From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #770 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, November 7 2008 Volume 16 : Number 770 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: McCain Canceled (NR) - Minnesota ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: McCain Canceled (NR) - Minnesota [FSThomas ] Re: McCain Canceled (NR) - Minnesota ["Jason Brown" ] Re: McCain Canceled (NR) - Minnesota [Carrie Galbraith ] REAP [2fs ] Re: Texas official: Obama plotting with terrorists [2fs ] Re: Texas official: Obama plotting with terrorists [Steve Schiavo ] Re: Texas official: Obama plotting with terrorists [Steve Talkowski ] Re: Dobson struggling (NR) [Jeff Dwarf ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:45:35 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: McCain Canceled (NR) - Minnesota There's still a recount? Why for? The little creep conceded yesterday, to my delighted surprise. On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Jason Brown wrote: > Hang in there! Franken can totally pull this out. > > Here in Washington we had long recount in the governor's race in 2004. > Initially the republican Dino Rossi was up by 261 votes, then after > the machine recount the Rossi was up just 42 votes, and then after a > manual recount (which the Democrats had to post a $700k bond to pay > for) the democrat Christine Gregoire won with a 129 vote margin! > She was just reelected in a rematch against Rossi and leads by more > than 150,000 votes in the latest count. > > > -- > "IGNORE ME!!!!!!!" - The Grand Galactic Inquisitor ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:53:54 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: McCain Canceled (NR) - Minnesota Carrie Galbraith wrote: > On Nov 6, 2008, at 1:08 PM, 2fs wrote: >> >> >> And the Minnesota senate seat's headed for a recount...what was it, >> like 600 >> votes out of 3 million? >> > > I've been, as usual, glued to talk radio and just checked his (Franken's > site). So far they are saying it's about a 351 vote difference. And by > law in Minnesota a recount is required if it's .05% difference and this > is something like .015%. Meanwhile his counterpart, Coleman, is publicly > saying stepping out of the recount is the "gracious" thing for Franken > to do. Huh? > Franken's not buying it. Gotta love those third candidates, huh? Is the recount required if it's 1/2 of one percent difference, or a .05% difference (ie .0005)? (1% and .01% are completely different things.) Looking at CNN (http://tinyurl.com/6zrw88) it's: Coleman 1,211,077 (42.36%) Franken 1,210,487 (42.34%) Barkley 437,187 (15.29%) It looks like Franken is down by .02% (or .0002), putting the difference between the two first-placers currently at .0487% (0.000487). And does that take absentee ballots into account? We've got much the same set-up here in Georgia except that they do a run-off here between the top two until someone gets 50% + 1 (one voter, not one percent) and they're still counting Tuesday's vote here. CNN's frustrating as all get-out. They round all their statistics up, which is deceiving. They're currently showing Chamblis as having his 50%, but if you break down the numbers he's actually at 49.83%, which will cause a run-off and thrust my relatively cruddy state into the limelight for another three weeks or so. And here I thought I was going to be done with election ads. - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:00:34 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: McCain Canceled (NR) - Minnesota kevin studyvin wrote: > There's still a recount? Why for? The little creep conceded yesterday, to > my delighted surprise. By Little Creep I'm guessing you mean Franken, right? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:06:32 -0800 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: McCain Canceled (NR) - Minnesota On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:45 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > There's still a recount? Why for? The little creep conceded yesterday, to > my delighted surprise. There's no recount in Washington this year, but the initial count is still on going due to our mail in balloting. Gregoire has won by at least 150K this time and the margin is growing with each new batch of numbers. - -- "IGNORE ME!!!!!!!" - The Grand Galactic Inquisitor ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:29:12 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: McCain Canceled (NR) - Minnesota On 11/6/08, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2008, at 1:08 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> >> >> And the Minnesota senate seat's headed for a recount...what was it, like >> 600 >> votes out of 3 million? >> >> > I've been, as usual, glued to talk radio and just checked his (Franken's > site). So far they are saying it's