Spasmz. Convusionz. Tremorz.

I know its prolly jus’ me, but I don’t like the new site yet.

I fear change.

Good Luck though.

Feingold(D-USA)!

Ok, solved the text size but not the happy face. Somehow, I don’t think my problems even hold a candle to what you are going through Jane!

Jane,

As I said to Christy:

“A dedicated commercial web server with 1000GB of monthly download and 100 Mbit bandwidth is only $100 per month (at most), and multiple servers can be automatically load-shared. Sometimes you just have to pay to get what you need. I’m sure you can get donations to cover server costs (I know I would help).”

The above price is from the hosting service that I use (aplus.net) and they are not the cheapest but they have great service.

Btw, you rock too! I will bear your child as well, if you want! Being a guy I would have to outsource the job to some extent, but will do my part to improve the gene-pool :-)

But, this is good news!!! Right? “Can’t handle our traffic”???? Duh. It’s a quantity problem!!! If you see what I mean. And thanks, Jamie. I checked out your blog and especially liked the one about the new memos.
http://www.intoxination.net/20…..#more-1477

i felt a tad queasy at first at the new design but I’m beginning to prefer it now…

well, this is a quality place, so it is understandable. we’re a patient lot ;)

Angie

Do you really think Hillary Clinton is planning to run for President. i don’t. i think tweety and all those guys want her to, bad, ut I don’t think she is there yet.

Oh NUTS- another CHANGE–

That’s good, cuz there’s no room for my ficus around here.

Hey Wilson, We are almost neighbors, DJ DrZ (46236) and works in 46285.

:-)

Anybody find that it doesn’t keep your cookies for name and address and stuff?

Plus, anybody got a bit torrent for the south park scientology episode, I would rather not watch it on Utube.

EPU’ed…

Re: Text Size

For Internet Explorer, click on “view†on your top tool bar then click on “text size†;)

Feingold story on page A01 in WaPo tomorrow.

I’ve just begun to read it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..01752.html

46285 LOL ! I should have known it would have its very own Zipcode! It even owns a Class A Internet address (which is impressive only to the hardest-core Internets geeks)…

March 14, 2006 — Robert G. Webster is one of the few bird flu experts confident enough to answer the key question: Will the avian flu switch from posing a terrible hazard to birds to becoming a real threat to humans?

There are “about even odds at this time for the virus to learn how to transmit human to human,” he told ABC’s “World News Tonight.” Webster, the Rosemary Thomas Chair at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., is credited with being the first scientist to find the link between human flu and bird flu.

Webster and his team of scientists are working to find a way to beat the virus if it morphs. He has even been dubbed the Flu Hunter.

Right now, H5N1, a type of avian influenza virus, has confined itself to birds. It can be transmitted from bird to human but only by direct contact with the droppings and excretions of infected birds.

But viruses mutate, and the big fear among the world’s scientists is that the bird flu virus will join the human flu virus, change its genetic code and emerge as a new and deadly flu that can spread through the air from human to human.

If the virus does mutate, it does not necessarily mean it will be as deadly to people as it is to birds. But experts such as Webster say they must prepare for the worst.

“I personally believe it will happen and make personal preparations,” said Webster, who has stored a three-month supply of food and water at his home in case of an outbreak. “

Whata ya’ll think of a guy who stores a three month supply of food and water in his house?

Wired a little too tight?

Cozumel

I went to Firefox like Wilson told me and I can get the text big enough to read well. cataracts are bad and I’m one of the … million Americans without Health Insurance right now. Hopefully will be able to get on it within the year and get these puppies fixed!

I love you Wilson!!!!!

nanakat–
i really don’t think she will get the nomination, and she knows it– she is very effective with ny peeps and she will not risk that. i think this is a RNC/Rove/rethug/Gallup trick. unfortunately, the US is not really ready for a female prez at least not yet and that makes me sad ;( but, quite honestly, the women still have such a row to hoe that there is nobody that i can even think of that stands free of special interests. they are still trying like hell to get into the old boys clubs and have a voice.

the WaPo Feingold article is good for a front-page story … it’s decent!

