Hope each and everyone of you and your family Peace and Prosperity and a Better New Year. From
Barry Artiste, Snowed in the Burbs of Vangroovy, in front of the Fireplace with friends and family and a good Cuban Cigar.
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A wall holding back 80 acres of sludge from a coal plant in central Tennessee broke this week, spilling more than 500 million gallons of waste into the surrounding area.
Environmental Protection Agency officials are on the scene and expect the cleanup to to take four to six weeks.
Environmental Protection Agency officials are on the scene and expect the cleanup to to take four to six weeks.
The sludge, a byproduct of ash from coal combustion, was contained at a retention site at the Tennessee Valley Authority's power plant in Kingston, about 40 miles east of Knoxville, agency officials said.
The retention wall breached early Monday, sending the sludge downhill and damaging 15 homes. All the residents were evacuated, and three homes were deemed uninhabitable, a TVA spokesman told CNN.
The plant sits on a tributary of the Tennessee River called the Clinch River.
"We deeply regret that a retention wall for ash containment at our Kingston Fossil Plant failed, resulting in an ash slide and damage to nearby homes," TVA said in a statement released
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Sphere: Related ContentA top Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon says he used fat he removed from patients in liposuction operations to power his 'green' 4x4 car.
U.S. authorities have launched an inquiry into claims made by Dr Alan Bittner that the fat he had sucked out of patients in liposuction operations was turned into biodiesel.
Bittner wrote on his website: 'The vast majority of my patients request that I use their fat for fuel -- and I have more fat than I can use.
'Not only do they get to lose their love handles or chubby belly, but they get to take part in saving the Earth.'
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Sphere: Related ContentViagra may have a new competitor in a few years.
Scientists are developing a "sex chip" that will stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain, according to online newspaper The Australian.
Deep brain stimulation is already being used to treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease, and the scientists believe this same type of treatment will work with the area of the brain that derives pleasure from eating and sex.
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Sphere: Related ContentThe Huffington Post, a venture-capital-backed new media site that mixes links to other sites content with hundreds of celebrity and volunteer blogger posts, is being accused of slimy business practices by a handful of smaller publications who say the site is unfairly copying and publishing their content.
Whet Moser, an editor at alternata]ive weekly Chicago Reader wants to know why The Huffington Post's newly formed Chicago-focused venture is stealing their copyrighted concert reviews and reprinting them in whole in order to get search engine traffic. And he found other examples taken wholesale from The Onion and Time Out Chicago.
Compare for example, the Chicago Reader's Amanda Palmer review and The Huffington Post's (screenshots if the pages change: Reader, The Huffington Post)
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Sphere: Related ContentTalk about Breaking news! Mike Wilson a software engineer Twitters, "I have just been in a plane crash" That is On scene reporting!
An American software engineer appears to have raised the bar on real-time citizen-journalism after the Boeing 737-500 he was traveling on careened off the runway on take-off at Denver International Airport Saturday.
As flames engulfed the plane, Mike Wilson sent his first Tweet even before managing to get off the aircraft, alerting his friends and family to the drama: "Holy f***ing s*** I was just in a plane crash!"
It was the first of 30 messages Wilson sent to the popular microblogging service, initially via text message and then, when he got home later that night, via the Web. Each message is a maximum of 140 characters long.
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Sphere: Related ContentMulligan died early Saturday at his home in Lyme, Connecticut, after a battle with heart disease, his wife, Sandy, said Monday.
Mulligan was nominated for an Oscar for "Mockingbird," the adaptation of Harper Lee's best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
The 1962 film starred Gregory Peck, who won the best-actor Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the small town lawyer who defends a black man falsely accused of rape.
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Every two years, Harvard Kennedy School hosts the newly elected Members of Congress for a three-day “briefing” on a wide variety of topics. We had an excellent turnout this week: 40 of the 50 new congresspeople, from both parties. I participated in a panel titled “Understanding the Economic Crisis,” along with Greg Mankiw, Elizabeth Warren and Robert Lawrence (on video).
Trying to explain the origins of the financial crisis and recession in ten minutes, even to the extent any of us understands it, was a tall order. But I tried to cram it all into a single slide.
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By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite.com, Iron Mill Interactive Media, Inc
Want to be part of the process to determine the winner in Minnesota's Senate election? Here is your opportunity to be part of what a recount is like. The Minneapolis paper the Star-Tribune has posted challenged ballots in the U.S. Senate race on a special website. Readers are asked to look at each ballot and make a determination pf Voter intent. Minnesota law states that a ballot must be counted if it is possible to determine intent even of the voter did not follow the instructions correctly. Votes are NOT counted if more then one candidate's bubble is marked. There are exceptions, if a voter makes an attempt to strike one of candidates following a a mistake, canvassing official are required to count the ballot as the voter had intended. A ballot will not be counted if there is any attempt to provide identification of who is casting the vote.
About the Senate result projections based on ballot challenges
Projected vote totals are calculated based on the results of the ballots you’ve reviewed in the Ballot Challenge. The more challenged ballots you review, the more accurate the projections will become. For challenged ballots that you do not review, the program will automatically assign “votes” to Coleman or Franken based on the percentage of ballots you selected for each candidate. For example, if your review found that 60 percent of the ballots should have gone to Coleman and 40 percent to Franken, the program will assign 60 percent of your unreviewed ballots to Coleman and 40 percent to Franken. The program will start assigning unreviewed ballots to the candidates after you decide 50 ballots. The program will also divide any challenges for which we don't have ballot images yet.
State Canvassing Board Thursday reviewed a Senate ballot that may have been a vote for Al Franken – except that the voter also added “Lizard People” as a write-in candidate.
The Bemidji voter’s vote did not count in the tight U.S. Senate race that drew even tighter Thursday when Sen. Norm Coleman’s lead was nearly erased
The writer went to the Star-Tribune's special website and signed up tp take the Ballot Challenge. The paper has uploaded nearly all of the challenged ballots and asked readers to determine voter intent on each ballot. Many of the ballots look like there should be no issue at all, so why would they be challenged? To find out you must click on the ballot for a full ballot view and read why the vote was challenged. Often you will find that a stray mark occured or someone had thier pen in another candidates box and and descided to vote for another. In doing so they left a small line or dot in the box. Both candidates challenged these type of ballots. It appears easy to determine these.
I considered the stary marks and wondered if the voter was cold (It is Minnesota), or if the voter were elderly, or had vision issues. Since the law deals with intent even if the rules may have been violated by misunderstanding or other reasons, the judge has to come to a conclusion on who, that one voter, chose for the Senate seat.
