for instance:

"But as MinnPost’s David Brauer reported yesterday: the story of the 32 absentee ballots is flat wrong. He called up Minneapolis election director Cindy Reichert to get the facts. She (Pawlenty during two Fox appearances in as many days called her “he”) attests the car-ballot story is “just not true”: She never had the ballots in her car — nor were they in anyone’s car for several days — and they were kept in secure facilities between election day and vote counting. It was Coleman’s attorney, Fritz Knaak, who told reporters, “We were actually told ballots had been riding around in her car for several days, which raised all kinds of integrity questions.” From there, the Wall Street Journal picked up on it and reported it as fact; similar to Hannity’s on-screen graphic (shown above), the error appeared in a story headlined “Mischief in Minnesota?”

But according to Brauer, Hannity is wrong on another count: “every one of” those 32 ballots did not go to Franken. Franken won half, 18 16, seven were cast for Coleman, and the remainder went to other candidates."

http://minnesotaindependent.com/17385/recount-hannity-pawlenty-car-ballot-lie

maybe they meant "White House Negro"?

or maybe they just don't understand the US system, and the difference between the House and the Senate?

does an insect have consciousness? doubtful. agency? maybe. does a fly make a decision as to which crumb to land on, or is it all programmed? or is the question meaningless? a computer presumably doesn't make a decision, it's all predictable from programming; even so-called "random number generators" running in programs are in fact predictable programs. but everybody knows that their PC is less predictable than it ought to be. what's the first thing the help desk tells you when you have a problem? reboot and maybe it won't happen again.

so how far up or down the line does it go? is the computer a person because although it ought to be predictable, it doesn't seem so? a fly? a frog? a dog? george bush?

anyway, next topic, kauffman's argument seems less that we should believe in God, than a weakish form of pagan nature worship. his jewish ancestors would be abashed. but in fact, he seems to be calling for nothing more than a little humility on behalf of the human race, which is something more in tune with atheism than with all the beliefs which insist that God made us in his own image, to be the crown of creation and rule over the universe, etc. etc. etc.

it's that intermediate state, where you spend month after month wading through ankle-deep gray-brown slush that makes all the vehicles look like they were made of adobe and you can somehow smell it permeating the air and it chills you worse than anything and you wish for nice cold dry snow that packs down so you can at least walk and drive on top of it.

that girl who plays tara (forget her name) is a revelation. i predict big things in store for her. it took a few episodes but she shows more range than anybody else in the cast. i was predicting she was the murderer, based on the "murder she wrote" principle (the murderer is always the best actor on the episode, as he/she has to change from friend to murderer in the last 10 minutes and sell it).

so sad they blew up ed, though. a vampire everyone could like.

you'll like the truck and trailer races they had on espn the other day. (pickup and suv size truck). Pretty much the same principle as the figure 8 bus races.

same idea as bill maher said the other night; "what other countries call football, we call soccer. and what other countries call war crimes, we call football".

pardoning that white house turkey. (adding to the ironies of the bush presidency)

Despite the Republican's strenuously objecting to the operation as "wag the dog" to distract from the Whitewater investigation, Clinton came a lot closer before 9/11, the CIA hitting a car in bin Laden's convoy with an RPG in 1998, than Bush ever did even after Osama killed 3000 Americans, and despite Bush's bankrupting the US, getting 4000 more Americans killed, killing a hundred thousand or so innocent people who we are supposed to be "saving", destroying the US' reputation and friends, handing most of Iraq over to Iran, and allowing Iran to become a nuclear power in the process.

Yes, in a couple of months Obama will put his hand on the Koran and intone "Allahu akhbar" and declare a jihad on Christian America. Oh noes!