Happy Thanksgiving!

Back at Ya ! :)

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Top o' the world ma!!

UPDATE: rar!

and your family

I just heard him on Keith. Bad news but he thought so too....what gives?

Today's attacks in Mumbai which have claimed many innocent victims remind us, yet again, of the threat we face from violent extremists"

http://news.aol.com/article/78-die-in-mumbai-shootings-reports-say/26136...

This was staged by our government. I'd bet my life on it.

May your day be filled with happy family and friends.

Thanks to all of you for helping make this blog interesting and fun.

for a healthy daughter and family. I'm also grateful for all of my friends in real life and everywhere on the net.

I don't get to see my fam until Xmas, though...boo!

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

:)

welcome back!

Why do you you think that? India has had issues with terrorism for a long time. I don't see how it's in the best interest of the Shadow Government to encourage nuclear war between India and Pakistan.?
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Who's Froggy ?

Thanks.. :)

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with really good Napoleon brandy?

ol majority report blogger.

(oh yum!)

"22 lb turkey and I just got it in the brine. It’s totally worth it though, it really keeps those juices in there. I’m stuffing it with oranges and red onion. Not too much else it’ll take forever to cook. I’m also making:
red and sweet potato swirl
heirloom tomato salad and kalamata dressing salad
home made rosemary rolls
black bean soup(with locally grown Arizona native Tepary beans)
cranberry sauce(of course)
wilted spinach with nutmeg butter
apple pie
pumpkin pie."

excellent vegetarian recipes!

http://www.simple-vegetarian-recipes.com/index.html

I thought I might have seen that Nic before,someplace..
Back in my lurking days..

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can I get you to check your mail please.

right now!

Were you going to email me about Fri. ? :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

yesterday or day before.

I sent again.

...when I was 8.

Obviously you're just not paying attention.
First this morning with the FBI reporting that terrorism is expected against NY subways.
Then this India bruhaha with a small band of thugs aiming at Americans and Britons.
Then a British diplomat making a comment about how we need to be wary of increased terrorist element.
Exactly where did you get India going to war with Pakistan? As if this had anything to do with Indian government...or Pakistani, for that matter.

[ anyone want an eggnog
new
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Thu, 11/27/2008 - 12:58am.

with really good Napoleon brandy? ] or Cognac YUMMMMMMMM

<<<<<< MERRIE TIME OF GIVING THANKS BlOG & ALL >>>>>>

Armour & Company would like to teach you how to cook a turkey, circa 1951.

There's the modern "quick-frozen table-dressed turkey," as well as the new breed, "specially developed by the United States Department of Agriculture Experiment Station at Beltsville, MD."

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dam! we should just arange a hard drive clone of my MRR stuff.

where the hells PeteMoon when we need him?

Sheesh.

I got this email but,not the first one..

Good idea..I'll try to come up with somthing.. :)

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Well, I guess I'm just not connecting all the dots.

They haven't pulled out the 'ol terror threat in a while, eh? I did think it an odd coincidence that the situation in India happened the same day. Hadn't heard about the British diplomat.

What I was trying to say is that if this ends up being the work of a Pakistani-funded jihadi group there might very well be nuclear war between the countries. They don't have much love for each other.
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CSpan now owned by Fox?
new
Submitted by nora on Thu, 11/27/2008 - 2:06am.
Sheesh.
*******
No wonder why it's turned into Remedial Watching for

The Goober Fascists !

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Andy Warhol... I think he accomplished that..

http://warholfoundation.org/

.

as far as I know. Did that change?

so my source was WRONG. Sorry.

Time for me to go to sleep. Maybe some shreds of discernment will return by daybreak.

Happy Thanksgiving for those who are into the day of thanks! G'nite.

:)

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think i found Rockie a new home,

making apple pies tomorrow,

love you all!

Road Trip !

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u still here, man?

those er sum goddamned good lookin' turkeys up there,

I thought that was pretty funny.

