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Lizard People, Spaghetti Monsters and Franken Leading Coleman
I'll take "things that are absurd" for a thousand, Alex. After a run of challenged ballot decisions this morning, Al Franken leads Norm Coleman for the first time this election. Of course the numbers are temporary. The remaining challenges must be dealt with, and the thousands that were withdrawn will be added back into the recount totals. Until then there can be no real estimation of where the numbers stand. There are absentee ballots still being counted and there are court cases to come. The numbers, and probably the lead, will change a few more times before this all ends.
Even so, both campaigns are confident they will come out on top. Franken's confidence comes in spite of the fact that this is the first time the entire race he's had a lead, despite many miraculous events in his favor.
Speaking of strange events, by now most people following the recount have seen the "lizard people" ballot that recently made the rounds, but did you know about the flying spaghetti monster ballot? The video below is highly enlightening. I confess I knew about the lizard people on election day but still didn't vote for them. I like my candidates to be multi-dimensional of course, but not extra-dimensional.
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PCL
1:25PM Dec 19th 2008
Caleb,
You are such a Trekkie!! (LOL) "If he has the time, Doctor, if he has the time."
Appropriate. (LOL)
You are such a Trekkie!! (LOL) "If he has the time, Doctor, if he has the time."
Appropriate. (LOL)
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Caleb
1:26PM Dec 19th 2008
Heh, guilty.
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(0) RIChris
2:20PM Dec 19th 2008
Franken is taking a page out of Al 'The Sky Is Falling' Gore's book, "We keep recounting until I win." Hopefully, Franken is as successful as Gore.
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(0) Voice of Reason
2:46PM Dec 19th 2008
hey...the guys are doing their job well...let them have a few laughs while they are carrying out their task...
i trust them
and Caleb a trekkie? ...k...you move up a couple bumps
maybe they were adding "lizard people" to the ballot for a Shout Out but intending to vote for Franken
FSM = Flying Spaghetti Monster
(a kid jumping in bed with Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee all over his face)
add some bolts to Franken's neck...and there ya' go!
(Frankenstein pronounced Fron-ken-steen)!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZybFl_pfMk&feature=related
♫ do-doop ♫ e ♫ doobie doop doop ♫ doo-dooo ♫
;-)
i trust them
and Caleb a trekkie? ...k...you move up a couple bumps
maybe they were adding "lizard people" to the ballot for a Shout Out but intending to vote for Franken
FSM = Flying Spaghetti Monster
(a kid jumping in bed with Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee all over his face)
add some bolts to Franken's neck...and there ya' go!
(Frankenstein pronounced Fron-ken-steen)!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZybFl_pfMk&feature=related
♫ do-doop ♫ e ♫ doobie doop doop ♫ doo-dooo ♫
;-)
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(0) PCL
3:43PM Dec 19th 2008
VOR:
Love the musical at the end.
Love the musical at the end.
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(0) Nocmaut
4:11PM Dec 19th 2008
The Flying Spaghetti Monster ballot is a vote for Franken, simply because the FSM is a world wide movement that encourages the anti-conservative view of God is in control belief. It was specially developed to combat the insistence of creationists to force their belief on science teachers in public schools. I hope Mr. Franken gets the vote. There is a wonderful website forum that supports The Flying Spaghetti Monster concept and purpose.
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(0) Pundit
4:44PM Dec 19th 2008
Frau bheeeulerr; neyyyy prrrrr and the horses stomp their feet! That movie Vs. the book that I did not finish, got me through an English exam back in the day!
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(0) Patty
5:28PM Dec 19th 2008
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is a movement of non-creationists working to stop creationists from forcing their religious views on science teachers.
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(0) PCL
6:16PM Dec 19th 2008
Pundit:
Love that movie!! "Now listen to me very carefully . . . put the candle back."
Love that movie!! "Now listen to me very carefully . . . put the candle back."
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(0) dr jay
12:00AM Dec 20th 2008
>"Now listen to me very carefully . . . put the candle back."
It's a reference to a certain second-generation psychoanalytic pioneer's explanation of the archetypal symbolism in the collective unconscious of a certain Senate candidate's lidded beer mug.
Jung: Franken's Stein (Zuerich, 1929).
It's a reference to a certain second-generation psychoanalytic pioneer's explanation of the archetypal symbolism in the collective unconscious of a certain Senate candidate's lidded beer mug.
Jung: Franken's Stein (Zuerich, 1929).
