SENATOR FRANKEN: Because he’s good enough, he’s smart enough, and just enough people like him.
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Something about his expression creeps me out.
It’s the stomping his feet and suing like a little girl.
Nah, little girls would just make up rumors. He sued like a properly full grown brat.
With a penis.
In bed. Well, I believe our work here is done.
Looks like it.
Hahahaha. Sure he’s good and smart, if you’ve never read any of his
books or interviews.
Nesting fail or brain fail?
Hmmm. *strokes DWN’s beard, cuz doesn’t have one*
*breathy voice*
unless you stroke your lady beard, in bed, with
something or other.
O_o *is stroked*
Sorry, perhaps I should have asked permission,
but I had a ponder.
What’s a guy like Rot Job doing in your post,
anyway?
Not a clue but stroking my beard is fine. Hell, I have let female friends braid my hair before… As for Rot Job… I lack a clue what he is doing there.
His name is rot job. Maybe he’s doing the same thing Beethoven is doing: decomposing.
I need a minuet to let that sink in.
*rimshot*
Those puns have put me in a fugue.
viking gal wins.
Oh, stop it with the fanfare! She blows her
own horn enough as it is.
These puns are cymbal-ic of what’s wrong with PK.
They really do strike the wrong chord, don’t they?
Tocatto look at them like this… at least they bring the harmony?
I’ve read his books. His research is impeccable. I’ve not seen any of his interviews, but based on his books, he seems like he will be a good senator.
Oops, forgot to reset my name… hehe, yeah, that was me down below.
Busted!
In that case, that means Ann Coulter, Rush, Hannity, etc… would make good Senators too?
No one said that they were good at research… spewing their opinion to their sheep fan base is what they are good at.
You and I disagree on the research bit. But that’s a different argument for a different time. When you look at facts from two completely different points of view, you’re bound to get a different opinion on the same exact thing. It’s proven over and over again in this forum.
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Now, if you want to say that Michael Medved is bad at research, spews hatred to his sheep fanbase, and is a general douche, then we can agree.
Have you READ Ann Coulter’s new Book?
I would says he is pretty damn good at
spewing her hatred to her sheep fan base,
alright… I find it hard to believe she didn’t
fabricate most of her research to fit her
beliefs, personally.
Indeed.
Kind of like how Coleman is bringing up a lawsuit, too?
Coleman–What a dumb name for a horse…
Good name for camping equipment, though.
Wasn’t the recount automatic due to the small margin? And now his opponent is the one suing. At least Franken was actually on the ballot.
The recount was supposed to be automatic due to the margin, but Franken sued anyway. Hence the foot-stomping-like-a-little-girl image.
Whatever gets you through the night, Dear.
Sounds like the title of a musical ” Suing your way to the Senate”!
Well, it’s catchier than ‘being elected to the Senate by a majority of
your constituents,’ although less accurate. Lawsuits without the votes only gets you into office if your name is Bush.
If I remember correctly, it was Gore that started those lawsuits…
This thread is about Al Franken and Norm Coleman’s
2008 House race, not the 2000 Presidential race.
Check that: Senate race, not House race.
Yeah but it sure hits a sore spot with Seth….
At least Troll boy is obvious… always a bonus
Speaking of trolls….
*waits for Atlas to complete his thought*
No wait. That’s just silly!
You remember incorrectly. The lawsuit was Bush vs. Gore.
What reason would Bush have to sue? He was winning.
Bush sued to halt the Florida recount, per the
Florida Supreme Court. In its finding, the U.S.
Supreme Court overruled the FSC, effectively
halting the recount, and reinstated Republican
Katherine Harris’s declaration of Bush’s victory
over Gore.
And if anyone doubts Katherine Harris was totally in the bag for the Republicans, well… you’ve got major reality issues, is what.
I can’t speak for anyone’s motives but my own, but the lawsuit was indeed Bush vs. Gore (linked).
Yeah, that nayghty, naughty Bush – he should have done the right thing, and allowed Gore to re-count in just his 4 best counties alone, and stood aside on Gore’s roadway to victolly!
That was the only ethical thing to do, after the Democrats botched those ballot designs in the first place.
Ah, well. Gore can keep trying to shill his carbon credits scam, even though the Global Warming curve got broked.
That depends on which piece of politicised junk science you want to embrace…
And I notice the even your beloved Republicans have embraced the fact they can turn a dollar on wrapping themselves in the cloths of the Green…
Fact fail: Republican governor of Florida at
the time was named…Bush, I think it was…
Oh, yes, that’s it. What a coincidence! That
was the same name as one of the candidates,
wasn’t it?
Botched ballot design is a great reason for
a closer inspection, to determine actual
voter intent. The Republicans cried foul, and
ran to the USSC, didn’t they? Want to know
why? They didn’t want voter intent to stand
in the way of their victory.
Dolt.
Above was @Bookman, of course.
Really? I wasn’t sure
Yeah, but they resulted in Bush being declared the winner, so Seth’s comment is accurate
“a musical ” Suing your way to the Senate”!”
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I’ll SING my way to the Senate!
[cues background music]
OK, no I won’t. You’re welcome.
Coleman sued as much as Franken did, so please to apply the tar and feathers equally, okay?
Coleman sued only after Franken and his 600 lawyers stole the election. Why doesn’t Minnesota just redo the election?
Are you insane, dense, or willfully ignorant? Coleman has spent at least as much money and hired at least as many lawyers as Franken, how do you figure the election was stolen? Are you completely unaware of how our election and judicial processes work, or do you just have no respect for either one?
Actually just a whiney republican who was doubtless up in arms that there were whiny democrats…
Basically, there are arseholes on all sides… at the moment it’s just Atlas and Frou throwing Urine and Vinegar about it… rather like spoiled children in fact…
Hang on a second, unc. I’ve. Certainly thrown my share of crap, but none of it has been on this thread.
I think he (almost) gives you some cred further down.
Jane, for Unc, that’s practically a proposal…
Yeah, I was blown away myself. I started looking for bridesmaid dresses online even.
Something tells me the groom is going to want
all of us in Lurex…
You don’t think he’ll insist on crotchless, do you?
Do you *have* to ask?
Wait ’til you see the gift registry…
*idly wonders if she can distract Unc by flashing her boobs*
*idly wonders if she can distrac Unc by
flashing her boo- ..er..shadow puppets*
*idly wonders how he can convince the women of PK he needs to be distracted*
*idly wonders why she can’t proofread
better*
Ohai Mark!
Wanna watch me do a duck quacking?
Ladies are flashing their whats??? I knew there was a reason I liked this website.
(darn… I thought “shadow puppets” were a euphemism I hadn’t heard… if they are, I don’t want to imagine how you can get “duck quacking” out of any part of the female anatomy…)
“You don’t think he’ll insist on crotchless, do you?”
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Aren’t dresses by definition crotchless?
I MISSED BOOBIES!!!
T_T
@Tessie: Well if you want to ruin a perfectly good thread with technicalities.
@DWN: Yeah you did, they were nice too.
In-damn-deedly-doodly!
See.. that wasnt Flanders… cause I swore.
@Frou – Your “Whiney little girl” comment above, but after that I was wrong… sorry Frou.
*hugs Fester*
Ewww Frou cooties! Gittoff!
(In case anyone wondered what happened to Calvin when he grew older – Hi there!)
At least tell me you got some boob action
before you went mental.
Went?
You don’t find it in the least big questionable that he now beats Coleman by about the same number of votes that Coleman beat him? And that the ‘missing’ votges were all in Franken’s favor? A statistical impossibility. And that there were just certain counties where the votes were recounted. In counties were Franken won on election night, the votes were certified. In counties where he lost, there had to be recounted. That doesn’t strike you as strange? If you don’t, I’m guessing you deserve Franken.
Cites, dear one, CITES!!!
PKers are largely news junkies, so if you have a source
for your claims that are not commonly known, you need
to provide sources. Otherwise, you’re just pulling from
your memory/impression of what you may or may not
have understood clearly from a source that may or may
not be correct.
For example:
You’re going to have a hell of a time pinning that bug
to the styrofoam, let me assure you!
To answer what is answerable:
There is nothing scary or spooky about recounted
votes going the other way, even to a similar degree.
Considering the tight race, it’s predictable, even.
Votes were recounted by mandate in *all* affected
counties due to the rules in place, so your statement
is wrong.
Thank you. Franken has the makings of a great
Senator.
[LINK]
Nice article at Salon that says what I believe better than I can. Title: Al Franken Stole the Election? Prove it or Shut Up.
Yeah, I should really include the link when I say I’m going to…
PM, I hope you don’t mind, but I took this from
your source:
‘
“…the Minnesota Canvassing Board, whose decisions have so displeased the Republican right, was impeccably nonpartisan. Nobody in their right mind in Minnesota believes that the board was biased — and, in fact, Powerline blogger Scott Johnson, no friend of Democrats or Franken, has specifically spoken up to defend it. “There was no noticeable partisan division among the board,” he wrote. “Minnesotans are justifiably proud of the transparency and fairness of their work.”
Two of its five members are Supreme Court judges appointed by Tim Pawlenty, the state’s conservative Republican governor, each with a long record of loyal service to the GOP; a third is a nonpartisan elected judge; a fourth was appointed by former independent Gov. Jesse Ventura; and only one, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, is a Democrat. At the outset, Coleman’s own lawyers accepted the panel’s membership, as did everyone else, including Franken, who might have protested that his own party had only one member.
