Al Franken entitled to Senate seat, Minnesota Supreme Court rules - Lynn Sweet

Washington, DC--Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today:
"I congratulate Senator-elect Al Franken, the next Senator from the state of Minnesota.

"The people of Minnesota will now finally get the brilliant and hardworking new senator they elected in November and the full representation they deserve. After all the votes have been counted and recounted, the Minnesota Supreme Court has made the final determination that Minnesotans have chosen Al Franken to help their state and our country get back on track.

"The Senate looks forward to welcoming Senator-elect Franken as soon as possible. He will play a crucial role as we work to strengthen our economy, ensure all Americans can access and afford quality health care, make our country more energy independent, confirm the President's outstanding nominee to the Supreme Court, and tackle the many other challenges we face.

"I once again encourage Governor Pawlenty to respect the votes of his constituents and the decisions of his state's highest court. He should put politics aside, follow his state's laws and finally sign the certificate that will bring this episode to an end."

Economists (witch doctors of dubious veracity in my opinion) and republicans are always harping on supply and demand to justify greed based pricing, but if we are to believe that low supply means high prices and high supply means low prices then you must argue that media piracy is just following the natural rules of capitalism.

It costs me nothing to store the latest crap movie with Julia Roberts on my disks and to share it. It costs others nothing to do the same. Therefore an infinite number of zero cost copies are possible. Supply and Demand says then that all copies should be free because the supply is endless like air or sunshine.

Just announce that you are a republican.

It’s laughable how they are on their old hobby horse about how national health would destroy private insurance. This is what they said in defence of deregulation of broadcasting, finance, insurance and various other industries of corporate greed that have since run themselves and the economy into the ground.

But perhaps it would be a good thing if insurance companies faded into oblivion. They cost up to 30% of budget to administer. Medicare is at 3% max. 30% of billions down the drain.

Then there’s the hired guns, employees who sole job is to find ways to deny claims and cancel policies. Decades of republican rule has not only gained us a huge government growing every year, and massive deficit spending, not to  mention the psychotic invasion of Iraq; they have destroyed what regulatory bodies there are refusing to properly fund them and turning them from consumer protection to corporate protection. Another side effect of this is the previous republican administration being the most corrupt in history.

Republicans practice lies, deceit, fear mongering while stuffing their pockets with bribes from the wealthiest of… let’s call them residents since they are by no means citizens of this once great county. They are bugs who whore off it instead.

So next time you are keen to test your mental health just ask yourself if you are a republican or if you believe their lies. If you say yes, you should seek treatment immediately!

For years we’ve been able to filter SPAM emails and to block unwanted email addresses and domains, but soon we will have a revolutionary filter that blocks psychos!

Yes, email from psychos, republicans and PMS sufferers will soon be automatically blocked and sent to the great INBOX out in the nether world that the email authors live in.

No, not that kind of PC but politically correct. The latest shameful moment of this is David Letterman’s apology for his Sara Palin’s daughter joke.

A few voices object and CBS turns into water and an apology is made. An apology to people who make jokes about Hillary Clinton’s gender. Who call the president of the US an ape, a communist, a terrorist, etc. These are the people crying the loudest.

But it’s not totally a political issue. It’s what’s become of our society which has become so repressed and so cautious that we can’t function. Instead we divert our energies to drugs and other thrill seeking behaviours.

It’s OK to go out and get drunk but not to honestly criticize the people around you. You can insult those ‘Ayrabs’ and blame the Mexicans for all unemployment but you can’t joke about the Palin family’s hypocrisy or your neighbors, or criticize a soldier, a cop, or a business. These are the protected classes.

So, Mr. Letterman and all the awful comics on Comedy Central, please limit your jokes to toilet seats left up and lost remote controls.

It’s a PC world we live. Truth and creativity not welcome here.

New Yorkers are cows! A billionaire manipulates the government and you all sit back and shout hoorah! To hell with democracy. To hell with the vote. To hell with rule by the people. You just smile as once again you take a big one up the @ss!