12.03.2008 2:40 pm
News round-up: Another pirate edition
Dangerous waters.
Blackwater has a new business (via ThinkProgress).
Condi gives Pakistan the business.
Wall Street Journal says existing “intelligence policy to stay largely intact” under Obama administration. Change? Perhaps we should have seen this coming with his FISA vote.
We all knew this was coming, and rightly so.
Chambliss wins Georgia; Franken now leading in Minnesota. Maybe.
Part of the Clean Skies Initiative? No.
Zimbabwe reaches out for help with its cholera epidemic.
Oh, and about the indictments of Vice President Dick Cheney and former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales? Never mind.
Jamie Riley is the P-D letters editor and gatekeeper of the letters blog. Before joining the editorial page in May 2005, she was a reporter and page designer. Jamie lives in University City with her husband, Charles, daughter, Elise, and the world's best Jack Russell terrier, Logan, better known as Stinky. 
The only pirate around here is Franken, hijacking the election. Count all the votes? Yep. More like FIND all the votes. Just today, they found another 37 votes for Franken that somehow just never got counted before. When it’s all over, he won’t be a Senator … and everyone will think he’s a jerk. Have a nice life, loser!
Why are you blaming Franken? It’s a mandatory recount according to Minn.. Both sides-both sides-are challenging ballots and counts. It’s automatic.
Franken is lawyering it to death, and Democrats have hinted that even if the recount goes for Coleman, they may override the result in the Senate and seat Franken anyway. With the Republican win in Georgia, that is unlikely to happen, since the outcome is now of much less consequence. But Franken, and his friends in the Senate, have made it clear they’ll hit as low as they need to if they need the win.