Their decisions against Coleman, which led to Franken’s provisional victory by 225 votes, were unanimous.
Damn you Rho, and your facts! I notice Atlas took a huge steaming cup of STFU over that one…
Atlas lives closer to me than froo does. Perhaps you see why I hang out on PK…
I sort of envisioned Atlas living out of a supermarket trolley and periodically stinking up a library somewhere to went his spleen…
but now, I find he lives in TX, which is almost the same…
Does your mother ever let you out of the basement much ?
@Unc: Told you so!!
Now give Atlas his blanket back so he will
quit post-stalking you…
@Atlas: In Unc’s defense, at least his mother gives him clever,
RELEVANT things to say… instead of insults.
I’d laugh, but it hurts too much. Do you realize you now sound exactly like a liberal democrat on November 5th, 2000, and again on November 5th, 2004?
Are you saying I made up stuff and went all freaky
and was convinced that the entire outside world was
teeming with conspiracies?
Oh, yeah…Forgot that part.
It was the Masons…
In November I hired a crew to heighten and
repair a stone retaining wall, so:
Not funny!! Too sooooon!!
Illuminati? They caused Lara Croft grief…
Mmmmmm Lara Croft….
Yes, the margin forced the recount, then the suing–from both sides–
commenced.
Check that: Coleman’s first suit (his fourth suit attached to a political race) was filed 30 October, six days before Election Day.
Yeah, I hate that too… oh, wait you weren’t talking about Coleman?
Well, from the description, she simply *must* have been. Who else?
Oh, you’re referring to that loser Coleman, who did a bunch of suing in this matter, right? You know, the FRIVILOUS, sore-loser kind?
Who’s the guy currently taking legal action because he doesn’t like the result of the election again?
TBH, his ‘I’m an “Eraserhead” fan boy hair cut” doesn’t inspire me…
Oh did he finally win, then?
“outlawyered’ is a bit different.
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*goes back under rock to refrain from speaking on this thread, as it incites too much of her anger*
*pats froo* There, there. Deep breaths now. Think of Reagan and you’ll make it through this.
*speaks to rock*
Way to say something you can’t defend!
*blinks and walks by* Do you talk to rocks often or did this offend your honor?
I wouldn’t think so… seems like a gneiss enough fellow.
You must be stoned.
On the good schist?
*contemplates basalt and battery*
I think they go for a sediment.
I find this thread simply igneous.
I shale remember that.
You shouldn’t take our humor for granite.
Or what? You’ll pumice me?
What kind of schist is this?
Well it’s not rock(et) science.
Are you turned on? Subduction leads to orogeny, after all.
oh yeah?
Well my ontegeny recapitulates your
phylogeny!
You sound so tuff!
I dunno herb, I try to watch who I am bedding with. I don’t just grab any old butte.
He must have been lured by her flow cleavage.
And I thought it was just for sedimental reasons. Oh, what a carborundum.
You guys have officially eroded this joke down to nothing. I’m proud.
Maybe it was the three quartz of beer.
Hmm, time to move on to gin and tectonics.
Well you do have a magnetic personality.
By this time on Fridays I feel like a
drainage basin with clay feet.
I know what you mean, I’m moving slower than magma right about now.
Sounds like someone might be having her
peridotite.
Asbestos I can tell, that’s kind of a personal
quarry.
Epoch fail on me! I want to evaporite!
A critic would slate these puns…
I found them witty and rather igneous.
They can get stalag-nant after a while. But hey the boulder the pun
the crater the aftershock.
Please. Let’s all be geological about this…
…with information vegetable and animal and mineral.
n8, I’m a nice enough *lady,* and lots of people talk to rocks…
Huh, right guys?
Anybody???
*sound of distant owl*
When they start talking back to you, then you know something’s terribly wrong.
My vein is throbbing and I felsic.
You only have ONE vein?
How many should I have?
I meant the -rock- seemed a gneiss enough fellow. I’m in no confusion about your gender, rhorho!
I figured that out, but forgot to post a follow-up. Sorry!
*hugs n8*
Oh and great pun, too.
Sounds like you may have licked a rock in your day…
(inside geologist joke)
*licks rock*
…nope. Not halite….
YAY!!!!!!!!!!
Dissimilitude wins two rocks!
*presents rocks*
That rock had it comin’!
Just had to spar, eh?
It’s a fault of mine, sadly.
“Do you talk to rocks often or did this offend your honor?”
`
[Don Corleone voice] This rock has offended my honor. It needs to learn respect.
It’s way too early in the year for a thread with so much win…. You’ll all just saltpeter out…
He thinks that’s confetti, but it’s actually just every Minnesotan, conservative shredder taking a collective dump on him.
I saw him at the gym the other day.
I like Franken a lot, but now I know you’re just lying: Al is a well known fatass!
…And this is funny, how?
It references Al Franken’s SNL routine. Unless you already knew that and still didn’t think it was funny.
Thanks, and no, I didn’t know. I thought it was like the “Obama: epic win” type lols… please excuse….
No problems! I tried to find a clip of the skit to link it up for you, but it was taking too long.
Franken’s character’s name was Stuart Smalley. I’m sure you can find
something on YouTube.
“Stuart Saves His Family” is probably in the $3.99 bin at Blockbuster.
3.99? damn… that’s expensive…
I wouldn’t pay .99 for it.
Yeah, but you’re a cheap slate.
Dirt cheap at that…
Rock bottom, even.
It requires knowledge of events here in the states that even I haven’t been following that much. He and another were sissy fighting over a position and apparently he won the sissy fight is what I am gathering. The just enough people like him bit did get a chuckle from me.
Or it could be a SNL skit that proves I haven’t watched television in eons…
The movie, based on the SNL character, was released in 1995. I guess
it depends on your definition of “eons.”
95 I was would been leaving 8th grade and heading into 9th in MS. I haven’t watched television since late 2000.
Eons enough for me.
8th grade??? Damn whippersnapper.
??!!!!???
Butter my butt & call me a biscuit! I will now officially refer to you as ‘that rascally kid with the smarts’ instead of ‘that hot guy that makes me laugh my ass off’. I am that old, goddammit!
We’re not old–Impossible!! *DWN’s* the bee-bees.
*feels better*
(breaks out the Irish Creamery butter)
There you go Biscuit. Nice Buiscuit.
*worriedly wonders where this will lead*
*((whispers to PM where this will lead))*
*Does best Don Knotts sucking on a lemon impression* *Turns purple and passes out*
“Butter my butt & call me a biscuit! ”
`
Slap my hind with a melon rind!
Damn, I was hot? Now I am depressed for revealing that I am only 27. I could have stayed as Hot Guy but NOooooo. Now I have to be the rascally kid with smarts…
>_<
You can be the rascally hot kid with the smarts, if you like.
Hot kid… That is going to skew with my reality a lot but I will take what I can get.
Cheer up. Next thing you know, some sweet young thing will refer to you as “sir” (and not in a roleplaying kind of way), and you will realize you’re not the kid anymore…;o) Anyway, you still get to be hot, even if you are disquietingly young.
I have yet to have anybody call me sir in a rping sort of way but I will feel old again once I get on Gaia tonight.
I do like the term disquietingly young.
And I am curious how anybody here thinks I am hot… I don’t recall people seeing my pictures anywhere…
Hot is about 90% mental assuming you don’t look like Joseph Merrick or something.
Well, I haven’t sent people screaming into the night or turned anybody to stone yet…
However, I won’t fuss anymore. The conversation gets weird and awkward for me if I continue beyond this point so I will just say thanks.
It could be worse… everyday you could be greated with “Hey
man whats go- JESUS what happened to your face?!”
Or greeted…. whichever you like.
I was called Jesus in college due to my beard and long hair and constant state of poverty…
And your weird tendency to walk on water (freak).
Yeah, that was a real eye opening experience-at 29.
Yeah, being ‘ma’am’ed for the first time wasn’t fun. Sigh. Gets to the point when a person starts to LIKE being called ‘young lady’!
I was never a huge Franken fan (when he actually did comedy) but his Stuart Smalley character always cracked me up completely. I was even one of the approximately 12 people who liked the movie. Especially the intervention with his dad.
For explanation, the character was this kinda wimpy guy from a dysfunctional family who had a tv show (public access, maybe?) called Daily Affirmation. He would always end it by looking at himself in the mirror and saying “…because I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!” I think the “just enough people”in the caption refers to the teeny tiny margin by which he won the recount.
Remember when the star basketball player did his affirmations
with him? I forgot which player, but that was waaaay funny!
Funniest thing is, the Louise Hay affirmations worked for a
time, then the poor shmucks fell into deep despair …
That’s how the ‘self help’ industry works. It’s like a drug, it makes you feel better about yourself for a short while, then comes the crash and you need to rush out and buy more. Think about it. If even a single self help book actually worked, then no more would need to be published.
I agree in part. Sometimes people need help, and self-
help books can offer advice, provide systems for
organizing thoughts, and/or the assurance that the
problems are not unique to them. Some people lack the
funds or are embarrassed to seek professional help.
Someone going through a divorce may not want to
share with a close friend, for fear of being avoided,
dragging the friend down, or, in a case where the friend
is close with the former spouse, repeated, rejected, etc.
Here’s the part where I agree: Like anything, self-help
books can be abused or given too much merit. My
psychologist neighbor actively reads self-help books.
I had assumed she read them for professional reasons,
but she told me that she reads them more for
personal insight than for use with clients. Now it seems
as though she’s “addicted to help.” Her library rivals
the self-help section at our local Barnes & Noble.