about a 351 vote difference. And by law > in Minnesota a recount is required if it's .05% difference and this is > something like .015%. Meanwhile his counterpart, Coleman, is publicly saying > stepping out of the recount is the "gracious" thing for Franken to do. Huh? > Franken's not buying it. Nor should he. Splitting the difference between Franken's site's numbers and the CNN poll Ferris cited, let's say 475. That's out of ~2.8 million votes cast. That's equivalent to finding *one* different vote among about 6,000 ballots. Those are pretty good odds, I'd say - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:13:36 -0800 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: McCain Canceled (NR) - Minnesota On Nov 6, 2008, at 4:29 PM, 2fs wrote: > On 11/6/08, Carrie Galbraith wrote: > On Nov 6, 2008, at 1:08 PM, 2fs wrote: > > I've been, as usual, glued to talk radio and just checked his > (Franken's site). So far they are saying it's about a 351 vote > difference. And by law in Minnesota a recount is required if it's . > 05% difference and this is something like .015%. Meanwhile his > counterpart, Coleman, is publicly saying stepping out of the > recount is the "gracious" thing for Franken to do. Huh? > Franken's not buying it. > > > Nor should he. Splitting the difference between Franken's site's > numbers and the CNN poll Ferris cited, let's say 475. That's out of > ~2.8 million votes cast. That's equivalent to finding *one* > different vote among about 6,000 ballots. Those are pretty good > odds, I'd say Franken's site says roughly 470 and I read in a Minnesota paper that it is 351 so split the diff and it's still odds I'd take if I were him. I just looked on the Minnesota Secretary of State's website and they have the difference as 236 votes right now. > Is the recount required if it's 1/2 of one percent difference, or > a .05% difference (ie .0005)? (1% and .01% are completely > different things.) > > Looking at CNN (http://tinyurl.com/6zrw88) it's: > > Coleman 1,211,077 (42.36%) > Franken 1,210,487 (42.34%) > Barkley 437,187 (15.29%) > > It looks like Franken is down by .02% (or .0002), putting the > difference between the two first-placers currently at .0487% > (0.000487). And does that take absentee ballots into account? > Ah hell, I don't know how many 0s to put in. I read it is 1/2 of one percent. This site says the margin should be 0.5% or less: And this site is interesting on giving the legal steps going forward: I find this stuff fascinating! - - c "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. " - - Thomas Jefferson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:42:09 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Texas official: Obama plotting with terrorists The article seems to be gone, but there is some great reading here In other news from Texas - - Steve _______________ Interconnectedness among living beings can be accounted for by nonlocal quantum entanglement. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:48:46 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Texas official: Obama plotting with terrorists Steve Schiavo wrote: > > Quite what anyone - civilian or otherwise - would use a .50 calibre BMG for defeats me. Mind you, we have an open invitation from our construction crew somewhere in the midwest for one of their shooting weekends - where they tow an old truck out to their "play lot", fill it with blasting caps and other explodeables, and then discharge a M134 minigun at it until it explodes. They sent video. It looks like, um, fun. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 12:59:31 +0000 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Texas official: Obama plotting with terrorists BMG? Big Monkey Gun? Bone Mashing Gun? Bloody Mental Gun?? but, come on, he was FIVE MILES away... how that can be called reckless is beyond me (although if guns can kill or maim from that distance it beggars belief...) c* On 07/11/2008, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > > > Quite what anyone - civilian or otherwise - would use a .50 calibre BMG > for defeats me. Mind you, we have an open invitation from our > construction crew somewhere in the midwest for one of their shooting > weekends - where they tow an old truck out to their "play lot", fill it > with blasting caps and other explodeables, and then discharge a M134 > minigun at it until it explodes. They sent video. It looks like, um, fun. > > Stewart > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:49:41 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: Oh. Dear. God. Amy Winehouse lets herself go. Further. To rip Norm MacDonald a bit: The Amy Winehouse Devolution: 1. Crackwhore 2. Assistant Crackwhore 3. Crackwhore in Training 4. Crackwhore's Fluffer 5. Crackwhore's Fluffer's personal assistant 6. Person relieved of all crackwhore duties whatsoever and is