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Hi there Jane:

Jane:

Yes, your cold must be better, judging from your posts…As I said in an earlier thread, in spite of the almost daily FDL toobz hiccups, we still love ya…Are the techies working on that?

Shocked, shocked I tell you.

Erick Erickson ?

It’s either not a real name or his Mumsly had a bad stutter.

I love this thread Jane!

Who cares what these charisma challenged clowns think. They should be renamed Fred State.

-G

For some reason I always love those redundant kind of names:

Tommy Thompson
Andy Anderson
Fred Friederickson
Rick Richardson
Marky Mark…

Erick Erickson ?

It’s either not a real name or his Mumsly had a bad stutter.

I vote for a serious lack of imagination.

Parents lacked imagination.

one of us owes the other a coke – never have been quite sure how that works…

rat fuckery

I love me them words…

heh heh.

Bob Roberts

Now ain’t that just a beautiful thing?

Ah.

Donald Segretti.

yeah – thanks again RBG…

We raise funds on this side of the fence too. I don’t think we should open ourselves up for paybacks by doing stupid things like what was suggested.

I’ll buy but I dislike Coke – maybe a ginger ale?

jane are you appearing anywhere tonight?

I’ll buy but I dislike Coke – maybe a ginger ale?

Sold. *g*

Jane as usual tears into them and I only have one thing to say….Keep it up and turn up the heat some more til you smoke out all these bastards.

You know, some people really should not blog without adult supervision. Is Erick above the age of 13?

I certainly hope Democratic members of Congress who have been to chickenshit to defy Shrubco are paying attention to the results.

As a paypal member, I’ve zipped off a complaint to paypal about the threatened ToS violation.

While I disagree with messing with somebody elses fundraising, that doesn’t make threats with paypal info correct.

Boxturtle(I doubt it will get ‘em bammed, but maybe they’ll get a phone call from a snarky lawyer)

Where is everyone? Are they still fighting it out down below? Pete, if you are listening, try to dial it back a bit. We ladies (and gentlemen) of the lake have delicate senses and prefer civility to shot gun blasts. Also, we likes our humor. Try it you’ll like it.

Then there’s Erik Erikson, the famous pyschoanalyst…

I have a fitz fix for you jane, the lead on think progress right now;

Judge demands answers on White House’s missing e-mails. A federal judge today ordered the White House “to reveal whether copies of possibly millions of missing e-mails are stored on computer backup tapes.” The AP reports:

Facciola gave the White House five business days to report whether computer backup tapes contain e-mails written between 2003 and 2005.

The time period covers the Valerie Plame affair in which at least three presidential aides were found to have leaked Plame’s CIA identity to the news media.

“Do the back-ups contain the e-mails said to be missing?” Facciola asked.

In a four-page order, Facciola said he needs to know “if the missing e-mails are not on those back-ups.”

Facciola noted the importance of acting quickly since e-mails that might be retrievable from individual computer workstations in the White House “are increasingly likely to be deleted or overwritten with the passage of time.”

CREW has more on the judge’s order.

…psychoanalyst…

I wouldn’t send ‘em ONE RED CENT.
heh.

I use PayPal all the time. I didn’t even know that that info was given out. Not really happy about it. When I make a purchase on ebay, the seller now knows all that? Not being all that internet-savvy, I thought only PayPal knew and that was a means of keeping my info private.

I set up a shop on “Etsy” and my cost was eighty cents. Paypal would not take any payment under $1.00

Where is everyone? Are they still fighting it out down below? Pete, if you are listening, try to dial it back a bit. We ladies (and gentlemen) of the lake have delicate senses and prefer civility to shot gun blasts. Also, we likes our humor. Try it you’ll like it.

We’re allowed to use shotguns here?!? I’ve been seriously under-armed!!

Boxturtle (Quick humor, shot from the hip)

Memo to Kos: DO NOT feed the Trolls. Do not poke them with sticks.

Ignore them, and (hopefully) they will shrivel up and blow away.

which is nice and all, but all the administration has to do with this question;

“Do the back-ups contain the e-mails said to be missing?” Facciola asked.

is answer “no”

I love your name

Only Jane is allowed the big guns. We have to follow her with bayonets to make sure the enemy is taken care of.

Let’s not forget Pete Peterson. Not an imaginative name, but worth several billion and hanging with decidedly bad company.