Bill Waterston did a great riff on self-help in Calvin & Hobbes. Calvin wrote a self-helper titled Shut Up & Stop Whining, then worried that if it actually sold, there’d be no way to publish a sequel to make more money.
Michael Jordan. It was all Jordan could do not to crack up while he was speaking to the mirror.
Actually, it was Charles Barkley (or maybe both). Barkley was on for his “anger issues”, and also had on his teammate Mugsy Bouges.
Michael Jordan was my favorite. Mostly because he couldn’t keep a straight face.
I saw both, but was remembering the Michael Jordan
episode. Both were good, but Michael Jordan’s turn
at the mirror was classic!
I have hunted, but can only find the movie trailer
for Stuart Saves his Family, which is okay,
but doesn’t show the “Daily Affirmation.”
Charles Barkley also went one-on-one with “Barney”-as-Godzilla in that episode. Hysterical!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
I don’t caaaaaare…
Hush, Seth!
You presume to tell someone online to hush?
What vacuous rubbish!
What annoying tripe!
In one line, Frou hits what I think of party politics and 99% of religons
There’s 1% that you like?
That’s what I was wondering, too! Good catch, AC. *stands next to AC, peering at Fester* So what’s this 1% you’re talking about?
I think he doesn’t hate Quakers altogether…
Don’t mind Quakers or Zen Buddhists. I went off the Dalai Lama’s crew when he came out as slightly more tolerant than the Phelps clan on the ‘gay’ thing. Otherwise, I’d not disliked the Gelug School of Vajrayana Buddhism…
Oh, and Hinduism is a bit of a curate’s egg… it never recovered from the Brahman take over about 2750 years ago IMO…
The rest… well, as long as they don’t try and spread crazy on my doorstep, then I can just mock them from a distance…
I love the “spreading crazy door-to-door” types! They always have that same stupid opening line: “I’m here to tell you about Jesus!” as if anyone living in the civilized world for the last 2,000 years HASN’T already heard about Christ. I even read that book about him…oh, what’s it called? Oh, right! The Bible! Yeah, he seems like a nice guy…
I tend to tell them to ‘gitorfmailarnd!’ before I take the yard
brush to them… if “I’m sorry, but I’m Roman Catholic” doesn’t move them…
I suggest, “Tell you what. Give me your address, and directions to your house, and really early some morning this week I’ll come over and tell you what *I* think about religion”.
It is rather funny to see Lynn take charge when they come to the door. I make the pretense of cordial behavior. She just wanders over and abruptly shuts the door.
@Unc: How do you feel about Taoism?
I <3 Lynn.
Either Hubby or I will answer the door nekkid if we know it’s a Jehovah’s Witness or some such door-to-door.
I preferred it when it was a philosophy, rather than a religion…
It can still be used as a philosophy. I rather
like it that way, in fact. It helps me relax and
clear my head, and focus on what’s important.
@Jane: Feeling is mutual.
We need to think about the aaaaaaaaair
We want to scaaaaaaaaaaare…
Won’t someone PLEASE think of the children?!?
*clutches pearls*
Franken is a douche bag who is not funny any longer and will be an embarassment to the Senate in the long run. Two bozso’s running for the same seat, neither worth a vote. Blech
Franken, wow, he’d be a great sidekick for Obama since they’re both asshats. The fine people of Minn. deserve the crap they voted into office.
I think we can all agree, these two demonstrate the difference between liberal and conservative people: the conservatives are just profane.
*observes trolls*
Look, Mark… *points*
Bugly and Blinky are married…
I’m not sure how you can trivialize their comments when they use such intelligent and descriptive vocubulary such as “douche bag” and “asshats”. How can you dispute such factual statements?
But they didn’t vote him into office- he’s trying to sue his way in.
Wrong. He won. That’s what happens when a majority, even a tiny majority, of people vote for you. He is now a Senator. He might not be seated yet, but he is a Senator. Sorry, but nowadays even an out of work comedian can beat an incumbent Republican. Now that’s funny!
Actually, no, he didn’t. They were covering part of the recount on the news. They recounters were giving him votes that were OBVIOUSLY not for him. If a person marked the empty circle between Coleman and Franken, they give it to Franken. If there was a stray mark ANYWHERE near his name, they gave it to him.
And my favorite…after he stomped his foot and demaned they recount because EVERY VOTE HAS TO COUNT!, (which is good. They should all count!) he came out 202 ahead. And yet, when Coleman’s team pointed out there were almost 2000 absentee ballots that were never opened and counted, Franken refused to let them be included. That’s why Coleman is now suing.
Honestly…since we didn’t seem to learn our lesson after Ventura, I’d say we in MN deserve whatever we get. Bah. Franken wasn’t funny when he was a comedian. Maybe he’ll be funnier as a Senator. At least he can’t whine when no one takes him seriously!
Fact Fail.
Please post after you have re-read about the topic from a reliable
news source, or post on a topic in which you are better versed.
Most people on PK are avid news readers, so please don’t
substitute fantasy for fact. It’s too easy to check your false claims.
I don’t want to speak for the GOPers, but believe the responsible
ones here will cringe at your post, wishing you didn’t make their
side look bad.
Oh…so the news show that was showing the ballots they were recounting was totally faked??? WTH? I may not be totally versed in all your bs, but my eyes work pretty good.
Take it easy, and show your work. If you bring a cite here to prove what you saw that isn’t a blog, then it will be easier to back up your point. Go get an address of a website that shows what you’re saying and come back. Otherwise, please stop making my side look bad.
I am aware of your source. The claims as to the status
of the ballots you saw on TV were *implied,* not factual,
and you willingly fell for it. Didn’t you find it peculiar at the
time that no opposite examples were given? Of course not!
That would have gone against the conclusion you wanted.
Get the hook out of your mouth:
You’ve been Rickrolled by your own infotainment.
Don’t worry- when you prove the left wrong here, their only defense is to claim your facts are wrong and demand you cite endless sources- then claim your sources are biased. You’ll see it frequently here.
But she didn’t cite ANY sources, even biased ones. Even I know that you have to at least put forth a LITTLE effort to be taken seriously, and you’ve been here long enough to know the same. Rho has at least tried to show sources. The least our side could do is a little of the same. Now, you and Hana come back when you can play like adults. Quite making us conservatives look like idiots, please.
*quite = quit. Sorry, it’s early.
Stop being an asshat Frou…
Ad hominem FAIL!
Froo and I disagree constantly, but she’s *not*
an asshat!
Perhaps you are projecting. If you fail to
apologize, you will be dismissed as a troll.
Out of curiosity, what is your motivation for calling me an asshat? The fact that I want my side to bring so much evidence to the table that we can’t be shouted down by the masses? THe fact that I play nice? The fact that I can string together a coherent post without using an insult or profanity?
Follow your own advice please.
Wow, great way to completely avoid having to reveal that you made original research instead of getting a reliable cite.
It’s so typical that people on your side make completely unsupported assumptions and, when asked for a source, they avoid the embarrassment by throwing childish monkey poo at each other. People like you are making enemies out of countries that never concerned us. For example, Iraq could have just solved the dispute by themselves, but NO, we just HAD to blow the world economy to smithereens by creating a ridiculous war that didn’t even need to happen.
EPIC WIN. The above comment brought to you by the bipartisan effort to stomp out trolls and idiots. I hate it just as much when liberals act stupid and make us look bad too.
OK… who are you and what have you done with the REAL right wing nutjob Frou?
Think back… do you remember falling asleep next to a big, green pod… it maybe cam out of a canvas covered truck… /jk
Dammit Frou… stop making me like you…
Yeah, in rare moments of clarity, Froo reveals she actually has a pretty powerful brain. Now, we need to convince her to only use her powers for Good, instead of Evil.
I always knew you would succumb to the Powah of Teh Froo!
*wonders if now is a good time to tell froo that rho and I are planning her wedding up above, decides against it and quietly tiptoes out*
*zaps Jane with bolts of electricity from her powerful fingers*
Ouch! *sniffs* Whadja have to go and do that for? I wasn’t doin’ nuthin’.
*dashes in under froo-proof shield; grabs
Jane, and carries her back to the froo-out
shelter*
Give her one compliment and it goes to her
head! I told you about that time they moved
her to day shift, remember?
*redivides rations for allow for Jane*
Hope you like saltines…
*sniffles* Thanks for the crackers.
Wait a second! The right-wing gets lightning powers?!?!?
And you thought that the Left having cookies was the best thing EVAR, hehehe.
It’s like Emperor Palpatine… just with fewer redeeming features.
And the Red Stormtroopers are wearing sequined bikinies instead of those burkhas.
Atlas, to my knowledge you have never provided a
cite on PK. Am I mistaken?
Has he said anything that needed a source to be cited ?
Lots of times. Never cited it.
“Lots of times”… Can you cite that?
LOL, gimme a sec and I will
…And your sources had better not be biased!
http://punditkitchen.com/2009/01/09/political-pictures-senator-franken/#comment-101798
http://punditkitchen.com/2009/01/09/political-pictures-senator-franken/#comment-101664
http://punditkitchen.com/2009/01/09/political-pictures-senator-franken/#comment-101801
http://punditkitchen.com/2009/01/09/political-pictures-senator-franken/#comment-101659
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In this thread alone, here are citeless posts
Give it a second to show up, but I cited 4 times in THIS LOL ALONE that he made a claim and didn’t back it up
@AC: GOOD ONE!!
@Froo: Exactly. His posts are not factual,
so they’re impossible to back up.
