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    Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult

    Al Franken's Senate Seat Isn't Slipping Away Yet

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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    Jesus Christ, when will they upgrade from fill-in-the-bubble oldschool styles? We've had electronic touchscreen voting for at least the past four election cycles, and I live in a place where Barbecue Sauce is regarded as a precious commodity. There's no way you can dispute the results unless a candidate wants to challenge the fatness of peoples' fingers... but even still with these machines there's an ominous "Are You Sure?" type prompt at the end.


    All of America needs an "Are You Sure?" prompt.

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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    If you're going to vote for the Lizard People, DON'T then fill in another circle. It leads people to believe that Lizard People voters are cretins.
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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    Ok, this is the final version — I addded a little visual context this time.


    All you folks out there with blogs, you can start re-blogging this picture now. I won't mind.


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    11/22/08

    @MisterHippity: Cute!
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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    Lizard people? Is Morrison's ghost on the loose again?
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    11/22/08

    @PandoraSpocks:


    Mr. NoCo Risin'

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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    The best I've heard so far is that Coleman challenged a ballot because the person voted for McCain and Franken. You can't do that!
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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    What's wrong with voting for lizard people?


    I've heard that they're strong supporters of family values!


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    11/22/08

    @MisterHippity: Unless they can mutate from sex to sex, like in Jurassic Park...
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    11/22/08

    @MisterHippity: Night of the Iguanamen
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    11/22/08

    @MisterHippity: Junior's gay.
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    11/22/08

    @BookishLookish:

    @MisterHippity:

    Iguana Go Home.
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    11/22/08

    @Strehle: Don't call Anna Wintour's son gay unless you can prove it, bub.
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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    I've been participating in the vote recount process for the Franken campaign here in St. Louis County. I have to say, some of the Coleman challenges have been FRIVOLOUS! Things like if the mark looks different from the other marks on the ballot, i.e. the vote for Franken was heavier and extended beyond the oval than the other marks. I'd say half of the challenged ballots will be thrown back in the pile as valid by the canvassing board. I also have to say, it's been a totally inspiring experience, and I'm so proud to be part of it. I'm proud to call myself a Minnesotan, because we take our voting rights seriously and we all just want the person who truly received the majority of the legitimate votes cast to take his seat in the US Senate in Jan.
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    11/22/08

    @ClaireinDuluth: Does the Franken campaign consider him one of the Lizard People?
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    11/22/08

    @ClaireinDuluth: I have to say this-- Minnesotans REALLY seem to want to go that extra mile to get some humor in the Senate.
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    11/22/08

    @ClaireinDuluth: And yet not a single Franken challenge has been frivolous? Maybe mildly silly?


    I don't know if I'd say that a state that elected Jesse Ventura as its governor takes its voting seriously at all.

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    11/22/08

    @The One: Minnesota has the highest voter turnout in the nation and is known for split-ticketing voting. I contend that 80% of us take voting very seriously, and then you have folks like the ones quoted in the Star Tribune weeks before the election, announcing they were going McCain/Franken because "Obama is from Chicago and they're all crooks", and a young woman voting the same way because she was raised Aryan and couldn't vote for a black man.


    And while your comment pissed me off, I have now completely negated my point with this recollection.

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    11/23/08

    @whitekidinflatbush: Aha! Yes, you did prove my point.


    No matter what good you can point to, there's still the insurmountable fact that Minnesota elected a 'roid-filled conspiracy nut as governor. But we all have our lapses.

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    11/23/08

    @The One: Norm Coleman and some other douchebag were the other options. I think it says a lot about Norm "Giant Douchebag" Coleman that I would still prefer to have the body as the Governor, if Coleman was the alternative. And yes, I feel so dirty saying that. So very dirty.
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    11/23/08

    @lilbobbytables: As well you should.


    Do you have a breaking point? I mean, if Carrot Top and Pauly Shore moved to Minnesota and ran against Republicans, would you vote for them, too? What about that hick from the "Ernest Goes to..." movies?

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    11/24/08

    @The One: If they were less sleasy than Coleman, I might vote for them. I do not trust a turncoat. It is not specifically the fact that Coleman is Republican, it is that he was first elected as a Democrat, and switched parties while in office. I honestly think that he was only elected last time due to the fact that there was no suitable replacement for Wellstone, and writing in 'Wellstone's Zombie' was probably disrespectful.
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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    A vote for the Lizard People was a vote for me.
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    11/22/08

    @drunkexpatwriter: Hello there, stranger.
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    11/22/08

    @BookishLookish: And here I thought my reptile campaign was being completely overlooked!
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    11/22/08

    @drunkexpatwriter: Creature from the Black Lagoon needs to step up.
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    11/22/08

    @BookishLookish: But Nadar was already on the ballot.
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    11/22/08