stationed at the door to make the cops think it's a perfectly innocent Mexican human-organ-theft operation http://www.wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=14621 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:03:15 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: REAP John Leonard, critic: - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:11:33 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Texas official: Obama plotting with terrorists On 11/7/08, craigie* wrote: > > BMG? > > Big Monkey Gun? Bone Mashing Gun? > > Bloody Mental Gun?? > > but, come on, he was FIVE MILES away... how that can be called reckless is > beyond me > > (although if guns can kill or maim from that distance it beggars belief...) The second fact is what makes the first one recklessness: if you're firing a weapon that can kill someone from five miles away, you'd better make damned sure no one's in that line of fire. Which is to say, you'd better make damned sure you're on the fucking moon. Little boys need to grow up. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:14:47 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Oh. Dear. God. On 11/7/08, FSThomas wrote: > > Amy Winehouse lets herself go. Further. > > To rip Norm MacDonald a bit: The Amy Winehouse Devolution: > > 1. Crackwhore > 2. Assistant Crackwhore > 3. Crackwhore in Training > 4. Crackwhore's Fluffer > 5. Crackwhore's Fluffer's personal assistant > 6. Person relieved of all crackwhore duties whatsoever and is stationed at > the door to make the cops think it's a perfectly innocent Mexican > human-organ-theft operation > > http://www.wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=14621 Not fair - she *was* playing the part of some nightmare androgyne from a creepy scene in the new David Lynch movie. Wait - she wasn't? Never mind. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:16:01 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: Texas official: Obama plotting with terrorists On Nov 7, 2008, at 6:59 AM, craigie* wrote: > BMG? > > Big Monkey Gun? Bone Mashing Gun? > > Bloody Mental Gun?? > > but, come on, he was FIVE MILES away... how that can be called > reckless is > beyond me > > (although if guns can kill or maim from that distance it beggars > belief...) Good thing it wasn't a BFG, although I don't think the BFG has that kind of range. I think the range of the larger .22 round is up to a mile. Firing a rifle outside with any kind of elevation is probably reckless. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:32:26 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Dobson struggling (NR) Direct download of the wacky "letter from 2012" from before the election. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:26:26 -0500 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: Texas official: Obama plotting with terrorists Funny, I instantly thought you were referring to the id weapon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG10K#BFG10K On Nov 7, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > On Nov 7, 2008, at 6:59 AM, craigie* wrote: > >> BMG? >> >> Big Monkey Gun? Bone Mashing Gun? >> >> Bloody Mental Gun?? >> >> but, come on, he was FIVE MILES away... how that can be called >> reckless is >> beyond me >> >> (although if guns can kill or maim from that distance it beggars >> belief...) > > > Good thing it wasn't a BFG, although I don't think the BFG has that > kind of range. > > > > I think the range of the larger .22 round is up to a mile. Firing a > rifle outside with any kind of elevation is probably reckless. > Steve Talkowski, Character Design | Animation Director Email stevetalkowski@mac.com | Web http://sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:43:50 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Oh. Dear. God. On Nov 7, 2008, at 6:49 AM, FSThomas wrote: > Amy Winehouse lets herself go. Further. > > To rip Norm MacDonald a bit: The Amy Winehouse Devolution: > > 1. Crackwhore > 2. Assistant Crackwhore > 3. Crackwhore in Training > 4. Crackwhore's Fluffer > 5. Crackwhore's Fluffer's personal assistant > 6. Person relieved of all crackwhore duties whatsoever and is > stationed at the door to make the cops think it's a perfectly > innocent Mexican human-organ-theft operation > > http://www.wwtdd.com/post.phtml?pk=14621 Oh man, I did *not* need to see that! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:23:02 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Dobson struggling (NR) Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > Direct download of the wacky "letter from 2012" > from before the election. > > Funny how they never question God's will, but it never occurs to them that anything could be a message from God telling them to stop being assholes. "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #770 ********************************