Franken wins by +312 votes.
The MN Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Coleman v. Franken on June 1 at 9:00am. So since that ended around 10 am its been about 540 hours.....and we're still waiting.
In the mid 1980s the rock group Mister Mister took music in an orthodox direction. No, not toward stringed orchestras or symphonic composition, but REALLY orthodox; as in Greek Orthodox.
Of all things, for a very dance-able chorus they reached into the ancient Church east of the Adriatic for a prayer: Kyrie Eleison.
Kyrie: "Lord/Master/or simply sir, mister"
and
Eleison: "To show/have mercy": as used in the liturgy (of both Eastern and Western Christianity) "have mercy upon us".
(Aorist, plural and reflexive I believe, but my Greek has gone rusty, and its early. Subject to better conjugation.....which sounds like fun....)
So WineRev joined millions of others in the mid-80s dancing to a prayer under a mirrored ball and with a fog machine.
"Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)
Down the road that I must travel
Kyrie Eleison
Through the darkness of the night..."
Last week my open letter to the MN supreme Court touched off a lot of hoping and yearning, but no results, since we are all here reading THIS diary. It amounted to reeling in your bobber and finding the fish have eaten all your bait off the hook. There were bobs and whisper-soft tugs, but no strike. (High pitched whizzing: "Get behind me, chief, and pour that dipper-full onto the reel! Hooper! Watch him now! He's taking a hell of a lot of line!" Quint to Brodie and Hooper: Jaws)
I mean I like how Eric Black writes for Minn Post, but even he is reduced to writing columns about off-beat lawsuits from Minnesota TV stations and getting philosophical. Its good, but it doesn't fry up in the pan over the campfire, yanno?
http://www.minnpost.com/...
We are stuck with stories that continue to follow the decay of Team Norm. Not only did PR guy Luke Friedrich leave a while back, so did PR guy Mark Drake about a month ago. Then the Coleman communications director (more PR) LeRoy ("I'm not Norm but he stole my last name") Coleman joined the Republican National Committee in media affairs. (You have all noticed how sizzling Republican National PR is these days.)
NOW the RNC has dipped into the Norm well again and hired away..... Cullen Sheehan! Really! Norm's campaign director (whoa!) and co plaintiff in Coleman & Sheehan v. Franken, the Iowa wonder (and on these boards people have wondered if he's STILL from Iowa, as in resident, as in ineligible to cast that MN absentee ballot that he cast). (That was one hell of sentence; good thing I don't have to diagram it.)
http://www.mnprogressiveproject.com/...
I mean if all these people keep LEAVING the FORMER Senator's organization, why should anyone think he's suddenly going to be calling them back?
And speaking of Republican decay I give you John Cornyn of Texas, a senator who represents decay, fully-decayed half-life (now no-life?) at the national level. Good old Cactus Breath is still blabbering about backing Norm's alleged/possible/demented "appeal to federal courts". But the spines on his attitude sound as soggy as wilted sagebrush, not the fire-breathing "World War III" guy from this spring.
http://minnesotaindependent.com/...
Sooo..... in order to put an end to this thrashing around, these legal maneuvers that amount to no more than stripping the milfoil infestation from the boat propeller, WineRev turns from letter writing to the MN Supremes to song writing. Maybe I can charm them to a decision? Or scare them, with "Kyrie" lyrics like this, re-written to the "Curia" (medieval Latin for "court")
"The Ballots cast in November snow
Absentees came in the mail
Lost, recounted, challenged ballots grow
Coleman's lead begins to fail.....
"December's gone and Ritchie makes the call
Canvass Board votes five to nil
Franken leads and Coleman plays the stall
Contest Court for time to kill"
CHORUS:
"Curia Eleison
Down the road that we have travelled
Curia Eleison
Through the mighty boring stuff
Curia Eleison
will you save us from our boredom?
Curia Eleison
can't you see we've had enough?"
"Lillehaug, Elias, Hamilton
Tony, Joe and Ginz you've heard
Autumn, winter, spring and summer run
This case deserves your final Word!"
Oh...Oh...Oh x2
Rehearsals start on the Capitol front lawn by the Judiciary building just as soon as we can get 42 semis and a Stimulus Package crew of 811 people to start setting up speakers and a platform. Sound checks ("Check one, check 2, check, check") will be 24/7 until the amps can be heard on Lake Minnetonka, 20 miles away. And then, O august members of the MN Supreme Court, we start vocal rehearsals from the "Can't Carry a tune in a Bucket" brigade of singers (Roseanne Barr division).
Take all the time you need. This diary has yust been a public service/friend of the Curia briefing from yust southeast of Lake Wobegon.
Shalom.
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