He’s been getting away with these posts
because his lies are outlandish enough to
raise the “why bother” flag, much like those
of Gargonzilla and Jake at/near the end of
this LOL.
*lights torch and passes out torches*
Follow me–I know the way to his castle!!
Most of his posts are hit-and-run snarks, so you
are right. Most of his comments could be cited
from the bumper sticker rack down there at the
Piggly Wiggly.
*sniffs* Hmmmmmm, I’m detecting the smell of unwashed socks. Who has the troll spray?
Captain Wow tossed it to Steve yesterday,
but no one has seen it since…
Damn! A fine time for Eds to close down the Anti-Troll Weaponry Plant. Moving, honestly!
We usually keep a stockpile, but Troll B
took almost everything we had. Eds hasn’t
been back long enough to restock, and
we can’t touch the shipping and handling
costs from our dues monies.
I hope Eds comes back soon. That stuff
doesn’t work forever…
Well, if we have socks creeping in it won’t be long before our defenses are down enough for a full-fledged Troll invasion. I don’t think I need remind you what the last one was like. *points to her missing toe*
*whispers* I’ve heard a rumor that Eds is
developing a WMTD. That may be why he had
to move to a different undisclosed location.
If my source is correct, Halliburton has some-
thing to do with it…
They usually do. Oh what have we allied ourselves with in order to rid PK of Trolls?
Oh, right!
*hands Jane the troll repellant spray*
Sorry dear, I forgot I had it…
LMAO! When the facts go against you, it proves we’re twisting the facts! Seriously, you are hard of thinking, please don’t vote any more, okay?
Please to document your assertions, thanks.
PM, now you’re just being mean: You and I both know that
Hana’s “the news” is Billo the Clown, and her rant is parrot
Limbaugh.
Yeah, I gotta lay off that stuff. Sorry.
It amazes me how Atlas and others can argue without benefit of
insight.
Seth, before these people attack again, this seems like a nice time to
interject the light of day on these proceedings.
Norm Coleman knows all about lawsuits: Don’t be fooled.
FACT: Prior to this race against Fanken, Norm Coleman initiated
three lawsuits late in the course of previous races.
Lawsuits are Norm Coleman’s political modus vivendi.
FACT: Prior to the end of this race, Coleman sued Al Franken for
defamation of character. Really? Yes, really! October 30, 2008,
in fact.
Who started the lawsuit slinging? Norm Coleman did, that’s who!
[LINK] under my name to Crew’s Most Corrupt Members of Congress.
I give it a year before there’s at least one more name added to that list.
Well, Froo, it might take longer than that for the bastards to be caught, but I’m sure there’ll be more who deserve to be on it soon, and when they’re liberals, I’ll be calling for their removal as much as I do the cons.
I second that emotion.
Agreed. I don’t care which side they align with. Corrupt is corrupt. Burn the witches!
I think we all agree. I wonder, however, who cast
that one vote against Blago’s impeachment…
What are they basing their label of ‘most corrupt’ on? Because i can think of a few off the top of my head that should be on that list, and aren’t.
Hey, it’s a stiff competition. Your guys are just going to have to try harder.
That list only covers Senators and Representatives.
I know that, I’m asking what gets them that label? Actual police records? Or smarmy tactics? What are the standards?
I could go to a lot of trouble finding out, but you would
conclude “smarmy tactics,” so let’s save me some
trouble, ignore the facts listed, and go with “vile,
corrosive, underhanded, diabolical smarmy tactics.”
There. Done.
Okay, that was harsh. It was frustrating to be
questioned about a website’s protocol, when my
purpose in providing the link was to show the
information.
Imagine if I were to ask you how CNN decided
which stories to air on a particular day, when you
were trying to show me a clip from one show.
I wasn’t trying to be an ass about it, I was genuinely curious about how they made the determinations.
PM’s post at 12:06, just below us now,
explains how CREW works, per CREW.
From the CREW website:
Since 2003, CREW has closely monitored government ethics, bringing egregious conduct to light and holding public officials accountable for their misconduct. On our website you’ll find exhaustively investigated reports on corruption prepared by our research staff, high-impact lawsuits filed by our legal team, as well as the latest national ethics news. Thank you for your support.
Thank you! *mwah*
List:
The Executive Branch
The Senate
The House of Representative
State Governance
Judges
State Legislature
Did I miss anyone? It was just off the top of my head…
District Attorneys (I knew I’d missed something)
County Commissioners and Sheriffs, also. Mayors and
City Councils, as well.
Thanks… I think we have the bases covered…
Mayors.
Rho got ‘Mayors’
Damn. Carry on then.
It amazes me how people like you will state bald lies against people who do not blindly follow the liberal ideology.
Now hang on a minute, what lies has she stated? She’s got sources backing her up. I don’t like Huffington, but that particular article seems to be based solely on police records.
I didn’t lie. You have, and you are a troll. You’re not a very
*bright* troll, but maybe you can work your way up in the
ranks. Best wishes.
Hey, hey, those aren’t bald lies! Those are facts wearing a toupee! Watch it!
@Beth
No that should read
There… that’s now sane… what you’d written was just male bovine droppings and made you seem terribly, terribly stupid.
If you boil tea made from the mushrooms growing from
those bovine droppings, you may see things her way…
*watches walls breathe*
Just because Norm Coleman is a complete douche doesn’t mean that Al Franken isn’t a total chode.
It doesn’t mean anything at all about Al Franken, in fact.
That said, it would be funny if Coleman’s *next* lawsuit were
styled “Complete Douche vs. Total Chode.”
@rhorho… i commend your correct use of the latin language… i’m glad that the 4yrs of high school latin did not go to waste…
just barely enough people… wasn’t the margin something like 400 people? roughly 12% of the population of minnesota…
400 is not 12% of 5,167,101
FAIL.
are you counting the moose or the lakes?
Paul Bunyon’s gotta be worth at least 3 or 4 votes.
Paul Bunyan voted 43 times!
To be fair, three of those votes were from Babe, the blue ox.
Don’t worry- ACORN is running this recount. I’m sure it will be fairly done
It’s like you sit down at a keyboard, and lies just pour out of your fingers. You just can’t help it , can you? It’s a disease, isn’t it?
Keep your juvenile comments to yourself, gayboy.
Aw, how cute. It thinks it can speak.
*give froo chainmail gloves*
Watch it–They bite if they have teeth…
From one of my odder acquaintances (he collects samples from the wild ofr pharmaceutical companies…) a Tasmanian Devil can get through a chain mail boning glove like it’s not there… and the kevlar composite glove he was wearing underneath…
Sort of my version of ‘We’re going to need a bigger boat…’
Jaws FTW!!!
So, how long have you had these feelings toward Mark… it’s ok to feel attracted to another man, you know.
Yeah, KoolAid. Mark doesn’t swing your way, but
he’s open-minded enough to take your feelings
as a compliment.
You’re among friends here, so don’t feel
ashamed, okay?
The irony is strong with this one.
Practically magnetic!
“juvenile comments to yourself, gayboy.”
`
Anybody who still uses “gay” as a term of insult is not allowed to call someone else juvenile. It plays hell with my Ironymeter 3000 [tm].
IT bent the needle on mine…
ACORN? C’mon, keep your smart alecky, Fox News inspired jokes current at least. What’s next, a Rev. Wright joke? Maybe one about Monica Lewinsky, or perhaps Jimmy Carter.
Did’ya hear the one about Woodrow Wilson? It’s a real knee-slapper!
Jefferson and Washington walk into a bar…
And Jefferson ordered a coffee. The bartender asked why and how he wanted it. Jefferson responded, “I like my drinks like I prefer my women. Strong, black, and handpicked from a field…”
Stunned, the bartender looked to Washington who then said, “I cannot tell a lie, that was funny but in seriousness, I just need some lacquer.”
“Lacquer?” asked the bewildered barkeep.
To which Washington replied: “But not for me, I need to shine my teeth.”
*Brush my teeth…
*headdesk* Fail on me.
TOO SOON! /care troll
… Damn.
that is ok 225 is not = 400 either- obviously he does not do his math homework
He put a question mark after his “400 people.”
wow.
you’d think for a site that had so many facetious and sarcastic captions that people would actually be able to figure out when someone is being facetious or sarcastic…
instead you all just assumed that i did not know that there are more than 3400 people in the state of minnesota…
wait… are there more than 3400 people in the state of minnesota?
Probably not by choice…
*gives ubr a cupcake*
There, there Dear…
Minneapolis had a ton of people when I lived there… Way more than I ever want to be around.
And yes, I know you’re being facetious. I’m just being a tool.
if by tool you mean useful i disagree.
if by tool you mean thing that i use to bash little round thingys into big square thingys then i totally agree.
That’s a bit less than the population of Scotland….
*sigh*
We’re so small… and wet….
That’s okay, I still want to visit you!
Bring a brolly…
…and a mac
…and galoshes
…and dry socks
…and extra dry socks for AC.
…And midge spray. You can forget the troll spray – it probably won’t work on neds. (If you catch yourself drinking bucky, wearing burberry and saying “haw, ya bam!” -you’ve been infected)
Wow… there’s so much to remember. I wonder if I can fit it all in a carry-on.
If you can talk Max out of stowing away, there should be plenty of room…
Well it’s just silly, he wants to pay for the whole trip. I know it’s cheaper to travel upon the backs of opressed peasants, but it makes my butt sore on long trips.
Max needs to fee the oppressed peasants better,
but I see how that would lessen the oppression
aspect of his work.
