Lizard People Could Be Decisive in Minnesota
The great Senate race recount of 2008 continues apace in Minnesota, with former funny guy Al Franken, the Democrat, enjoying a net gain of 46 votes over former furniture vendor Norm Coleman, the Republican, not counting ballot challenges. That leaves Coleman's advantage over Franken at about 200 votes, out of 2.9 million cast, but those numbers don't mean as much as anyone might like. That's because both Coleman and Franken have challenged more than 1,500 votes, which must be adjudicated by the state canvassing board next month.
Math wiz Nate Silver, over at fivethirtyeight.com, uses his modeling magic and predicts that things are going well for Franken. "The various versions of the model project a Franken win by between 48 and 136 votes once all ballots are re-counted and all challenges are resolved," he writes. But Democrats can't celebrate yet, because the margin of error of Silver's analysis is plus or minus "at least" 200 votes.
Which means we all still have time to sit back, relax and wonder just what the "Lizard People" voter in Minnesota was thinking. This fine citizen both filled in the bubble for Al Franken and wrote in a vote for "Lizard People." The county auditor/treasurer has ruled that this is an invalid overvote. Franken's representatives have challenged that decision. I am looking forward to the press conference when Franken admits that he is in fact one of the "Lizard People," which might help his case before the canvassing board. To see pictures of some of the challenged ballots, including "Lizard People," click here.
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MS:
Looks like you could use a return of "Preview" too. That would be "furniture," not "furinture" in your third link.
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Maybe we'll get Preview – and, in fact, a wholesale restoration of a decent format – for Swampland Christmas. -
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thanks. fixed. i blame being on vacation. am out on the west coast and it is just now getting light.
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I get it. This is one of those "Scherer as Seinfeld" posts. It's supposed to be funny, because it's a post about nothing.
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Hmmm.
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Is this snark?
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I can't be the only Phish fan reading this and getting a good laugh out of the story can I?
back story for the uninitiated, http://steampoweredopinions.blogspot.com/2008/11/they-were-race-of-people-practically.html
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Note to self: NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, ever p!ss off Casey Morris. she is so...surgical.
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MS -- I don't think this is a time zone issue (but nice try). Since you are on vacation, please vacate. Enjoy the time away. Practice some self reflection and enjoy time with your family. We'll be here when you return. -
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KT here--
Andy--NO!!! I'm the only one here.
Thank you, MS, and I thought the post was postively brilliant. Keep them coming...
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Oh this is brillant. What does snark look like?
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KT,
How come I can only post in MS threads? I tried to post in yours and the post just disappears into the internet tubes. WTF?
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Anyway there is a hopeful rumor going around that Ann Coulter's jaw has been wired shut. Woohoo!!!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/ann-coulters-jaw-wired-sh_n_146248.html -
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KT here--
I have no idea, Gunny. I'll check the moderation filter.
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KT here--
Gunny: Nope, you weren't in there. Just piratewoman, who I assume got caught for using "poop." I liberated her.
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At least he didn't vote for the crab people.
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Everyone should click the bottom link and play along judging the challenged ballots. It very educational and reassuring insofar as most people have very sensible reactions to ambiguous inputs.
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KT,
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I know I'm not going into moderation. The post disappears completely for no reason after I hit submit comment. So far only happening with the threads you start. I'm going to try and post in Joe's to see if it happens there too. -
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I can't post any other thread today, but this one. Weird.
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Apparently this country has not suffered enough.
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TPM reports that Sarah Palin is going back on the trail on behalf of GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who is in a runoff election against Democrat Jim Martin:Palin will be holding four rallies across the state, in a race that will make the difference in the Dems' efforts to get 60 seats this year, along with the Minnesota recount. This runoff election is all about jazzing up the base -- and whatever her faults, few if any Republicans did as good a job of that this year as Palin.
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KT here--
Gunny: I thought you were ignoring me....
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Two interesting pieces of info from this morning:
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1) Mike Murphy is apparently on a slow boat to China. Has he quit Time?
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2) Ann Coulter broke her jaw. Who knew servicing all those neo-cons would be so tough? She had to wire it shut. (from Page Six)
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Hey, enjoy the vacation, MS. The MN public radio link is pretty neat.
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Never KT, but this weird posting thing seems to only happen to be here at work. Never at home. It's also hit or miss because I can post in a thread early and not be able to post again later.
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Hmm... like Judas Priest, I seem to have confused "thing" and "think."
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You mean that Georgia hasn't suffered enough. [Gives long-suffering sigh.] And I thought that after November 4th, it was all over for us, but apparently God hates us or something. They're blanketing the airwaves with horrible, horrible ads (The LIES! The LIES! THEY BUUURRRRNNNN!) implying not-so-subtly that, for instance, Jim Martin wants dealers to be able to sell drugs near schools, and Saxby Chambliss doesn't know what a recession (they have footage of Saxby saying that he doesn't know what a recession is, or something like that- it's a "fundamentals of the economy" sort of thing). Would anyone like to take two Senate candidates, gently used? We'd be happy to give 'em to you.
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If a lifelong heterosexual all of the sudden became totally gay for Nate Silver, could he still maintain his regular life? No reason.
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