Where is everyone? . . .

Personally, I’ve been laughing too hard at the RedState mess. As one who often “praise[s] the Lord for lefty humor,” I couldn’t let Jane’s screengrab go by without a look at RS itself.

The comments from the tech geeks are particularly delightful, like this one:

Your call for help is beginning to make the rounds of some geek websites, which is where I saw it.

I did a very quick check to see what software you are running and see that RedState.com is using OpenSSH version 3.9p1 (for remote log ins) and Apache httpd 2.0.59 with PHP/4.4.5 (for webserver). These are all woefully out of date and have many known and potentially exploitable security problems. I didn’t probe further — I wanted to stay well and unambiguously within the law — and I didn’t need to probe further to get a sense of the scale and nature of your maintenance problem.

Thank you. It took me a long time to come up with it. Seriously. Kept me from commenting for several months until the muse struck.

OT –

Bush Administration Blogging Mideast Trip

From the article:

And it seemed the venture could be a test run for similar features to come, which would come in handy whenever the media’s accounts of the president’s activities veer from the preferred White House account

So, with the spin and quote placement the admin usually gets, they should never have to use this blog thingy, right?

You can read print that small? ;>

Isn’t this exactly what the Lieberman camp did during Election Day 2006? They used poor software and blamed Lamont for sabatoging their web site.

Seems that the R’s are starting to get concerned. From RedStates, Adam:

“It seems Ds are running out of ballots. That means in both IA and NH (swing states), Ds may be showing a major enthusiasm gap. Rs should start at least acknowledging that they may be facing another 2006. Nothing is set in stone, but it seems the Ds are starting with a significant advantage in 2008.”

Wow, Repubs are some pretty dense folks.

BTW, I love your name, too. Cracks me up every time I see it.

Thats why I asked if this is where Dangerstein wound up. I think it went by a lot of folks.

Isn’t this exactly what the Lieberman camp did during Election Day 2006? They used poor software and blamed Lamont for sabatoging their web site.

Now that you mention it, that Erick Erickson email and post has a definite Dan Gersteinish feel to it.

“It seems Ds are running out of ballots. That means in both IA and NH (swing states), Ds may be showing a major enthusiasm gap. Rs should start at least acknowledging that they may be facing another 2006. Nothing is set in stone, but it seems the Ds are starting with a significant advantage in 2008.”

Har. If the turnouts in Iowa and NH are any indication at all, 2008 will make 2006 look like a Republican Sunday School picnic.

Does anyone fear that the open primary plus the record turnout could be any sort of repub fuckery to boost Obama while undermining John Edwards’s chances?

I’ve always thought “Major Major” was a pretty funny name.

Major Major Major Major!

You really think they could be that cunning? Evil, yes. Cunning, no way.

Jane’s post from yesterday has been getting some attention over at Digg, and their comments are quite amusing as well.

I read Redstate occasionally, because I am a rabid news junky. And… it is good fro some laughs. This Erick guy is the most out-of-touch, living-in-denial person I have ever encountered. In his world Bush is still respected by America, Republicans have been diligently serving the public for the last 7 years, and Rush Limbaugh has opinions that are believed by everyday Americans.
His flat-out insanity is amusing, but it gives me a false sense of security that the entire right-wing is that pathologically self-deceptive. I know this isn’t true, and that the right-wind still has some tricks up their sleeves.

A followup to this commenter noted, tongue wedged firmly in cheek, “Perhaps RedState is in fact run by Liberals who are out to make Conservatives look bad.”

Here’s another:

Maybe anytime ANYTHING crashes it is a left-wing liberal conspiracy.
Windows crashes? Liberal Conspiracy
Mac crashes? Liberal Conspiracy
Internet connection gets dropped… don’t blame Comcast…. Liberal Conspiracy

Cat pukes in your shoe? Liberal Conspiracy

Again, the followup was tasty: “They don’t call it the blue screen of death for nothing!”

My grandfather’s first and middle name were the same. His last name was different though, which was nice.

I knew someone by the name of Peter Peters.

There was a practice in some Mennonite communities of giving the boy-children their father’s first name as their middle name. There was also the practice of giving one of the sons the same first name as his father. This resulted in some redundancies.

In this case, no. The GOP seems pretty upset at the turnout. I’m thinking this next election is gonna be a Dem picnic.