Did I break it playing with the smileys? :sad:
I’ll go back to the ether and re-lurk :oops:

DJ DrZ says:
March 15th, 2006 at 3:47 am
Anybody find that it doesn’t keep your cookies for name and address and stuff?

At first. But then I changed my settings to allow persistant as well as session cookies, and now all is fine.

persiflage & piffle says:
March 15th, 2006 at 3:55 am

Did I break it playing with the smileys? :sad:
I’ll go back to the ether and re-lurk :oops:

How did you get the blushing face? pleeze tell me.

gawd! here we are: mature political whizbangs and people are begging to show how to make way kool smilies ;-) sheesh!

I’m ready to work for Feingolds’ campaign. I like him. I hope he won’t disappoint, but I think what you see is what he really is.

piffle! how did you do that? grrrrr!

Don’t underestimate Hillary– She’s running- and it will be a “twofer”–Those who want Bill back will be voting for him- others will be voting for Hillary–in the end- she’s running for eight more Clinton years. Don’t know that she’ll make it- but that’s the angle.

wilson

It’s toys!!!!

Would it be possible to set some command so that when one accesses the Comments, the page is reset to begin reading the comments (so you don’t have to scan down the article again)?

Would it be possible to put the names, date and time at the bottom of comment like Haloscan did? This might be nice for those of us who monitor the comments pretty closely — because we probably drop down to the bottom or last comment and work up to where we left off in a prior reading/review session?

And, the heading at the top — for new or recent postings — will you pick one? Is it a new or upcoming link or an old one?

Thanks a million. Great site and great work. Love your readers. Love your writing and analyses.

NOt a bad article overall, but it has maddening truth: the squeemishness of the establishment dems. Profiles in Courage. Not.

But there is this little bit of framing halfway through which is good:

Feingold’s censure motion specifically addresses the issue of illegal wiretaps.

And there are super quotes from Feingold himself, like:

Feingold said he is “extremely pleased with the way this is going.” He said he is particularly buoyed the barrage of criticism from Republicans. “If such a crazy idea has such limited appeal, why do they have the attack dogs calling all over the country about this?” Feingold asked. “It touches a nerve.”

. . . . .

“We have a great case that they have done a poor job of fighting the war against terrorism,” Feingold said of the Republicans in an interview yesterday. “We need a different strategy, one that shows we stand for something.”

. . . . .

Other sections of note:

Feingold, 53, says he is convinced that Bush broke the law in ordering National Security Agency wiretaps of overseas telephone calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens that involved people suspected of terrorist activities without first obtaining special court approval, and that his party must take a firm stand in protest. Unless Democrats make the case that they are more trustworthy than Republicans on national security issues, Feingold argues, the party cannot win control of the White House or Congress.

. . . .

While other Democrats speak more colorfully, or show up more often on television, Feingold has carved a niche as one of the least-predictable senators. As he contemplates a presidential bid, Feingold is emerging as an anti-establishment maverick, a blend of Howard Dean, John McCain and the late Wisconsin progressive senator William Proxmire.

. . . . .

The left wing of the party has greeted Feingold’s censure call ecstatically. He was the front-runner in a Jan. 31 survey of 2008 presidential candidates by the liberal blog Daily Kos. Feingold garnered 30 percent support among the more than 11,000 respondents, eclipsing retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark, who dropped to second place after leading in the previous five bimonthly polls.

I take some exception to the “left wing” characterization because the consensus views of the kos audience are right in the mainstream of majority public opinion on most issues.

We’re more about fighting for those issues than any “liberal extremism.”

It’s our aggression, and not our ideology, that stands out.

We saw the opening of the Clinton campaign at the King funeral- Bill and Hill- side by side- best get used to it- yer gonna see a LOT more of it.

