Comments on: Son of Recount: Minnesota Governor’s Race

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:37:34 +0000

Interestingly, if you look at unemployment by county in Minnesota, you’ll note that more than half of the counties with the lowest rates of unemployment are in a district that voted Democratic in the last House race, while almost all those counties with the highest rates are in a district that swung to the Republicans.

http://www.positivelyminnesota.com/Data_Publications/Data/Current_Economic_Highlights/County_Unemployment_Rates.aspx

But, hey, all those are just facts, right? What do those mean?

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:19:37 +0000

“Al Franken is best known for nearly two decades of work on Saturday Night Live. During that time he wrote, performed in and produced hundreds of sketches, including “Daily Affirmations with Stuart Smalley” and “The Final Days,” a piece about the last days of Richard Nixon’s presidency.” [emphasis added]

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0291253/

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:11:58 +0000

“Hennepin County is the wealthiest county in the state of Minnesota and one of the 100 Highest-income counties in the United States.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennepin_County,_Minnesota

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:47:27 +0000

upurs: Funny, your IP address shows you to be from a rocky mountain state, not Minnesota. Perhaps you are confused.

(Normally I don’t check IP addresses but I suspected upurs was “Evolution Denier” so I was checking on that.)

Jared, that is my impression as well.

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:43:29 +0000

That red blotch is also a map of child abusers, corrupt city councils, creepy murderers, racist acts, low education levels, and the highest rates of public assistance outside of the inner city slums, in the state. And everybody in your red zone who has a “job” is a farmer most of whom are on the dole.

By: upurs

upurs — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:31:00 +0000

Franken failed as a comedian on SNL. He just wasn’t funny.

Minnesota is stuck in reverse for some reason. After the dim-wits put “Jesse the Body” in place, I knew I was living in a state of fools.

Want to know who freaking contributes to this state? It won’t be henepin county That’s the largest concentration of welfare recipients in the state. It wont be the Unions in northern minnesota, they are the ones who got the bailout job money to put THEM back to work.

Look at the center of the state. The BIG RED SPOTS, the place where people get off their a$$es in the morning and actually WORK. The small businesses that are a major portion of the the BREAD basket of the state.

Liberals go back to California and smoke your ‘window box herbs’. This hippie spawn has rooted itself in Minnesota, and panders to the votes of the career welfare veterans and the performs as the sows tit for the Union… (This is the summary definition of a democrat.) The Farmers don’t want YOU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minnesota_Presidential_Election_Results_by_County,_2008.svg

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:12:59 +0000

Smiley was a massive satire, and Minnesotans in particular really have no excuse for not recognizing it as one. Writers, however, are invisible to most people.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:54:34 +0000

If you mention Al’s “comedy” background to him he robotically interjects the term “satirist” … trying to be funny.

Smiley was something of a satire.

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:43:14 +0000

Oh, he was definitely a satirist. Still is. But most people knew him as Stuart Smalley, where, as an actor, he was a comedian. If more people knew his satiric work, he’d have had an easier time of it, I think. After all, that’s one of the things making him more popular these days. He can sit in the Senate and satirize the idiocies even as he takes the whole process very seriously.

By: Pierce R. Butler

Pierce R. Butler — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:34:02 +0000

Two years ago when the votes were counted in the US Senate race in Minnesota, Republican Norm Coleman was ahead of Democratic Al Franken, which automatically triggered a recount.

An automatic recount whenever Republicans are ahead?

Great concept – Franken & Whatsername ought to propose it as an amendment for the national constitution as well!