Their are other issues. Many ballots also seem to have no issue as well. One may think that the challenge was political or to cause delays in the process, not so. Again it is important to do a full ballot search and look at the reason the candidate challenged the vote. Some of the ballots were damaged and the voter voted again. Other times the voter voted twice. Some voters may have forgotten they voted absentee or wished to change their vote, so they just went to the polls again and voted. Other times there seemed to be no real reason why the candidate challenged the vote.
The writer evaluated 100 ballots for this article. Here are the results based on my review.
The Ballot Challenge You have voted on 100 ballots.
| Coleman | Franken | Other/no one | Coleman | Franken | Margin | Error | ||
| Current recount totals | 319 | 758 | 248 | 5,432 | 1,209,254 | 1,209,505 | Franken by 251 | |
| Your choices | 41 | 49 | 10 | 5,332 | 1,211,663 | 1,212,007 | Franken by 344 | ±582 |
| Everyone | 2980 | 3246 | 510 | 0 | 1,211,915 | 1,211,993 | Franken by 78 | |
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Sphere: Related ContentIranian police on Sunday raided and closed the office of a watchdog group led by Iran's Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi ahead of a celebration to mark International Human Rights Day.
Iran's judiciary confirmed the closure of the Human Rights Defenders Centre, saying it was involved in "illegal" activities.
"Tehran prosecutor ordered the closure of the office of Human Rights Defenders Centre because of its illegal activities," the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
"The centre was acting as a (political) party without having legal permit. It had illegal contacts with local and foreign organizations. It had organised news conferences and seminars."
Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel peace prize, criticised the raid, saying it will not stop human rights activists in Iran.
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To avoid any possible delays with deliveries on Christmas Eve Santa Claus will have access to the same military airspace that President George W. Bush announced would be made available to civilian flights during the holiday period, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said.
Santa Claus will enjoy special express lanes in the skies over the United States to help him make speedy deliveries to good girls and boys on Christmas Eve, Peters said in an emailed statement Thusday.
Earlier Thursday, Peters had presented Santa his Christmas Eve flight certificate at Andrews Air Force Base.
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Sphere: Related ContentMicelle Malking is reporting that a Michigan city has found an annoyance exception nesttled in First Amendment
The city of Brighton, Michigan have discovered an exception to free speech in the First Amendment. People can exercise their right to assemble and speak — just as long as no one gets annoyed by it. What a breakthrough!
Ticking someone off could get you a ticket in one Michigan city. The Brighton City Council on Thursday approved an ordinance allowing police in the Livingston County community to ticket and fine anyone who is annoying in public “by word of mouth, sign or motions.”
The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus of Howell reports the measure is modeled on a similar ordinance in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak.
I’m certain that this was what the founding fathers of this nation had in mind. After all, they never annoyed authorities or Loyalists with their demands for independence and freedom.
Devil’s Advocate at Copious Dissent remarks:
First of all, 99% of the complaints are going to be Unconstitutional. Political speech is almost always “annoying.” If it weren’t annoying to some people, there would be an overall consensus on the issue, and there would be no reason to express one’s political views about the topic.
Second, now financial resources for the police and prosecutors are going to be wasted on malcontents who are hypersensitive to being annoyed. I could think of 1000 other better ways for law enforcement to serve the people.
Michigan finds itself in such financial distress that its Congressional contingent has successfully harangued the White House into multi-billion-dollar loans to private enterprise. I find that extremely annoying. Do we get to issue citations to the entire state of Michigan now? Considering the economic mess the state government has created in that state, what they need is more annoying speech, not less, especially if it annoys the current power structure.
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Sphere: Related ContentWhile congress is complaing to finacial companies that they are receivinmg pay and bonuses that are not based on performance, they gave themselves their annaul pay raise. The raise comes out to 4700 bucks. Now with a performace rating of less then 23% maybe they should refuse or cut their increase based on what the folks they work for think of them. The writer of this article thinks the former.
Members of Congress will return to Washington after Christmas with a lavish $4,700 stocking stuffer in their paychecks. It's the automatic salary increase that kicks off at the start of 2009. Surely those of us who are paying for it would agree-the raises are hardly performance-based! When Congress adjourned this month, it did so with a drab 20% approval rating. After helping spend America into a recession that's cost millions of Americans their jobs, Congress wants more compensation for their own! Adding to the pain, Democratic leaders plan to convene in January with a "stimulus" plan that could strip another trillion dollars in debt from already struggling families over the next two years. The proposal is lined with new spending projects for roads, infrastructure, "green" building projects, school beautification, and, potentially, government-controlled health care. For a snapshot of just how "essential" the line-items are, the National Taxpayers Union combed through the wish lists and found this gem. In Alexandria, Virginia, the mayor (one of many vying for "emergency funds") requested $2.4 million to make the trolley motors hybrid and replace the contractors who drive them with unionized city employees. Of course, Congress greased the wheels for this sort of waste with its $152 billion package in February and $700 billion bailout seven months later. Contact your leaders and tell them to stop the spending madness. If Congress doesn't know where to start, I do. Refuse the $2,514,500 in Capitol Hill pay raises
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Sphere: Related ContentA Taggic story out of Oakly, Ohio as a church was putting on a Nativity Play. A cast member who was suspended some 20-25 feet above the scence fell to her death following her harness breaking.
OAKLEY, Ohio -- A female cast member of a Christmas nativity show at a church who was injured when she fell during the performance Wednesday night has died, Cincinnati television station WLWT reported.According to a statement from the Crossroads Church in Oakley, Ohio, Keri Shryock, 23, a cast member from "Awaited: A Christmas Show," fell about 20 feet from a suspension harness during the opening night of the show. Medical personnel attended to her and transferred her to University Hospital, where she died on Thursday morning.Shryock, of Sylvania, Ohio, was a graduate student at Xavier University and a 2008 graduate of Bowling Green State University.Shryock was playing the role of one of three wise men who were suspended by cables in the air over the audience when one of the cables malfunctioned, according to Jennifer Lilley, a witness who was at the show.She fell to the floor in the aisle and didn't move, Lilley said.
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The five-month mystery ended today when authorities confirmed that skeletal remains discovered in woods last week belong to the missing two-year-old girl.
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Sphere: Related Content"I don't know what Caroline Kennedy's qualifications are. Except that she has name recognition, but so does J-Lo."
-- Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
Right idea, wrong argument. The problem with Caroline Kennedy's presumption to Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat is not lack of qualification or experience. The Senate houses lots of inexperienced rookies -- wealthy businessmen, sports stars, even the occasional actor.
The problem is Kennedy's sense of entitlement. Given her rather modest achievements, she is trading entirely on pedigree.