Cheney is showing the way for The Big Dog. As President, the Dogette could hire her husband as a WH counselor and then delegate, delegate, delegate!

rwcole

I think she is just playing them along, i don’t think she will run.

Ok, to avoid repeats of this morning’s panic attacks, can we agree to post instructions in some neutral place – a virtual base as it were ? some spot to leave directions for us technically challenged ?

sorry to sound whiny Jane and Christy, can’t even imagine dealing with what y’all are dealing with. really like the new space.

How do we get in touch with you guys, the FDL crew via e-mail? Ok, I’ll be hanging on!

Kathi–time will tell- but I’ll be VERY surprised if she/he doesn’t/don’t run.

Angie- I checked out P&Ps comments before. Anytime a smiley appears, you can put mouse arrow over it, right click, and go to properties to see the text. Following omit the space before the first and after the second : : oops : = :oops:

Pachacutec @ March 15th, 2006 3:50 am

Thanks for the link. Looks like the WaPo has forgotten all about those polls saying that Americans don’t agree with how the President did the electronic surveillance, while they recalled there was one that favored surveillance. Same old WaPo.

Feingold’s quote that the wiretapping case is “right in the strike zone of the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors” is one hell of an understatement. It’s more like a flat fastball right down the middle that’s five miles per hour slower than usual.

:wink:

Angie-
For the full display of smileys go to

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Smilies

and scroll about halfway down the page.

I used “colon oops colon”
:cool:

: :ooops :

kathi/nanakat

I think Hillary plans to run and that Bill is difinitely onboard. I also think that Bill hopes that Bush 41 will somehow be a help.

When you move over to “intoxination,” will the funky Amazon ad

(not so wild about that to begin with, but I understand that advertizers are $$$ — and fdl does have a rep with them {thanks Ms. O’Bierne!!})

lose its current odd overlapping text that seems really low rent? FDL2.0 looks really classy otherwise! It meets my needs completely, it’s just a little declasse’ for Amazon to take FDL down a notch.

I’m just sayin’

No, I’m not just saying’, I’m a valued member of this community and I won’t shop at Amazon until it makes our goddess’ site look not-so-tawdry.

Seriously, it’s the only flaw in a beautiful environment.

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Had enough?”
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Looks like the WaPo has forgotten all about those polls saying that Americans don’t agree with how the President did the electronic surveillance, while they recalled there was one that favored surveillance. Same old WaPo.

Absolutely.

They have totally parroted the Republican spin, that this is about surveillance of suspected terrorists, and not the assertion by the president that he is outside the law.

I really hope that Jane and Redd don’t start using smilies in their articles. That would make me gag.

OMG Paul Hackett on the Daily Show.
Classic. And Timely.

Hillary is running.

She’s not sitting on $80 million to give away to charity.

thanks to all my buds! i will try it some other night when the site is under control for our poor hostesses. don’t want to contribute to their headaches!

Let me go on record with my refusal to use facial icons.

:roll: seems kewl

Hydra @ March 15th, 2006 4:01 am

There’s nothing wrong with a little harmless nonsense once in a while. Trouble is, that’s all this is. Steel deforms well before it melts. If you don’t believe me, look up the word “forge” in an encyclopedia. The physics work just fine. You just need to understand what physics apply.

I’ll bet half the people in New York think there’s a Bermude Triangle, and that they’ve been abducted by aliens. Might even be the same 50% in both cases. When you get right down to it, 50% of the population is pretty damn stupid.

:twisted:

Oh, yeah, enhanced comments!

Keith Olbermann is going to be on the Colbert Report tonight

:roll:

Dems Are Strong, Republicans Are Weak

Wilson, yeah, but how can we be taken seriously if newbies think that we’re just a bunch of kewl teenagers who use smilies? :roll:

I went to Tampa yesterday and today for a seminar and I don’t know if anyone has seen the Fancy Frist site. But maybe we can give the page a little traffic…….

http://www.veryfancyfrist.com/

Heh. I tried to make tha scroll text, but the site did not accept the html code.

