gregladen | November 20, 2008I have signed a non-disclosure agreement regarding information that I personally obtain during the recount process, but I can certainly report on the publicly available data.
The difference between Coleman and Franken at the start of the recount was about 250 votes. Two things are happening during the recount. First, we are re-counting the ballots. So, if the machine had reported 100 Coleman, 100 Franken, and 50 others, and we count them and get 100 Coleman, 101 Franken, and 49 others, then so be it. The count has changed.
In truth, when this sort of thing happened, we tried hard to…
gregladen | November 20, 2008Last night I had only minute to address this issue, so I simply posted the video with no comment. (Except maybe a little snark). Now, I'd like to take a moment to describe this in more detail.
This is on Fox News:
Alan Colmes askes Michele Bachmann about her comment on Countdown prior to the election in an effort to follow up. He quotes her. "The news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look at the views of the people in congress and find out if they are pro America or Anti America."
Just so you understand, Colmes has quoted Bachman exactly. Bachman replies that she never…
gregladen | November 19, 2008One of the most amazing scenes in Bill Maher's Religulous is the scene from The Holy Land Experience, which is like Disney Land, but instead of fictional characters that are sometimes charming sometimes scary and that everybody goes nuts over, it's got ... well, fictional characters that are sometimes charming sometimes scary and that everybody goes nuts over. Maher interviews Jesus Christ, Son of God. Then, they show some film of Jesus being crucified and shit. Fine. But the strangest thing is the audience. They are in a theme park, there is an actor playing Jesus, and a bunch of actors…
gregladen | November 19, 2008Post Election 2008, Liberals have the blues. Two kinds of blues.
First, we have BLUE STATES!!! Lots of them! Unsurprisingly, many of the submissions for this edition of the carnival are about the election. Second, we have the blues over Proposition Eight, which we Hate. Many of this edition's submissions are about this topic. In both areas, we find the usual insight and thoughtful writing.
We also have a third category this time around, called Honorable Mention. The COL is a selective carnival: Only a small number of posts get in each time compared to the avalanche of entries we…
gregladen | November 18, 2008You do know that it works like this:
Fungus and animals are sister taxa to the exclusion of plants.
This might make the following less scary. Or more scary.
Hat tip: The Lorax. The Lorax is here:
http://angrybychoice.blogspot.com/
(Warning, that site will make noise when you open it.)
gregladen | November 18, 2008It started out as a church. Then the children were taken away because, according to authorities, they were being held in some sort of hareem of young girls for the church leader's pleasure. Now, they will probably start calling it a 'cult.' But it isn't. It's just a church.
State officials on Tuesday took into protective custody 21 children associated with an evangelical group whose founder faces federal child sex charges.
The children, all younger than 18 and part of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, were taken while custody hearings were being held for six girls seized during a…
gregladen | November 18, 2008And the winner is ......
Democrat Mark Begich called winner over Ted Stevens. The count is still on, but MSNCB is reporting that AP is calling the race. A recount could be requested.
Now, everything is ruined for Sarah Palin.
gregladen | November 18, 2008I did that once, and got totally screwed. I went in for an oil change. The guys at the Jiffy Lube convinced me that I should also get my tires rotated (though they did not succeed in convincing me to have the transmission oil reconditioned). When I drove off, it turned out that they had forgotten to bolt the wheels back on. Whoa.
Always make sure they bolt the wheels back on.
Anyway, our own Twin Cities Astronaut, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (that's a very common name in Saint Paul, by the way) was up in space walking around the space shuttle, and she was supposed to give it a lube job…
gregladen | November 18, 2008Just when you think you should not go back into the water, something like this comes along and tells you....
You were absolutely right to not want to go back into the water.
That was a Gordian worm sliding out of a cricket.
And this is a Zombie Snail Parasite:
gregladen | November 18, 2008Unmasking Europa: The Search for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon by Richard Greenberg is the exploration of one of the more interesting planetary bodies of our solar system ... Europa, a moon of Jupiter, as well as one of the more interesting episodes in the politics of science.
Europa is the sixth moon of Jupiter, and is almost the size of our Moon. But get this: Europa has a thin Oxygen atmosphere, and is covered with water. This makes it a very likely place for life to evolve.
Being so far from the sun, and having a very thin atmosphere (and some other considerations) means that Europa…
gregladen | November 18, 2008... and verily, got their asses totally smitten.
But they will never lean, will they! Nice pictures of the Flalse Idol of Wall Street at Holocene Hominid
gregladen | November 18, 2008The oldest genetically identifiable nuclear family met a violent death, according to analysis of remains from 4,600-year-old burials in Germany.
Writing in the journal PNAS, researchers say the broken bones of these stone age people show they were killed in a struggle.
Comparisons of DNA from one grave confirm it contained a mother, father, and their two children.
The son and daughter were buried in the arms of their parents.
gregladen | November 18, 2008The military chief of staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been sacked after the army lost territory to rebel forces in the east.
The reason for Dieudonne Kayembe's dismissal was the urgency of the conflict, a TV statement said.
President Joseph Kabila named navy chief General Didier Etumba Longomba as the new head of the armed forces.
Meanwhile, a UN peacekeeping commander says he cannot defeat the rebels because of his rules of engagement.
General Bipin Rawat, who commands 6,000 troops, told the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper that his forces were denied any element of surprise by…
gregladen | November 17, 2008...over 900 people died in one event. One religious event. Happy Anniversary Jonestown Massacre.
That event was when the word "cult" became absolutely, concretely reified to distinguish between 'mainstream' religion and non-socially accepted religion (though that distinction is often made post hoc) in newsrooms, and the association of death ... usually suicide ... with religious 'cults' was underscored in spades. (The term 'cult' has been used in a similar way, is of course, for over a century.)
In my view, it is not entirely clear what the difference is between something like Jone's cult…
gregladen | November 17, 2008
It was one of the items in the envelope. It's a sticker, like that I can put on my car.