I hate to be a good-government scold, but wasn't the American experiment a rather firm renunciation of government by pedigree?
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Christian Klar, a former member of the Red Army Faction, has been released from jail after spending 26 years in prison for his part in a wave of killings that shook Germany in the 1970s.
Klar, 56, was released on parole from Bruchsal prison near Karlsruhe in southern Germany, the Baden-Wuerttemberg state justice ministry said.He had been in prison since 1982 and was was convicted in 1985 of nine murders and 11 counts of attempted murder.
A court ruled last month that Klar was no longer a threat to society and that he would be released on January 3 after serving the minimum term for a life sentence.
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Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, accused of trying to sell the vacant Senate seat of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama, will break his silence on Friday to publicly address federal corruption charges levelled against him.
Blagojevich is set to make a statement to the media from his downtown Chicago office building around 3 p.m. It is unclear how much detail he will go into about the scandal.
On Wednesday, Blagojevich, who is charged with conspiracy and solicitation to commit bribery and has ignored calls for his resignation, said he couldn't wait to "begin to tell my side
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Sphere: Related ContentLAKE FOREST, Calif., Dec. 18 — “I commend
President-elect Obama for his courage to willingly take enormous heat
from his base by inviting someone like me, with whom he doesn’t agree on
every issue, to offer the Invocation at his historic Inaugural ceremony.Hopefully individuals passionately expressing opinions from the left
and the right will recognize that both of us have shown a commitment to
model civility in America.The Bible admonishes us to pray for our leaders. I am honored by
this opportunity to pray God’s blessing on the office of the President
and its current and future inhabitant, asking the Lord to provide wisdom
to America’s leaders during this critical time in our nation’s history.”SOURCE Dr. Rick Warren
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Bush is the President who keeps on giving! He related to Fox News Whitehouse Correspondant Bret Baer that he Hasn't compromised his soul to be Popular. This occurs days after he almost ate sole food in Iraq. Bush said he is no lame ducker... well in so many words!
Bush said presidents fail when they make decisions based on opinion polls.
"Look, everybody likes to be popular," said Bush.
"What do you expect? We've got a major economic problem and I'm the president during the major economic problem. I mean, do people approve of the economy? No. I don't approve of the economy. ... I've been a wartime president. I've dealt with two economic recessions now. I've had, hell, a lot of serious challenges. What matters to me is I didn't compromise my soul to be a popular guy."
An Associated Press-GFK poll last week showed just 28 percent of the public approving of the job Bush is doing, about where he has been all fall. Among Republicans, 54 percent approve, a low figure from members of a president's own political party.
Bush said he didn't think he would be viewed as the 21st century's Herbert Hoover, who was president during the Great Depression. He said he worked to keep the economy from collapsing.
"I'm a free market guy," Bush said. "But I'm not going to let this economy crater in order to preserve the free market system. So we made a lot of very strong moves and it's been painful for a lot of people, particularly because, you know, this _ the excesses of the past have caused a lot of folks to hurt when it comes to, like, their 401(k)'s or, you know, their jobs."
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Sphere: Related ContentTwo University of South Carolina geographers have produced a map of natural-hazard mortality in the United States.
The map, featured in the International Journal of Health Geographics, gives a county-level representation of the likelihood of dying as the result of natural events such as floods, earthquakes or extreme weather.
Dr. Susan Cutter, a Carolina Distinguished Professor of Geography, and Kevin Borden, a doctoral candidate in geography, used nationwide data dating back to 1970 to create the map.
"Using this as a tool to identify areas with higher-than-average deaths can justify allocation of resources to these areas with the goal of reducing loss of life," said Cutter.
Hazard mortality is most prominent in the South, where most people are killed by severe weather such as tornadoes. Other areas identified as having elevated risks include the northern Great Plains Region, where heat and drought are the biggest killers, and in the mountainous areas of the West, where deaths are attributed to winter weather and flooding.
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Sphere: Related ContentCows were slightly injured making this movie. As far as beef grade, is this Choice, Select, or Prime? It wasn't the pilots choice nor did he Select this cow... But I see the incident is on, "Prime" Time TV!
Talk about going against the Left Wing! I actually have many more. Border Collie complains about BI Planes and fears being out of work! I can't help it!
I think the link to the Movie is down so here is a Link
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Sphere: Related ContentSome are calling the, "Shoe Fly" incident a victimless crime. Not so as White House Press Secretary Dana Perino has a Shiner from the Shoe. One calls this assult. While Left leaning blogs and the Shoe Punnsters laugh about the incident, Trybg to harm the Preident and Injuring a Government official is a major crime in Bagdad. Had this Happended to Saddam? Hanging or Firing Squad!
Perino is sporting a black-eye -- she calls it her "shoe-venir"; others have dubbed it a "shoe-shiner."
Perino was sitting to the President's right with other administration officials. Beside her was the U.S. interpreter and his microphone, which was on a "boom" stand -- a long pole atop a vertical stand that swivels around.When Mr. Bush's lead agent leapt up after the first shoe was thrown, he hit the stand, sending it swiveling. Perino had her eyes on Bush, didn't see it coming and ... well, boom.
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Sphere: Related ContentBarry Artiste Op/Ed
Canada's first foray into the Educational realm of Multicultural Diversity in setting up Africentric schools has turned into a dismal failure with less than 15 students enrolled. Africentre School officials non plussed by this obvious politically uncorrect showing, say Damn the Torpedos, we are going full steam ahead, we just need 25 more students to enrol and we are going to open this school next year.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has pulled public funding and will not use taxpayers money to support a failed social project, where in my opinion, this whole Politically Correct Liberal Feel Good Multicultural Diversity Experiment has always been a craw in my opinion, because after all no is more special than anyone else, we are all pretty much equal, or at least that is how a society should be. If one culture has an image problem, it is up to that culture to fix it, and not at the taxpayers expense, not by the Liberal Do Gooders who feel they and they alone know what is best.
On another note, US Sleaze Shows such as Maury, foster this racial divide featuring such condescending features of Who's my Daddy and other such tripe. Funny how this Multicultural Diversity issue on one hand states, you are special, let's celebrate our Diversity, yet when it comes to the mentally disabled, this same group of Latte Drinkers state strongly that the mentally or physically disabled are to be treated as equals as they are no different than you or I. Really? How Hypocritical of them, don't you think? As I have always stated, when in Rome.......you are Roman and nothing else that separates you from the rest of the herd. Got it! Good, let's keep it that way shall we?
You assimilate into society, or get the hell outta dodge!
