RECOUNTING THE RECOUNT EDITION

MacYapper - John McIntire



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Yo, yo, yo, MacYippers! What up?
We'll get to fond reminiscences, or perhaps not so fond, of the infamous Stolen Election of 2000, one of the all time low points in American history (and we've had a few), in a moment.

But first, Mayor Opie is a tool.

MAYOR OPIE IS A TOOL'S TOOL


A complete, utter, tool. Or maybe douchebag. Douchebag? Do you believe in separating the douche and the bag? Two words? One word?

One mayor. One tool. One douchebag, under God, indivisible, with douches and bags for all.

Is he really the wimp he's pretending to be in this "how can we hang up giant Go Pens banners and make it legal" nonsense? And is he really the idiot he's pretending to be in this "how can I go to the game in Detroit and have it be legal" nonsense?

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08143/883869-53.stm
The Penguins floated a plan to adorn the skyscraper with huge pictures of captain Sidney Crosby and goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury, wearing Reebok logos. The shoe company's name and slogan, "Your Move," also would appear on the banners.

Council heard about the plan at a Monday afternoon meeting between administration officials and some council members and staff. The administration brought draft legislation that would have created a special section of the zoning code to allow 40-by-85-foot Penguins banners on Downtown buildings for the next few weeks.

Is that good lawmaking?

"I would've called it sketchy at best," said council President Doug Shields. "We felt there was a way to work through it."

MacYapper - I'm sorry, but if these bozos can't figure a legal way to hang giant Go Pens signs for a few days, whether they're sponsored by corporate whores or not, then they're much bigger idiots than I've given them credit for.

Now the Pens have given up. Because they don't to get involved in this small time, small town, small minded, bullshit. They have a Stanley Cup to win.

Honestly, the fact that this is a major issue that requires scratching of heads and chins is absurd.

And then there's Mayor Cheapy McCheapstein. "How can I go to Detroit for the game if I can't accept a free ticket, and free transportation?" (made up quote mine but sums up the Dildo's Dilemma).

As Mr. Peduto-head says, write a freaking check. You earn a decent salary Bozo. Spend a couple of bucks for chrissakes. You're an embarrassment to embarrassments.

Jesus.

Char over at the Pist-Gazette has a much more detailed accounting of Opie's buffoonery.
Click below.

http://pistgazette.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-tips-from-lying-dirt-bag.html

WHAT IF THEY STOLE AN ELECTION AND MADE A MOVIE ABOUT IT?

So how many of you remember the 2000 stolen election? Antonin "The Election Thief" Scalia has been out on the stump lately telling us we should "get over it." If I had participated in the wholesale thievery of the U.S. presidency for my favorite candidate, I, too, would be anxious for people to put it behind them.


Why am I bringing up ancient history? Because HBO has a movie recounting the events, if you will... and I know you will because you're such a slut. It's called "Recount."
It's on Sunday night at 9.

Recount star Kevin Spacey has been hitting the talk shows to promote it. I saw him in Morning Joe this morning. He was hysterical when he kept shouting at a WAPO reporter who was talking to him in those TV double boxes, but was actually a few feet away at another in-studio location. Spacey said he was at the "kids table." Maybe you had to be there.

Pat Buchanan was also on set. One of the few honest moments of Pat's life was when he conceded that the poorly constructed butterfly ballot resulted in hundreds, perhaps thousands of people in Palm Beach, Florida, who wanted to vote for Gore, accidentally ended up voting for him.


Spacey said he wasn't trying to prove anything in particular. But he did note that the U.S. SUPCO 5-4 vote which stopped the voting had no legal precedent whatsoever. And that's how you know they made it up.


Laura Dern apparently is excellent as the overly made up bizarro to-the-max Katherine Harris. Tom Wilkinson nails Jim Baker.

REUTERS.COM:
http://www.reuters.com/article/reviewsNews/idUSN2240074620080522
That year, it all came down to Florida's electoral votes. The initial machine count favored Bush by a few thousand votes. Gore and his designee, former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, were ready to call it quits. But new evidence cast doubt on the numbers. Cue the national debate about butterfly ballots and hanging chads.

