I'm watching the repeat of Recount. TalkLeft was just a website and not a blog in 2000, but I tracked the events daily and when it was over, made a compendium page. It's accessible here and if you're fuzzy on the chronology of events, it may provide some information. The links to the AP articles are no longer valid, but most of those to other news sources still work.

As for Indiana Jones, don't ask. Aside from the fire alarms going off in the 15 theater movie plex, requiring evacuation of all of them about 20 minutes after the movie started, and then having to watch all the previews and first 20 minutes again, it just wasn't very good or memorable. I did enjoy Karen Allen, but the plot strained credulity and there was too much of the 1950's in it for my taste.

If anyone's still up and online and has something to say, here's the spot.

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Here's a thread to discuss the important HBO film Recount, to be broadcast starting now. It's relevance to the current Democratic primary is obvious. Let's limit the discussion to Recount if we can.

I am signing off now. Have a nice night. J is at the movies.

Recount airs tonight on HBO at 9 PM ET. Check your local listing for your time zone. It should be watched by everyone.

This is an Open Thread. Have a good afternoon and evening.

Update (TL): I'm off to see the new Indiana Jones movie (because I like Karen Allen) so this will be the last open thread for a few hours. And yes, I'm tivo-ing Recount.

Please keep it civil and don't respond to site violators. (Comment rules are here and new commenters are limited to 10 in a 24 hour period.) It's easier for me to identify and delete them when I see them called out. If you respond to them, chances are your response goes down the rabbit hole too.

Don't forget to watch Recount tonight or tomorrow night.

I'm done for the afternoon, enjoy the holiday, get outside, but for those who can't or don't want to, here's an open thread.

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Who's going to watch Recount tomorrow night?

This is an Open Thread.

I'm off to go hold a "Count the Votes!" sign and/or yell at a cloud.

Have a good Saturday.

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I realize I am too wrapped up in every bit of this crazy political season. So I am done writing for the night and maybe tomorrow.

It is Memorial Day Weekend after all.

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I just want to make a point about off topic comments. To me at least, they are unacceptable. If you do not want to talk about the issue I have posted about then you can refrain from commenting in that particular thread. I delete off topic comments and responses to such topics. Oh, and when comments are declared closed, that means you should not comment any further in that thread, I delete all comments posted after comments have been declared closed.

Open Threads, of which we now put more than a few a day, is the place to comment on your particular issues. Please use those Open Threads for that purpose.

BTW, I speak for me and my posts here. I am not sure if J sees it exactly as I do, but we are charged with policing our own comment threads. So that's the way I will regulate the comment threads to my own posts. Ironically, this is an Open Thread.

Readers have a lot to say tonight. Time for your own space where I won't intervene except for site violators. The floor is your's. All topics welcome.

Thanks to Big Tent Democrat for keeping us up to date on Florida and Michigan.

As for other news, check out the new ACLU blog. Lots of bloggers including Christy of Firedoglake, McJoan of Daily Kos, Marcy (Empty Wheel), Nicole of Crooks and Liars and Glenn Greenwald of Salon have posts up on torture.

My post is "The Unfriendly Skies of Ghost Air."

Colorado is under tornado watches and warnings today. A few have already hit down, the University of Northern Colorado is on lockdown. The city of Windsor so far has gotten hit the worst. At one school, they evacuated the kids and put them in the vault at the bank next door. Baseball size hail is expected. Denver right now is fine, but we're on a tornado watch too and severe thunderstorms with hail are coming. 40,000 are without power. The local tv stations have suspended regular programming to cover it.

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Tom Petty, 1991, I Won't Back Down

Hear that DNC?

This is an open thread.

Talk about Florida and Michigan. It is required of everyone. Not really, this is an Open Thread.

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