Africentric school draws in less than 15 studentsUpdated: Thu Dec. 18 2008 9:10:16 AM
ctvtoronto.caLess than 15 people have signed up for Toronto's first Africentric school, according to the school board chair.
The Toronto District School Board has held three enrolment sessions, all of which were well advertised, said John Campbell. The sessions were meant for parents who had questions about the school and who wanted the opportunity to sign up their children for the specialized education.
The idea of an Africentric school came out of a report tabled in January 2008. The report suggested that a school curriculum focusing on black culture be implemented in three schools in the city's north-west end.
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Sphere: Related ContentDec. 16, 2008: NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to "load up" the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms. But the breach itself is not the biggest surprise. Researchers are even more amazed at the strange and unexpected way it forms, overturning long-held ideas of space physics.
"At first I didn't believe it," says THEMIS project scientist David Sibeck of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "This finding fundamentally alters our understanding of the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction."
The magnetosphere is a bubble of magnetism that surrounds Earth and protects us from solar wind. Exploring the bubble is a key goal of the THEMIS mission, launched in February 2007. The big discovery came on June 3, 2007, when the five probes serendipitously flew through the breach just as it was opening. Onboard sensors recorded a torrent of solar wind particles streaming into the magnetosphere, signaling an event of unexpected size and importance.
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Sphere: Related ContentAn Ohio agency director resigned Wednesday in the wake of a finding that she improperly used state computers to access personal information on the man who became known as "Joe the Plumber" during the presidential campaign.
Two other officials who were suspended from their positions for their role in the computer search will not be returning to their jobs, an agency spokeswoman said.
Department of Job and Family Services Director Helen Jones-Kelley said in a statement accompanying her resignation that she won't allow her reputation to be disparaged and that she is concerned for her family's safety.
"This decision comes after a time of pause, in which I realize that I continue to be used as a political postscript, providing a distraction from urgent state priorities," she said in her statement.
She could not be reached for additional comment Wednesday night.
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Sphere: Related ContentSenate hopeful Al Franken has agreed to withdraw several hundred ballots his campaign conested according to his communications director Andy Barr.
Al Franken's Senate campaign announced Sunday that it would have fewer than 500 challenges remaining for the state canvassing board to consider when it meets on Tuesday.
The state Canvassing Board -- which is overseeing the Senate recount in the race between Franken and Republican incumbent Norm Coleman -- issued an urgent plea last week for both campaigns to cut down their number of contested ballots.
"In making this pledge, we are taking to heart the good advice of the canvassing board and the best interests of Minnesotans who want to see this process move forward efficiently," Franken communications director Andy Barr said in a statement.
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Sphere: Related ContentJohn McCain, Newt Gingrich both complain about the Recent GOP Ad that tries to cast a shadow on Barack Obama as they allude that He is mixed up with Gov. Blagojevich.
Many others in the Republican party are saying enough already as they want the party to focus on restructuring and concidering what went wrong with the past election.
This writer agrees as The RNC hasnt learned anything from the past election. The showdow casting DID NOT WORK and should be abandon. The Republuican National Committee needs to focus on legislative stratagy and rebuilding a badly wounded party.
The economy is tanking, but it's still dirty tricks time for the Republican National Committee.
Its new Web attack ad tries to link President-elect Barack Obama to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Frankly, the ad is par for the course in political circles.
The video raises questions about Obama's ties to Blagojevich, using some audio bites of Obama and the governor, along with semi-inflammatory headlines.
Here's the twist: The ad has drawn dramatic criticism not only from Democrats but also from leading Republicans.
John McCain, who just happened to be the GOP standard-bearer in the 2008 presidential race, said over the weekend:
"..Right now, I think we should try to be working constructively together... on the economy stimulus package, reforms that are necessary."
On Tuesday former House Speaker Newt Gingrich wrote RNC Chairman Mike Duncan that the video was a "destructive distraction" at a time of national peril.
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Sphere: Related ContentPresident-elect Barack Obama is expected to name Mary Schapiro to head the Securities and Exchange Commission under his administration, according to media reports late Wednesday. Schapiro is currently the chief executive of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States.
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Sphere: Related ContentCNN Breaking News Wire states, Barack Obama is expected to soon name Illinois GOP Rep. Ray LaHood as his transportation secretary pick, two sources say.
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Sphere: Related ContentThe First Black Republican Mayor dies. Robert Blackwell was Mayer of Highland Pak, Michigan, Served Under Governor Romney, was also President of the Local UAW.
Blackwell, who was in his 80s, was mayor of Highland Park for two different stints in the '60s and '70s. First elected in 1968, he was a flashy character as well known for keeping the city afloat as he was for holding news conferences in the topless go-go bar next to city hall.
“This man was just fantastic,” said Juanita Parnell, Blackwell’s executive secretary who now is assistant to his son, Highland Park Emergency Financial Manager Arthur Blackwell.
Robert Blackwell was born in Meridian, Miss., and came to Highland Park in 1950 after graduating from Howard University in Washington with a degree in chemistry. He was a production planner for Chrysler and served three terms as president of his UAW local.
He entered the political arena as a Republican in the 1960s, and was appointed executive secretary of the state Labor Mediation Board by then-Gov. George Romney in 1963.
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Sphere: Related ContentThe last real chance at a southerner in Obama's cabinet went away went he chose his local School Superintendant for the post. South Carolina State Superintendant Inez Tenenbaum was a big supporter of the Obama campaign. Publically campaigned for him, as well as, gave him a tour of South Carolina's educational system. She was on Obama's short list. With Duncan being tagged for the job, a chance for a soiutherner in the Obama cabinet is all but lost
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama has moved faster than any modern president-elect in selecting his Cabinet, scouring Wall Street, academia and the Senate to assemble a diverse team that has won bipartisan praise.
“He has every basic entity within his government,” said U.S. Representative David Scott, a Georgia Democrat. “He’s got Jewish people, he’s got Protestants, he’s got white, black, you name it.”
Republicans including Arizona Senator John McCain, Obama’s opponent in the presidential election, also have applauded his choices.
Still, the Democrat’s star-studded roster lacks representatives from two groups: Southerners and the Republicans that he vowed to appoint during the campaign.
Forty-two days since winning the presidency, Obama has picked 11 members of his Cabinet and 11 senior White House aides.
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Sphere: Related ContentChild predators should now fear Santa ClausA 9-year-old girl in Texas had only one request for Christmas this year: Please make that man stop touching me and my sister.
Her letter addressed to Santa could not wait until Christmas day for a response. The Monitor of McAllen reports the man was arrested Friday, and could face as many as 99 years in prison if convicted of sexual abuse.