Hey, maybe Max could feed them trolls!
>_>
<_<
Fee the oppressed peasants? But the taxes are too high already, and now you want to start in with fees!
Oh crap! That was supposed to be “feel,”
wasn’t it?
Now he’s molesting the peasants, too! I’m appalled.
Should it have been “feet?”
So Max is taxing them to death, molesting them, and now kicking them? What kind of Evil Overlord is he, anyway???
A dreamy one. :p
What’s a ned? Is that like a pre-moistened chav?
It’s a bucky-drinking, burberry-wearing, smack-loving, bottle-throwing, asbo-owning, “haw”-shouting, tasteless and often violent and sectarian youth.
You could also say it’s a Scottish chav. Our town’s a bit infested with them the now…
Hopefully, you’ve been innoculated and have purchased some form of firearm to ward them off…
… There is no nizzlefluting way that I can take small and wet and Jane wanting to visit someplace small and wet without showing my pervert cred…
I call Unfair Shinnanegans and teasing of perverts!
*gives AC a small dry towel*
Thanks, Rho!
*Attempts to turn towel into small dry socks*
5,116,900 according to 2006 estimates. Scotland is a pretty large area of land… problem is it’s too damned cold, wet and, for half the year, dark…
you can take Gordon Brown back any time… no need to ask… just take him… please…
Think how anglicised Brown’s speech is getting… I think he likes it down there.
He’ll be playing cricket and talking about loCKs next…
In fact, let us devolve entirely or we’ll send MORE fifers down…
I’m all for it… then we can deport the lot of you back to the sodden, dark, cold, foggy, third world hell it’s always been up there :¬>
I mean that in a constructive sense, of course…
Pah! Foggy? I think you missed smirr, haar, mist, hail, drizzle, snow, plain old rain and general dreich-ness. Silly Sassenach.
Aye, deport away… I bet the English up here won’t want to go back south, tho…
You can keep them… the locals will need something to eat.
Porridge, Irn-Bru, booze and tunnocks tea cakes….
Why would you want anything else?
Incomers – the other white meat. If it came down to real partitions, we both know that they’d be lucky if their mutilated corpse wound up being dumped over the border, rather than deep fried in some hell hole fish shop…
Hell Hole Fish Shop has franchises in Scotland?
Wow, I thought they were only in Texas.
They came from there…
I bet we beat you for rain in Portland! What’s more, I’m okay with that. I like getting rain every third day, it makes for a clean city. Just so long as the weather lets up long enough for me to get my mountain bike out a few times a month, I’m cool.
According to at least one study, PDX isn’t even in the top 10 U.S. cities, which surprised me. I remember reading somewhere that Portland had LESS rainfall than Atlanta, but half as many sunny days.
Funny post!
*presents ubr with an internet*
“just barely enough people… wasn’t the margin something like 400 people?”
`
Which makes me wonder how much of a margin is actually necessary: Could a person win by one vote? Is there a minimum? Is it mandated by law?
Excellent point!
Yes, one vote is the required margin.
Yuck – what did you people do? Al Franken is now a Senator?
/Yuck!/
From the fine state that gave us Governor Jesse “the Body” Ventura.
I remember the bumper stickers about MN’s governor being able to body slam any other state’s governor. Always made me chuckle.
Wish he’d body slam Blago.
Blago’s slamming himself well enough these days.
That… I will concur with you. I wish he would too.
“bumper stickers about MN’s governor being able to body slam any other state’s governor.”
`
Let’s get him in the ring with Ah-nuld!
Better than the alternative… but only slightly.
President Obama, Vice Presidential nominee Palin, now Senator Franken. It’s the year for people with no real political experience to somehow get big political positions.
If George W. Bush and his administration is an example of an “experienced politicians,” then I’d rather have inexperienced politicians running this country.
Did Reagan have any political experience? or Washington (so far as I know, he was a surveyor before he joined the militia, after the war he became president) we’ve had plenty of leaders that have had less than admirable political resumes
Maybe what we need is some new blood in the system, get some people that haven’t played the big boys game yet, so they don’t play by the old rules.
Do you mean Reagan before he became California’s Governor?
yes. and in response to all people who claim that minnesota is a better state than california…
our actor/governor is better than your actor/governor.
THE GOVERNATOR!!! WOOOO!!!
I mean, I like Arnie.
Arnold vs. Al franken in a Death cage match !!!!!!!!
Arnie must doing something right out here- he pisses everyone off. I think he is simply to rational for both the republican and the dems in Sacramento (but in opposite directions of course).
um. that’s funny… i wasn’t even referring to arnie… i was referring to reagan…
and so far two of the actors from predator have been elected as governor. who’s up next? carl weathers? he should’ve thrown his hat in for the illinois senator seat…
I could have dug it.
You know, Socrates/Plato said, any man that knows how to rule a country, would not want to rule the country.
Sounds about right.
Yep, obviously the answer to our problems is to find that really nutty philosophy professor at your local university, and recruit them to rule the republic. . it is their duty *salutes then falls apart laughing at the idea of philosopher kings*
cincinnatus didn’t do too badly as i recall from latin class…
How about Eisenhower — never held any elective office other than President!
I Dwight D. Eisenhower, having been appointed a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army under the conditions indicated in this document, do accept such appointment and do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God…
Guess his first (or subsequent) officer oaths don’t count as experience? Or commanding an army? hmm…
Second Lieutenant =/= elected office.
Please re-read VAdame’s post, and search for the word “experience.”
Gee- wasn’t Eisenhower the Commander in Chief of ALL Allied forces in world war 2 Europe? Or would being a “Community Organizer” have meant more?
Supreme commander hun, not commander in chief, and military service=/= political experience. You are trying to argue a different point. We are discrediting the idea that if someone does not have extensive ‘political’ background they would not be a good president, senator, whatever. There have been a decent number of presidents that were elected without extensive political backgrounds, some of them were successful military men and that’s fine.
~
Being a successful officer does look more impressive than a community organizer, but that isn’t what the argument is about.
Reminder – You need a name reset there…
He keeps forgetting!! Bad troll, BAD!!
It’s the year where the politicians gave up pretending to give a damn about anyone but themselves. They’re simply getting up there, doing whatever the hell they want, and walking away with the votes.
maybe NOW that we’ve obviously hit rock bottom, (PRESIDENT Obama, SENATOR Franken??????) America will wake up and realize it’s time to fire ALL the Senators, politicians, etc, and elect people who actually CARE about our country.
Not holding my breath though…
Unc’s right: We truly need an eye roll symbol in this place. 9_9
Please change your mind about holding your breath.
Of course I’m right…
but I happen to agree that the only person who ever entered a place of power with a pure motive was that ghastly left footer, Guy Fawkes…
True that, but this business of “fire everyone because they’re all bad”
makes no point.
If you have seen other examples of this ones work, you know why
I’m suddenly inspired to volunteer at the Family Planning Center.
That reminds me, I saw Ann Coulter on the Today show. It seems that according to her all of society’s ills can be blamed on unwed mothers. I really wish Matt Laur had asked her about her views on abortion.
C*ulter certainly qualifies as the spokesperson for birth control!
Hey, teens? If you don’t use protection, your daughter could
grow up to be just like me!
Come to think of it, C*ulter could also use the word “son” in
there…
Does she remind anyone else of Jar Jar Binks?
An irritating, stereotyped, indifferent computer animation…
Now you mention it…
They both also have freakishly long necks.
I think Uncle Fester is on to something myself…
@Tessie: Yes!
BabblingBrooks agrees with you, too…
[LINK] to her LOL.
Oh, so Coulter’s mom wasn’t married to her dad, then?
Seriously, as someone who has done most of the raising of her kids totally solo, and has yet to have one become a gang member or similar, I always find this personally offensive.
You can become a member of the King Herod Appreciation Society if you wish…
I’ll sponsor you (I’m a founder member)
Most excellent! The Gregory Pincus Fan Club meetings aren’t
as lively as they used to be…
Why is it when the Dems lose, they whine and cry “Recount”?
Back in 1960, with Nixon/Kennedy, Nixon was asked if he wanted to do a recount, he responded “For the good of the country, I concede the election”… And Kennedy had a 0.2% lead.
Oh yes, Nixon… Pinnacle of ethical… waitaminute…
Kinda more to the point… The sleazy, most questionable Rep, stepped aside…
And Yes, the recount was automatic, but Franken could of conceded. They asked if he would conceded and he chose to continue with the recount.
Bush vs Gore. RECOUNT FLORIDA!!!
Bush vs Kerry. RECOUNT OHIO!!!!
when fooling the general public all one really needs is a very public altruistic act, for once the general public witnesses ethical behavior they will form their own biases in your favor and all underground dealings will be much simpler and less likely to draw attention. However be sure to destroy all evidence of your dealings as there are still those that will wish to see your downfall and once the public turns against you it is impossible to regain their trust.
For further information please see pg 45 of the manual
Warning: Do not hold important “business” discussions in a room and/or building that has voice activated recording software.
HAVE. Could HAVE.
*says to the rest of the PK group*
Sorry guys, I just can’t stand seeing “could of”. You’d think anyone with at least a fifth grade education could differentiate between could have (which makes sense); and could of, which linguistically and grammatically, IS NONSENSE!!!!
/end rant
*reopens rant*
Perhaps “P” wanted to baffle us with bad use of our language to slip
in the rest of the nonsense. In order to decipher any point s/he was
making, I covered “could of” with my thumb, only to find “he would
conceded” next.