Gore reversed course, turning the fight in Florida over to Ron Klain (Kevin Spacey), his former chief of staff; national field director Michael Whouley (Denis Leary); and expert lawyer David Boies (Ed Begley Jr.). Directing the better-financed Bush effort were former Secretary of State James Baker (Tom Wilkinson) and national counsel Benjamin Ginsberg (Bob Balaban).

MacYapper - Warren Christopher has already publicly complained that he is portrayed, unfairly and inaccurately, as a wimp. I'm guessing it's a more or less accurate portrayal. Not in the sense that he was afraid to fight. But he had a diplomat's "the eyes of the world are on us" high falutin' mentality. Baker came to play and came to win.

Baker has backed Christopher's account that the Christopher portrayal was unfair. But what's Jimbo gonna say? He's portrayed as the brilliant maestro. He can afford to be generous.


I'll still never get over Gore sending Bill Daly, son of Chicago mayor and legendary election thief Richard The First, down to Florida. The symbolism was horrible.
Won't you go home Bill Daly, won't you go home, bum bum bum bum.

Spacey also brings up the fact that 18 counties never did what they should have done, a recount. When an election is this close, everyone is duty bound to count the votes at least one more time, during which the results, at least a tad, almost always change.

Of course today we still have voting machines without paper trails. We still have partisan and/or incompetent election officials supervising the proceedings. We still have very little confidence in our election machinery, real and metaphoric. Which means despite the fiasco of 2000 we haven't done diddly squat to fix it.


Meanwhile, the incredibly worthless Joe Lieberman screwed the Gore campaign mid-recount. The campaign had decided to play hardball on military ballots, and not allow ALL of them to be counted if they didn't meet the legal specs required. But then Lieberman folded like a house of cards on Meet The Press.


SFGATE.COM:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/22/entertainment/e055450D98.DTL
Watching alongside Waters, lawyer Mark Herron was able to predict one scene. The actor portraying him was on a conference call with Gore running mate Joe Lieberman and telling him military ballots received after the election could be counted if they didn't have a postmark, but not if they weren't dated and didn't have a witness signature proving they were filled out before the election.

The voice of Lieberman in the film seemed to understand, and the Gore team appeared relieved.

"Then came 'Meet the Press,'" the real Herron said. A split second later, the film cut to Lieberman on the Sunday morning talk show arguing that all military ballots should be counted regardless of how they were filled out, a position that hurt his own campaign.

The cursing that followed in "Recount" wasn't just real, it was understated, Herron said.

"That little scene with Lieberman? You heard somebody scream out some profanity there? They only captured part of it," Herron said.

MacYapper - Gore made some bad decisions. The worst may have been his selection of running mate.

Who really won in 2000? I occasionally admit the truth. The truth is we'll never know. And we'll never know because the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a statewide recount, one that obviously was necessary. They were playing by the rules. Each county had its own team of recounters. They may have had slightly different standards in some cases. And some county officials had their political bias. And it was argued that these differences made the recount unfair and unconstitutional. Unfair perhaps. But it was an absurd argument because this is the only system we have... county by county. If you declare Florida unfair for those reasons, you have to disallow the election results of every election we've ever had everywhere. The SUPCO decision was absurd, partisan, and outrageous.

We may never know who really won. But we know who stole it.

HILLARY'S OUT OF HER FREAKING MIND

There she is in Florida, evoking images of the Stolen Election, and she has the audacity to actually claim she is a victim similar to that of Al Gore.

What makes the argument completely absurd? Her opponent wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan. And yet she thinks those votes ought to count. Neither contest was fair and square because nobody campaigned. And she's acting as if it was a normal election.
The only reason the elections were screwed up is that the Democratic party can't get its shit together.

The Stolen Election of 2000 was a travesty of biblical proportions.
Billary's whining is sore loser sour grapes.
Could we please, possibly, maybe, potentially, just move the hell on now????????

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