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Police held a news conferance today and stated that America's Most Wanted star John Walsh sons case is Solved.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Authorities in South Florida have announced that they've finally solved 1981 killing of a little boy whose father later gained fame as the host of "America's Most Wanted."
Hollywood police held a news conference Tuesday afternoon to close the abduction and homicide case of 6-year-old Adam Walsh.
Adam's parents, John and Reve Walsh, long ago derided the investigation as botched. Both were at the news conference.
The boy went missing from a Hollywood mall on July 27, 1981. Fishermen discovered his severed head in a canal 120 miles away two weeks later. His body was never found.
So who is the Killer?
A serial killer named Ottis Toole, died in prison more than a decade ago.
Toole had confessed to the killing, but later recanted.
Toole's niece told the boy's father, John Walsh, her uncle gave a deathbed confession to the crime.
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Sphere: Related ContentIn the past year we've highlighted hundreds of Windows apps aimed at making your life easier, boosting your computer productivity, and powering up your PC.
For those of you who weren't able to keep up, here's a look back at the most popular Windows downloads of 2008.
Keep in mind that this list is based on the popularity of posts we've published in 2008 only, regardless of the original release date of the app. Many were brand new this year, while others were solid updates to popular software. Here's the full run-down of the 12 most popular Windows downloads of 2008:
Firefox 3 Is Released, We Download
Firefox 3 was easily one of the biggest events in software in 2008 regardless of what platform you run. We may be well on the way to Firefox 3.1 now, but if you're looking to brush up on your Firefox 3 chops, be sure to check out the top 10 Firefox 3 features and our power user's guide to Firefox 3.
Mojo Downloads Music from Your Friends' iTunes Libraries Over the Internet
Mojo makes it easy to download music from your friends' iTunes libraries over the internet. Mojo comes in both free and premium flavors, but the free version offers plenty of functionality for the money. If you're just getting started with Mojo, check out our guide to using Mojo.
Free PDF to Word Doc Converter Does What It Sounds Like
It's easy to convert or print Microsoft Word documents to PDF, but what about when you want to go the other way around? The aptly named Free PDF to Word Doc Converter does exactly that. (Original post)
OurTunes Grabs Music from Shared iTunes Libraries
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Sphere: Related ContentCNN iNternational is Reporting That departed from the Dominican Republican has been lost enroute to Turks and Caicos Islands
Rescue crews scoured the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday for a plane that took off from the Dominican Republic en route to the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Dominican Republic Civil Aviation agency said.
Agency director Jose Tomas Perez said the flight left Santo Domingo at 4:30 p.m. Monday, and the plane later sent out a distress signal to Miami, Florida, that it was experiencing an emergency.
There were 12 people onboard, including the pilot.
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Sphere: Related ContentT. Boone Pickens Sent out this letter regarding Obams Energy Team Picks
Some big pieces of the puzzle got put in place this afternoon. President-elect Obama named his Energy Team, including Steven Chu as Secretary of Energy and Carol Browner to lead the White House Council on Energy and the Environment.
Dr. Chu is a great choice - a Nobel Prize winner and big proponent of alternative fuels and energy efficiency. You already know how much I think of Carol Browner. I had an hour-long meeting with her earlier this month in Washington where she’s been heading up the Energy Transition Team for the President-elect.
I’ve met the President-elect. I know key members of his team. And they’re as serious about ending America’s dependence on foreign oil as you and I are. They’ve heard me loud and clear. Now they need to hear from you.
Click here to join your Pickens Plan District Group (and sign up to be the leader if there isn't one already) so you can help bring in 500 more members to the New Energy Army in your Congressional District before Inauguration Day. Those first 100 days are right around the corner, and we need to hit the ground running!
-Boone
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Sphere: Related ContentObama's Pick for Secretary of Education Is Arne Duncan. Problem is that he is in charge of Chicago schools. An education system that has a 52.2% graduation rate. Obama once said, "We can do better then this".
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Obama's Pick for Secretary of Education Is Arne Duncan. Problem is that he is in charge of Chicago schools. An education system that has a 52.2% graduation rate. Obama once said, "We can do better then this".
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CNN is reporting on it's breaking wire that Barack Obama will announce Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado as his pick for interior secretary, two transition officials say.
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Sphere: Related ContentBarack Obama's choice for secretary of education is Arne Duncan, the head of Chicago public schools, a source tells CNN.
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Sphere: Related ContentA few years ago the Center for Automotive Research published a very useful study titled "The Auto Industry Moving South: An Examination of Trends" [PDF]. The study's authors looked at a variety of factors influencing this trend, including the role of incentive packages that states offer to car companies.
What they found is that, contrary to Gettelfinger's assertion, foreign auto companies are not lured to build factories in the U.S. — or even in particular regions of the U.S. — because of incentive packages. Rather, states use incentive packages to compete with their next-door neighbors once a particular region of the U.S. has already been chosen:
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Sphere: Related ContentIn a Press Conferance Moments ago, Secratary of State, Madigan, stated, "
MTF, Breaking
A mother accused of selling her newborn twin boys for £9,000 to pay for a liposuction operation was involved in an online rent-a-womb trade with women desperate to have children, it was claimed today.
Restaurant worker Sonia Ringoir, 31, has been accused by police at Ghent, Belgium with treating her twins in a 'degrading' way and with fraud after a Dutch couple alleged that she had conned them.
Tamara Stegeman said that Ringoir had run sperm 'parties' at her large family home in Lovendegem, a village near Ghent, where she charged £300 a time to be impregnated with her husband's sperm.
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Sphere: Related ContentStrip Shows Are Considered Theater in the NetherlandsJudges in the Dutch Supreme Court has made up their minds concerning a case of whether or not strip shows were considered theater or a means of perversion. If the judges were to decide it was simply a place for men to stare at naked women then the taxes would be astronomical. The owner of the club has already paid thousands of dollars in to the system with his taxes
. The owner of the establishment claimed what he was peddling was theater.
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Sphere: Related ContentBefore taking a glance into the future fashion trends, maybe one should stop for a while and think about the mistakes of the past – if any. Nevertheless, fashion connoisseurs have already started to sum up the goods and the bads of the current fashion tendencies, which can be easily spotted on the street and not only. One of these experts is Terri Potraz, who recently revealed, on the NowPublic website, her top five worst choices, put together thanks to the enthusiastic support of fashion-wise people around the globe.