TeddySanFran @ March 15th, 2006 4:09 am

I’m betting it will. The problem appears to be that the box is a set size, and they define the type to appear in certain places. The ads look fine on a 1024×768 screen, but they look all scrunched up (to use the technical term) at 1600×1200. If you use a larger type at a lower screen resolution, you’ll see the same thing.

Long and short of this is that they need to redesign the ad to work at different screen resolutions and font sizes. That’s a tough thing to do without the ad looking “geeky”.

I hope this doesn’t work

Encore says:
March 15th, 2006 at 4:14 am

Steve Gilliard wrote about that not long ago.

That’s an intriguing political opportunity, potentially.

Ok, so this is too wierd. On the firefox version there are like 118 comments but on my MSN browser there oare only 56? ;)

fwiw: i tried in my above comment to use the ‘blink’ tag … thank goodness it did not work !

I’ll take that Washington Post piece…

Boy, has Feingold figured out the tactics of opposition, and how to call the Republican bluff. I’ll say it’s “touched a nerve.” The quote from Harry Reid works to connect Feingold with principle, and since practically everyone else quoted is noted as a ‘possible 2008′ presidential candidate, they pretty much serve to cancel each other out. [Especially Frist - that worked like a charm…]

Biden’s quote was actually quite good. Dodd’s is pathetic.

Shailagh Murray tries to smear and denigrate Feingold’s ‘collegial spirit’ in the Senate, and then makes a couple of very disingenuous and misleading statements that diminish the credibility of her information [ignoring the other Senators who filibustered the Patriot Act reauthorization with Feingold this time, and pretending no other Democrats voted for Judge Roberts]. And that’s the worst of it, in my opinion.

In exchange for being a WPost Page A1 “maverick,” I’ll take it. Want to share the “spotlight” Democrats? You know what to do…

Hang tough, Russ.

P.S. I adore the speed with which this website now loads (on dial-up). I even get to see the photos without waiting forever. A wonderful functional upgrade as well as very attractive and easy to use. This is American innovation and know-how at work.

Heh. I tried to make tha scroll text, but the site did not accept the html code.

I just wish they’d accept tables. At least, I did if FDL were staying here.

Kerry seeks to block Bush’s highways nominee

WASHINGTON (AP) — Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry said Tuesday he will prevent the former head of Boston’s $14.6 billion “Big Dig,” Richard Capka, from becoming head of the Federal Highway Administration.

“I’m afraid Richard Capka could be the Brownie of highways,” Kerry said, referring to former Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown, who became the scapegoat for the inept federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI…..index.html

:wink:

Bumpy? Its going to get bumpier:

http://mosh.eminem.com/video/
http://www.freewayblogger.com/iraqomo.swf

I’ll try it.
: blink : :blink:

By George I think I’ve got it! I can’t seem to get serious and stay on the subject tonight. :>

We love Georgia10:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..225320/187

CPUed from the last thread was how my brilliant (trust me!) plan to do an FDL send-up has run into a serious issue. My parody blog – Dire Frog Lake – was to have been hosted by Ledd Sledd and Jayne Hamster, but “Chris” has thrown a spanner into the works. :-)

I guess I’ll just have to settle for the great content and the incisive comments and leave the snarking to the talented. So little space for us amateurs…

“The left wing of the party has greeted Feingold’s censure call ecstatically. He was the front-runner in a Jan. 31 survey of 2008 presidential candidates by the liberal blog Daily Kos. Feingold garnered 30 percent support among the more than 11,000 respondents, eclipsing retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark, who dropped to second place after leading in the previous five bimonthly polls.”

Bias Alert: Note that “the left wing” …”survey” the WaPoo refers to was taken on 1/31, before Russ’ censure idea had surfaced. And, why is the fact that he is the front-runner of a completely unscientific poll — or that he may run for President in 2008 — even relevant to his censure motion?

