skippy the bush kangaroo: tortured senate race

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

tortured senate race

out here on the prairie, we're still waiting to find out who the second senator from minnesota will be. is it stormin' norman "that was no conduit for payoffs, that was my wife" coleman or al "i'm smart enough, i'm good enough, and gosh darn it, barely enough people voted for me" franken?

stormin' norman is seeking additional campaign contributions, with the help of some republican senators, but what is not well-known is that the contributions aren't for the never-ending recount battle, but instead to pay legal fees associated with allegations that a coleman supporter funneled payoffs through coleman's wife. as my grandmother would have said, "nit nice." (that's not a misspelling...she said "nit".)

meanwhile, the saint paul saints, our extremely minor league baseball team, is using the recount as an excuse for some fun at their game on may 23, where independent party candidate dean barkley, who garnered half a million votes in that same minnesota senate race, will throw out the first ball at a special night that the minnesota star tribune says is intended to "mock" the senate race.

that's a bit over the top, mocking a mockery.

americans united for change, afscme (I have no idea what that stands for...i think someone with a stutter was trying to spell "acme"), alliance for a better minnesota (easily distinguished from the alliance-for-an-okay-but-let's-not-go-overboard-minnesota), and the minnesota affiliates of afl-cio and seiu are putting up a billboard urging governor tim "show me the dead canadians" pawlenty to certify franken as senator. yeah, that ought to do it. and if it doesn't work, they vow to make shadow puppets on the wall of the governor's mansion until their demands are met.

in the interest of full disclosure, i met al franken in 2005 when he was at an event in new jersey in support of jon corzine's gubernatorial candidacy. i told al that i thought he was much funnier than garrison keillor. a year or two later i saw keillor give a performance at the state theater in new brunswick, nj.

okay, so i was wrong. keillor is much funnier.

posted by DBK at 8:46 AM |

10 Comments:

Shadow puppets are pretty damn scary...
If you are using the right type of light to make them...

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Essaress ; Prior of the F.C.F.J., (C), 11:07 AM PDT

i must confess i cannot figure out why anyone things garrison keillor is funny at all.

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Mahakal / מהכאל, 11:10 AM PDT

Mahakal,

Saw him live and he was a hoot. Very funny stuff. Not everybody makes everybody laugh. For example, I know Dane Cook is popular now, but I have never heard him say anything that made me laugh.

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DBK, 11:44 AM PDT

Yeah...Dane Cook just says stuff that makes me want to kick his ass..
And I'm a very non-violent person...

Keillor on the other hand has been entertaining now and then on my car radio...
But I don't respect him...since he sued that chick who was selling the t-shirts online that read, "Prairie Ho Companion"...
Still and all,,, Cook vs. Keillor...I'd back Keillor.
But your post was about the awful and confusing silliness in your state about the Senatorial winner...
I like Al a bunch..Also, I have heard him being serious about topics that do concern us all without making me want to punch in my television...
Norm on the other hand is an asshole of the first order...almost as big a bag of feces as that jagoff from my own state..Senator Cornyn.
I want Al...make that happen DBK, chop-chop... :))

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Essaress ; Prior of the F.C.F.J., (C), 12:11 PM PDT

I used to be a NAGE member. Our unit had thrown off AFSCME years earlier.

(It's the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, for anyone who didn't care enough to google.)

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Downpuppy, 4:06 PM PDT

Hell with Keillor, DBK, it's about time you put some of yer Jersey street smarts to work out there on the prairie to get this Franken/Coleman thing over with. Heh ...

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Fixer, 4:13 PM PDT

This sustained metaphor is tortured.

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tata, 4:13 PM PDT

Al Franken is funny. Dane Cook is not. Keillor is okay. And Wanda Sykes is hilarious...

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Jim Yeager, 5:34 AM PDT

Fixuh, my Jersey street smarts always taught me to scram when trouble is coming, like knowing enough to cross over to the other side of the street if you see a politician walking toward you.

I loved that Wanda Sykes line about telling her kids that if Dick Cheney pulls up to you in a car and a stranger pulls up at the same time and they both tell you to get in the car, get in the car with the stranger.

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DBK, 7:02 AM PDT

What??? N0 CHOP, CHOP???..... :((

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Essaress ; Prior of the F.C.F.J., (C), 9:50 AM PDT

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