news articles that are making their way around the Internet. Further, the word did not make its debut on Bookman’s blog. A quick “google” will provide the interested reader with more details on its recent usage in the media.
The use of the word “Urinal”, for example, in an obviously filthy and vile context with respect to the AJC , on the other hand, appears to be the lovechild of none other than “Andy”, aka “I Report/You Whine”, et al.
Midori
April 14th, 2009
10:09 pm
nice to oblige you Andy.
After all, you’re so close to the edge I deduce that you’re going to go batsh*t crazy at any moment. By that I mean crazier and more delusional than you already are.
Anything I can do lighten your mood before you get that final “push”.
BTW – you didn’t answer my question: Liptons or Earl Grey?
Midori
April 14th, 2009
10:10 pm
Taxpayer,
he’s rather Cybil-like, isn’t he?
BDAtlanta
April 14th, 2009
10:18 pm
Hey, is anyone attending a teabag party tomorrow? I like tea but, having worked in sales, I am now used to drinking the good stuff.
If you see any Mighty Leaf branded bags, grab them. That stuff is gold. You thought Starbucks was expensive? This stuff is sooooo good and they know it so they charge the world for it. I am serious, this stuff is like listening to your very first CD in 1985. Yeah, ok, we commies have good taste too.
Taxpayer
April 14th, 2009
10:24 pm
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is sitting on enough uranium cake to make a nuclear bomb as it waits for prices of the commodity to rebound, according to traders and nuclear experts. The bankrupt bank acquired uranium cake “under a matured commodities contract” and plans to sell it when the market improves “to realize the best prices,” Chief Executive Officer Bryan Marsal said. The uranium, which may be as much as 500,000 pounds, might fetch $20 million at today’s prices of about $40.50 per pound, said traders who asked not to be named because of the confidential nature of the data. Marsal said the traders’ estimate of Lehman’s uranium holding is “reasonable,” while declining to be more specific.
Surely, they’re getting ready to make a bomb with this stuff. I mean, what else could they be doing with it. We better invade them.
Corporal
April 14th, 2009
10:27 pm
to Jewcowboy:
It term limits is good for the President it’s good for senators and Congressman ……………
Taxpayer
April 14th, 2009
10:29 pm
BD,
We bought some Bigelow 100% organic green tea from Sams Club. Each bag is is individually sealed to preserve the antioxidants. Apparently, they don’t last long once you brew the tea. So, drink up. I’ll have to look for your brand and give it a try.
Taxpayer
April 14th, 2009
10:33 pm
How are you tonight, Midori. I’m getting close to crashing time for tonight. School is back in session and I have to get up and cook my daughter’s breakfast and then take her to school. Then again, we each have our routines.