Why not simply say — as the WaPoo did about Cat-Killer — that Russ “also has presidential ambitions”?

Ya think?

Is that what it means when you invite Tweety to broadcast from the lobby of the Peabody Hotel and rent rooms for a bunch of Tennesseans in order to stack the deck for a stupid straw poll? A stupid straw poll that no one wants to tell the truth about: Frist got 37% whereas 40% of the delegates were from Tennessee.

So, WaPoo, don’t think Russ is doing it to be such a “maverick.”

He’s our leader, not a maverick.

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Had enough?
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Pachacutec says:
Dems Are Strong, Republicans Are Weak

Get that on a subliminal RSS feed.

That Hackett segment was good stuff. Really indicative of the current state of the Democratic party. Maybe Hackett will run in spite of the establishment. Hillary is running, for sure. Bill Clinton hangs out with 41 so the rubes will think he – and Hillary by association) are ok with the Bushites. The rubes like to see everybody get along. No concern or comprehension regarding substance. Sight bytes. Sound Bytes. Delay hit on a good sound byte and the MSM dutifully ran with it for him. He hooked his opponent’s name to (egads!) Barbra Streisand.

BullGoose says:
March 15th, 2006 at 4:26 am

We’re working on it.

had enough?

and g’nite from New Hamsher.

We still love you. This is really a small price for the quality here.

Is that what it means when you invite Tweety to broadcast from the lobby of the Peabody

I really love FDL, but with the new format I may have to go back to Truthout. I am not blessed with a fast computer and have to wait long periods each time I click to another site. The old format where we could just scroll down for the entire article was great. The time required to read your blog and the frustration level is just too much of an investment.
I am a major supporter of your FDL, tell everyone I meet about it and spend time contacting my elected officals. But this new format is just TOO much.
For people who read FDL all the time, the new format is ok I guess. but for those of us who read it only a few times a week, your new format is a major burden and one that I, for one, will be hard pressed to continue.

Pachacutec says:
March 15th, 2006 at 4:29 am

We’re working on it.

I noticed, Big Brother.

Wonder if its time to ask the WaPo about doing a poll on impeachment. Does the statement “well within the strike zone” of “high crimes and misdemeanors” coming from a possible Dem frontrunner for President who, according to a WaPo page 1 article, has energized the faithful, meet their criteria?

Is that what it means when you invite Tweety to broadcast from the lobby of the Peabody
Parody Hotel

Pachacutec-
“Let me go on record with my refusal to use facial icons.”
Or even facile icons.

Sorry. Couldn’t resist.

Thanks for the link to the Feingold article. Did you notice how uneven the tone of the article is?

The early portion uses dismissive language like “GOP leaders…sensed that Feingold overplayed his hand and denounced the censure resolution as a political stunt by an ambitious lawmaker positioning himself to run for president in 2008.”

And “Republicans seized on Feingold’s presidential ambitions as the motivation behind his bid.”

But towards the end, even though it mentions how thrilled the wacko blogging lefties (my translation) are with his censure call, it also shows he’s serious,dedicated and principled.

Any thoughts? Only one person was credited with writing it otherwise I would have said it was a poorly blended joint effort.

can’t handle our traffic

Ah sweet taste of sucess…

I’ve screwed up the comments… at least the ones I see… Help!!!! All strikeouts!!! how can I fix this?

sorry, strike that.

ROFL

:cool:

56: I was kewl b4 there were smileys.

and i’ll never figure ‘em out.

but they make you folks i thought were smart look lame

so use ‘em if you want.

oh by the way it’s now like really super kewl to refer to the # of a person’s post instead of to cut&paste their name and the timestamp.
Valley Girl…. you saw it here first!

56

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Sorry, P&P!!!

Dems = Feingold, us, and anyone else when they stand up for Dem/progressive principles. And when they/we don’t, we’re not being Dems.

It’s not about institutional affiliation.