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Sphere: Related ContentBarry Artiste Op/Ed
Besides bailing out the Big Three and protecting Workers Jobs, one other consideration shjould be in the forefront. People who have bought New Cars from the Big 3 costing an average of 30,000 dollars may be left without a Warranty in the event the Big 3 go bankrupt. The bailout mind you is being paid for by taxpayers who are also Warranty holders of these new cars. Funny there is no mention of what will happen to the consumer in the event they are left warrantyless. But then that is par for the course when it comes to the consumer now isn't it?
Canadian Auto Workers president Ken Lewenza praised the announcement of a potential $3.3-billion lifeline to the country's car industry, but warned that it should hinge on promises by manufacturers to maintain jobs and keep plants open.
"The reason the CAW pushed for government involvement is because all governments are intervening in the economy and in particular the auto industry," Lewenza told CTV Newsnet Saturday.
"But we want to protect our existing investment and our existing facilities. So there has to be a condition of government intervening to support the existing facilities and keep them open."
Ontario NDP leader Howard Hampton said automakers should be providing both employment and product guarantees, if they are receiving government assistance.
"You need to get product guarantees, in other words, you want to be producing the cars and trucks of the future that people want to buy," he said during an appearance on CTV Newsnet on Saturday.
"And secondly, you need some job guarantees."
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Green Party Leader, Leader of No one by the way, as Canadians voted with their concience resulting in Elizabeth may should stick to other pursuits than politics. Anyways Elizabeth peed in Canada's Cornflakes bu stating Canada's dismal failure in Environmental Policies is something the world should be concerned about.
Granted Canada my be far from perfect, but then in this eco climate and job losses the world over, along with countries refusing to take our recyclables, perhaps we could do more to reduce, reuse and recycle. But do we rally need May's ever present Waggin Finger to chastise Canadians, after all isn't that why we have David Suzuki? At least David Suzuki has the credentials to critique Canada's Environmental POlicies, not a an armchair Environmentalist with no Educational background in Environmental studies?
The UN climate conference in Poznan, Poland, was a "mark of shame" for Canada, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said on Saturday.
Delegates from poorer nations were angry at Canada for not meeting its commitments under the Kyoto protocol, as well as all industrialized countries for stalling on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, May told CBC News.
During the conference, which began Dec. 1, Canada won several Fossil of the Day Awards, announced by Climate Action Network International, a group that includes more than 400 non-governmental organizations.
"It was embarrassing being a Canadian at these meetings," May said.
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Sphere: Related ContentOTTAWA - The sweetest dream of Doug Macklem’s life came to an abrupt halt on Christmas Day 2006 - via e-mail.
The message told him that the love of his life, Nicole L’Ecuyer, had died that morning from injuries suffered in a Christmas Eve car accident in the Dominican Republic.
“Other than my parents’ deaths, it was the worst day of my life,” says Macklem, 44, a computer systems analyst. “My world was just completely obliterated.”
Macklem held a plane ticket that was to take him in four days to the Dominican, where he was to meet Nicole’s family for the first time and tour the resort villas she had found and purchased for their future life together.
Macklem, born with cerebral palsy, is wheelchair-bound, needing help to eat and dress. Nicole was the first woman who seemed capable of seeing past his disability.
The two had met in August 2004 as Doug pursued companionship among the services advertised by an escort agency online.
I added a photo of President Elect Obama and Governor Blagojevich. The rational for posting it here is that it was taken on November 11, 2008. Obama stated that he has had no contact with the Governor. The photo appears to speak of another story. In addition, Obama's Chief Political Strategist David Axelrod stated earlier that Obama had indeed been in contact with the Governor over campaign issues, but retracted these comments following the Governor's arrest. See the Photo Here Does this photo mean anything to the story? Only that Obama and Axelrod made contrasting statements. The other question is what constitutes contact? Remember in the Clinton Administration it all came down to what you definition of, "is" is.
If Obama was able to get through this, and I will say it, culture of corruption, then he is a great man indeed. For all of us American's I am hopeful he is the reformer that he campaigned on being not an insider in the political loop. If not, comparatively, the Bush years will look like a kindergartner disobeying his teachers instructions.
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Sphere: Related ContentSenate Majority Leader, Harry Reid says there will be a vote on the Auto Bailout dispite Congressional Republican Opposition. The vote will be today or Wendsday.
Congress and the White House are working toward a $15 billion short-term agreement to bailout the auto industry. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Congress could act on an auto bailout as early as the end of the day.
Congressional Democrats and the White House on Tuesday are expected to finalize a $15 billion emergency loan package to help save millions of jobs connected to the nation's troubled auto industry.
Talks to prevent the collapse of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC have intensified in recent days, with the broad outline of a plan emerging Monday. GM, Chrysler and Ford Motor Co. directly employ about 350,000 people, and millions of other workers depend on the industry.
Under the deal taking shape, GM and Chrysler would get emergency loans on Dec. 15. Then an overseer — a kind of "car czar" — would write guidelines, due on the first of the year, for restructuring the Big Three automakers. If the car companies haven't taken enough steps to reinvent themselves by Feb. 15, the overseer could recall the money.
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Sphere: Related ContentIllinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested Tuesday morning in Chicago on two counts each of federal corruption charges stemming from allegations Blagojevich was trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat to the highest bidder.
The arrest is part of a three-year probe of "pay-to-play politics" in the governor's administration. The criminal complaint by the FBI says each man was arrested on two charges of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and solicitation of bribery.
The charges also relate to allegations that Blagojevich and Harris schemed with previously convicted defendants and Obama associates Antonin Rezko, Stuart Levine, Ali Ata and others to arrange financial benefits in exchange for appointments to state boards and commissions, state employment, state contracts and access to state funds.
In addition, the case alleges that Blagojevich tried to influence the composition of The Chicago Tribune editorial board in exchange for state aid to the Tribune Company, which owns the newspaper.
Blagojevich and Harris will have an initial appearance in U.S. District Court Tuesday.
A statement by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Robert Grant said Blagojevich and Harris "allegedly conspired to sell U.S. Senate appointment, engaged in pay-to-play schemes and threatened to withhold state assistance to Tribune Company for Wrigley Field to induce (the) purge of newspaper editorial writers."
"The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering," Fitzgerald said in a statement.
"Blagojevich put a for sale sign on the naming of a United States Senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target; and corruptly used his office in an effort to trample editorial voices of criticism," he added.
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Sphere: Related ContentA U.S. Marine Corps fighter jet has crashed into a residential neighborhood in San Diego, California..
The Aircraft is an F-18. Pictures to follow. We are locating the satellite feed at this time. The area is in Universal City.
Terri Potratz has updated this story at at 19:06 on December 8th, 2008
UPDATE: The death toll has risen to 3, with rescuers still searching the destroyed homes for people.