When she said the part about them being developed in the "Department of Agriculture Experiment Station" I nearly fell out of my chair laughing...

Forgot to credit that, I found it on Archive.org
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大！大！運動会のやり過ぎで片付けをするほど大はしゃぎ！とうと う、里ママに叱られました。「座って反省して...

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

{still to this day I remember the horrid treatment because I NEVER DRANK THE P.E. Obama "Kool-Aid}save for some here. Oh, I was even BANNED from a Blog because of my difference of opinion. Whatever. Eye-Roll.

I wanted to see if ANYONE would get what I was saying and only a few did, here. Then even a few of the few confirmed WD {not WarDog} was not " how do you say?" a repug or however, said.

HILL GOT BASICALLY 1/2 of the vote - DEAL WITH IT - ... AND I KNOW MANY YOUNG PEOPLE THAT VOTED HILL...FACT AAR & NOVA M was IMMEDIATELY DECIDNG/FORCING Obama... and FOR THE ENVIRONMENT I WORRY ABOUT HIS ACTIONS... ...

Does one see how the RETHUGS ARE ALREADY ON THE ATTACH ... but I am watching how P.E.Obama handles things now, for I am VERY IMPRESSED how he has started PLANS and elected very KEY individuals -- AND ALREADY HAS HAD SEVERAL NEWS CONFERENCES.

By his ACTIONS he is saying, "The World Is Watching You bush" ...

He and Biden are for more HUMAN Issues than for Animals {but he did say .
COAL & NATURAL GAS & NUCLEAR POWER ads are appearing, as soon as Obama was elected.

BUT I Do Believe,

"IF THE PEOPLE LEAD, THE LEADERS WILL FOLLOW"

;)

bibi, why on earth does that chubby Japanese kitty have so many views on youtube?! I mean, besides being adorable?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB6p_6X1_tQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV8fJlV_exI
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From CNN White House Producer Jamie Crawford

WHITE HOUSE (CNN) - Whoops! A picture of a Christmas tree is not the first thing you would expect to see on an invitation to an event celebrating Hanukkah, but that is exactly what recipients of invitations to this year's White House Hanukkah reception initially got in the mail.

The invitation sent to American Jewish leaders on behalf of the President and First Lady, requesting "the pleasure of your company at a Hanukkah reception," bore an image of a Clydesdale horse-drawn cart, carrying the White House Christmas tree, with a Christmas wreath-adorned White House in the background.

Con't-Oops,Again !

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http://gnn.tv/headlines/18897/Protesters_surround_Thailand_s_parliament

Bangkok airport closed as protests turn violent

rate your own

http://www.cognitionandculture.net/

Cognition and Culture is a fantastic new group blog by a distinguished group of writers who include some of the leading figures in neuroscience, psychology and anthropology.

It's from the International Cognition and Culture Institute and contains articles on everything from whether 'cold' and 'warm' are universal metaphors for relationships to the unexpected impact of pop-cognitive science on British schoolgirls (isn't that just a Carry On film waiting to happen?).

There's also plenty of great neuroscience coverage and it's updated regularly. Good stuff.

'Hostages freed' at Mumbai hotel
A number of hostages have been freed from one of Mumbai's top hotels - one of several sites in the city targeted by armed men - eyewitnesses said.

But the situation at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel remains confused, with explosions and gunfire heard coming from inside the hotel.

Police chief AN Roy says gunmen are still believed to be holding hostages at the Oberoi Trident hotel.

The series of attacks began late Wednesday and have killed 101 people.

Some 287 people were injured after the attackers, using grenades and automatic weapons, targeted at least seven sites in the main tourist and business district.

Around 40 people were believed to be held hostage at the two hotels, and hundreds trapped in their rooms, as troops began surrounding the buildings soon after they were taken over by the armed men.

Ambulances arrive

Maharashtra state police chief AN Roy told local television that the siege at the Taj Mahal - one of Mumbai's most recognisable hotels - had ended.