Boxturtle (Milt, There are tons of little BLUE ants eating your lunch)

Naw. I know a guy named Nick Nicholas…

Me too. Same thing happened with my name. I was, liked, blocked. Then it hit me. That Muse thing. It hit me.

What comes after a “thumpin’”?

Now that makes me WANT to dontate $.01 to Red State! Bring it, 10oZ3rZ!

All of them named Martin, eh?

That is hysterically funny.

I was always partial to Jimmy James of “News Radio.”

I had a professor named Hassan Hassan.

What comes after a “thumpin’”?

Dunno, but I’m ready to find out.

In southern Louisiana, I used to enjoy the fact that there were occasional people named Richard Richard.

The first name was pronounced as we commonly do in English. The last name was pronounced like the French, Reee-shaard.

“they don’t call it the blue screen of death for nothing?”

That has to be a post title right there.

Then, of course, Nabakov’s character . . .

Happy to return the favor.

Sirhan Sirhan is the first I can remember.

Oh, and Duran Duran.

I worked with a guy who had a similar name – same first and last. We called him E-squared. There was a young woman who had first and last name beginning with the same initial. She pouted that we wouldn’t call het C-squared but called her C-two.

Amazing the little things that make work tolerable.

my dad is attracted to younger, myself older women

so we used to date mother daughter, me going out with the mother my dad the daughter

of course if we married this combination and then had kids, it would be lots of fun;

my father would be my son in law, my step mother would be my step daughter, my son would be my fathers grandson and his stepson

well, this could go on ad infinitum

It’s even better when you consider that RedState used a big red-tinted death star as their fundraising logo on that first post, with the caption “Imagine the power of a fully armed and operational RedState” below it.

Someone really ought to tell them how that movie ended.

OT, but similar. I worked with two people named Jose. One was prounounced, as you would expect, “Hose-A.” The other was called “Hose-Bee”.

I did a very quick check to see what software you are running and see that RedState.com is using OpenSSH version 3.9p1 (for remote log ins) and Apache httpd 2.0.59 with PHP/4.4.5 (for webserver). These are all woefully out of date and have many known and potentially exploitable security problems.

All the money in the world isn’t going to solve problems created by neglectful (or non-existent) systems administration. Everybody wants to set up and run their own Web server and they want to do it on the cheap. Doesn’t work.

Does it mean that Blue Meanies have been intercepting RedState’s software updates for years?

Christy Christy is upstairs…

Edmond Edmont was a Belgian who did the leg work for a linguistic atlas of France by Jules Gillieron at the turn of the nineteenth century. although not a trained linguist, he had a really good ear. He would bicycle around and pick all kinds of dialectal variants. I have a vague memory that somebody did a musical about him.

I knew someone by the name of Peter Peters.

There was a guy posting comments at the IndyStar.com site, calling himself “Richard Crainium” (sic)

Do the math…

Your work is beautiful!

I’m slow…

But the math did work out!

They just realized that now?

Grampa Jones did a song about people like you:

Many, many years ago when I was 23,
I was married to a widow who was pretty as can be.
This widow had a grown up daughter who had hair of red,
My father fell in love with her, and soon they too were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my life,
Now my daughter was my mother, for she was my father’s wife.
And to complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad,
Which made him my uncle, and it really made me sad,
For if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother,
Of the widow’s grown up daughter who was, of course, my step-mother.

My father’s wife then had a son who kept him on the run,
And he became my grandchild for he was my daughter’s son.
My wife is now my mother’s mother, and it makes me blue,
Because although she is my wife, she’s my grandmother too.

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I’m her grandchild,
And everytime I think of it, it really drives me wild.
Because I have become the strangest case you ever saw;
As husband to my grandmother, I am my own grampa.

-Oh-

I’m my own grampa! I’m my own grampa!
It seems funny I know, but it really is so!
I’m my own grampa!

Here’s a video for the song.

Enjoy!

Bob in HI

Robert Robert Livingston, a scion of that famous American fuedal landlord tribe, with a middle name to distinguish him from all the other Robert Livingstons of the same tribe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Livingston_(1746-1813)

“Only Jane is allowed the big guns. We have to follow her with bayonets to make sure the enemy is taken care of.”

Aw, shucks. I was hopin’ to break out my twin .50 calibers. Puts really big holes in wingnuttia bs.