Lizard People Could Be Decisive in Minnesota

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.

thanks. fixed. i blame being on vacation. am out on the west coast and it is just now getting light.

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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It’s gonna needs some work, Mikey.

Is this snark?

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

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamehendge

KT here–

Andy–NO!!! I’m the only one here.

Thank you, MS, and I thought the post was postively brilliant. Keep them coming…

Oh this is brillant. What does snark look like?

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?

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

KT here–

I have no idea, Gunny. I’ll check the moderation filter.

KT here–

Gunny: Nope, you weren’t in there. Just piratewoman, who I assume got caught for using “poop.” I liberated her.

At least he didn’t vote for the crab people.

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.

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.

I can’t post any other thread today, but this one. Weird.

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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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/palin-going-back-on-trail_n_146305.html

KT here–

Gunny: I thought you were ignoring me….

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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Happy holidays, people.

Hey, enjoy the vacation, MS. The MN public radio link is pretty neat.
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O/T: Does anyone else thing that Ana Marie Cox looks like Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine?

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.

Hmm… like Judas Priest, I seem to have confused “thing” and “think.”

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.

If a lifelong heterosexual all of the sudden became totally gay for Nate Silver, could he still maintain his regular life? No reason.

Elvis:

Only before Cox got her “nouveau pixie” cut, hula hoop earrings and and a big-ass bottle of Visine.

gysgt
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Does it happen when you are posting links? Thats what usually gets me

I thought Lizard People was funny. (But I think lizards are pretty funny.)
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Another day, another $800 bailout.
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Anybody else watching Bush give his address to the armed forces and how the soldiers behind him look ooh soo bored?

SG,
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When I first posted in KT’s thread I included a link. Maybe that is what got me. I didn’t do it with Michael’s until after the first post.

Anybody else see a problem with this??
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http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Afghanistan_demands_timeline_for_en_11252008.html

gunny, you can always post in my thread.

sg, Karzai has to pretend he’s a real president every now and then.

yogi
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I agree and he should really or it will continue to invalidate his presidency as just a stooge for the U.S. and thus the regular Afghanis will never truly back our mission there. But this demand stands to phuck everything up at a time when we are about to have a leader in office who can actually help the people of Afghanistan in a meaningful way with rebuilding their infrastructure and also taking the fight to the Taliban and al Queda. He needs to keep pushing for an end to the air raids that are killing innocents but trying to demand a time table just doesn’t seem productive to me

I should add that part of my problem with it is I can hear Republicans saying stuff like “See See, first we get a timetable with Iraq and now Afghanistan wants one. Whatcha gonna do now Mr smarty pants Obama?” And I just really don’t want to have to hear all that. And yes its sad that I can think like Rush Limbaugh on occasion

sgw-
You mean “react”, not “think”.

It very educational and reassuring insofar as most people have very sensible reactions to ambiguous inputs.
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I saw the MNPR thing a few days ago, via Washington Monthly, I think. What struck me was there were no close calls, in my opinion. What the voter intended to do was clear, except for the lizard people ballot. But that’s not hard to count either.
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Even the person who circled one of the black boxes to the left which are probably there as benchmarks for the scanner was clear.
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One of the things that struck me when I voted was how many people didn’t know how the machine worked. In my precinct, we still have the big machine with the little levers you flip to cast your vote and the big lever you pull to register your vote. At least a third of the people in line didn’t know how it worked.

The person who filled in Lizard People clearly didn’t actually vote for Lizard People for Senate, since the voter only filled in one oval – for Al Franken. OTOH, that person did vote for Lizard People for the preceding race, by blackening the oval, so the voter did understand how to indicate a preference. Perhaps he or she considered Lizard People for Senate before rejecting that option.

There’s another ballot with the same issue, where a voter filled in the oval for Coleman while writing in (but not selecting) Bachman. That vote should count for Coleman, so these 2 are a wash.

jayackroyd,
When I lived in NY I always voted with those machines with the switches and levers, too. I much prefer them to optical scanners.

For a number of years we’ve been voting with touch machines. I wish we would go back to those old switch and lever machines because they have a paper trail and the new ones don’t. There is no way to do a recount now.