It’s about action in support of principles.

P&P

I noticed that too, but remember, an editor is always a ghost co-author.

81

vg

what did you do?

tsf

help me! i’m all strikeouts

Okay- what happened? What’s with the strikethrough in my 4:34am post?

P&P an Pachacutec: Sometimes, there’s the before lunch writer and the after lunch writer. They might inhabit the same body, but have no clue what the other is thinking.

i know i said g’nite and inferred good luck, but i came to shut down my laptop and am thinking this change is ok– ’tis new math for all of us here, or changing from farenheit to celcius, etc. we will prevail, ’cause we give a damn.

Valley Girl — I thought you were testing new trexxing technique.

So how was it fixed? By whom?

Good luck with the transition–again. I feel for you. If it would be possible to make the entire original post visible, instead of just the first paragraph, that would allow some of us to keep up with you.

With the new format, it’s not possible to scroll through messages and skim, which means, basically, that we can’t read you. I have a fast computer and a fast life, and the time it takes to click back and forth constantly makes reading FDL prohibitive.

I LOVE FDL and hate to think of life without your insights beyond the first few words of a post. Heck, you’re where I get my news. Would the cost be too much to post the “old” way? Maybe we could start a fund. If no one else feels this way then ignore me, but I’ll bet others are having the same problem.

strike one

strike two

strike nine hundred and thirty seven

wtf?
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P&P- I was trying out the “strike” tag in the post before yours, and evidently didn’t close it correctly. So, I am the culprit. I don’t know how to fix that for your post. Sorry. New toys. But, I quickly figured out that by posting again with a tag (w/out spaces) that it turned off the strike out. TSF, does this help?

three strikes.

no facials for Pach!

Relative to all impeachable offenses, is illegal surveillance of American citizens:

(A) a hanging curveball
(B) a changeup on the outside corner
(C) a high fastball
(D) a wild pitch
(E) all of the above

no, VG, for me your contribution has become universal and permanent. Logging out now and wondering if wilson or someone could call for a new thread if one is not imminent.

is this just me or y’all too?

==============

MIGHT be a bumpy ride……..whoooooeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From the WP story:

“I haven’t read it,” demurred Barack Obama

I’ve given up on Obama.

added to above “that by posting again with a tag (w/out spaces) that it turned off the strike out.” Geez, I hope this explains it!!!!!

keith rocks on colbert! ;)

Not to worry Valley Girl. It’s kinda fun seeing what’s going to happen next. Things will settle down soon enough and we’ll get back to business, so tonight is just a little giddy, comic relief.

Cujo359 says:
March 15th, 2006 at 4:47 am

Relative to all impeachable offenses, is illegal surveillance of American citizens…

It’s a HBP. If we got the guts to take the hit, we get the base.

Olberman on Colbert:

Keith looked uncomfrotable, but in a cute way. He’s not as good off script. He could not keep up with Colbert, who was amazing tonight.

That show is really taking off.

Nope, didn’t work. Seemed to have outsmarted me. What I was trying to say was that I turned off the tag in a following post by typing “(carat)” Hope this works. And WTF… all I was trying to do in the first place was to strike out Peabody Hotel and replace it with Parody Hotel, following up on TSF’s info!!!!

BullGoose @ March 15th, 2006 4:53 am

With our luck, it will be a beanball…

rusty says:
March 15th, 2006 at 4:47 am

Who’s your daddy?

Nope, it didn’t work again. Translated my explanation to nonsense… How can can this stupid comment thing continue to outsmart me? Taking lessons from BushCo. I guess. Sigh.

Pach– drive safely tomorrow and the best of luck to you and yours. I only caught the few last minutes of K.O. on Colbert and thought he did O.K. whee- K.O. is O.K. seriously, that drive sucks from dc to ny. be safe.

Pachacutec @ March 15th, 2006 at 4:54 am

Colbert is quick, and knows what to expect. Olberman probably had only the vaguest notion, and he’s used to dealing with the real O’Reilly, who isn’t all that quick.

