Congratulations, Senator Franken

Submitted by uh_clem on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 3:38pm

The inevitable has finally come to be, nearly eight months after the election.

The 32-page unanimous decision by the state’s highest court was released after a seven-months long battle over the seat formerly held by Norm Coleman. On every ground, the judicial panel rejected Mr. Coleman’s claims of trial errors or constitutional violations, and decided that Mr. Franken’s election should be certified by the state as valid.

- http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/court-rules-franken-has-won-senate-seat/?hp

Pretty much a slam dunk, and somewhat surprisingly Coleman has conceded.

Smally fans everywhere rejoice!
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They're almost there!

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Submitted by stillnotking on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 3:39pm.

The Presidency, 60 seats in the Senate, and 256 seats in the House is almost enough to pass all the wonderful legislation the Democrats have been promising. But not quite! Please, won't you give generously?

The other day I heard that ignorance and apathy are sweeping the country. I didn't know that, but I don't really care.

They could have every seat in Congress

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Submitted by Username on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 4:53pm.

and would still sing the same tune.

What is it with Minnesota?

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Submitted by vinteuil on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 7:45pm.

First it was Jesse "The Body" Ventura. Now it's Al "even-duller-than-Bill-Maher" Franken.

Are they in some sort of bizarre competition with California to elect dimwitted semi-celebrities to major office?

Not that I'll miss the thoroughly useless Norm Coleman. Good riddance.

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

Minnesota is almost Canada.

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Submitted by tomsyl on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 3:04pm.

QED.

Politicians spend our money like a pimp with only a week to live. CJ Boxx

Hmm. Then than must make Alaska...

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Submitted by Zelig on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 3:50am.

...Canada on meth.

Me: We! -- Ali

Heh

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Submitted by Harley on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 3:47pm.

It's really more like Texas on even more meth than they're already on. With snow.

“Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion." - Umberto Eco

Crazy comment.

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Submitted by Zelig on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 10:09pm.

Al Franken highlights:
-- Harvard graduate, cum laude, while washing dishes as a work-study student
-- Harvard Fellow '03
-- 6 time best-selling author
-- USO Merit Award recipient - 10 years service.

Agree about your California comment though. Ronnie Raygun, George Murphy and Arnold S. do qualify as "dimwitted semi-celebrities" elected to office. Shame on California.

Me: We! -- Ali

I credit him for his USO service.

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Submitted by tomsyl on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 3:03pm.

Details here. The rest of it is no biggie imo. There are plenty of Harvard grads doing time in various states' grey-bar motels. I heard even George Bush went there. (Meaning the school.)

Politicians spend our money like a pimp with only a week to live. CJ Boxx

Hey, Zelig, shame on you.

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Submitted by Pranky on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 10:14pm.

gotta leave something for dumbass conservatives to knee-jerk at. And otherwise jerk to.

Congrats, Al.

Disagree, totally.

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Submitted by Zelig on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 10:22pm.

Not really. Substitute "smartass" for "dumbass" and you got something. The "jerk" reference is apt.

Me: We! -- Ali

Heh. Of course,

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Submitted by Pranky on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 10:29pm.

there's always room for those who claim that they're above it all by dismissing the whole lot!

Good times.

Keep up the purging, republicans, and hope you all implode in a white hot and unprecedented immolation!

800 Math SAT

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Submitted by callmeishmael on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 9:35pm.

is now dimwit material? Man, I'm an idiot.

Hey, I was only 30 points short...

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Submitted by vinteuil on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 6:34pm.

...of a perfect 1600 on the SAT (800 V, 770 M) - and that was way back before they dumbed it down.

And then I was only *10* points short of a perfect 2400 on the GRE. (Screwed up on the verbal, that time around. Didn't know what "stipple" meant).

But surely you'd agree that I'm a dimwit, wouldn't you? (Or, as Harley prefers to say, a "thinwit.")

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

wow, you must have an enormous cranium. nt

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Submitted by nilsey on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 10:38pm.

Member of the Forvm Five

i was thinking the same thing, and...

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Submitted by Zelig on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 6:53am.

