All I did is follow TheMercenary's lead. And I have no problem with doing it and doing it again. I responded after watching personal attacks on other posters AND Brianna complaining about TheMercenary using the word 'constant'. Where is you scolding of TheMercenary? You too remain silent - only scold the symptom? UT, you stay silent about the problem and the symptoms start again. That would be unavoidable because it would be necessary. I crossed no line that the problem had not already crossed and did so "constant". Did I finally get your attention? Will you finally address the problem? Address the problem and symptoms go away.

Thomas, don't take me for a fool. I know what you did. You know what you did. Everybody in the god damn forum knows what you did. To sit there and defend it is weak, weak cheese, and insulting to everybody involved.

You are now calling me a liar. Shame on you for calling me a liar AND for still ignoring the problem - TheMercenary. I told you my intent (which is exactly same when the same problem existed previously). If you have a problem with that, then you are letting your anger (which I intentionally provoked to get you off your ass) make decisions for you. I intentionally posted (in part) to anger you so that you would address the problem. Instead of responding logically, you attacked the victim? That pretty low.

Get your attetion? Good. Here is what you are calling a lie. You are scolding the symptoms and condoning the problem with your silence. Show me the lie in that? Instead, I am encouraging you to stop letting TheMercenary make you into a fool. What I did was necessary - as it was necessary when I did the same thing previously. What I posted was only equivalent to what TheMercenary has been posting now for months. I have no reason to apologize for addressing the increasingly unfavorable Cellar tone. And you have no logical reason to attack the symptoms while encouraging the problem. I finally got your attention. Now solve that problem.

April had problems posting while moving from CA to AZ to CA to Hong Kong, but that was not our doing. Neither were banned.

You forgot the LOL smilie, because you can't be serious. If didn't stay silent, half your rants would be deleted. You've insulted everyone that has had the unmitigated gall to question your opinions, since I've been on this board. Your evading questions, and introducing oh-look-a-birdie tangents, is a staple around here. That makes your present attempt for the moral highground the source of great amusement for the rest of us.
Guess what? I do see through what is posted, and so does everyone else, but we tolerate you anyway. If we were to censor this board to maintain the tone you set, the Cellar would be the joke of the internet.
Does laughing count? Wrong, and you've been warned that is unacceptable. Right, it's all my fault, as are diseases, pestilence, wars and MBAs.
Oh you had a choice, many of them, but if you feel you don't, I can give you some very specific choices I doubt would make you happy. Genuflect when you say that, pardner. Well, isn't that special.

I've already spelled out clearly where I draw the line. I will continue to maintain that position until I'm instructed to do otherwise.
By whom? It sure ain't you.

Tw, not only is your intellect impoverished, you are a crybaby as well. You've tried the same with me, to no result exept an additional burden of general contempt. Now in trying it with TheMercenary, you go from the contemptible to the beneath ridiculous, all because you handle emotion like a toddler.

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So. Whatever happened with the Al Franken deal?

My scroll finger hurts.

[ctrl+end] and conversely [ctrl+home]

Coleman is gonna make the trial last as l o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o ng as he can, to keep Franken out of the senate as long as possible. He's calling for a post-recount court review of all 11000 absentee ballots that were rejected in the first round.

It's almost like a... a superior court of some kind should step in and tell them to stop counting.

Hold a special election, but get them both to sign off on accepting the results beforehand. There is no way it could possibly be that close again. Its gotta be cheaper than all this crap.

The race is well within the margin for error, so I'd say special election or coin toss.

I saw what you did there, UT.

Ooooh coin toss..I like that its much cheaper and faster.

Then again maybe they could play h-o-r-s-e or p-i-g, ya know a little one on one for it.

Coin toss, I am good for that.

Just allow the lizard people to take over.

They might be a better choice. Wait, they already dominate Congress. :D

psst.......they dominate EVERYTHING!!!!

:tinfoil: :tinfoil: :tinfoil:

I'm afraid this isn't even close to being over....