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(0) Caleb
12:04AM Dec 20th 2008
Voice of Reason must not have seen our previous Trek outings at Political Machine
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(0) Voice of Reason
11:29AM Dec 20th 2008
briefly, but election was on...had to focus...i'll head down the rabbit hole to check it out
;-)
;-)
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(0) Voice of Reason
11:56AM Dec 20th 2008
OBAMA STAR TREK APPOINTMENTS
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2008/11/19/obamas-star-trek-casting-call/#cont
1) Redshirt: Poor redshirts always take the fall.
definitely the GOP...
2) Admiral James T. Kirk: Give Kirk autonomy from the responsibilities of a normal office, put him in charge of a tricked out nuclear warship, and set him loose on the world. Sure it sounds scary at first, but if we've learned one thing from Star Trek, it's that a captain of a ship with virtually limitless power who eschews authority at every turn can bring peace to the Klingons and love to women of every creed, color, and appendage-count.
ummm...former President comes to mind...
bow chicka wow-wow...LOL
3) Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The ultra-reasonable, ultra-responsible. Who wouldn't feel safe when talking missile defense or military action and hearing those three little words: Make it so!
Gates...i get ya'
4) Data:
hey!!! if Rahm's emotion chip is on the fritz...don't fix it! awesome as is...no warranty then ;-)
5) Commander Uhura: Mrs C...hands down (Kirk & Uhura...i always suspected it anyway...LOL)
6) Lieutenant Commander Worf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gfI5-I8Y4U
'nuff said...except to say Obama's pick is better looking but just as good
7) Scotty: Scotty can really only have one job:
i would say VP...behind the scenes man...Cap'n counts on the guy to handle the ship below while he is at the helm...right arm guy
;-)
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2008/11/19/obamas-star-trek-casting-call/#cont
1) Redshirt: Poor redshirts always take the fall.
definitely the GOP...
2) Admiral James T. Kirk: Give Kirk autonomy from the responsibilities of a normal office, put him in charge of a tricked out nuclear warship, and set him loose on the world. Sure it sounds scary at first, but if we've learned one thing from Star Trek, it's that a captain of a ship with virtually limitless power who eschews authority at every turn can bring peace to the Klingons and love to women of every creed, color, and appendage-count.
ummm...former President comes to mind...
bow chicka wow-wow...LOL
3) Captain Jean-Luc Picard: The ultra-reasonable, ultra-responsible. Who wouldn't feel safe when talking missile defense or military action and hearing those three little words: Make it so!
Gates...i get ya'
4) Data:
hey!!! if Rahm's emotion chip is on the fritz...don't fix it! awesome as is...no warranty then ;-)
5) Commander Uhura: Mrs C...hands down (Kirk & Uhura...i always suspected it anyway...LOL)
6) Lieutenant Commander Worf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gfI5-I8Y4U
'nuff said...except to say Obama's pick is better looking but just as good
7) Scotty: Scotty can really only have one job:
i would say VP...behind the scenes man...Cap'n counts on the guy to handle the ship below while he is at the helm...right arm guy
;-)
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(0) Clif Kuplen
2:44PM Dec 20th 2008
All right, who snorted up all the dilithium crystals?
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(0) Clif Kuplen
2:45PM Dec 20th 2008
..and is that why they call y'all the 'Hoover' party?
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(0) Rumplestiltskin
4:57PM Dec 20th 2008
ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz
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(0) Voice of Reason
12:25AM Dec 21st 2008
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(0) libsrscary
6:03AM Dec 21st 2008
FRANKIN: HEY I FOUND SOME BALLOTS IN MY GRANNIES ATTIC. WAIT, I FOUND SOME MORE IN THE TRUNK OF MY EX-WIFES CAR. OH OH, WAIT. WHATS THIS, I FOUND THESE BARRIED IN MY BACK YARD. WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY, STILL NOT ENOUGH? HEY, WE HAVEN'T CHECKED THE BASEMENT OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. I'M SURE WE CAN FIND SOME BALLOTS THERE THAT WE MISSED. FRANKIN, WHAT A FREAKING JOKE! THAT SORRY PIECE IS NOT GOING TO QUIT UNTIL HE STEALS THIS ELECTION.
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(0) Clif Kuplen
11:03PM Dec 21st 2008
THAT SORRY PIECE IS NOT GOING TO QUIT UNTIL HE STEALS THIS ELECTION.
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that's the least of your worries. What if he trades it to Iraq for weapons of mass destruction?
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that's the least of your worries. What if he trades it to Iraq for weapons of mass destruction?
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