...was thinking of Tomsyl's account of his recent, successful medical procedure. Trenpanation, when performed by a skilled medical team, is a very safe procedure and might release a significant amount of steam, which would cause the cranium to return to a somewhat, if not perfectly normal shape. Just an idea.

Me: We! -- Ali

The cranium is a solid box. Doesn't change in size after

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Submitted by mmghosh on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 11:27am.

trepanation. Unless you have a metal skull...

Have you seen this....

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Submitted by eeyn524 on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:44pm.

Do it yourself trepanation

See vint, 120 years ago, those numbers would have,

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Submitted by mmghosh on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 6:48pm.

in another country, got you the job of a senior administrator in Africa or Asia. You might have ended up as a George Orwell.

Count your blessings, man.

More likely Orwell's father, counting opium chests

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Submitted by BlaiseP on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 7:19pm.

for export to God Knoweth Where.

The sun never sets on the Brrritish Empire. Cue the Elgar march.

Whatever you are, you ain't no thinwit.

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Submitted by BlaiseP on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 6:38pm.

Just saying. You're far too insightful to ever be judged as such.

no one is duller than bill maher - nt

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Submitted by nilsey on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 8:06pm.

Member of the Forvm Five

Maher used to be pretty funny

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Submitted by stillnotking on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 12:05am.

And his show wasn't bad when it was on Comedy Central. I think getting canned over a 9/11 remark made him start taking himself too seriously.

The other day I heard that ignorance and apathy are sweeping the country. I didn't know that, but I don't really care.

He Started Going Downhill Before That

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Submitted by M Scott Eiland on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 12:46am.

Waxing poetic about how it was a great privilege for Monica Lewinsky to service Bubba wasn't exactly brilliant comedy--and it was just another thing that liberal feminists politely ignored while playing defense in 1998.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.--from Ulysses, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

This must be one of those thought exercises.

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Submitted by Zelig on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 10:25am.

It's like Larry Craig is opining on the Lewinsky affair while channeling Ursula Le Guin.

Bravo, sir.

Me: We! -- Ali

No. . .

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Submitted by M Scott Eiland on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 4:35pm.

. . .it's an accurate reflection of what Maher said, and of the "enlightened" feminist crowd deciding that they didn't want to react to it. Except for the ones that were actually going so far as to say that they thought Ol' Bubba *did* deserve BJs for his noble efforts in defending abortion rights. Gotta love that nuance.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.--from Ulysses, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Dennis Miller.

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Submitted by Zelig on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 9:20pm.

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Me: We! -- Ali

the competition...

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Submitted by vinteuil on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 9:58pm.

...is stiff.

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.

Dead heat.

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Submitted by Zelig on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 10:11pm.

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Me: We! -- Ali

I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it,

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Submitted by Jordan on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 4:15pm.

the Republicans have done enough damage for twenty years or so.

Thank you! Vote Republican!

Mission Accomplished

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Submitted by Zelig on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 3:52pm.

Me: We! -- Ali

Perfect! that one picture says it all about the guy, why he was

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Submitted by tomsyl on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 2:57pm.

voted in, and what can be expected from him now. Frnken's humor was always of the hamfisted, idiot-imitating-a-dolt variety, so why would anyone expect anything more now that he's an insider?

Everyone gets the government they deserve. I just made that up right now, btw.

Politicians spend our money like a pimp with only a week to live. CJ Boxx

I chose the one picture in the gallery...

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Submitted by Zelig on Wed, 07/01/2009 - 11:57pm.

...that I thought would cause humor-impaired right-wingers such as yourself to experience minor photopsia and thus see stars. Parody can be deep and cutting, when practiced by an expert.

I believe you are unaware of the work Franken put into his campaign, that he is now amongst a small handful of people who have an actual grasp of the economy of his home state of MN, and that he will put some real time and effort into serving his state. What I believe you are actually expressing is a deep fear that Franken's "Wellstone-style politics", left-populist in breed, will become successful and will grow. http://www.wellstone.org/

Me: We! -- Ali

Hope so.

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Submitted by nyoos junkey on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 3:06am.

I just spent a while working in MN. People there are just so nice! It was a real pleasure.