"People who were held up there, they have all been rescued. But there are guests in the rooms, we don't know how many."

Witnesses said civilians could be seen running from the hotel, some with suitcases. Ambulances were also reported to be arriving.

But the BBC's Mark Dummett, outside the Taj Mahal, says the situation has since become very confused, with the sounds of explosions and gunfire being heard from within the hotel, suggesting the siege is not yet over.

Earlier in the day, Indian commandos had been seen entering the hotels but there was little detail on the operation.

Mr Roy said some people were still apparently being held hostage at the Oberoi. "That is why the operation is being conducted more sensitively to ensure there are no casualties of innocent people," he said.

Meanwhile, explosions have been heard outside a Jewish centre in the city, where an Israeli rabbi is believed to be one of a number of hostages being held there.

Troops have surrounded the offices of the group Chabad Lubavitch, which were stormed by gunmen overnight.

The city's main commuter train station, a hospital, and a restaurant popular with tourists were also among at least seven locations caught up in the violence on Wednesday.

Police say 14 police officers, 81 Indian nationals and six foreigners have been killed. A Japanese businessman and an Italian national were confirmed to be among the dead.

Four suspected terrorists have also been killed and nine arrested, they add.

Eyewitness reports from the hotels suggested the attackers were singling out British and American passport holders.

If the reports are true, our security correspondent Frank Gardner says it implies an Islamist motive - attacks inspired or co-ordinated by al-Qaeda.

A claim of responsibility has been made by a previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen. Our correspondent says it could be a hoax or assumed name for another group.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7751707.stm

At Least 1 Dead in Explosion at U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan

Afghan police say a suicide car bomb has exploded about 200
yards outside the main entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul
in an attack against an American convoy. At least one person
is dead and six are wounded.

Read More:
http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na

Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2008-11-27 03:51. Criminal Prosecution

Statement from the Steering Committee for the Prosecution for War Crimes of President Bush and His Subordinates

Never before has a president pardoned himself or his subordinates for crimes he authorized. The closest thing to this in U.S. history thus far has been Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence. Bush is widely expected to follow that commutation with a pardon. Not only did Libby work for the White House, but he was convicted of obstruction of justice in an investigation that was headed to the president. Evidence introduced in the trial, including a hand-written note by the vice president, implicated Bush, and former press secretary Scott McClellan has since testified that Bush authorized the exposure of an undercover agent, that being the crime that was under investigation.

There are widespread concerns that Bush might pardon other subordinates for various other crimes that he authorized, potentially including torture, warrantless spying, a variety of war crimes, taking the nation to war on fraudulent evidence, and the abuses of the politicized Justice Department. Voices in the media advising Bush to issue such pardons include: Stuart Taylor Jr. (Newsweek 7/12/08) and Alan Dershowitz (Wall St Journal 9/12/08), while many additional voices have urged Obama to commit to not prosecuting.

The idea that the pardon power constitutionally includes such pardons ignores a thousand year tradition in which no man can sit in judgment of himself, and the fact that James Madison and George Mason argued that the reason we needed the impeachment power was that a president might some day try to pardon someone for a crime that he himself was involved in. The problem is not preemptive pardons of people not yet tried and convicted. The problem is not blanket pardons of unnamed masses of people. Both of those types of pardons have been issued in the past and have their appropriate place. The problem is the complete elimination of any semblance of the rule of law if Bush pardons his subordinates for crimes he instructed or authorized them to commit.

If Bush attempts this, here are possible responses:

Con't

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heck yeah i'm thankful:

- that i don't have to cook
- that i don't have to travel, nor drive very far today
- that my ancestors didn't have anything to do with the indians and turkeys slaughtering and all that

yeah yeah i know the romans committed even worse back in the day (or even nowadays for that matter)... but let's not think about ugliness today

i am going to friends' house today and I will bring...
a salad, apologies if this offends the excellend gourmet chefs on this blog, but truly thankful that someone else will do the turkey instead of me this year

so, no family whatsoever, but many friends, and i am not complaining

will spend the day organizing and archiving all the photos and videos on my computer. It's getting out of control, can never find anything when i'm looking for it, so it's time to do it, might even find that photo of mire in 1979 i have been wanting to post since i saw fishgrease's

have a good one, guys!