Coleman to argue Franken won by bogus recount

I think they should have a duel. And make sure Franken's gun has no bullets.

ohhhhh thats even better than the coin toss! How bout a cage match like Ultimate fighter - They could put it on Pay-per-view and pay off their campaign debt...or a little of it anyway.

Heh...

Heh heh...

yeh ok. :eyebrow:

Well there you have it.

http://www.startribune.com/politics/...DiaMDCinchO7DU

That's fair. The judges can always review the evidence and ignore it if it's not relevant. It's reasonable to have the evidence available for their review.

I don't think thats enough to change the outcome in an election this close. It is interesting though.

I like the idea that they used a three judge panel. It minimizes the possibility that anyone is going to come back and say it was a partisan decision.

Maybe, are the judges appointed or elected?

Good question. I have no idea.

And there you have more:

If it turns out that all of the ballots were incorrectly rejected, Coleman would have to beat Franken by almost 5% in them. If 3000 were incorrectly rejected, that number goes over 7%. If it is 1000 - still very high - Coleman would have to get more than 22% more of them than Franken. And, just to go to the other extereme, if it were 227, Coleman would have to get them all. (Math from here. YMMV on Kos, but math is math.)

It's just a tactic to keep the Senate Democrats as far below 60 as possible as long as possible.

I still think it's beyond belief that half the Minnesota electorate could want the likes of Al Franken for a Senator. Freakish. Even more freakish if Al continues to act like Al in office. It would be a pleasant -- and a complete -- surprise to discover a statesman there, but I'm not holding my breath.

Probably says more about his opponent.

Sure does...Coleman had the dubious distinction of losing to Jesse Ventura for governor.

He was fortunate his opponent (Paul Wellstone) when he ran for Senate in 02 died in plane crash the week before the election.

Coleman is an intellectual lightweight...Franken certainly cant be any worse.

I dont expect Franken to be doing Mick Jagger impersonations on the floor of the Senate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_mwsDFm7bQ

His opponent's most distinguishing characteristic is he's a Republican...

... not completely scandal free, it seems. Money for Norm, or was it Norm's wife?

:mad2:

Coleman is calling in the God card:
But he still needs your contributions!

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/frankenbabynaked.jpg

i should have a funny politically relevant caption for this but i don't

How about:
Minnesota, Welcome your next senator! ROAR goes the crowd!

Hey, Jesse Ventura pulled off being governor, why not Al Franken as a senator?

Is that picture even real?

What the Senate needs is good porn star:

Daft Stormy for Senate

"Politics can't be any dirtier of a job than the one I am already in." - Stormy Daniels.

from saturday night live most likely but i am not positive.

It's the past.

Far be it for me to make fun of someone for having long hair, but...

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...rm-coleman.jpg

Gorgeous!

I don't have time to read 12 pages of posts - Did Franken win or what?

Yes, but it's not official until the lawsuit is over.

Not yet.

Thankee.

Dapper.

Last I read, the courts authorized a review of another 4000+ votes.

A review of absentee ballots that have already been rejected twice.

And, as I mentioned above, even if a significant number of those rejections are overturned, Coleman would have to win them by a significant margin. For the required margin to be less than 10%, well over 1000 ballots would have to be found to have twice been incorrectly rejected.

Again, that is not that Coleman would win if he gets a full quarter of his requested ballots counted. That's how many he needs counted if he wants to be able to win with less than a double digit advantage over Franken - something that this election does not seem to give much hope for.

Nobody will ever believe or trust the winner, and I think we all agree that's what's important.

Look at Jesse Ventura's early career for why he really pulled it off; being a SEAL tends to get you pretty solidly grounded. Al's got nothing of the kind in his resumé. Too, I think being a former SEAL is also why Jesse Ventura was a one-term Governor. He did not morph into a slickster of a politician, and I bet he didn't acquire much of a taste for it.

I was banned?

Huh? What?

No, someone accidentally mentioned her name way earlier in the thread in a list of other people who were banned--OC herself was never banned, she just disappeared for awhile.

Oh, that s right tw was citing OC as an example - thanks.