Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

You guys are losing opportunities to collect points.

Points have no cash value but can be redeemed for nothing.

[ATV]

I didnt realize you were in office then

"We" as in, citizens of the United States of America.

You guys are losing opportunities to collect points.

That's because nobody cares.

[ATV]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/05/gaza.children/index.html

"When we will grow up, we will bomb them back," - Says the little Palestinian kid.

This is why (in addition to the Israelis living on their lands and restricting their freedoms) the Palestinians fire their homemade rockets at them.

[phillymic2000]

And very little mention of the Minnesota senate debacle yet either.

LOL. Awesome. Yea, it really sucks when a state has an orderly process that includes actually counting all the votes. Now if their was only a way to appeal it to the totally nonpartisan federal supreme court....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123111967642552909.html

This disenfranchises Minnesotans whose vote counted only once. And one Canvassing Board member, State Supreme Court Justice G. Barry Anderson, has acknowledged that "very likely there was a double counting." Yet the board insists that it lacks the authority to question local officials and it is merely adding the inflated numbers to the totals.

In other cases, the board has been flagrantly inconsistent. Last month, Mr. Franken's campaign charged that one Hennepin County (Minneapolis) precinct had "lost" 133 votes, since the hand recount showed fewer ballots than machine votes recorded on Election Night. Though there is no proof to this missing vote charge -- officials may have accidentally run the ballots through the machine twice on Election Night -- the Canvassing Board chose to go with the Election Night total, rather than the actual number of ballots in the recount. That decision gave Mr. Franken a gain of 46 votes.

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Meanwhile, a Ramsey County precinct ended up with 177 more ballots than there were recorded votes on Election Night. In that case, the board decided to go with the extra ballots, rather than the Election Night total, even though the county is now showing more ballots than voters in the precinct. This gave Mr. Franken a net gain of 37 votes, which means he's benefited both ways from the board's inconsistency.

The question is how the board can certify a fair and accurate election result given these multiple recount problems. Yet that is precisely what the five members seem prepared to do when they meet today. Some members seem to have concluded that because one of the candidates will challenge the result in any event, why not get on with it and leave it to the courts? Mr. Coleman will certainly have grounds to contest the result in court, but he'll be at a disadvantage given that courts are understandably reluctant to overrule a certified outcome.

imo let minnesota have him, it may produce some good comedy in the near future.

[Phanatic]

I heard that the guy that lost to Franken (for now) also lost to Ventura.

He is so hating life right now...

[ATV]

Not that I trusted them much before, but since Murdoch bought the WSJ it deserves no credibility. I would be interested in reading such stories from other sources, though. If they exist, that is.

[ATV]

More ungrateful Palestinian children. Don't they realize that this is all for their benefit? Those kids should have warned their uncles about shooting those homemade rockets at their old property. War is hell, little tykes.

By the way, all those countries on the Security Council that didn't vote with us to condemn Israel, the same ones that were wrong about Iraq not having WMDs? You know - France, Russia, China, etc., well they're all wrong again. So are all the other UN nations that are clamoring to stop the invasion. Us. Just us. Well, and Israel. Apparently everyone else in the world can suck it - Time after time. For about forty or so years now.

I can't imagine why Middle Easterners would want to kill themsleves by flying airplanes into our buildings.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I can't imagine why Middle Easterners would want to kill themsleves by flying airplanes into our buildings.

Take up a cause, then.  Go join them.

[phillymic2000]

I heard that the guy that lost to Franken (for now) also lost to Ventura.

He is so hating life right now...

are you serious?  thats funny.

[phillymic2000]

Get yo popcorn ready, this could get real interesting.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-burris-senate06jan06,0,6856182.story

Burris said in an interview Monday evening that he intends to try to walk onto the Senate floor to be sworn in with incoming senators when the Senate convenes Tuesday despite declarations from party leaders that they will prevent the 71-year-old, longtime politician from entering the legislative body's ornate chamber.

How they can legally keep Burris from taking the floor is beyond me, our Gov. has not been indicted or impeached yet. So much for innocent until proven guilty.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Just seat Burris and Franken.  There are worse things to worry about than an old black guy and a comic writer in our Senate.

[ice grillin you]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/?hpid=topnews

[ATV]

Three artillery shells struck the perimeter of a U.N. school where hundreds of civilians had taken refuge on the 11th day of the Israeli onslaught in Gaza. A U.N. official said 30 people were killed and 55 were injured, five critically.

Palestinian medics said 34 people died in the Israeli strike.

John Ging, head of Gaza operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, said three U.N. schools have been hit in the last 24 hours and the "indications are that these strikes originated from Israeli weapons."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/06/world/main4701206.shtml?tag=topStory;topStoryHeadline

Nope, no terrorism here.

[Rome]

More photos of injured civilians!

[phillymic2000]

That looks like ketchup.