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Last week a huckster from Australia declared Jeff Goldblum had died in New Zealand and media all around the world proceed to repeat the hoax. I actually saw on @Twitter that, contrary to the reports, the man was in New York City filming a tv show.

Well, Stephen Colbert milked it for all what it was worth. Watch how they play up the "if it was on @Twitter, it must be true" meme. And witness what true comedic talent is as Jeff, to wit, agrees.

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About time Coleman v. Franken (PDF of case A09-697)was decided and in this case, unanimously:

1. Appellants did not establish that, by requiring proof that statutory absentee voting standards were satisfied before counting a rejected absentee ballot, the trial court's decision constituted a post-election change in standards that violates substantive due process.

2. Appellants did not prove that either the trial court or local election officials violated the constitutional guarantee of equal protection.

3. The trial court did not abuse its discretion when it excluded additional evidence.

4. Inspection of ballots under Minn. Stat. § 209.06 (2008) is available only on a showing that the requesting party cannot properly be prepared for trial without an inspection. Because appellants made no such showing here, the trial court did not err in denying inspection.

5. The trial court did not err when it included in the final election tally the election day returns of a precinct in which some ballots were lost before the manual recount.

Affirmed. Per Curiam.

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The Personal Democracy Forum conference is in full force right now and people retweeted poignantly Andrew Rasiej's morning lament about the lack of black and brown faces in the crowd. Among the tweets, Cheryl Contee's stood out because, as a woman of color, she mused maybe young people needed to have some fellowships to make it to the conference.

That would be nice, but ... I mean, really? The lack of young black faces in the crowd is the problem? Seriously?

Here's my question because am looking at the problem from the place of a woman who has to 16-20 hrs on web development projects to put food on my kids table and maybe scrape together an indie project or two of my own: What have you (the general YOU of infuencers, movers and shakers whose job seems to be to go exclusively from one tech and media conference to the other) done lately to support black and brown owned blog publishing and web-centric companies?

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One of the unknown little snowflakes of the Christian Conservative movement twitters: The current trending topics make me sad for America.. Her twitter friend, a genius that goes by Sum_Dum_Guy (and in the process gives all homeschoolers a bad name) agrees that BET and/or black music related topics trending on Twitter somehow are the thing of massive doses of anti-depressants.

It's why they are both featured in OMG! BLACK PEOPLE!, a Tumblr page dedicated to collecting all the "OMG! theres black people on twitter" comments that seem to have arisen out of the intense twittering of people watching the BET Awards. And let me stress the "raceless" use of the word people, because obviously it wasn't just black folks watching and ranting last night.

I mean, really ... #BET09 and black related topics trending are reasons to get their panties in a bunch or be sad about the state of the United States?  more this way»

White supremacists come in all colors and Michelle Malkin absolutely proves it --along with Clarence Thomas, by the way.

Never mind that Judge Sotomayor was part of a unanimous appeal in the Second Circuit that wanted to uphold precedent. Never mind that Sotomayor and all the other judges felt for the firefighters and were sympathetic to their cause (aka, had empathy), yet they still were looking at the facts based on legal precedence. Never mind that Justice Ginsburg, in her dissent believes that "The Courts' order and opinion ... will have no staying power" (pages 55-56 of PDF of SOTUS decision)

In the eyes of race bater, white supremacist yet brown-skinned filipina like Michelle Malkin, Sonia Sotomayor is a racist.
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