Jamie

It appears Susan Collins doesn’t want to risk having a career ending blooper, like George “Macacca” Allen. One of her supporters posted this yesterday on the Maine Web Report:

Markos Moulitsas’s hate-site The Daily Kos, the foul-mouthed fem-blog FiredogLake, and other ‘netroots’ extremists like MoveOn.org, have become the dominant fundraisers for Tom Allen’s senate campaign.

Our other thread received so many nice words for Jane that we had to start another. Thank you all for your kind words.

Today we are releasing two new features for Firedoglake. The first feature is the author pages. If you look under the title of every post, you will see who wrote that article. It is now a hyperlink, which takes you to the author’s page. This page will provide you with a short biography of the [...]

A little information from the World Wide Web consortium: 10.5.4 503 Service Unavailable The server is currently unable to handle the request due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. The implication is that this is a temporary condition which will be alleviated after some delay. If known, the length of the delay [...]

Interesting how things develop overnight. I am of course talking about the “Joe2006 hack” story going around. I have had CNN on all day and they cover it about every 15 minutes or so. What is amazing is that a company like CNN hasn’t decided to dig into joe2006.com to see exactly what may be [...]

  If you haven’t noticed yet, we got some upgrades on the comments. Here is a brief run-down of what is new. Edit Comment Commenter’s can now edit their own comments for up to 5 minutes after they post it. This will allow them to go back and make typo corrections, fix broken tags, etc. [...]

Last week the Appropriation Committees of the House and Senate reached a deal on the supplemental appropriations bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The new bill is expected to make it to the floor this week for debate and is expected to pass. Originally there was a provision in this bill to [...]

(The idea for the photo was taken from last night’s episode of Real Time With Bill Maher). Cross posted at IntoxiNation Today is Earth Day and what a better way for Bush to celebrate it then by trying to exploit it. He did so in his weekly radio address: Saturday is Earth Day, and many [...]

We finally seem to have most of the bugs worked out. If anyone notices anything that has slipped past our eyes then please use this as an open thread to report the problems. If it is a layout problem then include what browser you are using and version along with what operating system your computer [...]

Three years ago tomorrow night was when our news channels filled with images of bombs exploding in Baghdad. 9:34pm est. time will mark the anniversary of the actual start of the invasion.

So where have we gone since then? Well we did make it to Baghdad with little effort. We did find Saddam Hussein.