The Breakdown :

Con't

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Happy Thankgiving to you & your family..

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

my family not with me, but they're all doing well and i'll see them soon, so i am thankful

It was the day I graduated from high school.

Hubahuba.. ;)

Sorry,couldn't resist..

What HS did you graduate from ?

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

I've already had to make 1 emergency trip to the store and I've started a list for the next emergency trip.

So much for planning this out.

La Canada High School near Pasadena

mhappenow.

Here is one of me...

in a hazing stunt gone bad after I fell into a toxic stew of crap.

You don't have a big nose ! :)

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

The truth is, I was thrown in. I didn't "fall".

hubba hubba

too mhappneow. Some smells never really go away.

That first tar bowel movement after my daughter was born... That's another one.

I think all of us are young and easy on the eyes at least at some point in our lives mhappenow, but thank you.

I love fresh baked corn bread. I always make my own for the stuffing.... which is my new current "project".

last night and Steve is making a special spicy green bean recipe. My mom bought Rachel the brussel sprouts (with turkey bacon). Just us...

I have a beautiful very sexy pic of steve with his son when he was a little guy. His hair is very long and curly with lots on top too. I don't have a scanner so I cannot post it.

Thes is the year JFK was assasinated. The photo was taken at work. I worked for DeSoto Chemicals which was a subsidiary of Sears. They made the paints and the finishes for the appliances. I was 19.

I wonder why I'm the only one here that got thrown into the barrel of crap.

beautiful thanks for adding to our little scrapbook!

I'm tired from cooking all day yesterday. Glad I don't have to do it today!

Even with the crap, you look pretty good!

Hi Toni,
How's tricks?

must be the grainy film because you could have smelled me a block away on that day. That picture is AFTER I had hosed myself off in the yard.

Good to see you on the blog again!

Happy Thanksgiving!

while i was busy working like mad digging through my old photos you guys went to town with the idea! wow, what a bunch of good looking people

mine's coming up

should we have a beauty contest? Nawh

funny fernando, still not bad, crap and all

michelle beauty queen (before menopause and before nose grew :)))))) it must have been all those pinocchio ways, mhappe

and toni, the princess of the mediterranean, wow

will copy and paste and set them all side by side

then we'll send them to sam

The poop on Fernando...

It's been a lot of work, but at least we have a chance now eh?
I've got tendenitis in my heel bones now (didn't know this was possible) hopefuly it will be worth the effort, if not, we'll be back.
That whole democracy thing...It's not easy eh?

As you can see, I look more Italian than Greek.

When I was in Italy, everyone would speak Italian to me. They had no clue I was from the US. I guess I had that European look because everywhere I went in Europe, they could spot an American. It was the same in Spain, but in Greece, they thought I was Italian.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and your cute little Olivia!

Only my problem is my knees.

The last 54 days of the Bush Dynasty will be difficult, but looking forward to better days!

ayatollah revolution in iran, saddam hussein came to power in iraq, terrorism in italy, a year earlier the italian prime minister was assassinated by the red brigades, some believe it was engineered by the CIA because Aldo Moro was about to form a center-left coalition cabinet with the communist party

But Mire was oblivious to politics and history, young, had a 2 year old beautiful daughter, was still married to a very blond, very white, very good, american musician, and vacationing in Mexico

Buenos Dias!

Feliz dia del Pabo!

happy thanksgiving to you and your family

intense and sultry!!

