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What was that bit about 27 vote recount lead?

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A state board in Minnesota has ruled that absentee ballots rejected by poll workers won't be included in the state's Senate recount.

The decision comes as a blow to Democrat Al Franken. His campaign team claims many absentee ballots were excluded from the initial vote count because of technicalities or administrative errors and had requested that they be at reconsidered.

Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's campaign maintained the five-member state Canvassing Board lacked power to revisit those ballots.

Secretary of State Mark Ritchie estimated about 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 in the election.

Franken entered the recount trailing Coleman by 215 votes out of 2.9 million ballots. About 80 percent have been recounted and Coleman has maintained a lead throughout.

Here you are strangleove, since you maintain Freddie/Fannie/Barney Frank/Chris Dodd are the culprits in the housing crash. Get a load of this scam up in Benton County. It's an eye opener.

"Home Deal Fails For Centerton Families"

It's clicky-bluename.

( the scam was worked thru "church friends" in Colo)

Cartoon if you do the clicky thing.

>>Well, well, Imagine the New TypePad not working. Here is link to above story

"Home Deal Fails for Centerton Families"<<

Sorry for my hasty conclusion. Seems The Morning News has pulled the story of the real estate scam. Too bad. It really showed you how swarmy the real estate bidness has become.

A card for all the ArkTimes Bloggers. Click

Dang it, doc, I was doing pretty good until I watched that one and then I had to get up and go get a slab of our black berry cobbler made from berries I picked this summer. Probably 2,000 calories at least!

Good lord.....I'm foundered as the old farmers used to say. What a spread! And trust me, DBI is always right when he says, don't FK with traditional turkey and dressing. The Cajun turkey and dirty rice sucked sucked sucked! Thanky thanky that I made my turkey and dressing or we'd all still be sitting in there trying to figure how to call a pile of mashed potatoes a thanksgiving dinner. Be all kinds of tricky on November 26th or 28th, but on the 27th just fix a regular damn turkey and as many pans of dressing as you can afford. I nailed the dressing this year and I stand back and await you to bow in my general direction. Take that dead people! I can finally fix my own damn dressing! Just go ahead and stay dead.

It is a happy Thanksgiving cause we finally have some hope heading our way. Come on January 20th!

I GIVE UP

WON'T POST MY COMMENT

How about a joke.

The mother of a 17-year-old girl was concerned that her daughter was having sex. Worried the girl might become pregnant, and adversely impact the family's status, she consulted the family doctor. The doctor told her that teenagers today were very willful, and any attempt to stop the girl would probably result in rebellion. He then told her to arrange for her daughter to be put on birth control and, until then, talk to her and give her a box of condoms. Later that evening, as her daughter was preparing for a date, the woman told her about the situation and handed her a box of condoms. The girl started to laugh and reached over to hug her mother saying, "Oh Mum! You don't have to worry about that! I'm dating Susan!"

I know the feeling, Jazzy. Thought I had it nailed, but it showed me who's boss around here, more than once, or twice or thrice or . . . Oh well, you fill in the blank.
It looks like DBI might have reregistered or something.
Wonder if that makes a difference. Second chance to come up with a non-silly sounding name, I suppose, at least in my case.
Food? Oooooohhhhh. Yeah it was pretty good, if I do say so myself. Chicken and dressing covered with gravy (the main course, in spite of having game hens, too) green beans and potatoes (had the sweet potatoes last night), marinated carrots, butterpeas, the last of the refrigerator cucumber pickles I made before frost, fresh green tomato relish, whole berry cranberry sauce (sorry folks, canned), cheesecake . . . Like I said, ooooohhhhh.
Well, at least the kitchen is clean. Just open the fridge carefully. It reminds me of the proverbial overpacked closet. And if hubby says he wants cereal for supper, there's gonna be war . . .
I'm thinkin' along the lines of gumbo tomorrow, except I always end up with a monstrous pot of the stuff and I don't think there's any place to stash the leftovers.

Incidentally, the above post took me two tries and some finagling. I'd look up the spelling of finagling, but I'm afraid I'll lose my window of opportunity to gripe.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned by typepad..............

I noticed DBI11.........are we blessed by two now??????????

Thanx DocHolliday for the card........love Jacquie's cards............

here goes try # 2,001..............if it gives me shit gonna jump in the lake!!!!!!!!!!!!

I managed to survive the whole family today -- Mom and bro, hubster and his assorted parents -- all in one piece. No fights over the dressing, and way too much pie, the way that Thanksgiving is supposed to be. The hub and bro even managed to pass out in front of football for a while.

