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Trai_Dep
11/17/09

In reply to Heroic Loser Conservative To Become Upstate New York's Norm Coleman
I'm confused. Didn't Republicans get their pink panties in a bunch when Gore de-conceded his informal concession to Bush over the phone (minutes after "conceding"*)? Didn't they pull the equivalent of a nine-year-old boy calling dibs on the front seat?

* Yup: i-d-i-o-t. But still. #electionday
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sarrible
11/16/09

In reply to Heroic Loser Conservative To Become Upstate New York's Norm Coleman
But wasn't Owens actually sworn in? I could be wrong, but I think he's a sitting member of Congress right now. If they find that Hoffman (gag) got more votes, are they going to undo all the votes Owens has already cast? #electionday
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unclevanya
11/16/09

In reply to Heroic Loser Conservative To Become Upstate New York's Norm Coleman
I'd love to see Glenn Beck jump off a bridge, if only to see who follows him. #electionday
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Baroness
11/16/09

In reply to Heroic Loser Conservative To Become Upstate New York's Norm Coleman
Disconcessions, unconcessions, anti-concessions.. it all sings "sore loser" to me.

Also, can we all go back to the reality that NY-23 is a tiny backwater which even the cattle commit suicide to escape from? Christ. #electionday
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MissNormaDesmond
11/16/09

In reply to Heroic Loser Conservative To Become Upstate New York's Norm Coleman
Wait, Pareene. This isn't fair. It was Coleman who initially won, and Franken who demanded a recount, and ultimately won. Which makes this sauce for the goose. It's unlikely that Hoffman will win, but he has as much right to demand a recount as Franken did. #electionday
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onebadclam
11/16/09

@MissNormaDesmond: Wasn't the Minnesota recount mandated by state law rather than Franken demand? True, Hoffman has every right to demand a recount but let's stick with the facts.
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dissentingopinion
11/16/09

@MissNormaDesmond: Doesn't conceding kind of waive that right though? Maybe we should have all recounts be automatic so premature conceding isn't an option, but that's another issue.
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MissNormaDesmond
11/16/09

@onebadclam: Ooops, sorry, you're right. However, let's say that the vote had been close, but not quite close enough to trigger the automatic recount. I wouldn't have faulted Franken for seeking one, and I don't think Hoffman should necessarily be faulted for doing so, except... #electionday
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MissNormaDesmond
11/16/09

@dissentingopinion: ...yeah, that's a valid point. Except didn't Gore unconcede? I guess I'm just very concerned that my team be completely fair, because I'm so sickened by the constant bullshit cheating and misrepresentation coming from Fox and Friends. #electionday
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onebadclam
11/16/09

@MissNormaDesmond: I can see some legitimacy in mocking Hoffman simply based on the absurdity of his candidacy in the first place. Still and all, it's his prerogative. #electionday
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MissNormaDesmond
11/16/09

@onebadclam: Oh, please, mock him all day, for all sorts of reasons. He's obviously a complete nimrod. Just don't mock him for something that was okay when someone you liked did it. #electionday
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Jim Topoleski
11/16/09

@MissNormaDesmond: Franken didnt ask for a recount (it was granted by law) and Owens is already sworn in, meaning even if its found he DID win, legally he cant take office now that someone else was sworn in (look it up its happened before)

This is purely a stunt, nothing more. #electionday
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MissNormaDesmond
11/16/09

@Jim Topoleski: Sometimes it's good to read the other comments before commenting -- the legalities of the MN recount have already been discussed. As for whatever law provides for someone's basically calling dibs on an office and keeping it whether or not he or she actually won the popular vote, say, that's kind of stupid, isn't it?
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Beau Nerd
11/16/09

In reply to Heroic Loser Conservative To Become Upstate New York's Norm Coleman
The next step for a personality of Glen Beck's caliber, is to go international. Might I suggest Moscow's Cannibal Grotto for starters? #electionday
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sparky
09/15/09

In reply to New Yorkers: Go Vote
I took along the voter's guide mailed out by the New York Campaign Finance Board, but not everyone in the guide was on the ballot, which I thought that was weird. I had to write in my choice for comptroller. And there was no ballot for the City Council District 22 race at all. (As in: if you're not a Vallone, don't bother running.) But I do think there should have been a place for write-in candidates in that race.