Two adults and a child were killed and officials will resume searching the site for a missing child tomorrow, San Diego Fire Department spokesman Maurice Luque said in a telephone interview.
Source: bloomberg.com
Update: Navy is reporting that the pilot has been recovered. (Source: Fox News)
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NowPublic's Scan Tool is Active on this story. To see the Scan Tool in Action follow this LINK. This was the tool used by NowPublic that received international Attention as it provided up to the second information during the India Terrorist Attacks. In addition our Southeast Asia Corespondent, Sanjay Jha was on location and was sought by international media as he was on site and provided up to the minute updates to media outlets like Fox News.
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F-18 Crashes in Normal Hieghts San Diego
An F-18 military jet crashed in a San Diego neighborhood on Monday, sparking at least one house fire.
It wasn't immediately clear whether anyone was injured, said Maurice Luque, a spokesman for the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. Television news footage showed one house and two cars on fire.
Fire crews were at the scene of the crash, which occurred near Interstate 805, reports Fox 5 Affiliate in San Diego.
The plane crashed shortly before noon Monday as it prepared to land at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, said Ian Gregor, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman. The crash occurred two miles from the base.
The pilot ejected, Gregor said.
"We saw two big bangs," resident Scott Patterson told KNX radio. "The smoke came up. We don't know what it was."
The F-18 is a supersonic jet used widely in the Marine Corps and Navy.
Miramar, well known for its role in the movie "Top Gun," is home to some 10,000 Marines. It was operated by the Navy until 1996.
We are asking those near the crash site to provide media and share their personal story in the comments section. Some of those will be transferred to the main story.
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Sphere: Related ContentHere is an Opinion by Legal Newsline. Politisite is a Conservative but sees the Nomination of Senator Clinton as a Positive Move my the Obama Campaign. There was an issue during the Nixion Administartion over a salary issue. It is Politisite's opinion that President Obama can simply resolve this with an Exexcutive Order. The story is still worth a read.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton is constitutionally ineligible to serve as President-elect Barack Obama's secretary of state, a legal watchdog group said Tuesday.
Judicial Watch said the Ineligibility Clause of the United States Constitution says that no member of Congress can be appointed to an office that has benefited from a salary increase during the time that person was in Congress.
The Washington-based group points to a January 2008 Executive Order signed by President George W. Bush during Clinton's current Senate term that increased the salary for secretary of state.
"No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time," Article I, section 6 of the U.S. Constitution says.
Obama announced Monday that Clinton, the junior senator from New York, was his pick for secretary of state.
Judicial Watch said former U.S. President Richard Nixon circumvented ineligibility provision after appointing former Ohio Sen. William Saxbe, a Republican, as attorney general.
The Nixon administration was able to get legislation passed that reduced the salary to the level that existed prior to Saxbe's appointment.
Former President Bill Clinton used the so-called "Saxbe Fix," to allow Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, to assume the position of treasury secretary.
"There's no getting around the Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, so Hillary Clinton is prohibited from serving in the Cabinet until at least 2013, when her current term expires" said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
"Barack Obama should select someone who is eligible for the position of Secretary of State and save the country from a constitutional battle over Hillary Clinton's confirmation," he added.
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Sphere: Related ContentFrankin Senate race not so Funny, 100 Ballots found to be scanned inappropriately
By Albert N. Milliron, Editor Politisite.com, Iron Mill Interactive Media, inc
Could it be that that nearly a month after the general election that more ballots have been found. We live in a country that prides itself in having the results are read on the evening news and all the votes counted within three hours of the polls closing. Is is not a laughing matter that the election numbers are still in contention between these two candidates. This would be laughable but then again one of the candidates is the Man who was Saturday Night Lives, "Al Frankin Decade" How appropriate for us to be sitting here still wondering who is the winning senator. The Minnesota Board of Elections has the results listed below. Hopefully Al Frankin isn't hoping for another decade to celebrate his greatness.
Is this over? Has Coleman really won. Frankin is heading to court in Albert Gore Fashion to have the court to decide that the voters really didn't mean what they meant when 215 folks sided with Coleman in the end. In Minnesota the winner is the candidate who gets the most votes, Frankin doesn't think so. He is looking for a remedy that goes beyond the will of the people.
100% Reportig
Colman (R)- 1,211,590- 42% + 215 Vote
Frankin (D) -1,211,375- 42%
Barkly (I) - 437,404 - 15%
Democrat Al Franken's campaign lodged a protest today over 133 votes that it said could not be accounted for during the U.S. Senate recount of a precinct in Minneapolis, at a potential cost to the candidate of as many as 46 net votes.
Campaign officials sent a letter to the Secretary of State's office and Minneapolis elections director Cindy Reichert demanding that the votes in one city precinct not be officially reported until a search is conducted for the ballots.
Late Wednesday, Reichert said she had decided to keep the results in the precinct open until all of the discrepancies could be resolved, by reviewing all of the precinct’s election materials at City Hall on Thursday.
“Several mistakes were made in the precinct and we need to verify all of the numbers we looked at [Wednesday],” she said.
In the first precinct of the city's Third Ward, the recount showed Franken with 1,010 votes, 80 fewer than the Election Day count. It showed Republican Sen. Norm Coleman with 34 votes fewer than on Election Day. Only two votes were challenged in the precinct, one by each campaign.
Reichert said the disparity in the numbers sent officials searching for the possibility of a missing ballot envelope. When none could be found, she said, the belief was that write-in ballots at the precinct, which were diverted on the side of the ballot box on Election Day, may have been fed through the ballot counter twice on Nov. 4.
Minnesota Senate Race: Typo Fix Gives Franken 100 More Votes
The vote gap between Senate candidates Norm Coleman and Al Franken fluctuated throughout the day Thursday, with Franken closing to within 236 votes by Thursday evening.
The fluctuations are normal, said a spokesman at the Secretary of State's office, as county's double check their work and report minor changes.
A typo in Pine County got fixed Thursday, giving Al Franken 100 more votes and tightening Minnesota's unresolved Senate race even tighter.
Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's lead over Democrat Al Franken stood at 236 votes Thursday night.
Norm Coleman, Biography
Norm Coleman, a handpicked candidate who helped the Republicans take control of the U.S. Senate, has set an active pace during his first term. He defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale in 2002 and quickly went to work investing his political capital.
Coleman started a leadership PAC to help fellow Republican candidates. In 2004, he ran for the chairmanship of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, but lost by one vote to Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
During the 2004 presidential election, Coleman went on the offensive against Democratic nominee John Kerry, telling reporters on calls organized by the Bush campaign that Kerry was a flip-flopper. Democrats retorted that Coleman, a former Democrat, was in no position to make that accusation.