Robert Scheer, Creators Syndicate

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Maybe Ralph Nader was right in predicting that the same Wall Street hustlers would have a lock on our government no matter which major party won the election. I hate to admit it, since it wasn't that long ago that I heatedly challenged Nader in a debate on this very point.

But how else is one to respond to Barack Obama's picking the very folks who helped get us into this financial mess to now lead us out of it?
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/scheer/

I bake my turkey in 3/4 of a bottle of champagne and a cup of apple cider. So I've got a few mimosas to "put down" if anyone wants one. They are fantastic!

how are you doing bud?

Looks like mire broke into the mimosas too! Yeay.

I love how time is just frozen like that...beautiful pictures.. you guys rule - What a treat.. :)

and your families and friends

lol michele, when i came to the us i used to have people stop and stare in the street, in elevators, everywhere, occasionally approached and asked "excuse me, are you joan baez?" I had to laugh, i had no clue what they were talking about, until i saw joan baez's pictures

funny thing is i still do look like her, my hair is short now (though not as white as hers)

and toni, that was my hippy phase too, in that picture

that turkey not feeling any pain, that's for sure

it seems a little excessive though, bet it's gonna be good, too bad it can't be posted on the blog, ok i'll take that mimosa, thanks!

In his last Thanksgiving address in the White House, President Bush said Thursday that he will miss being the leader of the U.S. armed forces.
“Lately, I have been asked what I will miss about the presidency. And my answer is that I will miss being the Commander-in-Chief of these brave warriors.”
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/bush-i-will-miss-being-commander-in-...

or maybe a case of knowing where the bodies are buried, since they are the ones that put them there

just a thought

now they can go and unbury them, as obama instructs them to go undo what they'd done

Hey, I was 12!

...not much has changed ;)

I am watching Mrs. Doubtfire for about the 300th time. Just love that movie.

;> have a mimosa and chill down! thanks for the picture, my what a baby

When I saw your photo, I immediately thought to myself, she looks familiar. When mhappenow said Joan Baez, I said to myself, Thats it!

That photo with my nephew? He's the nephew that is having Thanksgiving Dinner today.

Here's a young husbot

my mother had one made in the same way with a different pattern...cute style :)

"my nephew" I pictured this little kid, like maybe 10 or 12 at most, so sweet of toni to cook pastitzio for this little kid :)

all his pics look like that.... all "skippy" ;)

Except this one of him from the 70's where he is 17 with big curly hair...looks like a typical LA stoner from the 70's in that one...it's not scanned tho...

sweat bands! hee hee..

Here's our wedding photo...

I used to love this photo until I noticed it looks like he is punching me in the gut.. :)

Alice the "anarchist" married skippy! Take a ride on the wild side? hahahahahaha...

I hung out with a Tibetan Lama who could not pronounce Steve....it came out kind of skeevy. So I started calling him Skippy. This is when we were just dharma buds.

you look like the kid that stole my brother's bike and later turned out to be his best friend through out jr high.

these guys were long gone by then, Fernie.. ;)

2 yr old me

Better go do more homework...bbl... have a fun day, All! xox

don't blame me, i just googled it and that's what came up

mimosas mire!

Actually I prefer bloody marys...don't mind if I do!

heh! hammy!

looks like the Turkeys captured WarDog...

and fuck you

but then turns out to be a nice guy

and baby alice quite sweet too

My nephew is 8 years younger than me. His father, my brother, is 13 years older than I am. So I really grew up with his kids. More like brother and sister He's got a twin brother and they look exactly alike.

Alice, those dresses were very popular back in the 60s. Paisley prints. Empire waists.

did he give the bike back after he became best friends with your brother?

wait! mire! did I read that right?!?

baby alice!!♥♥♥♥♥♥

now I am going through the photo box...

(anything to put off cleaning right now)

60th, do you mean the fuck you? I thought that's what the middle finger was for, ain't that what it means?

I read it wrong! nevermind!

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

looks like husbot is doing the Captain Morgan in his Beave pic.