Should be interesting, listening to the traffic passing in both directions tomorrow -- people on their way to Black Friday sales out in WLR and heading to War Memorial for the big game. I plan to have my butt planted in the recliner, once I recover from my triptophan coma.

And Jazzy, I feel your pain. Took me eight tries to post this tonight!

And with that being said... this is a test...

Those of you having trouble posting are obviously living lives of egregious sin. Anyway . . . .

Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy

In the first weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say.

Millions of Americans who watched Mr. Obama's recent appearance on CBS' "Sixty Minutes" witnessed the president-elect's unorthodox verbal tick, which had Mr. Obama employing grammatically correct sentences virtually every time he opened his mouth.

But Mr. Obama's decision to use complete sentences in his public pronouncements carries with it certain risks, since after the last eight years many Americans may find his odd speaking style jarring. According to presidential historian Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota, some Americans might find it "alienating" to have a President who speaks English as if it were his first language.

"Every time Obama opens his mouth, his subjects and verbs are in agreement," says Mr. Logsdon. "If he keeps it up, he is running the risk of sounding like an elitist." The historian said that if Mr. Obama insists on using complete sentences in his speeches, the public may find itself saying, "Okay, subject, predicate, subject predicate --- we get it, stop showing off."

The President-elect's stubborn insistence on using complete sentences has already attracted a rebuke from one of his harshest critics, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska: "Talking with complete sentences there and also too talking in a way that ordinary Americans like Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder can't really do there, I think needing to do that isn't tapping into what Americans are needing also," she said.

Thanks to DBI for the comment this week re: Grey Gardens. just watched the movie what a great story.
I loves me some crazy peeps.
blessed are the cracked for it is they who let in the light.
Im searching for pics and more articles tonight.

See what I put up with? ALiJB loves *crazy peeps,*.........hummmmmmmmmmmmm

Seems to me Grey Gardens was off Broadway as well as a movie.

Kat, bless you....do we need to get the jumper cables????????????

Doc's giving me until Monday -- if the girl isn't here by then, we're going in after her. I suppose this is what happens when you cross my tenacity with my husband's stubborn streak.

Kat....so easy to put them IN,,,so hard to get them OUT...........:>)

Why are some of you having such trouble posting? Any ideas, other than "wimmen drivers"? :)

screwy deal for me. I didn't log in I tried to register a new name and magically alijb was logged in and successfully posted a comment.
the other times when I tried to log in and post did not work.

Great cartoon Cato and thanks for the card Doc.

We'll be waiting to hear about the little one Kat.

A nice day spent with family and friends and too much food. It's good to share the day with some of the AT blog family too. Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope the 3rd time is the charm....

Plumb wore out with this typepad...............goodnight

durangokid- that is a good Andy Borowitz column, isn't it?

Sound Policy, I thought that might be Borowitz, but wasn't sure. It came to me as an email joke without attribution. He IS a hoot, isn't he!

In addition to being thankful for Max and all the work he does for all of us,

and my sweetie for bringing me a large plate of traditional goodies

Here's one for all of you worked, blogged, put on stickers, wrote letters, It's a keeper

It's on eLwood too.

.

Happy Thanksgiving All!

kat, I am excited for you and hoping for pix of your baby girl next week.
The Kiz household had a wonderful day. Hope you AT bloggers did too.

This DBI II thing was from the last trip out of town we made. I took another computer with me and found out it didn't have my old log-in info stored and I couldn't remember it...so DBI II is my traveling nick-name. Funny thing, when I set this computer up down here in the sticks, DBI II signed right in and has stayed signed in. I'm not at all sure Dick Cheney ain't FK'ing with the AT blog. You know he's got it in him.

I want to wish Kat all the luck in the world while I got the chance. Bitster will probably come rushing into the world in the middle of the night tonight since she no doubt is hearing that talk about "going in after her", after all she IS a woman and already has those "I'll show you" parts up and running. Good luck! And have you ever thought of Baracky as a girl's name? You can call her Barryetta if Baracky is too weird for your tongue. Good luck and good luck to all of us for the rest of our lives!

Top Ten Reasons For Sarah Palin's Slaughter Video

on bluename.

about mid page.

Anything but Hussie, Kat, short for . . . well, you know.
Saaay, that's a good nickname. Except I guess it would have to be pronounced Hoosie.

Don't worry, Cato! Just get up and walk around the house every fifth post and you'll work off those berries calories in two or three weeks.

Great cartoon! I forwarded it my favorite GOP friends. It belongs after your post on the Scooter Libby thread.