Tuesday casserole

WTF is wrong with Americans?

Why we should watch the virulent religious fanaticism oozing to the surface in the US.

What is wrong with Governor Brown?  MORE jails? Really?

Paving with solar panels.

Hagfish kill by slime.

Drinkable books.

10 ingredients that don't belong in your bathroom.

Shaming, shunning, (soon to be stoning) women who have abortions.

A billboard actually doing something worth while: eating pollution.

Al Franken on the internetal tubes.

Oh, and Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi.

A nuclear family

Is a nuclear family. Love is love.

Just a reminder

Net neutrality = freedom of speech.

You go, Al.

Oh yes... please!

Palin says 2012 presidential bid a possibility

It would give Obama four more years to remember he's a Democrat... or for Democrats to vote in Al Franken as president.

How we want Democrats to act

Like Senator Franken.. taking Comcast to task:

Love him or hate him, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN), former employee of NBC, made Comcast's befuddled CEO Brian "Comcatastrophe" Roberts look like a complete tool during yesterday's hearing on the proposed Comcast/NBC mergepocalypse.

We don't actually know if Brian "Comcatastrophe" Roberts is generally as confused and awkward as he appeared to be while trying to explain why Comcast would testify that FCC regulations provide adequate safeguards for consumers -- after it just argued that the same rules were unconstitutional . Maybe he's usually pretty sharp. We really don't know.

You know....I wouldn't mind having a comedian as president...

No, not this guy:



THIS GUY:

OMG!

Senator Al Franken!!!



Update: His speech on the floor:

How to talk to Republicans....

If you must.

Actually, I just wanted to copy Coulter's idiot title on her work of fiction....

Al Franken shows respect and intelligence in this video.



He's wonderful.

Congratulations, Senator Franken!

Blog sprinkles

When you really really want to have a digger toy that works.

Economic downturns force people to make cheaper cuts of beef taste delicious.

Oh, SHUT UP. Who the fuck cares what you feeling right now, Georgie? We're still digging out from the wreckage you caused during your eight horribly long years in office.

Bibles burned in Afghanistan ... by our military. Where are the frothing writhing religious wingnuts on this?:

The US army in Afghanistan has burned Bibles printed in local languages, a US colonel in Afghanistan has said, amid concerns they could have been used to try to convert Afghans.

"My understanding is that the [military] leadership confiscated these Bibles so that they could not be distributed around Afghanistan," Colonel Greg Julian told Al Jazeera on Wednesday.

"It was their best judgement at the time, that the best way to deal with it, was to destroy them and I understand that they were burnt."

Al Jazeera broadcast footage earlier this month showing troops apparently discussing how best to convert Afghans to their faith.

How very odd: Gasoline prices swing higher before holiday. Who could have predicted this?!

Obama and Cheney at 40 paces:



Keith Olbermann's special comment:



The party that loves America so much that they'd never do anything to hurt it for partisan reasons?

The NRSC has just plowed another $750,000 into Coleman’s recount effort, raising questions about whether GOP donors are funding an effort they know is doomed merely to keep the seat empty as long as possible.

Asked about this, Van Dongen said the goal was to put Coleman in the seat, but added: “Is it better empty than in Franken’s hands? Hell, yeah.”

The horrors of a 'preventive-detention law'. President Obama, are you actually considering this?

Norm?

Franken wins by +312 votes.

Number of days Norm Coleman seemed to lead: 43. (Nov. 4 through hand recount and end of rulings on challenged ballots: Dec. 17)
Number of days Al Franken has certifiably led: 140 (Dec. 18 to NOW)

Number of days since election day (Nov. 4): 183

Number of days until MN Supreme Court hears oral arguments of appeal of Coleman v. Franken: 26 (June 1)

You gonna take all day about this?

Because you lost and you look like a first class idiot.

Update: Biden shows class and meets with Franken.

(edited for clarity.)

Votes for me but not for thee

Norm Coleman wants a do over because he won and Al Franken cheated by running and then asking for a recount when he should have done the right thing and crept away in shame for trying to run against an incumbent Republican in the first place.

Go, Franken!

ROCHESTER, Minn. - Al Franken won a resounding endorsement for the U.S. Senate on Saturday from Minnesota Democrats, quickly dispatching with concerns about jokes that offended some and promising a tough challenge to Republican Sen. Norm Coleman.

"To the people of Minnesota, let me say this: I'm not a perfect person," said Franken, a former "Saturday Night Live" writer and performer. "I'm not going to pretend to have all the answers. But I'll tell the truth, I will keep my spine, and I will work for you."

Diebold edits its Wikipedia page

And Fox News messes with Al Franken's page. Caltech grad student Virgil Griffith made a search tool that lets you enter the name of the corporation, etc and get the IPs connected to that business. Then you can see all the edits on the Wikipedia pages:

Wikipedia Scanner -- the brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith -- offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.

Inspired by news last year that Congress members' offices had been editing their own entries, Griffith says he got curious, and wanted to know whether big companies and other organizations were doing things in a similarly self-interested vein.

"Everything's better if you do it on a huge scale, and automate it," he says with a grin.

This database is possible thanks to a combination of Wikipedia policies and (mostly) publicly available information.

The online encyclopedia allows anyone to make edits, but keeps detailed logs of all these changes. Users who are logged in are tracked only by their user name, but anonymous changes leave a public record of their IP address.

Al Franken

Via Rook's Rant, Al Franken talks of the impossible task we have given our soldiers and the fact the media is not responsible for the downward spiral of Iraq. We can talk about outreach or we can talk about disaster, but neither speak of what really needs to be said:

"The truth of the matter is that the Bush administration has made enormous and tragic mistakes at every stage of this debacle. It overplayed the threat from Iraq and undersold the price, in lives and resources, of a war. It failed to plan for a post-invasion Iraq, ignored the threat of an insurgency and allowed a shoddy reconstruction rife with fraud, abuse and sheer amateurism to sabotage our efforts to put the pieces back together. Worst of all, it has failed to admit to its mistakes or adjust to emerging realities along the way, leaving us in what now seems to be a no-win situation."