As for content, I believe “P” is trying to say that Al Franken should
have given up after the initial count, before the automatic recount
began. “P” then caps shouted about Gore and Kerry, but my thumb
slipped, and the “could of” trance began again.
A+ for consistency of grammar fail, fact fail and opinion fail.
/end re-rant
No, just a comment on how it seems that: when a Dem loses, they whine and cry… When Reps lose, they bow out with grace (even the most sleazy, crooked Rep).
And where is the “fact fail”… Nixon did bow out of the Kennedy/Nixon election of the 60′s. The dems did cry “recount”…
Ohh opinion can never ‘fail’. You may have a totally different opinion, but I respect that. That’s what makes this nation great. Differences in opinion are encouraged.
As for “Grammar fail”… Sorry I typed “Could of” over “Could Have”. If this was an English paper, I would of proof read, put out a draft, have others proof it, re-edit, do some technical editing, comprehensive editing, content editing, re-draft, then re-proof it… But this is a informal forum where people often type “ur” instead of “You are” and confuse “loose:Lose” “Your:You’re” “There:Their”, etc.
And I find when people can’t find a way to argue with logic, they attack spelling/grammar. Just an observation.
Opinions can fail, we fight wars over them. there are those that were of the opinion that the states should remain a colony, their opinion failed, those that opined that slavery was alright, their opinion failed. those that opined we should kill off undesirable traits leading to the rise of the Aryan race, and their opinion failed.
There are plenty of opinions that fail, and they are the opinions back by no, or one sided “facts”. Yours for instance has one reference to a republican bowing out, not mentioning a well known republican that did not bow out and took their case to the supreme court. The fact of the matter is that it isn’t just dems that lose so they whine and complain, politicians from all parties have thrown a fit over losing an election in a close margin, even when it isn’t a close margin. Therefore your opinion does fail because it is significantly biasedfor not including all the Reps that have been whiny little brats as well.
Your content was addressed, following the words “As far as
content.”
Your statement about how it *seems* that the opposite side
whines is valid, but moot in its universality. Your impression
reflects bias, which is not limited to members of any party.
Your anecdotal reference to Nixon does not a trend make.
There are bad winners and sore losers in all shades of the
political spectrum. There are good winners and gracious
losers in all shades of the political spectrum.
Nixon’s campaign could have made its decision based on the
likely recount results indicated by research to which the public
was not privy. Based on his later actions, I doubt Nixon would
have dropped a race he earnestly believed he had a chance
to win.
It’s clear that you *wish* Al Franken had conceded before the
recount. I *wish* Norm Coleman hadn’t continued his pattern
of suing political opponents.
Perhaps you and I need to fire our genies.
Maybe you’re not rubbing hard enough, dear.
*snerk*
*wipes soda from screen*
*reads instructions*
THAT’s the trouble! I was only rubbing the LAMP!
Thanks, Jane!
It’s all in the grip.
Love a woman with a good grip.
…You mean “would HAVE”
proof read, put out a draft have others proof it etc.?
Well, there’s the thing, though. Franken didn’t lose. He WON. Why on earth would you concede after spending an alarming amount of money and time campaigning for something that you thought you’d won? Bowing out gracefully is fine, if you’ve LOST. If I were Franken, I would’ve done the same. It’s not a bowling tournament, it’s a freaking Senate seat.
Oh! Oh, I’m sooooo sorry! Did you want this Senate seat? I thought it was just lying around waiting for someone to take it. No, no, that’s okay! I mean, if you really really want it I suppose you can have it. What’s that? Automatic recount? Well, I’m sure the people will understand if all the votes aren’t counted. I mean, they weren’t really doing anything else at the beginning of November anyway, why not stand in line and have a say about your elected official. No, I insist, you take it.
So, if you’re statement is correct, (“when a Dem loses, they whine and cry”) then right now, there must be thousands of lawsuits, nationwide, from all the dems who lost elections. Why don’t you look into that and tell us what you discover?
Also, would you characterize Palin’s complaints about media bias as “bowing out with grace”?
Good point! That woman has blamed everyone except
herself, and John McCain for choosing her.
No, wait: She hasn’t blamed my garden gnome yet…
apparently she’s writing a book. honestly i’d actually respect the woman if she could repeat the phrase “I screwed up and I’m sorry”
I bet that’ll be a challenging read…
But the sticker pages promise to be great fun!
I’m looking forward to connect the dots
I was hoping for Tazos…
That’s only because she didn’t know about your gnome’s reputation for gotcha questions. My poor dog Seamus has hardly been able to leave the house after she ripped him a new one in her last interview.
*sigh* I’ve been avoiding him myself. Lately, all of
his questions begin with, “If a train leaves Boston at
six o’clock…”
And ends with a plea to use Travelocity?
LMAO!!
He always comes home with jet lag, and *another* adventure story…
palin had her reputation (whatever it was to begin with) demolished by the media. her family was attacked personally. we all knew that she had a kid 4 months ago, we all knew that her daughter was pregnant and the media capitalized on it…
what’s really sad is that the media seems to put up this front that it is women’s rights while they completely trashed this woman.
the hypocrisy is deafening.
Are you convinced that, had the Obama girls been older,
and one of them was pregnant, that nobody on the
right would have made anything of it? Please!!
This age of 24-hour news has generated a fierce
competition for the viewer’s attention. Don’t mistake
that atmosphere for partisanship: The media grabs
whatever story it can find, based on how many viewers
it will attract. Profit beats politics as easily as rock beats
scissors.
i think it would’ve gotten less media attention due to the fact that the media liked obama way more than palin… i don’t think there’s any need for discussion on that point…
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the point i was trying to make is that it is neither the right or the left that seems to do much of the mud slinging anymore, but rather it is the press that bombards the american people with their viewpoint… it’s like a michael moore movie. if you say anything enough times and loud enough then people consider it fact…
“the recount was automatic, but Franken could of conceded. They asked if he would conceded and he chose to continue with the recount.”
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I suppose he could have, but why should he have? I can see no reason why any candidate, of any party or persuasion, would be opposed to an accurate vote count, unless they know (or strongly suspect) that it would go against them.
The recount was automatic.
So’s the attack on Democrats.
With a penis. In bed. With the Ghost of Seth’s great great grandfather’s former roommate.
*sniff* poor baby Democrats…
*sniff* Poor capped buck-toothed baby pony Republicans…
omgponies!!1!
*releases Seth’s Chthulu from his basement*
Purple lizard republicans, dammit! How could you forget?!?!
I was referring to Norm Coleman’s capped buck teeth.
[LINK]
At least his face doesn’t look like it’s melting. Time does not like Al.
Since Norm Coleman enjoys suing people so much,
he could actually *win* a suit against whoever
installed those piano keys in his face.
I hope you realize that now he’s going to sue YOU for posting that.
Then he’ll sue you for posting an assumption that he would sue rho
I’ve been defamed. I’m suing the Green
Party, Tessie, froo and PK.
I’m also suing Concepts in Optics, Hewlett
Packard and the Interwebs for their roles
in aiding my ability to be defamed. Oh, yes,
and Mrs. Pritchard, who taught me touch
typing. I need to make a list…
*joins Church of Scientology*
Well, damn it all, I’m gonna sue *somebody*! I see no reason I shouldn’t come out of this deal with at least a yacht or something!
@Tessie: Speaking for myself, you should
christen the vessel “Bloody Turnip.”
Actually, as happy as I am for Franken, you’ve got a point. He looks terrible these days. I can’t imagine the Senate is gonna help that problem either. LOL
“Why is it when the Dems lose, they whine and cry “Recount”?”
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As in Bush vs. Gore?
lol! Man… what a really really RLY anachronistic caption… almost forgot he was in SNL.
Franken makes me embarassed to say I’m a Minnesotan. And Motas, do a favor. Ventura was apparently not enough for many Minnesotans to learn a lesson. I think a lot of us realize that. But please, let it go. He embarasses me too.
For the record, I love Minnesota. It’s a second home to me. Whatever type of governor Ventura may have been, I appreciate the good people of MN living up to the ideal of fairness.
I know I will get flamed for this- but Franken is actually a fairly good rigorous intellectual/academic when he wants to be- he can often seem like quite the policy wonk…I do agree with his left leaning in many cases, so I am biased- I think he will surprise everyone and be a really great senator that elevates the office.
i don’t think that any of the senators do anything at all… so… if he sucks, oh well. and if he rocks, oh well…
It’s interesting to watch the senate and the house on TV, when no one is there. I wish I had a job that i didn’t show up to half the time and still didn’t get fired.
That’s right, keep depressing me…
They’re back in their districts, listening to their constituents…
i’m being facetious. I just like to project negatively on my government, it’s a nice little scapegoat.
I was being facetious, too. Hey, that’s a good rock pun tie-in, too!
If that’s why gets you through the night dear
Wait. That phrase sounds hauntingly familiar…
Better yet: professional baseball player. Any job where failing two times out of three makes you a champion sounds just about right to me!
“I wish I had a job that i didn’t show up to half the time and still didn’t get fired.”
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I wish I had a job.
“i don’t think that any of the senators do anything at all”
Then please don’t bother the grown ups when we are discussing politics.
No, he’s rather right.
Ideally, Senators do a lot.
In practice, the vast majority don’t bother to show up to vote for the largest portion of the year, and rarely introduce measures or even speak before the chamber. (A few are a thankful exception to this rule. And one or two are a not so thankful exception. ((What is it with crazies from Texas? With the initials RP no less?)))
