Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Declan Murphy Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Pushing on a piece of string Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 05:00:14 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 22 Message-ID: <80fd93be-1d5e-4d02-9b02-7de52b4acf40@o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com> References: <2cc55ece-0a0b-4fb1-bae0-df2ff9b40471@r36g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <0ba196f8-f129-48d3-a233-111235036769@m4g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <4950467a$0$31208$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> <22957c6c-fdac-482e-8afd-3493f12750c3@g3g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <4950c947$0$31163$8f2e0ebb@news.shared-secrets.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 114.152.120.221 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1231333214 26312 127.0.0.1 (7 Jan 2009 13:00:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:00:14 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=114.152.120.221; posting-account=dFdNnAoAAACo_-792nICp6wBtnsk5ZbZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30618),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:167857 On Jan 6, 9:59=A0am, CL 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. =A0"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. =A0Coleman's Washington D.C. offices were ordered close= d > by the Senate Rules Committee at noon Monday. =A0The 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.