    @drunkexpatwriter: A good moisturizer and staying out of the sun can do wonders about helping to correct that Lizard skin, you know.
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    11/22/08

    @oyvehisyou: But my reptile brain remains.
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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    These two need to go to Weehawken and settle it like men!
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    11/22/08

    @Triborough: Lunch at my place afterward!
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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    I had no idea that there were signs of intelligent life on Minnesota. This is cheering!
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    11/22/08

    @curlyqtips: Unfortunately the intelligent has turned out to be lizards.
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    11/23/08

    @curlyqtips: Really, we Minnesotans are not all dumb. Some of us can work those wacky ballot thingies real good. I think we were all just distracted by MacGyver.
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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    Listen (shh!) to what the Lizard People say!


    (BTW: "lizard people" might be a joking--or not joking--reference to David Icke's cosmology)

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    11/22/08

    @Dickdogfood: (For more info on Icke: [en.wikipedia.org] )
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    11/22/08

    @Dickdogfood: Ah-aaaaah! Listen--they're getting closer day by day!
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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    I like the concept of a "beet down" as if someone were being attacked by a vengeful bowl of borscht
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    11/22/08

    @oyvehisyou: Heh. If the end result was some tasty borscht, well, good on the state of Minn.!
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    11/22/08

    @BookishLookish: As long as they don't give me a wuppin' with the borscht belt.
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    11/22/08

    @BookishLookish:


    Mmmmm... great beet borscht is one of the things I miss most about not living in the city anymore. God I love it.

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    11/22/08

    @oyvehisyou: Badum-bah!
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    11/22/08

    @GirlyWhirl: Taam Tov on 47th Street in the Diamond District. Mmmmmm....
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    11/22/08

    @BookishLookish: You can keep the borscht. Give me a good noodle or sweet potato koogle and maybe some latkes.. YUM!!
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    11/22/08

    @oyvehisyou: ***It's getting to look a lot like Hannukah...!***
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    11/22/08

    @BookishLookish: Since I DON'T cook (and these SO AREN'T my anglo mother's specialties!) Thank GOD for Gourmet Garage!
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    11/22/08

    @BookishLookish: Ha! I was there just two days ago! Never had the borscht there though.
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    11/22/08

    @The One: It's good, right?


    If I am having a bad day, I go to 47th Street to try on diamonds, then I get some borscht upstairs with the Asian Jews. It is this little Jewess's version of a Holly Golightly trip to Tiffany's and it calms me down right away.

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    11/22/08

    @BookishLookish: Good? More like Nom Yummy (from that stupid commercial I've seen one time too many)! Like Jewish comfort food. I was once recommending it to a woman at my synagogue when another interrupted to trash the place. How can someone not like it?


    I don't think I've seen any Asian Jews there. Not even sure if the waitresses are Jewish. I didn't even know what Bukharian Jews look like until I saw a group of them marching in the Salute to Israel Parade this year.


    The only downer about the place is that they no longer offer just one kabob - you have to order two. :(


    Have you ever tried that kosher Chinese vegetarian place in Chinatown?

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    11/22/08

    @The One: I sat next to a group of old guys from one of the 'Stans last time I went, cannot remember which. I think the waitresses are Russian girls.


    And I'm sure you can eat two kabobs with no problem, sir.


    Do you mean that Buddha place on Mott Street? Have heard it's good, but I haven't gone yet.

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    11/22/08

    @BookishLookish: Lucky! I usually sit next to Israelis or other Jews of Eastern European ancestry.


    One of the waitresses in there the other day is black, so I assumed she's not Jewish. Could be, but not likely.


    My problem is that if you put the 2 kabobs in front of me, I almost certainly could ingest them, but if I just get one, I'll be just fine. Which is what I need to keep doing. But the other day, I had one of the pilaf dishes - the one with beef and carrots on top.


    Yes, Buddha Bodai - on Mott & Worth. I'm a carnivore, but the people in my Tanach class were all raving about it, so off I went with them!


    Oh, and I'm not a sir. :)

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    11/22/08

    @The One: Bookish has always had issues with determining gender.. :)
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    11/23/08

    @oyvehisyou: She must be lots of fun on a date! ;)
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    11/23/08

    @The One: Gah. Sorry, love. But I do like post-gender.
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    11/23/08

    @oyvehisyou: Heh.
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    11/23/08

    @BookishLookish: That's OK. But we can still be friends, right?
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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    that the second ballot is in play as questioable is ridiculous and kind of makes me want to punch Al Franken. The third one too, but I expect that kind of ridiculousness from the otherside. Lizard People FTW.
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    11/22/08

    In reply to Minnesotans Find Voting For Al Franken or Norm Coleman Very Difficult
    For sure, the phrase "taste the bitter wisps of democracy" alone makes this election year worthwhile.
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