On Jan 6, 9:59 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> CL wrote:
> > My own "home" state has still not declared the winner of the US
> > Senate seat contest, yet. The incumbent excrescence, Norm "Smarmy
> > Normy" Coleman, seems to be leading by less than one hundred votes
> > out of three million cast.
>
> For those of you who were not following the action, the Minnesota State
> Canvassing Board has declared the vote recount over with Al Franken
> leading by 225 votes.  "Smarmy Normy" Coleman is suing, which will tie
> things up a bit longer, but it is unlikely that his case will go
> anywhere as the State Supreme Court has already thrown out all of his
> major challenges.  Coleman's Washington D.C. offices were ordered closed
> by the Senate Rules Committee at noon Monday.  The Chief Justice of the
> State Supreme Court (who must recuse himself as he is also a member of
> the State Canvassing Board) will appoint a three-judge hearing panel
> tomorrow to hear Coleman's remaining challenges ... which most legal
> experts on both sides believe will get tossed out in short order.

Until you posted this and I went a googling, for some reason I kept
getting Al Franken and Weird Al mixed up.