Some critics complained that Coleman, who campaigned on a promise of changing the tone in Washington, had been far more partisan than advertised. Coleman moderated his positions after the 2004 presidential election, voting against Bush's proposed budget cuts to Medicaid and the Community Development Block Grant program. He has also consistently voted against efforts to allow drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Sphere: Related ContentExit Polls, Real Time Election Results, Breaking News & Commentary from Georgia's Run off. This election could determine if the Democrats have a Filibuster Proof majority in the Senate.
December 2 2008
by Albert N. Milliron, Iron Mill Interactive Media Inc. & Politisite.com
Hello all you pundits, politicos, politstes, pollsters, politisites, political junkies, and casual political readers. Your at the right place real time election results from the senate runoff election from Georgia
Update 10:38 pm - 96% Reproting - Chambliss 1,183,555 - 58%, Martin -873,113 - 42%
Update: 10:15 pm ET - with 92% reporting Sen Chambliss has won with 58% of the Vote. He had to do a runoff election as in Georgia you must win with 50% and 1 vote. He only won by 49% as there was a third party in November.
Senator Chambliss just gave his victory speech. This win prevents The Senate Democrats from having 60 that would provide a Filibuster Proof majority.
Update: 10:08 pm -91% Reporting -Chambliss 1,119,052- 58%,Martin 801,795 42%
Update: 9:50 pm -86% Reporting-Chambliss 1,042,844 -59%,Martin (D) 726,014 41%
71% Reporting -Chambliss (R) 875,362 70%,Martin (D) 594,263 40%
GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss wins a Georgia runoff, ending Democratic hopes of a filibuster-proof majority, CNN projects.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Congratulations to Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who looks to be on his way to a second six-year term in the U.S. Senate. Democrat Jim Martin has made a good race of it, pushing Chambliss to a runoff in a state in which Republicans remain strong favorites statewide, but he had a lot of the obstacles in his path.
The county where I was the Republican Stratagist (Columbia ) Has Chambliss at 76%. The Augusta area has Martin at 59%, Atlanta Counties all Hav Martin leading Chambliss by wide margins Martin is winning in all of the major cities. He is also taken a strong lead in South West Georgia. Martin's Stronest County is Clayton where is commands 82% of the vote. Having said all that, Most of Georgia is red. In Forsyth county Chambliss Commands 85% of the vote. Georgia can be viewed as a Red state less the I-20 counties from Augusta to Atlanta. Then the 7 counties in the south east
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Sphere: Related ContentFormer GOP Vice Presidential candidate, and current Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, will visit Augusta Monday, December 1st to campaign for U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss. Governor Palin will cover several Georgia cities Monday, but Augusta is her first stop, at 8:30 a.m.
Doors will open at 7:30 a.m. The event is free for the general public, but in order to attend, you must RSVP at www.procatalog.com/saxby or by visiting the ‘Action Center’ at www.saxby.org.
Official Press Release via email:
SAXBY CONFIRMS SARAH PALIN TO CAMPAIGN WITH HIM IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA—U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) today confirmed that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will campaign in Georgia with him on Monday, December 1st.
“I was thrilled when I got the call that Governor Palin would be able to make the trip to Georgia to campaign with me the day before the runoff election,” Saxby said. “Julianne and I are honored that she would take the time to travel to Georgia to tell everyone how important this election is and I know that she will receive an enthusiastic welcome everywhere we go.”
Governor Palin will join Saxby for four public rallies across the state on Monday, December 1st: 8:30 am in Augusta; 11:00 am in Savannah; 1:30 pm in Perry; and 4:00 pm in north metro Atlanta. More specific details on exact locations and how to obtain tickets will be available later this week.
Saxby is seeking re-election for his second term in the United States Senate. His re-election has been endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 180 Georgia County Commissioners, 190 city officials, 239 law enforcement officers, over 100 Georgia Democrats including Zell Miller, 102 State Representatives, 32 State Senators, Georgia Veterans including Vets for Freedom PAC and Veterans of Foreign Wars PAC, the Republican Liberty Caucus, National Federation of Independent Business, National Rifle Association PVF, National Right to Life PAC, the National Community Pharmacists Association, the Marietta Daily Journal, the Savannah Morning News, the Albany Herald, the Waycross Journal Herald, the Athens Banner Herald, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, the Brunswick News, the Augusta Chronicle, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Valdosta Times and the Macon Telegraph. He is the Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Senate Rules Committee. Senator Chambliss previously represented Georgia’s 8th congressional district for four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives where he served as the Chairman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security.
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Sphere: Related ContentAUGUSTA, Ga.---Thousands of people took to the James Brown Arena for a big GOP rally that featured Governor Sarah Palin. The Democrats held a rally of their own just a few blocks away. Both sides say it's a fight to the finish.
"I can't believe this line," said Susan Conger jokingly. "This line is going all the way to Hephzibah."
Sarah Palin drew thousands to the James Brown Arena, and hoped to leave the Republican base feeling good about Senate GOP candidate Saxby Chambliss.
"I'm so excited I can't stand it," said Ashley Wilson. "I may never have this opportunity again."
Fresh off a hotly contested presidential race, the Alaska governor got back to the stump, and this time it's personal.
"This is for my kids, and their future" said Governor Palin. "We need Saxby because we need checks and balances in Washington, and we will not have that if Saxby is not re-elected to Georgia."
"I wouldn't miss this for the world," said Mrs Wilson. "I love Sarah Palin."
Sarah Palin spoke to a crowd of 3,000 people for about 15 minutes. Many people braved the cold for hours."
"I'm a tremendous fan," said Phillip Jones. He was first in line. He arrived at midnight.
Democratic rival, Jim Martin held his own local rally.
"My opponent had to find somebody from Alaska," said Martin. "I just had to bring somebody in from Dekalb County."
Congressman Hank Johnson made his case for Martin. Neither candidate is taking anything for granted.
"Now you're not looking at landslide Jim," said Martin. "It's going to be really close, and I'm going to need the help of everybody."
"We're cautiously optimistic these people are going to turn Columbia, and Richmond and all these surrounding counties out," said Chambliss.
Governor Palin and Senator Chambliss kicked-off a 4 city tour in Augusta. They were expected to finish the day in Atlanta. Jim Martin was slated to make appearances in Augusta, Macon, and Atlanta.
The hours for the runoff are from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. All polling locations will be open. In Richmond County, elections director Lynn
Bailey is predicting a 15 to 20 % turnout overall, and she says the runoff will cost the city-county about $75,000.
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