Stuffing a bill full of pork and then calling it “serving your constituents” does constitute (a pun!) “doing your -real- job as a US Senator.”
Expediting people’s passports is sadly closer to a true endeavor towards your real job, but not in and of itself, and not when you do it just so they’ll vote for you again and again.
So please… don’t bother when the educated and informed non-grown ups are discussing politics, we’ve already learned to block you out.
**does -not- constitute.
Dangit
Sorry, but I can’t make sense of this sentence:
It sounds like you could be saying two opposite things. Looking for
context is confusing, too. It seems like you start off disagreeing with
PM, but then you go on to make some good points, with which PM
would likely agree and/or enjoy discussing.
Seriously, I’m not confronting you, I’m just having a difficult time
following what you’re saying. I apologize if I’m just being dense here.
PM’s disagreeing with the original comment that “senators don’t do anything”.
I took his disagreement to mean they do their jobs, their -real- jobs.
Then I pointed out how in the basest sense, they could be considered to do “something”, but that it’s no where near what they’re actually supposed to be doing.
As for your quote, I’m mocking PM for his original snark. He implied he was a grown up. I’m telling him I’m not a grown up but that I would care to wager that I could best him, or at least hold my own, when it comes to politics.
Thank you! I didn’t understand that you were considering
yourself to be a “non-grown-up,” because you are precocious,
and therefore easily mistaken for someone older than you
are.
Now your post makes sense, but Mark was arguing against
your use of “anything at all,” using the term “grown-ups” as a
way to mark the difference between reasonable and
unreasonable comments. How could he have known your age?
Or given a good bugger about it…
that…is a very interesting comment…with a very interesting mental image.
I avoided saying In Bed only because I wanted to avoid the tirade of whining. The image was… interesting I suppose. I was thinking more like scarring since somehow my brain imagined Uncle Fester.
with the chromed steel, 2 foot spiked strap on…
(and yes, you can buy those…)
no i mostly just had two guys going “thank god the random person on the internet told us their age”
Yes, but why would you want to?
I had no idea in when I saw them in Amsterdam, I have no idea even now…
Slippery-good… pain, I’m afraid you’re at the wrong window…
I don’t pretend to understand masochists either and the spiked strap on doesn’t surprise me. After talking to Daemon who works in one of those stores and shares details of parties, nothing really surprises me anymore…
And I will never get that mental innocence back. X_X
If you bother to read one of his whiney books, you wouldn’t have voted for him ( I read part of one at the dentist’s office, then asked for some nausea medicine).
I’ve read his books. They beat the snot out of anything Ayn Rand’s ever written. He backs up his whines with cold, hard facts. I think it was the facts that were giving you that nausea. Facts often don’t sit well with Rand fanatics. You may want to avoid them in the future, I’m sure your fantasy world is far more comfortable for you.
Man, that was harsh. Sorry. I was over at dailyKos, arguing with the so-called progressives, and it got me all riled up. Check it: a bunch of progressive bloggers use this commercial, for profit software/hosting provider, SoapBlox. It’s crap, it got hacked, and they never kept proper backups. So they were begging for money on the front page. To fix problems with a for profit web hosting provider. Problems that any competent provider never would have had in the first place. I tried to tell them they were being scammed, that the going rate for hosting is about $5/month, not $15, for their tiny bandwidth needs. And there are plenty of free packages out there that are more secure, with more features. How do you suppose that went down? Yeah, I got torn a new one. Sometimes I’m embarrassed to identify as progressive.
I’m sorry, Seth! I hope you feel better soon!
*pours Seth some hot tea*
*hides junk letter from Progressive Insurance*
*slips Tucks Pads and butterfly bandaids into Seth’s shave kit*
You know how this crowd rallies ’round the regulars? I think that’s what you ran into there. I’ll see if I can find you there and show some support.
Sounds like the progressives are regressing.
Uh, Seth…You may want to up the dose of your antidepressants- you’re getting emotional in your whining again.
As opposed to your cold, clinical, near clockwork, whining…
Well, it does help me keep the time.
The snappy sludge doom beat is great for housework, too.
While I like Franken, I don’t think it’s fair to compare him to Rand.
(I like Rand too, but I accept it as fictional literature / philosophy from a woman who may or may not have had Syphilis eating away at her brain for a portion of her life; and who, regardless of her mental state, I disagree with, at least slightly.)
I don’t think Seth was comparing Franken with Rand so much as responding to a statement about the quality of Franken’s books by a person who obviously likes Rand enough to name himself after one of her books.
I think Minnesotans are lucky to get him. They’ll see soon.
The left currently outnumbers the right on this board. I doubt you’ll get flamed for stating what the majority of us feel. And you admit your bias, that makes you totally cool in the eyes of regulars both conservative and liberal, if I’m any judge of the regulars here.
True, but the righties are more vocal, profane, and vulgar- with apologies to Froo and Ema.
Amen.
Idiots, sure. Insulting, profane, and vulgar idiots, I don’t think so.
*points to Blago as ONE example of an insulting, profane, and vulgar idiot*
she got you there
ANd Fester, Portland Mark, Jane, etc……
STFU until you know what you’re talking about. Fester isn’t anything, and Mark and Jane haven’t yet sunk to the level of calling names or being profane. Begone from this thread until you can speak on the level of adults.
With due respect, I am vulgar, insulting, and profane… quite possibly an idiot too… I just do it to everyone in equal measure… or at least try to… fairness in all things.
But I’m still the Cretin King, dammit!
And yes, you do go for equal opportunity wiseassery.
You’re vulgar, insulting, and profane, but you’re neither right nor left, so you get left out of this particular ‘us vs. them’ discussion
Ah right… true… I loathe it all :¬)
*points to Fester as ONE example of at least insulting, profane, and vulgar, if not idiot among PKers*
To be fair froo, Fester hates everyone equally, so I’m not sure we can claim him as one of ours. In fact, last time I did I got quite pissy about the whole thing. Of course, this may have been before he discovered the joys of crotchless Lurex.
Damn, I meant HE got pissy, not me. I am, of course, never pissy.
That’s *buttered* crotchless Lurex, Miss Jane…
So sorry! How could I forget the buttering of Uncle Fester’s Lurex?! There are some sights that stay with a girl for the rest of her life. *shudders*
Creepy, ookiness at it’s FINEST there Missy Rho…
Your cruelty knows no bounds, getting me all hot
and bothered on a Sunday…!
I’m a corrupting influence… sorry.
It’s part of your charm!
No apology necessary.
Why does “buttering Uncle Fester’s Lurex” sound like adult Dr. Seuss?
I never thought about it like that before, but now
I won’t be able to *stop* thinking about it.
Thanks?
And now comes an act
of Enormous Enormance!
No former performer’s
performed this performance!
Performer and patient
must proceed with great patience!
In the buttering of Fester’s
Lurex malfeasance!
*head asplodes*
I’ve always loved this song.
“Why does “buttering Uncle Fester’s Lurex” sound like adult Dr. Seuss?”
`
Oh, no, said the Gurex,
I will not butter Uncle Fester’s Lurex.
I will not butter it with a fox
I will not butter it in my socks
I will not butter it over there
I will not butter it anywhere.
If you’ve never done these things, you should.
These things are fun, and fun is good.
In bed.
Frou – I knew my talents hadn’t gone unnoticed… but as is pointed out, I hate everyone equally…
I believe it’s become a large part of your charm. That and your fondness for boobs.
I’ve been accused of being a leftist by Right wingers, a right winger by left wingers and a heretic apostate by the Christians
As to boobs – I’m straight and I’m not dead… what’s not to love about boobies?
Boobies are just awesome. They deserve all sorts of love and affection, especially with lips, tongue, and teeth.
I haven’t seen ema in a while. When did she stop coming here?
She was on a couple of days ago, IIRC.
*sniffs* She didn’t even stay long enough for hugs. Or fudge.
“Hair Trigger” froo refreshed quickly, and tackle-hugged her
before she got away…
Ema’s still down about the drubbing her team took this year. I don’t think she’ll be back till she can find a *legitimate* reason to criticize our new crop of public servants.
Ema is not that mean spirited. She got trounced over something stupid a few weeks ago, and I dont’ blame her for hanging back.
I seem to remember her ever more hysterical commentary… and I don’t mean ‘funny’ I mean ‘high pitched and panicky’
I’m sorry to step into the middle here, but I’m
surprised a little by your tone. You may have come
across more harshly than you intended. Is that the
case?
I guess I don’t see where I was being mean; I’m relating the story as I remember it: Ema was down about the election, and upset by what she saw as Obama worship on these boards. She left, and I expect her to be back when (not if) the Obama administration does something that legitimately deserves criticism.
Can someone please explain where I was mean?
See, when you say it like that, it doesn’t come off sounding mean.
Well, k. Thanks for keeping me real.
For me, the word “legitimate,” especially with the
asterisks, implied that she didn’t have anything
legitimate to say. I’m glad it wasn’t what you
meant!
You called? Although I think anyone who manages to grab a label and cling to it is a retard
*grabs retard label and clings to it*
Watch your eyes, dear –
*sprays rhorho with Static Guard*
*watches as label falls to the floor, along with a pocket watch,
a frying pan, and three cats*
Thanks, diss!
*cough*
Oh, no! You’ve confused the Static Guard with the anti-gravity spray again!
*wafts gently towards the ceiling*
Don’t worry…I’ll be back when the heater shuts off.
Just don’t open a window, okay?
I have faith that he’ll be just as good a senator as he is a comedian.