You might be able to sue for copyright infringement!

(here's my card)

happy thxgiving!

i guess i should start cooking my salad

:)

No cooking today for me. I'm going to sponge off of relatives.

watching those two figure out who's bike it really belonged to, 60th, was probably what made them such good friends. Yes, he got his bike back. Then it was all about how to get David (his friend) a bike.

BEAUTIFUL!

edna! :) Happy Thanksgiving!

1979 or so,just about to turn 30, my second year of fishing the boat i'd built, the FV Sunshine out of Florence Oregon.

the traditional Texas v Texas A&M game is showing on ESPN at 7pm here.

I ate nothing yesterday except for a piece of toast for breakfast and another for dinner. I had a cornbread roll this morning and a mimosa.

Why do I already feel stuffed? Looking at all this food makes me want to take a nap.

DANG SJ - You look so happy with yourself in those pictures. Did you eat or sell those monsters?

Sam, Mark, blog!!!And families!!

i sold them, and then bought back a few of them from the cannery and took em to the commune at Big Creek for the big BBQ that year. was my birthday bash.

Had about a half ton of big ones like that. found them about 20 miles offshore where nobody else ever fished. some of my old tuna fishing guys told me about hooking a few up on my old AM radio while i was fishing inshore off the Rogue River Reef.

the one on the left was 46 ponds, the one on the right was 50 after they were dressed.

Happy T day!

for CrankBait:

http://truckbearingkibble.com/comic/2008/11/17/character-assassination/

u2!!

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota's U.S. Senate showdown is veering down a path toward the courts and possibly the Senate itself after a panel's ruling on rejected absentee ballots dealt a blow to Democrat Al Franken's chances.

For the first time, his campaign on Wednesday openly discussed mounting challenges after the hand recount involving Franken and Republican Sen. Norm Coleman concludes. That includes the possibility of drawing the Senate into the fracas.

The state Canvassing Board denied Franken's request to factor absentee ballots rejected by poll workers into the recount. He sought to overturn the exclusions in cases where ballots were invalidated over signature problems or other voter errors. Coleman's campaign maintained the board lacked power to revisit those ballots.

Franken entered the recount trailing Coleman by 215 votes out of 2.9 million ballots. As of Wednesday night, Coleman was up 292 votes, including results from Nov. 4 and recounted ones.

All told, 86 percent of the ballots have been recounted. However, about 4,740 ballots have been challenged by the two campaigns that could fall to the canvassing board to rule on.

The ruling wasn't a complete victory for Coleman. The board left open the possibility of examining ballots that were set aside for errors outside of the voter's control.

Secretary of State Mark Ritchie estimated that 12,000 absentee ballots were rejected for various reasons _ some legitimate, some not. That represents between 4 percent and 5 percent of all the absentee ballots cast.

Franken's campaign had made the push to factor in rejected absentee ballots key to its recount strategy, even going to court to force county officials to turn over data on voters whose ballots didn't count.
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Marc Elias, the legal chief for Franken, said the campaign won't appeal the board's ruling but it could seek intervention of another kind once the recount wraps up.

"Whether it is at the county level, before the Canvassing Board, before the courts or before the United States Senate, we don't know yet. But we remain confident these votes will be counted," Elias said.

The board's decision drew a response from the Senate's top Democrat, Majority Leader Harry Reid, who called it a "cause for great concern."

"As the process moves forward, Minnesota authorities must ensure that no voter is disenfranchised," Reid said in a statement. "A citizen's right to have his or her vote counted is fundamental in our democracy."

The Senate has in rare cases inserted itself into elections, including a 1996 Louisiana race and a 1974 New Hampshire contest. The body has the power to determine its members' qualifications.

Along with the Dec. 2 runoff in Georgia, the Minnesota race is one of two unresolved contests and could determine if Democrats build a majority large enough to fend off GOP filibusters.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/27/franken-eyes-legal-option_n_146...

pies in the oven!