I was there around 10, and they told me that I was only the 12th person in my election district to vote. One person's vote really does count for a lot in the primaries.
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The One
09/15/09

@sparky: I didn't get a voter guide from the CFB. :(

My poor councilman has a good shot at losing the primary today and having to find a real job. Nice guy, but it serves him right for supporting the term limits extension while pretending to be in the deep process of making up his mind.
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Carol Gardens
09/15/09

In reply to New Yorkers: Go Vote
So when the swing dance community was working on overturning the Cabaret Laws, Norman Siegel showed up at one of the protests and danced. And he wasn't half bad. So he gets my vote.
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Gregoire
09/15/09

In reply to New Yorkers: Go Vote
Is it wrong to have voted for Eric Gioia just because he's modestly attractive?
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Choire
09/15/09

@Gregoire: Yes! Yes. Also the Gioia look doesn't really work in person.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
11/17/08

In reply to Tim Robbins Still Fuming About His Election Day Idiocy
I'm going to kind of defend him because he and Susan know a lot of shit and he was primed to be mistreated because this kind of thing happens all over the country at every election. Yes, he was dim-witted in this case and he seems contrite but I just take this as he over reacted, but the dude *knows what time it is*.
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HandsomeBwonderful
11/17/08

In reply to Tim Robbins Still Fuming About His Election Day Idiocy
I had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Robbins at a taping of Bill Maher a week or so before the election. He is a classic, conspiracy-deranged, camera-hogging hysterical lefty. In short, a real Nuke La-Douche, for those Bull Durham fans. He needs to chill the eff out. His candidate won. And did he really think if his vote wasn't counted Obama would lose the Republican stronghold of New York? He won. Now shut up for the next eight years.
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Steverino Begins
11/16/09

@HandsomeBwonderful: Agreed. Did anyone see that horrible, hysterical play he wrote and directed back in 2003, Embedded? If you Google "why we lost the 2004 election" it takes you to a clip of that show. #timrobbins
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Encantada
11/17/08

In reply to Tim Robbins Still Fuming About His Election Day Idiocy
I know someone who worked for Tim Robbins, and he was a complete boor. He threw a sandwich at her once during a tantrum.
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mmstk101
11/17/08

@Encantada: Did she at least get to eat the sandwich? What happened to the sandwich?
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theysaidwhat
11/17/08

In reply to Tim Robbins Still Fuming About His Election Day Idiocy
Dear Tim Robbins,

When you re-register to vote with a different address than the one you previously used to register, you often find that you have been assigned a new polling place. Ninety-eight percent of Americans have figured this out, and have also figured out how to determine their proper polling location.

While we give you credit for getting the state and city correct, we must give you demerits for misidentifying your polling place and all of your behavior following that mistake.

And while we're at it, who said that making a few movies and being a good actor means that anyone gives jack shit about your political opinions? Oh yeah, that would be you who said that. We have to assign additional demerits.

Please keep on harrassing the Board of Elections. It is our sincere hope that you will escalate to the point of committing a felony, and then we will not have to hear of your voting woes as you will, at least temporarily, lose the right to vote.

America
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Baroness
11/17/08

In reply to Tim Robbins Still Fuming About His Election Day Idiocy
It's an unwritten secret about living in Manhattan. As fun as it is to go, "Ooh, there's Uma!", it's also true that mere movie actors eventually get to the point where they feel magnanimous about letting mortals breathe the same air. They become dicks. Actors are intensely narcissistic that way. And in NYC it comes down to laughing at the likes of Tim Robbins, when he turns a beaureaucratic snag into a claim of political persecution. Srsly, I wonder how coked he was to make such a kerfuff.
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Rock_Hunter
11/17/08

In reply to Tim Robbins Still Fuming About His Election Day Idiocy
John K. Henry

Duane Reade Inc.

Executive Office

440 9th Ave.

New York, NY 10001

November 17, 2008

Dear Mr. Henry:

I would like to publicly apologize for being such a dim-witted dilettante at your 14th St and 3rd Ave Duane Reade location on Sunday afternoon. I was under the naive assumption that I could purchase Tom's of Maine Whole Care Toothpaste, where I've purchased it two times before. Your thoughtful Sunday flyer said that I could purchase two tubes for $4.59 at any participating location. Considering your position at the Duane Reade and your deep respect for the economic process I must assume that my local 14th St. location's cashier, Tanya's assertion that they did not have Tom's of Maine Whole Care Toothpaste and only had Tom's of Maine Whole Care Toothpaste Gel was erroneous and that she must be as confused and wrongheaded as I am. If Tanya had bothered to leave her register and check the back we could confirm that your flyer is lying. Certainly you wouldn't lie about a thing like that. That is unbecoming of a man of your bureaucratic stature. And why would anyone at Duane Reade falsely advertise toothpaste in the Sunday November, 16, 2008 flyer ? That's just crazy and un-democratic.

Tim Robbins

New Yorker since 1961

Voter since 1976

Tom's of Maine Whole Care Toothpaste User since 2002

P.S. If anyone reading this letter had a similar experience at Duane Reade it can and should be reported at duanereade.com/mailform.htm
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MissNormaDesmond
11/18/08

@Rock_Hunter: I can state with complete confidence that success has not spoiled you.
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