Monday open thread

I’ve got a busy day ahead of me so here’s your open thread for the day.

FYI, regarding the Weblog Awards voting – voting is supposed to start today but they are still getting everything together, so you can’t actually vote yet. Once I find out when you can, I’ll let you know. The direct link to the voting page is on the top of the right side column of this page. Later this week they will have a widget of sorts that bloggers can add to their websites so people can vote directly from the finalist blog itself. I’ll add that when it becomes available.

One quick link: Franken’s supposed to be certified today in MN as the winner of the Senate race over Norm Coleman. I’m not sure where things stand with what Coleman’s next course of action – if any – is, but stay tuned to the Minnesota bloggers at Power Line, as well as to Minnesotan Ed Morrissey at Hot Air for the latest.

Back later …

PM Update – 6:07 PM: Voting is now open! You’re allowed to vote once a day til the end of the competition, which is January 13 at 5PM ET.

Thanks in advance!

Back in just a few.

12 Responses to "Monday open thread"

JAT says:

January 5, 2009 at 9:20 am

Why 2009 will be worse than 2008 — LINK
BeachBabe NC says:

January 5, 2009 at 11:52 am

“Why 2009 will be worse than 2008”

Great!!!! I am looking so forward to it…
Anthony (Los Angeles) says:

January 5, 2009 at 11:58 am

Franken’s supposed to be certified today in MN

I don’t know about certified, but he’s certainly certifiable.
Lorica says:

January 5, 2009 at 1:14 pm

It will be interesting to see what happens in 2009. I rung in the New Year sick, so it has started out worse, than 2008. There is nothing on the horizon to prove that 2009 is going to be any better than 2008. Unless, of course, you are a multi-billion dollar business who has done some really stupid stuff, and you are expecting a multi-billion dollar “loan” from the Federal Government, then I would expect the year to be a pretty good one. But other than that, I just don’t see why 2009 will be any better than 2008. – Lorica
Dana says:

January 5, 2009 at 3:09 pm

Dang! Anthony beat me to it!
steveegg says:

January 5, 2009 at 5:29 pm

The voting’s now open (complete with a direct link). You do realize who I’m throwing under the bus to get you the award, don’t you?
Jillian Bandes says:

January 5, 2009 at 5:57 pm

Needed more heads up on the awards!
Sister Toldjah says:

January 5, 2009 at 6:26 pm

Thanks, steve!
Mwalimu Daudi says:

January 5, 2009 at 7:20 pm

A good summary of how Franken stole the election.

Key quote:

The Coleman campaign clearly misjudged the politics here, and the apparent willingness of a partisan like [Democratic Secretary of State] Ritchie to help his preferred candidate, Mr. Franken.

I don’t have much sympathy for Coleman, who is an idiot studying to be a moron and not doing very well. Is it possible – really, actually possible – that Coleman and the Republican Party bigwigs were the only one who did not see this coming?

It would seem so. This is what happens when RINOs run the GOP. Don’t be surprised if Republicans get clobbered again in 2010 and beyond.

Still – there is one less RINO in D.C., which I see as good news.
Great White Rat says:

January 6, 2009 at 1:09 pm

This confirms what many of us already knew intuitively:

Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control.
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this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so.

Which explains why almost every big city is run by left-wing Democrats.
Sister Toldjah says:

January 6, 2009 at 1:13 pm

LOL! Priceless.
NC Cop says:

January 6, 2009 at 9:56 pm

Stop the presses!!!

Al Qaeda No. 2 Blames Obama, Egypt’s President for Gaza

CAIRO, Egypt — An intelligence monitoring center reports that Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader is blaming Barack Obama and Egypt’s president for the Israeli offensive in Gaza.

How can this be?!?!? We were assured that the world was going to love us now that the “One” had been elected. Didn’t Al Qaeda get that memo?!?! Didn’t they watch Obama’s speeches?!?!?! WTH?!??!?!

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