I am wearing a condom pinned to my lapel to work tomorrow.

The Ides of March. And Mary-Carey-at-the-White-House Day.

TeddySanFran says:
March 15th, 2006 at 4:59 am

I am wearing a condom pinned to my lapel to work tomorrow.

The Ides of March. And Mary-Carey-at-the-White-House Day

Blow it up before you pin it on verrry carefully.

Pach – sorry, I’m up past my normal bedtime.

Did anyone catch the NYT editorial on our President’s stumbles? This quote in particular stood out:

Whatever happened to the old NYT Everything’s fine, nothing bad is happening, go back to sleep now attitude on the editorial page?

Cujo359 says:
March 15th, 2006 at 4:55 am

With our luck, it will be a beanball…

At first glance, I thought you misunderstood Hit-By-Pitch. But you’re right. But I hope you’re wrong

I really like the smileys. I’m warming up to your new place. :roll:

Ah, I can do that DC-NY drive in my sleep. Which occasionally I have.

Thanks; it’ll all be good.

I’ll check in tomorrow evening.

I’ll be going to bed soon. Like, maybe now.

Okay, I’ll try again. Here’s the quote (I’ll figure out how I screwed the blockquote tag later)

“The administration seems determined to cut off legitimate court scrutiny, and the Republicans who dominate the House and Senate generally intervene only to change the rules so Mr. Bush can do whatever he wants. (If the current Congress had been called on to intervene in the case of Mr. Allen, it would probably have tried to legalize shoplifting.)”

Valley Girl: The secret to print out the “carets” is to remember that they mean “less than” and “greater than”, and that the escape character in HTML is the ampersand &.

The string to print < is &lt;.
The string to print > is &gt;.
The string to print an ampersand is &amp;

And I sure hope this works like it did at Haloscan because it will be really confusing if it doesn’t.

I once sent Bush a condom in the mail in protest over his AIDS policies.

I think I got a response from the White House.

I don’t think I saved it.

Biolerplate.

Cujo359, thanks very much for comment 50.

Let’s see how the blockquote thing works. I’ll put a <BLOCKQUOTE> string in a line above the quote and a </BLOCKQUOTE> string in the line below. Should work.

The administration seems determined to cut off legitimate court scrutiny, and the Republicans who dominate the House and Senate generally intervene only to change the rules so Mr. Bush can do whatever he wants. (If the current Congress had been called on to intervene in the case of Mr. Allen, it would probably have tried to legalize shoplifting.)

Cujo359

Thanks, but I’m so flummoxed right now…

I turned off the strike by typing “more than” then a backslash, then strike, and then “less than” or… make I have more than and less than confused… hard to tell these days, what with BushCo and all. Hopefully “preview” will show up soon.

The transition should’ve taken place after the stress test and interface redesign, not before. Sheesh! :roll:

for those of you complaining about the new design: you get what you pay for

John Casper in # 126: You’re welcome. I just wish I’d spelled Bermuda correctly :)

That stuff just bothers me, perhaps more than it should. There are plenty of real problems in the world, and plenty of real dangers. Seems a shame to be wasting time and energy on stuff that isn’t either.

alank – where’s your sense of humor, guy? After all, we’re not trying to invade Iraq.

What is up with the crossed-out words in the comments above?

FYI, I noted early on that you registered the domain with GoDaddy. The owner of that registrar is certified wingnut. Just thought you ought to know. :shock:

Cujo359:

Re the blockquote tag:

What you say to do is what I did. Musta been a typo in the tag that I missed. It’d be nice to have previews back, once the dust has settled a bit.

Valley Girl @ March 15th, 2006 at 5:08 am


<STRIKE>struck text</STRIKE>

should yeild:

struck text

We’ll see. Hate not having a preview function.

Whomever you guys got doin’ the site, pay him/her/them DOUBLE. Of all the places I haunt (even C&L), FDL took an age to load…and I got broadband.