LOL. Which should be easy. He sucked as a comedian too.
Yeah. Hur-Hur! That’s why he was a popular regular on SNL, went on to host a wildly successful radio show, went on seven USO tours and wrote five NY Times best-sellers, three of which hit #1.
but he didn’t make any really great fart jokes.
What’s the point of that then?
Wildly successful radio show ?!! WTF? “AirAmerica” was a friggin’ disaster ! He went under because no one listened to it! Propaganda anyone ?
**Third Attempt. Apologies if others ever show up.**
Fact Fail: Air America is alive and well.
Technically, Mike didn’t say the RADIO STATION went under, he said that Franken isn’t on there anymore because no one listened to him. I think. I’m trying to decipher troll-speak here, and with all the squeaking and whining it’s hard to make out actual words.
He used the past tense: ““AirAmerica” was a friggin’ disaster!”
According to Wiki:
[LINK] Full Wiki article
“Was”? You are unaware that it’s a going, and growing, concern?
From the state that brought you Governor Jesse “The Body” Ventura…
You’d think that would have been enough to teach us a lesson, wouldn’t you? Apparently not…
Bullsh1t. Epic Fail.
McCain did SNL, now SNL does the Senate. Hopefully SNL’ers are better Senators than Senators are SNL’ers
You’re setting a pretty low bar there. At least put it up on the first peg…
They’d have to did it out of the ground first
…but only if you have a younger sibling getting their hair cut after school…
*gives himself a pat on the back for his obscure Monty Python reference*
There has been one recount it was automatic do to the margin won by. Jessie was elected as what we hoped was the least of all the evils presented that year. Finally Barkley should have been elected in my point of view I went to a debate between the three. Barkley was the one who talked about the issues the most rather than his opponents. One reason Coleman is suing is because some weird things have been talked about when it comes to the recount. Such as Franken getting votes for frankenstein and other odd things. I personally would just like to have this all done and over with. If they want they can flip a coin.
“Barkley should have been elected in my point of view”
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This immediately made me picture Charles Barkley. So very wrong, and yet it feels right…
While they’re probably both crooks, as it seems the majority of politicians are nowadays, I think there is some amount of hilarity in these results! Here’s a quote from a local Twin Cities news station website article…quoting Coleman!
“Yesterday the voters spoke. We prevailed,” Coleman said at a news conference. He noted that Franken could opt to waive the recount. “It’s up to him whether such a step is worth the tax dollars it will take to conduct,” Coleman said, telling reporters he would “step back” if he were in Franken’s position trailing in the vote.”
And now that the results are “final” and he’s in Franken’s former shoes, he’s suing…Oh, politicians!
Rest of the article can be found here
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=528816&catid=2
this whole senate election fiasco almost makes me ashamed to be from Minnesota
Dear Minnesota,
Now you know how we feel.
Regards,
Florida
And we’re not bitter.
Al Franken is a fat, whiney, Liberal loser who sues and cries when he doesn’t get what he wants- which makes him a perfect Democrat.
YOU’RE A POOPHEAD!!!!1!!!
YOU’RE A PERFECT CONSERVATIVE!!!!
Please go back to Webkinz, where you rightfully belong. None of the insults you idiots used are acceptable to any extent in the post-21 (otherwise known as Adult, Mature) niche of the internet, which is the only niche that can make a valid political argument.
None of you tards know what you talking about. He’s a clown. An idiot. Unfit for office. We need smart leadership, and we get him. He really doesn’t even live in MN. I live there, and I know that a good portion of the people who “voted” for him couldn’t fill in an oval. I’m angry at how our system has failed us, and hope for change so we can get real men in the office.
You look for real men in leather shops, don’t you?
With Tom of Finland postcards as a visual reference, no doubt…
“real men”
By which you mean a knuckle dragging thug who’ll kill brown people at the drop of a hat, and doesn’t care about sick or starving kids anywhere, right?
Good Ol Liberal Tolerance again….
Loud mouthed rightist retard…
Yeah Mark, how dare you not tolerate knuckle dragging thugs. You’re nothing but a thugist. :p
Wow. Just, wow…
Al is educated, smart, and thoughtful. He is informed on the issues that plague our nation (yes, I listened to his show during his Air America days). Minnesotans don’t know it yet, but they just got the best senator they’ve had since Wellstone was assasinated. (Okay, that last part’s just a conspiracy theory)
That’s all well and good, except it is a well-known fact that Republications don’t care for smart leadership and won’t tolerate anyone with a decent education.
I second the motion to call Shinnanegans…
FRANKEN SUCKS BALLS
SO, it was YOU that Larry Craig was looking for…
So how do Franken”s hemmorrhoids taste when you’re kissing his rear end ?
(Frankens Hemmorrhoids? Sounds like a good rock band name)
Fester doesn’t swing that way, but he might be interested to hear your thoughts on receiving a reach-around while taking it from the Right. Finger-lickin’ good, I’m sure.
eww.
Don’t go all power-mad on us, froo, but that was teh Awesome!!
Didn’t someone once call you a “Uncle Tom Republican”?
I now see what they mean!
It’s people like you who make my side look bad. If you can’t present an argument without profanity and name-calling, I’m going to call you down regardless of what side you’re on.
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You are a troll. You need to come back when you know what a cite is, what a source is, and exactly what ‘Uncle Tom (whatever)’ means. Your lack of knowledge is a painful thing to behold.
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There is nothing wrong with playing nice. I suggest you find a sandbox somewhere else and try it.
That’s it- be a good little Uncle Tom and attack the conservatives for the Liberals. Now go on back to your masters- they have a treat for you!
And the derogatory stupidity starts.
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I’m attacking you because you’re stupid, not because you’re conservative.
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You, on the other hand, are a perfect example of why people won’t listen when certain conservatives speak. Hate speech is hate speech no matter who it comes from, and when you attack, spew vile and venom, and then expect NOT to be treated like the idiot that you are, then it proves that you have no clue how to interact with others.
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Make sure you get that helmet your mother gave you fitted a little better. I think it’s slipping, and we sure don’t want you to get more brain damage. What you have now will certainly assure you a seat in Congress.
*giggles and points at the convection waves of ignorance
over Beth’s fool head*
“receiving a reach-around while taking it from the Right”
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Now THERE’s a mental picture I could have done without!
Senate seat good, FIRE BAD!
Fire bad, tree pretty?
Ha, Senator Frankenstein. Totally looks like one.
*Heads directly to TotallyLooksLike*
Minnesota is a joke state poloitically. First Jesse Ventura, now Al Franken. Who’s next, Carrot Top?
Shhhh!! They’ll hear you! Don’t give them any ideas!
Now, be fair… generally all American politics is a somewhat dull joke, just with the idea that the Republicans charge you less, but somehow manage to cost you more…
Hey, the US had an actor/president, why not a senator/comedian? :/
The Comedian is a Senator!!!
The Senator is a Comedian?
Well, we’ve already had Gopher from Love Boat and Sonny Bono in Congress.
Wasn’t Clint Eastwood also the mayor of (? I think) Carmel, California?
Yes, I think you’re right.
ALL of the other captions were funnier than this one..What gives ?
Are you sure that you’re not on anti-psychotics?
Here’s an idea, stfu and deal. It’s one thing to discuss it, it’s another to just whine or rant incessantly.
People get screwed every day in this great land of ours, why should this be any different? We’re to partisan to get anything done, and we’re too partisan to properly change.
Even if one side thinks they’ve changed, it’s just more of the same for the other side.
AND we can’t come together, either. Each side wants everyone else to ‘come over to -their- side of the table’.
I’m just so sick of politics, but I’m so much sicker (sic) of the people who talk about politics.
Especially the Johnny-come-latelys who’ve only been sucked in by the recent upsurge in coverage and action. (I could be considered a Johnny-come-lately, I suppose, but by birth not by choice!)
*too
And this is a rare deviation from my: “No ranting and raving rule”… the fact that this image has 400+ comments even as it moves down the page is very beh.
But then again, I’m only adding to the problem, which is usually what happens in this country.
I’m just going to sit in a corner and practice controlling my thought crime while I chant “Two legs good, four legs bad”.
All ranters are equal but some are more equal than others…
It’s funny how they can declare anyone a winner when there are 255 more votes that have been counted than there are registered voters. Strange. They must have really got out the vote. Maybe there were some ACORNs…
Wow!! What insight you have!! You should call Minnesota immediately and report your findings!!!!!!
I already have. They are flying me up there tomorrow.
Better book a conventional airline ticket, for back-up. Those monkeys are woefully unreliable…
lmao Rho!
*hugs PM*
I believe the French word for this sort of thing – Fantasiste…
french has more words in it than just ‘we surrender’?
Woo-hoo! The old “Recount until you can ‘find’ enough ballots to win” strategy strikes again!
Hi. Franken sucks.
I love you, Pirate 77.
And to think- it all started with “Liberal Tolerance”.
Point proven.
Well, that was apropos of nothing…
And would you care to comment on Conservative family values? Or perhaps the resounding silence of dear of Junkie Bill’s oxycodone prescription collection in various names? Your poster boy would have been howling for any body’s head over that, save his own…
Want to whine about hypocrisy, try cleaning out your own side first…
Go home and stomp on some puppies , dear. You’ll feel much better.
that sort of treatment of animals I’ll leave to the Neo-Con’s kids… The Huckabee’s are the poster children for Animal abuse…
I bet that just makes you hot…
Franken beans!
Psst, he isn’t Senator yet.