My understanding of the Minnesota ruling was that the Canvassing Board, while holding that there was probably merit in Franken's request to include absentee ballots, did not have the jurisdiction to rule on it. The courts do. The spin seems to be that Franken lost his request absolutely.

11/25/08
We've been noting the rapidly increasing number of challenged ballots by both campaigns. Nate Silver, who noted that Coleman's challenges suddenly increased exponentially as of Day 4 of hand-counting, believes that there are likely more legitimate challenges in the Franken stack than in the Coleman stack, and those ballots --- counted by the state Canvassing Board after the initial hand count is concluded --- will likely determine the race.

On the heels of our coverage of that issue yesterday, which noted that Coleman now seems to be making ridiculous challenges at this point --- e.g., ballots showing votes for McCain and for Franken, or for nobody at all in the Senate race, must have been voter error --- several have suggested that Coleman's challenges may be part of a scheme to keep his "lead" from the original machine tabulated count in place. The strategy would allow Coleman the (cynical) PR advantage of being able to claim: "We won the original count! And we won the recount!"

Sound familiar, yet?

That misleading claim will be made loudly across the entire Republican echo-chamber (which, shamefully, includes your public airwaves on talk radio, 24/7) and will be followed quickly with: "Don't let leftist, MoveOn.org-supported, Democrat Sec. of State Mark Ritchie thwart the will of the people and steal the election for Al Franken with his hand-picked State Canvassing Board!"

While an absurd case to make, hey, it worked for George W. Bush in 2000 when the GOP claimed "He won the first count, he won the recount, he won the second recount, etc." Never mind that none of those counts were ever completed, or even carried out as per state law, the Bush team was more than happy to go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court making that case, and that their client would be "irreparably harmed" if all ballots were allowed to be counted, since the media had already announced him as the "winner."

On that score, we'll take the opportunity to mention that had all of the ballots been allowed to have been counted in the state of Florida in 2000, Al Gore would have been the winner [PDF].

Receiving the most votes is beside the point for the GOP, however. They have proven themselves willing to do anything to win. If you have any question about that, go see their shameful, official "Minnesota Recount" website where they have been claiming for weeks that Franken and the Democrats are "stealing the election." The official website of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has been unabashedly making that case, for weeks, without any actual evidence to support their ridiculous claim. But who cares. Anything to "win" for those guys, apparently.

UPDATE FROM STEVE HELLER, 5:45pm PT:

Two more tidbits for you:

Franken Claims List Of 6,400 Rejected Ballots
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6698

i have to find that...

Civics Quiz

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 77.9%
Average score: 77.9%

back to the kitchen!

Afternoon blog, hope your all having a great Thanksgiving!

Those are some amazing photos, what a good looking group.

Alice, got your note, thanks.

The stuffed russian pumpkin, mashed potatoes, brandied raisin yams will be ready by half time. Those raisins steeped all day yesterday :)

The corn bread muffins, gravy and stuffing are done.

Maybe there is a god?

In the heat of the night
In the heat of the day

When I close my eyes
When I look your way

When I meet the fear that lies inside
When I hear you say:
In the heat of the moment
Say
Say
Say:

Some day
Some day
Some day - dominion - come a time

Some day
Some day
Some day - dominion -
Some say prayers
Some say prayers
Now
I say mine.

In the light of the fact

On the lone and level the sand stretch far away

In the heat of the action and in the settled dust

Hold
Hold and sway.
In the meeting of mined and down in the streets of shame

In the betting of names on gold to rust

In the land of the blind -
Be king
King
King
King.

Some day
Some day
Some day -
Dominion -
Some say prayers
Some say prayers

Now
I say mine.

In the land of the blind -
Be king
King
King
King!
Some day
Some day
Some day -
Dominion -
Some say prayers

Some say prayers

Now
I say mine.

http://www.samsedershow.com/node/4130

~`~`~`~`~`~
Jamesbennett

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