Now it’s wham, bam, splash.

And here all along I thought it was the traffic. *snark*

Nice digs. It might only be format shock, but why are you only posting the first bit of a piece on the mainpage?

It worked. If only I could proofread my text.

Liberal-at-large @ March 15th, 2006 5:18 am

I’ll take a guess and say they do it so it loads and renders quickly.

This is a test

alank says:
March 15th, 2006 at 5:21 am

It looks to me, vg, that fdl moved to its new home too soon. The roof is caving in as I speak.

Still works fine for me. You are now on my “troll patrol” list.

New Thread.

Thx, cujo. That makes sense.

Now I’m wondering what all the page flips (to the full post & thread AND then back to the mainpage) will do to the response time on the various clients…here, RSS, etc.

I think I’m over-analyzing.

*

Good luck, FDL!

If you say so!

Another problem that is quite evident is the load the site puts on the browser. It’s not easy to scroll down using Firefox, at least.

:mrgreen:

Can’t get used to Greenwhich meantime! Or calling Redd ‘Christy’ from now on…

Will try to be patient through the transition.

(but, Greenwhich meantime? only markfromireland could dig that)

Jane:
All things new are difficult. Don’t like new format. Will read you anyway, ’cause format ain’t what it’s about, but it makes it hard to slide back and forth through the piece and move on. But then I’m an onld man.

Geez, do you need to use so much purple?

;)

OK, now I’m seeing everybody’s post with strike-through lines. I’m not a fan of the new redesign anyway–I loved the conciseness and compactness of the old design. I loved how clean it was. I loved how the art you placed at the top was the same width as the copy measure. Here it leaves awkward space at the side. I think the new typeface–”font” to you non-designers–is clunky. The huge numbers for numbering the posts are way too big for something that’s just a detail. All in all the look is ordinary and amateurish.

I also agree with the poster who liked having the comments in a different window so we could have topic and comments side-by-side for easy referral.

Your content is so way above so much of what I read on the net that to see this clunky redesign that doesn’t even work properly just fills me with dismay. I don’t know what problems you solved with it but, graphically, it is a disappointment.

Redirect problem!

Right now (3/15, 5:30am EST) firedoglake.blogspot.com is redirecting to http://www.firedoglake.com, and your site is not coming up on http://www.firedoglake.com.

I love me some new Firedoglake layout!

Good morning ladies! The bluehost link also points to intoxination… which is fine actually.

I did a little googling and found that ReddHedd was hiding in plain sight.

Actually, we’re really not a patient lot but we make exceptions for exceptional people.

LOL, went back to the bluehost blog to see if any comments had made it through moderation – not a single FDL comment, only fluffy “nice post” crap.

Maybe we just didn’t know that GW Bush had comment moderation on the press.

GW had a bad hair day Monday tryin’ to talk about Iraq with the same tired talking points. So yesterday they whomped up a “cute meet” with the autistic basketball player/manager. Did anyone else notice in the followup Q&A when someone asked Bush how he learned about the kid…sure seemed as he stum-fumbled for an answer that he found out the Katrina way…on a staff-made DVD.

Riffing further on the poster above who suggested Badger as a nickname for Feingold, “Go, Golden Badger, go.”

Love the new site. Glad it’s back up. I was frantic this morning (I’m addicted to FDL!) when I couldn’t access the site-Guess I need to “get a life!” But I missed ya! :)

Just whant to say HI! I love this place!

Hello admin, nice site you have!

I can’t be bothered with anything these days, but such is life. I don’t care. So it goes. More or less nothing seems worth thinking about. I’ve just been hanging out waiting for something to happen, but that’s how it is.

Alleen onder Glamour versta ik wat anders maar dat moet kunnen.

So interesting site, thanks!

I just don’t have anything to say right now.

Hello Jane, great site!

Great website! Bookmarked! I am impressed at your work!